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That chimera converted into a mobile artillery piece is awesome Yeast.
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Uroboros posted:That chimera converted into a mobile artillery piece is awesome Yeast.  that's not a conversion https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-GB/Armageddon-Pattern-Basilisk
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Dec 21, 2017 13:46
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Can't be canonical, has a marine going "prone" in it.
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Dec 21, 2017 14:51
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 This is such a cool model and so much fun to paint. The actual rules seem pretty weak though - has anyone actually used a Noxious Blightbringer to good effect?
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Dec 21, 2017 16:26
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Gilgameshback posted:
They're pretty alright. The rerollable advance distance helps your slugish units out, and the morale debuff is excellent for morale-bomb combos. They're not as niche as the Tallymen or the Biologis Putrifiers, but not as generally good as the Putrid Blightspawn or the Plague Surgeons. A middle-ground unit.
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Dec 21, 2017 16:35
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Got some glamour shots of my army last night as they squared off against Sisters of Battle. Ended up losing (Relic mission), but came pretty close to tabling my opponent.  The Sisters  Celestine died (for the first time) right after this. 
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Dec 21, 2017 17:25
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Yeast posted:an objective marker! Make him bald and have him be von Strab. Yeast posted:And now that you can have a Commissar driven Leman Russ as a stratagem in the Guard Codex, I wanted to model one up. for when I use it. He needs to be a little lower in the turret to be a really effective "suck it". Hth. Schadenboner fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Dec 21, 2017 |
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Dec 21, 2017 17:25
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Proletariat Beowulf posted:
As neither of us are fathers, we're far more familiar with depressing ham stories than heartwarming ones. I have a few ham pals who are dads but their kids are still at the point where they'd sooner choke on a Space Marine than play with one. I love this so much, using Epic models for forced perspective is super clever and I'm surprised more dioramas didn't do the same. Yeast posted:Got around to photographing some of the units I've finished lately. God drat dude, your guys are fully sick.
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Dec 21, 2017 17:38
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ACHTUNG BADBOYS AND FUCCBOIS
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Yeast posted:And now that you can have a Commissar driven Leman Russ as a stratagem in the Guard Codex, I wanted to model one up. for when I use it. These look amazing, particularly this commissar tank. Great job! Zuul the Cat posted:Got some glamour shots of my army last night as they squared off against Sisters of Battle. Ended up losing (Relic mission), but came pretty close to tabling my opponent. These are some good glamour shots. I love your dunecrawlers I really need to get better photos of my armies at some point
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Dec 21, 2017 17:47
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SRM posted:I love this so much, using Epic models for forced perspective is super clever and I'm surprised more dioramas didn't do the same. The owner of my LGS had some Valkyries where he put some old epic models on the base. Unfortunately I think these got lost in the fire. Dude still does good work on bases and terrain pieces though.
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Dec 21, 2017 17:49
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Zuul the Cat posted:Got some glamour shots of my army last night as they squared off against Sisters of Battle. Ended up losing (Relic mission), but came pretty close to tabling my opponent. These are cool and the lack of basing on the Sisters is enraging me. I'm gonna try and get a nice picture of the 1500 I take tomorrow, and some in-game stuff. Maybe I'll even write a battle report up. I'm tempted to do a little picrep of the Apocalypse game next week, the one dude has a really nice army and I have fairly high hopes that the majority of stuff is going to be painted.
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Dec 21, 2017 17:58
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SRM posted:I love this so much, using Epic models for forced perspective is super clever and I'm surprised more dioramas didn't do the same. This is my favorite use of the concept: 
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Dec 21, 2017 18:01
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Since my Chapter is the "Regal Skulls" I figured it would only be appropriate if the Ancient carried around a giant skull instead of a banner. So I whipped up something quick as a proportion test. If you would like to stay appropriately 40k absurdly awesome you should instead equip the Sergeant with an enormous power-grenade and a sword launcher.
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Dec 21, 2017 18:16
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adamantium|wang posted:This is my favorite use of the concept: The illusion doesn't quite work from the side, but that's a great concept. I'm sure it's just the wrong angle for the full effect.
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Dec 21, 2017 18:19
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Yeast posted:Got around to photographing some of the units I've finished lately. What did you do for the artillery turret? That owns.
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Dec 21, 2017 18:24
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Naramyth posted:What did you do for the artillery turret? That owns. As someone pointed out, it's this: https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-GB/Armageddon-Pattern-Basilisk I played against one on Sunday, they're great looking.
