The Dark Mechanicus are probably 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Warhammer 40K’s biggest faction without any representation on the tabletop. Some xenos-loving players would love to see official Aeldari Exodite models or T’au Gue'vesa, but these are simple enough to convert using existing kits.

The 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dark Mechanicus are trickier to convert. Mine (although technically more of a Grey Mechanicus) combines Nurgle and Ad Mech parts, as well as borrowing liberally from the Skaven, Astra Militarum, Space Marine, Ork, and Sons of Behe🌜mat ranges. There’s a lot going on. I’ve seen players use Necromunda kits, I’ve seen players use nothing more than guitar string and loo roll. Warhammer players are creative and imaginative, but we’d still love official Dark Mechanicus kits – or at the very least, rules – to base our conversions on.

However, the 10th Edition Chaos Space Marine Codex may shatter that dream. As is standard for 40K Codices, it includes a variety of detachments so you can customise your army as you wish. Want Khorne Beserkers and close combat prowess? Probably use the Pactboun♉d Zealots. You’re an Iron Warriors player with loads of Land Raiders? The Fellhammer Siege-host is for you. Alpha Legion? Deceptors. You get the picture.

Each detachment grants your army special rules that loosely tie into the theme of its roster. Tanks get tankier in the tank detachment, sneaks get sneakier in the sneaky detach⛦ment. But the Soulforged Warpack, clearly intended to be an approximation of Vashtorr the Arkifane’s accursed daemon engines, might be a death knell for the Dark Mechanicus.

I’ve long thought Vashtorr has signalled an entry point for the Dark Mechanicus onto the tabletop. His recent lore has mentioned them by name on numerous occasions, and his heretical dealings have 🎶all the hallmarks of the evil engineers. Warp-tainted tanks? Check. Messed up cyborgs of unknowable origin? Check. Omnissiah blasphemy? Three for three.

While some speculated that Vashtorr is trying to resurrect the Men of Iron, a species of AI soldiers long since banned and (mostly) destroyed by the Imperium, I think that’s a stretch for the tabletop. Maybe it is his intention, don’t get me wrong, but I can’t see him succeeding because the call for a tabletop counterpart will be too strong. And will 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Games Workshop add another race of robots to its bulg🎶ing roster?

The Dark Mechanicus, on the other hand, has unlimited potential. Every rogue Tech Priest has a different take on the cursed machines. The 2006 novel Dark Adeptus shows a classic portrayal of Dark Mech, with cursed machinery prowling the forge world of Chaeroneia. If I remember my teenage reading correctly, the Soul Drinkers trilogy portrays a Tech Priest who creates monstrosities conjured from a glass-like material. Maybe it was a different novel, but the idea stuck in my mind, and if I ever get hold of some clear resin for my 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:3D printer, I might try to replicate it on the tabletop.

Anyway, back to ไthe Chaos Space Ma꧟rines. The Soulforged Warpack is Dark Mechanicus-lite. It buffs your daemon engines, possesses regular vehicles with the ruinous power of the warp, and is everything the Dark Mechanicus would love.

Everything about this detachment, from the rules to the flavour text, screams Dark Mechanicus. This should be a good thing, you may think. Dark 📖Mechanicus in all but name still allows you to put your converted models on the tabletop with꧃ somewhat lore accurate rules? But its inclusion in the Chaos Space Marine Codex means that the Dark Mechanicus is unlikely to get a standalone book this edition.

This one detachment, which doesn’t even mention the Dark Mechanicus by name, is all we’re getting. No official rules, no delicious lore, no new models. Maybe I should be happy we’ve got anything at all, but I’m tired of 🍌proxying my unique conversions as either Kastelans or Helbrutes depending on my mood. The Dark Mechanicus deserves better than two pages in a Codex, I’m just not sure Games Workshop agrees.

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