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Even better. From BoLS:

The baroque detail in the guns, the robotics all the way down to the feet, and the weird equipment and tubes, on top of the iconic red robes... It's all just so good.

Sooo pretty...

Are they bionic goat legs or is it just the angle of the picture ?

I fully understand that it is only my opinion but those are godawful without taking into account the price, which makes the fw models a valid comparison.

It's like they took the chaos cultist give him the empire state troop head swap randomly dabbed it in glue and rolled it in there bitz box.

Nephilim wrote:
Are they bionic goat legs or is it just the angle of the picture ?

Of course. The basis of any futuristic neo-gothic technocracy is bionic goat legs. duh!

Gods, everything looks SO DAMN GOOD! The weapons look so over-the-top, the gigantic arquebus, the way the rangers look with their bionics, robot parts and hood... even the other type is starting to grow on me...

The wooden gun really looks like a musket. Although I like the other one.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Sooo pretty...

My sentiments exactly. I was just going to pick up one of each on AdMech... but........ Those are sooooo purrrdddyyyyy

TY ClockworkZion for forwarding that Very pumped now.

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
The wooden gun really looks like a musket. Although I like the other one.

Yeah. A musket with a PTRS muzzle break, for some reason, despite that it's probably firing lightning or lasers or something.

 Kosake wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
The wooden gun really looks like a musket. Although I like the other one.

Yeah. A musket with a PTRS muzzle break, for some reason, despite that it's probably firing lightning or lasers or something.

It's kind of sad. One of the reasons I like the Ad Mech is they they generally look more high tech then the rest of the imperium. Yet here they are using a fething wooden gun. And, with my luck, it's going to turn out to be their best weapon...

For the price the 'wooden gun' is pretty bad... 60" AP3 Sniper rifle for as much as a power fist? Not too good...

 Matt.Kingsley wrote:
For the price the 'wooden gun' is pretty bad... 60" AP3 Sniper rifle for as much as a power fist? Not too good...

Well as a few of us have said, the people writing the rules have what we could charitably call a casual or passing relationship with how their game actually works, so don't expect miracles (or... any semblance of balance, internal or external - units are written in a vacuum most of the time, or at least it seems that way).

But they're just so darn good lookin' that I really don't care what the rules are.

I don't know, people in my areas complain about my 48" sniper. Although they may have more to do with me abusing the fact that they are rapid fire and on drones...

 Matt.Kingsley wrote:
For the price the 'wooden gun' is pretty bad... 60" AP3 Sniper rifle for as much as a power fist? Not too good...

Heavy 3 and Armourbane though. But as I play a version of 2nd Ed the rules mean very little.


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 Co'tor Shas wrote:

 Kosake wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
The wooden gun really looks like a musket. Although I like the other one.

Yeah. A musket with a PTRS muzzle break, for some reason, despite that it's probably firing lightning or lasers or something.

It's kind of sad. One of the reasons I like the Ad Mech is they they generally look more high tech then the rest of the imperium. Yet here they are using a fething wooden gun. And, with my luck, it's going to turn out to be their best weapon...

But quite a lot of modern rifles have wooden "finishing" especially if they are made for hunting and such . If (and this is only a hypothesis) the AM care what they produce for their own forces why wouldn't they make them Baroque and functional?

I had a few weeks in a proof house ( where firearms are tested ) and from what I saw and was told often custom ( I.e. fancy ) guns often performed far better than their mass produced equivalent. But the funny thing was often the older say musket ( reproduction or working museum / collectors) hardly failed.

 Co'tor Shas wrote:

 Kosake wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
The wooden gun really looks like a musket. Although I like the other one.

Yeah. A musket with a PTRS muzzle break, for some reason, despite that it's probably firing lightning or lasers or something.

It's kind of sad. One of the reasons I like the Ad Mech is they they generally look more high tech then the rest of the imperium. Yet here they are using a fething wooden gun. And, with my luck, it's going to turn out to be their best weapon...

Or you could paint it up as the material of your choice...

In the unlikely event that an opponent complains that its not painted as per the original White Dwarf article, state that yours is made from alien trees!

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Matt.Kingsley wrote:
For the price the 'wooden gun' is pretty bad... 60" AP3 Sniper rifle for as much as a power fist? Not too good...

Well as a few of us have said, the people writing the rules have what we could charitably call a casual or passing relationship with how their game actually works, so don't expect miracles (or... any semblance of balance, internal or external - units are written in a vacuum most of the time, or at least it seems that way).

But they're just so darn good lookin' that I really don't care what the rules are.

