Adeptus Ridiculous - ADEPTUS MECHANICUS VEHICLES: AS THE OMNISSIAH WILLS | Warhammer 40k Lore

Episode Date: May 10, 2023

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Welcome everyone to another episode of the Adeptus Ridiculous podcast. My name is D.K. Diamantis. His name is Bricky. Our special guest is Kiryoff. So we're going to learn about some 40K stuff, probably vehicles or nights or something like that. But before we do, if you enjoy today's episode, head on over to the Patreon and consider supporting us, patreon.com slash Adeptus Ridiculous, where you can get access to the Discord. Blupers if they happen.

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Holy, this book is great. I love this book. I can get curiosity. heard it as well. I am going to I am probably going to buy a night after this because it's so good. But anyway, check that all right. Yes, good point. Though we're not talking.

I thought you were going to say fund the sequel. I thought that was what he was going to be. Personally fund a sequel. You know, you know what? There's the thing. I want to see GW sales numbers and I want to see like book club released from Adeptus Ridiculous at this time frame. Night sales

increase by 30% or assassin pickups increased by 30%. It's a, whew, it's a whole thing. Anyway, speaking of large vehicles, thank you, how's it going? That, okay, that's my favorite intro slash segue that anyone's ever done.

I classify myself as a large vehicle, so it's perfect. Hello. As is standard for me showing up, we're going to have a look at a collection. A variety of different vehicles today. If you're expecting things like, I don't know, some sort of cohesion from one thing to the next, then you're out of look.

You've come to the wrong place. Oh yeah, you've come to the wrong place. If you're expecting things that are, I don't know, sane, for instance, or that don't, in one case, almost break the laws of physics, then again, you're in the wrong place. Today we're going to have a little cheeky look

at the Adeptus, Mechanicus vehicles and a few choice offerings from the Mechanicum side of things. So the current Adeptus Mechanicus stuff, which is 40K and the Mechanicum, which is Horacee stuff. Ooh. Okay. I was going to say, who comes here expecting sanity? Well, yeah, that's fair. Who is listening to Adeptus predictions?

Like, oh, wow, they're not sane today. What a shock. Like, what a shock. Oh, look at that. The apes on the media are banging their chest together and going Warhammer, Warhammer, Warhammer. Like, wow, it's the usual day. Why are the dancing monkeys just dancing? Why are the dancing monkeys taking Skatari and putting them in large crawlers as batteries?

Which will get to me. Sorry to jump ahead. It's the best way to do it. It's the only way that works. They've tried everything else. And sometimes you've just got to stick a lad. into an ancient machine and use him until he shrivels up

and becomes just a dry, desiccated corpse. I will say, I will say, I always forget how much damage the Mad Meg do with, like, pure radiation. Oh, yeah, they love it. They absolutely love just irradiating any battlefield they get anywhere near.

It's just like, well, we could, you know, you could just shoot things and they die, But it would be even better if nothing could walk here for the next 2,000 years. That's ideally what we're looking for. So, yeah, they love a bit of irradiated ammunition. We're going to start off with the Dune Crawler. Now, there's a little bit of debate here because I've been told I've pronounced it wrong twice. The first word is O-N-A-G-E-R.

I've always said Onager, but then I got told it was Onager, so I started saying, honorager instead and I immediately got shouted at and told that that was incorrect. It was onager. So you can pick whichever you like. Dune Crawler is probably the one to stick with. And we're starting with this one because it's a classic from our old friend, Arcan Land. You know, I was literally just about to ask, is it called a Dune Crawler because it crawls on Dune's or is it that stupid GW naming scheme where there's a guy named Dune who made a crawler? Well, this time round. This is actually done.

I think they spoke about this in Master of Mankind. I think he found the schematics for this thing, did he? Yes, this is one of his. It's, it's, it's like, he's kind of kind of, I can't. I can't work out whether, whether he actually has his name in it the same way that the land raider is the land raider for silly reasons. But it's based on, Arkin, June. Yeah, his little brother, Arkin, Dune. It's based on something called the Mars Universal Land Engine,

which if it wasn't for the involvement of Arkand Land, you would assume that Universal Land engine meant that that's because it walks on the land. But much like the Land Rader, it was actually created by Arkand Land as a transport. So, I mean, you can go either way. Either it's called the Land Engine because he made it, because 40K is silly, or it's because it walks. It's entirely up to you. I suspect I don't know which one it is, to be honest.

I gotta be honest, with the way this thing looks, it almost looks like orcish. Like the way the mini looks, it almost looks like one of them orc, what don't want to say? Kind of like a kill a can, but not as... Def dread. Yeah, or something like that.

It looks orkish with how busy it is and like the sort of eye slit and just the mass amount of guns and legs and stuff. The isolate is very Kilcan-like. I think that's the thing that I'm also kind of registering is the icelet. Yeah. Also, it is really orcish

to not have like, just to have like funny motorized legs. Rockinstone. Rockin stone. Rocking stone. Oh, right. If you didn't know he is a voice changer now. Anyway, continue.

Prayers in chat and comments for shy editing. Emperor protect. Emperor protect. Only shy. She's the only one who needs it. So the June caller basically starts out as a transport. Arcan Land built it. And because, of course, it's impossible to have anything nice, it ended up being absolutely plastered in weapons. The weird thing is that it's like it starts out as a transport,

but it doesn't have any transport capability in terms of 40K. Instead, it's just covered in guns. So there's a bunch of different things. Eradication beamers you can have, phosphoblasters, neutron lasers, anti-air missile launchers. Also, my favourite thing, just because of the sheer concept of it,

a Gatling rocket launcher. That is an option on one of these. Ooh! Which just sounds hardcore. Oh boy How would you load that thing up A Gatling rocket launcher It's very carefully

You just have like a belt of rockets And you just feed it in And do Dock do do do do Do like what the Yeah it's very carefully Load that Don't drop it

Do not drop the belt of rocket I won't I won't lie as far as As questions are concerned We're going to have a hell of a lot more than those Oh yeah It gets like it just gets worse. So the eradication beamer, it's very, it's very, very simply named because it,

it just vaporizes or atomizes things that are nearby. And if it's, if it's just at the right distance, then it breaks whatever it hits down, like, like at the molecular level. So really, no matter whether you're close or sort of middle distance, it's just going to make you not be there anymore, which, again, I like, It's one of those things where the Mechanicus are very full on with their insane weapons. It's all like old archaeotech and stuff that's salvaged from the Dark Age of Technology. And it's all pretty horrific, I think it's fair to say. Oh, yeah.

