GW’s Adeptus Mechanicus Get New Onagers Dunecrawlers Ready!
April 10, 2015 by brennon
The Onager Dunecrawler firing platforms are nearly ready for combat thanks to Games Workshop and Warhammer 40,000. If you want to drop a lot of firepower onto your enemies then these could be your walkers of choice for the Adeptus Mechanicus...
Fire For Effect!
These are actually some very cool walkers that on closer inspection are a lot nicer than I first thought when we originally saw the leaks a few weeks ago.
I love the look of the Sentinel-like tops mixed in with the legs that seem to emphasis the Mechnicus feel. I think the idea of 'spiders' adds an interesting angle of the weird and wonderful to the Skitarii and keeps them away from being anything like 'human' which is neat.
Power Up The Defences
As well as the mighty Dunecrawler we have a piece of terrain that is no doubt built to melt massive amounts of armour into a mound of slag. Check out the Plasma Obliterator...
My first thought is that this is a pretty terrible looking piece of terrain that could have done with having the gun more interestingly integrated to the rest of the tower. However, on closer inspection it isn't actually that bad. It's very Warhammer 40,000 which I'm now kind of learning to forgive when it comes to their creations.
Will you be picking up these?
"I love the look of the Sentinel-like tops mixed in with the legs that seem to emphasis the Mechnicus feel..."
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Mmmmm, they are ok. Just think I’m to enamored with FW mechanicum.
the little troops look the only bit i’d look to carry over
That basically looks like non-demonic cousin of Chaos Defiler.
That was my exact first thought.
Well I guess that’s where Chaos got their mechanical daemon engines from; the dark mechanicum, with everything mechanical all stemming from the same source. Put a daemon inside it and you get a chaos defiler.
Onager Dunecrawler firing platforms lack the detail of the previous releases, which is a shame: a little too plain. Not my cup of tea but keeping in mind they are firing platforms they are very functional and exactly what I pictured in some of the novels I’ve read when these sorts of machines are mentioned.
£40 is a harsh retail price. Knock 25% off and you’re good though.
DESPERATE for plastic servators.
I’ll take 3! Hopefully they aren’t priced too high.
I don’t think I’ll ever have enough to justify a full Dragoon squad.
look too Orky/necron to me.
not so sure with this new GW faction think FW do it ton’s better, may pick up a box for bits but thats it i think.
Plasma Obliterator sold out on the US site already, lol.
a onager is a wild Ass, the roman seige engine was named for it due to its vicious kick…… GW demonstrating a sense of humour?
I think this looks great and fits well with the rest of the armys theme. Seems pretty well thought out and has a good bit of options with it. But damn that price. Only thing that keeps me from getting back into 40k with these guys.
Meh.
Its like GW wants to ease down on the melee fixation, the mail i got today was talking only about big guns … cant remember them putting much emphasis on that outside the subject of orks. Not sure why these needed legs though, the turret would have looked alot better on a tank.
Doubtful. Everyone is still armed with cattle prod/tuning forks.
If I’m understanding these things correctly, there should be a lot more bells and whistles and gears and such. If I were ever to buy up some of this stuff I would also stock up on wind-up wrist and pocket watches and other tiny mechanical gadgets from yard sales, to build in some of old school mechanical wizardry. They just all look like second string necrons to me.
Yeah its definatly something the space skellies would use just to intimidate … looks forced for this faction
8-track necrons 🙂
“They just all look like second string necrons to me.”
If the rumours about the true nature of the Omnissiah are true, they kinda are. There are certainly some stylistic similarities between the factions.
