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Ashcans posted:Uncomfortable to hear the Dire Avengers described as 'outdated' when I haven't gotten around to putting mine together yet. The Dire Avengers kit isn't that bad. The sculpt is pretty good, and it goes together decently, but it's definitely showing its age when it comes to the lack of posing. The bonus is that it comes with a random Egyptian falcon looking bit that has no real purpose other than being an homage to a piece of railing in an older art piece.
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Playing a game of 9th against my buddy this evening - Orks v Blood Angels - my first 2000 point game and maybe 4th or 5th game ever, been building and adding concepts every match and its been a lot of fun, 2000 points though this is gonna be most of our evening This will be my first time using Bikers or my Stormraven and also my devastator squad, must remember my doctrines!!
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I'm looking at Harlequins now as a full army and I think that's where I'm gonna settle! All the models are cool looking, the army isn't too big, and the models are so varied I can have a lot of fun painting them. If there are any Harlequin players here, does it make sense to start with just a couple Troupe boxes and go from there? Any particular units I should look for/avoid?
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Aug 6, 2020 15:31
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TURGID TOMFOOLERY posted:I support you and I’m on mobile... Yeah I kind of agree? I've been struggling a lot with color choice lately. The base started with a much darker purple-blue before I dry brushed it and added back in some warmer purple hues. Maybe I did too much and should have just left it. Good thing I've got 59 more of these dudes to test on!
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Aug 6, 2020 16:38
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Mikey Purp posted:Yeah I kind of agree? I've been struggling a lot with color choice lately. The base started with a much darker purple-blue before I dry brushed it and added back in some warmer purple hues. Maybe I did too much and should have just left it. Good thing I've got 59 more of these dudes to test on! I would honestly leave their bases grey, it's a drab neutral colour and will make the purple and silver of the model stand out a lot more.
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Aug 6, 2020 17:11
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Moonbase grey , maybe light grey for the Necron. Should go well with the purple, pink.
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Aug 6, 2020 17:26
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https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/08/06/new-warhammer-40000-terrain/ So apparently the terrain in the Command edition is completely new. Probably means it's going to be picked up en masse once it comes out.
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Aug 6, 2020 17:46
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Ashcans posted:Uncomfortable to hear the Dire Avengers described as 'outdated' when I haven't gotten around to putting mine together yet. As has been said, there's nothing that wrong with them (besides being very expensive £ per point). They're just a bit dull, there's not too much detail or many exciting options with the kit.
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Aug 6, 2020 18:15
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MRLOLAST posted:Moonbase grey , maybe light grey for the Necron. Should go well with the purple, pink. I feel like a soft blue color would contrast the pink really nicely. I don't know what planet has blue dirt but who cares right?
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Aug 6, 2020 18:48
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I thought it was the blood angels primarch that stabbed Horus and left a weakness in the armour the emperor was able to exploit? And then the primarch got murdered hard
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Aug 6, 2020 19:01
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Seeing Horus slay his own brother Sanguinius was what steeled the Emperor's heart, finally allowing himself to slay Horus.
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moths posted:Seeing Horus slay his own brother Sanguinius was what steeled the Emperor's heart, finally allowing himself to slay Horus. Alternatively it was seeing horus destroy a normal human from the Imperial Guard as he charged to protect the Emperor against overwhelming odds that made the Emperor realise horus couldn't be redeemed. Or it was a custodes that horus slaughtered. Or it was Sanguinius. Or it was Russ stabbing him with the Emperor's spear. This is one of the reasons I dislike the Horus heresy novel, removes some of the mystery from events that happened 10,000 years ago
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Hot Karl Marx posted:I thought it was the blood angels primarch that stabbed Horus and left a weakness in the armour the emperor was able to exploit? And then the primarch got murdered hard It was this as of like ~17 years ago at least (I'd have to dig up my White Dwarf), seems that GW fluff has expanded quite a bit since then, for good or ill that I don't know.
