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Which yellow is that? (Łooks like a great yellow to start the green of my Shadespire Orks.)
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DiHK posted:That's cool B4BG, still assuming you'r doctorate is in engineering? I'm really excited for the time when I can throw complex poo poo at my progeny. Yup. My daughter is already all about doing fun stuff with Dad. Hopefully she will still think robots and stuff are awesome when she's older. Plus she loves Tyranids.
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dexefiend posted:Which yellow is that? (Łooks like a great yellow to start the green of my Shadespire Orks.) Looks like the Army Painter Daemonic Yellow. I have used it for various projects but haven’t managed to get a finish as nice as on that Ork there. Mine comes out quite thick and grainy.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Yup. My daughter is already all about doing fun stuff with Dad. Hopefully she will still think robots and stuff are awesome when she's older. I too am hoping for the excuse to play plastic spacemen with the kids. The daughter is getting to the age where concentration is possible and learning about numbers and probability will be useful. I might try out little “forging the narrative” sessions with her over the holiday break. Both of the kids call an unpainted Carnifex I have laying around “Spooky” and insist giving it hugs and kisses. 
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PierreTheMime posted:I too am hoping for the excuse to play plastic spacemen with the kids. The daughter is getting to the age where concentration is possible and learning about numbers and probability will be useful. I might try out little “forging the narrative” sessions with her over the holiday break. My daughter helped me paint the base of a Genestealer I'm working on, and she calls it "The Monster" and says it goes "GRAAAWR!" I love being a dad.
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My son growls a lot and enjoys sticking his tounge out. I'll be teaching him to waaaaaag soon. Being a dad is tits.Corrode posted:Hands off that's my gimmick
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Finally caught up with this thread again. Such happy news for the Tyranids. I'm guessing Ork Blood Axes will get that -1 to hit from over 12" trait when the codex comes around. Can't think of any for the others.
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PierreTheMime posted:I too am hoping for the excuse to play plastic spacemen with the kids. The daughter is getting to the age where concentration is possible and learning about numbers and probability will be useful. I might try out little “forging the narrative” sessions with her over the holiday break. For an intro to ham, have a look at Lost Patrol. It's very simple and fast, and laying out the tiles adds another point of interest.
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Valhallan Conscripts with the "Get the gently caress back in line" relic bolt pistol on a CoCo still does the old school Commissar thing. And there's no reason the CoCo couldn't be wearing a snappy hat.
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Real Talk: does anyone have a solution to handling a list that uses 30 Wulfen with Thunder Hammers and Storm Shields? Especially after the smite limit? Because kitbashing like 30 Biovores was never in the cards, and twice the Genestealers are unlike to quite put them down, either. Bypassing 3++/5+++ spam is a motherfucker and it's why I never ran a list like that even with Necrons in 7th.
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Proletariat Beowulf posted:Real Talk: does anyone have a solution to handling a list that uses 30 Wulfen with Thunder Hammers and Storm Shields? Especially after the smite limit? The only real solution to that is to throw lovely fire at it en mass. Doubleshooting devilgaunts, etc. In imperial armies stormbolter spam or Aggressors, etc.
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Proletariat Beowulf posted:Real Talk: does anyone have a solution to handling a list that uses 30 Wulfen with Thunder Hammers and Storm Shields? Especially after the smite limit? I'd imagine nids would do it through massed termagants using the shoot twice strat and dakkafexes, they're still t4 marines, being 3++ means you need just need weight of fire since ap is meaningless.
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Hormagaunts are cool and all, but I promised myself I'd stop with horde armies after Orks  :Thanks, though.
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Feed them trash so they waste all that melee effectiveness beating up 5pt Termagants
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Corrode posted:Feed them trash so they waste all that melee effectiveness beating up 5pt Termagants Oh yeah, this too.
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Flyers are also pretty good at killing melee threats like that. Stormtalons with heavy bolters and the like are pretty efficient and don't have to worry about taking a charge. I'm not sure what comparable options there are in the nid codex though.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:My daughter helped me paint the base of a Genestealer I'm working on, and she calls it "The Monster" and says it goes "GRAAAWR!" I've noted before, among every woman and girl I know who's a fan of 40k the tyranids seem to be an overwhelming favorite. Giant monsters eating the galaxy is something everyone can get behind.
