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Mr.Church13 wrote:
So I'm returning to 40k after a looong hiatus. I only have an old Eldar force left and really wanna come back due to AdMech being my jam, but here's the thing... Do I need an already built Imperial force to use these guys or barring that I have to buy enough Skittari for an uber expensive formation?

Been out of the loop for some time so excuse my asking dumb questions.

Depends on the force you play, they definitely have all the tools they would need to kill pretty much anything, they are really good tank hunters and have the tools to kill light and heavy infantry.

Ill probably go for Phosphor blaster, Neutron and Array.

I am thinking of having one lone one in the backfield for AA and 3 in a squadron with neutron to soften up targets before charging them.

 RedFox wrote:
what's the point of the heavy stubber on the neutron laser ?

A second weapon on your crab so if you get weapon destroyed the laser doesn't automatically go? That is if the laser and the stubber are treated as separate weapons...

A walking post box with guns, i do like that idea

May have to get one and paint it up with australia post symbols, of course it would also be slow and get lost every game, but still

Mr.Church13 wrote:
So I'm returning to 40k after a looong hiatus. I only have an old Eldar force left and really wanna come back due to AdMech being my jam, but here's the thing... Do I need an already built Imperial force to use these guys or barring that I have to buy enough Skittari for an uber expensive formation?

Been out of the loop for some time so excuse my asking dumb questions.

The Skitarii formation is actually cheap. The only requirement is 2 troops. I think you can have up to 6 troops and various amounts of elites, heavy and fast attack, I don't remember those off the top of my head but they are in this thread somwhere. The point is you CAN field Ad Mech all by themselves whether you are playing at 110 point games (lol) or 1500 or 3000.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
This just came up

Spoiler:

Isn't that music from Space Marine?

It is indeed.

Anyway, now that I had a better look at the Onager, it does look like a pretty nice model.
I like the array; looks nice and shooty.

How do you use this new book as Allies? Just as any Imperial army or can they be Dark Mechanicus too?

Have people not noticed yet that if you give the Dunecrawler the headlights you're left what is essentially a plastic Servo-Arm?

That's awesome!

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Have people not noticed yet that if you give the Dunecrawler the headlights you're left what is essentially a plastic Servo-Arm?

That's awesome!

easy techmarine on bike conversion

also value of stubber is protection against Weapon Destroyed? It can also take a second stubber for only 5 points.

This Onager kit is starting to earn it's price tag for me - if it has a big sheet of intresting vehicle transfers i will get my hat out of the drawer and doff it to them. and then get three.

Super Newb wrote:

Mr.Church13 wrote:
So I'm returning to 40k after a looong hiatus. I only have an old Eldar force left and really wanna come back due to AdMech being my jam, but here's the thing... Do I need an already built Imperial force to use these guys or barring that I have to buy enough Skittari for an uber expensive formation?

Been out of the loop for some time so excuse my asking dumb questions.

The Skitarii formation is actually cheap. The only requirement is 2 troops. I think you can have up to 6 troops and various amounts of elites, heavy and fast attack, I don't remember those off the top of my head but they are in this thread somwhere. The point is you CAN field Ad Mech all by themselves whether you are playing at 110 point games (lol) or 1500 or 3000.

Ok I'm just new to this whole supplemental codex thing. That makes me feel way better about buying back in.

and the cognis is no slouch either, with three in a squad it adds up, especially on overwatch. one casuaty can make a huge difference.

Also the weapon destroyed as mentioned above

 Matt.Kingsley wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
This just came up

Spoiler:

Isn't that music from Space Marine?

It is indeed.

yup definatly from space Marine, the ruststalkers/infiltrators is likewise borrowed from space Marine. the Skitarii rangers/vanguards music is from the opening menu music of Wasrhammer 40k: Armageddon.

Can't place where the ironstrider music is from but I'd bet it's from a 40k video game as well.

ooh, i like it in the alt/pale colour scheme:

 Nicky J wrote:
ooh, i like it in the alt/pale colour scheme:

the white one would be Legio Metallica.