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Aug 6, 2020 19:30
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Kitchner posted:Alternatively it was seeing horus destroy a normal human from the Imperial Guard as he charged to protect the Emperor against overwhelming odds that made the Emperor realise horus couldn't be redeemed. gently caress the revisionists this is the only canon answer Ollanius Pius, never forget
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Aug 6, 2020 20:04
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Babe Magnet posted:gently caress the revisionists this is the only canon answer 
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Today I learned that the gunner from the Onager Dunecrawler, fits pretty much perfectly in the turret gun on the Skorpius Whateverator! Just snip a little bit off the gun handle-thingies, snip off the protudy bits in the turret pit, and Cawl's your uncle!
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Aug 6, 2020 20:12
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Tried to take some of the advice for the bases. Here's a second guy painted up with a cooler gray instead of purple basing and slightly better lighting: Here's the first guy again for comparison: 
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Aug 6, 2020 20:14
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Mikey Purp posted:Tried to take some of the advice for the bases. Here's a second guy painted up with a cooler gray instead of purple basing and slightly better lighting: It's really a lot better. If you really want pink on the bricks (and that's not necessarily a bad idea if there's only a little of it) you could have it be like an OSL glow from the gun?
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Aug 6, 2020 20:16
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Yeah a sparing drybrush on the rocks of the energy colour might be dope
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Aug 6, 2020 20:24
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Man the main thing I've gotten from my 30K lore dive the last few days is that I REALLY wanna make a Black Legion or Word Bearers traitor marine army.
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Aug 6, 2020 22:38
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I think that’s a big step in the right direction. Maybe try to make the base a bit; darker, more grey, and a hint more blue.
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think I might try and go a complete opposite direction with mine and try and do some incredibly bright Jack Kirbycrons.
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NUMBER 1 FULCI FAN posted:Man the main thing I've gotten from my 30K lore dive the last few days is that I REALLY wanna make a Black Legion or Word Bearers traitor marine army. 30K lore made me want to run Night Lords. The idea of freehanding lightning patterns pushed me back to Emperor’s Children.
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Hey guys! Just 24 hours left until entries close! I've updated the wheel, but it's getting hard to see all the names - I'll include a text dump below. If you've entered and you're not on there, please let me know so I don't miss you!  Entrants: Werix No. 1 Apartheid Fan moths Kabuki Shipoopi GET INTO DA CHOPPA Eej Lizard Combatant MRLOLAST Ropes4u Eschatos Beerdeer seventimessix Shockeh jadebullet Marcus Garvey DiHK inscrutable horse kzin602 Verisimilidude Dr. Red Ranger AndyElusive NUMBER 1 FULCI FAN
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I was directed over this direction thanks to the Recent Purchases thread after going in and buying Indomitus without previously playing any type of Warhammer. I've assembled my miniatures, and now it's coming time to paint them. I've decided with the Necron army I'm going to go with a SC2 Protoss inspired theme of yellow and blue, and I'm just working out how I want to go about it for them. For the Space Marines, I'm not quite sure on what to do there. I could just go standard blue marines, or something different, but I'm at a loss of what else. (I also bought way too many other little kits and might have gone a little overboard, but I've enjoyed painting what I've got so far.)
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You can look at canonical chapters or you can just look at other sources for inspiration. Blizzard games have a lot of great colour schemes as you've already seen.
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Xenoletum posted:I was directed over this direction thanks to the Recent Purchases thread after going in and buying Indomitus without previously playing any type of Warhammer. I've assembled my miniatures, and now it's coming time to paint them. I've decided with the Necron army I'm going to go with a SC2 Protoss inspired theme of yellow and blue, and I'm just working out how I want to go about it for them. Awesome, welcome to the hobby! Realistically all space marines are pretty good, so as previously said you can look up "existing" chapters or just paint them however you want. Who have you got to play the game with? Obviously covid is limiting people right now but there's loads of communities so I'm sure wherever you are there's probably a gaming club or something unless you're in the middle of nowhere.
