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In the rulebook it states "Jet Pack units can move as normal models of their type or activate their jet packs" so I guess it's a case of they move like cavalry but jump over terrain and intervening models and then get to use the Thrust Move rule in the Assault phase.
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Fuegan posted:In the rulebook it states "Jet Pack units can move as normal models of their type or activate their jet packs" so I guess it's a case of they move like cavalry but jump over terrain and intervening models and then get to use the Thrust Move rule in the Assault phase. Jetbikes and Jet Packs aren't the same thing.
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Mar 25, 2013 01:37
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Fix posted:Yeah. I've got a thought. Recently have been able to get back into minis by playing LoTR skirmishes of all things-- I've got me a mean all-pewter hobbit collection. :v My group has finally started to come back around to 40k now that crushing hobbits with mumakil is losing its novelty. 6th edition is starting to grow on me, and building some new terrain is a good way to ease back into painting. Still can't decide on 1.5" or 2" sidewalks.
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Mar 25, 2013 01:40
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JoshTheStampede posted:Jetbikes and Jet Packs aren't the same thing. I know? I'm not sure where you're going with this. Hah I see what has happened here. Fuegan fucked around with this message at 01:51 on Mar 25, 2013 |
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Mar 25, 2013 01:44
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Fuegan posted:I know? I'm not sure where you're going with this. You sounded like you were answering the question of "how do jetbike cavalry work?" with stuff about jet packs. If you weren't then my bad.
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Mar 25, 2013 01:47
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Sorry it is Jet Pack Cavalry, I mistyped.
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Mar 25, 2013 01:48
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PierreTheMime posted:Sorry it is Jet Pack Cavalry, I mistyped. Well that makes much more sense.
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Mar 25, 2013 01:49
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PierreTheMime posted:This is seriously some good work. I'm curious how you attached the tentacles--could we get a shot of the undercarriage? The Helsquid is definitely something I want to try when I expand my Chaos flyers, although I might use Green Stuff in one of the tentacle creator things (there are a couple different sets that allow you to make rope/cables/tentacles, etc. from strings of Green Stuff)
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Mar 25, 2013 01:59
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To follow up a little more, it states in the Jump and Jet Pack Units sections that "Jump" and "Jet Pack" aren't classifications in and of themselves so the usual one is obviously Jet Pack Infantry which you find in Tau on Crisis Suits and such. Since they're Infantry, they move 6" in the Movement phase (and ignore terrain as they jet pack over it) and then have the option of moving 2D6" in the Assault phase. The difference here is purely that Plague Drones can move 12" in the Movement phase due to being Cavalry. It essentially makes them Eldar Jetbikes that can't Turbo-boost but instead get Fleet (since Cavalry get it). I hope that makes sense.
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Mar 25, 2013 02:01
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Tadhg posted:
I'd go with the 1.5. A few reasons: - more room for stuff that's more interesting than sidewalks. - walking two abreast doesn't happen that often in actiony situations, more of single file wall hugging. - the scale is an abstraction anyway, see vehicles or guardsmen vs. space marines. - most sidewalks around here can only hold two abreast if those folks are mighty comfortable with each other.
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Asphyxious posted:I'd go with the 1.5. A few reasons: I agree, 1.5 is the way to go.
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Mar 25, 2013 02:07
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Asphyxious posted:I'd go with the 1.5. A few reasons: Good reasoning. 1.5" it is.
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Mar 25, 2013 02:13
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Yeah, 1.5 is about six feet width to scale. You shouldn't need more than that to get the point across.
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Tadhg posted:Busy with school, busy with work, knocked on my rear end by the flu -> bronchitis for a spell, busy doing manly man outdoors stuff. Not much time for painting space barbies or talking about them on the internet. Busy not working on my 30 boyz! How dare you show your face around here with my orks. (But really it's good to have you back).
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Mar 25, 2013 02:52
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krushgroove posted:It looks like they're attached to where the legs/feet would be on the standard Heldrake. I'm in the middle of painting my Heldrake and Maulerfiend so I can see where the bits would go. Yeah there's sockets where the feet normally go on the heldrake, and the maulerfiend tendrils have a ball end, so it was a pretty easy fit... same with the fins on the back.
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Indolent Bastard posted:Busy not working on my 30 boyz! How dare you show your face around here with my orks. (But really it's good to have you back). Yep, I have yours to get out along with whoever the winner of this year's prize is going to be. I think I still have to send Fix some special plasticard for his dildo bowl, too... I dropped the ball on remailing that.
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Tadhg posted:Yep, I have yours to get out along with whoever the winner of this year's prize is going to be. Welcome back! You've still got 2 hours to post an oath, and it better be a big 'un!
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thiswayliesmadness posted:Welcome back! You've still got 2 hours to post an oath, and it better be a big 'un! It's tempting-- I have a couple hundred each of night goblins, skinks, and grots that I could paint up super fast and save myself from a pizza hat fate. But there's a part of me that *wants* to be part of the cool kids pizza hat club. Plus, I don't actually have much free time this week for batch painting, so I may as well bow out gracefully.
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Mar 25, 2013 03:25
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Tadhg posted:I think I still have to send Fix some special plasticard for his dildo bowl, too... I dropped the ball on remailing that. I'll have you know the dildo bowl was a smashing success, even without your fancy schmancy plasticard (which wasn't for that anyway, but I'm glad that it didn't just get lost in the mail. I still have your griffon platform)! 
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Mar 25, 2013 03:51
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Fuegan posted:It essentially makes them Eldar Jetbikes that can't Turbo-boost but instead get Fleet (since Cavalry get it). Plague Drones have Slow & Purposeful due to being Daemons of Nurgle, which means they can't run. Which is odd, but they still get a reroll on charge moves due to Fleet I guess, so it's not a total crapshoot.
