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So Abnett somehow lands the ship?
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I honestly don’t care about balance, I think giant units and flyers crowded into a 40k table looks thematically dumb as hell even by 40k standards. Leave that stuff to forgeworld whales to be in once-a-year ginormous 16-hour apocalypse games.
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How pissy do people get if you run HH units in a 40k army? And before anyone asks, this not in a tourney setting, but for casual play.
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iospace posted:How pissy do people get if you run HH units in a 40k army? And before anyone asks, this not in a tourney setting, but for casual play. Are they stand ins for 40k units or are you running them using the HH data sheets?
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Lostconfused posted:Tempted to try and get that Kroot box when it comes out, despite already having 2 or possibly 3 unpainted armies still sitting around. When does this go on sale? I similarly have enough Tau in my backlog to not need it…but I definitely want new sculpt Kroot boys. The inscrutable time gap between preview, hype, chatter rising before release and actual preorder has burned me more than once because I can’t be assed to check every FOMO marketing email.
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Spanish Manlove posted:Are they stand ins for 40k units or are you running them using the HH data sheets? Stand in.
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No one had any problems previously, but now most 30k units have been split off into the legends category and so can only be used in friendly games. If that's not an issue for you, go hog wild. Note that this mostly applies to the vehicles and dreadnoughts. 30k-specific infantry units like palatine blades, deathsworn, reavers, etc. never had 40k rules, but there's no reason you can't proxy them as something. Just make sure they line up well enough and you'll be fine.
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E2M2 posted:Man where do I even start with Orks? World Eaters is pretty straight forward but Orks have a million choices. Guessing that Xmas box is a pretty good deal? Might be way out of my price range rn. Maybe the Combat Patrol? Research an Ork clan, decide which you like the most and go from there. Right now none of it makes a difference but it at least gives you an idea and philosophy to build around which narrows the field of options. Just renember Ork shooting is terrible and you need to balance that out. The christmas box set is a really good deal but it is themed towards Beast Snaggaz / Snakebites. If that's not your bag then you can avoid it. The Combat Patrol is also a good deal too (as it often is). I always wanted to play Orks and really warmed up to the Snakebites idea, so I ended up picking two beast snagga stampede boxes, and got some other stuff to fill it out. I really wanted to have something that represented the Ork ecosystem. The only big wrench in my plans is that there are no squiggoths left in the world and no idea if/when they'll come back.
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CottonWolf posted:So Abnett somehow lands the ship? 45% through it and yeah i think he's gonna do it.
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Don't see any reason why you couldn't build/paint your army as a mixed waagh! With majority of the orks being goffs, red evil sunz truks, and some bad moon flash gitz and meks or whatever.
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Lostconfused posted:Don't see any reason why you couldn't build/paint your army as a mixed waagh! With majority of the orks being goffs, red evil sunz truks, and some bad moon flash gitz and meks or whatever. That’s how they are in the lore, but a lot of players prefer the stork-brand chapter/regiment/craftworld take Plus you can just say this is just the warboss’s boyz and the larger waagh is mixed
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Jan 27, 2024 16:16
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CottonWolf posted:So Abnett somehow lands the ship? Which proves that the best way to have Abnett write an ending is to have him dedicate a whole book to it.
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You can totally have a mixed waagh but if you're trying to slim down an overwhelming set of choices, it's a way to do it. You can really come up with any theme and run with it.
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iospace posted:Stand in. Perfectly fine for almost everyone who is worth playing with
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I finally got my beakie heads 3d printed, and they came out alright! Some layering, but I'm optimistic that it won't be too obvious with a little bit of cleaning, some primer and a coat of paint! From left to right, it's what I intend to use for mixing up regular dudes, infiltrators and finally some laurels for my captain  Also, this was my first experience with blender, so the first stl files I exported weren't.. quite representative of what they looked like in blender, so here's the very first head, accidentally printed with every single possible accessory. I need to do something with this absolute atrocity 
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Spanish Manlove posted:Perfectly fine for almost everyone who is worth playing with I just played a game against a blood angels player who proxied three different horus heresy dreads as a bunch of weird blood angels dreadnoughts, it was fine but halfway through the game a GW copyright lawyer bust through the door and sued both of us for crimes against warhammer, I am now homeless and living on the street. Actually it was totally fine, I don't even know what these dumb blood angels dreadnoughts look like 
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Bohemian Nights posted:Also, this was my first experience with blender, so the first stl files I exported weren't.. quite representative of what they looked like in blender, so here's the very first head, accidentally printed with every single possible accessory. I need to do something with this absolute atrocity stick in on the sergeant of whatever the most tacticool phobos unit is
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iospace posted:Stand in. GW explicitly recommends using HH units as stand-ins for 40k units
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Improbable Lobster posted:GW explicitly recommends using HH units as stand-ins for 40k units That's a surprise! More so given the price difference.
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It doesn't surprise me at all once I realized that all the models for Horus Heresy are made by the exact same company that make all of the models for Warhammer 40,000. 
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Very unfair of them to let horus heresy hog all the bayonets though. 40K guards should be allowed some knives on their guns too.
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Are Leviathan dreads about the same size as redemptors? That would be a pretty easy swap and I doubt anyone would have issue with it.
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Dreadnoughts are on bases, so that's not even an issue.
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My question is, is the new Leviathan dread the same size or bigger than the old Leviathan dread?
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The Demilich posted:My question is, is the new Leviathan dread the same size or bigger than the old Leviathan dread? It's the exact same. It's a direct translation of the resin kit into plastic. It just has more parts because there are more sub-assemblies where things like the shins could be one piece when cast in resin.
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jesus. loken vs horus nah abnett crushed it. 75%
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Safety Factor posted:It's the exact same. It's a direct translation of the resin kit into plastic. It just has more parts because there are more sub-assemblies where things like the shins could be one piece when cast in resin. That's awesome to hear. I thought the weapons were enlarged a little bit which led me to wondering if they made the model itself a bit bigger to maybe match the Redemptor.
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TehRedWheelbarrow posted:jesus. Some of us just started it.
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sorry horus rising came out 18 years ago. its a legal adult
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I think they mean EatD3 not the entire HH series. also lol @ "Eat D"
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TehRedWheelbarrow posted:jesus. Can you maybe not post things like this in the thread, there's a book thread in BB which I've unbookmarked for this reason
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Yeah, specifically I meant volume 3 here, the one that literally just released.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Can you maybe not post things like this in the thread, there's a book thread in BB which I've unbookmarked for this reason Seriously
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my apologies.
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im done. abnett should be proud he did the thing. omg cypher?
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TehRedWheelbarrow posted:my apologies. Thanks 
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Halfway through drilling about 50 resin bases for 5mm magnets with a pin vice and I want to die.  Also listening to the end and the death part 3 and yes so far it’s good but dabnetts environment descriptions are starting to remind me a bit of Garth Merenghi. Mr Teatime fucked around with this message at 03:21 on Jan 28, 2024 |
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Mr Teatime posted:Halfway through drilling about 50 resin bases for 5mm magnets with a pin vice and I want to die. Are they ones you printed or purchased? Some of the providers on MMF have little magnet holes on the bottom of the bases they offer and it is super, super easy. Or is it just a solid resin base? That sounds like a pain. It sounds like such a pain in the rear end I might even try to just use really thin magnets just slightly smaller than the base.
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