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 Hell yes SKRILLEX Automata are totes gonna be my cyber familiars What is this garbage. A stormhammer? gently caress NO, this is a stromhammer:   
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ThNextGreenLantern posted:Has anyone pre-ordered from Discount Games Store? I pre-ordered the Necron Codex and new Overlord from them a couple of weeks ago and haven't received a shipping notification or.. well anything else. I'd message them and see what's up. I've used them for regular orders more than a couple times on eBay and they've been good.
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BULBASAUR posted:... and still no IW stuff At least you got an event model  But seriously, Conquest was written to allow FW to catch up? And then they release a whole new drat army.
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BULBASAUR posted:
Not IW but drat, I was hoping for Exodus, myself.
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So, i've been recently getting back into the hobby, and drat, I forgot how expensive it is. Anyone know of a way to get my hands on a librarian without shelling 30$ on a finecast one? Because really, the metal blister used to be like 18, and that already seemed steep. Since I've played all of a glorious two games in this edition (since last time I played was 5th. I think), how important is it to invest in anti-air? I play Marines, Iron hands if it matters, and Stalkers and Hunters seem like a significant investment, especially since they take up heavy support slots. Am I better served by bringing a Stormtalon? I'd give more insight into the local meta, but I haven't had a good chance to gauge how competitive it is since I don't even know what's good right now. I hear FW stuff is now allowed in regular games (if the guy rampaging around with a titan and some chapter I'd never heard of is to be believed), or at least in my local gaming group, what are the books I should be checking out for Space Marines? Any formations worth picking up? Sorry for a bunch of probably dumb questions.
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GMarshal posted:So, i've been recently getting back into the hobby, and drat, I forgot how expensive it is. There's no dumb questions for newhams. The Dark Vengeance set comes with a librarian that can be painted up to Iron Hands without too much trouble or expense. Since it's the new starter, they're cheap as well. Stormtalon is a fantastic anti-air option for Space Marines. Personally, I like 2, ymmv. Iron Hands really love mechanized armies, so sticking with the SM Codex, you should be mostly covered. A competitive IH list that I really like would be something like: HQ: Master of the Forge 6x. Tactical squad (5 man) (4 Lascannon heavy weapon squads, 2 Flamer squads ) 6x Dedicated Transports, Razorbacks with Twin-Linked Assault Cannons 3x Predators with TL Las and Las sponsons 2x Stormtalon with Stormhammer Missiles 1x Thunderfire Cannon w/ Techmarine That should come in right around 1850. It's very competitive, but probably not the most fun thing ever, but it's also super fluffy. You can swap out stuff like a Stormtalon for a Dreadnaught if you want, but with Iron Hands you almost always want to flood the field with vehicles and armor. If you're really excited for Forgeworld, excellent options would be knights, contemptor dreadnaughts, caestus assault ram or fire raptor gunships. You might also like Rhino/razorback upgrade panels with iconography for your army.
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So Battlescribe is telling me that an Archon upgrading his Splinter Pistol to a Blast Pistol costs 15 points... or the same as upgrading to a Blast Rifle. Can anyone confirm that it's actually 5 points for the pistol? Also, there is an upcoming 1,250 Maelstrom tourney, anyone want to tell me how this looks? quote:Primary CAD: Eldar Basically, the Autarch and the Archon join the Fire Dragons for some precisely timed, precisely landed deep-strike shenanigans. The Archon uses the Shadowfield's 2+ and his FNP to absorb return fire from the ensuing turn. Everything else pretty standard. Hornets will likely Outflank. Also, goddamn Hixson I love that army and want to play a 2v2 with you where your Eldar and my Eldar team up to smash the dirty unpainted hordes. Very awesome man! Boon fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Feb 5, 2015 |
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I wonder if they'll keep up the trend of supplying non-Primarch characters with alternate helmeted heads with the loyalists. Space Marine helmets are cool as hell and they did a good job showing progression between old legion gear and the current chaos models with Typhon and Kharn.
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GMarshal posted:So, i've been recently getting back into the hobby, and drat, I forgot how expensive it is. eBay or similar is your best bet for a Librarian- as I'd guess if you think 18 is expensive, getting an entire starter set for model is out. Anti-air is either stupidly important or completely irrelevant, depending on what you're facing, so it's nice to have the option - I like the Crimison Hunter myself  Regular games - anything goes now. Forge World, Superheavies, ignoring the Force Org chart completely- 7th ed lets you take anything you want, regardless of faction, FO slot etc - subject to points costs and allies-rules (although at worst, it's stay a set distance from the hated ally on the tabletop). Formations are worth it, if the bonus you get from the formation is decent, and you have the models / want to get those models- there another exception to the standard Force Org chart, so can be used to get more Heavys, Fast Attack or whatever in your force without going 'unbound'. If your just looking to wargame, rather than just 40k, there are other games out there now - check out the Infinity, Warmachine, Malifeaux or GW Death Threads for options !
