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The head on that kinda reminds me I'd the 1970's cylons.

Looky Likey wrote:loving that chain fist, not loving that it's on an anti horde shooty platform. I guess I'll end up wasting the heavy bolter against a vehicle so I can still charge it while shooting the flamer against a horde.

Er, I think it is intended as a siege knight- flamers can still hit units in buildings right? To my mind, it looks like it will be flaming a building through most of it's firepoints (with it being a hellstorm template), maybe picking off a few enemies on the parapet with it's heavy bolters then going in for the building kill with the fist. Don't think there will be much left of the fort afterwards

Azreal13 wrote:Secondly, I'm used to the ranged weapon being on the right arm, again, small, fixable and very personal, but does throw me off a bit.

Finally, the helmet seems to be going for this vibe,


But the missing bridge protector makes it look a little "off" somehow.

It would be great if FW could make a lot of the face plates and other armour sections available as subsets to allow people to mix things up a bit, but I don't expect we'll get more than maybe a few more House specific sets.

So far, I think the cerastus knights actually have reversible arms, so you can set them up how you like. The Lancer did I think.

The helmet is a barbute I think, which is a sort of a form of a sallet that had evolved to be similar to the hoplite helm during the Rennaisance with the whole neoclassical thing going on. Quite often barbutes didn't have the nose guard. They were very popular in 15th Century Italy I believe. Personally I agree with you, and don't like this as much as some of the other helmets, but it does have a knightly historical basis. Makes you wonder what the next knight will have though, a kettle hat?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettle_hat

Love the Acheron and the nod to Boba Fett they got going on in terms of the coloration and the heraldry on the left side.

I've been vaguely thinking about alternate Knight weapons for a good while now, and what I was considering for the flamer was simply an inferno cannon (not to be confused with the inferno gun, which is the Titan flamer) with Shred. Str7 AP3 Ordnance Hellstorm is not what I was expecting at all! It could do a bit of vehicle damage with that profile, although that is obviously not its main strength.

Is it just me, or are most of the "fi"s in the .pdf missing? "Reaper chain st" and " ring a weapon in the Shooting Phase". How strange.

I think I honestly prefer the Castigator both in looks and rules to the Archeon myself.

I'm still waiting for proper variants of the plastic Knight.

As an aside, with a lot of the Warhammer Forge stuff being sidelined and dropped from their site recently, a few folk myself included have been(reluctantly and with much annoyance) buying stuff we wanted but were planning to get later, so for anyone else thinking of picking up the Empire Command Set a word of warning; they're ridiculously out of scale.

Not a little bit, ludicrously so. The banner bearer is 34mm to the eyes, over 37mm at the top of the helmet, and the Captain is only a hair shorter. The Flagellant can just about get away with it as he's a hair under 35mm and his pose adds a couple of mm to his actual height, but the other two look utterly ridiculous next to normal Empire models. They're lovely sculpts, but if I spend £31 on three models I don't expect to have to do extensive conversion work on them just to make them visually compatible with the range of figures they're ostensibly designed for.

 Yodhrin wrote:
I'm still waiting for proper variants of the plastic Knight.

Still not even a whisper of a Chaos Knight. I'll just be the same thing with Marks, but I want those rules to be out so I can field mine legally without CtA!

Davespil wrote:
I can see it being possible. Its fast normally, but then can fly. Honestly, I'd prefer that they get rid of the FMC rule altogether and drop the price. Its hard to get 3 of them in a list at 310 points. My all Riptide army will come out to 2500 points now, and I can only take 3 XV107s, not the 6 that I wanted to.

lol

BULLETIN #35 http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/News/FORGE_WORLD_BULLETIN_35.html

Sweet!

Though I'm curious as to what this could be

A Chaos based IA hopefully, hints at more things to come maybe?

I would hazard a guess as that would be the new Imperial Armour book featuring Chaos and Chaos Renegades.
Exciting stuff!

