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chutche2 posted:You should model a servitor with a rag polishing the knight. 
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Well following Booley with my potato phone pics. More hive fleet Working Title nids  
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Shockeh posted:For gently caress’s sake Booley.
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Agentdark posted:Is it worth it to get Aggressors and Reivers for Fortis Kill Teams? I'd say Aggressors yes, Reivers no.
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PaintVagrant posted:Well following Booley with my potato phone pics. More hive fleet Working Title nids objectively even with casual phone pics I can tell these are just as awesome as that knight, subjectively I like them a lot more
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Yeah I think Reivers are solid on their own, tbh. Special issue ammo on their bolt pistols is a nice threat, especially once they're in combat. I've played a couple games with them and found that sending them after back-line heavy support is pretty effective. Plus I personally love their comically-huge knives
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Reivers are okay, don’t bother with their assault guns though, stick with the pistols. I’ve run 5 of them in 10 man fortis teams that were combat squadded and deepstruck the reivers for scoring backfield units. Remember that enemies in multiple floor buildings reduce your deepstrike range by 3” per floor and you ignore height with the grapple guns. So you can deepstrike in 3-6” away depending which floor they’re on but then charge in without worrying about floors for easy assaults on guys hiding in buildings. Aggressors are just great.
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I'm considering selling my beastmen (they are collecting dust) and I have no idea what to ask for them. Ghorgon (Imperial Knight) https://imgur.com/a/dSQt9HH Shaman (psyker), Nork, Bullgryns https://imgur.com/a/S7aFUbG Wargors (Scions) https://imgur.com/a/1OJCdwH Centaurs (Rough Riders) https://imgur.com/a/qQe0fEG Gors (Guardsmen) https://imgur.com/a/hg6ypE1 Vehicles https://imgur.com/a/DufwDmJ comes also with an 8th ed codex, Beastlord, and converted Commissar. Not sure on the points.
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OhDearGodNo posted:I'm considering selling my beastmen (they are collecting dust) and I have no idea what to ask for them. Please don't sell this army. You obviously put such a huge amount of love into creating it that it would break my goon heart to see you get rid of it. I'm sure you'd end up regretting it down the road too because it's just so incredibly good.
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Pendent posted:Please don't sell this army. You obviously put such a huge amount of love into creating it that it would break my goon heart to see you get rid of it. I'm sure you'd end up regretting it down the road too because it's just so incredibly good. Thanks- but why? I mean the fun part is making it. After that what? I’m just thinking it over for now.
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Badablack posted:Reivers are okay, don’t bother with their assault guns though, stick with the pistols. I’ve run 5 of them in 10 man fortis teams that were combat squadded and deepstruck the reivers for scoring backfield units. Remember that enemies in multiple floor buildings reduce your deepstrike range by 3” per floor and you ignore height with the grapple guns. So you can deepstrike in 3-6” away depending which floor they’re on but then charge in without worrying about floors for easy assaults on guys hiding in buildings. Do you equip them with grav-chutes and grapple guns?
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I’ve sold a couple really heavily converted armies, and yeah like Legos it’s making the army that’s the fun part. I’ll never sell them to random eBay bidders though, it’s always been to someone who is genuinely excited to use it and isn’t just trying to pick up cheap lots to resell on the sly. It’s cool to see what people do with what you’ve made, and how they end up painting it up (better than I could). I try to stay in contact with them or follow them on their instafacebookgur accounts to watch their progress. Plus gotta make money to waste money. TheBigAristotle posted:Do you equip them with grav-chutes and grapple guns? The kill team reivers can’t take grav chutes, only the elite slot versions. Also, depending on rules interpretations and possible FAQs you might end up needing to burn a CP to deepstrike them, since while both killteam and elite slot versions of reivers can take the launchers, the elite slot version’s rules blurb is the one that says they can deepstrike if they’re all equipped with them. Which I would assume works on the other version too but I’m not a GW writer so who knows. Badablack fucked around with this message at 02:10 on Jun 25, 2018 |
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Autism Sneaks posted:objectively even with casual phone pics I can tell these are just as awesome as that knight, subjectively I like them a lot more Thanks! I feel like I have captured the proper balance between fast to paint and decent looking.
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Stephenls posted:You gonna do any armigers in that red? Yes, my next thing will be either a third knight or some armigers. Transfers go on last.