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Kitchner posted:Awesome, welcome to the hobby! I'm in the Philadelphia Tri-State area, so we've got a Warhammer Shop in Wilmington, DE and Jenkintown, PA, as well as Redcap Corner in Philly proper and Top Deck/Card Titan in NJ, so I've got options once things open back up for sure. My partner -will- play with me, but they've stated that they won't like it, and that I'm not "dragging them down with my sinking ship on this." (They're completely happy with me playing and painting because I'm actually seeming to like the build and paint portion, so they're thrilled that I'm finding a hobby I enjoy, they just aren't going to spend the money/fall down the rabbit hole themselves.) It's just a matter of finding something when something opens up in this area and hopefully it not going as bad as my last D&D AL experience went with casual homophobia and transphobia spouted at the table by someone who smelled like rotting Taco Bell, as well as their partner.
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Yoooo I'm in the Philly area too! I'm new to the hobby but I'm excited to hang out at the Wilmington shop once that's a thing again
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Clawtopsy posted:Okay. I think my rules will be simple. 1). Back when I played infinity I started collecting a second army where I painted the robotic units with black and purple, with very heavy mixes of Vallejo metal medium in both, as the primary colors. I never got to play with them before the Infinity scene where I live died, so I am going to migrate that scheme to necrons. 2). Since I moved to Iowa in 2006 almost every person I have befriended I met through wargaming, since it is the main non-work reason for me to go places(or was before Papa Nurgle introduced us to covid). Another fun story is that back in my college days I had been part of a forum dedicated to the Legacy of Kain video game series for a while. Was a pretty obscure forum that didn't have a huge population. I picked up 40k at that time and started playing it with people at my University. I somehow found out that one of the people I was gaming with was someone I had been talking to on the LoK forum for years. We were both shocked to discover this, and we became even better friends after that!
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Xenoletum posted:I'm in the Philadelphia Tri-State area, so we've got a Warhammer Shop in Wilmington, DE and Jenkintown, PA, as well as Redcap Corner in Philly proper and Top Deck/Card Titan in NJ, so I've got options once things open back up for sure. My partner -will- play with me, but they've stated that they won't like it, and that I'm not "dragging them down with my sinking ship on this." An immediate idea for your partner - paint an army for them. I recently returned to the hobby with a nearly complete Eldar army from 4th edition. I have cultists and a salvaged space marine army, my brother left to rot. My friend likes the idea, but doesn't want to spend the money/time. So, I let him use one of my armies when we play now (BUT NOT MY ELDAR, NO ONE TOUCHES MY ELDAR!). Perhaps your partner won't mind playing, if you're doing the hard (or fun, since you seem to enjoy doing it) part. I enjoy the building/painting/collecting and am going to do a Imperial Knights army in the Fall when my wallet recovers.
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Clawtopsy posted:Okay. I think my rules will be simple. I wasn't sure if I was gonna post at first, but seeing some of the really positive messages people have posted are really inspiring and figured I'd throw 1)As soon as I saw the new Indomitus Necrons I know what had to be done.  I've never painted orange before except for little details like flame or cables, so this would be a fun challenge to try. Like your message, I really want to try pre-highlighting the metal bits and then try a blue contrast wash over the carapace bits. IMPCAT is awesome:  I've also been testing out using crackle medium to make snow bases and it looks awesome - when my steel legion stuff is done I want to post them. 2) My little brother is my best friend in the world, and we always dreamed about owning and playing Warhammer whenever we went into a hobby/comic store to play MTG/Pokemon cards/whatever our allowance would get us. We ended up playing some a bit with loaned models, but never reaaaaally got a chance to try it until high school. Fast forward to today and it's one of the most important things to us now - we both moved back home to help take care of our mom, and having some quiet hobby time beside rowdy gaming bonding has been amazing, and I'm really happy to be able to have this thing in common.