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Dec 21, 2017 18:25
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Thanks for the comments, guys. The portrait mode on the iPhone is pretty great. The only downside is that you can't really zoom in. Corrode posted:These are cool and the lack of basing on the Sisters is enraging me. Yeah, he's slowly working on finishing them. They look really good (for the ones that are done). I didn't get any close up shots of his. It's funny, one of the guys at the shop saw me playing with my bare plastic, brand new AoS Khorne Bloodbound army sunday and asked the GW shop manager if we could start a rule where you get -1 to rolls if your army is unpainted. This, coming from a guy who can't even put all 10 models in a squad on the same size bases and looks like his models are painted by melting crayons.
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Dec 21, 2017 18:32
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Corrode posted:As someone pointed out, it's this: That's too bad. I have a bunch of chimeras that are useless. It would be nice to have a cheap conversion.
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Dec 21, 2017 18:35
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Naramyth posted:That's too bad. I have a bunch of chimeras that are useless. It would be nice to have a cheap conversion. Don't even talk to me about useless Chimeras, jfc
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Dec 21, 2017 18:38
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Did Russes getting good make chimeras obsolete?
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Dec 21, 2017 18:39
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FiestaNinja posted:Can't be canonical, has a marine going "prone" in it. Nah man, he's doing one armed push ups to get pumped. Totes legit.
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Dec 21, 2017 18:41
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DiHK posted:Nah man, he's doing one armed push ups to get pumped. Totes legit. He’s the objective marker they’re holding, not a squad member.
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Dec 21, 2017 18:58
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Since my Chapter is the "Regal Skulls" I figured it would only be appropriate if the Ancient carried around a giant skull instead of a banner. So I whipped up something quick as a proportion test. I'd mount it lower to convey weight, giving it multiple stands to support it as well. It would be clumsy and unwieldy as currently displayed. Or do a Skulltaker's cape style skull banner out of smaller skulls!
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Dec 21, 2017 19:16
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mango sentinel posted:Did Russes getting good make chimeras obsolete? Tauroxes Prime becoming stupidly good and Chimeras losing command vehicle (and not getting a points drop to match) means there isn't a lot of call for poor 'ol Chimera round these parts no more.
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Dec 21, 2017 19:24
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Since my Chapter is the "Regal Skulls" I figured it would only be appropriate if the Ancient carried around a giant skull instead of a banner. So I whipped up something quick as a proportion test. As an aside wtf is this skull, exactly? I've always wondered. Also agree with moths, mount it lower, maybe cover his whole back.
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Dec 21, 2017 19:27
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Just magnetised my first model: It was an absolute pain in the arse but I learned a lot doing it. Tried to follow this video and things mostly went to plan until I got to the head which was an absolute cluster gently caress. Couldn't get the mouth bits to stick to the lower jaw so had to wedge a 5mm * 2mm in the middle of the head. Mouth is a little bit wobbly and there's a few tiny gaps but it's mostly all there. I'm hoping the Hive Tyrants are going to be easier because jfc that was some effort.
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Dec 21, 2017 19:27
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Schadenboner posted:Tauroxes Prime becoming stupidly good and Chimeras losing command vehicle (and not getting a points drop to match) means there isn't a lot of call for poor 'ol Chimera round these parts no more. Plus 8th ed's changes to vehicle damage made meltavets less good. Also, Chimeras cost more points now AND they lost the command vehicle ability. I'm still taking a couple but I doubt it's optimal.
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Dec 21, 2017 19:29
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Entropy238 posted:Just magnetised my first model: I found the trick to wobbly magnetised bits is to combine it with a pin and hole, so that you slot it onto a pin and then the magnetised bit can't slide off sideways.
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Dec 21, 2017 19:52
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The Kingfish posted:Plus 8th ed's changes to vehicle damage made meltavets less good. Also, Chimeras cost more points now AND they lost the command vehicle ability. I'm still taking a couple but I doubt it's optimal. Their damage output is totally anaemic compared to a Taurox Prime. Oh, a multi-laser and a heavy bolter? Or I could have a fuckin gatling cannon and two hotshot volleys? Yeah sure let me take the Chimera.
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Dec 21, 2017 19:56
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Corrode posted:Their damage output is totally anaemic compared to a Taurox Prime. Oh, a multi-laser and a heavy bolter? Or I could have a fuckin gatling cannon and two hotshot volleys? Yeah sure let me take the Chimera. Sure, but only Scions can ride in a Prime. If you're taking it as a transport, its better to compare it to a normal Taurox.
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Deified Data posted:As an aside wtf is this skull, exactly? I've always wondered. I am pretty sure it's an Arachnarok from fantasy.
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Dec 21, 2017 19:59
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JoshTheStampede posted:Sure, but only Scions can ride in a Prime. If you're taking it as a transport, its better to compare it to a normal Taurox. Do a lot of people take non-Scion mechanized IG? Most of the people I know just took their 7E carapace vets and said "Oh look: they were Stormtroopers all along!" and got Tauroxes Prime.
