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goodness posted:Thanks. Your nightlords look intense, did you use that on them? Gaianotes is a very, very good brand of paints. Huge caveats though: 1. Since it's a lacquer paint you'll want to wear a mask and either spray outside or in an area with ventilation via a (spark-proof) fan. This stuff can melt your lungs. 2. Lacquer paints are super susceptible to the underlying layer; a rough primer basecoat will give it a brushed/rough metal look, a glossy basecoat will give a powerful metallic sheen, a light basecoat will shift the color towards a pearlescent appearance, and a dark basecoat will give it a deep shine. 3. You'll need lacquer thinner; there's a Gaianotes thinner, but you can also cheap out and use Rustoleum lacquer thinner 4. Once a lacquer paint is cured you're not going to chemically strip it with anything short of lacquer thinner. This is good for washes/glazes/enamel or oil layers, but it also means you'll have a hard time stripping it with stuff like simple green.
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goodness posted:Thanks. Your nightlords look intense, did you use that on them? I did! I used to spray wash straight onto my base coat without the gloss and it sometimes dried splotchy, especially on large flat surfaces. BULBASAUR turned me onto the gloss technique and I used it on the robo and praevian I posted in here last. It dried perfect, no spots. I’ll probably do this for all my guys going forward
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Also if you're in the US buy gaianotes here for best prices and selection: http://volksusastore.com/webstores/scale/index.php?dispatch=categories.view&category_id=737
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Neurolimal posted:Gunblades have historical basis, but they were never actually practical weapons or in wide use; they were status symbols for either blacksmiths (to prove their skill) or nobles (to prove their wealth), basically "look at this incredibly complex and engraved gun____, I made/could afford it and it might actually work sometimes" What? They weren't in super wide use, but IIRC at least the US, French and Germans distributed them as weapons for boarding parties or prison guards. And most of the examples of hafted gunweapons were parallel to the shaft, not perpendicular (look up Henry VIII's walking stick as an example).
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intended for use by boarding parties, but [at least in america] never supplied in significant quantities. Those that were supplied proved unpopular and was eventually phased out for a cutlass with a large pommel, which proved far more useful than a fragile single-shot knife.
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goodness posted:I didn't think about airbrushing the wash. I will give that a try since airbrushing has made everything else easier. It'll go on like a filter. It works wonderfully. But be careful not to put too much on at once, because when you flood it it turns back into the brush on shade.
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Neurolimal posted:Gaianotes is a very, very good brand of paints. Huge caveats though: This is exactly what I needed, thank you! Ordering some from volks right now.
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Playing in a 40k tournament next month. 1500 points, 1 detachment, no lords of war, no duplicate units (other than troops and dedicated transport). Things like a land raider/land raider crusader are considered the same unit. Missions are scorched earth, dominate and destroy, burn and pillage. With a month to go I've still got plenty of time to build and paint units. How terrible will this list be: https://miniheadquarters.com/rosters/details/525-meeples-1500-1
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I have no idea but that format sounds fun as hell.
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What's the best way to get specific bits? I'm looking for the helmeted dark eldar wych head and the reaver helmeted heads. These are the cool domed visor helmets a lot of people like. I've been prowling ebay but these heads are basically never in-stock, and when I've found more niche bits vendors, they are charging $2.50+ for each head. e: Look at that pretty dome  
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If you can get rid of the rest- try and pick up a cheap Gangs of Commoragh box for the bike domes. Wyches should gradually get cheaper now that the latest start collecting box contains 10 of them.
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Booley posted:Playing in a 40k tournament next month. 1500 points, 1 detachment, no lords of war, no duplicate units (other than troops and dedicated transport). Things like a land raider/land raider crusader are considered the same unit. Missions are scorched earth, dominate and destroy, burn and pillage. With a month to go I've still got plenty of time to build and paint units. Sternguard is your only real iffy unit. They're just a touch overpriced. Dropping your tac squads to 5 models may be helpful too. That way you can load a squad and an HQ into a razorback. Interesting format. I wonder what Scion players do since they really only have one HQ.
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My cat has bopped a basically new pot of Armageddon Dunes into oblivion. If I didn't have the evidence of my test Necron to show I'd used it I'd think I'd imagined ever buying it. We're looking to move house at the start of next year so I look forward to finding it then.
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I have reduced the price on the Tyranid lot I'm selling in SA-Mart. There's so many bugs for 80 dollars, you can't afford not to buy them.
