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 pretre wrote:

 Jayden63 wrote:
It just needs a dragon head on the front and a row of shields along its flank.

I thought of that earlier, but definitely think this is the way to go.

Sounds like an upcoming chapterhouse bits bundle to me!

I like it. It looks like the baby brother of the Caestus Assault Ram. The transport version's one hell of a fluffy flyer for the Wolves: 16 angry, angry SW inside ready to leave the ship as soon as it lands and rip them to shreds

Oh, and SW do Fly... it would be stupid if they didn't since, ya know, FREAKIN' SPACE SHIPS.

 warboss wrote:

 pretre wrote:

 Jayden63 wrote:
It just needs a dragon head on the front and a row of shields along its flank.

I thought of that earlier, but definitely think this is the way to go.

Sounds like an upcoming chapterhouse bits bundle to me!

Why would i need CH for that? Who doesn't have a stack of like 50 round fantasy shields?

Quite glad it looks like you can easily just not add most SW iconography: I'm thinking it'll be pretty easy to mod one to be either a pseudo-caestus or pseudo-storm...whatever (the standard Marine one).

Pretty optimistic on this kit.

Feth That ship is ugly. I hate it...and yet...I know I will buy it anyway.

 Vasarto wrote:
Feth That ship is ugly. I hate it...and yet...I know I will buy it anyway.

I see by the lack of caps that you found a frosty beverage! Enjoy it.

 pretre wrote:
Pop over and check out the 360. That'll give you a better idea.

yeah does look better indeed. Gonna have to grab one

My only complaint is that someone screwed up the left lascannon on the Stormwolf so it's pointed down. I think that was an assembly issue though.

 pretre wrote:

 Vasarto wrote:
Feth That ship is ugly. I hate it...and yet...I know I will buy it anyway.

I see by the lack of caps that you found a frosty beverage! Enjoy it.

I have a coke now. Caffeine....The ship is starting to grow on me a little bit.

 Vasarto wrote:

 pretre wrote:

 Vasarto wrote:
Feth That ship is ugly. I hate it...and yet...I know I will buy it anyway.

I see by the lack of caps that you found a frosty beverage! Enjoy it.

I have a coke now. Caffeine....The ship is starting to grow on me a little bit.

Add Rum and pour it in a tankard and you'll be feeling proper wolfy.

 pretre wrote:

 Vasarto wrote:

 pretre wrote:

 Vasarto wrote:
Feth That ship is ugly. I hate it...and yet...I know I will buy it anyway.

I see by the lack of caps that you found a frosty beverage! Enjoy it.

I have a coke now. Caffeine....The ship is starting to grow on me a little bit.

Add Rum and pour it in a tankard and you'll be feeling proper wolfy.

Rum and coke?

We've got a name for that around these parts.

A girls drink.

 Azreal13 wrote:

 pretre wrote:

 Vasarto wrote:

 pretre wrote:

 Vasarto wrote:
Feth That ship is ugly. I hate it...and yet...I know I will buy it anyway.

I see by the lack of caps that you found a frosty beverage! Enjoy it.

I have a coke now. Caffeine....The ship is starting to grow on me a little bit.

Add Rum and pour it in a tankard and you'll be feeling proper wolfy.

Rum and coke?

We've got a name for that around these parts.

A girls drink.

Shh, you'll get him riled up again. We just got him calmed down.

 Vasarto wrote:

 pretre wrote:

 Vasarto wrote:
Feth That ship is ugly. I hate it...and yet...I know I will buy it anyway.

I see by the lack of caps that you found a frosty beverage! Enjoy it.

I have a coke now. Caffeine....The ship is starting to grow on me a little bit.

Yeah, it's starting to grow on me... like a horrible foot fungus.


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 Azreal13 wrote:
Rum and coke?

We've got a name for that around these parts.

A girls drink.

We have a name for it around these parts too but it'd be against the rules for me to post that name

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
I like it. It looks like the baby brother of the Caestus Assault Ram. The transport version's one hell of a fluffy flyer for the Wolves: 16 angry, angry SW inside ready to leave the ship as soon as it lands and rip them to shreds

Oh, and SW do Fly... it would be stupid if they didn't since, ya know, FREAKIN' SPACE SHIPS.

The sayings is more to do with the fact that only Blood Claws (new recruits) are vainglorious and battlehungry enough to use Jump Packs (or bikes). Oldder Wolves, like, Grey Hunter and up, prefer to fight with their feet firmly on the ground.

 Deadshot wrote:

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
I like it. It looks like the baby brother of the Caestus Assault Ram. The transport version's one hell of a fluffy flyer for the Wolves: 16 angry, angry SW inside ready to leave the ship as soon as it lands and rip them to shreds

Oh, and SW do Fly... it would be stupid if they didn't since, ya know, FREAKIN' SPACE SHIPS.

