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twoseventwo wrote:
GW produce so few utter clangers these days that I'm slightly surprised when they do. This Corteaz might even have been a widely mocked model circa 2000. I know little about the process but I have assumed the cost of "ehh, that didn't work, let's start over" is pretty low with contemporary CAD. What went wrong?

Wrong thread? Wrong thread. 40K is *gestures vaguely* over there somewhere.

If the Mechanicum battlegroup does end up being 160€, I'm going to get one, worth it for the Automata alone and I can make the big vehicle into a cool terrain piece

Not sure what to do with those thralls however.. I am only interested in adding Automata for my IXth, will not be collecting Mechanicum otherwise

Actual prices for this week:

 Matrindur wrote:
According to Auspex Tactics the Mechanicum Battlegroup will be $210 / £125 / 160€ which is surprisingly cheap as its less than the SA Battlegroup and that one was before the price increase.

The Knight Battelgroup is $310 which would be around £190 / 245€ so about 26% discount or one of the two knights at half price

Seems like the Auspex prices weren't 100% correct but £130 for the Mechanicum Battlegroup is more in line what I would have expected. Still £5 cheaper would have been nice.

 Snrub wrote:

 Platuan4th wrote:
Tercios can have a Command, it's not required. They're 0-1. The only requirement is at least 1 Lasrifle section.

Ah so it is. I stand corrected.
Still, I maintain that's why they put it in there, to help form a core block of troops.

Maybe, but as you only get one rifle section in the box there would be no point in fielding it as a Tercio command. Yes, you can field the rifle section as two smaller units, but as there's only one transport in the box (and it has a base capacity of 20+ models, and the upgrade which reduces it to 10 models isnt worth taking) there's no reason to field smaller squads. I would guess most who bought the box prolly used it as an hq - if they bought multiple boxes they definitely used at least one of them as an hq.

Unit composition aside, £190 is very nice for two Cerastus Knights.

I've already found someone to split the Knight box with, getting the flamer one even though the rules are terrible as I already have the megabolter one.

Could have been an even better box with 2 bodies and 1 of each loadout, in that case I'd have kept the whole box and built a lancer.

Final Heraldry of Honour for Legiones Auxilia.


Therion Velites ended up being a fairly nice color palette.

Ah yes Black Templar cloth and Black Legion armour, truly the connoisseur's scheme

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Ah yes Black Templar cloth and Black Legion armour, truly the connoisseur's scheme

EXCUSE YOU! It's Abaddon Black with Stormvermin Fur!

Sheesh! But real talk, it's the silver and brass coupled with the black & gray-brown that works for me. And the note about officers' uniforms being more ornate.

I've enjoyed these color plates. It's interesting that they had to take the time to make them, one would have assumed they already had these mapped out!

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/07/31/making-the-most-of-the-mechanicum-tactical-tips-from-a-developer/

New Plastic Mechanicum From Across the Warhammer Studio – Part One

Do we think the Knight box is going to be a limited item, or a standard item?

Assume splash release.

beast_gts wrote:
New Plastic Mechanicum From Across the Warhammer Studio – Part One

Spoiler:

I love how so many pictures have a disgruntled-look space marine pointing at his watch, like he's berating his robots for being so slow.

"Just look at the time, T3R4NC3! LOOK AT THE TIME! We're going to be late, again. Yes, I said again. We didn't even make it to the battle last time because of you. I should have gone into the Assault Squads like mother said, but noooooooo. I just had to argue. 'Sure mom' I told her 'I'd be first to the fight and first to die'. I showed her all the casualty statistics. Told her I was too smart to die like that. Well you know how I'm going to die, T3R4NC3? I'm going to die of old age waiting for your slow ass to walk another 500 meters! No one even knows if Space Marines can die of old age, but it's going to happen! Because of YOU."

Poor T3R4NC3, hearing this tirade for possibly the third time today, still comprehends no actual instructions in the verbal slurry and makes a small two-tone BEEP BOOP sound to indicate that it was heard, followed by an error chime.
It then takes another step.
The marine sighs.

No One Important wrote:

beast_gts wrote:
New Plastic Mechanicum From Across the Warhammer Studio – Part One

Spoiler:

I love how so many pictures have a disgruntled-look space marine pointing at his watch, like he's berating his robots for being so slow.

"Just look at the time, T3R4NC3! LOOK AT THE TIME! We're going to be late, again. Yes, I said again. We didn't even make it to the battle last time because of you. I should have gone into the Assault Squads like mother said, but noooooooo. I just had to argue. 'Sure mom' I told her 'I'd be first to the fight and first to die'. I showed her all the casualty statistics. Told her I was too smart to die like that. Well you know how I'm going to die, T3R4NC3? I'm going to die of old age waiting for your slow ass to walk another 500 meters! No one even knows if Space Marines can die of old age, but it's going to happen! Because of YOU."

Poor T3R4NC3, hearing this tirade for possibly the third time today, still comprehends no actual instructions in the verbal slurry and makes a small two-tone BEEP BOOP sound to indicate that it was heard, followed by an error chime.
It then takes another step.
The marine sighs.

This is why I play Heresy

No One Important wrote:

beast_gts wrote:
New Plastic Mechanicum From Across the Warhammer Studio – Part One

Spoiler:

I love how so many pictures have a disgruntled-look space marine pointing at his watch, like he's berating his robots for being so slow.

