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2020/12/19 00:46:49
Subject: Re:Adeptus Titanicus news and rumours - Mechanicum Knight Atrapos Pre Order Friday
They're slightly reformatted too I think, little smaller than the old ones.
Automatically Appended Next Post: So bad news, either fw is lying or there was a miscommunication but no card terminal, still paper with no holes punched
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2020/12/20 21:04:22
Subject: Adeptus Titanicus news and rumours - Mechanicum Knight Atrapos Pre Order Friday
Along those lines, as I'm going to make a go of building my own Warlord Sinister, is there a download available of its terminal and cards, and/or are they available for purchase in one of the terminal/card packs?
2020/12/20 21:22:05
Subject: Re:Adeptus Titanicus news and rumours - Mechanicum Knight Atrapos Pre Order Friday
Alpharius wrote: Along those lines, as I'm going to make a go of building my own Warlord Sinister, is there a download available of its terminal and cards, and/or are they available for purchase in one of the terminal/card packs?
It's more or less the same as the warlord terminal just different point cost and locked in left arm weapon. But I believe the armour values and pips are all the same otherwise.
Spoiler:
Do you play 30k? It'd be a lot cooler if you did.
2020/12/20 21:36:30
Subject: Re:Adeptus Titanicus news and rumours - Mechanicum Knight Atrapos Pre Order Friday
SamusDrake wrote:No idea about the terminals save for googling some images, which I tend to do.
Intrigued as to your plan to build the Sinister. Scratch build? 3D Printed? Kit-bash? Loo-rolls?
Probably a bit of all that - I've got access to a nice 3D printer these days too!
Crablezworth wrote:
Alpharius wrote: Along those lines, as I'm going to make a go of building my own Warlord Sinister, is there a download available of its terminal and cards, and/or are they available for purchase in one of the terminal/card packs?
It's more or less the same as the warlord terminal just different point cost and locked in left arm weapon. But I believe the armour values and pips are all the same otherwise.
Spoiler:
That's a nice image, if nothing else I should be able to print one out.
I was hoping for an 'official' one being available for download (I thought that FQ/GW already did that for us?) or purchase in a pack - and I'm surprised that the weapons at least didn't show up in one of the various card packs that were for sale...
2020/12/20 21:42:02
Subject: Re:Adeptus Titanicus news and rumours - Mechanicum Knight Atrapos Pre Order Friday
Yeah it's a bit weird they won't even give us the option to self gouge ourselves. Double weird on the card front, they had no prob doing one off card prints in the warbringer's box. There's pics of the sinistre tenebre card in shadow and iron I think.
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2020/12/21 14:37:43
Subject: Re:Adeptus Titanicus news and rumours - Mechanicum Knight Atrapos Pre Order Friday
If the Rapier scout is next, it would make sense for them to print the 5 pack of just that terminal.
As for cards, I'd personally love it if they did an "Omnissiah-issued weapons pack, with the carapace weapons for the warbringer, claw and lance for the warhound, psy titan arm, and then some new options they can add in resin later like carapace plasma and support missiles for the warlord, sonic disruptor for the warbringer carapace or warlord arms, carapace flamer and maybe volkite for the reaver.
2020/12/22 10:39:45
Subject: Adeptus Titanicus news and rumours - Mechanicum Knight Atrapos Pre Order Friday
MajorWesJanson wrote: If the Rapier scout is next, it would make sense for them to print the 5 pack of just that terminal.
As for cards, I'd personally love it if they did an "Omnissiah-issued weapons pack, with the carapace weapons for the warbringer, claw and lance for the warhound, psy titan arm, and then some new options they can add in resin later like carapace plasma and support missiles for the warlord, sonic disruptor for the warbringer carapace or warlord arms, carapace flamer and maybe volkite for the reaver.
They might also mix other "missing" cards in with the Rapier pack.
I'd love to see more weapon options for existing Titans. Hard to say what's in the future though.
2020/12/22 13:32:34
Subject: Adeptus Titanicus news and rumours - Mechanicum Knight Atrapos Pre Order Friday
Wha-Mu-077 wrote: How long until GW decides they can get more money out of Titanicus by putting Marines in it though
Honestly the problem is, marines don't really add a ton in terms of interesting gameplay. They just have a handful of superheavy tanks that would realistically be involved in titanic combat, and they're not particularly compelling, I would argue they're less iconic than stuff like Baneblades - like really, how many people can recall from memory what a Falchion or a Mastodon looks like - and in general they would not seem to have much of an actual reason to be involved. If you've got a giant robot protected by impenetrable shields that can flatten cities with its cannons, you're not going to commit infantry assets to that battlefield that cost you 200000 times more per head and that don't make a lick of difference.
