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Nope I was like ten and didn't do anything other than glue 'em together. This time I went at them with clippers and a microsanding tool and it really smoothed things out, though I did somehow still create a head gap which luckily was easily filled with liquid green stuff. I'm just really bad at modeling I think
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Would strongly recommend putting some pins in your metal models. At least the arms into the torso. The flat mating surfaces don't give a lot of surface area for superglue to grab on. Edit - if you've already assembled them and don't want to take them apart to pin you can drill a hole through the arm from the outside into the torso, stick the pin in and then fill the pinhole.
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May 7, 2024 19:57
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Do folks drill lasgun barrels? They're pretty teensy.
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May 7, 2024 20:06
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Like any gun barrel, drilling your lasguns is completely personal preference. With that said, drill your fuckin barrels and pin your taints.
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To rephrase and shorten my earlier question, do I need to seek out any additional or updated rules for Combat Patrol, or it just what's in the Leviathan rulebook?
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May 7, 2024 20:38
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The core rules all apply but each Patrol has set rules and there are specific missions, all of which can be found here: https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/06/29/combat-patrol-rules-and-missions-everything-you-need-to-play-this-fresh-new-mode/
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Z the IVth posted:Would strongly recommend putting some pins in your metal models. At least the arms into the torso. The flat mating surfaces don't give a lot of surface area for superglue to grab on. Hmm, I appreciate the advice but I feel pretty sure Id mangle them trying to drill holes in from the side. Itd be nice to mitigate the ease with which limbs pop off these kinds of models so Ill keep that in mind for the future though
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rantmo posted:The core rules all apply but each Patrol has set rules and there are specific missions, all of which can be found here: https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/06/29/combat-patrol-rules-and-missions-everything-you-need-to-play-this-fresh-new-mode/ Dang, see! I'd thought the rules were in the book because last night I flipped to the full color spreads of each Combat Patrol and was going to review the rules later. I'd forgotten they're in this completely separate pdf, thanks.
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Frog Act posted:Hmm, I appreciate the advice but I feel pretty sure Id mangle them trying to drill holes in from the side. Itd be nice to mitigate the ease with which limbs pop off these kinds of models so Ill keep that in mind for the future though If you don't want to drill and pin those kinds of joints, you can rough 'em up a bit with like a bunch of cross-hatches with an Xacto blade and that will help things 'grip' with the extra surface area. I'd still recommend drilling and pinning if you can.
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May 7, 2024 20:53
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Lostconfused posted:I'm starting to realize that I'd be happier if I got some Kommandos and Ghaz and not think about what a competitive list looks like. Buy stuff that you think is cool, worry about if it's competitive later
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May 7, 2024 20:58
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Geisladisk posted:Every year people act shocked that a company raises prices more or less in step with inflation. Note that inflation is fake and driven by greed not necessity
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May 7, 2024 21:06
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The OP is correct, we should not be surprised by their greed.
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Lostconfused posted:The OP is correct, we should not be surprised by their greed. Also true
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Improbable Lobster posted:Note that inflation is fake and driven by greed not necessity That may well be but if it is I am also not surprised that publicly traded profit driven corporation Games Workshop Group PLC did not decide to be the only company to go against their best interest by not raising prices and getting away with it like everyone else is.
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May 7, 2024 22:08
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My expensive as gently caress niche hobby is now more expensive and yet somehow less niche than ever. 
