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 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 ClockworkZion wrote:
Fingers crossed for the full codex soon and getting HQs that way?

Do we even know that there's another book coming?

Lords of Wargaming has been on record saying that there is this mini book and a full-sized codex coming. Plus, you know, the whole "Adeptus Mechanicus" section on the GW site and not "Skitarri".

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 streetsamurai wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
I'm getting a bit tired of everything in this army getting 1-2 unique rules that do the same or similar to an existing USR.

It's the opposite for me. I really like that army has some unique special rules. Help to differenciate them

How does it differentiate them if they're the same?

Taser = Tesla

Tesla isn't a USR, and if they had just called it tesla people would be complaining about them having a Necron-only rule.

Neural Trauma = Poison (4+)

If they had just used poison a lot of people would be wondering why the hell a grenade that uses bio-electricity is poisonous and complaining about it.

Transonic = Rending + AP2 on all attacks after the first round

Except not really; the only similarity is that they both are AP2 on a To Wound of a 6. Transonic only auto-wounds on a To Hit of a 6 (making it worse than Rending in the first round).
Sure, I suppose they could have just said it Rends, but then they'd need a separate rule to give it AP2 on every round afterwards.

 Matt.Kingsley wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 streetsamurai wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
I'm getting a bit tired of everything in this army getting 1-2 unique rules that do the same or similar to an existing USR.

It's the opposite for me. I really like that army has some unique special rules. Help to differenciate them

How does it differentiate them if they're the same?

Taser = Tesla

Tesla isn't a USR, and if they had just called it tesla people would be complaining about them having a Necron-only rule.

Not to mention Tesla does 2 extra wounds, but Taser does 2 wounds total. And Tesla weapons have no AP value, but Taser weapons have an AP value instead.

 Matt.Kingsley wrote:

Neural Trauma = Poison (4+)

If they had just used poison a lot of people would be wondering why the hell a grenade that uses bio-electricity is poisonous and complaining about it.

Not to mention if the model being hit with it is resistant to poison it's not resistant to Neural Trauma (unless they are resistant to being wounded on a fixed number).

If one wanted a shooty army that complemented what Skitarii bring to the table and wanted it to be effective in the lower point spectrum, who should they ally Skitarii with (with $$$ also playing a factor)

Dmorktry wrote:
If one wanted a shooty army that complemented what Skitarii bring to the table and wanted it to be effective in the lower point spectrum, who should they ally Skitarii with (with $$$ also playing a factor)

I'd say Space Marines. SM will give you some survivability in armor saves that the Skitarii just don't have, plus have plenty of good shooting options themselves. Tac squads being your basic troop, plus Sternguard, Centurions, and Thunderfire Cannons.

Dmorktry wrote:
If one wanted a shooty army that complemented what Skitarii bring to the table and wanted it to be effective in the lower point spectrum, who should they ally Skitarii with (with $$$ also playing a factor)

well given Skitarii are an army of the Imperium, they're proably best allied with other IoM armies honestly, Skitarii are argueably the best gunline infantry the IoM has, where they lack is in durable assault and heavy vehicles. as you specified shooting, I'd go with Imperial guard as they have lots of armor. you could go with a command squad and vetern squads and then load up on lemen russes

Sold. Totally.

Mind you, mine will probably be Squat Forgelords rather than mechanicus, if i can get my Convert on...

Why give the Onager three different AA weapons?

Spy_Smasher wrote:
Why give the Onager three different AA weapons?

Why not? A walker can fire any number of weapons.

... and bear some of the most esoteric and destructive tank-portable weaponry the Tech-Priests can devise.

Twin-Linked Autocannon.
Heavy Stubber.


And let's not forget the Stub Rifle on the Mech-Assassin guys.


Just screams "archeotech" to me.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

... and bear some of the most esoteric and destructive tank-portable weaponry the Tech-Priests can devise.

Twin-Linked Autocannon.
Heavy Stubber.


And let's not forget the Stub Rifle on the Mech-Assassin guys.


