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The pilot and new gun look nice, but I really don't need another knight stood in the same pose. They could have at least had different leg armour plates to try to hide the monopose legs.

No chance there will be Forgeworld units in a GW Codex book

 Platuan4th wrote:

Enosh wrote:

 xttz wrote:

Probably Canis Rex's machine spirit.

It is totally a car battery and jumper cables to restart Canis Rex.

 casvalremdeikun wrote:
It is totally a car battery and jumper cables to restart Canis Rex.

I wonder if something like a Sentinel would have enough juice to get that thing going.

...also, how would you idle it? Would it have to walk in circles around Canis Rex?

Not happy about having to rebuy another knight warden!!!
I got the knight warden almost a year after the original knight released and thought I was good!
I then got the knight renegade game as the deal for 2 knights and terrain was to good to pass up for the price of 1.5 knights.
So now I have 3 knight wardens all megantized!!!
I don’t need a 4th... I need the dang sprue seperate!

So it look's like Rex has something like the Knight-Atrapos's Lascutter. Witch if I recall is both a shooting and melee weapon?

So one cool thing about this guy is that either he comes with a fist on new sprue, or he will have the Warden Kit's additional sprue as well. What that means for me is an additional Stormspear rocket pod and an Avenger Gatling Cannon. Might go ahead and build one of my Knights as a Crusader now using the extra parts. Also, I love the Thunderstrike Gauntlet. So this guy is pretty damn well right up my alley.

 BrookM wrote:
The art may have been done by a freelancer who hasn't done much work for GW before, the previous Knight codex certainly has its share of, IMHO, questionable art.

Look at me and how right I was.

I was still shocked at how many people fell into the doom and gloom claiming this codex was multple months away.

The box is clearly his lunchbox.

“Well the machines broke, might as well head off and grab a bite to eat until the techpreist fixes it....”

So it looks like I was completely wrong and we are going to get the Knights codex in a couple of weeks. In retrospect the run up to this launch has been rather strange. Why didn't the show the Knights off at warhammer fest? A lot of 40k only people came out of that event pretty disappointed. A preview of all the knight kits would have completely changed the conversation.

I thought they were saving the Knights reveal for next Fridays seminar at games expo, but doing a preview after today's article and whatever we see tomorrow seems kind of pointless.
I also thought this would be a massive release for GW so squeezing them into a week or two before Aos2 feels strange.

I am also a bit disappointed by the special character. It does not change the look of the knight very much.
It looks like we will only get three different chassis with some minor variations.

I am excited for that Castellan though. It look great.

Holy , his name is the Chainbreaker?

Impressive. That means if I get one, he'll be in red and black, with some friends. See how many Kaiserreich memes I can stuff into one model.

 Irbis wrote:

Dunno, that just looks like existing 2D art distorted by badly applied pseudo-3D filter. Hence the unnatural flat look.

SO F***ING TOLD YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 Verviedi wrote:
Holy , his name is the Chainbreaker?

Impressive. That means if I get one, he'll be in red and black, with some friends. See how many Kaiserreich memes I can stuff into one model.

My Pre-WW1 history is not flash, what memes exactly would they be?

 drazz wrote:
Multiple sites are saying 10 data sheets.

So, unless they are moving to a data sheet per chassis, I think we’re only going to see Knights.

Paladin
Warden
Crusader
Errant
Gallant
Armiger 1
Armiger 2
Castellan
Castellan alt
Character

That's gonna be a really skinny $40 codex. I didn't think we'd see a smaller one than Custodes, but sheesh. This thing might not be 50 total pages.

Chikout wrote:
So it looks like I was completely wrong and we are going to get the Knights codex in a couple of weeks. In retrospect the run up to this launch has been rather strange. Why didn't the show the Knights off at warhammer fest? A lot of 40k only people came out of that event pretty disappointed. A preview of all the knight kits would have completely changed the conversation.

I thought they were saving the Knights reveal for next Fridays seminar at games expo, but doing a preview after today's article and whatever we see tomorrow seems kind of pointless.
I also thought this would be a massive release for GW so squeezing them into a week or two before Aos2 feels strange.

I am also a bit disappointed by the special character. It does not change the look of the knight very much.
It looks like we will only get three different chassis with some minor variations.

I am excited for that Castellan though. It look great.

shhhhhhhh we were wrong about launch, good things are happening for us, let’s just be grateful

 Mattlov wrote:
Two weeks rumored until Codex: Battletech! Huzzah!

I wonder if any small support units will be included or if it will be a codex of only Lords of War. It doesn't seem like you'd have enough for a codex with a handful of Knights and Armigers.

Is there any belief or rumor that the Forge World Knights will be included in this codex?

No new models for small stuff coming=no units in codex.

