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Warhams-77 wrote:
Same Knight - different artwork and good for a wallpaper

Spoiler:

Thanks for that.

Judging from the style and the way the guardsmen are drawn this is a new freelancer with not as much experience with the setting.

 BrookM wrote:
Judging from the style and the way the guardsmen are drawn this is a new freelancer with not as much experience with the setting.

What sort of guns are the guardsmen using there? I don't recognise them at first glance.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
Judging from the style and the way the guardsmen are drawn this is a new freelancer with not as much experience with the setting.

What sort of guns are the guardsmen using there? I don't recognise them at first glance.

Exactly. While the artist is probably given a thorough briefing of what the Knight is supposed to look like, the Guardsmen are drawn as generic sci-fi soldiers who have more in common with the dime a dozen sci-fi shooters teens play these days.

 BrookM wrote:

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
Judging from the style and the way the guardsmen are drawn this is a new freelancer with not as much experience with the setting.

What sort of guns are the guardsmen using there? I don't recognise them at first glance.

Exactly. While the artist is probably given a thorough briefing of what the Knight is supposed to look like, the Guardsmen are drawn as generic sci-fi soldiers who have more in common with the dime a dozen sci-fi shooters teens play these days.

Really? Huh, I saw oldschool metal-style Cadians with Shotguns.

 Yodhrin wrote:

 BrookM wrote:

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
Judging from the style and the way the guardsmen are drawn this is a new freelancer with not as much experience with the setting.

What sort of guns are the guardsmen using there? I don't recognise them at first glance.

Exactly. While the artist is probably given a thorough briefing of what the Knight is supposed to look like, the Guardsmen are drawn as generic sci-fi soldiers who have more in common with the dime a dozen sci-fi shooters teens play these days.

Really? Huh, I saw oldschool metal-style Cadians with Shotguns.

I see generic Halo scrubs with blocky Halo assault rifles myself.

If it were Cadians they'd be the current ones, with bright green armour and khaki uniforms.

Arguing over one of the most diverse military organisations in the galaxy seems silly. They could be using bull pop lasguns such as the drop regiments use, which are much shorter and designed for close range firefights.

Acccording to GW the most diverse organisation in the galaxy either looks like green bobble head in khaki or a burly, sweaty muscle man with a red bandana.

Also, all three soldiers are lefties, abominatus!

fireangel wrote:
Forgive me if this has been answered, but is there any word on if the upgrade sprue will be sold separately?

I have an unassembled Knight model, that I would love to add the options to.

Any word?

I'm thinking that wouldn't be a sound financial strategy for them:

Why make a new sprue and charge $25 for it when for a cost of a couple of quids worth of styrene extra, using molds they already have, they can bundle it all together and charge $150 for it?

I saw Tau fire warriors with Cadian helmets.

Anyway, this is the one case where I don't understand anyone arguing about the price. I mean I guess it's still a rather large bump, but when you're already spending $140 on a single miniature it doesn't seem like another $17 would be a huge deal.

The Dreamforge 15 mm Gatling fits quite well if you want to upgrade your old Knight. And they are sold seperatly

 kodos wrote:
The Dreamforge 15 mm Gatling fits quite well if you want to upgrade your old Knight. And they are sold seperatly

You got pics? Otherwise nobody will believe it.

 BrookM wrote:
Acccording to GW the most diverse organisation in the galaxy either looks like green bobble head in khaki or a burly, sweaty muscle man with a red bandana.

Also, all three soldiers are lefties, abominatus!

Haha true, thank goodness for FW more than doubling the variation in IG regiments.

 BrookM wrote:

Warhams-77 wrote:
Same Knight - different artwork and good for a wallpaper

Spoiler:

Thanks for that.

Judging from the style and the way the guardsmen are drawn this is a new freelancer with not as much experience with the setting.

The artist seems to be the same who did a lot of the art in the "Leviathan" book.

It's kind of interesting in that he drew some veterans specifically that way, outfitted with carapace armor, in the background book and it was specifically labeled as a "hotshot lasgun". It honestly makes me wonder if GW might have a veteran kit ready to go soon.

