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And the Skorpius Disintegrator battle tank version:






GW just released this video.




I might have chuckled.
But yeah, it seems very likely that Ad mech will finally get their own transport unit.

I'm hoping they stick to the fluff on the.....mule I think it was called. Another dune crawler type vehicle.

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/774978.page

Yea that was actually pretty funny. Sounds like they have started pulling common requests from the big survey. This was probably one of the easier ones lol.

 Insurgency Walker wrote:
I'm hoping they stick to the fluff on the.....mule I think it was called. Another dune crawler type vehicle.

Yeah, a big multilegged APC might look cool. Maybe a chimera with legs?

 Insurgency Walker wrote:
I'm hoping they stick to the fluff on the.....mule I think it was called. Another dune crawler type vehicle.

The "mule" is the Onager. It's a play off some old Roman military stuff if I remember right.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Insurgency Walker wrote:
I'm hoping they stick to the fluff on the.....mule I think it was called. Another dune crawler type vehicle.

The "mule" is the Onager. It's a play off some old Roman military stuff if I remember right.

Isn't the MULE a sort of chassis that the Onager was based on? It was originally a vehicle by Arkham Land, that was adapted into various forms, no?

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Insurgency Walker wrote:
I'm hoping they stick to the fluff on the.....mule I think it was called. Another dune crawler type vehicle.

The "mule" is the Onager. It's a play off some old Roman military stuff if I remember right.

Yes it was an Onager but with transport capacity. I don't know if we'll get a stretched Onager but if they stick with the idea of variations on a standard STL I'd be happy

Well, onager literally means donkey in latin, and it was also the name of an ancient type of catapult.

 Red Corsair wrote:
Yea that was actually pretty funny. Sounds like they have started pulling common requests from the big survey. This was probably one of the easier ones lol.

No.

The community survey is only a couple weeks old. Even modifying an existing sprue takes more time than that.
Even that video probably took GW more time than that...

Voss wrote:

 Red Corsair wrote:
Yea that was actually pretty funny. Sounds like they have started pulling common requests from the big survey. This was probably one of the easier ones lol.

No.

The community survey is only a couple weeks old. Even modifying an existing sprue takes more time than that.
Even that video probably took GW more time than that...

The model was likely made last year, depending when we see the actual release.

GW have made it common knowledge their lead time needed on various books, models, ranges etc..
But there's always a few comments like that..

Not going to speculate on Red Corsair's intention, but we did have a big survey a year and a half ago. Not just last month.

That lead time you're so quick to point to, that's stretched to the limit by plastic Sisters. GW can't just release multiple larger requests that quickly. Anything else, model wise anyway, that would have appeared in there and been approved by GW, is only going to start to show now.

A lone transport, and maybe a couple of supporting characters to make the release worthwhile in GW's eyes, is fairly easy compared to something as big as a new army. GW only has so much capacity for that, and that's currently taken up by Sisters.

Is it bad that I hope it is exactly what it is said to be?

Something that can only transport Skitarii keyworded units, not Adeptus Mechanicus units...but possibly Techpriests can come in.

Looking forward to seeing what this looks like

 Kanluwen wrote:
Is it bad that I hope it is exactly what it is said to be?

Something that can only transport Skitarii keyworded units, not Adeptus Mechanicus units...but possibly Techpriests can come in.

Why? That just seems randomly arbitrary.
What possible rationale exists to bar the rest of the same army from getting in a vehicle?

Voss wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
Is it bad that I hope it is exactly what it is said to be?

Something that can only transport Skitarii keyworded units, not Adeptus Mechanicus units...but possibly Techpriests can come in.

Why? That just seems randomly arbitrary.
What possible rationale exists to bar the rest of the same army from getting in a vehicle?

Radiation.

That video..."Okay, okay, if we give you this will you STOP ASKING?"

Very cool. Although I have two drills I'm really looking forward to this. There were some rumour pics that had onager asthetics, right? Or maybe it's an anti grav vehicle? I remember those floaty engine pics that also had some admech resemblance. Maybe Cawl had his mechandrites into this.

rhavien wrote:
Very cool. Although I have two drills I'm really looking forward to this. There were some rumour pics that had onager asthetics, right? Or maybe it's an anti grav vehicle? I remember those floaty engine pics that also had some admech resemblance. Maybe Cawl had his mechandrites into this.

There was a hatch that looked like the onager hatch, but could also be for a Sororitas transport.

I seriously hope it is based on the Onager design. In my head it has the front end of the current Onager with a smaller support turret array but instead of just being stretched out to accommodate the troops, it’s segmented into independently articulated sections like these crawler transports the Dutch Marine Corps use:

Only with legs instead of tracks.