Also, can that thing atomize anything? Like, it doesn't matter if it's Ceramite. It doesn't matter if it's chaos. It just no matter what. just a general purpose atomizer. Yeah, everything is made up of atoms, and that includes... Chaos, yeah.

That includes everything. Though, I'm pretty sure, it's kind of funny, because I think Necron weapons also atomize at the molecular level, I think. Yeah, that makes sense for necrown. There's a bit of crossover there.

So the... What the hell is this? Oh. So a Gatling rocket launcher experimental weapon did exist in 1950s America. Oh, God. The 1950s were a wild time for like experimental weapons,

weren't they? I mean, to be honest, that just looks like something that you could put one of those on a June crawler and it would look like it was always meant to be there. Yeah, that does look like it actually belongs

on the dune crawler. It really, it really does. That's awesome. I love that that exists. Well, not for whoever undoubtedly got horribly killed by it when it went wrong, but, you know, just as a concept. I was going to say field test for that thing.

We're probably a disaster. I'm going to stand all the way over there. You deal with this. I don't want anything to do with it, thanks. So the June crawler has got a crew of two. It's only two of them. One of them was a previous Skittari Ranger that is, like, they're basically just kind of meshed into it.

It's kind of this like symbiotic thing where they are put into the tank, they become part of the tank. So the Ranger is the one that does the shooting, and the driver is a Skittari Vanguard, which means that he can last a bit longer in there because they're slightly more resilient. But they do just die over time. I'm pretty sure the thing just like...

Yeah, the leaks radiation, basically, and it's just like, if you're the driver, you just kind of die, right? Oh. Yeah, yeah. They get installed into it. they can never leave and eventually they just die and as soon as they die they're replaced with another two because the tank kills them as they operate it.

So it's kind of like a reverse dreadnought where like a dreadnought keeps a dead person alive for a really long time and this one is just like yeah, no, you get installed and you're pretty much going to get irradiated to death and we're just going to swap you out over and over again. It's a battery pack. Oh, it actually is a reverse dreadnought. It literally is.

Instead of preserving the life of someone who's close to death, it just takes too healthy, bit of murder. If you were enough admec where you were just like completely no more human flesh, you are just metal, you are just robotics,

would you be able to last longer in here? Because I mean, radiation wouldn't be able, doesn't really affect like a fully machine, man, right? Maybe a bit longer, but the thing with the ad, stuff is they've all got to have organic brains, haven't they? There's no, like, true AI.

You can't have, like, computational stuff. Because that's heresy. And, yeah, you wouldn't want to go around doing that. So for things like servitors and vanguards and rangers and stuff, they still end up having to have, like, that little bit of, like, mortal stuff. Plus, like, electronics can be wrecked by radiation as well. So either way, either way you get put in one of those, whether it's for a short time or a long time,

it's definitely, like, that time's going to come to an end, and there's nothing you can do about it. Should I said robots that were sending into the Chernobyl reactor died in five minutes? Yes. Yeah. So, we started with that because, you know, it's got Arcan Land's name on it for better or worse.

But we're going to stick with the theme of legs for the moment, because there is another legged vehicle, technically two, that the mechanicas have access to. which is the Iron Strider. And the Iron Strider is one of my favorite things because it has something called an Iron Strider engine. And the Iron Strider engine is, it's like the peak example of why the Mechanicus is just,

it's one of like those kind of rare, in a way, perfect factions in terms of its background. So the Iron Strider engine is something that was created by a tech priest called Alderbach Ving in early M33. So, Arkin Lion Arkin Iron As soon, the way you started

that you were like, it was created by and I was like, if you say Iron Strider, I'm going to scream. It was created by Mr. Iron Strider. You're like, it was created by Admec, I would have screamed. I wouldn't do that to you a second time. I already got you once with the Lasgun one

when we were doing the Land Raider episode. Ah yes, Arkin Laz Yeah His name was Las Gunn First name Lazz, last name Gunn That's why we call it that Oh, still I'm still so happy that I'd you go in for a second for that one

So this this Iron Strider engine Is it's basically an impossibility Because it is almost Almost a perpetual motion engine So like once it starts going It never stops going and it never runs out of power, which it does not work with, like, the laws of thermodynamics and stuff.

So once it starts walking, it just continues to power itself infinitely. Except it's 40K. So once the dude died, no one knew how to make any more. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Is this the one where they never turn it off because they're afraid it's going to break and they don't know how to make any more of them or fix them? Yes. They won't turn them off.

because if they do, it might not turn back on again and they can't make another one, so they just have to walk endlessly. Oh yeah. So they just keep them in like a hamster wheel when they're not using them. Well, that's one of the things that I love about these is the fact that they like,

they search for targets. They will just walk for years because they can't stop. If they don't, if they stop, they might stop working. So once they start moving, they just walk and walk and walk and walk. After a minute, it's not 100% clear on whether they can't turn them off

or whether they can run for a bit without walking. Because otherwise, when they're being transported from planet to planet, I assume that they either run laps of the ship or they do have literal hamster wheels. Like there are iron strider wheels on the inside of the ship so that they can just keep going. Because the engine only seems to work when the thing is actually moving.

So when they're dropped off, they're dropped off in insanely hostile terrain and they just go for years. Without stopping, without pausing, it's so, it's so peak 40K having a machine that you can't turn off.

If the ad mech were smart, they would hook up these hamster wheels to like a power generator and just let them go. Just leave them there, running and just, you know, like the way the power, you know, you could power up the ship

and everything. They just run forever. They're never going to stop, right? It's an infinite source of energy. I, okay. While that does sound like a good idea, I'm imagining most to all the things they do are like plasma reactors. And I'm not quite sure if like a kinetic force robot would even, even have the dropiest drop of power. Oh, come on. It's 40K. And that's where you're drawing the line. Yes. Okay. Also, I bet that there is no, there's no like, there's no, like, there's no, like, STC for that. And they're not going to invent it because it's ADMEC.

