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Direwolf posted:I loooooove this model and I really like how he turned out, and I just wish there was any use for him at all in my Deathwing. It's really sad how little use chaplains have generally given that they're the best space marine models.
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Oct 13, 2014 01:38
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BULBASAUR posted:-SA stormtroopers Well there's an unfortunate name.
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Oct 13, 2014 01:41
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WhiskeyJuvenile posted:It's really sad how little use chaplains have generally given that they're the best space marine models. What bothers me most is you have take the dumb crozius. No sir I do not want to take an AP4 weapon especially when I have a 3+/4++ save. An axe or fist would be so much better.
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Oct 13, 2014 01:58
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LingcodKilla posted:What bothers me most is you have take the dumb crozius. No sir I do not want to take an AP4 weapon especially when I have a 3+/4++ save. An axe or fist would be so much better. ivanus enkomi 
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Oct 13, 2014 02:19
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LingcodKilla posted:What bothers me most is you have take the dumb crozius. No sir I do not want to take an AP4 weapon especially when I have a 3+/4++ save. An axe or fist would be so much better. It's not AP2, but Dark Angels can take the Mace of Redemption. 
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Oct 13, 2014 03:06
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Talking to someone with the Dark Eldar Codex. No using Dodge against Overwatch. quote:1 unit can get 9 attacks per model and 10 guys in it...all possibly T6 and all FNP 4+ and have the Instant Death on a 6 Supposedly, there's a glitch in the Court Of the Archon where you can take just the Court? And he confirms that it's HQ units that get the portal and what it does. Maybe this is all old news, if it was posted here I missed it. Post 9-11 User fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Oct 13, 2014 |
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Oct 13, 2014 03:17
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Post 9-11 User posted:Talking to someone with the Dark Eldar Codex. Yeah RAW the court can be taken without an archon. My buddy pointed it out to me today.
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Oct 13, 2014 03:29
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Safety Factor posted:It's not AP2, but Dark Angels can take the Mace of Redemption. And I've considered it! But at the end of the day Chaplains come with the weapon built into their points cost and get absurdly expensive if you buy them anything more. An Interrogator Chaplain costs 20 points more than a Master for -1 WS and Hatred and less wargear options. My Interrogator Chaplain as modeled, with the Mace of Redemption, costs 180 points! ~DA problems~ Speaking of, I've recently undergone a slow Ebay project of replacing my old, 2nd/3rd ed Deathwing army with a new, 40 mm base army! They're not 100% done painting wise, need to clean them up and do some more details, but I'm pretty happy with their updated look. Also Terminators are absurdly inexpensive on Ebay. Old army squad (also painted like 12 years ago):  Same squad, new army:  Bonus terrible picture of WIP Belial:  Hooray broken cell phone camera pictures Edit: In case anyone's interested in buying 25 old terminators on the cheap, lemme know! Direwolf fucked around with this message at 03:54 on Oct 13, 2014 |
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Oct 13, 2014 03:36
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Naramyth posted:Yeah RAW the court can be taken without an archon. My buddy pointed it out to me today. What's the reasoning here, that because it is in the HQ section, you can take one with a HQ slot, and the Retainers rule just allows you to take one without using a slot if you have an Archon?
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Oct 13, 2014 03:54
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As a xenos player I fear the crozius.
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Oct 13, 2014 03:55
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Cataphract posted:As a xenos player I fear the crozius. Yeah but majority armies are marines so....
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Oct 13, 2014 04:26
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PeterWeller posted:What's the reasoning here, that because it is in the HQ section, you can take one with a HQ slot, and the Retainers rule just allows you to take one without using a slot if you have an Archon? Pretty much spot on. Unlike previous editions, it doesn't have the weird greyed-out text box or anything like that, it's just listed as a normal HQ choice.
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Oct 13, 2014 05:03
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After stripping it a month ago because I learned that I was painting way too thick, I finally got this fucker mostly finished:
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Oct 13, 2014 05:32
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AbusePuppy posted:Pretty much spot on. Unlike previous editions, it doesn't have the weird greyed-out text box or anything like that, it's just listed as a normal HQ choice. Right on. It's probably not intentional, but neither is it broken. You can bring a court alongside a haemon or succubus, but that's no bonus over the archon, or you can go with a garbage warlord. Either way, you're wasting a slot that could buy a WWP. It's pretty much a trap to be honest.
