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First for IX Legion

Second for Farsight

Is that your gundam guys generation Char? do you like it? I really want one.

How'd that work out for you?

Posting my guy here too - first of a new army and completely different scheme than i've done before - I'm very happy with how he turned out barring some very minor touch ups. Not done a base before, how did it turn out?
>The vallejo snow effect is very fun to play with, it does tend to travel though which is why there's some on his knuckles

feel like pure shit just want some well-posed elaborately decorated terminators back

Xth for Dark Eldar will never be good, and that's just the way we like it.

nth for the Hive Mind

Xth for Fulgrim will be the single best close combat fighter in the entire game

How about a list consisting of Bjorn with a Twin Lascannon, 6 contemptor mortis with quad las, then fill up the rest of the points with assault cannon Razorbacks?

What do you expect, you get lumped with Orks at the veeeery end of the codex release timeline

What are you working on, Veeky Forums?

Just finished my Redemptor. I'm happy with it. Much harder to paint than I gave it credit for.

I like it, though you're right that it needs a few touch ups around the edge highlights. Quite unique, looks good.

I like the color what did you use to get it?

If you could add one Auxiliary to the tau what would it be?

gotta do some kriegers for a commission but im stuck in a downward spiral of laying on my couch watching seinfeld and smoking cigarettes

Also, what did you use to get that snow effect on the base?

I for one enjoy bringing like 8 S8 AP 4 weapons per 500 points.
Captcha : Magnus Wanes

That's fairly fucked up.

Needs gorillaman

some kind of weird nonhumanoid creature that creates a null field that they pull around on a shock collar

I overall like it, but I'll be damned if you didn't perfectly replicate the 2-1 green stuff mix shades on his back.

nxth for asking user from the last thread how he did this

Nicassar
Muh smite

Fucking GK got nothing. Now for the long wait for a new fucking codex that *might* fix the pile of shit that is the GK codex.

post yfw Death company and Inferno pistols for Blood Angels get a point increase.

So how did R&H fair in CA?

Gulliman can't take a lascannon.

plz no.

Don't have pics but I'm happy to share my recent dumbassery. 2 leviathan dreads that are being converted for my csm army. Doing brass decals on one, plasticad gilting for the other, gargoyle heads on the quad autocannon guns, the curved spike and skulls vehicle kit bit is going on the side of grav fluxes. 3 rapier quad bolters, which I am going to hate painting because I'm not sure what to do with so little usable surface area. The 18 crew men for the 3 quad bolters and 6 laser rapiers. I'm not sure if I have fucked up and been irresponsible or not. List looks strong though and I'm loving the leviathans

Thank you. I only really notice the small bits such as bits of colour that are out of place when I take a picture so now I know they're there I'll sort them out

Based mournfag brown, then I think skrag brown(i may have skipped that step and went straight to orange, can't remember), thin layers of jokaero orange, fuegan orange shade in the recesses, all over wash with reikland fleshshade, troll slayer bright highlights then fire dragon bright. The white is rakarth flesh with agrax earthshade then white scar.
The snow is vallejo environment snow, first time using it so I wasn't sure what to expect but I think it turned out great.

I can't unsee that, thanks.

just bought a box of pic related

Malefic lords got a steep price hike that they kind of deserved. Aside from that, it's about the same. No idea if the new IG codex changes to how the tanks function apply

Have you considered not playing a meme faction?

Like this isn't even trolling, I'm legit asking you "Hey how about maybe not playing a hyper-specialised subfaction without any support"

>But I love daemonhunters!

Most of your opponents will not be daemons.

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>pinnacle of the hive tyrants
>gets BTFO by a single Marine

Seems about right, guess it's back to waiting for FW to update their armies.

Dont worry i am going to become a new daemon player. So eat your heart out GKs

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>imgur.com/a/qwZAG
Awesome.
First new edition to my noise boys in a minute.
That's some sweet coloration and some REALLY SWEET wear-n'-tear you've got on that bad boy.

