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Ahoy fellow Dakka-ites, I am here to seek your opinion. I recently decided to order a titan, and while I was orignally going to go with a Reaver, I decided to do a Warhound first to get my titan-feet wet, so to speak.

Now I need some opinons.

-Lucius Pattern-



-or-

-Mars Pattern-




Many thanks in advance Dakka-ites!!

Definitely the mars pattern. The wolf is to mundane.
The armor on the mars is way beastlier than the wolf as well

Second for mars pattern.

I've always been partial to Mars pattern.

Lucius gives off that sweet sweet Battletech vibe and gives that feel of age Imperial Titans need. No contest there.

I am affected by the gravity of Mars.

Mars Pattern all the way, baby.

Buy both and mix'em

I prefer the Lucius Pattern. Even imperial aircraft are big, chunkcy and without rounded shapes, the mars pattern is just a rem(a)inder of old epic stuff... If it's imperial, it has corners .

Mars!

it depends, if you are scratch building, go with the wolf, otherwise go mars

The mars pattern looks like a turtle with the armour on its back.

The Lucius looks a lot more like a scout as well

Mar definitely. Nothing is cooler than imagining the sound and fury when that vulcan mega-bolter lets loose.

CommissarKhaine wrote:I prefer the Lucius Pattern. Even imperial aircraft are big, chunkcy and without rounded shapes, the mars pattern is just a rem(a)inder of old epic stuff... If it's imperial, it has corners .

This. Aside from the silly predator turrets of yesteryear, the Imperium of Man has declared rounded shapes heretical. (All space marines are to report to the nearest forge world for refit with angular armor.)

Thanks for all the replies and opinions, I am ordering Monday, so any opinions you guys have I am very open to them.

Juding by the coolness of the models I may evetually get both, but for now I am leaning one way, not saying which to skew the results

It's all about the Mars. It looks deadly AND wonderfully ornate, just as you'd expect from such a prized engine.

Though as you're set to order, I don't know why I'm saying this. >_<

Because I asked you to give me your opinion

And I appreciate it!

Lucius.

A Man's Titan, if I ever saw one, and like has been said: it looks Imperial. Mars looks Chaotic, and, like CK said, not many Loyalist constructions (Perhaps Vostroyans aside?) look like that. It's a throwback to Epic design.

~sA

Beetle-back all the way!

i'm going with the Lucius Pattern.

I like the Lucius a bit more.
It's leaner, and I think it captures the "scout titan" feel better.

Everyone has lucius class. I mean, why buy FW when you could just build a lucius.

Mars is way more unique. Thats why it wins.

Though I am partial to the Mars, it does seem more space marine oriented....

No contest:

Mars pattern > Lucius pattern

Only because Mars is so much more grim/dark.

I think that is a poor angle on the Lucius pattern...although I'm partial to the Jackal pattern. My nasty;







/I painted grim dark in cabin, so I can have the grim dark in my grim dark while playing grim dark.

Joyous_Oblivion wrote:Ahoy fellow Dakka-ites, I am here to seek your opinion. I recently decided to order a titan, and while I was orignally going to go with a Reaver, I decided to do a Warhound first to get my titan-feet wet, so to speak.

Do you still intend to get a reaver in the future? If so, mars pattern all the way. That way your titans are more stylistically similar, rotten heretics can observe the nuances of martian construction just before you annihilate them.

Thank you Dakka, for your input, while I was almost swayed by arguments for a Lucius, I stuck with my gut (and consensus here) and went with a Mars.

Also in part to what 0079 said. I do plan on buying a Reaver at Games Day Canada in May/June so this one will fit in more stylistically with the Mars Reaver.

I also own an Armorcast Reaver and the Mars seems to fit in with it better to.

I know I will miss having the 2 Twin Turbolaser in apoc games, but a Plasma Blast gun and Mega Bolter is nothing to sneeze at either.


And finally because I let others piggy back on my FW order and they ordered Pre-released models, I won't get this guy until the week of/after January 26th.

As of then, I will start a P/M Blog to detail my trials and tribulations with the kit.

Thanks again Dakka!

I am telling you from experience paint it before you put it together. It will make your life a whole lot easyer and welcome to the forge precipts

go for mars it has a more killing look

sonofruss wrote:I am telling you from experience paint it before you put it together. It will make your life a whole lot easyer and welcome to the forge precipts

Speaking as the proud owner of a Mars pattern Warhound this is sound advice & I strongly concur. Assembled the warhound is bulky, heavy & too awkward to paint. If you build it before you paint you're unlikely to get smooth brush strokes as much of the model will get in the way & any dry brushing will be a pain.


Painting it unassembled will allow you to cover all the bits that are barely visible, such as under the carapace, behind the shin armour or the amusingly titled cod piece armour.


My own approach was to treat the carapace armour as a separate painting project, then the leg armour, then the head, the cockpit interior & so forth. Lots of going back & forth until I was ready to assmble the beastie, taking care not to paint over anywhere you will need to glue. And you WILL need to glue (and pin f you like).


There's lots of advice from other Warhound builders & painters on te Dakka forums so have a good trawl & show us lots of piccies as you do it & once completed.



Last tip - the hoses / umbilicals that go from the back of the weapon mounts into the shoulders of the Warhound will need to be steeped repeatedly in very hot, almost boiling water so you can GENTLY curve & twist them into shape. Be very carefull as they could snap very easily. Then once they are glued / pinned in place paint them.