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Lord Twisted posted:Are you based near the Chiswick store? Don't mean to pry into personal life but I just saw them advertise a tournament exactly like that and wondered if you were a London 'ham like myself Haha, yes. We tried to organise a meet up last year but we couldn't work it out. I'll be off soon to pre-order the Skaven book.
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Monoliths posted:How's the scale on those castellax compared to a dreadknight? The dreadknight seems so fun to use but I can't stand how it looks, particularly next to dreadnoughts. Seems like it could be a cool conversion to exchange the weapons and add a fancy knight mask over the little skull. Way, way different sizes. Here's a Castellax vs Marine, you can use that to compare how bigger the Dreadknight is.  Instead you might want to look into the Thanatar. I... think it's much closer, though the Thanatar is bulkier. e.: Here you go, you want the Thanatar. 
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Jan 9, 2015 17:18
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What base is that on the left? It looks like Dragonforge Tech-Deck but I don't see it on the site.
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I don't want the thanatar I want the beetleborg shitkicker it's standing next to
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REAL MUSCLE MILK posted:I don't want the thanatar I want the beetleborg shitkicker it's standing next to
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Jan 9, 2015 18:02
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So what's a good set up for Castellaxs? I want to field a few since they are awesome looking. Two Maulers, a Multi Melta, and a Darkfire to start with at 4 of them?
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I liked 2x double flamers, and a 2x meltas. With Objective Secured I'd want them punching and burning poo poo mid-field and up close even more, but I didn't play AdMech in 7th, so take my advice with a grain of salt. 2x Castellax, 4x flamers. 190 points. 2x Castellax, 4x flamers. 190 points. 2x Castellax, 2x multi melta. 170 points. Makes a lot of armies cry. Mango Polo fucked around with this message at 18:12 on Jan 9, 2015 |
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Jan 9, 2015 18:10
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ijyt posted:Haha, yes. We tried to organise a meet up last year but we couldn't work it out. I'll be off soon to pre-order the Skaven book. Sweet. I don't go there much anymore as I'm now east L based, but I'm hitting up Dark sphere more regularly now if you wanted a game.
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Mango Polo posted:I liked 2x double flamers, and a 2x meltas. Wait how does that work? It doesn't list being able to exchange the mauler for flamers, only the bolters.
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Jan 9, 2015 19:07
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Drythe posted:Wait how does that work? It doesn't list being able to exchange the mauler for flamers, only the bolters. AbusePuppy posted:Paragon of Metal is pretty mediocre; I wouldn't bother with it unless you're filling points and/or looking for fluff. You don't think it's worth it to ignore the cyber protocols and gain IWND and Rampage? I guess if I drop Paragon then I can give the 2-model Castellax unit Enhanced Senses and swap one Fusil Thallax to a Multimelta. Lungboy fucked around with this message at 19:16 on Jan 9, 2015 |
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Drythe posted:Wait how does that work? It doesn't list being able to exchange the mauler for flamers, only the bolters. 2 groups of 2 keep their maulers but replace bolters with flamers. The last group replaces their maulers with MMs but keep their bolters.
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Ohh, I was pretty confused there with how he worded it.
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Mango Polo posted:Way, way different sizes. Here's a Castellax vs Marine, you can use that to compare how bigger the Dreadknight is. Aw yeah. That's a good size match for sure. Definitely would still want to convert it considerably. My problem is that I want dreadnoughts, dreadknights, and an imperial knight to all look coherantly like the same chapter owns them. Weirdly enough I feel like the various ork walkers have a more unified aesthetic.
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In other Forge World news.. I love the Contemptor, but I'm really not a fan of this weird battlemech thing. It's seems to just be a Mortis with the shooty bits upscaled.
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sorry about your lovely broken eyes its loving beautiful. I'm buying a hundred
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Vondizimo posted:In other Forge World news.. It's the arms, really. They look like they're trying to I dunno, flap or something. The giant boxy missile launcher on top doesn't help matters at all. Give it Contemptor autocannon arms and ditch/replace the missile launcher and it'd probably look a lot better. REAL MUSCLE MILK posted:I will buy literally anything FW puts out because I have no impulse control
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Doesn't look "40k". I think its the fact the guns are about the size of the body.
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I have plenty of impulse control but if you aren't playing warhammer for dumb bird-bots covered in guns why are you playing at all
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REAL MUSCLE MILK posted:I have plenty of impulse control but if you aren't playing warhammer for dumb bird-bots covered in guns why are you playing at all Because I don't gobble up literally everything they put out.
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ijyt posted:Nope, but I guess I'll find out in a few hours. You really shouldn't need so much las in an 800 point list. If your opponents bring a landraider, you laugh as they've sunk over half of their non-compulsory points into a single vehicle. Veteran sergeants in the tac squads are probably a waste. If you want to bring a unit to punch dudes, take an assault squad with a subsidized rhino or drop pod, two flamers and bolt pistols/chainswords. (which you should totally take anyways). One stormtalon is probably enough, though two would be almost comedicly douchey. TL Assault cannons and skyhammers would be better than las. (Remember, they're BS5 shooting at gound targets due to Strafing Run special rule, so more shooty means more hits/wounds). Thunderfire is also a great choice, though I enjoyed screening mine with a 5 man scout squad/camo cloaks with bolters or shotguns to sit in a bolstered ruin with the thunderfire as extra wounds or a LOS screen for the techmarine. I'm personally a fan of taking a captain on a bike with a min bike squad in small lists like that. He's no chapter master smashfucker, but he's still a T5 dude with 3 wounds and a 4++, and the bike squad can take 2 meltas to pop transports.
