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 STC_LogisEngine wrote:

Indeed! All Characters so far for the Legion has a strong army/squad support element and are not just beatsticks.

Dynat gives you the boosts of a master of signals consul, good offensive speed in close quarters and is a very flexible close-combat fighter.

Exodus is the coolest character in the game so far, gives good squadboosts to your head-hunters / recon squad and will mow down enemy sergeants, Vexillia-bearers and Independent characters at a frightening pace.

Alpharius, well.. he brings possibly the best army boost of all the Primarchs and also, his rules are the funniest of them all.


Use them well and defeat your foe with synergetic bonuses and interlocking tactics rather than with brute force.


one piece at the time...

Yep, every time I look at the rules for Alpha Legion and for the characters they've given us, I get a giggle at the trollishness of what you can do.

Alpha Legion have extremely well designed rules that allow for a lot of creativity and flexibility. Taking enemy-specific units and picking from unique special rules allows for quite impressive combos, and together with various other abilities they possess (such as Alpharius, le master troll) they look like an amusingly entertaining army to play.

O.K., thanks. I'll try to figure out what I can do with my models other than repainting them.

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/News/FORGE_WORLD_BULLETIN_71.html

FORGE WORLD BULLETIN #71

Forge World is well known for its big tanks and even bigger walkers, and if you’ve seen the Mars pattern Warlord Titan you’ll know exactly what I mean! This week I found something suitably huge nearing completion in the Forge World Studio, and this one certainly isn’t going to be fighting on behalf of the Imperium of Mankind. It looks much more concerned with bringing its enormous weapons to bear in the name of a completely different empire...




Annihilate your enemies for the Greater Good.

Speaking of towering war machines, Keith Robertson from the Forge World Studio has finished work on the latest addition to his Mechanicum army, a fantastic Questoris Knight Styrix. Its metallic red paint scheme looks awesome and really makes it stand out, Keith achieved this stunning colour using the Forge World Airbrush paint range.



Resplendent in the colours of the Mechanicum...


That’s all from me for now. Make sure you check back soon for more from the Forge World Studio.


Chris.

That knight is superb, cracking stuff !

That Mechanicum knight is very impressive. I guess they've probably painted it in a similar way to the Brass Scorpion of old, which did actually have a guide in one of their books (although I can't for the life of me remember which one... ).

That Tau thing looks terrible :( Cool painted Knight

The knight is literally a colour gradiant (black to grey or metallic black to metallic grey) with the new FW clear red applied over the top. Works a treat.

 -Shrike- wrote:
That Mechanicum knight is very impressive. I guess they've probably painted it in a similar way to the Brass Scorpion of old, which did actually have a guide in one of their books (although I can't for the life of me remember which one... ).

Tamiya clear colours (and I've had similar results with Minitaire ghost tints) airbrushed over a silver base. If you want some depth and texture, then spray blacks, Browns,golds or anything you like over the silver before applying the clear colour.

 Mr Morden wrote:
That Tau thing looks terrible :( Cool painted Knight

I agree it looks way ugly.

nothing elegant or futuristic about strapping more guns onto random spots. i would of liked it if like say the missile pods and burst cannons was actually integrated into the armor instead of tacked on.

The Ion cannons look like stock parts off a hh kit.

The new Rail cannon design i like though.

 Desubot wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:
That Tau thing looks terrible :( Cool painted Knight

I agree it looks way ugly.

nothing elegant or futuristic about strapping more guns onto random spots. i would of liked it if like say the missile pods and burst cannons was actually integrated into the armor instead of tacked on.

The Burst Cannons, for all intents and purposes, are just tacked on. The little blurb that someone got from the sculptor a few months back specifically stated that the Burst Cannons are there for "close-in defense"--and that they would get to Overwatch, despite the suit being a Superheavy Walker.

Has there been any word on how big the new Tau walker is exactly? I thought it was knight sized but the new picture makes it look huge to me...

bladeiai wrote:
Has there been any word on how big the new Tau walker is exactly? I thought it was knight sized but the new picture makes it look huge to me...

A full pic from earlier in the thread:

 JOHIRA wrote:

Spoiler:

Still doesn't give you the exact size, but it does seem pretty big.

I heard about as tall as a Cerastus but a lot bulkier. I really, really like it.

 Inspector #264 wrote:

bladeiai wrote:
Has there been any word on how big the new Tau walker is exactly? I thought it was knight sized but the new picture makes it look huge to me...

A full pic from earlier in the thread:

 JOHIRA wrote:

Spoiler:

Still doesn't give you the exact size, but it does seem pretty big.

To give a sense of scale, that base is what the Onager Dunecrawler comes on for the Skitarii.

It's a 160mm round base.

Oh if that is an Onager base he is a big boy lol

 Desubot wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:
That Tau thing looks terrible :( Cool painted Knight

I agree it looks way ugly.

nothing elegant or futuristic about strapping more guns onto random spots. i would of liked it if like say the missile pods and burst cannons was actually integrated into the armor instead of tacked on.

The Ion cannons look like stock parts off a hh kit.

The new Rail cannon design i like though.

Except that's how Tau weapons are on most craft and battlesuits - interchangeable weaponry and such on a universal coupling system. You know, quick refitting options between battles to better face their foes.