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Boon posted:So Battlescribe is telling me that an Archon upgrading his Splinter Pistol to a Blast Pistol costs 15 points... or the same as upgrading to a Blast Rifle. Can anyone confirm that it's actually 5 points for the pistol? Sorry, blast pistol is indeed 15 points.
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I'm pretty tempted to grab the rulebook for Harlequins just to have a more fitting profile for the Eversor I painted up recently. It would make sense to have to stay away from him too, as he's an enraged killer.
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PierreTheMime posted:Took a couple pictures of some of the Necrons I've started on. Plan on blowing through another six Scarabs bases and an old Tomb Spyder today, possibly more with some luck. You are some sort of painting servitor! Also: my job will be taking me to Dayton, Oh. Any warhams in the area wanna warham it up  ?EDIT: Wasn't there a URL with a map of players a LONG time ago? LordAba fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Feb 5, 2015 |
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So TL Gauss blasters or Particle beamers for Tomb Blades? You can't snap fire the Beamers if you jink, but taken as part of the Reclamation Legion they can safely hide in cover with the Shadow Loom anyway.
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FoE posted:So TL Gauss blasters or Particle beamers for Tomb Blades? You can't snap fire the Beamers if you jink, but taken as part of the Reclamation Legion they can safely hide in cover with the Shadow Loom anyway. Beamers with ignore cover. Murder guardsmen.
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LordAba posted:You are some sort of painting servitor! It's in the OP http://www.zeemaps.com/map?group=613438&add=1
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FoE posted:So TL Gauss blasters or Particle beamers for Tomb Blades? You can't snap fire the Beamers if you jink, but taken as part of the Reclamation Legion they can safely hide in cover with the Shadow Loom anyway. A little from column A, a little from column B; im gonna use A 3-4 strong unit with ignore cover Blasts to slaughter Guardsmen, Nids, and Orks, or forcing lots of saves on Marines, etc, and a 5 strong unit with Ignore Cover Gauss Blasters to lay the pain on key Tau units, starting with whatever is packing the most markerlights. Since you can only take the Shadow Loom OR the Nebuloscope, I'd go Shield Vanes for 3+ Armor and take the Nebuloscope for that sweet ignore cover. If they do bust out the Ap 3/2 weapons on your tomb blades, then go ahead and jink for a 4+/4+++ and soak up an inordinate amount of the enemies firepower.
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I'm planning out my oath for this month, and I think it's going to be a huge pain. Anyone have advice on painting a dirty white aside from painting a dull white over maybe brown or dark grey and then using agrax? I can maybe go with a clean white as long as it's a duller one, I haven't really decided what would look best.
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Use an oil wash. Super simple, really good effect. Or you could use a soot colored pigment. Or a lead pencil. White is fun to make dirty.
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I want it to be tan/brown dirty, but I think I'll just do it clean for the oath and then figure out weathering later. I'm afraid it will look kinda lovely if it's clean, but I'll paint a couple of test pieces first. I'm really looking forward to this project though; the knight is by far the biggest model I've tried to paint.
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Feb 5, 2015 05:59
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Now I'm reminded there's a Goon in my state! Karandras, do you go to KRAGS by any chance? I've probably met you without knowing it if that's the case.
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HiveCommander posted:Now I'm reminded there's a Goon in my state! Looks like a simple two and a half hour drive to the nearest goon, I am surprised there are none in St.Louis...
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Apparently there is some poor gently caress in Alaska that's more isolated by frozen wasteland than I. 
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Soulfucker posted:Apparently there is some poor gently caress in Alaska that's more isolated by frozen wasteland than I. And then there is the poor bastard stuck in Fairbanks
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Man, I kind of wish there were more goonhams in the Houston area. I'd like to actually get a game in for once, but I'm probably the only one that posts in here anymore.  I guess I could always contact Noctis Horrendae... 
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SRM posted:Hey, happy to help! I don't encourage conversion work when drinking though; if I slip my paintbrush and gently caress up a highlight that's one thing, if I'm converting something and slip with my x-acto that's gonna be just a little bit worse I finished the conversion with no blood drawn and spent all of tonight, which is my usual warham night at the LGS painting instead. I'm pretty pleased overall, though yellow is still a whore of a color to paint with brushes. Anyways, here's the model all gussied up. 
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drgnvale posted:I want it to be tan/brown dirty, but I think I'll just do it clean for the oath and then figure out weathering later. I'm afraid it will look kinda lovely if it's clean, but I'll paint a couple of test pieces first. I'm really looking forward to this project though; the knight is by far the biggest model I've tried to paint. If it's a knight you should consider experimenting with oils. You basically slop them over white, wait a while, and then remove whatever you don't like. Then let it dry and varnish to taste. For a tan/dirty brown use burnt umber. It's super easy: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3210214&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1115#post428886542 It's how I get the depth to the white on my marines: 
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I know very little about 'Crons and how they play, but the new codex has a lot of nice stuff in it. How does this look for a force (1500) HQ - Catacomb Command Barge - Overlord w/Warscythe and Phase Shifter - 180 pts (goes and kills poo poo) Cryptek - 65 pts (to sit with warriors) Elites- 5 Lychguard w/ Sword + Shield in a Night Scythe - 280 pts (mid game firefighters/objective grabbers) Troops 10 Immortals w/ Tesla in a Night Scythe - 300 pts (Again, mid game firefighters/objective grabbers) 20 Warriors (with the Cyptek to make them stay!) - 260pts Fast Attack 3 Wraiths w/ Whip Coils - 129 pts 7 Scarab Bases - 140 pts (I have 7 bases so I figured I'd use them) Heavy Support Canoptek Spyder x3 - 150pts (3 MCs for 150 pts?! Sign me up). Seems a bit light on the troops, and I saw Tesla doesn't work with Snap Shots any more so the NS Immortals might not be too good. Around 660 pts for 2 troops choices is what makes me wary. Thoughts?
