Adeptus Titanicus Acastus Knight Unboxing and Review
Carrying on with my Titanicus focus the new Acastus Knight box and cards arrived with me this week.
The box contains 2 Acastus Knights, bases, instructions, and transfers.
Above you can see shots of both the front and rear of the frames. There are 2 frames in the box and each frame contains all the parts to build 1 knight. The frame is chock full of parts and it looks like that it is going to be a fun kit to assemble. On the sprue you get 1 head type and no armour variations. You can choose to have the either the Ironstorm Missile Pod or Karacnos Mortar Battery for the secondary weapon. You can also upgrade the twin autocannons to twin lascannons and these are on the sprue. There is only one main weapon which is the Twin Magna Lascannon. Looks like we will either have to wait for a Forge World resin upgrade for Twin Conversion Beam Cannon or maybe it might on the plastic Knight upgrade sprue that we are all eagerly awaiting.
The decal sheet is the same as the one found in the Cerastus Knights box set which is a shame as would be nice to have some more options for the Knight Households, especially with the Doom of Molech release.
All in all a great looking kit and really looking forward to putting the pair together and then see how they play on the table. I think at £30 they are a little pricey would have preferred £25 but then who wouldn't.
Up next are the Acastus Knight Cards.
Looking at the cards will start with the Scale these are Scale 5 (Grandis) and cost 80 points, you can add up to another 3 knights at 70 points a piece.
Adding in the Twin Linked Magna Lascannons and upgrading the autocannons to lascannons adds another 30 points to the knight. So fielding a full unit of 4 knights would cost 410 points.
One of the nice rules added to the Acastus is that if you issue First Fire or Split Fire then you gets bonues to your BS taking it from 4+ to 3+ . With 16 strength 8 shots from paired weapons means that they can really cause devastation on the battlefield. The Ironstorm Missile pod comes in at 6 strength 4 shots at max range of 36 inches and has the traits of Barrage and paired.
The cards are the in the same format as the previous ones and come with 4 in a box. So with a couple of boxes of these Knight and the cards you have a really strong Knight Unit on the table.
In my view these are a great addition to the Knights currently available and will give some nice options for the controlling player, I can see them being used as an area denial unit that will cause the opposing player to carefully think about sending their Knights or Titans to go toe to toe with them.
Really looking forward to getting these assembled and on the table and see how they stack up against the smaller class Titans.
Have you picked up yours?
There are 3 differing groin guards, and 3 front carapace options. Only 1 head type, but two differinbg back plate pieces.
The weapon is the sprue that will be swapped out in the next box release for the ranged weapon variant. I would have preferred to have had both variants in the box, so loadouts could be set or fully magentized.
