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Holokrates wrote:
I recently got back into HH (again) and started a Mechanicum army. I regularly check the availability of some units in the Mechanicum category on the webstore as I want to get a Vultarax. At this point I've already been waiting for months now for it to come back in stock. This morning the Vultarax and Ursarax were displayed as “Sold Out Online” and after a quick browser refresh both disappeared from the webstore. Any chance they'll come back or get a plastic replacement soon?

Ask and ye shall receive

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/wwfgcerl/heresy-thursday-the-usarax-cohort-leap-into-battle/

Excellent news! I’ll be in for a couple of boxes.

More plastic more better!

Those are some fun looking murderbots.

Borgs. Murderborgs.


There’s squishy bits in them thar chassis!

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Borgs. Murderborgs.


There’s squishy bits in them thar chassis!

I stand corrected.

Just saying that is those guys started going “KILL ALL HUMANS” and joined the robot uprising, there would be exactly 0 surprise from me.

They give spicy hugs too.

my gripe that these could be bearlike remains true; however, all the same, these are fantastic models, and the temptation to start a Mechanicum army grows ever stronger...

Sexy AdMech being sexy - not surprised, but sure am happy to see those bad boys released. Domitar and flying potato, pls GW.
I liked ursurax more in FW paint scheme though, but I guess shades of grey are reserved by HH guard.

The typo in the URL (and article title) amuses me.

The wallet screams.

While the spelling isn't quite the same, their inventor being named Falkan makes me want to name one of them Joshua and ask my opponents "shall we play a game?" every time I attack with that model.

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
While the spelling isn't quite the same, their inventor being named Falkan makes me want to name one of them Joshua and ask my opponents "shall we play a game?" every time I attack with that model.

How about a nice game of tic-tac-toe?

 Dysartes wrote:
The typo in the URL (and article title) amuses me.

Make USA racks great again.

I'm either blind or just not well-versed but where are their volkite incinerators the article talks about? In the middle of the claws I assume?

Sgt. Cortez wrote:
I'm either blind or just not well-versed but where are their volkite incinerators the article talks about? In the middle of the claws I assume?

Chest guns iirc

Dudeface wrote:

Sgt. Cortez wrote:
I'm either blind or just not well-versed but where are their volkite incinerators the article talks about? In the middle of the claws I assume?

Chest guns iirc

Yup, emitters in the torso linked to ammunition in the "kidney" area.
Their special close combat thing is to grab you with the claws then blast you at point-blank range.

I like the models, just going to be what, 7 thruster bells per model to attach?

I bet these guys look better when not decked out in mono-red. Everything looks better on Ryza.

These Ursarax are pretty cool.

I'm not sure bout their scale though. Are these bigger than standard infantry? What would their base size be, 32mm?

Edit: Sorry didn't realise these are plastic redux of resin FW so they already come on 40mm bases.

These are the first mechanicum "automata" which does nothing for me. Something is off about the silhouette, the legs look too scrawny or something..

Besides, those lightning claws look really dumb, would have much preferred if these all came with optional fists instead of just two to a kit. OTOH, thats some money saved for me.

I don’t like the heads. They remind me of motorcycle helmets.

 MajorWesJanson wrote:
I like the models, just going to be what, 7 thruster bells per model to attach?

Five by the look of it. One on each leg, three on the jump assembly. It’s fewer than the Thallaxi, who have six (two legs, two directional nozzles on the lower back, two on the jump assemble.

tauist wrote:Besides, those lightning claws look really dumb, would have much preferred if these all came with optional fists instead of just two to a kit. OTOH, thats some money saved for me.

Uhm... I think the claws look much better than the clumsy fists.

Snord wrote:I don’t like the heads. They remind me of motorcycle helmets.

Hmm, yes, I'm not a fan of the heads too. But if I don't convert them I just paint the visor black with a light green horizontal line or dot to represent their 'eyes'.

It's kinda sad that the Ursarax never had even passable rules so fielding them is something for enthusiasts.

 tauist wrote:
Besides, those lightning claws look really dumb

What don't you like about the claws, tauist?

Seriously, if i was a 40k Ad Mech players, i could fill bottle of salts looking at my terrible looking models while 30k players are basically getting all that is cool and interesting about the faction : Robots.

GW really needs to stop compartmentalizing, they just straight up loose money.

I don’t disagree, but I also, to some extent, appreciate the technological decay aspect.

Even at its height, the Mechanicum is using centuries, if not millennia old, technology. And it clearly has at least some capacity to replace and refurbish.

But into the 41st millennium? It’s lost ever more, having to rely on cyborgs and irreplaceable elements.

Doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have more automata of course. But there is an in-universe explanation for not seeing the same toys as the heresy.

Not that you, I or anyone has to like that of course.

The in-universe explanation for why there aren't more Heresy-era toys in 40K falls apart a bit when we know that there are tanks etc. from the period still in use.

Obviously the real reason is BUY IT AGAIN!

Siegfriedfr wrote:
Seriously, if i was a 40k Ad Mech players, i could fill bottle of salts looking at my terrible looking models while 30k players are basically getting all that is cool and interesting about the faction : Robots.

GW really needs to stop compartmentalizing, they just straight up loose money.

RIP Fire of Cyraxus. Back in the day, Imperial Armour 14 was written to allow you to bring 30k robots into 40k albeit with complications: they didn’t work quite right after 10,000 years. It never made it to release due to the 8th edition release, studio politics and the untimely death of Alan Bligh, so it was canned. Shame they ended the imperial armour series

 Lord Damocles wrote:
The in-universe explanation for why there aren't more Heresy-era toys in 40K falls apart a bit when we know that there are tanks etc. from the period still in use.

Obviously the real reason is BUY IT AGAIN!

Also when a bunch of other hersey era tech has been reinvented by Cawl. Volkite, anti-grav, etc.