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So trying to guess the sprue break down the Astartes Battlegroups had 1 Infantry set, 1 Support set, 1 Fast Attack set, 1 Rhino (Transport) set and 1 Kratos (big Tank) set.
The Auxilia Battlegroup had 1 Infantry, 1 Support, 1 Dracoson (Transport), 1 Leman Russ set (small Tank) and 1 Super Heavy set (big Tank)

Based on this the Mechanicum box should also have 5 individual kits.
The Triaros should be the Transport set and the Thanatar should be the equivalent to the big tank sets from the other Battlegroups.
I'm guessing the Tech-Priest Auxilia, Tech-Thralls, Thallax and Myrmidons of both types and the Domitars are the Infantry set, not sure about the Domitar but the others also have the Contemptor/Sentinel inside so would make sense and they are all grouped together in the image.
The Arlatax, Vorax, Castellax and Ursarax could be the Support set equivalent as a "robot" set and the Archmagos is probably part of this set since the Infantry set would be pretty big if he is part of that one.
That leaves the Vultarax for the last set but only two of those would be pretty small so maybe they are part of the Support bot set and the 8x Thanatars are instead 2x sets of 4x Thanatars for the final 5x sets?
Either that or the Vultarax and Vorax are a set together since the text above says these two range ahead of the main force so a Fast Attack equivalent box?

Also new Thanatar arm weapons right?

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Very interested to see their Formations, Detachments and how the Sprues in that big box breakdown to individual releases.

Me too. So far these battleforces have had 5 individual boxes in.

This one looks like 1 Triaros box, 2 regular infantry boxes, and either 1 or 2 boxes of 'support' units like automata.

Mainly I'm curious what else will accompany the first wave of Mechanicum. What would really pique my interest would be seeing some ordinatus engines...

Box is a great preview of what's to come for HH 2.0 as well, only units now missing from the line-up for AdMech in LI, from the top of my head, are the Kryoss (sp?) tank and Ordinatus engines?

What a sight! Glorious

Only missing Krios Tanks, Karacnos and the Scyllax (Oh, and the three ordinatus minoris engines). I wonder if they'll included bonded knights as part of the detachments and/or different Titan allowances

 BrookM wrote:
Box is a great preview of what's to come for HH 2.0 as well, only units now missing from the line-up for AdMech in LI, from the top of my head, are the Kryoss (sp?) tank and Ordinatus engines?

They are only missing the Scyllax Guardian-Automata but these might be too spindly for epic scale and are similar to the Servo-Automata that are included on the Tech-Priest base anyway. Also they are the only other infantry unit left.
Other than them we are only missing the Karacnos and Krios Tanks. And of course the Mechanicum Knights that are resin only right now

So if they also release the Krios and Karacnos individually at the same time which wouldn't even be that unreasonable, we would have the full army in a single release which would be pretty amazing

And of course the Ordinatus but I don't expect them just yet. I'm predicting all those very big models will still take a bit before they are released and when they are they will basically be the DLC releases for each faction after the actual army is finished

 Matrindur wrote:

Also new Thanatar arm weapons right?

Two are the Thanatar-Calix pattern:

Matrindur wrote: Also new Thanatar arm weapons right?

I don’t think so? That’s just the Grav Hammer from the Heavy Lascannon variant, I think?


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 Matrindur wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
Box is a great preview of what's to come for HH 2.0 as well, only units now missing from the line-up for AdMech in LI, from the top of my head, are the Kryoss (sp?) tank and Ordinatus engines?

They are only missing the Scyllax Guardian-Automata but these might be too spindly for epic scale and are similar to the Servo-Automata that are included on the Tech-Priest base anyway. Also they are the only other infantry unit left.
Other than them we are only missing the Karacnos and Krios Tanks. And of course the Mechanicum Knights that are resin only right now

So if they also release the Krios and Karacnos individually at the same time which wouldn't even be that unreasonable, we would have the full army in a single release which would be pretty amazing

Secutarii Hoplites and Peltasts I've just remembered

 zedmeister wrote:

 Matrindur wrote:

Also new Thanatar arm weapons right?

Two are the Thanatar-Calix pattern:

Yeah haven't seen that Grav Hammer? version before

 zedmeister wrote:


Secutarii Hoplites and Peltasts I've just remembered

Kinda but those aren't really normal Mechanicum in HH, instead part of the Titan Legions specifically. So while I would be happy to see them and it would make sense I would still call it a completed release even if they don't release them now and isntead leave them for whenever they come around to the Mechanicum Knights

 Matrindur wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
Box is a great preview of what's to come for HH 2.0 as well, only units now missing from the line-up for AdMech in LI, from the top of my head, are the Kryoss (sp?) tank and Ordinatus engines?

