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EDIT: Apparently this was already posted in another thread. I figured it would have warranted it's own. Oh well. Mods, feel free to close/delete.

A brick of metal pulled by two horses, also already covered in metal? Uhg.

I wants!!! Khador needs to fancy cortexes, we have brave soldiers and big, strong horses. You die now!!!

ph34r wrote:A brick of metal pulled by two horses, also already covered in metal? Uhg.

I like the idea. The carriage on the back could use more Dakka!

Those horses need to be steam powered.

If the jacks can have their own self contained steampowered motor then why can't that thing? Seems really silly, but I'm not well versed in the iron kingdoms fluff, so maybe there's something in there I'm missing.

Also, what is this for? New Warmachine models? New "epic" scale game? Video game? I don't keep up with PP too much so I have no idea and that teaser doesn't tell much.

bbb wrote:If the jacks can have their own self contained steampowered motor then why can't that thing? Seems really silly, but I'm not well versed in the iron kingdoms fluff, so maybe there's something in there I'm missing.

Expense, presumably. My only Iron Kingdoms experience was an RPG campaign, but I believe the engines for Warjacks are pretty expensive. Some factions mgiht like non-magical power sources.

ph34r wrote:A brick of metal pulled by two horses, also already covered in metal? Uhg.

It's Khador... All the elegance and subtly of a wrecking ball.

bbb wrote:If the jacks can have their own self contained steampowered motor then why can't that thing? Seems really silly, but I'm not well versed in the iron kingdoms fluff, so maybe there's something in there I'm missing.

Also, what is this for? New Warmachine models? New "epic" scale game? Video game? I don't keep up with PP too much so I have no idea and that teaser doesn't tell much.

Khador's steam boilers have a nasty habit of over heating and killing the people wearing them. Coupled with their more... simplistic approach to mechanika design a horse driven bullet wagon fits with their fluff.

Wrath is the new expansion for Warmachine coming out next year. It's introducing "War Engines" which are big (110 mm base) heavy support weapons. Khador is getting the doom wagon, Cygnar is getting a quadruped war walker, Cryx is getting a big mechanical ghost monster, and PoM is getting... I don't a know a church or something.

Is that big tank gonna be all metal? or plastic?

Rumor is resin. But it's just, a rumor.

Also: Narcacuga posted this image somewhere on the Privateer Press forums,
and Jandrese reposted it in the thread over there.

malfred wrote:Rumor is resin. But it's just, a rumor.

Also: Narcacuga posted this image somewhere on the Privateer Press forums,
and Jandrese reposted it in the thread over there.

So is the PoM war engine actually just one of their 'casters being carted around? Seriously, she's so damn lazy that she doesn't even walk, and now floating around by herself is too hard? Geez Harby, stop being such a slug.

It's basically a lolpic of the Avatar holding up the Harbinger with Choir and
zealots all up on the base (that oval on the bottom).

2112 wrote:Apparently this was already posted in another thread. I figured it would have warranted it's own. Oh well. Mods, feel free to close/delete.

No problem, having one two or three threads for every single miniature released by Privateer is not much of a difference.

What I would give for a proper tank in Warmachine. Yes I'm an unrepentant trend head.

I'm not sure that proper tanks would be all that useful. If we had 12' tall metal men that could hurl each other around back at the dawn of the 20th century I'm pretty sure the tank wouldn't have happened.

Because they would just get thrown at their creators.

Not unless you make the tanks too big to throw around.

Eh?

I like that Khador thing. Would make for several cool conversions...first without horses...second it would be a killer base for Ork 40k conversions.

Another thing to realize is that these warjacks all have tank weaponry and armor, with the mobility of infantry.

That's a tank's worst nightmare right there.

Anyone who thinks that Mecha would make tanks obsolete obviously hasn't spent enough time on the internet...

As improbable as it may or may not be...


...I like it!

I'm interested in seeing where they go with this.

Will this be what finally gets me into Warmachine?

I've had "Go go Power Horses!" still storming through my mind half an hour after looking at this silly thing.


Please make it stop ;_;

I was hoping for a more BFG style turret on it, but eh, this'll do. I'm holding my breath for the Cryx one, and if Mercs don't get one, and yeah they're not a nation but regardless, if they don't I'll lost all faith in PP

Erm....so they have 'steam powered' roboty things...but their tanks are pulled by horses?

Erm....huh?

the tank of the nation with a strong horse lord history is pulled....probably so they have more room for armor and guns

malfred wrote:It's basically a lolpic of the Avatar holding up the Harbinger with Choir and
zealots all up on the base (that oval on the bottom).

But how are you going to field an army large enough to justify fielding these monstrosities, if you can't spend points on the Avatar and the Harbinger in the first place.

H.B.M.C. wrote:Anyone who thinks that Mecha would make tanks obsolete obviously hasn't spent enough time on the internet...

Thank you H., I needed a new quote for my sig.

If this had an engine front or back I would like it. As it is: fail.

I thought the War Altar of Sigmar was bad enough.

H.B.M.C. wrote:Anyone who thinks that Mecha would make tanks obsolete obviously hasn't spent enough time on the internet...

With Warmachine it's not a matter of the mechs making tanks obsolete... It's that this may be the only case where the mechs came first. Every other IP I'm aware of has mechs being an evolution of the tank. Here they skipped past the halftracks and tanks and just built the mechs.

Another gimmick from PP that I am not happy with. Seems like a new way to add further expense to the game. I would guess these will be must-have units or some such that will re-define the game and its formats, etc.

I suppose I shouldn't complain about a dynamic company, but sometimes I worry about the whole MtG eventuality my friends and I are waiting for. We may be wrong, but until we are proven so, we just stick to GW games.

em_en_oh_pee wrote:Another gimmick from PP that I am not happy with. Seems like a new way to add further expense to the game. I would guess these will be must-have units or some such that will re-define the game and its formats, etc.

I suppose I shouldn't complain about a dynamic company, but sometimes I worry about the whole MtG eventuality my friends and I are waiting for. We may be wrong, but until we are proven so, we just stick to GW games.

What's the MtG eventuality?

I started playing Magic really early, before the "rotation" thing and the push towards collectible, but I watched it go from good, to bad, to worse in a hurry. Now there is strict rotations for the "competitive" formats, meaning a card woth $50 and highly valued might drop to $5 after rotation and not be "legal" outside of certain venues.

A lot of my friends are worried Warmachine / Hordes will do this or something similar to what maybe Mechwarrior Clix did. Retiring models / cards to make room for new sculpts and whatnot, perhaps advancing the timeline or releasing new mandatory expansions to push sales, etc. In other words, forcing frequent model/card/book purchases to encourage sales.