Frozen Ocean wrote:

 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.

 Ratius wrote:
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.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Uggh! Even Kan's piling on.

Please don't such AdMech Codex. Please don't.

 Ratius wrote:
Some sort of tracked vehicle would be much more interesting and appealing - something akin to the Kaban machine or a variation thereof.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Adeptus Mechanicus Skittari Guard

WS3, BS4, S3, T3, W1, I3, A1, Ld 7, Sv4+

Armed with Techno Armor (4+ 6++), Techno Rifles (MC lasguns) and Techno Grendads (count as frag and haywire)

Special Rule - Techno Shielding (Immune to Rad grenades, because why the #$%^ not)

 Verviedi wrote:

Dafaq is a Grendad?

 godswildcard wrote:

 Verviedi wrote:

Dafaq is a Grendad?

I believe it was an old, old wooden ship used during civil war times (ACW to you non-'Muricans!)

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Adeptus Mechanicus Skittari Guard

WS3, BS4, S3, T3, W1, I3, A1, Ld 7, Sv4+

Armed with Techno Armor (4+ 6++), Techno Rifles (MC lasguns) and Techno Grendads (count as frag and haywire)

Special Rule - Techno Shielding (Immune to Rad grenades, because why the #$%^ not)

Deadawake1347 wrote:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Adeptus Mechanicus Skittari Guard

WS3, BS4, S3, T3, W1, I3, A1, Ld 7, Sv4+

Armed with Techno Armor (4+ 6++), Techno Rifles (MC lasguns) and Techno Grendads (count as frag and haywire)

Special Rule - Techno Shielding (Immune to Rad grenades, because why the #$%^ not)

Honestly I'm hoping that they're less "Guardsmen with some tech and implants" and more like the Skittari in the Titanicus novel by Abnett. Humans bred for hundreds of generations for certain aspects to the point where they're somewhere between humans and ogryns and then outfitted with all kinds of implants and augmentations.
The guardsmen in the book freaked the feth out when they first bumped into the Skittari, thinking that they were some chaos monstrosity.

Enemy sighted, reinforcements inbound.
Return: 27th March for further information
Praise the Omnissiah!

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Good detective work. Now, whilst Kyoto travels to the future you must travel to the past to a time before that video was removed.

Go!

 ClockworkZion wrote:
Someone found GW's page early. The video was down but I screen capped it:

Spoiler:

Translation:

Enemy sighted, reinforcements inbound.
Return: 27th March for further information
Praise the Omnissiah!

GW is having fun with this binary.

 Kanluwen wrote:
The video technically isn't removed; just locked.

They've had the issue before where people found the videos and posted them up before they were locked/hidden.

 Bull0 wrote:
Interestingly there's nothing in the GW website terms of use that prohibits the use of a spider or any other automated tools to scrape their site. That's a bit of a surprise.

 Verviedi wrote:
Dafaq is a Grendad?

 Lockark wrote:
I can't belive how under wraps GW is kept this. Why hasn't that guy who posted the white dwarf binary, leaked the rest of that white dwarf! XD

 Lockark wrote:
I can't belive how under wraps GW is kept this. Why hasn't that guy who posted the white dwarf binary, leaked the rest of that white dwarf! XD

 Commander Jimbob wrote:
It's funny that GW is doing all this binary stuff for Admech (and Necrons previously), given that we are already researching quantum computing 38,000 years before 40k, and I'm pretty sure quantum computing makes binary obsolete.

 ultimentra wrote:
Hey got a question for you future Admech guys, will you be priming (spray) silver, then painting red where needed, or priming red and then painting silver? What typically looks better? Any recommendations on sprays to use for Admech stuff? (Both for silver and red)