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Oct 13, 2014 05:51
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LingcodKilla posted:Played a game with a few old buddies and a new one The Sisko kid. It was a 3 on 2 game and I started drinking early so the finer points were lost on me but I do recall Siskos big dumb suit vaporizing my deep striking librarian and assault squad in one shot. Also we managed to tie the called game because my warlord chapter master got stuck with the trait that awards extra VP for killing characters. He plowed through two squads and tied it for us. Clearly we would have lost sooner or later. My army was kinda tooled up for power armor saves and effectively using cover. The Sisko totally ruined that with marker lights. Ultramarine Chapter Tactics are really good when you build a list that takes them into account as well. I love how flexible they are tbh.
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Oct 13, 2014 06:52
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Direwolf posted:And I've considered it! But at the end of the day Chaplains come with the weapon built into their points cost and get absurdly expensive if you buy them anything more. An Interrogator Chaplain costs 20 points more than a Master for -1 WS and Hatred and less wargear options. My Interrogator Chaplain as modeled, with the Mace of Redemption, costs 180 points! ~DA problems~  And Belial is looking way better with that foot repose.
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Oct 13, 2014 07:13
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Just finished off my heavy support section of my Orks. Fielding these as 2 units of Kannons with 15 Lootas for the final slot. All are roughly the same size as a Mek gun.  
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Oct 13, 2014 13:29
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Just finished a Terminator Armoured Chapter Master for my chapter in the campaign I'm running with some friends. Chapter Master Anduriel... who will make his debut soon. Running him either with a Relic Blade + SS or Burning Blade + Shield Eternal. Expensive points wise, but its narrative.   
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Oct 13, 2014 14:42
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A cross-post from the WFB thread, but until they have an official model this thing is going to quickly become my Great Unclean One stand-in with a few tweaks:
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Oct 13, 2014 15:38
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Nurgle stuff is always legit as hell.
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Oct 13, 2014 15:48
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Thanks for the advice about the ADL. Somehow missed the line about taking a single choice from the Battlements/Battlefield section. Good to know. Secondary question: did they ever make a model for the ammo dump or is it basically just "slap some bits that make sense on a base?" Google just keeps turning up mostly the same model over and over but it seems to be a very specific homemade one.
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Oct 13, 2014 15:52
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Most of the building upgrades have no official model; even the Comms Relay one is usually either used for something else or goes completely unrecognized. Some boxes, barrels, and stuff covered by tarps should work just fine. You can get them off the IG tank sprues or make your own pretty easily. If you don't mind plunking down some cash, there is a "battlefield debris" sprue that GW sells that has some relevant stuff on it as well.
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Oct 13, 2014 16:56
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Hmm. Yeah, the debris pack looks okay. Knowing the name of that pack led me to the ammo crates on eBay. I think I'll probably get those and lay a bolter and some spare missiles or something in the crates. Slap it all down with some scenery on a 60mm base and call it a day.
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LingcodKilla posted:Played a game with a few old buddies and a new one The Sisko kid. It was a 3 on 2 game and I started drinking early so the finer points were lost on me but I do recall Siskos big dumb suit vaporizing my deep striking librarian and assault squad in one shot. Also we managed to tie the called game because my warlord chapter master got stuck with the trait that awards extra VP for killing characters. He plowed through two squads and tied it for us. Clearly we would have lost sooner or later. My army was kinda tooled up for power armor saves and effectively using cover. The Sisko totally ruined that with marker lights. Sorry for the long delay. That was a really fun time and I would like to thank you for having me over. Honest to god I was not expecting to just vaporize units with the Riptide and Markerlights, but then again it was also my first game as Tau so I really had no expectation of what was gonna happen. My highlight was vaporizing the 2 Wave Serpents with the Ripitde and Broadside shooting in one turn.
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Oct 13, 2014 17:21
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I've made another post about Kill Team with lots of pictures in this blog - http://ahnchronicles.tumblr.com/ Night Lords with a Rhino with a sweet freehand decal whip my Sternguard. They get an outflanking Rhino in a future game!