They are only missing the Scyllax Guardian-Automata but these might be too spindly for epic scale and are similar to the Servo-Automata that are included on the Tech-Priest base anyway. Also they are the only other infantry unit left.
Other than them we are only missing the Karacnos and Krios Tanks. And of course the Mechanicum Knights that are resin only right now

So if they also release the Krios and Karacnos individually at the same time which wouldn't even be that unreasonable, we would have the full army in a single release which would be pretty amazing

It’s how few units this boxed set leaves that gets me most excited.

We’ve never had proper Mechanicum/Mechanicus in Epic scale before, and despite their Forgeworld roots? Epic is the natural home of wild and wacky macro-constructs. From Ordinatus Minoris to Majoris to bonkers Automata? Now is the time for GW to get super creative.

Well I am excited.

Well there is only one question regarding Mechanicum in Imperialis:

"How many tech-thralls can I get?" And if answer is "Enough to make Tyranids blush" then I am interested.

Looks to be 10 bases in that starter set. So more numerous than bog standard Tactical Marines.

 Arbitrator wrote:
Mech box leak.

Spoiler:

I don't like legions as a game. But I love everything about the models.

This set looks amazing. I was meant to be doing some catch up and get some backlog painted before adding more to it, but these...These I need.

If this is £110 RRP as with the others?

I’m gonna be sorely, sorely tempted. Hadn’t intended to do a second LI force, yet here we are.

Looking at the set further, I really wonder if this battleforce is only 3-4 regular boxes rather than the usual 5. Most of the detachments only work out to two sprues worth and can't divide into the four needed if the kits were doubled up.

I could see this actually being less than the £110 rrp of the previous battleforces.

We should get a a bit more info if GW decide to do an impromptu reveal, as they sometimes do, to take control of the information.

The only thing offputting about that box is that it's very infantry heavy for a game that seems to be focused on tanks and superheavies

This has to be fake.

The picture is in focus and clear.

Oddly, Mechanicum dont have very many tanks in 28mm. They do have them (Triaros, Karacnos, Krio and if they ever redo it, the Explorator thingy). Instead it’s mostly focussed on Automata, and play like a cross between Nids and Classic Undead.

Of course, as I mentioned above? Epic is the home of New Tank Innovation. Always has been. Outside of the Rhino, Predator, Land Raider and Ork Battlewagon, Epic gave us the rest.

Yeah when 32mm tanks are a big investment per tank and Mechanicum was all resin for a long while there just wasn't room to add loads and loads of tanks (esp when IG were kind of already doing that so Mechanicum needed its own niche).

But LI you can add tanks really easily so we should see potentially a lot more for them.

Dayum, that's a leak.

Remarkable that apart from the APC there's no tanks.

Wait, did we ever get 28mm Arlatax? Because I don’t remember that at all…

Looking fab! Now I know who I'm allying my Astartes with.

 Mr_Rose wrote:
Wait, did we ever get 28mm Arlatax? Because I don’t remember that at all…

Not thus far. I’ve a sneaky feeling it may have been previewed at some point? Like, years and years ago.

chaos0xomega wrote:
The only thing offputting about that box is that it's very infantry heavy for a game that seems to be focused on tanks and superheavies

The game is mechanically very, very heavily lopsided in favor of infantry. Superheavy units in particular are utterly trounced by ground-pounders, expensive and fragile as they are. Any vehicle-focus is due to cool factor (as massed formations of tanks *are* cool and the scale allows them to actually work on the table) or, as with Fog of War and Titandeath, GW attempting to push out game modes where it's not necessarily the by-default-win-button to flood the table with infantry.

Hopefully the Krios will come out soon after, I need a bunch of those to supplement my existing AdMech forces.

 zedmeister wrote:

 Matrindur wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
Box is a great preview of what's to come for HH 2.0 as well, only units now missing from the line-up for AdMech in LI, from the top of my head, are the Kryoss (sp?) tank and Ordinatus engines?

They are only missing the Scyllax Guardian-Automata but these might be too spindly for epic scale and are similar to the Servo-Automata that are included on the Tech-Priest base anyway. Also they are the only other infantry unit left.
Other than them we are only missing the Karacnos and Krios Tanks. And of course the Mechanicum Knights that are resin only right now

So if they also release the Krios and Karacnos individually at the same time which wouldn't even be that unreasonable, we would have the full army in a single release which would be pretty amazing

Secutarii Hoplites and Peltasts I've just remembered

Macrocarid explorator as well.

Holy cow, I am not sure I believe it yet! I really hope it is real, but just seems like too much. The molding and tooling cost would be a huge investment. I just hope the rules get improved. I will be all over these if true.

I love Thallax.

Myrmidon Secutor could works as Custodian Warden Custodes.

Mechanicum? Nah, get outta'ere...

Best news for Legions so far, and a wonderful selection of models.