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Sorry to barge into discussion, but just going to throw out that I was watching some Street Fighter 6 tournament over the weekend and one of the commentators mentioned something along the lines of "piloting a character". There might be some deeper meaning to it, but imo it could also be some lingo thing picked up on the internet because people don't want to use the word play or control.
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So I am looking at this thread because I have a serious case of  Took a look at the guard combat patrol box, which at the start seems reasonably priced. And then I made the mistake of building out a 1000 point list, which looks a lot less reasonably priced at like $500 or something. And just using the combat patrol box building it out to something like quote:CHARACTER But subjecting myself, and everyone else that I would play with to that many miniatures seems insane. Why not just make a more tanky army? quote:BATTLELINE Of course I'm being stupid here by insisting on three tanks, but hey I'm trying to justify my fancy names HQ here or something. Anyway, I just have to get this all out of my head. This poo poo is too expensive, too much work, I'll probably never go through with it. Because looking over the rules it seems like everything got compressed to a model is just a model. A tank can be substituted for any other big boy model with big stats and there isn't anything all that tanky about it. And hell maybe I'd prefer to just paint a bunch of chaos marine in bright red World Eaters color scheme and just play them like a regular chaos legion instead.
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Virtual Russian posted:It sounds like you are coming to this edition from 3rd edition, when we had facings and those super exciting glance/pen charts. Tangy Zizzle posted:Check out the new holiday box FYI - looks to be around a 30 percent discount for two dorns, two infantry squads, and a command squad. I thought people were going to talk me out of it, but you're all enablers here. Anyway, I haven't even decided on a color scheme yet, and I need to clear up a work area for painting.
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Oct 25, 2023 04:15
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I did end up ordering a combat patrol box yesterday because it looked like a local shop was selling it at 20% less than MSRP.
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Oct 25, 2023 16:17
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Tangy Zizzle posted:Do you still live / work in the Toronto area? If so, we have a group that hangs out twice a month to roll dice, it's extremely welcoming to newbies as well. I'm in the GTA, Richmond Hill.
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Oct 25, 2023 17:22
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GreenBuckanneer posted:How'd I do, haven't painted a blue boy in a year or so Maybe I'm looking for something to nitpick, not that I have any experience with painting  it looks good except for the highlights on the bracer and the backpack. They don't seem to blend in as well as on the other parts of the miniature, even when scaled down. It could be just the angle too, what do I know. The shading on the middle robe thing is kinda eh, but it's also dark so it doesn't stand out. The skeleton standard came out great though. It's really busy so all the color and the shading blends into a nice cohesive image.
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Oct 26, 2023 01:11
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It's really weird because some stuff is still accessible like whatever is in the Black Templar combat patrol or something.
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Oct 26, 2023 21:38
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You guys really need to see how awkwardly it's handled in the app.
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Oct 26, 2023 23:19
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I should not have looked at this Cadian decal sheet because I wanted to know what was up with all the numbers. And apparently all of their squads are organized into ten guardsmen. Which makes me question my previous assumptions about imperial guard. Also why a platoon commander can only effectively give orders to one of the three squads under them.
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Oct 27, 2023 05:19
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The Bee posted:I think it would count as movement, so it'd have to be on your move phase. 
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Oct 27, 2023 20:26
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It also forces you into using their app if you don't know about better alternatives.
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Oct 28, 2023 23:39
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They are, but it feels more hidden away. I didn't find it until days later after I started looking at this stuff.
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Oct 29, 2023 00:52
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Why did 40K Imperium stop painting all of their weapons red? Did someone look at them and think "We need to make this look a lot more boring"?
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Oct 30, 2023 16:05
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Nazzadan posted:u control the paints u put on ur minis Yes, but I'm boring and unimaginative. Even though I don't like the new Cadian color scheme for guards, the best I can come up with in one of those painting templates is: 
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Oct 30, 2023 16:38
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Green lasguns are fine, but I just liked the idea of a more unified look for weapons across the empire. And red goes so much better with a chainsword or anything bolt.
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Oct 30, 2023 16:51
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Improbable Lobster posted:I whipped up something in IMPCat That lasgun looks so good, I really do like darker tones even if they're not as eye-catching. I'll need to mess around with this app a bit, I think I prefer lighter uniform and darker armor contrast.
