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MasterSlowPoke posted:I'm thinking for the SRM cup we could hold it over multiple days. Getting 3 games in a single day is hard, but we could do 3 rounds thurs-sat. Single elimination so losers can go get us winners bhan mi from the food trucks. Ok I was thinking about maybe heading down for this, but if there's a loving banh mi truck I'm definitely doing it. Someone tell me what tickets to buy and what events I'm going to get shithoused at.
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ANAmal.net posted:Someone tell me what tickets to buy and what events I'm going to get shithoused at.
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For me the easiest way to identify re-casts is just cutting a tiny piece off, or sanding it. Recasts smell like gasoline almost immediately. Forge world stuff doesn't have an odour, in my experience.
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Yeast posted:Forge world stuff doesn't have an odour, in my experience. Are you sure about this? Because for me it has the distinct smell of burnt money.
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Phyresis posted:Are you sure about this? Because for me it has the distinct smell of burnt money. Instructions unclear, inhaling resin dust to be sure.
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Agreed. If it's grey, but you sand it and it smells, then it's a recast. However there are some recasters that use higher quality resin than FW. They don't smell and they don't have any release agent either. They're usually not grey, but I have seen some that look and behave like the real thing. The only way I was able to tell was that it was a tiny bit more brittle... and the price.
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While on the topic of recast chat; I'd avoid purchasing anything not NIB from ebay at least for the time being. A few months ago one of the more public recasters had a major sale and the orders started shipping about a month ago. I've only been watching the Tyranid listings lately but there have been 10+ postings for dimachaerons alone that I can say with certainty came from this particular caster.
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Since someone called me out in this thread when the new Genestealer Cult models were revealed, guess I should share the converted commission army I made. Dude wanted a Tyranid army, but modeled like Genecult. Only unconverted models in the entire army would be purestrain Genestealers and Lictors. I apologize in advance for the really crummy photos - I had a terrible camera at the time I was doing these, and no decent light setup. My attempts at color-correction on mediocre software led to some atrociously oversaturated shots. They were also a relatively cheap and fast commission, as well as being from a few years ago, so the painting is below my normal standard. They do look great together on the tabletop, though! Genestealer Patriarch (converted from a metal Broodlord, plays as a Tyranid Prime).   Ascended Patriarch (converted from old metal Patriarch, plays as Swarmlord).  Genestealer Magi (converted from Fantasy wizards, play as Zoanthropes).    Genestealer Cultists (converted from Catachans and Cadians, play as Termagants with Fleshborers).  Cult Gangers (converted from Catachans and Cadians, play as Termagants with Devourers).  Cult Limos (play as Tervigons, converted from some ebay car models).   Genestealer Hybrids (converted from Ork Boyz and Genestealers, play as Ymgarl Genestealers).  Cult Skimmer (Converted from Land Speeder Storm, plays as flying hive Tyrant with two twin-linked Devourers).   Cult Flyer (Converted from Landspeeder with Storm Talon wings, plays as Hive Crone).  Cult Psyker (converted from some Techpriests and a bit from the Fantasy giant, plays as Doom of Malan'tai).  Ogryn Hybrids (converted from Fantasy ghoul things, count as Tyrant Guard).  Cult Tank (converted from Leman Russ, counts as Tyrannofex with two-shot weapon).  Cult Tank (converted from Leman Russ, counts as Tyrannofex with torrent flamer weapon).  Cult Power Loader (converted from Dreadknight, plays as Trygon).  Purestrain Genestealer (unconverted, plays as Genestealer).  Purestrain Lictors (unconverted, play as Lictors).   Objectives/terrain (converted from Fantasy kits). The big totem rotates and serves as a turn counter.   Some group shots:   The client painted up a bunch more purestrain Genestealers using a paint tutorial I made for him to mimic the scheme, as well as some tunneling drill-transports to play as Mycetic Spores. I'll see if I can find the pictures he's sent me from past games. BuffaloChicken fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Feb 23, 2016 |
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Herr Tog posted:he has 17 problems But most certainly a bitch aint one.
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Hey 40K thread, it's me again, back for my 6-monthly "does this game suck and which factions are okay?" post. I'm slowly catching up on the thread but I'm skipping ahead to ask this question. What's decent these days? Was thinking about Tau, Orks or Blood Angels but I was told Orks and BA are bad. I have no idea any more... Maybe I should just play vanilla SM, at least they'll probably never be bad. Digital Jesus fucked around with this message at 08:07 on Feb 23, 2016 |
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Digital Jesus posted:Hey 40K thread, it's me again, back for my 6-monthly "does this game suck and which factions are okay?" post. I'm slowly catching up on the thread but I'm skipping ahead to ask this question. What's decent these days? Was thinking about Tau or Blood Angels but I was told BA are bad. I have no idea any more... Genestealer Cults are looking interesting
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What's the limits of counts as? Can you run orks counts-as space marines so long as each unit is represented by a unit of similar size and shape? Maybe you players underpowered armies should try that. Just use whatever, as SMs.
