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Wayland Games has a good range and like 20%ish off. I don't know if it's the cheapest but it's where I buy.

Hi guys I'm really new to the hobby.

I'm suffering from the fact that I think pretty much every army is really fuckin cool and am having to fight temptations to buy units of each.

Am managing to be working away at a DE force at the moment, 1 box of Kabalite Warriors + the Start Collecting set.

Will that be enough to play some small level games or will I need much more? I'd like small versions of multiple armies so that I can start on another project and then come back to it later.

I just want variety! IG, Chaos, SM, Crons, Daemons, Eldar/DE/Harlequins and nids all look cool as fuck to me.

Anyone else had this issue?

Ha, you eldar gits fink ya go anyfing on da orks?
*unzips kustom blasta*
ZOG YOU
*overheats and dies*

I think if you get another raider you should have a nice 500 point list.
Dark eldar warriors always have to be in a transport. The transports are fast, agile, and allow the troops to fire out of it, but are fragile.
But theyre also cheap so yeah it balances it.

I have 2000 points of every Army, so yes.

But, do not buy a single goddamn thing more until you have assembled AND painted what you have.

*assaults u w/ riptide wing*
*kills ur T3 gunners*
u thoght u were safe from melee?....think again.... kid....

*charges you with storm guardians*
*i2*
Heh... 2 slow
>Just read the last part
>mfw

Tau should have rules that encourage them to keep their troops in Napoleonic-esque formations to make the most of their shooting.

For example, a unit of Fire Warriors in cohesion gains bonuses to their shooting's accuracy or something.

*dripple seer council*
*drop 3 eldrich storms from my 3 farseers with apoc blast*
*u epxlode*
heh... embrace knowledge or suffer lik the fool you are....

Sounds like good template fodder.

he heh eh.... only 1 suferin is u......
*infiltrates allied culexus assassin like that one user frwo a few threads back*
...pssh.... nice psychic phase....

The killtank with the bellygun is pretty insane for clearing MEQs if you allow superheavies. It's an AP3 blast weapon with a 3d6" blast radius, so the smallest it can be is still larger than a large blast marker, and the largest it can be is about a quarter of the table. On average, it's a bit over double the area of a large pizza.

Is there any army where it's fun to play against space marines?

Anyone know where to get shark-girl heads? I'm thinking of doing BUSTY SHARKGIRL ABHUMAN SOLAR AUXILIA for shits and giggles (and carchadarons).

*infiltrate striking scorpions*
*stabbs u in the back*
heh... im the real assassin here kido...

Is this as bad as it gets? Can we get any lower than this?

> 1 box of Kabalite Warriors + the Start Collecting set.

I think that's almost 500 points? Might need to get a unit of something else to bulk them up. A Ravanger?

Anyway, you're going to just apply self-control for a while. Focus of Eldar, Dark Eldar and Harlequins for now since those are all Battle Brothers (no penalty for joining forces).

Since I read a lot of lore I think all the time "Oh, I really want to field some Warp Talons/Deathmarks/Striking Scorpions" but I have to remind myself that I don't have the army to support those units and they'd just be going to waste.

Thousand Sons. I fucking love playing against SM.
>mfw AP3
Nice Power Armour, faggot.

This isn't even the half of it.

What is the least offensive WK variant? The suncannon one? One of the FW ones?

In a game with MSU out the ass and no other superheavies/pointsink targets, does the sword knight struggle to make its points back?

The intentionally cringey roleplay was funny for a little while, but that time has passed.

Please stop.

Against MSU, the double D one is probably going to be the least effective, since it can only kill 2 models per turn.

All right... its time for ultimate weapon
*unzips matt ward*
*get him rehired*
*convince him that all codexes hard counter SM*
*every codex gets nerfed into the ground*
see you later kids...

The Emperor's Barbeque.

-CCS, 60 points.
+3 flamers, 15 points.
+Heavy flamer, 10 points.
Total, 85 points.

+Chimera, 65 points.
+2 heavy flamers, free.

-Infantry platoon:

-PCS, 30 points.
+3 flamers, 15 points.
+Heavy flamer, 10 points.
Total, 55 points.

+Chimera, 65 points.
+2 heavy flamers, free.

