40K Deep Thought: Who Wants Plastic Titans?
There is talk that the new Apocalypse said to be coming this year will be accompanied by some new “big plastic kits” from Games Workshop. But is bigger always better?
Now I’m sure a lot of you remember the glorious days of “Mega-battles” back before Apocalypse came out. Back in the day everyone and their brother would bring their army , push every table in sight together and use the normal rules to have an all day slugfest. It was great.
Apocalypse gave us a codified set of rules for these games and we all got the first of the Games Workshop “big kits” – the mighty Baneblade to anchor the product rollout. Over the next couple of years, we say the Shadowsword box and the Stompa before GW kind of let the big kits fizzle out.
But what everyone REALLY wanted was a plastic Thunderhawk, or a titan. Well if you were GW and wanted to kick off a new fangled Apocalypse 2.0, what would you crank out this time to give it some extra pizazz?
It seems like everyone is moving to bigger is better these days. We’ve had Privateer Press roll out Colossals/Gargantuans – Forgeworld keeps on kicking out superheavies like clockwork. Even independent outfits like Dreamforge are knocking out some cool new mech-titan-giant robo looking kits these days.
So the question is do we think the giant kits help the game and hobby out in the long run, or are just super-expensive dusty-shelf toys, sitting alongside copies of the Wargear book and Planetstrike?
If you had a chance to get your mitts on a plastic scout titan – would you? Or would you save your pennies for more “standard army” stuff that you can use day in and day out?
Have at it ladies and gentlemen…