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I took one of the non-grog players from my FLGS to panascope's house on Saturday to war some hams. With the 3 of us there, we decided to get in a few games instead of one huge scrum, so we ran 750 point lists against each other. We had the opportunity to play on a realm of battle terrain board (not the new cityscape one). Regrettably we did not take photos, so I'll just do quick batreps. First game was Chris the non-grog Farsight Tau vs Panascope with his CSM nurgle bikers. Chris ran a Farsight HQ with 2 shield drones, a railgun broadside, 3 crisis suits with tau-plas and shield gens with 2 shield drones each, a 5 or 6 drone squad of markerlight drones and 12 fire warriors. panascope ran CSM lord w/ 5 bikers, mark of nurgle. 2 squads of 5 CSM marines (2 plasma) w/ mark of nurgle and a chaos sorcerer lv.2. Massed Tau shooting ended that game on turn 2 or 3. Second game: koreban's Crimson Fists vs. panascope's CSM. In this game I ran 2 5 man squads of tacticals with no special weapons, one in a rhino, the other in a TL heavy bolter razorback, 5 bolter scouts, 1 5 man dev squad with heavy bolters, 1 thunderfire cannon and 1 captain with power sword on a bike and a 3 man bike squad attached w/ 2 melta (but I'm dumb and only took the 2 bikers with melta, forgetting to put the bike sergeant on the table). We played the tactical objectives where you max hand size was equal to the game turn. Game ended koreban 14 VP, panascope 11 VP. MVP for me was my captain going boss mode and holding up against panascope's terminator lord with power fist and lightning claw, eventually killing him with my AP3 power sword (only to die to psychic shriek). The game ran to 7th turn and was back and forth the entire time. Third game: Chris' Tau vs. koreban's Crimson Fists. I gave Tau first deployment/turn, which probably is what won me the game. We played Big Guns Never Tire on Dawn of War deployment. Chris put his fire warriors in a bunker way back in his deployment zone. His crisis suits were on the right edge of the board, broadside and commander on the left and markerlight drones in the middle. I placed my scouts and thunderfire in a ruins on the right side, opposite his crisis team, my dev squad was in a sandbag foxhole about 4 inches back from my forward deployment limit and I put my rhino, razorback and bike squad w/ captain against the left edge of the field. Chris rolled horribly on his broadside and went after my captain with his invuln save instead of my razorback. I thunderfired and heavy boltered out all of the markerlight drones and my scouts took 2 losses, then unloaded close range bolter drill on the crisis suits, who were second guessing their choices in life, especially after they moved close enough to consider charging my scouts only to get direct fired on by my thunderfire cannon and were in a long charge range of my techmarine. In a feat of tactical genius, I managed to force Chris to concede defeat on Turn 4, having killed his broadisde, markerlight drones, all of the shield drones on his crisis team (plus 1 wound on 2 of the crisis suits) and was staring down a unit of fire warriors that were probably gonna get charged. All 3 games were great fun and panascope seemed to get along with Chris, so we're slowly expanding the goon-approved playgroup up in the Portland/Vancouver area. If anyone else is local and throws dice for space barbies, it's a good time to get in touch. Hixson was doing a 10k, which I can only imagine meant he was eating 10k calories of processed cheese product and fried pork. Who knows what's up with that guy anymore.
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Oct 13, 2014 18:40
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Poor old panascope getting dumstered ITT  Looking forward to playing with you guys around Thanksgiving.
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I'm a Portland Ham!  Woodstock neighborhood representin. I don't always have a lot of time, but it'd be great to break out of the single opponent drudgery someday! (He's a great friend and we both have multiple armies, but it does get a bit predictable at times)
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LingcodKilla posted:Yeah but majority armies are marines so.... Ghost Hand posted:Ultramarine Chapter Tactics are really good when you build a list that takes them into account as well. I love how flexible they are tbh. PierreTheMime posted:A cross-post from the WFB thread, but until they have an official model this thing is going to quickly become my Great Unclean One stand-in with a few tweaks:  ) all the new Nurgle stuff has been knocking it out of the park. Lord Twisted posted:I've made another post about Kill Team with lots of pictures in this blog - http://ahnchronicles.tumblr.com/
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Oct 13, 2014 22:25
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SRM posted:I know they're good but I keep forgetting to use them. Maybe once this assault squad is done and I can field a pretty reasonable Battle Company-style list I'll remember since I'll have a good smattering of tac, assault, and dev squads. The Tactical Doctrine has saved my rear end so many times. Write it on the back of your hand!
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Ghost Hand posted:The Tactical Doctrine has saved my rear end so many times. Write it on the back of your hand! Abaddon = black 
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Oct 13, 2014 22:37
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Monoliths posted:I'm a Portland Ham! If you've got Wednesday nights available, I play at Nexus Games in Gresham. You can take Powell or 84 and it's not horrible. We've got people that come from as far as Aloha and Woodburn most weeks. I'd encourage you to come by some time. On Saturdays, panascope, hixson and I have been playing at panascope's house in Vancouver. If you want to mix it up some time, or if you want to play at someplace like Red Castle, or even if you're up for hosting send some PMs around.