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Lord Twisted posted:Doesn't look "40k". I think its the fact the guns are about the size of the body. Yeah, it looks cool, but it's too "Macross" for a Space Marine dreadnought.
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Jan 9, 2015 20:05
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It's battletech as hell and it fuckin owns.
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Monoliths posted:Aw yeah. That's a good size match for sure. Definitely would still want to convert it considerably. My problem is that I want dreadnoughts, dreadknights, and an imperial knight to all look coherantly like the same chapter owns them. Weirdly enough I feel like the various ork walkers have a more unified aesthetic. Castellax for Dreadnoughts, Thanatar for Dreadknights and a Knight Lancer for a Knight, they all share cohesive design cues
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It's like a Madcat and a Rifleman had a 40k baby. In other wordsANAmal.net posted:It's battletech as hell and it fuckin owns.
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Pretty much finished with my Tyrannocyte, just a few touchups and the basing (grit is in the mail): I never want to have to assemble/paint one of these again. I like that I have it, but my god it's a pain.
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It looks like a pain in the rear end to paint, but the end result looks great!
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Vondizimo posted:In other Forge World news.. When I saw the previous teaser pic I wasn't too excited. Now that I see the whole thing - it looks pretty awesome.
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ANAmal.net posted:It's battletech as hell and it fuckin owns. Yeah, that's what I mean. It looks too Battletech to me. It super loving owns, but it's owning in the wrong universe for me.
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Maybe a more baroque Legion-specific version will look more in keeping with the 30k/40k aesthetic. Also, something about the arms and shoulders looks bad to me, although maybe a different angle will change my mind. It's an awesome model, I just have zero interest in buying one of those particular models personally.
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NTRabbit posted:Castellax for Dreadnoughts, Thanatar for Dreadknights and a Knight Lancer for a Knight, they all share cohesive design cues Already have the dreadnoughts and knight errant, so I've painted (hurr) myself into a corner a bit. I thought about making some kind of ridiculous angelic ascension GK with wings and stuff since the dreadknight is an MC, just circumventing the vehicle aesthetics completely. Something like Celestine meets Sanguinius meets a GK termy suit. I dunno. Might look a bit silly.
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Something about it doesn't make me think "Space Marine". I bet the rules are going to own, so I imagine I'll end up converting one up anyway. Maybe I'll put the huge Gatling Guns from a forgefiend on its arms instead? Drythe posted:Darkfire Cannon sounds really....strong? Two shots of Str 7 AP 2 at 60 inches? Am I missing something? Don't forget blind, which has to be checked against every time you hit something. It has gets hot though. Drythe posted:So what's a good set up for Castellaxs? I want to field a few since they are awesome looking. Two Maulers, a Multi Melta, and a Darkfire to start with at 4 of them? I like Darkfires a lot, because they are good at MC hunting and you can potentially blind the guy you are charging (or who is charging you!). If you use the mauler or darkfire setup, consider the targeting array upgreydd since it makes you BS5 and gives -1 to enemy cover saves. Also if you're going into melee you want to give them power blades so you can have +1 attack for a total of 4 AP2 attacks instead of smashing at 2. Multimelta is probably the 'worst' of the 3 good choices. So, something like: Meltalax: Melta, blades, flamers optional Maulerlax: Targeting Array, Mauler, blades, flamers optional Darklax: Targeting Array, Darkfire My paragon of metal uses a darkfire and has power blades, since his job is to run up and murder things.
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PierreTheMime posted:Pretty much finished with my Tyrannocyte, just a few touchups and the basing (grit is in the mail): Checking the thread while waiting for primer to dry on my Sporocyst, so this is an appropriate thing to comment on.
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BuffaloChicken posted:Interesting choice to put the guns down where the tentacles are supposed to go - looks good and makes sense. What's going on with the gun sockets, though? Is that some sort of glowing eye or ocelli in there? Yeah the top sockets didn't look right without anything and I figured eyes was a sensible solution. The green stuff is a little iffy-looking compared to the rest of the model but from tabletop distance it looks good enough for now. I may redo them later.
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I think it looks suitably creepy, did you not use the tentacles to save them for the mucolid?
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Opinion poll: of the various non-Imperial shooty basic troops (Shoota Boyz, Termagaunts, Fire Warriors, etc etc) which would be the cheapest/easiest to model as aiming their guns upward at a flyer?
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Shoota Boyz would likely be a bad choice as Orks aren't assembled in a way that their heads can look up very well. Unless you cock their heads like an inquisitive dog or something. You can lean their torso back pretty well, which might help, but I'd think Fire Warriors would be easier.
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assemble them like normal except they're laying on their backs on the base
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Mango Polo posted:I liked 2x double flamers, and a 2x meltas. This is why I take multiple units of poisoned hormagants.
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Bad news guys, it's not a Timber Wolf, it's a Rifleman loving Stravags 
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LordAba posted:This is why I take multiple units of poisoned hormagants. Fair enough, though that's 4d3 auto hits from flamer overwatch and the Castellax reroll against poison wounds. Drythe posted:Ohh, I was pretty confused there with how he worded it. Ah yeah sorry, was typing from my phone and didn't think too much about the format.
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