But hey original knight codex had TWO units. Count that as in one, two And that's by having variant weapon load outs as unique units. New has at least 3 truly unique units with big pile of weapon options for them so on different weapon loadout=unit calculation you have like over a dozen units vs original 2.

Could be worse!

edit : whoops over a dozen was too wild estimation. Somebody already counted and 10. Still that's 5x boost over original codex.

so is the nipple a lascannon or multi-laser?

 aracersss wrote:
so is the nipple a lascannon or multi-laser?

if rumors are to be believed i would guess that's a flamer of some sort.

Chikout wrote:
So it looks like I was completely wrong and we are going to get the Knights codex in a couple of weeks. In retrospect the run up to this launch has been rather strange. Why didn't the show the Knights off at warhammer fest? A lot of 40k only people came out of that event pretty disappointed. A preview of all the knight kits would have completely changed the conversation.

I thought they were saving the Knights reveal for next Fridays seminar at games expo, but doing a preview after today's article and whatever we see tomorrow seems kind of pointless.
I also thought this would be a massive release for GW so squeezing them into a week or two before Aos2 feels strange.
.

Not having them would mean nothing of consequence released for over half a month. Seeing it's new releases that makes most money for GW THAT would be weird.

And customer base for knights and AOS are likely rather different so it's not like they are eating up each other sales noticably.

And soon after DE/harlequins was always given once they were shown to be next 3 codexes to be released.

Chikout wrote:
So it looks like I was completely wrong and we are going to get the Knights codex in a couple of weeks. In retrospect the run up to this launch has been rather strange. Why didn't the show the Knights off at warhammer fest? A lot of 40k only people came out of that event pretty disappointed. A preview of all the knight kits would have completely changed the conversation.

I thought they were saving the Knights reveal for next Fridays seminar at games expo, but doing a preview after today's article and whatever we see tomorrow seems kind of pointless.
I also thought this would be a massive release for GW so squeezing them into a week or two before Aos2 feels strange.

I am also a bit disappointed by the special character. It does not change the look of the knight very much.
It looks like we will only get three different chassis with some minor variations.

I am excited for that Castellan though. It look great.

I think they didn't show it off at Warhammer Fest simply to put the hype into people about something coming out over the next few months and far beyond. Sure you can hype up a launch coming within a month, but that doesn't get people talking NOW and having that keep going for 3-6 months. AoS 2 is a way bigger deal than a couple knights and their codex. The 30k models coming to 40k is a ways out too. Titanicus is anyones guess too. So It's all just about marketing.

 Platuan4th wrote:

Enosh wrote:

 xttz wrote:

Probably Canis Rex's machine spirit.

Life support. The Machine Spirit resides in the Knight chassis itself.

 Mattlov wrote:

 drazz wrote:
Multiple sites are saying 10 data sheets.

So, unless they are moving to a data sheet per chassis, I think we’re only going to see Knights.

Paladin
Warden
Crusader
Errant
Gallant
Armiger 1
Armiger 2
Castellan
Castellan alt
Character

That's gonna be a really skinny $40 codex. I didn't think we'd see a smaller one than Custodes, but sheesh. This thing might not be 50 total pages.

Could be a $35 one like Harlequins.

Could also be packed with fluff and design ideas/colour schemes for different houses. All my Knights are freeblades because these are essentially space brettonians in my head, so they would all have their own livery and colours they would display and not all be red or green or blue.

There was also the mentioning of a (campaign) book and Imperial Knights Renegade boxed game re-release. In 2014 we got an IK Codex in spring and the Sanctus Reach campaign in summer which heavily featured IKs - among Orks and Astra Militarum. I would not rule out more release slots with more stuff over the year, especially with Forgebane officially said to be the start of the 8th Ed ongoing campaign storyline.

 Mattlov wrote:

That's gonna be a really skinny $40 codex. I didn't think we'd see a smaller one than Custodes, but sheesh. This thing might not be 50 total pages.

Did you see there last two books?

DaemonJellybaby wrote:

 aracersss wrote:

DaemonJellybaby wrote:
They are going to rerelease the current kit with another frame of weapons and stuff (for another £10) before Christmas.

source or sarcasm?

The source is good.

Thanks Anything more you heard regarding further releases?

 JoeRugby wrote:
The box is clearly his lunchbox.

“Well the machines broke, might as well head off and grab a bite to eat until the techpreist fixes it....”

No, the box is clearly a device he uses to anime summon his Knight. What looks like a helmet is actually a refrigeration unit - that's where he keeps his lunch.

Is it a box or is it a ridiculous double-barrelled pistol?

**Edit** Scratch that, just saw the side view :(

 Crazyterran wrote:
Could also be packed with fluff and design ideas/colour schemes for different houses. All my Knights are freeblades because these are essentially space brettonians in my head, so they would all have their own livery and colours they would display and not all be red or green or blue.

I hope so. I have no idea what to paint my knights as.