forge world the little moon orbiting around the planet games workshop they've been making resin
models for a while now and i want to look at the five best and five worst big models
hey guys jay here welcome to eons of battle lately more and more i've been souring on forge world
when i was first getting into the hobby they were mysterious they had their own separate websites
and here in the states we had to pay them with british doubloons they were the place to go if
you had a finished army you had all you needed for your army and then some you went to them because
you needed a flagship a centerpiece something to sit in the middle of your force and draw
all the eyes a model to bring all the boys to the yard perhaps i was just naive back then maybe it
was a lack of experience or maybe forge world has changed but now they make overly expensive models
that are poorer quality than games birthshot plastics there was a time where resin was king
and the only way to get really detailed minis was resin but that was probably a decade ago but there
is still one thing fourjill has in its pocket that makes them worthwhile the titans the monsters
the biggest silliest and awesomest models they are the ultimate painting and modeling challenges and
there is a magic to having the biggest vehicle it puts a nice period on an army so let's get to the
list here are the five most awesome big models and the five models that no one should ever buy ever
number one the great brass scorpion this model is sexy and would be a heck of a flagship for
any chaos army i love the glittery candy red color it has now but it would look really good in nurgle
green zinc blue even slineshi pink this model is outstanding and actually would look right at home
next to all the other dyno bots and mechanical bugs that make up the chaos vehicles a lot of
models claim to be able to tear through a building or wall but this model actually looks like it can
punch scrape and chainsaw its way through anything i want to see this model i want to fight against
this model and i love this model number two the eldar revenant titan this is the cheapest and
in my opinion best eldar titan this model goes against the norm of super heavies being heavy
and actually is thin as a rod this model is lithe it looks like i could dance across the battlefield
skipping along as its enormous lance-shaped cannons blast apart enemy vehicles it is so
different from similar models from the imperium where those are bricks with feet this looks like
it could actually be a fast agile war machine it's very alien it's very mech get out of here tau the
eldar have your beats it has a grace to it that reminds me why the eldar are cool they're usually
not my favorite army but when i see this model painted up online i get it eldar can be badass
number three the dark eldar tantalus not technically a super heavy but it should
be it's massive and gorgeous every ldar player should have one of these it is a death sailboat
it is maybe the best looking 40k model period it is so awesome i don't care if its rules suck just
make up new ones this model needs to be seen more often it comes with etched brass flooring
how cool is that i want to buy one of these just for the experience of building and painting it i
don't own a single eldar model i don't care to own a single eldar model but this model is a work of
art and it's not even millions of dollars like the other big kits i don't know why it's not hundreds
and hundreds and hundreds of dollars maybe because it's physically less resin than some but it has a
very similar footprint to those giants get one number four the tyranid hero fint bio titan
it's getting a little old but it still holds up imagine for a second this thing lumbering
along on its giant legs towards you towering in the air this thing should be fighting godzilla
they are big and terrifying and very insect-like and alien it seems like most hearing kids are
becoming just bigger or smaller carnifexes round bodies with different parts sticking out but this
thing is weird and long with four big grasshopper legs sometimes lightning strikes in a design
you can't plan for it you just have to appreciate it when it arrives the hero fint is an absolutely
killer model and i'm going to shake the hand of the first gamer i play against who shows up with
one of these that will be a very memorable game and i've seen videos it is a massive
achievement just to get one of these things built and finally number five the warhound pattern titan
the least very very expensive titan model and i think it's the best one i was debating between
this model and the thunderhawk gunship and although i love the thunderhawk
it is just so slightly nudged out by this this model is super fun its animal legs actually
look like it could walk instead of the toddler stance of the reaver or the impossible weight
of the warlord it has a lot of interesting details like the headlights for nostrils and
the intake grille that looks like teeth i like that the name really does describe the model
the warhound it's a titan that runs around like a dog i can imagine it running up to a bunker
giving it a couple of sniffs and then mega flame throwering it it is a beast of a model and it's
a comedy of riches when it comes to the weapon options huge plasma guns giant flamethrowers and
gatling bolters oh my man i get excited looking at models this big there's something about massive
units the thought of bringing one model that is as points heavy as half an army just sounds like fun