Oh, yeah, that's true. They don't already have the option to do it, so they're not going to be the ones to, uh, to potentially, to potentially mess things up by creating something new. They just leave them war. I love the idea of some one dude in the background of a ship going, you know what, if we, if we, if, I'm sure if we built this big wheel for them to walk in and just getting a horrific look from all the other tech priests as like a herd of iron striders,

just run past them, go through the door, and then every half an hour they come back again, just endlessly circling because if you stop them, they may never come back. And you don't want to be the guy who is like, I'm sure it be fine if we turn it off for a second because it's an insanely valuable piece of technology that can't be replicated.

and you know, you just know, that no one will have tried to make a new one. No one will have, like, gone, well, I can't make these, but surely we can figure out how it was done. It's not going to happen. Hamster wheel STC lost the time. Yes, indeed, shy. Yeah. It walks for long enough and for, like, kind of, it's necessary to keep it going for long enough, that it has a single task servitor that is part of it that just steers it.

and that generally fails before the actual engine does or before the vehicle itself does. Where's the guy? I don't see him in that photo. He is like strapped to the front of it. I know he's like on the mini. Yeah. There we go. Okay, so here's the mini. You can kind of see D.K., he's the black bodysuit guy.

He's looking through the blue lights, like a telescope almost. Oh my God. I didn't notice that before. He's just a dude. He's just stuck in there. What's he doing? What's the little guy doing in there? He's driving.

He's just a little guy. Oh, wow. I genuinely thought that the gunner on top was doing everything. I thought it was just like a chicken walker suit where he's just, he's got the guns and he's got the. Oh, and he's even got some little T-Rex arms for little grabby-grabbs. Yeah, there's his face. See? Oh, yeah.

It's so weird. It's so weird. I, oh my God, I didn't know he was there. Also, can we appreciate real quick the fact that, um, the, the dual las canons on that second picture have like old school targeting like dots. Yeah. On the top. Yeah.

Whatever the hell that is. Like, like, just like a little, you know, like on the top of a pistol. What the hell? Yeah. It's, I, I love, I love ad mac weapons because it's the most insane. like, they look like flintlock pistols and stuff that you'd see in Pirates of the Caribbean or something. They look like old, old tech, which technically, a lot of it is old tech, but it's not like, it's like old future tech.

Yeah, it's old future tech. It's future tech that is technically old, but also, also is, it's kind of like designed to look way older than it actually is anyway, which is just, I don't know, there's some. something about just the whole aesthetic of them that it's just really bizarre really cool. It's really weird, but it's really cool. Speaking of which, there is a Sidonian Dragoon variant of the Iron Shrider,

which is basically the same thing, but the guy's got a massive lance instead. Oh, let's go! The taser goad, I think is what it's called, or something close to that. Yeah, they've got the taser lance or radium jesail. Yeah, did the admec for

fun ever have like jousting matches with these things? Fun does not serve the Omnisiah. Oh, that's true. He's gonna say what? What? These aren't knights. These aren't knights. Yeah, that's true.

That's true. I will say, um... So what's that like a giant cattle prod, basically? Pretty much. He just, he just runs up and goes, it's literally just a lands that you stabbing to people and it electrocutes them to death, um, which is awesome. The radium jesail, because it's radium,

funnily enough, yet another thing that the admec have that kills its wielder over time. Oh no, not again! If you've got the radium gun, then it'll murder you. Of course it will. Of course it will. The chances are that not only, in the case of like the dragoons, not only is the servitor going to die

before the actual vehicle is destroyed or breaks down due to age, but the guy on it is going to die well before the vehicle does because he's firing a weapon that irradiates him every time he uses it. So it's not fun. It's not fun being Admec. The gun looks so cool. Whoa. Oh, that gun is so red.

Wait, I love the fact. So it's like Admec are like a combo of mechanical-enthused, like, Tibetan monks, right? but then their armory is like western cyberpunk. It's like cyberpunk Wild West. Mixed with like 1920s sci-fi, you know? And I like how that gun has all that's like bronze filigree and stuff on it. But it's it's a rifle with a revolver chamber on the top. It looks amazing though.

Who cares? Look, it's got like the hammer pullback thing right there too. looking old muskets. It does have the hammer bowl with the... This is so stupid. I love it. They just have some of the best weapon designs. They just do.

It's so ornate and so over the top. And at the same time, so likely to just kill you outright just by holding it, which you'd think is not great. But no, they love it. They love a bit of radiation, even if it kills their own guys. Can I post the transuranic arc bus? The what? 100%.

It's so good. I think I've seen that where it needs the stand because it's such a long gun. It's got just like carrying handle on the top, but it's like, it's like long taller than a marine. It's insanity. Also, what's the thing on the end of the muzzle, I guess? What is that circular thing? It's a loudener. I'm sorry.

The silencer is unacceptable. It's a loud in there. Is that, is that actually? Like, because this is 40K. I don't know if you're joking or not. I am joking, but now I'm, I'm starting to convince, I'm starting to, like, I'm starting to gaslight myself into believing that it's true. I think that.

I think that sounds, that sounds good. That's, let's stick with that. Shia, shy got me on the wavelength. We're sharing the brain cells. She got the Simpsons reference. She got the Simpsons reference. I'm proud. Oh, man.

I didn't get the Simpsons reverence. I never get the reference though. I'm with you. I'm with you. I was right. Also, can I request a short break so I can use the bathroom so I don't have to. Only if you let me play one sound effect. I really have to peece a fine,

do it. All right, I'm done. That wasn't so bad. All right, I'll be right back. Yeah, that's what I thought was going to be. Yeah, it's a little bit better. Me, me as the ad me as the ad meck guy stuck inside the goddamn Dune Crawler.

