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Post by BobaHat on Jul 20, 2007 18:12:56 GMT -5
www.forgeworld.co.uk/dkkcomhq.htmWell it's here. To be honest, the FW Death Korps just don't do it for me. I am a Krieg player and fluff nut myself and something just seems to have gone wrong with the approach Forge World are taking with these guys. To me, the Death Korps of Krieg are hard-as-nails, grim, solemn individuals with a serious self-esteem problem. Their uniforms are gritty and adorned with skulls and chains. They are constantly throwing themselves into battlefields that others wouldn't even go near and dying in horrendous ways to receive the Emperor's forgiveness for their sinister past. The Forge World Krieg troopers themselves have the right look, but their banners and officers are just too sparkly. Okay... admitted, the new banner that comes with the new officer is more on the right track but the one they released not long ago might as well be Cadian! The commander himself, although a brilliant mini in itself, has NOTHING to do with the cruel, hardened, tragic nature of the Death Korps of Krieg. I mean he looks like a Bavarian aristocrat with a gas mask! All I have to say is, you got it wrong Forge World! 
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Post by majorjav on Jul 21, 2007 5:44:35 GMT -5
When I first see the command squad, I said wooo!!But once I read you Boba, I told myself that you where quite right....
It is true that the officer looks like an aristocrat....not very fluffy in fact....I would have seen a veteran, hardened and so on....
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Post by 9th Company on Jul 22, 2007 1:14:31 GMT -5
That officer is, in my opinion one of the best models I`ve seen forgeworld make.
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Post by BobaHat on Jul 22, 2007 7:23:29 GMT -5
But it is still not fluffy. I mean the mini is great but what's the point of a great mini if it is wrong?
There is loads of fluff lying around proving I'm right. The Korps appears in several novels (for example Graham McNeill's Warrior's of Ultramar novel).
Also, take a look at Chapter Approved 2003. There is some stuff on the Korps as well, including a passage where it says that they 'adorn their uniforms and weapons with skulls, bones and other such symbols of mortality'.
It also says that they are 'grim, solemn individuals'.
In the Warriors of Ultramar novel they are totally no-nonsense and their commander Colonel Stagler calls a clean-cut military parade a 'terrible waste of time'. He wears a dark, worn, gritty greatcoat, something the upper-class Forge World twit is miles away from...
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Post by syphon on Jul 22, 2007 11:07:00 GMT -5
While I agree with Boba's Hat, I can't help but think:
Syphon wants that greatcoat as a bit. Many bits. Thousands upon thousands of bits.
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Post by Mabus on Jul 27, 2007 6:49:37 GMT -5
Hey! I use those models in my Death Korps army and like 'em! It all depends on the way you paint them. I have read the backround on Chapter approved 2003 and I think the FW models do them justice and I am going to continue to use the models, mainly because they are my favourite minatures FW and GW make.
I have seen boba's DK commander and I think the "Forge world twit" is as good if not better. Sorry, but that's what I think.
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Post by 9th Company on Jul 30, 2007 19:59:10 GMT -5
I think the model fits in perfectly with the fluff. Just because they are all about war and redemption doesn`t mean they would want to die in any old thing.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2007 14:34:34 GMT -5
I love this model. I'm going to remove the head and put on a more fitting one for my redcoat themed force. He'll be my general.
Also would make a great body for a commisar with a different head. I doubt anyone in their right mind would try to convert such a pricey and awesome model. The squad costs as much as a squad of terminators afterall.
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Post by Mabus on Aug 11, 2007 16:00:58 GMT -5
I have converted mine. lol, I must be crazy!
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Post by Commissar on Aug 28, 2007 14:38:13 GMT -5
I love the detail on the model, but I would buy it if he was in a more actiony pose.
I dunno, a commissar with that much detail, kicking arse all over the battle field, trench coat flying, power sword swinging, pistols blazing!
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Post by Mabus on Aug 29, 2007 9:16:14 GMT -5
The new DK command squad looks absolutely ace! Has anyone seen it? bit steep though!
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Post by Commissar on Aug 29, 2007 14:27:33 GMT -5
Yeah, its nice, but too expensive.
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Post by Mabus on Sept 1, 2007 8:25:25 GMT -5
My thoughts exactly.
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Post by Commissar on Sept 5, 2007 12:15:58 GMT -5
I would pay to have the officer, I like him the best, but why is it soooo expensive?
I mean not everyone who plays this game is a millionaire....
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Post by Mabus on Sept 6, 2007 14:53:01 GMT -5
Well, I am not sure about everyone.......... i am an oil baron, I own several carribean islands and live in a castle.
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Post by Commissar on Sept 6, 2007 16:30:02 GMT -5
LoL.
In my mind I run a massive drug ring known as the yogurt connection.
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Post by Mabus on Sept 9, 2007 13:02:54 GMT -5
Why did you laugh? I am a russian oil barron.
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Post by Commissar on Sept 10, 2007 15:58:09 GMT -5
LoL.
Nah your not.
I still wish I could afford that, the officer looks like so much fun to paint.
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Post by Mabus on Sept 11, 2007 14:52:53 GMT -5
Stop writing LOL, I am an oil baron!
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Post by Mabus on Sept 19, 2007 14:32:25 GMT -5
Have you seen the new DK characters? Crap they're sweet!
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Post by Turtleboy(AWOL) on Sept 20, 2007 17:29:50 GMT -5
which ones are you speaking of mabus? the DKoK command hq or the quartermaster set on the FW site?
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Post by Mabus on Sept 22, 2007 8:13:34 GMT -5
The new Death Korps Commisar, not quartermaster. They have they're own Commisar now. I which they'de let us know thses things in advance. I just purchesed some metal commisars! Damn it!
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Post by Commissar on Sept 23, 2007 0:44:52 GMT -5
Oh damn...
Those are awesome models...
That guy...standing there...*foams at mouth*...Somebody...get it...for me...CHRISTMAS!
*Falls over foaming at mouth*
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Post by ssgtdude (M.I.A) on Sept 23, 2007 10:30:03 GMT -5
mabus - then you woke up and found yourself in reality...
My thoughts on the DK command squad is this. Taken as a whole and looking just at the model one has to say WOW. Great detail, nice figure too expensive for a 28mm figure. The spartanesque helmet has got to go.
Fluff wise, you would need to do a bit of conversion. Add some tears and battle damage to the great coat, a few skulls, etc... Then a bang up paint scheme.
The models are workable into the DK, but to do it right it would take a bit of work. Question is do you have that time, the money, and energy to do them justice. If so, then the models are more than worth being added into your army.
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Post by Commissar on Sept 23, 2007 11:58:37 GMT -5
Exactly...but that...Commissar...*sigh*...
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