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 AegisGrimm wrote:
Yup, pretty soon with those, a hugely disposable income, and a 8x10 playing area, you can play Epic 40K in 28mm scale.

of course would that alos not mean you could use epic models to play 40K?

 Mr Morden wrote:

 AegisGrimm wrote:
Yup, pretty soon with those, a hugely disposable income, and a 8x10 playing area, you can play Epic 40K in 28mm scale.

of course would that alos not mean you could use epic models to play 40K?

Some fellow did it years ago. He called it Travel 40K and used Epic figures on individual drawing pins. His battleground was in folding case and made from polysyrene. He used 40k points with scaled down weapon ranges.

Hehe... they ninja edited their description to reflect 6" size on site:

"At 6 inches tall the Imperial Knight is a towering war engine. Crafted in the Dark Age of Technology... "

ncshooter426 wrote:
Hehe... they ninja edited their description to reflect 6" size on site:

"At 6 inches tall the Imperial Knight is a towering war engine. Crafted in the Dark Age of Technology... "

Haha, indeed! I wonder if it was a mistake or a "mistake."

 Accolade wrote:

ncshooter426 wrote:
Hehe... they ninja edited their description to reflect 6" size on site:

"At 6 inches tall the Imperial Knight is a towering war engine. Crafted in the Dark Age of Technology... "

Haha, indeed! I wonder if it was a mistake or a "mistake."

I'm a bit disappointed, but it's still a good looking sculpt and pretty wide shouldered. We shall see in a week eh?

I hope that finally settles THAT question - finally!

I now eagerly await the long line of apologies from the "8 is Great" crowd!

ncshooter426 wrote:
Hehe... they ninja edited their description to reflect 6" size on site:

"At 6 inches tall the Imperial Knight is a towering war engine. Crafted in the Dark Age of Technology... "

LOL, good catch. Well I guess all the estimates from damned near every picture that was leaked was correct. Where are all the people who said we were measuring it incorrectly? Told ya so

Ah well, it's a shame though, I would have liked an 8" Knight. $155AUD for something only mildly larger than a Trygon is a bit disappointing.

Alpharius I'll go ahead andstep up and apologize that GW can't make a model in the same league as the Dreamforge Leviathans, Nore could they manage to get the rules in one location, nore could they get the size right on their website or be able to compete pricewise with the megacorporation that is Dreamforge-games.com. After all GW has only beenaround a few years while DFG has a long history of putting out the best models in the HHHobby

These models look awesome, but that $140 price tag has me laughing so hard my sides hurt. Really GW? $140 for a 6" tall plastic model? Yeah was drooling a bit over the pics, but the price certainly brought me to my senses and now I won't have to worry about giving in and stepping back from my "no more GW mini purchases" position. If this model was even remotely reasonably priced it would be really tempting.

Thanks GW for making it easier for me to stick to my guns!

Skriker

 Accolade wrote:

ncshooter426 wrote:
Hehe... they ninja edited their description to reflect 6" size on site:

"At 6 inches tall the Imperial Knight is a towering war engine. Crafted in the Dark Age of Technology... "

Haha, indeed! I wonder if it was a mistake or a "mistake."

That's what I was thinking, but I imagine it's possible to just cancel a pre-order (it's GW though so maybe not, haven't ever tried myself) so I don't see the point in being deceptive. Unless they were just hoping no one noticed until the knights showed up and by then it's too late since GW coudl just refuse a return, and can point to their website in case someone tries to accuse them of false advertising.

That's more than a bit disappointing, though. $140 for a model that barely stands any taller than a trygon, which is more than half the price, is insanity. And that wasn't even a very reasonable price point at the assumed 8" height, either, in my opinion. Nice-looking model but seriously, feth that noise.

I assume this means similar kits, like the trygon, riptide etc., will double in price at some point to better match the knight, since GW surely wouldn't be ignorant to this fact themselves. Could be one of the reasons why they're shortening the edition cycle, too...maybe they're reluctant to go back to their old model of yearly price increases considering the recent issue with their stocks falling, in fear of losing even more sales, so faster edition cycles leads to faster updates for armies, which means they can increase prices almost as often as they used to while still attempting to maintain the illusion that they've stopped doing that. Or they're just taking advantage of the popularity of Space Marines and jacking the prices up on a kit every SM player is going to want, I dunno. In any case $140 is fething stupid.

Not sure what size has to do with the price. It's all penny plastic and cardboard, not like the materials are worth anything to begin with. The pricing on GW kits was and always will be artificial.

On the other hand, if anyone insists on size pricing then the Knight seems to be a steal as it's way more bulky than either Riptide or Trygon, as evidenced in this very thread.

ncshooter426 wrote:
Hehe... they ninja edited their description to reflect 6" size on site:

"At 6 inches tall the Imperial Knight is a towering war engine. Crafted in the Dark Age of Technology... "

How can you possibly be that far off . Well, at least they fixed it rather quickly.

Wait..the transfers DON'T come with the kit!?

 ShatteredBlade wrote:
Wait..the transfers DON'T come with the kit!?

Yes. And no.

Have a better read, all the clues are there.

 insaniak wrote:
I'm not really seeing the point of buying the White Dwarf for incomplete rules...

You can see the pictures of the models online, and you still need to wait for the codex in order to field them... so why buy the magazine just to read what has already been posted here...?

What codex will they be in?