-Infantry squad, 50 points.
+Flamer, 5 points.
Total, 55 points.

-Infantry squad, 50 points.
+Flamer, 5 points.
Total, 55 points.

-Special weapons squad, 30 points.
+3 flamers, 15 points.
Total, 45 points.

-Special weapons squad, 30 points.
+3 flamers, 15 points.
Total, 45 points.

-Special weapons squad, 30 points.
+3 flamers, 15 points.
Total, 45 points.

-Infantry platoon:

-PCS, 30 points.
+3 flamers, 15 points.
+Heavy flamer, 10 points.
Total, 55 points.

+Chimera, 65 points.
+2 heavy flamers, free.

-Infantry squad, 50 points.
+Flamer, 5 points.
Total, 55 points.

-Infantry squad, 50 points.

-Special weapons squad, 30 points.
+3 flamers, 15 points.
Total, 45 points.

-Special weapons squad, 30 points.
+3 flamers, 15 points.
Total, 45 points.

-Special weapons squad, 30 points.
+3 flamers, 15 points.
Total, 45 points.

-Hellhound, 125 points.
+Heavy flamer, free.

++TOTAL POINTS++
-1,000 Exactly.

whoah....... so this.... is the power of gw nerfs.......
*tris 2 kil ur ultramarines w/ cyclic ion blasters*
its down 2 this..... sry kid.... u we're jst in mi way this hole tim....
*overcharges ion blasters*
im sry fater...... i wasnt.......... gud enogh........
*overheats and dies, joining orkbro in the filthy xenos nerfpool*

good luck against a vehicles list.

i thought it could roll multiple wounds. can't it kill up to 6?

It rolls multiple wounds, but they don't spill over. You can roll the d6+6 result twice and all it will net you is two very dead Marines/Guardians/FWs etc.

We'd like to avoid superheavies for now, but thank you for the tip regardless.

I also added the classic nob Bikers blob tip. Any others?

Nob bikers aren't good, regular bikers are better.

An user wanted to know the max amount of flamers at 1k points, so I posted it.

Why aren't they? They have a stronger statline

>complain about tangentially-related memeposting
>do nothing to stimulate actual discussion when thread activity dies down

So, Veeky Forums, did you play any games this weekend? I had a fun threeway playing Inquisition allied to Sisters, versus Marines. How did they go?

If you didn't get to play, did you get any models put together? Any painting projects done?

How did your game go?

So, I'm thinking about getting a Wraithknight to heavily convert into a Daemon Knight of Slaanesh for my CSM's. Are Wraithknights and Imperial Knights roughly the same size? I've never seen the two compared.

rate my homebrew chapter, teeg!

Name: Astral Spears

Colours: pic related

Battlecry: “Pierce their Heart!”

Bio:

With the proliferation of Orks in the north of the Segmentum Solar in the latter part of the 40th Millenium (some of whom would later become part of WAAAGH!! Ghazghkull), the Adeptus Terra decreed that a new chapter should be founded to be able to intercept this threat should it become a threat to the Sol system. Using the ubiquitous Ultramarines geneseed, as well as training provided from Ultramarine Veterans, the Astral Spears were raised and trained to specialise in boarding actions against Ork Roks, Hulks and other ramshackle Ork vessels.

The Astral Spears prefer to intercept their targets before they make planetfall, using a combination of drop pods, boarding torpedoes and Caestus assault craft to punch through, or land on, the hull of their enemy’s ships. Once aboard, the Chapter makes heavy use of Grav weaponry, exploiting the low gravity environment to make even subtle changes in mass have devastating consequences as they collapse bulkheads, rupture hulls, and (with concentrated fire) even draw vessels off course. It was in early M.41 that Chapter Master Augustus Antioch launched such an attack on the burgeoning WAAAGH!! Gitmash as it embarked from Vanir IV, destroying the Ork fleet before it even left the system. The explosions from the ruptured warp drives were visible from the surface of the Ork-infested planet, which the fearful inhabitants attributed to an entity they knew only as ‘Da Burna’.

As a result of their tactical peculiarities, the Astral Spears have great demand for void-hardened armour as well as Grav-weaponry. Fortunately, the Priests of Mars have deigned to grant them just that, likely out of recognition for their continued protection of the Segmentum Solar, and by extension Mars itself.

