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Sarouan wrote:
...It's totally an Adepta Sororitas vehicle. Based on the same hulk than the new Immolator and Exorcist (the torches are those who are on the sides of the vehicle).

I'd lean towards the new incarnation of the Repressor, just more gothic and covered with relics.

Ok, seems like they will reveal more of the sister V9 codex in the end...

It also has the identical wooden poles at the end of the guard rail (in the immolator, they were sometimes painted metallic.)

It definitely looks like it has treads, so I'm not sure how Repulsor-y it can be

I really think this is a single tank in the pic, and not a Rhino chassis.

Yes, it appears to have the little nub aerial bit. But that doesn’t in itself mean Rhino chassis confirmed.

None of the rest seems to match up, and at the bottom, there seem to be tracks closer in look to the Baneblade’s chassis. Certainly they look nothing like the Rhino chassis.

Up top? I reckon that’s a Heavy Bolter, with an Aquila, rather than the Rhino/Landraider hatch half. Like a lectern. And on the right hand side of the pic, I reckon that the front of the tank, rather than another tank.

Still looks better than Primaris floaty tanks.

The more I'm looking at it, the more I'm thinking "reimagined Repressor" than anything else.

It definitely looks like there's a 'raised' element to the upper hull. Whatever weapon is being wielded by the gunner looks to have a gunshield as part of it.
If you look behind the gunner though? There's that "lectern" bit...which looks to be a smaller, raised almost bier-esque piece rather than the armored fighting compartment the Arbites styled Repressor of old had.

It's literally just a Predator with a frilly railing at the back of the turret.

I think the angle is being seen/viewed incorrectly.

To me it looks like it's driving left to right and slightly away, not towards us.

It absolutely looks like a new version of a Repressor to me..

 lord_blackfang wrote:
It's literally just a Predator with a frilly railing at the back of the turret.

Don't think so. It's not a turret, it's a sister out of a hatch and handling a weapon. It's clearly not a heavy weapon like those of a Predator. And I don't think it has weapons on its sides.

Sarouan wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
It's literally just a Predator with a frilly railing at the back of the turret.

Don't think so. It's not a turret, it's a sister out of a hatch and handling a weapon. It's clearly not a heavy weapon like those of a Predator. And I don't think it has weapons on its sides.

It's a turret with a manned pintle bolter. You can't see the main gun.

You can see the sponson optic right next to the brazier.

It sorta looks like a mini-mastadon.
(forgeworld model is nearly double the size if that is a silhouette of a sister in a cupola)

Here is my mspaint mockup

Don't know how to make it any clearer

You can see something next to the brazier...but it looks more like a loudspeaker than a targeting optic to me.

How could you not see a main gun for a Predator styled tank though? You can see the barrel of a pintle bolter but not an autocannon or lascannon or whatever gun it's got?

Whatever the hell this thing is, it's definitely got a pronounced slope to the rear hull and it almost looks like part of the track assembly is coming out from the panelling.

Going off your image comparison though...that hatch would have to be bigger than the Sister to be up like that. I'm still leaning towards that piece being a stylized gunshield. And the slope on that rear hull is fairly significant compared to anything else the Sisters have gotten so far. You can see the 'bump' of where the trackguard is, that antennae you've pointed out, and then what looks to be part of the track assembly actually extending out of the back of the track housing.

That's why i think it's facing the other way.

What he has circled as front left, I think is actually the front right. The W angle of the hatch opening also indicates this.

You can't actually see the front of the turret in this silhouette.

 Kanluwen wrote:

How could you not see a main gun for a Predator styled tank though? You can see the barrel of a pintle bolter but not an autocannon or lascannon or whatever gun it's got?

Do you... do you understand how silhouettes work? You can't see the main gun on the Predator that I posted just beside it if you black out the whole tank.


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Anyway I see this is pointless, I'll be back to quote myself on Saturday.

Honestly, it just looks like we're seeing it from an extremely bizarre angle.

It looks like we're seeing it from a lower angle than where the model was actually placed for the photo. If one looks at the 'shadowed' background? You can tell that there's not some huge turret assembly on the top and the 'hatch' seems to be flattened out along with the bolter rather than the hull in the image.

Can you tell what this is?

Yea, it's a tank facing the wrong way.

if it does turn out to be a predator/razorback variant. the lore might as well be "primaris dont need these tiny tanks, so gave them as hand-me-down's to the sisters"

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Can you tell what this is?

