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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:I'll probably go Castellan based on it not having a silly harpoon Objectively the worst opinion.
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Pendent posted:I just got back from preordering the Castellan. It's more useful for my army and I honestly like the look of the weapons better. I'm excited to paint mine in candycoat red to match my other knight, as well as finally getting around to painting my armigers. I'll need to build and probably magnetize another knight after that so I can do a proper detachment, which is a bit annoying. Hopefully I have enough angron red and don't need to figure out how to do my scheme with tamiya paints.
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I will probably just get the Helvarins and paint the four baby mechs before I decide how to move beyond that. Two Warglaives and a Helvarin is 502 points, so with my 998 points of painted DW I can have a full 1500 painted.
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I’ve run the chappy Dreadnought a few times with Deathwatch, it rules. Mine has Lascannons and bolters and sits with the 24” range boys providing antitank and assaulting if the opportunit presents itself. Keep a captain nearby and it’s hitting/wounding on rerollable 2’s with stratagems, and it’s a character so it qualifies for the ‘shoot before you die’ stratagem too.
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I'm sort of leaning toward House Hawkshroud as their homeworld is remarked to be particularly close to Baal and I'm trying to theme my army around Dante's war in the Imperium Nihilus. I'm not a fan of the fact that Hawkshroud is the obvious powergamer choice- at least so far- and I'm really not a fan of painting all that yellow. I feel like I might be able to get away with doing mostly black yellow trim which could be pretty fun to paint. House http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/House_Orhlacc is supposed to have served alongside the Blood Angels as well but I'm not completely convinced the paint scheme would go well with the rest of my stuff:  Edit2: Actually I feel like that might look really good with my darker than normal red for my Blood Angels. Hmmm. Pendent fucked around with this message at 23:55 on Jun 3, 2018 |
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Badablack posted:I’ve run the chappy Dreadnought a few times with Deathwatch, it rules. Mine has Lascannons and bolters and sits with the 24” range boys providing antitank and assaulting if the opportunit presents itself. Keep a captain nearby and it’s hitting/wounding on rerollable 2’s with stratagems, and it’s a character so it qualifies for the ‘shoot before you die’ stratagem too. Sit him in front of the Watch Master and just re-roll goddamn everything, including hits when some fool actually charges me Booley posted:I think the inferno cannon is great if you have a way to deliver it, otherwise the twin lascannon is great because it's not targetable, so you can stand in the back and snipe. I picked up the Inferno cannon, figure if I need a Lascannon I can swap it off my Deathwatch Ven Dread. The strength 6 is great against a couple Death Guard opponents I play against, and the 2 damage will help against all these dang FNPs floatin around
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How are you guys getting the Chaplain Dread in Deathwatch in BattleScribe (It’s so bad)? I’m struggling.
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No idea what Battlescribe’s problem is, but one of the FAQs lets you take all the forgeworld nonsense with all the marine factions, except grey knights I think.
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Harkano posted:How are you guys getting the Chaplain Dread in Deathwatch in BattleScribe (It’s so bad)? I’m struggling. For some reason whoever manages the marine and csm datafiles has put the FW options into a separate file. To add it, go to edit forces, click on the detachment you want to put the FW units in, click add, and then select Imperium - FW Adeptus Astartes or Chaos - FW Heretic Astartes. It'll add them as a child detachment, so it'll track them properly for unit count in the detachment. It won't track relic units properly, the FW detachment needs to be the parent for that to work.
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Pendent posted:I'm sort of leaning toward House Hawkshroud as their homeworld is remarked to be particularly close to Baal and I'm trying to theme my army around Dante's war in the Imperium Nihilus. I'm not a fan of the fact that Hawkshroud is the obvious powergamer choice- at least so far- and I'm really not a fan of painting all that yellow. I feel like I might be able to get away with doing mostly black yellow trim which could be pretty fun to paint. I think having a visual distinction in livery between the Blood Angels and a giant fuckoff stompy robit towering over them would be pretty thematic, I wouldn't sweat the difference.