Just screams "archeotech" to me.

it also can have a tank sized "conversion beamer" and a neutron laser. I dunno about neutron lasers (perhaps they're all over the place in the fiction or something) but conversion beamers are considered some pretty rare and esoteric arcanotech.

Neutron lasers were first mainly found in the realms of FW rules.

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 streetsamurai wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
I'm getting a bit tired of everything in this army getting 1-2 unique rules that do the same or similar to an existing USR.

It's the opposite for me. I really like that army has some unique special rules. Help to differenciate them

How does it differentiate them if they're the same?

Taser = Tesla

Neural Trauma = Poison (4+)

Transonic = Rending + AP2 on all attacks after the first round

My bad

read your post way too fast. Tought you meant you didn't like unique special rules for army, and wanted all army to only have USR.

I agree with you, it's ridiculous when they make rules that are exactly the same as an USR, and named them differently.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

... and bear some of the most esoteric and destructive tank-portable weaponry the Tech-Priests can devise.

Twin-Linked Autocannon.
Heavy Stubber.


And let's not forget the Stub Rifle on the Mech-Assassin guys.


Just screams "archeotech" to me.

Way to cherrypick the few mundane weapons in the list and completely ignore all the awesome exotic stuff like Galvanic Rifles, Radium Jezzails, Phosphor Serpentas, molecular dissonance Chordaclaws, Transuranic Arquebus and the like.

Nvm

Playing Kill Team with these guys and their Doctrina Imperatives is going to be interesting all of the sudden.

You know what's funny?

I showed all this stuff to my FLGS manager and he showed me the order form and info for Skitarii from GW.

It does indeed say clampack.

So WTF is it?

We now know we're not getting a HQ, so this is leaving me at a quandary.

Edit: Hang on... This order list is for the entire month of April!!!

This weekend: Skitarii Rangers, Vanguard and the Ballistarius kit.
Next weekend: Codex and Rustwalkers.
Weekend after that: Dunewalker.
Weekend after that: Possible Clampack?

Could it be the HQ and preorder from the big AdMech Codex?

It's probably a Skitarii Alpha with some of the relic options.

 BrookM wrote:
It's probably a Skitarii Alpha with some of the relic options.

If that's true ill still be happy honestly. But maybe there's a solo ??

Wait that clampack might be the Eldar guy then as they are rumoured to be next.

That'll do!

migooo wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
It's probably a Skitarii Alpha with some of the relic options.

If that's true ill still be happy honestly. But maybe there's a solo ??

Wait that clampack might be the Eldar guy then as they are rumoured to be next.

I thought Eldar were in May.

Puscifer wrote:

migooo wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
It's probably a Skitarii Alpha with some of the relic options.

If that's true ill still be happy honestly. But maybe there's a solo ??

Wait that clampack might be the Eldar guy then as they are rumoured to be next.

I thought Eldar were in May.

Possible but we don't have any other rumours between that and fantasy 9th sorry I mean Warhammer BE-HH ( before Emperor and Horus Heresy )

If it's skitari ill be pleasantly surprised but unless there's a solo or we have a guy with some of the relic options or we just have a " character / hq " from the am codex before it turns up its probably from another army

On today's blog post from GW:

Come back later to find out more about the Sicarian Infiltrators and a very special book…

What book are they talking about?

 nflagey wrote:
On today's blog post from GW:

Come back later to find out more about the Sicarian Infiltrators and a very special book…

What book are they talking about?

Skitarii codex is my bet.

Isn't it supposed to come the week after??

 nflagey wrote:
Isn't it supposed to come the week after??

No.

It's always released in the 2nd to last week. With Harlequins, Codex came with the Starweaver, then Shadowseer/Death Jester in the last week. Blood Angels, it came with the Tac Squad, then Terminators in the last week. Etc..

Basically to get you to pre-order something on top in the week you faithfully pick up the new Codex at full price at your local GW store.

Probably the Pre-order for the special edition.

 Nicorex wrote:
Probably the Pre-order for the special edition.

There's also a novel coming out.

Does anyone know the price on those Dunecrawlers?

nudibranch wrote:
Does anyone know the price on those Dunecrawlers?

It's probably going to be around 45 pounds