Legions Imperialis Dark Mechanicum Stalker Constructs

[Lord Marshal]

I heart science.

 

 

 

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A box of Stalker Constructs contains 30 models, eight Harpax ‘Swarmer’ Scout Hosts, and two each of the Errax, Tenebrax, and Scintillax. The Serperos ‘Overlord’ Heavy Stalkers box contains four, and what's more both boxes contain the relevant terminals for using the  Errax, Tenebrax, Scintillax, and Serperos in games of Adeptus Titanicus!

 

The Dark Mechanicum can also field regular Mechanicum Taghmata units, as well as Titans and Knights.

 

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[Marshal Loss]

Very cool. Hope they come to 28mm, which I assume will happen at some stage

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[Nagashsnee]

These look fantastic, also awesome they can be played in AT.

 

 

Hopefully one day 28mm HH can do a mars civil war book and put out some new mechanicum units and rules.

[Burni]

Love em! And seemingly confirms Dark Mech gets to use the whole of the AdMech box.

 

So all 3 plus 6 cute little murder bots on 1 sprue - probably means they're about the same height as a Questoris?

 

Edit: Going to spend the afternoon listening to Jeff Waynes War of the World's while I work 

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[TheMawr]

The changes of anything coming from mars are a million to one..

 

.. but still they come

[Matrindur]

I'm guessing the Dark Mech formations will limit how many Mechanicum units they can use in relation to their own? As otherwise it would be a bit strange if Dark Mech just get a bigger selection than Mechanicum

[lilking]

These models are cool but gw has such a high level of corporate disfunction that they dont realize they showed us this past weekend. They are just regurgitating the same junk. They need to check themselves

[Lord Marshal]

5 minutes ago, lilking said:

These models are cool but gw has such a high level of corporate disfunction that they dont realize they showed us this past weekend. They are just regurgitating the same junk. They need to check themselves

 

Those were different models. Similar designs at a glance, but these are smaller and with different armaments. 

 

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[Burni]

21 minutes ago, TheMawr said:

The changes of anything coming from mars are a million to one..

 

.. but still they come

Need an Ordinatus called Thunderchild now!

[Marshal Rohr]

This is an amazing expansion. The Dark Mech stuff is straight out of Collected Visions. 

[Redcomet]

Cool stuff. The Harpax ones are a bit too Matrix-y for me. But I love that the stalkers give War of the Worlds wibes

[Matcap86]

All of this is amazing and way more than I expected to get for LI. Nothing short of spectacular the way they're pumping out units for this game. 

 

Edit just did a count:

 

There's currently 83 playable units in the game (not counting command tanks). When disregarding Titanicus and Aeronautica stuff you get 55 units. 

Adding the mech stuff that we know of so far would add another 25 units. If the rumors are correct and they release this year. That would give us 108 playable units released/adapted for this game since launch in the beginning of this year. Which is just bonkers. 

 

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[BolterZorro]

Very good news. What we got is:

- 2 new factions in one go, very different visualy

- mechanicus battle box 100% compatible for both factions

- at least 5 new entries for dark mechanicus, some with their own construct board for AT

- at last, the big beasts are not new tanks! Big stalkers four legged walkers are a fresh display on the battleground.

- me and myself are happy (well, I think you don't care much this one)

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[Xirix]

I'm digging the creepy little drones.

[Marshal Mittens]

These look great, excited for them in 28mm eventually.

 

I was hyped for LI at first, but have not actually bought into it yet. 

[Urauloth]

I like that so many of these have weapon mounts in underslung pods, suggesting a line of descent all the way to the smaller stalk-tanks of the Sabbat Crusade. These are great designs, I'm glad they're making so much for LI and it's great that the Dark Mechanicum are finally taking shape as a faction.

[Mogger351]

1 hour ago, Marshal Loss said:

Very cool. Hope they come to 28mm, which I assume will happen at some stage

They are, the staged photo at the top has rivets on the plating and more fan blades than the LI below on the Cortex controller pop out.

 

That is a 28mm scale mini in the photo, so logically are the little guys behind it.

[apologist]

 

Mocked up a quick image for comparison; the blue lines show the top and bottom of the different sized bases. Assuming the left-most unit is 25mm, the ABC stalkers (Archer, Butcher, Cyclops) look to be on 50mm and the Overlord heavy stalker is on a 60mm. Slightly hesitant on that, given that there are four of the Overlords in a box; so it might be that the ABC are on 40mm and the Overlord on a 50mm. Happy to be proven right on the first guess, though.

 

Delighted to see these, and over the moon to have them confirmed as being for Adeptus Titanicus too. 

[DuskRaider]

These are amazing, simply put. It seems as though GW may have actually put a lot of thought not just into the design of these models, but the actual rules as well. I’m willing to bet that there will be at least one Formation focused on these cyclopian horrors, and the fact that they can be taken in Titanicus is encouraging as it shows GW hasn’t completely abandoned the game. 
 

I cannot wait for these to be released!

[apologist]

I'll stop with the speculative pict-capture image-manip now* , but thought one with some Titans in would provide a better sense of context. As above, I've primarily used the height of the bases as a guide, so take cum grano salis. I also used the width of the bases to provide a bit more guidance, so the Warhound and Reaver are sized proportionally against the width of the Overlord's base, assuming that to be 60mm.

 

 

This image seems to feel 'right' in terms of what comes in a box; 4 Overlords.

 

 

* my mechadendrites are getting tired

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[Petitioner's City]

1 hour ago, Urauloth said:

I like that so many of these have weapon mounts in underslung pods, suggesting a line of descent all the way to the smaller stalk-tanks of the Sabbat Crusade. These are great designs, I'm glad they're making so much for LI and it's great that the Dark Mechanicum are finally taking shape as a faction.

 

Poor Asphodel, the provocateur and inventor whose seemingly original ideas are stolen by realworld successors who put them into his long past. Genius no more!

[Ayatollah_of_Rock_n_Rolla]

Great models each on its own, but the whole range together feels a bit monotonous in design. Definetly to be mixed with "vanilla" robots.

[skylerboodie]

What are these? Harpax, something from the AdMech box, or something new to come?

[Lord Marshal]

1 minute ago, skylerboodie said:

What are these? Harpax, something from the AdMech box, or something new to come?

 

Definitely the Harpax I think. Between the orange filter and the Tennebrax in the background it's probably the boxart for this set.

[Mendi Warrior]

1 hour ago, apologist said:

 

Mocked up a quick image for comparison; the blue lines show the top and bottom of the different sized bases. Assuming the left-most unit is 25mm, the ABC stalkers (Archer, Butcher, Cyclops) look to be on 50mm and the Overlord heavy stalker is on a 60mm. Slightly hesitant on that, given that there are four of the Overlords in a box; so it might be that the ABC are on 40mm and the Overlord on a 50mm. Happy to be proven right on the first guess, though.

 

Delighted to see these, and over the moon to have them confirmed as being for Adeptus Titanicus too. 

 

I arrive at the same conclusion regarding the sizes for the bases. They don't take much space in the box and the heavy stalkers are less bulky than the Acastus Knight Porphyrion.

 

When comparing the designs on the bases, I think the ones for the heavy stalker match the 60mm bases while the ones for the other stalkers match the 50 mm bases. The highlighted crevice doesn't appear on the 40mm base, so I'm pretty confident those are 50mm.