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Post by cheminhaler on Jul 21, 2014 10:57:12 GMT -5
IN early August the Space Wolves are getting re-released, and a picture of a new SW flyer is already floating around. It's bloody disgusting! It looks like a brick! Discuss.... Talk Wargaming
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Post by Paradill on Jul 21, 2014 12:39:20 GMT -5
Games workshop should be banned from creating new SM flyer models. I'm sure some cock-sure sculptor or idiot games restored will say something like " the profile looks like a wolfs head, which is really cool!" But in the end it's all just flying masonry.
Ugly. Wouldn't get one unless it was a tenner and even then I'd use it for bitz.
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Post by gamma016 on Jul 21, 2014 13:07:30 GMT -5
I do agree that it looks like something only a mother could love, maybe, but the weapons on it sound deadly. The hell frost cannons firing blasts that can ID things on a strength test with AP 3 I think. Plus it's an assualt vehicle. This thing will be for clearing out multi wound tarpits and sending in assault termies.
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Post by RedsandRoyals on Jul 21, 2014 15:16:43 GMT -5
I think they took the Castus Assault Ram, which won't win prizes for looks, but is still cool, and applied the GW design principles of "Stupidly small wings, stupidly large engines and fuselage".
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Post by emptyhat on Jul 21, 2014 15:19:07 GMT -5
Oh good, another AV12 flyer.
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Jul 21, 2014 16:08:52 GMT -5
So I guess the Wolves are getting a retcon to the whole "We don't like flying and only fight with our feet planted firmly on the ground," thing then... The model kinda looks like a cut-down Caestus Assault Ram. Not completely horrible, better than the Sphess Guppy and Derp Talon, but I know we all agree that it should have been a flying Wolf-shaped fing to make it EPIC and stuff.
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Post by yvain on Jul 21, 2014 16:17:50 GMT -5
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Jul 21, 2014 16:47:47 GMT -5
I will not visit 4Chan, but if someone would like to copy the pics and post them here I would be interested in seeing them (assuming that they aren't too lewd)...
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Post by RedsandRoyals on Jul 21, 2014 16:54:59 GMT -5
/tg/ usually keeps it cleaner than most of your posts here...
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Post by yvain on Jul 21, 2014 18:19:43 GMT -5
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Post by treadiculous on Jul 21, 2014 18:20:55 GMT -5
the sheep face thing is cool!
I am in bizarre mindset about this monstrosity... it is totally hideous, but I like the departure from making space marine stuff that looks like it has some relation to anything that can fly and now looks so fething stupid it actually seems like a new concept of flight technology. (it shall decend-eth upon thy foe like-th a monastary of puritanical hate: starting with the foundation block-eth of ignorance)
I like the castus assault ram and I can see that with extensive "fixin' in de mek-shop" this wolf-thing could look kinda cool.
I don't like the fact that the wolves have been given a flyer though as it knocks against their style... and I'd like GW to be handing out more AA to everything else to compensate the Imperial dominance of the Air.
maybe in the 42nd millenium we will see only flying humans, "for all of ground based man was erase-ed through-eth war with flithy xenos - only thine pure who could-st yet fly doth survive-th
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Post by Paradill on Jul 21, 2014 18:49:47 GMT -5
I still maintain that it looks stupid. I noticed the similarity to the assault ram but I like the assault ram because it looks like a brutal assault/ramming vehicle.
This thing just looks like a dogs head. Don't get me wrong, I love the space wolves, I love their need to be space Vikings... WITH WOLVES! But this looks like they're going out of their way to build a flying dogs head... Just a step too far and a step out of their "feet on the ground, fangs round a throat" mentality.
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Post by Paimon on Jul 21, 2014 21:33:17 GMT -5
You've got it all wrong, this is clearly designed to emulate the brick that killed Kharn. (This is where I would post the story, but I've given up looking for it.)
Edit, found it:
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Post by emptyhat on Jul 22, 2014 0:07:13 GMT -5
Hmmmm, maybe it is launched by catapult so it doesn't count as a flyer to the Space Wolves.
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Post by yvain on Jul 22, 2014 7:33:14 GMT -5
You've got it all wrong, this is clearly designed to emulate the brick that killed Kharn. (This is where I would post the story, but I've given up looking for it.) Edit, found it: Lol
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Post by cheminhaler on Jul 22, 2014 9:46:49 GMT -5
Hah ! It's a muzzle for your sheepdog puppy.
I'm with Paradill on this. I was OK with wolves the size of horses (fenrisians) or wolves the size of APCs (t/wolves) but a flying sheepdog muzzle/ brick with snow based AP1/ AP 3 weaponry is going a bit too far.
Besides you could get around 26.87 fenrisian wolves instead of one of these, load up your Long Fangs with Flakk and go wolf herd mental.
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Jul 22, 2014 17:05:55 GMT -5
Besides you could get around 26.87 fenrisian wolves instead of one of these, load up your Long Fangs with Flakk and go wolf herd mental. Maybe it's powered by a Wolf treadmill? <.< >.>
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Post by Rolling Thunder on Jul 23, 2014 8:49:08 GMT -5
In the grim derpness of the far future there is only Lockheed.
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Post by RedsandRoyals on Jul 23, 2014 10:11:06 GMT -5
I dunno, if you want Derpness, I'd say Boeing's your company.
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Post by Rolling Thunder on Jul 23, 2014 11:27:57 GMT -5
Lol, really? Nothing will ever compare in dreadfulness.
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Post by RedsandRoyals on Jul 23, 2014 11:38:15 GMT -5
I just meant in terms of aesthetics, the Flying Goof Brick up there fits in pretty darn well with 40k.
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Post by dougeye on Jul 23, 2014 12:55:24 GMT -5
as a 3d modeller myself I have to say the main problem with some of the recent gw stuff is that 2 much is copy and paste part A from model A onto model B which essentially is a box lol its not too bad in terms of its design but defo not original or the best design ive seen, I mean I love my thunderhawk but that's still just a box with wongs on the side lol
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Post by emptyhat on Jul 23, 2014 16:19:28 GMT -5
What would it look like if you stuck a Strom Raven to the front of the Stormfang?
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Post by treadiculous on Jul 23, 2014 18:44:35 GMT -5
i think what it needs is larger rear wings (from a stormraven) plus more thrusters and wings at the front, (like those of a drop-pod stormtalon www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/375896-.html) these thrusters would interrupt the fire arc of the sponsons - these could be mounted on the rear wings instead. I would remove the rear turret for favour of another wing / vertical stabiliser. I like the idea of this as a transport in much the same way as the crastus, brutal delivery of marines through a bulkhead. However, I struggle with the notion that either craft could fly effectively within an environment that had any gravity.
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Post by Paimon on Jul 23, 2014 20:25:32 GMT -5
If I got one I'd be tempted to leave off the wings altogether, just get more engines strapped to it. If it's going to look like a flying brick, I'm going to go all out.
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