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I'm bringing a battalion to Da Boyz, I've got 5 intercessors with bolt rifles, a squad of vets (with shotguns, storm shields, a terminator with powerfist/melta/flamer, and a frag cannon and infernus bolter) and the 10 with storm bolters. Watch Master, Captain with jump pack, combi-melta and Xenophase blade, chaplain dreadnought. Combine that with the Space Wolves ally, and I think we have a solid combo of anti-tank, close combat, deep strike and anti-horde. Gotta find a way to crowbar a storm shield into that storm bolter unit. I'm on exactly 1k points now, so it should be interesting.
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Zasze posted:
Alright yeah, that does look pretty good. And goddamn I forgot how bad chaos looked next to primaris, I've been painting tyranids and orks for so long.
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Nov 3, 2018 19:05
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Nov 3, 2018 20:56
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richyp posted:
Good job with the scale creep, Game$ Work$hit
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Nov 3, 2018 21:12
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Can we get an image of that with a Deathwatch Kill Team member as well? I'm curious.
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Nov 3, 2018 21:21
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Zasze posted:
Also I got a box of 4th-ed (or maybe 5th-ed) era Crisis Battlesuit set because it was going for (relatively) cheap. I think I might have a problem.
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Yvonmukluk posted:Also I got a box of 4th-ed (or maybe 5th-ed) era Crisis Battlesuit set because it was going for (relatively) cheap. I think I might have a problem. Yeah you bought Tau.
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Nov 3, 2018 22:12
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Crisis Suits are cool as hell. They've just got garbage points costs.
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Nov 3, 2018 22:13
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Yvonmukluk posted:Goshdarnit, I just today bought a squad of Devastators as conversion fodder for truscale SMs and they're already starting to redo the existing ranges in a more realistic scale? Curses! Oh well. Presumably they will (eventually) also update the loyalists to be this sort of scale. Unless they're going to handwave it as CSMs are taller than their non-Primaris counterparts since they're of Great Crusade-era stock. I think most of us here would be shocked if GW ever produced a non-primaris loyalist SM kit ever again.
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Nov 3, 2018 22:15
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bonds0097 posted:I think most of us here would be shocked if GW ever produced a non-primaris loyalist SM kit ever again. I can see them doing new non-Primaris Grey Knights at some point, but yeah just standard Space Marines seems unlikely.
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Digital Jesus posted:What are your thoughts overall? I just picked up the book, but I’ve been out of the game a long time so dunno how it holds up. Overall I think it'll be fun to play. I'm disappointed but not surprised that characters on bikes got left behind. Some stuff is still too many points to use, IMO (Stompas, Trukks, and Flashgitz come to mind). I always was a speed freek type player so I'm hyped about the new buggies but bummed at Evil Sunz having a trash relic and the Wartrike boss not being able to take any of the weapon relics.
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Nov 3, 2018 22:22
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bonds0097 posted:I think most of us here would be shocked if GW ever produced a non-primaris loyalist SM kit ever again. At this point I would be shocked if GW released a SM model that wasn't a Primaris Lieutenant.
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Nov 3, 2018 22:24
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richyp posted:Yeah you bought Tau. Imagine buying those lovely gundams Beer4TheBeerGod posted:At this point I would be shocked if GW released a SM model that wasn't a Primaris Lieutenant. Personally I'm looking forward to Codex: Primaris Lieutenants
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Nov 3, 2018 22:50
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Corrode posted:Imagine buying those lovely gundams I think you'll find they have more in common with (check's anime sites) Macross/Macros/Marcos.
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Nov 3, 2018 23:11
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Shame about the boss trike not being able to take weapon relics but that is about what I thought would be the case. Guess I'll be sticking with my home built boss on bike.
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richyp posted:I think you'll find they have more in common with (check's anime sites) Macross/Macros/Marcos. whatever, weeb
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Nov 3, 2018 23:43
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Just flipped through my ork codex and honestly im a little disappointed there isnt a big spread on the octarius war. Other than that though it owns.
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Corrode posted:whatever, weeb Guy Goodbody posted:Not all anime robots are the same. No reasonable person would mix up a Scopedog with a LFO, or a Patlabor with the Big O
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I think anime is...weird, but, I also think it would be super funny and great if this thread got moved to the anime subforum for a month (please mods for Christmas)
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Harvey Mantaco posted:I think anime is...weird, but, I also think it would be super funny and great if this thread got moved to the anime subforum for a month (please mods for Christmas) I understand this thread isn’t what it once was but openly advocating for its murder is too much.
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richyp posted:I think you'll find they have more in common with (check's anime sites) Macross/Macros/Marcos. While the larger Tau suits, Crisis Suits and above, take clear design cues from Macross, the Stealth suits actually remind me a lot of the powered armor from the Starship Troopers anime. And their three eye lenses could easily be a reference to the famous three eye lenses on a Scopedog. It makes sense that the Stealth Suits would visually reference VOTOMS, as the Stealth Suit is the best Tau robot.
