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Gotta be hip with the social media kids. My biggest annoyance is that they buried the new articles too far down on the site for a quick glance. Also still no dedicated section for rumor engines so you can actually get an overview of what's been revealed and what hasn't. The Deleter posted:At least now you can filter posts by what game you're interested in instead of skimming another boring Necromunda post. That's not too bad and something I overlooked.
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Anime_Otaku posted:Ok, I’m still a noob trying to get my head around my own Ork Codex, what am I looking at. A bunch of specialised single models and terrain pieces with rules of some kind? Is this good, bad or just super weird? It is not good. It's a bunch of assassins and some fortifications. Not to say that assassins are bad. They're designed for sniping characters. Between them and the fortifications, you have an army that doesn't really do a whole lot. It's just a goofy list that someone had fun tossing in just to see people's reactions.
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The MSPaint comics are my favorite part of the Community website.
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RagnarokAngel posted:I think the old lore kind of implied this with the grimdark THERE IS ONLY WAR but you can only sustain that so long before people start to question why even fight if you cant have a small slice of a good thing. Like the eldar or tau start looking like the heroes because they at least have a society where their people can enjoy not dying for a while so the imperium kinda needed a facelift. I think that even the older fluff had stuff like agriworlds where you were not subject to unending war and grinder-like battles, just tasked with supplying food and stuff to the legions that were stuck doing that, as well as the forge worlds making them guns and tanks. Although even those worlds are subject to the paranoia and violence of the imperial cult so you can always get burned as a witch or have your village sentenced en masse to a penal legion for thought crimes.
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Ashcans posted:I think that even the older fluff had stuff like agriworlds where you were not subject to unending war and grinder-like battles, just tasked with supplying food and stuff to the legions that were stuck doing that, as well as the forge worlds making them guns and tanks. Although even those worlds are subject to the paranoia and violence of the imperial cult so you can always get burned as a witch or have your village sentenced en masse to a penal legion for thought crimes. Not to mention most of those are portrayed as "You work until you die" and people die constantly from accidents like falling into a food processors.
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Jan 27, 2020 18:04
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Ashcans posted:I think that even the older fluff had stuff like agriworlds where you were not subject to unending war and grinder-like battles, just tasked with supplying food and stuff to the legions that were stuck doing that, as well as the forge worlds making them guns and tanks. Although even those worlds are subject to the paranoia and violence of the imperial cult so you can always get burned as a witch or have your village sentenced en masse to a penal legion for thought crimes. The Imperium has like a million worlds, there's basically like any world you could imagine. Loads of people live relatively comfortable lives.
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Especially space marine worlds which dont have to pay tithes.And Some worlds are backwater enough and low on produced resources that they really dont have to pay a lot to the imperium. Not every planet is a hellish cyberpunk of Necromunda or the bombed out wasteland of Armageddon. Some are nice little worlds where people just work day to day, perhaps even happily. Then the Orks come...
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Jan 27, 2020 18:26
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I said come in! posted:The MSPaint comics are my favorite part of the Community website. I genuinely want some rules to run a game based on Big Brothers, maybe even a little box set that’s print to order or whatever they call it with models for Tari with her thunder hammer and the different Space Marines, like the Raven Guard guy with his box... actually make one of the models a corpse starch box with just part of his hand or foot sticking out the bottom.
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Jan 27, 2020 19:00
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Crossposting my finished Primaris Apothecary.
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Jan 27, 2020 19:11
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Count_Brass posted:Crossposting my finished Primaris Apothecary. That white is gorgeous, well done.
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Jan 27, 2020 19:20
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ThoraxTheImpaler posted:There's a reason monasteries are filled with art and poo poo. Monks have more than enough time to pursue personal hobbies when they're not actively fighting because training only does so much when you're a super soldier. If I remember correctly, in one of the Dark Angels books, can't remember which one, there was a marine looking at their wrecked chapter keep on a planet watching a serf do repairs and remarking to himself how he likes carving and sculpting. In one of the Iron Hands novels Kardan Stronos mentions that since being inducted he's spent his entire life either on battlefields or on the way to new battlefields
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Jan 27, 2020 20:54
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Has there been anything for Black Templar Bigly Marines? I think doing some up to go with the Sisters of Battle might be cool.