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 B-B-BATTLE REPORTFellow goon and all-around great guy Merton Blask came over today to play a game of 40k and help me practice for NoVA. 2,000 points, NoVA rules, playing the first round NoVA mission (Crusade). My Army:  Warlord: Abaddon Detachments: 2 (2 Battalions) Total CP: 15 2 squads x 20 cultists 4 squads x 5 chaos marines (1 plasma each) 1 squad of Raptors w/MoK, icon Chaos Lord w/Murdersword, MoK, Jump Pack <--- the Chaos Lord carved the name of Blask's Cryptek into the sword's blade before the game 2x Sorcerer w/MoS (1 has the Eye of Night) Rhino full of Berserkers w/Chainaxe Fire Raptor 140 points for summoning Merton Blask's Army:  Warlord: Some idiot Cryptek w/Surfboard Detachments: 2 (Battalion + something else I think) Total CP: 9 Szeras Command Barge Necron Lord Triarch Stalker 2x Scarab squads 2x Tesseract Ark 1 squad of 6 Destroyers 1 squad of 19 Warriors 2x Squads of 5 Tesla Immortals The Game: Crusade is pretty straightforward - standard terrain + objective deployment, as shown below. I kind of like the NoVA terrain layout, and was glad I'd gotten some hills recently. The way the mission works, you score objectives held at the end of every turn, plus you pick three secondary objectives from a list before the game, and can score up to 12 points from those. There's also some stuff about engineers that I didn't really do anything with. I'm not sure how important it is. My secondary objectives were: Old School (+1 point each for killing a unit T1, on T6, slay the warlord, and linebreaker), Moment of Bloodshed (+1 VP when you kill 2+ units in a turn), and Marked for Death (pick 4 units, score 1 VP for each one killed. I picked Szeras, the Cryptek Warlord, and the two squads of Immortals). Blask took Moment of Bloodshed, Reconnaissance (+1 VP for having a unit wholly within each table quarter at the end of a turn), and Strike the Rank and File (+1 VP for each turn where an enemy troop was killed or +1 point if none were on the table). Deployment was along the long table edges, up to 12" in. I won the roll for deployment, and decided to deploy second, having 1 unit fewer than Merton Blask, which helped me go first as well.  Highlights - The Fire Raptor put in some work, opening on T1 by using its Prescience boost to house Blask's Catacomb Command Barge. Unfortunately, the Barge promptly stood right back up with 1 wound (though I still got the point, so that helped), gained another 2 at the start of his turn, and charged right into the Fire Raptor in close combat! The Raptor survived, but would later get shot down by the Triarch Stalker after switching to Hover mode to take out a squad of Warriors.  - Specifically, this squad of warriors, who Merton Blask dropped right behind me on his T1 using the Veil of Darkness. They caught me by surprise, but didn't do much and get blown off the board by an Avenger Bolt Cannon.  - The Cultists put in some real work capping objectives and being ignored, while using VotLW to cause extra wounds when it was least convenient for Blask. They also killed the squads of Scarabs. - Blask's LED army is extremely pretty. It almost made me sad that I spent most of the game ignoring these beautiful Tesseract Arks, but I got over it because they're a pain in the rear end to deal with and I was able to kill almost everything else.  - My plan was to run the Berserker Rhino up the flank and use them to wipe out the Immortals. This mostly worked, as I was able to avoid being surrounded early on by Scarabs, then when the Rhino was blown up by a Triarch Stalker, the Berserkers were able to get out with only two losses and still make it into combat with both Immortal squads. I got in two awful rounds of combat and decided to spend the 3CP to get a third, which helped wipe one out and set me up to destroy the other the following turn. That scored me +2 VP  - I perils'd twice in the same turn trying to Smite Merton's Necron Warriors. Rolled boxcars both times, lost 3W on one sorcerer and 2 on the other. - I dropped Abaddon, the Jump Pack Chaos Lord, and the Raptors on T2. I put the Raptors and Chaos Lord behind Merton, hoping to kill his Cryptek/Warlord with them. Except I missed the charge with the Chaos Lord, didn't kill the Cryptek with my raptors, and spent the next 3 turns chasing him around. Abaddon I dropped into my 3 MSU chaos man squads. Merton dropped his Destroyers nearby on his T2 after I wiped out his warriors and Necron Lord, and while he killed a few mans, he also had to deal with charging Abaddon, who swung in and killed 4 Destroyers (3 regenerated the following turn!)  - The Berserkers finished off both squads of Immortals, then mulched Szeras and helped the Cultists finish off the Triarch Stalker in close combat (it was p funny). Meanwhile, the Raptors continued to gently caress up at killing the Cryptek, and got shot in the face to death by Tesseract Arks. - Some time around the end of turn 3, I remembered I had left 140 points for summoning poo poo, and it was too late to use them. God dammit! Gotta avoid making mistakes like that at NoVA. - Blask makes a big mistake putting his Cryptek on the other side of this wall, thinking it safe. But he's only 8" away from my jump pack chaos lord, who then hopped the wall and charged the Cryptek to the tune of 4 mortal wounds, killing him and scoring me 2 VPs in the process. - By the end of T4 we were running up on my hard stop and it was looking good for me--I still had 7 berserkers, 2 squads of mostly full cultists, a somewhat Injured Abaddon (who was about to kill the last 2 destroyers), and a jump pack Chaos lord to his two destroyers and two Tesseract Arks. So we called it. Final VP score: 22 - 12, CHAOS WINS! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9FImc2LOr8 Merton Blask brought a beautiful army and was fun to play against. I had a blast. 12/10, would clown on again. Final Thoughts: - Forgetting your summoning points is bad. Don't do it. - I probably need more cultists. 10 Cultists is way better than an MSU marine squad and the two 20-man squads I had were great at tying up objectives. - Abaddon owns. The Fire Raptor is still pretty great. - The Berserkers were pretty solid, and the Rhino held up. Not sure about the Raptors, though. They may have just rolled poorly, but they didn't do much. - I like the secondary objectives nature of NoVA missions. It's a cool twist that lets you tailor your chosen objectives to your strategy. TheChirurgeon fucked around with this message at 03:27 on Jun 25, 2018 |
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Is that really good painting or do those Necrons have LED lighting?
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Merton's been wiring all his dudes with LEDs. He can tell you more about his insane endeavor
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Jesus how do you even wire up a necron Warrior, it’s just a skeleton!
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Badablack posted:Reivers are okay, don’t bother with their assault guns though, stick with the pistols. I’ve run 5 of them in 10 man fortis teams that were combat squadded and deepstruck the reivers for scoring backfield units. Remember that enemies in multiple floor buildings reduce your deepstrike range by 3” per floor and you ignore height with the grapple guns. So you can deepstrike in 3-6” away depending which floor they’re on but then charge in without worrying about floors for easy assaults on guys hiding in buildings. Wait how does the range reduction work?
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Badablack posted:Jesus how do you even wire up a necron Warrior, it’s just a skeleton! The same way you get to Carnegie Hall!  (Robot practice, practice, practice.) 
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Wait how does the range reduction work? Deep strike is 9 inches away base to base, so if one of the units is on the second or higher level of a ruin, you'll be 9 inches away on a diagonal. If your unit can fly or otherwise ignore vertical movement, this means your charge distance is lower than usual.
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ro5s posted:Deep strike is 9 inches away base to base, so if one of the units is on the second or higher level of a ruin, you'll be 9 inches away on a diagonal. If your unit can fly or otherwise ignore vertical movement, this means your charge distance is lower than usual. Okay, so it was a diagonal.
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Squid billies are done, just need the bases finished. 
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PaintVagrant posted:Squid billies are done, just need the bases finished. I painted these a long time ago as a unit of ten counts-as Plaguebearers, but I just converted two of them to have "equipment" represented. The one with the light face and ornate head is the leader of the squad, the one with the skeleton rising up from its back is the banner bearer, and the one covered in animals has the instrument of Chaos. Thematically I wanted these to be plants come to life through the warping power of Chaos, so having them carry equipment seemed off. I liked the idea of hooting owls, chattering monkeys, and squawking parrots being "music" to these Daemons.  Here's an older picture of them with two counts-as Daemon Princes of Nurgle. 
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Does no one use the lawn murder drone? Is it bad?
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ro5s posted:Deep strike is 9 inches away base to base, so if one of the units is on the second or higher level of a ruin, you'll be 9 inches away on a diagonal. If your unit can fly or otherwise ignore vertical movement, this means your charge distance is lower than usual. Bear in mind 3" per floor isn't a real rule. You have to measure it properly, so a short 2-level ruin won't necessarily be 9" high.
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Irate Tree posted:Does no one use the lawn murder drone? Is it bad? I have one because who the gently caress cares if it's bad. It's got a loving combat lawn mower on it. As to the constant pricing arguments, urgh, seriously guys. You're basically all right (other than the person saying they make multi kits to justify price point, you're not right, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard) - pricing is a mix of customer expectations, mold cost, production time (not cost, the actual materials cost is negligible but the amount of time a kit takes to make on the machines is not necessarily), projected sale quantity, and a few other minor factors. Also, the knight character box will be replacing the current knight kit (as the warden has now effectively replaced the paladin) and be £10 more.
