Slimnoid posted:

xtothez posted:

That's awesome! Where did those little modern-style Carnifexes come from... are they conversions or is someone out there making decent 6mm Not-Tyranids like some other Epic ranges?


Was that when they did the Fire Prism / Nightspinner rebox sometime during 5th, to get rid of the old metal components?

Ignite Memories posted:

Also, where on earth did you get that fabulous hair squig? It's so luxurious

serious gaylord posted:

They updated the Eldar vehicle weapon sprue that comes in all their tank boxes when they released the Wave Serpent and updated War Walkers.

dichloroisocyanuric posted:

That's a shame to hear because they are far and above as my favorite army. Here's to hoping they get a new codex soon, because I love their models anyway. I want to build an army of them anyway (because 'gently caress it, they're cool!'), but for now, I'd like to play an army with options / that I can have a lot of fun with. I actually got a hold of some Dark Eldar units and their codex for dirty cheap, but I'm contented just painting them until a new codex releases if they're not very good on the field. I have 5x Warriors, 10x Wyches, 2x Succubi, a Haemonculus, a Raider, a Venom, and 2x Ravagers. Also came with a foam carrying case. The troops are assembled (poorly), and so is the Raider, Venom, and one Ravager, and it's all really dusty from sitting around, and some of them have some weird glossy black primer on them, but I payed almost nothing for it.

AbusePuppy posted:

-I usually go with the chin Cannon on my Serpents; 10pts for +1 shot, +2 Str, +12" range is a really good deal even if you happen to be snapfiring every turn. And if you don't wanna use the Shield for some reason, it gives you a second weapon to shoot with.

-I don't like the Suncannon WK. It's just too many points for what feels like a sidegrade at the end of the day- I mean, yeah, 5++ is neat and all, but just dipping a toe in terrain gets you a cover save, too. And those S10 guns can solve a lot of problems that are otherwise immune to Wave Serpents and such.

-I much prefer Shadow Weavers to the other artillery batteries; it's cheap as chips, quite tough, and has good range, plus it can hurt almost anything in the game bar a Land Raider. If gives you a way to punish guys who get disembarked and it can snipe out those solo models hiding behind terrain. The D-Cannon isn't awful or anything, but 24" is just really, really short on a static platform.

-I'm not sure why you're running two HQs. Spiritseer doesn't really seem to be doing anything for you here other than maybe throwing a random Psychic Shriek at something- probably points better-spent elsewhere. You don't need to spend 170pts buffing a 150pts unit, especially when they're purely defensive buffs; if any real unit gets into assault there the unit is probably toast, but with the Wraithknights running around that shouldn't be an issue.

With trimming the above stuff you could easily save yourself 100-200pts, which is enough for some FA units (Spyders, Hawks) or more troops (Serpent, Jetbikes) or swapping some DA to Wraithguard for a bit more close-in firepower. Even as-is, though, it's a pretty tough list just due to Wave Serpents and Wraithknights.

Tuxedo Jack posted:

I'm putting together a list for a Tau Kill Team, because I'm in the mood to paint something different (Marines & IG Tanks are getting old) - can you tell me whether or not this would be competitive? I don't need it to be amazeballs, but I'd like to be sure what I'm getting would be fun and at least somewhat sturdy.

Troops (198pts)
XV8 Crisis Team (198pts) (Codex: Tau Empire p100)
Preferred Enemy (Orks) (CC only), Supporting Fire, Very Bulky
Bonding Knife Ritual (3pts) (*)
Crisis Shas'ui (67pts)
Crisis battlesuit, 2x Fusion blaster (30pts), Stimulant injector (15pts)
Crisis Shas'ui (52pts)
Crisis battlesuit, Fusion blaster (15pts), Twin-linked burst cannon (15pts)
Crisis Shas'ui (52pts)
Crisis battlesuit, Fusion blaster (15pts), Twin-linked burst cannon (15pts)
2x Gun Drone (24pts)
2x Twin-linked pulse carbine

Edit: we don't play much Kill Team, and I don't know much about Tau.

ineptmule posted:

I don't really play Kill-Team much either but I do play Tau, and I'd want some Plasma Rifles on those suits. 4 Fusion blasters overall seems to be overdoing it a bit when there's (usually) very little heavy armour in a Kill-Team game.