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How useful are ancients, anyway? The way my army is set up tend to deploy a central block of hellblasters, devastators, and aggressors in the middle with pedro and an lt, with scouts, intercessors, and dreadnoughts covering the flanks, vanguard inceptors and a jump chaplain providing my mobile element. It seems life the ancient is handy but the ld buff does nothing and it's hard to drop points by cutting models that directly contribute for a model that only contributes when someone dies. Potentially though I can get off a few extra hellblaster shots a game.
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I was just looking to buy the Forgeworld Magos Dominus with rad cleanser to kick off my Ad Mech army but they have discontinued it. Boo urns.
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Guy Goodbody posted:I have reduced the price on the Tyranid lot I'm selling in SA-Mart. There's so many bugs for 80 dollars, you can't afford not to buy them. Arrrggg I absolutely would jump on it but you caught me at a time when i just moved and I’m low on funds. If no one goes for it (they’d be crazy not to) please PM me, I’d be good to buy it in a week or two.
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Neurolimal posted:It still really bothers me that Relic didnt just make a moba or Last Stand 2 If it weren't for the iron grip DotA and League have on the scene, this would make a ton of sense, lotta characters to choose from. Then again, a lot of them would be hard to differentiate in power armor. I don't want to derail but man is GW's scattershot approach to licensing a sad story.
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chutche2 posted:How useful are ancients, anyway? Ancients are loving great and if you're going to have a big block of high-value, high-damage infantry like Hellblasters/Devs etc. then you absolutely want to include one. Give him the relic banner too so you're getting to shoot on a 3+. The Dark Angels version I've played against a couple of times works like this: Azrael gives the re-roll hits and the 4++ Lt gives the re-roll 1s to wound Banner gives you the 4+ to shoot again on death Apothecary picks models back up, so they live again and can even die + shoot again Plasmaceptors drop in, shoot 3-damage plasma at things, and if they overcharge and die they get to do it again and can get picked back up anyway Everything deep strikes (in a pod or via jump packs) so it's protected on turn 1 and can show up to hit whatever is highest priority. Doing something similar with a big block of Guilliman or Pedro/LT and Hellblasters seems like it could be very effective.
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I could be wrong, but I thought plasma overcharge vaporizes the weapon user, so they wouldn't be able to muster a final shot with the banner. Is that only the case with an apothecary trying to revive a model?
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Corrode posted:Ancients are loving great and if you're going to have a big block of high-value, high-damage infantry like Hellblasters/Devs etc. then you absolutely want to include one. Give him the relic banner too so you're getting to shoot on a 3+. I'd say ancients are a MUST take for anyone looking to be competitive with Space Marines that isn't running flyer spam. It is a huge Alpha-Strike deterrent, much more than something easily avoided like Auspex scan. It works best with things like Hellblasters and Inceptors, but really anything will do. I'd say the least useful thing I've found is Devastators simply because Marine Heavy Weapons are just to god drat expensive, and Devastators are just to soft for such an expensive weapon platform. Early in 8th I gave Devastator spam a try, and while the firepower is great. Things like massed Mortars and other anti-infantry spam still takes them out pretty easily. Their other big problem is as a Marine player you can't really afford to sit still, and Devastators will constantly suffer move and shoot penalties, which do add up. My future list will likely include a single Devastator squad with 2x HB 2x ML just to benefit from the stratagems, but consist mostly of Primaris Marines beyond that. Even scouts feel the points pinch, because when you compare what you are getting for 11 points on a scout compared to 18 points on an Intercessor it is almost no contest outside of the special deployment. You don't need scouts to set up a screen within your own deployment zone, so really you need to figure out the optimal screen for each of the deployment maps, and figure out basically "what portions of a screen on this map require the presence of scouts?".
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TheBigAristotle posted:I could be wrong, but I thought plasma overcharge vaporizes the weapon user, so they wouldn't be able to muster a final shot with the banner. Nope, just any model removed a casualty has the option of either shooting or fighting again on a 4+ or 3+ sans relic banner. The circumstances of death are irrelevant. I'll also say that I think Apothecaries are worthless. You're better off just bringing a couple more Marines.
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Floppychop posted:Sternguard is your only real iffy unit. They're just a touch overpriced. No reason to drop an hq into the razorback though, since the sternguard + hqs would all go in the storm eagle to get dropped off in rapid fire range of stuff. I'm definitely struggling to figure out the meta, since there won't be multiples of non troops. I think it'll end up being things like big blocks of necron warriors, cultist bombs, guardians+wave serpents, and anything else that has good troops and dedicated transports.
