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The normal Imperial Guard version is certainly better then the "Prime" version, especially with the removal of the turret. Other than *maybe* the twin autocannons, it's the top turret that keeps making it look horrible to me. So extremely top-heavy. The pic below (minus the stupid side autocannons, of course) just makes it look like a really cool, grimdark heavy truck. I could see it around mining operations.

 Daedricbob wrote:
Oh my God it's bad... bad bad bad!
I genuinely think this is possibly the worst looking vehicle kit GW have ever produced.

Hey, don't forget the Lord of Skulls! That one can't even be converted to look cool!

No I don't like it. I find it Incredibly stupid.

Its an interesting model. But I expect to see people using different models for the Taurox.

This Is what I'll be using (If i use them)

 Andilus Greatsword wrote:

 Daedricbob wrote:
Oh my God it's bad... bad bad bad!
I genuinely think this is possibly the worst looking vehicle kit GW have ever produced.

Hey, don't forget the Lord of Skulls! That one can't even be converted to look cool!

I disagree.

If we are compared horrible models - don;t forget the Centurions - "Shudder"

not far behind are the recent Marine flyers and the GK baby carrier............

on the (slightly) positive side - it might be that all the Militarium Temp rules are in the White Dwarf...........

That legged lord of skulls is AWESOME.

I make my wallet cry just by looking at it though.

But such a conversion seems very plausible for use in actual games. Just to remove Tracked Behemoth.

 BrotherHaraldus wrote:
That legged lord of skulls is AWESOME.

I make my wallet cry just by looking at it though.

But such a conversion seems very plausible for use in actual games. Just to remove Tracked Behemoth.

I'm actually quite a fan of the tracked knight too. The body type just lends itself a lot more to being mounted that way in my opinion (of course I could just be getting flashbacks to sir killalot from the old fighting robot tv show).

I might just get one and make it proppa Orky.

For starters, I would replace the front tracks with wheels for a half track look.

Wouldn't take too much more to orkify this thing.

As Imperial vehicles go, I admit that I am not a big fan of this model. However, as a trukk or looted wagon...

 Ninjacommando wrote:
Its an interesting model. But I expect to see people using different models for the Taurox.

This Is what I'll be using (If i use them)

That looks pretty sweet.

I think it is the worst model GW have ever produced. I actually do think it is even worse than Nagash. Truly hideous. It doesn't work aesthetically, logically, coherently with other guard designs... It just sucks on every possible level.

Was it designed by somebody who doesn't understand engineering? Are the tracks on upsidedown?

It's too primitive looking, just compare it to some of the heavy duty anti-IED vehicles we have in warzones right now. Stick tracks on any of the following examples and you have a far more realistic (and cooler) APC.

You realize that "primitive" and "Imperium" tend to go hand in hand right?

The Leman Russ Battle Tank isn't exactly the pinnacle of modern tank engineering y'know.

There needs to be one more option "I play Orks and want to loot the thing"

The main problem with the tracks isn't necessarily the tracks, so much as that they are ludicrously tiny. They're like clown car tracks. There's no way that those tiny things are putting enough power down to move the vehicle anywhere, and they're so small and low that the vehicle is ludicrously top-heavy.

It looks like if one of those things were made in real life, it would do nothing more than spin its treads and then fall over. Even if you could get it moving, it's top speed would be tiny.

And I like the "one tank" design. It's very imperium. No reason they couldn't have stuck with the theme.

I suppose at least we should be grateful that the rules for these things seem so awful so few people will buy them. Unless they do something to horribly thundernerf the chimera, which would be a little sad.

I thought for sure that this thing was a new Steam Tank variant when I first saw it.

Horrible model unless the Orks make some serious mods.

 Kanluwen wrote:
You realize that "primitive" and "Imperium" tend to go hand in hand right?

The Leman Russ Battle Tank isn't exactly the pinnacle of modern tank engineering y'know.

To me the Taurox look primitive by Imperium standards. There's a simple beauty to a lot of their patterns, but this looks more like a parody than a tried-and-tested battle machine. Both examples I linked look suitable for IG use, a lot more so than this muscle-truck mad-max nightmare of a Tonka toy.

Why would you have unnecessarily tiny tracks which are wider at the top than at the bottom? Does it have a special rule where if it remains stationary for a turn it slowly sinks into the ground and counts as being in soft cover ?

 dementedwombat wrote:

 Andilus Greatsword wrote:

 Daedricbob wrote:
Oh my God it's bad... bad bad bad!
I genuinely think this is possibly the worst looking vehicle kit GW have ever produced.

Hey, don't forget the Lord of Skulls! That one can't even be converted to look cool!

I disagree.

As do I. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that the Khornemower at the very least has the aesthetics of it's damn army down. The Taurox looks like an 8 year old tried to covert a Tonka truck by slapping on some cut up Chimera tracks, and some sentinel guns, then called it a day.

So that would be a "no"...

