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I've only been playing a few weeks, but my Tyranids have already made the paper! Well the digital version, at least. Newsday came to my LGS to do a piece on gaming. The store owner thought they were coming the next week, so he ran and asked if anyone had any painted models. We set ours up as if it were mid-game and the photographer snapped a bunch of pictures. My Hive Tyrant is mostly armless until I get it magnetized.
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Hihohe posted:I was hoping for Exodites.... If you look at the middle and squint... https://i.imgur.com/1v0m573_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium
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Jan 6, 2018 05:59
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Here's my year of 40k after a long break from painting tiny mans.       
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Has anyone actually seen someone field an Astraeus heavy tank? I genuinely struggle to see how it's worth playing when compared to something like a Shadowsword.
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Jan 6, 2018 06:56
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Entropy238 posted:Jesus Christ you guys are good at painting.
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SteelMentor posted:Sweet, gonna hit up the book signing down at Travelling Man then chill around Newcastle until my game(s) at 4. I'll be the dork with the anime hair.  Fortunately, I'm comfortable in my mediocrity  Unfortunately I didn't have much a chance to work on any of my stuff this past year except for very recently, since I've been running around so much. I did start working on a Baneblade though (figured after six years playing Guard it was about time to get one ) and I think it's coming out pretty well! 
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Has anyone actually seen someone field an Astraeus heavy tank? I genuinely struggle to see how it's worth playing when compared to something like a Shadowsword. Considering the shadowsword is borderline broken that's probably not the best metric.
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The Astraeus is not very good at killing things, but it is pretty darned tough. Personally, I am waiting for them to release alternate turrets that are worthy of being on an 800 point model.
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Custodes and 1k Sons next: https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/01/06/new-year-new-armies-reveals-new-years-open-day/
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Jan 6, 2018 11:13
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Corrode posted:Custodes and 1k Sons next: So, wait, neither Tau nor Necrons are the next two codexes? Or am I misreading?
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Jan 6, 2018 11:15
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Corrode posted:Custodes and 1k Sons next: So plastic Custodes Terminators, Jetbikes, Character box and character clampack. And 40k rules for the Custodes Forgeworld kits. Am I missing anything? Does this make Custodes a fairly affordable 30k/40k army?
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Jan 6, 2018 11:19
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I’m glad we can use more of the Tzaangor stuff in 40K now, Tzaangors rock. Will probably pick up a mutalith vortex beast now (I’m guessing that was the point - weirdly it’s not in the Disciples of Tzeentch battletome).
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Flavivirus posted:So, wait, neither Tau nor Necrons are the next two codexes? Or am I misreading? I think this is March releases?
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Those jetbikes are cool
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Jan 6, 2018 11:49
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Basically the last army anyone asked for. Saying I’m disappointed would be an understatement. Don’t get me wrong, I like the models, but with new point values Marines already feel incredibly outnumbered by horde armies, so I can only imagine what 2k points of custodes comes out as.
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I don't know, I think a bunch of 30k players will be happy at a the price of bikes and terminators dropping significantly. As a slow painter, painting a 2000 point army consisting of something like 25 models looks real achievable in a realistic timescale. On a completely unrelated note is anyone selling some Custodes new on sprue or looking to trade something for them? I only need like 3 squads, and then I can do shields, pole arms and bolters. Unless bolters really suck. Certainly I'm happy to see the Custodes units get 40k rules, as it's a great 30k/40k cross over army.
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I'll probably pick some up as a fun fuckabout army, but it's the last thing I would have wanted them to release when there's so many xenos factions sitting around without books.
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Definitely the same here. In addition to the many armies whose core troops are older than many players, there are some really cool newer armies - ad mech, genestealers cult, harlequins etc which could use expanded support to make them fully flexible factions. Instead we will get another version of power armour-terminator armour-bikes plus new-rules versions of the same dreadnought and land raider models. I do know people who are really keen on Custodes. But they’re a difficult choice to make a full army out of, and I think they work a lot better as an allied force. Personally I think an army of solid gold dudes covered in ornamentation is a bit much even by 40k’s standards.
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Jan 6, 2018 12:40
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Please dear god give us new CSM plastic kit at some point, it feels like we have had this one for ten Millenia already
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Genghis Cohen posted:I do know people who are really keen on Custodes. But they’re a difficult choice to make a full army out of, and I think they work a lot better as an allied force. Personally I think an army of solid gold dudes covered in ornamentation is a bit much even by 40k’s standards. They lost the coin toss between custodes and admech for my next army but even then I was planning custodes, sisters of silence and scions rather than just custodes.
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I'd be far more excited about Custodes becoming a standalone army if I wasn't fully aware that, due to how 40k works, super-elite armies are already an uphill battle to even squeak out a win with.
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Oh thank god it wasn't something I'm interested in. My backlog is fuckhuge as it is. Those jetbikes do look sweet as hell though.
