We have two new vehicles for the guard, and as before, I'm significantly behind on posts and so we know more about these vehicles now but I will give my first impressions here and talk more about the rules in a future post.
First up is the Centaur RSV, a light half track style transport.
I really like these, much more than the taurox, which it has a passing resemblance to on the front end. When this was released it looked like we were going to get the final link in a triad of transports, with chimera as the heavy powerful transport, the Taurox as the fast mobile transport and this forming the cheap and light transport. Given the additional information we now have, this doesn't quite work out.
Even so, I really like this and would like to have a couple of these in my collection.
The second new vehicle is the Hippogryph AFV. To me this initially looked like a non-transport Taurox prime, or a wheeled armoured sentinel, although it does have some bigger weapons than the sentinel.
Again, I do like this vehicle. It reminds me of the old British army Saladin's and Fox's. I think that it's not going to be a heavy hitting or resilient vehicles, more of a fast scout vehicle, and I think the melta and lascannon options will be the weakest options. The Gatling cannon and battle cannon will be the go to options I think.
Lastly, we have the battle force box. I really want this, especially if I can grab an additional Centaur at the same time. I want a Dorn as a tank commander and two Hippogryphs and two Centaurs would give me everything I would want. The Cadians are a little surplus to requirements but I think my boys would be happy to take them off my hands for his Tau.
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