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Does anybody know what the Knight Warden from Epic a while back's background was like? I've found some information relating to the other classes of Knight, but the Warden remains a mystery to me.
I'd like to have a go at converting some Knights up, and there's a fairly cool rendition of the Warden here: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xk34z6urTZY/TZs-XfeyuBI/AAAAAAAABSo/ElPLLOTSS0I/s1600/front02.jpg
They used to look something like this: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-vFUbRcVxuqM/TXuYgHuDDfI/AAAAAAAABRo/7LmFnxptIPA/knightwarden.jpg

Any help you can give would be much appreciated

Crystal-Maze wrote:Does anybody know what the Knight Warden from Epic a while back's background was like? I've found some information relating to the other classes of Knight, but the Warden remains a mystery to me.
I'd like to have a go at converting some Knights up, and there's a fairly cool rendition of the Warden here: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xk34z6urTZY/TZs-XfeyuBI/AAAAAAAABSo/ElPLLOTSS0I/s1600/front02.jpg
They used to look something like this: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-vFUbRcVxuqM/TXuYgHuDDfI/AAAAAAAABRo/7LmFnxptIPA/knightwarden.jpg

Any help you can give would be much appreciated

If memory serves, and it doesn't always, wardens were much more heavily armored than the other knight types and geared more towards defense and less towards flashy combat roles.

YMMV.

Skriker

Cheers Striker, was thinking of doing one or two as fire support/bodyguard type units to fight alongside my baron, if that seems plausible according to the fluff?

Is that a mechwarrior bushwacker.... converted....

Fidel; that looks highly likely, yes

Looks way to big to be a Bushwacker minie, unless the did a 40K scale Battletech I'm unawares of. Looking at it I think it could have been a Terminator 4 toy or a Starwars toy heavly converted and made dam cool becouse of it. Its a nice mech and a hell'va lot of love has been poored into it.

Crystal-Maze wrote:Cheers Striker, was thinking of doing one or two as fire support/bodyguard type units to fight alongside my baron, if that seems plausible according to the fluff?

Certainly fits the fluff, but given that fluff is not a requirement in any given army list, I'd do it just because that converted model looks cool and it would be awesome to see some 40k scale knights that aren't the old armorcast eldar knights.

Skriker

Whilst we're on the subject, anyone know anything about the 'Strider' Knight Titans?

Btw, Knights are not Titans.

No, they're slightly smaller and organised differently, but sometimes supported the Titan legions in battle. But people often refer to them as 'Knight Titans'.

Here's the model my buddy and I use as Knights in our friendly games (I have three of them). They are die-cast figures from Mechwarrior Dark Age. I use them for 25mm battletech, so I never Grimdark-ed them up, but they would be a great platform to use.

Especially since they already have a "titan" close combat weapon and the "auto-cannon" is big enough to be a battle-cannon, hopper-fed and all!
Total size hits 6 inches to the top of the exhaust stacks.

http://figure-archive.net/item.aspx?itemID=25145

What ARE knights?

Cause I have no ideas.

Essentially they are one-man titans. Just a pilot; no crew or servitors. Think of a Dreadknight, but twice the size so they can have weapons like a battlecannon mounted in the arms, and stomp on man-sized targets.

Ribon Fox wrote:Looks way to big to be a Bushwacker minie, unless the did a 40K scale Battletech I'm unawares of. Looking at it I think it could have been a Terminator 4 toy or a Starwars toy heavly converted and made dam cool becouse of it. Its a nice mech and a hell'va lot of love has been poored into it.

*COUGH COUGH* http://www.ebay.com/itm/Battletech-Bushwacker-W-Box-Tyco-/370520266507?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5644ba970b#ht_500wt_1132 *COUGH COUGH*

Oh my, whoever put that there....

But, but, but thats a toy and looks nothing like what a bushwacker, now this is a Bushwacker. no sprung mounted plastic rockets here

That being said it is about the right size for a Knight... Or a superheavy walker that counts as Bainblade, Hmm wounder if i can scratch the cash up