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 mjl7atlas wrote:
Any news on knight variants making it to the field soon?

They did some livestream thing for the game where they mentioned a few titan classes off-hand but I don't know if that means they'll actually make it to titanicus. Imperators, psi-titans, scout titans, and some weapon changes like the grapple claw thing the warhounds in Betrayer had. Also more knights is a rumor, which would also be nice. I'd like to be able to run an all-titanicus standing in for space marines army because that sounds like a terrible but fun idea, and thinner/thicker knights would make that a bit easier.

 cole1114 wrote:

 mjl7atlas wrote:
Any news on knight variants making it to the field soon?

They did some livestream thing for the game where they mentioned a few titan classes off-hand but I don't know if that means they'll actually make it to titanicus. Imperators, psi-titans, scout titans, and some weapon changes like the grapple claw thing the warhounds in Betrayer had. Also more knights is a rumor, which would also be nice. I'd like to be able to run an all-titanicus standing in for space marines army because that sounds like a terrible but fun idea, and thinner/thicker knights would make that a bit easier.

I'd expect resin cerastus and acastus knights before a second set of plastic ones.

 MajorWesJanson wrote:

 cole1114 wrote:

 mjl7atlas wrote:
Any news on knight variants making it to the field soon?

They did some livestream thing for the game where they mentioned a few titan classes off-hand but I don't know if that means they'll actually make it to titanicus. Imperators, psi-titans, scout titans, and some weapon changes like the grapple claw thing the warhounds in Betrayer had. Also more knights is a rumor, which would also be nice. I'd like to be able to run an all-titanicus standing in for space marines army because that sounds like a terrible but fun idea, and thinner/thicker knights would make that a bit easier.

I'd expect resin cerastus and acastus knights before a second set of plastic ones.

Dominus/Armiger were also mentioned.

Assuming they don't adjust the rule for balanceI guess people can field a knight heavy force with Dominus in play.

If anyone is interested in terrain for this, Hirst Arts has just put up some new instructions for terrain of this scale.

Kerpow!

New Warlord kit on the way, alongside Lancers (plastic) and Boards (Resin)

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/11/12/12th-nov-coming-soon-from-forge-world-new-titans-knights-and-morefw-homepage-post-2/

If the alternate weapon frame isn’t available separately, I’ll strongly question why they even put magnet holes in the damn models in the first place.

changemod wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/11/12/12th-nov-coming-soon-from-forge-world-new-titans-knights-and-morefw-homepage-post-2/

If the alternate weapon frame isn’t available separately, I’ll strongly question why they even put magnet holes in the damn models in the first place.

Ditto. THAT SUCKS! Scalpers are having a field day.

This really put dampers in me. Can't really afford multiple warlords. Would need like 3 at least(2 for my bigger legion, 1 for smaller) and don't even NEED that many. 4 warlords? Sheesh. Way too much. And if this is how they are going to get others...I'm being force fed to end up with like 8 warlords???

tneva82 wrote:

changemod wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/11/12/12th-nov-coming-soon-from-forge-world-new-titans-knights-and-morefw-homepage-post-2/

If the alternate weapon frame isn’t available separately, I’ll strongly question why they even put magnet holes in the damn models in the first place.

Ditto. THAT SUCKS! Scalpers are having a field day.

This really put dampers in me. Can't really afford multiple warlords. Would need like 3 at least(2 for my bigger legion, 1 for smaller) and don't even NEED that many. 4 warlords? Sheesh. Way too much. And if this is how they are going to get others...I'm being force fed to end up with like 8 warlords???

Well, I did say -if-, there’s no hard confirmation yet.

That said, I bought my Warlord under the understanding of there being weapon packs in the pipeline: I have zero intention of running two gigantic lasers that push my reactor every time they fire.

Luckily I didn't bother to follow the hype and buy the Reaver and Warlord with crappy loadout.