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BaronVanAwesome posted:Cool Necron That is a sick scheme. Rules question: I couldn't find any clarification in the BRB, but with pistols, it says they can shoot within engagement range of an enemy. Does this mean that a unit that remains in combat (neither unit is wiped out and both pass morale) can shoot at the enemy unit in it's next shooting phase, before continuing to resolve their fisticuffs? Or does it mean the pistol can be used in the fight phase instead of another weapon being used?
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I guess any Space Marine chapter can probably really just do anything, but how do White Scars play / what's their schtick? I don't know squat about any of the Imperium factions, I've always been Xenos/Heretic. But I think I may want to expand my collection of marines slowly alongside my Death Guard. Since I'll be using the SM as guinea pigs for my pre-heresy DG scheme I figured I'd call them White SARs 
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Spiv posted:That is a sick scheme. There isn't such a thing as "in combat" per se. There is an engagement range, and if you are within engagement range of an enemy there's certain things you can and cannot do. One of those things is move normally (meaning you must fall back) and the other is shoot your weapons. Pistols are an exception, as you can shoot them whole you're within the engagement range of an enemy model. So the order is: move, shoot with guns, charge into engagement range, fight in combat, enemy turn, fight in enemy turn, remain stationary (in engagement range), shoot with pistol, fight in combat. So it only matters if the combat lasts more than two fight phases (yours and then your opponents). Sab669 posted:I guess any Space Marine chapter can probably really just do anything, but how do White Scars play / what's their schtick? I don't know squat about any of the Imperium factions, I've always been Xenos/Heretic. But I think I may want to expand my collection of marines slowly alongside my Death Guard. White Scars are all about lightening fast attacks and hit and run tactics. They love bikes. On the table top this translates to a bunch of biker stratagems along with the ability to advance and shoot or charge, which is great. Kitchner fucked around with this message at 03:52 on Aug 7, 2020 |
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Crossposting from the painting thread. Do one of these look like they're on the right track?Dr. Red Ranger posted:I love the impcat app so much. I spent some time playing around with the palette I have, trying to recreate the feel I think I'm going for. I like the middle scheme the most so far because it reminds me of the bold colored Metroid fungal jungle levels. I went with orange to try and recreate the bright spike fungus look but I'm not sure if it translates well to the models themselves. Of course this is all assuming I can even recreate something as clean as the app results. I also love Ice Planet Necrons. Please do that.
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I'm a fan of the last one. I usually try to steer clear of the face being one of the darker parts of the model but I think if you take care to do some extra highlighting there and get the ey glow right it'll work out really well.
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Mikey Purp posted:Tried to take some of the advice for the bases. Here's a second guy painted up with a cooler gray instead of purple basing and slightly better lighting: I really do think using a contrast color like blue would help contrast from the grey of the model. Basically if your model has grey and pink, you want your base to be something else, or something neutral so its invisible, and doesn't take from the model
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Sab669 posted:I guess any Space Marine chapter can probably really just do anything, but how do White Scars play / what's their schtick? I don't know squat about any of the Imperium factions, I've always been Xenos/Heretic. But I think I may want to expand my collection of marines slowly alongside my Death Guard. Main gimmick for White Scars is that they're Space Mongols. They get a lot of buffs to Bike units and they have Encirclement which is like Strategic Reserves before it was invented and better (for 1 CP you can have an Impulsor drive in 6" from any edge of the battlefield filled with Marines who don't count as a seperate unit for CP cost). They get an additional 1 Damage to melee attacks when charging (so like, half of Blood Angels because BA get that bonus when receiving a charge too) and they get many ways of boosting their ability to reliably charge into melee. They can also charge after advancing or falling back so you can fall back and basically Total War cycle charge back in for the melee bonus. Special shout out to the Outrider bikes in the Indomitus Box that can move 20" across the table and get +2 attacks when charging, that they can do because White Scars allows them to Charge after Advancing and also you get +1 Damage to those extra attacks as well Xenoletum posted:rotting Taco Bell incredible Death Guard colour scheme idea
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