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Hi again. Time for the latest issue of the Forge World Newsletter.
In the last issue of our newsletter I talked a little about Forge World’s
forthcoming range of Elysian Drop Troops, but didn’t show any photos, adding
to the rumours flying around the forums. (How naughty of us!) As we only started
the Elysian project late in 2004, our proposed release schedule starting early
in the new year seemed impossible to some of you out there, (and us too at some
points along the way!), but I am very, very happy to be able to announce the
completion of our first sets of Elysian Drop Troops.
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/elys1chutes.htm
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/elys1.htm
These models are truly amazing. Each Elysian is made up of separate legs, torso,
head, arms and equipment, with over 100 individual pieces in the 10 man squad.
Trust me, there’s a heck of a lot of different poses you can make here!
What our designers, Simon Egan and Will Hayes, have tried to do throughout the
whole project is to make the Elysians ‘real’. We even went to the lengths of
taking photos of some of our guys running around the car park so we could see
what sort of poses we would like to be able to make. Special attention was given
to the way the harness straps lay across the bodies of the Elysians, and how
that affected the folds of cloth in their jump suits.
The ten man squad consists of a sergeant armed with a lasgun incorporating an
auxiliary grenade launcher, a trooper equipped with a vox-caster, one armed with
a grenade launcher, another with a demolition charge and six other ‘basic’
troopers armed with those lovely new bullpup lasguns.
Of course one of the most distinctive features of the Elysian Drop troops is
their grav-chutes. These are one use devices that can be jettisoned after
landing and are used by certain elite Imperial Guard infantry for massed aerial
assaults. The Elysians use the grav-chute to attack an enemy from above,
literally raining down onto unexpected areas of the battlefield, causing havoc
and inflicting heavy casualties upon their foe within moments of landing.
Reinforcements can then sweep in after the LZ has been secured and deploy from
Valkyrie Assault Carriers.
These are of course only the first Elysian units in what promises to be a
comprehensive range that Forge World will be releasing over the next few months.
We are working on at least one other ‘normal’ squad, a Command Squad,
several Heavy Weapons Squads, Veteran Squad, Special Weapons Squads, (the long
barrelled bipod equipped versions of these new lasguns just look marvellous!)
and several different packs of accessories including LZ beacons and drop
canisters.
So when are they going to be sent out? We’ll start shipping orders out from
Monday February 28th in the same order that we receive them, first come first
served you could say. Both Elysian Drop Troop squads and the Grav-chute pack are
available to pre-order online at
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/acatalog/EL ... ROOPS.html and over the phone
on our mail order lines right now.
As of today, Forge World is able to start work on any reservations you guys want
to make for Games Day Atlanta and Games Day Los Angeles. Either give one of our
guys a call on the phone or drop us an email titled ‘Games Day Atlanta
Reservation’ or ‘Games Day Los Angeles Reservation’ to
forgeworld@games-workshop.co.uk with your name and the list of what you want us
to pack up especially for you.
That’s all for this issue but we’ll be back with another Forge World
newsletter in the near future.
Thx,
Ewen Little,
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Those Drop Troops sure are sweet. Almost makes me want to collect 40k... Almost... 
Cheers! 
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? I'm still waiting on the Epic Tallarn, Kroot Knarlocs, etc. ?! ?