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Im going castellan, partly because it has the same (scaled down) weapons as my warlord but the sheer hate it spits out at long range isnt a joke with the relic plasma.
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Hencoe posted:Im going castellan, partly because it has the same (scaled down) weapons as my warlord but the sheer hate it spits out at long range isnt a joke with the relic plasma. I’ve heard that mentioned a few times but haven’t seen the rules- can you shoot me a link? E: All I see is something on BOLS where basically the entire statline gets buffed by 1- baseline is Heavy D6, S8, AP-4 D2 and overcharged it goes up to S9 D 3. Seems pretty solid Pendent fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Jun 4, 2018 |
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How do you guys go about storing and transporting awkward models? The Foetid Bloat Drone from the Dark Imperium box seems perfectly designed to never fit securely in a carry case without putting pressure on some small vulnerable part of the model or joint.
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Jun 4, 2018 01:35
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I didn't get to participate in the bugeater GT this year because I was feeling like crap, but this was my favorite army there, painted by a friend of mine.
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Pendent posted:I’ve heard that mentioned a few times but haven’t seen the rules- can you shoot me a link? This video has pretty much the full codex. Relics are at the linked time.
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Pendent posted:I'm sort of leaning toward House Hawkshroud as their homeworld is remarked to be particularly close to Baal and I'm trying to theme my army around Dante's war in the Imperium Nihilus. I'm not a fan of the fact that Hawkshroud is the obvious powergamer choice- at least so far- and I'm really not a fan of painting all that yellow. I feel like I might be able to get away with doing mostly black yellow trim which could be pretty fun to paint. I have a knight painted in ohrlacc colors, it was a lot of fun to do. Paint your knight in the colors of the House of Weird Albino Mushroom People.
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xtothez posted:This video has pretty much the full codex. Relics are at the linked time. Nice, that profile I just found on Bolter and Chainsword was right. Being able to rip apart squads of Primaris without even overcharging sounds hilarious. Requires a Mechanicus allegiance but that’s not a huge deal. I think. tallkidwithglasses posted:I have a knight painted in ohrlacc colors, it was a lot of fun to do. Paint your knight in the colors of the House of Weird Albino Mushroom Do you mind posting a picture for me? Most of what I’ve been seeing online is a lighter purple than the color plate that I’m not really feeling as much.
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S.J. posted:I didn't get to participate in the bugeater GT this year because I was feeling like crap, but this was my favorite army there, painted by a friend of mine. Just like to say that for all the garishness of this colour scheme, the cherry blossom colour and the quality of the blending 100% makes this work.
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I absolutely loving love it. I love bright, colorful schemes.
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Cross-posting becase Immanentized is a loving boss. Thanks again for sending me that spear. 
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Pendent posted:Nice, that profile I just found on Bolter and Chainsword was right. Being able to rip apart squads of Primaris without even overcharging sounds hilarious. Requires a Mechanicus allegiance but that’s not a huge deal. I think. Personally im going raven because I use my knights with my skitarii, and advancing all the time is good but that stratagem of theirs on a castellan sounds absolutely terrifying.
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I’m a week late for walker weekend, but Bjorn is finally ready to crush the Thousand Sons just in time for the codex.  
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Hencoe posted:Personally im going raven because I use my knights with my skitarii, and advancing all the time is good but that stratagem of theirs on a castellan sounds absolutely terrifying. If I have to go with a Mechanicum allegiance to take that relic plasma gun I sort of want to do Taranis because they’re just sort of generally cool but that Raven Strategem sounds incredibly strong for sure.
