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TTerrible posted:That is a verteran sergeant helmet afaik. Red for the rank, white for the vet status. Yup. Red is sergeant, white is veteran, red with white stripe is veteran sergeant.
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Liquid Dinosaur posted:To be fair if any setting is going to have mundane factory doors be "screw you, you aren't blowing this open" strength, it would be 40k. Maybe when Graiah was founded they decided to waste valuable resources by making the doors adamantium for some reason. It's true. In WH40K it makes sense.The Ministorum probably had a cleric fall asleep at his desk and in his haste to get his paperwork quota done for the day he ordered 4,000,000 adamantium doors and coffee tables.
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Yeah I know this a pretty goonie debate over the proper markings and what not. I'll likely use the plumed helm and chest piece with the Ultima medallions hanging from the bottom for the champ, and the others I'll likely do either helmetless with laurels and extra purity seals and bling, or white/gold helms. I'm kind of torn, mainly cause I hate painting white.
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You could also paint laurels on the helmets, like they used to on the metal veterans:
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Uroboros posted:Yeah I know this a pretty goonie debate over the proper markings and what not. I'll likely use the plumed helm and chest piece with the Ultima medallions hanging from the bottom for the champ, and the others I'll likely do either helmetless with laurels and extra purity seals and bling, or white/gold helms. I'm kind of torn, mainly cause I hate painting white. Here's my command squad Ventris. I used one of the plumed helms for the champion which took a little modification to fit but looks rad I think, the apothecary and standard bearer are pretty much as they came apart from some ultramarines upgrade shoulder pads and stuff. I made Uriel Ventris with the black reach captain and some ultras parts, and Pasanius Lysane is kinda kitbashed with parts from lots of different kits. 
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SRM posted:You could also paint laurels on the helmets, like they used to on the metal veterans: That skull is winking at me, so cute!
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I went ahead and put those power pack ornaments on the 3 that aren't the champion/apoth so that will go a bit further. I avoid banners because they make the bastards a pain to transport. I noticed you got a heavy Flamer on your dude? Is that legal for Ultras?
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The only codex marine units that can take heavy flamers are Sternguard and Legion of the Damned. Blood Angels can take them in tactical squads.
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Whelp, bought a demon army on the cheap so I can play bullshit screemer/drone stars, maybe learn the wizard phase, and have a summoning box. Really it's just an excuse to make 4 neat radical inquisitors "heralds" so I can keep it tied to my otherwise 100% imperium collection. 
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Idea for something that could work for you and look cool, though it requires some bits buying most likely. Give them all gold Knight helmets, or if you want to do some cutting and give them a sort of Spartan look, get some of the chaos helms that have the T/Y vision and mouth slits, cut off the horns and smooth the helm where they were. Then add helmet crests.
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Warhammer 40K- That's the wrong color helmet for 500.M41
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Uroboros posted:I noticed you got a heavy Flamer on your dude? Is that legal for Ultras? As others have said, nope! I don't play though so it doesn't matter for me, and I wanted to make a fluff-accurate Sgt Pasanius, so heavy flamer and the robot arm (technically the wrong arm but gently caress trying to convert the arm holding the flamer to a bionic).
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I was thinking of getting back into 40k after a nearly decade long hiatus. I really like the idea of a Grey Knight Nemesis Strikeforce, but some posters were saying Terminators are basically garbage now? Would that list be competitive? Which races are the go to for competitive play these days?
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SlipUp posted:I was thinking of getting back into 40k after a nearly decade long hiatus. I really like the idea of a Grey Knight Nemesis Strikeforce, but some posters were saying Terminators are basically garbage now? Would that list be competitive? Which races are the go to for competitive play these days? Termies of all flavors are terrible. GK are really good for two things: purifers in pods and Draigo to gate around centurions. Dreadknights are super fun but are honestly to fair to be really competitive. Every race except maybe Orks can be pretty competitive right now, but the best book is probably Eldar.
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SlipUp posted:I was thinking of getting back into 40k after a nearly decade long hiatus. I really like the idea of a Grey Knight Nemesis Strikeforce, but some posters were saying Terminators are basically garbage now? Would that list be competitive? Which races are the go to for competitive play these days? Competitive these days means alpha-grognard level of hyper-formation shenanigans. There's a massive proliferation of AP2 and high strength or mass shooting that either 1 shots or easily withers away large, expensive units like Grey Knights. For maximum competitiveness, you'll want to look into Tau, Eldar, Mechanicum, codex Space Marines, White Scars and/or including Knight Titans as an accessory to your force or as their own standalone (though this may be on the downswing as people dropping 5 knight titans in 1850 is sort of a solved puzzle these days).
