Assault armies don't care much! Dark Reapers ignore it for eldar. Anyone who can get positive hit modifiers or rerolls has a way around them. Orks don't care much thanks to the dakka dakka strat.
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Assault armies don't care much! Dark Reapers ignore it for eldar. Anyone who can get positive hit modifiers or rerolls has a way around them. Orks don't care much thanks to the dakka dakka strat.
I main Tau, and am at a fun Doubles. First army flying -2 all over, with their strat to male -3. So I am sitting here 2 hours mostly doing nothing. Even with velocity tracker on, just....frustrating. And I have yet to go to a tourney without this crap.
So, I have been trying to decide on my 2nd army for last few weeks. This neg stuff just....is just gross. If I lose, I don't mind if I at least get to play. This feels like me sitting here.
Honestly? Start with Kill Team. Kill Team is usually only a few models (5-20) and you can basically just buy a squad and start playing. It also helps you start building up and army and you can "graduate" into full 40k later on.
Yeah for shooty armies that stuff is just poison, there really shouldn't be anything like that in this edition after the nightmare that was invisibility in 7th edition.
Orks are not for everyone but they are a decent counter to the crap you're describing - between Dakka Dakka Dakka and the start to stretch it to 5+, Orks having a boatload of melee options and Traktor Kannons (think auto hitting krak missiles which, if they take the last wound off a flyer, always cause it to explode) they're certainly worth considering.
Sooooo...
Absolute unit confirmed, if this is true. Can't lose more than four wounds per phase, meaning shooty armies without some serious melee punch or psykers purely dedicated to taking him out are going to have to worry about him until at least turn 3, assuming he doesn't get healed at all. Flat four damage on a klaw with no minus to hit, hitting on 2s and rerolling 1s, varying between strength 10 and 14 and his number of attacks actually goes UP the more damage he takes. Terrifying.
Absolute unit confirmed, if this is true. Can't lose more than four wounds per phase, meaning shooty armies without some serious melee punch or psykers purely dedicated to taking him out are going to have to worry about him until at least turn 3, assuming he doesn't get healed at all. Flat four damage on a klaw with no minus to hit, hitting on 2s and rerolling 1s, varying between strength 10 and 14 and his number of attacks actually goes UP the more damage he takes. Terrifying.
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I love all of this, especially the 4 wounds a phase. I'm kind of tired of armies and units having so much of the same abilities/auras/etc. between them, maybe with just different names. I'm really happy to see something truly new.Sooooo...
Absolute unit confirmed, if this is true. Can't lose more than four wounds per phase, meaning shooty armies without some serious melee punch or psykers purely dedicated to taking him out are going to have to worry about him until at least turn 3, assuming he doesn't get healed at all. Flat four damage on a klaw with no minus to hit, hitting on 2s and rerolling 1s, varying between strength 10 and 14 and his number of attacks actually goes UP the more damage he takes. Terrifying.
We'll know next weekend when preorders go live (unless it leaks early, heh)
Not Ultramarines per se but yeah, no Space Wolves accessories is super lame. Shut up and buy more overpriced upgrade packs, I guess.
I am really nervous with how many various podcasts and youtube channels have suggested that they want the "can't lose more than X amount of wounds a phase" rule on Demon Princes. I hate when GW comes up with a cool rule then copy/pastes it to a billion different units and armies.
I get that, but it really does feel like an effective way of giving a unit that "unstoppable object" feeling.
Games Workshop emailed to say they're shutting everything down for a while - stores, factory and distribution:
Oh well I won't be painting my Valhallans this lock down.
I popped into a Warhammer store last week, I was the only one in there, the guy said he had been selling insane amounts of stuff. People just stocking up for the lock down. So I picked up some paint, now to clear my backlog!
Minimum is to finish off Blackstone Fortress
I popped into a Warhammer store last week, I was the only one in there, the guy said he had been selling insane amounts of stuff. People just stocking up for the lock down. So I picked up some paint, now to clear my backlog!
Minimum is to finish off Blackstone Fortress
My Riptide!
feels like I posted it everywhere but here
Holy shit! I commented on this on reddit and didn't know it was yours. I love Tau, and I love Titanfall. This is easily my favorite conversion. Please share deets!
My Riptide!
feels like I posted it everywhere but here
its a ton of parts, the paint time was fast. everything was a layered light drybrush.
parts include: armiger, landraider, riptide, kastelan, crisissuits, vansaar ( pilot), onager dune crawler, vehicle upgrade sprue, pathfider drone, dreadknight, ghostkeel.
Lots of pinning, lots of cutting and green stuff equivalent.
if you are curious as to any specific components, like how are the arms made, I'll be more detailed.
No it wasnt a 1000$ build. only slightly more than a standard riptide, ( BUY BITS, NOT KITS! )
i will plan out my conversions and make "part carts" on ebay and just kinda sit on the carts and wait for deals to pop up.
odds are within 3~ weeks a seller will run a 15% off if you buy 10+ and at the same time discount some parts you've been waiting to buy.