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My first game of 8th went great. Played the basic bitch maelstrom scenario (cleanse?). My list: 1500 pts hive fleet Gorgon Broodlord [8 PL, 162pts]: Power: The Horror Hive Tyrant [11 PL, 239pts]: Adrenal Glands, Heavy Venom Cannon, Lash Whip and Monstrous Bonesword, Power: Catalyst, Power: The Horror, The Miasma Cannon, Toxin Sacs, Warlord, Warlord Trait: Lethal Miasma, Wings Genestealers [16 PL, 320pts]: 5x Acid Maw . 20x Genestealer: 20x Rending Claws, 20x Scything Talons, 20x Toxin Sacs Hormagaunts [6 PL, 55pts]: 11x Hormagaunt Termagants [9 PL, 180pts] 15x Termagant (Devourer)15x Termagant (Fleshborer) Venomthropes [5 PL, 90pts]: 3x Venomthrope Trygon Prime [10 PL, 212pts]: Adrenal Glands, 3x Massive Scything Talons, Toxin Sacs, Toxinspike Tyrannofex [11 PL, 239pts]: Rupture Cannon, Stinger Salvo, Toxin Sacs His list was Death guard, something like: Lord of Contagion Psyker guy 2 x 7 man plague marine squads with assorted stuff 2 x 10 man poxwalkers death guard demon tank drone leviathan dread with the gun that does d3 hits per 5 guys in target unit some sort of plague hauler I zinged up the table and scored some cards pretty fast, got up to 3 vp pretty quickly, but then got unlucky with tactical cards and got a bunch of poo poo I couldnt do. My tyrannofex took huge chunks out of both the levi dread and the tank. Flyrant shot the tank to death with his miasma cannon a turn later. Genestealers and termagants blew out all the poxwalkers but then my stealers got mired in a unit of death guard and the hauler and slowly got ground down due to my bad dice and his durability. My flyrant got in a melee battle with the lord of contation, whos 4++/4+++ was fuckin infurating and he tanked the flyrant for 4 turns before killing him, much to my dismay. When the flyrant went down, that gave him a 3 vp swing due to various cards and slaying my warlord. We ended the game tied 4-4 at the end of turn 4 because we ran out of time. Really awesome game, the nids played as I hoped they would. It was fast and dynamic with enough shooting to be dangerous. His list was much more tanky and at one point I was like "man I am kicking the poo poo out of him" but then the tables slowly turned and attrition was probably even at the end of 4.
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Hawkshroud gets a 4++ against MWs from powers though. That, their tradition, and the stratagem letting them do Greater Good overwatches is pretty great. Their warlord trait is okay, I'd probably just take the 4++ invuln.
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Pendent posted:Do you mind posting a picture for me? Most of what I’ve been seeing online is a lighter purple than the color plate that I’m not really feeling as much. I posted it for walker weekend but I love attention so here it is:  I didn’t find good manticore decals so I used parts of the legio gryphonicus transfer sheet.
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Also, Page 999 - TZEENTCH IS CALLING.
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So, I have a question for the Admech players out there- but really anyone can probably help me out! I know that Grey Knights are personae non gratae in the 8th edition, but would a detachment of them fielded with the adeptus mechanicus make any kind of sense? The Admech have no real defense in the physic phase unless they are from a certain Forgeworld, and the knights bring protection against that as well as close combat fighters. Bad idea? I really like the idea of being a Deimos/GK army, but I’d rather not throw away a few hundred bucks in the name of a fluffy list that will rarely if ever beat my pals.
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chutche2 posted:Hawkshroud gets a 4++ against MWs from powers though. That, their tradition, and the stratagem letting them do Greater Good overwatches is pretty great. Their warlord trait is okay, I'd probably just take the 4++ invuln. Hawkshroud can’t take the relic plasma gun that looks so fun. More than that I really don’t want to seem more power-gamey than I already do when I take a Knight. Hawkshroud is very, very good though yes. tallkidwithglasses posted:I posted it for walker weekend but I love attention so here it is: That looks amazing and is significantly far above my painting skill level. What’s your recipe for that blue?
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Hencoe posted:Personally im going raven because I use my knights with my skitarii, and advancing all the time is good but that stratagem of theirs on a castellan sounds absolutely terrifying. I had been looking at a Knight Valiant until I saw that relic and that strategem. Probably getting a Castellan now. Seems good.
