Space Marine Stormtalon Gunship :130ptsBS:4 AV11/11/11
Fast Skimmer, Aerial Assault, Supersonic
Ceramite Plating
Escort Craft: Place unit on table within 6" of another unit that arrived from Deepstrike, or Reserve.
Hoverstrike: Stay stationary to gain +1BS
TL Assault Cannon
TL Heavy Bolter - upgradable to either:
TL Typhoon Missile Launchers
TL Skyhammer Launchers - S:7 AP:4 Heavy3 R:60"
Apparently BeastsofWar had a podcast today where they leaked their early copy of white dwarf. This was inside and is the storm talon gunship with stats, which will be the new SM flier in the next white dwarf from the 'summer of fliers'.
Looking at this, it's immune to melta's extra d6 but at AV 11 I don't see why that would matter. I'm not sure if this is concrete or their interpretation but for 130 points it seems really flimsy and I'd rather take a landspeeder. Time will tell since I'm not really sold on the concept art.
IIRC the TL heavy bolters are upgradeable to TL lascannons too (such as are in the pic).
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping there's something else here though since I can get two lascannon sponsons on a pred for cheaper.
DeleteOkay I can't lie rules don't matter but they're not too terrible I'm just psyched to have another speeder esque gun boat
ReplyDeleteIt seems weird to me. The rear AV 11 seems strange to me. I'm hoping that concept art is early concept because it doesn't look really marine to me in that incarnation.
DeleteI don't know sir the proportions strike me as very chunky and squat which to me screams power armor it honestly looks like a beefier version of what I wished landspeeders would look like.
ReplyDeleteIt has the same type of looks all the other marine fliers besides the speeders.
That said I agree about the av 11 something is amiss.
The rear looks like a stormraven no doubt but the rest looks like an armoured cockpit that I think looks more like a sentinel. I didn't really like the cockpit on the stormraven either though (I wish it was more like the rhino with slits). I don't know a wraith from starcraft just doesn't work for me :)
DeleteI mean I'm sure I'll still buy one...
DeleteI mean yeah I may but Mweh turns out some for sale signs and some patience=wIn
DeleteRight now I'm attempting a clouseau pattern rhino, and some hell talon esque speeders.
But it seriously helps to have rules to use as counts as so new stuff is always welcome. Hopefully my wolves can take it.
I'd rather have a squadron of 3 Typhoon pattern Land Speeders. Now if I could attach 1 of these to a squadron without taking up any more fast attack slots, that would be a nice unit to drop in. Those twin linked assault cannons seem like a load of shit though. I'd rather have some longer ranged guns in that spot, like twin linked autocannons, and drop the price by 30 points.
ReplyDeleteYeah the rules are pretty terrible as is. Especially in todays gaming climate (at least where I play) anti infantry weapons are pretty worthless. I can't see why I'd want to pay so many points for one of these just to get an AV 11 typhoon. I love my typhoons...
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