Without having seen the original image? No, probably not. It would just look like a vehicle of some kind.

But I'm not the one claiming that there's a pintle mount on top of a turret with a hatch(all of which are clearly visible) that somehow magically leaves a sponson optic and brazier visible while hiding a weapon that would likely be extending from a turret that the pintle's part of.

Which is, again, the whole reason I've harped on it being a weird design and a weird angle. We only see one brazier as the other would likely be folded into the silhouette. We only see one weird protruded laudhailer/sponson optic-y bit as the other would likely be folded into the silhouette.
We can make out one thing you're calling a hatch in perfect detail that would have to be taller than the Sister manning the gun on the pintle and that I'm calling a stylized gunshield as the other part of the hatch should be visible breaking up the Sister's silhouette.
We can definitely see the hallmark 'tiny antennae' at the back but it's over a weird design for the rear tracks seeming to extend out of the back of the track housing giving a much steeper angle to the back of the vehicle.

I tried to extrapolate a few of the lines. There are some similarities to the rhino chassis, but the tracks are shaped different, and the section on top has some odd angles. The fence lines go in directions that I wouldn't expect, and it even looks like there's a sponson or some raised area where the brazier is.

We'll see this saturday, but maybe this'll help illuminate some areas.

 Kanluwen wrote:
But I'm not the one claiming that there's a pintle mount on top of a turret with a hatch(all of which are clearly visible) that somehow magically leaves a sponson optic and brazier visible while hiding a weapon that would likely be extending from a turret that the pintle's on top of.

You know for a fact that the Predator has a main gun you can't see, and the presence of a pintle bolter on top doesn't affect that.

Yeah, now that I look at this image, the similarities to the Predator are pretty straightforward. You can see the target finder over the sponson, the exhaust pipe is where the brazier would be, and the turret is entirely within the shape of the silhouette so you wouldn't see it.

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
But I'm not the one claiming that there's a pintle mount on top of a turret with a hatch(all of which are clearly visible) that somehow magically leaves a sponson optic and brazier visible while hiding a weapon that would likely be extending from a turret that the pintle's on top of.

You know for a fact that the Predator has a main gun you can't see, and the presence of a pintle bolter on top doesn't affect that.

Yes, which is why I explicitly said "if I had not seen the original image".

While the presence of a pintle bolter on top would not affect the sponson optic or brazier...the angle would have to be extremely strange for none of the turret itself or the weapon attached to it to be visible in silhouette but the sponson optic to be, unless it was a huge optic.

Still think you guys are looking at the wrong angle..... but meh.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
But I'm not the one claiming that there's a pintle mount on top of a turret with a hatch(all of which are clearly visible) that somehow magically leaves a sponson optic and brazier visible while hiding a weapon that would likely be extending from a turret that the pintle's on top of.

You know for a fact that the Predator has a main gun you can't see, and the presence of a pintle bolter on top doesn't affect that.

Yes, which is why I explicitly said "if I had not seen the original image".

While the presence of a pintle bolter on top would not affect the sponson optic or brazier...the angle would have to be extremely strange for none of the turret itself or the weapon attached to it to be visible in silhouette but the sponson optic to be, unless it was a huge optic.

see this handy little photomanip:




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 TalonZahn wrote:
Still think you guys are looking at the wrong angle..... but meh.

Y'know what, yeah. Now that I've seen this, I don't think I can un-see it. Very sharp eye! Well done!

A bloody good point well made!

 TalonZahn wrote:
Still think you guys are looking at the wrong angle..... but meh.

That would be a reasonable interpretation if not for the obvious left to right tracks at the bottom of the pic.

I maintain it still doesn't feel right. We'd see the other hatch part at least!
The whole reason I'm thinking "Repressor reworked" is that it, conceptually, would be the tank most open for a rework into the new Sisters aesthetic. It had a pintle mount, a remote weapon system, and the raised 'viewing slots' that are in about the right place for where that railing is.

But hey, you guys do you. I'll just keep feeling like I'm taking crazy pills.

To me, the tell is the backpack and the open hatch.

If it's going the way everyone else is pointing out, they are crooked as nuts.

Going the direction I see it, they are straight and where they should be.


Damn GW and their optical illusion pics!

Looks like a Repressor to me. And since SoB have had Repressors before but not Predators....