Legions Imperialis Bonded Cybernetica Support Formation Rules

[Lord Marshal]

Something a little different for Heresy Thursday.  Some rules for including automata units in your non-Mechanicum Formations (and a couple more for Dark/Mechanicum). Link to the PDF.

 

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You can now add Legio Cybernetica cohorts to your armies with Bonded Cybernetica Support Formations. Support Formations are a new type of Formation with simple rules for inclusion in your army lists: for every regular Formation chosen from a Core List, an army can include one Support Formation. Some of these give you the option to choose Detachments from other army lists – and unless otherwise stated, these units do not count as allies, nor towards the Allied Contingents points limit.

There are seven Formations: one each for the Legiones Astartes, Solar Auxilia, Mechanicum Taghmata, Dark Mechanicum and Collegia Titanica, and two for the Knight Households. Alongside special rules and Detachment lists, each also has a Designer’s Note giving you ideas on how you might want to convert or paint your miniatures.

 

And new colour plates:

 

 

Edited November 7 by Lord Marshal

[Dagoth Ur]

I guess the color plates are nice.

 

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

[jaxom]

I love this.

[darkhorse0607]

Edit

 

No one needs my ranting today, enjoy the rules

Edited November 7 by darkhorse0607

[Handsome Fred]

After 2 years of wainting for a WE Preator I gived up and lost any interest in HH and gw way to support it.

[Vassakov]

It's a little bit disappointing that since the reveal of Ad Mech, there's been nothing for AoD other than a long delayed upgrade sprue. I like LI, and I've got some, but AoD is starting to feel a little neglected.

[Mr Farson]

They've confirmed on another post heresy thursday will no longer be a regular article

 

https://imgur.com/a/qmtPPwG

[darkhorse0607]

9 minutes ago, Mr Farson said:

They've confirmed on another post heresy thursday will no longer be a regular article

 

https://imgur.com/a/qmtPPwG

 

Classic GW

 

Make a huge deal about something returning and then oops sorry

[Xirix]

And they didn't feel the need to put that important tidbit at the end of the article itself...

[Matrindur]

1 minute ago, Xirix said:

And they didn't feel the need to put that important tidbit at the end of the article itself...

Best is that comment is already 6 days old and it took until now for somebody here to find it. SO they really don't want you to know this

Edited November 7 by Matrindur

[Nephaston]

So judging by last month it's one LI article and one 30k article, though no quarantee to be a model reveal judging by today. Hopefully that means  actual reveal streams for heresy have a bit more substance next time.

 

 

 

Maybe.

[Silent Observant]

I agree with the comment below the original fb post, make it a monthly or bi monthly (2x a month) article, but let us know that’s the plan vs the maybe this week… or not

[Doobles57]

54 minutes ago, Mr Farson said:

They've confirmed on another post heresy thursday will no longer be a regular article

 

https://imgur.com/a/qmtPPwG

To be honest, WarComms output has dropped off considerably of late on all topics. Not sure if there's nothing to say or nobody to say it. We've gone from a regular 3+ posts a day to 1 or 2 max.

[Mogger351]

12 minutes ago, Doobles57 said:

To be honest, WarComms output has dropped off considerably of late on all topics. Not sure if there's nothing to say or nobody to say it. We've gone from a regular 3+ posts a day to 1 or 2 max.

GW content has dropped off considerably. We're in a protracted phase of dribbling out reboxes, random festive items, books and the like. They got nothing and had nearly nothing since KT was released.

[DuskRaider]

The rules actually seem pretty interesting, but every single Formation is still missing the biggest thing that Mechanicum is missing: freakin Air Support. There’s literally no Formation that has it as an option. Why, GW??!

 

Other than that, it seems like this could be a cool little fluffy option for things like Legios… now all we need is Secutarii. 

[Bouargh]

10 minutes ago, Mogger351 said:

GW content has dropped off considerably. We're in a protracted phase of dribbling out reboxes, random festive items, books and the like. They got nothing and had nearly nothing since KT was released.

It is rather common every year'd end. Or at least it is how I feel it... But maybe it is the normal rhythm and the previous gallore was the inusual stuff.

 

Wasn't the last colour plate already published some times ago? Loks familiar but I cannot put my finger on it...

[Marshal Rohr]

What the actually hell is going on with GW

[Deus_Ex_Machina]

2 hours ago, Handsome Fred said:

After 2 years of wainting for a WE Preator I gived up and lost any interest in HH and gw way to support it.

You got one in the HH 2.0 core box in all but name. Beefy guy with axe is perfect for WE. If GW released a special WE Praetor you would have gotten a flanderized version anyway.

[Indy Techwisp]

Interesting to note the kitbashing suggestion in the Brethren of Iron Support Detachment.

[StrangerOrders]

1 hour ago, Mogger351 said:

GW content has dropped off considerably. We're in a protracted phase of dribbling out reboxes, random festive items, books and the like. They got nothing and had nearly nothing since KT was released.

Interesting note but that vast majority of their new books have been skewed towards fairly new or less popular writers sans Brooks on fairly niche story lines too.

 

Havent seen any Wraight, ADB, French, Haley or Abnett recently that wasn't a repackage. I think the aeronautica by Abnett announced a few months back MIGHT be new but not sure....

 

No new installments on any of the ongoing series other than DoF which is fairly contentious on quality at best, no touches on Guilliman or the Lion, no word on any followup to the extremely popular Necron books, the Ynnari mostly live in memes, etc.

Edited November 7 by StrangerOrders

[Indy Techwisp]

It's been a very slow news week, yes.

[Mr Farson]

3 hours ago, Bouargh said:

It is rather common every year'd end. Or at least it is how I feel it... But maybe it is the normal rhythm and the previous gallore was the inusual stuff.

 

Wasn't the last colour plate already published some times ago? Loks familiar but I cannot put my finger on it...

 

It usually starts later than this, end of november is where things really drop off but post aos 3.0 content has plummeted.

 

On the heresy front if we don't get another primarch ( Doubtful at this point) this year it completely puts to bed any real belief that every one will get a new version like they said. 

 

The entire contents of the mars 28mm scale book is just ??? currently and heresy thursday going to once a month pretty much guarantees that it's going to be 6+ months until they're released as heresy thursday has been 50/50 li and 28mm since it dropped.

[Marshal Loss]

Should just can Heresy Thursday and bring back the ad hoc pre-2.0 Legion Dispatch if it's not going to be every week. A little bit of clear communication every now and again that isn't hidden in a facebook comment would be great.

 

Hopefully 2025 brings more to be excited about.

Edited November 7 by Marshal Loss

[Burni]

Yeah, I’m convinced something is up at GW.

 

Now excuse me while I go mourn the loss of Heresy Thursday.

 

in all seriousness though, I like the thinking behind these rules. Will definitely be trying them out when I’ve built my Mechanicum box (which has been consigned to the Christmas cupboard grumble…)

[Redcomet]

This and this Saturdays pre order being a single book, plus the slow last quarter for 40k, makes me think GW is reconsidering its entire release strategy, and maybe slowing down releases to match a slowing demand?