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Guy Goodbody posted:While the larger Tau suits, Crisis Suits and above, take clear design cues from Macross, the Stealth suits actually remind me a lot of the powered armor from the Starship Troopers anime. And their three eye lenses could easily be a reference to the famous three eye lenses on a Scopedog. And which ones are the prepubescent girls?
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Booley posted:And which ones are the prepubescent girls? I don't think Tau or VOTOMS has any little girl characters. I don't know about Starship Troopers, I haven't seen that.
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Guy Goodbody posted:I don't think Tau or VOTOMS has any little girl characters. I'm sure you're disappointed.
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richyp posted:
I like to think that the tiny skull on top of his horns is actually a periscope.
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  Serious question! What would you feel comfortable with an opponent of yours classifying these walkers as? They are each 6.5" tall, with the main cylinder circumference just over 2" across (the legs take up about 4-4.5" per side). I considered calling them Onagers, but these are significantly larger. Ideally I had hoped I'd sized them to be Imperial knight-ish, and the height of Knights seems to be roughly 7". Would classifying them as a pair of Armiger Helverins seem fair? I have zero experience with Imperial Knights, but I doubt they're close to Questoris and definitely not Dominus. I don't want to be that guy trying to claim his bizarre scratch built stuff is vastly overpowered for its size. Most of my other stuff I'm just going to call various forms of Grav-Rhinos, but these things I'm not sure on.
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Yo you put those on a table in front of me and they can be whatever the hell you want them to be: Celestine, a daemon prince, a Primaris Lieutenant. (But yeah they are roughly an inch taller Armiger scale.)
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knocked out an RTT win today with PRIMARY DARK ANGELS. Those HQ speeders are pretty cute. Opponents were a pretty competent tau gun line, new orks with like 160 boys, wagon, gorkanaught(still trash), and 3 crusaders+warden knight list.
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VolatileSky posted:
They look like great necromunda terrain
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VolatileSky posted:
Yeah I could see them as Helvarins.
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Naramyth posted:knocked out an RTT win today with PRIMARY DARK ANGELS. Those HQ speeders are pretty cute. Opponents were a pretty competent tau gun line, new orks with like 160 boys, wagon, gorkanaught(still trash), and 3 crusaders+warden knight list. Did your ork player teleport the Gorkanaught? Odd that it underperormed if it did. I’ve got to say that deep striking ork dreads is my new favourite thing. I demolished a resident tau player this morning with a teleporting megadread, 3 deffdreads and some da jumped boyz. Then I shot down his tiger shark fighter bomber with a dakkajet and some tractor cannons. I ground him out for another turn and he quit when I consolidated a dread into his broadside. It was the first loss he had all campaign and he’s already threatened to pull the pin on the whole campaign 
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krursk posted:It was the first loss he had all campaign and he’s already threatened to pull the pin on the whole campaign Tau players, why do they all fit the stereotype so completely 
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Megillah Gorilla posted:I like to think that the tiny skull on top of his horns is actually a periscope. It's his actual head
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Guy Goodbody posted:While the larger Tau suits, Crisis Suits and above, take clear design cues from Macross, the Stealth suits actually remind me a lot of the powered armor from the Starship Troopers anime. And their three eye lenses could easily be a reference to the famous three eye lenses on a Scopedog. Counterpoint: no one cares.
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I know that Conversion Week was last week, but I put together something I'm quite proud of for baby's first conversion. Behold!  I was somewhat disappointed with the rather monopose Primaris Librarian, and I figured I'd try and differentiate my Deathwatch Librarian. My initial thought was to do a weapon swap - I have a Grey Knights sprue lying around which had some spare weapons, so I figured I'd clip off the existing force sword and bodge on one from there. I noticed that there were a few hands holding weapons, but unfortunately that would a bit complex Fortunately I had a spare of Lieutenant Calsius, so I decided to use his handless right arm. It took a bit of wrangling, but I managed to get it to fit with the body. The short swords were a bit too short, and I figured the staff would be a bit unwieldy (and lead to less dynamic poses). The icon and shoulder pad were from the Deathwatch upgrade sprue, naturally (I made sure to leave the backpack to fast - dry fitting showed that I wouldn't be able to get the Deathwatch pad on, otherwise) I think it turned out well - now he looks like he's ready for a sword duel. Oh, and I noticed something that might be relevant to Aussie/Kiwi goons: Issues of Conquest also have prices in dollarydoos - $19.99 (compared to £7.99) for a standard issue (which actually seems to be better than the exchange rate). So that might be something to keep an eye out for.
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VolatileSky posted:
These are amazing. They remind me of the Bricks from Supreme Commander. Do you have any WiP shots?
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The traitor guardsmen in Blackstone are 5ppm, further pointing towards points increases for cheap troops in CA. That's one way to buff marines I guess.
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xtothez posted:The traitor guardsmen in Blackstone are 5ppm, further pointing towards points increases for cheap troops in CA. That's one way to buff marines I guess. Honestly I loving love these oddball detachments.
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xtothez posted:The traitor guardsmen in Blackstone are 5ppm, further pointing towards points increases for cheap troops in CA. That's one way to buff marines I guess. that robot is loving boss
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