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Uroboros posted:Nope, just any model removed a casualty has the option of either shooting or fighting again on a 4+ or 3+ sans relic banner. The circumstances of death are irrelevant. I'll also say that I think Apothecaries are worthless. I think the Apothecary has value in the list I described, because plasmaceptors are expensive and part of the value is having the very resilient block sitting right in your opponent's face. If you were going to have a Hellblaster-focused gunline though then yeah just take 2 more Hellblasters instead.
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Gunblades are real and they're the most effective weapon man has made since the AK-47.
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DrPop posted:Gunblades are real and they're the most effective weapon man has made since the AK-47. Ok so Bear with me for a sec So We take an Ak 47 and And We stick a blade on it and call it The AKnife-47 Holy poo poo
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DrPop posted:Gunblades are real and they're the most effective weapon man has made since the AK-47. Real life Custodian spotted.
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What would you suggest dropping to get an ancient? At 2k I have pedro, primaris lt, jump chaplain with fist of vengeance, 2x5 hellblasters and intercessors, 5 sniper scouts, 3 inceptors, 3 aggressors, 6 devs with 3 lc and hb, 5 vanguard (lightly equipped, one hammer and a few shields but mostly chainswords), redemptor, ironclad, and a lascannon razorback. I'm leaning towards dropping the razorback since with so few armor assets it can get focused on but I'm worried about my AT. Without it though I can fit an ancient and probably an apothecary. I could maybe replace it with a lascannon tarantula as well and see how that works chutche2 fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Apr 16, 2018 |
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Warhammer TV just announced on facebook the FAQ is dropping today. They're going to go through it on
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chutche2 posted:What would you suggest dropping to get an ancient? I'd trash the chaplain and Dreads and Razorback and turn that into more hellblasters and an Ancient personally. Zuul the Cat posted:Warhammer TV just announced on facebook the FAQ is dropping today. They're going to go through it on Finally. Excited to see whether all this wait was worth it.
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Uroboros posted:Nope, just any model removed a casualty has the option of either shooting or fighting again on a 4+ or 3+ sans relic banner. The circumstances of death are irrelevant. I'll also say that I think Apothecaries are worthless. I've yet to field the apothecary I got free from a friend, but the only place I've considered using him is near my aggressors. Not worth it? Won my escalation match for the third week running, had a big blob of snipers, devastators and intercessors and a captain and lieutenant nearby, aggressors off to the right on an objective and within 6 of the captain, and it was a lovely day. Helped that I killed the opposing predator with an autocannon on turn 1. And that it blew up after a command point re-roll of blowing up. I'm excited to throw my Primaris ancient into that firing line on the next round, 1500 points. Maybe break out the hellblasters, or another 5 intercessors.
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TheBigAristotle posted:I've yet to field the apothecary I got free from a friend, but the only place I've considered using him is near my aggressors. Not worth it? Apothecaries are only worth it near units like Terminators or Aggressors. That way they at least have a chance of bringing their points back. Completely not worth it near stuff like Tac Marines.
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Probably covered recently but are we expecting to see any other Primarchs on the 40k tabletop beyond Guilliman? I know they've had a few in 30k but I'm curious if they're expected to survive 10,000 years and show up at my local game store.
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TheBigAristotle posted:Probably covered recently but are we expecting to see any other Primarchs on the 40k tabletop beyond Guilliman? I know they've had a few in 30k but I'm curious if they're expected to survive 10,000 years and show up at my local game store. You could have a Dark Mechanicum magos with a servo-skull named "Ferrus Manus" I guess? 
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TheBigAristotle posted:Probably covered recently but are we expecting to see any other Primarchs on the 40k tabletop beyond Guilliman? I know they've had a few in 30k but I'm curious if they're expected to survive 10,000 years and show up at my local game store. There’s rumors all over the place but aside from Magnus and Mortarion who are already out nothing is anything more than rumor. Of course this FAQ hits the day I go on vacation and can’t really dig into it. I do look forward to seeing 697 new posts by the time I collapse into my hotel room tonight though.
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PantsOptional posted:There’s rumors all over the place but aside from Magnus and Mortarion who are already out nothing is anything more than rumor. They'll all be about Custodes, one way or another.
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The Lion is confirmed to be alive and well, sleeping deep in the Rock, so it's only a matter of time for him. Russ, the Khan, and probably Vulkan are loving around in the warp and/or the webway and could return whenever the plot requires. Dorn was never confirmed dead, only his hand (or hands, I forget which) was found. So he may well drop by at some point. Hopefully with giant power fists.
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Groetgaffel posted:Dorn was never confirmed dead, only his hand (or hands, I forget which) was found. So he may well drop by at some point. Hopefully with giant power fists. The Fist of Dorn is a hammer, so I'm gonna go ahead and expect hammerfists
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