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There’s an Instagram post from 40K right now, showing Chaos Knights (the focus) attacking Cadians.

And we again see that Mystery Sponson creeping in. But also…the existing Sentinel kit.

If I knew how to yoink photos from Instagram I would. But…interesting to see that new tank and the old Sentinel, given recent posts.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
There’s an Instagram post from 40K right now, showing Chaos Knights (the focus) attacking Cadians.

And we again see that Mystery Sponson creeping in. But also…the existing Sentinel kit.

If I knew how to yoink photos from Instagram I would. But…interesting to see that new tank and the old Sentinel, given recent posts.

This Image:
I believe it is just an existing Leman Russ sponson, the one from the leaked image with Angron was more rounded, I think.

That’s the one.

Doesn’t seem high enough to be a Leman Russ?

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
That’s the one.

Doesn’t seem high enough to be a Leman Russ?

Seems high enough for me.

Also, it seems to literally be this very Leman Russ, judging by the paintjob

Fair enough

Doesn't the tank on the Knights pic have dual cannons? You can see another green thingy next to the green muzzle. The barrel is also noticeably thinner than the Leman Russ battle cannon and there are only two muzzle holes (the LR battle cannon has three).

 AtoMaki wrote:
Doesn't the tank on the Knights pic have dual cannons? You can see another green thingy next to the green muzzle. The barrel is also noticeably thinner than the Leman Russ battle cannon and there are only two muzzle holes (the LR battle cannon has three).

That's just a different option for the Leman Russ

 AtoMaki wrote:
Doesn't the tank on the Knights pic have dual cannons? You can see another green thingy next to the green muzzle. The barrel is also noticeably thinner than the Leman Russ battle cannon and there are only two muzzle holes (the LR battle cannon has three).

If those aren't standard LRBT gun barrels they're from a tank next to the visible one. If you look at the knight pic and compare it to the full LRBT picture you can clearly see that it's the exact same model. Look at how the lines on the paint scheme match and it's exactly the same. The lines between colors pass next to the same rivets, the number 17 is aligned exactly the same relative to the line between colors, etc.

It’s the exact same tank model posted above with the twin Autocannon turret weapon swapped in instead.

Yeah, I think you guys are reading into this shot too much, you'll probably have to wait until more gets leaked for the picture of the Rogal Dorn, or whatever it's supposed to be called now.

Also, to note, the Cadians used are still the old Cadians and not the ones that we know of that are supposed to be the potential new ones. Interesting.

 Wha-Mu-077 wrote:

That's just a different option for the Leman Russ

Ah, yes, I forgot about the Exterminator .

You'd be forgiven for forgetting about the exterminator. It's a completely pointless option for the LMR.

In all my life playing 40k I have not seen a single Exterminator, GW doesn't even have a photo on it on their website.

It was nice for Space Wolves in 3rd or 4th ed as it offered something unique for being an actual heavy tank in a Marine army, giving it some appeal over Predators

If I recall it was also the cheapest Russ option for Guard and provided a solid option for anti-medium infantry fire power and therefore had a niche.

But of course the game has moved on since then. Dual autocannons aren't what they used to be and (oftentimes better) options have exploded across the board.

 Wha-Mu-077 wrote:
In all my life playing 40k I have not seen a single Exterminator, GW doesn't even have a photo on it on their website.

There were quite a few knocking around in 3rd edition. I think they were mainly SW ones though, they were cool.

We had a IG player with one in 3rd/4th Edition because of all the guns on it. The Ork player in the group hated it

The kit was also the only non-mail order way to get the hull Heavy Bolter without converting in 3rd.

I have 3 Exterminators. They're fun. It doesn't make sense that they cost more than regular Leman Russes though.

 Platuan4th wrote:
The kit was also the only non-mail order way to get the hull Heavy Bolter without converting in 3rd.

Yep, bitz ordered a good number of those back in the day.

The Exterminator was actually quite good in 4th to reliably crack open light transports (and then blast it's passengers to pieces). But yes, ever since we have no more templates, it would need to be Heavy 4 twinlinked to be remotely as good as the good old Battle Cannon in that regard. It's pointless to discuss the points costs though, the people at GW think that the Vanquisher Cannon is better than the Battle Cannon and personally for me infuriatingly, think that the meagre 2 Lascannon shots of the Annihilator pattern are worth 25 additional points. I'm curious how they will fix this in the next codex. My money is on: They won't, so you need to buy the Pretorian if you want to have a functioning tank.

Not to derail this into discussion about previous uses of one specific LR variant, but I recall it also being suggested as a fill-in Hydra post 5e - not as good as dedicated AAA, perhaps, but more durable and less of a burden if your opponent didn't bring any flyers.

Not to get off track.....But back in the day, weren't there 2 LR kits, the regular and the Demolisher? You had to bitz order the Exterminator parts right?

Exterminator was sold in boxes.

 waefre_1 wrote:
Not to derail this into discussion about previous uses of one specific LR variant, but I recall it also being suggested as a fill-in Hydra post 5e - not as good as dedicated AAA, perhaps, but more durable and less of a burden if your opponent didn't bring any flyers.

I always forget the exact variant names but yeah, the autocannon was something like 4 attacks, twin linked, so you could roll up to 8 dice fishing for 6's. It was more in the era of hull points though, as s7 was strong enough to simply strip hull points off of fliers. Not ideal, but the Hyrda was fishing for 6's on anything on the ground if memory serves, which in general is more things than fly.

Its kind of funny that it actually lost firepower in the swap to 8th. It lost twin linked but maintained 4 shots, so it now depends on Grinding Advance to keep up with its old firepower.

General Hobbs wrote:


Not to get off track.....But back in the day, weren't there 2 LR kits, the regular and the Demolisher? You had to bitz order the Exterminator parts right?

No.

Oh! That's where that tank commander is from!

Thanks Platuan4th!

I was always cionfused by that kit back in the day.

To me, those barrels always shouted "LASCANNON" mainly due to their similarity to the infantry squad lascannon rather than the autocannon.

 alphaecho wrote:


I was always cionfused by that kit back in the day.

To me, those barrels always shouted "LASCANNON" mainly due to their similarity to the infantry squad lascannon rather than the autocannon.

I started just after this kit disappeared, so haven't seen it much. My first thought was it looks like an Annihilator! I doubt many people would notice if you ran this as an Annihilator instead these days.

Holy massive photo, Batman

Call me sentimental, but I love the old LR design. Especially the Demolisher with the metal barrel..