And FYI, that's how almost every single Ion weapon is designed - it's all the same tech, after all!

I like the big tau robot. It has a more mobile weapons platform look than the big and stompy look of the imperium and orks, or the giant anime fighting robot look of the eldar.

I see it is the broadside to the riptide's crisis suit. Also appreciate the smaller round heads by the shouldres and little view slits for the three tau pilots in the chest.

Makes it easier to believe there are pilots inside of the thing.

 Kepora wrote:

 Desubot wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:
That Tau thing looks terrible :( Cool painted Knight

I agree it looks way ugly.

nothing elegant or futuristic about strapping more guns onto random spots. i would of liked it if like say the missile pods and burst cannons was actually integrated into the armor instead of tacked on.

The Ion cannons look like stock parts off a hh kit.

The new Rail cannon design i like though.

Except that's how Tau weapons are on most craft and battlesuits - interchangeable weaponry and such on a universal coupling system. You know, quick refitting options between battles to better face their foes.

And FYI, that's how almost every single Ion weapon is designed - it's all the same tech, after all!

I mean sculpting wise. it just looks like they tacked it on instead of it being a integral part of it. also really hate the 3 barrel look they are going for lately.

as well, while its true the crisis suit models look like they have a bunch of interchangeable equipment tacked on, i prefer the FW fist weapons far more, and the new Broadside weapons as they seem to be better integrated into the suit.

The old suits are ugly

which is why i think this one looks ugly from the chest down.

I think everything else looks steller though especially the big Rails.

bladeiai wrote:
Has there been any word on how big the new Tau walker is exactly? I thought it was knight sized but the new picture makes it look huge to me...

In the open day thread, I posted this composite image where I took the base it is mounted on and tried to find the same base (from the onager) in a pic with a knight at roughly the same picture angle. I just kept resizing the titan till the base sizes matched up (see the half cut and paste on the base). Hope it helps.




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 Desubot wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:
That Tau thing looks terrible :( Cool painted Knight

I agree it looks way ugly.

I disagree so much that I could roll you both in glitter! That tau titan is glorious! I do agree though that the undernipple weapon mounts could use some work in becoming a bit more integrated into the body.

I dunno, guys, I think that Tau thing looks pretty freaking awesome.

I like it too.

Big mech! Looks pretty sweet.

I saw it at the FW Open day, it really is massive as it is much broader across the shoulders than a Cerastus. It'll be a real center piece model for any Tau army that is heavy on suits.

OMG. That Tau monster titan thing is everything I ever wanted from a Robotech/Battletech mech.

That shoulder mounted weapon would make the SDF-1 jealous. And the chest weapons are awesome. The thing on the left arm looks like it could blow up an Imperial Knight from across the battlefield

<3

I... must... resist...

@warboss... ty for resizing that image to match bases. Very cool of you.

That titan is going to be a monster. And probably like $800.

Prolly between £170 and £200, give or take.

Why are people complaining about the tau titan and saying it wouldn't exist?

I know tau fluff says they don't have them and don't use them, but tau are not the imperium, eldar etc. If they thought they needed a titan, they'd make one, slap some jump engines to it and off they go.

 Formosa wrote:
Why are people complaining about the tau titan and saying it wouldn't exist?

I know tau fluff says they don't have them and don't use them, but tau are not the imperium, eldar etc. If they thought they needed a titan, they'd make one, slap some jump engines to it and off they go.

Because certain Tau players have filled in the gaps with their own made up fluff and are offended that GW isn't following it. There are three different things that are being argued unfortunately simultaneously about this titan (purely visual aesthetics aside) as if they were one thing. There is a difference between "tau don't use titans", "tau can't use titans", and "tau won't use titans". The first up until this product was unveiled was absolutely true; tau simply didn't use titans (or big robots before the riptide) simply because they weren't mentioned and we didn't have any products to buy. There was of course no real mention of WHY and some players decided to make up their own. "Tau can't use titans" and earlier "big robots" ironically only BECAME true with the riptide's fluff simply so the riptide could be the first exception to that just created fluff. They made up the tech reasons why PREVIOUSLY the tau didn't use bigger robots only when they came out with bigger robots. Then we come to "tau won't use titans" which is complete fanspank. Just because I take a sedan to work doesn't mean that I won't ever take a pickup truck and yet somehow tau currently using superheavy fliers became that they have some moral or tactical abhorence against using titans. It really is stupid but the three DIFFERENT issues have become one in the eyes of some veteran players.

Tau suit looks fantastic IMHO. I love it.

 Formosa wrote:
Why are people complaining about the tau titan and saying it wouldn't exist?

I know tau fluff says they don't have them and don't use them, but tau are not the imperium, eldar etc. If they thought they needed a titan, they'd make one, slap some jump engines to it and off they go.

It's a similar knee jerk by some whenever the Imperium discovers a new STC template or pulls centurion armor out of thin air. It flys in the face of what people think makes sense in their rationalized bubble of an irrational fictional setting. I think it's pretty silly to think the army that draws inspiration from Japanese animation shouldn't have towering giant mecha.

I love it as well, I hope it nukes some wardens