 Saturmorn Carvilli wrote:

Voss wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
Is it bad that I hope it is exactly what it is said to be?

Something that can only transport Skitarii keyworded units, not Adeptus Mechanicus units...but possibly Techpriests can come in.

Why? That just seems randomly arbitrary.
What possible rationale exists to bar the rest of the same army from getting in a vehicle?

Radiation.

Techpriest are the Admech unit that needs a transport. If the transport can't transport techpriests...

 Red Corsair wrote:
Yea that was actually pretty funny. Sounds like they have started pulling common requests from the big survey. This was probably one of the easier ones lol.

Which one? If this model is coming this year it's been on work for like a year already. Minimum.

Quasistellar wrote:

rhavien wrote:
Very cool. Although I have two drills I'm really looking forward to this. There were some rumour pics that had onager asthetics, right? Or maybe it's an anti grav vehicle? I remember those floaty engine pics that also had some admech resemblance. Maybe Cawl had his mechandrites into this.

There was a hatch that looked like the onager hatch, but could also be for a Sororitas transport.

No, it could not be. It was not a fleur de lys.

yay skitari transport, they deserve one!

 Galas wrote:

 Saturmorn Carvilli wrote:

Voss wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
Is it bad that I hope it is exactly what it is said to be?

Something that can only transport Skitarii keyworded units, not Adeptus Mechanicus units...but possibly Techpriests can come in.

Why? That just seems randomly arbitrary.
What possible rationale exists to bar the rest of the same army from getting in a vehicle?

Radiation.

Techpriest are the Admech unit that needs a transport. If the transport can't transport techpriests...

I am not arguing that point. Just playing Daemonic Advocate for a possible rationale to have a Skitarii only transport. It is well established that Vanguard weapons are so radioactive that sickens others being in their presence and eventually, even with all their cybernetics and other shielding, destroys Vanguard members themselves. I won't even say that radiation is a good rationale. Just that it is a possible one.

Danny76 wrote:

Voss wrote:

 Red Corsair wrote:
Yea that was actually pretty funny. Sounds like they have started pulling common requests from the big survey. This was probably one of the easier ones lol.

No.

The community survey is only a couple weeks old. Even modifying an existing sprue takes more time than that.
Even that video probably took GW more time than that...

The model was likely made last year, depending when we see the actual release.

GW have made it common knowledge their lead time needed on various books, models, ranges etc..
But there's always a few comments like that..

Doesn't mean the community had no impact. That model could have been done the same time the rest of the admech stuff was and just sitting on the back burner. It could have been planned for a release next fall. This sort of thing apparently happens a lot. It's why people like hastings have info on models like primarchs years in advance at times.




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 Geifer wrote:
Not going to speculate on Red Corsair's intention, but we did have a big survey a year and a half ago. Not just last month.

That lead time you're so quick to point to, that's stretched to the limit by plastic Sisters. GW can't just release multiple larger requests that quickly. Anything else, model wise anyway, that would have appeared in there and been approved by GW, is only going to start to show now.

A lone transport, and maybe a couple of supporting characters to make the release worthwhile in GW's eyes, is fairly easy compared to something as big as a new army. GW only has so much capacity for that, and that's currently taken up by Sisters.

I wasn't assuming they whipped this up in 2 weeks, but that never stops the black knights of dakka from jumping all over someones post.

Bah, this is just Imperial Favoritism. Skitarrii get made up, get models, and now they're getting a transport while other pre-existing factions like Chaos Demons continue to wait for transports.

Disclaimer: Is Black Knight anything like DCM? Do I have to sign up and pay a membership due?

I just don't know whether to cheer for the Skitarii getting a tracked transport or a spider legged thing.

 solkan wrote:
Bah, this is just Imperial Favoritism. Skitarrii get made up, get models, and now they're getting a transport while other pre-existing factions like Chaos Demons continue to wait for transports.

deamons have a transport though, it's called a chaos character summoning

The thing preventing other AdMech units from fitting in ? The same that prevents Terminators from riding Repulsors: REASONS

If they make it Skitarii/Tech-Priest limited then I expect a cheaper price than if you could fit 12 Electro-Priests in there. But in all fairness for all the fluff reasons I'd love a Skitarii/Tech-Priest only transport, it's way more reasonable to allow all the infantry to fit, because Electro-Priests and Ruststalkers REALLY need it, especially now that Stygies VIII's Infiltration stratagem is nigh useless.

Just hoping it won't cost 50+€ for a 80 pts vehicle

 Red Corsair wrote:
Yea that was actually pretty funny. Sounds like they have started pulling common requests from the big survey. This was probably one of the easier ones lol.

If this was in response to the latest survey that would be an impossibly fast turnaround. Maybe as a request from the first big survey?