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 Red Viper wrote:
For the sake of the world though, I hope it has alternate heads.

Aftermarket bit manufacturers are rubbing there hands together and praying you are wrong lol

I am very conflicted over the Khorne thing...

On the one hand, it does have the aura of ridiculous cartoonishness that has characterized some of the absolutely awful releases of recent memory (Slaughterbrute, Forgefiend, Heldrake... wait, are all the bad releases Chaos?)

But on the other hand, it does harken back to the kinda ridiculous (in a way I kinda like) aesthetic that 40K has always had, especially in the old days.

Either way, the head is kinda bad. Though that great conversion that someone posted a pic of is pretty ace. And probably buying a Baneblade & whatever bits are needed for that is probably cheaper than what this monstrosity will cost.

Anyone want to start a betting pool on what the price will be? Now that we got an ordinary (non-Apoc/non-FW) release that has broken the $100 price point ($$Wraithknight$$), the sky is the limit! (Cash for the cash god! Money for the money throne!)

-C6

 Harriticus wrote:
Honestly I like the Khorne contraption. It's completely ridiculous in a way that feels like the old days of 40k.

I agree. Like I said before, it's not bad.

But full disclosure, I prefer the pre-grimdark days of 40K when people were able to laugh at themselves. When sure, Chaos were a bunch of evil psychotic butchers, but they weren't afraid to dress like GWAR rejects just because. Sometimes I feel like GW, in trying to capture the adolescent dollar, lost the ability to laugh at themselves and started taking their background seriously and something got lost along the way.

So I guess that's a roundabout way of saying I like it because I don't like what Chaos has become and I want to see that undermined.

I will also be happy when I see space marines with mohawks scrawling barely literate graffiti on their Land Raiders. And when I see poncey Eldar carrying harps into battle because feth rational military organization when you get to wear pointy helmets.

Faeit212 is saying that every army will get a 'new' Apocalypse model aside from Orks and Imperial Guard:

http://natfka.blogspot.com/2013/06/apocalypse-info-bits-games-workshop-and.html

via an anonymous source (from the Faeit 212 inbox)
I am getting small bits of information regarding the Apocalypse Supplement release.

Apocalypse
Only the Imperial Guard and Orks are not getting an a new Apocalypse vehicle, but they could be getting new apoc aircraft. It seems so that all armies will have 1 apoc vehicle and 1 aircraft.

Forgeworld
We should be seeing a FW apoc book same month as GW apoc release covering all vehicles and aircraft from previous apoc books

Seems a bit wishy-washy on whether armies are getting a flyer and a non-flier, but it's a rumor. With how popular Sisters of Battle are among GW, chances are that they'll be shoehorned in with the Marines of Various Colors release.

Faeit should really be putting those powers of deduction to better use by solving crimes. There must be a dozen missing cats he could be finding.

 Manchu wrote:

 Harriticus wrote:
Honestly I like the Khorne contraption. It's completely ridiculous in a way that feels like the old days of 40k.

Bingo!

It's at least more on-brand than the bizarre Blood Throne/Skull Cannons.

For some reason, skull cannons make me think of Dr. Wily's skull fortress...

Loving the Khornmower lol, i see that it might require a little work to get it to where we want it, particularly a face lift, here is what i plan to do with it ATM, (excuse the crappy photoshop skills)... face lift and barrel extention... for the face im thinking like this guy (http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod1710142a) but bigger

 Juggalo17 wrote:
Loving the Khornmower lol, i see that it might require a little work to get it to where we want it, particularly a face lift, here is what i plan to do with it ATM, (excuse the crappy photoshop skills)... face lift and barrel extention... for the face im thinking like this guy (http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod1710142a) but bigger

I think that particular change to the face kind of works. The rest of the giant robot body needs some battle damage and weathering, though.

 Harriticus wrote:
Honestly I like the Khorne contraption. It's completely ridiculous in a way that feels like the old days of 40k.

Absolutely. It's evil in a fun way. It's a Bolt Thrower LP in the tiny plastic flesh. It blows my mind when people tear their hair and rend their garments over the newest "silly" model. In my perfect world, admittedly, this thing would be EVEN GRIMMER, but I still enjoy it. How the biggest controversy the release of an army of anime space fish/chickens sees is over the design of a flyer, when the prevailing attitude in regards to 40k seems to be "HOW UNREALISTIC!" at everything, is beyond me.

