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Nova Open is Labor Day weekend. Me, WhiteOutMouse, Sex Cannon, and Boon are definitely going. If we get 8 people we could have the First Annual SRM Cup, as they run small 8 person, 1500pt Highlander tournaments all weekend.
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spacegoat posted:Completely missing the point and acting like it's a good thing because it doesn't directly affect him, coloured with a bit of condescension? Must be a Carl Tut-tuttle post. Actually, I just thought it was a somewhat funny train of thought. If I WERE a fantasy player at this point I would probably be pretty concerned. The entire game has changed. And I would be invested heavily in it. However, from my perspective (as a 40k player) I am actually interested in the new game. I don't know if it is good or bad yet - but it's worth me checking out. Sorry if you felt I was being condescending, but apparently you have already developed an opinion of me...
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Jul 9, 2015 04:36
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MasterSlowPoke posted:Nova Open is Labor Day weekend. Me, WhiteOutMouse, Sex Cannon, and Boon are definitely going. I'll be down that weekend anyway--that's when we usually do our Fantasy football draft that weekend, so I could ostensibly come down and we (Me + ANAmal + Shadow Daishi) could meet up and wreck y'alls poo poo
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Jul 9, 2015 05:15
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For all you Portland guys, Guardian Cup at Guardian Games is coming up again.
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Jul 9, 2015 05:39
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Hixson posted:BULBASUAR is the Californian scum that sold my Tau that you're thinking of What's the back story on this?
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Jul 9, 2015 05:57
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Here's some pics of that chimera I painted a few months ago. Critiques? 
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Jul 9, 2015 06:27
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Business Gorillas posted:First they came for the Specialists, and I did not speak out— Ftfy
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Jul 9, 2015 06:32
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Kilo147 posted:Ftfy 
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Jul 9, 2015 07:49
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SRM posted:I'd be pissed if I was playing Slaanesh and my chosen god got squatted, but if that change comes to 40k you'll probably be able to use them just fine. The last few followers of Slaanesh hiding out in the Chaos legions would be a cool potential story. The chief problem is that when it comes to the models, they present a confusing message - thanks to Daemonettes, people think of him as the God of Sexytimes, rather than the God of Excess. His Greater Daemon is called Keeper of Secrets - that sounds more Tzeentch than Slaanesh. The other Slaanesh daemons are kinda bleh (in general, a large chunk of Chaos daemons need fundamental re-imagining both lore wise and remodelling). And you can't get Noise Marines units, you have to buy upgrade packs. He couldn't get squatted in 40k though - he's way too heavily tied into the lore of the Eldar and Dark Eldar, and the warp storms leading up to his birth isolated Terra and were responsible for the Age of Strife prior to the Great Crusade.
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Jul 9, 2015 08:14
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spacegoat posted:They'll prolly say that existing armies are followers trying to free Slaanesh from wherever s/he ended up or some bullshit. Why would they do that when the whole point of squatting Slaanesh is (apparently) to appeal to little kids and their parents, by getting rid of the hermaphroditic sex perversion god?  Regarding Emperor's Children, they'd probably just retcon them to be ultra narcissists who became disillusioned with the Emperor and turned to the worship of "true perfection" as embodied by Chaos. Noise Marines would probably just be turned into some weird offshoot mutation (as a result of the move to Chaos). I also guarantee that in this single post, I have probably already put more thought into this particular piece of 40k fluff than GW has when the time comes to squat Slaanesh there as well.  Milotic posted:He couldn't get squatted in 40k though - he's way too heavily tied into the lore of the Eldar and Dark Eldar, and the warp storms leading up to his birth isolated Terra and were responsible for the Age of Strife prior to the Great Crusade.  After what we just saw GW do to their Fantasy-based IP--an IP they had been steadily crafting and building since the 1980s--do you really think they are going to have a second's pause regarding getting rid of Slaanesh in WH40k (or any other bit of 40k lore when the time comes for that game to get Sigmar'd) just because it's "tied into the lore of the Eldar"?
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Jul 9, 2015 08:19
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Sydney Bottocks posted:
I don't think GW would kill the goose that lays the golden egg, so I'm not expecting major overhauls in the next few years.
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Jul 9, 2015 08:54
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How easy is it to magnetize a shadowsword to also be a baneblade? As far as I see it, it's just 2 different frontparts and 2 different top parts. Granted you have to slice off the engine on the baneblade toppart.
