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Well, my DIY lightbox didn't work out that great. Despite using White light it came out extremely warm. The final Sargent for my Deathwatch Killteam, Iron Hands again because this particular branch of the Deathwatch ("The Lighthouse") is in the far reaches of the Halo Stars and likes to keep a tight hold on all high-ranking positions for reasons!:     An Iron Snake, inspired by this guy's work, with a color-changed helmet because I thought the white would look better!   
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Professor Shark posted:New Epic looks awesome and I’m really tempted to pick up some little guys to see how my painting game translates I love painting 6/8mm. A little effort goes a long way, and it feels great to paint up a whole unit over a couple evenings. I'm so happy to see the interest in this thread alone. I've been pushing epic in my local area and this announcement seems to have got a couple people serious about getting into the scale. I gotta go buy a ton of circle bases now though. I'm finishing the armies I have underway now in strips, then it will be all circles.
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Randalor posted:Have they actually given a release date for the new Epic? August, so very soon.
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Lord_Hambrose posted:August, so very soon. What?! Where did you see that? That is insanely soon. Edit: I see it, but I thought that meant we get to see more stuff in August.
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Virtual Russian posted:What?! Where did you see that? That is insanely soon. The article says "the game deploys in August", so I'm sure we'll see more stuff before then. I just wanna know what the base size is, come onnnn GW... Folks on FB are speculating 25mm Count Thrashula fucked around with this message at 15:19 on Jul 2, 2023 |
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Count Thrashula posted:The article says "the game deploys in August", so I'm sure we'll see more stuff before then. Holy poo poo, I've got to get circle bases fast for what I'm working on now. Edit: This feels way too soon after Leviathan, everyone just bought a giant box. I hope that doesn't hurt the game. Virtual Russian fucked around with this message at 15:25 on Jul 2, 2023 |
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Virtual Russian posted:What?! Where did you see that? That is insanely soon. I'd expect that they'll spend July drip-feeding details on how the game works on WarCom, then gradually start showing off future models prior to releasing the core box in early/mid-August. Then by late August we'll be back to 40k codex hype ready for September.
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I imagine I'll get two of those boxes, but I'm going to build a version of that box with proxies I have on hand too. I'm absolutely loving those malcador, can't wait to paint them up. I wish I had more time to rope people in and get prepared, this is my big chance to get some people in my very rural area to play epic. I just cannot believe Epic is back after all these years. I know there will be some people that get upset, but so far I've just seen an overwhelming number of the grognards like me that are overjoyed.
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Count Thrashula posted:The article says "the game deploys in August", so I'm sure we'll see more stuff before then. The bases would have to be 25mm or slightly below that to be able to fit into a 1x1 square AT Civitas roof tile. So yeah, 25mm is very likely if you assume they are made to fit on rooftops.. Talking about size, the Solar Auxilia seem to be a bit shorter than the marines, which is cool. One thing about AT that always seemed to confuse people was the '8mm scale' thing. This was explained by the designers as 8mm being the size of a marine in the new AT scale, but a man should be somewhere at or just over 6mm. Because humans are ~6 feet tall and marines are ~8 feet tall. Seems like they may have maintained that into these models. Maybe. I'm not going to do the photoshop measuring thing.
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:Maybe. I'm not going to do the photoshop measuring thing. Good news, someone already has. https://twitter.com/wartrader/status/1675169003235418113
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NC Wyeth Death Cult posted:Good news, someone already has. This is so helpful, thanks. I have 25mm 5 hole bases already, and can get way more from Vanguard. My marines are all 8mm and my humans are 6mm, this is perfect.
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Arglebargle III posted:Blood Bowl is so good No its a bad game you're not allowed to like it and the joy it brings you is fake! It has objectively bad game design because I failed a GFI roll and lost a player on turn 2, ruining my plans for two-turn touchdown! That's not how games are supposed to be!
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New Epic looking so good is a bit of a monkey's paw for me. I was just hoping for a new Titan model, or plastic Necron fliers.
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Failson posted:New Epic looking so good is a bit of a monkey's paw for me. I was just hoping for a new Titan model, or plastic Necron fliers. Best I can do is necron hovercraft    I've almost got 1000pts of necrons painted up at this point. They paint so fast I'll have them done by the end of the long weekend (canada). I'm doing these fast and rough, but they minis themselves wouldn't lend themselves to much better. My Necron vehicles almost all show print lines very badly, the obelisks are of very poor print quality, and then were cast very haphazardly. The infantry are totally serviceable, but lack detail. It does make them paint up crazy fast at least. Edit: My partner got me this great tiny lightbox! My normal lightbox is massive and takes at least a half-hour to set up. I use it for my art normally, but it is too big to be worth getting out for hams.