All right. What is on the next vehicle? I'm afraid we're going to move out of cool territory now. Well, as you know, this one might be, this could be debatable, right? This could be a bit of a, there could be something of a war

going in the comments when it comes to the Scorpius Disintegrator and the Scorpius June rider. Wait, these aren't cool? Like, those names are dope. Well, well, the legs on the on the on the on the on the on the on the on the on the on the on the dune crawler and the strider it's quite a look right it's it's a strong look and they did not go for that with their main their other main battle tank and transport instead they went for the the brick it's a literal graft approach i i'd argue it's a little bit more of like an amphibious assault vehicle like it looks like it looks like it like it looks like water buoys like you know where you ride up out of the water onto the land I'm sorry This thing is atrocious.

This is the ugliest thing I've ever seen. I kind of like it. No, it's a floating... You would like it because it looks like your name. A brick. Yeah? There's no argument. That's it.

It's just a hover brick. Now, to be fair, to be fair, D.K., the transport one is arguably worse. Oh. Because it's just something that... I mean, I know you wouldn't actually see this hitting the beaches at Normandy because they didn't do hovercraft. They just did normal landing craft.

Well, right, but if you just made it a regular boat, that's essentially like a wartime transport that they, you know, storm the beaches of Normandy with, you know? That's kind of why I like it. Me and Shire in agreement, we both kind of like it for that reason. I kind of like this one. I like this one better than just the straight-up brick one, because it actually does look like that sort of like beach wartime transport thing,

but just the straight-up, like, solid-ass brick is awful. See, I'm like, I like, I like the idea of it, and I like the fact they went with the idea, but it's the execution that I don't like. I think it's because it has, like, the air cushion underneath, or at least it looks like it from the outside, right? if it had like the kind of grab plates that you get off the repulsor or something if the bottom of it looked a bit more high tech

I think I would look at the top half of it and go oh that's cool they're like mixing mixing like super new shiny tech or like stuff that is decidedly futuristic with this kind of like older style of landing craft that's a really cool mix but it just looks like a hovercraft that we have now and I'm not looking at hovercraft that we have now and going, I really need that in my grim dark future. Like, I just, I don't know. I would say the disintegrator, which is,

so the disintegrator is the one that's got the turret on top. It's basically a main battle tank. I kind of like the dumb nose on it. You mean the dumb nose? No, the big flat wedge of metal sticking out of the front because it looks like someone's attempt to make like a car into a hot rod, but they didn't know what they were doing. It looks like it's going to ram you.

It looks like it's a front facing like whack. Yeah. Yeah, it looks like it can just pile straight into you, which I do quite like that, but it's, yeah, it's divisive. I'll be honest. I've spoken to people who love this and people who absolutely hate it. And it's so different from... Well, there you go.

I hate it. It's just so different from what had already, like what had come before. And I do like the fact that they've got loads of different stuff going on because it's ad mech and it feels like they just grab stuff that, you know, they have access to and it's all supposed to be a bit like esoteric and weird. But these, I don't know, it's just something about the execution that I'm not a massive and not a massive fan of, to be honest. Shai says it sucks because it doesn't kill its own crew.

This thing doesn't just leak radiation into the, into the Bay Area? It doesn't, no. It just works. It just works, which makes it boring to me. Like, if it's not ad meck then, like, this is, like, faux admec then. I will point out, because otherwise people will get annoyed at this. These are anti-grab, right? They're not actually just, like...

They're not just floating on an inflatable bed. They're not just floating on an inflatable bed. They just look like they are. Yeah. So, which is I think where I'm like, come on, lad. You could have put a bit more. You could have made it a little more future tech than that, right? Come on.

Put some like cool engines on it or something. Just to really. All right. I'm sensing some shenanigans up in here. How can you be like this has got to be more future tech? But then a second ago, you were like, God, I love the 1920s cyberpunk Western shootout things. Because it has the. future look to it.

Also. Because it's a mix. Because it's a mix. Because when you look at that gun, it's also on top of a giant chicken strider that has a disposable man strapped to the front of it. And it can't be turned off. And it looks

like it's just going to keep going. Whereas this just looks like an old hovercraft. And there's not like enough new on it. Yeah, it looks like an old school beach lander. They're like old, that ad mech have like that trash bag.

that trash can that has the two slides. That's one for recycle, ones for normal. Like, make sure you dispose of the servitor and the recycling thing. Save the environment. Fires radiation.

Well, you know, it's okay to be wrong. I like the Normandy craft. Granted, I do under, I would like a bit more in the admec motor pool. I think, I think this is basically

all you can use in the tabletop and that's a little lacking. Yeah, they don't have a, they don't have a vast, amount of options currently, which is, in a way, a real shame because, like, ad mech, you could do so many weird things with, somebody like really weird things. It does have a couple of options, the disintegrator.

So there's the pheromite cannon, which is the one that is in the image there, which is, it's basically just a big cannon. So it fires solid shells that, when they hit things, become molten and just, flash, boil, whatever they impale, which is kind of cool. And the other one they've got is called the Belarus Energy Canon, which basically takes the same gas

that they use in the hover drive and it's packed into a projectile and then just fired out. And it's kind of like, it kind of, it kind of, it's kind of like an energy blast. so basically it can shoot things that it can't see mechanically. But I kind of like the idea that it's taking stuff that they use for propulsion and just shoving it in a gun and going, yeah, fire that out.

And it works. It's like a gasoline gun or a diesel gun. Yeah. She makes a diesel nuts. Shai makes a good point here. What? That doesn't even work. Shsh.

She's a from a brutal cunning book. Orcs stole these and hated them because you couldn't run people over with them. Yeah, you don't even smash people in. You're right, this is what they stole, isn't it? It was the little hover transport. I forgot completely. Now you know. Now I know.

Oh, nice. Cool. That's the only cool thing about them. Kerea, are you going to be talking about the planes soon? Well, the plane is coming up next. I love the planes so much. I love the plane. I'm genuinely interesting to see what's made of this.