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Made a list, thoughts? first (995 points) Astra Militarum Incursion (1000 points) Combined Regiment CHARACTERS Cadian Command Squad (65 points) 1x Cadian Commander Warlord 1x Plasma pistol 1x Power weapon 1x Cadian Veteran Guardsman 1x Plasma gun 1x Plasma pistol 1x Cadian Veteran Guardsman with Master Vox 1x Close combat weapon 1x Lasgun 1x Master Vox 1x Cadian Veteran Guardsman with Medi-pack 1x Close combat weapon 1x Lasgun 1x Medi-pack 1x Cadian Veteran Guardsman with Regimental Standard 1x Close combat weapon 1x Plasma gun BATTLELINE Cadian Shock Troops (60 points) 1x Shock Trooper Sergeant 1x Close combat weapon 1x Drum-fed autogun 9x Shock Trooper 9x Close combat weapon 1x Grenade launcher 7x Lasgun 1x Plasma gun 1x Vox-caster Cadian Shock Troops (60 points) 1x Shock Trooper Sergeant 1x Close combat weapon 1x Drum-fed autogun 9x Shock Trooper 9x Close combat weapon 1x Grenade launcher 7x Lasgun 1x Plasma gun 1x Vox-caster Cadian Shock Troops (60 points) 1x Shock Trooper Sergeant 1x Close combat weapon 1x Drum-fed autogun 9x Shock Trooper 9x Close combat weapon 1x Grenade launcher 7x Lasgun 1x Plasma gun 1x Vox-caster Cadian Shock Troops (60 points) 1x Shock Trooper Sergeant 1x Close combat weapon 1x Drum-fed autogun 9x Shock Trooper 9x Close combat weapon 1x Grenade launcher 7x Lasgun 1x Plasma gun 1x Vox-caster Cadian Shock Troops (60 points) 1x Shock Trooper Sergeant 1x Close combat weapon 1x Drum-fed autogun 9x Shock Trooper 9x Close combat weapon 1x Grenade launcher 7x Lasgun 1x Plasma gun 1x Vox-caster OTHER DATASHEETS Armoured Sentinels (70 points) 1x Close combat weapon 1x Militarum multi-laser Basilisk (150 points) 1x Armoured tracks 1x Earthshaker cannon 1x Heavy bolter Field Ordnance Battery (120 points) 2x Ordnance Team 2x Battery close combat weapons 2x Bombast field gun 2x Lasgun 2x Laspistol Heavy Weapons Squad (60 points) 3x Heavy Weapon Team 3x Las small arms 3x Lascannon 3x Weapons team close combat weapons Heavy Weapons Squad (60 points) 3x Heavy Weapon Team 3x Las small arms 3x Lascannon 3x Weapons team close combat weapons Leman Russ Battle Tank (170 points) 1x Armoured tracks 1x Lascannon 1x Leman Russ battle cannon a pale ghost fucked around with this message at 23:17 on May 7, 2024 |
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Robert Facepalmer posted:If you don't want to drill and pin those kinds of joints, you can rough 'em up a bit with like a bunch of cross-hatches with an Xacto blade and that will help things 'grip' with the extra surface area. Thats a good idea, Ill definitely do that next time! Or when limbs inevitably fall off at the slightest bump
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Id rough the parts up on the join points with a coarse file.
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I hack at em with an old blade like a killer in a movie
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Yeah Im gonna slice em up a bit when they fall off, whic always seems to happen to me eventually with pewter though at least now I understand why. got a little drill/sanding set that I intend to use for barrels and is super good for smoothing out moldline bumps (glad I wear glasses though those flecks are dangerous), that might be helpful too
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a pale ghost posted:Made a list, thoughts? I'd be inclined to combine 2 of the cadian squads into a big one to protect the command squad when they're joined together. Beef up the sentinel gun, the rerolls an armoured sentinel gets vs vehicles means they want something heavy like a lascannon. Heavy weapon squads are paper thin, with anything other than a mortar they're going to die as soon as they stick their head out. I'd swap them out for something else if you have the minis. Since it's all free, make sure the vehicles all have hunter killers and the russ has sponsons.
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ro5s posted:Advice Whoops, I absolutely missed those additional bits to upgrade. It all being free is new and weird. How does the command squad joining the infantry squad work?
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a pale ghost posted:Whoops, I absolutely missed those additional bits to upgrade. It all being free is new and weird. So during pregame characters can attach to units (this is covered in the official app under the leader heading for the character datasheet - different characters can attach to different units). The command squad is a bit weird in this case since it's multiple models attaching so a command squad +cadians ends up with either a 15 or 25 strong squad. The useful thing is that ALL the special rules combine together in the big unit so all 25 get the benefit of the standard's +1OC, everyone gets the 6+FNP from the medic, everyone gets to ignore modifiers from cadia stands! and the whole thing has the cadian infantry's sticky objectives Just in general it means that there's a bunch of ablative shocktroopers in front of the command squad too since it's one big unit, otherwise it's pretty easy to pick them off unless they hide all game.