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I've only run one Knight in one game but it owned.
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ANAmal.net posted:I've only run one Knight in one game but it owned. I ran a Knight once and it got shithoused by a bunch of Meganobz.
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So CC heavy armies are essentially dead? drat. Back in my day a Blood Angel rhino rush was as OP as you could get.
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SlipUp posted:So CC heavy armies are essentially dead? Making the charge distance and then throwing 40 attacks, with re-rolls still feels good man. Get some friends and play what you like the fluff of and painting up.
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SlipUp posted:So CC heavy armies are essentially dead? It's a mix of the rulebook rules favoring shooting over close combat, and the standard of "good assault unit" tipping from "hey, these assault marines en masse could be a credible threat" to "here are special characters from three different books mashed into a squad of Centurions and they're all invisible psykers with everything-proof armor" Like in 4th edition when Apocalypse dropped my friend nick joked about a chaplain leading a squad of genestealers inside of a wartrukk as the most broken poo poo possible, but that wouldn't even be considered "good" in 7th if it were possible.
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It wouldn't even have been good in 4th edition considering how bad transports were and Apocalypse's access to super-heavy tanks.
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koreban posted:For maximum competitiveness, you'll want to look into Tau, Eldar, Mechanicum, codex Space Marines, White Scars and/or including Knight Titans as an accessory to your force or as their own standalone (though this may be on the downswing as people dropping 5 knight titans in 1850 is sort of a solved puzzle these days). Ahahahahahahaha... AHAHAHAHAHA... Mechanicus... right... Don't look into mechanicus, look into the War Convocation. The rest of the mechanicus is poo poo.
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Anyone buying Orks? Got 40 sluggas(axe and pistol?) 8 Lootas, 4 big shootas, at least I think they are, 11 nobs, some of which are based on Black Orc bodies, a dok, a possibly broken warboss and a ton of random bits, broken poo poo, and god-knows-what dude was thinking. Also, what looks to be an attempt at bikers on boars. Five of those.
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Irate Tree posted:Something something mans...
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That is the same day as Salute in the UK. I doubt there will be much overlap with GW diehards, but eh.
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I love the juxtaposition of epic orchestral music from Space Marine with goofy old heavy metal album cover artwork. I finished the last of the Meganobz! They've been sitting on my painting table as I passed them over for Kommandos and other projects, but I've finally bulked the squad out to 9 of the big lugs.        And now that I've finished up the squad, here's all 9!     
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SRM posted:I love the juxtaposition of epic orchestral music from Space Marine with goofy old heavy metal album cover artwork. I loving love the Space Marine soundtrack, and Titus' Theme in particular, but yeah, perhaps some Bolt Thrower or D-Rok would have been more appropriate.
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SlipUp posted:So CC heavy armies are essentially dead? Well tuned CC armies are what kills my Tau quite often or at least gets a tie. And then you have stuff like the Invisibility-cheesing, rerollable cover-save bikers ( I forget the Chapter name) who overran my entire army on turn 3.
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My experience of CC in 7e has been either underwhelming and expensive or an unstoppable 600pt blob. There doesn't seem to be much of an in between. My opponent pool is small though and standard disclaimers about local meta
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SlipUp posted:So CC heavy armies are essentially dead? Close combat armies were dead but the meta is beginning a slow swing back toward better rules for newer codices. Khorne Daemonkin are fun and can go pretty heavily into CC. Space Wolves with the new Wulfen get some gross CC buffs. The Space Marine Skyhammer Annihilation formation can tie up a good chunk of your opponents army and is nigh-unstoppable with a decent scatter roll. There's a lot of exceptional CC units around*, the trick is finding the right balance and, like always, hoping they don't get shot to poo poo before they make the front line. If you're not playing in tournaments Grey Knights would be fine. There is a TON of AP2 out there, so it would be best to diversify your list and potentially bring your Terminators in a transport, although that's a million points. *Except Tyranids
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Liquid Dinosaur posted:I loving love the Space Marine soundtrack, and Titus' Theme in particular, but yeah, perhaps some Bolt Thrower or D-Rok would have been more appropriate. Titus's Theme and Prelude to War sound the same, but I prefer the later. What I want is the first 2 minutes of the War theme from Avatar when the humans are gearing up to put the hurt on the Na'vi. That song gets my war boner going.
