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I'm so happy I never started conquest now.

Btw need a list rated for a 600 point event next Saturday.

Decurion Detachment - 599

Catacomb Command Barge - 135
w/ Gauss Cannon

Necron Warriors x10 - 130
Necron Warriors x10 - 130
Necron Immortals x5 - 85
w/ Tesla Carbines
Tomb Blades x3 - 54
w/ Twin Linked Gauss Blaster

Flayed Ones x5 - 65

The hard match ups will be Scatter Bike spam lists and daemon summoning.
 
The Blood Bowl box set is in production now (I posted images in the BB thread), which means specialst games are well and truly back. We'll have to see if they haven't fucked with the rules, and if not, it means we can be hopeful for the other games as well. Of course if they don't fuck with the rules it doesn't mean much, as they have a commercial product already out there in vidya land with the core rules so it would be retarded even for GW to fuck with them at that point.
 
I had some extra cash on hand and picked up that "let's start collecting" Tau set. They have been pretty good for practicing my layering technique, I'm finally feeling good about it.

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With GW pulling the FFG material, I think theres a chance that they might just pull an episode 7 where they decanonize a lot of the material they didn't write in house

Of course what I think they're going to do is just make any lore not involving space marines invalid; like the geniuses they are, GW might even discontinue forge world, because they can

And then they're going to invalidate all non space marine armies

then its Warhammer 40k is going to be about space marines, SPACE MARINES SPACE MARINES

then the game will just be about putting space marine models on the table, and well, yeah thats the game
 
With GW pulling the FFG material, I think theres a chance that they might just pull an episode 7 where they decanonize a lot of the material they didn't write in house

Of course what I think they're going to do is just make any lore not involving space marines invalid; like the geniuses they are, GW might even discontinue forge world, because they can

And then they're going to invalidate all non space marine armies

then its Warhammer 40k is going to be about space marines, SPACE MARINES SPACE MARINES

then the game will just be about putting space marine models on the table, and well, yeah thats the game
And then Space Marine the game still wouldn't get any sequels.
 
Thank you, I thought it would be more practical looking than the stormtrooper white they are painted with on all the box art. I kept the red "head" concept for the crisis suits though, as i think it adds a nice amount of color for an otherwise dull green and metallic grey figure.

The green gives Tau technology a utilitarian look, which in my opinion, only makes it more Tau-y.

Lately I've been toying with the idea of something that a few years ago would have been anathema to me: starting a Space Marine army. Specifically, I'd like a small force of Marines Malevolent, since they're an entire chapter of superpowered douchebag cowards that outright steal equipment from other chapters because they're too dumb to fix their own stuff, and I find that kind of awesome.
 
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The green gives Tau technology a utilitarian look, which in my opinion, only makes it more Tau-y.

Lately I've been toying with the idea of something that a few years ago would have been anathema to me: starting a Space Marine army. Specifically, I'd like a small force of Marines Malevolent, since they're an entire chapter of superpowered douchebag cowards that outright steal equipment from other chapters because they're too dumb to fix their own stuff, and I find that kind of awesome.
Marines malevolent are hard to do. That piss yellow is borderline impossible to get right.
 
The green gives Tau technology a utilitarian look, which in my opinion, only makes it more Tau-y.

Lately I've been toying with the idea of something that a few years ago would have been anathema to me: starting a Space Marine army. Specifically, I'd like a small force of Marines Malevolent, since they're an entire chapter of superpowered douchebag cowards that outright steal equipment from other chapters because they're too dumb to fix their own stuff, and I find that kind of awesome.
Well if you want Space Marines that are dicks you could go for Space Marines that are dicks in a fun way. If you don't mind them being non-canon.
https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Galactic_Partridges
 
Marines malevolent are hard to do. That piss yellow is borderline impossible to get right.

Add a lot of battle damage to the yellow so that its easier to make and does not have to be pristine. Malevolents are like lootas anyway.
 
