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Is it not just a Knight with a slightly different face and arms again?

Different size and rocket boosters.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
Is it not just a Knight with a slightly different face and arms again?

No, it's new and a little bit smaller -

Mehhh. It's a bit too similar to the Questoris for me. Knights used to have a lot more variety of chassis design.

Having said that, I do think it'll be pretty useful to Imperial Agents in particular.

They seem to have run out of ideas for new Knights

 Undead_Love-Machine wrote:

 Gomezaddams wrote:
My main worry with these is that this is a sign FOMO is coming to combat patrol - I don't imagine the Night Lords one will be sticking around long term, Red Corsairs maybe..

Hasn't it already happened? The last batch of Space Marine Combat Patrols were limited release

You know what, I hadn't realised how much they've been doing this - I ignored the marine ones because even loosing those sets they still have several others available, but I've just noticed the DKOK one has gone, and the Harlequin one has gone as well.

Basically, I want two Combat Patrols available for every faction.

However, someones helpfully pointed out that these all contain a Kill Team... thats quite interesting.

Love this face plate, me.

Yep big fan of the faceplate and the loadouts.

Has GW cranked up the speed of releases again? The amount of new armies minis and sets is just incredibly fast.

 NAVARRO wrote:
Has GW cranked up the speed of releases again? The amount of new armies minis and sets is just incredibly fast.

Yes, edition end has forced it. It's more a question if they slowed down intentionally last year though.

I absolutely love it. Perfect.

It takes a bit of everything from the Armiger, Questoris and Cerastus patterns and knocks it out of the park. It would be criminal not have 30K rules for it as well.

SamusDrake wrote:
It would be criminal not have 30K rules for it as well.

Narrator: and yet they did not have 30K rules for it as well

 xttz wrote:


Narrator: and yet they did not have 30K rules for it as well

No. Just no. No self-respecting 30K Knight player would dare show up to any game without this awesome model. It would be too embarrassing to do so.

I was hoping it would provide some anti-infantry shooting on a hopefully cheaper platform than the Paladin, Crusader or Valiant, it seems that it might actually fill a role rather than just be another version of something in the army. The sleeker profile really fits a fast unit, and the name is actually fitting to its seeming role. Oh, and that lance!!!

I do appreciate how the armor plates are a mix of stuff from the Armiger and Questoris.

Well, that's definitely the most boring-looking Knight in the range, by a large margin.

I'm sure we'll all get used to it, but it really is just "half Armiger, half Questoris" with absolutely nothing to add to the setting or to GW aesthetics, and there isn't any part of it that hasn't already been done on another model.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Well, that's definitely the most boring-looking Knight in the range, by a large margin.

I'm sure we'll all get used to it, but it really is just "half Armiger, half Questoris" with absolutely nothing to add to the setting or to GW aesthetics, and there isn't any part of it that hasn't already been done on another model.

Its got a pennant!

I really want to see this one as part of an army shot for sure to see how I feel about it. Also way more interested in the Chaos variant.

This is what Armigers should have been from the start. Might be the first Knight I buy.

Think we'll be able to take two in non-Knight lists?
Three Armigers; one Questoris or Dominus; so two of these middle ones?

 The Phazer wrote:
Mehhh. It's a bit too similar to the Questoris for me. Knights used to have a lot more variety of chassis design.

Having said that, I do think it'll be pretty useful to Imperial Agents in particular.

Yeah, but some of them looked pretty derpy.

http://www.solegends.com/citcat1991a/cat1991ap126epicimperialknights-01.htm

They mention those rocket jets yet we don't get a rear view. Are they visible on the photos here anywhere?

 Shakalooloo wrote:
They mention those rocket jets yet we don't get a rear view. Are they visible on the photos here anywhere?

I had the same thought. For something that’s big trait is “rocket propelled death robot” not seeing a lot of the whole rocket part. You think that would be a highlight pic front and center.

Below the exhaust stacks.



Unless they can angle, definitely thrust over jump.

I'm sorry, a knight with rocket boosters on the back to help it run faster is just too dumb for anything other than Orks.

My only complaint is something about the broad, bright colors or lighting makes it look like a toy. I think a more down and dirty paint job with more ink and texture will look good.

Hope we get something like this for chaos knights though.

beast_gts wrote:
T’au Empire’s Twin Lance datasheet lets you perfect close-range enemy-melting

Am I missing something, there’s nothing there about when or where these will be released?

I’d imagine week after this for pre-order? Usually we get rules previews in that rough timeline

The Sunday Preview said:

Here on the Warhammer Community website, we’ll be taking a closer look at new Warhammer 40,000 characters for the T’au Empire, Leagues of Votann, and Tyranids

so they can't be that far off.

New knight looks very similar to the Cerastus Knight lancer, no? I see it's smaller, but the overall Silhouette and lance make them very samey in my view.

So, umm...

Warhammer Community wrote:So great is the added thrust of these boosters that large counterweights must be added to the Knight’s legs to help it maintain balance.

... doesn't that just lower the center of gravity and make it easier for the jet engines to tip the thing over? In addition to the extra weight making it harder to move the legs without greater power or better construction?

Is someone at GW trying to win engineer of the year award?

Questions upon questions.

 Flinty wrote:

 The Phazer wrote:
Mehhh. It's a bit too similar to the Questoris for me. Knights used to have a lot more variety of chassis design.

Having said that, I do think it'll be pretty useful to Imperial Agents in particular.

Yeah, but some of them looked pretty derpy.

http://www.solegends.com/citcat1991a/cat1991ap126epicimperialknights-01.htm

I assume the hope was a somewhat underpified compromise between greater variety in shape and maintaining common design language with modern knights.

The way the Knight Derriere turned out it just looked like a slightly smaller version of the normal knight when I first saw it.