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The more I see this stuff, the more I like it.

I'm a good second for whoever 3D prints this. I'll take two of them. PM me when you make this happen, let me throw some green at you for them.

I love them. Alt Rough Riders or even scout sentinels maybe?

Somehow Chariots of Fire would be appropriate right now!

And there are at least a couple of weapons in that image not in the images on WHC.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
I love them. Alt Rough Riders or even scout sentinels maybe?

Way too small for Sentinels. They would be a really good base to mix in to GSC bike gangs though.

I think they're amazing. They're my fav thing GW's put out in a while.

Looks like there's only two versions of the legs and all have the right leg planted on the ground. Hopefully they're at least partially posable.

I'm also very happy with the variety of weapons for the riders. If they're wrist joins rather than shoulder joins then that's even more kitbashing/conversion opportunities.

 Breotan wrote:
Hopefully they're at least partially posable.

There's that word again...

So they skipped over Van Saar and went to Cawdor…. Why do I get a bad feeling that gravcutters will get retconned to vehicles or made bike-like.

Anyways glad Cawdor got something new and different. The ride-on knights are kinda inspired and very 40K-ish.
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Maybe monday we will see the book?

I love the models, but I can't mentally reconcile one of the least technologically advanced gangs and biped vehicles.

Edit: The more I look at them, the more I see them on bikes based on early bicycle designs, the ones with the big front wheel. Now, to figure out if I can get wheels big enough, or if I'll have to print them...

Of all the small vehicles they've done for ash wastes so far, I like this best.

They're impractical, and goofy, and dangerous, so basically perfect

 Chairman Aeon wrote:
So they skipped over Van Saar and went to Cawdor…. Why do I get a bad feeling that gravcutters will get retconned to vehicles or made bike-like.

Or they'll go full Flanderisation and Van Saar will get one or two man spider-walkers.

Arachnirig with gunner standing on top with heavy weapon…but it’s antigrav.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Chairman Aeon wrote:
So they skipped over Van Saar and went to Cawdor…. Why do I get a bad feeling that gravcutters will get retconned to vehicles or made bike-like.

Or they'll go full Flanderisation and Van Saar will get one or two man spider-walkers.

I was hopeful that Van Saar might get antigrav barges (kinda like Tatooine ones) but it seems everything is focused around one man vehicles.


But heck, I'm still salty that Escher have wargear for heroes (to use with their power swords and other nasty melee weapons), and Goliaths get vehicles that are limited to crew (so no melee options at all). Who is out there telling Bulgy McFists that he can't have the bike-tractor?

They’re adorable.

The hobos riding the wrong trousers still aren't visually selling the 'dangerous and inhospitable wasteland' vibe to me, what with all of their exposed flesh and cloth masks.

 Dysartes wrote:
And there are at least a couple of weapons in that image not in the images on WHC.

Sticking a saw blade on a morningstar is a perfect GW-ism and I'm surprised I haven't seen them do it sooner.

Because it’s a terrible weapon? I mean stupidity in The underhive and use what you can find is all very well, but I can’t see how the user would last long enough to become honoured with the fancy leg machine.

It’s not very heavy for blunt impact, and you’ll never be able to get it to hit edge on reliably.

 Flinty wrote:
Because it’s a terrible weapon?

I think you mean a holy weapon of righteous indignation, where each swing brings you closer to the Emperor's Grace!

 His Master's Voice wrote:
I love the models, but I can't mentally reconcile one of the least technologically advanced gangs and biped vehicles.

Yeah same, we are still struggling with walkers, they will never become an easier tech to build than wheels.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Flinty wrote:
Because it’s a terrible weapon?

I think you mean a holy weapon of righteous indignation, where each swing brings you closer to the Emperor's Grace!

If you last long enough to swing it more than once

 Flinty wrote:
Because it’s a terrible weapon? I mean stupidity in The underhive and use what you can find is all very well, but I can’t see how the user would last long enough to become honoured with the fancy leg machine.

I'm sorry, I thought "a terrible weapon" is implicit in the expression "peak GW-ism". The designers know next to nothing about any kind of weapons actually used by actual human beings in combat with other human beings. It's all just designed "from the gut".

 Flinty wrote:
Because it’s a terrible weapon? I mean stupidity in The underhive and use what you can find is all very well, but I can’t see how the user would last long enough to become honoured with the fancy leg machine.

It’s not very heavy for blunt impact, and you’ll never be able to get it to hit edge on reliably.

It's the exactly same kind of zeal that gives you frag-lances with Range 2 and Blast 3 The Emperor Protects, after all.

 Agamemnon2 wrote:

 Flinty wrote:
Because it’s a terrible weapon? I mean stupidity in The underhive and use what you can find is all very well, but I can’t see how the user would last long enough to become honoured with the fancy leg machine.

I'm sorry, I thought "a terrible weapon" is implicit in the expression "peak GW-ism". The designers know next to nothing about any kind of weapons actually used by actual human beings in combat with other human beings. It's all just designed "from the gut".

That's a bold assumption.

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 His Master's Voice wrote:
I love the models, but I can't mentally reconcile one of the least technologically advanced gangs and biped vehicles.

Yeah same, we are still struggling with walkers, they will never become an easier tech to build than wheels.

GW has reinvented the wheel so many times that it's no longer easy.

JSG wrote:
That's a bold assumption.

Did you see the Votann weaponry? The Squat Prospector weaponry? The over-under double barrelled single-tube pump-action shotgun from the boarding team? So many "That's... not how a gun works!" moments in those sets.

This is a razor-disc on a chain, which is, as Agy put it, "peak GW-ism". It's kinda glorious, IMO. Fits perfectly with Cawdor's aesthetic. Remember, they made weird junk-polearms to mimic Custodes weapons. This is less outlandish than that.

The fact that they're all riding walkers made out of trash makes it all the better.

Also don't forget the Imperium is insanely far ahead in technology compared to us. Yes they have a backward, insane approach to science, but they regularly throw away machines, technology and items that would be revolutionary to a modern world we live in.


So the idea that a technologically weaker faction could have something like mechanical legs isn't totally insane. All they need is for someone to have abandoned a leg factory somewhere in the bowls of the hive city - which is a massive manufacturing facility. Indeed all the factions show higher tech levels for the vehicle game. Escher - who are typically shown wearing very little armour and such, are running around with jet engine bikes and many of the gangers sport mechanical limbs - things that we are still getting to grips with today.

Chances are walking legs might even be considered inferior tech in the setting. Those wonky, half broken legs are likely no way near as good as some of the tracked and wheeled vehicles.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

JSG wrote:
That's a bold assumption.

Did you see the Votann weaponry? The Squat Prospector weaponry? The over-under double barrelled single-tube pump-action shotgun from the boarding team? So many "That's... not how a gun works!" moments in those sets.

This is a razor-disc on a chain, which is, as Agy put it, "peak GW-ism". It's kinda glorious, IMO. Fits perfectly with Cawdor's aesthetic. Remember, they made weird junk-polearms to mimic Custodes weapons. This is less outlandish than that.

The fact that they're all riding walkers made out of trash makes it all the better.

Do you think the designer didn't know that? Like with the outrider bikes and people thinking Jes Goodwin doesn't know what suspention is. The fact is in discussions like these you have a lot of ucreative people who think about these things in a very literal, straightforward kind of way. Every game would look like Oathmark if it were left to them.