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Does anyone remember some of those titans Dreamforge produced before GW shut them down? Well, I got my hands on one. It is unpainted and unassembled, still in its original box. What rules can I use for this thing? None of the current rules for Imperial Titans quite fit it.

Honestly, like you said, none of the rules really fit. You've pretty much got a white elephant there but I tell you what, I'll take if off your hands, even pay for shipping. Y'know, cause I feel sorry for you.

cuda1179 wrote:None of the current rules for Imperial Titans quite fit it.

Yeah, as you said, none of them quite fit. Real shame that.

Don't think you wasted your money though. I'll happily take that completely useless and totally unwanted model off your hands. Do you accept PayPal?





BYE

I will make it even easier by removing all the crass commercialism.. I will happily walk/swim over and collect free of charge.

cuda1179 wrote:Does anyone remember some of those titans Dreamforge produced before GW shut them down? Well, I got my hands on one. It is unpainted and unassembled, still in its original box. What rules can I use for this thing? None of the current rules for Imperial Titans quite fit it.

Well its a warlord if anything. The current rules help because Apocalypsde warlords have only 'lighter' titan weaponry on the carapace, heavier guns on the arms. All you need to rerally do is turret up a pair of armorcast itian weapons for tghe carapce and you are set. I would add them in place of two of the spires. But dont glue it. So you can reassemble as the orignal kit ad lib.

Alternately you cn assume that the bastions are full of tech guard with appropriate heavy weapons. Say 20 heavy bolters and 20 lascannon, with a combined fire effect of a turbo laser and a vulcan megabolter.

About the only titan I want is a dreamforge one to use as a warlord. Titan ccw, thermal lance, vortex missile ...

Congrats on the titan though. What weapons you got with him?

- Salvage

I love that titan, but unfortunately, I have one of the smaller ones. The ones that looked like oversized Imperial Knights.

http://members.armourarchive.org/teufel/dragons%20den%20gabriel%20d5ce.jpg

http://www.collecting-citadel-miniatures.com/wiki/index.php/Imageragon_Den_Gabriel_Knight_Titan.jpg

It looks to be slightly bigger than a warhound. If it is much bigger I may put a missile launcher on it's back and use it as a reaver. However if it turns out to be about the same size as a warhound, I might have problems.

How would this sound? Warhound rules, but with the option of taking a titan close combat weapon for an extra 50 points?

BoLS made rules for knight titans, might start there if it turns out to be a little guy. They were fairly shrimpy IIRC though.

- Salvage

cuda1179 wrote:

How would this sound? Warhound rules, but with the option of taking a titan close combat weapon for an extra 50 points?

Ah, that titan. I would just replace the CCW for free, it is a downgrade you know.

@cuda1179 - wtf?

The two pictures you posted ARE knights (imperial castellans if memory serves).
They are 28mm scale versions of the plastics that came with the 2nd ed epic 'Titan Legions' box (the one that had the Imperator and Mega-Gargants in)

Is the one you got the same as the pictures you posted. If so, you've got a cool model - but a titan it ain't...

Sorry :(

Looking at the picture I think it might be an armorcast knight, but it could be dreamforge, didn't they sell on ebay before opening their short-lived shop?

Dreamforge did the Knight with the giant assault cannon. Armorcast would have given it the Battle Cannon like the actual GW epic version.

BYE

I pulled the knight paladin rules out of the BoLS PDF, in case you were interested. I'd call the giant assault cannon a vulcan mega bolter (60" S6 AP3 Heavy 15) and have at it.

http://i33.tinypic.com/245mx6c.jpg

- Salvage

cuda1179 wrote:Does anyone remember some of those titans Dreamforge produced before GW shut them down? Well, I got my hands on one. It is unpainted and unassembled, still in its original box. What rules can I use for this thing? None of the current rules for Imperial Titans quite fit it.

Just googled it. That's pretty big, what did you pay for it, dare I ask?

http://www.collecting-citadel-miniatures.com/wiki/index.php/Resin_Vehicles_&_Titans#Dreamforge_Designs

This is a nice link to the history of resin. Which one did you get? If Dreamforge, this article says only like 6 of them were ever sold!

Thanks for the link...



I NEED one of these.

(It's a Warzone Bauhouse tank if you're wondering)

http://cgi.ebay.com/Warzone-Forge-World-Models-Bauhaus-Grizzly-GBT-49-Tank_W0QQitemZ120283251372QQihZ002QQcategoryZ2537QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
you just missed one for $302

Oh yeah, I saw that. Didn't see anything to scale next to it, so I didn't give it a second thought. If I'd actually clicked on it and saw the measurements, I would've been properly impressed.

skkipper wrote:you just missed one for $302

Hmm...

Hmm...

Where oh where did you get a whole DF titan kit? Don't tell me you pestered them with 300+ emails about it and they finally got sick of hearing it and caved in. If that worked for you and not me, I'm going to be SO MAD... especially since they never responded to any of my emails...

Say what ever happened to the Dream forge Crew, I mean it sucks they got screwed by GW but they had some other non-GW designs on their site

http://dreamforge-games.com/

but no updates since 2004. Surely no one mad enough to make 28mm scale titans is just going to walk away?

A rumor I heard was that GW swept the floor from under them so badly that they were forced to cease all operations and go into deep debt. Probably just a rumor, of course.

No, they were hit quite hard. I don't know about debt, but the stuff that they had, with the exception of the Black Widow, could no longer be produced. These things were a serious investment of time and money for them, I'm not sure if they ever managed to make back the investment on the Titans, but they Black Widow was a good seller, so they might have. But then they (foolishly) decided they were unhappy with the Black Widow (which is a perfectly awesome model, IMO), and were going to retool the molds for some reason or another (I think they wanted it smaller IIRC), but they never got around to it.

Part of the problem is that they have to do the whole 9-5 thing, so they have very little time to work on their stuff.

Update time. I finally did a dry fit with all the major parts. It appears that this titan actually larger than I thought. It is about the size of an Armorcast Reaver Titan. I actually compared it to one of my reavers, and they are almost the same hieght to the top of the carapace. The have their heads at all most the same level, they are almost the same width. The armorcast one has larger shins, and a longer torso, but the Dreamforge one has thicker hips and thighs, and the torso is bulkier and more volumous.

The Dreamforge one actually conforms to the arm weapons layout of the Forgeworld rules. So it will count as a Reaver. However, now I have another delema. Do I really want to tarnish this model by mounting a missile launcher to it's carapace? Gluing or drilling into this model seems like a waste. Can I simply mount a stong magnet on the inside and attach one that way?

Pah! Just say it shoots lasers out of its eyes or something and call it a day.

Pariah Press wrote: Pah! Just say it shoots lasers out of its eyes or something and call it a day.

Laser cats?

Pariah Press wrote: Pah! Just say it shoots lasers out of its eyes or something and call it a day.

Ah yes, from the lands of Glorious Nippon.