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 Peregrine wrote:
And don't forget that it's all AP 2, so even infantry are dying on a 3+ with no armor or cover saves. Honestly it's probably overpowered and not going to be much fun to play against with those rules, especially since it's pretty much invulnerable for the first turn or two and you won't be able to kill it before it wipes out your whole army.

Still, my DKoK want one. Replace the crew with DKoK models, give it a proper paint job and some nice weathering...

Decent deployment and use of reserves would limit how much it can kill first couple of turns. As its going to be stuck shooting across the the narrow part of the table and if you deploy length wise, spread out as much as possible you'll limit what it can remove to a unit or two. Against anything with a few HP it'll struggle to remove them in a single turn by itself without lucky roles as its only hitting them once. I suspect an appropriately armed Warlord or Ventarii Maniple could remove it in a turn or two and isn't that many more points for the Warlord.

 Looky Likey wrote:
I suspect an appropriately armed Warlord or Ventarii Maniple could remove it in a turn or two and isn't that many more points for the Warlord.

A warlord is almost 3x more expensive! So I'd sure hope that it can kill one quickly. And honestly, "it can be killed by another broken 'wipe your whole army off the table' super-unit" is hardly a compelling argument for it being balanced...

Okay, well, a quad-D Warhound can also destroy it quickly, and it is much cheaper.

I mixed up my points for the Warlord and Reaver Thinking again, a Reaver with maxed out D in the form of 2 laser blasters and a turbo blaster would make short work of it. Yes its more points but the Reaver is far more versatile than the Ordinatus, which is very dependent on the opponents setup for mass removal.

You need big stuff on both sides of the table not just one side for it to be fun, TFG who brings one to a normal game are rarely fun to play against anyway. Any games I bring my big stuff to are carefully balanced so my opponent knows about it in advance, and they bring something that can counter it.

Are the rules for the Ordinatus just in the Mechanicum red book?

Forgeworld still doing unbalanced stuff?

Hear hear! This just in:

Fire still hot!

 Lithlandis Stormcrow wrote:
Forgeworld still doing unbalanced stuff?

Yep, just like every part of GW. Let's not try to pretend that non-FW rules are any different in this.

beast_gts wrote:
Are the rules for the Ordinatus just in the Mechanicum red book?

I couldn't find it in HH 4 or HH 5, it'll likely be in HH 6 when that lands.

 Looky Likey wrote:

beast_gts wrote:
Are the rules for the Ordinatus just in the Mechanicum red book?

I couldn't find it in HH 4 or HH 5, it'll likely be in HH 6 when that lands.

It won't be, because it is in the Taghmata Red Book as previously mentioned

 Rygnan wrote:

 Looky Likey wrote:

beast_gts wrote:
Are the rules for the Ordinatus just in the Mechanicum red book?

I couldn't find it in HH 4 or HH 5, it'll likely be in HH 6 when that lands.

It won't be, because it is in the Taghmata Red Book as previously mentioned

Might still be in book 6 too.


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 Looky Likey wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:
Looks amazing. Although, it doesn't look that big for the price.

The front section is almost as big as a plastic LR, the back section is around the same size as a Spartan, its a big beast.

That's still about £160/170? For those two vehicles. This is almost £300.

Gives a bit better idea of the size of the beast

Its all resin while the plastic LR is cheaper than it'd be in resin, so its closer to £190 for the chassis using that model (£105 for the Spartan, £77 for the plastic LR alpha with its resin upgrades rising to £90 for the Proteus so somewhere between the two for an all resin LR) and you also have the giant gun to add in to the price, thats as long as the Triaros.

 Januine wrote:


Gives a bit better idea of the size of the beast

Still not enuff dakka

I am really loving this one, I think its a tad too much for my wallett at the moment though.

People seem to be obsessed with balance nowadays too, not sure why its so important all of a sudden.

As long as it can hit invisible Wraithknights I don't care.

 BrookM wrote:
As long as it can hit invisible Wraithknights I don't care.

 BrookM wrote:
As long as it can hit invisible Wraithknights I don't care.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/672327.page#8298986

 Looky Likey wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
As long as it can hit invisible Wraithknights I don't care.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/672327.page#8298986

You are far braver than I ever shall be.

I'm not personally a fan of the Flash Gordon 1930's style design but it looks like an impressive model nonetheless.

I shall call it the ICC

Imperial Compensation Cannon

That's a pretty large model with some interesting rules!

Wowsers!

 Peregrine wrote:
Anyone want a really huge gun?

It kind of looks like one of those automated sextoy machines.

Then again, I guess you'd probably be bending over if an opponent whipped it out in an average game so that shouldn't be too shocking.

 Januine wrote:


Gives a bit better idea of the size of the beast

Mmm.. my scratchbuilding sense is tingling.. I know I have a coke bottle somewhere..

Those rules are awesome to visualize.

Cool looking piece but I have to agree that the sponson weapons look like a late afterthought.

The other Mechanicum vehicles also have weapons seemingly tacked on, but that's just their thing.

I like the gun, and the style of the chassis. I don't like that it's a quad track with the tracks going "backward"... this thing can't climb more than a 2' wall.

Finally! So many people were drooling over it when it started showing up in the previews lets see how many will be actually bought, painted and shown here on Dakkadakka.

Totally underwhelmed by this. Maybe I've played too much epic but I can't help but think it's missing the front third. This just looks like a carriage that something else should be towing.

 JohnHwangDD wrote:
I like the gun, and the style of the chassis. I don't like that it's a quad track with the tracks going "backward"... this thing can't climb more than a 2' wall.

If there's anything bigger than finely ground Enemy going under those tracks your just not using it properly.

"Do we go over or around the mountain/garden shed/any target between those two things?"

"We don't want to be too rash here, Fire up the Ordinatus!"

Tasty







Cheers to Olis from B&C