Horus Heresy MECHANICUM Army Guide - Every Unit Available & Where to Find Them!

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Mechanicum can be a confusing army for the newcomer - it's units all look very similar, and it's a very different force to the Adeptus Mechanicus of Warhammer 40k. So in this video, I go through all the option available to the Mechanicum army, where to find models for them, and how to tell them apart!
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@xe2594 Жыл бұрын

this legend describes things so well. don't even need to be into it like me, just love the explanations

@CrimsonTemplar2 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for de-obfuscating the techno-arcana of the Mechanicum. I love that you’re continuing to coordinate your flannel to the army/faction.

@_foldr Жыл бұрын

In 30k they use the power of the STC to build the Mechanicum armies, in the current times some use the power of the STL

@pkpong Жыл бұрын

30k mechancum seems like more body horror than 40k mechanicus

@ArbitorIan Жыл бұрын

Yeah, much more so. It's less Jules Verne and more WEIRD

@HeartlessNinny1 Жыл бұрын

@@ArbitorIan That's what I like about it. 🙂

@Bluecho4 Жыл бұрын

I mean, there's _always_ body horror whenever the tech priests of Mars are involved.

@HeartlessNinny1 Жыл бұрын

@@Bluecho4 perhaps, but it's a sliding scale! 🙂

@Malino8835 Жыл бұрын

30k is less steampunk and more Eldritch body horror

@Inquisdrknss Жыл бұрын

Would love a Lore follow up on their role during the Heresy

@TheTurbanatore Жыл бұрын

This video brought a tear to my eye. The 30k mechanicum design was PERFECT and I hope GW keeps the same art style when updating them!

@onua2012sga 2 ай бұрын

Mechanicum truly look epic in 30k. 40k admech models just don't feel the same, I wish GW didn't focus so much on their skitarii aesthetic there. There's only so much I can do with kataphrons and kastellans and tech-priests

@Powoga Жыл бұрын

Always liked the Mechanicum, shame that many models are Forge World exclusives. That said, I've been toying with the idea of converting some Vorax Battle-Automatat from Space Crusade dreadnoughts. They look kinda similar.

@anno-fw7xn Жыл бұрын

Wait ther are blastic mpoels?

@fullmetalanarchist6521 9 ай бұрын

I have both and i think they'd be too small and to tall to quite fit the vorax, they could however make good castellax.

@ImrahilToChaos Жыл бұрын

It’s a shame more of the 40K stuff can’t be used in Heresy, I always thought it was pretty cool.

@ArbitorIan Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I mean all the tech priests can, and servitors, skitarii and even Kastelans could all find a place but you do need a fair amount of resin too.

@bionicgeekgrrl Жыл бұрын

@@ArbitorIan I imagine that when they finish doing the plastic marine models, they'll do some of the other armies as semi plastic. It will take time though I expect. How popular are armies outside of marines will be the key. If they released them as dual 30k/40k models it'd broaden their appeal and viability though.

@easyeden5620 2 ай бұрын

if you ally a titan legion detachment, you can take secutarii pelatsts, which are pretty much skitarii. and you also have secutarii marshals, so that's your skitarii marshal. and no, you don't need a titan to ally this detachment to your mechanicum

@gryphoenixtabletopminiatur1784 Жыл бұрын

Really love your guides mate you have helped me greatly with my recent venture into the horus heresy, cheers for expanding further on this, and for expanding the burnt hole in my pocket lol. cheers mate.

@jonrollason5709 Жыл бұрын

Least favourite faction, game I don't play, watched it all and enjoyed thoroughly. 🙃

@miket2789 Жыл бұрын

Fast becoming my favourite channel, outstanding content, audiobooks surely in the future

@merci_ann Жыл бұрын

You have quickly become my top favourite hobby KZfaq creator here. Thanks ❤️

@Slev00 Жыл бұрын

Having been looking at the possibility of maybe someday playing 30k Mechanicum, this is an amzing vid. Thank you so much!

@brentc3580 Жыл бұрын

Ian: “the Vultarax Stratos-Automata are your equivalent to a flier” Mortarion: “flier, you say? Tell me more”

@TheMrFishnDucks Жыл бұрын

Very good video and very informative. Keep up the good work.

