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 Cheexsta wrote:
Can't wait to get my hands on a Lord of Battles or two. I don't like much of the upper body, but it's going to be so much fun to hack apart and make into something much better. I'm thinking something more like a Cyberdemon on tracks.

Time to start hunting around for some conversion material...

Exactly my thoughts Brother!, they don't know what they are talking about, only true khorne disciple sees the beauty in it..., IT NEED AND BEG TO BE TAKEN APART AND HACKED!!!

 Pacific wrote:
Compare and contrast:





.. I guess it's another reason to go the ForgeWorld route?

You mean...models which, when put next to GWs annual price hikes and othe shenanigans, actually look reasonable?

Talk about fist full of boomstick

 spaceelf wrote:
Another bad release from GW. Worse yet, it is not even original, it is a rip off of Power Lords Beast Machines.

I'm guessing you didn't read the thread and thus didn't notice the 1916547516284816512 times people have pointed out that it's more or less a re-imagined Lord of Slaughter from Epic?

The monolith looks bloody great though.


And the Lord of Battle, I think, like many of the larger models I've seen recently and disliked, like the slaughterbeast, It's something about the lack of detail and the lack of indicators that it's supposed to be huge in it's design that makes it end up looking somewhat comical/simplistic instead of horrific and eldritch.

Many of the warmachines and engines from the red age epic, along with the khorne robot with wheels and a whip, at that time, were poor designs, the armorcast fullsize versions of them showed how bad they were in terms of design, this reflects that, despite a modern reimagining, the basic concept for it is daft and therefore the result still feels unwieldy and like an 80s knock off toy.

I think tey did a better job with the wraithknight there.. this looks awefull IMO. It just doesn't speak to me at all.

The Monoliths though, look awesome.

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:
The monolith looks bloody great though.


And the Lord of Battle, I think, like many of the larger models I've seen recently and disliked, like the slaughterbeast, It's something about the lack of detail and the lack of indicators that it's supposed to be huge in it's design that makes it end up looking somewhat comical/simplistic instead of horrific and eldritch.

Many of the warmachines and engines from the red age epic, along with the khorne robot with wheels and a whip, at that time, were poor designs, the armorcast fullsize versions of them showed how bad they were in terms of design, this reflects that, despite a modern reimagining, the basic concept for it is daft and therefore the result still feels unwieldy and like an 80s knock off toy.

Indeed. Forgeworld had the right idea with your aforementioned Blood Slaughterer.

Original.


FW version.

To be fair, there's little we know of the overall release, just these two pictures of models. If previous Apocalypse is anything to go by, there will be more.

After reading two pages of this thread Im starting to feel like I am the only one who likes the CSM Berserker/titan thingy.

I like the look of it, it has a groin cannon as well, so me and my friends are going to have so much innuendo banter it would be unbelievable if I ever get one

my only criticism would be that it does look like it has maybe too much skulls even for Khornes fancy, and I would have to look at the hull as it looks like a cathedral superglued on the back of it with a job that a 10 year old has done, but apart from that it looks fine to me .

perhaps it will be a dual or even triple kit. I suspect you can make a lord of battle\deathdealer depending on the weapons you pick and the alternate kit will be a cannon of khorne or something. Or forgeworld will step in and make an alt build with a conversion kit.

 Agamemnon2 wrote:
To be fair, there's little we know of the overall release, just these two pictures of models. If previous Apocalypse is anything to go by, there will be more.

Not necessarily more big 'uns. Most of Apoc consisted of huge bundle boxes. Only two big models came out - Baneblade and the Stompa, and then later the Shadowsword.

 happygolucky wrote:
After reading two pages of this thread Im starting to feel like I am the only one who likes the CSM Berserker/titan thingy.

You're not. With a different head I think it can be salvaged.

I'm going to call mine Lord Skullington Wexford the Third, heir to the Wexford Brass-Skull fortune (Brass-Skull being a product created from the rich veins of Skulldanium found on all Realm of Battle Boards).

I don't think the Stompa was a part of the initial Apocalypse release, actually. I remember it came a bit later. But yeah, my point was there was other stuff, like the Ogryns and Ratlings, which came out the same time. We dont yet know if this is all we're getting, so it's premature to call "this release" a failure.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Agamemnon2 wrote:
To be fair, there's little we know of the overall release, just these two pictures of models. If previous Apocalypse is anything to go by, there will be more.

Not necessarily more big 'uns. Most of Apoc consisted of huge bundle boxes. Only two big models came out - Baneblade and the Stompa, and then later the Shadowsword.

 happygolucky wrote:
After reading two pages of this thread Im starting to feel like I am the only one who likes the CSM Berserker/titan thingy.

You're not. With a different head I think it can be salvaged.

I'm going to call mine Lord Skullington Wexford the Third, heir to the Wexford Brass-Skull fortune (Brass-Skull being a product created from the rich veins of Skulldanium found on all Realm of Battle Boards).

I think im going to just paint mine red, blue and silver and call it optimus prime .

One interesting thing is that the new type of Necron Monolith is a flyer, both of them are on flying stands in that photo from White Dwarf.

After reading two pages of this thread Im starting to feel like I am the only one who likes the CSM Berserker/titan thingy.

It think there's a lot to like about it and when we get better pics of it and the components it should be a good kit for Chaos collectors and players. I'm interested to see just how big it is when next to some existing kits.

 Agamemnon2 wrote:
We dont yet know if this is all we're getting, so it's premature to call "this release" a failure.

Can we at least securely call that Khorne... thing a failure?

