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Has there been any previous fluff on the Krius Grav Imploder?

...any 40K equivalent that might give any hints?

 schoon wrote:
Has there been any previous fluff on the Krius Grav Imploder?

Some 30k Mechanicum vehicles (like the Macrodarid Explorator) have smaller versions.

Lexicanum wrote:The weapon was designed on the Forge World of Tigrus. Also called the 'Tank Crusher', it was a concentrated beam that created a collapsing grav-field which brought down kinetic force proportional to the density and mass of the material it struck. It thus proved effective against heavily armored foes and vehicles. Crude and power-hungry, the design was deemed blasphemous by some Magos who saw it as a perversion of ancient patterns. However its capabilities proved invaluable during the Horus Heresy.

 Sherrypie wrote:
I love me some crushed fortifications in the morning, so bring on the big guy!

Grav imploder hints towards some kind of a beam weapon, eh? Wonder how that'll shape up. Maybe it hits harder depending on the Scale of the target?

Strength equals target scale maybe?

 MajorWesJanson wrote:
Strength equals target scale maybe?

I was thinking that it could be something like that. That would add a fun element to the weapon, IMO.

 Plant wrote:
Fantastic miniature, but I'm not sure how useful it's going to be with 4 inch movement. That being said if you stock it in the middle of the board, it will kill everything when it dies.

A few points on cc, it has 3 turns when boosted, so it's actually not easy to flank as a warlord, it's also theoretically possible to give it 1ccw arm and have the other still be the big plasma, on top of plasma shoulders and now choice potentially of carapace, the honestly seems decent to me, dual plasma arms can be overkill at times. I think too it's worth pointing out that outside of games where both sides have a warmaster, it's never been a very balanced concept, for one, most games seem to be about 1750-2000pts ish so an 1100+ point titan always sorta pushed the point up. Even at 2500pts, my last game with the warmaster I still could only fit 4 more titans (2 reavers, 2 hounds) so because we both had one, the game was decent and didn't seem much long than a game at 1850pts but the second only one side is fielding one things get a bit weird just in terms of activations or lack there of on one side.

Every day this game gets more tempting.


The BattleTech Kickstarter will be here soon. The BattleTech Kickstarter will be here soon. The BattleTech Kickstarter will be here soon.

*rocks back and forth*

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Every day this game gets more tempting.


The BattleTech Kickstarter will be here soon. The BattleTech Kickstarter will be here soon. The BattleTech Kickstarter will be here soon.

*rocks back and forth*

The models are in scale. Somehow, somewhere these games need to meet.

 Prometheum5 wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Every day this game gets more tempting.


The BattleTech Kickstarter will be here soon. The BattleTech Kickstarter will be here soon. The BattleTech Kickstarter will be here soon.

*rocks back and forth*

The models are in scale. Somehow, somewhere these games need to meet.

Doesn't seem that fair. An Atlas assault mech is 11ish meters tall and 100 tons. Roughly the same size as a Questoris Knight. Maybe if all the proper titans were bust dueling with dropships and letting the knights deal with the battlemechs?

Isn't this new Titan only 1000 tons?



Must have the density of styrofoam.

The Iowa class battleship has a displacement of 48592 tons and is 262.1m long. That is 185.3949 tons per metre. If this new titan has a similar density, and is 40m high, it would be (40*185.3949) 7415.795 tons.

Maybe they forgot a '0' making it 10,000 tons. Or it's made from wood.

 MajorWesJanson wrote:

 Prometheum5 wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Every day this game gets more tempting.


The BattleTech Kickstarter will be here soon. The BattleTech Kickstarter will be here soon. The BattleTech Kickstarter will be here soon.

*rocks back and forth*

The models are in scale. Somehow, somewhere these games need to meet.

Doesn't seem that fair. An Atlas assault mech is 11ish meters tall and 100 tons. Roughly the same size as a Questoris Knight. Maybe if all the proper titans were bust dueling with dropships and letting the knights deal with the battlemechs?

It's moot anyway because Battletech doesn't have shields. A skilled MechWarrior could probably take a Knight as long as they can avoid getting hit, but they've got nothing to deal with Titans. Maybe Long Toms and PPCs could chip at void shields but I don't see any of the rest of a mech's standard weapons making a scratch. I would love to see an Elemental fight a Marine. That must be a classic nerd argument, right?

 Prometheum5 wrote:
It's moot anyway because Battletech doesn't have shields.

Lies! They do so have shields. Or rather a shield. A shield that protects you against one specific class of weapon. And... no others...

