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Floppychop posted:Stormboys are a neat kit, but obscenely expensive, even by GW standards. $25 for 5 models that you field in units of 30 is too rich for my blood. I wonder if they would rebox if they got some pressure. They reboxed several Sigmarine kits at a lower price point per model earlier this year.
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If they released a budget line of mono-pose kits at a significantly lower price point they'd make a lot of poorer players happy and it'd greatly lower the barrier of entry to a hobby that is generally more expensive than cocaine
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Jul 3, 2017 19:07
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Yeah, between this and the Shield Drone / Savior Protocol change. I get the feeling a lot of this was snap judgment "makes sense" decisions. They wanted to make things more fair or consistent without considering long term impacts.
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Jul 3, 2017 19:10
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goose willis posted:If they released a budget line of mono-pose kits at a significantly lower price point they'd make a lot of poorer players happy and it'd greatly lower the barrier of entry to a hobby that is generally more expensive than cocaine Didn't they used to do this? I remember back in 4th ed bulking up my guard collection by buying these boxes of 5 monopose cadians for like $6-8, back when infantry boxes were 20 models for $35.
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Jul 3, 2017 19:12
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Yeah but that's saving you like a few dollars at most and the prices for horde armies are still loving ridiculous Technically speaking they already have a "budget line" in the form of the Dark Vengeance and Dark Imperium boxes that both give you two complete starter armies per box but it'd be cool if they could do that for non-marine/Chaos armies
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Jul 3, 2017 19:14
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And on today's edition of It Came From eBay
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goose willis posted:And on today's edition of It Came From eBay This is what I think of every time I see a picture like this.  Please tell me it's listed as "pro painted" Also is that cat litter on the base chutche2 fucked around with this message at 19:33 on Jul 3, 2017 |
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Jul 3, 2017 19:30
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goose willis posted:Yeah but that's saving you like a few dollars at most and the prices for horde armies are still loving ridiculous I think it'd be cool if they made multiple mix-and-match starter bundles. Like, you get the Dark Imperium Marines vs. Chaos set, or the Endless War Ork vs. Tyranid set, or the Greater Good Tau vs. Imperium set. Each costs the same price, and you can buy it either bundled together in one box or in halves to mix and match. A bigger, less complex Start Collecting box, in essence, more for players than hobbyists. Heck, take the Dark Imperium box design and make it similarly matching half-boxes. A grim-faced Commissar next to a stern Ethereal. A roaring Carnifex paired with an Ork in mid-Waaagh!
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adamantium|wang posted:Because we all play in a competitive tournament environment and after 25 years we are sick and tired of GW games being the only games where having to pick and choose which of the poorly written basic loving game rules we're going to ignore is a touted feature and just play the game as it stands, warts and all. I do see your point and I agree that warts'n'all is the more sensible way to play the game, given the number of weird interactions. But I'm very aware that to the guys who write GW lovely rules, this is only meant to apply when you the player don't physically have any more models to finish off the unit. So that little Timmy can use his 5-man terminator squad even though one of them got lost, crushed or eaten by the dog. Not so competitive players can leverage a separate detachment of 5 models to feed their main force Command Points. That's what I meant by obtuse.
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Jul 3, 2017 20:11
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Cross-posting my latest squad. Zuul the Cat posted:Finished up my first squad of Intercessors. Did a quick n' dirty drybrush on these guys. Just wanted to get them up to table top standard.
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chutche2 posted:So my friend that runs all the dreadnoughts had them all in one place the other day. Looks like he has 1 relic contemptor, 8 other contemptors (most plastic, some were contemptor mortis) 6 venerables, 2 standard,, 2 ironclads, and a leviathan. That 4++ Aura is something else.
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Jul 3, 2017 20:22
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goose willis posted:And on today's edition of It Came From eBay Speaking of eBay, it is now the only place (beyond stocked local shops and other re-seller sites of course) to get Vespids, Kroot, Kroot Hounds and Shapers. Heck even regular drones are sold out on the main page. They will obviously restock in the future but dang, the new rules really favor them something fierce. Not that Vespids were super easy to get a hold of anyway before. Most shops didn't tend to stock them because they sucked. Now they can't stock them because they hadn't had many to go around in the first place. I had tried collecting some because I liked the model and could only ever get a hold of metal ones. There goes any chance of them lowering the price.
