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Is buying two boxes of aggressors a silly idea/too much at once? Currently have two lots of DI Primaris, Redemptor dread, contemptor dread, primaris libby and primaris powerfist captain. I've only played the game twice but I hope to change that soon. Was thinking of getting a squad of scouts to be a cheap troop filler - whats the general preference between shotguns and bolters for a chaff/blocker unit?
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Thanqol posted:Exactly. I feel like any plan that relies upon surprise is a bad plan. The best turn based video games are the ones that give you perfect information when you're looking around and planning your next move. A lot of the time I'll straight up explain my battle plan to the enemy because an experienced player would be able to tell just by looking at it and harder opponents make better games. I don't think this is necessarily required with more experienced players, but with the less experienced ones I think it definitely helps them. I certainly appreciate when I have the opportunity to look through my opponent's eyes and see what they're thinking about the matchup, list, terrain, tactics, etc... I do think when it's on more even footing, thinking of a plan your opponent doesn't think of is a fun part of the game, though.
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Thanqol posted:Exactly. I feel like any plan that relies upon surprise is a bad plan. The best turn based video games are the ones that give you perfect information when you're looking around and planning your next move. A lot of the time I'll straight up explain my battle plan to the enemy because an experienced player would be able to tell just by looking at it and harder opponents make better games. I've been prowling Dark Eldar paintings through imgur and links in the OP. I think what I've liked so far is giving all regular armor that deep blue, and doing that light layering thing up to a different color for each of the factions. Medium blue for Cabal, Purple for Wych, Green for Haemonc. That way everything is still on the same cool side but should pop distinctly. On the other hand it seems like DE and other skinny+armored units are actually kind of hard to paint well and look good at the army scale. The individual models look incredible but when zoomed out it gets kind of muddied imo.
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Battlefleet Gothic taught me to ask my opponent if they're familiar with Eldar. If they say yes, I carry on. If not, I usually explain what rule-breaking stuff I have. D-Scythes were a fun one to explain in the last edition combined with the no-scatter, deep-strike Archon. In the Adepticon BFG tourney I played a Chaos player who couldn't have been more kitted out to crush an Eldar fleet. The only problem was he never faced an Eldar fleet. So I tried to explain to him as best I could how they worked but he didn't really get the full picture until my poo poo was darting in and out of asteroid fields to drop large torpedo and lance salvoes and then disappear again.
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Just moved to a new house and my copy of Forgebane got delivered and placed inside days before we signed our contract.  Pumped to bolster my Necrons and then jump into an AdMech force. What are people using for Techpriests these days? Edit: ...Huh. They made a clamshell plastic Engineseer in 2014? PierreTheMime fucked around with this message at 02:33 on Mar 30, 2018 |
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Mar 30, 2018 02:28
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PierreTheMime posted:
In addition they also sell a metal Techpriest for a second version https://www.games-workshop.com/en-AU/Imperial-Guard-Techpriest-Enginseer-2
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Mar 30, 2018 02:36
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yeah both of the models are solid and Enginseers are some good poo poo
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Mar 30, 2018 02:40
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TheChirurgeon posted:yeah both of the models are solid and Enginseers are some good poo poo I play steel legion and take them in most tournaments to re-heal Leman Russ' -but- I'd say your points are almost always better spent on a Astropath. Or Another Astropath
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Mar 30, 2018 02:46
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Or another guard squad to screen your russes.
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Mar 30, 2018 03:09
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The Warglaive kit is loving great.
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Mar 30, 2018 03:14
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templates are good because you can put down the flamer template and go BWOOOOOSH and then roll your wounds
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Mar 30, 2018 04:15
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Two Beans posted:templates are good because you can put down the flamer template and go BWOOOOOSH and then roll your wounds Lol if you don't already go "pew pew" for lasguns (which never had a template).
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Mar 30, 2018 04:17
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In 30k, even bolters have templates.* *Seeker squad special ammunition only.
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Safety Factor posted:In 30k, even bolters have templates.* Why would you go "pew pew" for a bolter?
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Mar 30, 2018 04:24
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So I decided to catalog my 30k Iron Warriors  30k/40k admech  Tyranids  Whole album here with some closer shots https://imgur.com/a/w3Jzl
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Mar 30, 2018 04:25
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Hencoe posted:So I decided to catalog my Have you tried painting your loving mans? I guess at least your IW are semi painted because you picked the legion almost as easy as necrons to paint.
