Apocalypse Command Vehicle Upgrade Sprue pics...

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**Ghaz**

... or at least that's what they're rumored to be. From Warseer:

**Gordy2000**

So it looks like Chaos, Imperial Tau and Eldar all on the one sprue?

Seems somewhat odd. Have we ever seen a mixed sprue like this before?

**Kid_Kyoto**

Yeah, in the late 90s GW phased out the metal musician and standard bitz from their fantasy plastics and replaced them wtih an undead/chaos/ork/skaven sprue.

**ptlangley**

I have seen the release schedule but this doesn't show up independently on it if I remember correctly. I guess this will be one of the add ins for the vehicle sets, I wonder if you will get one in the baneblade set??

**Necros**

So... what is it that makes it commandy? You stick a big pretty new eagle on something and that means your leader is inside?

**Broon**

Wrong on so many levels.

**H.B.M.C.**

I love the optic lense in the Daemon's mouth. That's just beyond silly...

BYE

**Breotan**

A Tau command vehicle is a Devilfish with a spoiler? Racing stripes optional?

**upliftingprimer**

Posted By Breotan on 07/15/2007 7:07 AM
A Tau command vehicle is a Devilfish with a spoiler? Racing stripes optional?

hmm, nascar tau ha ... im going to have to steal that theam

**Pariah Press**

Posted By Gordy2000 on 07/14/2007 7:02 PM
So it looks like Chaos, Imperial Tau and Eldar all on the one sprue?

Seems somewhat odd. Have we ever seen a mixed sprue like this before?

Oh man, anyone remember the old Stompers boxed set for Epic? Ork Stompers and Dreadnoughts, Chaos Dreadnoughts and Androids, Marine Dreadnoughts and Terminators, Eldar Dreadnoughts and Wraithguard... it was a mess.

Anyway, I think that this new sprue will be included in the big company boxes that are coming out for Apocalypse.

**Mannahnin**

Posted By Gordy2000 on 07/14/2007 7:02 PM
So it looks like Chaos, Imperial Tau and Eldar all on the one sprue?

Seems somewhat odd. Have we ever seen a mixed sprue like this before?

Twenty years ago the first Warhammer boxed regiments were like this:

**stonefox**

This is the first time I've been disappointed with a Tau model. It looks like the applied the "more skullz = more goth" formula to technology. Maybe I should put 50 optic lenses on my future computer case to prevent people from thinking it's an old model.

**Ghaz**

I think I'd wait and see what they look like on the vehicle before I criticize them.

**Phryxis**

Maybe I should put 50 optic lenses on my future computer case to prevent people from thinking it's an old model.

Only if you have 72 left over for your demon head.

**pnweerar**

In WW2, the Russians could tell which the German command tanks were, cause they were the ones with the long antennae.

Anyone notice that the Imperial Guard get a big antenna and a fancy crest?

That's all that's needed. Command tanks don't look very different from the rest of the tanks in their platoon.

Why would they?

**Ghaz**

Word is that 'fancy crest' is actually the dish of the antenna.

**JOHIRA**

"Command tanks don't look very different from the rest of the tanks in their platoon.

Why would they? "

For the same reason that most commanders in 40K feel the need to strap a huge bullseye banner to their backs, take off their helmets, and point at the enemy with their fingers instead of with their guns.

**Abadabadoobaddon**

That's why my command tanks will just be normal tanks with the hatches removed and the commander's bald helmetless head sticking out. Screaming.

**Asmodai**

Posted By Abadabadoobaddon on 07/15/2007 11:00 PM
That's why my command tanks will just be normal tanks with the hatches removed and the commander's bald helmetless head sticking out. Screaming.

But he won't be pointing at anything.

**Kotrin**

This sprue is a gift offered to Battewagon Bitz.

**pnweerar**

For the same reason that most commanders in 40K feel the need to strap a huge bullseye banner to their backs, take off their helmets, and point at the enemy with their fingers instead of with their guns.

Well this is a damned if they do, damned if they don't problem.

I'll agree with you that minis need to be dynamic and interesting, but therein lies the reflexive depositing of more and more skulls, scrolls, spikes, and screaming.

GW could have gone for fancy, or for realism. It's interesting that they tend to run the range (Elysians with HUD style visors, versus Vostroyans with wood handled flamers).

**Elusive71**

Posted By upliftingprimer on 07/15/2007 7:42 AM

Posted By Breotan on 07/15/2007 7:07 AM
A Tau command vehicle is a Devilfish with a spoiler? Racing stripes optional?

hmm, nascar tau ha ... im going to have to steal that theam

Nascar would be Orks. Tau are total Ricers.

**Schepp himself**

Pimp your tank it is...

Strange kit which is really perfect for battlewagon bits.

I for one use the "non-bald-sarge" for my armies since I started, not much you need special kits for. The choice is pretty much yours.

Let's see how these things look on vehicles, expecially those new funky mufflers in the lower right corner.

Greets
Schepp himself

**Tim**

GW already Pimped the etherial, why not "pimp yo fish"

**JOHIRA**

Posted By pnweerar on 07/16/2007 8:41 AM

Well this is a damned if they do, damned if they don't problem.

I'll agree with you that minis need to be dynamic and interesting, but therein lies the reflexive depositing of more and more skulls, scrolls, spikes, and screaming.

GW could have gone for fancy, or for realism. It's interesting that they tend to run the range (Elysians with HUD style visors, versus Vostroyans with wood handled flamers).

I don't agree at all. Warhammer 40K is not a realistic game. Half of the armies out there eschew any form of useful camouflage at all. The only army that bothers to systematically assign camouflage to match their enviornment is the Imperial Guard, a meat-grinder organization where the commanders otherwise simply don't care how many of their troops die. Furthermore the first and second most technologically-advanced races in the game lack spotlights for their vehicles. Speaking of technology, the STC for holsters and pockets seems to have been lost because no one is allowes to carry more weapons than they can physically hold in their hands at any given moment.

The game isn't about realism at all. It's about putting cool-looking models on the table-top. If you want your tanks to be ultra realistic, make some antennas out of guitar string or whatever it is modellers use (3rd edition Space Marine Codex had some great examples of this) on your command vehicles and let that be all the designation you need.

Personally, I'm tickled silly that GW gave us a sprue of stuff NON-HUMAN ARMIES CAN USE. I don't think I've ever seen an expansion to the core game of this nature that gave the rest of us a bone like this before.

**upliftingprimer**

Posted By Elusive71 on 07/16/2007 10:49 AM

Posted By upliftingprimer on 07/15/2007 7:42 AM

Posted By Breotan on 07/15/2007 7:07 AM
A Tau command vehicle is a Devilfish with a spoiler? Racing stripes optional?

hmm, nascar tau ha ... im going to have to steal that theam

Nascar would be Orks. Tau are total Ricers.

sorry its stuck in my head: tau with lots of cowboy and thows funy beer drinking hats and beer cans on insted proton granade dispenser and of corse company adds on the tanks (sorry i like my country music and my nascar yee-haw)

**Breotan**

Nah. Tau totally fit the theme of Fast & Furious Tokyo Drift.

**Elusive71**

Posted By Breotan on 07/20/2007 8:32 AM
Nah. Tau totally fit the theme of Fast & Furious Tokyo Drift.

Precicely my point with the Import Tuner picture. Although most Tau probably would do without the ground effects, I imagine there exists a Tau sept that doesn't bother with actual performance upgrades and just load up their Hammerheads with fart cans, cold air intakes, spoilers, etc.

**Brother Bartius**

And double overhead cams, 24 valves, turbo. LOL

(sorry UK)