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:No its a bad game you're not allowed to like it and the joy it brings you is fake! It has objectively bad game design because I failed a GFI roll and lost a player on turn 2, ruining my plans for two-turn touchdown! That's not how games are supposed to be! Dude it's one thing to breathlessly defend every single aspect of the game's design as if it was the perfect unimprovable pinnacle of gaming, it's entirely another to move on to inventing arguments to rail at when someone posts something positive because you're addicted to the argument
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Virtual Russian posted:Best I can do is necron hovercraft Looks fantastic to me, especially for the scale, I can't even see the 3D print layers! Great paint too.
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Thirsty Dog posted:Dude it's one thing to breathlessly defend every single aspect of the game's design as if it was the perfect unimprovable pinnacle of gaming, it's entirely another to move on to inventing arguments to rail at when someone posts something positive because you're addicted to the argument My favorite part of blood bowl is the sheer variety and quality of sculpts. I don't think there's a single on-the-webstore sculpt that I kind of cringe at. I wanted to get into Lord of the Rings since I played with a friend and there's a lot of weird...shelves(?) of plastic. Very ugly models unless looked at from a "perfect" angle. Any it's a good time. Tell me about your latest game. I recently managed to kill a troll with a 3 dice you pick using a skaven linerat. I basically won because the other player got tunnel vision and laser-focused on killing that rat. He survived with an NI but I'll keep him anyway. You don't usually get casualties like that. You have any interest in the new teams?
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I just beat hierotek circle with voidscarred corsairs. Hierotek 4 points Voidscarred Corsairs 20 points Holy gently caress I don't even.
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Annointed posted:I just beat hierotek circle with voidscarred corsairs. Voidscarred are fun as heck and they have really good matchups into elite teams and teams that rely really heavily on keystone specialists who glue the whole team together.
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:My favorite part of blood bowl is the sheer variety and quality of sculpts. I don't think there's a single on-the-webstore sculpt that I kind of cringe at. I wanted to get into Lord of the Rings since I played with a friend and there's a lot of weird...shelves(?) of plastic. Very ugly models unless looked at from a "perfect" angle. No, I don't really like blood bowl to that extent and I don't vibe with its design so I generally talk about other games instead, for example I am very much looking forward to seeing the new Epic which I never thought I'd see happen. Congrats on the troll kill, I know someone who I accidentally made give up the game entirely because a lineman killed his minotaur with one of my first blocks in his first league match back in the BB1 video game heyday The sculpts are almost all very good but then that was a highlight of the game right back in the 90s as well imo
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Squibsy posted:Many of the 3rd party BB sculpts were/are absolutely outstanding as well Dangerous though, you end up starting with a nice cheap gw team and before you know it your spending 80 quid on a team from Greebo Games 
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Mr Owl posted:Dangerous though, you end up starting with a nice cheap gw team and before you know it your spending 80 quid on a team from Greebo Games Blood Bowl in general is the only game I think embodies the "You only need one box no dont ask why I have put a grand into this niche game" meme well. I also know a woman who does the same with kill team "all you need is in one box!" and to her credit she does literally only use her one team but she has purchased literally every single thing made for KT2021 as it stands. God drat software engineers whose rich-rear end parents also bought them a house!
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Mr Owl posted:Dangerous though, you end up starting with a nice cheap gw team and before you know it your spending 80 quid on a team from Greebo Games Blood Bowl truly lives in its own dimension when you can say this a cyborg mug fucked around with this message at 15:27 on Jul 3, 2023 |
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https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/07/03/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-warhammer-the-horus-heresy-legions-imperialis/ Brief Q&A article on the new Epic and related gubbins. The rules seem to borrow bits and pieces from all previous incarnations of the game. The article also confirms we're getting new Epic scale ruined terrain: 
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Annointed posted:I just beat hierotek circle with voidscarred corsairs. Report details! How did you even?
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xtothez posted:https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/07/03/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-warhammer-the-horus-heresy-legions-imperialis/ Thank god alternating activation is still in, I'm super excited by hidden orders.
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Yes, confirmation of alternating activations is good. I've been thinking about the mention of assault cannons and how relatively useless they are in AT, and comments I believe were made on a podcast by James Hewitt to the effect of "it would have been good practice to design AT with infantry in mind." While I'm not expecting this to just be expanded AT, I am wondering if the combat mechanics for tanks/infantry have derived from AT and we'll see a straight port of weapon/armour stats. With a simplified system for controlling the titans. It would make it easier to cross release for AT and epic as separate games going forward, and Questoris with assault cannons under the current AT rules would make significantly more sense in that light. I'm also very happy to see the ruined building, that is a good omen for basing.