Edit: Also, it won't affect your choices but you should double check the data that your army builder is using: it says it's from Codex: Tau Empire and then says you have Preferred Enemy (Orks) which is a Farsight Enclaves trait.

Tuxedo Jack posted:

I'm putting together a list for a Tau Kill Team, because I'm in the mood to paint something different (Marines & IG Tanks are getting old) - can you tell me whether or not this would be competitive? I don't need it to be amazeballs, but I'd like to be sure what I'm getting would be fun and at least somewhat sturdy.

Troops (198pts)
XV8 Crisis Team (198pts) (Codex: Tau Empire p100)
Preferred Enemy (Orks) (CC only), Supporting Fire, Very Bulky
Bonding Knife Ritual (3pts) (*)
Crisis Shas'ui (67pts)
Crisis battlesuit, 2x Fusion blaster (30pts), Stimulant injector (15pts)
Crisis Shas'ui (52pts)
Crisis battlesuit, Fusion blaster (15pts), Twin-linked burst cannon (15pts)
Crisis Shas'ui (52pts)
Crisis battlesuit, Fusion blaster (15pts), Twin-linked burst cannon (15pts)
2x Gun Drone (24pts)
2x Twin-linked pulse carbine

Edit: we don't play much Kill Team, and I don't know much about Tau.

DagPenge posted:

Looks to be the GW version of Kill team, I've played some against Eldar, Tau and Tyrranids and what I learned was the following:

Fire warriors are pretty bad rear end, for Kill team they are very good at their price, since they have a weapon which can damage all foes and 4+ armor for just 9 points.
Each model is stand alone and thus can only fire at one enemy model, be very careful not to take units that will overkill the enemy.
Infiltrate is good, the game is all about cover and getting good lines of sight.
Jetbikes and bikes are very good at getting into places where they can be very annoying.
Gimmicks and special tactics are hard to do with only 200 points, so point efficiency and more wounds have been the key in our games.

This is my best list for Tau, however it is very hard to make a bad army, as long as you bring 7-10 Fire Warriors.
The Kroot infiltrates into some good cover where they have a decent line of fire, Fire warriors move up and reinforces them, Piranha and crisis team exploits any opening your Kroot and Fire warriors make in the enemy line. The short of it is that you want your Kroot and Fire Warriors in 4+ cover, which becomes 3+ at night, as long as you keep firing you will out shoot the enemy.

No Battle Role (Elites) (37pts)

XV8 Crisis Team (37pts) (Codex: Tau Empire p100)

Supporting Fire, Very Bulky
Crisis Shas'ui (37pts)

Burst cannon (10pts), Crisis battlesuit, Flamer (5pts)

No Battle Role (Troops) (123pts)

Fire Warrior Team (63pts) (Codex: Tau Empire p99)

Supporting Fire

7x Fire Warrior Shas'la with pulse rifle (63pts), Photon grenades
Kroot Carnivore Squad (60pts) (Codex: Tau Empire p99)

Infiltrate, Move Through Cover, Stealth (Forests)
10x Kroot (60pts)

10x Kroot rifle

No Battle Role (Fast Attack) (40pts)

Piranhas (40pts) (Codex: Tau Empire p101)
Piranha (40pts)

Burst cannon, Two Gun Drones

ANAmal.net posted:

These are cool, and good on you for making custom models for your objectives. I love that poo poo and like you said, it's one of the little things that adds a lot to a game.

I was in the same boat, and all I did with mine was a) build a sixth objective, and b) paint the numbers on the side of the base:



(the Battle for Macgragge dude is the new one)

They're supposed to be deep strike mishaps that matched my Blood Ravens army - doesn't make a ton of sense now that I'm running Dark Angels, but whatever, five dead Terminators and a bucket of gene seed or whatever, seems like pretty good objectives.

Ignite Memories posted:

I'm interested in killteam, but regrettably I play orks. It seems like I don't have a lot of options, but does anyone have suggestions for an ork killteam?

Tuxedo Jack posted:

Awesome notes - but I just want to paint Crisis suits... So, if I swap out the unnecessary Fusion blasters for Flamers or more Burst cannons, and some Gun drones, would that be more appropriate?

