Adeptus Mechanicus for 40k new pics p162

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**Mymearan**

pretre wrote:
Mymearan wrote:
Is someone making a new thread with the confirmation from WD?

Why would we do that? This thread already exists.

I'm guessing most people aren't interested in rumors and speculation but suddenly get VERY interested when there's actual news. Of course a thread title change would suffice, didn't think of that

**pretre**

Mymearan wrote:
pretre wrote:
Mymearan wrote:
Is someone making a new thread with the confirmation from WD?

Why would we do that? This thread already exists.

I'm guessing most people aren't interested in rumors and speculation but suddenly get VERY interested when there's actual news. Of course a thread title change would suffice, didn't think of that

Hit the little triangle.

**Azreal13**

A thread jumping from page 2 to bouncing off the top of page 1 repeatedly is normally clue enough for me that there's something new.

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

Kanluwen wrote:
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That's all I'm going to say on this...

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Ave Omnissiah!

Alpharius wrote:
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Ok this is getting spammy. I'll stop now.

**Necroagogo**

Wouldn't it be lovely to have some new models along with rules for using HH-era Mechanicum models for 40K ...

**Tannhauser42**

zedmeister wrote:
Finally. After nearly 30 years, they are doing a 40k Ad Mech force. Long have I waited. Hoping it's not a pale shadow of the 30k Mechanicum.

That's my biggest worry about all this. But, at least I do have a 30K Mechanicum army if it turns out that way.

**xraytango**

H.B.M.C. wrote:
Kanluwen wrote:
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That's all I'm going to say on this...

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Ave Omnissiah!

Alpharius wrote:
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Ok this is getting spammy. I'll stop now.

HEY!! Watch the language please, there are kids that read this site. You kiss your mother with that vocalizer grille?

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

Necroagogo wrote:
Wouldn't it be lovely to have some new models along with rules for using HH-era Mechanicum models for 40K ...

Sadly I doubt we'll get that. I think GW wants to keep a clear line between the Adeptus Mechanicus and the Mechanicum.

**Insurgency Walker**

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Edited for sanity.

**agnosto**

I get the excitement but am I the only one that gets the feeling that the Imperium of man is note nearly teetering on the edge of collapse? I mean, how many IoM armies will there be with Admech released to fight the grand total of, what, 6? xenos armies?

In the grim darkness of the future, there are only human armies.

**ClockworkZion**

agnosto wrote:
I get the excitement but am I the only one that gets the feeling that the Imperium of man is note nearly teetering on the edge of collapse? I mean, how many IoM armies will there be with Admech released to fight the grand total of, what, 6? xenos armies?

In the grim darkness of the future, there are only human armies.

Ad Mech was a faction you could field in 2nd. GW has been tapping into their old IP for a while now.

**Azreal13**

They were?

There may have been a couple of units in the Codex Imperialis, but then, that had Squats in it too...

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

Spoiler:

OMG lern 2 space bar!

ClockworkZion wrote:
Ad Mech was a faction you could field in 2nd. GW has been tapping into their old IP for a while now.

Ad Mech was a couple of unit types in the "Imperial Agents" army list. Calling them a full faction (unless they received a Citadel Journal list) would be a bit of a stretch.

**ClockworkZion**

H.B.M.C. wrote:

ClockworkZion wrote:
Ad Mech was a faction you could field in 2nd. GW has been tapping into their old IP for a while now.

Ad Mech was a couple of unit types in the "Imperial Agents" army list. Calling them a full faction (unless they received a Citadel Journal list) would be a bit of a stretch.

Fair enough. IIRC you could still field them as an army.

**Azreal13**

I don't think there were any non-HQ units at all. There was maybe an Engineseer or a Tech Priest, but nowhere near an army in their own right.

Of course, with a % based unit type list making system and an ally system, you could probably have cobbled so,ething together and called it Ad Mech, but they never got their own book, and I don't recall any Chapter Approved style magazine articles for them either.

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

There were Electro Priests, but really they were as much an "army" as Sisters were back then - two entries and that's it. Sisters did eventually get a Codex (about 8 seconds before 3rd Ed came out, invalidating their brand new Codex), but yeah, that was about it.

**Dryaktylus**

Azreal13 wrote:I don't think there were any non-HQ units at all. There was maybe an Engineseer or a Tech Priest, but nowhere near an army in their own right.

H.B.M.C. wrote:There were Electro Priests, but really they were as much an "army" as Sisters were back then - two entries and that's it.

They had Magi and Enginseers as charakters and Tech-priests (well, standard humans with better weapon options), servitors and electro-priests as units. Plus support weapons and vehicles.

It was the most comprehensive Imperial Agents faction and they had some unreleased models (electro-priests, servitors, a tracked weapon). I'd guess those Skullz models were originally part of a planned release too.

**Azreal13**

Well someone's brain hasn't been ruined by two intervening decades of drinking and repeated impact damage (I'm 6'5", it happens a lot!)

