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The tiles look really nice, just prohibitively expensive - makes £60 for a nice fleece mat (that I don't need to paint) look positively cheap.

That said, if they were (very unlikely!) to ever do a big box with two/three of the regular title sets and one of these new ones bundled together at a good enough discount I'd definitely buy it then.

Given how very, very flat the basic tiles are, I'd certainly say it makes more sense to get n appropriately scaled cityfight neoprene mat and some freestanding raised plazas (maybe from Troublemaker Games)

Yes that is what I have done (although I stole the idea from someone else!) Fairly cheap wargaming city mat of approx scale, then cut into areas for your buildings. I mounted mine onto thin cork board just to make it a bit more durable.

I quite liked the way classic WD reports used to be done, so this was an effort to recreate that but to modernise it (so you had more defined industrial areas, residential etc)

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Given how very, very flat the basic tiles are, I'd certainly say it makes more sense to get n appropriately scaled cityfight neoprene mat and some freestanding raised plazas (maybe from Troublemaker Games)

Yeah that is the plan to be honest, though went fleece rather than neoprene just so I have a bit more flexibility with draping it over different sized tables.

I wonder if we will see further Tile Variants...

3 more Mechanicum LI kits up for sale in Jan:

As the above post indicated, some of the Mechanicum kits from the Battle Group box go up on pre-order next week.

Gonna have to review the Hybrid Detachments, aren’t I?

Reckon I’ll be in for a box or three of the Automata.

Super annoyed the Triaos box comes with the decal sheet that clearly existed on the studio army but wasn't included in the army box.

With this release, we're most through with the Mechanicum Range?

RazorEdge wrote:
With this release, we're most through with the Mechanicum Range?

There's another 2 or 3 tank kits still to be formally unveiled. We got a sneak peak of them in this article a while ago and their rules are in the new book, but there hasn't been a proper Heresy Thursday article with full details yet. It's looking as though the Krios will be two distinct kits for the regular & tank-hunter variants, as the unit entries come with different size options of 2/4/6/8 models versus 3/6/9.

So from this book there should be one more wave of three kits; fingers crossed that happens some time in Feb. Then we can start to speculate on book #4.

I doubt we will ever see any real Epic scaled exclusive units, will we?

 Malika2 wrote:
I doubt we will ever see any real Epic scaled exclusive units, will we?

In theory we should because you can do stuff in that that won't fit 40K regular

 Malika2 wrote:
I doubt we will ever see any real Epic scaled exclusive units, will we?

Everything in the spider-knight box, so far? And some of the newer titans.

 Malika2 wrote:
I doubt we will ever see any real Epic scaled exclusive units, will we?

So far, everything Dark Mechanicum is LI-exclusive. Time will tell if they jump to 28mm-scale games.

The HH still has most of the Mechanicum line to release to plastic/update/add too

They said that the constructs are coming to 30k and the pics in the Rise book are of the 28mm scale ones so it is a given.

Epic has always been the home of vehicle innovation in 40K, that’s true.

But times have moved on since its heyday, and now I think the only stuff we’re unlikely to see in 28mm would be the Leviathan, Capitol Imperialis etc.

I wonder if you could build a Capitol Imperialis by kitbashing the LI kits with LI terrain..

 tauist wrote:
I wonder if you could build a Capitol Imperialis by kitbashing the LI kits with LI terrain..

That's a capital idea - and yes, I bet it could be done, and probably not that difficult to do now!

 xttz wrote:
Then we can start to speculate on book #4.

I'm 100% sure, it will be Molech.

With Focus on Sons of Horus and Ultramarines, and Imperial Knights.

Certain resin knights are now sold out online or vanished on GW UK.

Can we but hope?

We've had the box artwork for Styrix / Magaera / Atrapos since day one, so for those it's likely just a matter of time. Fingers crossed for armigers too.

All of these kits can also be moved into plastic at pretty much any time, without being scheduled with a related supplement book. Watch out for upcoming Heresy Thursdays I guess.

I just hope the Titans and Knights of Ryza finally get transfers: Legio Crucius (The Warmongers) and Knight House Sidus.

I would guess that they're selling through the resin kits for Titans and Knights for a new edition of AT this year, as its now GW's oldest edition of any of their current games.

SamusDrake wrote:
I would guess that they're selling through the resin kits for Titans and Knights for a new edition of AT this year, as its now GW's oldest edition of any of their current games.

Necromunda is (a bit) older. And I wouldn't bet on a new AT edition - I'm actually surprised it's still there and even got new content with the Dark Mechanicum stalkers. Maybe they keep it to lure people into buying their most expensive epic models.

AT and LI I could see as complimenting each other like Killteam and 40K or Warcry and AoS.

They use part of the same model ranges and give a very different flavour and style of game. LI is always going to be very simple for titans because they have to balance into the rest of the armed forces on the table.

Meanwhile AT lets you really go deep on titan mechanics and just focus on that whole style of gameplay.


In general if one game is doing well the other has potential to do well also.

There is appeal overlap, despite them being very different games.

Me? I’ve no Titans in my LI collection. At least, not yet.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
There is appeal overlap, despite them being very different games.

Me? I’ve no Titans in my LI collection. At least, not yet.

No Titans? I must've read that wrong...

 Dryaktylus wrote:


Necromunda is (a bit) older. And I wouldn't bet on a new AT edition - I'm actually surprised it's still there and even got new content with the Dark Mechanicum stalkers. Maybe they keep it to lure people into buying their most expensive epic models.

Necromunda has at least grown with revised books and new phases such as Ash Wastes and Hive Secundus, but you are correct. I think it was 2017 when it was released?

As for AT I'm giving GW the benefit of the doubt, for now. I wasn't expecting AT to have lasted this long and yet here we are. I didn't expect the Dark-Mech models to get AT rules and yet they got them.

The only game that seems to be due for a new edition in 2025 is Warcry, as it's so far followed the 3-year cycle of 40K, AOS and Kill Team. It would be a ideal quiet year to attend to the smaller games like AT and Blood Bowl, possibly introduce a new TOW spin off.