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Monster Rain wrote:I love the Necrosphinx. Depending on what happens with the Necon Codex I may have to pick up a few of them and "Gaussify" them a bit.

I haven't seen you post in forever. or maybe I didn't notice your posts because only now I recognize your avatar again....

Kanluwen wrote:
But now imagine if the Dreadknight had been a psychically driven construct, with no pilot, that fought alongside a Grey Knight Brotherhood Champion or Grandmaster and carried a Nemesis Force Sword and an oversized Storm Shield, with a stormbolter built into the shield.

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Malfred dammit Kan, now I'm going to have to buy another one!

Battle Brother Lucifer wrote:

Monster Rain wrote:I love the Necrosphinx. Depending on what happens with the Necon Codex I may have to pick up a few of them and "Gaussify" them a bit.

I haven't seen you post in forever. or maybe I didn't notice your posts because only now I recognize your avatar again....

I've posted a lot less in the last few months. School and all that jazz...

Platuan4th wrote:

Kanluwen wrote:
But now imagine if the Dreadknight had been a psychically driven construct, with no pilot, that fought alongside a Grey Knight Brotherhood Champion or Grandmaster and carried a Nemesis Force Sword and an oversized Storm Shield, with a stormbolter built into the shield.

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Malfred dammit Kan, now I'm going to have to buy another one!

Since when is Malfred a deity who can damn someone?

Also: I want royalties for my Dreadjack idea. A thing of Devlan Mud is all I'll ask for

Kanluwen wrote:
Since when is Malfred a deity who can damn someone?

When all else fails, blame Malfred.

Mick A wrote:...with these latest two releases its 'look, big and bad undefeatable models! Oh, don't worry about the price, you can't lose with these so they're worth it!'

I don't think it's just you! I agree, generally.

What I recall is the last tyranid codex where the army became 'GODZILLA' in stead of the swarm, how it was always written and fictionalized. 6 carnifexes and a hive tyrant do not a swarm make, it was an egregious departure from the story arcs. I think the giant creatures could be the same way in WHFB, and I think that's concerning, especially if the big single models crowd out the other units in the game because they are effective and easier to play and paint.

I wouldn't want to see this in the armies forum:

What do you think of my tomb kings army?

Tutenmummy General
5 skeletons
5 skeletons
Sphinx
Sphinx
Sphinx

It would ruin the game, well, more. WHFB ought to be about regiments, I hope the large creatures have some sort of limits, as now it is a definite trend.

EDIT: Obviously Malfreds fault!

Kanluwen wrote:It's not a complaint. It's an observation.

And your sign would be wrong anyways, as there were complaints about Mat Ward in Background on Friday, Saturday, AND Sunday.


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aka_mythos wrote:I think the issue here is really just an over saturation of these larger models. GW now feels it has to give every army one, whether it fits smoothly or not. Unfortunately when it doesn't it seems out of place, in a bad way. The spider was cool, the stegadon also cool... the dreadknight made me lose faith in GW's artist's taste.

But now imagine if the Dreadknight had been a psychically driven construct, with no pilot, that fought alongside a Grey Knight Brotherhood Champion or Grandmaster and carried a Nemesis Force Sword and an oversized Storm Shield, with a stormbolter built into the shield.

It suddenly becomes a lot cooler. Even if one can just say it's a warjack.

I would rather it look like a variant of the dreadnought design.

The necrosphinx is amazing. Looking at it in the artwork makes it even better. People love to see pictures with massive, city sized monsters and GW's models are becoming that. There hasn't been a single model I remember that has been released since January I think is ugly. The dreaknight actually looks really freaking awesome. As does the spider.

Wait till the giant Dwarven Steam Powered Cheese Tractor comes out.

Augustus wrote:

Mick A wrote:...with these latest two releases its 'look, big and bad undefeatable models! Oh, don't worry about the price, you can't lose with these so they're worth it!'

I don't think it's just you! I agree, generally.

What I recall is the last tyranid codex where the army became 'GODZILLA' in stead of the swarm, how it was always written and fictionalized. 6 carnifexes and a hive tyrant do not a swarm make, it was an egregious departure from the story arcs. I think the giant creatures could be the same way in WHFB, and I think that's concerning, especially if the big single models crowd out the other units in the game because they are effective and easier to play and paint.

I wouldn't want to see this in the armies forum:

What do you think of my tomb kings army?

Tutenmummy General
5 skeletons
5 skeletons
Sphinx
Sphinx
Sphinx

It would ruin the game, well, more. WHFB ought to be about regiments, I hope the large creatures have some sort of limits, as now it is a definite trend.

EDIT: Obviously Malfreds fault!

Considering that your Sphinx's really aren't great, I'd be ok going against that army with my "all points into a horde of Bloodletters GO" army.

Worglock wrote:

Considering that your Sphinx's really aren't great, I'd be ok going against that army with my "all points into a horde of Bloodletters GO" army.

If they're Warsphinxes instead of NecroSphinxes, a few rounds of Crew attacks + Thundercrush + Thunderstomp(with a couple rounds of breath weapons thrown in) could put a huge horde of Letters in for some hurt coupled with their T8(and maybe the spell that gives models, including each crew member, +1 A).

Don't care for grey nights or tomb kings. Just not the bravery factor i like; that's why i use Guardsmen(and dwarves later in the year) so i tend to avoid the giant monsters. Just doesn't feel as cool to me.

But i think they are going a wee bit over the top; you see the 360 view on that sphinx thing?