So let's stop hating on the Scorpius for a moment and move on to the Archaeopter. So there's a few different versions of the Archaeopter and I love this thing. I'm with Bricky. This is fantastic. It's essentially some sort of Da Vinci-esque helicopter

with multiple options. It can be used as a transport. It can be covered in bombs to drop on people, or it can be like, quit for like ground attack and stuff. And yeah, inspired by June is a very generous interpretation. Yeah. The quotes are really doing a lot of heavy lifting there on inspired. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Yep. It looks, it looks good, though. It doesn't look bad at all. Like, that's sort of, I don't want to, I guess it is kind of an insect flyer, isn't it? But I like it.

I like it. It's fine. It's got a cool thing with wings, where it's like the wings are like, they're like not solid. They can flex and move. They're flappy. Yeah, they're like, they're more flappy and it makes it way more maneuverable. And it's like the, the Teraxie that they've got, which are their kind of jump pack infantry, like flying infantry. It's basically the same tech, but just scale.

way up and they have one of their Teraxie that pilots it because they're already built for flying so they pilot one of these aircraft but they do also I think it says that their

legs are like hardwired into it yo the what is that a Taraxia you said those are so cool they've got they got like little little like falcon feet they fly up and go like yeah

And they got the wings and, oh, that's sick. Also, I think what's throwing me off about this archaeocop, whatever it's called, like the main body of it looks like it should be a helicopter. It's very small, isn't it? And it's got the wings, so it's like, no, it's kind of a plane, but it's got like the body of a helicopter and it's just throwing me for a loop a little bit

because it's so chunky. It's supposed to be very maneuverable. I know that. It's supposed to be like extremely, quick to spin around and adjust because of the wackiness of it stuff. Yeah, like a helicopter because of the wackiness of it. I do like the

Teraxie too. Yeah, they're so cool. I love them. Oh man. Those wings and those falcon feet, that's great. I love it. It is like, again, like really it's pretty different from like the dunecrawler or the Iron Strider and the Scorpius but there's like little bits on it that a little bit reminiscent of all of them, which

nice, and also the fact that it's got like three, three fully kind of extendable legs, which makes it even more weird. Like there's pictures of the different version, so the transvector is the one that kind of does exploration and transport and stuff. The fuselive is the one that drops bombs, and then you've got the strata raptor.

For the fuselav and strataaptor ones, you can see the back legs like extended out, like it's about to like, sit down and land like an actual bird. It's super weird, but I don't know. There's just something about it, where it's, it's kind of a mix of a bunch of different stuff where it looks like it's got the body of a helicopter. It looks like the wings have been stolen from June.

It's super, like super quick, super maneuverable. I don't know. I really, really like these. Yeah, they're, I don't dislike them. I think they're pretty cool. It's a little weird that it's so chunky, but it's so maneuverable. so yeah, it's fine. I like it. I like it. I think it's cool enough. It's good. It's good. Load out wise, it's things like las cannons and phosphor blasters.

And yeah, it's kind of, there's not actually that many different, I guess it's the same with quite a few of the factions where you've got like a gun and then various vehicles and infantry just have a bigger version of said gun. It's kind of the same with the ad mech as well. Oh, that's, yeah, that's the concept of the Onathopter. It is pretty much just that. Yeah, I was going to say, I haven't read the Dune books. I've seen the Dune movie. And even just from like the movie, it's like, yeah, I see what you did there. Yeah, I mean, to be honest, we could probably, they could probably be like a four-hour episode just talking about what 40K is lifted from June.

No, no, no, not lifted. what it was what it inspired from Spune. Thank you. I will say, why am I sticking up for GW here? What? Because what I'm kind of say? Even though like the flyers are such an obvious rip

from the Ornithopter, Admec, I think probably have the most identifiably unique design out of, I think in Warhammer. I don't think there's another Warhammer faction that is more, its own thing than admec. So that's like the one big negative

for me is the fact that the copters are so obviously the ornithopters and stuff. But even besides that, like everything pulls from something. Obviously, like I mentioned before, the cyberpunk kind of cowboy and all that kind of thing. But the ad mech are just so, so

specifically Warhammer that it gets like a good, a good feel. Yeah. They're like a properly, unique-feeling faction. It just kind of... Because there's so much like variation as well. Like even though they have

a shared design across stuff, like the Rangers, like the Skatari Rangers don't really look like the Teraxi outside of the fact they've got some metal bits on them. Like head style is totally different. Just the overall setup, the gun, like the weapon loadouts,

all of that stuff is like, they have a bunch of very different, very unique, squads that all happened to come together to form one army. And if you didn't paint them in like the same colours, it's not like when you look at space marines

for instance where a space marine just looks like a space marine. And Imperial Guard, it just, everyone looks like an Imperial Guardsman. With the ADMEC stuff, if you go out of just like the troops section, you're suddenly faced with just weird

stuff that doesn't match in any way. But it's one of the things that makes it so interesting and cool is just the sheer amount of variety and how it's all totally different from everything else that 40K has. Okay. Shai just burned Bricky. She said, I love unique faction, says Bricky, while his favorite faction is generic manned dude shooting guardsmen.

That is not true on two sides. The first one is my favorite faction is the sisters. Thank you very much. Ah, yeah, that's fair. Which granted are just nuns and stuff But the sisters also have a pretty nice It's just like here take nuns and instead make them Like psychotic

Badass, yeah And well, yeah, a little bit But you know I mean I'm also in no position to like As bad as saying To wax lyrical about how great Admec are for being unique When my guard army is the same tank 10 times And a Bainblade

Like, what am I even talking about? The guardsmen are enjoyable because it's not about them being unique. It's about them being not unique and then being told to fight something that is so incredibly out of their element. Should I said, just take the L and play the fart sound effect. Brother, there's nothing more fun than dudes from the 40s murdering goddamn the tyrannids. It's the best. Oh, great. I took the yell.

There you go. Okay, okay. Kirith, what are we talking about next? Okay, so we're going to shift into Mechanicum stuff now, because as we said, the Mechanicus range has got some cool stuff, but it's not a massively expanded range. The Mechanicum side of things, which is from Horacee specifically. Okay.

