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Clearly it should be named Ultraknight.

And be painted red with a grey "T" running down the middle.

I was going to suggest 'Leader One', but that might be far too obscure for some people.


How about Menasor? Menasor and Superion. That matches pretty well.

How about Menasor after Superion's arch rival?



I'm just worried that old Pagodatron and Cathedralsaurus Rex will be too small to pass as Dread Knights.

Kudos for the Gobot reference HBMC.

I'm gonna go with Unicron. Maybe even Alpha Trion and Omega Supreme.

I have to say as a major Transformers fanatic, I'm loving all the references - keep 'em coming.

Myself I'd go with Big O

Honestly, the Dreadknight gets a big "meh" from me. If in metal, definite no-go; if in plastic, might make good conversion fodder. That pose is just far, far too static for my tastes, and the operator looks silly.

I take it you dont know the fluff behind this new model, I can't go too much into detail but basically it allows a few Grey Knights who survive the mental strain these machines put on their minds to fight Greater Daemon on a 1vs1 basis.

That might be the weakness that allows this thing to be at only 130 points.
Maybe it looses or risks loosing wounds every turn?

Each GK is a mental fortress, chaos cannot touch them nor corrupt them. Going mad is pretty much not an option because of the horrors they have witnessed and not blinked.

Right, with Ld8 and no fearless they hardly reek of having witnessed the worst things possible without blinking.

Space Marines: The Emperor's holy box-planes fill the sky in droves, providing aerial support for the box-giants running rampant down below.
After the Stormraven, what did you expect?

Lots and lots of RIVETS!!!!

Pyriel- wrote:

Each GK is a mental fortress, chaos cannot touch them nor corrupt them. Going mad is pretty much not an option because of the horrors they have witnessed and not blinked.

Right, with Ld8 and no fearless they hardly reek of having witnessed the worst things possible without blinking.

I was speaking from a fluff perspective purely and referring to how a GK could easily weather being entombed in a dreadnought, none of this pansy 'let me die' crap (though apparently GW thought it neccessary to revise that...). I too am disappointed at losing fearless. However there has been no talk of them removing an inquisitor's Iron Will

sweet i need three

You know, the Stormraven looks like it might almost be acceptable in silver....

Think I'll finish my concept one anyway, and still keep my eye out for a Caestus from FW.


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niallkissick wrote:Got more of a Megatron look to him rather than Optimus!!!

And Megatron is the right color.

Not sure if I like this thing. It's definitely going tohave cool, cool bitz though.

Hmmmm...Revoltech Patlabor + sombeody's leftover DreadKnight bitz...hmmmm


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I find it highly amusing that people hate this thing when they can't even really see it yet. Seriously, it has the potential to be mind-blowingly cool when not in mafia-informant-vision.

OK, so it's big, and it has crazy shoulder hydraulics. You don't like those? The thing is going to be plastic. Chop them off. Glue or magnet the other two guns on as shoulder mounts like aTau broadside suit. Someone whines it's not WYSIWYG? Tell them that your fist is WYSIWYG, would they like to examine it in detail?

Relax. The core of this thing is going to look 1000 cooler than a penitent engine, and the rest is sweet, sweet kit-bashing to taste.

Might of Titan is used at the beginning of the assault phase, so no bonuses to shooting for those who were wondering.

Can anyone just confirm. I'm looking at the image and the termies in the front, on the left, look like they have shields. Does anyone else see that?

VoidAngel wrote:I find it highly amusing that people hate this thing when they can't even really see it yet.

We can see the shape of it. The long-legged, small-torso humanoid form does not fit with the usual Space Marine aesthetic. That's more of an Eldar or Slaanesh thing.

AlexHolker wrote:

VoidAngel wrote:I find it highly amusing that people hate this thing when they can't even really see it yet.

We can see the shape of it. The long-legged, small-torso humanoid form does not fit with the usual Space Marine aesthetic. That's more of an Eldar or Slaanesh thing.

Possibly, possibly. But wait until you see it. With the details in view, those proportions may not seem so distorted. Perhaps it's thick enough, or 'clunky' enough that it doesn't actually look as 'anime' in high-rez as it seem in BlurryVision(tm). I'm going to bet right now, that half of you change your tune when you can see it.

