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The Mechanicum are coming in hot!

The murder-bots are all fantastic, with the Thallax being standout. I also like that the Thanatar's plasma mortar doesn't appear to have lost any of the excellent little details in the shift to plastic.
The tech-thralls are easily the weakest of the Mechanicum plastics. Those gimpy legged poses are just not doing it for me. Just because they're "indefatigable cyber-puppets" doesn't mean they have to be shambling. Shambling is not at all combat efficient.

The Arch-magos is also not my favourite. For as much as I dislike how busy some of the 40k Ad-mech minis are, this is just sort of.... dull. Where's all his crazy technogeegaws? The mechanical crab legs hidden under robes thing is getting a bit boring by now. Can't he just have 2 normal legs? 3 would also be acceptable.
Be interesting to see what options he comes with though. It could end up being a great source of bitz.

Problem with the Arch-magos is that it's a monobuild kit for an HQ that has 25 wargear options.

Do we know it's a monobuild kit?

 Shakalooloo wrote:
One wonders how the servitors put their boots on in the morning.

Boot lacing servitors.

Who in turn have their own servitors who put their shirts on since their fingers are replaced with boot lacing spindles.

It's servitors all the way down.


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 KidCthulhu wrote:
Part of me wants to use some of these new models for the 2nd Ed 40K Adeptus Mechanicus list in the Codex Imperialis.

These guys would be perfect for servitor squads with lasguns



Then use Skitarii as Techpriest squads with lasguns & special weapons. Maybe have Kataphrons as Tarantula or Rapier proxies.
I'd be able to play the army I always wanted back in '95

I know right!

Though I'd personally lop off the laser tip and call them shotguns, the knockback effect was a great way to immobilize far more powerful foes.

Gotta say Mechanicus is really tempting me. Shame about the 5 year backlog of projects...

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Problem with the Arch-magos is that it's a monobuild kit for an HQ that has 25 wargear options.

If only you could kitbash or use any other techpriest model. But we all know that's just not allowed

 Snrub wrote:

The tech-thralls are easily the weakest of the Mechanicum plastics. Those gimpy legged poses are just not doing it for me. Just because they're "indefatigable cyber-puppets" doesn't mean they have to be shambling. Shambling is not at all combat efficient.

Well, they aren't combat efficient. They're not only the dregs in Mechanicum forces but also in the rules. WS/BS 2, can't run, no reactions or sweeping advance, FNP 5+... they're the zombies in 30k and the Tech-priests the Necromancers.

I have 30+ of the old ones, so it's gonna be a good mix. I like both, the resin and plastic models and I will get more even if they mostly suck.

 Dryaktylus wrote:

 Snrub wrote:

The tech-thralls are easily the weakest of the Mechanicum plastics. Those gimpy legged poses are just not doing it for me. Just because they're "indefatigable cyber-puppets" doesn't mean they have to be shambling. Shambling is not at all combat efficient.

Well, they aren't combat efficient. They're not only the dregs in Mechanicum forces but also in the rules. WS/BS 2, can't run, no reactions or sweeping advance, FNP 5+... they're the zombies in 40k and the Tech-priests the Necromancers.

I have 30+ of the old ones, so it's gonna be a good mix. I like both, the resin and plastic models and I will get more even if they mostly suck.

I mean, they suck at doing damage.
But when 30 models is only 105 points... They're damn good at filling space and holding objectives.

 JNAProductions wrote:

 Dryaktylus wrote:

 Snrub wrote:

The tech-thralls are easily the weakest of the Mechanicum plastics. Those gimpy legged poses are just not doing it for me. Just because they're "indefatigable cyber-puppets" doesn't mean they have to be shambling. Shambling is not at all combat efficient.

Well, they aren't combat efficient. They're not only the dregs in Mechanicum forces but also in the rules. WS/BS 2, can't run, no reactions or sweeping advance, FNP 5+... they're the zombies in 40k and the Tech-priests the Necromancers.

I have 30+ of the old ones, so it's gonna be a good mix. I like both, the resin and plastic models and I will get more even if they mostly suck.

I mean, they suck at doing damage.
But when 30 models is only 105 points... They're damn good at filling space and holding objectives.

Also tough.

Though i think their main utility is to deny area BUUUUUT with the milita provenances you got a better deal available technically if you want to kill something on occaision. Also you get access to LoS ignoring firepower easier.

I've got a Warhound list that has like 150 of the robozombies....Can't wait for the incoming "cheap" guys on ebay

 Snrub wrote:
Do we know it's a monobuild kit?

I don't think so, no. It's been widely assumed but it's not confirmed.

 Shakalooloo wrote:
One wonders how the servitors put their boots on in the morning.

You think they get to take them off?

 RaptorusRex wrote:

 Shakalooloo wrote:
One wonders how the servitors put their boots on in the morning.

You think they get to take them off?

You think those are boots?

Sunday Preview – Heroes of Beta-Garmon Join Horus Heresy and Legions Imperialis

ALL THE HERESY!

Still no assault weapons set though.

Probably will pick up a set of the Command Squad.

Hibou is one of the best SM minis ever made.

 Shadow Walker wrote:
Hibou is one of the best SM minis ever made.

