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 Wilson wrote:

nudibranch wrote:
Sooo, the melee-priests are at least not awful at melee i guess, but the shooty-priests... Hooooooly gak they're worse than vanguard. Str4 12" AP- assault2 with twin-linked and basically the taser rule from the Skitarii dex... on a vanguard with a 5++ instead of a 4+ buT ARE STILL TOUGHNESS 3 SO THEY'LL GET ID'D ALL OVER THE PLACE-GAAHHH WHY ARE THESE AN 18PTS/MODEL ELITE CHOICE?!

Worse than vangaurd?!

Vangaurd are amazing??!!!

Vanguard are amazing. They also cost half as many points.

 Medium of Death wrote:
The Priest has a pope hat option!

YES!

Spoiler:

You mean a Mitre?

So... am I the only one who thinks those models all look sub-par for the 'Eavy Metal team's normal quality? I wonder if the rush to push models and (more importantly) Codices out has hurt their ability to really invest in the paintjobs.

Seeing the Dominus next to the Robots has really shown how big they actually are. The kit is quite expensive still, but clearly this isn't a Captain sized model.

Ryza transfers... Volkite Weapons... Bliss!

So any news on what is the required Cult Mechanicus detachment for the uber formation that included Skitarii and Knights ?

Nothing concrete yet RedFox, that is what i am waiting on as well.

That Dominus is big, it still fails to justify the price.

 RedFox wrote:
So any news on what is the required Cult Mechanicus detachment for the uber formation that included Skitarii and Knights ?

We don't have any news on any CM only detachments. It's all rumors so far. We don't even know what the basic CM detachment is.

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
Nothing concrete yet RedFox, that is what i am waiting on as well.

That Dominus is big, it still fails to justify the price.

Agreed. It is a lovely model, but the price is silly.

 RedFox wrote:
So any news on what is the required Cult Mechanicus detachment for the uber formation that included Skitarii and Knights ?

http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2015/05/breaking-cult-mechanicus-skitarii-knight-combined-detachment-is-uber.html

1 Cult detachment (Battle Congregation, in French), 1 Skitarii Maniple, and 1 Oathsworn IK.

In exchange, ALL models get Canticles of the Omnissiah, all weapons lose "Gets Hot", and All equipment upgrades from Cult Mechanicus and Skitarriii including Relics are free.

It sounds like a blast to play, if you have the models already anyhow


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 ImAGeek wrote:

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
Nothing concrete yet RedFox, that is what i am waiting on as well.

That Dominus is big, it still fails to justify the price.

Agreed. It is a lovely model, but the price is silly.

At least it isn't like the Space Wolves Santa Sleigh, where the model is fugly, and the price is silly.

In fairness, all HQ models are extremely expensive for the "amount of model" you get, when you compare them to other categories of models (troops, elites, etc.).

Looking at the pics, does this sound right:

Electro-priests = 32mm bases
Dominus = 50mm base

Have we ever had a clampack character on a 50mm? Might account for some of the pricing. Not defending, just saying.

English WD pages by Captain Citadel:

http://forum.spikeybits.com/showthread.php?20724-Adeptus-Mechanicus-Rumor-Roundup&s=8fc6a40d7ae5d1af86315377e9db4eb1&p=229046&viewfull=1#post229046

Formation

Ok so no room for translation errors, weapons and wargear are free lol

So the battle congregation detatchment sounds like it would be their base book detatchment, whatever that is, and if its the 1 hq and 2 troops thats bonkers,

And the tech priest is what I thought he would be, around 100 points

And we still don't know what the CM detachments are lol


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 WrentheFaceless wrote:


So the battle congregation detatchment sounds like it would be their base book detatchment, whatever that is, and if its the 1 hq and 2 troops thats bonkers,

Agreed! But we don't know. Codex could have multiple detachments.

Super Newb wrote:
And we still don't know what the CM detachments are lol


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 WrentheFaceless wrote:


So the battle congregation detatchment sounds like it would be their base book detatchment, whatever that is, and if its the 1 hq and 2 troops thats bonkers,

Agreed! But we don't know. Codex could have multiple detachments.

It is important to note, however, that it is printed as a detachment. Extrapolating - the Skitarii Maniple detachment is the 2 troop minimum + options. Oathsworn is 1 Knight minimum + options. So the Cult detachment will likely be a 1 HQ + X Troops + options.

