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SalmanBashi posted:
Yeah, originally I was going to do a bunch of unique faction mechanics (e.g. Space Marines can deep strike anywhere, chaos space marines can despoil permanent improvements to remove them etc) but basically I decided if it takes more than a page or two it's too complex. Here's the rules I wrote: quote:The campaign is divided into campaign “Rounds”. Here is the "loot table" when you get an unclaimed hex:  And here is the map:  The loot table is designed so that most of the time you get a one off bonus.
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Phobos librarian done to finish up 1000 points.  Crowded army shot  Edit: here's the current list i got going and how I kinda marked it as a halfway point to my 2k list, I don't have a dual claw wolf lord so the shield and hammer one is standing in just for milestone sake. My total painting target just uses 3 th/ss calv and eventually I want to get some TH with claws https://pastebin.com/ZR0NSg8f Spanish Manlove fucked around with this message at 00:35 on Jan 4, 2021 |
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I kind of doubt the 9th edition Necron book I ordered is ever coming so thank gently caress for the http://wahapedia.ru/ website. Not as immediately accessible as a book but man, fantastic resource that has all the info I need for poo poo.
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Jan 3, 2021 22:13
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Can anyone recommend some good plastic gas mask heads for converting Cadians to cultists?
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Jan 3, 2021 22:20
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a pale ghost posted:Can anyone recommend some good plastic gas mask heads for converting Cadians to cultists? Not plastic, i don't think you will find plastic heads from any company, but Victoria Miniatures has you covered: https://victoriaminiatures.com/collections/heads
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Jan 3, 2021 22:58
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Gas masks you say? https://www.anvilindustry.co.uk/filterSearch?q=gas%20masks https://www.anvilindustry.co.uk/filterSearch?q=gasmasks https://bitsofwar.com/imperial-guard/30-chem-trooper-heads.html#idTab1 https://madrobotminiatures.com/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1&keyword=gas+mask Here's a couple of finds from what I have in my 3rd party producer bookmarks.
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Jan 3, 2021 23:09
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Kitchner posted:
I was going to ask but you kinda answered here, are you trying to do a sort of growth over time concept? I had the notion that you'd start with a tiny 300 - 500 point army, and as you conquered territory you could "purchase" more units with points gained.
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Snail Information posted:I was going to ask but you kinda answered here, are you trying to do a sort of growth over time concept? I had the notion that you'd start with a tiny 300 - 500 point army, and as you conquered territory you could "purchase" more units with points gained. Crusade sort of supports that anyway. The default is you start with 50PL/1000 points, and then you spend RP to increase your order of battle (your total army). Before each game you make an army from your order of battle, but since the armies have to be the same size, having a 2,000 point order of battle when everyone else has 1,000 gives you flexibility in options, but not army size. My two new to the hobby friends and my partner all have 1,000 points or thereabouts. I don't want to tell them they have to buy more models, but for people like me and the other player we can widen our order of battle and still get to use our full collection against them even if they don't buy more models, and we can use 2,000 points against each other. I don't think crusade is great to start at 2,000 points anyway as there's another layer of admin and rules to track. If you grow the army slowly then your first units stop levelling up so fast and there's less new stuff to learn Kitchner fucked around with this message at 00:09 on Jan 4, 2021 |
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Jan 4, 2021 00:05
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Kitchner posted:Crusade sort of supports that anyway. The default is you start with 50PL/1000 points, and then you spend RP to increase your order of battle (your total army). Before each game you make an army from your order of battle, but since the armies have to be the same size, having a 2,000 point order of battle when everyone else has 1,000 gives you flexibility in options, but not army size. I'm stealing your whole design and theory behind this and will never pay you a penny, muahahahahhaha!! But seriously, that is a fairly simple but easily adaptable system you posted and will immensely helpful as a prepare to start developing my campaign.
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Jan 4, 2021 00:23
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Spiv posted:I'm stealing your whole design and theory behind this and will never pay you a penny, muahahahahhaha!! I'm glad it helped. To be fair it's largely based on the mechanic behind that 40K tile set they sold a while back (the 2D6 when you take a tile was from there) and a desire to keep things as simple as possible. The only thing I ask is that if your campaign involves an inept planetary governor, that you name them after me.
