#darkmech

[kitto-paint]

Here's a little angi dude

[farsight-the-char]

Apparently a newer White Dwarf issue did another series of pages dedicated to hyping up the Darkmech and Vashtorr.

Apparently there has been a rise in Tech Heresy and sightings of Warp Mechanicum forces, some directly under Vashtorr's authoirty. The completion of Wyrmwood is attributed to this.

Iron Warriors and Black Legion particularly among the Chaos Marines, for obvious reasons.

Other quotes and stuff from across the Galaxy...

and interestingly, warp tainted Ironkyn, and a Battlesuit turning against it's cadre because of sabatoge.

[leveractionlesbian]

GOODNESS ME I LOVE THEM

[farsight-the-char]

Why not both?

friendly reminder that the age of technology is coming to an end and a new age of blood magic and dark rituals will take its place

[iviin-855]

Since imperial cult worship is allowed in the t'au empire do you think there is an heretek sect of the cult mechanicus that saw the T'au's fancy, fancy tech and went "we have to make sure the spirits of that beautiful tech is well cared for also gime gime"?

[celestial-fang]

Dark Mechanicum

I think that compared to the Admech, the DarkMech are not limited to metal in their augmentations- their forms can blossom like abstract art out of organic material.

[kitto-paint]

Goobers

[farsight-the-char]

For The Forge of Souls!

For The Warp Mechanicum!

For King Vashtorr!

something about this illustration from playboy september 1965

[farsight-the-char]

Let's Go LGBTs!

Mechanicum Battlegroup coming to preorder this Saturday.

Knight Battle Group, Castigator and Acheron, a double Cerastus Knight box, is also coming.

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Devestation of Tallarn Legions Imperialis book and a bunch of the "Epic Scale" Tanks also coming.

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Dwarf Made to Order stuff for TOW.

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Speaking of Dwarves, White Dwarf 503 has a heavy Leagues of Votann focus (might get).

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A "Divine" model reveal coming tomrrow, as well as a mechanicum focus on Warcom, among the usual.

[leveractionlesbian]

6 models down only.... 15 to go........ yaaaaay!

probably most excited to finish my tech priest enginseer. im gonna be doing a lot of kitbashing with chaos and drukhari to make him extra chaos-y! already got a couple bits from a death guard box on him

[cursed-40k-thoughts]

How would one access smutcrons on the Noosphere? Would you need something like a VPN and a Torrent? You know, for science.

You have to purchase a VPN from either the Dark Mechanicum or The Drukhari (Darkmech VPN subscriptions are cheaper but Drukhari VPNs contain less daemons). After that, you need to access CorsairBay, a combination of torrenting website and black market shopping service hosted by Duke Sliscus. The authorities have been trying to shut the site down for years, but the servers are within the Duke's flagship, and basically impossible to get to.

[farsight-the-char]

I was thinking of Demon Engine Cavalry, like the Lord Discordant, but your ideas work too

Maybe Chaos Guard with mutant steeds as a counterpart to Loyalist Rough Riders, too.

I realy hope that this is the start of a trend for more "Cavalry" units in Chaos Space Marine design. Riding into battle on other living creatures is something so absolutely out of place in a science-fiction setting that it circles around to being cool again. But unlike the gimmic of the guard units, or the Squigs that are just orkish destruction grown in a different form, there is some actual relevant symbolism going on with Chaos.

Riding a beast into battle is essentially fighting with borrowed strenght. You might have managed to subdue the beast or even negotiated for its cooperation, but in the end its the beast doing and and not you. Isn't that a fascinating mirror to their deals with the Dark Gods and the borrowed powers they all wield? And who is truly in control? The one hoding the reigns or the beast who has the last say in where the trip goes?

Nurgle obviously won't get any as cavalry want to go fast and he sure does not. But Khorne can easily get more of these, and an more sleek and elgeant version of this for the Emperor's Children and Slaanesh doesn't sound too out of place either. Tzeench can get a flying equivalent of it, definetly would give Thousand Sons a proper Fast Attack option.

[machinespirited]

We need Chaos Sisters of Battle and Xenos Armies alongside the DarkMech.

Show me a Sister of Battle fallen to Khorne. Show me a T'au who can touch the Warp enough that Tzeench has wormed x's way into its mind. Show me the bloated corpse of a Hive Tyrant, its form swarming with Nurglites as the army begins to sprout cordyceps fungus.

Grabbing adn shaking Games Workshop. GIVE IT TO MEEEEEE

[transmechanicus]

TINY KRIOS SPOTTED!!!!!!!!! also Wow these darkmech thangs are big O_O

[tenebris-metallum]

LIGHTHOUSE - 2024

Drawing my DarkMech Khornate Vashtorran boygirl and doing some Cronenberg shit to him. Very proud of how the flesh pulling apart on her side turned out :3

Yes the background is an anarchist flag on purpose

[farsight-the-char]

I say Darkmech could be combined with "Chaos Guard", and just have it be one book that can lean into certain specialized lists.

With Dark Admech being a real possibility in the near future with the leaks being shown pretty accurate, what would you expect and/or want them to be like?

I think it’ll probably just be 1 or 2 units added to the CSM codex honestly, a full codex kinda seems like overkill considering all the demon engines and vehicles that would overlap. I’d want possessed Skitarii as an elite option with a bunch of warp weapons and fleshmetal mutations. I’d want a corrupted Tech Priest, and mutant Servitors. Maybe some robots like Kastelans with horns growing on their armor or flesh growing from parts within.