I was about to ask, that's the difference, right? Mechanicum is pre-heresy? Okay. It's not quite as mad, but it is also, like, stylistically as mad. So we have things like the Crios Battletank or Crioss Battle Tank and Crios Venetal, which on the surface, it's like, okay, well, it's a treaded, tracked tank. That doesn't sound too mad. But you've got to remember, this is still like Admec.

so of course it is a treaded, tracked tank that is just a powerful for a gigantic gun It's this, haven't we seen things like this before in the tank episode where it's just a weird treads And just a big cannon in the middle or something? What in God's name? I think it was being space green tanks There were a couple that were just big guns

In the middle of tracks Also something that the guard kind of like to do as well occasionally. But yeah, so it's no legs, no walkers, but still, I think it's fair to say, a bit mad, right? It's still a bit,

yeah, it's still a bit mad. That second one is overcompensating for something for sure. Yeah. Without a doubt. That's absolutely ridiculous. This is some Imperial Guard level bull crap. That's adept is ridiculous.

Mr. The pained laugh. It's getting more pained every time. Oh well you see, here's the thing. Okay, I'm not having this. Shy is making out like these are somehow structurally unsound by having a bunch of holes in them. Come on, it's Admec. They might have a bunch of holes in them, but it has interlocking energy fields. It has protective shields of energy around it because that's the most sensible thing to do. Don't give it armor, instead use vast amounts of power to do what armor would otherwise do.

Yeah. That's the admec way. See, now they can make the stylistic choice to put holes in it because they've got energy barriers, obviously. Hello. Exactly. Obvious choice. It's a stylistic choice.

It has nothing to do with protection. I just thought it look cool. They're so, they're so weird. So the, just the cryos battle tank has got a lightning cannon, which, is kind of basically a las canon. I mean it's lightning cannon. It has a lasbeam that does that does like extra stuff

to mechanical targets. As well it should. And it also increases effectiveness against organic enemies. So, you know, having your cake and eating it too. It kind of overloads mechanical stuff and makes it even worse for living, breathing creatures. And the other one,

the venet of, It's got the Pulsar Fusal which is a particle beam cannon. Oh, lovely. So it just fires volleys of like bolts which are designed to wreck armor targets,

which I'm assuming they don't like armoured targets as much because they don't have any of their own armor as demonstrated by the fact they've got holes all over their tank. But the thing is, it starts out weird. Those are, those are,

Those are the equivalent to the space marine predator, by the way. Those are like the predator equivalent tanks for Horacee Mechanicum. When you get... It's the space marine predator. It's the small tank. Classic tank. Yeah, the one that's based off like the rhino transport, but it's just got a turret on top and sponsors on the side.

It does get progressively, I would suggest, more weird as you go on, which, I mean, you'd be disappointed if it was any. else. Yeah. There's also the triaris armored conveyor and the Carachnos

assault tank got great names borderline unpronounceable so I'm assuming I've got most of these wrong already but it's only going to get worse from here.

Whoa! Okay, that one actually looks kind of baller. That is actually super boss. I love that. Yo, that's so cool.

I love that. That little front scoop thing with the horn. That's great. I like that a lot actually. Basically looks like a futuristic train with tank treads to me. Oh yeah, it does. Makes me think of snow.

Makes me think of the film version of snowpiercer, but I don't really know why. Yeah. I only saw one episode of Snowpiercer, but I, yeah, I got you. Also, the second one is like the more advanced version with all the rockets and the little arm laser. The first

one is like a transport. So it's just a transport version, which, again, it's not just got a bunch of heavy armour, but multiple wardings and energy shields, and it has weapons servitors that are wired into it, equipped with like Volkite and bulk cannons, if it somehow gets, I don't know, dumped into space, or ends up on a world with no air, the whole storage bay can just be sealed so that nothing can get in or out. So it can survive in pretty much any environment at all.

And it's also built specifically so that if you need to service like some automaton's and stuff in the bay of this transport, it's kitted out for that. That's good. That sounds like a convenient vehicle. It's great because it can also ram things. Oh, hell, yeah. This thing looks like a natural.

literally, all of the weird stuff, it's a shock ram. So it gets charged up with energy and then they drive it into stuff and it blows it up. Oh, hell yeah. Look at it. If you didn't use this thing as just a big battering ram, I mean... Oh, yeah. Like what... Huge missed opportunity.

It's great. It's such a cool design. And the assault tank, the Kouraknos, is basically the triress again. But instead of having all of those kind of like storage bay section and the... service area and being able to seal it off. Instead, it's just got a massive mortar battery that fires radioactive warheads. Of course it does. Shai wants to know how this thing doesn't shoot itself with those rockets. Shy, that's like 90% of Warhammer guns. Don't ask that question. They're lined up in such a way that it looks like they would just blow themselves the smithereens,

they'd blow out their front tires or something. I'm choosing to believe that that that might be model is posed like mid deployment that they actually like face all the way up or something, I'm choosing to believe that because otherwise it makes it significantly less cool because it would deploy itself well. Maybe it's just

they have a lot of propulsion out of those rockets, you know, and they just well they're mortars. So they're not even fully propelled rockets. They're just mortars. So they're just shells that just get launched out. So. Maybe they get launched at just really just mock speed, you know, so there's no chance, I don't know.

Yeah, it just really chucks them out. Yeah, it just really flings them. It just yeats them, you know. I do love the fact, there you go. There, see? It's, it's a little better. Yeah, it's fine. It still looks a little dangerous,

but better, yeah, certainly better. I love the fact that all of those mortars are radioactive as well. It's not just a massive, like, mobile artillery. platform, it's designed to just irradiate everything. Heritage cannot come back for 10,000 years. Yeah. They do look like cartoon fireworks. Yes, they do. Yeah, that's unfortunate.

So the next thing moving on from that is the macro carried explorator, which also has, I think the honor of being one of the shortest lived forge world models ever. this was on sale for not very long. I don't know, I don't think it was even a full year, if I remember correctly. Which is a shame, because it's a cool model. So it's effectively a land raider equivalent. And one of the big things for them was that they are like multiple, like there's no two that are the same.

They're very heavily customized as they are like fully sealed vehicles for. like command and exploration and combat, all of that done by by like different tech majors and tech priests and stuff. And it just, it just disappeared. It just vanished. For some reason, it was on sale for a while.