(cont'd)
To assist in training for their preferred strategy, the Astral Spears maintain their Fortress Monastery in the depths of the world ocean of the planet Pleisia, where the few rocky archipelagos are used as foundations for stilted hive cities. The crushing pressure, whilst an almost perfect opposite threat to the vacuum of space, provides a continual reminder of the dangers of extreme environments and the necessary gravity with which a Marine must conduct himself under such conditions. The Chapter deliberately keep their status mythical to the denizens of the hive; those underhivers with the courage to plumb the depths of the world ocean in search of a legend are considered prime candidates for recruitment.

Seems like just a silly way to justify gravspam.

Yeah but they cost 45 points a models to the warbikers 18 allowed you to almost take 3 times as many biker boyz per squad.

Are Grav weapons considered OP? I haven't played in years, it just seemed like a cool thing to do and it fit the roll I got from the 1d4chan tables.

Not enough Heavy Flamers

>tfw deepstriking 10 Heavy Flamers on turn 1 in front of 100 Termagants

My orks vs imperial fists.
My first turn I shot his devastators and scouts off the table.
His land raider crashed and immobilized itself turn one stranding his two melta squads.
Bikerboss killer a dreadnought, deff dread killed his captain and smashed up the landraider, It went on like that until i tabled him turn 4.

>Are Grav weapons considered OP?

not in moderate amounts, but when spammed, yes.

The problem is that, unlike Melta and Flamers, they're reasonably effective against pretty much anything, and unlike Plasma have no drawback to merit careful use of them.

A few of them in your force is fine, but spamming them is a little much.

It was hilarious. The high points include Coteaz and his plasma squad annihilating a drop pod and the dudes inside, two Knights punching each other out in one round (the Marine player rolled THREE sixes on the D table. Our Knight was turbofucked) and a single Tactical Sergeant holding his own against an entire Battle Sister squad over two turns of shooting and three of assault. Ultimately the game was a draw with about 500 points of models left on the table by the end.

Grav is an issue at the moment but thankfully it isn't the only issue in this edition. Yoir marines are pretty great, user. Who's their daddy?

I'm about to play tomorrow and take pics. Also been painting my dreadknight.... slowly....

They effective against EVERYTHING that won't die to bolter fire and isn't a greater daemon, excluding bloodthirsters.

I'm broke so no new models for me ATM.

Wish I had the time to play games.

About all I have right now is rumors to speculate and a hobby itch I can't scratch.

Still can't seem to pick a second army while I take a break from Sisters.

So I bough two weeks ago the Dark Vengeance starter pack.

After many struggles I made into basepaint with some details.
Then while looking for instruction for wash I found the youtube videos and realized I used totally wrong basepaint for majority of my marine units (waagh flesh instead of claiban)

Is it still ok even if slightly lighter?

Also how much time does it takes to git gud at painting? I feel pain when I do details then fuckup then redo etc.

That sounds like it was fun.
>Knight punch out
>that sergeant
What was your reaction to that?

I played SM against 'Nids and Necrons.

Lost both games. 'Nids game was close, Necrons game I was tabled by turn 2's end.

They're Ultramarines successors,so I guess the answer to your question is Guilliman? I intended to keep Antioch as the Chapter Master in the 'present', since he feels like a solid character and a thousand year tenure isn't unusual for a Marine.

Haven't played 40k before. 1,000 point Blood Angels list.

Blood Angels
Baal Strike Force detachment
997 points

HQ
(Warlord)
Sanguinary Priest
Bolt Pistol
The Angel’s Wing
(joins Sanguinary Guard)

TROOPS
Tactical Squad x10
Heavy flamer
Meltagun
Power weapon
Inferno pistol
Drop pod
Storm bolter
Locator beacon

Tactical Squad x10
Heavy flamer
Plasma gun
Power weapon
Inferno pistol
Drop pod
Storm bolter
Locator beacon

ELITES
Sanguinary Guard x5
Angelus boltgun x3
Inferno pistol x2
Encarmine sword x3
Encarmine axe x2
Death masks x5
Chapter banner

HEAVY SUPPORT
Stormraven Gunship
Twin-linked lascannon
Twin-linked multi-melta
Four Stormstrike missiles
Ceramite plating
Searchlight
Extra armor
Locator beacon

Yeah its fine, as long as theyre green it doesnt matter.
Make sure all of them are basecoated waaagh flesh now to keep it consistent throughout your army

I saw it coming but it was too awesome to not do. The two of them duked it out on a Skyshield as well just to give them a stage to fight on. Their explosions then scattered onto some Marines and Sisters. My friend fucking aced his SoF saves and lost onyl a single model while the Marine squad ended up falling back.

