Mechanicus Ordinatus preview

Previews at Forgeworld Amsterdam Open Day show the new Mechanicus Ordinatus in its Mars pattern all painted up.

The perfect way to suppliment your Taghmata army

More Skitarii in this weeks White Dwarf

Hmm. This Skitarii faction of the Mechanicum is looking nicer all the time. I remember reading about the Skitarii for the first time in Horus Heresy: Mechanicum

These models are living up to how I imagined them

Apparently we will get a HQ and Dune Walker next week, and then in a few months the Adeptus Mechanicus will get a full release!

Details on Book 3 from Forgeworld

Book three is printed and shipping to distribution as we speak!

Forgeworld tease us with the contents page of book 3

The newsflash also presented us with this limited edition collectors edition, complete with separate legion codex, art book and campaign book. I WANT.

However, I am disparate due to the fact they are pre-releasing this to people attending the open day. My chances of acquiring a copy are limited...

Detailed campaign maps as we come to expect

Iron Warriors Heretical vessels...

Not sure on the changed colour scheme of my imperial Fists Legion... 

Mechanicum makes its presence well known in this volume again

New Legion Codex contents page

Mechanicum artwork

And a parting shot of a Reaver Titan

Forgeworld Rumours from their blog...

Forgeworld today has reinforced the rumours (more of a statement) that we can expect to see the next character in the Horus Heresy line up released at the open day...

They will also be releasing a Mechanicum tank. I can't wait o see what this will look like!

In addition, we see a photo of Phil Stutcinskas working on a new superheavy tank based on the Fellblade chassis for the Space Marines!

Apparently over the next few weeks there is more to come. Looks like I am broke for another few months.

The full blog can be found here

New Knights Paladin size comparison

There is a picture floating about indicating the scale of the new Knights Paladin compared to a Tau Riptide

As you can see it is a half inch taller than a Riptide, but a heck of a lot bulkier!

There is also confirmation floating about that the Imperial Knights Freeblades can only ally with Imperial forces. Not sure what this means for allying with other forces of order.

The Codex cover has also been leaked including the price list for week 1 in March. The Imperial Knights codex will set you back NZD$77 which is unusual as all books (besides the Space Marine Codex) have been NZD$98 so far. This leads me to believe it is far smaller, which makes sense since there is potentially only 2 different models in the book...

There is also a Ltd Edition to be released, no doubt at 4x the UK price...

Forgeworld New Releases

Forgeworld have released their Myrmidons today. Images where leaked yesterday when FW pre-loaded their blog #7 and some old fox managed to stumble across it...

The Myrmidon Destructors are priests of the Mechanicum who specialise in the art of destruction with ranged weaponry and the embodiment of this within their own vastly augmented bodies.

This complete resin set contains three Mechanicum Myrmidon Destructor models with a volkite Culverin, irradiation engine and conversion beamer respectively. Mechanicum Thrall model shown in some images sold separately.

Models designed by Mark Bedford.  http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Designers/Mark-Bedford.html

Along side these we have a slew of new package deals (take note GW HQ) for Mk II, III & IV armour. Each saves about NZD$28 or about 10%

Then we have the big bundle which will set you back about NZD$900! but with a discount of almost 20%. If only GW gave a 20% discount army deal...

That's a lot of marines...

Is a Mechanicum army coming?

Warning: Speculation and day dreaming follows!

We have Forgeworld releasing amazing new artwork, and a T-shirt as below

I want one! Pity its an event only T-shirt

And in what is obviously a servo arm from a Mechanicum duder

Over at Games Workshop the new Imperial Knights Codex has been leaked which includes 3 armies within its hardcover, one of them being Knights of the Mechanicum (the others being Imperial & an allies list). Why on earth do they need a separate army list for Imperial & Mechanicum? Can they be that different or is there more depth than just Knights...

Could this be the rumoured Games Workshop integrating Forgeworld products into its website. Are they in fact not integrating websites but integrating product ranges? This would play well into what I have been told ie FW & GW sites are not merging. All will be revealed in about 1 week I expect, but we could be seeing Mechanicum forces coming to a tabletop next week in the form of Knights with Mechanicum contingents...

That can mean only one thing. It wont be long before Mechanicum gets sledged in as a fully functional army!