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 angelofvengeance wrote:
What're those giant belt fed dakka guns on the Thanatar's arm?

Twin-linked Mauler Bolt Cannon, S6 AP3, Heavy 3, Pinning.

EDIT: am I having a reading fail or did FW actually not list the mortar-of-plasma-death under the big robot's wargear list?

badgermeister wrote:
anyone want to see the thanatar either carrying a castellax on its chest like 'babies day out' or a perverse dark mechanicus slaanesh variant where its breast feeding a castellax?

Don't be ridiculous... the castellax would go into the giant shoulder gun like a circus performer in a giant cannon ready to be launched!


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Looky Likey wrote:

 warboss wrote:
I like the knight lancer; it's a cool model. I just don't like the number next to it in GBP.

Even with the size of it? I think its only a bit smaller than a Revenant or Warhound, once mine is built I'll take some pictures with them as I haven't seen any decent scale shots with the Lancer & Titans.

Some scale shots would indeed be much appreciated. If you at some point were to throw a Thanatar into the shot as well I also wouldn't mind.

Will do but no Thanatar for me till the end of next month, Orks stole my hobby money. Will be a couple of weeks as its being customised at the moment, lots of conversion work to turn it to Khorne, including some high risk chops to the head.

 Baragash wrote:

 angelofvengeance wrote:
What're those giant belt fed dakka guns on the Thanatar's arm?

Twin-linked Mauler Bolt Cannon, S6 AP3, Heavy 3, Pinning.

EDIT: am I having a reading fail or did FW actually not list the mortar-of-plasma-death under the big robot's wargear list?

Holy crap. That's quite a nasty bit of kit. What's the range on that?

 Baragash wrote:
EDIT: am I having a reading fail or did FW actually not list the mortar-of-plasma-death under the big robot's wargear list?

It's not you - it's missing from the wargear list.

 angelofvengeance wrote:

 Baragash wrote:

 angelofvengeance wrote:
What're those giant belt fed dakka guns on the Thanatar's arm?

Twin-linked Mauler Bolt Cannon, S6 AP3, Heavy 3, Pinning.

EDIT: am I having a reading fail or did FW actually not list the mortar-of-plasma-death under the big robot's wargear list?

Holy crap. That's quite a nasty bit of kit. What's the range on that?

24"

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
*sigh* When will it end, Forgeworld, when will it end?

Much like Mr. Bones wild ride, it never ends.


I look forward to the day when I can afford to start the Forgeworld wild ride.

Isn't it "Mr. Toad"?

Also, it doesn't end until FW 30K reaches all the way back up to 40K...which it kind of already does, but...

Mr. Toad's Wild Ride was a fun old Disney Ride.

Mr. Bone's Wild Ride was a Roller Coaster Tycoon ride that wasn't fun, and never ended.



I've been waiting in line for these new Forgeworld products for ages!

I know, but I couldn't resist!

I'm just patiently waiting for FW to catch up on Primarchs already!

I want to see what they'll do for 30k Lucius.

Well that's a cerastus and a thanatar ordered.

 Snrub wrote:
I want to see what they'll do for 30k Lucius.

Well he'll probably look like a Palatine Blade marine in all likelihood

Which wouldn't be a terrible thing. Kharn and Typhon have both come out nice looking and they are just a Rampager and Grave Warden with different weapons and poses.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Medium of Death wrote:
It's quite annoying that FW are taking so long to get the basics out for each Legion.

It could be worse. You could have the one thing you want (a Mechanicum army) come out at a snail's pace, with dribs and drabs and bits of an army coming out with each new book and no real list, just a list of what's available right now.

This is true.

Does the third book not have a better list?

Book 3 does have the bigger Taghmata list, which is cool, but also refers to and includes units and wargear from the previous books, which is less cool. Hopefully we'll get a far more portable "Codex: Mechanicum" soon like the Legions did.

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
Book 3 does have the bigger Taghmata list, which is cool, but also refers to and includes units and wargear from the previous books, which is less cool. Hopefully we'll get a far more portable "Codex: Mechanicum" soon like the Legions did.

I am hoping (and this is pure wishlisting on my part) that at some point they'll have a Mars list in one of the books and then after that publish a compendium of the various Mechanicum lists.

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
Book 3 does have the bigger Taghmata list, which is cool, but also refers to and includes units and wargear from the previous books, which is less cool. Hopefully we'll get a far more portable "Codex: Mechanicum" soon like the Legions did.

Damn straight.

I actually emailed FW last week and asked them about this very thing, along with a request for weapons packs for the Ad Mech and if they were committed to bringing out the whole AdMech range.

Got the following reply:

"We are more than likely to produce a 'collected works of the Mechanicum' book at some point but we will wait until we have released more units and rules for them in the main books.

We plan to produce models for all of the Mechanicum units listed so far although some of the weapon options or specific types (in the case of the Magos Prime) may not appear for some time yet.

We will probably release some weapons packs for the Mechanicum which are likely to be for use on Thallax and/or Myrmidon models but this will be once we have decided on the look for the weapon types not yet produced."

I hope they do those weapon packs, because right now the Myrmidons can have 1 of 5 weapons, and the models only have 3 of those 5.

 Medium of Death wrote:
Does the third book not have a better list?

It's better, yes, but only by dint of having more models now than when the first book came out. There still aren't enough choices to have something different in each slot, so every army from this list would consist of all the same units. Once a few more books get out maybe we'll have enough for a proper Mechanicum list. Moreover, maybe we'll get a proper Skitarii army list, given that the Mechanicum organisational structure that the book lists includes them as a major wing.

dammit, i was adamant that after finishing my 40k chaos army i would stop myself from starting another army. But the mechanicum stuff is just. so. cool.