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Count_Brass posted:Crossposting my finished Primaris Apothecary. Jesus loving christ  Amazing. 
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JackMann posted:I heard 3-3 on the Ork discord. Thanks, I saw the same there after posting here. To share the fun with everyone-  
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Improbable Lobster posted:In one of the Iron Hands novels Kardan Stronos mentions that since being inducted he's spent his entire life either on battlefields or on the way to new battlefields Trust me, living on a ship, especially when not part of the normal crew, results in a fuckload of free time.
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Jan 27, 2020 23:09
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I don't imagine there's a rec room on an Imperial Battleship
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Clawtopsy posted:I don't imagine there's a rec room on an Imperial Battleship Certainly not on an Iron Hands battle barge
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Jan 27, 2020 23:25
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How’d y’all do in the LVO 40k GT?
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I need some Emperor's Children list advice for my army. I read the Goonhammer post about Faith and Fury regarding EC, and I'm undecided on how to run my demon prince. I tried running my chaos slam Lord with the raiment repulsive, and made my prince my warlord with loathesome grace and the armor of abhorrence. The demon prince is a lot squishier than I thought it would be. Should I make the slam Lord the warlord and give the prince the rapacious talons? Or just save the extra cp? Should I grab a box of warp talons for a better screen than the prince with the armor relic? Not taking overwatch seems too good to pass up. I don't have a whole lot of models, but I want to make the most of what I have. I have two lists and one has the slam Lord and dark Apostle, the other has a regular chaos Lord and the slam Lord. The rest consists of 10 Noise Marines, 6 oblits, Leviathan dread, demon prince, land raider, 2 Sonic dreads, and a handful of cultists to fill out the batallion. I plan getting more noise marines soon as well to maybe take the place of some of those cultists. Is there some cool synergies I'm missing? Or a better way to run this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Speaking of reading books, and what the noble astartes get up to; I started reading a thousand sons, mainly because I was told it was like part 1 of prospero burns which i wanted to read since it's one of the few abnett things I haven't read (apparently it is bad, but whatever) and holy poo poo graham mcneill is like a bad writer. The story beats are fine so far, even if they feel a little over the top, like everything is the biggest thing ever, and everyone is the most powerful ever, etc. I don't hate his prose either, but the dialogue reads more like an awful 80ties teen movie than a 40k novel. I'm literally cringing half the time, and I almost expect the sekhmet members to start talking about how those sisters of silence totally has great bazoongas and if they should ask them out to the roller disco and how cool their new digs are. Even the primarchs chatting is like one-liner style "I'd totally kill you!", "Oh yeah?! Says who?", "Me, I'm the one who says it", "I see!" (dramatic pause). I guess I've been spoiled by only really reading abnett so far. I really don't understand how it's so highly rated.
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ThoraxTheImpaler posted:Trust me, living on a ship, especially when not part of the normal crew, results in a fuckload of free time. Heresy-era they spent all that downtime training or sharpening weapons or polishing armor. 40k-era they spend all of that time praying to the Emperor.
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Kabuki Shipoopi posted:I need some Emperor's Children list advice for my army. I cannot stress enough how good noise marines and the dark apostle are with excruciating frequencies. I run my smash Lord with the armour of Abhorrence and loathsome grace (host raptorial optional but nice. You already rr charges)- he acts as an overwatch denier for the other unit I want to get in (which I use honour the prince on) - in my case, terminators. If I line it up right the terminators and the noise marines are both in range of the dark apostle for shooting. Warp Talons and honour the prince are tasty. Demon support for CP (EC absolutely eat CP) and the contorted epitome is nice (+1 strength for the warp talons is a nice little bonus).
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Is there any further rumour mill stuff about a new chaos faction release for EC?