And good job on that knight, they finally made a waving crotch banner. But I wonder what's other option on the sprue, because 2 on the sprue there must be some hefty space left, just not enough for a 3rd one.

changemod wrote:

tneva82 wrote:

changemod wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/11/12/12th-nov-coming-soon-from-forge-world-new-titans-knights-and-morefw-homepage-post-2/

If the alternate weapon frame isn’t available separately, I’ll strongly question why they even put magnet holes in the damn models in the first place.

Ditto. THAT SUCKS! Scalpers are having a field day.

This really put dampers in me. Can't really afford multiple warlords. Would need like 3 at least(2 for my bigger legion, 1 for smaller) and don't even NEED that many. 4 warlords? Sheesh. Way too much. And if this is how they are going to get others...I'm being force fed to end up with like 8 warlords???

Well, I did say -if-, there’s no hard confirmation yet.

That said, I bought my Warlord under the understanding of there being weapon packs in the pipeline: I have zero intention of running two gigantic lasers that push my reactor every time they fire.

Problem is that community article mentions no separate sprue...

Basic loadout isn't bad but it's not something you want multiples. Well except carapace which is very good and useful.

Interesting, but as others have said, the fact that the Warlord is a complete kit, not just a weapon sprue is a shame, hopefully they'll release the weapons sprues seperately, either as an online exclusive, or maybe in the future they'll do another Warlord with a different load out and then release a boxed set of the various weapons sprues.

Also interesting that it seems like they managed to fit 2 heads, 2 Plasma guns, the power claw and the two laser blasters (which seem bigger than the missile launchers) onto a single sprue, thought the original sprue was already pretty packed.

Also a shame there are only two scenery tiles, I was hoping they'd have 4 for release as I'm now torn as to whether to get 2 of each to make a 4x4 board and then ending up with spare tiles if they release more in the future (though I guess that adds some variety and the possibily of a 6x4 board), but obviously the tiles aren't cheap!

Suprised that the Knights are apparently plastic, didn't expect that, though I guess the lance would be pretty fragile in resin. Wonder if we'll get resin upgrade parts to make the other FW knight variants with the same basic body, or whether they'll also be plastic kits.

But, good to see plenty of release coming!

No seperate sprues? That's a bit inconvinient.

As an aside, the battle boards are coming as well, complete with crashed Xiphon to tease us

They said:

The box with the new weapons will have the Warlord in too,


LOL

Chopstick wrote:
And good job on that knight, they finally made a waving crotch banner. But I wonder what's other option on the sprue, because 2 on the sprue there must be some hefty space left, just not enough for a 3rd one.

The Lancer is quite a lot bigger than the standard GW knight, so 2 on a spue the same size sounds about right, especially as it has a few more options, unlike the original knights which had none.

Picking through the Facebook post, the social media intern was unprepared for the backlash and is giving contradictory answers due to not having the info.

Glad I didn't buy anymore warlords yet then, if they are going to do alternate weapons like this and not a separate sprue set. Will be very irritating if there ends up like 4 different warlord boxes with multiple different weapon options that we want to mix! I suspect they will still do a separate weapon sprue set soon though.

The cerastus look cool. They are specificall said to be Lancers, but it says in the article they come with various arm options so hopefully they can make Acherons and Castigators as well.

GW might be doing warlords like they've done kit releases like the new AdMech VS Necron - a boxed set first and then later they'll release the bits separately. So its a short term pain for people.

One possibility is gw like first in expensive set, month or two later on their own

Ooh, just realised that the Warlord has the enlarged front carapace plates without the Shields that appears in some of the pictures in the Tempest book, which I assumed was a pre-production version of the model. AFAIK that option hasn't been released for the full size version.

Tavis75 wrote:
Ooh, just realised that the Warlord has the enlarged front carapace plates without the Shields that appears in some of the pictures in the Tempest book, which I assumed was a pre-production version of the model. AFAIK that option hasn't been released for the full size version.

I’ll admit that interests me more than sticking a Lucius head onto a mars body.

Tavis75 wrote:
Ooh, just realised that the Warlord has the enlarged front carapace plates without the Shields that appears in some of the pictures in the Tempest book, which I assumed was a pre-production version of the model. AFAIK that option hasn't been released for the full size version.

