Warmachine Gets Colossal!
February 3, 2012 by dracs
The Colossals are coming! Privateer Press have just put up a vid previewing these massive, and very welcome, upcoming additions to Warmachine.
The Colossals have been appearing here and there in the Warmachine background for a while now and it is great to see them stomping there way onto the battlefield.
We've already had to peel Justin away from the pic of the Khador Conquest.
These guys are twice the height of a normal heavy Warjack and come with enough fire power to cause some serious slaughter.
Not only that, but these guys have two damage grids! Check out this stat card for the Mercenaries' Galleon.
So far we have only seen the Colossals which will be joining Khador and Cygnar, but from the glimpses of artwork the video gives us I cannot wait to see how some of these turn out.
Just take a look at the Cryx's Kraken!
These have got us all really excited here at Beasts of War and we cannot wait to get our hands on the book around July time.
Let the massive mechanical mayhem commence!
What are you guys hoping to see in this latest development? And does this image mean they will be doing the same for Hordes too?
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I really hope this doesn’t go down the road of 40k Apocalypse with the emphasis shifting from skirmish game to larger and larger forces. Given the image I’d say its only a matter of time before we see similar stuff for hordes
I think alot of people are worried a little too much…
With the current rule system and game play it would be impossible to run large scale battles. because of how in depth the game is when it comes to each individual piece. I couldnt imagine trying to play to large a scale game and trying to remember what each piece does and then trying to employ a turn by turn tactical advance would be way to cumbersome and hard to try and manage.
They are just adding nice little eye candy pieces and special movements and abilities here and there.
If they were to go down that slippery slope it would require a total facelift concerning the whole game. That would be insane 🙂
jeebus TFC that was amazing! just a shame the worst looking one was khador.
cygnar – massive thunderhead!
cryx – evil crab!
mercs – emperor titan!
menoth – white md geist!
scyrah – guyver!
khador – lego
lol reminds me of the end of my IKRPG campaign where I used epic-scale scenery and epic-scaled counters for infantry squads, and an AT-43 Dotch Yaga as a refitted Khadoran Colossal pressed into service to attack Ord. Good times.
I’m certainly looking forward to the Colossal minis themselves, especially since the Mercs are getting one, but how their existence changes the way people want to play Warmachine remains to be seen..
GW could really take a leaf out of Privateer Press’s book. That is how you make a video to promote a release.
I SWEAR there are videos like this from GW, but they are never put up on their Website. I recall seeing a good vid for Dark Eldar with Jervis or whatnot, but I found it on Youtube. Crazy.
yup they made a whole designer-blog with 3 consecutive videos for Dark Eldar where they spoke about every part going deep into the cultural part of the Dark Eldar society
btw :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oatGPbCSIU&feature=related
the video(s)
They don’t exactly have the panache of the Privateer video, do they? Privateer have clearly taken their presentational approach from a certain style of documentary film-making, whereas GW have put three blokes in front of a camera. (Not that there’s anything wrong with three blokes in front of a camera… 😉 )
By the way, the computer-generated subtitles on that GW video are seriously good for a laugh. Bizarrely obsessed with politics as well, for some reason…
I just love hearing the GW designers speak and their thoughts. Not too bothered about the presentation. Just a shame these Dark Eldar vids are a one off.
@partisan
It is possible for people to enjoy and play more than one war game system.
Granted, some however do find great difficulty in chewing gum and walking…
Will the war gaming community ever reach a place where it can be free off infantile antics as listed,” who cares about a Dark Eldar video ???”
Privateer Press deserves some credit their game system is fantastic.
I must admit I dont understand whats going on right now did I do something wrong or do I understand that wrong what you are saying right now :-/ (sorry if I do so )
I havent said a word about that there is only one game o.O but poosh mentioned those vids and I just helped him out as he seemed to not recall them …thats all ….
These are the ones! Little gems!
Ah, these videos were pretty sweet stuff. Why don’t they do this every time?