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The tournament list I settled on this weekend was some ultramarine nerds in Razorbacks and their pet Warhound Titan. Went 1-1-1 - 35 wounds is not as many as you think, but goddamn that Flamer kills /everything/.
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glitchkrieg posted:One of the people at my club has made a Kickstarter that could be useful for 8E - Woundwang* I'd have backed this if it wasn't just a huge dick joke.
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optimuspyro posted:Oh god no. 70 bucks for those two is a hard pass. I was actually looking through the FAQ for an errata to that before I realized what I was doing.
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TKIY posted:I'd have backed this if it wasn't just a huge dick joke. Same.
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How reliable are the rumors posted on Faeit212? They posted something today about some new Primaris stuff that's been seen: Faeit212 posted:- Primaris Apothecary I really hope they don't string out the Primaris releases over the course of 2 or 3 months. That's kinda irritating.
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Jul 3, 2017 22:42
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My wallet is willing and able. Please sell me Primaris marines. Zuul, my 100+ shoulder markings show up Wednesday! Howling Griffons brosephs!
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The bigass ones with shoulder missiles were mentioned in a book, just like Reivers. Apparently they also get prometheum gauntlets, and are called Aggressors. Will they look amazing or ridiculous? Place your bets! The Bee fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Jul 3, 2017 |
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Jul 3, 2017 22:54
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Zuul the Cat posted:How reliable are the rumors posted on Faeit212? They seem to be correct around half the time these days. All of that looks to be broadly in line with what we already know so it's probably "correct," even though they aren't precisely what I would call bold claims.
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Zuul the Cat posted:How reliable are the rumors posted on Faeit212? Generally rumours on Faeit are either copied & pasted from an earlier post elsewhere and could sometimes possibly be true, or gets submitted anonymously and is total bullshit. In this case they're repeating something posted on Dakka earlier today.
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dexefiend posted:My wallet is willing and able. Please sell me Primaris marines. gently caress yeah! Did you get yours from Pop! Goes the Monkey? Really decent quality, and they fit really well. I'm also ready and willing to give GW for my Primaris stuff. Specifically those Reivers and the Repulsor.
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Zuul the Cat posted:How reliable are the rumors posted on Faeit212? Primaris apothecary is in the transfer sheets, aggressors are in the book and bolter reivers are in artwork already so seems likely that the other stuffs correct. Really hope aggressors look good.
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The Bee posted:The bigass ones with shoulder missiles were mentioned in a book, just like Reivers. Apparently they also get prometheum gauntlets, and are called Aggressors. Placing a bet on knee-jerk disdain that I will gradually come to love like every other primaris unit.
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How do the bolter Reivers look so far? Are we talking shotgun-style weaponry, or stalker bolters? Some snipers for assassinating characters could really round out the Primaris' current setup, especially with more heavy weapon squads and proper transports coming. Also crossing my fingers for a drop pod, since Primaris not getting something so iconic is silly.
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The Bee posted:The bigass ones with shoulder missiles were mentioned in a book, just like Reivers. Apparently they also get prometheum gauntlets, and are called Aggressors. Betting on amazingly ridiculous.
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Felime posted:
Your custodes look sharp. How are you painting the white armor? Looks cool! Anyone else get a good white armor formula?
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Skails posted:Your custodes look sharp. How are you painting the white armor? Looks cool! Anyone else get a good white armor formula? Generic version: Bone washed with agrax earthshade, then everything but the recesses redone with bone. Specific: Golden High Flow Acrylic 'Titan Buff' airbrushed(for convenience mostly) on over white primer, then washed with agrax earthshade. Then retouched with Golden Fluid Acrylic Titan Buff. The high flow acrylics are a wee bit too runny to use with a brush unless you're just doing an undercoat as they get a bit hard to control. You'd have to experiment a little with other bone colors, but it should work fine. Titan Buff is just a nice warm cream color I like for this. (Plus I work across the street from an art store most days, so I can get artist paints quicker than model paints, and I love the golden high flow ones for airbrushing.
