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 Savageconvoy wrote:

 MWHistorian wrote:

It's not that hard to believe that the Imperium of Man is capable of making a truck.

Maybe that'll be the story. Someone decides to be proactive and tries to invent a truck, produces the Taurox.
"This is why we don't let you people invent things"

Brilliant!

I can see the Tech-Priest now, being lead into the bay by a bunch of excited technomats and Guardsmen on some crap-hole Forge World in a system of Agri-Worlds.
He walks in, mechadendrites twitching, and then sees this thing these plebs are just super-excited over. He takes one look at it, photo-receptors blinking.

"This is why we don't let you morons read the design manuals."

They use trucks but don't ride them into battle.

Actually, we do. The 555th Combat Engineers have (or had) a truck just *covered* in armor plate that mounts a MA-2 .50cal machine gun in a turret above the cab. Its blast shields read "Get Some", if you've got the muzzle pointed at you.

 Ratius wrote:
Really love the hull but hate the tracks.
I like the way it looks quite pugnacious, that pic of the green paintjob does make it look better too.

Darn I was going to post, but you said exactly what I was going to.
I actually do like the hull, I dont find it ugly or even steampunk like people are saying. To me it looks more like a modern military APC or armoured truck, but with the typical gothic flair. The tracks though.... nope... they're like a giant, bulbous nose on an otherwise pretty face. If I were to get one I would put on some proper tires, then I would be happy.

Actually I would change a second thing. Those fender guns really did look like they were supposed to be in storage rather than working weapons, it just seems kinda silly to have loaded guns aimed at where your passengers disembark (though in 40k having a gun pointed at you IS called encouragement, so maybe its to get them moving when the vehicle stops)

 Psienesis wrote:

 Savageconvoy wrote:

 MWHistorian wrote:

It's not that hard to believe that the Imperium of Man is capable of making a truck.

Maybe that'll be the story. Someone decides to be proactive and tries to invent a truck, produces the Taurox.
"This is why we don't let you people invent things"

Brilliant!

I can see the Tech-Priest now, being lead into the bay by a bunch of excited technomats and Guardsmen on some crap-hole Forge World in a system of Agri-Worlds.
He walks in, mechadendrites twitching, and then sees this thing these plebs are just super-excited over. He takes one look at it, photo-receptors blinking.

"This is why we don't let you morons read the design manuals."

They use trucks but don't ride them into battle.

Actually, we do. The 555th Combat Engineers have (or had) a truck just *covered* in armor plate that mounts a MA-2 .50cal machine gun in a turret above the cab. Its blast shields read "Get Some", if you've got the muzzle pointed at you.

I Love the halftracks they used in WWII, same principle, but with tracks

I hate the track wheels, they should have half tracked it.

It looks alot like the modified Bush Master Apc we use for fire fighting.

It's a futuristic MRAP. I like that aesthetic about it. Looks like it came from our time period, went grimdark baroque, a dash of improper scaling and handwavium technology, and ta da! It's the silly things like this that make me really enough 40k as a hobby. It's a bit ugly to be sure but maybe that is why I find this model quite charming. I look forward to painting one up.

The rules seem fairly nifty: with the ability to re-roll Dangerous Terrain and pack some decent firepower, my Mech guard might see a few of these testing the table. If Al'Rahem is still in the new Codex (or his equivalent), an outflanking platoon of twin-linked autocannons isn't a bad idea for causing backfield mayhem. Armor is a bit weaker but, eh, I play Guard. If things aren't dying in droves, we aren't winning the war yet.

its a morris quad with a turret and tracks

 Ailaros wrote:
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.

Yaay for bv206s and teeny tiny multi-track unit vehicles, or something...

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandvagn_206

Looks moderately mediocre.

Not cringeworthy but not interesting either.

Hmm...you can't aim the weapons on the back and they're pointed directly at the passengers who disembark from the side doors...

Nope. Design is, by the Dakka definition, "slowed" in a way that relegates it to the short bus.

I hate it, my friends and I bashed the hell out of it upon reveal.

I dunno if anyone mentioned it yet, but... would those treads be wide enough to cross a trench or gap of any sort? You know, that being the original purpose of tracked vehicles?

I think it'd look HUGELY better as a half-track or with wheels, though.

The rest of it's okay, just not a fan of the tiny little treads.


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 NuggzTheNinja wrote:
Hmm...you can't aim the weapons on the back and they're pointed directly at the passengers who disembark from the side doors...

Nope. Design is, by the Dakka definition, "slowed" in a way that relegates it to the short bus.

