#Rumors_LampPost #Forge_world Во время прошлого Оупен дея - особо вкрадчивые блоггеры нашли гнездо Фордж Ворлда на выставке и провели с ними интересные, душеспасительные беседы: 9 книга Ереси (Дарки/ТА) после текущей вёрстки пойдет в печать. Ожидают начала продаж во втором-третьем квартале 2020 Сабля - первый смоляной набор от дизайнера пластиковых титанов (Адептус Титаникус). Команда ФВ рада, что Саблю хорошо приняло коммьюнити. Дарк Мехи переехали из 9 книги в 10. Также в 10 книге будет расширение агентов Императора/Вармастера Все отделы ГВ расширяются, это затронуло и Форджу. Они наймут еще двух писателей правил. Кстати, Энди Хоаре теперь руководитель Спешиалист геймс и Ереси. У него есть куча планов, и он хочет претворить их в жизнь ФВ в курсе желаний игроков (основные из которых - понизить порог входа для новичков и делать больше пластиковых моделей), но пока это все только на фазе обсуждения Собираются после 10 книги вернуться в режим книга в год. А ещё они слышат отзывы про "Ересь мертва" и смеются над высказываниям, указывая на не снижающиеся уровни продаж Ереси, а также то, что уже через 2 года (видимо когда наладят новое производство) все снова будут играть в Ересь. https://www.facebook.com/theageofdarknesspodcast/posts/1787049451419671?__tn__=K-R I won’t list everything as Warhammer Community have a great write- up about the 40k releases and upcoming products. However, I did have a great chat with the Forge World team about future plans and current developments for Age of Darkness. As usual I’ll break these down into smaller sections. Book 9 This is based around the Thramas Crusade - nothing new there. Up-to-date news: Book 9 is going to the reprographics department this week and then onto the printers. This means a release is most likely in the second or third quarter after printing, shipping and world wide distribution. The Sabre kit This was designed by the same guy that designed the plastic titans. It is his first resin kit and was created during his lunchtimes as practice on how to sculpt resin. The FW team have been really pleased to see the community response to the unexpected release of the kit and it’s rules. Book 10 Book 10 is currently deep into production. Due to size restraints, the Dark Mechanicum army list that was originally planned for Book 9 is now going to be in Book 10. Alongside this will be rules for additional allies for both the loyalists and traitors - this will be along the lines of the Agents of the Emperor / Warmaster concepts from a few years ago. No further details as yet. Current developments The GW offices at Warhammer World are currently having a massive extension added. As well as new production facilities and warehouse space there is also more room for the various design studios. The plan is once this is constructed, each of the design studios (main GW, Specialist Games, Age of Darkness and Old World) will have more space for the various teams. This also means that each team will be expanding considerably over the next two years. This will include new rules writers (2 more for Age of Darkness for example) and miniature designers. As part of the re-structuring, Andy Hoare (ex-Heresy rules writer and head of Specialist Games) is now manager of the Specialist Games Studio and the Age of Darkness studio. This role is extremely new so Andy has lots of ideas but nothing has been put into action yet. From personal experience, Andy is a great bloke who has a lot of experience within the hobby; a clear vision of where the company and the game systems can go and also communicates clearly about what is happening (within the usual limits of GW policy). Future hopes and plans After a long chat with the Forge World team it’s clear that the new re-structuring is still in early days and we aren’t likely to see much change as customers for the foreseeable future. However, the team is aware of the main community concerns and hopes. The two key ones they mentioned are: * A cheap introduction for new players into the 30k games set * More plastic kits Neither of these are confirmed as in production or development but the fact that the team are having conversations about these is positive. The team also discussed that by expanding the number of writers, it would be hoped that they could release more than one Heresy-related book a year. Once again, this is future developments so only Book 10 is in current development due to the current size of the team. One final point that we discussed in a jokey manner was the ‘Heresy is dead’ mindset. It was mentioned that currently Heresy is still producing very healthy sales figures alongside other Specialist Games and the successes of all the games is allowing the company to invest heavily into new facilities and staff. One member of the team stated that there are so many long-plans for the Heresy that they expect that within two years, “everyone will be playing Heresy”.