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Fuegan posted:Quick picture but you get the idea in terms of scale. A really nice kit to put together as well. I saw these in the local GW the other day - and when painted up - man they look incredible. This is really a neat kit.
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Fix posted:I'll have you know the dildo bowl was a smashing success, even without your fancy schmancy plasticard (which wasn't for that anyway, but I'm glad that it didn't just get lost in the mail. I still have your griffon platform)! I don't think I want to come to your parties if they involve smashing with dildos, but the bowl portal thing looked pretty cool in the test video you showed me. And I forgot all about the griffon platform-- that'll be a nice addition to my Mordian platoon. Let's see if I can get your plasticard out to you this week and not forget about it like some rear end in a top hat again.
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Mar 25, 2013 04:47
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Anyone else notice that it cheaper to buy GW models from Forgeworld than it is to buy the exact same kit from GW? A Tau Piranha or Hammerhead is about $2.50 cheaper on Forgeworld than the exact same kit is at GW. And a Fex is almost $4 cheaper.
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Two Feet From Bread posted:Anyone else notice that it cheaper to buy GW models from Forgeworld than it is to buy the exact same kit from GW? A Tau Piranha or Hammerhead is about $2.50 cheaper on Forgeworld than the exact same kit is at GW. And a Fex is almost $4 cheaper. I think dreadnoughts from FW come to about the same as buying from GW as well.
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I'm sure the thread is tired of seeing my Kriegsmen being mangled by my lovely cell-phone camera, but I'm just going to keep posting them until people threaten me with physical violence (or probations!). My counts-as Marbo. I posted him earlier in the thread in all his horrid grey plasticyness. Here he is all finished.   
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That's looking sweet! But drat the regular bolt pistol is huge compared to the more realistically proportioned Kriegsmen. Regardless, I'd say that a pistol the size of two thirds of his torso certainly can pass for a... Ripper Pistol is it? Well whatever unique gun it is Marbo has.
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Bolt weapons should be huge, there's tons of fluff about how unaugmented humans can't lift standard bolters etc.
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Lungboy posted:Bolt weapons should be huge, there's tons of fluff about how unaugmented humans can't lift standard bolters etc. There are guard version (see any Gaunt's Ghost novel).
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new tau pics here http://www.advancedtautactica.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=19399&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=420
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gently caress that broadside looks rad. Really hoping the new dex has some way of fielding an all battlesuit army. I want stealth suit troops backed up by XV8s/88s and some big stomping Riptides and Hazards! 
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My body is ready. I'm in love with both the flyer and the riptide. No new Shadowsun model from what I can see, which is a bit weird seeing how they just released a book about her. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug0aw5gRPkw The announcement video is up. Wait. It's not unlisted. They're learning! 
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Cataphract posted:new tau pics here Something makes it look like he's about to jam an awesome riff on his guitar.
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Upgrading a Flamer to a Pyrocaster gives it BS5, but as it only has a Template weapon this seems to be mostly a waste, unless they get one of those questionable Daemonic Gifts weapons. Is there a decent use for BS5?
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Manifest posted:Something makes it look like he's about to jam an awesome riff on his guitar.
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AgentF posted:Upgrading a Flamer to a Pyrocaster gives it BS5, but as it only has a Template weapon this seems to be mostly a waste, unless they get one of those questionable Daemonic Gifts weapons. Is there a decent use for BS5? Manning a quad gun? Two regular flamers and a pyrocaster is 74 points, BS5, 6 wounds with T4 and a bunch of wall of deaths if they get charged. Seems a bit silly for them though, since they are essentially flaming, bouncing socks with arms. Probably next best is bloodletters, 90 points for the BS5, 10 wounds at T3. Heralds can get you the BS5 for cheaper but are too flimsy without a squad. Yeah, that's all I got. Monoliths fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Mar 26, 2013 |
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AgentF posted:Upgrading a Flamer to a Pyrocaster gives it BS5, but as it only has a Template weapon this seems to be mostly a waste, unless they get one of those questionable Daemonic Gifts weapons. Is there a decent use for BS5? The shooting attacks on the daemonic gifts are pretty decent (S8, low AP), but the odds of getting them are slim. Plus you will probably end up with the flamer template gift, making it worthless anyways. Plus, like some of the other "useless" upgrades that are there for fluff reasons, it makes nerds on the internet freak out. 
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Groetgaffel posted:Which is awesome. Hell yes it is. Imagine the cool conversion.
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Counts as Slaanesh obliterators.  Edit: except for the whole Tau being chaos resistant thing. 
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Two Feet From Bread posted:Anyone else notice that it cheaper to buy GW models from Forgeworld than it is to buy the exact same kit from GW? A Tau Piranha or Hammerhead is about $2.50 cheaper on Forgeworld than the exact same kit is at GW. And a Fex is almost $4 cheaper. Unless I'm mistaken, a complete FW Falcon mk II including shipping is $20 cheaper than a GW Falcon with free shipping in Aus. Sticking with ebay and FW (and my suitcase on holiday) for all my vehicle needs as I build my army.
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Groetgaffel posted:That's looking sweet! Thanks! The boltpistol looks unique and is noticeable, which is what I was going for. Marbo being Marbo, I didn't mind him being the only model in my army deviating from the sombre semi-realistic look of the rest of the krieg models, by giving him a small hand-cannon and strapping explosives to him on every free square inch of his body  Also, regarding the Tau, I've really warmed up toward them. When I got bacl to 40k, I was all grognardy about them, "They weren't there when I played back in the 90's!"  Now I really like them (though not enough that i'd ever consider getting an army of them).
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