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TheBigAristotle posted:Is there one or two or 10 armies that are considered like the peak of 40k paintjobs? In the world and also in this thread In this thread I'd say bulbasaurs iron warriors/crows, hixsons night lords, and my fists. Probably another couple 30k posters who I'm forgetting about.
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I’d nominate SRM and buffalochickens as well. I’m sure I’m missing a ton but those jump to mind.
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Sep 3, 2018 19:01
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Sulecrist's 30k Sons of Horus and Custodes
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Sep 3, 2018 19:15
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Booley posted:In this thread I'd say bulbasaurs iron warriors/crows, hixsons night lords, and my fists. Probably another couple 30k posters who I'm forgetting about. Lol you’re the only one of those who posts in this thread though. All of the regularly posted 30k armies are pretty excellent, I don’t know about best in the world or whatever.
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Sep 3, 2018 19:26
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ijyt posted:Funny, it made me want to never play apocalypse. Apocalypse works best when everyone has enough space to play. Even though the table was 6' wide we definitely had way too much stuff on there. Something where the deployments were staggered (50% on turn 1, 50% on turn 2, or maybe 33% on turns 1-3) would probably help a lot. Had they limited forces to 2500 or 2000 points instead of 3000 it would also have been more accessible, as the largest narrative game was 2500. I didn't actually bring 3000 but it worked out fine. TheBigAristotle posted:It looks extremely cool but how does it move on such a crowded board? Stuff goes underneath it. You move the whole thing around, find where the three bases can make contact with the ground, and that's where it goes. For the most part it hovered in the back with plenty of range on all the weapons.
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Sep 3, 2018 19:28
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PierreTheMime posted:I’d nominate SRM and buffalochickens as well. I’m sure I’m missing a ton but those jump to mind. these dudes are the kings
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Sep 3, 2018 19:40
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+1 Buffchick and adding MasterSlowPoke's Rainbow Warriors to the mix.
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Sep 3, 2018 19:42
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Yeast has a pretty sick Guard army too...
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Sep 3, 2018 20:04
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My dream when I collected Tau as a kid was to have a Manta, but be able to open it up like some kind of G I Joe playset and physically deploy Fire Warriors and battlesuits from it. Whilst making jet noises.
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Sep 3, 2018 20:10
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TheBigAristotle posted:Is there one or two or 10 armies that are considered like the peak of 40k paintjobs? In the world and also in this thread Best in the world is super subjective since it depends on preference as regards style, and also what you consider "an army." There's plenty of great painters who don't actually play the game and if they produce anything like a tabletop-legal army it's a disjointed mess that works out to 1127 points and has too many HQs, but they're not actually interested in playing the game so they don't care. Equally there's guys who paint up an exactly 2k army to take to events to win painting awards, or there's people who collect an army in the traditional sense where they end up with like 4-5k of options they can swap in and out, etc. I've personally known a couple of people whose work was so good and so flawlessly 'eavy Metal style that it ended up being used in rulebooks and such by GW, but that has all the limitations and such that the GW house style implies. On the other hand I knew a dude whose work was the best and most painterly stuff I've ever seen, with a much greater range, but who didn't tend to win awards because e.g. a more striking or visually interesting army was present even if it wasn't technically as good.
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Sep 3, 2018 20:15
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Booley posted:my fists  You can't just nominate yourself like that.
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Sep 3, 2018 21:15
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Safety Factor posted:
His fists. 
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Sep 3, 2018 21:33
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General Olloth posted:His fists. veto e: its not iron warriors ijyt fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Sep 3, 2018 |
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Sep 3, 2018 21:41
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Nova recap time! This was my first wargaming convention I've played at (I attended Adepticon this year but only for an evening of goonmeeting). I've been playing Warhammer since 1998 and this was hands down the most fun I've had playing it. I played in the narrative and met some amazing people, both goons and normies. Although I lost most of my games - winning only a team match and another where I mixed up my lists and had an additional 300 pts on the board (i informed my opponent who told me to make it up to him with a rematch next year, and a beer) - I had a lot of fun playing every match as my oppponents were all wonderful dudes. Special shout out to SRM, The Sex Cannon, MasterSlowpoke, WhiteoutMouse, Beer4TheBeerGod, Safety Factor, Bonds0079, OhDearGodNo, The Chirurgeon, TwoBeans, and any other goons I met but forgot the screennames of for being super awesome to talk with and for having exceptional armies on display. I hope everyone had safe travels back home and Beer4TheBeerGod, I hope you are able to find a solution for your varnish issue. Thank you everyone for making this an exceptionally fun weekend, and I already can't wait for Adepticon and next year's Nova. I'll be uploading photos as well once I'm home and not phone posting.
