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Marin Karin posted:Nothing says elegant space elf like gangling goat legs with just a head on top. I always liked the "dude protected by a force field" version of the Walker. That felt much more Eldar than the "Sentinel with a growth spurt" that the current version has. 
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War walkers feel like one of those weird early 40k things like ork dreadnoughts that for some reason just never got updated
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Stephenls posted:
I’m really digging the look of these! What kit are the chainswords from?
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Mar 2, 2020 06:13
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Hellburger99 posted:I’m really digging the look of these! What kit are the chainswords from? Thanks! They're just regular assault marine chainswords -- I bought, like, fifteen assault marine chainsword left arms off an eBay bitz reseller so I'd have a consistent supply if I wanted to dick around with kitbashing them. They have slightly smaller hands than the Reivers but not enough to be noticeable, so for the non-reverse-grip chainswords I just cut hands straight off the assault marine arms and glued them to the Reiver knife arms after cutting the hands off those. For the reverse-grip chainswords I had to keep the Reiver hands and cut the blades and pommels of their knives off, then attach chainswords directly to those, which required some trimming of details to make things fit.
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Mar 2, 2020 06:22
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jng2058 posted:I always liked the "dude protected by a force field" version of the Walker. That felt much more Eldar than the "Sentinel with a growth spurt" that the current version has. This is both really cool and silly as hell, which is when 40k is at its be- holy gently caress it has guy fieri flames on its legs
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Mar 2, 2020 06:27
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Marin Karin posted:This is both really cool and silly as hell, which is when 40k is at its be- holy gently caress it has guy fieri flames on its legs Starburst missiles are special ordered from flavor town
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Mar 2, 2020 07:30
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Tulip posted:Starburst missiles are special ordered from flavor town I still haven't forgiven GW for changing the name from Opal missiles tbh
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Mar 2, 2020 09:05
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Marin Karin posted:This is both really cool and silly as hell, which is when 40k is at its be- holy gently caress it has guy fieri flames on its legs I do really like seeing how the aesthetic of the models sort of changes with the times. In the 80s and 90s it was all bold primary colours and stuff that, today, I see as goofy. Then it was all like more toned down colours, making things look realistic, power swords were painted metallic etc. Now it's started edging back more towards the crazy paint schemes on power swords but even mortarion and magnus are super colourful. I do wonder if the next generation of film goers/gamers/whatever are going to look back on the media we designed and consumed and go "wow, everyone was so loving depressing then. I have no idea why, the sea levels were 40m lower then and the rainforests still existed"
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Mar 2, 2020 13:27
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All of Blache's warham poo poo is still loving top notch. Once I get my dwarfs done I'm going to make a nighthaunt horde and paint everything brown in his honour.
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Mar 2, 2020 13:31
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Revelation 2-13 posted:For the troops you have some choices to make. Since you have the alphus, it makes sense to go with a bunch of neophytes with lotsa mining weapons. The single good thing that came out of their recent book, was a bonus to mining weapons. So you might want some of those. Acolyte hybrids are point for point some of the best troops in the game, current my lists mainly uses acolytes and it uses roughly 45-50 of them. 4 x 5 man squads, 1 with 15 (5 demo charges) man and another 15 man (6 rock saws). They come in kinda pricy boxes of 5 Thanks for the advice. I also just discovered that there's only one rock saw per box of Acolytes. 
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Dawgstar posted:Thanks for the advice. Don’t worry! You’ll need a ton of boxes to fill out your troops because there’s only five to a box  I’m super glad I jumped on the Overkill boxes back when GSC were released. What a bonkers value compared to the incredibly expensive kits we have now.
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Mar 2, 2020 14:19
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Kitchner posted:I do really like seeing how the aesthetic of the models sort of changes with the times. haven't really seen it in hamworld but in more general gaming its been a thing for a while to complain about mid 00s "everything is brown or grey" color palettes.
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Mar 2, 2020 14:35
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Chestnut Ink is the reason all of my early 2000s stuff is sepia.