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a pale ghost posted:Can anyone recommend some good plastic gas mask heads for converting Cadians to cultists? I think the heads from Sicaraian Ruststalkers (an admech kit) would work well for that. Sort of skinny, inhuman looking WW1 gasmasks.
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Jan 4, 2021 10:04
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Cooked Auto posted:Gas masks you say? Caution about mad robot minis! I ordered some of their steel legion lookalikes (also gas mask related) and they are not quite the same scale as 40k. Looks like 28mm but not heroic so heads and limbs are smaller/skinnier than 40k humans, looks a little odd side by side.
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Jan 4, 2021 16:12
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I've been thinking about putting together an Eldar army once I catch up with my painting backlog a little. I know they aren't good, but the 2nd Edition Eldar codex is what first attracted my to 40k in the first place, so I thought I'd finally put some together. Are they really still using a 7th ed. Codex? That's the latest one I can find.
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Jan 4, 2021 18:08
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Funzo posted:I've been thinking about putting together an Eldar army once I catch up with my painting backlog a little. I know they aren't good, but the 2nd Edition Eldar codex is what first attracted my to 40k in the first place, so I thought I'd finally put some together. Are they really still using a 7th ed. Codex? That's the latest one I can find. This is the latest one: https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Codex-Craftworlds-hb-2017-eng Looks like it was from 2017, which I think was 8th edition, but early in 8th edition.
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Jan 4, 2021 18:23
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Kitchner posted:This is the latest one: It's 8th. Given the vast rules changes from 7th to 8th, everyone got new rules with 8th, first in the Indexes, then a Codex. No rules that predate 8th are currently in use.
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Jan 4, 2021 18:44
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Looks like I was just looking at the wrong thing then. Thanks!
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Funzo posted:I've been thinking about putting together an Eldar army once I catch up with my painting backlog a little. I know they aren't good, but the 2nd Edition Eldar codex is what first attracted my to 40k in the first place, so I thought I'd finally put some together. Are they really still using a 7th ed. Codex? That's the latest one I can find. Wraiths are always cool. Join the legions of futuristic space elf necromancers
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Jan 4, 2021 21:05
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Spiv posted:Wraiths are always cool. Join the legions of futuristic space elf necromancers I do like the look of Wraiths. The big draw originally was all the wildly colorful Aspect Warriors. 2nd Ed. had some pretty crazy paint jobs. Plus who could resist something called a Shuriken Catapult? That sounded cool as hell.
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Funzo posted:I do like the look of Wraiths. The big draw originally was all the wildly colorful Aspect Warriors. 2nd Ed. had some pretty crazy paint jobs. Plus who could resist something called a Shuriken Catapult? That sounded cool as hell. I love Eldar, they were what I got into in 3rd. I am sad they are in such a poor spot right now, but we'll get a new 'dex and it'll be fine. Wraiths were always my favourite, and I love the current wraith models.
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Jan 4, 2021 23:18
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https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/01/04/get-a-first-look-at-this-years-exclusive-store-anniversary-models/ I want that Necron
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AnEdgelord posted:https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/01/04/get-a-first-look-at-this-years-exclusive-store-anniversary-models/ I actually want all the branded swag like the dice bag and the dice tray
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I'm honestly surprised it wasn't another Space Marine. Now release the older models on the webstore you cowards. 
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Cooked Auto posted:I'm honestly surprised it wasn't another Space Marine. I wish they'd commit to on demand 3d printing of out of print models. So many old models I'd love to get now just to have.
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Jan 5, 2021 03:18
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I'd pay a fair bit of money for a new 3d printed "Wizard with submachinegun"
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Eediot Jedi posted:I wish they'd commit to on demand 3d printing of out of print models. So many old models I'd love to get now just to have. There'd be a 2yr queue behind all the slave girl requests.