@ partisan and poosh
my bad I thought you guys were throwing 40k spam at what i thought was a great add by PP…
sorry and go ahead and tune me up its cool just would like to cheer PP on without some reference to GW
Theres a big class warfare over the 2 games in my neck of woods
and at first I was on one side or other now a days would just like to play both
also you will see spots of it here and other places online at times a mis read on my part
Peace
So were ancient colossals that were mentioned in fluff about same size as these?
ancient colossal were bigger
There was a piece of artwork in one of the RPG’s books (might’ve been the Witchfire Trilogy but don’t quote me on that) that showed the wreck of one of those ancient Colossals. Found it with Google, though:
Gorgeous art + Awesome concept + Superb models + Painting tips = Epic video.
This is so sexy…
BoW Romain
sexy man, doesnt even begin to describe it
I couldn’t agree more Romain. This looks awesome. I especially love the Cygnar colossal, it’s very attractive.
Wow. I want that Menoth one.
Interesting idea basically Warjack titans will need to wait for more details but like the idea but do wonder how they are going to be implemented as seeing as the standard game size at my club is 25 I have funny feeling these won’t be appearing in many of my games though probably still buy the cryx and cygnar ones to paint and try out once or twice for a change.
They are 18-20 pts, and they are part of your battlegroup, so you could run one in 25 pts easily.
for a 15 mm player , these could convert to awesome mecha….
Having my Khador force collecting dust on a shelf doesn’t matter, I’m buying the Conquest just for the awesome model and it will look nice painted beside its smaller kindred. 🙂
That last one I take it is a nod to the Hordes players that will most likely say “What? We never get cool stuff first”. All it is is them saying thay we’re not forgotten. I think I’ll call that a Mountain Troll!
This just might get me into plating WM.
As cool as the models look. I just can’t help wondering the price. The battle engines IMO are horribly expensive. I like warmachine, I play warmachine, but I stopped at the two player battlebox. Prices are no better than GW on MOST things. Yes, you need less models to play, but after that, for someone like me who has multiple armies from GW (collected years ago) I face a problem. Door #1 Add a few models to existing GW armies and play massive games. Door #1 A few dollars to beef up a GW army, door #2 alot of dollars to create a warmachine army, or door #3 a TONNE of dollars to start a GW army. For the family man with kids? I’ll take door number one. To bad though cause like I said. They’re sweet looking models.
… two door number ones!?!?!? Time to put my proof reading hat back on. Dammit! XD
have to say, epic decepticon/cobra pic there :p
They said they would try and keep the price down and make it as reasonable as possible. We shall see what that means… 🙂
I am concerned about what direction this will bring the game, but they did such a great job on battle engines and wrath in general I will trust PP to keep it balanced.
The video itself is a treat. You see the models that they have finished right away and get sneak peeks at all three others throughout the video. You get all kinds of insight from the developers on the model design, painting, history and lore, and rules design.
I agree with a few points raised here-
Nice looking models, I assume PP will do a good job on pts vs power level. I am concerned over cost and which direction this could take the game. I can see a back lash if they get it wrong- large, expensive and over powered would not be good. My first thought was- Bethmoth, Mulg, Avatar look a bit puny now vs these
Ya I can understand your sentiment. If its overpowered. . . but I hope PP takes that into consideration.
I’m sorry, I am going to need new trousers. Gorgeous. I don’t care if they’re daft, I like them. They’ll be expensive models but lovely ones.
Bigger games, ok. You don’t have to field everything, you could make up some witter about ‘testing grounds’ with two colossals together.
Oh, and I ruddy hope so because a mega troll would be damned funky monkey.
Wow, first of all I’m really surprised I’m not alone on my feelings on this one. I put up a Blog saying I like the mini’s and all that. But I’m worried about where PP are heading right now with their games. My thoughts if you’re interested:
http://thefrontlinegamer.blogspot.com/2012/02/privateer-press-annouce-colossals.html?showComment=1328310488283#c2952907210469339983
I read your blog. I would have responded there but couldn’t log into your system.
I can understand you are coming from on it and your concerns which is money in short. We only have so much of it. I have my MKII Primal, faction book and Domination books and I look forward to reading what is going to happen next. Three books in about 2 years. Not bad. But I pick and choose what I’m buying out of it. Like I’ve not bought my war wagon (or whatever it is called) for my army. That is about $60 or $80 for it (depending on where I go). But I don’t plan on buying my war wagon for some time. I rather get more units and warbeasts. Only one person in my gaming group of 8 has got their war wagon. I think what folks need to do is to just decided if they want to plunge that much money in one thing. Personally for me I am looking forward to the double epic warlocks and what new war beasts and units are coming to compliment what I have. If I get my colossal or war wagon, well, then I will if I feel I can comfortably afford it. If not I’m not sweating it.
