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Slaying With My Kin

Linkin Loyalist - Purging with my Kin

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The Leagues might want to be a bit more subtle about the Ironkin. These are true mechanical intellects, created by the Votann – and they’re computationally advanced enough that they’ve learned to mimic Kin social behaviour, fully integrated into League society as equal partners. Whether made from meat or metal – Kin are Kin.

Each Ironkin consists of a Cerebral Unit – woven with microfield generators that make it very hard to destroy – and a unique mechanical body. An Ironkin’s body isn’t just some component to be replaced – it’s deeply personal, as much as the bodies of their fleshy cousins, and designed to fulfil a certain niche, such as mining support units, cargo luggers, combat pilots, or shock troopers. Some Ironkin even serve as Wayfinders, whose accelerated logic-cores help them cogitate probable paths through the warp. 

The purpose of the Ironkin is to support the Kin in every aspect of their lives, but it’s important to know that they’re not held in servitude, nor treated as lessers. They’re simply designed to want to be helpful. However, as artificial beings, they can only imitate the emotions of their biological fellows – it’s rare (but not unknown) for an Ironkin to possess ambition, or seek to become a leader.

Lore of the Votann – Ancient Quasi-divine Machine Intellects Make for Decent Gunsmiths, it Turns Out

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The Leagues of Votann are still a few months out from making first tabletop contact with the rest of the 41st Millennium, but after learning about the Ancestor Cores and the cloneskeins, we’re all agog for the main course – the guns.

As with more or less everything else in the Leagues, the collected technological knowledge of the Kin is contained within the Votann. These ancient minds are vast repositories of weapon schematics that would have just about every member of the Adeptus Mechanicus weighing up the merits of becoming a heretek. The Kin, you see, are sitting on a closely guarded network of functioning STCs – a fact reflected across their entire armoury.

An armoury which, mark you, they are perfectly permitted to improve over time. The Kin may move slowly, but they’re not stuck in technological stasis like some factions we could mention. Their engineers – called Brôkhyrs – command the auto-foundries of each Kin hold from their personal A.N-vyl terminals. But what are they forging?

From the Autoch-pattern bolter to the Etacarn plasma gun, many Kin weapons bear superficial similarities to Imperial weapons, but they’re superior in every respect. There’s a clear shared ancestry between the bolt revolver and bolt shotgun and the bolt weapons of the Adeptus Astartes, but Kin weapons simply work better and hit harder. 

Then there are items like the volkanite disintegrators, which use technology since lost to the Imperium, or ion technology, which is proscribed by the Adeptus Mechanicus. That’s their loss – the T’au Empire certainly seemed to appreciate being taught how to harness it…

All these weapons are supported by smart tech integrated into Kin battlegear. The haptic utility nerve transmission recalibrator modules – HunTR for short – interface with their neural augmetics to establish a feedback loop between firearms and their users. This system projects minute gravitational pulses to maintain a stable firing platform even while running at full pelt – or zooming along on a flying trike.

Purging

Dire Wolf

We all know about the Warhound and the Rapier classes of Scout Titan for those of us that have read the Black Library books or Adeptus Titanicus campaign books.  But have you ever heard of the Dire Wolf?  Today changes that.

Unlike its kin, this Scout Titan is designed to not only find the enemy forces, but actually take the fight to them if the situation requires it.

It's chunky, stubby, and cute in its own way.  This Titan isn't near as sleek and lithe as its Warhound cousin, but it's also an up-gunned beast in comparison.  Twin ardex defensor mega-bolters are mounted in the arms, while the carapace hardpoint has the option of taking a neutron laser or a volcano cannon.  This puppy has some bite!

And yes, Audax players, you finally get something other than the tried and true Warhound.  You'll have some harder hitting weaponry to add to your arsenal.  However, all Legios can take this new little brawler and we can't wait to see it hit the field.  What are your thoughts on the new Titan?

Roboute Guilliman, first of the fallen - the Horus Heresy Alternatus.

Angron, the Red Angel - the Horus Heresy Alternatus.

Magnus vs Leman Russ, the burning of Prospero - the Horus Heresy Alternatus.

Janus

Horus Heresy Alternatus - The Loyalists:

Emperor's Children - Rylanor, Ancient of Rites, and Lucius, Captain of the 13th company during the Istvaan V Drop Site Massacre.

Iron Warriors and Imperial Fists - Fighting side by side during the Siege of Terra.

Thousand Sons - A legion reborn, the Grey Knights brings death to Daemon kin.

Death Guards - Unknown astartes defiently standing against the Traitors during the Drop Site Massacre.

Salamanders.

Night Lords.

Word Bearers.

World Eaters - Kharn bringing vengance for a father murdered.

Horus Heresy Alternatus - The Traitors:

Sons of Horus - Chaos Undivided.

Blood Angels - Chaos Undivided.

Alpha Legion - Chaos Undivided.

Ultramarines - Chaos Undivided.

Dark Angels - Chaos Undivided.

Iron Hands - Slaanesh.

Raven Guard - Tzeentch.

Space Wolves - Khorne.

White Scars - Nurgle.