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Oct 30, 2023 17:30
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impcat is kind of cheating, those presets and automated color pickers do so much work. Almost anything looks good if you pick natural light shades.  Anyway, main point, red lasguns still good. The new guard models are a lot more detailed and you can make them look really nice with extra work. Just need to pick the right shades of green and brown.
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Oct 30, 2023 18:54
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It looks better from other angles. where the lower legs are more clear and you can see the separation.
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Oct 30, 2023 20:05
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That sounds to me like they were trying to "simulate" a situation like it's real life. That's the sense I got when thinking back to 3rd edition rules and realizing that 40K was supposed to be a "war game" and not a "game". It might be more obvious with Warhammer where you have to deal with ranks and files and regiments.
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Oct 31, 2023 17:33
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What do you mean too far? That looks perfect.
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Oct 31, 2023 18:44
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Black Friday and Christmas are effectively a single holiday sales season now. The rest can only cling on to their niches of big family dinner and candy.
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Nov 3, 2023 17:39
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If you don't know on which day the Emperor was born, I guess every day is his birthday?
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Nov 3, 2023 18:04
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I think I just spent 5 hours gluing together 5 miniatures. Only 20 more guardsmen left to go.
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Nov 4, 2023 16:26
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Yeah my bottle of extra thin Tamiya evaporates in seconds, but it's also a very old bottle and I don't know if that makes a difference.
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Nov 4, 2023 21:01
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The Demilich posted:The Hearthguard proportions just don't look Dwarven to me They look like terran marines.
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Cooked Auto posted:I would just throw the regular Guard force organisation out the window. So did every existing regiment.
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Mr Teatime posted:Tamiya thin is excellent but if you try and use it like a regular glue, applying it and then sticking two bits together, you will find it doesn’t work particularly well and evaporated really fast. The trick with the thin stuff and what makes it really nice is making use of capillary action, you hold your pieces together and just touch the brush to the seam and it will flow through the entire joint making no mess from you squishing bits together. You're right, that is what the instructions on the bottle say you should do. Easier with scale models than warhammer miniatures though. They have some awkward joints, and even more awkward when attaching the base sometimes.
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Nov 5, 2023 14:34
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15/25 guardsmen assembled, more than halfway there.
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Nov 5, 2023 15:27
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The coat looks great, and looking at the guide I would have stopped at step 4 or 5 depending on the results.
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Nov 5, 2023 17:08
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Onto the second squad of guardsmen and I'm already destroying plastic because the manual only provides two poses per miniature and I don't want to repeat any of the ones I did some hours ago.
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Nov 5, 2023 17:21
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The models are at different angles, but it's the coat collar. On the conversion it looks close enough to make it look like the coat is being worn, instead of just floating there on the game workshop sculpt. Or a stiff high collar just doesn't look good if it's not framing the head properly.
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Nov 6, 2023 14:52
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After gluing twenty five guardsmen I'm already sick of Cadia's poo poo. There's just not enough variety, I need to find a way to break this up somewhat.
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Nov 6, 2023 16:30
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They're only slightly more expensive than Astra Militarum from looking at the Games Workshop store page. They are a lot more expensive on points though in comparison. Looking at the prices again, smaller armies seem to be a lot cheaper in terms of pricing, 10 miniature are in the same price range, smh. Lostconfused fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Nov 6, 2023 |
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I am tempted to just get another cheap guard combat patrol box, because it would be silly to get those minis another way. But I'm also just rethinking this whole guards thing now. I'm going to try and exercise some self control and not buy anything until I get the ones I have done and painted.
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Nov 6, 2023 20:42
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I know I can go search old posts, but maybe it's easier to just ask. What drilling tools do I need to magnetize the miniatures?
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Nov 7, 2023 00:21
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I just don't like the Leonardo da Vinci aesthetic they're going for with Skitarii.
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Nov 7, 2023 00:49
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I'm imagining the logic is something like the dark age of imperium is the european dark age, so the slightly more advanced tech priests are the european renaissance. That's why some of their weapons is a high tech arquebus.
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Nov 7, 2023 01:41
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Yeah guard infantry is a filler in every value box or something I guess. But there's still a problem with that and that's they are all boring cadians. So as mentioned you need to go straight to printing or third party sculpts or anything to find something more interesting.
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Nov 7, 2023 05:37
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Having a cavalry wing sounds like a cool idea, but is it better than just getting another sentinel?
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Should've been Abaddon in the background.
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