SteelMentor posted:

Odds are good Sisters will be getting some new toys alongside their new sculpts right?

What kinda holes need filling in their roster? Some kinda armoured CC squad?

LifeLynx posted:

Are there any plastic Sisters models right now? Celestine counts, right? I know they have at least one Forge World vehicle.

Neurolimal posted:

I assume Veridyan, who's based off the infamous skull-chest art.

NovemberMike posted:

All I see here is Lady Gaga Debbie Harry.

Neurolimal posted:

Was skimming through all the Chaos stuff in battlescribe (mostly to find cool models ) and it made me curious: official tourneys still require official models, right? How does that work for stuff that has rules but no model, ala Hellwright?

TheChirurgeon posted:

Last Necron Preview, with Neprekh, C'Tan, and Doom Scythes:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/03/23/preview-the-nephrekh-dynasty-ctan-shards-and-doom-scythesgw-homepage-post-2/

Der Waffle Mous posted:

Is WYSIWYG even a thing in the rules anymore?

Neurolimal posted:

Was skimming through all the Chaos stuff in battlescribe (mostly to find cool models ) and it made me curious: official tourneys still require official models, right? How does that work for stuff that has rules but no model, ala Hellwright?

Two Beans posted:

https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-US/Archmagos-Draykavac-Archmagos <-Hellwright on Dark Abeyant

Corrode posted:

There's a bunch of poo poo in here that I want but not enough to pay for the whole stack. If you'll split (and ship to the UK) PM me and we can work something out.

mango sentinel posted:

No

Captain Invictus posted:

I'd really rather get rid of it all in one go, and shipping a bunch of books internationally would probably be stupidly expensive, sorry!

TTerrible posted:

You can't just point out that the people exploding about how 8th was going to be different because it was written by ~new GW~ were completely full of poo poo and 40k is a broken, powerlisted powercreeped mess inside a year. It's extremely rude.

Cainer posted:

Sadly Forge World no longer sells the Repressor. Too bad too cause it's a drat cool looking tank.

bird food bathtub posted:

And I'm thrilled it's not. If I'm putting 20-30 hormagaunts on the field trying out toxin sacks from one week to the next or something I'm not changing all the models for it.

mango sentinel posted:

YMMV based on how pissy your opponent is about that stuff but yeah it's not a codified part of the rules.

Corrode posted:

No one can identify Nid stuff by sight anyway so whatever

One_Wing posted:

Well looking at the top 16 adepticon lists gives me slightly more hope that my Craftworlds list will survive the FAQs relatively unscathed, and the Tyranid menace will get a much needed nerf.

That does assume they’re intending to make one final editing pass after adepticon, which might be over optimistic.

Artum posted:

Got a link on those?

Artum posted:

Got a link on those?

One_Wing posted:

https://spikeybits.com/2018/03/40k-adepticon-championship-top-16-lists-revealed.html

It looks a lot more like the EU metagame than the ITC one, which strongly supports my theory that yes dark reapers are slightly undercosted and Ynnari/Alaitoc was a mistake, but the Eldar dominance has been massively exacerbated by the ITC format favouring them. I’m basically just a bit worried about the Eldar getting overnerfed, because outside the ITC format there are plenty of ways to game against Eldar, but ITC dominates the conversation, and a bunch of the FLG people are playtesters. I strongly believe that the Tyranid codex is much more “across the board” overpowered than the Eldar one, and the existence of one OP Eldar strategy that crushes the ITC format masks this.

Felime posted:

The repressor is a great candidate for a new model in a plastic redo of the line. No toes to step on since the fw one is out of production, and the aesthetic is already solid.

Neurolimal posted:

It would be nice to have a repressor that's a little more ornate to match the ministorum. Bit weird to have a bunch of blinged out priests and angels huddle in a box with a fleur hastily bolted on.

Something like this, with firing ports instead of windows:

LifeLynx posted:

I'll be sad if they nerf Hive Tyrants. My list is much more fair than these spammy lists, but I still run four of them.

Artum posted:

Cheers, yeah after last time its weird how few people are playing eldar.

LifeLynx posted:

I'll be sad if they nerf Hive Tyrants. My list is much more fair than these spammy lists, but I still run four of them. They're just hard to kill, and flight makes them hard to pin down. What's the likely GW-style nerf for these kinds of problems? Just points increase on the Tyrants?

Safety Factor posted:

One_Wing posted:

At least according to the podcasts I’ve listened to, the consensus is that the adepticon format and terrain style means that lists need to have a convincing plan to table most opponents and prevent the same happening to them, without being able to rely on having access to significant LOS blocking terrain. This broadly lines up with the ETC style format, which is mixed maelstrom and eternal war, and often awards extra points for tabling.

The same people believe that the ITC objective format favours lists that can execute rapid manoeuvres and precision murder in turns 1-3, and the prevalence of perfect LOS blockers (ITC terrain rules include buildings that you can go into but block LOS in and out) means stopping yourself getting tabled after scoring all your points early on is much more doable.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, handsome, sophisticated (but also very fragile) space elves excel rather more in one of these than the other. The craft worlds book is still great, and I tabled three opponents at the ETC style event I went to earlier in the month, but even in that one event I can see how ITC would have favoured me - one of my losses I was massively ahead on points, from grabbing objectives early on but the game went to turn 6 and that let my opponent wipe my last unit out. In ITC style I could, as in understand it, have borderline “locked in” the win, because my opponent had no non-vehicle models left, so even one unit hiding in a no-LOS building would have been an insurmountable obstacle once I was majorly ahead on points.

Hive Tyrants need some combination of a point hike, dropping to one cast and their invuln to 5++, they can currently project significant threat in all three “action” phases, while being mobile and absurdly hard to kill, which is absolutely outrageous on a ~200 point model.

Or the Tau commander nerf, which is honestly most likely, as I’ve got to assume they want people’s printed books to remain as accurate as possible, and an “external” rule achieves that.

General Olloth posted:

I'd be happy with like a tau commander nerf (I only run one tyrant) or a points hike on wings or overall smite spam nerf or some combination of those but walkrants aren't good and loving with the number of casts and their invuln would make them even more bad.

One_Wing posted:

I expect the commander nerf, but I think you’re underestimating how good walkrants are - flyrants are obviously the problem, but by my count a walkrant with twin devours and a pair of MRCs is 163 points. That’s exceptionally competitive against a plenty of other things you can spend 163 points on.