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Huh. Kind of underwhelming, to be honest. I was expecting more tentacles for something called a Kraken, and two guns seems a bit low for a Colossal. The design seems to exchange detail with moar rivets
Not a bad model, by any means, I just don't like it.
It's like they took a bit of the helldiver, a bit of the leviathan/harrower and then stuck a big bulbous head on it and and added two Dr. Octopus arms to it.
And what's with all those exhaust pipes on the top? That doesn't make any sense.
I was so looking forward to the Kraken. What a let down. I guess that's $130+ of my hobby budget that just got freed up though.
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Balance in pick up games? Two people, each with their own goals for the game, design half a board game on their own without knowing the layout of the board and hope it all works out. Good luck with that. The faster you can find like minded individuals who want the same things from the game as you, the better.
For me a swing and a miss, it had so much potential it needs more tentacles and more of a Sea monster theme the legs need to be shorter and more of them and tilt the "body" back a couple of degrees to make it more longer and less tall.
It's pretty dull. I think they definitely dropped the ball on showing off the scale of the thing. A LOT more legs of various sizes could really have sold us on something that wasn't just a big crab-jack.
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Although I don't collect Cryx, I really like the style of much of that line of figures. This kraken does not look nearly as good as the better cryx stuff. It is very bulbous, and I can not get past those two tiny little hind legs that look ready to comically snap at any moment. To be fair though, a lot of the warjacks have laughably small legs holding up a massive hulking body.
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I doubt I'd paint them in the alien colors. Too bright.
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MeanGreenStompa wrote:Reminded me of the harvesting robots from Matrix.
Ooh, those too.
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MeanGreenStompa wrote:Reminded me of the harvesting robots from Matrix.
I was thinking that and the tripods from War of the Worlds.
I really wanted to like the Kraken and for that like to get me interested in playing Warmachine again, but alas the model has failed to elicit any sort of desire on my part to own it.
It has to be the bulbous torso... it just doesn't work for me.
The concept behind it and the associated fluff sounds neat and appropriately Cryxy, but that isn't enough for me to drop the cash on a high-end model.
LunaHound wrote:I thought Kraken are nautical monsters? That thing doesnt look like it can swim or anything D:
Magic?
In all seriousness, I suspect it just does what Goreshade the Bastard did when he
wanted to go on missions between various islands. It walks along the bottom.
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As a sailor, I'm offended that they call this a Kraken. When my skipper shouts, "Kraken!", I expect to see a behemoth of a squid coming yo crack my ship open and swallow me whole.
Not some pansy ass metal thing with four legs and tiny tentacles.
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Come ON. It isn't how big they are, it's how they are used!
It's not the size of the tentacle, it's the motion of the...blarg
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A buddy of mine remodelled the retribution collussus to look like a mix between and invid and zentradi walker. More zentradi methinks. Sexy stuff.
Dont waste your money on a butt ugly cryx model when I can show you a pic of one made with retribution.
This is photoshop you mean? They only showed concept art of the ret col.
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