Necron Overlord : A matter of size...

[Pierre de Riv]

Humans are small.
Space Marines are taller.
And Necrons are even taller !
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a235/davidcutter/Necrons/P1070387_zpsxc9xtoj4.jpg
In the Last Stand, the Overlord is as tall as humans ! This is HERESY !!

Don't you think that would be great if the Necron Overlord was taller ? :)

[Death]

And they get progressivly taller too, with Overlords really towering over space marines. I was going to bring this up myself but I doubt the model size will be increased any.

The Nightbringer Shard is kinda small too, it was some 40 meters tall in Dark Crusade/Soulstorm...easly many times taller than an Overlord is.

[LichDream]

He just has chronic back pain and has a hunchback. :p

Also, I think the Lord Commander is just a ridiculously huge specimen, not really representative of the rest of the humans. The guardsmen are smaller. (I think!)

[Miles Bluefalls]

The Overlord made himself (itself?) smaller for purposes of being able to get heretical-hi-fives from the smaller guys after especially choice acts of violence.

[Sifer2]

Yeah it's kind of funny to worried about them getting the size right when we have all the races heroes cooperating to murder random stuff in an arena. Maybe it's not real, and Khorne is just having a wet dream.

[Red Paragon]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Sifer2:

Yeah it's kind of funny to worried about them getting the size right when we have all the races heroes cooperating to murder random stuff in an arena. Maybe it's not real, and Khorne is just having a wet dream.

It also doesn't make sense since you know...necrons hate all life in the galaxy and them helping another race is a totally ridiculous idea (besides that crappy blood angels + necrons Vs tyranids and everyone just backs away and the blud angels think it has to do with honor and its not.)

[Angela™]

What pisses me off the most is the extremely matt warded model in general.

Look at the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ details in soulstorm necron lord, then look at this one.

[Pierre de Riv]

ARRRRRRGGG ! I saw the Nightbringer ! He is FAR TOO MUCH SMALL !! It is a Hobbitbringer !!

[DannyT]

@Necron Protector SO TRUE! And we want to control him! It's not enough that he could appear in the game as a damaging 'aura'....

[Red Paragon]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Necron:

@Necron Protector SO TRUE! And we want to control him! It's not enough that he could appear in the game as a damaging 'aura'....

I would actually much prefer a summon. I like summons :D

[Gralzeim]

It's around the same size as the other heroes for gameplay purposes. Would be too distracting if they were all 'realistic' sizes. I mean, a Space Marine would be two feet taller than the Lord General (assuming the Lord General is 6-ish feet tall), the Mekboy would be around the same size, the Necron Overlord would be taller, the Tau Crisis Suit is taller than that, a Hive Tyrant would be even larger, and so on.

The tabletop game's scale is pretty inconsistant, outside of some exceptions (generally for the same reason, you don't want one guy's infantry models to be twice the size of another guy's), so that's not really a good comparison.

Also, the Nightbringer Essence in Dark Crusade and Soulstorm wasn't anywhere near 40 meters tall. That's absurd. A Baneblade is 'only' a bit over 13 meters long, 40 would mean the Nightbringer Essence is basically over three Baneblade-lengths in height, and it clearly was not.


Not to mention there's a lot of inconsistancy in the lore too, regarding sizes. At least for Orks it's pretty easily explainable (since their size is simply based on how much fighting they've done).

[Machine Spirit]

The Hive Tyrant and Dreadnought look to scale, so making the Necron human size doesnt make any sense when you look at other units. The Necron size is a nit pick though, he looks alright.

[Red Paragon]

Yeah this shouldn't really be that big of a deal, since the overlord would be a bit bigger and nightbringer would be huge. But if everything was to scale it would kill some computers (apparently my friend says terminators are supposed to be twice the size of space Marines, which doesn't make sense because that would mean they are 14 ft which sounds kind of ridiculous) plus, everything in the game has washed down textures besides overlord and tau.

[srsface]

Space Marine models are actually slightly smaller than they should be in scale with everything else on the tabletop. Ever heard of people doing space marines "true scale?" It's actually a fairly big thing within the Warhammer community online.

Basic Astra Militarum units are on par with Space Marines, table-top scale wise. So, the Necron Overlord being roughly the same size as the Space Marine in-game is right.

[Pierre de Riv]

Yes maybe the "size does not matter" for the Overlord, but the NIGHTBRINGER !! AAAAAAAHHH !!! It is Frodo with a cloak !!!

[Red Paragon]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Necron Protector:

Yes maybe the "size does not matter" for the Overlord, but the NIGHTBRINGER !! AAAAAAAHHH !!! It is Frodo with a cloak !!!

Yeah I can agree with that, I was a little disappointed. At first I wanted a summon, but now I'm fine with it, it just needs to be huge.