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Mendi Warrior Venerable Brother

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Had my first intro game of AT today and ordered a reaver on the bus home. Really nice rules set, feels a lot like playing the videogame version of battletech. Once the current competitive AoS season is over, Im going to try and get the group to play AT.

 

What do you use for terrain? The GW stuff is fairly expensive and Im looking for home-made alternatives.

 

I use a mix. The new Civitas Imperialis stuff, old Cities of Death components, some of the Sector Imperialis stuff as well, then foamboard, styrofoam insulation board (beware for glue and spray paint as they have a tendecy to melt foamboard/styrofoam), plasticard of various sizes and shapes, cardboard, wooden coffee stirrers, milk bottles, electric tubes, plumbing stuff, odd bits from packaging or trash-worthy old electronic equipment or similar (e.g. computer fan), I tend to look for interesting shapes and/or textures. DYI stores might have some stuff prompting interesting ideas (e.g. wood mouldings like quarter round).

 

Have a look at the various threads, there are quite a few excellent ideas.

Parweke Battle-Brother

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So, House Vornherr transfers with Atarus it is then... bit disappointed but now I can paint some yellow again :)

 

going to be very expensive summer this year.

 

time to ebay some heresy stuff and most of my miniature boardgames ( non gw)

 

oh AT Acastus! beautiful!

Mendi Warrior Venerable Brother

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Very excited by the stuff revealed, I hope there will be some more info on what is in the pipeline.

 

The scatter terrain is resin according to Garro on FB.

 

The return of Aeronautica Imperialis coupled with some of the Doom of Molech stratagems (e.g. titan hunter infantry) are potential steps towards a reintroduction of Epic, imho. Not holding my breath but I would definitely love to see it come back, as a proper game, not diluting Adeptus Titanicus that is, but allowing for crossovers.

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Also the missile launchers for knights seem to come with power fists and alternative heads (?).  Or is that crown head on the default sprue? 

 

I think it is a new head, I don't think any on the original sprue has the "crown". Still with a question mark until I have a close look.

 

Edit: I checked and I am pretty sure this is indeed a new head. None of the 3 on the original sprue has the sort of "eye mask" we see on the one shown today.

Fajita Fan Venerable Brother

Fajita Fan

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Same thing as the difference between a Marine captain and a named captain: different points, different stats, and probably new command or order abilities. 

 

*Edit: I'm really squinting at the Vestiti Ferrus points, is that 775 points?  Maybe 475?

 

*Edit to the edit:  There's a double axe and single axe symbol in the upper left.

 

*Edit to the edited edit: Acastus Knights look to be 90 points and appear to be a banner of one model. That'll really add some flexibility to Knight Household forces where the points are so clumpy with having to use 3 banners/lance.

Sherrypie Battle-Brother

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Same thing as the difference between a Marine captain and a named captain: different points, different stats, and probably new command or order abilities. 

 

*Edit: I'm really squinting at the Vestiti Ferrus points, is that 775 points?  Maybe 475?

 

*Edit to the edit:  There's a double axe and single axe symbol in the upper left.

 

*Edit to the edited edit: Acastus Knights look to be 90 points and appear to be a banner of one model. That'll really add some flexibility to Knight Household forces where the points are so clumpy with having to use 3 banners/lance.

 

Vestiti is probably more like 275, given that it is a Reaver chassis. One axe denotes a Reaver, two crossed means a Warlord. They seem to have text in the box below their name, where normal Warlords have rules for their defensor weapons. I wouldn't be surprised if they had some special rules there for each.

 

The Acastus will probably be more like 120~ as it still has to pay for its weapons, which seem to be at least Str 8 3" blasts at proper ranges. Tasty.

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Double axe is Warlord, single is Reaver, so we have 2 Warlord "characters" and 3 Reaver "characters" per pack. The points might be 275 for Vestiti Ferrus? I would guess similar for Dawn of Enlightenment, but it looks a little like 375 which would be crazy for a Reaver (unless it has a powerful ability?).

