Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

 aracersss wrote:
ynarii additions?

Ignore me. The Blackstones were Old One technology used to battle Necrons from what I remember.

 zedmeister wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Permission to wee myself laughing if today's reveal shows it's not Chaos forces you're up against in Blackstone?

In light of todays reveal, permission granted!

It was quite a restrained weewee to be fair. Could still be some Chaos yet.

Man, with the comment about previous people seeking the tech and others taken involuntary--pluss the BSF itself, we can possibly face anything. I can see small Kill Teams (3-10 minis) of factions known and unknown who you will have to fight through.

That's a snoozefest right there...but still interested by the game. The video does show that one of the characters is definitely a ratling/squat though. Not that there was much doubt.

Is this the first piece of proper Ancestral technology we see made miniature? This aesthetic is not very much warhammer but it looks phenomenal.

 Ghaz wrote:

 Malika2 wrote:
So Spindle Drones? Looks like a Karist unit from Maelstrom's Edge...

Or Retribution of Scyrah from Warmachine.

This is where my head went as well. Feels genuinely different from the typical 40k aesthetic (for better or worse.)

You know, in hindsight, hopefully this release will finally silence jokers claiming GW does the garbage, blurry leaks that ruin surprise and necessitate rushed WC articles to control damage. This is how GW wants to do releases - building hype, showing new, surprising bits, making people talk. Terrible picture did by potato camera does nothing but makes the captured stuff look bad, and after WC drops good photo to fix that, future articles on the topic become kinda pointless.

Now I wonder if WC planned to do something similar for speed freaks, animations and all, only for some troll in Chinese warehouse to spoil whole thing and cause such plans to be binned after two emergency articles. IIRC, every single box release since at least Overkill had animation devoted to it, except for the spoiled ones that is...

If it is a guardian of the Blackstone Fortress, then it is probably Old One tech... Interesting.

Well, that's a curveball.

Based on precedent, I would expect all WQBSF models to get 40k rules. But these don't fit in any current faction.

 Galas wrote:
Is this the first piece of proper Ancestral technology we see made miniature? This aesthetic is not very much warhammer but it looks phenomenal.

Well, we did have a miniature for the Blackstone Fortress for BFG...

Anyone else getting a Destiny Vex style vibe from this Blackstone Fortress?

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Well, that's a curveball.

Based on precedent, I would expect all WQBSF models to get 40k rules. But these don't fin in any current faction.

Mechanicus has robots from the Dark Age of Technology. What's to stop Eldar from having robots from before the big party?

 Paull wrote:
Anyone else getting a Destiny Vex style vibe from this Blackstone Fortress?

Personally I have a big "War of the Worlds" vibe from this mini.

Drones could be leftovers from previous invaders...

 TheGuest wrote:

 Paull wrote:
Anyone else getting a Destiny Vex style vibe from this Blackstone Fortress?

Personally I have a big "War of the Worlds" vibe from this mini.

Pleased I'm not the only one.

Loving the videos so far!

Paull wrote:Anyone else getting a Destiny Vex style vibe from this Blackstone Fortress?

Overall? Yeah a bit from the art shown. And the guy with the 3 eyes and funky helmet reminds me a bit of Destiny's Fallen.

The mini though I have to agree with TheGuest, my first thought was War of the Worlds.

TheGuest wrote:

 Paull wrote:
Anyone else getting a Destiny Vex style vibe from this Blackstone Fortress?

Personally I have a big "War of the Worlds" vibe from this mini.

But even the blackstone fortress with it's shifting perspectives and geometric styling has a vault of glass feel

While the mini in itself is not too exciting, the possibilities it opens are incredible. Still hope for some type of corrupted by chaos old ones

 Galas wrote:
Is this the first piece of proper Ancestral technology we see made miniature? This aesthetic is not very much warhammer but it looks phenomenal.

Whose ancestry are you referring to?

Just getting better and better. Love it.

Voss wrote:

 Galas wrote:
Is this the first piece of proper Ancestral technology we see made miniature? This aesthetic is not very much warhammer but it looks phenomenal.

Whose ancestry are you referring to?

I'm sorry, the Old Ones.

There’s something akin to the Eldar look to that. I like it.

That's pretty exciting, much much more than the Gellerpox was!

I am very excited by this release.

Also, is this the first truly new thing for 40k since the Tau release? There is Ynnari I suppose, but that was still building upon existing fluff.

 Irbis wrote:
You know, in hindsight, hopefully this release will finally silence jokers claiming GW does the garbage, blurry leaks that ruin surprise and necessitate rushed WC articles to control damage. This is how GW wants to do releases - building hype, showing new, surprising bits, making people talk. Terrible picture did by potato camera does nothing but makes the captured stuff look bad, and after WC drops good photo to fix that, future articles on the topic become kinda pointless.

Now I wonder if WC planned to do something similar for speed freaks, animations and all, only for some troll in Chinese warehouse to spoil whole thing and cause such plans to be binned after two emergency articles. IIRC, every single box release since at least Overkill had animation devoted to it, except for the spoiled ones that is...

IMO, this is probably GW cracking down on leaks hardcore. I'll bet that this box set isn't being manufactured in China, no interns are handling the miniatures and accidentally putting them on display, no mini builders are throwing the sprues away in the trash for some guy to dumpster dive for.

I think that GW is doing their best to get a handle on these sorts of leaks and I think this release has shown that they're finally able to do just that. Else we would have heard about these drones a year ago.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Well, that's a curveball.

Based on precedent, I would expect all WQBSF models to get 40k rules. But these don't fit in any current faction.

Chaos Androids in Space crusade didn't have a proper faction originally,.and look.what happened to.them

Abandoned and never spoken of again?

Much like Ynnari, really.

Or turned into the Necrons, spawning a whole.new.race and line of minis...

Aw, the spindle drone is kind of cute.

This does rather open up the very ancient lore.

We’ve always kind of assumed they were built by The Old Ones, or by the ancient Eldar.

Now either could still be true, I’m not being immediately revisionist.

But.

We know The Old Ones crested species. What if these were the labours of one such species, long since extinct? That’s a whole new level of fluff for us to dive into.