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Yeah that game looks cool, will probably buy it just to paint the minis.
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SRM posted:Over a black basecoat: I forgot how great your Fists are 
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TheChirurgeon posted:Is this sarcastic? My Fire Raptor included nothing of the sort. Not at all. Friend of mine picked up a Typhon from Warhammer World last week and it came in a white box and this pamphlet:    Looks like they're moving to this sort of presentation from now on, so it's not just a couple of bags. There's bubble wrap inside and everything. But playing 'spot the recast; can be tough. In my experience, the plastic doesn't smell any different and the quality is as good or often better than genuine stuff. The recent recasters even get the amount of black pigment just about perfect, even with real FW grey color varies depending on the kit you're getting. Shoulder pads are a different color to vehicles, for instance, so the color is no guarantee. Spot the recast:  It's the one with the rubber bands on it. Apart from a slightly bendy gun support there are no issues with it and zero bubbles on the back end, which the larger tank has in spades. The smaller tank in the foreground is genuine plastic. And which one is the model I got scammed on? I bought these both online, one from Facebook and one from ebay:   Slipped cast gives double mold lines, dead giveaway - although on this particular one the small parts were sloppily attached to very small sprues and requires 1000x more cleaning up than any GW plastic kit
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krushgroove posted:Looks like they're moving to this sort of presentation from now on, so it's not just a couple of bags. There's bubble wrap inside and everything. Yeah that's FW new style. Commonly something will go out of stock on their website and return shortly after with the brand new packing. They're mostly converting HH stuff to this style.
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krushgroove posted:But playing 'spot the recast; can be tough. In my experience, the plastic doesn't smell any different and the quality is as good or often better than genuine stuff. The recent recasters even get the amount of black pigment just about perfect, even with real FW grey color varies depending on the kit you're getting. Shoulder pads are a different color to vehicles, for instance, so the color is no guarantee. the higher quality stuff is way harder to detect. based chinaman's stuff was really high quality (at least before he died  ) there's still a lot of the ghetto poo poo on US eBay as well driving down prices. A lot of the junk coming out from the Russians still looks noticably off but some of it looks real. eBay tries to pull those auctions but there's a lot that slip through for whatever reason and get sold. protip: if it's from loving russia or china it's fake, duh. the price almost doesn't even factor in at that point but yeah it's always like half of retail.e: you can tell the Wraithknight on the right is fake and resin just from that one mediocre picture. Phyresis fucked around with this message at 13:54 on Feb 23, 2016 |
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So how do Raptors and Warp Talons hold up currently in casual play? I was leaning more toward Raptors with either flamer or melta support, as I have always enjoyed the models. (Newer ones wvwn more, minus the more mundane feet and wierd teeth on the jump pack) Also, did Forgeworld stop selling the SoB Rhino doors? I managed to pick up a rear door on ebay, but I can't seem to find any side doors so I will probably just greenstuff the icons. I am going to be desecrating it anyway, so that is probably the better route.
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jadebullet posted:So how do Raptors and Warp Talons hold up currently in casual play? I was leaning more toward Raptors with either flamer or melta support, as I have always enjoyed the models. (Newer ones wvwn more, minus the more mundane feet and wierd teeth on the jump pack) Even in casual play Warp Talons just aren't worth it. Too costly for what little perks they bring. They look cool enough, but you can model most of that into Raptors anyway.
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That's what I figured with the Warp Talons. Why would you make a dedicated melee trooper without grenades?
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Mango Polo posted:Yeah that's FW new style. Commonly something will go out of stock on their website and return shortly after with the brand new packing. They're mostly converting HH stuff to this style. Must have been recent, because I got the standard "bags and black-and-white instructions" treatment and I ordered my Fire Raptor in December. jadebullet posted:That's what I figured with the Warp Talons. Why would you make a dedicated melee trooper without grenades? They're really just not good. Factor in that blind tests are worthless against pretty much every army except Tau and Necrons, their lack of guns, and the inability to assault from deep strike, and you've got yourself one overpriced garbage unit. They're marginally better in Khorne Daemonkin though, where you can use musicians from other summoned daemons to stop the Warp Talons from scattering.
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Here's a really lovely picture of a finished/not-based new style Warp Spider (left) compared to the old style Warp Spider (right) The picture really doesn't do it justice, but I have no way to get proper lighting to show the shading. The best example of what it actually looks like is more akin to the knee pad on the left leg of the new style model. Boon fucked around with this message at 16:33 on Feb 23, 2016 |
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Corrode posted:I forgot how great your Fists are Boon posted:Here's a really lovely picture of a finished/not-based new style Warp Spider (left) compared to the old style Warp Spider (right) Liquid Dinosaur posted:What's the limits of counts as? Can you run orks counts-as space marines so long as each unit is represented by a unit of similar size and shape? Maybe you players underpowered armies should try that. Just use whatever, as SMs.  Or if I used the old Orks in power armor from Rogue Trader, that'd work: 
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SRM posted:I feel like there's too many bright colors going at once here. The green, blue, and purple are all vying for attention. I like the older scheme more because the grey is less in your face and lets the orange do most of the work. I see your point. To the naked eye, the overall model is darker than the original scheme and the colors are more complimentary. I think the lighter colors are capturing the light better and overpowering the darker shades and washing them out in the photo. I'll try to figure out a better way of getting a photo and comparing the two.
