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Kilazar posted:I did notice that with my phone cam and the same light I got better pictures heh. Probably because your camera is more geared toward manual lighting adjustments, and not automatic, like most phone cameras.
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DA vs Orks has always been a good matchup for my DA, since the overwatch on BS2 is so helpful and I already have so much twin linked and mobile shooting with my bikes. The Deathwing Knights are pretty much tailor made for killing swathes of lovely Ork boyz.Star Man posted:God, that use of value in the new seventh edition makes me bleed out of my eyes. I want to hit the art director in the head. I hate the new color plates in the books. They're just outlines and gradients filled in in Illustrator with no care put into a series of identical images. The Space Marines codex is full of them and it's a real bummer after how cool the lineart and color plates were in older books and Index Astartes articles.
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Scowny posted:I can just about do 1250 points of Alpha Legion for 30k, and the Catastrophic table is the best part of ZM by far. I've got the PDF rules printed for them, if anyone needs them for reference. Those are around the same times as my trains, see you there!
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So should I assemble the Skitarii in the start collecting box as Rangers or Vanguard? Which will I get more use out of long-term? (Also gently caress sake, GW, I thought you were getting better about including weapon options. One of each special weapon in a squad that can take THREE.)
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Rangers imo, though either are good. I prefer Rangers as their Galvanic Rifles are sweet, in the running for the best regular gun in the game tbh.
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SRM posted:DA vs Orks has always been a good matchup for my DA, since the overwatch on BS2 is so helpful and I already have so much twin linked and mobile shooting with my bikes. The Deathwing Knights are pretty much If I had brought a lot of bikes and bolters I could have easily won, but I asked him to play orks and so I could play my weaker units in my army. The Knights lost to a group of three mega nobs. I thought they would be able to smite and insta kill them pretty easy... I got unlucky and only killed one, he was then able to bring in a bunch of Ard Boys and just overwhelm them with hits. The Land Raider did ok, not sure it did 250 points of work though. Lucky stick seems insanely good, like he got to reroll his armor save (+2 rerollable) attacks and hits... his warlord never missed a hit or wound. Also it gives the unit +1 ws. I know orks suck so I am not saying it's game breaking or anything like that but I hope they buff that codex and nerf that to not be insane.
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Some BOLS rumors regarding 8th ed:quote:Another Rumormonger is back with more info on the “General’s Handbook” for Warhammer 40,000 8th Edition. berzerkmonkey fucked around with this message at 20:34 on Dec 2, 2016 |
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Lucky stick basically means never use non Ap 2 against a warboss in MegaArmor, a shining jewel in the turd Ork Codex.
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berzerkmonkey posted:Some BOLS rumors regarding 8th ed: This seems...good? Like, retaining depth while speeding up gameplay seems both perfect and kinda unachievable. Surely depth and speed are mutually exclusive.
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Whoever said Dreadnaught Guilliman has my vote, but honestly I don't think the loyalists are coming back. Still unsure if I want them to. I'm one of the few people that really doesn't want the prime narrative undergo drastic changes, but maybe I'm scared they will gently caress it up.
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berzerkmonkey posted:Some BOLS rumors regarding 8th ed: This sounds good but we'll see how they pull it off. Gyro Zeppeli posted:This seems...good? Like, retaining depth while speeding up gameplay seems both perfect and kinda unachievable. Surely depth and speed are mutually exclusive. They're not remotely mutually exclusive, but they are generally opposed. But really clever game design allows you to have your cake and eat it too. We've had many many discussions in this thread about ways to speed up the game without significantly simplifying the strategy.
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Zaphod42 posted:This sounds good but we'll see how they pull it off. That's partly because "strategy" in 40k isn't very deep to begin with. Most meaningful decisions are made in army selection and list building, while in-game the bulk of your meaningful choices typically amount to "which unit should I shoot at/with first?" or "should I attempt to destroy this unit at all?" Units rarely have real synergy with each other outside of formation bonuses, which are determined during list selection.
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Uroboros posted:Whoever said Dreadnaught Guilliman has my vote, but honestly I don't think the loyalists are coming back. Still unsure if I want them to. I'm one of the few people that really doesn't want the prime narrative undergo drastic changes, but maybe I'm scared they will gently caress it up. I'd like them to tick over to 41k, everything is even more poo poo (TM), preferably whilst remembering that 40k is supposed to be a parody/satire, without just nuking the setting. To that end, it would make sense to get one or a few loyalist primarchs back to counter the now-appearing daemon primarchs. Hell, bringing back just the Lion who's supposed to be a strategic mastermind to help organise the various military arms of the Imperium to be less of a clusterfuck would help loads. And unlike all the other loyalist primarchs he isn't dead/meat popsicle/lost in the warp/webway. He's just snoozing away because the Watchers in the Dark turned off his alarm clock.