Worse than that, when the doors open, all that fire is going to be redirected via ricochet... INTO the passenger compartment.

i wanna buy one for the challenge of making it look decent. converted into a hydra it might look like a WW2 anti-aircraft US halftrack. as a valhallan player i like the idea of making it into a katyusha by striping it down and making use of the rock pod attachment.

http://images.hemmings.com/wp-content/uploads//2012/10/Whitehalftrack_01_1500.jpg

http://www.icm.com.ua/uploads/posts/2009-12/1260366437_35512-bm-13-16n-engl.jpg

Absolutely terribIe, will look like a joke next to Vendetta. If the fantasyish/ medieval bling is the new direction for IG, I might go and start the army just before they turn Vendeta into some crappy mechanical griphon and Leman Russ into Napoleonic era gun on tracks.

Really another victim of fantasy in spaaaace emphasis in 6th. The list grows, Newcrons, Helldrake, now this.

A halftrack should have long treads in the back and wheels in the front.

Not 4 little tiny treads...

A good vehicle should either be steel-grey, camo, futuristic-looking, or something else that's actually impressive.

Not pastel blue...

Overall, they were a few steps away from success and they botched it. I could totally see the Imperium having a halftrack-y thing with heavy weapons mounted on it, but the Taurox just looks awful.

And how does it move fast with the four teeny treads? They should know that treads are for things that need to be all-terrain and durable, and stuff like tanks generally don't move very fast. I see games with the Taurox as being somewhat surreal- this too tall, baby blue, treaded thing zipping across the table like a snail on methamphetamine.

Aesthetics are all done to opinion,but yeah, it should at least look like it works. The guns on the back are as useful as nipples on a breastplate, and would hit the passengers when disembarking, or the engine exhaust. Also, what's the point of making an armoured vehicle and exposing the exhausts? Lastly, the tracks don't look like they would work particularly well, and don't seem to even fit well on the model judging from the 'Eavy Metal pics.

I have one!

Pre-ordered it from Element Games and it arrived on the release date. I haven't had much time since to get to build it yet, I've just clipped the main hull pieces from the sprues and done some dry fitting so far. I'm gonna convert the feth out of it, Chapter House tires on the front, my own scratch built track systems to the rear. I want to make a halftrack Trojan proxy to tow some light artillery pieces (thud gun proxies) that I got from the Curious Constructs Kickstarter

My thoughts are thus;

The quad track units are truly awful, such a waste, everybody, wheels look so much better its not even funny.

The interior is fully detailed which although is quite cool, is going to be totally wasted on me as I won't be going anywhere near it with a paint brush, the roof will be glued down and I won't even be assembling the crew in their driving positions, I'll keep the bits for other conversions.

The turret with its side mounted weapon options doesn't fit the IG aesthetic, the punishers look too puny, the battlecannon looks like no other gun in the Guard armoury but the autocannons are sweet. I'll build mine with the stormbolters and add a gun shield.

Not digging the hump back look of the model at all, if you can picture the roof totally flat you'll get an idea of what I'm going to do it, anything to bring down the overall height of it!

That said I do like the model, it isn't mind blowingly outstanding but with a bit of care and attention I think it can be redeemed!

i dont want to put a potato up everyone's poorly designed exhaust pipes, but i think the occupants of the vehicle exit through the rear... meaning they wouldn't get hit by the weapons on the side. the door on the side is for the crew who cant fire it and disembark from it simultaneously.

also, this vehicle (im thinking of the green painted one) looks the part for an ogryn transport for precisely all the reasons its been slated. an ogryn transport would look too bulky, too tall, abit out of place and almost orkish.

It needs wheels its based of the MRAP it seems, which looks much better because of the wheels

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_MaxxPro

 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!

Am I the only one that loves Lord of Skulls? It's 40k to 11, it is a tank, a train and a guy, has a ridiculous stomach canon, an actual axe, idiotic amount of skulls and multiple juggernaut heads, just because. It's 40k silly, unlike Taurox that is just silly imo.

Yes I am probably. But truth be told, I prefer it over hurr durr noble good let's save someone no skulls Imperial Knight.

 wangalang wrote:

i dont want to put a potato up everyone's poorly designed exhaust pipes, but i think the occupants of the vehicle exit through the rear... meaning they wouldn't get hit by the weapons on the side. the door on the side is for the crew who cant fire it and disembark from it simultaneously.

also, this vehicle (im thinking of the green painted one) looks the part for an ogryn transport for precisely all the reasons its been slated. an ogryn transport would look too bulky, too tall, abit out of place and almost orkish.

That would make sense, if Chimeras couldn't already carry Ogryns.

Calling it now that Chimeras cannot carry Bulky models (I.e. Ogryns).

I can see myself kitbashing it into an orky transport. Think this:



or this:



In looted fashion.