Warhound titan

[Ahzek451]

Floating around...is it legit?

Edited Thursday at 11:14 AM by Ahzek451

[Ahzek451]

[jimbo1701]

Valrak did say it’s going to be the Xmas reveal. (Possibly sooner now…)

[Vassakov]

So, take with a bucket of salt (and courtesy of u/gomesaddamz on Reddit) but... something that appears to be a 40/30k scaled Warhound Titan sprue has cropped up on Vinted (and apparently immediately sold). Strangely, the Reddit thread has immediately been deleted, and Azhek was quicker with his image capture than I was. 

 

If it is a fake it's a very, very good one. The sprue design is consistent with GW's layout, the top plate looks very similar to the LI design for Warhounds and in the bottom right hand corner there's an Eye of Horus which is a dead ringer for the HH range and two things that look remarkably like Void Shield generators. It also suggests that it might be a billed as a Heresy model, which makes a degree of sense as they are in the Liber Questoris book.

 

Assume it is fake until WarComm preview it, but this is very plausible.

 

[Jings]

Well there it is! 

 

Can't see how it wouldn't be legit. Parts match across the image. Very cool. Do like. 

 

Curious to see the price. 

[Mogger351]

Might be my only singular purchase next year given time spent building/painting it and the cost

[ThaneOfTas]

I don't even like the Warhound design that much, but I think that id have to get one.

[ZeroWolf]

Cautiously optimistic about this being real (not that I could afford it anyway!) But a shame there's no clear picture of the sprue copyright information

[Magos Takatus]

 

I didn't think it was impossible and we have got as far as the Dominus class Knights but it's still a shock. The effort required for this to be fake makes that seem less likely now.

 

How are they going to sell this beast? Are we getting more genuine effort into Apocalypse again? The "No Knights in 40k" crowd will be flipping tables now.

[Mogger351]

Just now, Magos Takatus said:

 

I didn't think it was impossible and we have got as far as the Dominus class Knights but it's still a shock. The effort required for this to be fake makes that seem less likely now.

 

How are they going to sell this beast? Are we getting more genuine effort into Apocalypse again? The "No Knights in 40k" crowd will be flipping tables now.

Rumour was £300 with 2 weapon arms and other weapons separately later. They already have valid rules in 40k and 30k, with rumours of a titans codex for 40k before Tau drop.

But yes there have been waves of "they'd never do that, it doesn't fit in the game" for 40k in places online.

[Vassakov]

1 minute ago, Magos Takatus said:

 

I didn't think it was impossible and we have got as far as the Dominus class Knights but it's still a shock. The effort required for this to be fake makes that seem less likely now.

 

How are they going to sell this beast? Are we getting more genuine effort into Apocalypse again? The "No Knights in 40k" crowd will be flipping tables now.

 

It's going to be sold as a Horus Heresy product with rules for 40k kept in the app.

 

And it will continue to be "bad" in 40k, thus solving the problem for competitive players, but will sold like gangbusters as a hobby project/centrepiece regardless of where it appears on tables.

[The Lost Son]

Oooh. 

If it's the real deal it's following what I had assumed would be the case of all the armour panels being one sprue. My thoughts on that are that a chaos version can be made with minimal investment (swapping one sprue, extra weapons etc.) then you've got the entire Heresy range covered and nearly ⅔ of 40k with 2 boxes and upgrades. 

Weirdly as cool as this is I really hope they make a crashed one as terrain the scene from Soul Hunter left an impression.

[Kyari]

Ok but why

[Mogger351]

2 minutes ago, Kyari said:

Ok but why

Why not?

[Karhedron]

I have been a sucker for Titans ever since the old days of Epic back in the 90s. I don't care about the rules, I will be saving up for this bad boy!

[darkhorse0607]

There will be no being around Valrak after this is confirmed. Ill be able to hear the "vindication" across the Atlantic 

[WBRBloom]

Ahahhaha, I came here to see how fast news travel. Less than an hour posted, I received a message 3 minutes ago. I was not disappointed  

[Doghouse]

I'd get one for sure. Guessing won't be cheap.

[Spazmolytic]

I've never seen a FW one in person but as a person that has 12 of the AT version, hell yes I'm on board.  I'll likely have to sell a kidney maybe even sell myself on a street corner but I will eventually have one!!!!

[Ahzek451]

Having built 8 of these, unless those are decieptful midget hands, the part proportions look legit. Oh hell what's one more.....

[Evil Eye]

Oh boy! This will be interesting. I'm not sure if I'll be in a rush to get one given the inevitably ridiculous price but it's cool. Though I dread to think how the game is going to be skewed even further now that Warhounds are expected to be a "regular opponent"...

[Son of Rawl]

If its real, will GW reveal it soon or keep to the scheduled reveal date?

[Lathe Biosas]

Finally, I can shelve my Custodes. I was tired of bringing all those models with me to games. No I can properly play as the Omnissiah intended... with 1 model. 

 

[Xenith]

 

Ok but why

 

Why would a company that makes models make models for models they make? 

[Mogger351]

24 minutes ago, Son of Rawl said:

If its real, will GW reveal it soon or keep to the scheduled reveal date?

This is a big question. Given it seems likely as a christmas day reveal, I aren't sure they'd want to sacrifice that as a general reveal as I aren't sure how prevalent exposure will be for the less die hard.