Legions Imperialis – Mastodon Super-Heavy Assault Transport
This is quite the release, with a whopping five new plastic vehicle kits for Legions Imperialis! We kick off our coverage with the largest vehicle in this wave: the Mastodon Super-Heavy Assault Transport, along with the Liber Strategia and Token/Objective set.
If you are not familiar with the Horus Heresy, you may not know about the Mastodon. I saw the larger Horus Heresy model 'in the flesh' at the Warhammer World exhibition, painted in the colours of both the Imperial Fists and the Sons of Horus.
The Mastodon is a massive siege transport designed to deliver large numbers of Space Marines directly into enemy fortifications. Its primary weapon is the forward-firing Siege Melta Array (anti-tank, demolisher and engine killer), which can burn through even the strongest walls to create breaches for assault. Once a breach has been made, the Mastodon's assault doors and rear ramp open to let squads pour through, with the vehicle itself serving as an armoured tunnel. Heavily armed and armoured, it carries secondary weapons such as lascannons, flamers and a Skyreaper Battery (light anti-tank, skyfire and tracking) for air defence. The interior is divided into compartments with reinforced bulkheads for protection, and can be fully sealed against chemical or viral threats. Even when destroyed, the Mastodon often remains an almost indestructible bunker, continuing to shield those inside.
Legions Imperialis – Liber Strategia
The new releases for Legions Imperialis not only cover plastic miniatures, but also a new supplement: the Liber Strategia.
This 240-page book brings together all the army lists previous released in the core rulebook and three campaign supplements into a single hard cover and adds further Iconic Formations (Formations of Legend) along with the new entries in the army list from this release. It therefore covers all current formations and units for the Legiones Astartes, Solar Auxilia, Mechanicum Taghmata, Dark Mechanicum, Collegia Titanica and Knight Households the army lists.
Pre-order opens today on August 23rd, and the book will be available in store on September 6th. The RRP is 40 GBP / 51,25 EUR.
Legions Imperialis – Spartan Assault Tanks
On Tuesday, we discussed the Land Raider Proteus Explorator, and today, we will introduce its larger counterpart: the Spartan Assault Tank for Legions Imperialis.
We saw the plastic kit of this model in 2022, and last year the Spartan Assault Tanks were added to Legions Imperialis as a squadron of four vehicles, with an RRP of 31.50 GBP / €41 EUR.
Legions Imperialis – Land Raider Proteus Explorator Squadron
In anticipation of the upcoming releases for Legions Imperialis, we are going to fill some gaps in our reviews, beginning with the Land Raider Proteus.
The iconic Space Marine vehicle is available in Legions Imperialis as a Land Raider Proteus Explorator Squadron of six vehicles at a RRP of 31,50 GBP / 41 EUR.
Warhammer – The Big Summer Preview Show 2025 Part 1
The Big Summer Preview Show was held on Friday of the Warhammer Open Tacoma weekend. And this certainly deserves the name BIG Summer PREVIEW, as this was not just a few teasers but a proper motherlode of upcoming releases. And they started the preview just like we do our podcast - what did you recently hobby did you do?
We're going to go through the announcements not in chronological order, but split into the Grim Dark of Warhammer 40k and 30k in part 1 and the Warhammer Fantasy systems in part 2.
Legions Imperialis – Fast Attack Troops
I know, Legions were huge and the Fists were about 100k Astartes strong, so enough for some assault troops and obviously vehicles like Bikes, Speeders and such. But I didn't feel like having fast attack troops with the Imperial Fists felt "fluffy". And with the way Legions Imperialis forces are built, a formation of an allied Space Marine legion would be an interesting addition and create some variation for Painting.
The fitting formation would be the Legion Sky-Hunter Phalanx from the The Great Slaughter supplement.
It covers four compulsory Vanguard detachments, that are limited to Scimitar Jetbikes, Land Speeders or Javelin Squadrons. Outriders may only be taken from the optional detachment. The Light Armour is currently limited to the Sabre tanks in Legions Imperialis.
Legions Imperialis – Mechanicum Karacnos Assault Tank Squadron
In addition to the armoured transport of the Triaros, the Mechanicum now has access to the Karacnos Assault Tank in Legions Imperialis as well.
Using the chassis of the Triaros Armoured Conveyor, the Karacnos is an uparmoured variant to be used in assault operations. The transportation compartment have been replaced by the Karacnos Mortar Battery system. These batteries fire radioactive warheads into the enemy, but that is not covered beside regular rules for mortars in their unit entry in Rise of the Dark Mechanicum supplement.
The Karacnos Assault Tank Squadron of four vehicles will go on pre-order on April 19th and will be released on May 3rd for a RRP of 31,50 GBP or 41 EUR.
Horus Heresy – Mechanicum Heavy Support Force
Early in february we saw the teaser for the next Horus Heresy boxed set - the Mechanicum Heavy Support Force! A bit as a surprise, because we mostly saw regular battle groups so far with Legiones Astartes or Solar Auxilia, now the Mechanicum even gets some tactical reinforcement.
Interesting combination regarding the content, as we get variants of existing kits with the Karacnos and Thanatar, and an entire new plastic kit with the Krios Battle Tank / Venator, for a price of 110 GBP/ 145 EUR.
Adeptus Titanicus – Legio Astraman Ad Arma Pt. XVI
With the finished bases packed in the boxes, I went off to the paint meetup last year, and this was my project for inbetween the other things to get either into the mood for painting or as a palette cleanser.
I used 3d printed bits and parts from the Civitas Imperialis ruins set, along with spackle and cork, to finish the bases.
From there I went the regular route, adding the texture paste (used the remainder of the Armageddon Dunes and Armageddon Dust, but from now on using Dark Earth by Vallejo) and let it dry properly.
Adeptus Titanicus – The Dark Mechanicum stalks…
We've covered the Dark Mechanicum units for Legions Imperialis and Adeptus Titanicus, and the smaller Stalker Constructs "only" include two of each of the three different constructs, so I went for a second box to boost them up to four per unit.
It was important to me, to swap around the legs and poses as much as possible, to create the most variety from that set. With the Scintillax "Cyclops" Noospheric Stalker and Tenebrax "Archer" Battle Stalker, that wasn't the biggest issue as they have weapons options and that alone prevented them from being a clone army.
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