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mullet_steve wrote:
He does not have a voice you'd happily sit and listen to for hours without laughing in his face.

Stay classy steve. I'm sure you sound like a pimp.

 dantay_xv wrote:
Actually the bottom left reminds me of the transformers for some reason, possibly the decepticons, like the fallen or the little dude Megan Fow captures.... Or maybe I am going slightly crazy.... I cant afford one yet, but when I can... I am getting me one of these!!

Boba Fett!

Khornemower is so bad I think I'm going to buy one just to laugh at it. GW back to its finest with these Knights though

On a side note (and I don't think it's already been commented on), one of the best things to come out of this release is the alternative/ official colour schemes for Knight Houses.

I've got a "BigDaddy" Knight Lancer and Errant sitting in boxes unpainted, mostly because I couldn't decide on heraldry. One transfer sheet, one look at this thread, and...voila, inspiration!

(Oh, and if you're not familiar with those Knights...he's a poster here on dakka - http://www.dakkadakka.com/core/gallery-search.jsp?u=16646) They're very nice kits in the flesh, so to speak...

Yeah, if I bought one of these, and I went with one of the visored faces, I think I would have to fill in the visor to remove the surprised stare...

ncshooter426 wrote:

 Lord Scythican wrote:
Just pre-ordered 3 of these badboys from my local game shop for $99.99 each! I can't wait to put these together. My ork blood wants me to loot them though... Must resist!

WHAT?!? WHEREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

My FLGS had them at that price. I am pretty loyal to the shop though. If they had a online store I would point you in their direction.

Gentlemen, on the rules page in the new white dwarf, page 24, you can see a fire dragon standing base to base with the new knight. Taking the fire dragon base i have extrapolated that the base size of the new knight is 7 inches across instead of 5 and a half like current flyer bases. a good shot of the base in the sprues and glue section confirms that the base is narrower and more elongated then current flyer bases. then taking the full body frontal shot on page 2 and three my math puts the model at a little over 8 inches.

This is confirmed by the fact that its 1 and a little over half times as big as the almost 5 inch tall forgeworld avatar of kaine its seen next to aswell. Hope this helps.

That conflicts directly with the information given to me by my spirit animal after I coated my walls in pictures of the Knight and dropped acid.
The fox king confirmed that it is 6.35" tall and curves slightly to the left as it enters our current reality.
I am currently constructing a sweat lodge in our crawl space and will report any further findings as and when they scream in to my brain on phoenix wings.

 plastictrees wrote:
That conflicts directly with the information given to me by my spirit animal after I coated my walls in pictures of the Knight and dropped acid.
The fox king confirmed that it is 6.35" tall and curves slightly to the left as it enters our current reality.
I am currently constructing a sweat lodge in our crawl space and will report any further findings as and when they scream in to my brain on phoenix wings.

This was the greatest and best rumor I have ever heard. I wish that you would commune with your spirit animals in rituals of ever increasing complexity on every rumor and report the findings back to us.

Just did a quick Feebay search. Looks like $114.00, w/ free S/H is the best price currently.

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 Starfarer wrote:
It is a well known fact that GW rips off many themes for their units and calls them their own. A notable example is the chainsaw weapons, which were stolen directly from the video game, Gears of War.

 TalonZahn wrote:
The French guy definitely won't.

Quick, someone call Jerry Lewis!

It is hard to argue against the superlative nature of a good Evil Dead reference, but clearly the first to rip off GWs chainsword concept before they had it was Abslom Daak.



Killing daleks with chainswords since 1980.

 plastictrees wrote:
That conflicts directly with the information given to me by my spirit animal after I coated my walls in pictures of the Knight and dropped acid.
The fox king confirmed that it is 6.35" tall and curves slightly to the left as it enters our current reality.
I am currently constructing a sweat lodge in our crawl space and will report any further findings as and when they scream in to my brain on phoenix wings.

The Fox King can't lie man. He informed me of that personally when I broke down my A.T. field and ascended to a higher plain of existence so I could be put on trial for previously questioning his judgements on the existence of a new blood bowl game.

Just bought my first WD since the issues with the SoB rules.

 Breotan wrote:
Just bought my first WD since the issues with the SoB rules.

yeah for me it was the first WD bought since the stormtalon issue

 plastictrees wrote:
That conflicts directly with the information given to me by my spirit animal after I coated my walls in pictures of the Knight and dropped acid.
The fox king confirmed that it is 6.35" tall and curves slightly to the left as it enters our current reality.
I am currently constructing a sweat lodge in our crawl space and will report any further findings as and when they scream in to my brain on phoenix wings.

Exalted!

One of the funniest things I've read in here in a while!

I can't wait until we finally find out:

1) Just who can take a Knight, and how many they can take

and

2) Just how tall these things really are!

I mean, of course, that I can't wait until we can confirm the Fox King's report.

I'm not really seeing the point of buying the White Dwarf for incomplete rules...

