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That skitarii model is just perfect. Exactly what I was hoping for. The walker ... not so much but hey if the rules are good I'll learn to like it.

I like the new walker tank.

I'm not sold on the walker yet, but I don't really even have to be. Castellax Battle Automata are roughly the same size as sentinels and Dreadnoughts, and if this this looks as setinelish as I think it does, then a Castellax will easily fit the bill and still look magnificent.

Stand by for nerd rage in T-Minus 10..9...8...

Seriously, I hope better pictures salvage it for everybody. I think it's a good idea for a new faction in the game.

 buddha wrote:
That skitarii model is just perfect. Exactly what I was hoping for. The walker ... not so much but hey if the rules are good I'll learn to like it.

This, really. I love the Skitarii.

 ultimentra wrote:
I'm not sold on the walker yet, but I don't really even have to be. Castellax Battle Automata are roughly the same size as sentinels and Dreadnoughts, and if this this looks as setinelish as I think it does, then a Castellax will easily fit the bill and still look magnificent.

This is actually one of my hopes as well. Gives you the opportunity to field Mechanicum stuff without any rigamarole of convincing people to play 30k stuff (which I realize shouldn't be an issue in this Decurion/Unbound hellscape we find ourselves in, but it still makes things slightly easier in the agreement department). Time will tell!

Thanks for the pic mashup!

And has anyone else pointed out the walker looks like a teched up sentinel? Makes sense to me.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Well that's a... uhh... odd looking thing.

Am I the only one who thinks a Heavy Stubber is kinda "low-tech" for the AdMech?

It's a bit like the way they stuck one on the Knight model!
Surely a HB would have been more useful

Well, the IG got an un-looted Battlewagon last time, why not an un-looted Defiler?

Meh. And I was kinda looking forward to this.

 ClockworkZion wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
Walker is likely going to be $63(price matches the price on Meganobz) and the Skitarii likely will be $38.

According to what I've seen floating around so far:

this weeks pre-orders:

Admech Skitarii - 10 minis can be built as Rangers or Vanguard. £23.50/€31

Admech Ironstrider Ballistarii £29.50/€38

Which matches what I posted except for the Walker's price bracket. For some reason I looked at the Euro price rather than GBP.

GW doesn't really do straight price conversions, but rather has price brackets that items are put into.

There is no "29.50 GBP" or "23.50 GBP" brackets at the moment, but it's not hard to work exactly what they're aiming for.
The closest items matching the price of the Skitarii bracket is items like Khorne Berzerkers which are $37.25(which matches to 23 GBP).
The closest items matching the price of the Ironstrider is something like the Taurox at $48(which comes out to 29GBP).

 Kanluwen wrote:

 ClockworkZion wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
Walker is likely going to be $63(price matches the price on Meganobz) and the Skitarii likely will be $38.

According to what I've seen floating around so far:

this weeks pre-orders:

Admech Skitarii - 10 minis can be built as Rangers or Vanguard. £23.50/€31

Admech Ironstrider Ballistarii £29.50/€38

Which matches what I posted except for the Walker's price bracket. For some reason I looked at the Euro price rather than GBP.

GW doesn't really do straight price conversions, but rather has price brackets that items are put into.

There is no "29.50 GBP" or "23.50 GBP" brackets at the moment, but it's not hard to work exactly what they're aiming for.
The closest items matching the price of the Skitarii bracket is items like Khorne Berzerkers which are $37.25(which matches to 23 GBP).
The closest items matching the price of the Ironstrider is something like the Taurox at $48(which comes out to 29GBP).

Depending on the complexity/options for the models and the model count I can probably live with prices like that. Especially if the Dunewalker is bigger than the Taurox.

Looks correct what you posted, Kanluwen. The EUR prices leaked by Felwether seem to be a bit low though. I fear they will not be correct. But... maybe... they repeat the Dark Eldar 2010 release. The entire range started cheap in comparison to other GW products which was quite a surprise.

Warhams-77 wrote:
Looks correct what you posted, Kanluwen. The EUR prices leaked by Felwether seem to be a bit low though. I'm afraid they are not correct. But... maybe... they repeat the Dark Eldar 2010 release. The entire range started cheap in comparison to other GW products which was quite a surprise.

