Warhammer Code 30k: Hope Is The First Step On The Road To Disappointment

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TTerrible: Jul 15, 2005

Ideal army list:

man with gun, 1pt
man with big gun, 2pt

tank with small gun, 10pt
tank with big gun, 15pt

gun: 4+ to kill
big gun: 3+ to kill

eratta:

small gun: 5+ to kill but shoots twice!!!

# ? Aug 4, 2017 18:38

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# ? May 29, 2024 18:10

panascope: Mar 26, 2005

MasterSlowPoke posted:

What flavor? It's zany for zany's sake. It' s a rotary missile launcher, which means that it fires a ton of smaller rockets instead of one larger missile. Sure, that's cool. But why are there ammo selections? There's only one hopper per launcher, and there isn't any means of mechanically selecting which rockets it can fire, so where's the ammo coming from? It should only be loaded wwith one ammo type. And if they're smaller rockets, why are they so powerful? Why don't marine missile launchers get these turbo-vehicle-fucker missiles? If they're slightly too big for a marine, why not dreads and hunter killer missles? Why is it D3 rolls on the chart and not just 2D6, pick highest? Where's the elite tracking coming from for the anti-air missiles? Why do they all have different ranges? Is it really fun to spend 50 points on extra ammo to gently caress-harder low-save blobs or mechanicus dudes? Why even give the option to list tailor against Admech? If the Imperium has had weapons that can just turn off entire robot forces since before Unification, why is it only in this extremely underproduced tank?

It's a rotary missile launcher. It should just shoot a bunch of small missiles. I'd say the 8th edition special rule it has is more flavorful anyway, you can fire it normally or go full auto. I don't see why the HH version has remaining stationary be more important to it, it's a Sicaran class tank and is meant to be move and fire. It's not the Enterprise-D where it's choosing to give more power to the phasers or engines.

This is what it looks like when you roll a 1 on your Overcharged plasma gun in real life.

# ? Aug 4, 2017 18:52

GreenMarine: Apr 25, 2009; Switchblade Switcharoo

Now is a good time to point out that Thousand Sons automata don't have cybernetica cortexes.

# ? Aug 4, 2017 18:55

TTerrible: Jul 15, 2005

GreenMarine posted:

Now is a good time to point out that Thousand Sons automata don't have cybernetica cortexes.

I hope they do bigger magic robits. A TSons thanatar firing some kind of warp bomb would be incredible.

# ? Aug 4, 2017 18:56

Hixson: Mar 27, 2009

MasterSlowPoke posted:

I don't like 7th edition because the guns aren't realistic

Hmmmmmmmmmm

# ? Aug 4, 2017 19:04

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

GreenMarine posted:

Now is a good time to point out that Thousand Sons automata don't have cybernetica cortexes.

I hope dark admech can replace the cortex with a daemon :getin:

# ? Aug 4, 2017 19:23

Safety Factor: Oct 31, 2009; Grimey Drawer

BULBASAUR posted:

I hope dark admech can replace the cortex with a daemon

They'll still die to a Leviathan with a snippy claw. :getin:

# ? Aug 4, 2017 19:26

TTerrible: Jul 15, 2005

BULBASAUR posted:

I hope dark admech can replace the cortex with a daemon

I'm so pumped for Angelus. It's going to be such a letdown. Inferno mk2.

# ? Aug 4, 2017 19:39

Hixson: Mar 27, 2009

Uhhhhh, Inferno is a great book. I don't get the hate

# ? Aug 4, 2017 20:12

TTerrible: Jul 15, 2005

Not in here. Out there.

# ? Aug 4, 2017 20:24

Safety Factor: Oct 31, 2009; Grimey Drawer

Work in Progress comin' through! :frogsiren:

Ok, so here we go. This guy's obviously a work in progress, but I think I'm comfortable showing him off for now. Essentially, I took the dorky Praetor Tribune model and dangled him up to hell and back. The halberd blade, wing poles, and dong shield are all stolen from the plastic Deathwing kit. The chest angel is a little 40k decoration I cut the wings off of and shaved down, using greenstuff to fit it to the torso after removing the central eagle-ish thing. Now it's got its wings unfurled, shooting lightning everywhere. :black101:

The head's an alternate from the metal Dark Angels company master. It's been lurking in my bits box for forever and it seemed fitting. I did try a helmet, but just couldn't get it to fit even by shaving it down so I moved on. The cape is a terminator chaos lord cape with a few modifications. I had to cut out the original mount and the smokestacks, then I used greenstuff to repair the fur and I tried to patch up all the holes in the cape. There are a lot of them and they still probably need a little bit of work. The cape is held on with some putty for now, it'll be kept separate for painting.

Again, this guy's not done yet. I've got another growly lion shoulder pad coming from ebay; they're actually Age of Sigmar bits and I had a left one leftover from some model I built for Silver Tower. I tracked down a right-hand version of the shoulder pad in the Stormcast Paladins box. The weapon is also unfinished. I'm aiming to use the censer end of the Deathwing halberd, but I'm also trying to extend the haft of the weapon a little so it doesn't look quite as doofy. Unfortunately, no plastic grips match this one so I'm going to have to figure something out myself.

