Adeptus Mechanicus 2016 Rumors

Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you:

No adverts like this in the forums anymore.
Times and dates in your local timezone.
Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance.
Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely.
Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net.

If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

**the_Armyman**

MrMoustaffa wrote:
This combined codex may be closer than I thought. Got the Getting started skitarii boxes today, and on the little sheet where it says "hey you should buy x, y, and z!" They refer to all the units as "Adepticus Mechanicus" in it. Doesn't matter which codex they're in, they're named the same, even though they show both codexes in the leaflet. Very confusing if you were new and didn't know what belonged to which.

I just picked mine up at the FLGS today, too. I got a bit of a chuckle out of that little sheet. The kits they listed were Kastelans (most expensive), Electro-priests (worst selling), and the Ironstrider (worst points to cost ratio). Not a single troop choice for either codex, so you still wouldn't have a legal army. I also thought it supremely bizarre that the formation specifies Vanguard, but the picture on the boxfront has the Skitarii built as Rangers.

If I didn't know GW better, I'd think they were trying to be intentionally misleading. But the reality of it is that they really have no idea what they're doing

**Yodhrin**

MrMoustaffa wrote:
This combined codex may be closer than I thought. Got the Getting started skitarii boxes today, and on the little sheet where it says "hey you should buy x, y, and z!" They refer to all the units as "Adepticus Mechanicus" in it. Doesn't matter which codex they're in, they're named the same, even though they show both codexes in the leaflet. Very confusing if you were new and didn't know what belonged to which.

Sorry man, doesn't mean anything, both the minidexes have "Codex: Adeptus Mechanicus SKITARII/CULT MECHANICUS" on them.

**DanteeChaos**

Have you guys seen this? http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2016/01/40k-rumors-ad-mech-2-0-releases.html

Do we have any info on the "new transport kit"?

**Kanluwen**

Nope, because quite likely?

It doesn't exist. BoLS has a habit of if not stretching the truth--outright lying to ensure that they get clicks.

**zedmeister**

DanteeChaos wrote:
Have you guys seen this? http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2016/01/40k-rumors-ad-mech-2-0-releases.html

Do we have any info on the "new transport kit"?

Stop listening to BoLS!

That's it, I'm tired of dodgy BoLS posts, grab 'em lads!

**DanteeChaos**

Sorry, I'm new to this so I can't tell reliable sources from phoney ones.
What about the other stuff (combined codex, flyer, new robots)? I know this was posted before the BoLS article.

**Kanluwen**

DanteeChaos wrote:
Sorry, I'm new to this so I can't tell reliable sources from phoney ones.
What about the other stuff (combined codex, flyer, new robots)? I know this was posted before the BoLS article.

At this point? We don't know.

Atia(a rumormonger with an impeccable reputation" has said that there were bigger robots that didn't make the cut and that we'll probably see a combined book at some point--but BoLS likes to piggyback off reliable rumors and add in their own crap usually under the auspices of "anonymous sources". Hence the flyer/transport rumors.

**Kid_Kyoto**

I'd love it if the massive walkers from Rogue Trader got a kit. Yeah easy enough to kitbash (Destroid legs, plastic bowl for the platform) but wouldn't a kit be great?

I went looking for an image and found someone already did it.

http://papafakis.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/tada.html

**Ir0njack**

Now that would be something nifty, a walker with a transport capacity. Or would it be a MC? GC? SH? I honestly dont know what that would qualify as.

**Nomeny**

If only they had guns that they could use while walking.

**Red Corsair**

Ir0njack wrote:
Now that would be something nifty, a walker with a transport capacity. Or would it be a MC? GC? SH? I honestly dont know what that would qualify as.

The Orks already have at least 4 walker transports. Gorkanaught, Morkanaught, Stompa and Sqiggoth.

**Ir0njack**

Red Corsair wrote:
Ir0njack wrote:
Now that would be something nifty, a walker with a transport capacity. Or would it be a MC? GC? SH? I honestly dont know what that would qualify as.

The Orks already have at least 4 walker transports. Gorkanaught, Morkanaught, Stompa and Sqiggoth.

Welp goes to show how often often I play against Ork walkers I guess. It would be the first Imperial though heh.

**timd**

I'm glad at least one person built one of those. Always wanted to build one, even have the right kits, but never managed to do it. Would have to invent a background desert planet and a game to go with it.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:
I'd love it if the massive walkers from Rogue Trader got a kit. Yeah easy enough to kitbash (Destroid legs, plastic bowl for the platform) but wouldn't a kit be great?

Spoiler:

I went looking for an image and found someone already did it.

Spoiler:

http://papafakis.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/tada.html

**Kid_Kyoto**

timd wrote:
I'm glad at least one person built one of those. Always wanted to build one, even have the right kits, but never managed to do it. Would have to invent a background desert planet and a game to go with it.

It could make for a neat 'counts as' Chimera or even Stormlord depending on size.

Or my new catchall justification 'it's terrain!'