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Kingdom Death's stuff tends to go quick, but it isn't sold out yet because it doesn't have boobs... I would still jump on it quick if you want it. Avoid the pinup models/wet nurse if you don't like boobs; things like the grandmother and twilight knight are awesome (mostly sold out) models. Also, most of the site is very NSFW because of the before mentioned boobs. Link to the model: http://shop.kingdomdeath.com/product/chosen I also use a Studio Mcvey model for my Keeper of Secrets:  I use daemons like I use my orks: as an excuse to collect goofy models and convert them. LordAba fucked around with this message at 01:35 on Jul 13, 2013 |
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Holy poo poo that model rules.SRM posted:Oh, I do too. I just find them to be very busy models. They're at least a lot more elegant than the Ravenwing Knights, which, while I still like them, are models with a completely unrecognizable silhouette. From some angles you can't even tell they're Marines on bikes because there's so much poo poo on them. Hm, I just built some Black Knights recently and I'm not sure if I entirely agree. The company champion is definitely way too busy and hilariously over-wrought; good thing Blades of Caliban are bad and you never have to take that guy.  The regular knights are more detailed than regular bikers, sure, but I think they turn out reasonably well. The extra stowage/bags they carry are cool and beyond the now-standard wing-shaped fairings I'm not sure what else stands out about them. I think the wings are kind of goofy myself and I've been limiting them to sergeants in my regular biker squads so they don't get over-played.And I imagine it to have been tad-hig.
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I am thinking mostly of the champion; you just see wings and a church and a sharp thing sticking out of there somewhere. The regular dudes are really detailed, but overall aren't too bad. I've got a box of them, so I obviously don't hate them
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I left off as much bling as possible and thinned the models out with regular Ravenwing parts from a Battleforce I picked up for dirt cheap. The champion is pretty useless, but I need another box now that you can run a 5-bike command squad. Attach Sammael and you have a credible deathstar that isn't too vulnerable to heldrakes, especially if you add a cheapo biker Libby to sling Prescience around with a power field generator. You can detach him before you charge, or more likely your opponent isn't Chaos Space Marines so you attach it to a regular Ravenwing squad since they don't want to be in CC anyway. Actually, you could attach Sammael to that unit as well because the command squad is powerful enough on its own. Regardless, the point is that you have options. Ravenwing can be a pretty good list in higher point games.
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LordAba posted:Avoid the pinup models/wet nurse if you don't like boobs; Or rape!   What a lovely company.
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ghetto wormhole posted:Or rape! Somehow that seems more slannesh'y than the other one.
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ghetto wormhole posted:Or rape!  stuff on there that dakka goes crazy for just baffles me. Phyresis posted:I left off as much bling as possible and thinned the models out with regular Ravenwing parts from a Battleforce I picked up for dirt cheap. The champion is pretty useless, but I need another box now that you can run a 5-bike command squad. Attach Sammael and you have a credible deathstar that isn't too vulnerable to heldrakes, especially if you add a cheapo biker Libby to sling Prescience around with a power field generator. You can detach him before you charge, or more likely your opponent isn't Chaos Space Marines so you attach it to a regular Ravenwing squad since they don't want to be in CC anyway. Actually, you could attach Sammael to that unit as well because the command squad is powerful enough on its own. Regardless, the point is that you have options. Ravenwing can be a pretty good list in higher point games.
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Just the one full command squad with a dakka banner and grenade launcher. Anything more is a luxury, and luxury is one of many potential first steps on the path towards heresy.
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Speaking of Black Knights, I just got my Sammael figurine on Corvex, and this is my first time with Finecast, but either I'm doing something wrong or the model is just wrong. Has anyone put one of these together? The feet don't meet the footrest correctly if the waist piece is put together such that the torso fits in correctly, nor does the back of the side pieces fit together in that scenario - there are basically 3 points where the two legs each touch the main body/other leg of the model but only one of those 3 fits together at a time. Is there some way to like bend the resin pieces? They seem to be super flimsy and I can kind of push them together but they spring back. I really can't express how frustrated I am with this, especially given the $ I paid for this guy.
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ghetto wormhole posted:Or rape! I dunno that is weird and all but it doesn't seem *eyes follow the tail thing* 
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Direwolf posted:Speaking of Black Knights, I just got my Sammael figurine on Corvex, and this is my first time with Finecast, but either I'm doing something wrong or the model is just wrong. Has anyone put one of these together? The feet don't meet the footrest correctly if the waist piece is put together such that the torso fits in correctly, nor does the back of the side pieces fit together in that scenario - there are basically 3 points where the two legs each touch the main body/other leg of the model but only one of those 3 fits together at a time. Finecast is utter poo poo and always needs fixing. Fortunately, it's a super soft resin so you can simply immerse it in hot (not even boiling) water for a few seconds, bend it into shape, then dunk it into cold water to set it. Unfortunately, certain casts (like the tau commander) have enough weight on relatively narrow areas that even being in an 80deg room is enough for them to bend out of shape.