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JBP posted:Is there any further rumour mill stuff about a new chaos faction release for EC? They got stuff in psychic awakening so im solidly willing to say that's that for them at least for however long this campaign goes.
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haakman posted:I cannot stress enough how good noise marines and the dark apostle are with excruciating frequencies. I run my smash Lord with the armour of Abhorrence and loathsome grace (host raptorial optional but nice. You already rr charges)- he acts as an overwatch denier for the other unit I want to get in (which I use honour the prince on) - in my case, terminators. If I line it up right the terminators and the noise marines are both in range of the dark apostle for shooting. Thanks for this! Yeah, I want to get more noise marines for sure. Eventually I'd like to have 3 squads of 10, then I can mix and match bigger or smaller squads as any list might call for. Are you running plasma on the terminators?
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JBP posted:Is there any further rumour mill stuff about a new chaos faction release for EC? I fuckin' wish
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Kabuki Shipoopi posted:I need some Emperor's Children list advice for my army. I read the Goonhammer post about Faith and Fury regarding EC, and I'm undecided on how to run my demon prince. I tried running my chaos slam Lord with the raiment repulsive, and made my prince my warlord with loathesome grace and the armor of abhorrence. The demon prince is a lot squishier than I thought it would be. Are you having the prince hide in units or just bopping around by himself?
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Yup, a 10 man squad with combi plasma and chain axes. Prescience is great on them, especially with an icon of excess. I give them +1T combat elixirs and cast delightful agonies on them - surprisingly tough and super killy. Basically my army plays like a turn two murder bomb - it's very Slaaneshi.
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Anime_Otaku posted:I genuinely want some rules to run a game based on Big Brothers, maybe even a little box set that’s print to order or whatever they call it with models for Tari with her thunder hammer and the different Space Marines, like the Raven Guard guy with his box... actually make one of the models a corpse starch box with just part of his hand or foot sticking out the bottom. I mean, the Deathwatch RPG seems like it could fit, although perhaps not you have in mind. Or Kill Team? Kinda bummed that Big Brothers (might) be ending.
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For_Great_Justice posted:Are you having the prince hide in units or just bopping around by himself? Mainly using him to soak overwatch then follow up with the Lord. So kind of by himself? I'll have him behind either the land raider, or whatever unit is furthest forward, then on my turn, charge him then charge in the Lord. I'm just not sure if it would be better for him to take the rapacious talons with a screen unit like raptors, or run him with the armor and have the Lord back him up.
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Yvonmukluk posted:I mean, the Deathwatch RPG seems like it could fit, although perhaps not you have in mind. Or Kill Team? There was a batrep I saw on YouTube a while ago using a mission called Convoy, which was basically one team starts at one end of the table and has to defend a vehicle while the other team tries to stop them. I don’t know the RPG at all and am only vaguely familiar with Kill Team. When I mentioned the idea on Facebook somebody came up with an idea for Tari’s abilities and stats. M 6" WS 5+ BS 5+ S 2 T 2 W 2 A 1 L 8 Sv 6+ Weapons thunder hammer 2x -3 3. -1 to hit Abilities Failed attacks trigger abilities on a D6 1-2 erratic stumble, +3 sv 3 Was that your gun? -2 to opponents hit rolls 4 Sorry! Target takes 1 mw and cannot fight back 5 I can't stop! Weapon generates an additional attack and grants erratic stumble. Can chain 6 Oops! Target takes 2D3 mortal wounds Small Target: -2 to hit rolls against this model Non-threatening: model cannot be targeted by attacks that circumvent normal Character Targeting rules You made Tari cry!!!: If this model loses its last wound in melee all Space Marine Characters are able to Heroically Intervene, regardless of distance, as if it were the Charge Phase, even if they have already fought this turn. Mascot: +1 Ld within 12" I personally would consider changing one of the abilities to something like this: You gave her a gun!: Tari fires upon the nearest enemy model, roll 1d3 to choose between: 1) Bolt Pistol, 2) Bolt rifle, 3) Heavy Bolter.
