Latest Forge World news and rumour thread : P99 Bulletin #50

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**Looky Likey**

£34 is the same price as the contemptor's chassis but I bet that the weapons are more expensive. Looks like it has the contemptor's legs.

**Ifurita**

The 34 GBP price point referred to another model, contemptor I think.

**STC_LogisEngine**

Similar, but no, the proportions are different. It has it's own kind of legs. Looks good, I feared chickenlegs for a while.

On a sidenote: holy feth, missiles, cannons and flamethrowers Oh My! Bring the Dakka.

**Medium of Death**

I guess the feet are showing an evolution towards the current design of dreadnought.

I kind of wish they'd made the torso the current sarcophagus with these legs and a variety of arms.

**PaperworkNinja**

... and then I noticed the melta-guns for close-in work. Dang! It's like a Devastator combined with a Dreadnought.

It's probably also where the Tau got the inspiration for their entire aesthetic.

**sockwithaticket**

Yuck in a big way.

**Hydrapup**

Heres a pic without the autocannon cut off

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Should also note I freakin love it after being concerned initially.

**WrentheFaceless**

Is Deredeo "Timberwolf" in High Gothic? haha

**Hydrapup**

It reminds me more of a Zaku from Gundam for some reason... I think its the legs and feet

**Azreal13**

Deredeo is a throwback to one of the original dreadnought chassis from RT.

I appreciate the nostalgia, but not the model!

**Tannhauser42**

I like this model, I want one. Looks like it could be a good AA platform, too.

**angelofvengeance**

Tannhauser42 wrote:
I like this model, I want one. Looks like it could be a good AA platform, too.

Yeah that missile rack says AA and then some to me lol. I wonder if the Autocannons are AA as well? Looks like it has a similar function to the Stalker in that it secures itself for firing weapons with the feet.

**Yodhrin**

sockwithaticket wrote:
Yuck in a big way.

Eh, aye, this. I think this might be the first time FW have put out a model I actually actively dislike, rather than immediately fall in love with or am only indifferent to.

**Gitsplitta**

That is.... ridiculous.

**aka_mythos**

I think the only problem with it is the size of the autocannons in proportion to the rest of the model.

**SirDonlad**

wow. not liking that at all

looks like it'll fall over. kinda 'breaks the fourth wall' for me if you see what i mean.

**Theophony**

FINALY Here's the option I was looking for building Angry Marines, I just never could find suitable feet for Power Boots.

Pass on the rest of it though.

**H.B.M.C.**

Azreal13 wrote:
I appreciate the nostalgia, but not the model!

Each to his own I guess. I think it looks awesome.

**Soo'Vah'Cha**

yup dig it..makes my old battletech senses tingle..put a little canopy over the helmet area..and its my rifleman with lrm packs..lol
I will get a couple for my marines Malevolent.

Plus those ammo feed belts are awesome.

**Wyzilla**

It'd be a cool looking model in Battletech, but that's just a lot of yuck for 40k. The RT design of Dreadnoughs needs to stay dead, although hopefully it's exclusively an HH model.

**Nicky J**

I really wanna stick a little Squat pilot where the head is! Would look awesome, I think

**Padre**

"Mad Cat" Battlemec.... uhhh.... Dreadno...ummm... Dreadmech looks amazing!!!

Looks like it'll be fun to paint.

**Sinful Hero**

My god... I want three!

**TyraelVladinhurst**

definitely an improvement to the contemptor, my guess is whirlwind missile launcher that can upgrade to a hyperious missile launcher and two twin linked accellorator autocannons

**H.B.M.C.**

Padre wrote:
Dreadmech

Perfect!

That's what we should call it.

And we can play games of DreadWarrior.

**Peregrine**

TyraelVladinhurst wrote:
two twin linked accellorator autocannons

Please dear god no. The Sicaran is bad enough as it is, we don't need a unit with twice as much firepower.

**BlaxicanX**

The joke is that it'll still have less firepower than a IA Riptide.

**Senortaco**

The aesthatics of it is just soo wrong...

**Tannhauser42**

Peregrine wrote:
TyraelVladinhurst wrote:
two twin linked accellorator autocannons

Please dear god no. The Sicaran is bad enough as it is, we don't need a unit with twice as much firepower.

I wouldn't be surprised, however, if it was just normal twin-linked autocannons with the "rapid tracking" rule (ignore jink saves) if it is an AA platform (much like the old Hydra).

**prplehippo**

I just finished painting a bunch of those Mechanicus mechs for a commission.

I was pretty impressed with the resin castings, it didn't take too much to clean them up, except for a few small bubbles.

The new Dred, is that an updated redesign of the old Rogue Trader dred or is it just using the old name?

It doesn't really look like the old RT one much.