That would be the best surprise of all! Certainly enthusiasm for GW's products is continually dampened by their incredibly high prices, so something more reasonable should be better received (and obviously result in more purchases).

I honestly really kinda like it. I really like the design on the legs, I personally think they look rather interesting. The hull I'm not entirely sure on, but I'll wait till I see better pictures. The skitarii trooper... ehhhhh... A bit generic really. Not too keen on the whole 'guardsmen with robes look', was hoping for something a bit weirder but the one we've seen looks pretty good still.

The Skiitari really reminds me of some of the cultist models from Dark Vengeance. Not sure if I like that.

 Grimskul wrote:
The Skiitari really reminds me of some of the cultist models from Dark Vengeance. Not sure if I like that.

yeah, def looks like the front guy here:

See, I personally love the cultist models (they are some of my favourite models, really handy conversion bases) but I really would of liked to of seen more awkward and asymmetrical designs on the skitarii.

I've been thinking and it's possible that there could be a slight aesthetic change as the FW designers said the other day, AdMech keep the good stuff back for themselves.

Will we see "High Tech" AdMech now? So clean furturistic machines, less gothic?

I know that's not the traditional "Old is good" AdMech but it could be a direction away from the more fussy IG stuff like the pimped out Taurox.

Yeah, that guy, totes a chaos dude who is being shot at by the Ad-mech.

 Nicky J wrote:

 Grimskul wrote:
The Skiitari really reminds me of some of the cultist models from Dark Vengeance. Not sure if I like that.

yeah, def looks like the front guy here:

That's the one! Really going to have to see whether or not they have enough varying poses to differentiate them. That and what special weapons they might have besides the generic ones like flamers, plasma guns, or meltas.

 Grimskul wrote:
The Skiitari really reminds me of some of the cultist models from Dark Vengeance. Not sure if I like that.

Robes are kind of a generic look that does that.

 Grimskul wrote:

 Nicky J wrote:

 Grimskul wrote:
The Skiitari really reminds me of some of the cultist models from Dark Vengeance. Not sure if I like that.

yeah, def looks like the front guy here:

That's the one! Really going to have to see whether or not they have enough varying poses to differentiate them. That and what special weapons they might have besides the generic ones like flamers, plasma guns, or meltas.

The model shown is not an Ad-Mech model, nor will it be used as a base for whatever it is they'll be selling.

 BrookM wrote:

 Grimskul wrote:

 Nicky J wrote:

 Grimskul wrote:
The Skiitari really reminds me of some of the cultist models from Dark Vengeance. Not sure if I like that.

yeah, def looks like the front guy here:

That's the one! Really going to have to see whether or not they have enough varying poses to differentiate them. That and what special weapons they might have besides the generic ones like flamers, plasma guns, or meltas.

The model shown is not an Ad-Mech model, nor will it be used as a base for whatever it is they'll be selling.

Yes...I know? I was just referring to how the leaked pic of the Skiitari model resembles the design of the hooded cultist that the poster brought up.

On the GW Wakefield facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/GWWakefield?fref=ts

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

OH! OHHH! I just realised that walker would be really nice for an ash waste nomad army...

 ceorron wrote:
On the GW Wakefield facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/GWWakefield?fref=ts

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

That's on the GW Blog as well, so no surprise it makes it to a GW store page.

 ClockworkZion wrote:

 ceorron wrote:
On the GW Wakefield facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/GWWakefield?fref=ts

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

That's on the GW Blog as well, so no surprise it makes it to a GW store page.

Yeah, those guys are always the last to know anything

Which is sad.

 Accolade wrote:

 ClockworkZion wrote:

 ceorron wrote:
On the GW Wakefield facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/GWWakefield?fref=ts

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

That's on the GW Blog as well, so no surprise it makes it to a GW store page.

Yeah, those guys are always the last to know anything

Which is sad.

Well the ones who don't follow rumors. There are those out there who do.

Seems I'm in the minority then; I was really hoping they'd go with the more interesting techno-barbarian built-for-war angle on Skitarii from the Titanicus and ...of Mars novels, the totally-not-Vostroyans-with-hoods-honest-guv look is just disappointing.

Skitarii do vary from forge world to forge world.