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That's a bit more expensive, though, as you're not going to really be able to use the rest of the kit for anything else. Better to take spare Deathmark heads after making Immortals. Or, if those aren't available, fill in the eyes of a Praetorian head and use the forehead globe as the eye. Helps make the face nice and long too. Here's the "best" photo of that I did for mine: Using Deathmark/Lychguard bodies also implies a 3+ save, which is averted by using Warrior bodies. I'm a dirty cheater by using Lord bodies (but basically everyone else is too.)
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It could be the cheapest route if you just want five crypteks, but just using spare deathmark heads and lychguard/praetorian staffs on warrior bodies is definitely the most economical route. I never really considered the bodies a problem.
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Aug 16, 2012 08:18
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I'm a forgetful dude and I used to keep forgetting that Crypteks get a worse than the Immortals when shot at by Bolters or whatever, smaller bodies might help that? Or I'm just need to get better at memory.
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Aug 16, 2012 08:24
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 ATTN: Ghost HandIn your most recent episode, you were talking about someone posting rules for Inquisitor in 28mm scale. Do you happen to know where we can get our hands on that?
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Shaman Ooglaboogla posted:He probably uses the really cheap prices on the models in an attempt to bring you in to buy overpriced paints and other hobby supplies. The $24 dollar drop pods are a no-profit hook to grab you in. Which works if you have a few cheap loss leaders and then everything else is normal, but apparently the whole range is priced like that including the paints which are also sold at zero margin. In any case that's a stupid loving idea because 'overpriced' paints (i.e. ones at a normal margin because no-one is going to buy for more than GW prices at their local) make gently caress all money compared to just selling the actual boxes at a standard 10-20% off. It might be some stupid game to get 40k players into his RPG store or whatever but all those big box stores collapsing in grand fashion lately ought to have told someone that selling at zero-or-razor-thin margin on the stuff a customer actually wants and hoping to make it up with overpriced addons and impulse buys doesn't work, particularly if you forget to overprice them.
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It's because he's not trying to make a profit, if he's like the guy here in Dallas running Texas Toy Soldier, he is probably a retiree who is running the shop because he likes miniature gaming and wants people to play/talk with. He's not in it for the money.
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That's what I'd do if I won the Euromillions. Buy a place on the high street, hang a sign saying "No kids, no hobos, no neckbeards." Then just sit in my empty shop all day painting tiny little men and making "pew pew" noises as they fight over the counter. You know, in-between seeing the world and paying to have celebrities who irk me assassinated.
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Aug 16, 2012 10:16
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Well, people have hobbies, y'know?
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A couple threads ago I think SRM wrote up a really good guide for painting Orks. Does anyone still have that sitting around?
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Just wondered if some people who actually play warhammer could help me out. I've got loads of sisters of battle stuff but I've never played - I only paint stuff. Would I be better off selling my different units in a certain way, like a set of 9 normal sisters then a sister superior? Or should I just bung them up in groups of five and ten and sell special units separately. I have no idea how grouping and crap works. Any goony help appreciated.
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Aug 16, 2012 13:54
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Asphyxious posted:Is it bad my first thought was "A whole sector that's really well run, but nevertheless resented because the lords are always hyper-patronising?" Nah that's pretty normal.
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Fix posted:
As far as I know, inquisitor rules can apply straight to 28mm, you just gotta swap the units of measurement. There's a bunch of sites out there if you search for Inq28 on Google.
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e: wrong thread, meant to ask in the painting thread \/ \/ \/ very cool! I have a compressor and an Aztek brush I want to break out, I'll be giving them a shot after my oath stuff is finished. It'll be nice to not to have to wait for clear weather to prime models outside... krushgroove fucked around with this message at 14:42 on Aug 16, 2012 |
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Aug 16, 2012 14:06
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So I spent some of the money I got for my birthday on an compressor, and I am extremely happy I did. There's nothing quite like basecoating most of an army in 5 minutes. I might actually get some painting done now!