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Well gently caress. If it's a limited edition Crimson Fists model, I may have to get my rear end to a GW store for the event...
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Finished the first round of my GT, managed to table a semi-traditional Tau list on turn four. End of game:  There are five other Tau players here and literally every one is four to five Riptides plus something, including two with Stormsurges. I do not look forward to the next potential matchup. I'm tied with six other players for full points. Time to get slapped down.  Edit: got Riptides and a Stormsurge. Goddamnit. PierreTheMime fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Mar 19, 2016 |
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PierreTheMime posted:Finished the first round of my GT, managed to table a semi-traditional Tau list on turn four. Tau have such neat stuff that spamming riptides makes me sad.
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PierreTheMime posted:Finished the first round of my GT, managed to table a semi-traditional Tau list on turn four. For my return contribution of cool winged Tyranids fighting nerd/anime armies in the jungle, here's photos from a recent game. Game was 1500, Purge the Alien, Aspect Warrior Eldar themed list commanded by me versus my close-combat Nids themed list under control of my brother. Sorry if the tenses and conjugation/phrasing below are a bit odd, I pulled most of the text from our "live-posting" of the game in our friends' private Facebook Ham Slam group.  We scattered a buffalo chicken in each area terrain piece - when someone moves into it, the chicken detonates in a large blast. Nobody died from this during the game, but it did result in some careful maneuvering when entering terrain.  My brother loved actually playing the flying Tyrant for once instead of bearing the brunt of its shots, and he took out 4 Dark Reapers on the first turn.  I was able to get the charge off against the Warriors next turn with my almost-finished-being-painted Shining Spears. Thanks to the goons who donated/sold me bits for the wings!  After some lucky snap shots and lots of failed cover saves, the swooping Tyrant has one wound left.  Tyranids turn 2... monster deep strikes! Dimachaeron arrives in a Tyrannocyte.  And a Trygon arrives directly behind my useless Warlock.  Flying Tyrant tries to manifest a power and Perils himself to death giving me First Blood, Slay the Warlord, and a kill point.  My warlord (Warp Spider Exarch) got swallowed whole by the Red Terror!!  Enormous alien bug about to get his rear end whooped by the Avatar. The Avatar is a total beast this edition, he killed a ton without ever taking a single wound in return.  YMGARL BLAST FROM THE PAST! My brother and I allow each other to use units dropped from updated Codexes, since we often put a lot of work into converting them. I've also got a Doom of Malan'Tai and Parasite of Mortrex that see occasional play.  The Eldar chop another monster in half before it even gets to fight back (Scorpion Exarch with claw, Banshee Exarch with big choppy thing). Monsters having a rough day. At this point the score was 6:6.  I thought my Falcon was about to be punished for its hubris... but the Genestealers inflicted zero hull points. They did, however, murder the Shining Spears!  The game ended after this, Eldar favor, 11:7. This was my first-ever game using the new Eldar Codex, and my first ever game using Formations (the Aspect Warrior one, twice). As much as I love the new Aspect Warrior rules, the Codex is an improvement on an already-strong older book and the Formations add free improvements to units that already got improved. I foresee my Eldar winning a disproportionate number of games against my Catachan and Tyranids in the future.
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evilmiera posted:Have not played against proper Eldar in forever, and they never brought an Avatar, might be fun if someone decides to bring one in for a mstch, by the looks of it Just played a Wraithhost Eldar list after my drubbing from the Riptide game (didn't get killed just lost on mission). The opponent conceded on top of five with two units left. The bugs are back in business.
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Kilo147 posted:Anyone buying Orks? Got 40 sluggas(axe and pistol?) 8 Lootas, 4 big shootas, at least I think they are, 11 nobs, some of which are based on Black Orc bodies, a dok, a possibly broken warboss and a ton of random bits, broken poo poo, and god-knows-what dude was thinking. Also, what looks to be an attempt at bikers on boars. Five of those. I may. Would have to be fairly close to a dumpster fire price if its preprainted heavily chopped up.
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