The Darker Cousin of the Chaos Dreadnought is Born!
March 12, 2012 by brennon
Check out this new Chaos release from the dark minds of Forge World. The Chaos Decimator Daemon Engine is a sight to behold as it strides in front of the Traitor Legions...
Standing way above its Imperial family this Traitor Legion monster is quite a terrifying prospect. The angular shape of the plates gives it a dangerous and feral look, twinned with the hunched over and broad shoulders of a predator. Standing at 102mm it's quite the beast.
You can check out the experimental rules for it here.
Will you be giving yourself over to Chaos and fielding one of these?
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im thinking of getting 2 1 khorne 1 nurgle
Thought it was a bargain at £35 but it appears that you don’t get weapons and adding £18 to the bill takes it out of my price range unfortunately
This is the thing – you look at a cool FW model, see the price, think “Ooh, shiny!” and then realise it’s got no arms. If the dreads and titans at least came with a basic (even if not optimal) loadout it wouldn’t feel like such a rip-off – you’d simply feel like you were ‘tailoring’ your model rather than making it possible to complete it.
Thats the same price as the contemptor(I think the arms are a £1 less each for that) , and given how much bigger it is, for forgeworld thats a little bit of a bargain in comparison I think.
Warjacky though, never played warmachine but those warjacks are the first thing that came to mind looking at it.
Nice sculpt all the same.
Hmmmm might even work as a chaos Titan if you gave it a few more weapons maybe on the same scale as the imperator
I was also reminded of the old imperator titan. It seems to have russell crowe’s helmet from the battle of varma
That is a beautiful model. The sculpting and design up to Forgeworld’s always superb standards.
I hope I am forgiven for getting a little bit of a warjack vibe form it – though it is clearly larger. The silhouette just screams khador to me. If they ever made a variant with a cleaner hull and a pair of fist arms I could see this thing being modified into a behemoth, khador players already buy extreme juggernauts for that purpose.
Fantastic model. It does remind me a bit of a Khador/Cryx warjack though. The hulking shoulders and the low-set head. Still it would be a fun one to paint.
Yeah there are similarities with the shoulders and head but I think that sort of design has been there before the Warjacks with GW’s Epic 40K Titans anyway (like the Warlord titan).
I was thinking that the legs look like you can pose them, so they could, if the armour plates are separate, be used in place of a DreadKnight’s legs. But getting hold of the legs for that purpose would mean waiting around until one of the bits stores or ebay gets hold of them. It could save on extra work converting the dread’s legs though 🙂
Yeah, first time I saw a Warjack I thought it looked like an Imperial Knight.
It must be said, this is consistent with GW’s 40K art which predates the existence of Warmachine etc.
very, very nice – place that on a themed base of skulls, death and carnage will make it tower even higher! The top half would work very well as a defiler to boot.
It’s just perfect ! A good news for variety into games ! Surely, I will take one !
Over all I like the look and feel. I’m still wish for a unique titan for chaos, not a normal titan with details changed.
Nice sculpt of a Demonic Warjack. With no arms in the kit. Again. Good job Forgeworld.
Whatever next?
Scenery board sets supplied without doors?
Oh wait..
I don’t get the problem ^^ …its actually smarter that way , you pay for what you want …if it were all in on big pack (body + 2 arms) costing 53£ nobody would even mention that issue ….still I think its way better that way ….same with the doors maybe you just don’t need any doors at all so you don’t have to buy them and don’t have to pay for them, as you would have to if it were packed in one big set. In my opinion its a smart move to do so because lets face it… Read more »
in the end what I mean is : what they give you is choice and you turn it into ” oh the horror!” 😛
That not only looks great but is also nicely large.
Woah, this thing is a beast. I wonder if the plastic CSM dreadnought we’re hoping to see this year will be more reliable on the table than the one in the current codex? I’d probably wait and see how that works out before putting the money down on (all the bits of) the decimator, but it’s impressive and would be nice as a prestige thing.
That said, even I thought it had a powerful warjack vibe and I know nothing about Warmachine. That’s cool though, GW can borrow stuff too…
Gorgeous. Want three. Want new pants as well!
If only, if ONLY there were a plastic model. I’ve heard from awful things about forge world resins, the biggest worry being that they break if they drop even the slightest. As I’m a complete oaf, that’d ruin a gorgeous model.
It has an MF Doom mask! Awesome!
Nice model, nice and big, not good a quality for a missile magnet but still nice all the same.
Give it time
“Weapons for this fell war machine are sold separately.”
&@£$!
I don’t like it (but that is only because i will have to fight one of them soon, if it wasn’t for that awesome new kit!).
Need to nip this in the bud: the strange – and slightly worrying – thinking that Forgeworld etc. have copied Warmachine. It’s just not true. But I guess it’s good that PP’s product is so prominent for people to think this. But it’s not true at all.
http://images.wikia.com/warhammer40k/images/7/73/Baron.jpg < for example. When 40K was awesome and Space Marines didn't ride giant wolves.
I think I was the first to bring up the warmachine similarities and I never meant to imply fw was copying PP, just that the hull had a similar shape. I played 40k from early 3ed to early 4ed, so I remember the old cryx looking plastic dreadnaughts the vets brought into the store made back when the owner of PP was still working on the legend of five rings card game before he even conceived the thought of cryx. FW has had some amazing and original robot designs over the years, it’s just now we have something else familiar… Read more »
I don’t think anyone is seriously suggesting this is a direct copy of anything from PP, but the warjacks are much more visible than the old turtle-head/giant-carapace Warlord titans these days, so it’s the immediate comparison. There is a kind of delightful irony to it as well though – if as @liono mentions below, the Decimator sizes up about the same as an expensive new Colossus for Warmachine, then a GW product could be the cheap alternative for the non-tournament gamer… GW become Mantic for a day :p
8 strength 8 shots ….*shakes head* …..
Could be worse … they could be twin linked…
Hmmm. Spikey.
I like it, and if i had the money and patience i would consider getting the Greyknight dex and use that as a Word Bearer Dreadknight.
I played 40K from Rogue Trade to 3rd edition and I still think it looks like a Warmachine Cryx Warjacks. The rear engine with pipes looks very PP warjacky. And yes I know GW are the big shoulder kings. This is clearly a new design. Check you old white dwarf/chaos artwork ;p
Holy mother of God that is a bad ass model.
Privateer Press wish they could get their Warjacks looking as good as that, I’m no GW/FW fanboy but that model blows PP’s robots away.
Colossal = Decimator, about time the two big companies had interchangable models.