You can see the pictures of the models online, and you still need to wait for the codex in order to field them... so why buy the magazine just to read what has already been posted here...?

Yeah I was all set to actually buy an issue of WD, but given that the WD doesn't give you the rules to field these things and the actual Knight rules are well and truly distributed across this soon-to-pass Internet fad, I don't see the point in buying it.

 insaniak wrote:
...so why buy the magazine just to read what has already been posted here...?

Quick and easy reference. And since we know you can take them 1-3 as some sort of ally, I just field them as such and be done with it.

I'm sure this one has points and rules and the next one has he. FOC and allied rules. Gotta maximize those WD sales.

Since I don't intend to field them as a primary detachment, I'm not especially worried about FOC.

 Breotan wrote:
... And since we know you can take them 1-3 as some sort of ally, ...

Yeah, but, for whom...?


I can totally see it going down well if I just rock up to a game with three Knights tagged onto my army and say 'Well, yeah, there are no actual rules available yet for taking them as allies, but someone can supposedly take them... so we don't know that I can't...'

There's also no way of knowing what, if any, other effect that is supposed to have on your army, or how those 1-3 are actually fielded. Are they independant? A Squadron? Something else?

Can I field a Warlord while I'm at it? I mean, Forgeworld are supposedly working on one, so there'll be actual rules for them someday... I can just make up rules until then, surely?

I plan on using them with my Marines but not my Orks, Dark Eldar, or Necrons so I think I'm covered no matter which way it goes.

ordered my Knight. I absolutely love that GW has kept the old epic look and feel to them. Awaiting release day with bated breath.

This is the first GW mini to inspire me in a long time. I'm getting all nostalgic and fuzzy just looking at it. I even went out and bought a WD today, for the first time in years.
I would love to read more 'fluff' about the knights, and especially about the humans associated with them. I might have to dust off some of the old WDs. I want to know, where does the pilot sit, are they hardwired in like a dread or more like a titan princeps? I'm hoping this new found enthusiasm will pass before I actually spend some serious dollars

 insaniak wrote:
Can I field a Warlord while I'm at it? I mean, Forgeworld are supposedly working on one, so there'll be actual rules for them someday... I can just make up rules until then, surely?

You start off with some valid points and then completely delegitimize your entire argument. ggnore

 Sean_OBrien wrote:
It is hard to argue against the superlative nature of a good Evil Dead reference, but clearly the first to rip off GWs chainsword concept before they had it was Abslom Daak.



Killing daleks with chainswords since 1980.

Uh ? Are Dalek not from that lame TV show about a doctor, his phone booth and his screwdriver ? What is such a badass though guy with a freaking chainsaw doing here ?

 Breotan wrote:
You start off with some valid points and then completely delegitimize your entire argument. ggnore

Explain the difference... In both cases you're going to have to make up rules that don't currently exist. Certainly fielding a Warlord would require making up more of them... but you have no actual rules for taking Knights as allies with your marines. You're just taking a comment from White Dwarf that says that it is possible, and making up how to do it. That's no more legitimate than making up a unit out of whole cloth... in either case, you have no actual rules for fielding that unit in your army.

 insaniak wrote:

 Breotan wrote:
You start off with some valid points and then completely delegitimize your entire argument. ggnore

Explain the difference... In both cases you're going to have to make up rules that don't currently exist. Certainly fielding a Warlord would require making up more of them... but you have no actual rules for taking Knights as allies with your marines. You're just taking a comment from White Dwarf that says that it is possible, and making up how to do it. That's no more legitimate than making up a unit out of whole cloth... in either case, you have no actual rules for fielding that unit in your army.

Insaniak, I don't know if this is Breotan's point, but... Aren't there already rules for a Warlord available? (And the Imperator for that matter...?)

Personally, I don't play at all, but I'll probably get the Codex when it comes out just for the fluff / background / painting inspiration.

 insaniak wrote:

 Breotan wrote:
You start off with some valid points and then completely delegitimize your entire argument. ggnore

Explain the difference... In both cases you're going to have to make up rules that don't currently exist. Certainly fielding a Warlord would require making up more of them... but you have no actual rules for taking Knights as allies with your marines. You're just taking a comment from White Dwarf that says that it is possible, and making up how to do it. That's no more legitimate than making up a unit out of whole cloth... in either case, you have no actual rules for fielding that unit in your army.

Your 'whole cloth' idiom doesn't apply. The rules for Knights are in the WD, except for the allies list. The only thing I'm "making up" is that a Marine army will be allowed to take one to three of them. I feel that's a pretty safe bet. It's also a very far cry from "making up a unit out of whole cloth".

 Breotan wrote:
... The only thing I'm "making up" is that a Marine army will be allowed to take one to three of them.

Right. And as I said: How?
Individually?
As a squadron?
As some other formation we haven't seen before?

As if right now, you need to make up rules to answer that question in order to field them.