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 Gert wrote:
Plastic Mechanicum or Solar Aux aren't going to happen anytime soon, if at all.

I think that they might be with us sooner than you might expect.

 JamesY wrote:
I think that they might be with us sooner than you might expect.

On a technicality there are already plastic kits for certain Mechanicum units but mainline support for the army would be a real surprise.
Solar Auxilia are widely believed to be the pet project of a FW employee and the army has received one model since their initial release way back in 2014.

It would also be nice if some of the plastic custodes and mechanics kits were integrated into HH Era armies.

 Gert wrote:

 JamesY wrote:
I think that they might be with us sooner than you might expect.

On a technicality there are already plastic kits for certain Mechanicum units but mainline support for the army would be a real surprise.
Solar Auxilia are widely believed to be the pet project of a FW employee and the army has received one model since their initial release way back in 2014.

The whole HH game was a pet project of one employee at one point, so I wouldn't take that argument as a limitation for what is ahead. There is a huge amount of HH still to come.

I do think that gw slowing down the releases for HH whilst they promote 10th ed 40k is being confused with the game being wound down. It really isn't, and that won't just be sustained on marines.

 JamesY wrote:
The whole HH game was a pet project of one employee at one point, so I wouldn't take that argument as a limitation for what is ahead. There is a huge amount of HH still to come.

That's not really the same thing when FW already had a large catalogue of HH-era miniatures and the setting was widely used in fan rulesets long before Bligh created the FW version. That "pet project" also came after Bligh already did the Badab War, which was also a "pet project" and had substantial support from the wider FW studio.
Solar Auxilia, unlike Mechanicum, Ruinstorm Daemons, or even Sisters of Silence, received one splash release with Conquest and then got the Carnodon four years later, and even then that was also included in Militia armies. No other faction has had the same lack of releases (excluding Militia but they were never intended to have any dedicated models in the first place).

I do think that gw slowing down the releases for HH whilst they promote 10th ed 40k is being confused with the game being wound down. It really isn't, and that won't just be sustained on marines.

That much is true. I do expect Mechanicum at some point but not before we get at least halfway through the second year of the new game system.

I still think Custodes, since GW can then double dip them for the 40K book and get a codex release out of it.

The only 40k units that aren't in HH are the jet bikes, Allarus, the Contemptor, and Land Raider.
The jet bikes are pretty easy proxies for the already existing unit while the Contemptor and Land Raider aren't needed.
The Allarus are the only outlier since every other unit can be used as something in the Custodes army list.

 Gert wrote:

Solar Auxilia, unlike Mechanicum, Ruinstorm Daemons, or even Sisters of Silence, received one splash release with Conquest and then got the Carnodon four years later, and even then that was also included in Militia armies. No other faction has had the same lack of releases (excluding Militia but they were never intended to have any dedicated models in the first place).

I bet you £1 that within 18 months we have either plastic SA or Mechanicum...

 JamesY wrote:


I bet you £1 that within 18 months we have either plastic SA or Mechanicum...

One whole english pound!

SamusDrake wrote:

 JamesY wrote:


I bet you £1 that within 18 months we have either plastic SA or Mechanicum...

One whole english pound!

Yeah, really shows the confidence they have in their odds.

 JamesY wrote:

 Gert wrote:

Solar Auxilia, unlike Mechanicum, Ruinstorm Daemons, or even Sisters of Silence, received one splash release with Conquest and then got the Carnodon four years later, and even then that was also included in Militia armies. No other faction has had the same lack of releases (excluding Militia but they were never intended to have any dedicated models in the first place).

I bet you £1 that within 18 months we have either plastic SA or Mechanicum...

Of the two, I think you're more likely to see Mechanicum than SA.

What do people think today's Heresy Thursday article will be previewing?

Nothing because WarCom said Heresy Thursdays were on hiatus til the end of the year.

 Platuan4th wrote:

SamusDrake wrote:

 JamesY wrote:


I bet you £1 that within 18 months we have either plastic SA or Mechanicum...

One whole english pound!

Yeah, really shows the confidence they have in their odds.

Because suggesting a bet of higher with a stranger on the internet would be taken anymore seriously?

 Gert wrote:
Nothing because WarCom said Heresy Thursdays were on hiatus til the end of the year.

Not so.

Librarian reveal article wrote: Alas, this is the last we’ll see from Heresy Thursday for a short while, as Legions both Traitor and Loyalist take time to rest and replenish their forces. There’ll still be some major reveals to see at Warhammer Fest in just two weeks’ time, and Heresy Thursday will return to its regular slot later this year with more reveals for Warhammer: The Horus Heresy.

Just said later this year. So we’ve 8 months to pick from.

OK, I'd completely missed that.

"End of" is close enough to "Later". Point being there is no Heresy Thursday.

Finally, its time for Titanicus Thursdays!

Too long have us AT players played second fiddle to this second rate, glorified tank game!

SOUND THE WARHORNS!!!!