They have an imprisoned Necron god, no ? (The Emperor put him there). The Dragon or some such?
the Void Dragon, captured by the Emperor long ago and imprisoned beneath Mars. If I remember my fluff correctly, it’s been guarded for years, but the rites that imprison him need to be renewed, and the book that contained the rites vanished 10,000 years ago. Can’t find the book, the Dragon is likely to awake… Between secret research into the Dragon and trying to harness the power of the warp the Mechanicum has a lot of secrets…
Old fluff had the dragon on Mars, Mechanicum in the Horus Heresy Series said the Emperor imprisoned him there but that was before foundation of the Mechanicum, so he is not imprisoned by the machine cult, although he is apparently gathering followers within the cult and it is seen as a heretical cult. The original Necron codex made several references to Necron interest in Mars, inc a deep penetration of imperial space reaching Mars before it was stopped. Subsequent Necron codices have remove the C’tan from existing as free beings, so that put a skew on the background and makes… Read more »
You speak of a Taser Goad with the following rules: +2ST, roll a 6-to-hit and you cause 3 hits instead of 1… (not entirely sure if you those hits are passed on, or only valid on a single target)
The idea is it stores up energy and is unleashed into the enemy but then stored back into the weapon. It’s super green-friendly.
Imagine a gun with those properties :p
Looking at these two, I think I’m seeing the next step here… a walking space marine chapel with a 500mm cannon protected by armored saint’s skulls.
What is the one thing you do not put on a desert vehicle that probably weighs > 30 tons?
Sharp pointy feet *sigh*
That’s probably why they put sand shoes as an optional for the kit that fit over the spikey claw feet and even retract on cool little pistons up onto the main leg plates. They do think of everything sometimes 😉
Still though… lol
Overall not a bad model, just not what I would get for my collection of unpainted minis.
Just so you know, there are certain reasons why a “walker” i.e. legs would be better than wheels/tracks – that is urban style warfare. It’s still a walking weapons platform.
/ Just realised a lot of the extra bionic arms in the infantry kits can find their way onto your Imperial Guard officers etc :p
Big sentinal parts added to some defiler legs – they are not even trying anymore.
I do not want to sound like a hater I have recently got back in to 40k and love the Adeptus Mechanicus but a few points of notice.
Onager Dunecrawler:
1. The Turret is too big to fit in to the style of the Adeptus Mechanicus compared to the Ironstrider style.
2. Adeptus Mechanicus with heavy stubber come on leave it out!
3. Why does it look like a 6 year old’s toy.
Plasma Obliterator
I would buy this building and take the plasma weapon off, use the rest of the model as a normal building but at £50 not for me Im afraid.
For you, more like Ineptus Mechanicus then 🙂 .
As usual, GW splits the waters with the new release. I love the new Mechanicus! They are Steampunk in 40 K, effectively 30K. 🙂 Are FW’s better? Who cares? Now you have even more options and a very high quality plastic alternative to the advanced awesome resins we already have gotten to know. Other than the odd paint pot, I’ve shied away from buying any GW models for a long time. My CSM Hellturkey is still in its shrink wrapped box, waiting for me to add it to my CSM force. These releases however tickle my collector nerves. The amount… Read more »
Baffled by the comments about it looking like a Sentinel. I wonder if people are just *looking* for problems and intentionally refusing to think things through. Firstly a lot of the Ad Mech things, as described in the books, are clunky and functional. There is no aesthetics too them. This obviously isn’t always the case it depends. Plenty of the epic original models demonstrate this. Secondly, last time I checked Sentinels originated and are still mass produced on Mars/Forge Worlds. Why on earth would there not be cross over. The Sentinel may well have been back engineered from the Crawler.… Read more »
I like the legs (a shame there are only four), but the “turret” looks like a KV2 abomination with a phone booth tumour sticking out the side of it. Would have been nice if, just once, they had designed something with real world applications: a low-slung turret just higher than the legs, and swept way back to hold the banks of capacitors and the power plant required for that weapons system. Is it asking too much? Does everything need to be designed by a twelve-year-old? I would concede that walkers have their place in the urban environment, or in mountainous… Read more »
Actually, now that I think of it, this would look way better with a disc-like turret, a small fixed bow weapon, and two big weapon arms. It would then be the coolest sci-fi crab ever. Too bad it costs so much… that would be a fun project, maybe something @deaddave might tackle.
Honestly I think both are a bit ridiculous. The walker looks like a salvaged space marines dreadnought grafted onto mechanical spider legs. The turret thing doesn’t look like it could hit anything on the ground, would be weird for an anti-air platform and too weedy for orbital defence. And it’s way too ornate to be mass produced.