So I managed to convince two friends of mine to do a one-off of Only War next weekend. They'll be playing Elysian Drop Troopers being sent in as pathfinders on a border world that might be defecting to the Tau for reasons unknown. They'll get three replacement characters in case death occurs, since they're playing a full squad.
 
You know what I'm fed up with people who just read the wiki and dont get the fluff that make fanworks without being fan's.

And this is the prime example:


The armour is sorta passable, but everything else is not - Let's start with that crappy rendition of a bolt pistol - sorry but nope a bolt pistol is semi auto only an is always depicted as such in the fluff, also it doesn't shoot like a fucking hollywood SMG, i.e. takes a burst to drop some one - a bolt is a round even in the 41st melnium to react explosively inside a target .i.e. mass reactive. A standard human sans power armour is pulped by a single bolter shot.

Then let's move onto the power hammer, A power weapon is a weapon that creates a field designed to interupt matter, but will still struggle with some really deanse matter, like armour, but a lightly armourd human or the helm of a space marine, a bruit force application of a hammer would be enought to turn a head into little chunks, let alone that whole fight sequence, just wouldnt happen a Astarties would not have been disarmed by anyone with a simple kick....


Now let's get to the last bit of filth, the blood of a single innocent would not be enough to secure a ritual to damn a plannet to extermintus, the inquisition put's herritics down like that regularly, if it was successful that level of daemon could be purged with a few guardsmen an a preacher.

Now let's go for the biggie, according to the into he's a Newley qualified neopiete, the Dangles are fucking terrified of there own nature, and will always send anyone on a mission with the oversite of a brother, the only people who would not deploy alone are captains an death company, and unless it was a final hold action they would not no matter his guilt allow himself to die as pennance, the DA's are oddly aware of how valuable each marine is...

Seriously fuck people who don't take a moment to understand a genera, and people who don't do there homework.
 
I think power weapons don't give a fuck how dense the matter is. If its power weapon, your armour might not even be there. But otherwise yeah.
 
noob question: Is the Warhammer Fantasy universe one and the same with the Warhammer 40K universe?
 
I think power weapons don't give a fuck how dense the matter is. If its power weapon, your armour might not even be there. But otherwise yeah.

Not really, they do give a fuck about the density of matter it's just not often that it's a issue and it used to be mentioned in older more overlooked fluff than it is today, having said that there is two notable mentions:

Khan in Betrayer when he's fighting a Ultramarine Evocatus on Armatura, he mentions how it was foolish and near suicidal to parry a power weapon with a chain blade, an then later on there is a mention by ArgalTal about how he's coverd with cut's and one of his horns is sliced in two because of one lucky chop with a power axe.

And in The 3rd book of the Herrisy series, there is a bit of talk about how it's still hard to fuck up a Terminator with a power weapon because the armour is so dense.

noob question: Is the Warhammer Fantasy universe one and the same with the Warhammer 40K universe?

Oh god no, thankfully not - there are a few connections i.e. same gods an such but that's mostly because GW was lazy and owned the IP for said god's 40k is thankfully separated from fantasy and until shit like Vikings and GOT became hit's on TV it was mostly dieing.
 
thankfully not
I heard somewhere that the WHF world was in the WH40K galaxy, but that was probably just fan speculation.

Also I take it you don't really like WHF. I don't know much about it myself. IIRC there's some human empire, orks are there, elves instead of Eldar, it's magic instead of psychic power, and the Chaos Gods are there.
 
Also I take it you don't really like WHF.

No I don't because it's honestly prity generic an forgettable, Fantasy in general is the poor man's sci-fi as it allows for a lot more hand waving an using the age old excuse of "a wizzard did it" but in sci-fi your forced to be more creative (having said that 40k has the warp did it, but it's not used as much).

It allows sub par writers like G RR Martin to get away with a lot of shit they wouldn't be able to in other generas, but sadly the 4000lb gorrila in the room happened to be Tolkin who some how made the fantasy genera respectable and became the biggest source of stolen content for years to come.
 
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