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Prometheum5 wrote:
It's moot anyway because Battletech doesn't have shields.

Lies! They do so have shields. Or rather a shield. A shield that protects you against one specific class of weapon. And... no others...

There could be an argument saying that thing could stop Tau pulse rifles too...

 MajorWesJanson wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Prometheum5 wrote:
It's moot anyway because Battletech doesn't have shields.

Lies! They do so have shields. Or rather a shield. A shield that protects you against one specific class of weapon. And... no others...

There could be an argument saying that thing could stop Tau pulse rifles too...

It wouldn't stop them, it would just halve the damage, rounded down to a minimum of one point. At least they wouldn't have to roll to wound though.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Every day this game gets more tempting.


The BattleTech Kickstarter will be here soon. The BattleTech Kickstarter will be here soon. The BattleTech Kickstarter will be here soon.

*rocks back and forth*

This has been on the radar forever here as well. Just no time or money for it yet.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Every day this game gets more tempting.

You know what you must do

H.B.M.C. not having a bazillion plastic titans is one of the strangest things on Dakka ever.

 schoon wrote:
Has there been any previous fluff on the Krius Grav Imploder?

...any 40K equivalent that might give any hints?

Sounds like the old conversion beam projector aka conversion beamer. Its gimmick was that the more massive its target was, the more likely it was to suffer damage (which I think translated as "always wounds on a 3+ regardless of Toughness, and ignores armour"). It also made a bigger blast at more distant targets.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
H.B.M.C. not having a bazillion plastic titans is one of the strangest things on Dakka ever.

And the terrain is fun-sized and easier to store!

I love the Adeptus Titanicus terrain.

No! Stop! Don't tempt me Frodo!!!

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I love the Adeptus Titanicus terrain.

No! Stop! Don't tempt me Frodo!!!

You know what you have to do... buy a whole bunch and build some amazing stuff to inspire the rest of us!

Tygre wrote:
Maybe they forgot a '0' making it 10,000 tons. Or it's made from wood.

Only Psy-Titans are made of wood.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I love the Adeptus Titanicus terrain.

No! Stop! Don't tempt me Frodo!!!

Not to mention there's some amazing third party terrain makers https://grimdarkterrain.com/

Re: the weight of Titans ... I always assumed they had suspensors built into them. Those anti-gravity stud things that make objects lighter. Like the ones in Space Crusade that let your Marines with heavy weapons move as fast as the guys with bolters.

It would help to explain why Titans don't crash through the street and into the sewers every time they take a step.

 Nostromodamus wrote:

Tygre wrote:
Maybe they forgot a '0' making it 10,000 tons. Or it's made from wood.

Only Psy-Titans are made of wood.

Because they weigh the same as a Psyduck.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I love the Adeptus Titanicus terrain.

No! Stop! Don't tempt me Frodo!!!

Honestly, this game is fantastic. It's a blast to play, decisions such as rotation and range matter, as well as managing your reactor and the damage you take in various subsystems, and the models themselves are a joy to put together and are all designed for magnetization of parts.

Rules-wise, I think Titanicus is one of GW's best games, and the models being awesome helps a lot. The only thing that hinders it is the price point, but thankfully the Loyalist Legios book covers a LOT of the rules that were printed elsewhere, so that + Core is really all you need to get going. Traitor Legios will be out eventually, I'm sure.

Zenithfleet wrote:

 Nostromodamus wrote:

Tygre wrote:
Maybe they forgot a '0' making it 10,000 tons. Or it's made from wood.

Only Psy-Titans are made of wood.

Because they weigh the same as a Psyduck.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I love the Adeptus Titanicus terrain.

No! Stop! Don't tempt me Frodo!!!

It has small Questoris knights...with...dinky little missile pods...

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I love the Adeptus Titanicus terrain.

No! Stop! Don't tempt me Frodo!!!

Join us. You know it is the correct course of action. You know Epic is coming...

 zedmeister wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I love the Adeptus Titanicus terrain.

No! Stop! Don't tempt me Frodo!!!

Join us. You know it is the correct course of action. You know Epic is coming...

As someone who has always enjoyed the world building aspect of this hobby, I've never been more over the moon because at this scale my lazy ass feels down right productive because it feels like building and painting is like 4x the speed.

This was the board at the starts of the last game, then the board at the end of the last game







As far as terrain this game is heaven, from the gw modular kits right to all he amazing third party designers

Crablezworth, while your stuff is awesome, you need more craters for crushed buildings and dead titans