 RiTides wrote:

ncshooter426 wrote:
Hehe... they ninja edited their description to reflect 6" size on site:

"At 6 inches tall the Imperial Knight is a towering war engine. Crafted in the Dark Age of Technology... "

How can you possibly be that far off . Well, at least they fixed it rather quickly.

Let's not forget that they are English and use the metric system, except when writing rules, then they go with inches. Either that or they ordered it to be 8". But then the higher ups screamed that prices needed to be cut, so they scaled it down just to save a few pence, then figured it would cost to much to change the size on all the webpages

Conspiracy theory here - gw made a model 6" tall, knowing folks buy or might buy other (i.e, df) models out there to serve as proxy iks. Df are either 4.6 or 8.5 inches tall (15mm & 28mm). One to short and one too tall. (Gw made their ik smack in the middle!) So, they (gw) let (gw) haters go and buy df 8.5, misguiding gw hater folks to think iks are 8" and then, viola, after weekend preorders, correct it to show 6". Lol. Sly dogs.

 Alpharius wrote:
I hope that finally settles THAT question - finally!

I now eagerly await the long line of apologies from the "8 is Great" crowd!

2" here or there. It's not like anyone hasn't made that "mistake"...

* Stop, stop! This joke has been driven into the ground. That's enough of that!

Im painting my freeblade like boba fett!


Please don't attach non wargaming pictures to Dakka, Even of Boba Fett,
Reds8n

 ShatteredBlade wrote:
Wait..the transfers DON'T come with the kit!?

It comes with one sheet, and then there's another sheet that's direct only. Because you know, when you're asking people to blow $140 on a tiny little 6" toy the last thing you want to do is throw them a bone and give them two whole transfer sheets for that money. That would just be entitlement on our part.

I hand paint my logos and icons...

 bu11etmagn3tt wrote:
Conspiracy theory here - gw made a model 6" tall, knowing folks buy or might buy other (i.e, df) models out there to serve as proxy iks. Df are either 4.6 or 8.5 inches tall (15mm & 28mm). One to short and one too tall. So, they (gw) let (gw) haters go and buy df 8.5, misguiding gw hater folks to think iks are 8" and then, viola, after weekend preorders, correct it to show 6". Sly dogs.

This is making a massive assumption that other players give a monkeys.

I use a Mierce Krull as a Bloodthirster (not sure of height, but is enormous) and several FW GD's in normal 40K as normal GDs, rather than the Lords from Appc they're supposed to represent.

Playing a larger model has essentially no advantage, and while it might be an issue in competitive play, I've yet to encounter another player who's reaction has been anything other than "wow, cool model."

Playing the too small version could perhaps attract some slightly more valid criticism, but the 28mm version would be fine by me, and I suspect the overwhelming majority of other players.

 RiTides wrote:

ncshooter426 wrote:
Hehe... they ninja edited their description to reflect 6" size on site:

"At 6 inches tall the Imperial Knight is a towering war engine. Crafted in the Dark Age of Technology... "

How can you possibly be that far off . Well, at least they fixed it rather quickly.

You should read the Imperial Knight dating profile if you want to see some exaggeration.

Govt cheese might be bigger and cheaper, but I likes me some tillamook cheese!

 bu11etmagn3tt wrote:
Conspiracy theory here - gw made a model 6" tall, knowing folks buy or might buy other (i.e, df) models out there to serve as proxy iks. Df are either 4.6 or 8.5 inches tall (15mm & 28mm). One to short and one too tall. (Gw made their ik smack in the middle!) So, they (gw) let (gw) haters go and buy df 8.5, misguiding gw hater folks to think iks are 8" and then, viola, after weekend preorders, correct it to show 6". Lol. Sly dogs.

Yes, GW are trying to trick people in to buying another company's models!


...wait, I see a slight flaw in your conspiracy theory

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

 bu11etmagn3tt wrote:
Conspiracy theory here - gw made a model 6" tall, knowing folks buy or might buy other (i.e, df) models out there to serve as proxy iks. Df are either 4.6 or 8.5 inches tall (15mm & 28mm). One to short and one too tall. (Gw made their ik smack in the middle!) So, they (gw) let (gw) haters go and buy df 8.5, misguiding gw hater folks to think iks are 8" and then, viola, after weekend preorders, correct it to show 6". Lol. Sly dogs.

Yes, GW are trying to trick people in to buying another company's models!


...wait, I see a slight flaw in your conspiracy theory

 Ian Sturrock wrote:
Sorry, I should have added a smiley.

I am not seriously suggesting that everyone should buy 3 Knights.

I am, instead, agreeing with earlier posters, that GW doesn't give a fig for game balance, but knows that Knights will sell like hot cakes.

I keep reading this and i just dont see it.

The model is both inferiorly engeniered and astronomically overpriced, the only thing it has going for it are its aethetics. I recon it will sell some but that is it.

Engineering being a huge factor when it comes to purchasing giant space murder robots to blow up aliens with.

I think he's referring to the engineering of the kit, like posability and such.

 bu11etmagn3tt wrote:
I hand paint my logos and icons...

Good for you. Not always the best or most desirable option, though.

I think it'll sell quite a few. Well, "quite a few" given that it costs that much. If it were priced lower it'd sell a crap ton, but I still think it'll sell quite well. Aesthetics go a long way to selling a model and this thread alone shows a lot of people like the aesthetic.