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Worth noting that the War Walker looked slightly less weird and doofy because originally the Eldar Also Eldar didn't have any tanks at all, it was full infantry except for jetbikes and the Vyper (which had a datacard but no model), and Guardians wore chainmail with bellbottom armor. What I'm saying is that overall Eldar were some kind of eccentric looking guys. The walkers did kind of get left behind in the general sleeker redesign, they gained canopies but not a lot of overall changes. I don't really know how they could have brought them more in line though without a radical change. Maybe imitate the revenant scout titans?
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My biggest problem with them is a walking bipedal vehicle operated from a cockpit doesn't spring to mind when I think of elegance or sleekness of whatever. Like the Dreadknight is dumb but also in a weird way its pretty up there with imperial stuff, it looks like it thuds around creating hissing noises and could be tripped up fairly easily. Personally I'd have just scrapped it and introduced some sort of fast but small wraith model.
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Just in case some of you weirdos are looking for Dark Angels characters:Safety Factor posted:https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/03/02/the-road-to-thramas-part-4-marvellous-mindersfw-homepage-post-2/
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Mar 2, 2020 16:21
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Kitchner posted:My biggest problem with them is a walking bipedal vehicle operated from a cockpit doesn't spring to mind when I think of elegance or sleekness of whatever. I think it would look a bit better if it was more of a bike with legs, sleeker and more agile looking
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Mar 2, 2020 16:27
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Dawgstar posted:I also just discovered that there's only one rock saw per box of Acolytes. I assembled all three mining weapons, but clipped off the end of the cutter and drill, and replaced them with buzzsaw bits from Ork nobs and stuff (which go pretty cheap from bits sellers). You could also wait for a bunch of Penitent Engine buzz blades to go up for sale since everyone will be building them with flails.
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Kitchner posted:My biggest problem with them is a walking bipedal vehicle operated from a cockpit doesn't spring to mind when I think of elegance or sleekness of whatever. Yea, that's fair. Probably the good solution for them would have been to either revive the Spirit Walker as a sort of light Wraithlord variant that carried more ranged weapons, or just create a new chassis that leaned into the idea of scout weapons that could be easily deployed and relocated by a handful of crew, like some sort of advanced weapon platform. Although now that I have typed that, it's pretty much what a Vyper is, so.... I can appreciate that they didn't really want to just trash one of the older and more well-used Eldar platforms though. Someone mentioned how bright and crazy older designs were, so I wanted to share these bad boys:  Also Firelegs Walker was a realized idea: 
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Mar 2, 2020 16:37
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Ashcans posted:
They should bring this back.
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Mar 2, 2020 16:56
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Outflanking scatter laser War Walkers were criminally underrated in 6th/7th
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Safety Factor posted:Just in case some of you weirdos are looking for Dark Angels characters: All the dark angels 30k stuff has been great looking so far
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Ashcans posted:
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paging dikh
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Kitchner posted:That one on the left is making my eyes bleed. Imagine having an entire army painted like that. Jordorowsky's Craftworld
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Genestealer Cult question - is the Kelermorph with Oppressor's Bane as much fun as it looks like?
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Safety Factor posted:Just in case some of you weirdos are looking for Dark Angels characters: Those look really great. Did the the lore get changed on when the Deathwing went to bone white armour? One of the better pieces of lore I remember from 2nd edition was a single squad of Deathwing Terminators purging a DA recruiting world of a Genestealer infestation. They painted their armour white as they didn't expect to survive. The Deathwing as a whole adopted the practice thereafter.
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Maneck posted:Those look really great. I think that now that's just one of several stories that the DA have for the Deathwing colours
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Maneck posted:Those look really great. I don't think this undoes anything for 40k Deathwing. They may be simply trying to show that the bone armor was an extension of an existing tradition within the legion/chapter.
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Dawgstar posted:Genestealer Cult question - is the Kelermorph with Oppressor's Bane as much fun as it looks like? Yes it’s delightfully brutal. GSC has a number of good relics.