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Got another game in with The Sex Cannon. Even Yarrick cannot withstand the might of the Ork onslaught. 
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Skails posted:Anyone else get a good white armor formula? Ulthuan Grey base coat, Agrax in the recesses, then white highlights.
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Master Twig posted:Well, with the new point values, I have constructed the list I will bring to a 2000 point tournament on Saturday. Someone may have mentioned it but it seems like you're mixing gsc and tyranids in the same detachment, which means the GSC lose ambush. Unless I'm reading wrong
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More of the herd completed, another 20 to go, plus all the special weapons ones as well.  I'm sure everyone's tired of seeing it, but I rebased the Ghorgon to match the bases of the rest of the army.   If you are wondering what's going on with the knight on the base- I got a little carried away and put in one of my halloween LED candles. First, I cut through all of the vents, then I cut a hole in the bottom. Tossed in a band of plasticard, one half painted black (facing the outside) to keep the light from escaping where I didn't want it, and also painted the surrounding parts of the inside with chrome to reflect more. The plasticard conveniently does double-duty by providing tension that holds the 'candle' in place. For the interior, I just cut up some old industrial bases to make walls. Here it is in video-gif format: https://gfycat.com/CreamyPlumpAzurewingedmagpie
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Zuul the Cat posted:gently caress yeah! Did you get yours from Pop! Goes the Monkey? Really decent quality, and they fit really well. Yeah, i have 180 Howling Griffon shoulder insignias, and then like 60 of each of the organizational ones. Thanks for letting me know about them.
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OhDearGodNo posted:More badass conversion pics As far as I'm concerned you can keep posting more pictures of that thing as much as you want. It's easily one of the most impressive conversions I've seen
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Pendent posted:As far as I'm concerned you can keep posting more pictures of that thing as much as you want. It's easily one of the most impressive conversions I've seen Thanks! I've want[d a beastmen army since around 3rd, but could never afford to do the conversions (plus almost everything was metal) so I'm making up for it. I'm just hoping to be done in time for the Narrative at NOVA. I'm struggling how to give Doombull a gun currently.
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Lots of rumors floating around at the moment, including of a dedicated Tau CC unit. But it might be best to take them all with a massive grain of salt. Personally hoping for new Ork units (not to play them myself, but just to see them and the people having fun with them when playing). Edit: Hah, turns out those rumors might just be rehashes of old rumors from LAST edition's release.
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I'm sort of interested in getting into this, and am looking at adeptus mechanicus, but I'm struggling to find a decent gallery anywhere that's just like, all the different units / models you can buy for admech? I think I only really like the look of skitarii and tech priests, but is it possible to use models from other armies that are still imperium? How can I see all the options for building an army with, the gw site is poo poo and I hate it.
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!Klams posted:I'm sort of interested in getting into this, and am looking at adeptus mechanicus, but I'm struggling to find a decent gallery anywhere that's just like, all the different units / models you can buy for admech? I think I only really like the look of skitarii and tech priests, but is it possible to use models from other armies that are still imperium? How can I see all the options for building an army with, the gw site is poo poo and I hate it. I think as I recall as long as a unit has the keyword "Imperium" you can field it together with other Imperium units without much hassle. So you'd be able to field stuff like Astra Militarum or marines or mechanicus without much fuss. You could probably set up an army in battlescribe (but sometimes that isn't great with figuring out if you can take a unit or not). There is probably a list someplace that lets you figure out just what sort of units you could want to take that doesn't go into the sort of details you might see in a proper , paid for rulebook.
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Trip report: Dettol works fantastic for stripping paint, left some models in a tub of it overnight and all the paint was gone and the details are still there Next time I'll try Simple Green but I'll have to order it on Amazon because none of the stores near me have it
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OhDearGodNo posted:I'm struggling how to give Doombull a gun currently. Do it classic 40k minotaur style and just strap it to the horns!
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