Warhammer 40k

[Vitriol]

@Vitriol Yes, but also:

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[LazarusOwenhart]

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[LazarusOwenhart]

So, this is where I paint. Thought you guys might be interested

 

[Vitriol]

I love the retro future feel of the robots, they look different enough that u can tell they are from the pre imperial era but still distinctly human. I have my first game against a cult mechanicus next week-we'll see how much i like them then!

Played a themed game at the local GW Saturday just gone and my god Lychgaurd are brutal. I was foot slogging a unit of 10 Lychguard equipped with dispersion shield and Hyperphase Sword with Orkina the Diviner attached. All together the unit with HQ clocked in at 420 points. I was also using the Mephrit Dynsaty force org from the Shield of Baal book and the unit took down more then double it's points and I only lost a single model in return.
They destroyed two ten man tactical space marine units, ten man assault squad with chapter master and a Lascannon Predator if the game carried on for another turn I could have taken down a Baneblade (super heavy imperial guard tank). Next time I'll throw in a destroyer lord for that sweet sweet preferred enemy re rolls.

Omg i fought that unit for the first time last night, after phenomenal luck with orders i put in 81lasgun shots, 6 melta, 3 flamers, 1 inferno cannon, 1 heavy bolter and 1 plasma pistol in a single glorious round of shooting. I killed one sodding lynchguard and lost all my infantry in return. Ended up playing the rest of the game with chimera and hellhounds. Ended up losing 9-10. Should never have taken the bait although target saturation is amazingly effective especially at 1000pt games.

 

[Watcher]

I've only very very recently started to get into Warhammer with the recent Dawn of War sale on Steam.

A big problem for me with the tabletop was it came across as too... slow for my tastes. A big reason why I love RTS is how fast it is, and how well it tests your planning skills under stress. It's largely why I've liked playing Dawn of War so far.

 

[LazarusOwenhart]

I've only very very recently started to get into Warhammer with the recent Dawn of War sale on Steam.

A big problem for me with the tabletop was it came across as too... slow for my tastes. A big reason why I love RTS is how fast it is, and how well it tests your planning skills under stress. It's largely why I've liked playing Dawn of War so far.

Tabletop is tense in a different way. Each single move counts SO much more than a mouse click in Dawn of War. Send a tank the wrong way on the computer, fuck it, realize your mistake and turn it round or if it gets blown up, build another one. On the tabletop, send a tank the wrong way, watch it get storm-hammered to death and then cry whilst your opponent laughs and drinks beer.

 

[SpessCaptain]

 

[exball]

Final Liberation is the best 40k PC game. This is not opinion, it is fact.

 

[Surtur]

So, this is where I paint. Thought you guys might be interested

Glad to see that my battlestation is not the only one like this. I also imagine that lamp is way better than the one I bout at Wal-Mart for 5 bucks.

I've only very very recently started to get into Warhammer with the recent Dawn of War sale on Steam.

A big problem for me with the tabletop was it came across as too... slow for my tastes. A big reason why I love RTS is how fast it is, and how well it tests your planning skills under stress. It's largely why I've liked playing Dawn of War so far.

I dunno, I have spend upwards of 8 hours on a StarCraft game. There is a fair amount of strategy involved, and I prefer playing a game face to face anyways, its why i have been doing more traditional games over video games these days.

 

[LazarusOwenhart]

@Surtur The lamp was about £35 which I guess is like $50. I've recently supplemented it with a £10 lamp from Ikea which gives me incredibly bright light over a small area. Between the two of them my light setup is awesome.

 

[Surtur]

@Surtur The lamp was about £35 which I guess is like $50. I've recently supplemented it with a £10 lamp from Ikea which gives me incredibly bright light over a small area. Between the two of them my light setup is awesome.

Definitely something to pick up in the future. I bought my lamp after trying to see mould lines with just my room light.

 

[LazarusOwenhart]

Definitely something to pick up in the future. I bought my lamp after trying to see mould lines with just my room light.

Not gonna happen. I advise having two lamps, something like an anglepoise for general lighting and a really bright LED lamp on a flexible stem for detail. Really bright light throws tiny details into very sharp relief and can be extremely useful for checking if you've got your mold lines off properly.

 

[Surtur]

Not gonna happen. I advise having two lamps, something like an anglepoise for general lighting and a really bright LED lamp on a flexible stem for detail. Really bright light throws tiny details into very sharp relief and can be extremely useful for checking if you've got your mold lines off properly.

Oh yeah, this lamp has already made my life easier.

 

[LazarusOwenhart]

Oh yeah, this lamp has already made my life easier.

Do not be tempted by magnifying lamps. They're great for stamp collecting but they wreck your depth perception for painting. My workplace has over three hundred work benches and each of them has a magnifying lamp. Our employees never use them because it makes the super-fine soldering they do nigh on impossible. I brought one home as it was surplus and I used it for five minutes before I decided to take it back.

