CitarNecromunda news
Going to type this up as bullet points, as I'm going to be writing this down from memory, so things might jump randomly between subjects

WHICH GANG IS NEXT AND WHEN?

• Which gang is coming next wasn't stated, as the main 'in store plastics' are considered a citadel release, and as such once the models are finished, release order and scheduling is out of their hand, plus main GW is a lot more controlled on how far in advance they show upcoming releases than FW and the specialist games studio, but considering its supposed to be a new gang every quarter, the next gang will be out by or at warhammerfest UK in May.

NEW MODELS
• Kria the huntress coming as a named ESCHER character, based off the artwork on page 93 of the BRB.

• Bella Donna is also being done, as seen in the cabinets

• Each house will be getting a 'mega' leader, basically a gang leader who's so powerful that their gang is so big that it operates as several or has control over subordinate gangs. Imagine that your gang leader is like a store manager, these guys are regional managers.

• Lots of bounty hunters coming. 7 named ones in gang war 2. All will have models

• PETS, gang leaders will be able to buy house specific pets which is where the animal minis have come from. They will all have special abilities and rules

• The creepy little baby with wings is a Caryatid, which dates back to Necromunda's days as 'Confrontation'. Basically, these are weird little creatures that no one knows where they come from and they appear randomly and start following gangers around like pets. Gangers who end up with one are said to be on the cusp of greatness and often go on to achieve wonders, but when a Caryatid leaves, it's a really bad omen.

• Necromunda gangs will be getting a new class of gang member to buy soon, in the form of 'brutes' these are like how blood bowl teams can get ogres, trolls, and the like, in that they'll be the 'big guys' several generic ones are planned like the slave Orygns and mining automata, but they are planning house specific ones as time goes on
Future settings

• The seminar had a list of places that the SGD would like to explore in future, many of these will take part as new campaign books, with rules, characters, and in some cases new gangs. But this won't be for a while

FUTURE GANGS

• We've got the three white dwarf gangs coming (genestealer cults, chaos cults, and bounty hunters for those not in the know) these are starting from march's issue

• We've got two new gangs confirmed and two collections confirmed.

• We've got the Palatine Enforcers who will be in plastic and are the hives law and order (Arbites are NOT in necromunda, and are completely different to enforcers).

• We've got 'chaos uprising' which will take the generic 'get you by' rules from the WD gang and turn them into a fully-fledged and detailed gang set, focused around a cult uprising in hive primus

• We've got confirmation that ALL the outlander gangs will be coming (after the 6 houses are finished, so starting next year) no existing gang will be dropped that had models

• The guilds will be joining eventually as well. The merchant guilds aren't a single faction as such. They're built from lots of specialised 'companies' that sell and control certain things, like the water guild, that controls the supply of water on necromunda, piss them off, you go thirsty. The Promethium guild, which controls all the fuel, and the corpse guild, which collects the dead bodies and create the corpse starch, that feeds the lower classes. These guilds are very powerful, but not in the same way that the houses are (they have lots of money, influence, and strategic power, while little to no fighting power). The design studio is still concept-ing these guys, so are not sure to what extend they'll appear in the game, as hangers-on, hired guns, or whole gangs, or maybe all the above.

CitarTITANDEATH seminar

Seminar was talking about the events at beta-garmon, which is the main muster point entering/leaving the segmentum solar. This because the only major safe warp route during the heresy.

Several titan legions and billions of infantry were involved with the attempts to take and control the BG system. This conflict is where the main campaign for Adeptus titanicus will be set at.

There was a fair bit of info given for AT but as it's a 'instore' release, head office is a lot more strict on info.

Basically the game is scheduled and on target. The planned release date hasn't changed for several months, and will have a considerable release amount in the few months after as well.

FW have the main box, the three main titans (warhound, reaver, and warlord) out in plastic, and several kights (all present FW and GW knights are coming). PLUS plastic scenery and gaming tiles are coming near release as well.

Talking of the titan kits, they will be plastic and have several weapon options in the box, with the kit designed to be magnetised without issue. They will also include several different cosmetic options like the knight kits do (heads, banners, armour plates etc)

FW are planning several resin kits to add legio specific icons, additional weapons, and heads. Most of the new stuff is being sculpted at 28mm scale and scaled down for easy of work, so we could see additional and missing titan weapons coming g for 40k should demand be there.

CitarTHE SEIGE OF TERRA SEMINAR NOTES

Not a lot of "confirmed news" as its still all being planned, and lots of stuff is still fluid and changing.
Basically, the HH novel writers have been getting together to plan out the siege in detail, as to what happens where and when, with whom.
Some confirmed things
• there will be several primarch fights over the course of the siege including Khan Vs daemon Fulgrim.
• Angron will stand infront of the walls and shout terms of surrender to sanguinius who's stood on top of the walls.
• LOTS of characters will die. BL have complied a 'kill list' of all their named characters in the HH series that aren't confirmed to die or survive. Lots of these will be killed off while lot may survive.
• A death guard focused novel covering their change into plague marines will be the last novel before the siege starts, and the siege finishes with the emperor being placed on the golden throne after his fight with horus. Events after that will likely be covered In a scouring series IF they do one.
• Practically every HH writer will be doing their own novel covering a section of the war. Guy Haley's book will be coving imperial army forces among other things, while Gav thorpes will cover the iron warriors and the webway war survivors.
• NOT confirmed if Dan Abnett will finish the series, but he is confirmed to be doing a novel. The organisation of the siege is being done in order.
• Release schedule will be tight but not all at once. They're trying to balance that some people will devourer the books in days, and will want to read more straight away, while others take a while, and don't want to be getting too many spoilers. Personally, expecting for it to end up being one every 2-3mths at slowest, or maybe even 1 a month like the beast arises was, but that's conjecture from me.
• Who's writing about what is mostly being done from a time/schedules focus rather than who 'owns' legions and characters. The siege of terra was layout and organised with the authors 'blind' as to who was going to be writing about what. This has helped create a balanced and well-developed story, where authors have been sharing ideas and concepts without hording them for their own books.
• The writers have only just fleshing out the first few books, so we won't see the siege start for quite some time, probably see the first books maybe early next year at the earliest.