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nite_moogle posted:He's definitely not a waste if you're playing Imperial or Crimson Fists, both of which have relic power fists that are very good. The general argument for a Thunder Hammer on a Smash Captain is that you're already sinking enough points in between the model and jump pack that the 31 point tax to make sure the job gets done is worth paying. Ooh yeah, on paper with the fist of vengeance (I am indeed playing crimson fists) this guy is a crunchy lil mini marine. I can't wait to put him back together and get him properly painted!!
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What loadout is the most fun for a Flyrant?
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Dec 4, 2019 21:46
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JackMann posted:Tossing this back up. I can't use Forgeworld models, as I have to order the models in-store. 
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Dec 4, 2019 21:55
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For_Great_Justice posted:Sucks losing the mek on bike for mobile force field. Same with the pain boy. At least I won't be forced to use the piece of crap War trike boss. I'd sell the army first. It does kinda suck but at least deepstriking one in at the right place and time can yield the same effect. Mainly it sucks losing the toughness
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Dec 4, 2019 21:58
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Thankfully, these rules are only for this contest. For regular games, they allow FW, third party, proxies and kitbashes.
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Dec 4, 2019 22:23
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More sisters done
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Dec 4, 2019 22:26
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Wizard posted:It does kinda suck but at least deepstriking one in at the right place and time can yield the same effect. Mainly it sucks losing the toughness For the Lord yeah as once the bikes are in range he only needs to be so close. One of my preferred strats was to have a sorc on bike following to put Miasma and Prescience on the bikes. To do this now its either a sorc with a pack or two D princes since they do 1 spell per turn outside of 1k sons though I may be wrong. It just looked better to have a mob of bikes than bikes plus rando jump guys trailing behind.
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The smolder on that flamer base is :chefkiss:.
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nite_moogle posted:10 Intercessors for sure, probably with Stalkers if you're using the multi-part kit (if not, standard bolt rifles are still decent). Grav Captain is a solid first pick. You will also want a Lieutenant of some sort for your second HQ to get to the minimum Battalion size. The third troops pick to get to a Battalion can also be 5 more Intercessors since none of the other Troops choices use Heavy weapons and won't benefit from the doctrine bonus as effectively. I think there's now agreement about the value that 5 Infiltrators bring in protecting yourself from deep strike so that's a good place to mix it up. All right, sounds like a solid plan. Ferrios is definitely my pick for the last two weeks when I get access to named characters. I've already gotten permission to use him, even though I bought the kit before the contest period.
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richyp posted:More sisters done Excellent colour choice with the blue robes and white hair and snow bases.
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Dec 4, 2019 22:42
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richyp, how does he do it!?
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richyp posted:More sisters done You get more done in a day than I do in a month. And it all looks phenomenal.
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Dec 4, 2019 23:00
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It's a fantastic style that works so wonderfully for putting out minis extremely quickly that look fantastic at any distance you'd actually normally view them at. If you zoom on sure you'll see some flaws but who cares? Bold colors and strong highlights and great use of OSL/glows, I think so much of the strength of it comes from his ability to place highlights where they add the most "pop". Also excellent attention paid to the basing on every single miniature he does, really ties everything together.
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JackMann posted:It's not as bad as we thought. The Warboss on Warbike is staying, he's just a Forgeworld kit now. The big loss is Big Mek on Warbike going away. However, that's not as huge a loss as the regular Big Mek with KFF is sticking around. Bike Mek was even better, but we can still work with the footslogging version, and a lot of people were anyway to save on points. I'm bummed because the Defftrike was the perfect opportunity for GW to release a multikit that could be a boss, mek, or painboy on it. richyp posted:More sisters done These are great, your style reminds me of cell-shaded animation.
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I’m considering buying army painters demonic yellow rattlecan as base coat for my upcoming imperial fists, anyone got any experience with that? I hoping to save time brush painting as little actual yellow as possible, and getting a smooth yellow coat via rattle can and work from there with wash and detailing. I was originally thinking of the GW spray averland sunset, but they don’t seem to produce that anymore, so don’t want to start using that.
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Revelation 2-13 posted:I’m considering buying army painters demonic yellow rattlecan as base coat for my upcoming imperial fists, anyone got any experience with that? I'm not an expert on it but I understand the demonic yellow spray is a bit insipid and might not give you the finish you want. Averland wasn't awesome either. Give the army painter can a go on something you don't mind wrecking and get the opacity right. You might need to spray multiple times for a solid yellow base. Also if you want to tool around try priming in yellow, but also grab a small light brown primer. Light brown is a cool base for yellow and will likely make your final yellow more dense.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:What loadout is the most fun for a Flyrant? The most fun happens to also be one of the “best” builds: Adrenal Glands, Monstrous Rending Claws, Devourers with Brainleech Worms, and Toxin Sacs. It’s a great generalist fight that can pick off infantry on its way into a scrap and the MRCs are fantastic for shredding just about anything. It doesn’t get many attacks, but it hits often and rerolling wounds helps a ton to proc the 4D hits.
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Real talk, think about an airbrush if it's in the budget, nothing will give you a smoother base coat of exactly the color you want.
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Cinara posted:Real talk, think about an airbrush if it's in the budget, nothing will give you a smoother base coat of exactly the color you want. I've never regretted forking out for my airbrush. Went straight to a H&S Silverline and while I'm not an expert with it the base coats and basic highlights you come out of the gate with are something else.
