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stoopidmunkey posted:When this image first showed, Votann was where *redacted* now is so I’m still hoping for more space dwarves They said when Votann get their book it'll be with a lot of new model support to round out the army. A summer release for that would put it on top of the new AoS box and they seem to want avoid stacking like that to avoid strained production lines.
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Eej posted:There's an ongoing tension between "I want the game to represent the fluff, I want hyper customizable badass Space Marines that can individually swap their loadout to handle whatever the galaxy has to throw at them" versus "I want the game to be balanced" and I'm not sure how GW is going to appease both sides over time. They are leaning super hard on the latter and the game is remarkably balanced at the tourney level though. I've always kinda liked how Epic Armageddon handles space marines: sure they're uber elite and are practically unbreakable, but they're also tiny and don't have great support units so they mostly rely on mobility to crack whatever the weak point in the enemy is instead of getting into shooting matches with orks or whatever
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I would love to be able to bring a squad of Deathwatch or GK Terminators in any Imperium army like the olden days.
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Can someone explain unit variants to me? I took it to mean substantial equipment changes to a unit, such as a flamer versus a lasgun for a trooper but some of the variants in my Astra Militarum Combat Patrol box just look like aesthetic differences to me.
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Mar 15, 2024 19:49
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yup. just making em look different.
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Mar 15, 2024 19:51
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TehRedWheelbarrow posted:yup. But the manual also has an icon labelled "choice of parts" with 3 shields in a yellow circle and that to me seems like the aesthetic choices. Most of the units labelled with the variant icon (gear icon) are substantially different such as swapping out a lasgun for a melta, then a few like the one shown above don't seem to show any real equipment difference and would seem to only be aesthetic.
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Mar 15, 2024 19:54
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GW wanted you to be able to build 20 Guardsmen without repeating any exact poses. When they're both lasgun-armed (and without any special equipment like the banner or vox) it's just for variety's sake.
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Yeah, there was some room for variation in my Sisters unit recently, although it was mostly some head choices (helmet or no helmet) and I probably hosed up the glueing enough on some of their limbs to qualify as 'varied poses'.
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Although I would say the guard poses end up being only three poses: guy charging forward, guy pointing gun, and guy walking with gun.
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Lostconfused posted:Although I would say the guard poses end up being only three poses: guy charging forward, guy pointing gun, and guy walking with gun. I think that sums up the pose options for every troop of every faction tho
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Mar 15, 2024 20:07
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a jewelers saw and some filler or green stuff can fix that.
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Super Waffle posted:I think that sums up the pose options for every troop of every faction tho Allarus Terminators only have one pose: trying to keep their legs apart after pooping their pants.
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Mar 15, 2024 20:11
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An entire army of Termagants got exactly one pose if they were equipped the same way with how their arms had to glue to their weapons. Hormagaunts on the other hand were almost infinitely variable and I have some doing neat thing like quietly sniffing the air with their claws held up close. Until their loving ankles snap. Again.
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The natural endpoint for hormagaunts is both claws on the ground because it’s the only way to reattach them once the hoof breaks, the rest of the pose be damned.
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As I enter the end stages of building this combat patrol box, I wanted to ask what the recommendation would be for which of the Marine boxes to obtain. The generic brand Space Marine was... underwhelming, although I suspect it might still be a money saver with the two champion units. However, I'm not sure how deeply committed the various boxes are to the specific fluff of those armies, and there are like four. Advice welcome on the best bargain/most flexible choice.
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Mar 15, 2024 21:06
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The old Dark Angels one with the Dreadnought is supposed to be the good one.
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Mar 15, 2024 21:09
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Any of y'all have any online stores you'd recommend? I'm scouring the internet looking for soul grinders in stock somewhere. trying to avoid ordering from GW.
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Mar 15, 2024 21:26
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Miniature Market is where I used to check for things, and it's still pretty good, but these days I just go to eBay for 40k stuff.
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Nessus posted:As I enter the end stages of building this combat patrol box, I wanted to ask what the recommendation would be for which of the Marine boxes to obtain. The generic brand Space Marine was... underwhelming, although I suspect it might still be a money saver with the two champion units. However, I'm not sure how deeply committed the various boxes are to the specific fluff of those armies, and there are like four. Advice welcome on the best bargain/most flexible choice. Look for 9th edition combat patrol boxes, the ones released since 10th cane out have been more expensive with a lower savings. If you can find a Space Marine combat patrol from 9th its a pretty good deal. Gets you a tank, and some infiltration units to back up the 10th editions contents. If I'm understanding you correctly and you already have the 10 edition combat patrol.
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Mar 15, 2024 21:50
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Look for 9th edition combat patrol boxes, the ones released since 10th cane out have been more expensive with a lower savings.
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If I ever break and decide to paint marines, maybe I'll get that Hersey starter box.
