Dagoth Ur

Huh, Til. No idea how I managed to skip over that thus far.

Because Magna Combi weapon can fire their special weapon component only once whereas Minor combi weapons can use it as often as they like.

Gorgeous mini. The skulls should be easy enough to remove and I like that there's hints of the Lycean designs carved into his armor. I'm glad they went a bit more experimental than his artwork - everybody can just kitbash a plain MkVI marine into a moritat. No need to waste a release slot for that. This feels like something people will be able to also convert and kitbash with.

I guess I won't be buying into this army then. The army list is absolutely gutted. Oh well, more money for extra Mechanicum Heavy Support boxes.

What a lovely plastic update. Now if only they weren't one of the worst units in the army book. Oh well, won't hurt to paint some for the fun of it.

Don't do this to me, man. I still haven't gotten over that one.

I suppose that is a theory one can have.

......What?

I'm aware of the rumors. However, and this might just be Occam's Razor speaking, I fail to see how a mini that is a carbon copy of a missing (and crucial) plastic mechanicum release and has not a single element of the current 40k Thousand Sons design language represented in its silhouette and what few reflections of its surfaces we have seen "heavily implies" that it's a Psy-Automata - particularly given that we have at least one rumor teaser image that is probably a part of a Psy Automata (Given the banding) and clearly not part of this miniature. I think it's far more likely that HH just simply...wasn't listed (either someone forgot, or it might be the least substantial portion of the preview). If this actually turns out to be a Thousand Sons 40k release I'll smoke a Thallax.

I have no idea why people are speculating that the automata is a thousand sons psy robot. Its silhouette is exactly that of the already existing Thanatar Cavas, its main weapon is obviously the Solex pattern heavy lascannon and the ribbed tubing behind its right hand side matches that of the Calix' graviton ram weapon exactly. I'd be extremely surprised if this isn't a Thanatar Calix slated for the 2nd mechanicum wave in plastic. It doesn't even have any trim or anything that would tie it to the Thousand Sons. I'd be less surprised by the on-foot EC mini being Doomrider than this being anything but a bog standard Thanatar Calix.

Ironbros, the wait was worth it.

Me vs. the bag of shredded cheese in my fridge at 3AM I love it.

I've been recently looking at running Anacharis Scoria in my list, just because I have the big spider bastard. What sorta unit do people put him in? His whole cybernetica vibe obviously makes Domitar and Arlatax very appealing - but considering that Cybernetica within 6 inches of him can react, I do wonder if something more shooty, like a brick of darklight castellax wouldn't work either.

I guess the color plates are nice. Now, if we could get some 28mm news for the Horus Heresy again, that'd be nice.

I hate to disrupt the ever-entertaining organ measuring regarding aesthetic sensibilities and seniority in the hobby, but have any more concrete infos crystallized since p1? I'm particularly curious as to how/if the wolf guard terminator kit will get an update. It's a very versatile kit which I'd love to see updated, yet the lack of bespoke BA Assault Terminator kit update has me a tad worried (Though it may also have been held back for the eventual generic Assault Terminator update, so who knows).