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Sign me up for a Dracodile.

Especially if he's all spiny and got pointy scales like that.

He can hang out with Kadamastar.

Iirc there was talk of making a Huge Based monster for Ikrpg and speculation/mention of it doing double duty as a Warmahordes model, which led to the talk of the Dracodile.

What would be awesome is if those models from the boardgame also had actual warmachine/hordes stats! that gator with the gun is cool. There was also some cephalyx models in there!

When do we find out what the Hordes announcement is? Is it this weekend? I really really hope there is a Dracodile coming.

It's smart (Financially for PP) that they are just doing a minor conversion to each of the existing Colossal frames, and it fits with their precedent of *character jack alternates to existing frames...but then I think....man, these are pretty much the exact same models, kind of underwhelming from a modelling/painting standpoint...meh, I still haven't painted the first Cryx one.

Yeah, fiscally smart is often synonymous with being cheap, especially when it comes to PP.

 spiralingcadaver wrote:
Yeah, fiscally smart is often synonymous with being cheap, especially when it comes to PP.

?? It's the pretty standard "Same chassis different weapons loadout" thing that they do with their other Warjacks. It makes sense, and is well-grounded in the real-world.

If you want to get on PP for being cheap - get on them for having so many units with only 3 sculpts + leader for 10 men.

ImAGeek wrote:When do we find out what the Hordes announcement is? Is it this weekend? I really really hope there is a Dracodile coming.

I'm told it's later today (Friday).

Schmapdi wrote:

 spiralingcadaver wrote:
Yeah, fiscally smart is often synonymous with being cheap, especially when it comes to PP.

?? It's the pretty standard "Same chassis different weapons loadout" thing that they do with their other Warjacks. It makes sense, and is well-grounded in the real-world.

If you want to get on PP for being cheap - get on them for having so many units with only 3 sculpts + leader for 10 men.

Worst offender for this has to be the Convergence mechanic group, that only has two sculpts for a three man unit.

 AduroT wrote:


Worst offender for this has to be the Convergence mechanic group, that only has two sculpts for a three man unit.

Ehh - at least they have helmets and whatnot. The Khador Mechanics have a set of triplets in a unit of 6!

 ImAGeek wrote:
When do we find out what the Hordes announcement is? Is it this weekend? I really really hope there is a Dracodile coming.

Its today at 20:30 GMT.

Yesssss. Thanks!

Gargantuan Thagrosh here we come!

Nah, it'll be a giant Blight Wasp

 Boss Salvage wrote:

 RiTides wrote:
People keep saying the Dracodile, but I don't know if it's just wishlisting or not ...

I'd buy that, and I don't have any serious plans of playing gators

Now strapping guns to it and calling it a Mammoth, that's more my style

- Salvage

Nice

Looking forward to the announcement today!


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Edit: Pictures have begun coming out from the Smogcon Keynote, looks like no Dracodile but here are the Gargantuans:

Stephen Reynolds @ScapegoatSte 1 minute ago
Circle - Storm Raptor - Roc
Trolls - Glacier King
Skorne - Desert Hydra
LoE - Blightbringer

Here are pics from Celebros in this thread:
http://privateerpressforums.com/showthread.php?222009-Smogcon-keynote/page2

So glad they're all new sculpts! Gutted there's no Dracodile though :(

No "Dracodile" means no worry about me starting Hordes.

Yet!

Video is up:

 ImAGeek wrote:
Gutted there's no Dracodile though :(

I cried.

I wonder what the Gator thing is in the concept art at the end? The Hyrda is a fantastic model. Kinda blown away by it.

 Fango wrote:
It's smart (Financially for PP) that they are just doing a minor conversion to each of the existing Colossal frames, and it fits with their precedent of *character jack alternates to existing frames...but then I think....man, these are pretty much the exact same models, kind of underwhelming from a modelling/painting standpoint...meh, I still haven't painted the first Cryx one.

I don't really see how that's a problem.

A Space Marine dreadnought with a plasma cannon and a Space Marine dreadnought with an assault cannon are the same model with a weapon swap as well. Nobody seems to have an issue with that.

The only difference with Warmahordes is that they give the variants different names.

 ImAGeek wrote:
I wonder what the Gator thing is in the concept art at the end? The Hyrda is a fantastic model. Kinda blown away by it.

I'm hoping it's a beast, right? I took a screenshot:

Yeah it looks like it. It flashed up and I thought 'Drakodile!' But it doesn't look like it. I doubt they'd tie it's mouth shut. All the concepts at the end looked interesting.

I believe it's a character beast for Maelok.

Very cool - the new gargantuans >> the new colossals. But I hope PP gives it a rest on both for a while now.

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It does look like that! That's pretty cool.


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If the models are done for the Hydra and the new Cryx one, I wonder if they'll be doing like an alternating release schedule for them?

People are speculating Epic Maelok... it's got to be either that or a beast that has a similar undead look.

There's another pic further into the sneak peak sequence that might be another part of that same model? Here's a screenshot:



I'm starting to lean towards Epic Maelok, it's extremely similar to him with the candles on it's nose

The head shape is very similar to a Wrastler though so maybe Maelok character Warbeast?

I hate pics of screenshots. I keep trying to click play.

I'm just going to think Epic Maelok so I don't get disappointed, I think in hindsight that the Dracodile talk was a trap! Looks very cool regardless, and I'd love to have a way to run Maelok that doesn't revolve around 3 of everything (posse, witch doc, bull snapper). Although I am not going to use him in spam lists as-is anyway, and epic version could be very cool.

 malfred wrote:
I hate pics of screenshots. I keep trying to click play.

I hate trying to pause Youtube videos at just the right moment, so we're even (the gallery auto-adjust also brightened these up a bit from what they are in the video, so they're a bit more visible)

I'd be happy either way with it looking like that, I'd just prefer another beast. I mean, they've got more casters than anything at this point!