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It says kits plural....

That implies more then just the single knight kit?

Trying to get me in trouble I see lol

I have to say, as much as I love my Leviathan I'd jump on this so fast your head would spin. GW kits tend to go togther fast and well and it'll come with all the right options. The fullsized leviathan, once you add any weapons to it, climbs quick. Granted, i'm already using my Leviathan as a count-as Warhound on a slightly raised base to ensure he's 10.5" tall.

If this is around 6-7" I wouldn't have a good proxey anyway. Seems like the perfect size to release at a solid price point for it since if it is 6"-7" the Dreamforge stuff won't work to well.

 WrentheFaceless wrote:
Trying to get me in trouble I see lol

Hey, he posted it on the open internet, so it isn't your fault.

The rounded plastic shoulder areas give me hope that they could do a Mars Pattern Warhound in plastic someday, and not the silly boxy Lucius Pattern one!

 Alpharius wrote:
The rounded plastic shoulder areas give me hope that they could do a Mars Pattern Warhound in plastic someday, and not the silly boxy Lucius Pattern one!

Yea, they'll add it to the "To-Do" list right after that Plastic Thunderhawk...

Or those plastic Sisters eh?

 Alpharius wrote:
The rounded plastic shoulder areas give me hope that they could do a Mars Pattern Warhound in plastic someday, and not the silly boxy Lucius Pattern one!

I like the lucius pattren... I was hopeing kits(plural) implied we might get a lucius pattren kit also or forgeworld puts out some converstion kits.

My expanding Dark Mechanicum will love these

Now I just need to add Mechatendrils..

A proper Mechanicus themed codex would be awesome...............

But it would require a lot of new and original material and models and I am not sure GW is up to the job?

Price what do you reckon, £70?

Knockagh wrote:
Price what do you reckon, £70?

£200,000,000

..Wouldn't put it past GW tbh ..

 Agent_Tremolo wrote:
Now, if the artwork itself represents the actual model, it doesn't look quite like the angular "mini-warhound" I was expecting, but instead it's a nice throwback to the old Adeptus Titanicus era of rounded carapaces and shoulderpads. Me like.

Seems to take a lot of design cues from the FW Mars-pattern titans, which is a good thing to my mind, far prefer them to the Lucius-pattern.

Now, assuming the pic is real, and assuming the rumours are correct...I'm not sure. If it's as big as has been suggested, it'll be waaaay out of scale - the description in Mechanicum has Knights standing at around 9 metres tall, so depending what assumptions you make doing the conversion could be between 5" and 7"(the most rational conversion to my mind, and the one I use for scaling, is to assume that the height of an average human model[approx 32mm in modern GW/FW models] is the height of an average human[approx 6'] in which case it comes out a smidge over 5.5"), we should be talking more along the lines of the Dreadknight than the Khornemower. If they have scaled it up, and it is Khornemower priced, I'm not sure I could justify it to myself no matter how much I love them. Hell it would be a push to buy it at Wraithknight-after-discount price.

I am going to wait to see one or more assembled before I bite. I am sitting on two Leviathans, assembled and primed and waiting to be painted up as knights. Bashed by own cannons and chain swords, even. The Leviathans are so much more... imposing than the imperial tin can they have shown to-date.
Would have much preferred a design closer to the classic lead v.1 from the the Epic Space Marine days as opposed to the Titanicus plastic knights. tho.
Much more dynamic, less plodding, more aggressive and challenging. .

As long as there are weapon options to allow the classic paladin loadouts; earthshaker type cannon/chainsword or the multi melta /powerfist i will be somewhat happy.

But somehow I cant shake the feeling of disappointment.
It looks too much like a toy, not a model, which makes me wish it was designed, say, back when the Valkyrie was released.

Commodore Perry

 happygolucky wrote:

Knockagh wrote:
Price what do you reckon, £70?

£200,000,000

..Wouldn't put it past GW tbh ..

Two hundred million pounds? OK. Let's wait and see.

What on earth was that photo taken on, a baked potato?

 Agamemnon2 wrote:
What on earth was that photo taken on, a baked potato?

I'm surprised how bad some of these leaked photos are. Why so small, and terrible quality? Are we quite sure they aren't deliberately leaked?

I think many of us are of the opinion that they ARE deliberately leaked..

I think this one is a fake personally, The artwork is very old and well it doesnt look very normal GWeey material.

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 bu11etmagn3tt wrote:

 Lockark wrote:
It says kits plural....

That implies more then just the single knight kit?

That's the visions cover...

btw, stopped by GW and mentioned guard and this item coming out March/April and manager looked like a deer in headlights. Do GW managers play dumb or are out of the loop?

Im going to assume out for the most part, but in to a point (after all they need to know what to order and how much etc. So I think they are a last minute thing need to know basis situation.

Pretty interested in this, think it'll majorly benefit quite a few armies.

 Swastakowey wrote:
I think this one is a fake personally, The artwork is very old

GW doesn't have any qualms about reusing artwork, even old stuff. Though they had been making all-new art for new releases, recently.

 Swastakowey wrote:

 bu11etmagn3tt wrote:

 Lockark wrote:
It says kits plural....

That implies more then just the single knight kit?

That's the visions cover...

btw, stopped by GW and mentioned guard and this item coming out March/April and manager looked like a deer in headlights. Do GW managers play dumb or are out of the loop?

Im going to assume out for the most part, but in to a point (after all they need to know what to order and how much etc. So I think they are a last minute thing need to know basis situation.

They usely find out once the pre orders are publicly announced a week before release like everyone eals. I also believe they don't really place the order themselves. It's automated for the most part based on the past sales of each shop.

That's just what i've been able to put together from the bits I've gathered chatting to them. Their are probly thows in the know who could probably correct me, as long as it doesn't interfere with any non-disclosure agreements they have signed.

 Howard A Treesong wrote:

 Agamemnon2 wrote:
What on earth was that photo taken on, a baked potato?

I'm surprised how bad some of these leaked photos are. Why so small, and terrible quality? Are we quite sure they aren't deliberately leaked?

Look, you can't expect the fancy stuff from spy cameras that have to fit inside a bow tie.

 Elemental wrote:

 Howard A Treesong wrote:

 Agamemnon2 wrote:
What on earth was that photo taken on, a baked potato?

I'm surprised how bad some of these leaked photos are. Why so small, and terrible quality? Are we quite sure they aren't deliberately leaked?

Look, you can't expect the fancy stuff from spy cameras that have to fit inside a bow tie.

In all honesty it looks like the kind of quality you would get from the camera in a cheap feature phone.

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 bu11etmagn3tt wrote:
Apparently you can make one of several types of knights, perhaps why the "title" in photo was plural.

We really need to work on your attribution.

That quote you posted comes from:
http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Imperial_Vehicles

That picture looks more like computer generated art work (for a game for instance) than a physical model. Granted the picture quality is terrible but it just doesn't look right.

Plagiarism gets you a bad grade in college, you know!

So another Apocalypse sized unit forced into normal 40k games? Will this improve game balance?
Not impressed.