The Sex Cannon posted:

I finished a Demolisher:





So after I was done painting, I went on my fake-me-out mini balcony to varnish that thing. I had finished the upper part and the turret, and I was spraying the underside. When I was going back in the door, I carelessly bumped the cardboard I use to varnish the models on and the tank tumbled to the balcony floor, where it bounced and rolled through the bars to land on the concrete below and then bounce into a bush. I was like "OH poo poo" and ran down to see how many pieces it was in. The Emperor must have been watching over me because I discovered that only the hull-mounted flamer had popped off and a tiny bit of damage to the paint on the underside had occurred. I'm still chuckling about it.

Sharzak posted:

The tl;dr of all of this is is that if you play to the Dark Eldar's strengths--hot, nasty, badass speed, you will do fine against most codexes new and old. Playing Dark Eldar in this way is sort of like playing Bizarro Jenga--you want to be taking out key pieces as efficiently as possible in order to send the whole thing tumbling down in as few moves as you can. They will feel like the modernest of codices if you play to their strengths but there are a lot of different ways in which you can gently caress yourself.

Foul Ole Ron posted:

Listen to this guy, he knows his stuff. DE basically are weak but also strong, they are literally a glass cannon.

The two things you need to know about Dark eldar are the following:

When you lose, you will usually be tabled, get used to it. When you have gotten used to the army, you can kill nearly every unit in the game.

Hollismason posted:

Being in the hospital is very boring.

Ignite Memories posted:

Wow, need some midol boon?

Boon posted:

Dude, stop making GBS threads up the thread because you're bored. One or two lists? Yeah man, cool. You've posted four lists in two pages. Go to Warseer or something and post these, you'll get all the feedback you could want.

Slimnoid posted:

Orks? Orks.

MasterSlowPoke posted:

Most tournaments limit you to two detachments, so you won't be able to have an ally and a murderpack.

SRM posted:

So before I headed to Oregon for a week I managed to play a game of 40k with my dad. We played a modified version of a mission out of the Cityfight book, where you have a defender and an attacker. The defender starts with as many HQ, Troops, and Heavy Support units as it can fit within 8" of the objective building, and inside the building itself. The rest of their force (so Elites, Fast Attack, and whatever doesn't fit) all come in via reserves. Meanwhile, the attacker has their whole army start on the board more than 18" away from any enemy models. At the end of the game, if the defender has any models still in the objective building, they win. I lined up 3300 points of Valhallans and Iron Warriors and we had a slugfest that ended on turn 5 with the Iron Warriors' Dark Apostle, Sorceror, and a handful of Marines holding onto the central building. A super advantageous seized initiative really helped me take it with the Iron Warriors, and I caught a lot of his troops out of position in the following turns. It was a fun game though, and I took a mess of photos of it:
[tIMG][http://i.imgur.com/fO9mdCM.jpg[/tIMG]

BuffaloChicken posted:

Post 9-11 User posted:

Yer dad deserves the key to the city for sculpting a moustache onto that Commissar.

You have received twenty demerits for saying, "[brandname] photos," though.

WhiteOutMouse posted:

MasterSlowPoke posted:

Ha, sick burn, Ignite Memories. He's like a woman, already the worst kind of creature, but also on her period, which makes her even worse! And gross!

AbusePuppy posted:

All the Inquisitional stuff and assassins are gone, as best we can tell; Psybolt Ammo is also gone, a number of small point shifts in various units. Librarians are down to 100pts, Terminators are 33pts, Paladins are ~65pts; a lot of the melee weapon prices dropped slightly, but Termies/Paladins apparently no longer get them for free. No more FoC-swaps with characters. Draigo is cheaper and a Lord of War. Relics: Bone Shard of Solor, The fury of Deimos, Cuirass of Sacrifice, The Soul Glaive, Domina Liber Daemonica. Dreadknight Teleporter is a lot cheaper.

So basically the army I used to run is completely and totally nonviable, because everything that made it function was gutted. Goddamnit, GW.

Hollismason posted:

Should I make a Warhammmer Tactics and army lists for 40k Discussion thread?