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ANAmal.net posted:Ok I was thinking about maybe heading down for this, but if there's a loving banh mi truck I'm definitely doing it. Someone tell me what tickets to buy and what events I'm going to get shithoused at. SRM posted:same Ok. 1st you need a Convention access pass - $40. There are a few goons doing the Narrative (which is way better than the GT) for 40k. There are two levels of play: Warlords and Nightfighters. Warlords play all 6 games and get to take part in the strategic planning/gettin' turnt meetings. It is not a requirement to get turnt at these meetings, though it helps. This costs $70. The Nightfighters track gets you 3 games played on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. You aren't in the planning, but can do other events, like the GT, too. That costs $40. Either one guarantees that you will play with or against goons, and I can vouch for the quality and fun of the event. The organizers are new, but I've known them for a couple of years now, and they're top-notch hamz. Also, if you're short on cash, I can probably share a room with someone. I'm planning on staying at the hotel this year, even though I live like 20 minutes away.
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BuffaloChicken posted:
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The Sex Cannon posted:Ok. 1st you need a Convention access pass - $40. There are a few goons doing the Narrative (which is way better than the GT) for 40k. There are two levels of play: Warlords and Nightfighters. Warlords play all 6 games and get to take part in the strategic planning/gettin' turnt meetings. It is not a requirement to get turnt at these meetings, though it helps. This costs $70. The Nightfighters track gets you 3 games played on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. You aren't in the planning, but can do other events, like the GT, too. That costs $40. Also, MasterSlowPoke and myself will be "Human" path in the narrative. I strongly suspect that The Sex Cannon will be as well since he was the last two years. That basically means that we eat free snacks and maybe get spendy at the charity bar together in the meetings and fight for the same team in the big picture points-game. When/if there are team games this year then there is a shot to play together. The only way to play against us on the table is to pick the "Virtue" side (night fighter or warlord). There is a home brewed narrative (get it) with non 40k fluff about humans fighting this alien collective that they use 40k games to represent. Any army can be either side. It's not that serious but it's fun to see the leaders of the narrative tally results and see what happens. Our plan last year was not super complicated and ended with some charismatic steel legion guy suggesting we "ball so hard" which took off dramatically, leading easily convinced nerds to chant it for the next two nights at any opportunity.
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Rano Pano posted:Loving this idea! There's 108 guys crammed into that car if you roll perfectly Click here if you want to see more group shots of the army, though they're terrible and blurry.
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The Sex Cannon posted:Ok. 1st you need a Convention access pass - $40. There are a few goons doing the Narrative (which is way better than the GT) for 40k. There are two levels of play: Warlords and Nightfighters. Warlords play all 6 games and get to take part in the strategic planning/gettin' turnt meetings. It is not a requirement to get turnt at these meetings, though it helps. This costs $70. The Nightfighters track gets you 3 games played on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. You aren't in the planning, but can do other events, like the GT, too. That costs $40. You had me at "gettin' turnt".
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I'm gonna to convert myself some 4th gen hybrid commissars and commanding officers for a thematic "come the apocalypse" genestealer cult/IG allied list. E: I'm really excited.
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I want to like those Deathwatch formations, but whose bright idea was it to have them in mixed squads? Squad of the shooty guys, squad of the choppy guys, big squad (with the White Scar and Jump Pack guys being able to split off) would have been much better.
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And how does something like Counter-attack work in a mixed squad? edit: Nevermind, it's conferred on the whole squad.
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Kit bashed chaplain on a bike last night and started painting it up. For some reason it had never occurred to me to put a chaplain on a bike but this should be fun to play with. This is still a WIP...
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Edgy is an exception to Strike From the Shadows right? I was under the impression that Raven Guard with jump packs don't normally get that rule because they count as bulky.
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Phyresis posted:the higher quality stuff is way harder to detect. based chinaman's stuff was really high quality (at least before he died Okay, now I have no idea who this is. I thought I did but the person I thought this was is doing just fine. Gotta love code.
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The Kill Team formation sucks. Munging the whole team into one squad in order to gain Preferred Enemy is totally not worth it. Unfortunately (unless there's another formation/CAD not yet announced) it's the only way of using the whole team short of going unbound.
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DeadGame posted:So the bike guy has to stay in formation with the guys on foot? -nm. e. Yeah, you basically lose the purpose for having the bike or jetpacks entirely.
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