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Not quite a rumor, but in addition to Warriors and Rapiers for new Titan classes, the Titandeath novel references the Nightgaunt class fairly heavily.

I would guess we'll see that eventually...

 schoon wrote:
Not quite a rumor, but in addition to Warriors and Rapiers for new Titan classes, the Titandeath novel references the Nightgaunt class fairly heavily.

I would guess we'll see that eventually...

Were they not covered in the Titandeath expansion?

SamusDrake wrote:

 schoon wrote:
Not quite a rumor, but in addition to Warriors and Rapiers for new Titan classes, the Titandeath novel references the Nightgaunt class fairly heavily.

I would guess we'll see that eventually...

Were they not covered in the Titandeath expansion?

Titandeath expansion doesn’t have any new units in it. When GW releases a new unit you’ll get the rules in a terminal/weapon pack.

 Malika2 wrote:
This was back in the day when GW's artwork also included stuff that wasn't a direct product placement. ;-)

I mean, most of the art over the last page or 2 is very recent and of Imperators, which aren’t a product they make.

 ImAGeek wrote:

 Malika2 wrote:
This was back in the day when GW's artwork also included stuff that wasn't a direct product placement. ;-)

I mean, most of the art over the last page or 2 is very recent and of Imperators, which aren’t a product they make.

But about 99.99999% of the artwork GW makes nowadays of units is pretty much the way they will look like in their model form. I doubt the Imperator would be such a big exception here.

 Nostromodamus wrote:

SamusDrake wrote:

 schoon wrote:
Not quite a rumor, but in addition to Warriors and Rapiers for new Titan classes, the Titandeath novel references the Nightgaunt class fairly heavily.

I would guess we'll see that eventually...

Were they not covered in the Titandeath expansion?

Titandeath expansion doesn’t have any new units in it. When GW releases a new unit you’ll get the rules in a terminal/weapon pack.

Before someone gets the wrong idea; neither book of rules for AT18 has any unit stats in it, except incidentally as an example to show you how to read a terminal, and I wouldn’t expect that to change with any future books.

Nostromodamus is quite correct that any new unit types will be sold alongside new terminals to allow them to be fielded and I don’t expect that to change any time soon.

 Nostromodamus wrote:

Titandeath expansion doesn’t have any new units in it. When GW releases a new unit you’ll get the rules in a terminal/weapon pack.

Of course. But nothing in the expansion's "fluff"?

SamusDrake wrote:

 Nostromodamus wrote:

Titandeath expansion doesn’t have any new units in it. When GW releases a new unit you’ll get the rules in a terminal/weapon pack.

Of course. But nothing in the expansion's "fluff"?

Not in the sense of a novel following individual Titans and describing what they face in direct combat, no. It describes the region of the Titandeath campaign, it’s various worlds and their collective strategic value, as well as some of the individual battles, but never gets as granular as individual Titans, nor even as close as describing the types of Maniple that fought the ‘historical’ scenarios they’ve created – which would at least have given a few hints.

 Mr_Rose wrote:

SamusDrake wrote:

 Nostromodamus wrote:

Titandeath expansion doesn’t have any new units in it. When GW releases a new unit you’ll get the rules in a terminal/weapon pack.

Of course. But nothing in the expansion's "fluff"?

Not in the sense of a novel following individual Titans and describing what they face in direct combat, no. It describes the region of the Titandeath campaign, it’s various worlds and their collective strategic value, as well as some of the individual battles, but never gets as granular as individual Titans, nor even as close as describing the types of Maniple that fought the ‘historical’ scenarios they’ve created – which would at least have given a few hints.

Ah, I see. Cheers for clearing that up!

Yes. While there was certainly some wishful thinking about new units in Titandeath, none were ever promised.

Doom of Molech is the next possibility...

I'm hopeful, but FW are paying their cards close to the chest.

Did they ever mention anything about the train they were showing last year?

 Firah wrote:
Did they ever mention anything about the train they were showing last year?

YES!

Seriously, using Thomas the Tank Engine as a stand-in just does not cut it anymore...


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New( well, existing frames now separate ) Reaver and Warlord weapon sprues on the way...

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/02/24/pre-order-next-week-ambots-titanic-weaponry-and-speed-freeks/

Curses! I saw the title of the preorder thing calling out titanic weapons. Thought we were finally getting the quake and Gatling guns. Just the weapon sprues though, sadly.

It looks like the guns from the warlord and reaver mki will be on sale separately as well as the alternates, which is nice.

Well, at least the Titans are up to date with their weapons now. Was hoping for a second they would do something on the Knight front as well, but oh well.

SamusDrake wrote:
Well, at least the Titans are up to date with their weapons now. Was hoping for a second they would do something on the Knight front as well, but oh well.

Still no announcement of a few options, so they’re far from having the full suite available.

Mandragola wrote:
Curses! I saw the title of the preorder thing calling out titanic weapons. Thought we were finally getting the quake and Gatling guns. Just the weapon sprues though, sadly.

It looks like the guns from the warlord and reaver mki will be on sale separately as well as the alternates, which is nice.

We may yet get both. Resin ones looked to be the finished product when shown off at the Weekender. And given they’re a FW release, quite possible the GW pre-order wouldn’t mention them?