 

Anyone know if these are Legio specific, though? If so, maybe there are 1 each for the 10 Legions from the rulebook and Titandeath? That would be Astorum, Atarus, Defensor, Gryphonicus, and Solaria for the Loyalists and Fureans, Krytos, Mortis, Tempestus and Vulpa for the Traitors. 

 

I'm squinting at the Traitor Titan cards image, and one of the other Reavers looks to have 4 Servitor Clades, but a downgrade to WS5+ from the standard Reaver's 4+... and it looks like there's a Reaver Titan in the Loyalist pack that also has 4 Servitor Clades. Interesting. One Reaver and one Warlord have fixed weapons in each pack (credit to Artellus Numeon for pointing this out in the N&R thread); a left arm Las Blaster and left arm Volcano Cannon, respectively. Also, Vestiti Ferrus has an armour value of 11-12 on its Body vs Direct Hits, which is a little buff. edit: ok Vestiti Ferrus has +1 to its armour on the Head and Legs as well. Nice. Dawn of Enlightenment is just 10-12 as normal, so the cards aren't complete mirrors. And Dawn of Enlightenment clearly has 2 abilities, vs one on Vestiti Ferrus. I'm not sure, but DoE might have 3+ WS?

 

Acastus Knights look to be... 
Scale 5 
80 points/model? + weapons
4+ BS, 5+ WS, 7" move
7 pegs (6 structure points to red)
command rolls on 5+
10-14: Direct Hit, 15-16: Devastating, 17+: Crit

Looks like the Ion Shield modifier breaks down to 1, 2-3 and 4 (it may be 4+ but I'm pretty sure it's just 4), so the banner size definitely goes to 4 

 

-Lascannons and autocannons are options (and you can see both on the sprue pics), with autocannons working more like a meltagun and lascannons having a full profile. 
-both the Porphyrion weapons and the new Asterius weapons as options! rad

-Magna Lascannons = Blast 3", paired, S8, unsure on dice/range etc

-Conversion Beam Cannons have funky blast rule (probably 3" short and 5" long), Paired... S9? 24"/48" range. Dang

-Missile Pod has barrage, rapid, range 6"?/30"?, S4? dice 4?

-Karacnos pod has barrage as well, something like 12/30 range, and what appears to be Rending?

-Lascannons are 2 dice at S9...?? range might only be 6/12 but it's hard to see

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Fajita Fan

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Oh I can see it better now if you download the pics and open them, if you just click on them on the WC page they're still not scaled to 100% so it's still blurry as hell.  So nothing about the other Cerastus Knight variants? I'm converting a Senechal with an old Fantasy Soland Runefang and a pair of Questoris gatling cannons even though that's not a good weapon loadout.  Rule of cool.

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Really hoping that one of the Traitor Titans of Legend is Agrippa from Book 4: Conquest. That scene (the assault on Manachea)  is what made me fall in love with the Legio Tempestus, Alan Bligh at his most glorious.

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Random thought of my morning:

 

I was playing around with a couple of Reavers using the new maniple that lets Reavers strafe and back up at full speed. It’s pretty cool and lets you shoot & scoot around cover.

 

Here’s my dumb question: how are you guys using your move template? I don’t find it very helpful to turn with given that the bases are oval. I wish the bases were all round so that pivoting with the template was more straightforward.

I saw a guy online measure and move from the template then move the base up to touch.

Sherrypie Battle-Brother

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I don't. Enough time spent playing BFG and doing physics mean I can eyeball the 90 deg sector without problems any day :P

 

But if you want advice, I'd recommend placing the template in its place, noting where the edge is and then pivoting as much as you like while making sure the midpoint of your front doesn't exceed that point. Thus you cannot turn over 45 degs if the center point of your base stays the same. Simple.

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I’ve considered making ring-like templates to turn reavers and warlords. You’d need a ring with an inside diameter the width of the base. Mark out every 45 degrees on that and put marks at the sides of the base.

 

I think you’d be able to fit the ring over a titan’s Guns. It would be quite large, relative to the size of the Titan.

 

So far I haven’t bothered yet. It hasn’t ever really mattered to be too precise in any of the games I’ve played.

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