The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[pixelgeek]

the thing that gets me about the knight price is I know you could get a decent robot thingie by kitbashing a toy for about $25 in total.

I will be happy to see what your $25 Transformer based "Knight" will look like. Have at it.

[beefcake]

"1 step and it's over the other side of the battle field" size please 

[Andym]

That 'Knight' is not a bad model, as it goes, but it does not say Imperial Knight to me as I remember the original models, which looked far clunkier and less like a mini-Titan.

They had much more character and reflected the fluff of Noble Houses maintaining their family traditions through the ages in a way that this model does not.

They felt much more like Bretonnnians-in-space before and I liked that.

Those and the Eldar versions had a certain charm....hmmmm.......does that mean an Eldar versions may be on the cards.

All that aside, that price is still fecking diabolical!
 

In not so sure the price is THAT bad for this model! It's an 8" giant robot. It's looks fairly solid too. I see the Dreamforge Leviathan was $120 and its about the same size!

The other thing though........did you notice the COMPLETE LACK of skulls!!!!!!! I count 2 on the pics I seen!!! Do you think GW are maybe finally listening? Could this be a new start? On the other hand that dwarf Gyrocopter is just Shite!!!

I think the Knights a cracking model.......and it's the first GW model I've thought about buying in a loooooonnnng while!!

[Too Bo Coo]

The model is nice, but the price tag a la GW is outrageous. 

[grant]

Whippet. Whippet real good.

[FramFramson]

That's a terrible Whippet costume. No tracks and I only count two guns.

[grant]

how to break the unbreakable bond between man and beast. Dress it like a twat. 

getting back to this knight thing any scale shots of it next to a fig?

Haven't seen any; and in all seriousness, I think the Knight model is actually one of the best things GW has done in a very long time. I think it's not even prices stupidly. Shocking, that.

Now, don't get me wrong, I won't buy one, but I still appreciate that it is teh roxxor. Or whatever it is that the kids are saying today. Word.

[pixelgeek]

getting back to this knight thing any scale shots of it next to a fig?

From the GW website

[beefcake]

It would kind of fit with the privateer press gargantuan miniatures.
As said from others. I like it but too big for my taste.

[Kitsune]

I really like the new Knight model and as its available for £63 in London via Dark Sphere's shop, the price isn't too horrible. My main problem is that its less than 1/4 of the points in a "normal" 40K 2000 point game and requires an army to go with it! (or more knights, which GW is planning a codex for). If I could take one or two and be done with, then it'd be a sure buy, but as it is? Nope thanks. Especially as I can get two Infinity TAG's for the price of one discounted Knight.

GW release a game with nothing but Knights/Eldar Wraithknights (they already released it!)/Stompas knocking the crap out of each other  and I'd be all over it.

40K heading further into being Epic 28mm has no real interest for me.

[YPU]

GW release a game with nothing but Knights/Eldar Wraithknights (they already released it!)/Stompas knocking the crap out of each other  and I'd be all over it.

I could see the fun in writing something like that up!
But thinking about it I would probably just use Ganesha games SAMURAI ROBOTS BATTLE ROYALE for quick games or Mekton Zeta for deeply crunchy games. Actually I'm up for this, I'll provide the rules if you guys get the robots. 

[weismonsters]

I agree with others. If i had a wargames table the size of a swimming pool and but for the fact that i am boycotting GW for any number of reasons besides just price/quality issues, I would be keen on this model. It is more elegant than the knockoff titans i have seen and the price is quite in proportion to the size of the thing. They seem to be staying ahead of the game with the big plastic kits.

In terms of titans in games, i found that even in the old epic game it got a bit much. The space marine game had a nice game mechanic for vehicle formations and infantry, but the titans seemed to take away from the game rather than add to it. And when the Imperator titan came out, the game was broken. I had a nice characterful chaos army and i got tabled every single game by the damn thing.

At least im not bitter about it though 

[pixelgeek]

When we first played the Apocalypse rules we did it on an 8' x 10' table. At the lower limits of the game that wasn't actually a bad table size and with that size a table the odd Gargant or Knight wouldn't be too bad.

[pixelgeek]

It would kind of fit with the privateer press gargantuan miniatures.

I suspect that it is a bit bigger than those. The plastic means that they can keep the pose straighter. Compare the old metal Khador jacks and the new plastic ones.

[Kitsune]

I suspect that it is a bit bigger than those. The plastic means that they can keep the pose straighter. Compare the old metal Khador jacks and the new plastic ones.

Its 6" tall, about the same as a current trygon and nowhere near as big as I thought the model was. Having had no problems with using a Trygon in my games, it'll fit easily on a 6X4 table.

I think PP big models might just pip it, but no owning one thats an eye guess from seeing other peoples.