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The guns over the rear fender and the exhaust running through the cab are pretty embarrassing. Def would prefer wheels, but the model has potential for conversion.

My opinion of the taurox is much the same as my opinion on the new tempestus infantry models - what they did good, they did very, very good, and what they did bad, they did horrid.

I like the move towards renaissance and making things look more like walking/driving cathedrals. I like that it, for the first time in the history of GW, has a turret that's even approximately the correct size. I actually even kind of like that it's a truck, not a tank, and I love the fact that it has real windows, rather than just more of the glass porthole things. I like a lot of the little details as well, like the grille and the headlights and a bunch of little realistic details.

... but. When you put them all together, you have one hideous model that I'll never buy or field. If I have to, you better believe there will be hella conversion work done to it. The thing I find really strange is that there are already imperium vehicles with side hatches. Why did they go for the awful 4x track thing when they could have made it like a rhino or land raider where the track goes over the wheel well?

I also agree that there are some parts that look like an imperium vehicle (the sloping rear armor like a russ, for example), as a whole it looks like a model designed for a different game.

Oh yes I LOVE the new vehicle.......... It will make a great command Battlewagon

That or an armoured limousine for a genestealer cult

Hate it

Yup its official... I'm the only person who likes it

Okay, I love Land Rovers, but I do think the Taurox looks great.

The Taurox would work well with an arctic or cold weather themed army.

Looks better without the turret but then....it doesn't have a turret so it's pointless. The tracks look like they were designed by someone who has never seen tracks in action before, or even how they are supposed to work. The dangerously close to 90 degree angle of them would mean this thing wouldn't be able to drive over a speedbump. Even IOM isnt that backwards. Was really hoping it would have a wheeled option but alas, gw is still employing six year olds to design their vehicles.

Yeahcould see it as a valhallan snowcat

With wheels its alright.
And repositioning of weapons and such.
And a decent paint job.

 scottmmmm wrote:


I wasn't actually implying that they'd name an imperial vehicle praising the Tau race

I think you're underestimating GW.

My thought on this thing is that they had ideas for three different vehicles but could only afford to make one, so they mashed everything together on this, making it a true chimera.
I would hate to be assaulting out of this and getting drilled by the las guns mounted right behind the side door.

 Ghaz wrote:


The Buffalo MRAP that the Taurox is based on. While it looks okay, the biggest problem IMHO is that it breaks the theme of the IG vehicles all being based on the Chimera chassis.

Don't you dare compare that monstrosity to bonecrusher!Anyone here that knows who bonecrusher is probably thinks I'm a heretic for liking Micheal bays transformers.

Skribl wrote:
The first thing I said when I saw the leaked pictures of the taurox was, "Why are those storm troopers falling back into an ork trukk?" this is really not a good looking model. It's way too tall. imperial vehicles are usually so squat, and this is a tower of fail propelled by little tracked arby's potato cakes.

squat vehicles? Squat? GW does not like Squats...

At first, I hated the look of the thing. But once I saw a 360 degree view of it, and saw it painted in green without all the additional decorations, it started to grow on me. It's not the best model they've made, but it's not all that bad either.

Can't deny that it would make a great Ork vehicle though.

It needs wheels

Can this be my proxy?

Like the rest of the line, it might kitbash well as well. I could imagine bitz-ordering a chimera chassis and then splicing the taurox top onto a chimera bottom.

Cant say I like it. However, I agree with others that it will look awesome with some orky conversions.

I feel like it would be a better design by having 2 tracks instead of the 4. Besides that, love the vehicle.

It has grown on me, at first I didn't like it in my opinion the tracks look ridiculous. But I have to admit I like it now. With a minor conversion to wheels in the front it will really look cool.

I think it's neat. It took me til seeing the more toned-down paintjob to really want one, but I like it just the same. It looks like a rugged Imperial truck, and has just the right amount of silliness required for a proper 40k unit.

As it stands, no.

As a half track, looted by Orks however... that's a very different story - that really could look the berries.

The only good thing about the Taurox is that it makes the DA skimmer, Mutilators, and the Tau flyer all look better in comparison.

There's just so much that just feels off to me. It looks like a fast transport, but then they put way too heavy of weaponry on it. The guns mounted in the rear so you are shooting from the hip in an even more inaccurate way. The hatches that are placed just in front of guns.
The treads alone: no suspension, they look upside down, they don't like like they distribute weight good enough on such a large vehicle, the spare fenders, and I'm sure there is a few things I forgot.

The most unforgiveable thing about it is that it doesn't fit the standard look or feel for IG.

I don't think it can be justified with the "bit of conversion" work to make it look good. If that's the case then I say Green Stuff is by far the best model produced by GW.

I'm not sure what the gripe is, this new model looks a lot more like a modern day APC than the WWI and Korean War era designs GW has been using for three decades. I like it.

SJ

At first I hated it, but then I got to see the full 360 view on GW's page.

Now I absolutely loathe it.

That looks nothing like any IG vehicle ever designed in the history of ever. The design is pants-on-head slowed (Exhaust goes into the cabin! Guns to shoot the disembarking troops! A profile so high Dreadknights can use it as cover!) the tracks are uglier than that Sister Dialogus model (but not the Ork Cheerleader... they aren't quite that level of ugly) and the armor is crapsack, so it isn't just an ugly model its a too-fragile transport as well.

I don't care that it looks kinda-sorta like a real live modern military vehicle. When in the feth has the IG ever used modern looking vehicles? This model belongs in the new Ork Codex, where its design aesthetic would be much more appropriate.

Frankly, of all the new models we've seen (Storm Troopers, Ogryns, and this thing) I've liked the look of exactly none of them. Doesn't leave me with much hope for the models from the proper IG release...

Things I like:

a) A departure from the "single hull" policy.
b) I LOVE armored cars.

Things I dislike:

a) Needless bling.
b) Fender guns.

Things I loathe.

a) THE TRACKS. No, I don't mind the quad track configuration. It's GW tracks I dislike. I hated them on the Chimera, I hated them on the Russ, and I hate them on the Taurox. I was sincerely hoping that Imperial vehicles would get a redesign in this edition, one that gave them wider tracks and some ground clearance, but no. Instead we get a vehicle that perpetuates the aesthetic mistakes that plague Imperial vehicles since the 1990s.



Now this is how you make a tracked vehicle. It's also dieselpunk and goth-scifi-ish in execution, but looks like ten times better.

No skulls.

I didn't see the rear guns until people pointed it out here.

My god, what were they thinking! Fair enough if it was firing backwards, but right past the side hatch? Derrrrrp


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squidhills wrote:
At first I hated it, but then I got to see the full 360 view on GW's page.

Frankly, of all the new models we've seen (Storm Troopers, Ogryns, and this thing) I've liked the look of exactly none of them. Doesn't leave me with much hope for the models from the proper IG release...

I like the stormtroopers, the masks in particular are good - but it's your opinion of course. I haven't had much of a chance to look at the Ogryns yet.

Oh my God it's bad... bad bad bad!
I genuinely think this is possibly the worst looking vehicle kit GW have ever produced. The design is ridiculous and as previously mentioned contains so many stupid elements (side hatches opening into gun arcs, engine exhausts randomly appearing at the back, tracks with even less chance of working than the Chimera etc etc) that it genuinely looks like it was designed by a child with no experience in design whatsoever. If you look on the GW site at the 360 view it doesn't even sit with all tracks flat to the deck, and that's a professionally built & painted model! It will need a LOT of kitbashing to make it non sick-inducing in my opinion.
Whoever signed off on that abortion wants sacking.