 Inquisitor Gonzo wrote:

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
Book 3 does have the bigger Taghmata list, which is cool, but also refers to and includes units and wargear from the previous books, which is less cool. Hopefully we'll get a far more portable "Codex: Mechanicum" soon like the Legions did.

Damn straight.

I actually emailed FW last week and asked them about this very thing, along with a request for weapons packs for the Ad Mech and if they were committed to bringing out the whole AdMech range.

Got the following reply:

"We are more than likely to produce a 'collected works of the Mechanicum' book at some point but we will wait until we have released more units and rules for them in the main books.

We plan to produce models for all of the Mechanicum units listed so far although some of the weapon options or specific types (in the case of the Magos Prime) may not appear for some time yet.

We will probably release some weapons packs for the Mechanicum which are likely to be for use on Thallax and/or Myrmidon models but this will be once we have decided on the look for the weapon types not yet produced."

I really want to start an Ad Mech army so much, but I got seriously disillusioned after I spent hundreds on the Forge World Chaos dwarves when they first came out. No blunderbus armed troops, no K'daai destroyer, none of the elite dwarf troops (cannot remember their name) and a lack of variation in the heroes and command troops after all these years....I can see history repeating itself.


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Just remembered. ...don't start me on the Hobgoblins!

Yeah, but that's Warhammer, and Warhammer Forge didn't do well enough to continue. Horus Heresy is the complete opposite of that - it's a total cash cow.

 Denilsta wrote:

 Inquisitor Gonzo wrote:

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
Book 3 does have the bigger Taghmata list, which is cool, but also refers to and includes units and wargear from the previous books, which is less cool. Hopefully we'll get a far more portable "Codex: Mechanicum" soon like the Legions did.

Damn straight.

I actually emailed FW last week and asked them about this very thing, along with a request for weapons packs for the Ad Mech and if they were committed to bringing out the whole AdMech range.

Got the following reply:

"We are more than likely to produce a 'collected works of the Mechanicum' book at some point but we will wait until we have released more units and rules for them in the main books.

We plan to produce models for all of the Mechanicum units listed so far although some of the weapon options or specific types (in the case of the Magos Prime) may not appear for some time yet.

We will probably release some weapons packs for the Mechanicum which are likely to be for use on Thallax and/or Myrmidon models but this will be once we have decided on the look for the weapon types not yet produced."

I really want to start an Ad Mech army so much, but I got seriously disillusioned after I spent hundreds on the Forge World Chaos dwarves when they first came out. No blunderbus armed troops, no K'daai destroyer, none of the elite dwarf troops (cannot remember their name) and a lack of variation in the heroes and command troops after all these years....I can see history repeating itself.


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Just remembered. ...don't start me on the Hobgoblins!

Why would you compare WFB to Horus Heresy? Come on.. It probably sells like 100x better than WH forge ever did

beast_gts wrote:

 Baragash wrote:
EDIT: am I having a reading fail or did FW actually not list the mortar-of-plasma-death under the big robot's wargear list?

It's not you - it's missing from the wargear list.

HH Book 3 Page 227.

 Medium of Death wrote:
Does the third book not have a better list?

Its biggest weakness, apart from not having a single collated list of wargear, is the lack of dedicated fast attack units.

The Magos are amazingly customisable, so the lack of options at HQ isn't a major issue as you can build the Magos out to fit any role you want. Cheaper troop options wouldn't hurt, but the list is very much an elite, small number of bodies, army at the moment.

 Moopy wrote:

beast_gts wrote:

 Baragash wrote:
EDIT: am I having a reading fail or did FW actually not list the mortar-of-plasma-death under the big robot's wargear list?

It's not you - it's missing from the wargear list.

HH Book 3 Page 227.

We know that Look at the Thanatar's Wargear list though, the Hellex isn't actually listed any where as something it has. I'm not trying to start a RAW argument, it was just an observation that FW flubbed whilst I was looking up the rules (and hey, at least it's not a Palantine Blade flub).

Aaaanyway..

Do anyone know what might be next in line on the character-front? The last couple of bulletins have been waving around the other Cerastus-variants and the Gorgon terminators so those are probably on the way within a month or two seeing as al the stuff from the weekender are slowly being rolled out every other week.

Anyone heard anything about more consuls or named characters since it has been quite quiet on that front since they rolled out the campion and master of signals.

Looky Likey wrote:

 Medium of Death wrote:
Does the third book not have a better list?

Its biggest weakness, apart from not having a single collated list of wargear, is the lack of dedicated fast attack units.

The Magos are amazingly customisable, so the lack of options at HQ isn't a major issue as you can build the Magos out to fit any role you want. Cheaper troop options wouldn't hurt, but the list is very much an elite, small number of bodies, army at the moment.

Cheap in money or points? The Thralls are very cheap in points, but cost a lot to purchase.
Also, there are dedicated fast attack choices, just FW hasn't produced the models for them yet. I'm looking forward to the Vorax automata personally, I want to see how FW remake the old Crusader robot.

I forgot about those!

The lancer is a lovely kit, wip on mine by my friend.

Is it just me or does the Thanatar look like it has two sets of feet for posing purposes? or is it some weird foot assembly thing?

Do we reckon that the ammo feed will be relatively easy to repose by heating it? Would be good if that arm could be put into a firing pose.