New Codex & Sneaking Skitarii Released For The Adeptus Mechanicus
April 3, 2015 by brennon
Games Workshop continue to push the Adeptus Mechanicus out of the Forge World of Mars with some new additions to the range including the new Skitarii Ruststalkers & Infiltrators, and of course a new Codex for you to check out for Warhammer 40,000...
Steel Stealth
First up we have the awesome looking Ruststalkers and Infiltrators we talked about earlier in the week and saw some more images and rules for earlier today...
I think these are some great looking additions to the range and love that they have something human about them but crossed with an insect-style appearance. The rules for them are pretty deadly too and you can check them out in the White Dwarf out over the weekend.
Codex Time
Of course the Codex is also out for the Skitarii and you can see it here in both it's Standard format and the Limited Edition version which comes with all kinds of extra gubbins to make it worth your while.
While these Limited Edition versions of the army books and codices might not sound like a great idea when you hold one in your hand it does feel like you got your moneys worth. In addition don't forget to check out the Data Cards that always seem to sell out quickly!
What are you going to pick up from Games Workshop this week?
Let us know below!
Seeing as they are on 40mm bases, are they bigger than the norm ?
Insane and brilliant models, yet again. Bit of a Hellboy vibe going on. Madness. Confused by the weapons though, are they auto-pistols?
Maybe, probably retro-fitted with some radioactive ammo knowing the Mechanicus. 🙂
They do look pretty sweet.
Might be the new 32mm base.
says 40mm
Tuning forks, I think, for making house calls on misbehaved pianos.
@jay188 said it best these are the smash robots from the commercial – and in my view some most objectively poor models GW has released. Pistols look ok…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ3nnn7-JO0
Cadbury’s made vegetables!
ha ha something like that dags but I do like these the most so far from the new GW faction, at the very worst there are loads of bits for conversions including the smash heads lol.
Those pistols look like silenced Uzi’s:)
Love it.
It does occur to me since they are from Mars where to they get the wood for their carbines from?
Imported goods maybe? haha
I like them … Very tempted.
Those models don’t look particulary good but that cover art looks really good.
I definitely want to cut all the legs off and replace them with trailing cables, I do have a Void-Dragon mechanicum in storage so perhaps I could add to them at some point.
Yup. They really had an opportunity to expand beyond the human form, but totally blew it.
Here be Mechanicus. I thought they were made as machines or as close as they could become, by losing the triviality of human form, or some such something, but in general, yes. Well I have to say for once I actually think the things look good. Yes they could have gone away from bi focal vision except bi focal vision is rather a natty genuinely brill evolutionary thing. Bi peds, why not they are/were originally human, so a human form of bi ped seems likely amongst what are the lower class built to fight mechanicus types. Add a couple of… Read more »
Although i likely wont get the mash bots/Karl Ruprecht Kroenen fanclub myself they are very nice models i must say and do come off as wacky “admech” in look, will deffo be getting into the faction however even without the elites.
considering what it says at the top, maybie multiple codexes?
Really glad this is becoming a faction. These guys are pretty creepy. Imagine them clinking down the halls of a space hulk scanning for the enemy. They are everything I would want from a killer cyborg faction!
I think GW have really smashed it out of the park so far with this new army, superb looking models.
These elite troops are great but I’m hoping they bring out the bog standard AdMech troops the Hyspasists, or the “Servitor” type troops that are described in the novels. It would be such a waste to reduce this army to an add-on army.
Hyspasists? Are they more non-humanoid at all?
Depends really. The wiki page says they are more human with some argumentation, but still quite human. In the novels i’ve read the bulk of the army is made up of mindless Servitors who essentially act like drones.
Hyspasists would be a nice addition. 🙂 Perhaps they have a buff to their Ld since (fluff-wise) they have an emotional inhibitor implanted into them.
@abstractalien: They’re simply Imperial Guardsmen with some basic cybernetics. According to Lexicanum anyway.
I do like the recent Skitarri releases, and this kit is no exception. While I prefer the Ruststalker gas mask heads to the domed heads of the Infiltrators, both builds work perfectly well as models from my perspective. As for the rules, both Infiltrator builds have their uses (Powerswords and Stub carbines for better armoured foes, Taser Goads and Flachette Pistols for lightly armoured hordes or close combat against opponents who rely on toughness rather than armour), but in most circumstances I would leave the Ruststalkers with their standard loadout. While the Transonic Blades certainly look great, and the +1… Read more »