Overall, I'm really happy with how this guy is coming along. The crotch protector is maybe a little too long; it actually starts at the torso on the original sculpt and only goes to around the knees. I can still alter it and move it up a few mm, but I'm pretty ok with it as-is. I'm also contemplating a grenade harness up top, between the two feather poles.

The original model, for reference:

Safety Factor posted:

# ? Aug 4, 2017 21:40

ijyt: Apr 10, 2012

That poo poo is rad and I love it. Best conversion I've seen since Skullapalooza.

# ? Aug 4, 2017 21:46

ijyt: Apr 10, 2012

MasterSlowPoke posted:

What flavor? It's zany for zany's sake. It' s a rotary missile launcher, which means that it fires a ton of smaller rockets instead of one larger missile. Sure, that's cool. But why are there ammo selections? There's only one hopper per launcher, and there isn't any means of mechanically selecting which rockets it can fire, so where's the ammo coming from? It should only be loaded wwith one ammo type. And if they're smaller rockets, why are they so powerful? Why don't marine missile launchers get these turbo-vehicle-fucker missiles? If they're slightly too big for a marine, why not dreads and hunter killer missles? Why is it D3 rolls on the chart and not just 2D6, pick highest? Where's the elite tracking coming from for the anti-air missiles? Why do they all have different ranges? Is it really fun to spend 50 points on extra ammo to gently caress-harder low-save blobs or mechanicus dudes? Why even give the option to list tailor against Admech? If the Imperium has had weapons that can just turn off entire robot forces since before Unification, why is it only in this extremely underproduced tank?

It's a rotary missile launcher. It should just shoot a bunch of small missiles. I'd say the 8th edition special rule it has is more flavorful anyway, you can fire it normally or go full auto. I don't see why the HH version has remaining stationary be more important to it, it's a Sicaran class tank and is meant to be move and fire. It's not the Enterprise-D where it's choosing to give more power to the phasers or engines.

I think that's being a bit unfair, abstraction exists for a reason. Unfortunately 8th went really the wrong way to just boring.

I mean even the CSM legion traits are just the same as the SM ones.

# ? Aug 4, 2017 21:48

TTerrible: Jul 15, 2005

Safety Factor posted:

Work in Progress comin' through!

Ok, so here we go. This guy's obviously a work in progress, but I think I'm comfortable showing him off for now. Essentially, I took the dorky Praetor Tribune model and dangled him up to hell and back. The halberd blade, wing poles, and dong shield are all stolen from the plastic Deathwing kit. The chest angel is a little 40k decoration I cut the wings off of and shaved down, using greenstuff to fit it to the torso after removing the central eagle-ish thing. Now it's got its wings unfurled, shooting lightning everywhere. The head's an alternate from the metal Dark Angels company master. It's been lurking in my bits box for forever and it seemed fitting. I did try a helmet, but just couldn't get it to fit even by shaving it down so I moved on. The cape is a terminator chaos lord cape with a few modifications. I had to cut out the original mount and the smokestacks, then I used greenstuff to repair the fur and I tried to patch up all the holes in the cape. There are a lot of them and they still probably need a little bit of work. The cape is held on with some putty for now, it'll be kept separate for painting.

Again, this guy's not done yet. I've got another growly lion shoulder pad coming from ebay; they're actually Age of Sigmar bits and I had a left one leftover from some model I built for Silver Tower. I tracked down a right-hand version of the shoulder pad in the Stormcast Paladins box. The weapon is also unfinished. I'm aiming to use the censer end of the Deathwing halberd, but I'm also trying to extend the haft of the weapon a little so it doesn't look quite as doofy. Unfortunately, no plastic grips match this one so I'm going to have to figure something out myself.

Overall, I'm really happy with how this guy is coming along. The crotch protector is maybe a little too long; it actually starts at the torso on the original sculpt and only goes to around the knees. I can still alter it and move it up a few mm, but I'm pretty ok with it as-is. I'm also contemplating a grenade harness up top, between the two feather poles.

The original model, for reference:

This guy is awesome. Dark Angel as gently caress :getin:

# ? Aug 4, 2017 21:49

Lord Twisted: Apr 3, 2010; In the Emperor's name, let none survive.

# ? Aug 5, 2017 19:14

Hixson: Mar 27, 2009

Played a 2v2 2500pt per force game last Friday.

Night Lords & Blood Angles vs. Space Wolves & Sons of Horus

List looked something like this:

NL's: Terror Assault
Terror squads in claws
Curze with some raptors
Predator squadron
Contemptor in a pod

Blood Angels:
Praetor with Assault Marines
Tac squad
Assault marines
2x predators
Sicaran
Command squad with banner
Leviathan in a pod
Kheres contemptor mortis

Sons of Horus:
3x maxed reiver squads with axes
Horus
Chaplain
Outflanking contemptor
2x squads of Justaerin

Space Wolves
3x maxed squads of grey slayer with fists
Russ with a squad of Varagyr
Centurion in terminator armor
Gregor Fellhand
Spartan

Here's the deployment:

Turn 2:

Pods come in, everyone rushes to the create a giant manpile in the center of the table

Turn 3:

Stanyer the Young takes Stanyer89 outback and puts a bullet in his head.

