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I was reading some if the Legends rules, and felt a little glum over all the cool stuff that exists that no one ever plays with...

Which brings me to my point...

There are a lot of FW models out there, but I've never seen them in gameplay.

Has any seen anyone PLAY with or against any of these fantastic toys?


Great Brass Scorpion;
Astraeus Super-Heavy Tank;
Ork Gargantuan Squiggoth;
Ork "Chinork" Warcopta;
Scorpion Type II Heavy Grav Tank;
XV108 Y'vahra Battlesuit;
KX139 Ta'unar Supremacy Armour;
Tyranid Harridan;
Legio Custodes Ares Gunship;
Mastodon Super-Heavy Assault Transport;
Acastus Knight Porphyrion;
Eldar Phantom Titan;
Mechanicum Ordinatus Ulator;
Mechanicum Krios Battle Tank;
Dark Eldar Tantalus;
Chaplain Venerable Dreadnought
Mars Pattern Warhound Titan;
Thunderhawk Gunship;
Mars Pattern Reaver Titan;
Legion Sokar Stormbird;
Arvus Lighter;
Mars-Alpha Pattern Volcano Cannon Warbringer Nemesis Titan;
Mars Pattern Warlord Titan;
Tau Manta;
Necron Pylon;
Imperial Navy Marauder Bomber

I've played 1 game that featured an Arvus Lighter (which I had won at a Battle Bunker), and a Warhound Titan, but all the rest I've never seen in any game.

I have played against the Harridan once. I couldn't do anything against it as I didn't have enough heavy weapon to bear against it so it just slowly wiped my army out.

Good times.

I have a couple of Chinorks (one scratch built). Not hugely effective, but cool & fun.

I have bene playing since 3rd and we have always been a very pro-FW group(i own quite a bit of it myself) and we are still in an active and rather large oldhammer group centered on 5th ed....so to answer your question


Great Brass Scorpion;-YES
Astraeus Super-Heavy Tank;-NO
Ork Gargantuan Squiggoth;-NO
Ork "Chinork" Warcopta;-NO
Scorpion Type II Heavy Grav Tank;-YES
XV108 Y'vahra Battlesuit;-YES
KX139 Ta'unar Supremacy Armour; -YES
Tyranid Harridan;-YES
Legio Custodes Ares Gunship;-YES
Mastodon Super-Heavy Assault Transport;-NO
Acastus Knight Porphyrion;-YES
Eldar Phantom Titan;-YES
Mechanicum Ordinatus Ulator;-NO
Mechanicum Krios Battle Tank;-NO
Dark Eldar Tantalus;-YES
Chaplain Venerable Dreadnought-YES
Mars Pattern Warhound Titan;-YES
Thunderhawk Gunship;-YES
Mars Pattern Reaver Titan;YES
Legion Sokar Stormbird;-NO
Arvus Lighter;-NO
Mars-Alpha Pattern Volcano Cannon Warbringer Nemesis Titan; -NO
Mars Pattern Warlord Titan;-NO
Tau Manta;-NO
Necron Pylon;-YES
Imperial Navy Marauder Bomber-NO

Here are a few pics-

answers will be given for Played Against/Used

Great Brass Scorpion - No/No
Astraeus Super-Heavy Tank - No/No
Ork Gargantuan Squiggoth - No/Yes - I own one & it comes out to play on occasion
Ork "Chinork" Warcopta - No/Yes - I have 1 scratch built
Scorpion Type II Heavy Grav Tank - No/Yes - though technically mine is an old Armourcast Tempest
XV108 Y'vahra Battlesuit - Yes/No
KX139 Ta'unar Supremacy Armour - Yes/No
Tyranid Harridan - No/Yes - Love my Tyranid dragon! And honestly it's served as a D&D dragon far more often than it's seen 40k play
Legio Custodes Ares Gunship - Yes, fairly often/No
Mastodon Super-Heavy Assault Transport - No/No - but it is on the to do list.
Acastus Knight Porphyrion - Yes/No
Eldar Phantom Titan - Yes, looong ago/Yes, loong ago - mine is the old Armorcast model
Mechanicum Ordinatus Ulator - No/No
Mechanicum Krios Battle Tank - In Horus Heresy yes, in 40k no/No
Dark Eldar Tantalus - No/No
Chaplain Venerable Dreadnought - Yes/Yes
Mars Pattern Warhound Titan - Yes/Yes - I have several Armorcast & 1 FW
Thunderhawk Gunship - No/Yes - though mine is the LE all metal one from before FW was a thing
Mars Pattern Reaver Titan - Yes/Yes - Mine are all Armorcast
Legion Sokar Stormbird - Yes/No
Arvus Lighter - No/No
Mars-Alpha Pattern Volcano Cannon Warbringer Nemesis Titan - No/No
Mars Pattern Warlord Titan - Yes/No
Tau Manta - No/No
Necron Pylon - No/Yes
Imperial Navy Marauder Bomber - No/Yes

I've also used a great many other things found on the Legends lists, be they FW pieces or otherwise.
In fact I make it a point to do so to A) show people that these things exist, B) because wether or not GW still sells them, I'm not done playing with my toys.

Playing HH as my main game kinda let's me cheat a bit.

A friend regularly used a Mastadon in their World Eaters list, and brings their Warhound out every couple of months.

Another played Knights some years ago with a Porphyron a few times as a test and has a Mechanicum army as well. They also have a Reaver Titan.

As for 40k stuff I've played against a Harridan loads of times until 8th made us lose interest in 40k.

Of all those, I've only played against the Brass scorpion and the Warhound Titan. Both games were back in 7th edition though.