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Jul 9, 2015 09:09
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Milotic posted:I don't think GW would kill the goose that lays the golden egg, so I'm not expecting major overhauls in the next few years. Normally I'd agree with you but GW's particular goose has been laying progressively smaller eggs in recent years. I really don't put anything past GW at this point, especially not if they get panicky after another round of bad financial reports. I don't think 40k's in any immediate danger, but I certainly don't think it's immune from eventually being hosed around with, either.
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Jul 9, 2015 09:14
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Ultramega posted:Here's some pics of that chimera I painted a few months ago. Critiques? I like it. The picture is obviously a bit blurry but the impression of the tank as a whole has a sort of natural look of a vehicle. I like the wet look of the mud on the dozed blade. How did you do this effect? Because you are not allowed on this forum if you are not an arsehole I would question the competence in of any enginseer who saw fit to mount the smoke launchers that way... Obviously a heretic.
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Jul 9, 2015 10:50
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Spewing the smoke forward makes abit of sense, but not mounting them on the top to also obscure the height is abit 
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Jul 9, 2015 10:54
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DJ Dizzy posted:Spewing the smoke forward makes abit of sense, but not mounting them on the top to also obscure the height is abit I think they are meant to be analogous to real life grenade launchers for obscuring the vehicle. You want to get some distance on the lob so the enemy doesn't just shoot into the smoke!
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Jul 9, 2015 11:01
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Ghost Hand posted:Actually, I just thought it was a somewhat funny train of thought. If I WERE a fantasy player at this point I would probably be pretty concerned. The entire game has changed. And I would be invested heavily in it. However, from my perspective (as a 40k player) I am actually interested in the new game. I don't know if it is good or bad yet - but it's worth me checking out. Concerned? Sigmar is not fantasy. It would be like them putting 40k figures on square bases and having you rank them up. If you were a fantasy fan that would be fine because it just made 40k a gateway to fantasy. As it is, Sigmar is a gateway to 40k. I will expect that you will like it as a casual gateway game to 40k because you have no skin in the game. It is fun! All it took was poor communication, a whole new scale for the minis, and nuking the old setting. You mentioned be careful what you wish for, but at the same time GW screwed the pooch by not building momentum in the end times. The elf story would have been great if it was built on over time. But no, toss it and release unbalanced warscrolls for all the old armies we are probably going to drop anyways.
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Jul 9, 2015 11:26
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The fact that GW changed all their 40k iconography on their HQ from 40k to Sigmar, including the old Marine statue, does not bode well for 40k IMO.
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Jul 9, 2015 11:53
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We have a 2k Tournament this saturday, no ban list, no force org restrictions (but no unbound)... Here's what I'm considering:some list posted:
I'm aware this is not a very friendly list. I could drop the Vindicare and Dreadknight for a Knight Paladin... I guess... The format is Eternal War / Maelstrom from the book, so I'll use my GK cards if we roll one of those missions. The plan is to park the Titan, Vindicare and Knight on my backfield objectives and just blow up anything that lands on any other objective, and if I get Gate on one of my Librarians, jumping them around to grab objectives (same with the Dreadknight). But with 4 Strength D Pie Plates dropping every turn, I don't imagine there's much I can't deal with. Unless I get a really unlucky turn one and my opponent manages to drop a lot of D on the Warhound, I think I should do well.
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Jul 9, 2015 12:12
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Fsmhunk posted:If he gets repalced with the horned rat it would be loving sick, i'd gladly take the loss of slaanesh if it means we get 40k skaven. Yep, I completely agree. Plus I don't give a poo poo about Slaanesh the god; it's his followers that are super cool.
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Jul 9, 2015 12:43
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Esser-Z posted:The fact that GW changed all their 40k iconography on their HQ from 40k to Sigmar, including the old Marine statue, does not bode well for 40k IMO. I hadn't heard about this--what changed other than the giant gold glue man statue?
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Jul 9, 2015 12:46
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MasterSlowPoke posted:Nova Open is Labor Day weekend. Me, WhiteOutMouse, Sex Cannon, and Boon are definitely going. maybe I'll go if I can figure out how to build and paint an army by then
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Jul 9, 2015 13:20
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Esser-Z posted:The fact that GW changed all their 40k iconography on their HQ from 40k to Sigmar, including the old Marine statue, does not bode well for 40k IMO. I don't think it's as bad as everyone is saying. They're putting a big push on Sigmar, but I don't think you can extrapolate it to 40k. Sigmar is the new product, so they want to push it hard. By the end of the year, I would imagine things would be back to the status quo.
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mongol posted:By the end of the year, I would imagine things would be back to the status quo. Declining sales and less fantasy players than ever?
