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Have I complained enough about the slab tracks yet? No? Ok, let me continue then:
They are HIDEOUS! How's that thing supposed to go up hill? Rocket thrusters? Winch?
You'd think the boutique that is FW would be able handle a smidge of detail, even just some grooves. No?
If this is the way mankind ends up, I'm rooting for the Orks.
It's a retro throwback to the original Land Raider's tracks.
I like this, simply because it shows what breaks you out of silly time. It's not the smoke stacks letting the rain in, the slab of side armor begging for a missile hit. It's the lack of treads on the tracks in a universe where anti-grav stuff is ubiquitous. Nothing wrong with that, it's just fun seeing it.
In the interest of full disclosure mine are the magazines on new GK stormbolters and turbine intakes on hardware designed for use in a vacuum. They're silly I know, but I can't stop staring at them like "huh?"
I just realized that those side hatches look like they go right through where the track wheels run on the other side of the armor plating.
Either way, this is a neat throwback to the old Rogue Trader-style vehicles, and since we play a game set in "the grim darkness of the far future", I try not to let realism get in my way of enjoying things.
I think what bothers me a little more is they look so thick and plain. You've got little details all over, and then the tracks look like something a hobbyist doing their first real kit bash did when they couldn't find a track piece to use. It's a change in level of detail that jumps out at me and whacks me over the head with a power maul. Compare the main guns. they've even got sprockets on the elevation pivot.
I realize it's retro, but not retro-good.
If this is the way mankind ends up, I'm rooting for the Orks.
Biggest problem I see with those tracks is functionality...they'd never drag that behemoth across a battlefield let alone get if off the landing craft...FAIL FW
Ok.