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I'm one of those guys who is really into Custodes- those Guardian Spears really do it for me. It's really weird to me that they're getting a standalone codex though because it feels like they'll have the exact same lack of unit options that we already see with admech or to a lesser extent Thousand Sons. It would have made a lot more sense from both a gameplay and lore perspective to release them as a part of Codex: Talons of the Emperor alongside the Sisters of Silence. Being able to take cheaper T3 bodies with cool specialist abilities would help alleviate a lot of the issues that elite armies are already facing. That being said it seems like a really easy and hopefully cheap army to start and may well be where I go after I finish my Blood Angels. I really do have the hardest time resisting those spears.
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Playing Thousand Sons at the team tournament at Adepticon so I am very excited about this.
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Glad that Custodes are able to use their FW toys, even if I was hoping for a Xenos release. It's pretty cool that TS are getting some of the AoS Tzeentch/Chaos toys to play with, that's a solution to their low unique unit count I never thought of. Pendent posted:I'm one of those guys who is really into Custodes- those Guardian Spears really do it for me. It's really weird to me that they're getting a standalone codex though because it feels like they'll have the exact same lack of unit options that we already see with admech or to a lesser extent Thousand Sons. It would have made a lot more sense from both a gameplay and lore perspective to release them as a part of Codex: Talons of the Emperor alongside the Sisters of Silence. Being able to take cheaper T3 bodies with cool specialist abilities would help alleviate a lot of the issues that elite armies are already facing. Think that guarantees that the SoS are gonna get their own expanded release.
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I agree. I would rather have seen them be wrapped up into something like an Agents of the Imperium than be their super special even more elite no seriously guys they're totes the best army.
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SteelMentor posted:Think that guarantees that the SoS are gonna get their own expanded release. I guess? I'd much rather have a single full-featured than army than two that have huge holes in them.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:I agree. I would rather have seen them be wrapped up into something like an Agents of the Imperium than be their super special even more elite no seriously guys they're totes the best army. Arent custodes really popular with hams? If there's money to be made...
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I've been pretty spotty about photographing everything I've painted since I picked this nonsense back up last year, so I decided to get everyone together. That's a decent little battle-pile I reckon.  Also did this guy up as a christmas present, so he couldn't make it to the group shot. eSportseXpert fucked around with this message at 15:14 on Jan 6, 2018 |
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Pendent posted:I'm one of those guys who is really into Custodes- those Guardian Spears really do it for me. It's really weird to me that they're getting a standalone codex though because it feels like they'll have the exact same lack of unit options that we already see with admech or to a lesser extent Thousand Sons. It would have made a lot more sense from both a gameplay and lore perspective to release them as a part of Codex: Talons of the Emperor alongside the Sisters of Silence. Being able to take cheaper T3 bodies with cool specialist abilities would help alleviate a lot of the issues that elite armies are already facing. Agreed fully, this is probably the worst time for this to come out for me because I'm already planning for Craftworld Eldar to be my second army and then GW dangles these sweet golden bananas that I love in front of my face with all these new toys they're getting. Hopefully some of the units go down points wise and that they're still viable even as an elite kind of army, but even they're not they're still amazing kits.
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The models I painted in 2017, mostly stormboyz and stompy boyz:         All due to the oath thread.
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they should be releasing the ork codex next instead of another imperial/chaos subfaction book for johnny come lately armies 
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Well I've crumbled and ordered the Custodes Contemptors. Seems like all the armour support a 1500 point Custodes list would need.
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I mean don't get me wrong, Custodes could be fun. It's just weird seeing GW have to up the ante with more and more elite forces. Space Marines, Deathwatch, Grey Knights, now Custodes. That said they might be fun to try out, especially since the detachment rules offer so much flexibility.
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Going to go check out the Warhammer store here in Richmond in a few hours. Never been inside one before.
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I'm glad that the Thousand Sons are getting a release and getting some goodies from AoS to fill in their gaps, but the Adeptus Custodes release feels ill-timed to me. Death Guard worked because they were a non-imperial faction that had been demanded for literal years and had the side benefit of directly benefiting existing CSM and Daemon players. CSM with an updated Plague Marine kit and Daemons with new Nurgle units. Custodes meanwhile are yet another Imperial army in a game where the "On the back foot and imminently collapsing" Imperium makes up over half the playable factions in the game. I don't think an Emperor's Children or World Eaters release would have received this same level of head scratching and teeth gnashing. Even something like Exodite Eldar or a new non-aligned Xenos faction would have been more easily welcomed I think.
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chutche2 posted:Going to go check out the Warhammer store here in Richmond in a few hours. Never been inside one before. It's basically a slightly cleaner Games Workshop.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:It's basically a slightly cleaner Games Workshop. Yeah but I've never been in any first party store. It's always been local places where I've lived
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