This is my MT battalion. Considering an inquisitor and some Chamber Militant (Deathwatch, GK, Sisters) for that inquisitorial deathsquad feel, but I'm not sure. What kind of allies I bring will probably decide what color scheme and fluff I want for my hellgun bois.

Any advice or insults? I'll take either.
Also I think list is +63 points with the recent update

Malefic Lords got fucked into uselessness. If you want a smite-bot, which is all they are, you can now get a Herald of Nurgle or Slaanesh for cheaper.

It would take 1 line of errata for R&H, replace index:imperium for the various IG datasheets with codex entries. I'll probably break mine out in a friendly game and just ask to use the most recent ruleset for the vehicles

Swarmy rekt him though and got taken out by a lucky melta pistol to the face.

So are renegade psyker covens more worth it now?

Battle report time?

Last night I had a rematch against my Eldar friend. 1500 points, Open War. We drew a Meeting Battle over The Courier in the middle of a Warp Storm.

The Tyranid Courier was my Tyranid Prime, the Craftworlds Courier was the Fire Dragon Exarch. As per the mission, kill Courier = instant win. Meeting Battle means each army is split into thirds - first third deploys normally, the second and third must arrive in turn 2 and turn 3 from any board edge outside the enemy deployment zone. Because of the Meeting Battle our couriers has to be part of the first third that starts on the board.

Nid army was Kraken hive fleet as usual

dakka Flyrant with brainleach devourers and Warlord trait that never takes hit penalties
Tyranid Prime with scything+deathspitter and Kraken camo mutation relic
Tervigon
Termagants, 10 with devourers
Hormagants
Tyranid warriors, one with barbed strangler
Rippers
2 Biovores
Tyrannofex with rupture
Harpy with venom cannons

Eldar army was whatever craftworld gives the bonus to shuriken weapons and leadership

Farseer with warlock council
Dire Avengers
Rangers (or pathfinders or whatever they're called now)
Striking Scorpions
2 squads of Banshees
Fire Dragons
Five Wraithguard with dscythes
Wave Serpent (one of the Banshees units are in here)
Falcon with pulse lasers and bright lance (Fire Dragons are here)

Can't remember what relic/warlord trait the Eldar had.

Yeah, I'll just throw my models in the bin while I'm at it. I'll reset the time invested. Start from scratch with w/e is OP.

It's not hard to fix GK, but GW's balance team is inept as fuck and couldn't balance a set of empty scales.

>horde army is painted
>elite army is not
surprising

No, they're trash on their own merits.

It's not that you're imbalanced, it's that the game is hard to win for an army with 20 models that are specialized to fight daemons. just add in some imperium auxiliaries, they're pretty much all fluffy.

Why does GW hate renegades?

Because Forgeworld started helping them.

Nids looking fly as fuck. Would roast over the fire to the screeching of autists claiming they're fireproof.

>BTFO
If anyone was getting BTFO in that fight it was Dante. He didn’t get the opening for an overloaded melta shot to the face at point blank range until he was impaled on one of the boneswords and seconds away from death. None of his attacks did anything to slow the swarmlord.

I know big resin stuff tends to be disastrous but is it safe to buy little things off of forgeworld, like conversion sets? Does anyone have any horror stories about that sorta stuff?

These still top the "dumb, badly sculpted fucking GW models" chart.

That's an achievement.

>Reavers and Hellions get no price drop
>wyches still worse and more expensive than kabalites
>no weapon adjustments so it's still all Lances and Blasters for days
What the shit? Seriously, a Disintegrator is 30pts while a dark lance is 20. Dizzies, Heatlances, Shredders, and hell even Haywires all suck ass. Splinter cannons are only barely usable, too.

>last thing I finished was this over a month ago, got loads of marines to paint now and I'm struggling to motivate myself

60th for crons!

They aren't sure how to handle psyker/smite spam. Malefic lords deserved a price hike, but an almost 3x increase might be too steep

>These still top the "dumb, badly sculpted fucking GW models" chart.

not while these bad boys exist

They seem to hate cultists too seeing as their model line is just 5 monopose models. Does GW just hate human chaos worshipers?