@tigerstein Жыл бұрын

I just dipped my toes into Mechanicum and you did me a great idea how to use the 40K combat patrol boxs content. The Kataphron can be used as armed servitors (but need two boxes worth) with the tech-priest in an auxilia. The Skiitari can be used as tech-thralls and the Dunecrawler can be a good base for the Ordo Reductor Artillery tank. Two CP boxes give something like 500 points. I have on order two sets of Thallax and one Castellax also got a plastic tech-priest dominus for HQ so all this gives like the first thousand points.

@anno-fw7xn Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the Break down! I realy hope we get some in blastic!

@Nekorook Жыл бұрын

i needed this video so bad. Thank you!

@philipzahn491 Жыл бұрын

I guess there is a special department in the Mechanicum only responsible to come up with all of those names.

@leighporter2997 Жыл бұрын

for kit basing the floating platform, im using one from the sisters of battle plastic range.

@HeartlessNinny1 Жыл бұрын

Amazing video as always Ian. Thank you. 😁

@samsolopeeps Жыл бұрын

What a nice video to end a week on! Thanks

@konradcurzethereturnedandv2845 Ай бұрын

When they discontinued the Magos Dominus (with Irad Cleanser) I was so bummed out. I had just really started getting into Heresy and the fact that they got rid of the only generic HQ for Mechanicum - and one of my all time favorite models - felt like a slap in the face. The “last chance to buy” years were such a nightmare. We had no clue they would eventually do plastic and it felt like they were abandoning the faction. I almost wonder if they had planned on it, but all that COVID money turned it around.

@Bluecho4 Жыл бұрын

I imagine many people bulk out their Mechanicum armies with plastic models for 40K. Since it's cheaper, and when you're done you also have an Adeptus Mechanicus army.

@Yacovo Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video

@Maulyr 11 ай бұрын

Nice work! I'm still baffled as to why the Arlatax has no model as the rules have been around for years and frankly a bladed dakka jump-Domitar with a plasma cannon (used to be a twin-linked plasma blaster) sounds magnificent(ly horrific). Tarantulas are "Fast Attack" in a similar way to how Tau Pathfinders are FA: they get put into position by something fast (airdrop traditionally for Tarantulas...and yes, they should be able to move (and they used to!) hence the name, and via Devilfish for Pathfinders, to complete the analogy). I 🖤 my Mechanicum 😅

@ChaoticKraus Жыл бұрын

I've been into 40k for almost two decades and consider myself pretty knowledgeable. But this amount of faux-latin and patterns of chassis made even my head spin. Can't imagine how a newcomer could make sense of this without help. A link to this video should be in the back of every copy of Liber Mechanicum!

@brokenheroics8223 Ай бұрын

I love these models.

@scottywan82 Жыл бұрын

Doesn't Draykavac come with an extra head to be just a random Techpriest?

@HeartlessNinny1 Жыл бұрын

I suppose even if he doesn't that wouldn't be the hardest conversion in the world.

@Unknown-qj9sm Жыл бұрын

I got him, he does come with a normal head

@scottywan82 Жыл бұрын

@@Unknown-qj9sm Thank you!

@blastvader Жыл бұрын

Great overview Ian. Taaaa. Though can anyone explain to me why the fuck the Skitarii aren't in the Liber Michanicum when they are featured in half the HH books, up to and including having them as actual charactes withactual story-lines etc. (Rho-Mu-31, Transacata-7Y1, Arook Serotid).

@charles96541 Жыл бұрын

Man, I was really hoping I could take a knight lancer

@alejandrochalco6893 Жыл бұрын

Imperial militia, and cults next please

@JennFaeAge Жыл бұрын

Ian: making sense of massively unwieldy GW army lists so we don't have to XD

@hobobeard Жыл бұрын

Hey Ian. You might not’ve noticed but Ursarax have been listed as “No longer Available” since March.

