panascope posted:

You can read Black Legion on iBooks right now. I didn't care for it personally.

richyp posted:

I'm a recent returnee. Can we get the old thread gang back together

serious gaylord posted:

The sad fact is painting just doesnt excite me anymore.

Pendent posted:

Whole lot of wrong opinions about Blood Angels in here. One of the core ideas of their fluff is that they are a chapter of artisans, many of whom work to make their armor and weapons particularly ornate and beautiful in an effort to control the Red Thirst. If you aren't ok with detailed miniatures then they are not the right chapter for you to play and there's really not any getting around that fact.

!Klams posted:

So, my Warmachine buddy convinced me to give 40k a go. I have a skitarii army, and today we played. I think Warmachine is the better game, and was skeptical I'd enjoy it, but, I found that the randomness, rather than feeling like it took out skill, more somehow made it exciting and thrilling! The battles felt like a story, punctuated with exciting moments! He wiped out all but three of my vanguard turn one!!! I got a critical headshot and murdered his sorcerer!!! Bellessrius Cawl kept an Onager in rude health all game, then charged in and made 16 attacks in one combat!!! In a second game against primaris, my NEUTRON LASER blew up his GIANT invincible dreadnaught, who's nuclear cores erupted in a fiery cataclysm and took out half his army!!!! I got to keep saying "canticles of the Omnissiah"!!! It was all just really loving COOL. Game rules.

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

I found that the IG grenade launcher works really well as an auxiliary launcher for Primaris Marines. Since it's free and Sergeants can get power swords my planned go-to Intercessor squad will be 104 points with the Sergeant carrying both the sword and launcher.

WhiteWolf123 posted:

They cost 1 point, as of the current FAQ.

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

Where is the current FAQ?

raverrn posted:

I've never seen this FAQ people keep talking up.

Killer_Bees! posted:

MasterSlowPoke posted:

Bigmar Cypher looks awesome, duder. I might recommend giving him a different backpack so he's not quite read as Cypher, but good swords are surprisingly hard to find.

Proletariat Beowulf posted:

JFC I can't unsee the smoke and cloth flailing/trailing in opposite directions now

goose willis posted:

So are there gonna be rules on Xenos allying with each other or what

goose willis posted:

So are there gonna be rules on Xenos allying with each other or what

goose willis posted:

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TTerrible posted:

Who ruined your avatar Goose Willis.

Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:

"ruined"

Mr. Funktastic posted:

Just had my first match today with the following list at 1250 against Dark Angels:

++ Spearhead Detachment +1CP (Imperium - Adeptus Mechanicus) [59 PL, 1247pts] ++

+ HQ +

Belisarius Cawl [13 PL, 250pts]

+ Troops +

Skitarii Rangers [4 PL, 107pts]: Omnispex
. 2x Ranger (Transuranic Arquebus): 2x Transuranic arquebus
. Ranger Alpha: Galvanic rifle
. 2x Skitarii Ranger

+ Elites +

Cybernetica Datasmith [3 PL, 52pts]: Gamma pistol, Power fist

Fulgurite Electro-Priests [8 PL, 160pts]: 10x Fulgurite Electro-Priest

+ Fast Attack +

Ironstrider Ballistarii [4 PL, 95pts]
. Ironstrider Ballistarius: Twin Cognis Lascannon

Sydonian Dragoons [3 PL, 74pts]
. Sydonian Dragoon: Phosphor Serpenta, Taser lance

+ Heavy Support +

Kastelan Robots [12 PL, 220pts]
. Kastelan Robot: Heavy Phosphor blaster
. . Heavy phosphor blasters: 2x Heavy Phosphor blaster
. Kastelan Robot: Heavy Phosphor blaster
. . Heavy phosphor blasters: 2x Heavy Phosphor blaster

Onager Dunecrawler [6 PL, 138pts]: Cognis heavy stubber, Icarus Array, Smoke Launchers

Onager Dunecrawler [6 PL, 151pts]: Broad Spectrum Data-tether, Cognis heavy stubber
. Neutron laser & cognis heavy Stubber: Cognis heavy stubber, Neutron Laser

++ Total: [59 PL, 1247pts] ++

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I lost but it was a close game, we played The Scouring, score ended 7-3 mostly because the Superior Objective point worth 4 VP was deep in his side and he camped on it the whole game. My Dunecrawlers, Kastelan Robots, and Rangers were my surviving units while I wiped his army out down to Azrael and a wounded Tactical squad. I made a few rookie mistakes, namely with not being objective conscious enough and moving some of my units as smartly as I could have, Cawl ended up paying the price for it in Turn 6 to give my opponent Slay the Warlord.

