New from Forgeworld: Vorax Battle Automata

[Brakkart]

Up for pre-order today is a three pack of these very retro hunter-killer robots.

Vorax Battle-Automata £48 (http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/VORAX_BATTLE_AUTOMATA.html)

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Vorax class Battle-automata are hunter-killer units, their design based on an ancient template pattern said to date back to the Dark Age of Technology. Created on pre-Imperial Mars to fulfil the roles both of search and destroy weapon and exterminator of rogue machines and mutant vermin, their Cybernetica cortex engrams are known to be particularly predatory and vicious examples of their kind.

Armed with a pair of rotor cannon and a lightning gun, the Vorax are prepared to meet most threats. At close quarters their Battle-automata power blades make short work of even heavily armoured infantry units.

The Vorax Battle-automata is a complete multi-part resin kit, designed by Will Hayes. The kit consists of three Vorax class Battle-automata armed with lightning guns, with an optional Irad-cleanser. The Vorax class Battle-automata are a fast attack option for the Mechanicum Taghmata Omnissiah army list found in The Horus Heresy Book Three - Extermination.

This set is available to pre-order now and will be despatched from Monday 10th November.

[energongoodie]

I like em :)

[Archon]

like them too, but sadly no seperate rules here and they look like not easy to build with all the bending.

It is about time, that FW will release a mechanicum book.

[phreakachu]

Is it just me or do these things look like robo-nids?

[Mr Mystery]

Definite insectile look to them.

[miteyheroes]

It is about time, that FW will release a mechanicum book.

Hear hear! Or, even better, a Mechanicus book...

[Charistoph]

Is it just me or do these things look like robo-nids?

So, Zentraedi/Invid hybrids?

I do think that they would do a good job being at "Marauding" around , personally, but that's just the feel I get from their "battle technology".

[jonsgot]

Is it just me or do these things look like robo-nids?

They are very close to the original crusader.

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110630052042/warhammer40k/images/6/65/Legio_Cybernetica_Robots.JPG

[Mr Mystery]

Mentioned in Vol III of the HH as being derived from the ancient Crusader design :)

Same with the Castellax, they're said to be an adaptation of the Castellan class.

[Psychosplodge]

if it wasn't for the head stuck on the front these would remind me of that robot from the original robocop.

[miteyheroes]

Something about them (maybe the curved shinguard?) also makes me strongly think of the Space Crusade Dreadnought...