"Just look at the time, T3R4NC3! LOOK AT THE TIME! We're going to be late, again. Yes, I said again. We didn't even make it to the battle last time because of you. I should have gone into the Assault Squads like mother said, but noooooooo. I just had to argue. 'Sure mom' I told her 'I'd be first to the fight and first to die'. I showed her all the casualty statistics. Told her I was too smart to die like that. Well you know how I'm going to die, T3R4NC3? I'm going to die of old age waiting for your slow ass to walk another 500 meters! No one even knows if Space Marines can die of old age, but it's going to happen! Because of YOU."

Poor T3R4NC3, hearing this tirade for possibly the third time today, still comprehends no actual instructions in the verbal slurry and makes a small two-tone BEEP BOOP sound to indicate that it was heard, followed by an error chime.
It then takes another step.
The marine sighs.

I wanted to do something similar. Found a print of a marine sleeping in bed, scale it it down real small, paint it like a hologram and use it as a coms. "Brother, I don't care if it's your Dorn allocated nap time, get out of bed and into battle!"

Mechanicum War Machines Painted by the Horus Heresy Studio – Part Two

Can't wait to see the full sprues for these sets.

I'm still not sold on the Tech-thralls.

 Scottywan82 wrote:
Can't wait to see the full sprues for these sets.

Yeah - hopefully sooner rather than later. I'm 90% sure I'm not going to pre-order the box (really only want the Castellax) but seeing the sprues might change my mind...

 Scottywan82 wrote:
Can't wait to see the full sprues for these sets.

Already floating about, though you'll have to brave /tg/ to find them. Very impressed with the Thallax.

Transfer sheets for those interested.

 Kanluwen wrote:

Spoiler:

Transfer sheets for those interested.

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 YodhrinsForge wrote:

 Scottywan82 wrote:
Can't wait to see the full sprues for these sets.

Already floating about, though you'll have to brave /tg/ to find them. Very impressed with the Thallax.

Here are the sprues:

Triaros:


Thallax:


Castellax:


Tech-Thralls:



Some interesting bits:
The Thallax have 2 sprues with the legs and shoulders on one and the weapons, upper body and jetpacks on the other. Might be for Ursarax as the upper body, weapons and jetpack would be swapped between Ursarax and Thallax while the legs that stay the same are on the other frame.
Same for the Triaros and Karacnos, the first two frames have all the parts that should be the same for both while the third sprue could be swapped between them with a small additional frame for the Karacnos weapons.


For the model numbers, its 3 Thallax and 1 Castellax per sprue set. So single Castellax and three Thallax per box when they release individually is possible.
For the Tech-Thralls its 5 per sprue.

Castellax will almost certainly be sold in pairs like Kastelans are.

chaos0xomega wrote:
Castellax will almost certainly be sold in pairs like Kastelans are.

I also think 2 Castellax is likelier but for the Thallax 3x is probably what they will go with

 Matrindur wrote:

 YodhrinsForge wrote:

 Scottywan82 wrote:
Can't wait to see the full sprues for these sets.

Already floating about, though you'll have to brave /tg/ to find them. Very impressed with the Thallax.

Here are the sprues:

Triaros:

Spoiler:

Thallax:

Spoiler:

Castellax:

Spoiler:

Tech-Thralls:

Spoiler:

Some interesting bits:
The Thallax have 2 sprues with the legs and shoulders on one and the weapons, upper body and jetpacks on the other. Might be for Ursarax as the upper body, weapons and jetpack would be swapped between Ursarax and Thallax while the legs that stay the same are on the other frame.
Same for the Triaros and Karacnos, the first two frames have all the parts that should be the same for both while the third sprue could be swapped between them with a small additional frame for the Karacnos weapons.


For the model numbers, its 3 Thallax and 1 Castellax per sprue set. So single Castellax and three Thallax per box when they release individually is possible.
For the Tech-Thralls its 5 per sprue.

Given that there are six pairs of legs and six lower abdomens on the leg sprue we get two of the weapons/heads sprue in a box of 6 Thallax.
Looks like there may be a second weapon/head sprue with the same stuff except with an irad cleanser, multi-laser etc.

The Ursarax upgrade sprue notion looks so do-able i will be genuinely surprised if they dont. Good spot, Matrindur!

 SirDonlad wrote:


Given that there are six pairs of legs and six lower abdomens on the leg sprue we get two of the weapons/heads sprue in a box of 6 Thallax.
Looks like there may be a second weapon/head sprue with the same stuff except with an irad cleanser, multi-laser etc.

The Ursarax upgrade sprue notion looks so do-able i will be genuinely surprised if they dont. Good spot, Matrindur!

Saw the legs but thought they might just be for different poses but yeah with six abdomens its one of this sprue and two of the others for sure.
Its unlikely to be a different sprue with the other weapons but still, at least that should also confirm Ursarax will come in boxes of 6x

 Matrindur wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
Castellax will almost certainly be sold in pairs like Kastelans are.

I also think 2 Castellax is likelier but for the Thallax 3x is probably what they will go with

Looks like the weapons/fists for 2 castellax on a sprue together, so box of 2 likely

Got the Battlegroup for 127€ at a discounter. Not too bad, considering the automata within might come in boxes of 3/1 models.. the discount was significant tbh

Anyone want to buy 20 techthralls? PM me..

Me too, I think it was a really nice price. I was on the fence b/c I also got Necromunda…also was thinking about getting the knights for € 180… if GW was smart, they would’ve spaced out these releases.