Warhammer 40000 general /40kg/

What about chaos faggers with semi painted armies?

T'''''AU WHEN
>inb4 fucking weeaboos

lol

Who's you're favorite Guard poster, user? I think they're all so dreamy~

Have you tried not being autistic?

>death guard
>september
the wait is killing me

aren't autocannons great

Adversary codex pairings would be cool

Yes, and theyre bullshit.
Imperium 2 btw

fucking marxists

reposting this shit from last night

How the fuck do you people actually start playing this game? A friend told me to look into playing so I've been reading the wiki and looking at models and watching videos and shit for the last 3 months and I still can't pick an army. I've only narrowed it down to like fucking 3.

How did you guys decide on what you wanted to play when you finally did and how long did it take you?

>being this rump roasted about people's choice of plastic army men
Have you?

ITT: post a pic of yourself and we try to guess your army

I like the one with a Valhalla army

What 3?

Are they in the rulebook or just in their respective boxes? I think I missed them

Autocannons are nice and all, but 7pt plasma guns are better when you wanna kill all the things.

How does this look? I might start using it as a baseline.

Night Lords 1000 (998)pts 4CP
>Outrider Detachment
>HQ
Sorcerer w/Force Staff, Death Hex and Warp Time
Tzeentch Prince w/Sword and Diabolic Strength

>Fast
Raptors x10 w/Melta x2, Combi-Melta, MoN and Icon of Despair
Raptors x10 w/Plasma Gun x2, Combi-Plasma
Warp Talons x10

I'm not sure if I want to mark the Talons or the other raptors yet. I don't have a crazy amount of CP to be super flexible like my 2k list.

>IMPERIUM 2
I don't know how much clearer he could've made that for you

Read.

games-workshop.com/en-SE/Index-imperium-vol-2-eng-2017

I use a mix of plasma/ autocannons/ hot shot las guns and las cannons so i cant complain

Thanks!

Nurgle Daemons, AdMech, Emperor's Children

Loyalist Space Marine, where are you?

Can someone post that comic but with the spurdo faces?

u wont decide, once you are in this state, you will pick all or be unhappy everytime u play against one army u didnt pick but had on the list.
prepare to get stuff from all three, even if its just your favorite kit or something. I hope alliance rules allow you to use it together

Its bed time, they can't post right now

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Seething.

fuck

I always liked ants and dinosaurs, so when I first set sight onto tyranids my first thought was: Neat!
Also the friends that got me into playing needed a bad guy

so much hair on the arm... space wolfs

No, it's the name of a Twitter account ho posted that. My mate PM'd me thinking it was my account (since I made the picture, well got somebody to do it for me). So I was wondering where he is.

I like the guardfag with the desert camoguardsmen and plasma russes
because I'm him

Warp talons just aren't good right now. Raptors are in a weird spot right now because they don't bring as much specialist firepower as terminators do now that combis don't run out of ammunition and don't have a good melee profile. Marks don't matter unless you are buying icons or using god specific powers and stratagems .

I have some tactical marines. From what I can tell, tactical marines aren't very good.

Is there any reason why I couldn't call them Sternguard or Company veterans? They're power armored marines with boltguns still right?

Why not take 3 plasmas and an autocannon in your vet squad?

Gives them a nice all round BS+ threat and 5 cheap red shirts to soak wounds

wew

Does anyone have spoilers from Shroud of Night

Sternguard are fancier and have different weapon options

Tacticals aren't terrible, you just have to commit with your heavy weapon choices and use them wisely

I agree

You can use them as such but maybe bling them up a bit?

I was stuck between a ton of different armies when I started, let me think...
>Admech, Tau, Dark Eldar, Eldar, Chaos Space Marines, Tyranids
Most important factor that played into my decision were the troops and the Hq of the army. IMO, select an army only if even their basic troop model makes you excited to look at and paint and see on the table. Same goes for your HQ.
There is nothing more fulfilling for me to see on the table than about 30 or more Termagaunts being led to battle by my converted Swarmlord.

On the other hand, the way I got into my second army, GK, was rather unexpected. Up until that point, I really disliked marine aesthetics, thought they were too boxy and fat. Read through a GK codex at one point though, and for some reason, everything about the army clicked with me.
Another good tip I can give is one I used to start my GK, namely, I only bought a single model to see if I enjoy painting them and looking at them up close.
Finally, the SC!s are great for their value, but I'd personally recommend buying JUST a box of your favourite troop choice to start out with. No commanders, no fancy big extra models, just (usually?) 10 normal dudes. If you can get through painting that, then you'll enjoy the rest of the army as well.

Is that an ironic statement ? Looks like a teenager's first growth spurt of arm harm to me

Blue Guard here.

Fellow Guard players, want to ruin your opponent's day? Get an Aegis Defense Line and Astropath. Put 50 conscripts behind the Aegis and then use the Psychic Barrier power. Finally, use the new strategem from the event to give your conscripts 2+ saves.

Murder space elves that murder fucked a god into existence. This meant they had to murder fuck more to avoid getting eaten.

How would I have picked anything else?

It's a tough one user. My guess is they design things in order to never give an objectively best choice because every army has its downsides and ugly models / design choices. Look at Primaris, Intercessors and characters are awesome, Dreadnought is ok, Inceptors and Aggressors look like shit, Reivers are action-man tier retarded. Of course this is my opinion but I found it to hold for most of the factions I look at. I'll get some model I really like and want to spam them but I discover spamming is not really good so i feel forced to buy stuff I don't like. In the end you need to not care about this since most of the pleasure comes from collecting and painting stuff you like esthetically.
Another important thing is models quality and support from gw. SoB are appealing to a lot of players but are tough to collect since they have old models and high cost.
Also remember that choosing the army is not necessarily the first step. Try looking into subfactions/alternate color schemes and see if you can find something that interests you in particular. For example you may dislike Ultramarines but you may see other chapters with a color scheme which is particularly appealing to you. And so on.

