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Id want to remain an anonymous source saying that stuff to.... Whoever it is if they went public would get their head flushed for talking the proverbial.

I want to believe those Ad Mech rumour are true!

a source that wants to remain anonymous wrote:
Mechanicus:
starting late 2014 early 2015.
"Pre-releases" starting early 2014 with finecast Servitors, plastic Turrets, LR Medusa, used already by other armies.
White Dwarf historical propaganda on Mars, titan variants etc.
Starting release based on only two huge plastic kits, around 55GBP each:
- Knight "Titan" (standard paladin, scout lancer + variants, many weapons).
- Knight "Lord" (very heavy crusader, support +, character baron blink).
Each Knighthold can have 3-4 knights at 1250 pts.
Depending on sales and demand, more smaller Ad Mech will be released starting middle 2016.

Ahahahaha this is hilarious. Natfka really needs more of those lovely page hits huh. I'd believe a Codex: Squats rumour over this one.

I'm always amazed at how many people use the term 'Knight Titan' despite it never ever being mentioned in the original Epic fluff. Knights are just super-heavy walkers on par with Ork Stompas (and when did anyone ever say 'Stompa Gargant'?).
They've never been considered Titans and yet the phrase keeps popping up. In this case it serves as a useful BS* detector.

*no, not ballistic skill

 Sasori wrote:

 pretre wrote:
http://natfka.blogspot.com/2013/04/mechanicus-adeptus.html#more

a source that wants to remain anonymous wrote:
Mechanicus:
starting late 2014 early 2015.
"Pre-releases" starting early 2014 with finecast Servitors, plastic Turrets, LR Medusa, used already by other armies.
White Dwarf historical propaganda on Mars, titan variants etc.
Starting release based on only two huge plastic kits, around 55GBP each:
- Knight "Titan" (standard paladin, scout lancer + variants, many weapons).
- Knight "Lord" (very heavy crusader, support +, character baron blink).
Each Knighthold can have 3-4 knights at 1250 pts.
Depending on sales and demand, more smaller Ad Mech will be released starting middle 2016.

"I'll believe that when me gak turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbet."

Seconded. it's like crap is just spewing out from there.

I believe that whenever I physically hold the codex in my own hands. Until then, it's not real

 xttz wrote:

I'm always amazed at how many people use the term 'Knight Titan' despite it never ever being mentioned in the original Epic fluff. Knights are just super-heavy walkers on par with Ork Stompas (and when did anyone ever say 'Stompa Gargant'?).
They've never been considered Titans and yet the phrase keeps popping up. In this case it serves as a useful BS* detector.

Well, 'knight' is just such a generic word that many people feel need to add qualifier 'titan' to specify that they're talking about giant walkers instead of, say some Dark Angel veterans.

And yes, I agree these rumours do not seem terribly credible. (Though weren't there another rumour about a huge Imperial walker earlier?)

For the Eldar, I hope the Wraithguard/Lord get that same rule as that Necron creepycrawly thingy... War Construct rule has changed slightly which allows anything that doesn't use Fleshbane or Poison rules.

I reckon that the SoB will be replaced by the new army in 2014.As for BT I don't know but I reckon they will either get a big update or be rolled into SM codex like dirt, it's sad really...

 TechmarineNic wrote:
I reckon that the SoB will be replaced by the new army in 2014.

I bet you a Paypal nickel they won't.

I only have my own observations on this. But it seems to me that so far the new releases have been armies that have needed rules updates more then new models.

I think CSM got more new models then the other releases (I could be wrong)

So with that in mind: it wouldn't surprise me at all if SM or IG got an update in the near future, along with Eldar.

Maybe closer to the end of the year we'll see SoB or BT who do need a completely new model range.

We'll see about plastic AdMech, especially since most signs point to FW *someday* doing a HH book covering the Mechanicum of that era. But then GW is going to have to sell us something in 2015, right? At the rate they're going, most of the existing codices should be in good shape for 6th, and AdMech is one of biggest untapped ideas out there. Apoc and/or the allies system would also allow them to test market AdMech like the rumors suggest. None of this means that there's anything to those rumors, just that AdMech will always be a plausible new army.

I was a little disappointed. Since they have been going with themes lately when designing updates. I was hoping to see a little bit more Japanese armor influence for the tau foot soldiers. Other wise I loved all the new stuff. Really looking forward to we what big Mek type thing there gunna give my orks.

 -Loki- wrote:

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
Plastic stormtroopers and veterans? Dreamforge.

Plastic Knights and Big thingies for the Imperium on a large base? Dreamforge.

There, problem solved, and at a fraction of the cost.

I'm sorry... what? Speaking from Australian prices, the oval base large models sit in the $90au-$96au bracket. The Dreamforge mechs are $150au (I know, because my FLGS has a pile of them on display, and I was shocked when I saw the cost compared to the size, which is only slightly larger than the GW large oval base kits). I don't see how nearly double the cost translates to a fraction of the cost.

Yes, I see if you're looking only at the currently available product, you could get that impression. But the 15mm version of the huge mech will be on a 60mm base, and stand around 4.5 inches tall. They should retail for 45$ more or less. SOrry, I should have mentionned that they are not released quite yet.

 pretre wrote:
"I'll believe that when me gak turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbet."

We are in complete agreement.

And yeah, they're not titans. Even the first HH book FW put out refers to them as "Heavy Walkers".

