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 Medium of Death wrote:
I wonder what the price rise will be?

Current kit is 85£, new one is 95£

So $140 to proably $150 or so?

That's not too bad actually. Was expecting about a £20 increase.

I think it's going to be much more likely a $20+ price increase, though probably really not more than say $165. That way GW can net an extra $20 off each sale of a Knight. Everybody wins! And by everybody I just mean GW.

 WrentheFaceless wrote:

 Medium of Death wrote:
So will this be a separate kit or just repackage with the old sprues?

Think the rumor is that the new kit, can make all 5 of the variants, so probably the old sprues with new ones for the new bits for the new knights.

There is certainly plenty of precedence for this... Think Rhino/Razorback.

 WrentheFaceless wrote:

 Medium of Death wrote:
I wonder what the price rise will be?

Current kit is 85£, new one is 95£

So $140 to proably $150 or so?

It's $160.

They threw in a pair of sprues to the Baneblade and bumped it up in price. Now they threw a sprue in with the Knight and bumped it up in price. Maybe next we will see a pair of sprues thrown into the stompa kit with more weapon options and a belly gun, and that bumped in price to match the other Lord of War kits?

Wow, those silhouettes look awesome. It might be time to finally add some Imperial Knight allies to my Blood Angels force.

 MajorWesJanson wrote:
They threw in a pair of sprues to the Baneblade and bumped it up in price. Now they threw a sprue in with the Knight and bumped it up in price. Maybe next we will see a pair of sprues thrown into the stompa kit with more weapon options and a belly gun, and that bumped in price to match the other Lord of War kits?

No good unless they update the Stompa rules too; I used one (plus infantry) in a game against two Knights (plus SM). On paper it was a balanced match in terms of points, HP, etc. and the the two chassis' are fairly even IMHO. Problem was the bloody Ion shields on the Knights, the Stompa was getting hull points whittled off, whereas the Knights don't. The Stompa either needs dropping back to it's old points or better, get some power fields.

I'm really surprised that it took this long for the new versions of the Knight to come out, it's a great model and has been really popular from what I've seen, I guess even GW couldn't stomach replacing a codex after only a few months. If only they'd put all the options in there in the first place.

 Jadenim wrote:

 MajorWesJanson wrote:
They threw in a pair of sprues to the Baneblade and bumped it up in price. Now they threw a sprue in with the Knight and bumped it up in price. Maybe next we will see a pair of sprues thrown into the stompa kit with more weapon options and a belly gun, and that bumped in price to match the other Lord of War kits?

No good unless they update the Stompa rules too; I used one (plus infantry) in a game against two Knights (plus SM). On paper it was a balanced match in terms of points, HP, etc. and the the two chassis' are fairly even IMHO. Problem was the bloody Ion shields on the Knights, the Stompa was getting hull points whittled off, whereas the Knights don't. The Stompa either needs dropping back to it's old points or better, get some power fields.

I'm really surprised that it took this long for the new versions of the Knight to come out, it's a great model and has been really popular from what I've seen, I guess even GW couldn't stomach replacing a codex after only a few months. If only they'd put all the options in there in the first place.

I worked around that by putting a mek with force field inside the Stompa. FW's Kustom Stompa can take Power Fields, they work like Void Shields, no reason not to take the Kustom as its so much better when configured correctly.

 MajorWesJanson wrote:
They threw in a pair of sprues to the Baneblade and bumped it up in price. Now they threw a sprue in with the Knight and bumped it up in price. Maybe next we will see a pair of sprues thrown into the stompa kit with more weapon options and a belly gun, and that bumped in price to match the other Lord of War kits?

Let's not forget about a chaos-sprue consisting of comically ugly spikes, bumping the price a second time.

*drools*

Loving the look of it, I want several now!

Ok, I'll probably have to sell half my organs to make army but hey, it's completely 100% worth it. Right, right guys?

looks gnarly

Nice.

I like it, but I had hoped for more than different arms, heads and a launcher on top.
Different torso and or shoulder plates would have been nice.

I like that it looks different at least (thought it would be worse)

"Come here so I may grab you with my tiny hand!!"

Anyone else feel the Powerfist arm/hand should be bigger?

Uuuuu new shiny

Wicked. The head is brilliant and reminds me of the old reaver titan head

Aesthetically it's fine, pretty much as expected, but that pose is horrible. It's so similar to the other Knight model that you wonder why this didn't just come out at the same time (and then C: IK would have been a 4 unit book).

It looks like he's just walked into a bar and is standing there awkwardly after everyone's stopped to look at him.

Head pointing the same way as the gun, fist arm lowered and the fist itself clenched would be huge improvements.

This is epic news! i've got a knight in my 'to do' pile - i recon i can spread the parts from the new one to make two!!

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:

any word on the rules yet? Thanks for posting!! I had only seen the silhouettes so far

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:

That's beautiful.

Now how do I fit this into my Heretek army.....

Must be a left handed pilot.

Worst time ever for me to be expecting my 2nd child any day. Why didn't GW bring this out last year, when I had more disposable income?

Same model, ain't it?

 Hanskrampf wrote:
I like it, but I had hoped for more than different arms, heads and a launcher on top.
Different torso and or shoulder plates would have been nice.

Thing is, to change the carapace and pads would then upset the aesthetic with the shin pads, chest plate etc (unless you're going to keep the, looking similar and defeat the object.)

That would mean new sprues and more investment, and this is clearly an attempt to rejuvenate the sales of the kit at a minimum investment (not a criticism, I like it) so would never have been on the table.

Fenrir Kitsune wrote:Same model, ain't it?

sockwithaticket wrote:Aesthetically it's fine, pretty much as expected, but that pose is horrible. It's so similar to the other Knight model that you wonder why this didn't just come out at the same time (and then C: IK would have been a 4 unit book).

It looks like he's just walked into a bar and is standing there awkwardly after everyone's stopped to look at him.

Yep it looks like the same body / leg sprues as the original kit, just with new weapon and head options.

At this point GW's business plan is pretty much:
1. Find something that sells well
2. Do bare minimum extra work to make a 'new' version of it
3. Charge £10 more than last time

@xttz: So.. just about the same as every other company ever.