I love the retro future feel of the robots, they look different enough that u can tell they are from the pre imperial era but still distinctly human. I have my first game against a cult mechanicus next week-we'll see how much i like them then!




Omg i fought that unit for the first time last night, after phenomenal luck with orders i put in 81lasgun shots, 6 melta, 3 flamers, 1 inferno cannon, 1 heavy bolter and 1 plasma pistol in a single glorious round of shooting. I killed one sodding lynchguard and lost all my infantry in return. Ended up playing the rest of the game with chimera and hellhounds. Ended up losing 9-10. Should never have taken the bait although target saturation is amazingly effective especially at 1000pt games.

I'm getting a Baneblade for my Ultramar Auxilia for that precise reason. Saturation firepower takes on a whole new meaning when it's unleashed by a single vehicle. As a bonus anybody I fight will pretty much spend the entire battle ignoring everything else I have on the table and just chase the Baneblade because it's big and shiny and tempting to craterise.

 

[Surtur]

Do not be tempted by magnifying lamps. They're great for stamp collecting but they wreck your depth perception for painting. My workplace has over three hundred work benches and each of them has a magnifying lamp. Our employees never use them because it makes the super-fine soldering they do nigh on impossible. I brought one home as it was surplus and I used it for five minutes before I decided to take it back.

Yeah I was worried I might need some kind of magnifier but with proper light, I can see everything just fine.

 

[LazarusOwenhart]

@Surtur I'm managing to do facial details on my Auxilia just fine without one. Can't wait to get them up and running. People give Ultramarines players shit for choosing Ultrasmurfs but when you get into the chapter lore they're genuinely interesting. Just because Matt Ward has a massive boner for Robot Girlyman doesn't mean that they aren't cool. For a start, no other Chapter has it's own Auxulia force trained to Space Marine standard. Space marine specials, Cadian vehicles, Adeptus Mechanicus robots all in one army, that's a recipe for serious destruction right there.

 

[exball]

but when you get into the chapter lore they're genuinely interesting.

They're best when modeled after their original Roman Legion design instead of vanilla marines.

 

[Vitriol]

I just completed the Leman rus Battle Tanks for my Beastmen IG army- I converted two LRBT's and one executioner. These are my largest and most ambitious conversions to date and I'm pretty pleased with them.

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This takes me up to 1850 pts so I could now compete in the guy Fawkes tournament in about a month however the local meta seems structured around either hordes or deathstars and lords of war. My mechanised army can compete in maelstrom of war due to its sheer manoeuvrability however I'm not an experienced enough player o be good at target priority. Depending on how busy work is I might give it a shot anyway- practice makes perfect and all that.

@Surtur I'm managing to do facial details on my Auxilia just fine without one. Can't wait to get them up and running. People give Ultramarines players shit for choosing Ultrasmurfs but when you get into the chapter lore they're genuinely interesting. Just because Matt Ward has a massive boner for Robot Girlyman doesn't mean that they aren't cool. For a start, no other Chapter has it's own Auxulia force trained to Space Marine standard. Space marine specials, Cadian vehicles, Adeptus Mechanicus robots all in one army, that's a recipe for serious destruction right there.

I feel you on this, there's this obnoxious wank at our local who, whenever he sees my guard, hovers on the edge of the table and either shittalks the guard and its 'flashlights' or complains that no one will want to play against IG as we're too easy to cheese. He runs a daemon summoning army that proxies unconverted princes as greater daemons when summoned. Its about as 'cheesey' as it sounds. He's the kind of player who rules lawyers like a snake if he thinks he can squeeze an advantage. I haven't played him yet but i can't wait- ive got my two shamans to fuck with his summoning and so much av12 his daemon spam will really struggle.

 

[LazarusOwenhart]

@Vitriol Rules Nazis can be fun to fuck with. He sounds like the sort of person who needs a pummeling by the Auxila. Also point out to his that he's basically doing the 40k version of Zerg rushing which demonstrates a complete lack of tactical ability.

 

[exball]

I feel you on this, there's this obnoxious wank at our local who, whenever he sees my guard, hovers on the edge of the table and either shittalks the guard and its 'flashlights' or complains that no one will want to play against IG as we're too easy to cheese. He runs a daemon summoning army that proxies unconverted princes as greater daemons when summoned. Its about as 'cheesey' as it sounds. He's the kind of player who rules lawyers like a snake if he thinks he can squeeze an advantage. I haven't played him yet but i can't wait- ive got my two shamans to fuck with his summoning and so much av12 his daemon spam will really struggle.

He's playing Daemons. That automatically makes him a whiny cunt.