But hey, AT does have the rule that a single melta gun can cause a S8 ignoring void shields hit, so really the most cost-effective weapon in the game would be a space marine assault squad with a pair of melta guns for 32 points
"Got you, Yugi! Your Rubric Marines can't fall back because I have declared the tertiary kaptaris ka'tah stance two, after the secondary dacatarai ka'tah last turn!"
"So you think, Kaiba! I declared my Thousand Sons the cult of Duplicity, which means all my psykers have access to the Sorcerous Facade power! Furthermore I will spend 8 Cabal Points to invoke Cabbalistic Focus, causing the rubrics to appear behind your custodes! The Vengeance for the Wronged and Sorcerous Fullisade stratagems along with the Malefic Maelstrom infernal pact evoked earlier in the command phase allows me to double their firepower, letting me wound on 2s and 3s!"
"you think it is you who has gotten me, yugi, but it is I who have gotten you! I declare the ever-vigilant stratagem to attack your rubrics with my custodes' ranged weapons, which with the new codex are now DAMAGE 2!!"
"...which leads you straight into my trap, Kaiba, you see I now declare the stratagem Implacable Automata, reducing all damage from your attacks by 1 and triggering my All is Dust special rule!"
2020/12/29 18:54:19
Subject: Re:Adeptus Titanicus news and rumours - Mechanicum Knight Atrapos Pre Order Friday
They could just make cool models for existing battlefield assets and they'd sell like hot cakes. The could make it so the smaller assets are what's used to control an objectives like with goonhammer's home brew scenario.
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2020/12/29 19:50:34
Subject: Adeptus Titanicus news and rumours - Mechanicum Knight Atrapos Pre Order Friday
Wha-Mu-077 wrote: How long until GW decides they can get more money out of Titanicus by putting Marines in it though
Honestly the problem is, marines don't really add a ton in terms of interesting gameplay. They just have a handful of superheavy tanks that would realistically be involved in titanic combat, and they're not particularly compelling, I would argue they're less iconic than stuff like Baneblades - like really, how many people can recall from memory what a Falchion or a Mastodon looks like - and in general they would not seem to have much of an actual reason to be involved. If you've got a giant robot protected by impenetrable shields that can flatten cities with its cannons, you're not going to commit infantry assets to that battlefield that cost you 200000 times more per head and that don't make a lick of difference.
But hey, AT does have the rule that a single melta gun can cause a S8 ignoring void shields hit, so really the most cost-effective weapon in the game would be a space marine assault squad with a pair of melta guns for 32 points
Don't the Legions have entire Special weapon squads so upto 20 marines ALL with Melta guns?
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Wha-Mu-077 wrote: How long until GW decides they can get more money out of Titanicus by putting Marines in it though
Honestly the problem is, marines don't really add a ton in terms of interesting gameplay. They just have a handful of superheavy tanks that would realistically be involved in titanic combat, and they're not particularly compelling, I would argue they're less iconic than stuff like Baneblades - like really, how many people can recall from memory what a Falchion or a Mastodon looks like - and in general they would not seem to have much of an actual reason to be involved. If you've got a giant robot protected by impenetrable shields that can flatten cities with its cannons, you're not going to commit infantry assets to that battlefield that cost you 200000 times more per head and that don't make a lick of difference.
But hey, AT does have the rule that a single melta gun can cause a S8 ignoring void shields hit, so really the most cost-effective weapon in the game would be a space marine assault squad with a pair of melta guns for 32 points
Don't the Legions have entire Special weapon squads so upto 20 marines ALL with Melta guns?
On one hand, even more bloody Marines in everything
On second hand, Plastic Epic-Scale Marines
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- Jiado
2020/12/29 20:51:31
Subject: Adeptus Titanicus news and rumours - Mechanicum Knight Atrapos Pre Order Friday
Wha-Mu-077 wrote: How long until GW decides they can get more money out of Titanicus by putting Marines in it though
Honestly the problem is, marines don't really add a ton in terms of interesting gameplay. They just have a handful of superheavy tanks that would realistically be involved in titanic combat, and they're not particularly compelling, I would argue they're less iconic than stuff like Baneblades - like really, how many people can recall from memory what a Falchion or a Mastodon looks like - and in general they would not seem to have much of an actual reason to be involved. If you've got a giant robot protected by impenetrable shields that can flatten cities with its cannons, you're not going to commit infantry assets to that battlefield that cost you 200000 times more per head and that don't make a lick of difference.
