Hi everyone. A little bird emailed me these photos and said this army is being displayed at several Battle Bunkers around GW. It is an Adeptus Mechanicus army, that is based on a lot of conversion work by Dave Taylor and sculpts by Gary Morley, from within the GW Design Studio.
The army is reportedly being tagged in the Battle Bunkers as a "New and Upcoming Army" There are conflicting reports on other forums that this is just a (high quality) personal army of theirs, and not an indicator of things to come.
You make the Call!
Original photos courtesy of: Deamon-forge from Warseer
20 comments:
Long live the squats???
If this is a sign of rules to come, then rejoice all squat lovers. If not, then the army is still cool.
I want a termite!
im anxious to see if FW drops an AdMech line on us. i would definalty pick some up. its alos a converters dream i think.
Interesting hypothesis as the Termite is featured in the Apocalyse book as a one-off conversion and Morley has left the company some time ago (though some of his work is still trickling through...).
Perhaps it will find its way into the Agents of the Imperium Codex?
Although termites are still represented in the rules as "drop troops" it has surprised me too that FW have not thrown one out there.
I hope this really comes to fruition... but do you get the feeling it's just a lot of work for a personal army and nothing that GW feels like pursuing?
Again I hope it turns out to be true because I was thinking of puttng together my own Adeptus Mechanicus squad.
- BM
My guess is that it's just a personal army. Why make an army that won't generate much in the way of sales. My guess is that they would be less popular than Witch Hunters or Daemon Hunters.
Also it isn't hard to make a convincing Mechanicus Army using elements from the Imperial Guard Codex (Doctrines), and Witch Hunters (Electro Priests = Arco Flagellants).
I'm not saying that this army isn't cool, it just wouldn't be worth the effort to release a codex for them.
P.S. Squats can probably be represented via the Guard Doctrines as well if you bother to think about it for a second.
Eltnot.
Well, it looks like the Adept of Mars is made from Sauron the Necromancer... sooo... This one's a personal army. Still, FW has been hinting at an AM army for months.
Once again Dave Taylor proves he's a golden god of converting and 'counts as' army design - and this is at least his second AdMech army!
I'm with studderingdave, FW has hinted and hinted at an AdMech line and I'd be gung ho to have it happen. And isn't the next installment of the FW Vrak campaign (sp?) supposed to introduce CSM w/ demon engines to the evil side and AdMech w/ awesome engines to the light side?
Also, I disagree with Eltnot, I think AdMech would generate enormous sales, as they've got larger sci-fi / cyberpunk / industrial appeal than the INQ line IMO. Besides being a converter and gearhead's wet dream, an AdMech line would have a lot of 'wow appeal' with big guns, robots, crazy 1337 units and the always popular gas masks and hoods ;D
Finally, what does the Adept of Mars count as in Dave's army here? GK grandmaster perhaps? Can't think of many other BIG imperium things it could be ...
- Salvage
i do think its a personal army just from the look of it, but i do agree with the above poster - what better way to compete for war machine emigres than to grow a steampunk arm themselves?
During my “pilgrimage” (as Bigred put it) to Warhammer World in Nottingham, England this Summer I saw this army in person. I asked the staff what Dave Taylor “counts” this army as and they said Lost and the Damned at best.
Sorry to burst yall’s bubble but this is not a new army coming (or really any army at all). There is just so much random stuff in this army that it would be impossible to really even “count it” as anything.
This is also not even the entire army. There were some big mutants/orgryns/giant servitors making up making up part of a command squad among a lot of other random stuff that could not possibly be used in any real army but looks supper sweet!
~kings
I remember his other AdMech army that used the LatD rules, I thought maybe he branched out with this one. I think he'll have to go with C:WH (or C:DH for a few less options) in the future, and I actually still think he did that for these guys. I see a 'dread,' 'arco-flagellants,' 'demonhost,' etc in there ...
- Salvage
hi,
Jut thought id say this isnt a sign of things to come it is a one off conversion army by a warhammer world staff member in england. he uses it as a guard army with certain doctrines.
i know this for certain as i know the staff member who owns this army personally
also this is not dave taylors army it is owned by dan harden
aw my bubble... my poor bubble
Hahahahahahahaha!
Genius!
Yeah, sorry guys, it's my army, not Dave Taylor's, but thanks for the compliments there!
And I use it as Imperial Guard.
Cheers
Dan
this is definately personal and a lot of the models are clearly converted including a sauron the necromancer model and numerous tech priest models.
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Sorry to disappoint you chaps, but I first saw that army oh, three years ago on display in the GW store at Warhammer World. Its just a staff members personal army, its all scratch built or simple conversions (the Skitarei for example are simply Cadians with High Elf Archer legs).
There are a number of rules being put together for an AD Mech army over at (www) Tempus Fugitives for the DAMOCLES GULF CRUSADE event at Warhammer World in May.
to be honest, i would rather die than let the imperium take the spotlight again. I say work on the other races!!!!! MORE FLUFF FOR THE NON-EMPEROR WORSHIPERS!!!
cool models though
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