Safety Factor posted:

tallkidwithglasses posted:

Generally speaking most cheats come off looking like sloppy play- it’s plausible deniability if the cheater gets called out by a particular opponent. It’s definitely taught as a warning sign to identifying potential cheaters in things like tournament MtG.

A common way to run the cheats in a tourney is to play fast and sloppy but “coincidentally” have the mistakes work out to your benefit, and then if your opponent calls a judge, play dumb and try to talk formal warnings down to informal cautions so your record of judge calls on you isn’t fully recorded.

BuffaloChicken posted:

PaintVagrant is back?? It's my ham dream come true!

At long last, the counts-as Grand Master Nemesis Dreadknight is done for my Grey Knights army of Squats. Really took my time painting it so it would be a suitable centerpiece.

I posted these WIP things long ago, but here they are again for reference. Original concept mocked up on Photoshop:



Mid-conversion, with beard template in place:



Ready for primer. The dumb idea here is that the the Squat on top reads the books, forges a lightning bolt-shaped "narrative," then loads it into the hopper so it can shoot out the cannon (canon). GET IT?



And here's the paint. Unfortunately I'm linking these photos from our Facebook group, so the image host quality is real low. Everything is sharper, more saturated, and has more contrast in real life.



The thick book has a hammer reminiscent of the rulebook cover, the thinner book says "CODEX SQUATS," and the open book has some things vaguely reminiscent of 8th edition datasheets.



The plant was fun to paint - reminds me of PaintVagrant's Tyranids from earlier in this post.

Corrode posted:

There was more crap still to deploy in the middle there, too

e: This is the event model:

Corrode posted:

There was more crap still to deploy in the middle there, too

e: This is the event model:

Safety Factor posted:

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

Competitive40K.jpg

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

Competitive40K.jpg

Artum posted:

Thing is even if the terrain was painted itd still be poo poo.

Corrode posted:

Like 2 of the top 10 were static gunlines, the rest were super fast, aggressive and mobile

Corrode posted:

Yep. I'd still have been annoyed at the TOs for putting that poo poo out even if it was "finished."

chutche2 posted:

Current bigly progress

Booley posted:

Nice biglies. They look kinda like 30k world eaters.

chutche2 posted:

They do yeah. They're crimson fists but I find the normal crimson fists scheme to be boring.

chutche2 posted:

Pedro Kantor is about as khornate as loyalist characters can get tbh. +1 attack to all models? Hell yeah.

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

The stepped foamcore look is one of the most accessible ways of getting terrain quickly on the board. Unfortunately it also looks really terrible unless you spend time flocking, basing, and doing all the stuff that these guys clearly failed to do. And even then it runs the risk of still looking like stepped pieces of foamcore.

panascope posted:

WARHAMMER ADVENTURES

Yeah I’m on the writing team for this, check out some of my ideas:

In this issue, little Jimmy, a latent psyker, is collected by the Imperium to join the eternal choir of the Astronomicon. Follow this fascinating adventure as a pre-pubescent child is forced into a coffin and sentenced to death to keep the Emperor's soul engine alive.

In next week's issue: Billy, a slave trainee in the starboard gun decks, joins the feud against the port side gunners. He has never seen sunlight.

The hive world of Sh'it Hole VII is home to our next character, Tommy. The son of a Genestealer Hybrid, this horrid monstrosity is forced to tunnel in pitch blackness underneath the imperial guard armory where his father will liberate several Baneblades. In six months he'll be fed directly to a Tyranid bio-ship and utterly forgotten. Don't forget to buy your Genestealer Hybrids kit on the Games Workshop website!

Little Sanjeev thought he had it all. A dilapidated hovel covered in mold, a 20 hour a day job building lasguns at ADEPTUS MECHANICUS LASGUN MANUFACTORY ZETA-NU 442.782. But one day he forgot to say the Canticle of Fastening before making the third sub-assembly required for a complete lasgun fabrication, and he's about to find out that being a servitor is harder than it looks.

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

All Maximus wanted to do was grow up to be big and strong like his dad. He trained every day, following around the PDF troopers until he became a sort of mascot. He was a great shot, always cleaned his lasgun, and after his father passed in the line of duty he was considered for the Schola Progenium. On the day he was scheduled to ship out his organs were liquefied along with everyone else's when his home planet was virus bombed by order of Inquisitor Kryptman in preparation for the diversion of Hive Fleet Leviathan into the Ork Empire of Octarius.

When little Julia grew up, she was told over and over again about the glory of the God-Emperor of Mankind and the perversions of xenos filth. When her home world became friends with the strange gray aliens with the large robots she knew exactly what to do. Follow the adventures of Julia as she impotently resists the Greater Good and discovers the value of reeducation and summary execution.

As a baby Glort loved playing in the shores of the chem pools where his hovel was located deep inside the Underhive of Hive Primus. He fondly remembers the warmth of his father's tentacles as they tossed him in the air, or the soft touch of his mother's crab claw. Will Glort make friends with the new family of people with the red hoods that moved in next door, or will his unholy flesh be cleansed by the purifying fire of the Redemptionist Crusade? Purge your own mutants with Gang War IX!

Amelia was a bright child, the pride of the Planetary's Governor's family. Her father encourages her to study from the vast library that the family had accrued over countless generations. She was a prolific reader, always engrossing herself in the stories and pretty pictures. Follow along with Amelia as her naïve search for knowledge unwittingly tears a hole in the fabric of reality and condemns an entire solar system to damnation and the predations of Chaos!

Most menials have little to hope for, but plucky young Adam always dreamed of saving enough Thrones to buy his way into something greater. He had his heart set on one day escaping his chores at a noble house and seeking out an apprenticeship; if only the Tech Adepts saw what he could do they would whisk him away to Mars and perhaps he could work on machines! His dreams ended when he found himself between the Lord of the manor and the Eversor sent to purge the household for techno-heresy. Preorder Codex: Imperial Agents this weekend!

dexefiend posted:

Venoms are ridiculously durable for a 75 point model that gets to carry 5 guys that can shoot out.

-1 to hit AND 5+ invulnerable with 6 wounds ... it's at the sweet spot of being good against everything.

Why can't Primaris be equivalently awesome!?

BULBASAUR posted:

hey guys I heard templates are back

Artum posted:

Tbh its getting to that point. Theres nothing i'd like more than to fire a classic demolisher cannon at the local dangle players firing square of 25 heavy hellblasters under a darkshroud and azrael.

Shockeh posted:

The easy non-template way to replicate templates would be to have a standard Shots X option that scales with the size of the target unit.

Shockeh posted:

The easy non-template way to replicate templates would be to have a standard Shots X option that scales with the size of the target unit.

Eifert Posting posted:

Vindicators are the handsomest paper weight.

Artum posted:

It's more about hitting multiple units than hitting one unit more times. It'd be nice if units took a fixed-ish number of hits still so you don't have to space models out anally but there was some element of hitting nearby units additionally to punish blobbing up like that.

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

Honestly I miss templates.