Nope but you're going in the right direction. It's an imperial subfaction that's hairier than the others.

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I know.

i also like that guardfag, his lemans look neat.

i am a less known and infrequent posting guardfag

Because the range difference on those 2 guns means the plasma will be out of range of anything the autocannon fires if they don't move, and moving to fire the plasma makes shooting the autocannon worse. Besides, it's better to just take 8 plasmas from 2 command teams with a commander and slap it in a valkyrie for tactical drops.

If anyone wants to help a newfag out I'm trapped between
>Nurgle Daemons
>Emperor's Children
>AdMech

I understand Nurgle Daemons are probably going to get a slight buff with Death Guard releasing next month, and AdMech is in a rough spot but going to be more coherent once their Codex releases too; I'm only worried I'm going to be playing against a lot of DG and AdMech due to the hype.

Primarily going to playing with friends though, who play IG, Necron, and Tau around 1000-1500pts.

extra tip. for some armies there are super cheap snapfit boxes with like 3 marines or 5 guardsmen with lasguns.

Well I mean, veterans and sternguard have more decorations and stuff over the normal line space marine in comparison, but if I have no normal tacticals in my army to compare to...

I just wanted to add a couple space marines to my IG army, and wanted them to best version possible so to have a contrast between superhuman dudes and the normal human soldiers.

Guess my army.

Well, you could play nurgle and emperor's children in the same army

Dark AdMech is supposedly coming so you would probably be able to lump them in eventually

Fat calves......let's see let's see....
Ultramarines!

>all these awesome melee weapons
>1 attack per model
>can't put it on the Sargent
Total waste of potential to be honest famam, il stick to beserkers.

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is that a cut on your lower leg?
if so, then my bet is on DE or SOB. DE because its obvious, SOB because you're fine with taking a beating over and over again.

Necrons.

dark eldar

If we're doing tactical plasma drops you can just do scions and skip the Valkyrie entirely.

Kitted out vets are decent since even if they move the autocannon is still BS4+, although they're decent mid field campers with moderate range

Damn, that angle really does make my calves look fat.

Nope. Nice try, I'm not a marine player.

I find it very hard not to grab one of those Guardsmen boxes every time I play. Especially when I want a drink/snack and the store has a $5 card minimum

Tau.

Yeah totally do sternguard or a deathwatch kill team then.

Find some extra bits and really kit out your tacticals, make them look experienced

mmh
Admech? Not hair, but enough cables to make it look like hair
IG not hair but balls of steel
Custodes/SoS have the most hair, i think
SoB have a standard "I'm married" haircut so they are out of the question
30k Emperors Children have goth hair, but prolly dun cout.

Hah i know. you have a lovingly converted beastman/ratling - Imperial Guard army. abhumans, scum that still serves.

Buy FW pistol arms for them and settle for the fact that at least your models look cool and you get to examine them up close as you remove them off the table.

Nothing close yet. What makes you think that?

Son of a bitch how? You lucky git, it is indeed one of those two.

Do my old "Count as Neophytes" count for Guardfagging?

Orks

Nurgle daemons are getting a new model for AoS which is probably going to get rules for 40k. No new models in general so you should be safe buying them
The admech codex is coming soon but models should not change as it's one of the newest model lines.
New noise marines are coming too, so in case you decide for emperor's children you should wait a little bit before committing.

I like the Nurgle Daemons choice because I like Daemons in general since they are rarely fielded as a pure army, especially god-specific.
Also consider emperor's children should be easier to paint if you don't go for daemonic allies, Admech are full of tiny details and the models are not as large as a space marine.

nope

Emperor's children have great fun rule but no real models.

Space wolves, all the army/ex army dudes round here play them.

>Emperor's Children
No models, and it's a shame. They are cool.

Their iconic troop is a set of old conversion kits (not even one, but multiple per unit) build on top of an ancient kit.
So expensive and so old.

If you are okay with converting or don't mind go for FW kakophoni, go for it.

Otherwise, I don't recommend them.

Giving them a melee weapon or a second knife raises their attacks characteristic to 2, which the Champion already has.

>mfw a non-white posts and all the guesses will be shit like White Scars, Tau, Salamanders, or Crimson Fists

well you can ally nurgle daemons with Emperors Children space marines.
Might not make that much sense fluffwise, but they all have the keyword and your models, your money. You should like them.

Plus there is a really funny looking herald on snail coming out for AoS. You need to find someone to pawn the stormcast to

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Salamanders. Because Irony.

Pretty sure he's going for a -ld bomb. Talons are there to prevent overwatch for raptors, raptors guarantee that the enemy is very low on ld. Then they need to make a few kills and laugh.

genestealer cult

Salamanders
GSC
IG
Solar Auxilia

Hahahaha, I'm actually F-4, can't join the army because one of my ears is busted.

That's a pretty bad loadout on a prince. Not that you need one for 1000 points. I'd drop it in favour of a lord. And terminators. And plasmas. And more MCU for more -ld buffs. Absolutely no reason to keep talons in a blob and not in two 5-man units.

Brosef, you're very brave for actually doing it I stead of just posting a hairy leg. I'll honor you by doing the same

>what's your army boipuccis
>post selfies and guess army

Can you guys not. These kinds of posts don't even generate discussion. If you find it that amusing, dedicate a separate thread to it.