#sicaran

[skrapbox]

Finished painting my illegal sicaran for the Death Guard army.

Original idea for them was "quickly slap some paint and be done with". O how I was wrong.

[theironwarsmith]

'Hydra', Command Sicaran

Finally, the third Sicaran is done. This one is the command vehicle for the whole armoured spearhead, I've still got a long way to go but I'm getting there.

I still need to get:

1 Sicaran Venator

A jetbike squadron of 6

A Lightning Strike Fighter

10 Angels Tears with Assault Cannons (yup, a Blood Angels unit, because Alpha Legion)

Then I'll have all the models

[sigismundsghost]

Space Wolves Sicaran

[kasperl-ruprecht]

This tank inspired the Ontos in Battletech

And probably the Sicaran from 40k

M50 Ontos tank destroyer in Vietnam.

[bolters-and-rivets]

I've been reading through Imperial Armour on the warhammer vault

Honestly I think a lot of the people complaining about Warhammer+ don't realised it includes free access to out of print publications, including the entire Imperial armour Series, but that's a discussion for another time

this was my take away from IA Vol.2

in 40k Thomas the Tank is real, he's really fucking angry, and he has two of Humanity's finest autocannons ready to reign hell upon you

the evidence

or as one redditor so beautifully put it, manning a Sicaran would probably feel familiar to those who played Halo on Xbox Live back in the day

if I'm reading it correctly, Sicarans have a super advanced "machine spirit" (*cough* AI) that is of borderline human inteligence, able to control both the guns and the navigation, so it can switch between one or the other when being manned by an astartes controlling the opposite.

and after 10,000 years they've become increasingly cantakerous and angry, like dreadnought levels of grumpy if woken up without good reason. There's also stories of them automattically following long out of date patrol routes.

But the imperium claims the reason it's no longer in active service primarily because the hull is a unique design. Sure, keep telling yourself that it's because it's too specialised and not because you forgot to defrag the ram for 10,000 years and now it's grumpy because it has the AI equivalent of brain fog.

frankly this discovery has onely convinced me further to get a couple of sicarans, their personality is perfect for khornite tanks-no, they aren't demon possesed, they're just just fucking mad they now venerate khorne

[wujczak]

Sicaran tanks, epic scale, fully magnetised and with swappable turrets.

[the-god-of-hellfire]

💀💀💀 THE LORD OF SKULLS 💀💀💀

My latest addition to The Dreamers of the Frozen Deep. Because I can never have enough crunchy daemon engines! Model is a mash up of the Cerastus Knight and a Sicaran.

"How does it fight effectively with the tread body," you ask?? Look man, I'm not playing Chaos because I want to get hung up on details of practicality.

[gaslightgatekeepgalvorbak]

recent progress building sicarans for my emperors children

[mechakingghidorah100-blog]

Been a hot minute since I posted painting stuff. Two LI Sicarans, showing off the plasma and autocannon option respectively.

[lewdcookies]

Picture 1: Hugin & Munin, paired Sicaran Battle Tanks of the Raven Guard. Their machine spirits seem to be linked to each other in ways the Tech Priests can't fully explain, as every attempt to split them up has led one vehicle refusing to operate unless their companion is close by.

Picture 2: Amarok, Kratos Battle Tank of the Space Wolves. The vehicle has gained a reputation of preferring hunt by itself, seemingly ignoring or shunning other Legion vehicles in the need to kill.

Picture 3: Fides, Kratos Battle Tank of the Ultramarines. The name stemming from the vehicle's steadfast loyalty to its crew and pulling them through thick and thin without failing.

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More tanks! Tiny ones too!

Not much to say, they're a bunch of 3D printer Epic/Legions Imperialis scaled tanks I managed to win a couple of months back.

One of two annoying parts were probably trying to magnetise the Kratos'. but that was mostly because I first glued in the turret plugs and then changed my mind after I noticed how much they scraped the inside of the mounting socket. The second one were the autocannons on the first one, both of those snapped off at a point during magnetisation, but thankfully I had spares so I could just glue those on instead.

