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Drake_263: Mar 31, 2010

Kilazar posted:

Did I miss something? I thought the fish had no fire points.

It doesn't, but they can have the 'fish drive up to an enemy squad, jump out, and bhhhrrrttttt for 20 S6AP3 shots at point-blank range. Leaves the squad vulnerable to return fire, of course, but that's what the imbabubble drone is for.

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Kilazar: Mar 23, 2010

Drake_263 posted:

It doesn't, but they can have the 'fish drive up to an enemy squad, jump out, and bhhhrrrttttt for 20 S6AP3 shots at point-blank range. Leaves the squad vulnerable to return fire, of course, but that's what the imbabubble drone is for.

Ah thanks. I thought that might have been what was meant. But I was not certain.

# ? Oct 12, 2015 23:33

Hixson: Mar 27, 2009

Naramyth posted:

BA/SW/DA are not considered chapter tactics, as it should be.

What was the conflict? Can you elaborate? I haven't been following much of the new 40k stuff

# ? Oct 13, 2015 00:15

Master Twig: Oct 25, 2007; I want to branch out and I'm going to stick with it.

PierreTheMime posted:

Picked up a Tech-Priest Dominus and a set of Kastelans. Now to decide on a color scheme... I love the basic red but I have done that to absolute death with my Tyranid. Thinking pale green? Perhaps orange? I might just give in and do the standard, but I'll probably play around with it a bit.

Purple with gold and silver accents. Pimp those bots out.

# ? Oct 13, 2015 00:31

Ilor: Feb 2, 2008; That's a crit.

Master Twig posted:

Purple with gold and silver accents. Pimp those bots out.

This.

# ? Oct 13, 2015 00:37

GreenMarine: Apr 25, 2009; Switchblade Switcharoo

PierreTheMime posted:

Picked up a Tech-Priest Dominus and a set of Kastelans. Now to decide on a color scheme... I love the basic red but I have done that to absolute death with my Tyranid. Thinking pale green? Perhaps orange? I might just give in and do the standard, but I'll probably play around with it a bit.

Ryza orange is pretty neat.

I haven't decided on how to paint my AdMech yet, either. Still have a couple things to assemble.

# ? Oct 13, 2015 04:16

MasterSlowPoke: Oct 9, 2005; Our courage will pull us through

Hixson posted:

What was the conflict? Can you elaborate? I haven't been following much of the new 40k stuff

In the new Space Marine book, they actually tried to cut down on mixing and matching Chapter Tactics to get all the best stuff. A unit can only benefit from one chapter tactics at a time, and if there are models with two different tactics in the same squad, neither of them work. This is actually pretty good, as otherwise a White Scars Librarian Conclave leading a bunch of Iron Hands bikers would be a no brainer.

However, only the 6 chapters in C:SM have a rule called Chapter Tactics. It's kind of dumb that an Imperial Fist is suddenly a much worse shot because an Ultramarine is standing near him, or that the Iron Hands have to deactivate their bionics because there's a Salamander present, while they'd both be fine if there was a Space Wolf rampaging around on his Thunderwolf in their squads. Dark Angels and Space Wolves are actually better allies than pretty much any other two chapters, and they both get to use all their rules.

# ? Oct 13, 2015 04:51

boom boom boom: Jun 28, 2012; by Shine

PierreTheMime posted:

Picked up a Tech-Priest Dominus and a set of Kastelans. Now to decide on a color scheme... I love the basic red but I have done that to absolute death with my Tyranid. Thinking pale green? Perhaps orange? I might just give in and do the standard, but I'll probably play around with it a bit.

Base your colorscheme off this

# ? Oct 13, 2015 05:44

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

Just realized why I love 30 kay: it's a game entirely about giant muscular dudes fighting other giant muscular dudes while shouting "YOURE NOT MY BREH. I HATE YOU BREH!!"

# ? Oct 13, 2015 06:41

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

In other news this is either fake or something that will make Hixson very very happy:

# ? Oct 13, 2015 07:37

Hencoe: Sep 4, 2012; MY LIFE GOAL IS TO STICK A FLESHLIGHT INTO THE END OF A HOWITZER AND FUCK THE SHIT OUT OF IT

Well that is cool as poo poo, where is it from?

# ? Oct 13, 2015 08:14

Thundercloud: Mar 28, 2010; To boldly be eaten where no grot has been eaten before!

Looks like the Space Wolf/Thousand Sons book.

# ? Oct 13, 2015 09:01

Post 9-11 User: Apr 14, 2010

boom boom boom posted:

Base your colorscheme off this

Somethingawful.com - (AP) User boom boom boom became the first person in the world to become a vaporwave painter.

