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Beerdeer posted:I haven't had the chance to play yet, but every battle report I've watched just wind up with a huge pile of melee by turn 2 no matter what kind of armies are used. Is this a problem people have run into? Is melee the winner over shooting this round? Melee is better but there's a lot of options for escaping the melee scrum if you want to now. Combats are a lot more fluid and shooting armies have more option to release key opponents and focus fire them. Naramyth posted:Yeah it was something else. I killed 15 warriors and the deceiver turn one. Turn two they melted most of the wraiths. Just forcing an ocean of mortal wounds is pretty good. Doesn't surprise me. Despite everyone getting excited about them I don't think command points are really a big enough incentive not to use 6 HQs or whatever.
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dexefiend posted:Thanks to this post, I just ordered 60 Howling Griffons shoulder symbols, and decided to go for painting my Primaris just like Zuul.  Congratulations on your choice of the best chapter. Be sure to post progress pics!My inceptors are next up in the assembly line. What I really like best about the Primaris is how big they are. The emblems and armor really have a chance to shine now and don't feel so scrunty.
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Naramyth posted:Yeah it was something else. I killed 15 warriors and the deceiver turn one. Turn two they melted most of the wraiths. Just forcing an ocean of mortal wounds is pretty good. The psyker spam has been destroying my necrons. I have no idea what to do about it, playing against death guard and he has a bunch of characters I can't target just unloading and deleting units every turn. I can't kill the stuff in front of them off enough with the disgustingly resilient.
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It wouldn't be a GW release if something innocuous didn't turn out to be insanely bent on day 1.
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If anyone has been playing Tyranids, in your experience are adrenal gland hormagaunts jumping out of a tyrannocyte an effective use of points?
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Naramyth posted:Yeah it was something else. I killed 15 warriors and the deceiver turn one. Turn two they melted most of the wraiths. Just forcing an ocean of mortal wounds is pretty good. Feels like it's worth waiting at least like, a month before banning things and letting the meta actually shake out
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So I noticed that a venerable chaplain dreadnought and Bjorn both have less than 10 wounds and the character keyword. If you stick infantry in front of it the 10 foot tall dreadnought can't be shot at.
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Yorkshire Tea posted:If anyone has been playing Tyranids, in your experience are adrenal gland hormagaunts jumping out of a tyrannocyte an effective use of points? I haven't really had any trouble with hormas reaching combat starting on the board. Having them around helps ensure things like Primes and Broodlords make it across the table too. Personally I think pods are best used avoided for pure melee units and saved for heavy duty objective grabbers (Tervigons) or shooty alpha-strikes (devourer termies, shockcannon hive guard, zoans, pyrovores)
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Yorkshire Tea posted:If anyone has been playing Tyranids, in your experience are adrenal gland hormagaunts jumping out of a tyrannocyte an effective use of points? Trygon Prime tunnels are better, and they need the Synapse support.
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I'm putting together an Eldar army for 8th and I'm wondering, does anybody what would be the effect of GW's spray varnish on the transparant plastic windows used for Eldar vehicles? Is their spray varnish any good?
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Mukip posted:I'm putting together an Eldar army for 8th and I'm wondering, does anybody what would be the effect of GW's spray varnish on the transparant plastic windows used for Eldar vehicles? Is their spray varnish any good? I dunno about Eldar, but I know from building gunpla that you want to tape up transparent plastic sections before spraying anything.
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So I just bought the Deathwatch Chaplain and an extra Primaris Ancient to turn into a Primaris Chaplain. This'll be my first real time kitbashing. Here's hoping it goes well.
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Zuul the Cat posted:So I just bought the Deathwatch Chaplain and an extra Primaris Ancient to turn into a Primaris Chaplain. This'll be my first real time kitbashing. Here's hoping it goes well. Post pics of the result, I'm dying to see a Primaris Chaplain.
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Mukip posted:I'm putting together an Eldar army for 8th and I'm wondering, does anybody what would be the effect of GW's spray varnish on the transparant plastic windows used for Eldar vehicles? Is their spray varnish any good?
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How often does Stepping Away from combat actually happen? Just jamming a sacrificial unit up the middle to get butchered seems like a solid way to guarantee more shooting into an assault heavy army.
