New Ground Assets for Aeronautica Imperialis. These will be coming soon.
Astra Militarum Ground Assets
The Astra Militarum utilises rapid-deployment air support weapons platforms to defend important command posts, forward staging points, and supply dumps from enemy aircraft. Just like everything else in the largest military apparatus in the galaxy, they might be clunky but they’re deadly in numbers.
Hydra Flak Battery
These anti-aircraft guns come in a variety of different shapes and sizes, but they all fill the air with clouds of lethal shrapnel to shred hostile aircraft. This rough-and-ready Astra Militarum version looks just as brutal as you’d expect, with slab-sided armour and four massive guns.
At just 8 points each, you can afford to pepper Hydras around the Area of Engagement to take potshots and create bottlenecks. That close-range Firepower of 6 might cause enemy Fighters and injured bombers to hesitate, making them easy targets for your own Fighters.
Basilisk Anti-aircraft Emplacement
Even a single one of these cannons can punch holes in enemy aircraft at long-range. When deployed en masse, they can create a killing field, allowing friendly aircraft to focus fire on the juiciest targets.
In addition to these weapon emplacements, you’ll find a sturdy refuelling station to represent objectives for your missions.
These models all fit right in with that rugged Astra Militarum aesthetic, and being the same scale as Adeptus Titanicus means they’d look great with Titans stomping around them as well!
T’au Air Caste Ground Assets
The T’au Empire utilises impressive technology on every front, and the Ground Defences they deploy in support of the Air Caste are no exception.
KV 127 Skyfire Platform
Skyfire Platforms use aerial markerlight drones to ‘paint’ enemy aircraft, sending precision bursts of fire to knock them out of the skies. The burst cannon array is also capable of saturating the air with a hail of destructive energy at mid-range.
That’s a lot of Firepower for not a lot of points, and your enemies will think twice about what they send into that deadly mid-range band.
KV 129 Stormfury Platform
If the Skyfire’s a shotgun, the Stormfury’s a sniper rifle. Two of them, actually – really big ones. They’re effective at long-range, and with a high Effective Altitude, no target is safe from your railgun array. At a mere 7 points each, they’ll help soften up your toughest targets or pick off stragglers to free up your Fighters to engage elsewhere.
Alongside the weapons, you’ll get a T’au Air Caste communications tower that can be used as a ground objective during your games.*
It’s pretty awesome to see all these distinctive T’au Empire designs in a new scale, and one or two of these Ground Assets placed on your Area of Engagement will really bring your games to life.