 Kroothawk wrote:
No, High Elves in May. Eldar in autumn.

Wished I read this before ordering a High Elves codex ...

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 pretre wrote:
"I'll believe that when me gak turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbet."

We are in complete agreement.

And yeah, they're not titans. Even the first HH book FW put out refers to them as "Heavy Walkers".

Pagin Platuan4th, STAT!

Anyway, this is one of those crazy rumors that you just somehow still hope could be true...

 suspiratus wrote:

 Kroothawk wrote:
No, High Elves in May. Eldar in autumn.

Wished I read this before ordering a High Elves codex ...

High Elf Codex is rare and sought after. High Elf armybook is dated

 pretre wrote:
"I'll believe that when me gak turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbet."

I can help you with 50% of that. If you eat a plateful of roast Beetroot you'll start gakking purple. The sherbet part might be a little trickyer...

a source that wants to remain anonymous wrote:
Mechanicus:
starting late 2014 early 2015.
"Pre-releases" starting early 2014 with finecast Servitors, plastic Turrets, LR Medusa, used already by other armies.
White Dwarf historical propaganda on Mars, titan variants etc.
Starting release based on only two huge plastic kits, around 55GBP each:
- Knight "Titan" (standard paladin, scout lancer + variants, many weapons).
- Knight "Lord" (very heavy crusader, support +, character baron blink).
Each Knighthold can have 3-4 knights at 1250 pts.
Depending on sales and demand, more smaller Ad Mech will be released starting middle 2016.

As for this steaming pile of hooey. It's so laughable its sad.

 Kroothawk wrote:

 suspiratus wrote:

 Kroothawk wrote:
No, High Elves in May. Eldar in autumn.

Wished I read this before ordering a High Elves codex ...

High Elf Codex is rare and sought after. High Elf armybook is dated

Wasnt Eldar in June? Let it be in June.

To be fair, they did refer to them as titans with inverted commas: it could've just been for clarity.

Ralis wrote:
But it seems to me that so far the new releases have been armies that have needed rules updates more then new models.
I think CSM got more new models then the other releases (I could be wrong)
Maybe closer to the end of the year we'll see SoB or BT who do need a completely new model range.

6th edition new codex models breakdown like this.

CSM: 9 new units, 1 release moved to Finecast and boxed into a unit of 3 (Obliterators)

Dark Angels: 7 new units

Tau:7 new units, 1 total remake model (Broadside),

Necrons got about 20 new units including FC ICs. But they really had a crap army to begin with.

And in typical fashion, Natfka reverses...

an Anonymous Source wrote:
Mechanicus Adeptus
GW is not introducing any new full armies. They're really happy with the spectrum of options currently available.

Forgeworld is adding a few mechanicus units per Horus Heresy Book, that by the time they're on the 3rd or 4th book will have enough options for a full list.

New Mini-Dex's
There are still ideas about mini-dex's that have very few options and are very one dimensioned.
I.E.
1 HQ choice
1-2 troops
1 Elite/Fast Attack/Heavy Support

Granted you could run it as a pure army but it wouldn't work very well.
They're a ways out. After all the codexes are updated.

There MUST be a level, where he realizes that he is constantly trolled.

 Nicorex wrote:

Ralis wrote:
But it seems to me that so far the new releases have been armies that have needed rules updates more then new models.
I think CSM got more new models then the other releases (I could be wrong)
Maybe closer to the end of the year we'll see SoB or BT who do need a completely new model range.

6th edition new codex models breakdown like this.

CSM: 9 new units, 1 release moved to Finecast and boxed into a unit of 3 (Obliterators)

Dark Angels: 7 new units

Tau:7 new units, 1 total remake model (Broadside),

Thank you.

I know this is 40K... but aside from a sprinkgling of High Elves, rumours for May have been very sparse, no?

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
I know this is 40K... but aside from a sprinkgling of High Elves, rumours for May have been very sparse, no?

We are still a couple weeks away from the standard White Dwarf leak.

OOOOHHHH I hope its ELDAR!!

stormboy wrote:

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
I know this is 40K... but aside from a sprinkgling of High Elves, rumours for May have been very sparse, no?

We are still a couple weeks away from the standard White Dwarf leak.

To be fair we already had that; except it was on the Facebook pages of the North American shops.

FarseerAndyMan wrote:
OOOOHHHH I hope its ELDAR!!

Eldar would be quite cool. My best friend and Warhammer buddy wants to start collecting them at some point and this might actually motivate him to do so.

I am hoping (in vain) for the new plastic Greater Daemon models to be released soon if they actually have them coming. I was quite let down that they weren't in the initial Chaos Daemon release. I am still somewhat hopeful that those are in the works somewhere and were not just internet gossip.

They could do a Ad mec army easily, Their is tones of descriptions of the different kinds of Skitiri and Tec-Gaurd forces over the years in black libery books. Ton of insperation to draw from for units and factions that could be covered in a book. Also GW likes their big kits, and all the diffrent varients of knight titans means they woul have plenty of big kits they can sell for years for a ad mec army. (Even more so if said book can ally with both loyalists and chaos forces for Dark Mec)

The ad mec could also be interesting from a game play perspective. Alot of cheap infantry with expensive elite units and big walkers laying down fire.


But the truth is that any talk of playable Ad mec is to good to be true, unless more creditable Rumor mongers start coming foreword. I'm not holding my breath for ad mec. lol