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Thanks guys. Will tweak the list later on this week - I think splitting up the squads is wise, and dropping the chimera in favour of the bunker. I was going to put the HWT inside the buildings, so they'd be protected, and rerolling 1s to hit, which mitigates their weaknesses.
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Yeah, that is a pretty good use of them - you may want to go for lascannons rather than autocannons in my book, I have been disappointed with autocannons since the vehicle damage chart was changed for 7th ed, but that could just be me.
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Genghis Cohen posted:I have always wanted to mess about with demo veterans and/or demo charge spec weapon squads. Even got the bits, never quite got around to it. I think they could be effective with valkyries or maybe (this is a bit cheaty) escape hatch shenanigans. They're also a fun painting/modeling project:   
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I'm kinda surprised and disappointed that there is barely any Elysians or Kriegers up on Ebay as I really want to paint a squad of the former but then I see the FW price for a squad of five and just go  internally.
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DJ Dizzy posted:This whole fantasy endtimes thing has me hoping that GW will ever grow a pair big enough to push forward the timeline of 40k Take it with a massive grain of salt, but this might actually happen. I brought the comparison to the guy who runs the nearby GW store. He said that they're not only going to advance the plot, but that they're using the Horus Heresy books to lay the groundwork for what will happen.
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I could see it as a Campaign Box, that'd be pretty cool. I don't give a poo poo how they do it, I just want rules for Glotkin in Warhammer 40k, seriously that model is loving amazing and it neeeeeeds to be in 40k.
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SRM posted:They're also a fun painting/modeling project: Oooh, excellent. That squad sort of reminds me of the unit in Dawn of War 2 for some reason. I have the FW cadian bits that look like anti-tank mines. One of the neat things about IG is sorting out your special weapons/heavy weapons/sgt loadouts etc in a a sensible way. EG I am at full stretch to field a toned list right now, but I have an actual plan of how many more riflemen, sergeants, alternate special weapons I need to be flexible, while still being able to field almost everything in some sort of orbat. Playing this game Space Marine, and it really nails to me what they should be like. Y'know how in most shooting games you sort of have to suspend disbelief that 1 soldier seems to be doing the entire war on his own? For space marines it is completely apt. And yet on the tabletop they are just ok, pretty elite, shooty infantry. The prevalence of things like artillery, plasma etc make them relatively fragile. I would love to have an army from one of the more knightly sort of chapters, but I just don't think the playstyle lives up to the image.
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Sir Teabag posted:E2: Drop the Chimera on the CCS. Put them in a bunker. That should leave you enough points for 2-3 Priests and the Heirloom of Conquests that allows your orders to automatically succeed on a double. One priest with the conscripts to man the quadgun, one to go with Yarrick and the Flamer/Power Axe blob to make them an even nastier CC unit. That's actually really bad advice-orders can't be issued when the ordering unit is embarked on a transport* or in a building, so you'd effectively be neutering the effectiveness of the squad, unless you're planning on leaving them exposed on top of the battlements. *The Chimera is an exception to this, as it has a special rule that allows orders to be issued out of it.
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LingcodKilla posted:More boxed sets with campaign rules like the ork space wolves would be amazing. The rumor is Blood Angels and Tyranids up next. Is practical with the crazy rear end nid monsters they are putting out. EDIT: Up next as in a box set together with campaign crap.
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LordAba posted:The rumor is Blood Angels and Tyranids up next. Is practical with the crazy rear end nid monsters they are putting out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zW680GyuH0
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It'll be cool if the battle is taking place on that planet where the Blood Angels and Necrons form an uneasy alliance, and we also get the Silent King as a splash release.
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LordAba posted:The rumor is Blood Angels and Tyranids up next. Is practical with the crazy rear end nid monsters they are putting out. gently caress. I was hoping for generic marines. Still it's the right the direction. Hopefully the blood angel stuff will be generic with upgrade sprues.
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LingcodKilla posted:gently caress. I was hoping for generic marines. Still it's the right the direction. Hopefully the blood angel stuff will be generic with upgrade sprues. Its not a new starter set. More of the Space Wolves/Orks box that had a special limited edition character and a massively discounted army for both sides.
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serious gaylord posted:Its not a new starter set. More of the Space Wolves/Orks box that had a special limited edition character and a massively discounted army for both sides. Well yes so is the plastics in the blood angel line all regular marines that have upgrade sprues or like space wolves were you are stuck with stupid Wolfy poo poo all over the place? Basically this is how you get me to buy extra armies. Go go loving tyrannids!
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The blood angels are all normal space marines with blood angel transfers. The only specialist stuff are the Sanguine Guard/Death Company, and those kits come with enough bits to spread out over your normal guys to Angel them up.
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I can't wait because my friend plays Blood Angels and I play Tyranids and we are going to wreck the poo poo out of each other. It would be great if the tablescape boards came in so I could start working on it.
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Sulecrist posted:I see most 40k games being about the most important movements in much larger battles. If a Chapter Master goes to war, he doesn't necessarily need two hundred battle-brothers crammed into 1.5 hectars like on the front of a BL book. We don't generally use models for supply trains and drop ships, so if I'm playing Guard I don't feel weird about having Major Soandso show up with just a few platoons and a tank squadron from a completely different regiment. That may be the most succinct and elegant explanation for a neckbeardy thing I have ever read. 