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Jun 22, 2017 17:16
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Mukip posted:I'm putting together an Eldar army for 8th and I'm wondering, does anybody what would be the effect of GW's spray varnish on the transparant plastic windows used for Eldar vehicles? Is their spray varnish any good? I used army painter matte on one of my eldar vehicles and it frosted the canopy. I'll see if I can get a pic E: 
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So I've been assembling and Space Wolfing my Primaris Marines and I have to say, I am impressed at how nice these kits are. They are so much better than the Dark Vengeance guys.
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Apparently I posted in the wrong thread so I'll try again here. So I played DE right back when they got new models, and I am very curious if what I own constitutes a reasonable army now. I assume that since my only HQs were Baron Sathonyx and a Haemonculus that I'll need something new there, but otherwise I have the following: 4x Raiders 3x Ravagers 3x Venoms 20 kabalite warriors 10 kabalite trueborn 10 wyches 20 hellions 6 jetbikes 10 scourges 1 Razorwing I'm gonna guess I have entirely too few troops but someone here can surely tell me.
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Hixson posted:I used army painter matte on one of my eldar vehicles and it frosted the canopy. I'll see if I can get a pic I always mask my canopies because I am always afraid of this happening even though I always prep my canopies. For those who don't know the scale modeling technique, dipping your clear parts in floor polish like Future or Klear, dabbing off the excess, and letting them dry for 24 hours helps protect the clear parts from frosting, as well as makes them really clear.
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Is it known when/if the Bigmarines are getting new kits? I laughed when I first saw the pics, rolled my eyes when I first saw the fluff, and sneered haughtily when I opened the box and first saw the sprues. Now less than a week later I've painted up a squad and character, and can't remember the last time I enjoyed hitting the brushes that much. Psyched to try them out this Sat. BeigeJacket fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Jun 22, 2017 |
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I won't use any of the Army Painter sprays at all anymore. I've used both the black primer and white, and both have come out fuzzy. I just don't trust their product.
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jadebullet posted:I always mask my canopies because I am always afraid of this happening even though I always prep my canopies. I'm wondering if gloss varnishing them after the fact would fix the frosting, same as when the varnish frosts on minis. BeigeJacket posted:Is it known when/if the Bigmarines are getting new kits? I guarantee they'll be getting new kits, when exactly that is we just don't know. Primaris and Death Guard are pretty much definitely the next two 40k releases though. Zuul the Cat posted:I won't use any of the Army Painter sprays at all anymore. I've used both the black primer and white, and both have come out fuzzy. I just don't trust their product. You need to use them exactly as it instructs you to on the can, and only in decent weather conditions. It sucks but their colors are great. You need to prime them beforehand though; their paints chip like crazy if you don't, even with varnish.
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SRM posted:I'm wondering if gloss varnishing them after the fact would fix the frosting, same as when the varnish frosts on minis. You can't make a canopy re-translucent by adding more layers on top of it. Once the light is blocked it's blocked. Trust me, I've hosed up a couple of gunpla kits by doing this. chutche2 fucked around with this message at 18:10 on Jun 22, 2017 |
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Beerdeer posted:I haven't had the chance to play yet, but every battle report I've watched just wind up with a huge pile of melee by turn 2 no matter what kind of armies are used. Is this a problem people have run into? Is melee the winner over shooting this round? I've had three games and that isn't my experience so far. Then again I'm playing Tau.
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I think I'm finally back into the painting groove. It's unbelievably liberating to just paint whatever model I want, whatever loadout I want, instead of what I need for my lists, I should have done this years ago instead of looking at kits and thinking "well, it looks awesome but it's dogshit on the table, no sale."
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Sykic posted:I think I'm finally back into the painting groove. Uh, yeah, i'd definitely say you're back in the groove. That thing is gorgeous!
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I absolutely adore the highlighting on that purple.
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theironjef posted:Apparently I posted in the wrong thread so I'll try again here. More wizard van Dark Eldar, please. 