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PeterWeller posted:I think putting staff arms on deathmarks is even better because then you have the signature cyclops heads. I make mine mostly from Lychguard/Praetorian bits, with a Deathmark head. 
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Fix posted:
Yeah this was actually Zach that brought this up - I don't know specifically what site/ruleset he was talking about, but I will ask him to elaborate. He of course, didnt provide me a link for the show notes.
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Cheers, thanks.
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Random 1000 point Ork list: 1000 pts HQ Warboss, Mega Armor, Cybork body, Bosspole 115 TROOPS 20 Boyz Nob,Power Klaw, 2 Big Shootas, heavy armor, bosspole 175 4 Meganobz 160 Battlewagon Red paint job, Grabbin Klaw, Reinforced ram 105 ELITES 6 Lootas 90 5 Lootas 75 HEAVY Battlewagon Red paint job, Grabbin Klaw, Reinforced ram 105 1 Zzap gun 2 extra crew 36 1 Zzap gun 3 extra crew 39 FORT Aegis DL Quad gun 100 I figure the Boss + MANz in one battlewagon and the boyz in the other move forward. The Lootas Find cover where they can and the Zzap gunz set up behind the defense line and have a grot man the Quad gun. The quad, Zzap guns, and Lootas can core anything that's not AV 14 like an apple, anything heavier I'll have to use the Klaws to deal with (but how much AV14 would I run into in a 1K game?) My main worry is that I am taking too many toys and not enough Boyz.
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CyberLord XP posted:Random 1000 point Ork list Nix the quad gun, it's too easy to kill. Add a unit of grots for objective grabbing, and you might want to switch out the zzzap gunz for kannons. Battlewagons are a bit expensive for 1000 point list. You might want to consider footslogging it and spending the points on more boyz. Just a thought.
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Lethemonster posted:Just wondered if some people who actually play warhammer could help me out. I've got loads of sisters of battle stuff but I've never played - I only paint stuff. Would I be better off selling my different units in a certain way, like a set of 9 normal sisters then a sister superior? Or should I just bung them up in groups of five and ten and sell special units separately. I have no idea how grouping and crap works. My personal feeling on the matter is if you are selling them, group the ones with plain bolt guns in units of 9 and then add a sister superior for 10, to make it a squad of Battle sisters, if they have special weapons, group them into groups of 4, and then add a sister superior to make it a special weapons squad, as for the composition, you might try to group 4 of the same weapon together, or maybe mix it up a little, I am not sure what would sell better, but if you have extra sister superiors, and special weapons sisters, let me know, I am in the market.
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CyberLord XP posted:My main worry is that I am taking too many toys and not enough Boyz.
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Blompkin posted:Nix the quad gun, it's too easy to kill. Random question. I keep hearing this, but I can't find in my rulebook where it talks about attacking the gun emplacement. Where does it talk about this / what are teh actual rules on destroying it?
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CyberLord XP posted:A couple threads ago I think SRM wrote up a really good guide for painting Orks. Does anyone still have that sitting around? I bet you're thinking of richyp's method. It's the one I use too. http://www.richyp.com/post/Ork-Tutorial.aspx CyberLord XP posted:Random question. I keep hearing this, but I can't find in my rulebook where it talks about attacking the gun emplacement. Where does it talk about this / what are teh actual rules on destroying it? If you look up "gun emplacement" in the index, it says its on p105. Basically its T7, 2 wounds, 3+ save. Close combat hits automatically. plester1 fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Aug 16, 2012 |
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plester1 posted:I bet you're thinking of richyp's method. It's the one I use too. This looks better than the one I used for my Orks; I swapped out the colors for more browns because I have desert Orks: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/237797.page
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Thanks to both of you. It was the Richyp guide, but I'll have to check out the one on dakka now as well.
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That Dakka one is great! Really lays out the batch painting principles, even to the point of leaving some parts primer-white until you put a wash on.