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Found a box of toys, I play Orks. Early days half blu-taced together Stompa scratch build! Gotta make Da Green Ranger for a warboss.   Need to get million rivets all over this thing somehow. Also needs a tower backpack sort of thing to store 20 orks in. NORTH-HALL fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Nov 1, 2014 |
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Tequila Ranger posted:Now its time to play Scenes from a Commissars Hat! NTRabbit posted:"MY LIFE FOR THE EMPEROR" Genghis Cohen posted:Purity is my armour. DJ Dizzy posted:Even in death you still serve. Next Up... Famous Movie Scenes, as played by Chaos Space Marines.
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DJ Dizzy posted:Even in death you still serve.  
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Welp magnetized ork stuff is my new favorite race to work with since sloppy is just fine. Turns out carpet tacks are great to stick out a bit of the joint. Drilled a hole stuffed it with green stuff then stuck in the tack so the head angled flatly with the magnet in the gun arm.  Oh! And some new shoota boyz made of left over stuff. 
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Tequila Ranger posted:Next Up... Famous Movie Scenes, as played by Chaos Space Marines. Frankly my dear, I don't give a lost and the damned 
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Tequila Ranger posted:Next Up... Famous Movie Scenes, as played by Chaos Space Marines. We were in this bar on Mars and this kid comes up, this kid carrying a shoe-shine box. And he says “Shine, please, shine!” I said no. He kept askin’, yeah, and Joey said “Yeah.” And I went to get a couple of beers, and the box was wired, and he opened up the box, loving blew his body all over the place. And he’s laying there, he’s loving screaming. There’s pieces of him all over me, just… like this, and I’m tryin’ to pull him off, you know, my friend that’s all over me! I’ve got blood and everything and I’m tryin’ to hold him together! I’m puttin’… the guy’s fuckin’ insides keep coming out! And nobody would help! Nobody would help! He’s saying, sayin’ “I wanna go home! I wanna go home!” He keeps calling my name! “I wanna go home, Johnny! I wanna drive my Chevy!” I said “With what? I can’t find your fuckin’ legs! I can’t find your legs!” … I can’t get it out of my head. A dream of seven years. Everyday I have this. And sometimes I wake up and I don’t know where I am. I don’t talk to anybody. Sometimes a day, a week. I can’t put it out of my mind.
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LingcodKilla posted:Welp magnetized ork stuff is my new favorite race to work with since sloppy is just fine. I love the fantasy smurf Hats.
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I've been away from the thread for a few weeks. We're getting two 'Nid codexes in the same year? If so, I feel sorry for all you guys who bought the last one.
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Dump_Stat posted:I've been away from the thread for a few weeks. We're getting two 'Nid codexes in the same year? I highly doubt it.
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Genghis Cohen posted:Oooh, excellent. That squad sort of reminds me of the unit in Dawn of War 2 for some reason. I have the FW cadian bits that look like anti-tank mines. One of the neat things about IG is sorting out your special weapons/heavy weapons/sgt loadouts etc in a a sensible way. EG I am at full stretch to field a toned list right now, but I have an actual plan of how many more riflemen, sergeants, alternate special weapons I need to be flexible, while still being able to field almost everything in some sort of orbat. I think I painted them before Retribution came out, but the way they worked in that game was super cool and exactly how I'd like them to work. Space Marine gave you a great sense of scale for the universe too, which you don't always quite get the grasp of when you're looking at it from the god's eye view you get in the tabletop and DoW games. If Space Marines played like they did in the fluff, you'd rarely see more than a Tactical squad or two. I don't mind the fluff disparity. Dump_Stat posted:I've been away from the thread for a few weeks. We're getting two 'Nid codexes in the same year?
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SRM posted:Not a new codex, just new units with rules in the box. Neat idea, just wish it wasn't more MCs to bloat the army further when they could've just released plastics of what we've been seeing in resin and metal. I don't mind new things, but man a plastic zoanthrope/venomthrope kit would make me happy. If the campaign rumors pan out I bet we will see formations and alternative Detachments for the Nids.
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It's oath crosspost time  I like the style these Warp Spiders are in, I really do, but the left arm and really the whole left torso is just one big mass of mushy resin, not to mention I couldn't get them to fit inside a 20mm base. They desperately need a new plastic sculpt. Also I used the vallejo water effects gel and the bottom of a test tube to make a bubble of ice around them, like they'd just teleported in. I think it turned out pretty close to what I had in my head.  
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Wall of Martyrs Imperial Bunker - A good place to hide 10 lootas to keep them safe for cheap and be able to have 8 fire out of the front?
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Anyone have any tutorials for painting large vehicles? I'm trying to practice some before the Solar Auxilia releases and it feels like I just don't 'get' painting anything bigger than a Land Raider.
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REAL MUSCLE MILK posted:Anyone have any tutorials for painting large vehicles? I'm trying to practice some before the Solar Auxilia releases and it feels like I just don't 'get' painting anything bigger than a Land Raider. If you want smooth coats over large surfaces it's really down to airbrushing or using colored primers. Most of my vehicles have been in a grittier scheme, but I don't think I could have done my bright and colorful Ultramarines vehicles without Army Painter's colored sprays.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:That's actually really bad advice-orders can't be issued when the ordering unit is embarked on a transport* or in a building, so you'd effectively be neutering the effectiveness of the squad, unless you're planning on leaving them exposed on top of the battlements. Oh poo poo, my bad. When I think of buildings in 40K I just assume we're talking about an open ruin with a couple broken floors. Totally forgot that there are actual rules for buildings.
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SRM posted:If you want smooth coats over large surfaces it's really down to airbrushing or using colored primers. Most of my vehicles have been in a grittier scheme, but I don't think I could have done my bright and colorful Ultramarines vehicles without Army Painter's colored sprays. That's pretty much what I thought, thanks. I guess I should learn to airbrush at some point anyway...
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