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 BrookM wrote:

-Darren Parwood is working on a new knight (A Heavy variant - Castellan like).

So, an up-armoured one with loads of heavy weaponry if I'm not mistaken.

Originally in epic the Crusader and Castellan were variants of each other...
FW and GW have obviously decided to depart from that relationship. The Castellan had a Quake Cannon; given that this is suppose to be heavier armed than the standard Knight chassis having the same weapons as the Banesword would be about right. It'll be interesting to see how they choose to upgrade the twin-linked lascannons.

Double-quad long-barrelled Rapiers?

 aka_mythos wrote:

 BrookM wrote:

-Darren Parwood is working on a new knight (A Heavy variant - Castellan like).

So, an up-armoured one with loads of heavy weaponry if I'm not mistaken.

Originally in epic the Crusader and Castellan were variants of each other...
FW and GW have obviously decided to depart from that relationship. The Castellan had a Quake Cannon; given that this is suppose to be heavier armed than the standard Knight chassis having the same weapons as the Banesword would be about right. It'll be interesting to see how they choose to upgrade the twin-linked lascannons.

I can see them using laser destroyers or some weapon of their own design for just that.

To me those knights look to much like the current style knights. I want to see a non crestus forge world one. Like I said earlier a remake of the goofy grimdark turtle knight.

Wouldn't a Laser Destroyer be a little big, unless we're talking single-barrel? Or would it be a cut-down version?

They come on rapiers these days.

el edit.

*smacks own head*

I meant Turbo Laser Destructors, not Laser Destroyers. My bad.

A Turbo-Laser Destructor is too big and a Laser Destroyer is too small.

Maybe it'll get a Laser Destructor - a 'new' weapon halfway between the too?

New? You mean the main gun on this thing, right?

The Neutron Laser Projector that the Valdor has maybe?

I hope not, it's a bit too short-ranged and we've got plenty of Knights with short-ranged anti-vehicle weaponry as is.

Huh... forgot about the Destroyer Tank Hunter. It's gun would work size-wise.

Wait and see it is I suppose, though I am curious just how much bloody murder will be screamed if one of the new suits of Knight armour were to come with a ranged D-weapon.

Of course, there's the Atrapos, but with a range of 8", I hesitate to call it a ranged D-weapon.

The main weapon is the Quake Cannon so while the other stuff should be destructive it really doesn't need too much to exceed the basic GW Knights. Also the Quake Cannon already has stats, though FW could always invent a different cannon. R24-180, S9, AP3 10" Blast, ignore cover.

Something like a twin linked version or just instances of that destroyer tank's weapon seems close to the right size for translating the epic model.

I'm hoping they don't follow the Epic Castellan but rather borrow from the Epic Warden Knight that has the cannon mounted above the head. I think it gives it a more distinctive and heavy set silhouette.

Just like the Cerastus chassis I imagine we'll get some other variants of the Castellan Knight over time.

I really hope we get to see a new type of chassis in the future.

I'm betting if they keep the "traditional" armament it'll be a twin-linked version of the Thanatar-Calix laser weapon.

Oh man, that would be so kinky!

 Yodhrin wrote:
I'm betting if they keep the "traditional" armament it'll be a twin-linked version of the Thanatar-Calix laser weapon.

Sounds more like an alternative variant that might super explode when destroyed.

I reckon the Solex heavy lascannon is a good call if they keep the lascannon angle. Would make for a decent secondary weapon. I also think they would tone down the Quake cannon slightly from it's Banesword incarnation, as the Knights so far have all had weapons a bit weaker than Warhound/Baneblade class weapons (like the Castigator's Bolt cannon being a bit weaker than a Vulkan mega-bolter). Maybe would have a smaller 7" blast?

 Haighus wrote:
I reckon the Solex heavy lascannon is a good call if they keep the lascannon angle. Would make for a decent secondary weapon. I also think they would tone down the Quake cannon slightly from it's Banesword incarnation, as the Knights so far have all had weapons a bit weaker than Warhound/Baneblade class weapons (like the Castigator's Bolt cannon being a bit weaker than a Vulkan mega-bolter). Maybe would have a smaller 7" blast?

It could just as easily be that because this is a "heavier" chassis that it gets full sized weapons; if it has a combination of decent weapons solex lascannons and Quake cannon, it could end up with some sort of "brace to fire" rule that makes it stand still to shoot all its weapons or just to fire the quake cannon at all.

Well, FW has shifted some names around for titan armaments (Plasma Annihilator is an Emperor-scale weapon, Warlords mounted the smaller Plasma Destructor instead). Maybe go with an upscaled RF Battle cannon, make it 7" and S9 AP3 2 shot, call it a Tremor cannon or Seismic cannon.

I would not be surprised if it did have the same Firing Calibration rule as the Heavy Conversion beamer, something like that is a good call. Would make sense for a support Knight I think. Or perhaps the weapon would have half-range if the Knight moves, like the Thanatar Plasma Mortar.

 Haighus wrote:
I would not be surprised if it did have the same Firing Calibration rule as the Heavy Conversion beamer, something like that is a good call. Would make sense for a support Knight I think. Or perhaps the weapon would have half-range if the Knight moves, like the Thanatar Plasma Mortar.

Half of 180" is a pretty meaningless restriction.

Not sure if this has been posted yet, but from Friday's Monday's news blurb:

One of my favourites that’s not yet available has to be this new upgrade kit that’s coming soon for the Alpha Legion, the sneakiest of all Legions!

I think FW really nailed the Alpha Legion aesthetic with those Headhunters. The iconography and armor detailing fits in really well with the design of Armillus Dynat and their Contemptor. Very curious to see if the kit will just come with combi-bolters, or if combi-weapons will be an option too. (Supposedly some of the FW designers at the birthday bash have said that the book entry is a typo, and that Headhunters should be able to take combi-weapons and not just combi-bolters.)

Couldn't they be Banestrike bolters?

Corax video

Man I love those headhunters

They could just make up a totally new weapon that has a name that is hard to pronounce.. IE every Volkite weapon

Volkite Destrucurioniteverin.

 BrookM wrote:
Couldn't they be Banestrike bolters?

Banestrikes are just a different ammo type. These are combibolters for sure. In the past the distinction between combibolters and stormbolters has been a bit arbitrary, so I like that they are making them more recognisable.