Good spot, I rather like it like that.

I feel for the poor social media intern of FW Facebook page, this won't be their brightest day unless we see a correction very soon. A new slightly different Warlord is cool and all, but I'd rather have a solid, honest answer to people's questions than "don't worry, more awesome stuff is coming and it's gonna be awesome awesome".

Tavis75 wrote:
Interesting, but as others have said, the fact that the Warlord is a complete kit, not just a weapon sprue is a shame, hopefully they'll release the weapons sprues seperately, either as an online exclusive, or maybe in the future they'll do another Warlord with a different load out and then release a boxed set of the various weapons sprues.

Also interesting that it seems like they managed to fit 2 heads, 2 Plasma guns, the power claw and the two laser blasters (which seem bigger than the missile launchers) onto a single sprue, thought the original sprue was already pretty packed.

Also a shame there are only two scenery tiles, I was hoping they'd have 4 for release as I'm now torn as to whether to get 2 of each to make a 4x4 board and then ending up with spare tiles if they release more in the future (though I guess that adds some variety and the possibily of a 6x4 board), but obviously the tiles aren't cheap!

Suprised that the Knights are apparently plastic, didn't expect that, though I guess the lance would be pretty fragile in resin. Wonder if we'll get resin upgrade parts to make the other FW knight variants with the same basic body, or whether they'll also be plastic kits.

But, good to see plenty of release coming!

Gw has fueled expectations itself. No official statement ever, but they have done clearly so. Statements, Rumors... and most important, holes in the existing Warlord Titan, to show us "This models are made for magnets". This is not a shame. It's just tricking consumers in a legally, but morally questionablemorale manner...

I'm hyped for AT again. And once again, I'll be spending my hobby budget for the immediate future on other stuff instead. Come 2019 though I'll have a couple of Warlords, Reavers, and a quartet of Warhounds.

Aexcaliber wrote:

Tavis75 wrote:
Interesting, but as others have said, the fact that the Warlord is a complete kit, not just a weapon sprue is a shame, hopefully they'll release the weapons sprues seperately, either as an online exclusive, or maybe in the future they'll do another Warlord with a different load out and then release a boxed set of the various weapons sprues.

Also interesting that it seems like they managed to fit 2 heads, 2 Plasma guns, the power claw and the two laser blasters (which seem bigger than the missile launchers) onto a single sprue, thought the original sprue was already pretty packed.

Also a shame there are only two scenery tiles, I was hoping they'd have 4 for release as I'm now torn as to whether to get 2 of each to make a 4x4 board and then ending up with spare tiles if they release more in the future (though I guess that adds some variety and the possibily of a 6x4 board), but obviously the tiles aren't cheap!

Suprised that the Knights are apparently plastic, didn't expect that, though I guess the lance would be pretty fragile in resin. Wonder if we'll get resin upgrade parts to make the other FW knight variants with the same basic body, or whether they'll also be plastic kits.

But, good to see plenty of release coming!

Gw has fueled expectations itself. No official statement ever, but they have done clearly so. Statements, Rumors... and most important, holes in the existing Warlord Titan, to show us "This models are made for magnets". This is not a shame. It's just tricking consumers in a legally, but morally questionablemorale manner...

Over egging the pudding there a bit pal.

So we are still missing quite a lot of weapons for the Warlord. So what's that gonna be, two more variants in two separate boxes to get the gatling blasters and volcano cannons and such?

Vintersorg wrote:
So we are still missing quite a lot of weapons for the Warlord. So what's that gonna be, two more variants in two separate boxes to get the gatling blasters and volcano cannons and such?

Volcanos? Those we already have. I guss second box with macro gatling, gatling carapac and turbo laser. All in one sprue was never likely

The new knights are plastic correct? They look awesome but FW resin is just too stupid expensive now.

I love the subtle design changes on the Warlord, the new head variant is my favourite so far and the extra bits on the shoulders are a nice touch as well.

I am still holding out buying any kits as I expect a big bundled deal to come along in the next year or two but I expect that this will become my preferred game system at some point!