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Sep 3, 2018 22:16
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Made a start on my "not space wolves" from Tooth and Claw. going for a dark grey rather than light blue grey because gently caress it why not. Grey is shaded but not highlighted yet or scribbled over with litanies, except the right most guy who was the quickly painted test model from yesterday who is a more representative version of what the other four will look like (only tidier). 
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Sep 3, 2018 22:18
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Apocalypse can be fun, but you really shouldn’t be bringing anything smaller than a tank. Moving a hundred piddly guardsmen so they can fire 200 shots that do nothing and then get absently roasted by a titan is a waste of time and space, and a bunch of dice rolling for nothing Competitive Apocalypse for prizes sounds like a super bad idea too.
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Sep 3, 2018 22:28
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Badablack posted:Apocalypse can be fun, but you really shouldn’t be bringing anything smaller than a tank. Moving a hundred piddly guardsmen so they can fire 200 shots that do nothing and then get absently roasted by a titan is a waste of time and space, and a bunch of dice rolling for nothing The Guardsman babysat objectives. I agree having any kind of competitive element to an Apocalypse game is a bad idea. Especially when some folks were bringing more points than others. I would rather the results of the final battle be exclusively for a narrative result.
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Sep 3, 2018 22:59
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:The Guardsman babysat objectives. I'm surprised that despite the Manta there don't appear to be any Warlords on that Apoc table.
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Sep 3, 2018 23:14
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Z the IVth posted:I'm surprised that despite the Manta there don't appear to be any Warlords on that Apoc table. They all played 30K.
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Sep 3, 2018 23:15
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Z the IVth posted:I'm surprised that despite the Manta there don't appear to be any Warlords on that Apoc table. I wandered over during the finale/awards and it turned out someone had killed two knights, a warhound, and a reaver with a single unit of Salamanders Firedrake terminators. With thunder hammers. 
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Sep 3, 2018 23:18
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All on a table 4' wide.
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Sep 3, 2018 23:20
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JBP posted:40k actually came out before anime so really anime is just 40k.  It's cool if you don't like anime. It's not cool that you suck at both history and google-fu.
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Sep 3, 2018 23:21
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It really sucks how Games Workshop ripped off Blizzard and stole their IP.
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Sep 3, 2018 23:24
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Ooooooohhhhhhh.....
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Sep 3, 2018 23:32
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:It really sucks how Games Workshop ripped off Blizzard and stole their IP. There's only one appropriate response to that... 
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Sep 3, 2018 23:33
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Painted army wise, I've really appreciated watching Beer4TheBeerGod's skullboys come together. I generally get pretty fatigued by all the space marine that's all over everything Warham, but these ones are really cohesive (and fit the criteria of being a game army). So, well done there, not bad for a random seeded chapter name! Of course, I can't say things about vividly colored primaris without tipping a hat to MasterSlowpoke, because god drat... Even just the models/bases contrast going on is just so nice on those rainbow warriors. I cannot find or remember who made Tau based with sandy shoreline (small force, I think?), those were some nice anime robots. Really looking forward to some Orks... Orktober cannot come soon enough, to which end, does anyone in the thread already play/paint them much?
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Sep 3, 2018 23:49
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Thanks!
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Sep 3, 2018 23:52
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BurlapNapkin posted:Painted army wise, I've really appreciated watching Beer4TheBeerGod's skullboys come together. I generally get pretty fatigued by all the space marine that's all over everything Warham, but these ones are really cohesive (and fit the criteria of being a game army). You know its funny you say that, because lately it seems that (aside from Blood Angel Smash Captains) Space Marines are pretty much extinct in competitive play. I've played eight games over three tournaments in the last month or so, and I haven't fought a single Marine. I can only recall seeing one majority Marine army, even. For the face of the franchise, Marines were not well served by getting their codex first.