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PinheadSlim posted:I'd pay a fair bit of money for a new 3d printed "Wizard with submachinegun" Same but warhammer quest 1995, with submachine guns all round. Macdeo Lurjtux posted:There'd be a 2yr queue behind all the slave girl requests. Buy more slave girl printers!
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Eediot Jedi posted:I wish they'd commit to on demand 3d printing of out of print models. So many old models I'd love to get now just to have. I was going to argue that print on demand has to be in the future. But the volume of requests for (slave girl and nazi) models might make it difficult to pull off.
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God drat I remember those slave girls. I started playing in 2003 and they were everywhere, every weird grog had bought a couple to put on his chaos lord’s base or whatever.
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Eediot Jedi posted:I wish they'd commit to on demand 3d printing of out of print models. So many old models I'd love to get now just to have. My kingdom for those Assault on Black Reach Deffkoptas.
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Jan 5, 2021 15:02
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I can understand them doing limited runs for metal minis because the moulds break, but why the hell are they still doing limited run plastic minis?
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Jan 5, 2021 17:57
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tomdidiot posted:I can understand them doing limited runs for metal minis because the moulds break, but why the hell are they still doing limited run plastic minis? Manufactured scarcity and a limited purchasing window to drive fear of missing out. Not the most consumer friendly strategy; it must increase sales though or they would do something else.
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Jan 5, 2021 18:20
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tomdidiot posted:I can understand them doing limited runs for metal minis because the moulds break, but why the hell are they still doing limited run plastic minis? Manufacturing capacity isn't unlimited.
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Jan 5, 2021 18:54
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Also do you on demand print the boxes and instructions they get packaged with. And then you have economies of scale to consider. Now what they could do I suppose is create an order system that shows you how many requests have been paid for and when Model X reaches 2000 orders they run a batch and mail them out. But they are busy doing whatever they want so probably won't happen ever.
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Jan 5, 2021 19:14
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I'd be perfectly fine with on-demand stuff coming in a nondescript cardboard box with a QR code stamped onto it that links to the assembly instructions as a PDF honestly  Hell, they should just link the instructions on any given product page period. Sometimes you maybe spill agrax earthshade all over your desk, y'know.
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Jan 5, 2021 19:17
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I think in addition to whatever strategies they have, I’ve seen it mentioned a few times that popularity has really caught them by surprise, and the new facilities they wanted to arrange for more production like, completely didn’t work for some reason.
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Captain Magic posted:I think in addition to whatever strategies they have, I’ve seen it mentioned a few times that popularity has really caught them by surprise, and the new facilities they wanted to arrange for more production like, completely didn’t work for some reason. They had to work with the Nottingham city govt to upgrade the electrical infrastructure. Plus, you know, covid. Also, molds for plastics do eventually wear out, particularly the ones they do in aluminum rather than steel for products that get smaller runs.
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Jan 5, 2021 19:23
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It is the grimdark year 40,000 and humanity's home planet Terra is now entirely covered in immense factories cranking out plastic figurines to meet the demands of a sector hungry for blood, war and contrast paint.
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My local store has tons of old unmarked GW boxes with the unit name in sharpie written on them because of direct order, it’s very much a thing. Also most limited edition models don’t need instructions. It’s very much a matter of manufacturing capacity/scheduling, keeping production in-house really limits GW’s ability to respond to demand.
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tomdidiot posted:I can understand them doing limited runs for metal minis because the moulds break, but why the hell are they still doing limited run plastic minis? The limited run plastic mini molds are made from aluminum rather than stainless steel, which is way cheaper to machine but not as durable, so the production costs are lower but they can't sell them forever.
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Sab669 posted:My kingdom for those Assault on Black Reach Deffkoptas. I've got 3 primed/unassembled that I'd post if they'd get painted. I'm in Australia though so postage time could be interesting. Ropes4u posted:I was going to argue that print on demand has to be in the future. But the volume of requests for (slave girl and nazi) models might make it difficult to pull off. I hope there's something in the works. Surely GW has a couple of interns making 3d scans of every model they can find, waiting for industrial scale 3d printing to mature. 
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