I don't normally do this, but

I know I have a couple of repeat readers that come back now and again to view this blog, so for you and everyone else here's why I've copied half of the latest News letter from Forge World. As some of you know I've being doing 40K since the 80's, with a break for girls, beer and kids along the way, and one of the First White Dwarves I got had the conversion of the Mk1 Land Raider and Rhino into the Spartan. I always wanted to do this but being a kid, and being broke it was never going to happen, "Mum, Dad can I have £60 to buy these 2 different model kits so I can mash them up to make this one big tank?



No son, do you think we're made of money?" is how that conversion would of gone. How little I knew that my mum was out running up a massive amount on credit cards...
So here we are over 20 years later and Forge World have brought out this little baby, and I want 3 of them! One is for my Chapter Commander, thinking lots of Chrome, tinted windows, hydrolic suspension, you know the full pimp mobile job. 2nd one will be for my 2nd Compnay Commander who's Command Squad will of course be boosted up to 10 Terminator Marines, so thats another 5 Tartaros Terminators, along side the weapon up grade kit for them to make them a mixed Squad, as long as in the next Codex Dark Angels can still do that of course, and the 3rd will be for my Assault Compnay Commander, he'll get a full 10 man Terminator Assault Squad as well.
Only thing left now is to do my living first as ther's no way I can justify to myself let alone anyone else how I've spent over £100 on a tank while I've still not finished my living room



Hi there,
In this week’s newsletter we’re excited to announce that the Spartan is available to pre-order. This new kit is based on a Rogue Trader-era design, now brought up to date by sculpting legend Phil Stutcinskas. We’ve also got an events update for you as we are now accepting reservation orders for Games Day Germany.

Space Marine Spartan Assault Tank
Spartan Assault TankAn armoured transport of truly massive proportions, the Spartan is a heavy assault tank previously all but unknown outside of the revered Space Marine Chapters and the secretive Adeptus Mechanicus. The Spartan is a huge armoured conveyer, dwarfing even the hallowed Land Raider, whose purpose is to carry a large body of troops into the very heart of an enemy’s battle lines, weathering weapons fire that would be the death of any lesser vehicle.

Its design bears clear connections with that of the mighty Land Raider, and its genius is such that the greater proportion of its interior space is given over to a transport capacity greater than any other Imperial vehicle save the super-heavy Gorgons – being capable of carrying twenty-five power armoured Space Marines into battle. It is, however, considerably faster on the battlefield thanks to potent reactor-driven motive drives, and it posts an equally potent armament in the form of sponson-mounted quad lascannon batteries and secondary heavy bolters.

Many Space Marine Chapters maintain these huge war machines as part of their arsenal and deploy them into the most hellish and destructive warzones and battlefields, where even the mighty Land Raider would be torn asunder. Their greater transport capacity also finds particular favour amongst those Chapters who possess many suits of Terminator armour such as the Minotaurs.

The Spartan Assault Tank, designed by Phil Stutcinskas, is an enormous multi-part resin kit that features a detailed interior. Experimental rules to allow this armoured behemoth to be fielded in games of Warhammer 40,000 will be available to download soon, and the Spartan itself can be pre-ordered now for despatch from Friday 29th June.