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 Azreal13 wrote:
Anyone else excited for an Ad Mech donkey launcher?

Depends, are we talking about a gun that’s mounted on some sort of cyborg-donkey, or a giant gun that shoots donkeys at the enemy?

Actually, I’d be OK with either.

 aka_mythos wrote:

ClockworkZion wrote:Exodites have the Arbites issues when it comes to putting them in the game: they only defend their own turf, not fight for new turf. Best left to a campaign (like FW) than GW trying to make them into a larger army in my book.

I think both armies deserve some sort of representation. I always thought it a shame that GW hasn't played with the idea of purely defensive armies. With the introduction of Fortifications to the game it created the opportunity for an army themed around that notion. They could have given that army some distinctive fortifications and allowed a greater number of fortifications to be taken to make up for the Arbites limited motorpool and army size.

For Exodites, playing off the space-wood-elves concept there would be something distinctive of an Eldar army so scout and infiltrating intensive with the visual of these Eldar silently appearing out of a jungle or really any terrain as part of a sort of home turf advantage.

Oh I agree, they deserve to be playable, I'm just saying that a list that puts them into a campaign (or GW releasing them as part of a campaign, at least initially) would help a lot. A narrative thing to support the theme.

trimpy wrote:

nudibranch wrote:

 MajorStoffer wrote:

Centurions
Bull/Ogryns
Taurox
Logan Clause
Flying Shipping Crate
Murderfang

I... actually like most of those...

Same here, esp the bullgryns. The Taurox also looks SO much better with wheels than tracks.

Yeah, I actually rather like it when it has the auto cannons on the top and with the wheel set from Victorian minis:

http://victoriaminiatures.highwire.com/product/apc-wheel-and-suspension-kit

The Arbites actually had a Citadel Journal army like the Harliequins and Genestealer cult. So if they follow suit I could see a Scion or whatever they've called stormtroopers now, type release for them certainly.

Exodites not so much.

I would love, love if they had a release say once a year or 2 say of a mini army in a campaign book say what they have done with the current mini armies but with stuff like aliens or minor races / factions

Who wouldn't love a redemption army vs scavvys?

 Nevelon wrote:

 Azreal13 wrote:
Anyone else excited for an Ad Mech donkey launcher?

Depends, are we talking about a gun that’s mounted on some sort of cyborg-donkey, or a giant gun that shoots donkeys at the enemy?

Actually, I’d be OK with either.

I think it'll be a Mechanicus version of the infamous Eselschreck

Onager Dunecrawler...
I bet it looks like a Jawa Sandcrawler and Faeit is BSing.

 gigasnail wrote:
just give me my sweet, sweet martian death robots already.

OMG, if the Dune Crawler thingy is a tripod I will GO NUTS.

Now I'll be disappointed by anything else...

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Aww... I like the new Ogryn. They're a marked improvement over the ugly metal ones, and the super-cartoonish ones before that.

The classic Arnold Ogrynegger is awesome!


But admech ogryn would probably look close to an Obliterator "you goo guy, bad guy?"

We just want pics.

Kyoto - go into the future for us and bring back pics.

I'll wait.

*begins waiting*




Oh, and I meant these Ogryn:

I'm going to the future as fast as I can, but can't seem to get above that 1 second/second rate...



This.

In plastic.

Please.

Oh and an Adeptus Arbites Codex too.

Thanks.

Just back from the future.

KK....

How could you?

The Australians needed all those Ad Mech models, and they were so cool!

I will end you. All of you.

You try, but I take you out with an exceptionally well aimed donkey, even if I do say so myself!

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

This.

In plastic.

Please.

Oh and an Adeptus Arbites Codex too.

Thanks.

I hope Techpriests end up in a box set with servitors... If they're on their own in blisters they'll just be too pricey.

Adeptus Arbites would be awesome.

Yes, Tech-Priest + Servitors would be a dream come true.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Yes, Tech-Priest + Servitors would be a dream come true.

...with weapon options.

 notprop wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

migooo wrote:

 Dr Mathias wrote:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

After 20 years I think I deserve to buy myself an AM army.

That was my thought as well

I'd like one but I have to see the figures. As some stuff has been hit and miss of late.

