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Dammit. I am going to be so broke. I need all the tech priests and Myrmidon in plastic. An Abeyant!! Oh man...

Give this man a corpse starch pie!

I’m really surprised they’re teasing Mechanicum so soon when all the Solar Auxilia they’ve announced isn’t even out yet. I also know I’m gonna end up buying the inevitable battle group box.

Given I may be finished painting my Dark Angels by the end of the month? Depending on just what crosses the Rubicon Plasticarus, I could be persuaded into a Mechanicum force.

Thallaxi and Tech Thralls are a must in those considerations.

Luckily like the Solar Auxilia box I picked up it’s quite easy to justify these as an ‘allied force’!

 MajorWesJanson wrote:
I'd much rather some more marines to fill more gaps, or the handful of kits solar aux need to finish off before starting another faction from scratch.

If I want to think crazy though, Mars Warhound in plastic!

Kind of agree, plastic mechanicum might be enough to get me in properly, but I never went with a marine force explicitly because of those gaps they seemingly gave up on.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I did!

Me, early on in the Adepticon thread wrote: Given Heresy is just a teaser?

I’m hoping it’s a teaser for the Mechanicum. Seem early given we’ve barely, just about, sort of got Solar Auxilia. But I’d still love for Mechanicum to get some plastic love.

Have an exault!

Mechanicum with all their weirdo staff in plastic? Hell yeah!

Calm down, I'm sure the rollout will be slow and we will only get the barebones to start with. Having said that... BRING ON THE AUTOMATA! I have been waiting for this ever since those first rumours of plastic Thallax materialized. My marines need their automata

(and a plastic Land Speeder Proteus please please)

PS: This probably means that Mechanicum for LI is not far behind..

From Valrak rumours it seems like the Mechanicum Knight variants are coming, I really hope this teaser amounts to more than just them (in the short term anyway, plastic Mechanicum are probably a given on a long enough timeline).

 ImAGeek wrote:
From Valrak rumours it seems like the Mechanicum Knight variants are coming, I really hope this teaser amounts to more than just them (in the short term anyway, plastic Mechanicum are probably a given on a long enough timeline).

This was his rumour from last month:

questoris mechanicum chassis moving to plastic - dual system
knight upgrade kits moving to plastic
mechanicum is on the way
the conveyor transport is one of the first kits

Guessing the Mechanicum knights will be a summer release for HH again, with the general Mechanicum units following later in the year.

Oh yeah, I’d forgotten about that. Actually, I think I didn’t believe it at the time, because of how close it is to the Solar Auxilia release haha. That’s good though.

 xttz wrote:


Guessing the Mechanicum knights will be a summer release for HH again, with the general Mechanicum units following later in the year.

Thats probably how it will go. Knights first then full Mechanicum, maybe even LI Mechanicum in between as it also got SA shortly before HH got them and we have a rules reference that kinda teases them

 Matrindur wrote:

Thats probably how it will go. Knights first then full Mechanicum, maybe even LI Mechanicum in between as it also got SA shortly before HH got them and we have a rules reference that kinda teases them

With both Beta-Garmon expansions released so close together I wonder if that's the plan going forwards.

We know that there's still some new non-Mechanicum units to squeeze in for both systems before that (marine command squads from last year's HH roadmap, and a second LI expansion with the SA super-heavies). Full size knights would need to be released separately from the full size infantry, but at epic scale both could release much closer together. This should neatly take us through the AOS launch period and summer, before a Mechanicum-themed content like a campaign over a forgeworld coordinated at both scales in Autumn/Winter.

Now the inevitable question.

Has anyone been at least vaguely keeping track of how long we usually wait from teaser to pre-order?

I’d hope no more than 6 months. But that feels excessive as we’d be knocking on October’s door by then.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Now the inevitable question.

Has anyone been at least vaguely keeping track of how long we usually wait from teaser to pre-order?

I’d hope no more than 6 months. But that feels excessive as we’d be knocking on October’s door by then.

From memory I think we had a (2022) Votann teaser on April 1st, a single model shown the following day, then not much until around a month later when real previews began. Actual model relase was around September/October time.

Then last year there was a teaser for LI at the end of April, confirmation on July 1st, with the release originally planned for August.

If this teaser leads into both Mechanicum knights and troops/tanks, then I think those releases will be spread across most of the rest of the year starting in summer.

 tauist wrote:
Calm down, I'm sure the rollout will be slow and we will only get the barebones to start with. Having said that... BRING ON THE AUTOMATA! I have been waiting for this ever since those first rumours of plastic Thallax materialized. My marines need their automata

Have they retconned Thalaxii into automata? The original lore was that they are heavily augmented humans, more like Skitarii or even a kind of specialised combat servitor.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Now the inevitable question.

Has anyone been at least vaguely keeping track of how long we usually wait from teaser to pre-order?

I’d hope no more than 6 months. But that feels excessive as we’d be knocking on October’s door by then.

The first actual teaser we got for SA was the new years silhouette video so 3 months until release but since we saw the silhouette of an actual model with that, thats a bit further along then this teaser.
Arguably the real first teaser we got for SA was the "mystery army" on the roadmap which was 11 months ago at Warhammer Fest 2023. But then again that didn't even say its SA while now we already know its something Mechanicum.
So I would guess something in between, around 6 months probably.

 Haighus wrote:
Have they retconned Thalaxii into automata? The original lore was that they are heavily augmented humans, more like Skitarii or even a kind of specialised combat servitor.

No, your explanation is still correct. They look like robots, though, so I suspect most people assume they are automata even if they aren't.

Awesome mini https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/03/21/heresy-thursday-seek-atonement-with-the-loyalist-turned-traitor-turned-loyalist-hibou-khan/

In the wake of the lack-lustre Mechanicum "teaser", here's a White Scars character.

Hibou Khan

Pic 2

He’s awesome.

Helmeted head is my favourite.

 Shadow Walker wrote:
Helmeted head is my favourite.

The helmets excellent. I might just use him as a White Scar praetor.

Yooooooooooooooooooooo, did not expect him to turn out this good. Damn they did my boy Hibou justice.

 Scottywan82 wrote:

 Haighus wrote:
Have they retconned Thalaxii into automata? The original lore was that they are heavily augmented humans, more like Skitarii or even a kind of specialised combat servitor.

No, your explanation is still correct. They look like robots, though, so I suspect most people assume they are automata even if they aren't.

One of the big heresy books specifically cited them as effective against Daemons. Where an Automata can be confused by their readings (Daemons are only sort of real), and a mortal mind overwhelmed with fear, Thallaxi could rationalise their existence without the downside of that rationalisation.

Other than the slightly overly thick sword handle (at least look like he could hold it one handed!) that looks great.

 ImAGeek wrote:

 Shadow Walker wrote:
Helmeted head is my favourite.

The helmets excellent. I might just use him as a White Scar praetor.

Yeah, he would be great for that.

So, the last nail in the Mk2 coffin. Rather than the unique and cool overlapping plates, it's regular power armour with 2" gaps carved into it.