GW has revealed what to expect with the new Leagues of Votann Hekaton Land Fortress kit by showing off the sprues and options!
This originally looked like it was going to be a hot ticket item with some of the early theory-hammer, but after the big NERF, we’ll have to see how people use them. We still expect plenty of hobbyists to pick them up, as they are pretty cool in general.
GW Reveals New Hekaton Land Fortress Sprues
Warhammer Community unveiled the new Leagues of Votann Hekaton Land Fortress kit sprues along with some options for how you can build them, but we’ll also see if the weapons look magnetizable (but we’ll also make a video when we get one to know for sure).
Each of these rugged battle tanks starts as three stuffed sprues – with a cheeky fourth sprue of transparent plastic for its many canopies. These don’t just contain the robust side panels, terrain-tested wheels, and formidable undercarriage of the Land Fortress – they also supply its immense armoury.
The sprue is pretty beefy and looks fairly simple for a multi-part tank kit. The most important thing, though, is how the turrets will work and if they can be switched out (especially because we don’t know if they will NERF or buff anything in the future).
Ferrying Kin across the battlefield is an important job in its own right, but the Land Fortress is also a weapons platform. Stock, this beauty comes with a pan spectral scanner for sweeping terrain, a cyclic ion cannon that unleashes high-powered blasts, a rear-mounted MATR autocannon, and a whopping four bolt cannons – the latter on spherical mountings for maximum field of fire.
The discerning user can swap out some or all of the bolt cannons for ion beamers, and exchange the primary turret for an SP heavy conversion beamer, a Brôkhyr-enhanced STC weapon that the Imperium especially covets. And when the Leagues absolutely need to obliterate a heavy vehicle or turn an elite infantry squad into a fine mist, the Land Fortress can mount the truly fearsome heavy magna-rail cannon.
From the looks of it, there is a chance you might not even have to magnetize anything, and you’ll be able just to pop them in and out, but it does look like they all use the same mount, so options are looking good for now. Plus, getting all the weapons and three options for turrets in one kit seems to be a value.
The utility of the pan spectral scanner can also be traded for a missile launcher hardpoint, with a choice of three devastating once-per-game munitions. Take your pick from the haywire havoc of an Ancestor’s vengeance warhead, the tank-busting power of a mountain breaker warhead, or an infantry-shredding Kin’s wrath warhead.
These also look pretty easy to swap in and out, or even just hold your choice in with some blue-tac.
Last but not least, you’ll have some options for your driver, which is another cool little touch. They also say they will be available very soon, but don’t give an exact date yet.
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