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Given that there's an image of some armed with lasrifles rather than Hellguns, I'm thinking more that they're just regular guardsmen wearing carapace armour (ie like the old Grenadier Doctrine). So technically the same as Stormtroopers stats and equipment wise, but with different organisation and weapons options maybe. Ah, yeah, but pure speculation of course.

At the weekender they were described as:

Are primarily space faring
Form the blueprint for other forces assimilated during the great crusade


They seem like a space based proto PDF (if a space based PDF makes sense) more than a proto-guard.

And then there's this!

1KSons, Wolves or Word Bearer?

Deffo Word Bearer.

oh, i thought it was iron warriors. lol.

Knight Castigator rules are up

Also - TRIAROS!



priced at £85

Those Castigator rules are nice.. it'll slaughter any sort of horde very quickly.

That Triaros is sweeeeet. Link isn't working though :/ how much is it?

Loving the Word Bearer dread. Looks really religious

As for the Triaros- Chooo chooo! All aboard the pain train!

Silliness aside, I'd love to see more Triaros chassis based tanks for Ad Mech vehicles. Love the prow on that thing

ImAGeek wrote:
That Triaros is sweeeeet. Link isn't working though :/ how much is it?

Hmm, it was £85 when I saw the page. They've hidden it again

 zedmeister wrote:

ImAGeek wrote:
That Triaros is sweeeeet. Link isn't working though :/ how much is it?

Hmm, it was £85 when I saw the page. They've hidden it again

Must've accidentally put it up early or something. Quite pricey but I'm guessing it's quite big.

ImAGeek wrote:

 zedmeister wrote:

ImAGeek wrote:
That Triaros is sweeeeet. Link isn't working though :/ how much is it?

Hmm, it was £85 when I saw the page. They've hidden it again

Must've accidentally put it up early or something. Quite pricey but I'm guessing it's quite big.

Yeah, there was a picture of it next to a Rhino. It's much bigger, I reckon around Spartan size

The Castigator rules are cool- the sword is effectively a volkite close combat weapon. Combined with stomp, this thing is really the bane of horde units. Also, any light vehicles that get in range of that bolt cannon are toast, S7 heavy 8!

Is it bigger than the other mechanicum tanks as those seem to use the same chassis and are £68? Shame as I wanted a few.

Yeah, it is larger- I remember seeing an image of one parked next to a Krios somewhere recently, and the Krios is definitely smaller.

It's up again now, it's actually pretty huge.

that thing is hideous.

 the shrouded lord wrote:
that thing is hideous.

I don't think Ad Mech stuff is meant to be pretty lol.

Ugly, greasy, noisy, and awesome. The Mechanicum in 4 words.

Also forgot the 5th word: impractical

But awesome!

Tempest Attack gives the Castigator a hit against everything in base contact at I2 (ie. After Pile in for most things!) and deflagrate then does extra hits for each wound. The Knights have a proper anti horde unit now!

 angelofvengeance wrote:

 the shrouded lord wrote:
that thing is hideous.

I don't think Ad Mech stuff is meant to be pretty lol.

lo i just realised i said that with MY avatar. lol,

For the Castigator without the D weapon for CC he's going to fall down to any other Knight before he swings. That said I like him. I think he fills a small niche in the Knight world currently at being support for crushing hordes of models. I wish the cannon was AP2 to give you a chance at popping AV12 vehicles without stripping HP's or a slightly lower cost but I like him. He'll fit in nicely with my other knights

He's still S10 with re-rolls on armour penetration in CC.. he will at least do some damage against the other knight and when he dies he has a good chance of finishing it off!

Do we have any idea which book the SW and 1KSons are going to be in?

Do any of you think that the glut of 30k stuff will end at some point? Personally, I have quite a bit of disposable income that could be thrown at FW if they ever decide to release new xenos stuff....ever.

I bought a Lancer and Castigator just because I like big, stompy robots but I'd kind of like to see something other than yet another IG/AM army.

 godswildcard wrote:
Do we have any idea which book the SW and 1KSons are going to be in?

At least 1-2 years is the time-frame given to us about six months or so ago, iirc.

I like the rules for the Castigator a lot. Definitely pleasantly surprised with the direction they took with the sword - since Strength D is the limit, I was unsure how they would make a power sword equivalent relative to the Knight's existing chainsword equivalent - but, as it turns out, it's actually a fire sword instead of a power sword! That's interesting, cool, and the rules are good. In short, core GW could learn a lot from FW.

Haighus wrote:
Yeah, it is larger- I remember seeing an image of one parked next to a Krios somewhere recently, and the Krios is definitely smaller.

Ta!