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oh i missed these guys

as you can see there's not a lot of variety to these, just red, black, off-white, metal

not posting Mars cuz you see them everywhere

thanks for the pictures

think i'll go with Mars or create my own for Vostroya

Wait, Graia is the Forge World from the Space Marine video game, right?

It's interesting that GW mentions it.

 RedFox wrote:
any possible vehicles ?

seems like the biggest need so far

It's one of those things were we just don't know. GW has always been very vague with the AdMech (and all their fluff in general, really). Until now nothing's ever really been defined with the AdMech. I mean we knew the Skitarii existed but outside of the old 'Tech Guard' units from Epic they've never really explored the concept.

For the 40K RPG's we got to do some AdMech stuff, but it's either very general ("The AdMech looks after machines n'stuff!") or very specific ("The AdMech of [setting-specific Forge World] always do XYZ").

GW are the only ones that get to define the fluff for an overall organisation (which makes sense - it's their IP after all!), so that's why The Lathe Worlds has the new Venatorii - a formation unique to the Calixis Sector - and not the Skitarii, who up until now didn't have any real details.

Believe me, I would have loved to have done up a section on the Skitarii, but then I'd be the one making up the Skitarii fluff, not GW, and I'm not allowed to do that. I'm not that important (yet!).

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 RedFox wrote:
any possible vehicles ?

seems like the biggest need so far

It's one of those things were we just don't know. GW has always been very vague with the AdMech (and all their fluff in general, really). Until now nothing's ever really been defined with the AdMech. I mean we knew the Skitarii existed but outside of the old 'Tech Guard' units from Epic they've never really explored the concept.

For the 40K RPG's we got to do some AdMech stuff, but it's either very general ("The AdMech looks after machines n'stuff!") or very specific ("The AdMech of [setting-specific Forge World] always do XYZ").

GW are the only ones that get to define the fluff for an overall organisation (which makes sense - it's their IP after all!), so that's why The Lathe Worlds has the new Venatorii - a formation unique to the Calixis Sector - and not the Skitarii, who up until now didn't have any real details.

Believe me, I would have loved to have done up a section on the Skitarii, but then I'd be the one making up the Skitarii fluff, not GW, and I'm not allowed to do that. I'm not that important (yet!).

*looks forward to reading your write up on the Skitarii when DH 2.0 eventually gets around to it*

 Matt.Kingsley wrote:
Wait, Graia is the Forge World from the Space Marine video game, right?

It's interesting that GW mentions it.

It's propably Graia in the Ultima Segmentum (I guess they created it in the Ichar campaign). IIRC Graia from the game was somewhere else.

Nope the Graia from the game was in the Ultima Segmentum.

That said I didn't realise Graia was mentioned in the background before. Apparently it was mentioned in the 3rd and 4th Ed Nid 'dexes (which, of course, were released way before the game was even a concept).

Turns out after the whole ork/chaos invasion Graia gets nommed by nids.

Man, they love their red. Kinda sad they didn't mix it up a bit, throw some brown robes, or some purple robes in there.

But, I'm sure we'll see plenty painted up in due time, in all sorts of colors. I'm looking forward to that!

 Micawb3r wrote:
fyi the Battle Maniple formation (one unit of everything) also grants the preferred enemy rule to the warlord. I think this was missed above.

I can just see the GW staff meeting talking about codex skitarri.

Vetock: "oh man the public is PISSED that necrons got such a stupidly good detatchment, how do we make a detatchment to sell our models without going overboard like last time?"
cruddace: "how about one that gives preferred enemy!"
vetock: "I dunno man, there plenty killy without giving the whole army preferred enemy"
cruddace: "i meant just the warlord, why did you think I meant the whole army?"
vetock: "just the warlord? Dunno man seems pretty weak sauce...."
nervous looks around room "all those in favor!"
6/8 writers worried for their safety outside the office if another debacle like necrons goes live "AYE!"