# ? Oct 13, 2015 09:41

Creepy Goat: Sep 19, 2010

Doesn't fit with FW book art, looks much more like something from a Black Library artist. GW has been hiring more freelance illustrators recently though so who knows.

e- Although looks a lot like this art, but I can't remember where it's from

Creepy Goat fucked around with this message at 11:06 on Oct 13, 2015

# ? Oct 13, 2015 10:39

PierreTheMime: Dec 9, 2004; Hero of hormagaunts everywhere!; Buglord

boom boom boom posted:

Base your colorscheme off this

I was seriously considering painting the faceplates with console output in amber and green. Kastelans Y05 and P05.

# ? Oct 13, 2015 11:18

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

Creepy Goat posted:

Doesn't fit with FW book art, looks much more like something from a Black Library artist. GW has been hiring more freelance illustrators recently though so who knows.

e- Although looks a lot like this art, but I can't remember where it's from

That second one is from HH Book 1. I thought we were getting a book with all the other missing legions first, so it could well be a hoax. Rumors put Prospero at sometime next year.

Isn't there a HH weekender this month?

# ? Oct 13, 2015 11:35

DJ Dizzy: Feb 11, 2009; Real men don't use bolters.

Im thinking of going all in on the samurai theme with my Tau. Where do people buy 28mm Katanas?

# ? Oct 13, 2015 13:11

Esser-Z: Jun 3, 2012

Don't give them katanas. Focus on battlesuits and do more historically accurate to when they were main soldiers Samurai--mounted archer equivalents!

# ? Oct 13, 2015 13:16

boom boom boom: Jun 28, 2012; by Shine

Esser-Z posted:

Samurai--mounted archer equivalents!

You want archers riding samurai?

# ? Oct 13, 2015 13:39

Esser-Z: Jun 3, 2012

boom boom boom posted:

You want archers riding samurai?

....why the gently caress not?

# ? Oct 13, 2015 13:47

DJ Dizzy: Feb 11, 2009; Real men don't use bolters.

Esser-Z posted:

Don't give them katanas. Focus on battlesuits and do more historically accurate to when they were main soldiers Samurai--mounted archer equivalents!

Its to represent the bonding knife ritual.

# ? Oct 13, 2015 15:36

Mr.Booger: Nov 13, 2004

DJ Dizzy posted:

Im thinking of going all in on the samurai theme with my Tau. Where do people buy 28mm Katanas?

Puppets War has some samurai bits including swords and sholder bits, helmets too.
http://puppetswar.com/product.php?id_product=209
they have 4 fingers though

# ? Oct 13, 2015 15:46

Naramyth: Jan 22, 2009; Australia cares about cunts. Including this one.

Hixson posted:

What was the conflict? Can you elaborate? I haven't been following much of the new 40k stuff

MasterSlowPoke posted:

In the new Space Marine book, they actually tried to cut down on mixing and matching Chapter Tactics to get all the best stuff. A unit can only benefit from one chapter tactics at a time, and if there are models with two different tactics in the same squad, neither of them work. This is actually pretty good, as otherwise a White Scars Librarian Conclave leading a bunch of Iron Hands bikers would be a no brainer.

However, only the 6 chapters in C:SM have a rule called Chapter Tactics. It's kind of dumb that an Imperial Fist is suddenly a much worse shot because an Ultramarine is standing near him, or that the Iron Hands have to deactivate their bionics because there's a Salamander present, while they'd both be fine if there was a Space Wolf rampaging around on his Thunderwolf in their squads. Dark Angels and Space Wolves are actually better allies than pretty much any other two chapters, and they both get to use all their rules.

The ITC vote would make SW/BA/DA have chapter tactics to try to cut down on some deathstar garbage. The vote didn't go that way, which I am thankful for because I don't like changing RAW stuff if we can help it, and it isn't that big of a deal.

# ? Oct 13, 2015 16:04

Squibsy: Dec 3, 2005; Not suited, just booted.; College Slice

Love the new Tau (except Stormsurge lol) will buy it all

# ? Oct 13, 2015 19:02

DJ Dizzy: Feb 11, 2009; Real men don't use bolters.

Mr.Booger posted:

Puppets War has some samurai bits including swords and sholder bits, helmets too.
http://puppetswar.com/product.php?id_product=209
they have 4 fingers though

I looked at those, but I need bare katanas. I might have to go shapeways.

# ? Oct 13, 2015 20:18

PantsOptional: Dec 27, 2012; All I wanna do is make you bounce

Drop Pod question: I had always thought that when it arrives from Deep Strike, its passengers automatically disembark that turn. Is that not the case?

# ? Oct 13, 2015 21:15

JesusIsTehCool: Aug 26, 2002

PantsOptional posted:

Drop Pod question: I had always thought that when it arrives from Deep Strike, its passengers automatically disembark that turn. Is that not the case?

