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Ilor: Feb 2, 2008; That's a crit.

Boon posted:

Getting ready for some NOVA action:

Love the details on the jetbikes.
Hate the red canopies.

The Christmas theme on the snow board is pretty badass, tho. "Santa Eldrad is bring you some FLAMING loving DEATH for the yuletide, Timmy."

# ¿ Aug 29, 2015 03:17

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# ¿ May 4, 2024 18:08

Ilor: Feb 2, 2008; That's a crit.

As a side note, Khorne is pleased with the page count of this thread.

# ¿ Sep 2, 2015 04:11

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I like how whomever scored the painting section blasted right by the giant, red, "STOP! Only continue beyond this point if the army scored a 09 or a 12 in Section 1" sentence right in the middle of the page after only giving you a 6.

# ¿ Sep 2, 2015 22:44

Ilor: Feb 2, 2008; That's a crit.

True, but the first part is the only one that even has a "09" or "12" option. Ergo...

# ¿ Sep 2, 2015 22:52

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Uroboros posted:

Additionally, I apparently need to get an even smaller brush for the eyes, because the lenses are set so far back in the helms, anything but the thinnest brush is going to touch the edge, I may redo the eyes at some point.

No, you need to paint the eyes first such that you don't have to worry about it. Always start with the deepest recesses of a model and work "up." It's much easier to keep from slopping the edging color into the recess than it is to pain the recess after the edge is done.

# ¿ Sep 8, 2015 16:24

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JackMack posted:

Immorten Joe Ork sounds awesome.

Quirk at Miniwargaming dot com has already modeled an "Immorken Joe" for his army. It's pretty rad.

# ¿ Sep 9, 2015 16:23

Ilor: Feb 2, 2008; That's a crit.

Glass cannon is pretty apt. They hit like a ton of bricks, but most of their troops are T3, even the ones with 2 or more Wounds. That means they suffer from Instant Death a lot. But a unit of command-buffed Grav-Cannon-sporting Kataphron Destroyers is loving terrifying. Whatever unit it chooses to target will probably evaporate.

# ¿ Sep 9, 2015 21:38

Ilor: Feb 2, 2008; That's a crit.

AdMech too. They have a startling amount of Haywire weapons.

# ¿ Sep 10, 2015 19:23

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I loves me some Tallarns:

# ¿ Sep 10, 2015 21:34

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Moola posted:

someone convert a cool Big Boss mini using a talaran dude, cheers

Why convert, when you already have AL RAHEEM!

But if it's Tallarn conversions you want, how about this Rough Rider?

Or maybe these Veterans w/ shotguns, demo charge, and flamer (they never made a Tallarn flamer mini, so I have to convert them all)

# ¿ Sep 11, 2015 05:04

Ilor: Feb 2, 2008; That's a crit.

Yeah, I always liked the Praetorians, but by the time they came out I already had scads of Tallarns. I had started to get my hands on some old metal Catachans to use as Penal Legion (because they look like loving convicts to start with), but then GW went and removed the Penal Legion from the Codex. Assholes. :bahgawd:

Here they are with their spit-and-polish warden-sergeant:

# ¿ Sep 11, 2015 06:15

Ilor: Feb 2, 2008; That's a crit.

The beauty of Imperial Guard was that it was great fodder for conversions. You didn't have to stick to the published regiments. For one of my Veteran squads, I actually converted a bunch of old (and by "old" I mean 2nd Edition 40K ca 1990) Stormtroopers. This was back before they had carapace armor.

I trimmed off the cables from the old hotshot lasgun and used a bit from the old GorkaMorka Mutie Raider (the mount of which was used for my Tallarn Rouchrider conversion) as a backpack

With the rope I thought they looked like elite mountaineering infantry, so I incorporated a mountain motif into their patch. The minis themselves are really old (one of the very first plastic infantry kits) and therefore have very little detail (especially in the faces, which are pretty squashed looking). But when you stick them with some vintage metal Stormtrooper special weapons and sergeant painted up in the same camo scheme, they look pretty decent on the tabletop.

The 10th Carcassonne Mountaineers' Regiment.

# ¿ Sep 11, 2015 22:58

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Lord Twisted posted:

I think Im going to be focused on just bringing an absolute shitload of tanks.

You loving WHW goonhams better take a bunch of pictures such that the rest of us can live vicariously through you. :colbert:

# ¿ Sep 13, 2015 18:37

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Slimnoid posted:

Who needs arms when you can have MORE loving MISSILES, BABY!!!!!

