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 Rinkydink wrote:
It will be interesting to see if any of the old Epic vehicles make it. Goliath Mega Cannon, Land Train, Colossus (All too big surely!?) Iron Eagle Gyro and Overlord etc.

Epics scale was wildly inconsistent anyway so scaling them down for the 40k table wouldn't be a problem. Heck GW could always say that the bigger Epic versions still exist but they are off camera like Titans used to be.
I'd love a reimagined Land Train as there big kit. Make the engine Repulsor sized. Then have separate towable carriages about the size of a Impulsor that can be built with different roles like infantry transport, artillery, anti tank ect. Maybe even have the carriages detachable in game to act as fortifications.

What I really want to see come back are the skateboards:

https://geeklifebalance.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/squat-rogue-trader.jpg?w=640

Hey! Who changed my thread title!

 ArcaneHorror wrote:
What I really want to see come back are the skateboards:

https://geeklifebalance.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/squat-rogue-trader.jpg?w=640

That’s a hoverboard, not a skateboard! RT had all sorts of cool stuff.

I love that the squat has my hair and beard style. That made me chuckle a bit.

Wait... is GW implying that calling them Squats is... not nice? Hmmm. Cool new name though. Not sure how I feel about them calling each other kin without a really 'eavy 'eavy acksent, tho aye? Tha nae be a wight willy waught fer me.

 ArcaneHorror wrote:
What I really want to see come back are the skateboards:

https://geeklifebalance.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/squat-rogue-trader.jpg?w=640

These are power-boards, or more commonly, hover boards.

 Wiz Warrior wrote:

 Rinkydink wrote:
To quote the article "Although their civilisation shares common roots with Humanity, the Leagues of Votann have an uneasy relationship with the Imperium of Man. Unlike their superstitious Human cousins, the Leagues emerged from the Age of Strife with far more of their ancient technology intact, including some infamous advances the Imperium would consider extremely heretical." Does this mean AI robots etc? I imagine that's the way these may differentiate from Guard etc.

Hopefully this means squats on hover boards... YEEEEHAWWWWW! (or to use the Rogue Trader nomenclature: "Power-boards")

Spoiler:

And while they were a wargear equipment option, there was never any model citadel made that had a power-board, sadly. If you see one, its because it was scratch built. But then again, what wasnt back in 1988?

I'm most excited to see what they come out with lore wise. It will be very cool to see something human-ish but outside the Imperium.

So, looking at the full picture, maybe some type of Volkite weapon.

Pick and hammer on the outlines, possibly a servo arm. No real surprises, but just what the doctor ordered.

So, on the Lore front; one of the things that always stuck out to me was their use of warp power. Specifically they had energy generators that directly tapped the warp via. a tiny rift in order to generate power.
I can’t help but wonder if GW will develop that tidbit further because it puts the short guys firmly in the same weight class as the Eldar and Necrons technologically speaking.

If they bring back the bikes and sidecar bikes I will laugh my tits off.

And a land train, and the infamous mole, the feth huge cannons, helicopters, massed ranks of thudd guns...
Oh be still my heart!

It would be great if GW ported the Terrax Termite over to plastic and gave it to the squats. Then it could pull double duty with horus heresy

 Dr. Mills wrote:
If they bring back the bikes and sidecar bikes I will laugh my tits off.

And a land train, and the infamous mole, the feth huge cannons, helicopters, massed ranks of thudd guns...
Oh be still my heart!

If they're going for a higher-tech/DAoT theme for them, then I think the Van Saar stuff might be along the same sort of lines as what they go for with them - so unfortunately I can't see them having wheeled/tracked vehicles but rather everything hovering instead...

Hmm yeah if this rumour engine is related

this might point towards antigrav tech or something similar?

Or it's just a cool base for a model?

It looks like whatever the model is, it is on crumbling rock.

I never thought I would see these guys again. Wish I would have kept some of the old models. And I thought I wasn’t starting any new armies again.

One day they'll remember the World Eaters exist. One day.

MobileSuitRandom wrote:Hmm yeah if this rumour engine is related

this might point towards antigrav tech or something similar?

Kanluwen wrote:Or it's just a cool base for a model?

It looks like whatever the model is, it is on crumbling rock.

Remember that they used to have psykers of their own so it could be someone doing the floaty-rock trick to get to the top shelf.

DeathKorp_Rider wrote:
I think this is a bad idea, if only because GW has enough lines they don’t bother updating. When did Emperor’s Children last get something? How often does guard get something?

Thing is if they update everything then there's no new releases. There's always going to be a pile of unupdated stuff for quite a long time.

DeathKorp_Rider wrote:
When did Emperor’s Children last get something? How often does guard get something?

A cool noise marine fairly recently and DKOK in plastic last year

 Inquisitor Kallus wrote:

DeathKorp_Rider wrote:
When did Emperor’s Children last get something? How often does guard get something?

A cool noise marine fairly recently and DKOK in plastic last year

Is 2018 fairly recently to you? Loyalist Space Marines have had 70 relases since then!

Looking forward to using these guys to build a 2nd Edition Squat army - good times!

What I’m thinking they will be like.
They will be what the Imperium would have been technologically without the fear of tech.
Focus on Electronic Warfare to control the battlefield and make it harder to be hit as they move across the board.

Since they're Scoh'ish - Kin will probably be pronounced Kyne

Is it just me or does the suit design feel very similar to the GSC suits?

 Wha-Mu-077 wrote:

 Inquisitor Kallus wrote:

DeathKorp_Rider wrote:
When did Emperor’s Children last get something? How often does guard get something?

A cool noise marine fairly recently and DKOK in plastic last year

Is 2018 fairly recently to you? Loyalist Space Marines have had 70 relases since then!

Yep along with the more recent Fabulous Bill

I saw GSC, but then again they are probably miners...?

I also saw the Terran Marines, just get a little plastic bubble faceplate.

I thought I saw Tau tech in the rifle and originally, I thought they might be the cause of the Tau advancing in technology so fast. (past Demiurg implications)

We do see picks in the silhouettes, and I thought, shoulder mounted weapons on at least 2 different ones.

 ClockworkZion wrote:
Is it just me or does the suit design feel very similar to the GSC suits?

Definitely. I also got a hint of fantasy dwarf warriors from the sleeves.

Oh and AT-43 Karmans in both armor style and colorings, though many wouldn't likely have the history for that.

I hope they move beyond generic looking sci-fi equipment and armor. Possibly the ones we see are bland because they are the low ranking? Maybe the higher ranking Characters will be more like the Kharadron Overlord with ornate stuff?

As for the old Epic stuff, they were a real mixed bag of things that didn't really fit together that well and were weighted more towards the superheavy end of things.

The Land Train for example, in Epic, was a tank-like front engine, pulling a series of battle cars. One was a transport car with like a battlecannon. One was a flame thrower so a bit like an inferno cannon. One was a one use rad bomb/missile. The problem with the Epic design was, you could completely immobilize the entire Train by destroying the front engine. Although it had IIRC a void shield or two, it still fell pretty easily to concentrated fire.

The Goliath Mega Battery was a massive fixed artillery piece. However its ranges would be overkill for a 40K battlefield, and it was vulnerable at close ranges or in close combat.

The Overlord Armored Gunship was basically an armored flying blimp. Stats were...ok but nothing to write home about.

There was the Squat Cyclops superheavy with its massive Hellfury cannon, however that is more suited to be anti-superheavy and anti-Titan.