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The sisters predator atleast will save me money just using a normal predator and put a few candles on it. It looks so out of place with how little bling is on the top compared to the other tanks.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
The last preview was quite a bit better than this.

As someone who adores the Reds, I am bitterly disappointed to find out that they managed to design 3 miniatures with two weapon sets per miniature... and that's it. And them, to top that off, the great new Sisters unit is just a slightly different Predator.

Blastaar wrote:
I gotta say- I hate "SoUlblIght graVelOrds." One of the worst instances of unnecessary faction renaming.

Now with "Deadwalker Zombies". Is there a prize for redundancy in naming schemes?

I think it's a little demanding to expect a reveal the size and standard of the last one every time.

So the Predator hull/turret can accommodate a battle cannon or twin autocannon.

...so Marines just decided to stick with the single autocannon on the Destructor for thousands of years just for lulz?

Overall fantastic preview!

Vampires are everything I hoped for and more and look like they are going to complete the line update for AoS Grand Alliance DEATH pretty much entirely. A huge thing for Death and they appear to be on the horizon far sooner than I'd hoped

New Leader for Ad Mech looks cool though I think the new front page art overshadows him and might well hint at something else new on the horizon as front page art on codex are normally models in some form

Squig Cavalry and Squigs for Orks looks pure Orky fun and its really nice to see something old brought into a new light and new design for the game.

Underworld wardband looks fantastic and a new cheaper starter set is great, even if Necronmunda already has enough rules. Must say I'm tempted by it for the Escher pack and some more board content in the box.

New Sisters of Battle Battle Tank looks great and yeah its a Predator and yes that's the same rhino chassy and that's fully in keeping with their overall approach ot pinching marine tank bodies and using them. Great tank and I'm eager to see what else they've got in the works for the Sisters.

New Ossiarchs look fantastic. The mace unit is interesting as perhaps its just a fancy weapon or perhaps Ossiarch might get even more troop types; archer is great to see and I hope translates into a ranged unit for them. Perhaps not as fancy as some of the other warbands out there, but a very solid warband of infantry surrounding a great looking hero model



Overall great preview - there's a lot to love in this update and its great to see AoS really taking 2021 with a storm of updates and new additions to it. So far we've 2 half army updates (Slaanesh and Lumineth) adding big chunks to existing armies; some nice additions to Daughters of Khaine and then a massive new model line for the Vampires. Great great stuff!

Lots of Beast Snaggas on the horizon.
Some big center piece model
a warboss
a squiggy mekboy?
Lots of squig hogs.

But it looks like a normal ork warboss is coming too. Love the little grot turret on top

That Skitarii Marshal is a killer model. His face/helmet is so menacing. Love it.

 Lord Damocles wrote:
So the Predator hull/turret can accommodate a battle cannon or twin autocannon.

...so Marines just decided to stick with the single autocannon on the Destructor for thousands of years just for lulz?

You are aware that guardsmen have been shot for adding better scopes to their standard issue guns right? ANYTHING not in the STL or ordained by the Machine God is grounds to be shot. That's why they are using WW1 style tank designs as their main battletank. The Marines are no different - its a universe half mad

That warboss in the art could turn out pretty cool, with the squig in the gunner's nest on his shoulder.

Actually those Beastsnaggas would probably work just as well in AoS with a little customizing...

 GaroRobe wrote:
Lots of Beast Snaggas on the horizon.
Some big center piece model
a warboss
a squiggy mekboy?
Lots of squig hogs.

But it looks like a normal ork warboss is coming too. Love the little grot turret on top

And new Boyz, with shoulder mounted Heavy Weapons. Looks to be Big Shoota and a Megakannon at least.

Holy Gak!!!! More squigs in orks!!!!! I have been asking for this for years!!!! I am so excited!!!

Did anyone else notice the different warbosses in the animation? There were two, and each had a shoulder mounted grot/squig with what looks like a big shoota. I wonder if this is a little sneak peek at what the new warboss kit will look like.

Either way, my deathskulls are about to get a gakload of squigs(if not a complete shift to a full squig army)

 Lord Damocles wrote:
So the Predator hull/turret can accommodate a battle cannon or twin autocannon.

...so Marines just decided to stick with the single autocannon on the Destructor for thousands of years just for lulz?

To be fair, space marines are spec ops, not an actual army, no matter how much some aspects of GW are insistent on forgetting that. It’s in line with their nature to have poor tanks as most of their armoured support should be coming from other branches of the imperium.

 Lord Damocles wrote:
So the Predator hull/turret can accommodate a battle cannon or twin autocannon.

...so Marines just decided to stick with the single autocannon on the Destructor for thousands of years just for lulz?

Predator is less a battle tank, more infantry support. Originally meant to be a fast moving fire base.

