The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[nic-e]

More commonly known as Nurgle's chode

Isha seems alright with it.

[JamesValentine]

I like it. Simple but looks good

[FionaWhite]

More commonly known as Nurgle's chode

Isha seems alright with it.

 


Without all the Nurgle-ish bits that tank looks like it might fit into an Iron Warriors army.

[Gibby]

Never seen the point of siege/artillery units on the 40k tabletop. Quite uninspiring in terms of function, but I like that it isn't utterly caked in too much detail.

[Elbows]

Same reason they have fighters and bombers flying at 20' over a football pitched sized battlefield...to sell you models.  I see the same thing with games like Flames of War where there's zero reason to have that artillery on the board.

I can get over a siege gun and mortar (oddly I just made a scratch built tank much like this).  I wish they had better rules for bunkers/defenses and the use of actual siege guns.

Here's the only film (ever, I believe) of the Sturmtiger firing its 385(?)mm rocket propelled howitzer at a city in Poland I think.



 

[majorsmith]

Wow looks like a fisher price toy

[Mason]

Wow looks like a fisher price toy

To be honest, I think a lot of the new Nurgle stuff gives that impression, especially those Poxwalker things.
I do like that Drone thingy, though.

[Elbows]

Let me put it this way...I was just starting a Nurgle theme Chaos Space Marine force when they announced Death Guard were coming back in ...March?  I was excited about the prospect of cheap starter-box plastics.  I haven't liked a single Nurgle model I've seen yet.  I will not likely be buying anything from their line - heck I've likely not even going to play Death Guard - just a Chaos Space Marine force.

 

[Chico]

I really like it to be honest, it's got a old school Epic Demon Engine flavour like the Khorne Doom Blaster.

Will I buy it? Maybe in a year when I can get it 2nd hand on ebay

[horridperson]

i don't mind the design.  It fits the aesthetic of retro future tank and looks right moving forward with WW1 styled Plague Marines.  The problem for me is that it is a field piece.  Why bother?  It would look cool to my eye with a buboe/pustule turret dome with a close support weapon for an infantry support AFV which works for my conception of a Death Guard advance.  Leave this siege crap for the Iron Warriors.  Artillery is something I wish they would just leave off the field and simulate attacks from far away but then they couldn't sell models inappropriate to the scale of the battlefield.  I'd like one to convert somewhere down the road for the role I described but it's not on my buy soon list.

[Andrew May]

It's bonkers if they don't do a Nurgle possessed tank kit. There's been brilliant Nurgle rhino/predator since day one pretty much. Would love to see an official conversion set full of pustules, rotting skin hatch covers, clambering nurglings, eyeballs and whatnot!

Daemon engines would be cool too, I always loved that seige tower type jobby in epic, some influences from Man O War's plague ships wouldn't go amis.

[Storm Wolf]

Just a thought but if the Rhino didn't look big enough for 10 old Space Marines, how the hell is it going to be big enough for the uber "true-scale" Primaris Marines?

Does that mean that the Land Raider will become the new transport of choice? At least the only one big enough for 10 Primaris.....

Glen

[horridperson]

@Andrew May

I'm actually happy they kept it stock rather than "poxing" it up.  Nurgling things up with GS and spares is pretty easy compared to trying to remove molded festering to get a "clean" version.  I see the kit having cross comparability (As is it looks like it should have IW scrawled on it).  This way it's adaptable to any traitor forces.

[Chico]

Just a thought but if the Rhino didn't look big enough for 10 old Space Marines, how the hell is it going to be big enough for the uber "true-scale" Primaris Marines?

Does that mean that the Land Raider will become the new transport of choice? At least the only one big enough for 10 Primaris.....

Glen

I seen it mentioned a couple of times that there will be Primaris versions of most things, so most likely a larger Primaris Rhino will be coming out, no doubt twice the size and 3 times the money cost hehe

[Elbows]

Yeah, there aren't many decent model kits in 1:35 which are cheaper than GW kits.  Now stuff like the Land Raider (which is a large model), perhaps, but you have to find a stellar deal on a model kit to beat out a GW kit by any large margin.  Perhaps toy kits if you luck out.