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Just finished the Eisenhorn omnibus. Aside from the abrupt ending I really, really liked it. How do the Ravenor books stack up?
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Hixson posted:Just finished the Eisenhorn omnibus. Aside from the abrupt ending I really, really liked it. Most people actually like Ravenor better than Eisenhorn. I am the opposite. But Ravenor is quite good. Some of the best 40k fiction out there imho.
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Hixson posted:Just finished the Eisenhorn omnibus. Aside from the abrupt ending I really, really liked it. Personally I like the characters in Eisenhorn better, but the overall story in Ravener is more cohesive. Though the major plothole in the story is how nobody in the inquisition notices that he is a tyranid creature. You would think the snake tale would give it away. Granted I'm only halfway through Ravenor right now, so I'm not sure how much it will change. All I have to say is that Dan Abnett actually pisses me off sometimes. Gaunt's Ghosts, I'm looking at you. Though again how does a tyranid hormagaunt get to be commissar?! LordAba fucked around with this message at 05:47 on Jul 13, 2013 |
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Dan Abnett's earlier writing style, which is to say much of the Eisenhorn omnibus (though it starts to get better around the third book), grates the gently caress out of me as a writer and reader. I'm talking about the way he puts in his line and paragraph breaks, splitting off sentences randomly any which way, or so it seems. It's an annoying habit that he thankfully seems to have started to cure himself of around the time of Hereticus, and as a result Ravenor, Pariah, Brothers of the Snake and his Horus Heresy novels are approximately one billion times more readable, but it took me literally years of calendar time to finish reading the Eisenhorn omnibus because I'd get through a chunk of it and even though the plot and characters were interesting by Warhammer standards, his prose pissed me off so much that I'd put the book down for months and months. By comparison I plowed straight through Ravenor and Pariah. I ought to try one of the Gaunt's Ghosts books that were written before or contemporary to Eisenhorn and see if those suffer from similar problems, but on the other hand I'm sort of afraid to.
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JerryLee posted:Dan Abnett's earlier writing style, which is to say much of the Eisenhorn omnibus (though it starts to get better around the third book), grates the gently caress out of me as a writer and reader. I'm talking about the way he puts in his line and paragraph breaks, splitting off sentences randomly any which way, or so it seems. It's an annoying habit that he thankfully seems to have started to cure himself of around the time of Hereticus, and as a result Ravenor, Pariah, Brothers of the Snake and his Horus Heresy novels are approximately one billion times more readable, but it took me literally years of calendar time to finish reading the Eisenhorn omnibus because I'd get through a chunk of it and even though the plot and characters were interesting by Warhammer standards, his prose pissed me off so much that I'd put the book down for months and months. By comparison I plowed straight through Ravenor and Pariah. I don't know what it is about his earlier work that I really enjoy - but I like tha tit ISN'T polished. Ravenor is much more polished in writing style. I think I often compare it to early works of William Gibson (in the way it is written) not the actual content. Something about it appeals to me.
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Does anyone have the rules for the new gun emplacements for Apoc and regular games? Curious if they are any good in a normal game really.
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Khorne Flakes posted:Does anyone have the rules for the new gun emplacements for Apoc and regular games? Curious if they are any good in a normal game really. Firestorm Redoubt Classification: Medium bunker [STANDARD FORTIFICATION] Cost: 200 AV: 14 Access Points: As modeled (3) Fire Points: 1 Rules: Medium sized Bunker, and two quad lascanons. The quad lascanons are 2 shot linked Icarus lascanons. They are able to independently fire and are not target-able separate from the redoubt, however they are always fired automatically, (BS:2 CANNOT be manned) however they automatically fire at the closest flying monstrous creature or flier if one is available. Vengeance Weapons Battery Classification: Impassable Building [STANDARD FORTIFICATION] Cost: 75points AV: 14 Access Points: 0 Fire Points: 0 Weapon: Punisher Gatling Cannon (24" S5 Ap- Heavy 20) Rules: Automated Fire without being occupied. Options: -Add another Battery for 75pts -Upgrade Gatling Cannon to Battle Cannon for 10pts Aquilla Strongpoint Classification: Massive fortifications (Medium building w/battlements + Large building w/battlements) [APOCALYPSE UNIT] Cost: 535pts AV:15 Access Points: Per model Fire Points: Per model Rules: Macro Cannon, or Vortex Missile Battery Macro cannon: -Macro Shell: 72" S: D AP:1 Primary weapon 2, Large Blast -Quake Shell: 180" S: 10/7/5 AP:1/4/6 Primary weapon 1, Apocalypse Mega-blast, Sonic-boom Sonic boom: (simplified: draw a line from the cannon to the center of the template, any flyers, flying monstrous creatures, gargantuan flying gargantuans on the line roll a d6, crash and burn on a 1) OR Vortex Missile Battery: -Vortex Missile: Infinite range, S: D AP:1 Ordinance 1, Large blast, Vortex
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I've read all of the Gaunt's books and I just finished Malleus yesterday. I'm basically reading the Inquisitor stuff because I'm hungering for more abnett and Warmaster isn't out yet. I absolutely love Abnett's writing for guilty pleasure reading. I think he gives such a better living, breathing universe feel to 40k than most of the other books. I'm enjoying the Eisenhorn fare but it doesn't feel nearly as well written as Salvation's Reach. He's come a long way I think, both as a writer and in his conception of what the Imperium is.
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Tadhg posted:
I've once had "Hi, Karandras" at a GW store. I left and my girlfriend who was with me at the time will never let me forget that moment.
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Finally finished converting a Nob to a Big Mek. I may have gone overboard. Thoughts?   
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There is no such thing as overboard with Orks.
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Agreed, that Mek is awesome. Is that whole gun scratch built? It looks great, loving all the tubes and wiring coming off it.
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thespaceinvader posted:There is no such thing as overboard with Orks. Unless you have a battlewagon converted to look like a pirate ship and a bunch of orks are making some grits walk the plank.
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Ashcans posted:Agreed, that Mek is awesome. Is that whole gun scratch built? It looks great, loving all the tubes and wiring coming off it. The little part where it meets the hand is a chopped up Nob slugga, the rest is all scratch built. Thanks for the nice comments all, gets me pumped for my next project (whatever it may be). Cataphract posted:Unless you have a battlewagon converted to look like a pirate ship and a bunch of orks are making some grits walk the plank. I would be ok with this.
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Probably not going to be able to make it to the anniversary event today dudes. Deviant's not going and that would have been my ride. Oh well! We'll get in games eventually.
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Cataphract posted:Unless you have a battlewagon converted to look like a pirate ship and a bunch of orks are making some grits walk the plank.  I've always been tempted to make one out of the Marienburg Class Land Ship from forgeworld.
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I also added myself to the list - Adelaide, Australia - even though the majority of my first army (Eldar) is still on a container ship somewhere between Vancouver and Sydney, so I'm realistically a good couple of months away from actually being able to play.
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Cool things from the Farsight Codex preview: Shas'O Riptide (Earth Caste Piloting Array), Fusion Blades, Warscraper drones, Commander Brightsword. Something about suit armies, but it's unclear, and Arthas Moloch is totally a demonworld now.
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raverrn posted:Cool things from the Farsight Codex preview: Shas'O Riptide (Earth Caste Piloting Array), Fusion Blades, Warscraper drones, Commander Brightsword. Something about suit armies, but it's unclear, and Arthas Moloch is totally a demonworld now. A Shas'O Riptide is enough to make me buy it. I'll even retire R'Alai for that.
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Schizotek, what's the gaming scene like down in Davie/Plantation? I'll be moving over that way in a couple weeks.
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raverrn posted:Cool things from the Farsight Codex preview: Shas'O Riptide (Earth Caste Piloting Array), Fusion Blades, Warscraper drones, Commander Brightsword. Something about suit armies, but it's unclear, and Arthas Moloch is totally a demonworld now. That picture had it labeled "O'Vesa". According to the previous codex, the gun drones are known as Kor'Vesa. Between that and the "Earth Caste Piloting Array", I'd bet a buttcoin that it's drone a drone piloted Riptide.
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TheBlobThing posted:Hey good idea! I'll just add my location.   I added myself. I'm the only one in Sweden so far. Well, I know one goon here personally, but he's in the other end of the country. 
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OB_Juan posted:That picture had it labeled "O'Vesa". According to the previous codex, the gun drones are known as Kor'Vesa. Between that and the "Earth Caste Piloting Array", I'd bet a buttcoin that it's drone a drone piloted Riptide. Or maybe it has an earth caste pilot?  Have those dudes ever shown up in anything before?
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Groetgaffel posted:I'm the only one in Sweden so far. Well, I know one goon here personally, but he's in the other end of the country. Make that two. Added myself as well.
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A full suit army is going to break my wallet far worse than anything that could go on the steam sale...
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Anyone think Dire Avenger body/heads would look way better on Shining Spears than their current makeup?
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