Really interesting that some of the first born marine units are basically being pivoted over to the sisters in a slight variation.

Jump pack assault units, centurion esq battle suits and now basically a predator tank... Wonder if they'll get a land raider of sorts at some point.

Sisters tank is a huge miss for me. Doesn't hold a candle to the other 2 tanks.

What a great preview, literally everything was perfect

 endlesswaltz123 wrote:
Really interesting that some of the first born marine units are basically being pivoted over to the sisters in a slight variation.

Jump pack assault units, centurion esq battle suits and now basically a predator tank... Wonder if they'll get a land raider of sorts at some point.

Didn`t they already have a Land Raider option way back when they were the Witch Hunters?

There's more sisters stuff to come too...

 Overread wrote:

 Lord Damocles wrote:
So the Predator hull/turret can accommodate a battle cannon or twin autocannon.

...so Marines just decided to stick with the single autocannon on the Destructor for thousands of years just for lulz?

You are aware that guardsmen have been shot for adding better scopes to their standard issue guns right? ANYTHING not in the STL or ordained by the Machine God is grounds to be shot. That's why they are using WW1 style tank designs as their main battletank. The Marines are no different - its a universe half mad

a) Marines have modified existing weapon loadouts on vehicles - eg the Crusader
b) If the Castigator exists, why aren't the Astartes using it instead of/alongside the Predator? If the explanation is just a copy of the Immolator reasoning again, that's massively lame.
c) GW just bolting even moar gunz onto platforms is less than stellar design - the Castigator shown has six different weapons! It's like the Repulsor again.

(Also, it kind of looks like the turret weapon will catch on the braziers as it rotates...)

 Esmer wrote:

 endlesswaltz123 wrote:
Really interesting that some of the first born marine units are basically being pivoted over to the sisters in a slight variation.

Jump pack assault units, centurion esq battle suits and now basically a predator tank... Wonder if they'll get a land raider of sorts at some point.

Didn`t they already have a Land Raider option way back when they were the Witch Hunters?

Oh I don't know, wasn't that an inquisitorial land raider though and not technically sisters if they did have one, even though I'm sure sisters could use it when playing a game?

Umbros wrote:
There's more sisters stuff to come too...

And now you have reminded me about that horrible new walker ...

In case these haven't been shared, I didn't notice them here.



Hive War



Castigator Tank

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/03/20/warhammer-preview-online-faith-damnation/

 Lord Damocles wrote:
c) GW just bolting even moar gunz onto platforms is less than stellar design - the Castigator shown has six different weapons! It's like the Repulsor again.

3 heavy bolters, pintle storm bolter, and whatever the main gun is?

Not so much a Repulsive - after all, at least this as tracks - as the bastard offspring of a Predator and a Leman Russ.

Well now it's confirmed that the units we get in Cursed City are indeed taster packs for the units coming with the Soulblight Gravelords. Wonder if the CC specific sprues will end up in little easy-build packs like the Nighthaunts had.

'ERE WE GO, 'ERE WE GO, 'ERE WE GO...

 Dysartes wrote:

 Lord Damocles wrote:
c) GW just bolting even moar gunz onto platforms is less than stellar design - the Castigator shown has six different weapons! It's like the Repulsor again.

3 heavy bolters, pintle storm bolter, and whatever the main gun is?

It also has a hunter killer missile in the trailer video

It's a predator with an extra heavy bolter. Hardly anything to be gun-phobic about.

 Lord Damocles wrote:
So the Predator hull/turret can accommodate a battle cannon or twin autocannon.

That's probably 'light' battlecannon, like on Tempestus totallynotIraqMRAP. Ditto with autocannon, Predator has 'heavy' one, this might be twin regular ones. I wouldn't bet Sister variant is stronger yet.

 Lord Damocles wrote:
a) Marines have modified existing weapon loadouts on vehicles - eg the Crusader

And yet somehow putting twin asscannon in turret is too hard for anyone not BA. Go figure.

b) If the Castigator exists, why aren't the Astartes using it instead of/alongside the Predator?

Why you're complaining about this but not the fact Sisters had for decades better Whirlwind than the gak model SM use?

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

 Lord Damocles wrote:
So the Predator hull/turret can accommodate a battle cannon or twin autocannon.

...so Marines just decided to stick with the single autocannon on the Destructor for thousands of years just for lulz?

Predator is less a battle tank, more infantry support. Originally meant to be a fast moving fire base.

Well has it ever actually moved any faster than most tanks?

That was a pretty cool preview imo. I was banking on Vamps getting their update soon to drag someone into AoS and GW didn't disappoint. Considering its Vampire Counts but new it should be pretty good for army choice out of the gate and as worried as I am about the new Skeles being way too expensive, I am digging the design.