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Cythereal posted:I've noted before, among every woman and girl I know who's a fan of 40k the tyranids seem to be an overwhelming favorite. Yeah, Tyranids and Eldar are anecdotally the armies every woman I know plays.
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Proletariat Beowulf posted:Real Talk: does anyone have a solution to handling a list that uses 30 Wulfen with Thunder Hammers and Storm Shields? Especially after the smite limit? Uninronically, a few Pyrovores would be great alongside cheap gaunts. You get a bunch of free S5 flamer hits when they charge, four wounds each means that thunderhammers waste excess damage, and every one that dies is still dishing out mortal wounds into models that cost way more points.
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:For an intro to ham, have a look at Lost Patrol. It's very simple and fast, and laying out the tiles adds another point of interest. You misunderstand, my daughter is 4. It's going to be "Rawr there's a monster! Roll these dice and if you get this number then you win!" Possibly slightly more complex, but it's not going to be an official game system in any way. She did recently insist I drive her to "the tape measure store" to get her own, so she now has an industrial 30' measure that weighs 1/7 of her. Cythereal posted:I've noted before, among every woman and girl I know who's a fan of 40k the tyranids seem to be an overwhelming favorite. My daughter went for Orks because her favorite color is green. She has a box of Grots and a Herder she painted that she calls "her dudes." Corrode posted:Feed them trash so they waste all that melee effectiveness beating up 5pt Termagants They're 4pts. 
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BuffaloChicken posted:This is from quite a few pages ago, but had to bump it and say how excellent it is. Definitely up there in the pantheon of coolest Knights I've seen - just enough characterful flairs to make it ornate and unique without being overbearing. Thank you! Once you have a pile of bits in front of you and all the open space on a knight it's hard to tell when to stop, you end up a bit like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHZ48AE3TOI&t=10s Also your Escher/catachan looks excellent, the hair looks even better on a more regular soldier body.
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I have been doing some Mathhammer (actuarial analyst ... I can't not do it). People complain about Tau Commanders with Quad Fusion, but they are less points efficient vs a Land Raider than a 5 man Devastator Squad with 4 Lascannons. Standard Hellblasters are only near that efficiency when Rapid Firing, and Heavy Hellblasters are like half that efficient. Devastator Squad 26.37 ppw Tau Commander 27.49 ppw Tau Commander 24.19 ppw (within 9"; need a teleport homer, and he is gonna die for sure.) Hellblaster - Heavy 47.38 Hellblaster - Standard 59.48 Hellblaster - Standard 29.74 (Rapid Fire) Hellblaster - Assault 39.21 (Those Hellblasters are running hot, and I haven't accounted for refilling of 1's.) Is this just because people don't like Tau? Edit: most tau stuff kinda sucks! Railgun Broadside 77.2 Commander 4xMissiles 87.02 Commander 3xMissiles, ATS 80.23 Stormsurge Pulse Driver, ATS 89.72 Ghostkeel Fusionx3 51.04 (within 9") I realize this is all just about offensive output, but that is the only thing that can be compared easily. dexefiend fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Dec 20, 2017 |
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There's a lot more going on than just the damage output, such as maneuverability (assault vs heavy weapons, Fly, deep striking) and the fact that each wound on the Devastator squad can potentially remove a lascannon, while the Tau Commander retains full firing capability until its last wound is gone.
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Artum posted:Also typically the only thing that can fire on the quad fusion tau commander is its unfortunate victim what with it being a character with fewer than ten wounds, while devastators or everything else on that list is open season. Also true This is the problem I see with most mathammer analyses, generally--Comparing damage output is great for comparing unit A to unit B, but beyond that, there aren't any good statistical measures for comparing units across different factions, and with different mobility and suvivability rates e: Actually diminishing combat effectiveness is probably not *too* hard to factor, but something I rarely see considered. You can take the average loss in firepower per wound sustained multiplied by the chance of taking a wound from a given source and get a decent measurement of how well a unit retains its effectiveness under fire TheChirurgeon fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Dec 20, 2017 |
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Safety Factor posted:You missed nothing. 7th was a trash fire.