I don't know whether they're having problem with the moulds or whether something broke, but it was a very short-lived model. You could not get it for very long. Oh man, that looks sick. That's a big, chunky boy. but it's got a really cool look to it It's really interesting

I think it's really nice honestly I like it a lot I really do enjoy it Was that a really big mini I assume? Because this thing looks chunky This looks hefty I believe it's like

If I remember right It's about sort of I think between Landrader And like Spartan sized Something around there Oof Yeah so pretty Pretty wide

Not tall But pretty wide and the thing that I like about this, though, is the fact that the hull is, like, kind of modular and stuff. So, like, it looks like they've taken a specifically built center section and then just put two tracks on the side. It makes it look like you could have any number of different varieties of this thing.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just a really, really cool vehicle, and it just vanished. You know what's the most surprising thing? It's like, for such a big, beefy thing by Warhammer standards, doesn't have that many, like, guns on it. It doesn't have that much weaponry on. Like, it's got the thing on top. It's got, like, those little cannons on the front,

and that's kind of it. Like, for Warhammer, that's a lot of restraint. That's not a ton of artillery. It kind of makes it feel more like a kind of command, like a command vehicle than anything else. Yeah, like a command center type deal. I really, really, I love that. Really like that.

Yeah, it's awesome. And of course, the one we all unanimously agree is really cool. It's like, yeah, you can't get this anymore. We don't make this shit. Yeah, that's... Intimitable fashion. No nice things for you. Okay, we're going to scale up a little bit here.

We're going to scale up somewhat and get into the Ordinatus series of vehicles. Three, specifically. We're going to take a look at Ordinatus Ulitor, that's probably how you pronounce that, Sagittar and Axis. So the Ulitar is basically four tracks with a gigantic cannon on top of it. A massive sonic cannon.

It is absurd. It's like the admec version of a Death Strike missile, except it doesn't fire the missile, It's just a giant cannon. Oh my God. I was going to say that first picture. I couldn't really tell what it was. That second one is just like, wow, that's...

It's like evil villains. Like, this is my death ray. It's going to destroy the world. It really is. It's almost like, it's like cartoonish. Yeah. It's just two sets of big tracks with a gigantic gun on top of it. How does anybody take that?

thing seriously. I mean, I think you mostly take it seriously because of the gun it's carrying. It looks so dumb. I'm sorry. That's one of the dumbest things we've seen today. I hate it. Really? Oh, I don't know.

I think it's silly, but in a good way. I think it's just too, it's like, it's too over the top for me. It just looks too silly. I don't know. Two like bare bones in a way. It's just like they've gone, well, we've got some tracks. Just let's weld a couple of good. Just stick a gun on it. Let's go.

It almost looks like it doesn't need that first pair of tracks. I have to admit, I wonder whether it would be, I don't know. It'd be so top heavy. If the gun was bigger? Yes. Yeah. Oh yeah, the German train guns. Classic.

Oh, wow. I love that that was a thing. That looks really stupid. Oh, yeah. I'm pretty sure, though, he's turned out to be an absolute. disaster and we're not remotely worth the effort. Looking at the picture, gee whiz, what could have possibly gone wrong? Yeah.

Besides, you know, everything. Yeah. No, Edmick, you didn't need to learn from the Germans. Not copy them. They lost both the wars. Oh, no. Oh, God. That's such a dumb picture.

So the one that is above the comedy. Nazi gun there, is the, that's the Sagittar version, which has a volcano cannon that you would normally get on a

warlord titan. So they just took a warlord volcano cannon and strapped it to the tracks. Which, I suppose if you've got a spare one lying around

and no warlord to put it on, might as well not waste it. Although you could stick it on a Bainblade chassis because that's also a thing that exists. But the,

I mean, my favorite one out of all of these, and this is only because okay, this might, don't know whether this is going to be a niche reference or not. Did you have Thunderbirds growing up? Like the...

Like the... Wait. So in America for us, Thunderbirds, as far as I know anyway, or just the Thunderbird jets that just did lots of fancy tricks, you go to like an Air Force base and you... Wait, wait, wait. Wasn't there like a TV show? Were they like Power Ranger kind of knockoffs?

So, okay. This is going to be... This is going to be a thing to explain. So Thunderbirds, when, if you're of a certain age, unfortunately, was a show which was like puppet. But they were like, it was like a, this group of people who had rockets and underwater vehicles and special cars and a space station. And they were part of an organisation called International Rescue.

And they went around saving people. and I'm 99% sure that for one of the episodes they had some sort of drill and I can't look at the Ordinatus actius without thinking of that show because well it's it's literally just a giant drill on tracks that is entirely what it is

yep it sure is that is just a drill on tracks I mean it honestly it generally looks like... I was waiting for someone to me. I didn't want to be the first one to make the phallic joke. I didn't want to be the first one to make that. But no, it legit looks like they took this like drill torpedo

and you can see it's literally like it looks like it's just roped on. Like underneath the thing, it looks like it's just got a couple of little like things that hooks it up and that's it. It's not even part of the tracks. It's not attached. It's a giant metal. penis on wheels on track it's really phallic

it is really phallic you're right it's very fallic you're right it's very true oh that's like the thing they use in the have you all ever seen the movie the core it's a terrible movie it's hilarious though oh no oh no

it is isn't it yeah oh god it's Virgil oh here we go I made sure watch it on one stream or something it was whatever but it's so bad it's good

oh okay okay so it's it's it's not that it's a terrible film and it's not enjoyable it's that it's bad but it is good because of how bad it is yes it's one of those

campy movies that's so absolutely trash that it just flips the spectrum because of how bad it is and it's actually kind of enjoyable that's fair I can give you that

because I vaguely remember watching the court and didn't come away from it thinking that was a great film so for a minute that I was confused as to what the context was of it being. Okay, yeah, no, that makes, that makes more sense to me.

So, yeah, I mean, this is exactly what it looks like. I just love the fact that this is, it's not just that this is a thing. There's loads of different versions of these. There's a ton of, like, underground, you know, tunneling things. How long as, okay, I don't want to say what I'm going to say in case it spoils anything. Have you read Saturnine yet? No. No.