You are right.

"Once a Drop Pod lands, all passengers must disembark and no models can embark for the rest of the game." -C:DA.

# ? Oct 13, 2015 21:28

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

PantsOptional posted:

Drop Pod question: I had always thought that when it arrives from Deep Strike, its passengers automatically disembark that turn. Is that not the case?

In 30k you can keep the doors closed and stay inside, but I think you must disembark in 40k.

Naramyth posted:

The ITC vote would make SW/BA/DA have chapter tactics to try to cut down on some deathstar garbage. The vote didn't go that way, which I am thankful for because I don't like changing RAW stuff if we can help it, and it isn't that big of a deal.

Normally I'd be with you, but lets face it this game is broken AF

# ? Oct 13, 2015 21:30

Hixson: Mar 27, 2009

BULBASAUR posted:

In other news this is either fake or something that will make Hixson very very happy:

I refuse to believe until I see a Magnus teaser

# ? Oct 13, 2015 21:56

panascope: Mar 26, 2005

Hixson posted:

I refuse to believe until I see a Magnus teaser

Magnus confirmed:

# ? Oct 13, 2015 22:06

Naramyth: Jan 22, 2009; Australia cares about cunts. Including this one.

BULBASAUR posted:

In 30k you can keep the doors closed and stay inside, but I think you must disembark in 40k.

Normally I'd be with you, but lets face it this game is broken AF

When everything is broken nothing is broken.

And the deathstar loses hard to the Culexus, other psychic deathstars, anything that can strip cover, and some "lol 6" stomps/range D, and heldrakes. It certainly is a product of it's environment but it's manageable.

# ? Oct 13, 2015 22:08

LordAba: Oct 22, 2012; by FactsAreUseless

ineptmule posted:

Love the new Tau (except Stormsurge lol) will buy it all

The only cool part of tau is kroot and that supplement that let's you do the 7 Samurai.

# ? Oct 13, 2015 22:28

drgnvale: Apr 30, 2004; A sword is not cutlery!

LordAba posted:

that supplement that let's you do the 7 Samurai.

Tell me more.

# ? Oct 14, 2015 01:53

Cythereal: Nov 8, 2009; I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.

drgnvale posted:

Tell me more.

Farsight Enclaves has The Eight: Commander Farsight and a cast of seven colorful bodyguards including an AI, an Earth caste scientist in a Riptide, a pirate warlord, etc.

# ? Oct 14, 2015 02:20

drgnvale: Apr 30, 2004; A sword is not cutlery!

Do they train a bunch of dirt farmer former imperial citizens to resist the invading imperial guard force?

# ? Oct 14, 2015 02:23

Arven: Sep 23, 2007

DJ Dizzy posted:

Im thinking of going all in on the samurai theme with my Tau. Where do people buy 28mm Katanas?

http://www.wargamesfactory.com/webstore/rising-sun/samurai-warriors

# ? Oct 14, 2015 04:48

OhDearGodNo: Jan 3, 2014

Anvil posted:

We will be releasing Black Ops Exo Lords in Heavy armour at some point hopefully before Christmas, and possibly also an "ornate" non-black ops version.

I cant give any more details at this stage in the process unfortunately.

Kind regards

Joel

Hopefully just in time for the 1k sons release.

# ? Oct 14, 2015 12:15

BuffaloChicken: May 18, 2008

PierreTheMime posted:

I might just give in and do the standard, but I'll probably play around with it a bit.

DO NOT PAINT GW MINIS STANDARD :siren:

At least a red-Mars camo scheme? Wasn't that SRM's old Catachan deal? Rust-brown highlighted up to orange, with gray fabric and glowing yellow bits, would look sweet too.

# ? Oct 14, 2015 13:16

PierreTheMime: Dec 9, 2004; Hero of hormagaunts everywhere!; Buglord

BuffaloChicken posted:

DO NOT PAINT GW MINIS STANDARD

At least a red-Mars camo scheme? Wasn't that SRM's old Catachan deal? Rust-brown highlighted up to orange, with gray fabric and glowing yellow bits, would look sweet too.

Probably going with a burnt orange/drab blue plating, to give the robits a nice flat color and make the cloaks and highlights pop.

Like so:

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# ? May 28, 2024 11:03

SRM: Jul 10, 2009; ~*FeElIn' AweS0mE*~

BuffaloChicken posted:

DO NOT PAINT GW MINIS STANDARD

At least a red-Mars camo scheme? Wasn't that SRM's old Catachan deal? Rust-brown highlighted up to orange, with gray fabric and glowing yellow bits, would look sweet too.

That's MSP's Catachan deal. Mine are more standard looking. Just paint your robots like I painted mine:

# ? Oct 14, 2015 19:34

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