My biggest fear as well. I have been crying for an AdMech army for years, so much so that I eventually went and made my own using things from other companies. Now we're finally getting one... and I want to live in hope, but there's something at the back of my mind going "Razorgore! Plastic Minotaurs! WRATHMONGERS!", and I can't shut it out.

[Mrs H.] You will like your Mechanicus Mechanaught mounting Mechanicus Missiles shooting MechaLazors and you will enjoy it young man or you will not be getting the MechaTank with MechaCannon playset for your Birthday!

Yeah, anticipation is a bitch isn't it!

How about a Mechanicus Machineknight, a blatant giant robot with Monstrous Creature rules? Backed up by Techtech infantry with DOS guns, of course.

EDIT: Page didn't refresh when it was supposed to, so I'm two pages late.

At the bottom of today's "What's New Today from the WD Team" blog post:

Come back later to find out more about Codex: Khorne Daemonkin and about another, even bigger release…

 Frozen Ocean wrote:

 notprop wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

migooo wrote:

 Dr Mathias wrote:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

After 20 years I think I deserve to buy myself an AM army.

That was my thought as well

I'd like one but I have to see the figures. As some stuff has been hit and miss of late.

My biggest fear as well. I have been crying for an AdMech army for years, so much so that I eventually went and made my own using things from other companies. Now we're finally getting one... and I want to live in hope, but there's something at the back of my mind going "Razorgore! Plastic Minotaurs! WRATHMONGERS!", and I can't shut it out.

[Mrs H.] You will like your Mechanicus Mechanaught mounting Mechanicus Missiles shooting MechaLazors and you will enjoy it young man or you will not be getting the MechaTank with MechaCannon playset for your Birthday!

Yeah, anticipation is a bitch isn't it!

How about a Mechanicus Machineknight, a blatant giant robot with Monstrous Creature rules? Backed up by Techtech infantry with DOS guns, of course.

EDIT: Page didn't refresh when it was supposed to, so I'm two pages late.

They already have Knights

 sonofruss wrote:

They already have Knights

Imperial Knights exist, but I'm talking about a Skitarii Dreadknight equivalent. Honestly, such a thing would probably be really cool, but there is a very real possibility that it'll have a ridiculous name and one glaringly silly element of its design (like the Dreadknight is all in all very cool, apart from the baby-carrier). Worst case scenario is we get Murderfang, Stormfangs and Stormrider (Santa Grimnar) all over again.

And Dreadknights and Wraithknights. All we need now is a Knightknight!

I think a Skitarii Penitent Engine would make more sense than a Dreadknight.

 aka_mythos wrote:
I think a Skitarii Penitent Engine would make more sense than a Dreadknight.

Anything makes more sense than that baby holder.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
And Dreadknights and Wraithknights. All we need now is a Knightknight!

The Wraithknight is cool! Plus "Wraith" as a prefix is a theme with Eldar already, to the point where it being called something else would be rather strange. The only thing that's a little off with the "knight" part is that it's superior to the Wraith"lord", but that's because "knight" in 40k has a history of meaning "big scary almost-Titans".

Dreadknight isn't that bad of a name. It was when it first came out, but now we have Helbrutes and Stormwolves, and Fantasy has the fantastic Wrathmongers. Let's not forget Murderfang and all that entails. The problem with the Dreadknight is that it's the "Nemesis" Dreadknight, with Nemesis Nemesis Nemesis Nemesis. Nemesis isn't even a keyword that makes sense for Grey Knights! Also doomfists... and psilencers.

Nah FW and the IK have walkers pretty well tied up for ADMech.

I see improbable tanks made of cogs, rivets and paper clips that are protected by "force fields".

Oh no the did that.

Gravtanks it is then. If there is a Roll-on deodorant shortage in Nottingham around about now we know why.

 Frozen Ocean wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
And Dreadknights and Wraithknights. All we need now is a Knightknight!

The Wraithknight is cool! Plus "Wraith" as a prefix is a theme with Eldar already, to the point where it being called something else would be rather strange. The only thing that's a little off with the "knight" part is that it's superior to the Wraith"lord", but that's because "knight" in 40k has a history of meaning "big scary almost-Titans".