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

Dryaktylus wrote:
It was the most comprehensive Imperial Agents faction and they had some unreleased models (electro-priests, servitors, a tracked weapon). I'd guess those Skullz models were originally part of a planned release too.

Yeah I remember those unreleased Electro-Priests. I do hope GW brings them back. They were super-dangerous back in 2nd Ed from what I recall.

And I hope that that Skullz unit works with the new rules, 'cause I have one.

**Dr Mathias**

H.B.M.C. wrote:

Yeah I remember those unreleased Electro-Priests. I do hope GW brings them back. They were super-dangerous back in 2nd Ed from what I recall.

And I hope that that Skullz unit works with the new rules, 'cause I have one.

Electro priests were STR 8 and in 2nd edition that was pretty awesome in CC. The figure wasn't very good though, it's no wonder it wasn't released.

It would be nice to be able to use the Skullz Admech legitimately. I've been hanging on to mine since they came out, and have only painted one.

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

You can use them legitimately in Dark Heresy. I even wrote rules for the Magus' staff!

**Hydrapup**

agnosto wrote:
I get the excitement but am I the only one that gets the feeling that the Imperium of man is note nearly teetering on the edge of collapse? I mean, how many IoM armies will there be with Admech released to fight the grand total of, what, 6? xenos armies?

In the grim darkness of the future, there are only human armies.

Over militirization goes hand in hand with collapse !

**Redemption**

H.B.M.C. wrote:
You can use them legitimately in Dark Heresy. I even wrote rules for the Magus' staff!

You mean for the Enemies Within for DH2?

**MajorStoffer**

I'd be excited, but then I remember GW's publishing this.

I'm saying 2-3 units and HQ and transport/combat vehicle.

Kind of like what happened with Knights, but backwards. Rather than GW making a shallow, pointless codex first and FW making something interesting out of it, FW made an interesting Mechanicum army, and GW will release some pale shadow of it with more aesthetically questionable models. The "human" armies have received pretty aesthetically awful models for quite some time now, the decent looking stuff is pretty much xeno-only at this point for new releases.

**Kosake**

MajorStoffer wrote:
I'd be excited, but then I remember GW's publishing this.

I'm saying 2-3 units and HQ and transport/combat vehicle.

Kind of like what happened with Knights, but backwards. Rather than GW making a shallow, pointless codex first and FW making something interesting out of it, FW made an interesting Mechanicum army, and GW will release some pale shadow of it with more aesthetically questionable models. The "human" armies have received pretty aesthetically awful models for quite some time now, the decent looking stuff is pretty much xeno-only at this point for new releases.

Now that's debateable. The whole steampunk/diver-Look of Solar Aux. may not appeal to you, but they aren't bad. And the Mechanicus line from Forge is also great from my point of view. While skepsis towards GW is more than justified, I don't fear for AM nearly as much as I do for other releases, since they can buff the choices up with existing kits (land raiders, maybe something of the IG range, maybe even FW stuff).

**Sol Invictus**

I'd be excited, but then I remember GW's publishing this.

I'm saying 2-3 units and HQ and transport/combat vehicle.

This. This is my greatest fear. I really hope Ad Mech doesn't turn out like Harlequins...

**ClockworkZion**

Sol Invictus wrote:
I'd be excited, but then I remember GW's publishing this.

I'm saying 2-3 units and HQ and transport/combat vehicle.

This. This is my greatest fear. I really hope Ad Mech doesn't turn out like Harlequins...

That was the size of the release some people claimed, but that could be the size of new units not counting stuff we have already like Servitors and Engineseers.

**BrianDavion**

ClockworkZion wrote:
Sol Invictus wrote:
I'd be excited, but then I remember GW's publishing this.

I'm saying 2-3 units and HQ and transport/combat vehicle.

This. This is my greatest fear. I really hope Ad Mech doesn't turn out like Harlequins...

That was the size of the release some people claimed, but that could be the size of new units not counting stuff we have already like Servitors and Engineseers.

heck plastic servitors would be all kinds of awesome

**Frozen Ocean**

The binary was cute, but it makes me legitimately concerned for the quality of the content. It reminds me of the overbearing "they are really really robotical robots!" nonsense with 5E Necrons, like Phalanx 01100010 01110101 01110100 01110100 saying "beep boop" to their Lord, who replies with some extremely flat dialogue about how infinitely smart and cool the Necrons are.

**Sol Invictus**

ClockworkZion wrote:
Sol Invictus wrote:
I'd be excited, but then I remember GW's publishing this.

I'm saying 2-3 units and HQ and transport/combat vehicle.

This. This is my greatest fear. I really hope Ad Mech doesn't turn out like Harlequins...

That was the size of the release some people claimed, but that could be the size of new units not counting stuff we have already like Servitors and Engineseers.

I realize that it will most likely be a smaller release which will still make me quite happy. It will just be a little disappointing when I think of all the awesomeness they could do with them.

Here's hoping for the best.