(I picked up like3 devilfish hulls for like 1.24$ each)
thanks!
Im trying to get faster at painting this year, and I think the total time painting this guy was like 7-9 hours? ( only counting painting time)
I have a rather large backlog of stuff I want to paint
parts include: armiger, landraider, riptide, kastelan, crisissuits, vansaar ( pilot), onager dune crawler, vehicle upgrade sprue, pathfider drone, dreadknight, ghostkeel.
Lots of pinning, lots of cutting and green stuff equivalent.
if you are curious as to any specific components, like how are the arms made, I'll be more detailed.
No it wasnt a 1000$ build. only slightly more than a standard riptide, ( BUY BITS, NOT KITS! )
i will plan out my conversions and make "part carts" on ebay and just kinda sit on the carts and wait for deals to pop up.
odds are within 3~ weeks a seller will run a 15% off if you buy 10+ and at the same time discount some parts you've been waiting to buy.
(I picked up like3 devilfish hulls for like 1.24$ each)
thanks!
Im trying to get faster at painting this year, and I think the total time painting this guy was like 7-9 hours? ( only counting painting time)
I have a rather large backlog of stuff I want to paint
Wow. That is damn quick. And yes---I would love to hear about the arms as I might try a Titanfall-themed version of a Stormsurge. And curious what made the front piece that opens up where the pilot sits.
Arms:
Shoulder plate: ( Ghostkeel shoulder plate )
Bicep: ( Armiger leg thigh)
Forearm: ( Riptide arm )
Wrist: ( Dreadknight wrist plate )
Hand: ( Kastelan hand )
This is all cut and pinned together, pins are reinforced by kneadite, gaps filled, bridged (messily) , shaving here and there to make the bits fit/work together.
shoulder (armiger thigh is pinned to the torso, with the armiger arm attachment between the upper arm and torso, ( where it would normaly go if you were to build a armiger)
Hatch:
its a armiger kit* the front plate it cut and angled differently then the plate is bridged with kneadite ( green stuff, but in my case, brown stuff), and the vehicle upgrade sprue devil fish bit ( thats also been cut)
The hatch is literally. cut the hatch out of the armiger kit. Then I made a simple pin hinge. which was an absolute pain to get right. ( still not happy witht he result)
interior cock pit is like random bits with control do dads on em and like 80% kneadite ( green stuff, but in my case, brown stuff)
Instead of following any advice I went and got a pack of five chaos space marines. Raptor set. They look pretty cool. Excited to build them this weekend (should be here tomorrow or Saturday). Got some paints too. Never painted anything like this before, but I've watched some tutorials and the worst I can do is just make them look like shit :V
I look forward to naming them edgy names like GORE and CHILLYBEAN
I look forward to naming them edgy names like GORE and CHILLYBEAN
Thin them paints. Then thin them more. Then, just to be sure, thin them juuust a bit more. Then you can paint.
Welp, at a time when I should be saving money due to this pandemic, I made some trades on Miniswap, coughed up some dough, and now have some new models:
3 Tau Commanders
1 Ghostkeel
1 Broadside Battlesuit
6 Stealth Suits
6 Crisis Suits
50 Firewarriors (I already own about 60...why, god, why...)
20 Tactical Drones
1 Broodlord
And a billion Termagants, Hormagaunts, and Genestealers
Guess I won't be bored these new few weeks.
3 Tau Commanders
1 Ghostkeel
1 Broadside Battlesuit
6 Stealth Suits
6 Crisis Suits
50 Firewarriors (I already own about 60...why, god, why...)
20 Tactical Drones
1 Broodlord
And a billion Termagants, Hormagaunts, and Genestealers
Guess I won't be bored these new few weeks.
Thank you. I really appreciate this. I've made a note and saved it to my desktop.
Yes, please be selfish. I really want 'em too.
Also
40k Vulkan? 🙏
From a business perspective announcing a new edition while the psychic awakening is going on would be crazy. They have another few books to go. So nothing like that.
I think we will get the primaris bikes and speeders. Probably a new Knight. A full reveal of Fabius bile, would be cool if that came along with Fulgrim and some noise marines.
I think we will get the primaris bikes and speeders. Probably a new Knight. A full reveal of Fabius bile, would be cool if that came along with Fulgrim and some noise marines.
They are updating this WH Community page with every thing they are showing, with the usual good pics and so.
The Storyforge teaser is fantastic.
The Storyforge teaser is fantastic.
As somebody who plays an Elf in a Warhammer Fantasy DnD campaign feeling kinda called out rn
(It's not wrong tho)
Not only I was surprised by hearing that, I was even more surprised to see how good that mini looked.
I'm still waiting a remake of the Fellowship box. The various old versions have some nice figures, but also some really, really ugly ones. That Eomer is stupidly good (even if it doesn't look as Urban at all :P), I don't discard buying it in the future and I don't play the game (for now, at least XD).
And I didn't expect Fabius to look so close to the classic model.
And I didn't expect Fabius to look so close to the classic model.