I want like 30 of them.

So, I have my codex and noticed something: The Doctrina Imperatives don't require a leadership check or anything. You just use whichever you want. And if I read it right, it affects any and all units with the Doctrina Imperatives rule. So...the entire army gets whatever you use for the turn. And if you use one, the data tethers give all units affected by them +1 Ld. That's really good. Really really good.

 c0j1r0 wrote:
So, I have my codex and noticed something: The Doctrina Imperatives don't require a leadership check or anything. You just use whichever you want. And if I read it right, it affects any and all units with the Doctrina Imperatives rule. So...the entire army gets whatever you use for the turn. And if you use one, the data tethers give all units affected by them +1 Ld. That's really good. Really really good.

SO you have a choice to use them or do you have to use them?

I thought the downside would be that you would have to pick which ones to waste and which one to hold until its needed

"At the start of your movement phase you can choose up to one Doctrina Imperative."
So you don't have to use them, if you don't want to.

Yep, it is basically a guaranteed buff for whatever you need that turn.

It is interesting to see how it encourages bringing both aspects to your list otherwise your shooting will suffer for two turns IF you want the leadership and other buffs.

Although it is interesting to see how they have pretty good leadership across the board. Might not be worth it many times to use the WS ones

The rules for those walkers are nice but they're still ugly as sin unfortunately.

 c0j1r0 wrote:
"At the start of your movement phase you can choose up to one Doctrina Imperative."
So you don't have to use them, if you don't want to.

Hot damn. I thought there'd be a leadership test AND you'd have to pick one every turn. Glad my guesses were both wrong!

 warboss wrote:
The rules for those walkers are nice but they're still ugly as sin unfortunately.

Just the paintjob IMO. I think there's potential!


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 Desubot wrote:

 c0j1r0 wrote:
So, I have my codex and noticed something: The Doctrina Imperatives don't require a leadership check or anything. You just use whichever you want. And if I read it right, it affects any and all units with the Doctrina Imperatives rule. So...the entire army gets whatever you use for the turn. And if you use one, the data tethers give all units affected by them +1 Ld. That's really good. Really really good.

SO you have a choice to use them or do you have to use them?

I thought the downside would be that you would have to pick which ones to waste and which one to hold until its needed

They are superb, and you can choose to use none. They are like +1WS, +2WS/-1BS, +3WS/-2BS and then again with ballistic and weapon skills inverted.

 warboss wrote:
The rules for those walkers are nice but they're still ugly as sin unfortunately.

depends on your aestetic tastes. thats one thing about 40k. the armies have fairly varied apperances so you can proably find one that matches. course weather or not the RULES also work for you...

I imagine nothing would be worse then wanting elder aestweticly but wanting a hyper durable force of grey knight termies rules wise

Looking at the gun mounts, it looks like besides the Icarus array, the other 3 options will be a breeze to magnetize- one magnet at the back of the mantlet of each gun, and one in the round turret base. 4 magnets total.

I'm thinking a pair of Icarus, with just headlights, and then a trio with arms, cupola stubbers, and magnetized guns to make up a gun squadron. maybe a 4th to run them as 2 pairs.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Have people not noticed yet that if you give the Dunecrawler the headlights you're left what is essentially a plastic Servo-Arm?

That's awesome!

While it is cool...I struggle to be excited by it in light of the Scyllax kit that comes with four servo-arms, 18 mechadendrites, eight small bionic arms, three bionic chainblades, and four bionic bolters. I'm pretty much set for augmentations until they pull the finger out and give us plastic techpriests and plastic servitors

Super Newb wrote:

What white primer do you use? I've only ever primed black but thinking of priming white for my Skitarii because I am definitely leaning heavily towards doing white or cream colored robes...

If you are UK based then you could try Halfords White primer. I use it all the time and it works well (my logic is that cars are slightly more expensive than models, so the paints will be consistently better)

Wow, GW actually made a good new vehicle design. That perfectly fits the AdMech motif and isn't over-doing it like the Taurox.