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Maneck posted:Those look really great. I picked up the death wing anthology book from half-price books recently, which had that story. about 80 years before the Dark Angels recruiting team arrive, Genestealers crash on the world, team up with the tribes nobody likes by giving them better steel for war-axes(which wouldn't actually make much of a difference), then turned the world from hunter-gathers into an industrialized slum (well, one town, the story treats the planet in Star Trek "only one spot on the planet has anything going on" style). After the Dark Angels librarian gets captured scouting the town, he is brought to the patriarch and kills it with his mind while his team is slaughtering the rest of the 'Stealers, and after that the DA are like "OK, we are going back to the old ways, split up and let's go live off the land, population of mostly city born folk". In an epilogue, the last surviving DA tells the story to a second team sent to find out what happened and retrieve the armor, and he asks that his brothers' armor (which was buried with them when they died of old age) remain bone-white. Also, the toughest thing on the planet that a man has to kill to prove himself a warrior? Weasels. Which explains why a character is named Weasel-Fierce (Well, his tribe name, they state outright the recruits from this planet are given standard DA names when they get to the Rock.)
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Shadowed Bacon posted:I picked up the death wing anthology book from half-price books recently, which had that story. about 80 years before the Dark Angels recruiting team arrive, Genestealers crash on the world, team up with the tribes nobody likes by giving them better steel for war-axes(which wouldn't actually make much of a difference), then turned the world from hunter-gathers into an industrialized slum (well, one town, the story treats the planet in Star Trek "only one spot on the planet has anything going on" style). After the Dark Angels librarian gets captured scouting the town, he is brought to the patriarch and kills it with his mind while his team is slaughtering the rest of the 'Stealers, and after that the DA are like "OK, we are going back to the old ways, split up and let's go live off the land, population of mostly city born folk". In an epilogue, the last surviving DA tells the story to a second team sent to find out what happened and retrieve the armor, and he asks that his brothers' armor (which was buried with them when they died of old age) remain bone-white. Man I remember reading that when I was a kid. Dude was named 'Two Heads Talking' :P Spent a lot of time staring at the accompanying artwork. I really loved the gritty feel of much of that old B&W stuff.. 
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That nice alien is just trying to hug that space marine and he has electrocuted him for his troubles. How awful.
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Mar 3, 2020 14:47
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Kitchner posted:That nice alien is just trying to hug that space marine and he has electrocuted him for his troubles. How awful. The Space Marine explicitly did not consent to hugging. It doesn't matter if you are trying to be friendly, you have to respect other people's bodily autonomy. 
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I always thought Deathwing armor was white due to some doomed Terminator squad burning their fallen brothers and then smearing the ashes over their armor? Once that happened, the rest of the 1st company carried on the tradition in honor of those guys or something like that? I may be remembering wrong.
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Ashcans posted:The Space Marine explicitly did not consent to hugging. It doesn't matter if you are trying to be friendly, you have to respect other people's bodily autonomy. Respect my armour autonomy.
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the "tale of two heads talking" iirc was used to explain the colors of the armor for those not trusted with the knowledge of the hunt for the fallen. of course i havent kept up on the fluff for like 10 years so god knows what they've retconned.
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Dawgstar posted:Genestealer Cult question - is the Kelermorph with Oppressor's Bane as much fun as it looks like? I don't think so. It only replaces one of his three guns so the benefit is marginal, it's not a terrible relic but we have multiple far better ones.
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Hell yeah Buttscribe.
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Buttscribe fuckin rules, I have no idea why people use the raw battlescribe output. Laziness I guess? I have to say my first game went decently. Fewer people showed up than expected, so my Boyz teamed up with my girlfriend's Sisters to take on a patrol and batallion of Raven Guard. Unfortunately we didn't finish the game, the LGS closed at 11 but it was fun. I completely forgot about Mob Rule so I lost a few Boyz to Bustin' Heads in the morale phase, but I'll remember it next time, which is Sunday. Homebody's RG batallion had a dreadnaught and another mech so I think I'll get to work putting my other mek gun kits together.
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