[Rumour] New knight, new guard, new KTs

[jaxom]

A Steel Legion upgrade sprue is an interesting possibility. 11-13 heads, some different special weapon options, maybe a pintle mount or two for Chimera….

[Dezron]

Half-truck - hoping it will mobile weapon platform, I don't think Guard needs another transport. 

 

Light tank - 40k M24 Chaffee, that's all I want. But since its British, I expect wheels, I can live with that. 

[Marshal Rohr]

The Centaur and Salamander exist and bringing them back would be something people would enjoy, so of course we’re going to get a ridiculous trike or stryker or mech suit instead. 

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

35 minutes ago, Marshal Rohr said:

The Centaur and Salamander exist and bringing them back would be something people would enjoy, so of course we’re going to get a ridiculous trike or stryker or mech suit instead. 

Yay, open topped under armed leman Russ and chimera vehicles. How fun and exciting…

[Sete]

Anything about catachan?

[Dezron]

1 hour ago, Marshal Rohr said:

The Centaur and Salamander exist and bringing them back would be something people would enjoy,

 

I find them boring, they are pretty much official conversions of Leman Russ (Centaur) and Chimera (Salamander). 

 

There is nothing intresting about them to me. 

 

 

[SteveAntilles]

The Centaur is absolutely nothing like a Leman Russ... it's 1/3 the size and a transport. 

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

1 hour ago, Dezron said:

 

I find them boring, they are pretty much official conversions of Leman Russ (Centaur) and Chimera (Salamander). 

 

There is nothing intresting about them to me. 

 

 

And extremely under gunned conversions at that.

 

1 hour ago, SteveAntilles said:

The Centaur is absolutely nothing like a Leman Russ... it's 1/3 the size and a transport. 

It’s literally a leman Russ hull with no sponsons, no turret and open topped.

 

it might be scaled down a bit, but it is undeniably a Russ variant.

[Jukkiz]

Centaur is one of those little vehicles that is best as support vehicle, as it was designed to be

[soviet1337]

I'm excited by a guard half-track, it might be cool. Although I am slightly worried it will follow the rounded design aesthetic of the Rogal Dorn rather than old school boxy guard goodnesss. 

[Marshal Rohr]

3 hours ago, Dezron said:

 

I find them boring, they are pretty much official conversions of Leman Russ (Centaur) and Chimera (Salamander). 

 

There is nothing intresting about them to me. 

 

 

I can’t tell if you’re kidding about the Centaur, which has [redacted] all to do with a leman Russ and was designed by the same team that made the Macharius/Crassus family of vehicles. The rumor says light/scout vehicles, which the Centaur and Salamander are. But who knows maybe you’ll get your Tonka trucks! 

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

41 minutes ago, Marshal Rohr said:

I can’t tell if you’re kidding about the Centaur, which has [redacted] all to do with a leman Russ and was designed by the same team that made the Macharius/Crassus family of vehicles. The rumor says light/scout vehicles, which the Centaur and Salamander are. But who knows maybe you’ll get your Tonka trucks! 

The rumor says light tank and/or half track.

 

neithe the centaur or the salamander count as a light tank. The centaur is basically a utility tractor.

[Old-Four-Arms]

Light tank candidate : Siegfried?

 

https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Siegfried

[Moonstalker]

I'll toss my vote in with the Carnodon.  It's technically a medium tank, not really a scout vehicle, but maybe the uninitiated could mistake it for a light tank.  Another out of production forgeworld kit, but this time for Horus Heresy.  However, there are suppose to still be a fair number of them kicking around Tallarn in the 41st millenium.

 

No reason besides I think it's cool and I'd like to see it come back.

[SvenIronhand]

Honestly, a half track that isn't the centaur would be cool. Just hope it's more M3 than Hanomag, aesthetically.

[Dezron]

3 hours ago, Old-Four-Arms said:

Light tank candidate : Siegfried?

 

https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Siegfried

 

Honestly, I think I would prefer for it to return as Genestealer Cult vehicle, would fir better with them IMO.

[Galron]

Im ok with the centaur as I have three already. Ok with the Venator and the four wheel version with mk19s as I have two each of those as well. 

[Evil Eye]

13 hours ago, Dezron said:

I find them boring, they are pretty much official conversions of Leman Russ (Centaur) and Chimera (Salamander). 

The Centaur looks vaguely similar to the Leman Russ but shares no parts and is, in fact, microscopic next to the Russ, being the Guard's equivalent of the Universal Carrier.

The Salamander is based on the Chimera chassis, as are many Guard vehicles such as the Basilisk, the Hellhound and the Hydra, because just like in real life it is often far more practical for a "new" vehicle to be adapted to its role from an existing design rather than designed entirely from scratch. The main argument against the Salamander I can see is that due to the direction the game has taken towards ever bigger and more ridiculous battles and units (on smaller boards, ironically), its role as a nimble, lightly armoured but cheap scout tank that can punch above its weight has been somewhat diminished. That said that could be ameliorated by giving it the option for something a bit punchier as its main armament like a lascannon, as a glass-cannon tank hunter. Also the command variant exists, which could give it a niche outside of blowing things up.

[Jukkiz]

Halftrack huh... Something like Tauros venator, but with back tracks? 

 

[jaxom]

Hmm, maybe a smaller version open-topped version the of the Taurox?

[Focslain]

29 minutes ago, Jukkiz said:

Halftrack huh... Something like Tauros venator, but with back tracks? 

 

Hmmm, I have spare tracks from the turox... *takes notes for later conversion*

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

13 hours ago, Old-Four-Arms said:

Light tank candidate : Siegfried?

 

https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Siegfried

I wouldn’t mind that if we got more options than just the multilaser

[Dezron]

On 2/18/2026 at 2:23 PM, Evil Eye said:

The main argument against the Salamander I can see is that due to the direction the game has taken towards ever bigger and more ridiculous battles and units (on smaller boards, ironically), its role as a nimble, lightly armoured but cheap scout tank that can punch above its weight has been somewhat diminished.

 

Its crappy design for Scout tank. 

 

You have an open topped, Chimera sized tank without turret and armed only with Autocannon and heavy bolter. 

 

Atleast give it a turret. You can do a lot better with Chimera chasis, but turret on Scout Tank is bare minimum. 

 

 

[Magos Takatus]

20 minutes ago, Dezron said:

 

Its crappy design for Scout tank. 

 

You have an open topped, Chimera sized tank without turret and armed only with Autocannon and heavy bolter. 

 

Atleast give it a turret. You can do a lot better with Chimera chasis, but turret on Scout Tank is bare minimum. 

 

 

Like a lot of older Forge World vehicles, the Salamander looks like it was an improvised design on an established chassis. I do agree a proper scout vehicle should be more compact and designed more intentionally, but that either involves the Mechanicus discovering a new STC hull and widely manufacturing it, or GW slipping a new vehicle into the game and telling us not to notice, like the Taurox. 

[Dezron]

8 minutes ago, Magos Takatus said:

or GW slipping a new vehicle into the game and telling us not to notice, like the Taurox. 

 

Shouldn't we go with more recent example, like Dorn Heavy Tank?