I've got what I believe used to be called a Lesser Brass Scorpion, which appears to have been kit-bashed out of a pair of Defilers. As that no longer has rules I have used it once or twice as a Greater Brass Scorpion.

I think the last time I used it, my mate was running a Guard tank army at the time. Scorpy fell to his Shadowsword and Russes, and the ensuing explosion took out the rest of my army. Great game!

Of those listed, I've played against Warhounds, Reavers, snd the Custodes Gunship. I believe I was in a game with a Phantom or two at a convention in a on-the-floor Titan game in the days of Armorcast, but it's a pretty foggy memory now. My clearest memory about it was a public announcement by someone that princess Diana had died.

Mars Pattern Warhound Titan - chaos nurgle variant in a couple of apoc games. I've only seen the Lucius in papercraft form.

Mechanicum Krios Battle Tank - not played against but have one on the shelf alongside a Macrocarid Explorator.

Arvus Lighter - popped up once or twice in early 6th as a sisters of battle flier. IIRC their other flying transport the Aquila lander had already gone OOP at that point.


A lot of proxies but not the actual model. Though i've seen a few obscure-ish forgeworld models on the table like the old gorgon, towed artillery, and some of the smaller aircraft. Mostly out of my price range back in the day though.

Well, being in the hobby since rogue trader helps...

Great Brass Scorpion; No
Astraeus Super-Heavy Tank; no, one Guy in our group owns one, but he's more the builder/painter than player...
Ork Gargantuan Squiggoth; I own one for myself, and when my fellow Ork has his silly day, he's fielding two..
Ork "Chinork" Warcopta; played them in tournaments in 8th edition, they were great. Still thinking of an "Orcokalypse Now" list with my two chinorks, 18 Deffkoptas and a burna bomber ("i love da smell of squig fuel in da morning")
Scorpion Type II Heavy Grav Tank; No
XV108 Y'vahra Battlesuit; Yes
KX139 Ta'unar Supremacy Armour; Yes
Tyranid Harridan; Yes, one guy brought it to our local league
Legio Custodes Ares Gunship; no
Mastodon Super-Heavy Assault Transport; no
Acastus Knight Porphyrion; yes, once
Eldar Phantom Titan; no
Mechanicum Ordinatus Ulator; no
Mechanicum Krios Battle Tank; no
Dark Eldar Tantalus; no
Chaplain Venerable Dreadnought they were a staple of 9th (?) Ed SM comp lists, so yes
Mars Pattern Warhound Titan; Does the old Armoucast model count?? one guy in our group got one on ebay and brings it sometimes...
Thunderhawk Gunship; no
Mars Pattern Reaver Titan; no
Legion Sokar Stormbird; no
Arvus Lighter; no - was it ever any good?
Mars-Alpha Pattern Volcano Cannon Warbringer Nemesis Titan; no
Mars Pattern Warlord Titan; no
Tau Manta; no
Necron Pylon; yes
Imperial Navy Marauder Bomber no

Bossdoc wrote:
Arvus Lighter; no - was it ever any good?

No, but I have seen it used to deliver repentia / henchmen units from the sisters white dwarf codex in 6th.

When life gives you lemons you have to make do with just having lemons.

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
I was reading some if the Legends rules, and felt a little glum over all the cool stuff that exists that no one ever plays with...

Which brings me to my point...

There are a lot of FW models out there, but I've never seen them in gameplay.

Has any seen anyone PLAY with or against any of these fantastic toys?


Great Brass Scorpion;
Astraeus Super-Heavy Tank;
Ork Gargantuan Squiggoth;
Ork "Chinork" Warcopta;
Scorpion Type II Heavy Grav Tank;
XV108 Y'vahra Battlesuit;
KX139 Ta'unar Supremacy Armour;
Tyranid Harridan;
Legio Custodes Ares Gunship;
Mastodon Super-Heavy Assault Transport;
Acastus Knight Porphyrion;
Eldar Phantom Titan;
Mechanicum Ordinatus Ulator;
Mechanicum Krios Battle Tank;
Dark Eldar Tantalus;
Chaplain Venerable Dreadnought
Mars Pattern Warhound Titan;
Thunderhawk Gunship;
Mars Pattern Reaver Titan;
Legion Sokar Stormbird;
Arvus Lighter;
Mars-Alpha Pattern Volcano Cannon Warbringer Nemesis Titan;
Mars Pattern Warlord Titan;
Tau Manta;
Necron Pylon;
Imperial Navy Marauder Bomber

I've played 1 game that featured an Arvus Lighter (which I had won at a Battle Bunker), and a Warhound Titan, but all the rest I've never seen in any game.

Tabletop Simulator/in real life

Astraeus Super-Heavy Tank on TTS
Ork Gargantuan Squiggoth; on TTS
XV108 Y'vahra Battlesuit; on TTS and IRL
KX139 Ta'unar Supremacy Armour; on TTS and IRL
Tyranid Harridan; on TTS
Legio Custodes Ares Gunship; on TTS
Chaplain Venerable Dreadnought on TTS
Mars Pattern Warhound Titan; on TTS
Thunderhawk Gunship; on TTS
Tau Manta; on TTS
Necron Pylon; on TTS I used the big Gauss Pylon in TTS and IRL I'm sure, but I don't recall using the little ones lots, might have had a game or two with them. I think I gave up on testing all the FW units, although on second thought I recall using the rest at least once each.

A.T. wrote:

Bossdoc wrote:
Arvus Lighter; no - was it ever any good?

No, but I have seen it used to deliver repentia / henchmen units from the sisters white dwarf codex in 6th.

When life gives you lemons you have to make do with just having lemons.

It was originally a slow moving, lightly armored, unarmed, expensive box.

I won one (built and painted) brought it a mega battle and tried to get people to shoot at it.

...no one ever did.