Otherwise they were very nice to paint and got done in a couple of hours each.

The Raven Guard transfers are technically from the Thunderbolt sheet, because I didn't have any others in the right scale. And for the Ultramarines I was lucky the Intercessor sheet that came with the ETB ones had small enough emblems I could use.

[nightbringer24]

I do want the Sicaran Battle Tank and the Kratos Heavy Assault Tank for my Steel Drakes.

I like the idea of them having some Heresy-era vehicles alongside the more standard 'current' Astartes stuff.

Which reminds me that I need to build up the Deimos pattern Rhino for them.

[simpleimple]

The Carrion Crows gain an additional nasty crime wagon to finish off my Sicaran squad and my night lords vehicles. Now I can work on solar aux a bit

[voices-of-favor]

Anyways, adding to my previous post, just a couple random, more or less cinematic shots from yesterdays marines vs. orks battle

Including some context!

Because we cared more about the narrative side, we went the "fuck it" way and put a big hill in the middle of it, which was held by my infiltrators from the start (because forward deployment)

Ork warboss stormed it as soon as possible and that led to pretty much non stop fighting on top of the hill from turn two to finish, with other space marines (and one eversor stand-in xenos mercenary) rushing in to help out the surprisingly resilient and/or lucky infiltrators, who almost made it to the end

The chaplain had his finest hour, holding back a group of ork nobs and their deff dread, who tried to flank the groups that were rushing to aid the infiltrators

Somehow, the madman survived, slaying several nobs in the process before retreating to let out Sicaran tank take care of the now-dead deff

Also, our improv field deserves its moment in the spotlight

We dont have a table wide enough for a match this big, so we used the "board" from the old Battle Masters (or Claymore Saga, as it is written on our box) game

Id say it looks pretty good with our more natural, ruin-looking terrain

[warchirfsminitures]

Tonight 1500 point Horus Heresy list. This one i a little unconventional for me - my usual list is a Temper Assault.

List contains:

Chaplain (warlord)

Command squad

Castellan

Tacticals with chainswords in rhino

Tacticals with bayonets

Assault marines

Seeker squad

Heavy support with assault cannons

Sicaran

The theme here is maximize bolter shots while maintaining limited offensive capability.

[regina-bithyniae]

Progress Studies

Reading the rules for Space Marine 1st Edition (1989) (i.e. the first mass battle 6mm scale game in the "Epic 40k" genre), it's striking how little innovation has been made for the modern Legions Imperialis (LI, 2023) ruleset. Turn structure and flow of play is about 90% identical between the games even with close to 35 years separating them.

Notable is that the entire rules section of the Space Marine 1st Ed book is about 33 pages, and is written in a far more conversational style. Representative case:

Meanwhile, LI has dedicated way, way more rule-writing effort to special rules and weapon traits:

Jesus fucking christ guys, it's an 8mm game! You've got more pages of special rules than you have for all phases of a turn put together!

The main difference between the two is that LI devotes far more of the design effort into giving very large numbers of different units and weapons, with an openly stated goal of including as many distinct Horus Heresy units as possible. And even then, a common complaint at launch was that the game felt incomplete due to the number of units which were "missing" from the Astartes roster.

But it's a good case where a crowd pleaser (giving the Sicaran Arcus Missile Battle Tank #1 Fan rules for his tank waifu) makes for a bad game. At this scale a stripped-down set of army rosters with better internal balance was the right choice. But the designers, likely nudged by GW corporate wanting to sell as many distinct model sets as possible, ran 20 pages of rules in the opposite direction.

[manicpixiedreamgolem]

After a quiet month, a more full one, completing eleven saurus warriors, a Spartan, and a Sicaran. The tanks were surprisingly fun: i painted about fifteen imperial guard tanks way back when and it's been nice to get back to placidly drybrushing rivets.

Next month: I committed to another half-dozenish Templar Brethren for the goonhammer open in september so them first, and then it's back to Tau, starting with a squad of Stealth Suits and a Ghostkeel.