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Was just reading the arks of omen press release in Warhammer community and I get that the point is to introduce a new game mode for 40K and the narrative around it, something to do with boarding actions on CSM weaponised spacehulks. All sounds very cool

But the press release says

“With his forces spread across warzones at Vigilus, Dharrovar, and beyond, Abaddon needs one good knockout punch to destroy the loyalists once and for all. The arrival of a mysterious ally provides the break he needs, and work begins on his new Balefleets – swarms of heretic warships, reinforced by the mighty Arks of Omen.”

So who’s this mysterious ally? Or are the arks the ally? In a round about sense?

They also say that GW have learned that we don’t want lots of army rules and updates spread across loads of books so I’m assuming that if there is a new ally in the shape of an army or warlord it won’t be in these books so that would imply a new codex

Warhammer Day Reveals – The Daemon in the Machine

Looks like Dark Mechanicum or Super-Deamon Engines.

On the rules side, my takeaway was the will contain rules, just not updates to existing Codexes etc.

Betting it's a demon primarch. I'm likely 100% wrong, but I'm doing a blind dart toss here.

beast_gts wrote:
Warhammer Day Reveals – The Daemon in the Machine

Looks like Dark Mechanicum or Super-Deamon Engines.

Wow I’d missed this, it does look like dark mechanicum or a small force of DM units for boarding action to test the market.

Lots of demon bonded machines, hopefully!

I'd love to see some Chaos corrupted Vorax, Thallax, Myrmidons, etc. Buuutt......we'll probably just get more Dinobots. Or mutant metal cochroaches, or something.

 Gadzilla666 wrote:
I'd love to see some Chaos corrupted Vorax, Thallax, Myrmidons, etc. Buuutt......we'll probably just get more Dinobots. Or mutant metal cochroaches, or something.

To be honest, given the body horror the Mechanicum/Mechanicus were/are OK with? Far more interesting to see the stuff they consider beyond the pale.

FezzikDaBullgryn wrote:
Betting it's a demon primarch. I'm likely 100% wrong, but I'm doing a blind dart toss here.

Which one would you guess, they dark darkness in metal so I can only think iron warriors

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

 Gadzilla666 wrote:
I'd love to see some Chaos corrupted Vorax, Thallax, Myrmidons, etc. Buuutt......we'll probably just get more Dinobots. Or mutant metal cochroaches, or something.

To be honest, given the body horror the Mechanicum/Mechanicus were/are OK with? Far more interesting to see the stuff they consider beyond the pale.

And that's.....dinobots? Really? I'm perfectly fine with daemon engines, but the most recent plastic crop is definitely not what I'd consider "beyond the pale". The 30k Mechanicum stuff pushes the body horror stuff a lot harder than the recent 40k daemon engines.

That’s not what I said though?

I want to see proper mechanical horror shows. Flesh melded and stretched over machine. Fused with arcane powers, host to daemons.

Body Horror stuff.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
That’s not what I said though?

I want to see proper mechanical horror shows. Flesh melded and stretched over machine. Fused with arcane powers, host to daemons.

Body Horror stuff.

Yeah, that would be cool. But I also want some ancient warmachines that have that brooding malevolence look. Think of the Chaos Warhound and Reaver Titan kits.

Not a chaos player here, but I think it'd be cool if they got a Demon Knight thing. Like a literal Knight sized demon, that has Invuln piercing Rail Cannons for eyes, and cannot lose more than 1 wound per game.

Would be a good twist if the dark mechanicum had been taken over by demons

Really want some horrific models for chaos love the old art. Please no more Dino bots they look kinda silly

if dark mechanicum, please for the love of GOD give us a plastic decimator kit.

So that we finally can form Decimator maniples.

There's also a lot of hypothesis that this will be the transition campaign from 9th to 10th- like Gathering Storm.

Think of the ally(s) not as a faction, but as a Triumvirate of Ynead, and I think that about hits it- there are a 1-3 character models that lead units from another allied army, changing the way that army performs.

And forever after, the potential remains for this force to become a true faction in its own right, but it evolves over a long period of time.