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dexefiend posted:Is this just because people don't like Tau? This is always a good answer. I've caught flack for playing them even though I played a well rounded not Riptide spam list in 7e and just for buying the battleforces recently. Tau make people salty. dexefiend posted:Ghostkeel Fusionx3 51.04 (within 9") I know this is kind of off point, but do most people even load their Ghostkeel this way? I thought the go to right now was ion plus ats with secondary weapons being either/or.
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:Also the vast majority of their line is plastic now, which is more than can be said for Eldar or CSM. They're pretty close in size      metal lictor vs plastic warrior Put a genestealer head on it and jack the scything talons up high and it'll read as a lictor just fine.
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Playing a 2,000 point game later today in celebration of finishing my 2nd to last semester at university. Taking my AdMech. This list isn't too mean, is it? I'm going up against a Sister of Battle/Grey Knights combined force. The guy normally takes Celestine. Patrol Detachment Techpriest Dominus w/Autocadecus of Arkhan Land Kataphron Destroyers x 5, Heavy Grav Cannons, Phosphor Blasters Rangers x 5, 2x Transauranic Arquebus Spearhead Deatchment Cawl Onager Dunecrawler x 3, Neutron Lasers & Stubbers, Cognis Heavy Stubbers Kastelan Robots, heavy phosphor blasters Super-Heavy Auxiliary Detachment Knight Crusader, RFBC, Gatling Cannon.
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Hi all, I've been drawn back into the orbit of 40k with the new edition. Lurking in this thread, drinking in the hammy goodness for inspiration and hopefully getting a bit better at my modeling/painting. By way of a dubious thank you, here's some shoddily photographed models you have in part helped to create. This one is a secret santa gift, waaay beyond my ability to actually execute. Learned a lot painting it, but now it hurts me a bit to look at it. I call him Alby.    The army I'm actually building are Tau. I'm painfully slow at painting and have 3 minimal infantry squads that I still haven't finalized/figured out how to highlight or shade. Also my color scheme might suck, anyway they look like this:  
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Happy Candlemass you filthy groxherders. https://regimental-standard.com/2017/12/20/the-candlemass-day-miracle/
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Merry Squigmass every Boy-y. And yeah, Tau players always get ugly looks. I barely managed to scrounge out any wins in the local tourneys because I tended to overcompensate for possible cheese that never materialised when actually playing. It is more likely that it is one of the few factions not all about the grimdark that bothers them, but that is why I like them. And Orks.
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BurlapNapkin posted:Hi all, I've been drawn back into the orbit of 40k with the new edition. Lurking in this thread, drinking in the hammy goodness for inspiration and hopefully getting a bit better at my modeling/painting. By way of a dubious thank you, here's some shoddily photographed models you have in part helped to create. That scourge is gorgeous, the wings are extremely well done.
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BurlapNapkin posted:Hi all, I've been drawn back into the orbit of 40k with the new edition. Lurking in this thread, drinking in the hammy goodness for inspiration and hopefully getting a bit better at my modeling/painting. By way of a dubious thank you, here's some shoddily photographed models you have in part helped to create. Those wings. Fackin’ Hell. You should do some Tyranids, that painting style would look beautiful on them.
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BurlapNapkin posted:The army I'm actually building are Tau. I'm painfully slow at painting and have 3 minimal infantry squads that I still haven't finalized/figured out how to highlight or shade. Also my color scheme might suck, anyway they look like this: Not bad but its very dark so it colors all kinda muddy up together and you don't get a ton of detail. Highlighting would fix this. Some light blue or grey highlights on the dark armor and some light brown on the pants. Shade is super easy, you just buy a wash. It does the work for you.  Also maybe consider making of of the colors in that palette a bit brighter, like a brighter blue or brown. It'd help contrast more with the dark armor plates.
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Whoever start doing the write up for Poorhammer, please don't forget my new favourite: "Cornflakes as Brimstone horrors"
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Yeast posted:Whoever start doing the write up for Poorhammer, please don't forget my new favourite: "Cornflakes as Brimstone horrors" Not bloodletters. 0/10.
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