# ¿ Sep 15, 2015 21:12

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Phyresis posted:

Those models look great, this will be a good Codex.

Those two statements don't necessarily follow.

# ¿ Sep 15, 2015 22:47

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Babe Magnet posted:

I can't imagine any reason GW would drop him. Did anyone really have any problems with Marbo?

Because it's hard to claim that your IP is 100% original always all-the-time-since-the-beginning when your bare-chested, lone-wolf, death-dealing army man is literally an anagram of Rambo. Oh, and whose fictional first name is the nickname of the actor who portrayed Rambo.

# ¿ Sep 22, 2015 21:45

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I still have all of my BFG stuff; a bunch of Imperial, a couple of Chaos, and a fair amount of Necron. Oh, and a couple of Space Marine Strike Cruisers. :smug:

# ¿ Sep 23, 2015 06:25

Ilor: Feb 2, 2008; That's a crit.

The relative strength/weakness of the Tyranid (or Ork, for that matter) codices (see what I did there?) in many cases has less to do with the actual army list itself than it does with the terrain on which you're playing. Any army that relies on close combat to get poo poo done is going to struggle in open terrain against a gun-line-style shooty army. This in turn is why Tyranid and Ork armies tend to do so poorly at tournaments - because tournament tables tend to be goddamn deserts. If you've got one decent-sized LOS-breaking terrain piece in the middle of the table (and a little bit of scatter terrain around the edges where it does you exactly zero loving good), your tournament table might well be described as "lush."

But if you play in denser terrain, things start to even out pretty quickly. Check out some of the battle reports at miniwargaming.com - Matt, one of the owners, plays a lot of 'Nids and manages to make them pretty freaking vicious. They play with pretty dense terrain (lots of ruins and LOS blockers), where you can't just blast away at the bugs for two whole turns before the tattered and ineffectual remnants of their army reach your lines. It makes a huge difference.

Basically, if roughly 1/3 of your table isn't terrain, and if that terrain isn't concentrated towards the center of the board, you are essentially handing the victory to the army with better shooting.

# ¿ Sep 23, 2015 19:49

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LingcodKilla posted:

I feel like some of the cc armies would be easily well served by being able to buy terrain. I know aegis lines n stuff but like actual buildings and forests.

Tyranids especially should be able to buy creepy "converting yo' planet to biomass" terrain.

# ¿ Sep 23, 2015 23:09

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thegodofchuck posted:

White Dwarf #69

And this poo poo makes me crazy. Quit putting out substantive rules in your goddamn catalog, GW.

Fake edit: Oh, wait, this isn't the Death Pool thread.

# ¿ Sep 29, 2015 16:01

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BaconCopter posted:

The tiny amount GW products I've bought in the past... oh, 10 years were for painting purposes and came with 30+% discounts or were second hand eBay buys.

Wait, you're that fucker that GW is talking about who buys the minis because they want to model "great looking armies" without actually playing the game, aren't you?
:frogout:

# ¿ Sep 29, 2015 22:41

Ilor: Feb 2, 2008; That's a crit.

What, you don't think that design is :krad:

# ¿ Sep 30, 2015 23:07

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DrPop posted:

That is some loving dedication to a lost cause, right there.

# ¿ Oct 2, 2015 04:25

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Post 9-11 User posted:

The first club I went to was held, after hours, in a side room at a high school, since the hobby store owner hosting it was renovating the shop. I... it was a good experience, it was completely consensual!

I remember going to a club once that was in the basement of some shut-down retail space. You got to it through an unmarked door in an otherwise non-descript alcove. You had to know it was there. Pretty sure they were stealing power. To call it "sketchy" is to give all other sketchy things the veneer of "legit."

Good times, though. Good times.

# ¿ Oct 6, 2015 02:15

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muggins posted:

I'm near Flint. We have club members in Metro d now tho, all the way up to saginaw. Fresh Coast Gaming is our club, check us out on yt and fb.

Will do. I'm in A^2.

# ¿ Oct 11, 2015 05:19

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muggins posted:

GW is opening a store there lol

That's ironic considering they closed one down here three years ago.

# ¿ Oct 11, 2015 15:57

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Master Twig posted:

Purple with gold and silver accents. Pimp those bots out.

This.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2015 00:37

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Skullclad Fleshblaster. Aw, yeah!