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Yea I bought a Badger Krome back in 2011 and am now at the point where I am looking at buying a 2nd one for detail work, either a Iwata Hi-Line or a H&S Infinity. It has quickly become a core part of my painting process, and for an army like marines it will speed up your painting an absurd amount. You will never look at those giant flat panels on vehicles the same way after you airbrush your first one.
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There should be a support group for people who used to try painting vehicles with a tank brush
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adamantium|wang posted:There should be a support group for people who used to try painting vehicles with a tank brush It's weird that whenever I think about painting vehicles my brain still fires up all the dread feelings but when I'm actually doing it I love it now.
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JBP posted:It's weird that whenever I think about painting vehicles my brain still fires up all the dread feelings but when I'm actually doing it I love it now.  Doesn't help I still have my old frayed tank brush looking at me from my paintbrush pot. Big guy is still good for terrain, but your days of trying to paint Rhinos are long over buddy.
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JBP posted:richyp, how does he do it!? I want a richyp paint tutorial. And rockfish. And Booley.
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PierreTheMime posted:The most fun happens to also be one of the “best” builds: Adrenal Glands, Monstrous Rending Claws, Devourers with Brainleech Worms, and Toxin Sacs. It’s a great generalist fight that can pick off infantry on its way into a scrap and the MRCs are fantastic for shredding just about anything. It doesn’t get many attacks, but it hits often and rerolling wounds helps a ton to proc the 4D hits. Give them the new monstrous size mutation and suddenly they get pretty scary to a lot of things.
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Master Twig posted:Give them the new monstrous size mutation and suddenly they get pretty scary to a lot of things. Yeah, those new physiologies are pretty sweet. It’s basically double or maybe triple relics and then APs to taste. I’d probably pop that onto the -1 to hit one since it’s just begging to eat all the guns at that point.
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Regarding the old Penitent Engines, I'm just now realizing that they're Heavy Flamer / Buzzblade Mortifiers and the new plastic one is the actual Penitent Engine.
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moths posted:Regarding the old Penitent Engines, I'm just now realizing that they're Heavy Flamer / Buzzblade Mortifiers and the new plastic one is the actual Penitent Engine. The new penitent engines can also have a 2x heavy flamer + 2x buzz blades profile as well, so it seems like the old models could be usable for either. (Provided mortifiers are the same size as penitent engines, I had kinda gotten the impression they were going to be smaller, but I'm not sure where I got that from)
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:
Definitely a decent time to be a bug. Still not top tables, but good enough and fun. What main fleet or 2-trait variant are you considering?
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Floppychop posted:I'm bummed because the Defftrike was the perfect opportunity for GW to release a multikit that could be a boss, mek, or painboy on it. Yeah, I was really annoyed that the new buggies were all monopose. It's just so... unorky.
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PierreTheMime posted:Definitely a decent time to be a bug. Still not top tables, but good enough and fun. What main fleet or 2-trait variant are you considering? Probably Kraken or Kronos. Or I might cheap out and just do a hybrid. I don't see myself using the traits when the core Hive Fleets are so strong.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Probably Kraken or Kronos. Or I might cheap out and just do a hybrid. I don't see myself using the traits when the core Hive Fleets are so strong. Yeah, that’s where I’m sitting right now. I played full Kraken since the codex dropped and avoided doing a Kronos detachment, but Symbiostorm is just too good on Exocrines and the general boost is a big draw.
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PierreTheMime posted:Yeah, that’s where I’m sitting right now. I played full Kraken since the codex dropped and avoided doing a Kronos detachment, but Symbiostorm is just too good on Exocrines and the general boost is a big draw. I plan on doing a spearhead detachment of a Kronos Neurothrope, 2 Exocrines, and an acid spewing Tyrannofex riding a Tyrannocyte.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:... Tyrannofex riding a Tyrannocyte. A Tyrannoducken if you will
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Despite still being actively produced by GW the Rhino Primaris and Land Raider Excelsior are legends units. This makes me sad because it removes one of my favorite, silly rules interactions for Space Wolves. RIP Land Raider warlord with a 4++.
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Stupid question: Is there a reason why GW doesn't sell the Kasrkin models anymore? I know in the lore, Cadia got destroyed* during 7e, but I don't know when or why they specifically they stopped selling them. I guess the new equivalent are the Tempestus Scions. * "Cadia broke before the Guard did!" EDIT: Doing a quick search, I found link to the Cadian Hostile Environment Troops Conversion Set. Is that the same thing? The photo of the original models (?) look like they've got different body armor.  
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Max Wilco posted:Stupid question: Is there a reason why GW doesn't sell the Kasrkin models anymore? I know in the lore, Cadia got destroyed* during 7e, but I don't know when or why they specifically they stopped selling them. I guess the new equivalent are the Tempestus Scions. IIRC, they are functionally the same thing, with the hostile environment suits being an upgrade pack to create Kasrkin, so in that sense they are the same. In the sense of are these the same actual models, no. The actual Kasrkin models never made it past monopose metals; I don't think they even got a finecast version.
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Kasrkin are, as far as anything in 8th edition cares, basically identical to Cadian-flavored Tempestus Scions in that they don't have a bespoke unit entry anymore and even if they did they'd be basically identical. The models have been OOP for a while and good luck finding more that aren't recasts. Who knows why; they're some of my favorite guard models and I hope GW redoes them someday.
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