I'm in the minority in that I like the skulldozer. Like a few on here, I like that its got that OTT throwback look that is right at home with a Chaos Marine or Daemon army. As long as it can be used in non-Apocalypse games and the rules are at least on par with the Riptide and WK, I'll get one for my Daemon army (they can certainly use the firepower). If its Apocalypse only, I'll have to take a pass.

On a side note, does this mean that GW is bringing Apocalypse into the main fold and away from Forge World?

 ClassicCarraway wrote:
On a side note, does this mean that GW is bringing Apocalypse into the main fold and away from Forge World?

Not sure what you mean here... Apocalypse was a regular GW expansion. Forgeworld just added to it with their own stuff.

 Absolutionis wrote:
Faeit212 is saying that every army will get a 'new' Apocalypse model aside from Orks and Imperial Guard:

http://natfka.blogspot.com/2013/06/apocalypse-info-bits-games-workshop-and.html

via an anonymous source (from the Faeit 212 inbox)
I am getting small bits of information regarding the Apocalypse Supplement release.

Apocalypse
Only the Imperial Guard and Orks are not getting an a new Apocalypse vehicle, but they could be getting new apoc aircraft. It seems so that all armies will have 1 apoc vehicle and 1 aircraft.

Forgeworld
We should be seeing a FW apoc book same month as GW apoc release covering all vehicles and aircraft from previous apoc books

Seems a bit wishy-washy on whether armies are getting a flyer and a non-flier, but it's a rumor. With how popular Sisters of Battle are among GW, chances are that they'll be shoehorned in with the Marines of Various Colors release.

Any speculation on what the Apocalypse model for Tau or Eldar or Dark Eldar could/will be?

I wonder if the SM will get a proprer Fellblade?

 Breotan wrote:
I wonder if the SM will get a proprer Fellblade?

Other than the fact that Marines don't use Fellblades any more, they already have one.

 Breotan wrote:
I wonder if the SM will get a proprer Fellblade?

Seeing as FW already supplied one, I doubt they'll get a plastic one.

 Absolutionis wrote:
Faeit212 is saying that every army will get a 'new' Apocalypse model aside from Orks and Imperial Guard:

http://natfka.blogspot.com/2013/06/apocalypse-info-bits-games-workshop-and.html

via an anonymous source (from the Faeit 212 inbox)
I am getting small bits of information regarding the Apocalypse Supplement release.

Apocalypse
Only the Imperial Guard and Orks are not getting an a new Apocalypse vehicle, but they could be getting new apoc aircraft. It seems so that all armies will have 1 apoc vehicle and 1 aircraft.

Forgeworld
We should be seeing a FW apoc book same month as GW apoc release covering all vehicles and aircraft from previous apoc books

Seems a bit wishy-washy on whether armies are getting a flyer and a non-flier, but it's a rumor. With how popular Sisters of Battle are among GW, chances are that they'll be shoehorned in with the Marines of Various Colors release.

While this does sound interesting, the fact they're only doing three to four new kits with CODEX releases gives me doubts that they'd have six to twelve big kits released in the same month for a supplement.

Although maybe Eldar will get the Scorpion/Tempest they should've gotten instead of the Wraithknight.

RogueRegault wrote:

 Absolutionis wrote:
Faeit212 is saying that every army will get a 'new' Apocalypse model aside from Orks and Imperial Guard:

http://natfka.blogspot.com/2013/06/apocalypse-info-bits-games-workshop-and.html

via an anonymous source (from the Faeit 212 inbox)
I am getting small bits of information regarding the Apocalypse Supplement release.

Apocalypse
Only the Imperial Guard and Orks are not getting an a new Apocalypse vehicle, but they could be getting new apoc aircraft. It seems so that all armies will have 1 apoc vehicle and 1 aircraft.

Forgeworld
We should be seeing a FW apoc book same month as GW apoc release covering all vehicles and aircraft from previous apoc books

Seems a bit wishy-washy on whether armies are getting a flyer and a non-flier, but it's a rumor. With how popular Sisters of Battle are among GW, chances are that they'll be shoehorned in with the Marines of Various Colors release.

While this does sound interesting, the fact they're only doing three to four new kits with CODEX releases gives me doubts that they'd have six to twelve big kits released in the same month for a supplement.

Although maybe Eldar will get the Scorpion/Tempest they should've gotten instead of the Wraithknight.

As long as it's not just a wraithknight squadron I'll be happy.

Yeah a big kit per race is a considerable stretch. I think we'll get two big kits (Khornemower and something else, maybe that cool new Monolith), and then some gap-filler relaeses (Hydra, Harpy, Colossus/Medusa/Griffon).