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:That's what I'd do if I won the Euromillions. Buy a place on the high street, hang a sign saying "No kids, no hobos, no neckbeards." Then just sit in my empty shop all day painting tiny little men and making "pew pew" noises as they fight over the counter. I would just have a sign saying "did you shower today? If not, go home, take one and then come back". Also banned MLP shirts and furry tails. Retailers get about 50% off their product from GW, so its easy for them to knock 20% of the price and still make a good profit.
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I thought I read somewhere that Bolster Defenses could be used on any piece of area terrain now, but I can't find it. The Codex and the FAQ seem to specifically apply to Ruins only... is this the case or was it changed somewhere?
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WhiteWolf123 posted:I thought I read somewhere that Bolster Defenses could be used on any piece of area terrain now, but I can't find it. The Codex and the FAQ seem to specifically apply to Ruins only... is this the case or was it changed somewhere? The BA and GK FAQs have the correct, updated version. GW really shat these FAQs out ASAP. You can bolster any piece of terrain, not just area terrain. (Except for fortifications) Phyresis fucked around with this message at 19:35 on Aug 16, 2012 |
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Phyresis posted:The BA and GK FAQs have the correct, updated version. GW really shat these FAQs out ASAP. You can bolster any piece of terrain, not just area terrain. (Except for fortifications) Cool. That's what I thought, thanks.
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I'm pretty sure that Space Wolves Rune Priests' Runic Weapons functioning like oldschool psychic hoods is an oversight on GW's part, much like everything else they forgot to FAQ. Oh well.
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Got another dumb Ork list that needs reviewing, this one 1500 pt.code:
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Hastings on the Warseer forum has come out and said that that huge leaked list of future GW releases is fake. He also said that Daemons will be the Codex after Dark Angels. This is one of the dudes who is almost never wrong.
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Colon V posted:Got another dumb Ork list that needs reviewing, this one 1500 pt. No, just no, seriously no. Please do not take a Warboss without a Powerklaw. Really, don't do it. - You may as well take 15 Boyz, they will kill a lot more in shooting, assault, can score and absorb more wounds etc. Why does he have Cybork? Why bother with the attack squig? He will not be good in assault. Warbosses have less attacks than the equivalent number of Boyz. They need to make those attacks count. The attack squig and Big choppa are 20 points, better to drop them both and take a Klaw. Without a Klaw, he has neither quality or quantity. Just give him Mega Armour.
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Phyresis posted:Hastings on the Warseer forum has come out and said that that huge leaked list of future GW releases is fake. He also said that Daemons will be the Codex after Dark Angels. This is one of the dudes who is almost never wrong. Tasty of BoK said the same thing but I was a little leery after some of those bizarre fluff rumors w/r/t 6th Edition.
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Phyresis posted:Hastings on the Warseer forum has come out and said that that huge leaked list of future GW releases is fake. He also said that Daemons will be the Codex after Dark Angels. This is one of the dudes who is almost never wrong. What? That seems off - I trust Hastings, but someone is throwing out some wonky information for all of the rumors not to match. I hope this is not the case.
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I'm weirded out as well. I'm mostly worried that they are going to nerf the Epidemius + Death Guard list a few months after I buy into it 
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Conversely, Harry said the list was probably kosher, plus Hastings is basing his opinion on the Tau being wrong, but it's likely that some Tau might be released before that list kicks in next June/July.
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It could just be an old list, as in things have since been moved around to fit newer schedules/adjusted for Fantasy releases (which the list is noticeably missing). Makes sense to me that someone tossed this older list in the bin, it was picked up and then put on the internet. At least that's my theory.
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Phyresis posted:Hastings on the Warseer forum has come out and said that that huge leaked list of future GW releases is fake. He also said that Daemons will be the Codex after Dark Angels. This is one of the dudes who is almost never wrong. I hope he's right, there is too much awesome sounding ork stuff on that list. My inner cheapskate was getting faint at the notion of buying that much stuff that wasn't second hand.
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