 Agamemnon2 wrote:
To be fair, there's little we know of the overall release, just these two pictures of models. If previous Apocalypse is anything to go by, there will be more.

Funnily enough, came back into this thread to say exactly that, who knows what else may be in the pipeline?

As much as I remain skeptical, this could be the time all the rumoured stuff that hasn't yet seen light of day comes out, we could see new jet bikes for Eldar, the plastic GDs, one of the often wished for giant Imperial kits.... As of right now, all of these things could happen, and the part of me that still wants GW to do well is just a tiny bit excited.

Just not for the belly cannon paraplegic midget here.

 happygolucky wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Agamemnon2 wrote:
To be fair, there's little we know of the overall release, just these two pictures of models. If previous Apocalypse is anything to go by, there will be more.

Not necessarily more big 'uns. Most of Apoc consisted of huge bundle boxes. Only two big models came out - Baneblade and the Stompa, and then later the Shadowsword.

 happygolucky wrote:
After reading two pages of this thread Im starting to feel like I am the only one who likes the CSM Berserker/titan thingy.

You're not. With a different head I think it can be salvaged.

I'm going to call mine Lord Skullington Wexford the Third, heir to the Wexford Brass-Skull fortune (Brass-Skull being a product created from the rich veins of Skulldanium found on all Realm of Battle Boards).

I think im going to just paint mine red, blue and silver and call it optimus prime .

That might be more appropriate for the Necrons, if you were to do up that open monolith like the Matrix and slap a blue LED inside. Light our darkest hour!

I think it hideous, but I'm prepared to amend my impressions on it once I see it from different angles.

What a massive disappointment. Its too stupid to be fake.

Gitzbitah wrote:

 happygolucky wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Agamemnon2 wrote:
To be fair, there's little we know of the overall release, just these two pictures of models. If previous Apocalypse is anything to go by, there will be more.

Not necessarily more big 'uns. Most of Apoc consisted of huge bundle boxes. Only two big models came out - Baneblade and the Stompa, and then later the Shadowsword.

 happygolucky wrote:
After reading two pages of this thread Im starting to feel like I am the only one who likes the CSM Berserker/titan thingy.

You're not. With a different head I think it can be salvaged.

I'm going to call mine Lord Skullington Wexford the Third, heir to the Wexford Brass-Skull fortune (Brass-Skull being a product created from the rich veins of Skulldanium found on all Realm of Battle Boards).

I think im going to just paint mine red, blue and silver and call it optimus prime .

That might be more appropriate for the Necrons, if you were to do up that open monolith like the Matrix and slap a blue LED inside. Light our darkest hour!

Well I have already painted my Dakkajet to look like G1 Starscream and I am on a project to have the seekers for my Orks so maybe I will wait a while till Orks get their Big thing in the new 'dex then paint that Optimus prime (I already have painted a BW to look like Optimus prime ).

For all the reasons why everyone hates that Khorne thing... I absolutely love it. The 80's cheese modernized into an over the top killing monster is something I would enjoy fielding so much. Every time it kills something I would just laugh and enjoy.

I think the Khornemower looks quite cool!

Not a fan of the new chaos engine and the FW comparisons of large Khornate models certainly don't do it any favors at all. It's strange that FW can keep nailing (for me) various aesthetics but GW keeps rolling those failed 3+ design saves.

It's like a butt ugly version of sir kill-a-lot

That... Chaos.... thing.... is.... crap!

Another Chaos release that I will never buy (heldrake, fiends, oblits, and now this). The Chaos design team must be flogged for this. It's the only way they will learn!

The uber-monolith is awesome. Another great release for Necrons. Congrats, necron players.

It may be over the top but it is still cheaper than a titan.

I think GW has finally gone into "feth this!" mode and just decided to fire its entire model design department and had it be taken over by a blind, one-armed monkey.

Is it only me that thinks the old epic scale stuff now looks horribly dated and badly designed? A result of plastic technology making it possible, this trend in taking that stuff and making it 40k size with little re-design is absurd. Where is the creativity?

Just because one can doesn't mean one should.

That Khorne thing is a joke.

Aesthetics aside, it's just all so typical of GW's approach to 40K at the moment - the signs were there when 6th was released and each subsequent codex has just reinforced it. They have obviously come to a corporate decision that they can't really rinse much more out of the player base in terms of core troops etc other than repackaging and upping the price (despite the point/force inflation that appears every year) so the real push this edition is to ape Fantasy and shove large monster kits and flyers down our throats. I mean, I'm sure Apocalypse is great fun and all that and every time the topic comes up I see plenty of people wetting themselves about Titans from FW and the like but really, what is the point? Hand on heart, how often do you get to use it all? 2500 to 3000 points looks incredibly cramped for space on a standard 6x4 table so I dread to think what it would be like with a whacking great big Titan or Stompa sat on there. Not to mention the fact you are paying £100 plus or whatever this kit will actually cost for something that only gets used once in a blue moon. Apocalypse strikes me as one of those things that is fine in theory; probably not so great in practice, unless you can organise a venue or suitable table and an opponent with the requisite amount of models and super-heavies. It just all strikes me as a massive excuse by GW to pump out more overpriced and oversized kits, all the time claiming that it is all about 'creating a good game' or 'allowing you to use all your collection'.

If it wasn't for the head, I would like the Khornemower. It should have a robot head, not a giant WHFB Chaos Warriors'....

Khornemower reminds me of mowing my lawn this past weekend. Cicadas were all over my yard before I started.... and even more spread out after..