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 Fraggle wrote:
Any news on restock of cerastus or the Psi titan. Think Psi titan was due to the warlord kit shortage (both varients were hard to come by). Cerastus is weird though, i swear they were only in stock about a week.

I did ask circa 6 weeks ago, but just got a stock response.

There's some cerastus in stock in canada if you can stomach the shipping, couple ebay stores have them and so does meeplemart

https://www.meeplemart.com/adeptus-titanicus-cerastus-knights.aspx

Agreed on the psi titans, hope they come back in stock.

The Volkite weapons are a welcome addition to the game, and the look pretty snazzy as well!

 Fraggle wrote:
Any news on restock of cerastus or the Psi titan. Think Psi titan was due to the warlord kit shortage (both varients were hard to come by). Cerastus is weird though, i swear they were only in stock about a week.

I did ask circa 6 weeks ago, but just got a stock response.

A few left here:-

https://www.4thplanetgames.com/search-results/q-cerastus

..just one of each set though.

 TheSecretSquig wrote:
Who cares what the 'actual' rules are and which gun is better.

I'd wager quite a few people do.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 TheSecretSquig wrote:
Who cares what the 'actual' rules are and which gun is better.

I'd wager quite a few people do.

Indeed. One of the great things about AT has been that all weapons have had a role that wasn't directly overlapped by something strictly better. Megabolters being strictly better than Volkites in their intended role feels bad, when they could be fixed with a pretty simple alteration to their rules.

It's never a simple fix for weapon rule in this game. With everything being already printed at this points. All it'll do is adding more confusion. Acactus terminal on the webstore still show their original value, and you have to know the FAQ existed to find it.

MarkNorfolk wrote:

 Fraggle wrote:
Any news on restock of cerastus or the Psi titan. Think Psi titan was due to the warlord kit shortage (both varients were hard to come by). Cerastus is weird though, i swear they were only in stock about a week.

I did ask circa 6 weeks ago, but just got a stock response.

A few left here:-

https://www.4thplanetgames.com/search-results/q-cerastus

..just one of each set though.

Crablezworth wrote:

 Fraggle wrote:
Any news on restock of cerastus or the Psi titan. Think Psi titan was due to the warlord kit shortage (both varients were hard to come by). Cerastus is weird though, i swear they were only in stock about a week.

I did ask circa 6 weeks ago, but just got a stock response.

There's some cerastus in stock in canada if you can stomach the shipping, couple ebay stores have them and so does meeplemart

https://www.meeplemart.com/adeptus-titanicus-cerastus-knights.aspx

Agreed on the psi titans, hope they come back in stock.

Thanks, i wasnt very clear in the first post and meant the Mechanicum versions via Forgeworld.

Them and the Psi Titan been out of stock for ages. Forgeworld customer service never seem to give me a straight answer about when things may be available. Hopefully they will cast up more knights for when the new weapons are available.

The plastic warlord kit is back available (was out of stock on UK GW website) so hopefully Psi returns as well.

Chopstick wrote:
It's never a simple fix for weapon rule in this game. With everything being already printed at this points. All it'll do is adding more confusion. Acactus terminal on the webstore still show their original value, and you have to know the FAQ existed to find it.

Shieldbreaker at least would be an easy errata. Instead of "if a voidbreaker weapon hits..." change it to "for each hit by a void breaker weapon..."

Acastus original rules were a terrible mistake. They should have dropped blast instead of all the support banner and other limits though.

Hope these guns come out in the next week or so along with the warmaster, like the week after elves?

Yeah, Voidbreaker is trivial to fix given that the rule itself isn't written in the cards or terminals but only in the main rulebook. The Acastus debacle was a different beast entirely.

Having to know FAQ's exist is also a pretty damn low bar in this internet age, more so when we consider that unlike the sprawling madness of 40k or AoS FAQ's, it's one document for all the erratas and clarifications for the whole of AT. That's not asking much.

 MajorWesJanson wrote:


Shieldbreaker at least would be an easy errata. Instead of "if a voidbreaker weapon hits..." change it to "for each hit by a void breaker weapon..."

Please. Would actually mean that these weapons would be considered. Especially useful at breaking shields of the Warmaster or a Titan camping next to a Void Shield relay.

Right, and then it'd be less useful than a VMB on unshielded targets. It'd have its niche.

 gorgon wrote:
Right, and then it'd be less useful than a VMB on unshielded targets. It'd have its niche.

Indeed. Blaze those shields down but then chuck out 3 Str6 attacks on armour. Or chuck out an absolute ton of STR4 attacks that will do something

Also, maybe Volkite Eradicator carapace weapons for the Warlord? You can then have a Warlord armed with nothing but Volkite Weapons!

I think that there’s debate of the Volkite guns is a positive sign.

After all, the main variety and balancing of AT is in the weapon options, rather than the Titan chassis themselves.

If there were just straight out, 100% better than a Vulcan? Not so good, and a suggestion that something (Knight Porphyrion....) has gone a bit wonky.

Guess it’ll also need to factor in the points, too.

The Vulcan on the Arioch claw is pretty good. Once GW and SG manage to hire a rule writer for it.

Looking forwards, its possible that the Asterius will be a FW resin kit along with a slim terminal, which could easily update that variant without having to replace the current Acastus hardstock terminal pack.

The current Acastus hardstock terminal is suspicious. The Porphyrion kit comes with two missile rack options; Ironstorm and Helios, but only includes rules for the Ironstorm. Yet the Asterius has volkite weapons instead of autocannons, yet there is no rules for them either. Clearly this would have been seven weapons crammed onto a terminal with only space for five...

