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 Mentlegen324 wrote:

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?

I think ? But like they did pull the supa-mega bomber for the orks, here is the opportunity to create something really new for AI.

I guess they retcon Chaos and give them the old (Space Marine) Flyer they had before the Horus Heresy and don't need to prodce new miniatures.

 Mentlegen324 wrote:

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.

Yes but why mentioning something which is irrelevant for the game.

RazorEdge wrote:
Yes but why mentioning something which is irrelevant for the game.

There are missions that involve transports picking up & dropping off ground forces - like Escape Velocity (which was mentioned in the article).

RazorEdge wrote:


Yes but why mentioning something which is irrelevant for the game.

It's not irrelevant, actually. There are rules in AI for transport aircrafts. Mostly they play a role in specific scenarios.

Well, that is unexpected indeed. Especially as the Scythes are GW designs, not FW.

Gives me hope for Hell Talons / Blades.

However, the age old question rears its ugly head: Plastic or resin?

Noice. Bring on the Cylon Raider vs Colonial Viper (Necrons vs Xiphons) battles

 lord_blackfang wrote:
However, the age old question rears its ugly head: Plastic or resin?

Too early to say at this point.

If a solo faction, I'd lean towards FW; if in a vs. box, then plastic.

This feels like an early sneak peak, so let's wait and see for a bit.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:
Noice. Bring on the Cylon Raider vs Colonial Viper (Necrons vs Xiphons) battles

I hadn't thought of that. Oh, my wallet!

Those Necron flyers are beautiful. How big are the AI bases so I can get a sense of scale?

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:
Those Necron flyers are beautiful. How big are the AI bases so I can get a sense of scale?

They’re 2 inches edge to edge.

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:
Those Necron flyers are beautiful. How big are the AI bases so I can get a sense of scale?

Not my photo, & Reaver is on a 105mm Oval -

I don't think they'll be Forgeworld releases, it wouldn't make much sense to have 5 armies plastic and then this be resin, that would make them somewhat harder to get into them and less accessible.

So far Forgeworld has only released secondary more niche aircraft and not anything that's a main unit for a faction.

The Night Shroud might be a FW conversion kit (like the Marauder variants), but every faction so far has had a couple of plastic kits at launch.

So,no longer limted to 5 factions? this would be the 6th faction.

I honestly expect a necron vs eldar 2p box to be honest, seeing as we wont get more eldar planes for the wrath of angels wave, and two planes for one faction aint viable.

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

They were fantastic in Epic A. Essentially jink or die.


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

If I don't get Helltalons I will buy far less than i would have otherwise!

TheGoodGerman wrote:
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!

Well I did not see that coming! Happily surprised, and this means that the rumours of 5 factions is bogus.

So fingers crossed we see Chaos soon.

TheGoodGerman wrote:
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!

Well, that's my Necron BFG fleet sorted.

 Mentlegen324 wrote:

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?

They have a variety in the lore - not so much in models - so far.

Might be Necrons vs Chaos?

Agreed on the BFG - my first thought!

RazorEdge wrote:

Yes but why mentioning something which is irrelevant for the game.

Same reason imperium got transports. Helps in scenarios.

 Stormonu wrote:

AllSeeingSkink wrote:
Noice. Bring on the Cylon Raider vs Colonial Viper (Necrons vs Xiphons) battles

I hadn't thought of that. Oh, my wallet!

Hah, when I read the preview article I had the cylon scream sound effect (at least the one from the early 2000s reimagined series) going in my head.


Hmmm... I wonder if you could play the recent but now OOP Battlestar Galactica game with these minis?

As for release, assuming they are plastic I would be surprised if GW didn't launch them against an Imperial faction, but I'm not sure theres any remaining stuff on the Imperial side that they could conceivably release in a head-to-head box unless they decided to give the Astartes codex flyers (stormtalons and whatnot). Given that (with the exception of the night/doom scythe) all the sculpts thus far have been based on forgeworld designs rather than GW, I would say chaos is a good, but unlikely, candidate. There is of course AdMech, but at present I believe they only have the 3 GW flyers (or rather 1 flyer with 3 variants). Custodes have a number of flyers (or flyer-adjacent craft) that could be used here as well which are forgeworld sculpts. Excited to see what comes, hopefully its *not* just one off resin releases.

Necron vs Mechanicus?

 Mentlegen324 wrote:

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?

One kit that has three different builds - Archaeopter Stratoraptor, Fusilave & Transvector. 30k has a flying robot (Vultarax Stratos-Automata) and they use Valkyrie / Vendetta / Vulture in some of the fluff.

Admech Valkyrie/Vendetta/Vulture would only be because they haven't bother to develop unique models for that faction. If they appear in AI, I'd be more apt to suspect the Archaeopter or a new design.

Though I suspect it unlikely, this would be a great time to develop some aircraft for Sisters of Battle.

Maybe they could weaponize some Argus Lifters for a GSC faction - or some other form of armored cargo hauler bristling with bolted-on weapons or converted deep mining weapons (Core miner laser, Seismic charges ala Slave I's Attack of the Clones, etc.).

beast_gts wrote:

 Mentlegen324 wrote:

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?

One kit that has three different builds - Archaeopter Stratoraptor, Fusilave & Transvector. 30k has a flying robot (Vultarax Stratos-Automata) and they use Valkyrie / Vendetta / Vulture in some of the fluff.

I don't think alternate loadouts for 1 aircraft alongside other already-existing Imperial Aircraft is enough to have them as a faction in the game, really. All the others, with the exception of the Astra Millitarum, have 3 - 4 different unique aircraft.

Sarouan wrote:

 Mentlegen324 wrote:

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?

I think ? But like they did pull the supa-mega bomber for the orks, here is the opportunity to create something really new for AI.

Mega bommer actually used to be a thing, but was removed from 40k. Quite a few little ork planes too.

The Necron announcement caught me completely by surprise.

Now I'm really hoping for Chaos. I really enjoyed the style of their fliers from first edition.

C’mon Manta!

Thunderhawk back in stock on US GW site.

 Mentlegen324 wrote:
I don't think alternate loadouts for 1 aircraft alongside other already-existing Imperial Aircraft is enough to have them as a faction in the game, really. All the others, with the exception of the Astra Millitarum, have 3 - 4 different unique aircraft.

Well the necrons have basically 3 variants of same chassis so...Basically transport, fighter, bomber. Which fits about same as the AM variants are.

tneva82 wrote:

 Mentlegen324 wrote:
I don't think alternate loadouts for 1 aircraft alongside other already-existing Imperial Aircraft is enough to have them as a faction in the game, really. All the others, with the exception of the Astra Millitarum, have 3 - 4 different unique aircraft.

Well the necrons have basically 3 variants of same chassis so...Basically transport, fighter, bomber. Which fits about same as the AM variants are.

Its misleading to say that the bomber is a variant of the same chassis, you can't build it out of the same kit as the other two and the amount of additional resin added on to it is quite substantial and results in a much bulkier aircraft than the transport/fighter variants. The AdMech variants are all literally the same airframe just with weapon swaps. The two are not the same.