#serperos heavy stalker

[titanomancy]

Did you catch the sneaky neutron laser Krios lurking in the background of today's Dark Mechanicum rules preview?

I did. I see you, sneaky neutron laser Krios.

[cursed-40k-thoughts]

Serperos 'Overlord' Heavy Stalkers

[titanomancy]

I suspect that today's preview was originally intended to be the big reveal of the Mechanicum Battle Group, but with that preempted by the leak and subsequent official reveal for the re-inaugural Heresy Thursday, there was a distinctly Mechanicum-shaped hole in the schedule.

Which is really just a great excuse to move up the reveal of the forthcoming range of Dark Mechanicum kits. Not quite as degenerate as the daemon engines of the 41st millennium, the brand new Serperos Heavy Stalkers still manage to look fundamentally unwholesome without being completely encrusted in baroque barnacles.

There's some great design direction that ties them in with elements of the Vulturax and Vorax automata (both of which will be available in the Legions Imperialis battlegroup, and are on my short list for future Age of Darkness releases)

As an aside, a lot of what we've seen from the plastic range to date has been broadly of the "early" Heresy aesthetic, when there was little aside from color scheme and insignia to differentiate traitor from loyalist. It's only a matter of time until the really wild late Heresy stuff starts to make its way through. These proto-daemon engines are just the start.