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Cavash Lord of the Chat

Posts : 3222 Join date : 2012-04-15 Location : Stuck in an air vent spying on plotters
 | Subject: Re: What sort of giant walker or MC might DE get? Fri Aug 16 2013, 21:52 | |
| If I'm honest, I loathe this idea that GW has come out with. I still think the Wraithknight's ridiculous (It has a crotch-shield for the love of Khaine) and I find these giant walkers silly. My distaste for them aside, however, I think some sort of coven engine that can regenerate wounds, floats slowly around and takes a lot of shots while dishing out negative effects to enemy units (such as fear and other ailments when wounds are made) could be useful. It would render some enemy units useless, take a lot of fire and make it easier for some other units to do their job. | |
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Expletive Deleted Wych

Posts : 581 Join date : 2013-07-31
 | Subject: Re: What sort of giant walker or MC might DE get? Mon Aug 19 2013, 01:14 | |
| - @RetroGamer1224 wrote:
- All kidding aside I have a few ideas on what could pop up for a more heavy unit. But realisticly It probably will be another skimmer if at all anything. I have a feeling that we won't get an upgraded codex until a 7th edition.
Joking aside. If GW wanted to give us a fluffy awesome unit everone would buy, that fixes a much needed weakness we have, they'd give us this. http://www.brokenjoysticks.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Bioshock-Infinite-Preorder-Bonus-Bird.jpg Sure that's the bird from bioshock infinite, but same principle. Imagine a grotesque scourge. Monstrous flying creature. Tougher than our skimmers and can literally go toe-to-toe with a helldrake. You'd put them in base contact just to look epic. | |
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Black Death Sybarite

Posts : 264 Join date : 2012-10-02 Location : West Texas
 | Subject: Re: What sort of giant walker or MC might DE get? Tue Aug 20 2013, 10:26 | |
| I think it's funny that a wraith knight can't just pluck fliers out of the sky or cc attack the third tier of a ruin, size and all.
But on point, since scourges have to buy their body upgrades, why not a seriously enhanced one (insert "you won't like me when I'm angry!" here) About as big as the Dread Knight (like Expletive Deleted has suggested) . A skimmer upgrade that has a special kind of grenade launcher that prevents overwatch as well as hand ones for wyches, kind of like tau marker lights but just one in the unit, rolling to hit for it to work. AND back on point, an actual dias model would be nice. _________________ " Dismemberment, mutalation and torture. These are the good things in life. Shall I show you?" Succubus Morna Fateweaver of the Cult of Black Death
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clively Sybarite

Posts : 297 Join date : 2013-03-19
 | Subject: Re: What sort of giant walker or MC might DE get? Mon Aug 26 2013, 22:17 | |
| In Fist of Demetrius (May 2013) there was the following:
Chapter 20: fighting going on between IG and DE.
Size and description: ..I saw a scuttling form loom, a gigantic arachnid figure with clicking claws. It reminded me of a Titan, although it was smaller ...
There were men in the grip of those claws, ...
Weapon The man seemed to be shrinking, dwindling, like a deflating balloon..
Armor It gripped them like a drunk holding his last bottle even as the Baneblade and Leman Russ within our camp sent blast after blast stabbing into its body.
------------------ So, we have a DE monstrous creature that looks like a giant spider that can withstand hits from a Baneblade and Russ while staying alive. It appears to have a spirit leech weapon like the talos...
Seems like a solid contender for a large monstrous creature when DE get a 6th Ed release. I know BL author's sometimes take "creative license" with the IP; however, I have noticed several books over the past couple of years that pretty closely described models which have been released recently. _________________ Kabal of the Green Hair
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Black Death Sybarite

Posts : 264 Join date : 2012-10-02 Location : West Texas
 | Subject: Re: What sort of giant walker or MC might DE get? Tue Aug 27 2013, 10:40 | |
| Hmmm, well this does seem like what we want. I'm all about it. Now if there was just a pic somewhere.
_________________ " Dismemberment, mutalation and torture. These are the good things in life. Shall I show you?" Succubus Morna Fateweaver of the Cult of Black Death
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RetroGamer1224 Hellion

Posts : 70 Join date : 2012-08-16 Location : New Mexico
 | Subject: Re: What sort of giant walker or MC might DE get? Tue Aug 27 2013, 15:11 | |
| I...I can see a big spider like thing but that would push DE way into drow territory. I don't think we need arachnid looking anything only because someone from GW would bring in some kind of spider daemon and ruin the whole thing. | |
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Expletive Deleted Wych

Posts : 581 Join date : 2013-07-31
 | Subject: Re: What sort of giant walker or MC might DE get? Tue Aug 27 2013, 22:06 | |
| I like the spider idea alright, but it seems a bit redundant as Necrons already have a spider-like model. More of a fan of a giant FMC bat or something, in our fast attack slot, since fast attack is probably our weakest slot anyway. Give it some sort of sonar blast with the haywire effect. And laser eyes. And you can place a bat symbol where you want to deepstrike it. _________________ "Excess, yeah that's what we do best."
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thejamppa Hellion

Posts : 47 Join date : 2012-07-07 Location : Finland
 | Subject: Re: What sort of giant walker or MC might DE get? Wed Aug 28 2013, 11:01 | |
| Anything we get, it propably be something to do with hemmie covens... But I am big fan of coven lists and such. I have no problem if its spider thingy but like pointed out spiders are necron thing. We probably get something scorpion like or Octopuss like, big versions of Talos / Chronos. But one thing it has for sure: Tentacles. Lot's and lot's of tentacles. _________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Painting Dark Eldars are like Dark Eldars themselves: Agonizingly painful and sadistically fulfilling experience... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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RetroGamer1224 Hellion

Posts : 70 Join date : 2012-08-16 Location : New Mexico
 | Subject: Re: What sort of giant walker or MC might DE get? Wed Aug 28 2013, 15:17 | |
| Ohhhh "Space Kraken" would be a nice idea. Probably some kind of shadow type critter. | |
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Obyiscus Hellion

Posts : 65 Join date : 2013-08-20
 | Subject: Re: What sort of giant walker or MC might DE get? Wed Aug 28 2013, 15:29 | |
| What about a Giant Grotesque? Like I am talking a Wraithknight sized Grotesque (more muscular and bulky though of course) | |
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RetroGamer1224 Hellion

Posts : 70 Join date : 2012-08-16 Location : New Mexico
 | Subject: Re: What sort of giant walker or MC might DE get? Wed Aug 28 2013, 15:32 | |
| I had an idea called the Sorrows. Coven type FMC that were winged twisted beings. | |
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Count Adhemar Dark Lord of Granbretan

Posts : 7333 Join date : 2012-04-26 Location : London
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ligolski Wych

Posts : 557 Join date : 2012-12-02
 | Subject: Re: What sort of giant walker or MC might DE get? Wed Aug 28 2013, 16:30 | |
| +1 sir for good troll _________________ Mod-Read the Rules of TDCArchon Atersol of the Kabal of the Ebbing Sun | |
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Obyiscus Hellion

Posts : 65 Join date : 2013-08-20
 | Subject: Re: What sort of giant walker or MC might DE get? Wed Aug 28 2013, 17:16 | |
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