Chaos Knights Chaos Knight Ruinator + Codex

[DeadFingers]

14 minutes ago, Dr_Ruminahui said:

No, according to the warcom article, the Ruinator is bundled with the Abominant - its the Ravager and Desecrator that are in the other box.

That's not how I understand the wording here.

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Chaos Knights have been split into two boxes – both of which can build a Knight Desecrator or a Knight Rampager, with one containing a new sprue for the Knight Ruinator while the other can be assembled as a Knight Abominant.

The way I understand this, one box has the Abominant sprue, the other the Ruinator sprue, and both have all the parts for the Desecrator and Rampager. Might just be me misinterpreting it though.

[Borbarad]

If the Acheron flame cannon is anything to go by, I’m not too hopeful for this knights armament. 

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Ah, I guess my reading comprehension failed me.  I am likely then also misremembering which sprue the face mask is on (I got my abominant with the sprues for the other 2 as well) - almost certainly its from the same box as the ruinator.

[CL_Mission]

I like this new loadout a lot more than the Imperial Knight's new kit. Both the drill and the flamer looks great and I'll have to get my hands on them in the future for my Imperial Knights or take up a collection of Chaos Knights, which is pretty tempting these days.

[Nephaston]

Chaos knights getting their main box split like loyalist knights does feel like they don't want to provide too much value per box. Now you have to buy two boxes or source the extra sprue second hand if you want to magnetise one model for flexibility.

[soviet1337]

To be fair, the split boxes seems entirely reasonable to me. Each box will build any of the basic knight configurations or one of the two more specialised ones. What else are they going to do, have one mega all-in chaos knight box that they keep adding new sprues to every time they make a new variant? 

[Nephaston]

4 hours ago, soviet1337 said:

What else are they going to do, have one mega all-in chaos knight box that they keep adding new sprues to every time they make a new variant? 

Yes please, I'm sure people can rent a forklift when buying a knight kit worth a couple grand.

[DuskRaider]

I like the idea of the grinder weapon, I’m just not a fan of the design they went for. The way it extends out just looks… weird. If there’s a way to model it without that, it’ll look much better IMO. Kinda wish they’d release an alternative carapace as well.

[CL_Mission]

[DeadFingers]

3 minutes ago, CL_Mission said:

Face plate mystery solved then.