# ¿ Oct 20, 2015 15:59

Ilor: Feb 2, 2008; That's a crit.

Well, they've gotta do something about the fact that the new Space Marine Codex hosed the Blood Angels out of a point of BS on their scouts. That merits a whole new Codex release, doesn't it? Right, guys?

# ¿ Nov 11, 2015 01:53

Ilor: Feb 2, 2008; That's a crit.

I'm a Rustoleum man, myself.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2016 20:25

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Cyclomatic posted:

Oh god, wtf, I'm literally wanting to just collect some models to put on a table and find myself annoyed by wondering what rules apply... How did that happen?

Yes...yeeessssss. Feel the POWER of the Sigmar side flowing through you. Give in to your Decurion! Let go your Unbound!

# ¿ Jan 8, 2016 02:36

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BULBASAUR posted:

Instead of making the rules better for new players they just threw formations ontop of what exists and made things more complicated.

Indeed, and gods help you if you think those "starter" formations are even remotely balanced against either each other or the rest of the game as a whole.

# ¿ Jan 11, 2016 23:55

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Uroboros posted:

My friends said I should of done some sort of bright wash in the shield engravings to try to give them a glowing effect, I don't know how well that would've worked. Thoughts?

It would look like rear end, as OSL usually does. Your Honor Guard are beautiful as they are.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2016 20:03

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PantsOptional posted:

Many years ago I heard that some of the different Tyranid units were supposed to reflect the genes of various other armies being absorbed into the hive and repurposed - for example, Tyrant Guard were supposed to be Tyranids with Space Marine genes spliced in. Was this ever the case, or was this a case of people making up weird rumors?

Yeah, back in the day this was the fluff. Biovores were Orks, Zoanthropes were Eldar, etc. The minis still have some of those aesthetics, but I don't know if the fluff still reflects it.

# ¿ Jan 25, 2016 15:58

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Cooked Auto posted:

I discovered last week that Infinity has werewolves in kilts with a surprisingly awesome model to boot so I'm kind of disappointed that GW manages to gently caress up space werewolves like this.

Yeah, the McMurrough mini is pretty bad-rear end. I'm not as big a fan of the USAriadna Dog Soldier, mostly because the pose isn't as good. But the new Antipodes (Infinity's vague equivalent of Fenrisian Wolves) are pretty cool.

# ¿ Jan 28, 2016 02:41

Ilor: Feb 2, 2008; That's a crit.

New thread title: Warhammer 40K: Literally. 40,000 posts. Like this game, most of them are poo poo

# ¿ Jan 28, 2016 19:31

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Uroboros posted:

Silly question, if I take a Gladius Strike Force with a battle Demi and stormwing formation I'm allowed to put models from the Demi in the Stormwing formation so that they arrive from reserves with it, right?

No. A unit can only belong to one formation (exception - if the formation to which the unit belongs is itself part of another "combined" formation a la the Gladius Strike Force). So units in the Demi company are also part of the Gladius Strike Force (and benefit from the buffs to both), but cannot also belong to the Stormwing formation.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2016 15:48

Ilor: Feb 2, 2008; That's a crit.

OK, Uroboros didn't ask if he could put models in the transports but if he could put them in "the formation." In light of this, do you understand our answer?

Yes, if a model/unit with transport capacity isn't dedicated to carrying a specific unit, any unit from your army can start the game embarked upon it. That's why Flesh Tearers as allies are so popular - they can purchase a cheap, empty Drop Pod as a Fast Attack choice. For pretty much all other Space Marine forces, Drop Pods are a dedicated transport. Aside: I view this as yet another way GW are poo poo at writing rules.

Does this make more sense?

# ¿ Mar 5, 2016 19:08

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Naramyth posted:

And? It's like a squad of Nurgle Terminators.

Yes, except Nurgle Terminators don't get 2+ invulnerable saves, meaning they die in droves to concentrated plasma, grav, and lascannon fire. That's a much easier nut to crack than something super-shooty that forces you to snap-fire AND gets a 2+ invulnerable save.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2016 23:41

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# ¿ May 4, 2024 18:08

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TheChirurgeon posted:

E: in the case of stuff that can wreck the Havocs in CC, I'm really only worried about the Sicaran Infiltrators, which can be a huge pain in the rear end and can Outflank

Yes, but they're Toughness 3, so your autocannons will wreck them but good before they can charge.

# ¿ Mar 10, 2016 13:50

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