Oh don't get me wrong, I know GDubs don't know their own rules.
Hell, I don't care that the rifles are bad (as you said, they look darn good. There is no way I'm not including a few in an AdMech army), it's just that Co'tor needn't worry about them being so good his has to use the wooden guns he doesn't like

migooo wrote:

 Matt.Kingsley wrote:
For the price the 'wooden gun' is pretty bad... 60" AP3 Sniper rifle for as much as a power fist? Not too good...

Heavy 3 and Armourbane though. But as I play a version of 2nd Ed the rules mean very little.

They're only Heavy 1, and Armourbane is nice... just not on a S4 gun.
But sod the bad rules, they look cool!

Oops! That's what you get from switching between tabs on a Kindle Fire. Sorry.

SeanDrake wrote:
I fully understand that it is only my opinion but those are godawful without taking into account the price, which makes the fw models a valid comparison.

It's like they took the chaos cultist give him the empire state troop head swap randomly dabbed it in glue and rolled it in there bitz box.

no offense but if you think these are just blinged up cultists you need to get your eyes checked. other then "yes they both have robes" the simiarlties aren't exactly there

BrianDavion wrote:

SeanDrake wrote:
I fully understand that it is only my opinion but those are godawful without taking into account the price, which makes the fw models a valid comparison.

It's like they took the chaos cultist give him the empire state troop head swap randomly dabbed it in glue and rolled it in there bitz box.

no offense but if you think these are just blinged up cultists you need to get your eyes checked. other then "yes they both have robes" the simiarlties aren't exactly there

The Goggles on some cultists suppose look similar to the lenses on the hooded heads.

But that kinda thing would look similar.

Oh god... please no. I love the look of these figures... but... no money.

No money.

No money.

Still a bit to Death Korps for me, but I won't deny that I'm loving that musket sniper rifle. I may buy them just to get my hands on that for a historical project.


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 Moopy wrote:
Oh god... please no. I love the look of these figures... but... no money.

No money.

No money.

Crime?

Whilst I do like them, I think they are maybe a little bit 'too clean' for my liking... It may be the paint job though, I'm sure they will look outstanding when some of the better painters on here get hold of them.

My only other slight criticism is that they are a little bit too uniformed (linked back to being clean) and robotic for my liking in the skitari themselves. The walker is outstanding and everything that the should look like, but the messed up forging of flesh and metal should be shown in the skitari themselves, not jus looking like they are wearing a suit and in that back to the uniformed clean look, one should have a bionic leg whilst another shouldn't etc.

 Matt.Kingsley wrote:
For the price the 'wooden gun' is pretty bad... 60" AP3 Sniper rifle for as much as a power fist? Not too good...

I'd take a 60" AP3 Sniper fired with BS4 or maybe even higher if they have some sort of target designators any day over a power fist for the same price...

drbored wrote:
The baroque detail in the guns, the robotics all the way down to the feet, and the weird equipment and tubes, on top of the iconic red robes... It's all just so good.

Yep, I hate it when GW does some actual design work, for once. This is Dark Eldar release all over again.

migooo wrote:
But quite a lot of modern rifles have wooden "finishing" especially if they are made for hunting and such . If (and this is only a hypothesis) the AM care what they produce for their own forces why wouldn't they make them Baroque and functional?

I had a few weeks in a proof house ( where firearms are tested ) and from what I saw and was told often custom ( I.e. fancy ) guns often performed far better than their mass produced equivalent. But the funny thing was often the older say musket ( reproduction or working museum / collectors) hardly failed.

Well, that's because the old tech is just too simple to fail. Muskets are hardly more than a metal tube with gunpowder at one end. As long as you can get the stuff ignited (primer caps or even brimstone sparky thing), it has no other options but work. Even a couple hundred years later, you'd need to rework the basic bolt action rifle with a big hammer before it would cause a malfunction. Not saying that wear and tear don't show in the accuracy department, but the mere "trigger is pulled, projectile comes out" becomes only a problem if you have at least a semi-automatic weapon-

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
Still a bit to Death Korps for me, but I won't deny that I'm loving that musket sniper rifle. I may buy them just to get my hands on that for a historical project.


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 Moopy wrote:
Oh god... please no. I love the look of these figures... but... no money.

No money.

No money.

Crime?

Cant. I found out that:

The transfer sheet has some great bits on it, definitely getting one of those for my 30K Mechanicus.

Nephilim wrote:
The transfer sheet has some great bits on it, definitely getting one of those for my 30K Mechanicus.

Pic?

Those pictures just upped my motivation for a job interview I got today by about 200%. Need these. Also, Tyranids for sale!