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Mar 30, 2018 04:29
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Booley posted:Have you tried painting your loving mans? I guess at least your IW are semi painted because you picked the legion almost as easy as necrons to paint. Nope, painting is for people who cant win games.
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Mar 30, 2018 04:32
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Hencoe posted:Nope, painting is for people who cant win games. gently caress that explains it all
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Mar 30, 2018 04:33
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Hencoe posted:An embarassingly small number of IW Rapiers. Shameful.
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Mar 30, 2018 04:38
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Hencoe posted:So I decided to catalog my I don’t understand how this happens.
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Mar 30, 2018 04:45
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Uroboros posted:I don’t understand how this happens. The first step is admitting they have a problem.
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Uroboros posted:I don’t understand how this happens. Me either to be honest. Years of expendable income.
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Uroboros posted:I don’t understand how this happens. When a man tires of juice, he quenches his thirst with resin mans.
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Hencoe posted:So I decided to catalog my I'll paint if you send to me. Need some airbrush practice
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Mar 30, 2018 04:51
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I'm MAD ABOUT THOSE MARS-PATTERN PREDATORS.
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Mar 30, 2018 05:21
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Tell me the story about how you lovingly painted the Titan's head, then decided "gently caress this".
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He just got the titan assembled, and the head is the first thing he painted.
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Mar 30, 2018 06:50
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His legit FW titan is like a chocolate bunny, hollow on the inside, and they're still sending him the replacement parts
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Mar 30, 2018 06:55
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I kind of like the gold helmet with black body, think it would look dope if the black were edge-highlighted.
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BULBASAUR posted:His legit FW titan is like a chocolate bunny, hollow on the inside, and they're still sending him the replacement parts This still cracks me up, given that my roommate paid $450 for a CCON Warlord, and it is immaculate. Hencoe I still want to buy those hollow legs from you, to make a sweet terrain piece, damnit! Sell them to me, or I'll sic the Slack murderbot on you! 
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TheChirurgeon posted:yeah both of the models are solid and Enginseers are some good poo poo I just got a plastic Enginseer and yeah that's a nice model. My only gripe is that it's not quite as hosed up and weird as the TPD or Cawl but I guess Enginseers are meant to be a lot closer to human. Uroboros posted:I don’t understand how this happens. ikr, who buys all that and doesn't have it all painted On the subject of winning games by surprise, I beat a Nid player in game 2 of GT heat this year with order bullshit - spamming movex3 and advance+fire. He wasn't expecting my infantry to pile 24" across the table in a turn and then shoot all his Termagants off an objective. Thing is it surprised me too because I had no idea I could do any of that, I was in a tight spot and thought 'maybe you should read your own fuckin rules???' and turned to the Orders page and saw this magical bullshit appear. So it was less concealing stuff from my opponent than it was having nfc about how my own army played.
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Look its not their fault they're just used to materials with toxic flexibilityBULBASAUR posted:His legit FW titan is like a chocolate bunny, hollow on the inside, and they're still sending him the replacement parts Does he have to return the chocolate bunny titan? Being an unreasonably patient dude I'd be totally hype for the kind of fuckup that nets me two titans for one 
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The choice that FW fans made to stay on the broken 7.x ruleset told FW everything they needed to know about this population’s expectations of quality.
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Schadenboner posted:Lol if you don't already go "pew pew" for lasguns (which never had a template). i ran my guard units for the first time a few weekends ago and "Gunners, kill on sight!" is genuinely fun to say in-game
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New Dark Eldar preview: Strategems https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/03/30/codex-drukhari-preview-stratagemsgw-homepage-post-3/ As per the prior days, these look great, and have amazing names e: Agents of Vect is particularly loving brutal and can just torpedo your whole game if you aren't prepared for it 
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drat, that could be incredibly painful if your army is built around a certain stratagem.
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Losing 3cp and failing honour the chapter would pretty much end your game.
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Stopping me from using Descent of Angels would be a game changer, and they don’t even need a six for that. Dark Eldar are going to be seriously nasty to play which does seem pretty fitting.
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