Dreadknight isn't that bad of a name. It was when it first came out, but now we have Helbrutes and Stormwolves, and Fantasy has the fantastic Wrathmongers. Let's not forget Murderfang and all that entails. The problem with the Dreadknight is that it's the "Nemesis" Dreadknight, with Nemesis Nemesis Nemesis Nemesis. Nemesis isn't even a keyword that makes sense for Grey Knights! Also doomfists... and psilencers.

He's showing Offline, so I will respond on HBMC's behalf to just mention that he writes material for the 40K RPG, he literally earns money writing background for 40K, so is probably the last person who needs a brief on naming conventions on the whole of Dakka.

As for the Nemesis thing, it actually makes sense because they are, theoretically, built from the ground up to fight one enemy, and excel at destroying them.

There are very few keywords that don't have a link to the faction they're associated with, it's the overuse of any one term that starts to sound a little like parody.

Yes yes yes yes yes
Been thinking about Mechanicum for a while.

Not needing to buy FW models? yes please.

Wallet prepare yourself.
Please give them a decent amount of units to play with.
It would be sad if they become like Militarum Tempestus with like 5ish units total in the dex

I hope whatever heavy Admech get isnt another two legged, humanoid-esque walker to be honest.
Some sort of tracked vehicle would be much more interesting and appealing - something akin to the Kaban machine or a variation thereof.
Or even a crawler of somesort, variation of brass scorpion of khorne or the FW necron multi legged bug.

 Azreal13 wrote:

 Frozen Ocean wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
And Dreadknights and Wraithknights. All we need now is a Knightknight!

The Wraithknight is cool! Plus "Wraith" as a prefix is a theme with Eldar already, to the point where it being called something else would be rather strange. The only thing that's a little off with the "knight" part is that it's superior to the Wraith"lord", but that's because "knight" in 40k has a history of meaning "big scary almost-Titans".

Dreadknight isn't that bad of a name. It was when it first came out, but now we have Helbrutes and Stormwolves, and Fantasy has the fantastic Wrathmongers. Let's not forget Murderfang and all that entails. The problem with the Dreadknight is that it's the "Nemesis" Dreadknight, with Nemesis Nemesis Nemesis Nemesis. Nemesis isn't even a keyword that makes sense for Grey Knights! Also doomfists... and psilencers.

He's showing Offline, so I will respond on HBMC's behalf to just mention that he writes material for the 40K RPG, he literally earns money writing background for 40K, so is probably the last person who needs a brief on naming conventions on the whole of Dakka.

As for the Nemesis thing, it actually makes sense because they are, theoretically, built from the ground up to fight one enemy, and excel at destroying them.

There are very few keywords that don't have a link to the faction they're associated with, it's the overuse of any one term that starts to sound a little like parody.

I wasn't suggesting that H.B.M.C. didn't know about those things. Writer or not, it'd be difficult not to. I was just musing that the Dreadknight's name has started to sound much sweeter with the naming conventions that proceeded it (that's not to say that it all came after, the Blood Angels and Space Wolves being the worst offenders on that front).

I'm fairly certain that "Nemesis" was thrown in purely because it's a cool word, even if it doesn't fit the pre-established theming. Everything with the Grey Knights has a holy theme, a knight theme (not very much, perhaps because this is fairly widespread among Space Marines), or a psyker theme. Force weapons are inherently psyker weapons, so giving them a psyker-themed name wouldn't be special. They're mostly bladed weapons, so a knight sword wouldn't do it either. That leaves the holy theme, which fits perfectly - they were meant to banish daemons, after all. Nemesis sounds more Dark Eldar. I can totally imagine a Dark Eldar "Nemesis pistol" firing some kind of suitably nasty ammunition.

The other keywords are a lot more straightforward, even within the Grey Knights. Your explanation makes sense, but I doubt that it was the intent behind the name.

 Kosake wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:

 Azreal13 wrote:
Anyone else excited for an Ad Mech donkey launcher?

Depends, are we talking about a gun that’s mounted on some sort of cyborg-donkey, or a giant gun that shoots donkeys at the enemy?

Actually, I’d be OK with either.

I think it'll be a Mechanicus version of the infamous Eselschreck

I'll take 4.

Super excited about a new army. Go Admech!