It’s not just the cost of individual miniatures. It’s potential fracturing of game systems that I’m worried about and what I and many see as a perceived ‘ramping up’ of the games size. Not just miniatures but the amount of points you play. You can’t tell me people who drop £60 on a couple of mini’s won’t want to get them on the table. Just a bit wary is all.
A miniature company has to expand. It can’t just keep shifting the same kind of thing, otherwise it starts to become stagnant. That doesn’t mean they should change anything or update the rules for no valid reason etc, but it does mean they have to create “new” things to sell. So long as its balanced, makes sense, and adds more fun/depth, then no problem. The only problem arises when you feel they are making new models JUST to sell then, and messing around a loved system, JUST to justify those models. All comes down to intelligence, basically.
Storm of Magic, for example, was NOT intelligent as far as I can tell, it was a shameless attempt to make and sell large new monster models. But it COULD have been done intelligently, in different hands.
These models are bound to be expensive. But a treat if you can afford it. PP are still small fish and can’t afford, exactly, to sell stuff cheaply – they’d go out of business if they did.
pfft srew colossals can you imagne what the Gatormen would get oO? *cough*GODZILLA*cough*
i have 4 children and i would gladly sell each and everyone of the little feckers for a khador colossal… and inregards to the appearance of the khador colossal it looks great. it fits right in with the khador mentallity (which is why should we spend out for a cortex for a little jack when it can go into a bigger one and why should we make it look all pretty its only there to destroy what ever is dumb enough to get in its way)
I’m gonna need a bigger bag…….
Now THIS is something I can sink my teeth into. I’ve always really dug the look of the various faction engines, but I never really wanted to use them in battle. But these things are exactly the sort of thing my son and I slobber over.
I can’t freakin’ wait!
Incidentally, PP has had rules for large, army level games for many months now. They are totally optional. I don’t believe they will ever shift the core of the game that way. Skirmish has been too successful a niche for them.
I agree with most sentiments on here concerning the direction PP is going in their games. Unbound is… well, to be frank, it’s kind of stupid. I have yet to see even the smallest unbound game finished. One of the awesome selling points of PP is that their games can be small and still an awesome good time… just look at Mangled Metal or Tooth and Claw. Unbound sapped the joy out of that for me and my gaming group. The battle engines are still so unused (able) to be considered never game altering, but these… well, we’ll see.
The above points notwithstanding, I’m GETTING that Galleon when it hits the L&L store!!!
P.S. $80 is perfectly reasonable for one of these massive minis… minis… ha! 😉
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY-03vYYAjA&feature=related
I’ll take 2 and don’t bother wrapping them up….
Might is Right
I am a Cryx player and I am not overly impressed by the Cryx leviathan Colossal.
I however think that warmachine is a cheap game to play in general esp if you magnatise heavy jacks. I just have the one heavy cryx jack and have magnetized the shoulders and elbow joints and the head and bought a harpoon arm of evilbay and a seether head and malace head for the privateer press parts web site as well as the stat cards and it has been a very cheap way to buy the parts for the alternate models.
It costs $0.50 for a stat card (about £0.35 in GBP)
And it cost $1.00 for a seether head (about £0.70)
I read here a little and elsewhere what people’s concern mostly is and rightly so is what is this going to cost me? I’m not going to worry about it for a few reasons: 1) PP is doing plastic so it may be plastic and may not cost as much as we think 2) I’ve not even bought my own war wagon or whatever they are called in Hordes yet. Its cool but something I’ll buy late this year (or next) after I finish painting the ton of minis I have 3) I’m happy to see and get new warlocks, war beasts, units or solos for my army in the new upcoming book that will have Colossals (or whatever it will be called in Hordes). Its good that PP is growing and has a good strong base of fans getting into it. I figure buy what you feel comfortable with and just not worry about getting every little thing.
mother of menoth…
I see War Room also announced- ibodger may be a sad panda
I’m not worried about a thing. Every time PP has introduced something to their game, its always the same. “I’m concerned” this… and “I worried about game balance” that. Or, “OMG, this will ruin the game!” So it has been with every new idea to the game. From unit attachments, to cavalry, to epic warcasters, and most recently battle engines. They have all hit the table and have taken their place without destroying the game.