Cawl was a star otherwise and got First Blood on my opponent's Nephilim Jetfighter with the help of a Datasmith's Gamma Pistol, which is surprisingly deadly.

The electro-priests were definitely a threat on their own but through my own fault I didn't maneuver them well enough to engage the right units in the fight phase and they ended up dying before they got their 3++, otherwise they would've been monsters for my opponent to deal with if I had played it the right way and would've very likely made it all the way to their backline to raise hell with my opponent's Twin Autocannon dreadnought and Azrael.

The Rangers didn't really do much unfortunately and only managed to take off 1 wound off Azrael, but I probably should've just moved them to to an objective since plinking at Azrael wasn't working out as well as I'd hoped.

Dunecrawlers and Kastelans did very well, Neutron Laser could've been better but my rolls weren't super great with it to be fair. Icarus Array ended up taking out my opponent's second Nephilim Jetfighter so that was cool.

The Ironstrider and Dragoon died early and probably would've been more survivable if I had brought 2 Dragoons in a squadron, but I couldn't fit the second one in with only 1250 points. It only really highlighted how necessary they are to screen and secure objectives with the lack of mobility Ad Mech has.

If I had rolled a 4+ to continue the game to a Turn 7 I probably could've won, but alas. Overall it was a fun list to play, next time I'll probably play a little more aggressively and push up earlier to keep the pressure on. I'll definitely be tweaking it though, will likely add some Militarum Tempestus units to help mitigate Ad Mech's limited mobility.

goose willis posted:

They took my face from me

Zuul the Cat posted:

I like running my Kastelans with fists so I can run the Electro-Priests behind them. They soak up fire so the priests can get into range.

Sorry about your rangers. That's how mine are every game and why I dislike them.

goose willis posted:

So are there gonna be rules on Xenos allying with each other or what

StuG Jeebus posted:

I thought they already could as long as they were in separate detachments.

chutche2 posted:

Not sure how that works. I'd think people would just shoot the anti-infantry guns at the priests and the anti-tank guns at kastelans. I guess people just find them that distracting? I've never fought anyone that tried that, just a guy that sends tons of kastellans, onagers, and destroyers.

Thundercloud posted:

I took almost exactly this army on Tuesday (drop one lieutenant, add one intercessor squad, give one squad of skull boys bull pup bolters).

Beat Dark Eldar, with my skull boys killing a close combat Archon. DE infantry, even Wyches, got pummelled by biglys, though the Succubus plus wyches did kill one of my 5 man squads. Basically his army were in Raiders and Venoms, and while he was in combat on turn 2 and my plasma biglys got all his anti tank fire, his combat troops just bounced, and biglys in cover just bounced all the splinter rifle fire.

Biglys aren't top tier, I think Orks, Nids, Space Marines are safely in that slot, but they are tough as hell.

Zuul the Cat posted:

I like running my Kastelans with fists so I can run the Electro-Priests behind them. They soak up fire so the priests can get into range.

Sorry about your rangers. That's how mine are every game and why I dislike them.

Mr. Funktastic posted:

Might replace my rangers with a vindicare assassin for some more reliable character killing, anyone used him yet?

Deified Data posted:

Here's a (bad) look at my first go at airbrushing - I'm pleased, by comparison to how I'd have done painting it manually anyway. That's like 20 mins of work, with most of it being messing with the paint itself. I think I'll finally allow myself to start painting more vehicles.

Does anyone know if there's a good Vallejo treatment of Russ Grey? Digging Citadel colors out of the pot to put into the airbrush cup is a pain in the rear end.