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In those colours, there's a hint of the Insecticon about it. The robot version is probably to avoid getting sued by Hasbro (since the Ambull is basically an Umber Hulk knockoff).

I want one.

Oh, a sneaky Ciaphas Cain reference in the article. Well done.

Escher robot Ambul? Unexpected seems like one heck of an understatement. I wonder how big this thing is going to be?

 His Master's Voice wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:
I hope if that's the heavy mining 'bot-thing they mentioned it's a specific "hero" version of it that's been customised by its owning gang/character, because TBH I don't see the Imperium - even the evidently quite lax and distant Imperium of Necromunda - being cool-beans with robots designed to look like filthy xenos.

Looks like a standard Imperial design (the legs, torso and arms all use the same design traits you can find in Knights or AdMech walkers) that was retroactively modified to look like an ambull.

Yeah, if you remove those parts below his head that look like the Ambull's jaws, he looks like a normal imperial robot.

GoatboyBeta wrote:
Escher robot Ambul? Unexpected seems like one heck of an understatement. I wonder how big this thing is going to be?

For the moment it might be best to think “robot Ambull with Escher gang tags” instead. There were rumours a while back that there would be generic “brutes” available as well as possibly house-specific ones, and ‘pets’ too. This just might be the first of several.

Wouldn't a mining "robot" be better suited to the Orlocks? Don't they run the hive's mining operations while the Escher handle chemical productions?

I would think this robot is actually some kind of servitor, considering the Imperium's fear of AI and robots. I've been wanting to see more mechanical looking servitors like this for a while. It's nice to see one finally show up.

Doesn't the Head section of the robot-servitor thing match up with the new Van-Saar masks? So presumably manufactured by them and their STC and this one happens to have been 'repurposed' by an Escher gang?

Thats............very wierd.

Loads of points for the CC reference though

 Yodhrin wrote:
I hope if that's the heavy mining 'bot-thing they mentioned it's a specific "hero" version of it that's been customised by its owning gang/character, because TBH I don't see the Imperium - even the evidently quite lax and distant Imperium of Necromunda - being cool-beans with robots designed to look like filthy xenos.

To be fair, I don't think the imperium has ever had an issue with xeno fauna. I could be wrong, but any xeno creature with animal intelligence seems to often be...Just what it is, an animal on a different world. Despite this thing being bipedal-ish looking, it's still pretty squarely in the "wild animal"/"fauna" realm, just like grox which the setting essentially treats as scaly, alien cattle, Of course, I think if anything, people would be more offended by the willful use of machinery/ingenuity without the sanctity of the omnissiah's blessing (and possibly the cardinal sin of creating an abhorrent intelligence if there's no actual organic ambull in the center of it all)

Maybe it’s a robot that had chemical pheromone dispensers to attract other Ambuls. Use it to “guide” where the ambul dig/ mine and get free labor in hazardous areas.

Escher have acces to off world animals for furs and stuff so why not Ambulls I guess....so robot Ambulls too.l as well it seems.

I'm in agreement that it is built locally by the Van Saar techs and either sold or stolen by the Escher gangers to be used as extra muscle.

It would make for a fun model to use in a heist scenario, where the gang burrows through a wall or cellar into a stronghold to make away with the Wild Snake or Mung vase.

I have to say, that's one of the misty unusual and interesting models I've seen for 40K in a while.

While, I have to have one, I'm still not 100% sure I like it. It will depend on how that at translates into resin.

Bravo GW for taking some chances.

Chaos cult look great, equipment list is kinda boring but the ganger only cost 35 credit.

Oh and Heavy stubber is now 5+ ammo, could you stop GW?

I wish that ambull robot was a real ambull. Bleh.

I'd like to see a bot based on the Vorax chassis, that would be pretty interesting, maybe a mining laser and scoop hands?

ritualnet wrote:
I wish that ambull robot was a real ambull. Bleh.

Perhaps they don't want to be on the other end of a C&D? The ambull is basically a knockoff of the D&D Umber Hulk, after all.

Ah but the Umber Hulk was one of the D&D monsters ripped of dime store plastic monsters (eg http://diterlizzi.com/essay/owlbears-rust-monsters-and-bulettes-oh-my/)

But it was considered "Product identity", and thus not something released under the OGL in 3rd edition. It seems that WotC now consider it theirs.

 godardc wrote:
I don't understand: +2 if the ritual is being made by the demagogue but you can't pick him in the deck ?

The demagogue can´t be picked to act as a vessel because he is not stupid. If you roll snake eyes or a two or less after modifications then the vessel is screwed.

It looks to me that any "character" can use the Lead Ritual action in the post-battle sequence. If for instance the Demagogue is injured or you've sent him to do something else.

That could lead to the odd situation where a Disciple both leads and is the focus of a ritual, but so be it.

Leave it to GW to take a perfectly good idea and turn it into a mindless money grab....
Just when you had hope that the game was going to come back with better sculpts, and some new information, they turn it into a drip-drip of less then stellar ideas and just throw spaghetti at the wall to hope something sticks.

A Ambull robot? Seriously?
The game is quickly being reintroduced from a welcome idea and hope for the future of the game, to something that is beginning to be dreaded, as you wonder who's idea of this reverse Midas touch this is.
Compare that to the having to chase around stuff throughout GW's holdings, and they are not impressing anyone, at this point.

At this point, it is becoming a game of waiting for the next shoe to drop on your head.

...or it's a way to do a back door Rogue Trader 2E. The rules are sloppy and the timeline is agonizing, but I'll take it over my other options.

 Grot 6 wrote:
Leave it to GW to take a perfectly good idea and turn it into a mindless money grab....
Just when you had hope that the game was going to come back with better sculpts, and some new information, they turn it into a drip-drip of less then stellar ideas and just throw spaghetti at the wall to hope something sticks.

A Ambull robot? Seriously?
The game is quickly being reintroduced from a welcome idea and hope for the future of the game, to something that is beginning to be dreaded, as you wonder who's idea of this reverse Midas touch this is.
Compare that to the having to chase around stuff throughout GW's holdings, and they are not impressing anyone, at this point.

At this point, it is becoming a game of waiting for the next shoe to drop on your head.

What an odd reaction.

I really hope we get more cultist models as a sneaky release with this "expansion". Some of those options are not even available anymore..

I think these chaos cultists can be quite fun, but there are mistakes and I fear they can be too weak.

A shame that the cultists don't seem to have been used to introduce tainted weapons, that could potentially inflict lingering longer term damage on rivals - really make facing them an unpleasant prospect.

 Grot 6 wrote:

Compare that to the having to chase around stuff throughout GW's holdings, and they are not impressing anyone, at this point.

Um... Yeah...

On another note, back at the last weekender they referred to a Luther Class mining bot as one of the brutes for hire. Looks like we're looking at art for one that has been purchased by an escher gang. Looks pretty boss. Who doesn't want more robots? People who don't like fun maybe? People who don't like change? Ahem.

Maybe people who don't like the concept shown? Who knows.

Wish they’d just make an Ambull again!

 Howard A Treesong wrote:
Wish they’d just make an Ambull again!

(innocent whistle)

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