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only two of the loyalist primarchs are explicitly dead; khan, russ, corax, and less likely vulkan all have pretty convenient 'the warp did it' ways to re-appear.
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berzerkmonkey posted:Some BOLS rumors regarding 8th ed: This is in line with things I've heard so far, and I think it'll be a good thing if it pans out. I doubt we'll see WHFB to AOS levels of invalidation, I think the various ranges of 40k have been healthier in their support, save for Sisters. The Time of Ending isn't gonna go as far as The End Times though, thankfully.
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SRM posted:This is in line with things I've heard so far, and I think it'll be a good thing if it pans out. I doubt we'll see WHFB to AOS levels of invalidation, I think the various ranges of 40k have been healthier in their support, save for Sisters. The Time of Ending isn't gonna go as far as The End Times though, thankfully. I don't think so either - the CEO seems to have a somewhat decent head on his shoulders, and doesn't appear to be a "burn all the bridges" type.
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What I like most of those rumors is condensing basic rules and point costs into one simple book, so as to cut down on what feels like hindreds of dollars worth of codexes and supplements to thumb through when building even a slightly unique army. Of course, an even better idea would be to just make a paid app that they can update to overwrite and edit rules, provide a way to insert purchased supplements into your app codex, and provide easy stat searching, but baby steps.
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A 50S RAYGUN posted:only two of the loyalist primarchs are explicitly dead; khan, russ, corax, and less likely vulkan all have pretty convenient 'the warp did it' ways to re-appear. The only dead ones are Iron Man and Blood Lad, yeah? Did everyone else just piss off into the warp to hunt bad guys?
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That list sounds more like an educated guess than someone who actually has an idea of what's going on. I'd expect it to end up something like how that's described, but I expected lots of things to go differently in 2016.
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OMG sriracha pudding! posted:The only dead ones are Iron Man and Blood Lad, yeah? Did everyone else just piss off into the warp to hunt bad guys? Lion's in the Rock put in stasis by the Watchers after fighting Luther. Russ is in the Warp wolfing it up with his wolves Dorn disappeared in a boarding action against a Chaos vessel, his fist was recovered Gulliman was wounded by someone calling themselves Alpharius, is in stasis on display in Macragge Khan drove his bike into the Webway following some Dark Eldar Vulkan's in a box waiting for the Salamanders to find the last 3 artifacts Corax flew into the Eye of Terror after saying "Nevermore." MasterSlowPoke fucked around with this message at 21:52 on Dec 2, 2016 |
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Watch the Blood Angels create a new psychic gestalt entity called the Sanguinor Perfect who looks like a Magnus-sized angel with golden nipples.
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OMG sriracha pudding! posted:The only dead ones are Iron Man and Blood Lad, yeah? Did everyone else just piss off into the warp to hunt bad guys? Correct. The rest all faffed off into the warp in anger, disappeared in battle, and like two or three in Odinsleep. mango sentinel fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Dec 2, 2016 |
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Hey, me and the guys at my local game store were discussing how dead Ferrus Manus is. He got his head cut off but i feel like some guys survived worse.
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Mango Polo posted:It's BOLS and no one is laughing? Hence the "rumors" statement. Also, it's not out of the realm of possibility that GW streamlines their two major game systems to reflect each other in an effort to encourage gamers to cross over to the other system. It can only help their bottom line.
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Hihohe posted:Hey, me and the guys at my local game store were discussing how dead Ferrus Manus is. Servitorus Manus head piloting an imperial knight.
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MasterSlowPoke posted:
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With how cheeky GW is nowadays, I really want to see a 40k Abbadon with an upgrade that makes his arms separate units.
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Mango Polo posted:Watch the Blood Angels create a new psychic gestalt entity called the Sanguinor Perfect who looks like a Magnus-sized angel with golden nipples. I definitely expect some sort of Ascended Sanguinor model to come out. Probably not Magnus sized, but more like a Contemptorish.