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Lord Twisted posted:I know very little about 'Crons and how they play, but the new codex has a lot of nice stuff in it. Run multiple units of scarabs. Youcan pump one up with the spiders, scurry them forward in turn 1 and then do it with the others in turn 2.
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BULBASAUR posted:If it's a knight you should consider experimenting with oils. You basically slop them over white, wait a while, and then remove whatever you don't like. Then let it dry and varnish to taste. For a tan/dirty brown use burnt umber. It's super easy: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3210214&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1115#post428886542 Pigments also work really well. I started my AdMech shading with oils, but for the new color scheme I'm trying pigments do a better (well, a very different) job. Can't wait for the weekend so I can finish the first models.
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Cataphract posted:Run multiple units of scarabs. Youcan pump one up with the spiders, scurry them forward in turn 1 and then do it with the others in turn 2. Awesome idea. Turn one I pump one up from 4-> 7 bases, charge it up. Turn 2/3 I continue to pump up the other one by 3 bases/turn, and then can use it as I wish. 10 scarabs is 50 attacks on the charge.
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Mango Polo posted:Pigments also work really well. I started my AdMech shading with oils, but for the new color scheme I'm trying pigments do a better (well, a very different) job. Can't wait for the weekend so I can finish the first models. What color scheme are you doing? I'm stuck trying to figure out how to make mine look like admech, but also tie into my IW colors/style.
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BULBASAUR posted:What color scheme are you doing? I'm stuck trying to figure out how to make mine look like admech, but also tie into my IW colors/style. 2:1 Steggadon Scale Green & Black, highlighted to Temple Guard Blue for body parts. Metals are silver. Cables, glows, reactors, etc. are bright red/orange. Then I do a wash of bright red pigment + alcohol, clean up, and then sponge more pigment. On my test models the sponging has been a bit challenging because the matte varnish spray knocks it off partially. Basically I'm remaking this, slightly cleaner/less creepy:  I plan on making a full Thousand Sons army the moment they have their book, so it took me a long time to figure out what colors to use on my AdMech to not do two red armies. Since I like the Dark Mechanicus, I compromised I almost finished assembling two thallax squads, which I'll paint properly this weekend. It's awesome to feel motivated again, now that I have people nearby who want to play. Mango Polo fucked around with this message at 14:27 on Feb 5, 2015 |
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Oooh, that's purdy. Necrons done like that would be fantastic.
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Lord Twisted posted:I know very little about 'Crons and how they play, but the new codex has a lot of nice stuff in it. Run the Wraiths, Scarabs, and Spyders as a Canoptek Harvest Formation. For no extra points you can give your models Reanimation Protocols. Edit: Additionally, drop 3 Scarab Bases (as covered earlier you can pump them back up to 7 on turn one) for 60pts and apply those points to upgrade your Cryptek to Illuminor Szeras. Place him and the Canoptek formation together for 4+ RP rolls for everything, not to mention +1 T/BS/S to either the Warriors or the Immortals (probably the Warriors) and a S8 AP2 lance gun. PierreTheMime fucked around with this message at 14:49 on Feb 5, 2015 |
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Oh God I love this so very much - What is it, how is it done?
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Shockeh posted:Oh God I love this so very much - What is it, how is it done? The orange rust effect is generally just watered-down orange paint of your choice (I use Troll Slayer Orange) applied lightly. I don't have a great example of it, but you can see it here on this Skaven Plague Furnace:  I used it in a more general rust-patches sense, but you can just put it in the cracks and crevices and it comes out looking like that pic.
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It works with regular paint, but I personally liked the pigment/alcohol wash better. Super easy to clean up with a q-tip and it creates a strong impression. e.: Sorry, I mean pigment/thinner, not alcohol, for the wash. Mango Polo fucked around with this message at 15:26 on Feb 5, 2015 |
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koreban posted:I finished the conversion with no blood drawn and spent all of tonight, which is my usual warham night at the LGS painting instead. I'm pretty pleased overall, though yellow is still a whore of a color to paint with brushes. He looks pretty drat good! I think the yellow on the tabbard needs to be cleaned up a little, but that's some good brushwork. I would have probably painted the tabbard the same color as the inside of the cape since it looks like they're connected, but yellow will tie him into the rest of your force anywho.
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