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jng2058 posted:You know its funny you say that, because lately it seems that (aside from Blood Angel Smash Captains) Space Marines are pretty much extinct in competitive play. I've played eight games over three tournaments in the last month or so, and I haven't fought a single Marine. I can only recall seeing one majority Marine army, even. Certainly not the original codex. If I hadn't fielded Knights I would have lost a lot more. They never seem to be competitive.
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Sep 4, 2018 00:23
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Space Marines have really suffered more than any other faction with the reworking of armor saves. 3+ was incredibly durable back when AP2-3 weapons were difficult to come in useful quantities for a lot of armies. Nowadays, even a -1 AP makes your tough space marine a toss up against a weapon profile they would have laughed off before. The introduction of mid-strength D2-3 weapons with good AP is a knock out for Primaris too. I mean, Dark Reapers were marine killers before but now  .As primarily a Tyranid player I don’t deny that I relish the occasional Space Marine match-up, especially since Nids used to have almost no AP at all and now swim in it, but it is blatantly unfair without Knights or another faction combined. I admit it feels really great to wipe an entire Primaris unit with a single Exocrine per then. Marines need some type of Superhuman Constitution rule that allows them to count all AP as one less or something at a bare minimum to make their troops more survivable. I’m sure there are more elegant/subtle options but it certainly wouldn’t hurt.
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Sep 4, 2018 00:44
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Not to mention ap5 is so much better vs hordes than the modern -0 bolter. Marines are costed the same but their weapons and armor both got worse.
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Sep 4, 2018 00:50
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TheBigAristotle posted:Is there one or two or 10 armies that are considered like the peak of 40k paintjobs? In the world and also in this thread RichyP had an absolutely phenomenal Dark Eldar army.
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Sep 4, 2018 00:55
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Eifert Posting posted:Not to mention ap5 is so much better vs hordes than the modern -0 bolter. S5 Ap4 weapons used to wound guardsmen on 2s and give them no save. Now they wound on 3s and get a 6+. The same weapons wounded marines on 3s and they got a 3+, now it's on 3s with a 4+. Didn't guardsmen get cheaper, too? I think they were 50 points before.
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Sep 4, 2018 01:07
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Safety Factor posted:The 30k Apocalypse game was full of 'em. Knights and titans all over the place; god only knows how much money was on the board in that game. S..s...salamanders OP?
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Sep 4, 2018 01:48
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Lord_Hambrose posted:S..s...salamanders OP? Its 30k, so it's based on 7th. Which means that those Firedrake Termies are 2+/3++ in a system where there's no armor penalties. They're tough as nails and hit like a squad full of trucks.
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Sep 4, 2018 02:06
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jng2058 posted:Its 30k, so it's based on 7th. Which means that those Firedrake Termies are 2+/3++ in a system where there's no armor penalties. They're tough as nails and hit like a squad full of trucks. He’s fully aware of 30k lol.
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Sep 4, 2018 02:17
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ijyt posted:He’s fully aware of 30k lol. 
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Sep 4, 2018 02:42
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I’ve moved my current Khan to a Lieutenant (with teeth of terra I’d prefer to have him re-rolling wounds) and decided to make a new Khan this time with a thunder hammer + storm shield. With 1 CP it becomes the shield eternal and all damage on the Khan is halved. Body is from the special edition sergeant I got in my NOVA swag bag, the hammer cut short from a deathwatch sprue, and the shield is the emblem cut out of an armor panel (from a FW rhino kit that I didn’t have any use for.)  Unfortunately on the way home my Stormseer became a casualty (may have happened when I was packing him up during the Apoc) so I decided to do something I’ve been meaning to for a while- demoted him from an actual Primaris Librarian to a normal one and slapping a jump pack on him. WIP: 
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Sep 4, 2018 02:56
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KT focus on the Elucidian Starstriders - 3 extra specialists above the normal limit with the named characters - Voidsmen have BS3+ and a Rotor Cannon (4 D2 shots) - Elucia Vhane has a completely new specialization, Strategist, and can be upgraded to levels 2, 3, or 4 from the start - Tactic - Killing Strikes: makes the Death Cult Executioner's power blades do d3 damage - Tactic - Combat Medicine: use the Medic's heal twice in one phase - Tactic - Executioner Shell: the sergeant of the Voidsmen can make a single shot with his shotgun with +3 to hit and does 1 mortal wound
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My take aways: -Dog -Dog -Look at the dog -Dog -Doberman -Dog -Seriously look at that loving dog -Pupper
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