Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

 Dysartes wrote:
Dammit, GW - Gargants and Mega-Gargants are Ork Titan equivalents, not Giants and Even-Gianter-Giants...

You're not wrong!

All this talk of Gargants and Mega-Gargants had me thinking GW finally smartened up and was releasing Xenos rules for use in Titanicus!

Hoping we get a female Gargant at some point - unless they reproduce differently....

I'd rather have a single option for 100 euros than one kit that builds 1 of 3 options for 150 and leaves you with pile of plastic you ain't ever going to use. Even with the discount I have, that's still flying rodent gak bs expensive.

Garbo prices, garbo sprues with the usual "new GW" thin pieces looking like they'll snap during removal from sprues. I went from "MEH" to "sort of interested, maybe add one to my ogors" to "MEH" again over the 6 months from their initial teasing.

They definitely seem to be trying to see if they can be as popular as Imperial Knights initially were in 40K, but I feel that giants are a much harder aesthetic to easily mesh with the wider range of factions in AoS compared to 40K, where Imperials are largely more standardized when it comes to their look.

Given some of the Tech in the Mortal Realms they could just stat up the Imperial Knight for Dispossed or Cities of Sigmar.

But GW is very averse to cross selling.

 Mr Morden wrote:
Given some of the Tech in the Mortal Realms they could just stat up the Imperial Knight for Dispossed or Cities of Sigmar.

But GW is very averse to cross selling.

Yeah, Kharadron Overlords are already an example of the higher end of technology in the Mortal Realms. I'm pretty sure the only cross game faction that uses the same models are Daemons for obvious reasons.

Can you ally these to order armies?

EDIT: Apparently you can.

 Crimson wrote:
Can you ally these to order armies?

Only the Kraken Eater can ally with order.
Warstomper with Chaos
Gatebreaker with Death

At least that's the way they are presenter on the AoS facebook page

 DaveC wrote:

 Crimson wrote:
Can you ally these to order armies?

Only the Kraken Eater can ally with order.
Warstomper with Chaos
Gatebreaker with Death

Ah... Have they shown the rules for these? What's the difference between the different types?

 Crimson wrote:

 DaveC wrote:

 Crimson wrote:
Can you ally these to order armies?

Only the Kraken Eater can ally with order.
Warstomper with Chaos
Gatebreaker with Death

Ah... Have they shown the rules for these? What's the difference between the different types?

Gatebreaker
https://www.facebook.com/GWWarhammerAgeofSigmar/photos/a.452227281640737/1513244102205711/?type=3&eid=ARDIJWP63ub3yCukCFdHYK1Za41V8Owiw4hJ9p-mEJ1ml4qNVPxfjVUZdXEq2dfMKqGxvb_FQxs_zj0F&__tn__=EEHH-R

Warstomper
https://www.facebook.com/GWWarhammerAgeofSigmar/photos/a.452227281640737/1510834022446719/?type=3&eid=ARCQEVciOKscrBSW15hCkDY0jlaCJtwcnMAN1ZdKQPy1HKhW40CVpn5UucFhTj1vw0aECTCTw6JbBYpF&__tn__=EEHH-R

Kraken Eater
https://www.facebook.com/GWWarhammerAgeofSigmar/photos/a.452227281640737/1509497195913735/?type=3&eid=ARAY9iPfbkuGrDYuuQnGPStzxGZmq8uvYTR4x19AOAfXEfMtDGWAR0N6ouCEsd31FyIRPRf8MkXUSh4l&__tn__=EEHH-R

I was hoping to use this as my foray into AOS, but I do t think I can easily justify the models.if they're over £100 each. Ha and people say Warhammer fantasy was expensive.

 howie wrote:
I was hoping to use this as my foray into AOS, but I do t think I can easily justify the models.if they're over £100 each. Ha and people say Warhammer fantasy was expensive.

I think if you want a cheaper way into AoS look at Warcry instead. On box and you've got a warband for the multiple Slaves to Darkness ones and Daughters of Khaine are getting a warband next month in a new boxed set. Again one purchase and you've got a full band that can work in warcry and be taken into AoS. Regular armies work too, of course, but you might need two or three boxes to get a viable warband (it varies).

Or you could look at Flesheaters who are mostly just in their Getting Started boxed set.

Man I hope those prices are BS. That is staggeringly expensive. I was expecting them to be in the range of the mountain elf god-cow, a little more. But geez!

 Mr Morden wrote:
Hoping we get a female Gargant at some point - unless they reproduce differently....

They’re Namekians.
Seriously, Sigmar killed the first one and he barfed up his son, who presumably barfed up the rest of them. All that’s missing is the egg stage.

Area game store posted this up a short while ago. Assuming it is accurate.

Either mega-gargant is largest model ever produced by GW or it's cast from gold!

Kind of odd, actually. GW doesn't price at $X.99

Round it up, and most of it looks roughly right, sadly.
They can feth right off with the giant pricetag, though.