Keeping with the trend of the Atropos, Magaera and Styrix, should the Asterius have similar abilities such as Blessed Autosimulacra and Ionic Flare Shield too? I'm only asking this because the Asterius shares the same armour design of those knights, so I will defer to others more knowledgeable judgement on this one...

But whatever happens, the Asterius ought to be announced sooner rather than later...

Well look at that, the WarCom article changed

It now reads:

"Basically, volkite weapons destroy void shields at close ranges. Both the eradicator and the destructor use three dice per attack, with a range of 20” for the former and 24” for the latter. They have the Voidbreaker (2) trait, meaning that if at least 1 hit is scored, the target has to roll an additional 2 shield saves."

Good to know somebody noticed in the office.

Seems to happen with just about every other Engine Kill.

Too bad it wasn't the Voidbreaker rule that changed...

 gorgon wrote:
Seems to happen with just about every other Engine Kill.

Too bad it wasn't the Voidbreaker rule that changed...

Yeah, have to agree with this. And now this bit:

"Even a formidably shielded Warmaster Heavy Battle Titan could potentially be stripped of all its protection by a single volley."

is no longer accurate. A full hit from one of these with no saves JUST fails to strip the Warmaster.

I posted on the forgeworld facebook a screenshot of the voidbraker rule and simply underlined one word "weapon". I think honestly with the amount of money they're bringing in, they can afford to throw a contract for a couple articles to a writer that at least plays the game. As other have pointed out, it's not the sprawling content monster that is 40k.

Can they though? As I understand it, it costs roughly 2x the cost to hire a worker as you pay them (offices, equipment, benefits, etc) and that'll be what, 30k of profit lost just to fix a few typos? It's not like doing so will drive new sales equal to the investment, or any new sales at all.

Nurglitch wrote:
Can they though? As I understand it, it costs roughly 2x the cost to hire a worker as you pay them (offices, equipment, benefits, etc) and that'll be what, 30k of profit lost just to fix a few typos? It's not like doing so will drive new sales equal to the investment, or any new sales at all.

I mean contract, with everyone working remotely anyway they can hire someone with skin in the game to handle engine kill.

 Crablezworth wrote:

Nurglitch wrote:
Can they though? As I understand it, it costs roughly 2x the cost to hire a worker as you pay them (offices, equipment, benefits, etc) and that'll be what, 30k of profit lost just to fix a few typos? It's not like doing so will drive new sales equal to the investment, or any new sales at all.

I mean contract, with everyone working remotely anyway they can hire someone with skin in the game to handle engine kill.

As I understand it, GW employs fans to produce their games. It's not like it's rendering the product worthless; a quick FAQ and no harm is done.

SamusDrake wrote:

 Crablezworth wrote:


I think we all wanted to know when the warmaster would drop.

Given that the Warmaster is featured in the current issue of White Dwarf I would be surprised if its not "Coming Soon" on Sunday.

If they leave it any later then they might as well have done the article in next months issue instead.

There's "some" delays on releases though while wd was written more like october. Possible it got delayed. March was supposed to be lumineth month yet they come out in april.

Nurglitch wrote:

 Crablezworth wrote:

Nurglitch wrote:
Can they though? As I understand it, it costs roughly 2x the cost to hire a worker as you pay them (offices, equipment, benefits, etc) and that'll be what, 30k of profit lost just to fix a few typos? It's not like doing so will drive new sales equal to the investment, or any new sales at all.

I mean contract, with everyone working remotely anyway they can hire someone with skin in the game to handle engine kill.

As I understand it, GW employs fans to produce their games. It's not like it's rendering the product worthless; a quick FAQ and no harm is done.

It's reducing the value and meaning of a timed article that slips dates and has reduced value because the accuracy of the information it conveys is poor. It would seem engine kill isn't being written by a fan, in other words.

A quick faq would be welcomed.

I'm one of the people who isn't that bothered by game rules and is happy with any new release that looks cool - but the errors on the WarCom article are just sloppy. They should know by now that the community will spot any errors almost straight away. Even if the social media person who writes the article isn't really too hot on the rules, it's not exactly hard to run the article past somebody who is - "Here, can you look this over carefully and tell me if I've ballsed up any of the rules before we publish?" It would take, what, 5 minutes?

Lexikon wrote:

 gorgon wrote:
Seems to happen with just about every other Engine Kill.

Too bad it wasn't the Voidbreaker rule that changed...

Yeah, have to agree with this. And now this bit:

"Even a formidably shielded Warmaster Heavy Battle Titan could potentially be stripped of all its protection by a single volley."

is no longer accurate. A full hit from one of these with no saves JUST fails to strip the Warmaster.

That one actually squeaks by. Formidably shielded is not necessarily a synonym for Fully shielded

tneva82 wrote:


There's "some" delays on releases though while wd was written more like october. Possible it got delayed. March was supposed to be lumineth month yet they come out in april.

Good point.

With the voidbreaker change to each hit, Knight Styrix banner will be the best shield stripper unit in the game.

I'm still hoping that we're missing some key detail from the new weapon cards, like the Rapid trait or it having +1/+2 to hit.

They could also throw in Volkite related rules in the upcoming book, with some Legios getting upgraded versions like others do with other weapon types.

My guess is that the Volkite weapons will Akhtar in the Loyalist Legios book.