Okay. But I know how goofy the Saturnine thing looks. I think I know what this is. Oh no. Not again. Well, I don't want to spoil it. I don't want to spoil anything. But yeah, you'll know.

I'll just leave it there. You'll know. It's fine. But yeah, there's an absolute ton of different, like, drill variants. Admittedly, the actress is the only one that's like, I think, specifically ad mech, but there are also, there's also the termite, the mole, the hellball, the mantleth, the plutonor, and the Hades breaching drill. So there's a lot of that stuff going around.

It's just that, of course, Admec have got access to the biggest and silliest one, because of course they do. Of course. And pretty much, when it comes to things that we can at least take a proper look at, That's kind of where we are. There are a few things that sort of fall under their list, so to speak, because they have used and maintained things like Bainblades. There's also kind of little known tanks that they have access to or vehicles that have access to that we don't have a huge amount of, like, information on.

Things like The Black Widow being a little, like, scout tank, but there's no full kind of, there's not like release of it. It's within Gods of Mars, if I remember correctly, which is like an armoured reconnaissance walker. There's lots of little things that they kind of have. There are also, to be fair, a ton of those ordinarist ones. There's absolutely loads of them. Loads and loads.

And a lot of them don't have any real sort of info. Quite a few are from things like, from epic so things like the Ordinalis Armageddon which I mean you can see where the newer ones have come from but the newer ones definitely have been executed

slightly better I think it's fair to say because the Ordinaltus Armageddon is oh my lord oh no those old ones are just they're rough GW has come a long way that one is It's literally just a Nova cannon on tracks.

That's the whole thing. Oh my God. That's all it does. Remind me of the Capitol Imperialis, the enormous guard vehicle. Yep, yep. They do have something called the Land Leviathan, which is kind of basically that. Just a giganto land fortress.

Which I think, well, okay, so that was it. There we go. 300 meters long, but that's just the feet. That's just the feet of it. It's like 50 meters tall, the Land Leviathan. It's just a vast walking fortress, or rolling fortress or tracked fortress, because it depends entirely on what the Majos making it wants to do with it.

Can you put that in freedom units? Oh, God. 50 meters tall. What's that? What's that in Merca? Oh, no. Hang on, I'll find out. Because I'm dumb.

Am I doing feet? Yeah, do feet. Okay. 164. That's pretty tall. Pretty tall. For a minute, I nearly just Googled what's 50 meters in American. And then I was like, that's not going to help, is it?

It might have. It might have still gotten it, actually. Oh, and there's also the Ordinalautist Gold Gawther, which is. It's just a missile bay. It's just a giant missile bay on tracks. I'm assuming each of those are basically a death strike size. Pretty much. Probably, yeah.

It looks like candy corn. They do. They do look like candy corn. They got candy corn warhead. Wait, what is this? I forgot. I can't believe I forgot it. I can't believe I forgot that.

What is it? It's just a forklift. They should have. some admec name like the cruncher of death or something that's more of a guard name i'm trying to find the galvanic delgado galvanic servo holder made by arkanservo yeah made by sir galvanic yeah oh it's so good there are galvanic weapons though the galvanic rifle is a is a weapon that scotari tend to run around with so yeah and they were all made by sir galvanic they were lord galvanic Lord Galatica.

Mr. Haller. Mr. Holler. Send him to the, anyway. Oh, there is. Send him to the principal's office and have him expelled. Oh, man. A grope tank out of that is a great idea. There is also an honorable mention.

I don't believe that this is like official official, but someone, a lad called Eric Gustafson, made something. for white dwarf, which was called the A-Tracks Siege Walker. I don't know if this has been put into the cannon or not. What is that? What insane kit bash? I'm not going to lie.

I actually kind of wish the big gun was like a little smaller. Because if it was, that would actually be a genuinely, like, I could see that actually happening in GW world. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. What is that thing on it? What is that gun? Like that looks like a literal like real life rifle-sized cannon on that minnie's back.

I think it's a Titan weapon. I think, you know what? I'm looking at it. I think it might be just multiple pieces of, I say just, it's not just. But I think it might be multiple pieces of terrain and other models. I think the main body of that gun is made up of like those plasma reactors. that you could get out of one of the one of the like

like forge world city fight sets I can't remember what it's called but I'm 99% sure that you've got like a big chunk of terrain to make up the gun with other bits of terrain on either side and the front of that

isn't that the Goliath from the is it the Goliath from the Gene Steeler cults they're like their big truck that they have I was going to say knowing ad mech it looks like

if you were in like is that a little guy next to the thing that like pulls the trigger? Yeah there's service all that looks like it's wired into it I got to imagine one fire that thing and that poor guy just gets blown to smithereens like it's so good because it's an admec

thing so as soon as it fires it probably exhaust like so much radiation that it probably just melts whoever's sitting there it's an awesome like it's such a such an awesome kit bash like it's so good so so so great i do love that that is amazing that's great i actually really do like it too i i'm it's it's silly enough but pretty great i think brig is right if that gun on the back was just a little

smaller like you could actually see gw making something like that yeah yeah i wanted to throw that in there because as I was going through I was like oh my god what the hell is that oh wait someone just made that that's quality yeah awesome that's it that is the last one imagine if it rolls a one

bad times for everyone not just the guy sitting next to it all the people in like a two mile radius and the land for the next thousand year yeah don't have to worry about the planet being irradiated if it's just been exploded That's fine.

I mean, the planet has probably already been irradiated. It's 40K. Every planet has Earth-shattering radiation on it, right? That's fine. Yeah, but the ADMEC take it personally. Oh, my God. Why? Brickie, take us home, Bricky.

Take us home, Ricky. I am home. Are you lost? I'm lost and afraid. Well, that's fine because the ADMEC will certainly get rid of that feeling. for you. You won't have a whole lot of any feelings if I'm being honest.

Yeah, but I'll live for a really long time. No, you won't. Not if you put in a June crawler. Oh, not be putting in the... Remember the rules when it comes to ad mech. You don't know what's under the robes. So you can either have a brutal cunning ad mech where they unleash their like the 5,000 weapons from hell

beneath their robes or they're like little wee scientist man. Like, oh, run away. All right, suck this OSHA.