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As the title says, would you let me field this instead of the Forge World one?


Scale pic:


FW one:



At £20 for 5 as opposed to £29 for just one - ok I've got to get crew but it's got to be cheaper.

Why not? It's hard to be mistaken for anything else.

It is a tad smaller but in friendly matches that should be no problem.

In most official tournaments you will fail on limits/bans on third-party parts (or Forgeworld stuff) anyway, so the anal tournament players won't even get a chance to complain about size difference.

I don't go to Tournies or GW events so no problem then!

Cheers treslibras.

The Rapier carries a carefully focussed laser destroyer array, while the alternative carries a minigun. If you could sort our a more laser-like weapon it would be better.

you get 5 for £20 off anvil with 3 variants or 1 £ 29 from forgeworld I know which I'd pick

 dekinrie wrote:
you get 5 for £20 off anvil with 3 variants or 1 £ 29 from forgeworld I know which I'd pick

If we made all decisions on price, I'd take a Tonka truck for my Orc Trukks everytime, OR just use paper chits. I don't because I don't want my army to look like crap and I have respect for my opponents.

To the OP: For the model in question, I'd be OK with it. Its about the same size and we're clear what it represents.

As a Rapier Laser Destroyer no.
As a Heavy Bolter Rapier yes.

But only if you put it on a base matching the footprint of the Rapier as it looks to be at least 25% smaller.

As above. Thats a slug thrower, so you should use it to represent a slug thrower type weapon - not a laser battery

 Gashrog wrote:
As a Rapier Laser Destroyer no.
As a Heavy Bolter Rapier yes.

But only if you put it on a base matching the footprint of the Rapier as it looks to be at least 25% smaller.

Much smaller than that. It looks about 1/3 the size of the Rapier. Half the footprint, and much shorter to boot. I would have no problems playing against it, but it is a lot smaller. And I put my Rapiers and Thunderfire cannons on 50x75 mm fantasy bases.

Just swap the minigun for a Lascannon and Id be okay with it.

 MajorWesJanson wrote:

 Gashrog wrote:
As a Rapier Laser Destroyer no.
As a Heavy Bolter Rapier yes.

But only if you put it on a base matching the footprint of the Rapier as it looks to be at least 25% smaller.

Much smaller than that. It looks about 1/3 the size of the Rapier. Half the footprint, and much shorter to boot. I would have no problems playing against it, but it is a lot smaller. And I put my Rapiers and Thunderfire cannons on 50x75 mm fantasy bases.

This. I use a counts as thunderfire, so I mounted it on a 60 mm round base. That way it fits in nicely, and everyone knows how big it's supposed to be, even though its a different size.

Cool thanks guys for all the comments. I do have the original rapier & that's tiny too - I can't see anyone having problems with that (unless they're really mean). I'll put them on 50mm bases. This will make them taller too. Do reckon that size would do??