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**Kid_Kyoto**

Yoinked from Facebook...

Thunderhawk evolutions

R to L

Drizzle Pigeon
Rain Sparrow
Thunderhawk

**Albertorius**

IIRC there's two more ^^

**Jadenim**

“Drizzle pigeon” is superb! Exalted.

**animal310**

stonehorse wrote:
Racerguy180 wrote:
So wait, they didn't have fire Raptors, thunderhawks, & Xiphons in 30k? Huh I always thought they did.

I think Fire Raptors are in 30k, but the rest of the Imperial planes are if I remember correctly different.

You remember incorrectly. Every single Imperial flyer in AI is 30k compatible. All four Space Marine planes are in the black books as are all the Imperial fighters. i don’t think the Mauderer bombers are though.

**lord_blackfang**

The far right one actually looks like Thomas the Tank Engine with sunglasses

**Mr_Rose**

Technically, I think one or two of the Marauder variants (Colossus at least) are post-heresy but the basic airframe was around back then.

**Albertorius**

It helps that most designers and writers don't really understand how time works.

**Mr_Rose**

Albertorius wrote:
It helps that most designers and writers don't really understand how time works.

Oh yeah, ten thousand years covers all of recorded history up to today and then some, but in all that time the imperium has invented exactly: three new kinds of power suit, one new gun mount for an old tank. Then Cawl came along and reinvented the flying wheel.

**robbienw**

Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Yoinked from Facebook...

Thunderhawk evolutions

R to L

Drizzle Pigeon
Rain Sparrow
Thunderhawk

Its missing out an important evolutionary step; the FW resin Epic/AI Thunderhawk from 2006.

**AllSeeingSkink**

robbienw wrote:
Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Yoinked from Facebook...

Thunderhawk evolutions

R to L

Drizzle Pigeon
Rain Sparrow
Thunderhawk

Its missing out an important evolutionary step; the FW resin Epic/AI Thunderhawk from 2006.

This has all the ones I'm aware of...

https://miniwars.co.uk/epic-40k/miniatures/space-marines/thunderhawk-gunship/

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Mentlegen324 wrote:
AllSeeingSkink wrote:
JWBS wrote:
Nice scale comparison between old and new TH https://www.instagram.com/p/CV739-_lL48/

Not as much bigger as I thought it would be.

I do think that the Thunderhawk is one model that has gotten progressively less cool as time has gone on. The previous one with the birdcage canopy looked better to me, and the one previous to that with the large single wind shield looked even better again.

I agree. I think the canopy, the tail and the front mounted weapon changes all make it seem less like a very sturdy, bulky, heavily armoured gunship.

Several times Forgeworld have re-designed vehicles in a way that lost some of the coolness of the original design. The Lightning is another one. Would have much preferred the original designs (or even alternative parts) for Aeronautica.

The tail! I knew there was something else wrong that my brain wasn't picking up on, yeah, the T-tail looked cooler.

When mine gets here I'm going to mock up an old style canopy, and maybe try and make a T-tail by press-moulding the canards from the Storm Eagle if they're the right size.

**TheGoodGerman**

It seems that rumors of an early end to Aeronautica Imperialis have been slightly premature…

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/11/08/the-necrons-are-bringing-60-million-years-worth-of-air-superiority-to-aeronautica-imperialis/

Necrons!

**beast_gts**

Night Scythe / Doom Scythe and Night Shroud (FW). What other Necron flyers are there (I'm assuming Tomb Blades are too small)?

**Wha-Mu-077**

Awesome. Can't complain- although I wish they fleshed out Eldar and T'au ranges too.

**Veldrain**

Okay, those Necrons look glorious.

Even if I don't get the Necron planes, I really want to see the ground defenses.

**Wha-Mu-077**

beast_gts wrote:
Night Scythe / Doom Scythe and Night Shroud (FW). What other Necron flyers are there (I'm assuming Tomb Blades are too small)?

Tomb Blades aren't too small, but they probably would be just an attachement to some big carrier-style flier - Orks afterall get Grot Bommers.

**Mentlegen324**

So much for the "They're only doing 5 factions" and "Aeronautica is selling poorly so they're abandoning it after Space Marines" rumours, I guess.

**zedmeister**

Oh, now that's unexpected. Pylons for Ground defences I reckon

**Tyranid Horde**

An interesting development, this was a surprise to see!

**chaos0xomega**

I'm absolutely astonished!

Still no indication of where the book is though. Maybe they are releasing more of a "Compendium" book (ala Loyalist/Traitor Legios) with rules from all the factions?

**SamusDrake**

Necrons for Aeronautica? Mmmmmmmmmm....nice!

Unless they are Forgeworld only. In which case they can shove'em.

**silverstu**

I wonder who will be their adversaries - Nids or Dark Eldar maybe?

**Kid_Kyoto**

**Sarouan**

Good, we'll have necrons ! Finally an airship I won't be ashamed to drybrush and call it done.

Wonder if they'll have an opponent at all. They could be simply released in separate boxes. Or *shudders" as Forgeworld releases.

Hope I'm wrong !

Though if there are pylons as ground assets, they'll definitely be FW releases, I'm not holding my breath there.

**Kid_Kyoto**

Albertorius wrote:
IIRC there's two more ^^

Yeah there was an Epic TH between the flying castle and the Epic 40k one, and there was a resin AI one.

I still kind of like the old flying castle, it's different from other spaceships, I used them as destroyers in Space Fleet/BFG.

**RazorEdge**

Yes, the Necrons are coming to Aeronautica Imperialis, and while their ships may look like croissants, they’re not just here for breakfast. Flying into enemy territory first is the Night Scythe. Just like its Warhammer 40,000 counterpart, it’s armed with a pair of tesla destructors and can be used to transport troops deep behind enemy lines.*

If you’d rather do away with that transport capacity,** you can alternatively add a heavy death ray and upgrade your ship into a Doom Scythe. And who doesn’t love a death ray?!

???

But nice to mention the crossant meme joke

**Mentlegen324**

RazorEdge wrote:
Yes, the Necrons are coming to Aeronautica Imperialis, and while their ships may look like croissants, they’re not just here for breakfast. Flying into enemy territory first is the Night Scythe. Just like its Warhammer 40,000 counterpart, it’s armed with a pair of tesla destructors and can be used to transport troops deep behind enemy lines.*

If you’d rather do away with that transport capacity,** you can alternatively add a heavy death ray and upgrade your ship into a Doom Scythe. And who doesn’t love a death ray?!

???

But nice to mention the crossant meme joke

From the 40k page for it:

Night Scythes also employ invasion beams to generate captive wormholes through which invading infantry can march direct from distant Necron tomb worlds to begin their conquests anew.

It's just a Aeronautica representation of this.

**SamusDrake**

Necrons have no adversaries, nor wage war. They just have a lot of pest control issues these days...

**Dysartes**

silverstu wrote:
I wonder who will be their adversaries - Nids or Dark Eldar maybe?

Chaos would make sense, for battles over Blackstone.

**Sarouan**

Dunno, I'd say Adeptus Mechanicus to keep the "imperium vs xenos" theme for AI boxes so far.

**Mentlegen324**

Sarouan wrote:
Dunno, I'd say Adeptus Mechanicus to keep the "imperium vs xenos" theme for AI boxes so far.

Don't they only have 1 flyer, though?