@bionicgeekgrrl Жыл бұрын

Either getting plastic, going away for good or getting new boxes/upc made or the moulds wore out and they've not made new ones yet is what they typically may no longer available on fw. One of the downsides of resin is your moulds typically only give you around 50 castings before needing replacement, higher or lower depending upon a variety factors.

@christopherboismier8511 Жыл бұрын

@vthesnail Жыл бұрын

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but lore-wise there isn't a reason why some of the 40k vehicles (the onager dunecrawler and skorpius tank, come to mind) can't be used in a mechanicum army. I guess the lore implication is that they are "new", but there's no lore I could find to actually confirm that, really. Additionally, skitarii were a confirmed thing during the heresy, but for some reason aren't usable in the game? This alongside the inability to use most heresy kits for 40k proves to me that GW seem pretty confused about both of these factions. Here's hoping that changes once dark mechanicum armies become a reality in 40k.

@grahamcarpenter691 Жыл бұрын

It’s a shame that these awesome units can’t be used in 40K. I was told that it would be anti-lore because the Mechanicus thinks they’re heresy or some dumb bullshit.

@captainweekend5276 Жыл бұрын

Yeah that's bunk considering there was a plan to bring the mechanicum units into 40k in a cancelled IA book called fires of cyraxus. The "truth" is more likely that a lot of the heresy era mechanicum tech has been lost to time, however given that this was the same fate of volkite and that returned in 9th edition I could see them using the same justification of them being either "neo" versions or rediscovering old tech, the FW 10th edition index would be the perfect time to add these units so here's hoping!

@ToTheNines87368 Жыл бұрын

I don’t play either tabletop game, but there aren’t any skitarii in the list? That’s strange since I’m pretty sure I’ve read 30k novels that feature them heavily.

@medrengardianbluntrotater 4 ай бұрын

Yeah it’s weird

@tharkwarrior Жыл бұрын

If I could somehow unload all the minis I'll never paint, and start something new, it would be Mechanicum.

@SolvableMattB Жыл бұрын

i love this army, and its why im getting a 3d printer

@repentia1 Жыл бұрын

titans dont work as completely separate armies as they can only be taken as an optional detachment, not a primary and even if they could they don't have a single line unit.

@BluJean6692 Жыл бұрын

Can't Tarantulas have tank-tracks added to them or am I thinking of something else?

@ArbitorIan Жыл бұрын

You might be thinking of the Rapier carrier?

@pendantblade6361 Жыл бұрын

The Omnissiah approves of this video.

@TheOneWhoSometimesSaysOk 2 ай бұрын

If only we had 40k rules for them...

@DurandulTycho Жыл бұрын

what about the secutarii?

@ArbitorIan Жыл бұрын

They're now only in the Titan Legion list.

@1989eol Жыл бұрын

I checked out because no nice terrain. I mean titans and knights. I'll be back later.

@namefinder Жыл бұрын

What a shame that so much of this army is forgeworld only! I love the look at a lot of the robots but don't want to remortgage my house for it...

@apo617 Жыл бұрын

Bro, just don’t have a house.

@barrylucas8679 Жыл бұрын

Difficult to start, no. Difficult to know when to QUIT yes.

@lukemcdonladson6648 Жыл бұрын

✌️💚

@Janx14 Жыл бұрын

I much prefer the Heresy Mechanicum to the overly steampunky AdMech.

@GooglyEyedSkull Жыл бұрын

Beep Whoop Whistle Buzz. Or summat 😅

@GooglyEyedSkull Жыл бұрын

🤔

@earnestwanderer2471 Жыл бұрын

Wait! What? Can you try again in English? 😀

@thesmilyguyguy9799 Жыл бұрын

: D

@Brother_Nihilus 4 ай бұрын

Do you want bad quality, low quantity and extremely overpriced resin? Or do you want bad quality, even lower quantity and even more expensive overpriced resin? Oh wait, you can maybe get 1 or 2 HQ choices from the most prohibitively expensive range from the 40k setting? This is a joke, at least the Custodes have their basic infantry in plastic, but that's a whole nother joke onto itself. When FW will become a site purely for cool character units and NOTHING else, the hobby side of 30k will be slightly more affordable. Until then, I'm not selling a kidney for 1 bot😢