Battle engines just started hitting the table at my LGS, and guess what, I now have something like 3-4 new players after people saw them. My current players who don’t have battle engines still win games, and life goes on.
Those are true words. Besides if Colossals have same impact as Battle Engines had in your local LGS then those are good for game. New players are always welcome and everything that brings them to play this game is good thing.
Yes… they’re doing everything GW has done… But they’re doing it right !
They’re doing a great and complex universe, they’re rpicing their minis by what it costs them and not what it costs in game…
They’re having mostly good sculpts… (well, mostly)
They release things for all factions at the same time so no one feels left out…
They have a magazine that isn’t just a catalog…
They introduced resin and plastic slowly, with excellent quality control, no bubbles, and didn’t advertise it as the “second coming”…
They know if they did otherwise, they wouldn’t survive.
BoW Romain
So….. where’s Scyrah’s?
There was a cgi rotation shot of the model being designed in the video. It looks a lot like a jack at first glance but it has those spinning afg generator wheel things in both shoulders. It also seems to have a pair of vyre shoulder guns on the lower torso and I think I saw arc nodes.
July will be a long time coming is all I can say.
can you say $100
I’ve been playing blindwater for half a year and was being tempted by pirates, after seeing that merc collosal with the trident, my timbers have been thoroughly shivered
I love the Khador one, sad i dont play that faction. Heres waiting for Menoth/ Scyrah.
i noticed in the vid on the example game card the colossal had icons for the cotex on both sides of the damage chart… so would this mean it has multiple cortexs like in the behemoth or its just spaced out???
It could be either but my gut says one cortex since it has the same letters. Still, one cortex with six columns? It’ll be functional until almost wrecked. Also, oh Lord the wreck markers will be huge!
Yummie! I wasn’t very impressed by al the battle engines but this is nice.
Can’t wait for the Hordes biggies.
being a poor student hurts me so, cant wait to see the cryx one in more than artwork 🙂
When is this book coming out?
July
I have a bad feeling about the Trollbloods colossal. I would not want to be the enemy facing that beast. If its going to be as big as the giants in this video every enemy bellow it will be forced to look up its kilt. Cover your eyes before its to late!
Hey guys, I was at TempleCon and saw them previewed, they even had the Khador one there for people to see. It was very impressive and huge. Other details they revealed was 18-20pt range and FA:2. Also, they are a combination kit of resin and metal. Like the Battle Engines.
The names are as follows:
Khador: Conquest
Cygnar: Stormwall
Menoth: Judicator
Cryx: Kraken
Mercs: Galleon
Retribution: Hyperion
They also revealed that Kreoss will be the new Menoth caster in the book and that Rhulic players will be getting a new warcaster.
Oh and they confirmed that Hordes will definitely get the same treatment.
I’m jizzed out.
I like the look of the Colossals more than the battle engines, if you’re going to have a universe where the main military weapon is bipedal steam bots then colossal bipedal steam bots are the way to go. The War Room video looks even more interesting though, it could change the whole way you play warmahordes. Having all your cards and rules on your phone and then using it to track damage & effects and being able to check your opponents cards without breaking their train of thought is great. Means you don’t have to memorise every unit and it’s stats for tournaments. It’s exactly what I was hoping Mantic were up to when they announced they were working on an app but they’ve gone a bit quiet on that. Also, wasn’t mentioned in the video but right at the start it looks like there’s a digital copy of No Quarter to buy in app, which would just be the icing on the cake.
10:05 so true
ANYWAY the khador model made my jaw fall off (found it mioght need some super glue though) and i cant wait if i comes out at lets say $70 (i dont know how much that is maybe £40) i wil buy it is seconds even $80 no problem my only concern is my buy list of warmachine stuff is growing so much i dont think i will be buying a little army anymore 🙁 my only hope is to find someone else in my club interested and get them to go halfers with my on the 2PBB otherwise it will all be to much and ideas how i can get someone into the game? maybe says it is cheaper then GW or it is more balanced and quick so time for a rematch?