More new Knights.

[Stray]

FYI: 17.00 UK time today, Warhammer TV will be doing a 'What's next for the Horus Heresy' show. Our new Knight friend (or info in that direction) might get a mention. (It'll appear there before 40K).

[Vel'Cona]

Missed it because Ungrateful Colonist timezone :P  Any news, good sir? :)

[Stray]

Missed it because Ungrateful Colonist timezone   Any news, good sir?

 

Not much really Vel. I asked about our new Acastus friend, specifically if he had a name. FW head says they've been calling him 'The Mechanicus Knight', so he doesn't have a name as yet.

 

I vote 'Frank'. He looks like a Frank right?

 

Otherwise, not a lot of news. There was a bit on Fires of Cyraxis, and I had a question answered about 30K Skitarii, that's all detailed in the other thread that's up. ...Hmm, I asked about the Chaos Warhound titan, it'll be back, the mold just needs repair/retooling. That was about it really, it was mostly about 30K still being a big thing for them.

[Clingy]

 

 

 

 

I was ready to pull the trigger on the Porphyrion. Now I’m not so sure, what role will this one play and is Porphy still the big bad shooty knight

This is all massively guesswork, but...

 

The new one will be tankier, almost certainly. It's a safe bet it'll have a 4++ vs shooting, 5++ in melee just like it's smaller kin.

 

I think you'll also find the Porphyron will do more wounds against big targets too - it has what are basically really big Lascannon after all.

 

C-beamers like on this, (if I'm thinking of the right weapon rules) will probably do something funky like affect the target, and anything else they pass over getting to it, or affect the target and then do lesser damage to stuff around it. They have a higher strength value from greater distance too.

 

Volkite we know has a tendency to do extra hits on good rolls, so probably this one will hit less hard, but to many more targets? If I were a betting cat it's where I'd put my money.

Cool thanks. I’m a terrible one for bad luck and buyers remorse. I probably want my big bad knight to be a damage dealer rather than a tank. Hopefully the Porphy isn’t getting knocked off that perch anytime soon.

 

Do you think they will ever make new main weapon load outs for it? Would it be worth magnetising the arms to avoid having to rip things off later? Or do you think it’s a one build configuration(with the exception of the missile turret option and open/closed hatch.

I'd be very surprised if they ever did do additional loadouts for the FW Knights. It's not impossible, but I'd doubt it - especially given their capacity of late. It'd likely be too niche.

 

If you assemble the Porphys weapons carefully, they can actually be removed and posed without magnetising anyway - or at least the main ones can. It's quite a nice kit like that.

 

Mine was unfortunately purchased secondhand, and though unpainted had seemed to have been assembled by a group of Raccoons who really liked blu-tac and glue... Which has been fun to clean up :P

I snorted on the train reading that last part Stray. Got some funny looks. So that’s on you :P

[Charlo]

 

Not much really Vel. I asked about our new Acastus friend, specifically if he had a name. FW head says they've been calling him 'The Mechanicus Knight', so he doesn't have a name as yet.

 

I vote 'Frank'. He looks like a Frank right?

 

 

My mates Brass Scorpion is called Frank.

 

She is a lovely little death machine.