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Hi guys

This unit looks pretty cool but there's a few things I would like clarified if you could help this would be great.

First it does not give us the selection to to choose a chaos god I.e burgle descustling resilient.
Do you thing this is a mistake as all things now seem to have to choose a god. Also as these can be summoned in the so morning rules it even tells you to choose a god so I would imagine at that point it would reveive the rule.
These guys would be ace with the edition of the god rules.
What do you think ?

Next thing this is probably more me not understanding the rules properly but when it refers to rolling for each turn for the stats if they are called in to question does this mean each player turn so my movement phase combat phase then my opponents combat phase etc

Cheers guys sorry for any bad English

The giant chaos spawn is very cheap at 75 pts so it is unsurprising it doesn't gain any bonuses.
Compare to the Spined Chaos Beast which does get the bonus and is a LOT more points


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Turn means player turn. The new term for 'game Turn is 'round '
I very much doubt this was FWs intent... sigh.

Yes it is very cheap for what it does.
Hmmm so at the moment once in combat you get 2 rolls in your turn and 2 in your enemies turn very nice. Or are people reading this things rules that you should no what the stat is at the start of the turn I.e just roll 3 dice then

luke666 wrote:
Yes it is very cheap for what it does.
Hmmm so at the moment once in combat you get 2 rolls in your turn and 2 in your enemies turn very nice. Or are people reading this things rules that you should no what the stat is at the start of the turn I.e just roll 3 dice then

When I fought them recently we rolled as it came up (2 on my turn, 2 on his turn). That seemed right.

That's fair enough how did you find them I carntwait to use them in my next game I have 10 :-)

Regular spawns roll thier attacks and mutations each player turn so that seems consistant. The lack of demonic alignment is also probobly intentional as spawn traditionally arent actually daemons (its weird that the giant spawn are). They should hane marks though.

luke666 wrote:
That's fair enough how did you find them I carntwait to use them in my next game I have 10 :-)

I fought 6 with two units of regular spawn backing them up. The regular spawn out damaged them significantly, but for just 75 points the Giant Chaos Spawn were phenomenal tanks.

Giant chaos spawn just got a daemonic allegiance in the FAQ
And the associated ability

Cracking

Anyone have a pic of the FW Giant Spawn next to say a Dread for scale?
I'd be interested in converting one now that they can have Marks.

Captyn Bob you are a star cheers for letting us know.
3rd legion there's an old forge world pic on google images of the giant chaos spawn next to an empire man which is guardsman size if that helps just ordered 1 from forge world so will eventual have a picture comparison.

Thanks for the info. If you could post a picture sometime next to a Maulerfiend / Helbrute or Marine it would be greatly appreciated.

For scale, the Giant Spawn comes with a 100mm round base from FW. It's a good sized monster, maybe 2 Dreadnoughts worth of bulk?

Now with the god allegiances I think I might need one for each.

I'm very torn on how I feel about them. For their price they're quite strong.

On the other hand, they'd be very real life dollars expensive to field in large numbers.

I'm planning on using the following:

1x FW Giant Spawn
1x Converted Slaughterbrute/ Mutalith
1x Converted Ghorgon
1x Converted Maggoth Lord

They should all be similar in size I think.

I would use a Vortex beast for a Tzeentch one, yeah.

is the vortex beast on a 100 MM base too?

I'm relatively certain it only comes with an old square base; you'd likely need to buy that separately.

you can use those square bases in a 40k game couldn't you? The giant spawn on the forge world website has a square base.

ballzonya wrote:
you can use those square bases in a 40k game couldn't you? The giant spawn on the forge world website has a square base.

those pictures are several editions old, the largest base back then was 60mm

Plus it would look better to place it on a round base

Probably? I wouldnt. It is technically the base it comes with, though.