Yea almost makes that atrocity of Mk2.5 armour look good

Lack of melee weapons is getting absurd, though I see they're at least now acknowledging a 'delay'

Also from the article which seems to have flown under the radar:

Here at Warhammer Community, we continue on the road to the new edition of Warhammer Age of Sigmar, but with a few surprises – including a new entry in the Exemplary Battles of the Age of Darkness series.

Where was the memtion of a delay?

More power swords than you can shake a power sword at.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Yea almost makes that atrocity of Mk2.5 armour look good

That's generous of you. It just reinforced how much it looks terrible for me.
In a vacuum, it's an excellent model and the armour itself looks fine. But knowing it's supposed to be MkII, it just loses me.


The command upgrade kit annoys me a bit. On one hand it's an array of nice and generic parts to customise a command/veteran squad or add a touch of flair to a praetor/centurion, but a bit more variety would have been nice. Throw in a couple of power axes/mace or a power fist. Some charnabal weapons maybe. Some really grizzled looking heads. Where's all the bionic heads and arms? Given how the legs are cut up in the MkIII/VI kits, why not have a few bionic legs parts that fit onto the regular legs?

Like, it just could have been so much better.

 MajorWesJanson wrote:
Where was the memtion of a delay?

On a Facebook comment

So Command Squad is the same price bracket as LI squadrons and I was gonna say that's a lot for 5 space marines, but whilst I was typing I decided 5 totally blinged out space marines is still a much better deal than four 2" drop pods.

 Snrub wrote:
The command upgrade kit annoys me a bit. On one hand it's an array of nice and generic parts to customise a command/veteran squad or add a touch of flair to a praetor/centurion, but a bit more variety would have been nice. Throw in a couple of power axes/mace or a power fist. Some charnabal weapons maybe. Some really grizzled looking heads. Where's all the bionic heads and arms? Given how the legs are cut up in the MkIII/VI kits, why not have a few bionic legs parts that fit onto the regular legs?

Like, it just could have been so much better.

Yes, just providing power swords is pretty uninspiring - it's not like they are hard to get hold of. More bits of bling would also have been very welcome. I guess we have to hope that somewhere down the line is a customisable Centurion kit. On the plus side, the standards are nicely done, as are the helmets.

Unsure if we're up to date on valrak rumours but as of yesterday for HH:

Reiterates high confidence in these on his side:

- box with Mk2 and saturnine reiterated, but confirmed they're painted/themed around sallies and IW.

- a new edition is planned as a "tidy up" edition

- angron (mortal) to be the first HH plastic primarch

- plastic warhound has been made, it exists in GW hq but they can't work the finances out for it, I.e. production costs vs retail coats vs expected sales. It's apparently currently not at a price from the maths they're comfy selling it at

- FW want to be off resin in 4-5 years, he does himself point out the new characters sort of fly in the face of this though

Dudeface wrote:

- a new edition is planned as a "tidy up" edition

So another game caught in that 3 years nonsense?

A bit soon for a new edition, isn't it?

 Shadow Walker wrote:

Dudeface wrote:

- a new edition is planned as a "tidy up" edition

So another game caught in that 3 years nonsense?

Please noooooo.

Exemplary Battles of the Horus Heresy – The Sanguinary Guard Swoop Into Battle

PDF Link

Dudeface wrote:
Unsure if we're up to date on valrak rumours but as of yesterday for HH:

Reiterates high confidence in these on his side:

- box with Mk2 and saturnine reiterated, but confirmed they're painted/themed around sallies and IW.

- a new edition is planned as a "tidy up" edition

- angron (mortal) to be the first HH plastic primarch

- plastic warhound has been made, it exists in GW hq but they can't work the finances out for it, I.e. production costs vs retail coats vs expected sales. It's apparently currently not at a price from the maths they're comfy selling it at

- FW want to be off resin in 4-5 years, he does himself point out the new characters sort of fly in the face of this though

Unless I misunderstood only the MK2 box is from his trusted source, the other stuff is from another one

beast_gts wrote:
A bit soon for a new edition, isn't it?

2 years in, this would be about the right time for new edition rumours (right or wrong) to start if it's on the same release cycle. Given mechnicum will drop before next summer (which is neither a 40k nor an AoS year) then it might be a fair point to rebalance having the core of 3 factions done.


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 Matrindur wrote:

Dudeface wrote:
Unsure if we're up to date on valrak rumours but as of yesterday for HH:

Reiterates high confidence in these on his side:

- box with Mk2 and saturnine reiterated, but confirmed they're painted/themed around sallies and IW.

- a new edition is planned as a "tidy up" edition

- angron (mortal) to be the first HH plastic primarch

- plastic warhound has been made, it exists in GW hq but they can't work the finances out for it, I.e. production costs vs retail coats vs expected sales. It's apparently currently not at a price from the maths they're comfy selling it at

- FW want to be off resin in 4-5 years, he does himself point out the new characters sort of fly in the face of this though

Unless I misunderstood only the MK2 box is from his trusted source, the other stuff is from another one

Possibly I had a hard time working out if he mean they were from the same place but less clear or a 2nd source.