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Nessus posted:As I enter the end stages of building this combat patrol box, I wanted to ask what the recommendation would be for which of the Marine boxes to obtain. The generic brand Space Marine was... underwhelming, although I suspect it might still be a money saver with the two champion units. However, I'm not sure how deeply committed the various boxes are to the specific fluff of those armies, and there are like four. Advice welcome on the best bargain/most flexible choice. If you have time to wait and want to collect a combat patrol's worth of unit from numerous armies I would consider giving the next Hachette partwork for 40k a spin. I did the 9th edition one and saved a ton of money, got a lot of great models, a nice little magazine and lore collection, and a lot of paints. Now, I already had the full range of GW paints, but having an extra black and brown and whatnot that I use a lot is helpful, and whatnot. You save a lot of money with the partworks not even including the paints and stuff. Definitely worth a look. And if you have a reasonable amount of free time they deliver on just about the right cadence for getting models done. https://www.fauxhammer.com/news/warhammer-40000-combat-patrol-announcement/
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IncredibleIgloo posted:If you have time to wait and want to collect a combat patrol's worth of unit from numerous armies I would consider giving the next Hachette partwork for 40k a spin. I did the 9th edition one and saved a ton of money, got a lot of great models, a nice little magazine and lore collection, and a lot of paints. Now, I already had the full range of GW paints, but having an extra black and brown and whatnot that I use a lot is helpful, and whatnot. You save a lot of money with the partworks not even including the paints and stuff. Definitely worth a look. And if you have a reasonable amount of free time they deliver on just about the right cadence for getting models done.
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You subscribe and then you get stuff every week pretty much.
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Oh nice, about how much does it cost up front? They'll ship to the US?
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Nessus posted:What the heck, lol, how does this work Edit: timing is everything of course
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No idea, can't seem to find any subscription cost mention. Also no idea if that trial run is UK specific or not, because if they follow with how Imperium works there is probably going to be a US specific one. It seems like their source has removed the info they're referring to, so might want to wait for any official announcement.
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I mean I'm down to get a hams mystery box if the price isn't usurious
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Cooked Auto posted:No idea, can't seem to find any subscription cost mention. Also no idea if that trial run is UK specific or not, because if they follow with how Imperium works there is probably going to be a US specific one. Saw someone mention offhand that the latest partwork might have been canned.
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I forgot how awful it is to try and read a Fauxhammer article, whew
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Eej posted:I forgot how awful it is to try and read a Fauxhammer article, whew Yeeeaaaah, that wasn't great. Z the IVth posted:Saw someone mention offhand that the latest partwork might have been canned. Ah, that might explain it then.
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Nessus posted:Oh nice, about how much does it cost up front? They'll ship to the US? The current running Age of Sigmar partwork ships to the US, and the previous 40k partwork shipped to the US, I have/had a subscription to both. They come out for the states a few months after the European release usually. Typically you order a subscription, like a magazine, and then they send you 4 issues a month in one box (if you live in the UK you can just go down to the magazine store called a "Newsagent" and buy them weekly). The whole collection runs for about 18 months or so. The 40k one was going to be 80 parts, but got extended to 90 because it was popular. They have an option where you can spend like 10 bucks more a month and also get extra kits as well, but the value of those depends on how much you like the extra kits. The AoS ones were really good, I did not think the last 40k partwork ones were very good, but it is pretty subjective. As for the likelihood of it going forward, it probably will. They typically do a small "trial" run of the partworks to make sure that there is interest in it and then a few months later do the whole run. They have been really succesfull for both Hachette and GW, so I would imagine this one will go forward. Fauxhammer also has one of the worst sites, readability and navigation wise. And ads.
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Huh, these things sound like convenience stores! But what's the price point, broadly? Like $50 a month or something?
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If the cost is similar to Imperium it about $1,100 spread out over just under 2 years.
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I saw there was some robot kitbash challenge on YouTube called Big Bot Bash amongst various minitube people, and although I didn't like any of the entries I've seen so far, it got me to thinking about making a Dark Mechanicum beast/character. So I purchased $7 worth of additional tubes at Home Depot to reinforce a computer mouse I tore apart. Hopefully it'll work out. I'm going to watch a few more videos though. Hopefully I can find something to appreciate amongst this creativity.
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Talk about serendipity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voQjCjJZbxA Skip to 10:40, dude shows a bunch of finished projects from others.
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Oh is that what Vinny V is working on?
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Lostconfused posted:Oh is that what Vinny V is working on? Not that I can tell.  Honestly I've never heard of a majority of these people listed at the end of the video I linked in my last comment. I only found this whole robot kitbash schtick because I was thinking back to Pete the Wargamers video where he built a Dark Mechanicum monster out of terrain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XLJKgJq4ck ...and I was wondering if anyone else bothered to kitbash some Dark Mechanicum stuff. That robot hashtag popped up in the related fields so I took a look.
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Cooked Auto posted:Well "big" leaks feels like a bit of a misnomer since it's just potato pictures of pages from a printing factory. A bunch of pictures of print sheet from the unannounced-but-everyone-knows-its-coming-anyway 4th edition AOS rulebook. Someone at GW is sending extremely furious emails to the company that does their printing.
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Got my hunting pack preorder in. No queue, surprisingly.
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