Geez, I don't know how you guys afford this stuff. $175 USD for a big monster mini... That is bonkers.

When these fail to sell what are they going to do, do a double box for $300?

I've backed several Kickstarters in the $300 range, but at least there I'm usually getting a ton for my money (both new games and miniatures).

Sotahullu wrote:
Either mega-gargant is largest model ever produced by GW or it's cast from gold!

In fairness, I think Smaug takes the award for that one - possibly in both categories!

Though, when available, he is in resin rather than plastic.

Well if we bring resin into it and FW resin then there's that Tau Manta ship

That price is a bitter pill to swallow. A shame, I'd get it just for the heck of building one too if it was under triple digits.

At least the hexmark and balloon dwarf seems to be in somewhat reasonable territory for GW character kits.

That price will kill the army, both the Mega and the reboxed classic giant. Unless they are absurdly OP (which TBF is very much possible) those prices will seriously curb any kind of interest in even using them as allies, let alone a full army of them.

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
That price is a bitter pill to swallow. A shame, I'd get it just for the heck of building one too if it was under triple digits.

At least the hexmark and balloon dwarf seems to be in somewhat reasonable territory for GW character kits.

There was literally zero chance the Mega-Gargant was ever going to be under triple digits. We've known how big it was since the announcement.


We saw a similar image to this with the announce way back when.

$194.99 is a high price...but that ain't a small kit. It looks to be on par with if not bigger than the Dominus class Knights.
Automatically Appended Next Post:

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
That price will kill the army, both the Mega and the reboxed classic giant. Unless they are absurdly OP (which TBF is very much possible) those prices will seriously curb any kind of interest in even using them as allies, let alone a full army of them.

The rebox is two giants, not one.

Current price is $65 for a single. It goes to $124.99 for 2. There's a slight savings built in.

It might be a model that sells more in person when people see it in a shop and see it in comparison to other models they own and other big models. Sometimes internet photos just don't do a model proper justice.

This may sound like a dumb question, but does anyone actually want a giant “army”?
I mean, 40K Knights get a lot of mileage and that’s been the big comparison I’ve seen, but a lot of that is because they are characterised as Knights; noble protectors who ride their mighty steeds into battle to defend the people from ravening monsters.
These guys are the ravening monsters.
They don’t even have much personality to help like all the other ‘bad guy’ factions do; their entire thing is wandering around stomping on the little guy and taking whatever they want without fear or favour just because they can. Which, okay, is a good allegory for corporate capitalism but GW forgot to give them bastardised company names like the Crusher of Burton Halley or Odiferous Brecht so even that seems to be missing.
So, seriously, who are these for? Not even lil’ Timmy is likely to be impressed by a big plastic that-guy-mommy-says-I-shouldn’t-talk-to, surely?

You might as well ask that for any army - who wants Ossiarchs or Luminoth or Idoneth or Giants?

Different armies appeal for different reasons to different people.

Giants might appeal to those who want a powerful army built around exceptionally few models. Or perhaps the player just bought a giant for using in another army and liked it enough to buy another to go in another army - suddenly they've 50% of a giants army why not get the tome and try the army out for real.

Perhaps they love to paint and want to shift from smaller to some really big models to use different painting techniques

Perhaps they really love stories of old fantasy with giants and ogors and great godlike titans walking the lands. And here we have that without having to wait 20 years for GW to make "Warmaster AoS edition"



I do agree, Knights have a lot more lore, but you can say that about pretty much every AoS army that isn't cut up or from the Old World setting.

But saying that big stomping giants who are gruff, rough and mean can't be popular is underestimating the power and diversity of imagination.

Ogres already fill that niche, and look somewhat unique. Those are big enough that they just look like a bunch of ugly guys the GW sculptor saw during his pub crawl. Not very "fantasy" for fantasy monsters.

 Mr_Rose wrote:
This may sound like a dumb question, but does anyone actually want a giant “army”?

I mean, yeah? I'd also like an army where it's nothing but trolls. If it was cheaper, it would be funny to have a mega gargant with three or so smaller giants around him. Sure, it's a hefty investment, but it's also really all the models you need for the army. If you can actually get through painting it, that's it. No more expenses, no more painting, etc. So there is a lot of appeal

 GaroRobe wrote:

 Mr_Rose wrote:
This may sound like a dumb question, but does anyone actually want a giant “army”?

I mean, yeah? I'd also like an army where it's nothing but trolls. If it was cheaper, it would be funny to have a mega gargant with three or so smaller giants around him. Sure, it's a hefty investment, but it's also really all the models you need for the army. If you can actually get through painting it, that's it. No more expenses, no more painting, etc. So there is a lot of appeal

Currently involved in painting Weathertop via just Contrast(via airbrush and sponging) and drybrushing...it's totally doable with the right color palette!

Also, troggoth army is real. Gloomspite Gitz. There's an article in the new WD too.