The Mechanicum are known for their many patterns of automata designed to convey apocalyptic weapons into battle – a banquet of atrocities cooked up by convocations of Tech Priests. They also developed legions of sentient and suffering cyborg Thralls to do their bidding in battle, and few of these constructions were as competent at unleashing destruction on a personal level as the Ursarax Cohort.
Built from a fusion of existing technologies known to the Mechanicum, the Ursarax are the pet project of one Explorator Magos Enabrin Falkan. Notoriously independent, Falkan required a highly mobile combat unit and found his answer by combining the Thallax cohorts of the Ordo Reductor* with a number of his own discoveries – and an oversized jump engine.
The Ursarax is a rapid shock troop that launches itself into combat with its Utan jump booster, shredding and pulverising opponents with lightning claws and power fists.
Like the Thallax, the living components buried within this war construct still retain a consciousness which enables them to act with more nuance than servitors. Reward for the completion of objectives in battle is the release of neural anaesthesia which provides them with a faint modicum of relief from otherwise endless pain.
Following the mysterious disappearance of Falkan, his many acolytes found new masters, disseminating the schematics for the Usarax far and wide. You’ll be able to reinforce your own Taghmata with these close combat monsters in the near future, with a plastic kit which contains six Ursarax with lightning claws, volkite incinerators, and the option to arm two with power fists instead of claws.
* Much to their chagrin.