Mandragola wrote:
Curses! I saw the title of the preorder thing calling out titanic weapons. Thought we were finally getting the quake and Gatling guns. Just the weapon sprues though, sadly.

Honestly, even the restock of the Warlord sprues is very welcome news.

Who doesn't need more Titan guns?!

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

Mandragola wrote:
Curses! I saw the title of the preorder thing calling out titanic weapons. Thought we were finally getting the quake and Gatling guns. Just the weapon sprues though, sadly.

It looks like the guns from the warlord and reaver mki will be on sale separately as well as the alternates, which is nice.

We may yet get both. Resin ones looked to be the finished product when shown off at the Weekender. And given they’re a FW release, quite possible the GW pre-order wouldn’t mention them?

The resin weapons will almost certainly not be announced on a Sunday preview like this, but rather show up as part of new FW pre-orders on a Friday morning.

 xttz wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

Mandragola wrote:
Curses! I saw the title of the preorder thing calling out titanic weapons. Thought we were finally getting the quake and Gatling guns. Just the weapon sprues though, sadly.

It looks like the guns from the warlord and reaver mki will be on sale separately as well as the alternates, which is nice.

We may yet get both. Resin ones looked to be the finished product when shown off at the Weekender. And given they’re a FW release, quite possible the GW pre-order wouldn’t mention them?

The resin weapons will almost certainly not be announced on a Sunday preview like this, but rather show up as part of new FW pre-orders on a Friday morning.

Yeah I agree, they'll probably be on the FW site and preorders on a Friday. That's logical, but doesn't change the fact that my illogical reaction was hope at the title, and disappointment at the reveal. It's still a good thing to release these weapon sprues of course.

It's weird seeing the old and new warlord sprues next to each other. There's so much more stuff on the new one! The old sprue has quite small shoulder weapons (the missiles), two volcano cannons and two (basically Identical) heads. The new one has much more elaborate shoulder weapons, to different heads and three arm weapons - one of which has loads of alternate fingers and stuff, yet still finds room for some alternate armour plates and shields. It feels like there are double the number of components on the new sprue.

Just guesstimating how much the reaver weapon sprues might be...

...thinking about £13 to £17.

I'd bet they'll be the same price as the Warlord weapon sprue cost.

The Reaver sprues are 1/2 the size of the Warlord's sprues, hence betting on £13 per weapons sprue for the Reaver.

Good point, but GW won't math it quite that way.

The Warlord weapon sprue is 40% of the total Warlord cost.

So here, I'd guess...£15.

£14 if we're lucky.

£16 if we're not!

Warlord Weapons - 42 USD
Reaver Weapons - 25 USD


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Also - they are all direct - not trade.

 Alpharius wrote:
I'd bet they'll be the same price as the Warlord weapon sprue cost.

If they came as a double pack...maybe.

Yes, we've already been over my mistake - I even updated my guess.

Keep up!!!

Then its not really canon. That sounds like the same issue Lucasfilm has gotten into. When disney bought lucasfilm (and thus star wars, indy, etc), they said all the old star wars books, were now legends. not official. They did this to forge their own path and to clear up a huge issue for major star wars fans. before, there was G canon (ie. the films/tv shows that George Lucas had a part of), then like A canon, B canon, C canon, etc. I dont know the exact letters but you get the idea. it was a clusterF.

So all that is gone. the book/comics/video games all start fresh, however, the force awakens novel version. In the novel, Poe and Daisy meet and talk. That doesnt happen in the films. they meet for first time in last jedi. So right there, they have messed up their own canon. So the head of the lucasfilm story group, Pablo Hidalgo i believe is the name, ended up saying in an interview, if anything like that happens, the films are always considered official canon and ignore the books.

So its right back to where it was before and with like less than 5 books released up to that point.

the easiest way, and what i understood, was that there are multiple titan designs (like the ones at warhammer world in the seige of terra diorama, that match alot of the artwork and are person sized), but the ones you can buy from forgeworld are the crappier smaller versions that they still build in large quantities.

doesnt matter from a gamplay POV. i just find the lore in stuff like D&D, WH, SW, GOT, Marvel/DC, ST, etc interesting

Regards,
Sanjay

 Crimson wrote:

StarFyre wrote:
Oh of course it will. the same for any background. but that doenst change the fact that if it was real, the sizes very. thats all.

like the second death star was 160km diameter. models/toys are obviously never in scale with anything since they would still need to be the size of the house.

that doesnt change the fact of what the size of the official death star 2 was.

however, that does assume the books etc are canon.

They're canon, but not necessarily true. As it has been noted, the stated size of Imperator Titan varies wildly in the books, even the size of one specific titan! BL authors make up details as they need and they often contradict each other (or even themselves), so one should take any such numbers with a grain of salt.

 Alpharius wrote:
Yes, we've already been over my mistake - I even updated my guess.

Keep up!!!

Awfully sorry, ol'bean. For a moment there, I genuinely thought you might have been on to something...

Ha! That's what you get for thinking I'm on to...anything anymore!

LOL! Well, see what you make of this Alpharius...

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/02/26/26th-feb-adeptus-titanicus-old-alliancesfw-homepage-post-1/