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Tossing this out there for anyone looking for a new Warmaster army- BlackGate Minis just dropped a 2k point Ogre army package for 25% off but he's only offering six https://www.blackgateminiatures.com/store/ogres/
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SuperKlaus posted:Report details! How did you even? The mission was Into the Dark 3.2. I was playing Voidscarred Corsairs Felarch Misthelm Shaderunner grenade Fatedealer cloak Starstorm duelist Gunner Soul Weaver Kurnathi Kurnite Hunter Wayseeker helm They were playing Hierotek Circle with Technomancer Apprentek Deathmark Immortal despotek Immortal Plasmacyte reanimator Plasmacyte accelerator His goal was to hide an object as courier and my goal was to get the objective He used all Hierotek Circle Tac ops and I used Flawless Raiders Retrieve Loot Secure Unexplored rooms He rolled a 15 from a 3d6 to do 15 actions moving around passing on objects and terrain. Making 5 options. I went first and got the object first try keeping all on conceal. Turning point 2 he had his leader on guard and shot down my Kurnite hunter rolling interference while my Kurnathi was moving up the right flank His leader chopped down my shaderunner but I shot him down with my starstorm duelist. I then got luck with my felarch to blast open their courier despotek and combo with my gunner to one shot their plasmacyte regenerator and their apprentek. They then blew up all this in return, but they didn't realize that by ignoring the left half of the board, my sniper got the loot thanks to plunderes, getting the look turning point 1 and securing unexplored room, and getting me Flawless Raiders for having more points than the enemy. Turning point 3 most of his stuff was alive except for his Leader thankfully. He shot down everything, my Kurnathi which ripped into his plasmacyte, my felarch and gunner got snipped from being exposed and my wayseeker was poorly positioned getting shot up. But by then he still had no points but I did by having my duelling pick up the objective. I scored all my unexploredI rooms, retrieve loot and maxxed flawless raiders to his 0 points. By turning point 4 I went for fleet to finally get out of his range, he failed his second Technomancer reanimation roll. And I used my comms Soul weaver to help give my Starstorm dueling the movement needed to run away from the necrons to the other side of the board with Fleet for extra movement. With the goals If the courier is incapacitated, you score 2VPs. If friendly operatives control the objective marker, you score 6VPs. If a friendly operative is carrying the objective marker, you score 2VPs. If a friendly operative is carrying the objective marker and is not within of an enemy operative, you score 2VPs All completed. Leaving me with 6 points for tac op, and 14 loving points for main objective. Giving me a total of 20 points to the Necron's 4 for their objective tac ops. I had literally only 3 operatives left. I don't even know how.
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Virtual Russian posted:Best I can do is necron hovercraft Where are the models from? I have the Ankylo ones but haven't looked at the files in awhile if those are them.
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goodness posted:Where are the models from? I have the Ankylo ones but haven't looked at the files in awhile if those are them. The monoliths and infantry come from chaostemple.cz, which used to be Trolls Under the Bridge. The Obelisks are forumware, research tells me they specifically are "otterware", but I have no clue where to get them. I got a metric ton of forumware in a shoebox off a guy at a tournament a while back. There is so much in there, lots is garbage quality, but there are still some great pieces. There are some great looking Defilers I'm going to build soon.
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Cool cool. Thanks for the details. I own Voidscarred myself now because they look like very much my jam. Not played though.Lumpy posted:Well there you have it. You have to take the Chronomancer in that matchup: limiting the movement of a team based around being fast is essential. I was thinking about the concept of counter-picking within the fairly limited operative selection options most teams have (selecting flamer vs horde teams and so forth), but don't formal play rules require you to select your operatives blind to what the other team is? You get to choose only your equipment after seeing the enemy. I wonder if it would be good or bad for the game to allow operative selection after knowing what your opponents' faction is.
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SuperKlaus posted:I was thinking about the concept of counter-picking within the fairly limited operative selection options most teams have (selecting flamer vs horde teams and so forth), but don't formal play rules require you to select your operatives blind to what the other team is? You get to choose only your equipment after seeing the enemy. I wonder if it would be good or bad for the game to allow operative selection after knowing what your opponents' faction is. You write your roster blind, but pick operatives from it after you know what your opponent is running. Most teams can fit every operative they actually want on a roster with ease, anyway. Most bespoke teams are balanced around the idea that you are counterpicking your team's best operatives for the matchup. The handful of bespoke teams that can't counterpick are stronger in other ways to compensate (and often some of the best teams in the entire game). Cease to Hope fucked around with this message at 21:13 on Jul 3, 2023 |
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