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Those are some super hot beaky boys - seekers are great fun and a nice palate cleanser from the usual heavy weapon squads.
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Nice work on the camo cloaks!Killer_Bees! posted:As a fellow Aussie I stick to FW rules and a smidge of centurion. I’m happy people are enjoying the hobby but the other stuff gives me weird vibes as self regulation in all war games seems to be rare. Yeah man. Like, fundamentally its cool they're putting this much energy into their scene with custom poo poo. It's just... the way their designer has gone about it seems like a decent into madness. Once you start giving specific armies special stuff and changing the way the core game works, its basically just a snowflake modded vision of the game. Do that if you like, but its really hard to balance and defend against favoritism. Not to mention an 80pg appendix will make it hard to track the many new rules and rules interactions. BULBASAUR fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Feb 2, 2020 |
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One of the worst fan impulses is "we need to add more units" and thinking it will somehow come out better than what the designers managed to do. Crops up everywhere.
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Speaking of new units.
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Feb 3, 2020 17:56
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I like the sculpts quite a bit.
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That dude on the right is especially dope with the bone necklace. Not sure if I like they're shin mounted stabilisers though.
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Feb 3, 2020 21:50
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I'd get those new cad night lords if they came in plastic.
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So this still isn’t Atramentar 1st company terminators? Just general new FW never before seen in fluff legion squad. Like they are cool as hell but I hope the 1st company boys appear and they have two wounds per terminator murder dude.
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Feb 4, 2020 00:47
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Apparently they're a specialist unit of Atramentar
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They seem like terror squad terminators.
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At this point I think they're going with "all Night Lord terminators are Atramentar"
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Probably a safe bet. These new guys are great though. I'm really digging the idea of a squad of heavy volkite terminators.
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Chainglaves, flamers, and volkite on a terminator unit? Hummmmmmm
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They know what they did
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They also did this: Spot the unintentional/totally intentional error
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Feb 4, 2020 18:54
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Actually, chainblades and chainglaives are totally different.
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Hahaha, I didn't realize they had their own worse version of chainglaives. My brain had parsed it as if they were glaives and so I figured a whole unit of S5 rending terminators wouldn't be that bad. Knocking them to S4 kind of sucks. Does Talent for Murder at least improve rending rolls or is it like the BA bonus where it's worded specifically to avoid that?
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BULBASAUR posted:They also did this: IDGI
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Feb 5, 2020 08:38
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Their legion is only good at killing defenseless serfs so I don't see a numbers problem with the chainblade.
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Not true JPB, they are also very good at killing Night Lords.
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Ok, so I wasn't imagining things. Apparently, the original version of the page listed chainglaives and they updated it to be the worse blades. 
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Do they have epic weapon skill or something or is it literally 50/50 to maybe kill a spes mern.
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Ranged AP4/5 weapons and melee AP3 to hunt down power armour units and leaders in Artificer or Terminator armour. Very fitting for a bunch of deluded aristocrats.
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JcDent posted:IDGI Chainglaives have the same profile, but are +1S and two handed. Terminators don't get pistols, so they can never get an extra attack. So, did they intentionally create a new weapon profile for this unit that can't benefit from it and is worse than a chainglaive? Are the supposed to be chainblades and not chainglaives? Its a mystery!
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BULBASAUR posted:Chainglaives have the same profile, but are +1S and two handed. Terminators don't get pistols, so they can never get an extra attack. So, did they intentionally create a new weapon profile for this unit that can't benefit from it and is worse than a chainglaive? Are the supposed to be chainblades and not chainglaives? It's not like chainglaives were even good compared to power glaives and legatine axes.
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Zasze posted:It's not like chainglaives were even good compared to power glaives and legatine axes. Hey, I’ll have you know, the Ultramarines and White Scars have well documented fluff about being the legions most renowned for their melee expertise, or something!
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It's FW, always assume highest-order incompetence.
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Canonically night lords always get completely owned in combat and run away to brood in their spaceships so this is just FW trying to be fluff accurate.
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IRON WITHIN, ALPHARIUS WITHOUT
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Wooooops, fixed the blue stones!
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give em back fucker
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Ghazk posted:Wooooops, fixed the blue stones! Should have left them and modelled tiny rattlecans onto the base.
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I appreciate the ultramarine transfer on the power fist
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The DA Inner Circle knights dropped today out of nowhere. I really wasn't expecting these guys until the book dropped. The models are gorgeous though and I need them. https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-US/Dark-Angels-Legion-Inner-Circle-Knights-2020     They even got a rules pdf: https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/resources/PDF/AoS_Warscrolls//Inner_Circle_Knights_Cenobium.pdf They're... um... interesting. The Good
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Safety Factor posted:[list] "these guns are miniaturized plasma weaponry specially designed for the vambraces of the inner circle" "also they can't overwatch"
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Mango Polo posted:"these guns are miniaturized plasma weaponry specially designed for the vambraces of the inner circle" Well the guns can overwatch but the armor can’t. These sort of beautiful nuances are really what make the DA special.
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Yeah, but can the swords overwatch?
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It says "failed To Hit rolls may be re-rolled" yet they always fail because they can't overwatch  What does this mean? It means, should an enemy unit charge you, continue re-rolling overwatch dice until your opponent concedes
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BULBASAUR posted:It means, should an enemy unit charge you, continue re-rolling overwatch dice until your opponent concedes I’ll allow it.
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