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Is a Transcendent C'tan sufficient for taking out hard targets? Seems like a really flexible heavy option. ++ Battalion Detachment +5CP (Necrons) [77 PL, 1544pts] ++ Dynasty Choice: Dynasty: Sautekh + HQ + Cryptek [5 PL, 95pts]: Chronometron, Staff of Light Orikan the Diviner [6 PL, 115pts] Overlord [6 PL, 139pts]: Resurrection Orb, Voidscythe + Troops + Immortals [8 PL, 170pts]: Gauss Blaster, 10x Immortal Necron Warriors [12 PL, 240pts]: 20x Necron Warrior Necron Warriors [12 PL, 240pts]: 20x Necron Warrior + Heavy Support + Transcendent C'tan [12 PL, 225pts] + Dedicated Transport + Ghost Ark [8 PL, 160pts] Ghost Ark [8 PL, 160pts] ++ Outrider Detachment +1CP (Necrons) [25 PL, 454pts] ++ Dynasty Choice: Dynasty: Nephrekh + HQ + Cryptek [5 PL, 85pts]: Canoptek Cloak, Staff of Light + Fast Attack + Canoptek Scarabs [2 PL, 39pts]: 3x Canoptek Scarab Swarm Canoptek Wraiths [9 PL, 165pts]: 3x Canoptek Wraith Canoptek Wraiths [9 PL, 165pts]: 3x Canoptek Wraith ++ Total: [102 PL, 1998pts] ++
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Hot Dog Day #82 posted:So, I have a question for the Admech players out there- but really anyone can probably help me out! I know that Grey Knights are personae non gratae in the 8th edition, but would a detachment of them fielded with the adeptus mechanicus make any kind of sense? The Admech have no real defense in the physic phase unless they are from a certain Forgeworld, and the knights bring protection against that as well as close combat fighters. If you really want anti-Psyker stuff, I'd probably go with an Inquisitor Supreme Command. They're Imperium keyworded so their leadership aura and powers work and they are reasonably effective combat units with a Storm Bolter and Power Maul for 61 points. The other efficient option is an Assassin vanguard. 1 Culexis can put a bit of hurt on a psyker and you can fill it out with a couple of Eversors.
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NovemberMike posted:If you really want anti-Psyker stuff, I'd probably go with an Inquisitor Supreme Command. They're Imperium keyworded so their leadership aura and powers work and they are reasonably effective combat units with a Storm Bolter and Power Maul for 61 points. The other efficient option is an Assassin vanguard. 1 Culexis can put a bit of hurt on a psyker and you can fill it out with a couple of Eversors. Assassin vanguard is an interesting idea, thanks! I can get to 1000 points with what I have plus vanguard, which is what my friends and I have agreed upon to stay at for a while. I’ll mainly be facing 1000 sons and the death guard, both of which it looks like the assassins would be effective against.
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Have they said if the Armiger Autocannons will be available outside a Helverin box? I've got two unassembled Armigers from a Forgebane box, and I'd love to magnetize them so that I can swap them between Helverins and Warglaives.
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Duct Tape posted:Have they said if the Armiger Autocannons will be available outside a Helverin box? I've got two unassembled Armigers from a Forgebane box, and I'd love to magnetize them so that I can swap them between Helverins and Warglaives. They haven't officially said but I really, really, really, really doubt you'll be able to buy them officially from GW. You can get them off ebay, though.
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I've been toying with Astra Militarium detachments with my AdMech. It allows me to get cheap troops to clog up the board and soak up smite damage. You can build a battalion for next to nothing. I've been testing Primaris Psykers as my HQs. It's been underwhelming, but it gives me something.
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:They haven't officially said but I really, really, really, really doubt you'll be able to buy them officially from GW. You can get them off ebay, though. Unless we see recastings I suspect getting bits will be super rare.
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There's also not much hope for finding them on eBay since that's all that kit makes. Although Wyvern guns would probably be the next best thing.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Unless we see recastings I suspect getting bits will be super rare. Is it a dual kit with the warglave? If so I could see some appearing on there, but they will probably be so expensive it's better just buying the kit.
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