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Zark the Damned posted:Those are around the same times as my trains, see you there! I'm a bit earlier with my buddy so we'll go independently. Packed all my man's, decided not to bring demons as it was too much of a faff with packing. Pumped as fuuuuuck
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Neurolimal posted:With how cheeky GW is nowadays, I really want to see a 40k Abbadon with an upgrade that makes his arms separate units. Where does this meme come from? I don't remember it except after the Abaddon vs. Kharne book. Did he rip off Abby's arms? That's metal as gently caress 
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Isnt it just that Abbadons model had really heavy and fiddly arms that made playing him without arms a common occurrence?
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The metal Abbadon's arms fit on terribly, they won't stay in place if you don't aggressively pin them or get super lucky with the super glue. They rank up there with the old LotR Cave Troll for "Why Metal Models are Bad and Should be Abandoned".
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Yeah, they were joined to his body with like, two discs inside his shoulders, except the holes those discs sat inside of were ALWAYS slightly too large, so you had to PACK them with green stuff if you wanted his arms to stay upright/attached.
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Goons please help me be less indecisive. Before I go off and throw down my money at the wolf alter of wolf wolves I'm weighing my options for an allied faction for my Current options(And my bad opinions) are: Blood Angels: I can get my hands on some old RT-era stuff and supplement as needed. I don't know much about how they play aside from bein' good at a fist fight? Grey Knights: Confession time, this is probably my favorite force in 40k if for no reason other than the aesthetic and being able to roll a fuckton of wizard dice. I have some of these guys already, a terminator/paladin squad and two squads of purifiers. Wizard tax makes them pretty "eh". Space Wolves: Wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf. I don't have any of these guys but with the upcoming premium box I figure it's not a bad idea to look into them. I think they're good at being right proper assholes in melee? Space Marines: Extremely versatile I guess? I'm not a fan of the generic spacemen and I honestly don't know why. Dork Angles: Bikes. Fuckin'. Everywhere. Deathwatch: I've got the Death Masque force. Only played one game with them but these guys seem like assholes, but their cost is pretty absurd. Ad Mech: Haven't really looked into these guys much. The Skitarii are pretty cool but we've got a lot of them in the local scene so I'm trying to keep my special snowflake away from them. And also knights I guess.
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Bombogenesis posted:Grey Knights: Confession time, this is probably my favorite force in 40k if for no reason other than the aesthetic and being able to roll a fuckton of wizard dice. I have some of these guys already, a terminator/paladin squad and two squads of purifiers. Wizard tax makes them pretty "eh". Go go go.
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Traitor Legions Book up for preorder on british GW site: https://www.games-workshop.com/en-NZ/Codex-Supplement-Traitor-Legions-Softback-ENG Of note: Games Workshop posted:Codex Supplement: Traitor Legions is a 136-page, full-colour softback supplement to Codex: Chaos Space Marines. It contains a wealth of additional content and rules that any Chaos Space Marines army can use, with a huge array of rules for all nine of the Traitor Legions. Of these, the new formations I can spot are the Kakophoni (Noise Marines) and the Plague Colony (Plague Marines), with reprints of the Black Legion supplement formations, the Wrath of Magnus formations, and the Traitor's Hate formations, though they may also make adjustments to the BL supplement formations if this book invalidates that one. One of the things I am most excited about is finally getting a custom Detachment for the Black Legion, which the previous supplement reprint was sorely missing. The biggest win here is 9 distinct detachments and custom wargear for each legion, plus updated Slaanesh and Nurgle powers. If it's anything like the Angels of Death supplement, it'll re-use existing formations in multiple Detachments to create custom lists for different legions.
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Proletariat Beowulf posted:Where does this meme come from? I don't remember it except after the Abaddon vs. Kharne book. Did he rip off Abby's arms? That's metal as gently caress acc. to the /tg/ wiki it comes from an artist forgetting to draw his arms, and his model being so poorly weighted that the arms would fall off all the time.
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Neurolimal posted:Servitorus Manus head piloting an imperial knight. It's possible, his head was removed and his body torn to shreds but his head was recovered and is currently held by the mechanicum on Mars. His hand was also necrontyr metal that was made into knives by the Word Bearers. There could always be a storybeat about recovering the weapons and uploading some ghost of his personality into a dreadnaught.
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@Proletariat Beowulf Still heading to ghq tomorrow? I got the ok from the wife to leave her with the kids. So to maximize my time, I will be there when they open. Also, do you have pm's?
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