Curze woops this poo poo out of Horus and he runs away with 1 wound remaining with a glorious intervention

I forgot to take anymore pictures, just imagine Blood Angels and Night Lords being removed from the table in handfuls.

We got spanked. Attrition was something like 12-6. I think the final score was 3-7. Still was a fun game. Panascope showed his true colors and ran away a combat with Horus

# ? Aug 7, 2017 17:47

tallkidwithglasses: Feb 7, 2006

Slow but steady on el glaiverino. I'm pretty content with how the bas relief came out, considering I'm not much of a sculptor. Now to edge highlight goddamn everything and add some checkerboard to the top of the hull.

# ? Aug 7, 2017 18:36

DJ Dizzy: Feb 11, 2009; Real men don't use bolters.

All dork angles are beautiful.

# ? Aug 7, 2017 19:22

ZachAttack: Mar 17, 2009; Malevolent Hatform; Nap Ghost

tallkidwithglasses posted:

Slow but steady on el glaiverino. I'm pretty content with how the bas relief came out, considering I'm not much of a sculptor. Now to edge highlight goddamn everything and add some checkerboard to the top of the hull.

Glaives are awesome, Dork Angels are awesome. This is going hams.

# ? Aug 7, 2017 22:26

Stanyer89: Aug 4, 2012

27 out of 60 Grey Slayers fully painted and based... I'm almost there!

# ? Aug 7, 2017 23:06

DJ Dizzy: Feb 11, 2009; Real men don't use bolters.

Stanyer89 posted:

27 out of 60 Grey Slayers fully painted and based... I'm almost there!

Too bad they are bad.

# ? Aug 8, 2017 08:31

Endman: May 18, 2010; That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even anime may die

awuuu...

# ? Aug 8, 2017 08:46

JBP: Feb 16, 2017; You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.

e: nvm I need to kill myself or learn reading

# ? Aug 8, 2017 08:56

Hixson: Mar 27, 2009

DJ Dizzy posted:

Too bad they are bad.

Wrong as usual

# ? Aug 8, 2017 15:52

Stanyer89: Aug 4, 2012

DJ Dizzy posted:

All dork angles are beautiful.

Always loving wrong as usual.

Also, 29 out of 60...

# ? Aug 8, 2017 16:15

Beerdeer: Apr 25, 2006; Frank Herbert's Dude

Show me your LOW toxxes. I would, but have not yet bought mine. Because I like to wait until the last minute.

# ? Aug 8, 2017 19:47

TTerrible: Jul 15, 2005

Imagine I posted a pile of resin I don't even want to look at

# ? Aug 8, 2017 21:24

panascope: Mar 26, 2005

Who's a bad enough dude to win this copy of Space Jam??

# ? Aug 8, 2017 21:26

Stanyer89: Aug 4, 2012

Stanyer89 posted:

Will take better pictures. I think since these I have fixed the skin tone on the face quite a bit too.

# ? Aug 8, 2017 23:03

Hamshot: Feb 1, 2006; Fun Shoe

Stanyer89 posted:

Will take better pictures. I think since these I have fixed the skin tone on the face quite a bit too.

(Bigger pics please!)

# ? Aug 10, 2017 13:11

Drake_263: Mar 31, 2010

Safety Factor posted:

Work in Progress comin' through!

Ok, so here we go. This guy's obviously a work in progress, but I think I'm comfortable showing him off for now. Essentially, I took the dorky Praetor Tribune model and dangled him up to hell and back. The halberd blade, wing poles, and dong shield are all stolen from the plastic Deathwing kit. The chest angel is a little 40k decoration I cut the wings off of and shaved down, using greenstuff to fit it to the torso after removing the central eagle-ish thing. Now it's got its wings unfurled, shooting lightning everywhere. The head's an alternate from the metal Dark Angels company master. It's been lurking in my bits box for forever and it seemed fitting. I did try a helmet, but just couldn't get it to fit even by shaving it down so I moved on. The cape is a terminator chaos lord cape with a few modifications. I had to cut out the original mount and the smokestacks, then I used greenstuff to repair the fur and I tried to patch up all the holes in the cape. There are a lot of them and they still probably need a little bit of work. The cape is held on with some putty for now, it'll be kept separate for painting.

Again, this guy's not done yet. I've got another growly lion shoulder pad coming from ebay; they're actually Age of Sigmar bits and I had a left one leftover from some model I built for Silver Tower. I tracked down a right-hand version of the shoulder pad in the Stormcast Paladins box. The weapon is also unfinished. I'm aiming to use the censer end of the Deathwing halberd, but I'm also trying to extend the haft of the weapon a little so it doesn't look quite as doofy. Unfortunately, no plastic grips match this one so I'm going to have to figure something out myself.

Overall, I'm really happy with how this guy is coming along. The crotch protector is maybe a little too long; it actually starts at the torso on the original sculpt and only goes to around the knees. I can still alter it and move it up a few mm, but I'm pretty ok with it as-is. I'm also contemplating a grenade harness up top, between the two feather poles.

The original model, for reference: