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humannature posted:I use WoC heads and they work pretty well. Even used a horned helmet on my biker lord. I wanted to add a cloak to a foot power armor chaos lord. It seems like WoC cloaks would be a hard conversion. Are there any good cloak bits to look for? Buy a box of Marauders. They have lot of fur cloaks. Also all the parts can be used as bits, and you can do like I do and get 20 cultists out of the deal.
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SRM posted:THe plastic Space Marine captain has a cape backpack, as does the old Space Wolves sprue which you can get from GW for cheapish. The newer one might have a wolf skin cape too. Dark Vengeance box, if you're feeling like a bad enough dude.
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Just got back from playing against that gun line Tau army, it was a close draw but I had to say I was quite lucky and he was still learning some aspects of Tau. He got first turn but I deployed behind buildings and ruins and rolled night fighting, as you can guess I did not have to worry too much about his shooting phase. it also helped that he aimed everything at my landraider and vindicators which got a good cover save. Managing to get all my transports through the first turn, I moved flat out with everyting I had hugging cover as much as I could (gods bless dozer blades) and keeping all my Rhinos behind the Land raider and Vinds. As such I was able to get my raider and all 4 rhinos into his weak flank and with the help of dirge castors managed to get a few vital charges in without Tay overwatch. In the end my MoK chosen and CSM squads could not bring his riptide down, as such he managed to contest a vital objective, winning him the game. MVP units: the land raider who just shuck off every broadside rail gun that hit it. MVP upgrade: Dirge casters, brilliant against Tau! Foul Ole Ron fucked around with this message at 22:16 on Sep 13, 2013 |
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That makes me want to run a Storm Eagle + Spartan Assault Tank list.
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Goat Bouillabaise posted:I used plastic Warriors of Chaos as my crusaders. They look armored up, tough as nails, and I also shaved down the shields to host Inquisitorial symbols. An example: I've been trying to find reasons not to start a henchmen army, but those are so drat sweet. And I already have the pieces in my bitsbox, gonna have to try. Thanks for the inspiration!
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Thundercracker posted:Buy a box of Marauders. They have lot of fur cloaks. Also all the parts can be used as bits, and you can do like I do and get 20 cultists out of the deal.
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Sep 13, 2013 22:53
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How do people use Dirge Casters effectively? A 6" range means the Rhino needs to sit on top of the unit you want to assault, and the unit must have disembarked the turn before and then hope both unit and Caster are still in range of whatever they wanted to assault a turn later.
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Sep 13, 2013 22:59
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They're obviously best on Land raiders, but you can use the rhino and chase the opponent's squad the turn after, or even never put the assault squad in the rhino, and just use it as mobile terrain to screen the squad, and think of the dirge caster as a bonus if it survives. Also, CSM rhinos are better than SM in my opinion, with 2 combibolters and a havoc, so they can add support fire as well, making them even better fire magnets. Granted, I don't play many games against Tau or Eldar so that might not work well at all against them.
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I prefer the combi melta over the havoc launcher. It makes your rhino capable of killing armored targets and you can shoot it after moving forward. I almost killed a monolith once and it felt pretty awesome.
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BULBASAUR posted:I prefer the combi melta over the havoc launcher. It makes your rhino capable of killing armored targets and you can shoot it after moving forward. I almost killed a monolith once and it felt pretty awesome. Couldn't you just take both, or are you talking with the assumption of wanting to keep costs down?
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I always run a CSM Land Raider. It's bad but I like assault and it's the one transport in the book for that. Sadly it's pretty much limited to carrying Berserkers, since it can't hold a decent squad of 5 termis plus an HQ. I always keep it moving so it's not wasted when the enemy lands a drop pod within 6 inches and insta-kills it with melta in the first turn. That said, the dozer blade and dirge caster are both quite good. Both times I played Tau the player was unlucky with his railcannons (despite having the upgrade character that gives tank hunter), meaning I got to park it in front of the gunline and charge it without being shot once back. I even have somewhat better-than-average luck with snapshots. But I'd kill for a variant that was cheaper and had heavy bolter/butcher cannon/baleflamer sponsons.
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Lord Hypnostache posted:I've been trying to find reasons not to start a henchmen army, but those are so drat sweet. And I already have the pieces in my bitsbox, gonna have to try. Thanks for the inspiration! Thanks, man, and they're SO simple! And I just repurposed Wyches for my death cult assassin mob. Shields up front, death from behind them. I used wires and such to make it look like they're all brain-slaved, which makes perfect sense for an Inquisitor. gently caress those xenos, I'mma brainslave 'em and set 'em on their brethren!
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JerryLee posted:Couldn't you just take both, or are you talking with the assumption of wanting to keep costs down? To keep costs down. I'd rather have a combi melta and a combi bolter than the havoc launcher tbh, even if the range is nice. My rhinos tend to go into really dangerous areas so they pop the melta within the first or second turn. It don't expect them to last longer than that.
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Have you ever wanted to own the Ultra Marines? As in, all of the Ultramarines?
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Sep 14, 2013 00:24
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Babe Magnet posted:Have you ever wanted to own the Ultra Marines? As in, all of the Ultramarines? Anyone fancy calculating how much you save?
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Jesus Christ what do you even do when all that arrives on your doorstep and then you either have to paint it all or be the guy who doesn't paint (or just spraycans blue or something). That would be hell for someone like me. It's right out of a children's fable about being careful what you wish for. Bets on how long it is until the $100,000 Black Templars version comes out?
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Lungboy posted:Talking of allied Daemons, I was given 3 blisters (so 12 models) of old claw-n-titty Daemonettes. What would be a good way to ally them into my CSM? radlum posted:I was thinking on the same thing for my IG army; add Coteaz and Crusader and DCA as henchmen/troops. Anyone has any advice regarding that? DCA/Crusaders are only gonna work out of a Land Raider or Stormraven, and for IG allies I'd go with the latter if you wanted to do it. (I'm not sure it's a great plan, but it's not an awful one.) Mixing weapons on your DCA is kinda the default, unless you feel really awful about it- a Power Sword and Axe or Maul is my go-to, but I know some people prefer a Lance for their AP3 needs. AbusePuppy fucked around with this message at 00:34 on Sep 14, 2013 |
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Babe Magnet posted:Have you ever wanted to own the Ultra Marines? As in, all of the Ultramarines?
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Babe Magnet posted:Have you ever wanted to own the Ultra Marines? As in, all of the Ultramarines? How many man-hours would it take to put all of that together? How many points would that be?
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Sep 14, 2013 00:48
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I want to see the game that uses that many
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Lungboy posted:How do people use Dirge Casters effectively? A 6" range means the Rhino needs to sit on top of the unit you want to assault, and the unit must have disembarked the turn before and then hope both unit and Caster are still in range of whatever they wanted to assault a turn later. It is a numbers game tbh, due to my raider and vindicators taking a lot of fire, my Rhinos managed to survive long enough to pile in six. Thankfully my raider spewed out my terminators they same turn my Rhinos got in range, after they assualted it was a domino effect for the Tau units. Also Defilers can take dirge castors 
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Sep 14, 2013 01:01
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JEEVES420 posted:I want to see the game that uses that many Their writing the rules for it now. The working title is "apoc games are for the poors"
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JerryLee posted:Jesus Christ what do you even do when all that arrives on your doorstep and then you either have to paint it all or be the guy who doesn't paint (or just spraycans blue or something). That would be hell for someone like me. It's right out of a children's fable about being careful what you wish for. Hive Fleet Kraken bundle, 15 grand. Both packages to be used with Warzone: You own a money tree.
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Is that full chapter bundle some sort of litmus test for mental illness or what? Goddamn what a poor life choice.
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Ultramega posted:Is that full chapter bundle some sort of litmus test for mental illness or what? Goddamn what a poor life choice. if you go calculate what you have spent on this poo poo over the course of a year you might think the same of yourself.
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MiltonSlavemasta posted:How many man-hours would it take to put all of that together? How many points would that be? Enough glue and nothing else to do? I could do it in about a week. Maybe two if I'm being lazy. Painting it on the other hand...
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radlum posted:I was thinking on the same thing for my IG army; add Coteaz and Crusader and DCA as henchmen/troops. Anyone has any advice regarding that? I used Mammoth's Urban War Junkers which aren't a bad deal at 10 pounds for a 4 pack. Though if you look around you might find it on sale elsewhere and save even more like I did. Even got them painted up a few months ago in the oath thread:   I'm also using a bunch of (mostly) Reaper minis for my actual DCA/Crusader squad. Crap quality pic incoming 
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JEEVES420 posted:if you go calculate what you have spent on this poo poo over the course of a year you might think the same of yourself. So buying a few hundred dollars worth of models over the course of a year is the same as buying an entire chapter of mandolls in one go. thiswayliesmadness posted:I used Mammoth's Urban War Junkers which aren't a bad deal at 10 pounds for a 4 pack. Though if you look around you might find it on sale elsewhere and save even more like I did. Even got them painted up a few months ago in the oath thread: Dude these are great.
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Babe Magnet posted:Have you ever wanted to own the Ultra Marines? As in, all of the Ultramarines? Where are the Thunderhawks? 
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Think they'd have thrown in a squad of Scout Bikers, too. Even GW forgets they exist.
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Babe Magnet posted:Have you ever wanted to own the Ultra Marines? As in, all of the Ultramarines? So THAT's what they are talking about on the IC's and Overlords when they discuss spending a full 'Carl' on the hobby... 
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humannature posted:That's what I said earlier I know. I only have the one heldrake, but I will rock two LRs full of zerks for fun, and it is fun.  After I finish redoing my Eldar, I'm going to turn my attention back to my CSM and add a squad of bikes and a squad of raptors.
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Baruch Obamawitz posted:That's not built using my catalogue. Huh; well I'm not too surprised as there were a couple of 6th edition SM catalogs I got from the generic 40k repo; I thought I had deleted all of the ones that were obviously wrong (100pt librarians) and this was the only one left. Edit: Your catalogue seems to have 100pt librarians; camo cloak cost doesn't update as you add or remove scouts, but that seems more likely to be a battlescribe bug than a catalogue issue drgnvale fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Sep 14, 2013 |
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Babe Magnet posted:Have you ever wanted to own the Ultra Marines? As in, all of the Ultramarines? I like that they made sure to include a quantity drop down on the order page. You know in case you need three or four of them.
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Bucnasti posted:I like that they made sure to include a quantity drop down on the order page. You know in case you need three or four of them. Why stop at a chapter when you could have a whole Legion?
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Was looking for something to watch and came across this battle report and they brought up a rule I hadn't heard of till now around the 9 minute mark. Helldrake comes on and torrents a bunch lootas and a megawarboss in ruins. The warboss is the front hit of the flame template and the ork player declares that he does get a save since the opponent has to go through his warboss first. The wounds are all rolled on his warboss, he saves all but two and LoSir's them to the lootas beside it. I don't have my book handy but is that really how it should go? It seems an odd way to interpret the "remove models from the front first" rule when a combined mob is being hit.
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I haven't looked at the video, but if nothing else you have to LoSir before you roll saves (this was clarified in a FAQ, I believe) so they're wrong on at least one count already.
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The Warboss would take the wounds first if he's closest, but if he failed saves they wouldn't go onto the other dudes. He'd take em, fair and square. I also wish they'd do a one-click bundle for the entire Crimson Fists chapter, since it would basically just be two boxes of Sternguard and Pedro Kantor  YOLO 
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SRM posted:The Warboss would take the wounds first if he's closest, but if he failed saves they wouldn't go onto the other dudes. He'd take em, fair and square. I double dog dare you!
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Ultramega posted:Is that full chapter bundle some sort of litmus test for mental illness or what? Goddamn what a poor life choice. Though someone will inevitably buy it, it isn't really intended to be purchased. It's like the diamond bra from Victorias Secret... Except for nerds.
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