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Inquisitor_BadAss said:
I see the nickel and dime model is GW's favorite sales tactic.
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I hope tau players enjoy paying £145.00 for a single unit of 10 vespid I genuinely do because I know you won't wait for the individual box to come out. But in all honesty this is supposed to the entry point for 40K but it's even more expensive then the 40K starter set but somehow even less value for money. I'm pretty sure this is almost double the price of the first kill team starter set they released a few years ago. Well done GW you've released another winner.
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How do you think GW runs on 19% profit margin?
 
Meat Target said:
The only 40k youtubers I can watch are Luetin09, the Remembrancer, and DreadAnon.

Stopped watching MajorKill because I got sick of his lame attempts at being funny.
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The funniest part about Majorkill is him trying to build up this aussie tough guy persona and then he tried to cancel Arch for being a heckin nazi a few years ago along with a bunch of other Slophammer youtubers.
And yeah Arch is a retard but I'll still side with him over those faggots any day.
 
Phantom said:
I've never painted an ork before but I got the kommandos kill team set because they look cool. What's a good primer for green skin?
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I primed mine in zandri dust, added orruk flesh, and then a quick use of creed camo contrast

Inquisitor_BadAss said:
I see the nickel and dime model is GW's favorite sales tactic.
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Insane. I paid $150 off Amazon for the Into the Dark starter box and that was a chonky box that was actually decently priced.
 
HTTP Error 404 said:
A buddy is stopping by with his teenaged sons this weekend.

... So. 40k, Kill Team, or Necromunda? What would be the best getting started box to get them hooked? My friend has entirely too much disposable income.
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Necromunda is too complex for kids. It's the last non slop GW bastion.
 
The idiots have taken off the 2022 Kill Team ... everything off their website:

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But you can't access even the preorder page for the 2024 Kill Team stuff. Apparently because I picked the exact wrong day for it and the new shit launches sometime in the next few hours.

I kinda wanted to see the box art for the 2022 version since there's a non-zero chance my FLGS will have the even older Nu-KT starter box, heh.


Guntkvd said:
Necromunda is too complex for kids. It's the last non slop GW bastion.
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Is it? I've been peeking and the number of books required for Necromunda is a bit impressive, I figured it would be a mostly one and done thing but they keep expanding the microsetting with more factions (Hive cops I can see, but random Hive Chaos-specifically-Khorne cultists? odd) and special snowflakes for each faction. I guess they can't do a one and done sorta deal, that's what killed WFB, after all.

I was leaning towards KT cause they would, in theory, set the kids up for 40k proper, but while having a lower barrier to entry. But KT is where GW is trying the first hints of their bullshit "Magic the Gathering Sales Model" stuff, so...
 
There's going to be an academic conference on Warhammer in Germany: https://warhammer-conference.com/

They got John Blanche as a keynote speaker, but for every panel that looks remotely interesting they have others like "In the grim darkness of the far future there is only politics? Warhammer 40k for a school-based look at Carl Schmitt’s unfolding concept of the political", "A corpus analysis of Warhammer fanfic on Archive of Our Own", and "Warhammer 40k as safe place for neurodiverse community". There's even one devoted to analyzing matched play house rules, which I'm sure won't deteriorate into a 'tism fest halfway through.
 
@Phantom I would say black because grey just does not hit right. I keep meaning to try red on mine though because its the oppossite end of the wheel. When I get my airbrush I will post results because I am interested.

Yeah, I'd rather watch Bricky over Major any day because he is just too fake and cringe.

Honestly I think GW just want to put any xeno under Tau that is not Aeldari. I thought they were a new race, I would of loved bug people as its an interesting type to paint that is not Nid.
 
Using your IP for color names is pretty ingenious when you think about it. Even someone like me who never approached the painting scene knows what each color refers to.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Using your IP for color names is pretty ingenious when you think about it. Even someone like me who never approached the painting scene knows what each color refers to.
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Most of my paints are from Michael's or Hobby Lobby, because fuck paying Citadel prices if I can avoid it. But lookie here:
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Copyright infringement, or a lowkey shout-out? ETA: just a coincidence, per @StevieLasVegas.

I will readily concede that Citadel paints are much better (especially with bright colors like red or yellow), but I won't be winning any painting contests anytime soon, so the generics are good enough for me.
 
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Nate Higgers said:
I accidentally watched 6 hours of warhammer lore videos and now I want to get into the books. Not sure the games are for me. Where do I start, should I just pick up from the beginning?
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There is no beginning as such, unless you want to plow into the Horus Heresy, and that's a real commitment. Some generally good starting points are Gaunt's Ghosts, Ciaphas Cain, Eisenhorn/Ravenor, and the Ultramarines, Salamanders, and Grey Knights series.
 
Nate Higgers said:
I accidentally watched 6 hours of warhammer lore videos and now I want to get into the books. Not sure the games are for me. Where do I start, should I just pick up from the beginning?
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As mentioned, there isn't really a "beginning" to start with(there is but there isn't, it's a mess).

Do you have anything in mind that interests in you warhammer? It'd be easier to start making recommendations from there.
 
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