Warhams-77 wrote:
English WD pages by Captain Citadel:

http://forum.spikeybits.com/showthread.php?20724-Adeptus-Mechanicus-Rumor-Roundup&s=8fc6a40d7ae5d1af86315377e9db4eb1&p=229046&viewfull=1#post229046

Formation

Spoiler:

I now have something to build towards.

 obsidiankatana wrote:

Super Newb wrote:
And we still don't know what the CM detachments are lol


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 WrentheFaceless wrote:


So the battle congregation detatchment sounds like it would be their base book detatchment, whatever that is, and if its the 1 hq and 2 troops thats bonkers,

Agreed! But we don't know. Codex could have multiple detachments.

It is important to note, however, that it is printed as a detachment. Extrapolating - the Skitarii Maniple detachment is the 2 troop minimum + options. Oathsworn is 1 Knight minimum + options. So the Cult detachment will likely be a 1 HQ + X Troops + options.

Well, I guess we'll know when the Codex starts leaking next week

Same, but need to buy another box of Sicarians, ugh.

HOpefully whatever the Cult detatchment is doesnt require electro priests, I really dont want to buy any of those

I will say the use of the word detachment means that it's probably not a 1 of everything type of detachment for the Cult Mechanicus which will be nice as long as it doesn't require an elite like the Harlequin detachment did...

Fingers crossed. Cause I could see running that detachment. Not because it's particularly amazing (I still think it's got to many wasted points in the stalkers/infiltrators) but because I like the idea and feel of it.

 WrentheFaceless wrote:
Same, but need to buy another box of Sicarians, ugh.

HOpefully whatever the Cult detatchment is doesnt require tech priests, I really dont want to buy any of those

If there exists an HQ, you probably need to have it for detachment minimums.

 obsidiankatana wrote:

 WrentheFaceless wrote:
Same, but need to buy another box of Sicarians, ugh.

HOpefully whatever the Cult detatchment is doesnt require tech priests, I really dont want to buy any of those

If there exists an HQ, you probably need to have it for detachment minimums.

Yea I mistyped, i meant electro priests

On the other hand, it is called a 'congregation' detachment. That word implies an actual large gathering, not 7 guys. But I guess we'll see.

 WrentheFaceless wrote:

 obsidiankatana wrote:

 WrentheFaceless wrote:
Same, but need to buy another box of Sicarians, ugh.

HOpefully whatever the Cult detatchment is doesnt require tech priests, I really dont want to buy any of those

If there exists an HQ, you probably need to have it for detachment minimums.

Yea I mistyped, i meant electro priests

Ah. Same hope, then. They very much fail to impress.


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Super Newb wrote:
On the other hand, it is called a 'congregation' detachment. That word implies an actual large gathering, not 7 guys. But I guess we'll see.

'Congregation' isn't really a rules-standard term by GW writing department. 'Detachment' is. Suppose we'll see, however.

Guess we wait till next week when the codex itself leaks

'Congregation' isn't really a rules-standard term by GW writing department. 'Detachment' is. Suppose we'll see, however.

Of course it isn't a rules term. But it is an English word and it would be slightly strange to call a tiny group of models a congregation. That's all I was getting at. GW could have used the word for just because they thought it made the name a little more religious. The word could end up having nothing to do with size.

I'm hoping the picture doesnt reflect what needs to be taken, if it does, then its 1 of everything from cult mechanicus, including electro priests, ick

 WrentheFaceless wrote:
I'm hoping the picture doesnt reflect what needs to be taken, if it does, then its 1 of everything from cult mechanicus, including electro priests, ick

In fairness, you would expect that picture to have 1 of everything. But a maniple, for example, has a lot of flexibility. You don't need to tie the dune crawler pictured, for example.

You do for the Battle Mantiple, thats 1 of everything for SKitarri excluding the striders, that ones a choice of one or the other

 Talys wrote:

 WrentheFaceless wrote:
I'm hoping the picture doesnt reflect what needs to be taken, if it does, then its 1 of everything from cult mechanicus, including electro priests, ick

In fairness, you would expect that picture to have 1 of everything. But a maniple, for example, has a lot of flexibility. You don't need to tie the dune crawler pictured, for example.

If it is, that's over 1900 pts.

Cap Cit again: