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wonder if they'll release 2 kits in the first week. I know they never did this, but since it's the first truly new army they release while using this 1-release per week format, I wouldn't be surprise if they give at least a somewhat playable faction on the first week.
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http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/519978.page#6525039
Im thinking the crawler is supposed to look like a precursor to the defiler. Remove all the chaos bits from the defiler, and its body wouldn't look too much unlike that. And the armour plates on the legs follow a similar styling.
Holding judgement for better pics, though. It's unexciting from that image, but it's really not a good look at it.
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insaniak wrote: Im thinking the crawler is supposed to look like a precursor to the defiler. Remove all the chaos bits from the defiler, and its body wouldn't look too much unlike that. And the armour plates on the legs follow a similar styling.
Holding judgement for better pics, though. It's unexciting from that image, but it's really not a good look at it.
Pretty much my initial thoughts. It looks a bit smoother in design, like the dreadknight joints.
Infantry looks good will have to wait on better pics for the crawler. But the infantry was mainly what I was hoping for, forgeworld can supply my other.......needs.....
Obvious caveats; first images, blurry, might be amazing with different colours/better shots. That said; meh.
I look at those and the first thing that comes to mind is "If they're going to reuse digital assets from the Battlewagon, Scions, and DV Cultists, they could at least make it a little less obvious".
The second thing is "They took that cool JB image and sucked all the soul out of it". This one:
I'll try and reserve further judgement, but honestly seeing those pics makes me wish GW had just left AdMech to FW, because I can't help but think FW would have given us proper wierdo-techno-barbarian-brutes infantry with freaky in all the right places given how fantastic the 30K stuff is.
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Here is a look at your Onager Dunecrawler.
Comes with an Eradication Beamer, Broad Spectrum Data-Tether, Enamatus Force Field, and searchlight. One special rule called Doctrina Imperatives.
Its a crawler, and therefore is never slowed by difficult terrain and auto passes dangerous terrain tests. It can't run.
Gun options-
Replace the Eradication Beamer with
-Twin linked heavy phosphor blaster
-Neutron Laser and Cognis Heavy Stubber
-Icarus Array
Of course it has an eradication beamer...
And a neutron laser...
Mierda these sound like weapons I thought up as a kid.
The megaton rifle! The atom smasher cannon! The star crusher!
Sigh...
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Zewrath wrote: That walker looks like a bastard offspring of The Defiler and The Gorkanaut/Morkanaut.
Nah, like HBMC said - the bastard ofspring of a Sentinel and the Battlewagon.
The sad thing is, I expected something as grimdark-gothic-beautiful as the FW Mechanicum line. That thing however looks like a stockpile for conversion parts or looting purposes. I think it actually out-uglied the Taurox.
When I first saw the pics, my first ideas were "looks like a clever ruse. The crawler is just an ork battlewagon turret with the gun strapped to the side and the infantry model is a conversion of one of the cultists (the robed one with the autorifle)."
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As the vehicle that was corrupted to create the Defiler, it makes a lot of sense.
As a follow up to the vehicles and aesthetics of the Mechanicum of Forge World, it seems a poor country cousin and more cobbled together with a scavenger/ork feel than a techno-marvel... But perhaps that's the change from Mechanicum of the golden age to the current Adeptus Mechanicus...
That infantryman is love at first sight for me. Definite Blanchey-cues, but not overboard. The walker, err, has potential. With better pictures and a not so goofy paint-job, i'm willing to bet it will look fine.
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