>that sergeant
Saw this coming too. The model he was using has a reputation for being absolutely fucking indestructible. Seriously, the only time he's died is when he was proxying as a Sternguard sarge (he IS a veteran sarge) and killed himself with vengeance rounds. He hasn't been used as such since.

He later went on to hold an objective and cut us down to taking a draw at best.

daemons can be an expensive army to get into but if you want variety they really can't be beat, guaranteed to never disappoint

>They're Ultramarines successors,so I guess the answer to your question is Guilliman?
Just checking. Rowboat doesn't need to forget any of his many kids when he gets out of stasis. The bill needed for all of those birthdays is going to give him a heart attack.
>I intended to keep Antioch as the Chapter Master in the 'present', since he feels like a solid character and a thousand year tenure isn't unusual for a Marine
You better have him live healthy then. That's one of the ways I deal with marines that are 1000+ years that aren't dreads, BAs, Traitor legion marines who live in the Eye, or needed by the Emperor for a future event.
>I saw it coming but it was too awesome to not do. The two of them duked it out on a Skyshield as well just to give them a stage to fight on. Their explosions then scattered onto some Marines and Sisters. My friend fucking aced his SoF saves and lost onyl a single model while the Marine squad ended up falling back
What a way to go.
>the sergeant
That marine must have been blessed by Emps.

WKs are a bit ganglier and taller, as long as it fits on a super heavy base I doubt anyone is going to care though. Stick a foe-reaper chainsword on it and maybe salvage some stuff from the Zarakynel model if you really want to get into it.

>Lore is all about fighting orks
>Specialize in grav weapons

Now son...

>And then only killing models within 8 inches.

Big woop.

when hordes are clustered on ruins at the table edge on first turn it usually hits all of them, also with the sheer amount of overwatch fire your opponent will think twice about assaulting you

I did what I could with them tables. It's not perfect, but it kinda works and it makes a tiny lick of sense.

just checked my numbers; if Cassius is only 400, I should probably kill off Antioch and get a new guy in. Still, having a Chapter history will do anything but hurt.

So, uh, I guess this is a parody Chapter on Grav abuse?

Just read desert raiders by lucian soulbarn. It was a goood read but i forgot how fucking GRIMDARK 40k was kif you can believe that.

Any other good IG books that dont end in utter fucking decimation? Like even phyrric victories are better than this shit.

Also is it supposed to be time travel or just muh fucked up warp / psykers fucking shit up as always?

Does anyone have a top 5/10 list for biggest challenge rapists in 40k? I figured marneus Calgar, chapter master SMASHFUCKER, the avatar of Khane, Abaddon, scarbrand, and pic related would all show up there somewhere, I'm most interested in who Draigo wins and looses against statistically of the big ones since I just got him.

nid v marine is the most-fun match up desu.

image needs a retail prive... $59.99 sounds about right.

It's a bunch of T3, 5+ save models; you don't need to assault them. A handful of Termagants can just shoot them to death.

Add some Bane Wolves, they sort of use fire... AND they can give you some actual anti-tank. Or any anti-tank quite frankly.

Dark Eldar is pretty fun, they are so slippery and will stomp your army in a turn, but you can mow down hoards of them with just bolter Fire, and their vehicles are made of paper, makes the game swing back and forth constantly

Aight.

My intention here isn't even to make it look like an Imperial Knight, but to be a straight-up corrupted Wraithknight that is being used as a Chaos Knight with Daemon Knight rules, of course, to act as the "spiritual" and tactical focal point of my army.

Idea was to give it reticulated legs somehow, replace the two weapons on its shoulders with either braziers of Incense or with corruptify them to be counts-as Heavy Stubbers, and use a heavily modded Wraithcannon to be a Battle Cannon/Thermic Lance, while a Wraithsword would be the Foe-Reaper Chainsword.

