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Well, that's neat.

Not quite as "Shut Up and Take My Money" as the others, but that might change when the sculpt is shown.

Cyporiean wrote:Well, that's neat.

Not quite as "Shut Up and Take My Money" as the others, but that might change when the sculpt is shown.

Speak for yourself. I'm already sold!

Also, for Mak3da. Did she give up the Swords of Baalash? Or has she done a Vlad-esque reforging of two swords into 1 giant sword?

Yeah, we'll see! Definitely looks scary...

Quoting it onto this page of the thread (also edited into the OP):

RiTides wrote:

And here's the video for the Lock and Load panel:




Thanks go to Lost Hemisphere!

I do like how Gargantuans will be the 'catch-up' book for Hordes, since the game came out a couple years after Warmachine.

Any posters of what Skorne's epic lock would be besides Makeda?

Anyone else think that the Woldwrath should be voiced by Vin Diesel in a WB animated movie?

Can't say that the sculpt show for the Circle Gargantuan is really impressing me in terms of detail. However in terms of sheer scale it looks to stand head and shoulders (or just shoulders) above the Colossals, at the moment it stands to be neck-and-neck between that and the Galleon for my money.

Skorne Giganto-Titan is interesting. I'm not sold yet, I want to see the model.

It does have potential, though.

The mammoth concept looks sharp, but dose not display the creativity I expect from PP. The giant troll and wold make sense in their factions. This giant titan seems a little blunt considering the variety of beasts Skorne are known to enslave.

The archangel has all of my love.

One of my local press gangers (faultie on the PP forums) was able to pick up a Mountain King for me at Lock 'n Load

So I'll post up some unboxing pics when I get it from him, which should be on Wednesday.

Pretty stoked

So what was allowed to be sold at L&L?

Light cav Epic Morvahna? Yes please!

Also, lots of info about the Mountain King (including pics of the cards, etc) are here:

http://privateerpressforums.com/showthread.php?109763-Mountain-King-tomorrow-at-L-amp-L

Along with a lot of complaining about its' rules

Kurgash, I think they were selling these:

Kraken, Conquest, Stormwall
Alt-Ashlynn
Sons of Bragg
Road Hog
Nemo 3
Vlad 3
Colossals book
And a limited number of Mountain Kings, apparently...

I like the rules I see... just not too impressed with the P+S of his fists and his armor... but other than that, I'm okay...

I know some people on the PP forums are complaining about the lack of regeneration on the Mountain King, they forget that if he takes damage he creates a whelp for free... there is your regeneration...

He doesnt have regen?! Wow. That's kind of a shocker for a troll. Doesnt every single dire troll have it?

AduroT wrote:He doesnt have regen?! Wow. That's kind of a shocker for a troll. Doesnt every single dire troll have it?

Every single Troll, actually. Even the elemental ones. Not that it makes too much of a difference here. It's already got two healing abilities, a third is hardly necessary.

A whelp spawns whenever he's damaged. There, that's your regen.

It's sounding like he's pretty hated on the other forum I read. They think he's going to die too easily and not really put out more damage than cheaper options.

Wow... Uh... These... I... You...


ALL my money. All of it. It belongs to Privateer Press.

Kurgash wrote:A whelp spawns whenever he's damaged. There, that's your regen.

Exactly! I'm not sure why everyone is complaining about the lack of regen.

I like the fluffy mechanic behind his regen... Sadly it does mean I might have to buy more whelps...

The problem with the Mountain King is the lack of defenses and total health that the colossals have to keep it alive to use those whelps. Seems like it would just get eaten alive by Cryx especially.

Can I post the mountain king leaks here? Or is it considered taboo?

It's allowed on the Privateer site, feel free to do it here.

Only 5 fury? Some Beasts have that already, I would've expected more. Not too annoyed about the lack of regeneration though.

48 life total is definitely a little on the shy side.

Yeah, I wasn't sure AoE, but I think Laughing Man is right- since Privateer Press allows the pictures of the cards to be posted on their own forums, it makes sense that they don't mind them being posted.

If you pay the points for a pack of whelps separately you can spawn TWO at a time which should make for some insanity.

RiTides wrote:Yeah, I wasn't sure AoE, but I think Laughing Man is right- since Privateer Press allows the pictures of the cards to be posted on their own forums, it makes sense that they don't mind them being posted.

They only allowed it because the miniature was released to the general public, otherwise posting the pictures on their forums would be a big no-no.

Right... but since it's released (albiet in limited numbers) it should be OK now, right?

RiTides wrote:Right... but since it's released (albiet in limited numbers) it should be OK now, right?

Well, the pictures are posted in their forums, and no mod as taken any action to take them down, so I would say that yes, it is allowed.

So I've been toying around with the idea of using the Mountain King and making him the truck he is/should be...

Take an Earthborn, Janissa and Krielstone Bearers, and probably a Mauler (I mean who wouldn't want that), and I'm sure he becomes a lot better. Most people are probably going to say, "Well yeah but at those points, why wouldn't I just take another Dire Troll or two"

With the Krielstone Bearers w/UA and full focus (11 inch range) you can give him +2 ARM and +1 STR, that gives you a 2 inch sweep at P+S 20.

Add in the EBDT with Elemental Communion and Janissa's wall placing effect, your Mountain King gets 23 ARM, sure he's still DEF 9 but you want those troll whelps jumping off of him, if you boost his armor high enough, he'll only suffer a few points of damage.

Finally, I would probably run him with either of the Doomshapers. pDoomie has Fortune which will help (somewhat) with that MAT 5, and eDoomie can pop Wild Aggression which is probably your best bet to get around the MAT 5... or if you've got the points, use the Runebearer and cast it on him turn one if you don't want to use Doomshaper's fury early on.

Idk, just some thoughts...