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Kabuki Shipoopi posted:Mainly using him to soak overwatch then follow up with the Lord. So kind of by himself? I'll have him behind either the land raider, or whatever unit is furthest forward, then on my turn, charge him then charge in the Lord. Raptors will keep up with him, but having him tag along by a raider then dropping in Warp talons to all out deny overwatch may be more up your alley. You can even drop in a lord with jump pack with them. Talons with an elixir on a prince nets him a ton of attacks at str 8 with t7. The deamon talins will give more attacks depending on the d6 but at less str an toughness. Warp talons rule pretty much can't go wrong with them.
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For_Great_Justice posted:Raptors will keep up with him, but having him tag along by a raider then dropping in Warp talons to all out deny overwatch may be more up your alley. You can even drop in a lord with jump pack with them. I was running the prince with loathesome grace and diabolic strength, with just malefic talons and he ends up being s10 with 9 attacks (not including dttfe) at -2ap flat 2 damage rerolling 1's. S10 hits T5 on 2's which is nice, but when it comes to storm shields they really eat up attacks, and he kind of falls flat. I'm thinking warp talons and the demon weapon would just increase the number of attacks and hopefully get more in past the save. Does that make sense, or am I just seeing things that look good on paper? Edit: also, do you think it would be worth it to make them Host Raptorial? Viscous Descent would give them rerolls on hits, but the prince would give them reroll 1's anyways. Kabuki Shipoopi fucked around with this message at 05:10 on Jan 28, 2020 |
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That Convoy mission was out of the first Vigilus book, if you wanted all the details.
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Other than the Skorpius Disintegrator / Dunerider, i've painted all of the other boxes of Admech. There some obvious boxes I can buy double of for their other configurations though. I'm ready to move onto an easier faction to paint, a.k.a. Necrons, because they are cool. At least until the new Admech units come out in April.
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Kabuki Shipoopi posted:I was running the prince with loathesome grace and diabolic strength, with just malefic talons and he ends up being s10 with 9 attacks (not including dttfe) at -2ap flat 2 damage rerolling 1's. Host raptorial always worth it. I take a sorcerer with jump pack to give him the specialist trait for +2 inch charge. If you want to crack storm shields you jeed to get Death Hex off. Its a no negotiation.
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Got some more not-raven guard characters painted up. I feel a little lazy looking at them up close now but as far as time and effort spent I'm happy.      
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Any advice on making it through big, old Apocalypse style games? My friend invited me to a 4 player game at 3000 points per person, and two of the players are quite new. My first instinct is that this whole thing will be horrible and a waste of a day off. And before anyone suggests it, I can't have alcohol.
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kommisar posted:Got some more not-raven guard characters painted up. I feel a little lazy looking at them up close now but as far as time and effort spent I'm happy. These are sweet and you should be happy. I like the style, they're almost like the look of a DOW2 unit (but better).
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ThNextGreenLantern posted:Any advice on making it through big, old Apocalypse style games? My friend invited me to a 4 player game at 3000 points per person, and two of the players are quite new. My first instinct is that this whole thing will be horrible and a waste of a day off. Everyone needs to sort of view it as a social hang out rather than a serious game. I also don't know about current apocalypse rules but the old ones encouraged you to basically not wait for a specific person owning a model to be paying attention to roll. Just find someone on the other team and roll with them watching up until they need to make a save/decision. You also need to all actually know the apocalypse rules really really well. If you've made the game as quick as you can do minimising waiting for one guy to roll all the dice for his stuff, and not looking up rules every 5 minutes, it is what it is and you'll either enjoy it or you won't. In the club I used to be in we did a crazy apocalypse game in 5e where it was like 15,000 points a side and the two 6x4 tables we pushed together were literally packed with models to the point there was no room for anything else. It's a bit of a spectacle rather than a wargame at that level, but maybe 6,000 a side isn't too bad, particularly if there are some super expensive models on the board like Knights, baneblades etc
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