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mongol posted:I don't think it's as bad as everyone is saying. They're putting a big push on Sigmar, but I don't think you can extrapolate it to 40k. Sigmar is the new product, so they want to push it hard. By the end of the year, I would imagine things would be back to the status quo. They started unbound, formations, and no maximum model count in those formation requirements on the 40k side. It is definitely the direction they're going.
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Jul 9, 2015 13:35
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Purely for fluff and nerd reasons, is the 7th edition boxed set worth picking up if I can get it at a heavy discount? It would basically just be for the two fluff/hobby books, very unlikely I'll have the opportunity to play. I still enjoy the video games and books, and artbooks are my poo poo, but I don't know what the quality of the art/writing is here since I haven't touched 40k proper in years and years.
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Jul 9, 2015 14:17
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I think points disappearing in 40k is only matter of time (and I've been saying this since long before we found out about AoS). I could see a lot of other lovely mechanical changes. I highly doubt they'll ever reboot the setting, though.
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Jul 9, 2015 14:17
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nah this Age of Sigmar thing... its just a fad! *GW tears down Space Marine statue and erects a literal golden calf dedicated to Age of Sigmor*
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Jul 9, 2015 14:18
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fun activity: looking at the posts itt and realizing that i made the same posts a year ago during the end times
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Jul 9, 2015 14:19
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victrix posted:Purely for fluff and nerd reasons, is the 7th edition boxed set worth picking up if I can get it at a heavy discount? Almost all of the fluff is copy-pasted from the 6E book but there's some good new artwork. The "pictures" book is photos of models. I like it as a toilet reader (when I'm not feeling cerebral enough for The Atlantic, competitive enough for WMH rules, or masochistic enough for the latest FW catalogue) but ymmv.
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Jul 9, 2015 14:20
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I should be clear, when I say years and years, I mean like 'since 3rd edition', so anything from 6th would be new to me regardless
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Jul 9, 2015 14:21
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victrix posted:I should be clear, when I say years and years, I mean like 'since 3rd edition', so anything from 6th would be new to me regardless If you can get the 4E book plus the 6E book for less than the 7E set, do that. Otherwise, the 7E set will be fun and fine.
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Jul 9, 2015 14:34
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Sulecrist posted:If you can get the 4E book plus the 6E book for less than the 7E set, do that. Otherwise, the 7E set will be fun and fine. 4E really? Any particular reason for that one specifically?
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Esser-Z posted:The fact that GW changed all their 40k iconography on their HQ from 40k to Sigmar, including the old Marine statue, does not bode well for 40k IMO. The Marine statue is being moved in front of warhammer world.
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Jul 9, 2015 14:36
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victrix posted:4E really? Any particular reason for that one specifically? Just excellent artwork, solid fluff, and a lot of cool variant rules systems (Kill Team, Combat Patrol, Surprise Attack) that are fun to read and think about even if you'll never play the game.
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Sulecrist posted:Just excellent artwork, solid fluff, and a lot of cool variant rules systems (Kill Team, Combat Patrol, Surprise Attack) that are fun to read and think about even if you'll never play the game. Neat, thanks, I'll poke around, it's not hard to find stuff like that at an ultra discount. Plus I almost laughed out loud when I looked at the 3rd rulebook the other day, that artwork is wonderful 
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serious gaylord posted:The Marine statue is being moved in front of warhammer world. Even if they AoS 40k, they'd still keep space marines, so this makes sense 
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Helllloooooo 40k thread it's been too long. Last time I checked in I was living in DC, occasionally playing The Sex Cannon's beautiful, beautiful IG and playing somewhat infrequently. Now I am back in central NJ, new job, new apt and ready to get back into hams. There's a local store down the street from my job that has some player base, East Coast Gamers in Toms River, anyone know anything about it? Also - I tried catching up on the thread but there were literally 11,000 posts to go through and I couldn't do it, I gave up when Hollismason started talking about hairy rear end cracks. Are there any updates for Iyanden Eldar, Khorne, or Dark Angels? I did see there was a new Khorne book, is it any good?
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Jul 9, 2015 14:58
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 Dakka dakka motherfuckers. Still not finished because of the base and some final highlighting but its probably 80% done.
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JackMack posted:I like it. The picture is obviously a bit blurry but the impression of the tank as a whole has a sort of natural look of a vehicle. I like the wet look of the mud on the dozed blade. How did you do this effect? The mud is typhus corrosion which, along with the rest of the effects based paints, nihilakh oxide, whatever the blood one is called, are all awesome and should be part of your paint arsenal. I have no idea how smoke launchers work IRL, I just put them on in the position I thought looked the coolest.
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