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Ever notice that the Horde tanks look like Scorpians.

Also Scorpia has a Scorpia car.

Even the skiffs looks like Scorpians kinda

I just think that is a interesting observation

It is! The Crawler is a deliberate homage to her 80s vehicle. I'm sad we didn't get to see it more.

The tanks are more of a stretch, they're basically standard tanks adapted to the shape language of the 2018 Horde--less blocky, more pointy, hover technology--

but if we consider the original Horde Destructotanks, they don't have the 'pincers' we see on our modern hovertanks. They're almost like mandibles, assuming they can open and close and they're not just poorly structured battering rams

Vehicles!

The Partisan! There's just something so appealing about a tank specifically built to maximize pouring lead downrange. Aircraft beware!

The Condor! I admit I wasn't even familiar with this one until I received it as a gift, but a speedy (8/12!) hovertank with an AC/5 and 2xMLs is... hard to argue with.

These two guys were my first foray into using a recently-popular wash mixture called "Marine Juice." It's Lahmian Medium, Reikland Fleshshade, and AP Dark Tone in 4:3:3 mixture, respectively. Lemme tell ya... it's the sauce.

Also, Team Yankee decals go really well on tanks. Who knew?

Hovertanks are very useful on Planet Shark. Their ability to traverse most types of terrains allows them to be useful for lightning raids and scouting.

My kind of doll is the ones that will know every millimeter of a late model KSW-71.k-01 hovertank and could reassemble the steering system with their eyes closed and gloves on. And then they’ll need comforting over how a banana is going to be sad if they pick the seasonal fruit in the canteen because they’re rejecting the banana.

Also the quietly competent ones who make a witch’s life effortless, and need to fall apart in private to maintain their Stillness.

Those are my bitches.

Only if...

Seriously why isn't there a hovertank with twin Clan Ultra AC20's?

Favorite warhammer character, weapon, and vehicle?

Hi Leaf! Thanks for the ask I've been new enough to tumblr I literally just figured out how to check my inbox 🤦‍♀️

Favorite warhammer character has to be Nemesor Zahndrekh. His madness and delusions about everyone still being necrontyr are tragic, but he really does have a heart of gold as far as necrons go, going so far as to hold himself accountable for honorable conduct on the battlefield and the humane treatment of prisoners, even if Varguard Obyron ends up tying up the loose ends later.

Favorite weapon has to be the device the Maynarkh Dynasty used to destroy Llandu'gor the Flayer God. They basically just ripped a whole in space and time to unwrite Mr. Flayer C'tan from existence. If I remember correctly that bit of lore also includes Xun'bakyr, Mother of Oblivion, who is a kickass necron Phaerakh. Unfortunately Llandy boy got the last laugh with the flayer curse and the Silent King also told them to pack up the doomsday weapon because overusing it could destroy the whole universe. A more practical answer for favorite weapon would have to be the gauss flayer. Atomizing things and sucking them up into a vacuum cleaner device is a silly yet terrifyingly effective way to hurt things. My time playing tabletop in 8th and especially 9th taught me that few things hold up well to 20 necron warriors rapid firing lightning, especially if you use stratagems and abilities to buff them

Favorite vehicle has to be the admech onager dunecrawler. A walking forcefielded gun platform that can be kitted for anti-air and anti-armor. A close second would have to be predator tanks. The newer primaris hovertanks are neat but they sometimes feel a little too high-tech compared to the usual imperium gothic aesthetic. I really wish necrons had more of a MBT vehicle in their roster aside from the tesseract ark which is a goofy looking forge world model. The triarch stalkers are also kind of cool, and I love the lore that the doom scythe's engine produces a resonating warble in the atmosphere that drives organic beings to nausea and hallucination; truly a portent of doom.

Enemies from ID’s hovertank 3D

I verified just to send this - you mentioned that Battletech doesn't do enough combined arms, something I am particularly autistic about. Battletech has more rules for infantry (mechanized and otherwise), tanks, artillery, aerospace, hovercraft, ground effect vehicles, cavalry, battle armor (exosuit infantry essentially), submarines, etc. than 'Mechs put together combined.

Combined arms without 'Mechs is actually more effective cost-wise as a fighting force, and more lore accurate as a frontier anarchist pirate enclave, as 'Mechs are rare and expensive to maintain due to tech loss.

The big problem is that very few in the Battletech community seem to be as autistic as me about the literal volumes of rules, fake historical info, and tech readouts of fictional future infantry and vehicles Battletech has. The community tends to hyperfixate on the 'Mechs instead or homebrew up worse rules because they don't wanna read the four extra books of supplemental info.

I just want to spend 9 hours playing combat math with a force of hovertanks, helicopters and C3 network artillery, but everyone at my lgs just wants to do 'Mech v. 'Mech. They don't even do forest fire rules 😩

I should’ve specified the video game adaptations, yeah, that side of the tabletop wargaming sounds really fun

SF3: Sundown on Starmist (1983) comes with the new trade dress that accompanied the re-release of Star Frontiers under the moniker Alpha Dawn. Clyde Caldwell sets the stage on the cover. Couple observations here. One — I love a pistol with a tube connecting it to a backpack. This is residue from GI Joe toys, I think. Two — I enjoy that the lady is wearing pants but that the scorpion man alien is not. It cheers me to know that Caldwell applies his anti-pants ethos evenly across all species.

The substance of the module is a run-and-gun exploration of an alien planet. It isn’t quite so open and interesting as SF1, but it gets the job done. The central mystery is painfully daft, though, involving mind-wiped aliens, an ancient hovertank and another plot by the Sathar. In this case, though, daft doesn’t matter — if the action is fun and the explosions are big enough, who cares if it makes sense?

Not nearly enough art, though.