Anyone know anything about the plastic GKT's themselves? Will the metal and plastic ones be noticeably distinguishable aside from poses if used together?

I don't like it holding a sword, but converting it into a wrist mounted katar, like Optimus Prime from the Transformer movies, would be sweet I reckon!

Way ahead of you there Grimz.

Two, wrist mounted, one in each arm.

I think a TF marathon is in order this weekend.

I can't say those photos look particularly promising. Form what little can be seen it seems rather skinny, it doesn't fit any kind of space marine asethetic I know of. It looks a very stiff model, not at all dynamic, and yes it does look like a transformer, that was my first impression anyway. But that's probably got a lot to do with the colour scheme, it's very patchy with silvers, whites, reds and blacks.

I don't collect Grey Knights so won't be buying this model, but just looking at these pics it could be this year's Razorgor.

I thought the Chibi-Hawk was this year's Pumbagore?

I guess when GW sees a great idea, they take it and TM it.

I am not a big fan of the "extended leg" dreadnoughts that you see from time to time.

...no. No. The stormraven I was okay with, I didn't really know what to think of it at first but the more I see it the more I like it. Not exactly what I would have done if I had any say in it, but I don't "hate" the model like some people apparently do.

But this? No. Nooo. Nooo. What the feth are you DOING?

Not a fan of the Dreadknight. Just... no... Is this GW's lame attempt to cash in on those gakky Transformers movies?

Not a fan of the Dreadknight. Just... no... Is this GW's lame attempt to cash in on those gakky Transformers movies?

Well, GW has failed every single time they've tried to make a good looking mech and in that sense they didn't surprise anyone by failing yet again. The Dreadknight model looks horrible. I'm not sure why people call it particularly static though, because it's clear that the two Dreadknights in the army picture are the same model. GW pretty much paints one of everything these days and the photoshop guy does the rest.

Wow... I expected something completely different...

Actually, I wished the Dread Knight to be like the old metal Deamon Prince.... Terminator-armor with extended arms and legs due to warp-influence.

Therion wrote:

Not a fan of the Dreadknight. Just... no... Is this GW's lame attempt to cash in on those gakky Transformers movies?

Well, GW has failed every single time they've tried to make a good looking mech and in that sense they didn't surprise anyone by failing yet again. The Dreadknight model looks horrible. I'm not sure why people call it particularly static though, because it's clear that the two Dreadknights in the army picture are the same model. GW pretty much paints one of everything these days and the photoshop guy does the rest.

The Dreadnought doesn't look too bad. Completely stupid from an engineering point of view, but there's something about that stupid design that just works.

This thing though... not so much. I was hoping it'd look more like a Penitent Engine.

Therion wrote:I'm not sure why people call it particularly static though...

I thought that because the pose is very stiff and static looking. Not an animated pose, it's just standing there with straight arms and legs, perhaps the model looks different from the side.

H.B.M.C. wrote:I was going to suggest 'Leader One', but that might be far too obscure for some people.


How about Menasor? Menasor and Superion. That matches pretty well.

WIN.

Fafnir wrote:Not a fan of the Dreadknight. Just... no... Is this GW's lame attempt to cash in on those gakky Transformers movies?

Sorry for going off topic...

Only the second one was Gak.

The first one was awesome and the third one looks

Back on topic...

Yes I do agree with you on the cashing in slightly, but TBF, is that a bad thing???

This is marketed towards the kids and most kids love Transformers in one way or another. For me it's the 1980's nostalgia and the fact I'm a Michael Bay fan, for the kids - "wow it looks like Prime, Mommy, can I have that???"

GWs on a winner there IMO.

Yes the pic is blurry, but from what I can see it ain't looking that bad. For once I might buy an army just for the models and fluff rather than the rules and fluff.

This Dreadknight thing just isn't my cup of tea, bit I don't blame GW for trying something else. I will be interested in the fluff behind it, though.

But the Emperor knows I will get plenty of the Terminators in the front of that blurry picture. I have a feeling they look pretty awesome in detail and I can use them to diversify my GK army and for some conversions of my Red Hunters. I can't wait for April and some more detailed pictures ...