I actually really like the look of the entire model as it looks like an MRAP (pictured below), besides the Tracks for the most part and the side weapons being used as the "sponsons". Besides that those are pretty easy fixes, will probably use Wheels in Place of the Tracks and place the secondary weapon on the turret as well.

Obvious +1 vote thread is obvious. Why do people make these threads if all people have been doing is bashing on the model?

The Taurox to me is just such a waste for so many reasons. It's an answer to an unasked question, and is ugly to boot. With its cost and stats, the basic Taurox is basically always going to play 2nd fiddle to the Chimera unless they majorly nerfed the Chimera as well. The Prime Taurox is too expensive after kit to be viable in the 6E "lol HP's" metagame, where it'll die like a Rhino (if not easier) but cost nearly 3x as much after kit and will be transporting significantly squishier cargo, while the Hellhound chassis vehicles fill the firepower role it tries to fill.

I really wish they would have just done more Chimera variants, like in Epic, such as the Chimerax instead.

As for looks, the thing looks...Chibi, though that seems to be GW's thing of late. It's treads look even more non-functional than other IG tanks, it would have looked possibly passable with wheels but the treads just look bad. It's way too detailed, especially for a non-centerpiece model, which will add more time and effort to building and painting them than is worth for such a short-lived transport. Also, it looks way too heavily armored to be just AV10 on the sides, but that's not the first time GW has done that either.

It looks like someone took a WHFB Steamtank and mated it with an Ork Battlewagon.

If they'd made it a little shorter, a little longer, given it side AV11 and wheels and made the base version Fast, it might have a purpose and might not look awful. Alas they did not.

TL;DR It's an ugly answer to an unasked question and fails to add much to the IG.

 Markerlight Junkie wrote:
Obvious +1 vote thread is obvious. Why do people make these threads if all people have been doing is bashing on the model?

Because sometimes it's nice to check if the bashing is coming from a vocal minority or not

 Vaktathi wrote:
Also, it looks way too heavily armored to be just AV10 on the sides, but that's not the first time GW has done that either.

This. I was honestly expecting 12/11/10 when I saw the model. Reading the rules afterwords and seeing 11/10/10 just felt like a bad joke.

All Imperium vehicles look boring. Doesn't make the Taurox special.

I don't mind it, but it doesn't have enough visual or rules appeal to bump it up to a "must buy on release day!" that some other kits have.

I like the model almost as little as I like the rules for it...

 Mywik wrote:
I dont really like it. Im not an ig player though. If i ever start ig and want to use the taurox i will use this model from dreamforges Eisenkern Range:

Spoiler:

Why can't GW do things like that? The Taurox is so appalling.

 Kanluwen wrote:
You realize that "primitive" and "Imperium" tend to go hand in hand right?

The Leman Russ Battle Tank isn't exactly the pinnacle of modern tank engineering y'know.

I agree, but it still looks stupid. It reminds me of the Go Bots command center. The wheeled track thing are almost entirely the problem, had they made it a half-track or given it wheels it would look fine. But just with most GW models this days, it falls to the customers to try and fix them to make the models look passable.

I'm not sure why GW made it this way in any regard. Beyond their designers simply being bad, maybe it was cheaper to make or makes it harder for players to convert.

Im kinda 50/50.

Id rather have it have wheels in the front to make a half track which, to me at least, would make it look more like the "higher mobility" or even all wheels like a large truck or heavy wheeled APC.

Supposedly the turret can be mounted on the rear, but I have yet to see it, that and the offcenter gun on the turret just irks me for some reason. Overall the machine looks fine except for the little bits I mentioned. Ill probly end up with at least 1 "official" model and a few modded or total conversions anyways.

 scottmmmm wrote:
Not sure if there is a poll for this already (couldn't see one), but I was wondering how people feel about the new Taurox model for the IG...I mean Astra Militarum. I'm surprised there hasn't been more chat about it, as I think it's quite a "love it or hate it" model.

Personally I'm not a big fan. It looks like a weird steampunk jeep that wouldn't actually be able to drive due to it's stupid tracks.

Also the name....Tau Rox. Is someone having a laugh at GW HQ? That's almost as bad as "A Bad 'Un".

For anyone who hasn't seen it :-

It looks like a Tonka truck. But it's design isn't entirely without precedent, I believe there have been armored cars with roughly similar designs.

Still, as is, it looks out of place in my Rodinav Frost Sabres, my Valhallan Ice Warriors, my Death Korps of Krieg, my Cadians, my wife's Gue'Vesa, or my Chaos Guard.

I'm impressed that it manages to find no aesthetic place among any of my Guard armies.

I also have to question why we're getting this thing. It doesn't exactly fill any much needed roles. I never looked at my guard armies and said "you know what I need? A rhino that shoots a ton of S4 shots has an autocannon".

The new Ogryns were something I expected to both improve the Ogryns and the Guard's counterassault game. But I honestly expected something like the power loader from alien or some kind of monster killing plasma boat.