40K: 5 Knights We Need – with 3 New Sprues
We say there are already too many Knights in the game – but we still need a few more before we can end the madness.
Yes, we know… there are too many knights already. With roughly 30 knights already in the game, GW really needs to put the brakes on the Knights and find a new direction to expand the game. Transports, tunnelers, anti-aircraft – anything…
But unfortunately before they turn away from knights they have to leave the game in a rough state of balance, and that means we need to add just a handful more. Here is what we suggest:
Dakkanaut/ZZapnaut
This should be an upgrade sprue for the Gorkanaut/Morkanaut kit emphasizing pure firepower. Give it a BIG belly gun, and more secondary weapon and defensive upgrades. One can be all about direct firepower, while the other emphasizes indirect fire. No transport capacity for these two. Most importantly new snazzy heads!
Towering Destroyer/Fire Gale
Reaching back into Eldar canon, add an accessory sprue to the Wraithknight similar tot he sprue above. The Fire Gale would have jump packs up top similar to the Revenant to give it super speed, and a new spiffy pulsar for one arm.
The Towering Destroyer would have two additional arms with small support anti-infantry weapons that work alongside the existing giant sword and shield. There would have a modified torso to take all 4 arms properly. This would be the heavy assault Eldar Knight to duke it out with the Gallants out there.
Tau TidalBore
This would be an upgrade sprue for both the Riptide. The Tidalbore is a faster moving “knife fighter” giving up all long range firepower for a pair of point blank range weapons designed to shatter enemy knights and other hard targets inside of 12″. It should have an enhanced set of jump jets to allow it to leave combat if assaulted and power a defensive field.
GW Has Already Shown the Way
We have already seen GW update the Imperial Knight range twice with the “new sprue – thicker box” technique. With just 3 new sprues we can bring Knight parity to the game – then move onto the next new thing.
~ What do you think about these xenos concepts?