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Badablack posted:Reivers are okay, don’t bother with their assault guns though, stick with the pistols. I’ve run 5 of them in 10 man fortis teams that were combat squadded and deepstruck the reivers for scoring backfield units. Remember that enemies in multiple floor buildings reduce your deepstrike range by 3” per floor and you ignore height with the grapple guns. So you can deepstrike in 3-6” away depending which floor they’re on but then charge in without worrying about floors for easy assaults on guys hiding in buildings. I'm not sure I really get Reivers. If they had a little more going for them in melee they'd be great but the Sergeant needs a power fist or something. Aggressors are awesome in Fortis Kill Teams, always run them.
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Sweet zombie jesus lads keep up the good work with all the painted hams, really slaying it last couple of pages. I am currently inspired to do some yellow metallics for my fists and then if they work possible my knights as well, wish me luck
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone do actual yellow metallics? Tamiya has a clear yellow, but I dunno which metal you’d use as a base for it. Chrome? Maybe a really pale gold?
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Badablack posted:I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone do actual yellow metallics? Tamiya has a clear yellow, but I dunno which metal you’d use as a base for it. Chrome? Maybe a really pale gold? I have started! Keep in mind super WIP at the moment and the yellow will fill out and dull down with the next coat and then a glaze + weathering  
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Just curious about the 3x 5 man marine squads, how did they get on? Trying to fit Marines into my Black legion list, is MSU a good choice?
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Badablack posted:I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone do actual yellow metallics? Tamiya has a clear yellow, but I dunno which metal you’d use as a base for it. Chrome? Maybe a really pale gold? Their clear paint is really thick - it seems like I need a dedicated brush for them. I do not have an airbrush, so not sure how to thin those. Killer_Bees! posted:I have started! Also these are brilliant, please post the final product once you are done. They look almost gold - I wonder if they will look better than retributor/auric gold for Custodes.
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Merton Blask posted:The same way you get to Carnegie Hall!  I have seen into the abyssEdit: Speaking of Deathwatch Reivers - what are people doing for their shoulder pads (also a little bit aggressors and inceptors, but I care for them less as they look dumb.)
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Killer_Bees! posted:I have started! GW's yellow wash is really yellow and goes on really well. Used it over copper for the gold bits on my Skitarii and TPD.
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I just need to add a bit of highlight to the fatigues but I'm really happy with how my Kasrkin test model has come out. I'm kicking myself for selling all but 20 of my Kasrkin models.  
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Irate Tree posted:Does no one use the lawn murder drone? Is it bad? It's a 10 wound flyer and those plaguespitters are auto-hit assault d6 weapons. Don't know if it's worth the points for competitive play or whatever, but it was  when my buddy tried to charge it from 8" away with some intercessors and inceptors. Wiped out most of the intercessors on overwatch then finished them off in melee. Inceptors managed to take it down next round, but not before I got the chance to fall back and fire again at them, leaving them with nothing more than a wounded sergeant left in the squad to finish off the bloat-drone. He did... and it exploded, killing him. It's a very fun unit.And some rando kept trying to buy or trade it off me while my buddy and I were playing, so I'm guessing it's probably useful in competitive play too. Or the dude was just a nurgle fanatic.
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Foul Ole Ron posted:Just curious about the 3x 5 man marine squads, how did they get on? Trying to fit Marines into my Black legion list, is MSU a good choice? On the whole, I think I'd have been better off taking Cultists, but I only had about 40 or so painted up to use. They worked out alright. I took them as 4 bolters plus a plasma gun, both for a little extra oomph and to take advantage of the legion trait (it never really came into play though). I'll probably end up taking at least a couple of squads to NoVA just because I won't be able to make massive cultist blobs work.
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Played at flying Monkey Major GT. Got second with my fw hellhound/hammer Bros/castellan list. Only lost to my teammate who was playing basically the same list. Played on the stream against my teammate round 5, so that was fun. And a Warhog was on the stream for 5-6 games. Hellhounds are super good and the castellan is real good drat life. The valant didn't make it up to the top tables ever and shooty amagers are fine but could be 20 points cheaper. Not getting any real buffs from strats or auras super hurt them. And they are pretty fragile.
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