 JamesY wrote:

 Gert wrote:

Solar Auxilia, unlike Mechanicum, Ruinstorm Daemons, or even Sisters of Silence, received one splash release with Conquest and then got the Carnodon four years later, and even then that was also included in Militia armies. No other faction has had the same lack of releases (excluding Militia but they were never intended to have any dedicated models in the first place).

I bet you £1 that within 18 months we have either plastic SA or Mechanicum...

Maybe I'm reading too much into your post, but I'm getting the feeling that you have some inside info here...but maybe that's just me hoping, plastic SA would be ace

In 18 months both 40k and AoS will have their new editions. At that point, it wouldn't be a shock if plastic Mechanicum came out.

It will be a massive shock to me if HH continues to get any plastic support after TOW releases start.

 Gert wrote:
In 18 months both 40k and AoS will have their new editions. At that point, it wouldn't be a shock if plastic Mechanicum came out.

Wasn’t there a rumour (possibly via Valrak) about some of the FW knights moving to plastic?

 lord_blackfang wrote:
It will be a massive shock to me if HH continues to get any plastic support after TOW releases start.

They could barely keep products in stock for most of last year. Abandoning plastic support for HH makes no sense at all.

Voss wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
It will be a massive shock to me if HH continues to get any plastic support after TOW releases start.

They could barely keep products in stock for most of last year. Abandoning plastic support for HH makes no sense at all.

Yea pretty fair to say they couldn't keep up with demand for the games already out and now they're adding another. Not that it was so much a demand issue as a breakdown in supply. There were like 2 boxes of jetbikes allocated per country in the EU. Something has to give and it's not like they'll pull 40k or AoS. We've barely seen any other specialist game plastics since HH came out so production is obviously stretched thin.

 MonkeyBallistic wrote:

 Gert wrote:
In 18 months both 40k and AoS will have their new editions. At that point, it wouldn't be a shock if plastic Mechanicum came out.

Wasn’t there a rumour (possibly via Valrak) about some of the FW knights moving to plastic?

Yes, he did mention something about them going plastic.

Without going into a long essay of a post, I've previously speculated that a plastic Cerastus kit would be a stunning addition to the 10th edition Imperial Knights codex.

There would be no real reason to stop plastic HH Sales since they'd also splash over or supplement 40K sales. Lots of the recent tanks would likely be picked up by 40k players, the sicarians come to mind. Possibly that's why we've seen so many tanks rather than the more important infantry. Helps GW cover a period of scifi release schedule that may otherwise be slow.

But yes there will likely be a few weeks we don't get much while multiple slots are filled with 10th edition releases. On the other hand, 30k tanks came out besides 40k lion.

 JamesY wrote:

 Gert wrote:

Solar Auxilia, unlike Mechanicum, Ruinstorm Daemons, or even Sisters of Silence, received one splash release with Conquest and then got the Carnodon four years later, and even then that was also included in Militia armies. No other faction has had the same lack of releases (excluding Militia but they were never intended to have any dedicated models in the first place).

I bet you £1 that within 18 months we have either plastic SA or Mechanicum...

One whole pound, wow. With the exchange rate to Aussie dollars I'd be able to buy the entire HH range

 Rolsheen wrote:

 JamesY wrote:

 Gert wrote:

Solar Auxilia, unlike Mechanicum, Ruinstorm Daemons, or even Sisters of Silence, received one splash release with Conquest and then got the Carnodon four years later, and even then that was also included in Militia armies. No other faction has had the same lack of releases (excluding Militia but they were never intended to have any dedicated models in the first place).

I bet you £1 that within 18 months we have either plastic SA or Mechanicum...

One whole pound, wow. With the exchange rate to Aussie dollars I'd be able to buy the entire HH range

Ouch! Right in the governmental socioeconomic incompetence!

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

 Rolsheen wrote:

 JamesY wrote:

 Gert wrote:

Solar Auxilia, unlike Mechanicum, Ruinstorm Daemons, or even Sisters of Silence, received one splash release with Conquest and then got the Carnodon four years later, and even then that was also included in Militia armies. No other faction has had the same lack of releases (excluding Militia but they were never intended to have any dedicated models in the first place).

I bet you £1 that within 18 months we have either plastic SA or Mechanicum...

One whole pound, wow. With the exchange rate to Aussie dollars I'd be able to buy the entire HH range

Ouch! Right in the governmental socioeconomic incompetence!

The Ineptus Administratum?

One thing that would be nice to see in resin for Heresy would be more of the titan weapons in 28mm scale, maybe even the psy titan upgrade. Not even asking for a dire wolf or the new conversion/volkite/gravity guns, but just official warhound harpoons and more reaver and warlord carapace mounts.

Adeptus Etonius.

It’s like the Schola Progenium, but solely churns out chinless idiots rather than anyone actually useful.

Chinless idiots is the best insult ever!

And a not so subtle jab at Eton collage?