I think the most obvious thing is the formation gives the exact same bonuses as the detachment. so it's just a "how do you wanna play em" set up

I had a peek at the English codex just now, it is gorgeous and filled with lovely pieces of new, never seen before art.

Also, the War Cohort has an interesting special rule: Enhanced Imperative Resolution, which allows you to re-use a Doctrina Imperative.

Yes, but is it worth the huge requirement for the Cohort? 3 of everything is afaik 1800pts with no upgrades/extramodels.
Basically an Apoc Formation, and for that rigid formation, that's weaksauce.

drbored wrote:
Man, they love their red. Kinda sad they didn't mix it up a bit, throw some brown robes, or some purple robes in there.

But, I'm sure we'll see plenty painted up in due time, in all sorts of colors. I'm looking forward to that!

Doesn't the red fluff wise represent Mars? So it kinda makes sense.

I'm not sure what sort of transport / walkers Cult Mechanicus would have. It's possible they would have some sort of tracked / walking / clambering, semi organic thing.


Thanks for the pictures.

There are no transports in the Skitarii codex, just boosts and buffs to movement with certain formations.

I also meant offensive tank like things. So maybe more servitors fused in things?

Damn, Metalica FW is beautiful. It looks like an army of cyborg White Mages

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
Damn, Metalica FW is beautiful. It looks like an army of cyborg White Mages

Thinking the same here (and about a small force to join my Sons of Malice as Dark Mechanicum).
I hope my willpower can hold until we've seen the AdMech codex proper.

 Flood wrote:

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
Damn, Metalica FW is beautiful. It looks like an army of cyborg White Mages

Thinking the same here (and about a small force to join my Sons of Malice as Dark Mechanicum).
I hope my willpower can hold until we've seen the AdMech codex proper.

Yeah, beauties.

That means we should prime them white - and this part scares me...
I can't paint white for some reason...

 boredbeard wrote:

 Flood wrote:

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
Damn, Metalica FW is beautiful. It looks like an army of cyborg White Mages

Thinking the same here (and about a small force to join my Sons of Malice as Dark Mechanicum).
I hope my willpower can hold until we've seen the AdMech codex proper.

Yeah, beauties.

That means we should prime them white - and this part scares me...
I can't paint white for some reason...

Didn't the really old fluff have it that Tech Priests wore either Red (mars) or white? Must admit the White looks really good

Got a nice, high-res version of the cover art from GW just now:

Ooh pretty.
I like the phosphor blaster. Now that's a nice hefty gun.

How do you paint the Forge World sigils? With a stencil?


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BrianDavion wrote:

 Matt.Kingsley wrote:
I like how their symbol is Pi and yet the Tech Priests don't understand what Pi is

Maybe the admech uses something else to represent 3.14 etc.

Yeah, most likely.
Probably something like a ring of skulls.
Or maybe they organize 314 tech-thralls in a ring or something.

Why 314? They forgot the decimal point. That's why everything is so big.

Hehehe, the Onager was originally called the Mars Universal Land Engine, or MULE.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Ooh pretty.
I like the phosphor blaster. Now that's a nice hefty gun.

How do you paint the Forge World sigils? With a stencil?

That's what I'm wondering as well, because anything that is not Mars is not present on the Skitarii transfer sheet(at least as far as I am able to tell).

 BrookM wrote:
Hehehe, the Onager was originally called the Mars Universal Land Engine, or MULE.

That's... actually pretty funny.

 BrookM wrote:
Hehehe, the Onager was originally called the Mars Universal Land Engine, or MULE.

Dormant Onager. Possibly performing full system scan rites...



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onager

 BrookM wrote:
Hehehe, the Onager was originally called the Mars Universal Land Engine, or MULE.

We definitely need some combat MULEs to hunt some Wampuses.

Even funnier, the guy who invented the M.U.L.E. thought that these creatures were insect-like and so made it resemble it.

Aww great now i have to figure out a way of modeling a tech priest. riding a cyber mule with that Aquebuss

The onager or Asiatic wild ass

Oh, I'm loving the spidey tanks more and more