 Platuan4th wrote:

 Breotan wrote:
I wonder if the SM will get a proprer Fellblade?

Seeing as FW already supplied one, I doubt they'll get a plastic one.

Really? Based on what? You do realize that the Baneblade, Bommer, Deathstrike, Drop Pod, Manticore, Piranha, Trygon, Valkrie, and the Venerable Dreadnought were all done by Forge World only to come out years later in plastic by GW. I'll grant you that it may be too soon between FW's Fellblade and expecting to see one by GW but it isn't out of the realm of posibility. What else would the Space Marines get then, assuming we're using Epic as source material here?

You haven't noticed that GW haven't really been making FW kits into regular plastic kits recently? The Hydra would likely be the last one as that mould is ancient and a plastic one all but ensures the barrels won't be bent.

And FW never made a Deathstrike, and all the GW made flyers with the exception of the Valk are not remakes of FW stuff. Not even the Ork one.

It's official policy I believe. There aren't going to be any more FW -> GW ports. FW stuff isn't even making it into codexes anymore (like the FW artillery pieces did in the IG book)

If and when they get around to redoing IG, there might be plastics for the things that are already in the codex, but who knows.

Anyway that khorne thing looks completely ridiculous and I think I'm probably going to laugh every time I see one on a gaming board, but it does trip some kind of nostalgia switch somewhere in my brain, so I can't actually bring myself to hate it. I certainly don't want one, though.

Okay, I forgot that FW never actually produced a Deathstrike. Big woop. As long as GW isn't producing another kit like that Land Raider Terminus Ultra thing, it's all good.

 A Kvlt Ghost wrote:
Anyway that khorne thing looks completely ridiculous and I think I'm probably going to laugh every time I see one on a gaming board, but it does trip some kind of nostalgia switch somewhere in my brain, so I can't actually bring myself to hate it. I certainly don't want one, though.

So far "Skulldozer" and "Skullmower" are my favorites.

 Breotan wrote:
Okay, I forgot that FW never actually produced a Deathstrike. Big woop.

And you're going to ignore everything else I just said just to single out the one nit-pick I made?

 Breotan wrote:
As long as GW isn't producing another kit like that Land Raider Terminus Ultra thing, it's all good.

Oh no. We'll get a whole new proper Terminus Ultra kit, with actual Terminus Ultra sprues and not just "stick these Predator parts on your Land Raider and call it a day".

Geez. that is horrible

GW is not entirely backward thinking, sometimes they produce kits have portability built in.

For example all you need for some nice swappability is a Land Raider a Whirlwind and round cover plate with a sensor on top to fit in the heavy bolter hardpoint (this isnt provided).

You see the Whirlwind missile mount has two turret rings, the smaller inner one fits on a Land Raider with no conversion needed, just leave the crew hatch loose. The heavy bolter mnount from the Land Raider is swapped out to turn ther Whirlwind into a Razorback and the conversion part aforementioned completes the Land Raider as a Helios. It all swaps in and swaps back, Whirlwind and stock Land Raider or Helios and Razorback.

Now admittedly Terminus Ultra was just a bad idea, but we can avoid the steaming piles while using the good stuff. Nothing wrong with a Helios IMHO and because of swapabile hardpoints you arent stuck with it.

Kinda reminds me of a Mardi gras float.....hmmm Khorni gras

 Darth Bob wrote:
I disagree with the assertion that the issue with the Lord of Battles is the concept itself. I think it's an error in the execution. Luckily, I find that most of the issues seem to emanate from the body portion rather than the tracks. That could be fixed and/or converted. After all, I think if it had looked something more like this, people would have been quite pleased. I would have, at least:

When I was just getting into 40K, I saw a reference to a Leman Russ tank and the first thing I pictured was a massive tank with the top half of a primarch stuck on top of it, much like that one.

 Juggalo17 wrote:
Loving the Khornmower lol, i see that it might require a little work to get it to where we want it, particularly a face lift, here is what i plan to do with it ATM, (excuse the crappy photoshop skills)... face lift and barrel extention... for the face im thinking like this guy (http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod1710142a) but bigger

That simple change brings that model from a 4/10 for me to a 7+/10. Massive improvement, a simple head swap.

If I had the time and skills I would put legs on instead of tracks then give it wings and call it Angron. Biggest badest daemon prince ever to exist

All I got from looking at khorne model was the torso with a lot of conversion would look awesome on a dreamforge Leviathan. Then the tracks would be good for making a battlewagon/ the big Apoc ork tank.



That's my feelings on the matter, oh and the Necron mega'liths rock.