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tneva82 wrote:
One issue I have is too many guns. Way too many. Not 40k level of ridiculous but still looks way too busy

Can agree on that.
Could've easily cut down on the top gun of the tank.

Nice surprise, does anyone know what the model at the side is in the picture from the announcement email?

Sonoftheforest wrote:
Nice surprise, does anyone know what the model at the side is in the picture from the announcement email?

Dark angels Preator, you can see him in the bundle in one of the pictures

tneva82 wrote:
One issue I have is too many guns. Way too many. Not 40k level of ridiculous but still looks way too busy

Yeah - if there's only one crew member who's firing the pintle-mounted weapon?

Ditch the rocket launchers and I'm in!

I like it. One of the few 30k tanks I do.

Personally think it could do without the top mounted gun but it's far from a dealbreaker. And I'd be turning the HK missiles into some sort of multi launcher as well.

 Malika2 wrote:
Ditch the rocket launchers and I'm in!

They’re optional upgrades. Each one is a one-shot at that.

The Dark Angels colour scheme is sexy.

beast_gts wrote:

tneva82 wrote:
One issue I have is too many guns. Way too many. Not 40k level of ridiculous but still looks way too busy

Yeah - if there's only one crew member who's firing the pintle-mounted weapon?

The one crew member, servitors dont count as crew.

And said 1 crew member is also able to control everything else from the in-helmet hud.

Fictional wrote:

beast_gts wrote:

tneva82 wrote:
One issue I have is too many guns. Way too many. Not 40k level of ridiculous but still looks way too busy

Yeah - if there's only one crew member who's firing the pintle-mounted weapon?

The one crew member, servitors dont count as crew.

And said 1 crew member is also able to control everything else from the in-helmet hud.

Yeah, they'll be a servitor, or a machine spirit, or he'll have an MIU... I just find it amusing that he's hanging out of the hatch manually firing a bolter while remotely operating the rest of the guns

 zedmeister wrote:
And now for something completely different - Sabre Strike tank - not a bad looking little toy:

So another early teens design of how many guns can I slap haphazedly onto a chasis. very poor

It's nice, but given that it's more dollars than points, not nice enough for me to buy.
And I absolutely love volkite, too.

 Mr Morden wrote:

So another early teens design of how many guns can I slap haphazedly onto a chasis. very poor

So 2 is now too many guns? The missiles are completely optional and one-use each.

Too Late FW, I spent my Black Friday budget already!

You guys have seen Baneblades right? Tank which is a rolling mountain of guns right? Heck dreadnoughts can have as many guns and they are only on two legs not tracks.

 Orodhen wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:

So another early teens design of how many guns can I slap haphazedly onto a chasis. very poor

So 2 is now too many guns? The missiles are completely optional and one-use each.

He’s letting his (somewhat) irrational Marine Hate take over.

Again.

This tank is positively restrained when compared to GW’s Primaris tank line though...

I like the baby Sicaran hull, but the missiles on the sides, and extra gun on the top aren't doing anything for me.

I agree that a single main hull weapon would have looked better and given the model a stronger silhouette.

Tons of hilarity regarding this new tank. Mostly in the biased responses though.

I see one fixed main gun and one coax gun plus optional one shot rockets that don't even need to be attached.

I see zero pintle weapons.

No 40k rules, I sleep.

Am suspicious this is tied to the impending Dark Angels release. Hey guys, here's a tank you can slap all sorts of different weapons on! Pay no attention to the impending release of the legion with the most weird weapons/toys of the Crusade! Not related at all!

Goofs aside I'd love to see the ability to slap a weird warp cannon or radiation something on this when the next book drops!

Alpharius wrote:

 Orodhen wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:

So another early teens design of how many guns can I slap haphazedly onto a chasis. very poor

So 2 is now too many guns? The missiles are completely optional and one-use each.

He’s letting his (somewhat) irrational Marine Hate take over.

Again.

This tank is positively restrained when compared to GW’s Primaris tank line though...

a baneblade is restrained compared to a repulsor/executioner.

I dig it, the missles (from the looks of it) should be easy to model somewhere else. im a big fan of Volkite soo I might just have to snag one(albeit a ways down the track).

 Alpharius wrote:

 Orodhen wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:

So another early teens design of how many guns can I slap haphazedly onto a chasis. very poor

So 2 is now too many guns? The missiles are completely optional and one-use each.

He’s letting his (somewhat) irrational Marine Hate take over.

Again.

This tank is positively restrained when compared to GW’s Primaris tank line though...

Oh dear someone else Forgets / Ignores I am a MARINE player - hundreds of Marine models - multiple armies - so not even remotely true. Is your name Brian Davion?

Yes its not as bad as a Primaris tank but why does the top gun just looked plonked on.

Fictional wrote:

beast_gts wrote:

tneva82 wrote:
One issue I have is too many guns. Way too many. Not 40k level of ridiculous but still looks way too busy

Yeah - if there's only one crew member who's firing the pintle-mounted weapon?

The one crew member, servitors dont count as crew.

And said 1 crew member is also able to control everything else from the in-helmet hud.

Yeah, """easily""". He controls and fires turret with one hand, pintle gun with second, main gun with third, drives with fourth, controls the missile lock and firing with fifth and sixth, all while racing at F1 speeds and coordinating with his squadron and taking orders from praetor. No issue at all!

This thing fluff is crap, a Land Speeder that is vastly easier to drive and only has one extra gun instead of six needs two operators. It could maybe work if it had four marine crew, not one. If you threw all the guns into a garbage bin leaving only main gun + one anti-infantry, then changed role to ambush tank killer that lays in wait and uses speed to redeploy, it would make sense. Current speed freek NASCAR gun bin is about as realistic as IG trooper firing four lasguns at once while driving a unicycle.

Also, I like how people whine about Primaris tanks when A) they actually have proper crew to realistically work, B) have same amount of guns as current, real world tanks, which work. No military in the world operates anything like this garbage, in fact, one man turrets (never mind whole vehicles with multiple turrets) were dumped 70 years ago because a single operator was working them at like 20% efficiency, and current tanks have 3-4 crew doing various tasks in turret alone...

You've clearly never played a Halo style tank mission

 BroodSpawn wrote:
You've clearly never played a Halo style tank mission

Those were some of the most fun games I had in Halo 1. Yeah sitting on the side would likely get me killed but it was a blast at least.

If you’re using your hands to communicate with your squadron, your radio’s broken.

Maybe 1 marine and 3 or 4 spare brains in jars?

I imagine it as the Marine handles the main gun and driving, while the machine spirit controls the others weapons systems with targeting commands from the marine. Just because its a fast strike vehicle, doesn't necessarily mean its firing everything on the move, but the point defence weapon being under AI control makes sense to me.

No 40k rules? really guys? Cmon. This is a new thing, no rules for 40k from them?