 Theophony wrote:

 kodos wrote:
The Dreamforge 15 mm Gatling fits quite well if you want to upgrade your old Knight. And they are sold seperatly

You got pics? Otherwise nobody will believe it.

Seen here in the gallery
http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2014/8/9/636854_md-Imperial%20Knight,%20Leviathan%20Crusader.jpg

Well I'll be damned, that's a better fit than I ever thought possible.

Yeah, too bad you have to still buy a GW Knight on top of the gun, though. *whistles his way off stage*

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
Yeah, too bad you have to still buy a GW Knight on top of the gun, though. *whistles his way off stage*

I do somewhat feel like getting one to put on a Knight I already own, just to troll the local GW a bit.

I am still searching for an easy way to turn the Crusader into a Knight. But maybe now I find an cheap old box to start with

is there any info on the detachment that comes with the web bundle of 5 knights for house tyrren?

 easysauce wrote:
is there any info on the detachment that comes with the web bundle of 5 knights for house tyrren?

Send me $940 and I can tell you.

I wonder how well t his could be adapted, for those that want a right handed fist:

 Blacksails wrote:

 easysauce wrote:
is there any info on the detachment that comes with the web bundle of 5 knights for house tyrren?

Send me $940 and I can tell you.

Do you accept bits of string?

I was thinking about this a bit further, and realized that apart from the carapace launchers/icarus, all of the main weapons of ALL of the Knights thus far could be sourced from DFG 15mm Leviathan weapon arms.

Rapid Fire Battle Cannon

Thermal Cannon

Reaper Chainsword

Avenger Gatling Cannon

Thunderstrike Gauntlet



You'd need to add a heavy flamer to the Vulkan, and a heavy stubber to the Beowulf/Grendel, but if they all fit, or can easily be made to fit, the Knight body as well as the picture of the IK with a DFG Vulkan, you could add a lot of visual variety to a knight household.

Note: Wayland Games sells these weapons for £11.70 EACH!
Might as well get the GW kit...

The GW Knights are pretty poor relatives beside the FW beauties. Which would be ok if they were really cheap but they ain't. I will keep saving my pennies for a warhound I think. In fairness the warden is the best GW effort on their chasis to date.

Yeah no, feth that, I'm not going to stick a Dreamforge saw on an Imperial Knight, that thing is oversized compared to the original Reaper.

 BrookM wrote:
Yeah no, feth that, I'm not going to stick a Dreamforge saw on an Imperial Knight, that thing is oversized compared to the original Reaper.

I'm not a big fan of the DFG saw myself, I think it's the only one of the weapon options I DIDN'T get from the KS. I just thought it was kind of funny that there's a viable stand in for all of the GW IK arm weapons.

fireangel wrote:
Forgive me if this has been answered, but is there any word on if the upgrade sprue will be sold separately?

I have an unassembled Knight model, that I would love to add the options to.

Any word?

I really don't think GW will do this. They've been doing that with a lot of the kits and seem to be going away from upgrade sprues in general. You can get them on ebay or other bits places, but it'll cost you a fortune.

For example, with tyranids if you want the mucloid spores out of the tyranocyte kit, (which only come one to a box, and only in that box) you have the following options:

1 you have to make the drop pod sitting on the ground without the lower tentacles
2 you make the drop pod as is and make your own tentacles
3 you make the sporocyst and the mucloid spore.
4 you buy the lower tentacles someplace else.

No matter what you do, you need the lower tentacle pieces from somewhere.

Actually, there is more you can do with the Dream Forge kits than you think.

The 15mm ones are too small to be stand-ins for Imperial knights, however if you bits-order a Lord of Skulls Torso (about $11 on ebay) it bulks the model up quite a bit and makes it Knight-sized.

Dreamforge also has it's 15mm Leviathans on sale right now for about $35, and $10 per extra arm. Not too bad if you want a knight force with some variety in looks.

Also, as a side note, the Dream Forge Leviathan;s head fits into the Lord Of Skulls torso like it was meant to go there, looks wonderful.

Do we know the point cost of the different variants ?

and is the double gun variant LoW only ?