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Ghost Hand posted:The Tactical Doctrine has saved my rear end so many times. Write it on the back of your hand! I typed them out in the largest print I could with each part of the doctrine its own paragraph and left the piece of paper on top of my army list. Ended up using tactical on turn 1, devastator turn 3 and assault was never useful.
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What do you guys think about this strange 750 Tyranids list I've created? HQ Old One Eye Elites 1x Zoanthrope 1x Zoanthrope 1x Venomthrope Troops 10x Termagants w/ 6 Devourers, 4 Fleshborers 10x Termagants w/ 5 Devourers, 5 Fleshborers 10x Termagants w/ 5 Devourers, 5 Fleshborers Fast Attack Hive Crone w/ Regeneration, Cluster Spines 749 points OOE is sharing his ld8 with all the gants, and it's all pretty self explanatory. DO IT TO IT fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Oct 13, 2014 |
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Pictures of this model have been horrible, but it's about 90% done. Tried to get the best picture I could but it's blurry and some details and colors are lost/appear to bleed together/washed out I'm unsure of what to do with the sword. I was going to go with green, but I'm not sure if I should just make it a rusty blade. Thoughts? 
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I'm just back from my Warhammerfest/World trip. Had a great time, I much prefer the format and venue of the 'fest over recent Gamesdays. Could do with more stuff from normal GW to look at, felt a bit like a Forgeworld show in regards to tables and models. The highpoint was the 'pod' idea they went with. We went to Blank Space's table painting pod which was interesting, the Forgeworld seminar which was a well-presented but generic advertising seminar, and then went to Chris Innes Dark Eldar vehicle painting pod which was great. Sitting across the table from an Eavy Metal painter (even if he is on the bulk painting team now) while he shows you first hand how to do stuff, and goes off on slightly tangential Q&As was worth the entry fee alone. Then I spent today playing a doubles game (my DE alongside Tau, vs two Eldar armies) on the Spyral Prime table which is a 6x8' urban board with lots of large, tall buildings. Even with the miniatures museum closed and the hall quite truncated by construction work it's still worth a visit. krushgroove posted:Wyches really suffer My squad of seven Wyches (inluding Hekatrix with agoniser, no special weapons) charged an Avatar in turn five. Two died before they got to strike, but the others got five wounds through to kill him. They also gained Linebreaker. I think people in general are tending to discount the effect PfP has on them later in the game. I deliberately held them back for the first couple of turns and it worked a treat. As for Reavers, they are a star unit. Nine of them with a champion and cluster caltrops, nothing else, absolutely murdered an assault by Striking Scorpions who were using Rangers as Overwatch cannonfodder. They lasted out to the very end of the game, requiring a Wraithknight to finally finish them off. "They were a nightmare, I couldn't touch them" was the verdict from the Eldar player who did not have a Knight. Well worth the investment. Lovely Joe Stalin fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Oct 13, 2014 |
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Oct 13, 2014 23:47
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koreban posted:If you've got Wednesday nights available, I play at Nexus Games in Gresham. You can take Powell or 84 and it's not horrible. We've got people that come from as far as Aloha and Woodburn most weeks. I'd encourage you to come by some time. On Saturdays, panascope, hixson and I have been playing at panascope's house in Vancouver. If you want to mix it up some time, or if you want to play at someplace like Red Castle, or even if you're up for hosting send some PMs around. That sounds good! Wednesdays are usually out for me, but Saturdays could be a go. I'm workin on a new modular river board, so might be able to host sometime when that's done. I'll PM y'all.
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Monoliths posted:That sounds good! Wednesdays are usually out for me, but Saturdays could be a go. I'm workin on a new modular river board, so might be able to host sometime when that's done. I'll PM y'all. I've got a board and plenty of terrain so just
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Boon posted:Pictures of this model have been horrible, but it's about 90% done. Tried to get the best picture I could but it's blurry and some details and colors are lost/appear to bleed together/washed out I'd say go with rusty. Green might make the model a little too Christmas-y. Maybe that's what you're going for, though. IIRC, your fire dragons are already kinda Christmas-y, and the Archon would match with them, then. How are you liking the Archon model? I think the posing kind of sucks. Your painting, as always, looks fantastic, though.
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