I actually enjoyed it rather alot (but have always enjoyed the knockabout characters and plots in Guy Ritchie films so am easy to please).....
I like some Ritchie films, like the Man from Uncle reboot or his two Sherlock flicks. They may not be "serious movies" but they're certainly entertaining.
The King Arthur one looks a bit silly from what I've seen so far and appears to have a rather casual approach to the original story, but considering some of the horrors Hollywood have produced claiming to be Robin Hood I've probably seen worse!
Was musing on how big to make these critters - was assuming 1.5x as big as large African Elephant - so 6m tall and 7.5m long.....which (I just figured) places them in Gargantuan category....?
Hmm, well how big was the original monster? Better pull out WD14 and check…
It doesn't say, just that it's resembles a "large black elephant". The demon beast has 8D8+3 Hit Dice, which is similar to a wild AD&D Oliphant (8+4 HD, so equal to about 9), but less than both an Asiatic (10 HD) and African (11 HD) elephant in 1E.
The damage output is a lot lower. A Gurgotch starts with a 4d10 charge (22 average) and then switches to two 1d10 tusks (11 average).
A Loxodont (African Elephant) has two 2d8 attacks and three 2d6 attacks in the 1977
Monster Manual, for an average of 39 damage! A First Edition elephant can completely pulp opponents in short order!
That suggests something no larger than a big bull
African Bush Elephant - maybe 12 feet tall and 10 tons - which is still Huge.
You could always stat up a standard Gurgotch as being Huge and Great Gurgotch of Gargantuan size to perform castle-toppling and army-squashing duties?
Come to think of it, it'll be helpful to have the original stats posted here so any readers who don't own
White Dwarf #14 can follow along!