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I quite like it, reminds me a bit of the banshee from Starcraft. I don't know why.

Prehaps a bit stubby, but nice none the less.

I really like the Stormtalon. If I start up a Space Marine army I would certainly have one or two.

RaptorsTallon wrote:I quite like it, reminds me a bit of the banshee from Starcraft. I don't know why.

Prehaps a bit stubby, but nice none the less.

I thought it reminded me of something!
I see what they were going for, but I think they made it too compact. If it weren't as stocky it would have been great.

Looks like a sentinel, with two engines glued on

It looks like it came out of battalion wars 2

Anybody remember Blue Thunder? Totally on the fence with this one.
CONVERT I SAY!!!

It reminds of a single man helicopter. It looks maneuverable, but has a very short flight range.

Marzillius wrote:I really like the Stormtalon. If I start up a Space Marine army I would certainly have one or two.

Aye, I can't see why everyone complains. It matches the Space Marine asthetic. Haters gonna hate I suppose.

I like it, except for the out of proportion (and being 40k, this is saying something) weapons.

If anyone played G-Police on PS-1, Am I the only one that thinks that if you lengthened the fuselage it would look like the jet-thingy out of it. But I digress. I think it looks kinda cool.

P.S can Templars use it?

The Crusader wrote:If anyone played G-Police on PS-1, Am I the only one that thinks that if you lengthened the fuselage it would look like the jet-thingy out of it. But I digress. I think it looks kinda cool.

P.S can Templars use it?

Nope, sorry. From what I've heard only vanilla SM gets it.
Templars will probably get a flying in their update.

@Macok, Thanks for answering the question

I think it's supposed to echo and apache



But as it, it just doesn't quite work. It's the same problem with the Stormhawk, it's just too compact to make it visually appealing. Take the thunderhawk, it's long, bulky and has a menacing face. Neither of these new kits has the qualities. They don't have that beautiful ugliness which pervades the other marine vehicles.

add in the storm raven wings in behind the engines, and mount the AC on those. then you have a winner. as it is.... it just looks chunky and very forced. like they wanted a generic flier for the vanila mehreens, but it had to be diffrent then the SR.. so this is what was defecated out.

It looks far too practical for 40k. There should be a giant arm sticking out of it, holding a giant sword. It made me think of those gunships from Avatar, mostly because they'll be spinning to the ground and exploding.

The front end needs to be streamlined, if that was done the model wouldn't be so front heavy and it would probably end up being much more aesthetically pleasing.

I'd be inclined to cut away all the pieces that hold the weapons away from the main body and have them attached directly.

I love the look of the stormtalon. Im getting one.

Damn the haters, Full speed ahead!

Lots I've comments I've seem seems to yell ugly, but really out of the 3 new flyers, the only one I found myself looking at was the talon. Hate at me but I really quite like the model and it has such a good range of loadouts.

I need to have that in my army, now! At least 2 of them yes please thank you.

Edit: I will say this, it just looks like it has too many guns on it, lose either the HB or assault cannons, otherwise it reminds me of that preposterous flying thing in halo 3. Just kinda silly... still want some, but silly none the less.

In terms of rules? It's fine, unnecessary and forced, but fine. It's an uparmored landspeeder with a couple special rules for twice the price. Neither broken nor useless.

In terms of the model? It looks ridiculous, it's difficult to take seriously as a gunship. It has a very "chibi/eggplane" look about it, like a box with a couple fins stuck on an a comically oversized gun turret.

Actually, in many ways, it looks like a cockpit section that fell off a much larger vehicle.

I hate the model.
Looks like a screwed over stormraven.

I want to get it and use it for some kind of IG small transporter, by taking all the bulky weapons off it. Or I might add a sentinel missile pod on each side.

I thought the Stormraven looked too compressed to be a useful aircraft. This looks like a cartoon, a suggestion of soemthing that might fly, created by someone who has no concept of aerial dynamics.

This model is the greatist model since the stormraven as it is only (uk) £27.50 and it is cheap in points cost for what it is only 130 points and it can move flat out up to 36" and it can destroy ork bommers (if it has lascannons) on a 1 to glance and a 2 to penetrate how good i that!

Mordiggian wrote:I thought the Stormraven looked too compressed to be a useful aircraft. This looks like a cartoon, a suggestion of soemthing that might fly, created by someone who has no concept of aerial dynamics.

You mean just like the Thunderhawk, and the Stormraven, and every other "Flier" out there?

None of the "Fliers" have enough surface area on the wings to be able to actually fly.

At most they could hover (Fly) like a helicopter.

I'm disapponted - we know GW can make good flyers - look at the Valkyrie or the new ork stuff, It just seems to be that every SM flyer has to be horribly ugly.

My problem is that it looks like they just stuck guns on every available suraface - it's overgunned for it's size - plenty of guns is fine, but only if the flyer looks like it could conceivably carry them.

It looks like it'd be slow and easy prey for any other flyer, as at least the other ones look aerodynamic enough to ackeive liftoff :/

I am not a fan.

orkdestroyer1 wrote:This model is the greatist model since the stormraven as it is only (uk) £27.50 and it is cheap in points cost for what it is only 130 points and it can move flat out up to 36" and it can destroy ork bommers (if it has lascannons) on a 1 to glance and a 2 to penetrate how good i that!

I'm pretty sure we all know how lascannons work, but thanks anyway. I've gotta say the price isn't bad for what you're getting though, either in points or real world moneys. Once it has legit flyer rules in 6th it'll be even better, and more than an uparmored Land Speeder with some special rules.

True, but i still hate the model.
The Stormraven had something that made it look brutal in a cool way, but this..
No!

Is this thread going to somehow generate new content that the 41 page thread in News and Rumors won't?

It should look like this http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/366414-Banshees%2C%20Deathwing%2C%20Land%20Speeder%2C%20Sc2%2C%20Terran%2C%20Vulture.html
Just saying,
This just looks like a box that can't fly.
Or you get rid of the assualt cannon and you have this.