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Only the officer model is a character in the command squad. It effectively already has ablative wounds. It makes things more convoluted but they also kind of follow their own logic by only having one special model in that unit and the rest are more or less regular guards with wargear.
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That's pretty dope, thanks. I have no idea what I'm doing, do I go tank heavy or infantry heavy?
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The Demilich posted:Does anyone know what a Custodes armor thrall looks like? I can't find any pics A nice headcanon would be that they look like the RT era Custodes, naked bathrobe dudes with banana helmets
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Personally I would prefer tank heavy because it's a pain in the rear end to move a lot of infantry models around and you'll be sad when they all die. Unfortunately I also think painting infantry is more fun than painting tanks, but that's a different problem.
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What if you had infantry sized tanks? Enter, the Custodes
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Not that a regular guard squad will get wiped out instantly, with orders and benefit of cover you can drag them up to a 3+ armor save. But it feels like their biggest goal in life is to stand on an objective and be annoying by simply existing. And yeah, custodes are the answer to my problems, and I don't hate them as much as I did a few months ago, but also I can't feel anything other than disinterest when looking at custodes right now.
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I kinda feel the same with combat patrols. I'd like to get one for combat patrol games without necessarily expanding into a full army, but they all seem so lackluster. Maybe if the rumors pan out and blood angels come this summer they get a new jump assault based combat patrol that will be a little more interesting.
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Geisladisk posted:Every year people act shocked that a company raises prices more or less in step with inflation. *Laughs in Australia*
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I've been having a lot of fun entering painting competitions lately, and my flgs's competition for March/April was "Magical Mischief" so naturally I thought of Ahriman loving up another massive spell. So I got to modeling and kitbashed a 30k Ahriman onto a 40k Ahriman disc, standing on a dead 30k Space Wolf, while electrocuting a 40k Space Wolf (entirely made up of bits from the bit box at the flgs), because Ahriman accidentally time traveled 10,000 years forward and of course landed in the same pickle. 
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Improbable Lobster posted:Note that inflation is fake and driven by greed not necessity Spoken like someone who has never run a business.
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wins32767 posted:Spoken like someone who has never run a business. In theory it's real, in practice it's a boogeyman capitalists point at to justify price gouging and labor cutting practices despite cost of goods going down and record profits being filled quarter after quarter. And whatever business you were running was definitely a victim of this scam too, and not bound by the actual inflationary effects of raw good prices.
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Bottom Liner posted:In theory it's real, in practice it's a boogeyman capitalists point at to justify price gouging and labor cutting practices despite cost of goods going down and record profits being filled quarter after quarter. Its an emergent phenomenon of markets. Gouging is how to achieve a market clearing price to avoid shortages and waste. I mean, people have been complaining about gouging since before capitalism. wins32767 fucked around with this message at 04:05 on May 8, 2024 |
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wins32767 posted:It’s an emergent phenomenon of markets. ‘Gouging’ is how to achieve a market clearing price to avoid shortages and waste. I mean, people have been complaining about gouging since before capitalism. The current crop of inflation was entirely deiven by conpanies increasing their profit margins. It's pretty naive to to think that it helps avoid shortages or waste in any way whatsoever. Markets are not efficient at anything except enriching the wealthy. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/07/greedflation-corporate-profiteering-boosted-global-prices-study quote:Analysis of the financial accounts of many of the UK’s biggest businesses found that profits far outpaced increases in costs, helping to push up inflation last year to levels not seen since the early 1980s. So anyway that's why I'm voting for Gulliman for space president
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Disproportionation posted:Yeah I had a FP on order since about February-ish, I figured I'd just be patient, since I know GW's manufacturing is a mess rn. I'll just have to keep an eye out for them coming back in stock or check ebay or something. If you have a GW account you can have them notify you when they're back in stock. They seem to go back in stock every couple weeks and are then available for a few days. I got a couple of them about a month ago.
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Improbable Lobster posted:So anyway that's why I'm voting for Gulliman for space president Personally I'd advocate for a napoleon or perhaps an emperor to seize power, but we all know that's only going to work until the eventual betrayal.
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