The sayings is more to do with the fact that only Blood Claws (new recruits) are vainglorious and battlehungry enough to use Jump Packs (or bikes). Oldder Wolves, like, Grey Hunter and up, prefer to fight with their feet firmly on the ground.

That was retconned in to the 3rd ed codex and then retconned out of the 5th ed one (the current rules almost every HQ and also Wolf Guard can take jump packs).

Not enough wingspan on that craft. It looks like a rocket designed to launch forward guns blazing before it skids along the ground and the survivors jump out and fight.

The sad thing is, it would look really cool with a decent wingspan. The cockpit and body etc actually dont look bad for a SM flyer.

So close.

I really like this flyer. Between this and the Nephilim, all SM now have a good-looking dropship and a good-looking interceptor to proxy those horrid Chibi Hawks and Storm Guppies with.

 Swastakowey wrote:
It looks like a rocket designed to launch forward guns blazing before it skids along the ground and the survivors jump out and fight.

Yep, that's exactly the idea. Except the aim is to smash through the hull of an enemy starship. Assuming this IS supposed to be a smaller Caestus Assault Ram. If not, well, bang on the money!

 Deadshot wrote:

 Swastakowey wrote:
It looks like a rocket designed to launch forward guns blazing before it skids along the ground and the survivors jump out and fight.

Yep, that's exactly the idea. Except the aim is to smash through the hull of an enemy starship. Assuming this IS supposed to be a smaller Caestus Assault Ram. If not, well, bang on the money!

Ok, well then it looks like exactly what it was designed for haha. Maybe

To take on the huge tyranid penis monsters the space wolves made penis planes of their own

Would it look better with a storm raven tail attached?

Well I really like the gunship version now. Great looking ship.

It's a shame Chaos can't get anything shiny and useful for transferring terminators or large amounts of troops...

Yep. Like it. Going to buy it.

I'll buy it, but it's $97 Canadian... so probably not 2. I'll probably wait for the Codex pre-order to throw down the cash though.

It's a shame GW, you'd actually make more off of people like me if you'd lower your prices to a reasonable level...

Despite how it is lacking a bit in some areas honestly this is better looking that the DA special speeder for sure. I like how in general it feels very wolfy. It looks like it is there for a specific job and that is its goal. To look fraking angry as all get out and dakka or carry troops to the front lines. Also all its guns really do have the space wolf feel to them too being that they are all mid ranged guns. Sure they are on a flyer though most all of what it does is 24"

 Ian Sturrock wrote:
Totally painting mine up as a wolf's head with big teeth.

Thank you Sir for that! Please post the piccies!

The 360 really, really helps. I like the Stormwhichever carries 16 troops version quite a bit.

 Deadshot wrote:

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
I like it. It looks like the baby brother of the Caestus Assault Ram. The transport version's one hell of a fluffy flyer for the Wolves: 16 angry, angry SW inside ready to leave the ship as soon as it lands and rip them to shreds

Oh, and SW do Fly... it would be stupid if they didn't since, ya know, FREAKIN' SPACE SHIPS.

The sayings is more to do with the fact that only Blood Claws (new recruits) are vainglorious and battlehungry enough to use Jump Packs (or bikes). Oldder Wolves, like, Grey Hunter and up, prefer to fight with their feet firmly on the ground.

Putting the Flying/Teleporting debate to one side, it does seem like GW are pushing towards 16 BCs/15 BCs & IC, (remains to be seen whether the current maximum of 15 will increase to the rumoured 20), cramming into the Storm Wolf, which supports at least the meta that the young, impulsive wolves will engage in foolhardy, reckless tactics (BC, SC) whilst the older wolves will be more stoic and measured (GH, WG, LF).

10 GHs and an IC, (and possibly an additional WG, rule change dependent), still leaves 2 spots free, (and that's if the IC and WG are both in Terminator Armour, 4 spots if in regular Power Armour). Obviously 8 WG Terminators/7 & IC being the alternative, TH/SS at least having a decent chance to survive the AP1 hits when the thing is blown apart and smashes into the landscape!

I'm not sure if I'd bother to put anything in the Stormfang, potentially a basic 5 man squad of BCs... (for the cheapest option), but I don't see the point beyond last minute objective grabbing, and even then I don't think I'd want to drop this thing into Hover mode before the AA has been destroyed.

I wanted to get both... but out of sheer terror for my wallet of what might come next I'm leaning towards the Stormfang as I'm new to flyers, (having only ever played SWs), and because I think that pie plate of doom with MM and Lascannon/Missiles (but which one?) will be useful regardless of the coming changes.

Orks done, now back to space marines.

I think the gun on the front shoots Space Wolves as ammunition.

 warboss wrote:

 pretre wrote:

 Jayden63 wrote:
It just needs a dragon head on the front and a row of shields along its flank.

I thought of that earlier, but definitely think this is the way to go.

Sounds like an upcoming chapterhouse bits bundle to me!

Pretty sure if you look at the sprues there are pieces like this in the kit already.

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