Anyone know what the left-most Knight is? I know it's another Mechanicum one, likely armed with a Volkite Somethingarather, but do we know any more than that?

Very different cover to the usual Imperial Armours.

Hopefully they call it chaos armour or something like that, because calling a chaos book imperial armour is just stupid

ImAGeek wrote:
Very different cover to the usual Imperial Armours.

Yeah, I wonder if it's not just the next End Times book.

Not sure about the new Tau suit, too blocky for my taste.

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Sweet!

Though I'm curious as to what this could be

Might be the war machines of the lost and the damned book.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Anyone know what the left-most Knight is? I know it's another Mechanicum one, likely armed with a Volkite Somethingarather, but do we know any more than that?

Looks like a Questoris Mageaera with alternate weapons - perhaps "some of the products we're getting ready" refers to swap outs like for the Reaver.

beast_gts wrote:

ImAGeek wrote:
Very different cover to the usual Imperial Armours.

Yeah, I wonder if it's not just the next End Times book.

Maybe, are FW known for advertising GWprime stuff?

A post on facebook on Adeptus Astartes says

Thomas Rhodes
its IA13, which is a chaos focussed book in the style of IA2. it will include chaos rules for most of the HH tanks and has a lost and the damned style army list in it two

Wonder if they'll put Gal Vorback in as some kind of Greater Worderbearer possessed or something...

Apparently we find out what it is on Wednesday.

Probably not, the Gal Vorbak, formerly the Chapter of the Serrated Sun, XVII Legion all died in the battles of the Heresy. The majority of them fell on Isstvan V at the hands of Corvus Corax and the remaining survivors died at the hands of the XIIIth Legion on Calth, and their likness where never seen again for they where blessed by all four powers who sent their heralds to nest in their flesh to seal the concord between the Primordial Annihilator and Logar Aurelian.

The call of cash is a strong power for change!

I think you're probably right though.

 STC_LogisEngine wrote:
Probably not, the Gal Vorbak, formerly the Chapter of the Serrated Sun, XVII Legion all died in the battles of the Heresy. The majority of them fell on Isstvan V at the hands of Corvus Corax and the remaining survivors died at the hands of the XIIIth Legion on Calth, and their likness where never seen again for they where blessed by all four powers who sent their heralds to nest in their flesh to seal the concord between the Primordial Annihilator and Logar Aurelian.

Ah, so that's why Possessed are a pile of arse in 40K

Yeah, FW are wierd like that, but who knows? They might eventually,.. or they will just force you to play a 30k Word Bearers army. And if you use their Rite of War: The Dark Bretheren (seriously, why would you not use this one unless you play them as the Imperial Heralds) Your force gets preffered enemy: Loyalist Space Marines, all Perils of the Warp suffered by the opposing force(s) gain Instant Death AND you can take allies from Codex: Chaos Daemons and battle-buddies.

Sure there are some restrictions but do you really need fortifications and other allied detatchments?

beast_gts wrote:
BULLETIN #35 http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/News/FORGE_WORLD_BULLETIN_35.html

Spoiler:

I love how the Riptide has its little head cocked quizzically to one side, as if it's thinking "Did I come to the wrong party?".

 Frozen Ocean wrote:

beast_gts wrote:
BULLETIN #35 http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/News/FORGE_WORLD_BULLETIN_35.html

Spoiler:

I love how the Riptide has its little head cocked quizzically to one side, as if it's thinking "Did I come to the wrong party?".

I dunno, I think the Riptide is trying to audition for the 40k version of this:



Certainly does have a "Runnnn!" look to it!

"What? Is there something behind me?"

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Sweet!

Though I'm curious as to what this could be

I believe this is the ( obligatory) special edition will be available for pre-order at Warhammer Fest.£50-£60.....? ... IIRc anyway .. .

Normal edition not long after. It brings all the FW chaos models into one place and has updated rules for the Siege of Vraks campaign and army lists.