Pic related is the extremely rough draft lol

>just checked my numbers; if Cassius is only 400, I should probably kill off Antioch and get a new guy in. Still, having a Chapter history will do anything but hurt
Throw him in stasis if you need to.
>So, uh, I guess this is a parody Chapter on Grav abuse?
I'm making a Warband parodying some of the posts about CSMs getting shafted and not getting any new toys.

>my games this weekend?

A couple threads ago people might remember the eldar waacfag that conceded the moment he lost his farseer to my culexus+tau army, even though he still had a WK and 12 scatter bikes and i didnt have any MC or GC

he asked me for a rematch in 1000 points and he really pulled out all the stops to prove he wasnt a waacfag

me - tau + culexus
Commander, fusion blades, talisman, iridum
2x double flamer crisis
2x double plasma crisis
3x missilesides
2x 5 man pathfinder units
sniper drone team
culexus

Eldar army:
Farseer with phoenix gem
10x scatterbikes
2x glaive WK

his idea of countering my culexus was to bring a phoenix gem and 2 knights instead of 1

Turn 1 Tau:
Pathfinders all light up one WK, missilesides takes 4 wounds off
all suits are in reserve for deepstrike
Culexus throws grenade at farseer, farseer rolls 1 on perils and gets sucked into the warp, phoenix gem kills 2 of his own scatter bikes but doesnt wound my culexus and he reappears, bikes pass leadership test
Culexus assaults and kills the farseer

Eldar
3 Scatterbikes don't move for some reason and then fire at the culexus to do 1 wound, the other 5 kill a pathfinder unit

WKs move forward and kill the other pathfinder unit, rip most my markerlights

Turn 2 Tau:

Commander mishaps on the deepstrike and dies, flamers deepstrike in range of the 5 forward bikes and plasma team deepstrikes behind the 2 WK

Culexus kills a scatterbike in psychic phase, kills the remaining 2 in assault phase and moves towards the WKs

sniper drones get 2 markerlights on the 2hp WK, missilesides do 1 more wound to it, plasma team finishes it off with the WK failing the invuln save the only wound

flamers dont kill anything, eldar concedes the match

lessons learned:
missilesides are far better than railsides
sniper drones are pretty much useless against eldar
talisman is wasted on deepstriking

I spent all of today painting my greyfag tier culexus, pic related with his cheeky smile

user, it's upside down.

I am simply incapable of taking pictures correctly, should be fixed now

Sounds like a neat idea.

i fucking hate this phone holy shit

That's a nice paint job... I think. It's hard to tell. I didn't know you were an Ausfag, Tau Culexusanon.

Did he roll Invis on the Farseer this time?

Is your camera's machine spirit an Australian?

Maybe try turning the camera upside down?

I already played that battle:
> flames killed most of the gaunts
> valkyrie rocket pods and a couple of mortars reduced them to a half-dozen
> tervigon tries to reinforce them
> they try to shoot my squad
> only 3 of my flamers die
> big bugs are too scared of overwatch to assault them and run away
> flamers keep bringing destruction on the enemy edge and end up claiming the objective

What is the most fun entry level army vs army?

>tfw nobody in my FLGS plays cheese
>tfw my 7 dreadnought Unbound army is actually powerful unless they're packing anti-tank
>tfw my army is now fully based/painted so I can play games now
>tfw Leviathan dreadnought is on the way

3rd times a charm?

Farseer didn't have a chance to cast anything as i took first turn and just killed him twice, I dont quite know why he started it so close to my culexus, maybe he was using it as bait and forgot that i go first or something
I tried it both ways and its the right way around on my phone and on the PC, maybe i should just buy an actual camera

>Oi mate, let me fix that pic for ya

>bringing certain weapons because of your enemy's army choice
for what purpose

It's fluffy?

SKULLthirster is a pretty good contender.
7 attacks at I9 with WS10, S7 ap2 but 6s to hit are strength D so he's more than likely to get at least 1 strength D attack.

maybe i'm just salty that literally every time i play against someone i don't know they bring flamers because >nids

i didn't even knew what race he was bringing