But hey, AT does have the rule that a single melta gun can cause a S8 ignoring void shields hit, so really the most cost-effective weapon in the game would be a space marine assault squad with a pair of melta guns for 32 points
Don't the Legions have entire Special weapon squads so upto 20 marines ALL with Melta guns?
Up to 10, but other than that, yes.
As to reasons for fielding... I was under the assumption that marines and rhinos and the like could get inside the shields. Were I a princeps, I would not like to have space marines with access to the unarmored and unshielded bits of my titan... then again, that's what battlefield assets are like in AT.
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2020/12/30 01:08:05
Subject: Adeptus Titanicus news and rumours - Mechanicum Knight Atrapos Pre Order Friday
Wha-Mu-077 wrote: How long until GW decides they can get more money out of Titanicus by putting Marines in it though
Honestly the problem is, marines don't really add a ton in terms of interesting gameplay. They just have a handful of superheavy tanks that would realistically be involved in titanic combat, and they're not particularly compelling, I would argue they're less iconic than stuff like Baneblades - like really, how many people can recall from memory what a Falchion or a Mastodon looks like - and in general they would not seem to have much of an actual reason to be involved. If you've got a giant robot protected by impenetrable shields that can flatten cities with its cannons, you're not going to commit infantry assets to that battlefield that cost you 200000 times more per head and that don't make a lick of difference.
But hey, AT does have the rule that a single melta gun can cause a S8 ignoring void shields hit, so really the most cost-effective weapon in the game would be a space marine assault squad with a pair of melta guns for 32 points
Don't the Legions have entire Special weapon squads so upto 20 marines ALL with Melta guns?
On one hand, even more bloody Marines in everything
On second hand, Plastic Epic-Scale Marines
as much as the first is true and not a good thing, the second would be 30K(mk III, IV, V)PLASTIC marines, which is obviously a worthy application of Astartes
Wha-Mu-077 wrote: How long until GW decides they can get more money out of Titanicus by putting Marines in it though
Honestly the problem is, marines don't really add a ton in terms of interesting gameplay. They just have a handful of superheavy tanks that would realistically be involved in titanic combat, and they're not particularly compelling, I would argue they're less iconic than stuff like Baneblades - like really, how many people can recall from memory what a Falchion or a Mastodon looks like - and in general they would not seem to have much of an actual reason to be involved. If you've got a giant robot protected by impenetrable shields that can flatten cities with its cannons, you're not going to commit infantry assets to that battlefield that cost you 200000 times more per head and that don't make a lick of difference.
But hey, AT does have the rule that a single melta gun can cause a S8 ignoring void shields hit, so really the most cost-effective weapon in the game would be a space marine assault squad with a pair of melta guns for 32 points
Don't the Legions have entire Special weapon squads so upto 20 marines ALL with Melta guns?
On one hand, even more bloody Marines in everything
On second hand, Plastic Epic-Scale Marines
as much as the first is true and not a good thing, the second would be 30K(mk III, IV, V)PLASTIC marines, which is obviously a worthy application of Astartes
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2020/12/30 09:25:58
Subject: Adeptus Titanicus news and rumours - Mechanicum Knight Atrapos Pre Order Friday
as much as the first is true and not a good thing, the second would be 30K(mk III, IV, V)PLASTIC marines, which is obviously a worthy application of Astartes
But we already have Mark III and IV as plastic kits.
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2020/12/30 10:14:26
Subject: Adeptus Titanicus news and rumours - Mechanicum Knight Atrapos Pre Order Friday
FW had repeatedly said that this is a game of Titans, not a retread of Epic.
They have enough Titan material to keep them going for years, so while I understand that some would like to see the game go that way, it's not in FW's plans.
2020/12/30 10:41:08
Subject: Adeptus Titanicus news and rumours - Mechanicum Knight Atrapos Pre Order Friday
schoon wrote: FW had repeatedly said that this is a game of Titans, not a retread of Epic.
They have enough Titan material to keep them going for years, so while I understand that some would like to see the game go that way, it's not in FW's plans.
If a GW exec says,
"Hey guys I noticed you could include Marines in this game, how about you do that?" FW would ask "How many?" and that'd be that.