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Dec 21, 2017 20:00
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JoshTheStampede posted:Sure, but only Scions can ride in a Prime. If you're taking it as a transport, its better to compare it to a normal Taurox. Why bother with transports for regular IG? Infantry squads don't warrant them and Scions do the Vets job much better without the need for a box.
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Dec 21, 2017 20:02
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Corrode posted:Don't even talk to me about useless Chimeras, jfc dont you talk to me about me talking to you about useless chimeras i have like eight and three more for hydras ffs
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Dec 21, 2017 20:03
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Corrode posted:Why bother with transports for regular IG? Infantry squads don't warrant them and Scions do the Vets job much better without the need for a box. Yeah, but if you don't want transports then comparing Chimeras to TPrimes is still dumb. If you're taking the Primes as battle-tanks then yeah, of course the troop transport box is gonna not work in that role. The fact that TPrimes DO is more of a problem, to me. If Chimeras are useless it's because either they don't fill their role well, or you don't want that role, not because they fail to fill a DIFFERENT role. It's like saying Rhinos are useless because empty Razorbacks are better gunboats.
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JoshTheStampede posted:Yeah, but if you don't want transports then comparing Chimeras to TPrimes is still dumb. If you're taking the Primes as battle-tanks then yeah, of course the troop transport box is gonna not work in that role. The fact that TPrimes DO is more of a problem, to me. Chimeras need a bit of a price drop ive been running 2 as of late to help get some mobility and map control on tables with dense terrain and its been working really well but I pretty much constantly feel like i should be fielding even vanilla Taurox's over them when I do points run downs.
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JoshTheStampede posted:Yeah, but if you don't want transports then comparing Chimeras to TPrimes is still dumb. If you're taking the Primes as battle-tanks then yeah, of course the troop transport box is gonna not work in that role. The fact that TPrimes DO is more of a problem, to me. They cost more than a regular taurox, which is faster and better armed. They really need something beyond one extra point of toughness to make them worth having.
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Dec 21, 2017 20:34
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Planning on getting in a game against Beer4theBeerGod next week, and he informed me that he's bringing a Baneblade. "Oh gently caress," I thought, realizing that I had nowhere near the firepower I needed to bring it down. Hence, frantic painting this week to get these bad boys finished.
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Dec 21, 2017 20:36
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JoshTheStampede posted:Yeah, but if you don't want transports then comparing Chimeras to TPrimes is still dumb. If you're taking the Primes as battle-tanks then yeah, of course the troop transport box is gonna not work in that role. The fact that TPrimes DO is more of a problem, to me. These things are all interconnected. In 5th, the primo mechanised edition, transports were useful because they were cheap and relatively hard to destroy. Chimeras in particular had the AV12 frontage, which made them a pain in the arse if you couldn't get in the side of them. They were also a great delivery system for Veterans with a bunch of meltaguns, which needed to get close to their target, and were too fragile to do it on foot. Since you could shoot out of the transport, you had the benefit of driving up, plugging out 3 accurate meltaguns, and still having all the protection of the box. The Chimera itself offered useful ancillary fire, since although it had no AP the multi-laser was quite useful for dinging glancing hits onto opposing transports. You could also give orders out of them, and any auras worked off the vehicle footprint, so you could get a bigger effective range by popping the character in them. All this mattered because everyone else had just as many metal boxes as you did, so it became a war of light APCs all performing drive-bys against each other. In 8th, the situation is very different. Pure transports still have a role, but it's much more limited - basically acting as delivery systems for those units which don't have any other option, e.g. non-Alpha Legion Khorne Berzerkers. They're much more expensive than they were, so you really need something to put inside them which justifies the expense. Reliable deep strike on units like Scions, or the infiltrate stratagems, or move+advance+shoot all mean that the mobility need is less than it was. In the modern game, transports are much more meant to act as light battle tanks which happen to have a useful side ability, rather than purely doing that. The Chimera doesn't stack up, because its weapons haven't gotten any better in decades, whereas equivalent vehicles - Taurox Primes, Razorbacks - have gotten much killier, particularly the Razorback since the twin-link = double weapons thing came into effect. So what this means is that the Chimera is much closer to being a pure general-purpose transport like the Rhino, and not a gunboat with a transport capacity a la Razorbacks, in an army where that's much less useful of a thing to be. They either need to be dirt cheap, or offer more than they currently do. What form that might take is hard to say - their best application was driving around with Vets in, but Scions do that job these days.
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I accidentally ordered two Start Collecting Tyranids boxes. Should I return the second one or am I gonna want all that stuff eventually anyway?
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