it's like 40k concentrate they are mesmerizing and i love them with that said not all big models
are good let's look at the five worst big units number one the warlord titan
that is right starting off with the big one the warlord titan this one sucks because no
model should cost 2 grand that is just ludicrous it's dumb it's irresponsible i think this model's
price has broken out of the hobby money and into real world money i get it models can be expensive
and sometimes really expensive but if i spent two grand on a mini it would hurt my real life
that is real money invest it take a trip fix your car i do not like that this model exists with that
said it is cool looking and i could see myself getting the baby adeptus titanicus version it's
a cool mini but how could it ever ever be worth it number 2 the necron pylon this one didn't go on
the list right away because it's kind of boring i kept forgetting it existed there is nothing really
wrong with it but there's also really nothing to latch onto either and there is the added problem
that this is just not what the necrons look like anymore it looks very hr geiger compared to the
obelisks and pyramids of modern necron design philosophies also a stationary gun emplacement
does not seem like it'd be very much fun to play with you get to shoot it once a turn but compare
that to a model like the warhound titan who can run around and shoot and get into combat
you don't get to do that much stuff with this this just sits either on the shelf or just sits on the
battlefield and shoots a little it looks good though i feel like if you scraped off the necron
symbols and glued on some drones it could make a really really good tau gun number three this one's
a mouthful the mechanicum acastus knight asterius this model reminds me that bigger is not always
better and actually it is bigger in all the wrong areas the biggest flaw is what the heck is going
on with the guns it looks like a five-year-old carrying a gallon of milk in either hand it would
look so much better if the guns were a lot smaller and maybe not dangling off of puny little arms
proportions make a big difference and gigantic guns and a pinhead looks kind of dumb these guns
better have zero recoil because if they have any this thing's just going to topple right over all
of these things i just laid out completely fixed on the acas night po fire on it's the same thing
but better the guns are integrated well into the body section not dangling on little arms why have
arms why have arms because of how big the guns are there's not a really big range of motion the
two big guns really irk me the size really makes the thing feel out of scale and these two kits
are almost identical but they feel very different number four the imperial navy marauder destroyer
this model on the list probably shocks you that model's great what on earth is wrong with jay well
now this probably is my most wrong take in all of 40k but i don't think flyers belong in the game i
don't like the big stand it's hard to find enough room to place it on the table between troops and
terrain it's awkward to play with flyers and the ugly x-shaped clear flying stand is obnoxious
playing with flyers dealing with the movement restrictions the pivoting the minimum distances
flying on and off the table off the board the game 40k is too small to support airplanes let
them be an aeronautical imperialist i hear that game is great let them be over there but they
just do not work well on the tabletop and this ship is massive it also just kind of looks like
a normal real-life plane it's not extra enough to excite me it takes up a quarter of the board
and you're just gonna win unless your opponent brought tons of anti-air stuff which they never do
and finally number five the estrella super heavy tank finishing off with one of the newest kits
the primaris tank to me this just does not look like 40k and i hate to say that because what the
heck does that even mean what does it mean for something to look 40k ish well usually a
healthy dose of world war ii era tanks big tracks boxy shapes covered in square panels and rivets
this tank feels very modern sci-fi i could see this in halo or mass effect but not really in 40k
i get that it's pushing space marines into a new direction but i think this was too much too fast
maybe if it had classic 40k guns attached to a never-before-seen chassis that would help
or perhaps new primaris battle cannon attached to a regular bain-blade tank
this thing is just not for an old black templar player like me
but if this thing jimmy's your jams if it jingles your jangles then more power to ya get after it
well there you have it those were the five forged rolled super big models that are incredible and
some that i won't miss when they disappear from the web store in eight months there is a power
to the big models i have seen a few in person and i've held some in my hands and they look like fun
however let me say this real quick these models are expensive and are absolutely unnecessary for
the game of 40k you can have a long fun-filled warhammer 40k career without ever touching big
expensive models like these they're not for everyone really have a good thing before pulling
the trigger and be prepared to love the challenge of building and owning one of these monstrosities
i think i have room in my heart and my house for maybe one of these one day in addition to
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wrong all of my picks were in the comments below i hope you enjoyed the video and thanks for watching