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Another interesting fluff reveal in Blackstone Fortress for those who may not be following.  Here is a link to the News page which reveals that the robot is indeed a Man of Iron.  There are datasheets floating around and it could ally with AdMech, but that would be sacrilegious!  

 

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/349952-blackstone-fortress-whq40k/page-47

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Yep, great model. Hopefully they make more robots with that style, looks a lot more menacing and realistic than the kastelans.

 

Will get a few, once someone actually has it left over. Already checked out the built model at a FLGS, sadly with that level of detail it won't work to take it apart, cast individual parts and reassemble in different poses to build a full squad.

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I think that this is one of those things were if they mass produced these guys it'd lose it's cool factor if we suddenly had units of them like the actual robot (not the AI). I think it would work for special body guard or one off models though.

 

As for the AI this is 40k's interpretation taken from the comic where the Arbites oversee an Adeptus Mechanicus explorator team as it ventures into a vault that turns out to be the prison for an AI intelligence. It did not go well...

 

http://i67.tinypic.com/230c5w.jpg

 

http://i68.tinypic.com/234cvd.jpg

 

The fact that an AI is up and running around on the loose should be truly terrifying when you consider the reason they turned to using dead people as computers in the forms of Servitors is because of the Men of Iron.

 

 

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Servitors aren't dead people. Always irritates me when that comes up (worse when it's actual fiction!), but the point of them is that the human part still lives, albeit irrevocably enslaved to the machine.

 

I also massively enjoy the 40k term: Abominable Intelligence rather than Artificial.

 

Abominable isn't a word that gets much mileage these days, so I always enjoy seeing it out and about. :)

 

And in the lore & fiction, AI certainly gets an intriguing run.

 

I concur that seeing whole units of these might lessen the sheen - but seeing *more robots* in general would be very neat.

 

More!

 

Beep boop.

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Servitors aren't dead people. Always irritates me when that comes up (worse when it's actual fiction!), but the point of them is that the human part still lives, albeit irrevocably enslaved to the machine.

 

Well I think it depends on the servitor. Some, maybe most, are re-using the wetware of the brain for some or all of their functions but others may mostly be using data-wafers like Kastellan robots and whatever is left of the brain is effectively dead, if there is a brain left there at all.

 

As for whole units of Iron Men I'd agree it would lessen the sheen, though actually I must admit I'm somewhat disappointed in the profile for this guy. His gun isn't spectacular, actually I think the rotor cannon of one of the armsmen from Rogue Trader is more effective, he's only T5 with what, 4 wounds and no invulnerable save? Not really the unstoppable dark-age of technology juggernaught I would have expected...

 

However as for more robots I mean aren't we supposed to get 40k Cybernetica rules at some point? If Forge World can get out of it's slump and back onto a regular release schedule?

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