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SRM posted:You need to use them exactly as it instructs you to on the can, and only in decent weather conditions. It sucks but their colors are great. You need to prime them beforehand though; their paints chip like crazy if you don't, even with varnish. In my experience, their sprays chip like crazy (and just plain rub off while holding the model,) go on too thick (Wolf Grey,) are too smooth to allow you to paint over them (Desert Yellow,) and I had a can spontaneously explode for no discernible reason (Desert Yellow.) Thank God it was in a box with my other AP sprays, or it could have been tragic in a number of ways. I spent a lot of money on those sprays (and more that I just didn't bother using) and won't be doing so again, no matter how convenient it's supposed to be. After stripping 100+ Steel Legion, I sprayed them with AP just to find out that my subsequent paint layers wouldn't adhere to the base layer - I had to strip them all again. 
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Sykic posted:I think I'm finally back into the painting groove. Normally I don't like the way green and purple look together, but when you're this judicious with the green it looks really good.
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theironjef posted:Apparently I posted in the wrong thread so I'll try again here. Even without HQ or Upgrades this is totally at the size of a full army. So just grab an Archon or whatever and get to raiding!  +++ Spooky Boyz (Warhammer 40,000 8th Edition) [112 PL, 2000pts] +++ ++ Battalion Detachment +3CP (Aeldari - Drukhari) [112 PL, 2000pts] ++ + Troops + Kabalite Warriors [5 PL, 70pts] . . 9x Kabalite Warrior . . Sybarite: Splinter Rifle Kabalite Warriors [5 PL, 70pts] . . 9x Kabalite Warrior . . Sybarite: Splinter Rifle Wyches [6 PL, 90pts] . . Hekatrix: Hekatarii blade, Splinter pistol . . 9x Wych + Elites + Kabalite Trueborn [8 PL, 110pts] . . Dracon: Splinter Rifle . . 9x Kabalite Trueborn + Fast Attack + Reavers [10 PL, 180pts]: Arena Champion, 5x Reaver Scourges [10 PL, 140pts] . . 9x Scourge . . Solarite: Shardcarbine + Heavy Support + Ravager [8 PL, 155pts]: Dark Lance, Dark Lance, Dark Lance Ravager [8 PL, 155pts]: Dark Lance, Dark Lance, Dark Lance Ravager [8 PL, 155pts]: Dark Lance, Dark Lance, Dark Lance + Flyer + Razorwing Jetfighter [8 PL, 175pts]: 2 Disintegrator Cannons, Twin splinter rifle + Dedicated Transport + Raider [6 PL, 115pts]: Dark Lance Raider [6 PL, 115pts]: Dark Lance Raider [6 PL, 115pts]: Dark Lance Raider [6 PL, 115pts]: Dark Lance Venom [4 PL, 80pts]: Splinter Cannon, Twin splinter rifle Venom [4 PL, 80pts]: Splinter Cannon, Twin splinter rifle Venom [4 PL, 80pts]: Splinter Cannon, Twin splinter rifle Created with BattleScribe
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Sykic posted:I think I'm finally back into the painting groove. As someone who is also painting up a purple BA successor, 
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Something fishy is up with gw webstore. Windriders have been moved from fast attack to troops. I am not terribly familiar with eldar. But I am trying to put together an army off of the get started box for my son, and realized based on battlescribe that I need a troop. And the troop choices in bscribe are not matched up to the gw store. What troop should I get to make the eldar start collecting box playable as a patrol?
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Kilazar posted:Something fishy is up with gw webstore. Windriders have been moved from fast attack to troops. I am not terribly familiar with eldar. But I am trying to put together an army off of the get started box for my son, and realized based on battlescribe that I need a troop. And the troop choices in bscribe are not matched up to the gw store. Pretty much Guardians at this point.
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TKIY posted:Pretty much Guardians at this point. So windriders are not troops? Cause he would love an all jetbike army. Was hoping bscribe got it wrong What is the difference between Guardians and Black Guardians? Bscribe does not have either of those. It has guardian defenders, and storm guardians Kilazar fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Jun 22, 2017 |
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I cant decide what sort of retinue to run with Coteaz? Psykers, close combat, plasma guns?
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Kilazar posted:So windriders are not troops? Cause he would love an all jetbike army. Was hoping bscribe got it wrong Do you have Index Xenos 1 or not? This is all explained in there.
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TKIY posted:Do you have Index Xenos 1 or not? This is all explained in there. Not yet. Was just going to bscribe for the build until the real codex came out. Worked fine for Tau. Just the eldar that are not matching up to webstore vs bscribe.
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