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I do wish there'd been a scale shot in there, but that's my only quibble today.

 Dysartes wrote:
I do wish there'd been a scale shot in there, but that's my only quibble today.

I posted the best shot from the video but it got sniped:



They seem to be about the size of an Ogry/Ambot, and come in boxes of two like them, so it's probably around 40€/box of two.

Glad to see the Mondoshawans finally make an appearence.


But seriously, these would make a great alternative to Ogryn Bodyguards for IG players.

Makes me think of an ABC WArrior, but built from the same STC as Imperial Knights.

So cool.



I'm naming mine Ed CCIX

Yes, please! Wonder if we'll get 40k rules so the Arbites can use them too?

And no-one thought to put a blue-light bar atop the thing? how are we supposed to know when it is responding to an emergency (I guess in most cases, it will be the main cause of said emergency, but thats not the point!)

 Flinty wrote:
And no-one thought to put a blue-light bar atop the thing? how are we supposed to know when it is responding to an emergency (I guess in most cases, it will be the main cause of said emergency, but thats not the point!)

You could always paint the 'headlights' red and blue

 Flinty wrote:
And no-one thought to put a blue-light bar atop the thing? how are we supposed to know when it is responding to an emergency (I guess in most cases, it will be the main cause of said emergency, but thats not the point!)

I have plenty of those little light fixture things from the Sector Mechanicus bases, and they're going straight on top, one red, one blue!

Different colour scheme though, I think. GW's look a little too much like New York taxis.

Only if it bellows NEE NAW NEE NAW NEE NAW when fighting.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Only if it bellows NEE NAW NEE NAW NEE NAW when fighting.

A siren servo-skull hanging off its back as it barrels forward!

 Shakalooloo wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Only if it bellows NEE NAW NEE NAW NEE NAW when fighting.

A siren servo-skull hanging off its back as it barrels forward!

Just use that floaty speaker-aquila-thing from the Arbites Killteam and put the lamps where the speakers are

Tsagualsa wrote:

 Shakalooloo wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Only if it bellows NEE NAW NEE NAW NEE NAW when fighting.

A siren servo-skull hanging off its back as it barrels forward!

Just use that floaty speaker-aquila-thing from the Arbites Killteam and put the lamps where the speakers are

Along with two other servo skulls each with half a coconut clapping them together as it walks forward .

They remind me of the old RT era dreadnoughts, just need a face swap.

And they're never used in a military capacity by the Imperium for reasons.

Too fancy looking and big for necromunda?

 Lord Damocles wrote:
And they're never used in a military capacity by the Imperium for reasons.

Same as with the big ol' secret of the Van Saar. Just don't think too much about it.

For a split second when I saw the article thumbnail I thought it was something for Titanicus and got excited.

 Lord Damocles wrote:
And they're never used in a military capacity by the Imperium for reasons.

Well, they’re pretty much Mechanicum Thallax and those are supposedly still around…

 zedmeister wrote:

 Lord Damocles wrote:
And they're never used in a military capacity by the Imperium for reasons.

Well, they’re pretty much Mechanicum Thallax and those are supposedly still around…

Pretty much, just a little 'clumsier' in design, and far less horrifying in terms of how they're made, being more a brain transplant than full on nervous system.

 Lord Damocles wrote:
And they're never used in a military capacity by the Imperium for reasons.

Maybe too difficult to maintain outside of Necromunda?

Besides I'd imagine a Leman Russ or Sentinel is cheaper to build and use.

 Lord Damocles wrote:
And they're never used in a military capacity by the Imperium for reasons.

*ahem* https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Space-Marine-Dreadnought

 Jadenim wrote:

 Lord Damocles wrote:
And they're never used in a military capacity by the Imperium for reasons.

*ahem* https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Space-Marine-Dreadnought

Another good reason. The Imperium wants to make sure the Marines have the best of everything.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

 Jadenim wrote:

 Lord Damocles wrote:
And they're never used in a military capacity by the Imperium for reasons.

*ahem* https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Space-Marine-Dreadnought

Another good reason. The Imperium wants to make sure the Marines have the best of everything.

Guaranteed there will be a planet or two out there where the pdf Is made up entirely of these things, so go forth and make your crazy robot guard army in the sound knowledge that it is entirely canon. It just doesn’t follow the usual guard formations.

I saw someone kit up an Ambot as an Inquisition unit- nice looking with Ordo Iconography. He used Ambull rules, because I don't think there are 40k Ambot rules... But it worked.

These could be made to work too.

I expect these aren’t deployed widely is the same reason they aren’t deployed widely on Necromunda; being brains-in-jars they need specialist support (someone has to deal with the baby food jars) which means they are expensive and tedious to run in open combat. Which means there’s definitely one regiment out there that does use them. Just give them slab shields and call them bullgryn.

All this discussion but nothing about the price?

 privateer4hire wrote:
All this discussion but nothing about the price?

We don't have a price yet, it literally just got revealed today. We won't have prices until the week it goes up for preorder.

 privateer4hire wrote:
All this discussion but nothing about the price?

1) We don't know.
2) GW.
3) It will not be cheap.
4) What's your point?

 privateer4hire wrote:
All this discussion but nothing about the price?

I believe they are slightly smaller than the Ambots, so expect them to be 30%-40% more expensive.