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 Kirasu wrote:
Nothing says cavalry like snails... Slowest creature in the world

Well, you know... there's an army of plants in this setting.

Those are daemonic Snails. Maybe they are faster than a jetbike, who knows! Besides, Nurgle is the "slow and relentless" Chaos God.

They travel through time and space.....

I was hoping for the nugle stag beetle things.

 Kirasu wrote:
Nothing says cavalry like snails... Slowest creature in the world

On the other hand, having a snail crawling at you at biker speed is exactly the kind of silliness I'd expect out of Papa Nurgle.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I was hoping for the nugle stag beetle things.

I REALLY want nurgle stag beetles.

Neronoxx wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I was hoping for the nugle stag beetle things.

I REALLY want nurgle stag beetles.

that would be awesome, especially after that wood elfy female character and her mount

 Kirasu wrote:
Nothing says cavalry like snails... Slowest creature in the world

I wonder if the snail will be a dual kit that lets it be made as a beast of nurgle.

 Nostromodamus wrote:

 Kirasu wrote:
Nothing says cavalry like snails... Slowest creature in the world

Appropriately reflects the absurdities of GW's universes and the illogical nature of Chaos imho.

Also worth noting that they might get some kind of crazy rule like the Hexwraiths where they can ignore terrain features as a way to offset the lack of speed--and potentially even a ranged attack from the mount/rider.

 Dryaktylus wrote:

 Kirasu wrote:
Nothing says cavalry like snails... Slowest creature in the world

Well, you know... there's an army of plants in this setting.

An army of plants? What army is this?

Anon052 wrote:

 Dryaktylus wrote:

 Kirasu wrote:
Nothing says cavalry like snails... Slowest creature in the world

Well, you know... there's an army of plants in this setting.

An army of plants? What army is this?

Has anyone figured out why a snail needs hooks sunk into the ground? Is it not going slowly enough already?

 ph34r wrote:
Has anyone figured out why a snail needs hooks sunk into the ground? Is it not going slowly enough already?

Is an agriculture tool.

Parts of snails have been a common design element for Nurgle models since their beginning. Same for toads and other "slimey" animals. Note how these also have a connection with swamps and gardens (don't believe the latter? proof you don't have a garden!). This plays well with the "Garden of Nurgle" image.

Having "snail cavalry" makes sense for Nurgle... kind of. Snails are slow, but relentless. If you don't keep them in check, they can be everywhere after some time. And that plow thingy? Preparing the ground for the seeds of Nurgles love. Cool concept in my opinion.

I hope these make it to the 40K side of things sooner rather than later.

Nurgle's not merely about "decay", he also represents all the new life that comes from decay - the constant, relentless, inevitable cycle of life>death>decay.

Papa Nurgle loves all life equally, even down to the bacterial level.

snails are fine.

 Azreal13 wrote:
That video still - it's Plaguebearers riding giant snails, I'm sure of it.

Why am I thinking of Adventure Time here?

 Galas wrote:

 ph34r wrote:
Has anyone figured out why a snail needs hooks sunk into the ground? Is it not going slowly enough already?

Is an agriculture tool.

Oh dang, so it's tilling the ground for planting nurglings or whatever. Awesome.

 Kirasu wrote:
Nothing says cavalry like snails... Slowest creature in the world

It's a racing snail!

I NEED to see this codex. Three more weeks.....three more weeks....

Word of caution on the Snail in 40k.

There's a reasonable chance it's a special character. Now, being Daemonic from the look of it, likely as not it'll be in 40k as well. But, that's an assumption, not a guarantee!

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Word of caution on the Snail in 40k.

There's a reasonable chance it's a special character. Now, being Daemonic from the look of it, likely as not it'll be in 40k as well. But, that's an assumption, not a guarantee!

I'm afraid of this as well. However, I might convert some bikers (if I want them in my army) to be snail riders in that case.

 ph34r wrote:

 Galas wrote:

 ph34r wrote:
Has anyone figured out why a snail needs hooks sunk into the ground? Is it not going slowly enough already?

Is an agriculture tool.

Oh dang, so it's tilling the ground for planting nurglings or whatever. Awesome.

You know, it's been kind of funny. I'm in the midst of rereading the three Orion novels by Darius Hinks...and a lot of the stuff we've seen recently for Nurgle both thematically and unit-wise has made an appearance there..."Council of Beasts"(part 3 of the trilogy) has the whole ground at one point bubbling up with Nurglings that were "planted".


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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Word of caution on the Snail in 40k.

There's a reasonable chance it's a special character. Now, being Daemonic from the look of it, likely as not it'll be in 40k as well. But, that's an assumption, not a guarantee!

Special characters usually have a unit associated with them these days, at least thematically.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Word of caution on the Snail in 40k.

There's a reasonable chance it's a special character. Now, being Daemonic from the look of it, likely as not it'll be in 40k as well. But, that's an assumption, not a guarantee!

My local GW manager mentioned something big and resin on the phone...
A giant snail would fit the bill.

Not from GW it wouldn't, and this was a GW issued vid, not FW.

could've been talking about any number of recent/upcoming forgeworld things honestly...the Rogue Idol just went up for preorder, that easily qualifies as "big" and "resin"...

Something to think about is that snails are slow but also very small. If they were inflated to the sizes we see here and the speed was kept in proportion they wouldn't be THAT slow.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Something to think about is that snails are slow but also very small. If they were inflated to the sizes we see here and the speed was kept in proportion they wouldn't be THAT slow.

A common garden snail has a speed of about 0.1 km/h - 100 metres pr hour. If they were to be enlarged to a size of 180 cm, standard adult male height, it would equal about 2.7 km/h - roughly half regular human walking speed. So yes - they ARE slow.

*geek off*

well, you say that, but if you ever tried picking a load of snails out of your garden, putting them in a bucket or something as you go, you'll know that they can be deceptively fast in getting out of that bucket and making a break for it! ...I'm sure I've seen a snail do way better than 1 metre in 6 minutes before...

anyway, using real-life common garden snails as a basis for comparison will really only get you so far in this case...it's a giant daemon-snail warp-beast...thing...normal rules don't necessarily apply, by any means! it could move like a bloody fighter jet for all we know!

...being typically nurgle though, yes, it probably will be fairly slow, I'd guess somewhere around 6"-8" move...but also, being typically nurgle, it'll probably be built like a bloody bunker...

So is there still no news of if Death Guard are coming out next week? This is getting incredibly frustrating at this point