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A quick look on the wheeled vehicles of the Leagues.

The Sagitaur all terrain vehicle (the name being an amalgam of the Latin words sagittarius, meaning archer, and taurus, bull) can fit half a squad inside it. Ruleswise, it is the first vehicle in 40k where you can mount one squad in a couple of vehicles, if I understood it right. It's got a nice evolved mooncar explorer look, complete with crash bar cages. This helps give the Squats a distinct vehicle style, clearly from the same routes as Imperial stock, but with a very different impression given. When you see Imperial vehicles, you think world wars. When you see new Squat vehicles, you think rugged explorers and space miners.



The big vehicle realease this edition is the Hekaton Land Fortress. I was surprised when they went for the same route as with the Sagitaur, only bigger (as in a large arctic explorer vehicle, complete with lab and living quarters). I would have prefered something built around a heavier artillery cannon or big rock drill, but I can see what they are going for here.

More to the point, however, is the matter of future releases. This first wave introduce a full compact army range, stretching from infantry, heavy infantry, some small robots, close combat berzerkers, gravtrikers, and light and heavy combat vehicles.

It has not touched on such things as flyers and large walkers or big robots, nor has it yet delved into large artillery or rock-drilling vehicles.

Look closer to the left in the second reference sheet here. That is clearly a rail coupling. A lovely hint of things to come.

The Hekaton Land Fortress is meant to act as locomotive for a future Squat land train. Expect more specialized vehicles to show up in the future. I am very curious how this range will evolve with future releases.





Cheers

I’d speculate the Leagues can outfit those vehicles with different forms of locomotion, but wheels are a nice balance between types of terrain it can handle and ease of overall maintenance. This would reserve more advanced or specialised forms to extremes of environment.

Whilst some might worry about punctures, those are really only a problem if you’re concerned about a particularly smooth ride. If the overall design and crew are suitably rugged, solid tyres do away with that issue.

Plus in a hostile or unpleasant environment, I’d wager it’s quicker and easier to swap a wheel over than fix tracks or anti-Grav plating?

Indeed on all points! As to wheels, something along the lines of the French Panhard EBR armoured car's wheels filled with nitrogen tubes to avoid flattening is conceivable. As are new moon car concept "mesh wheels" and all manner of futuristic derivatives.

 Karak Norn Clansman wrote:
A quick look on the wheeled vehicles of the Leagues.

The Sagitaur all terrain vehicle (the name being an amalgam of the Latin words sagittarius, meaning archer, and taurus, bull) can fit half a squad inside it. Ruleswise, it is the first vehicle in 40k where you can mount one squad in a couple of vehicles, if I understood it right.
Cheers

not quite, the Admech have had this with their ornithopters for a while now, its just never been used that much. the Archaeopter transvector can deep strike a squad split across two 'thopters which then reforms on deployment form them.

its the first implementation in a Land vehicle, though, and certainly a much more significant use of the ability than the rather niche admech version.