Fuck you they are glorious.

I am the Swordgaunt Swarmlord user. What did you want to ask? I didnt catch it in the last thread.

I presume how I built the arms? I cut the gaunts from the waist down, and chopped the neck off. I also chopped off the bonesword blades and glued them on, then patched up the joints and carapace with 50% sculpey 50% epoxy putty

The arms are also fully sculpted from my magic mixture. Theres nothing much to it other than some basic nid anatomy.

Add gribbles for taste

The painted parts of my mate's Eldar look really good, he's got an airbrush and does OSL. I've just been playing for longer so most of my bugs are painted.

Deployment was the first third of the Tyranid army: The Tyranid Prime (courier), wrapped by the 30 termagants, with biovores and harpy nearby.

First third of the Eldar was the seer council, the rangers, the falcon and the fire dragons riding inside (exarch courier)

Eldar got first turn.

>eldar remain unpainted
>2 tone + 1 wash tyranids are painted
>finding this a surprise

Has any other unit had such an 180 on design before?

>painted nids vs unpainted "aeldari"
>muh dick

I kek'd

I'm convinced it's the wings. They look good without them, and they also look good if you kitbash upward pointing wings from other models.

>might be
It absolutely is, their only strength was their low cost. Now that they aren't the lowest cost smite option there is flat zero practical reason to take them over a cheaper Herald. All 3 psyker heralds are cheaper and thus better in the role of smite-bot.

I said "dumb", not "rad".

>only a melta pistol to the face could kill the swarmlord
Sisters confirmed for stronger than Blood Angels

>The painted parts of my mate's Eldar look really good
I will say I like his fire dragons.

I was all pumped about converting a glottkin to run as that LoW great unclean one and the chapter approved leak says he went from costing about 600 to 777. I mean I get the joke but fuck is that expensive

>that aspie champ
So glad that Dark Vengeance and the abhorrent Crimson Slaughter aesthetic is behind us

Hellions still. I don't have much more time to work on them since I've got an early shift tomorrow.
I bought a box of GK paladins from my FLGS's Black friday sale, it was only 20% off, but still better than the standard 15%. Gonna make an Ancient, Apothecary and 3 Paladins out of it.

Lol no. The only issue is that the other cheap psykers didn't go up as much as well. Even at 80 points, he's still only 10 points more than a horror squad and infinitely better. around 80 points is what all PSYKER CHARACTERs should be at

Older possessed look better, desu.

Maybe, they also hate Shrikes, and Parasite of Mortrex. They hate anyone supporting their range that isn't GW itself even if FW is them. It is some weird self hate. That and they probably wanted cultists to also not be a big thing, but, boy, they were a boon for CSM.

Not all of it was bad.

To complete the trifecta, we need a Logan Grimnar vs Swarmlord battle.

I prefer it to the cartoony style that seems so prevelant with the new death guard

Nah, Possessed have always sucked.

>Malefic Lords got fucked into uselessness.
>if I can't spam 20 smite characters for only 600 points then it's useless
The absolute state of Chaosfags

ty user that basically what I wanted to know

only good possed models are the 30k word bearer ones

My statement didn't say which were better just that they took a 180. Although I do personally prefer the new ones

I just meant the chaos marine ones, the cultists are decent.
Yeah I agree. My favorites are still the plain old normal CSM kit

I dunno, I do really like the far left and center possessed from the old sculpts. They have that nostalgic chaos vibe.

Turn 1 the seer council moves up and uses doom or destruction or whatever it is on the harpy. They also smite a few founds off the termagaunts.The falcon opens up wit the laser and brightlance and takes 6 wounds off the harpy. The snipers don't do anything.

Turn 1 tyranids the termagaunts swing forward to bring all the devourers in range of the seer council. Th harpy flies forward and shoots its heavy venom cannons at the falcon, but because of the damage earlier it misses completely. The biovores do one mortal wound to the seer council and leave a sporemine. the termagants also kill a model with their devourers.

>hand flamers 3ppm
Still totally worthless

if you look at that unit whose only useful ability is to just cast smite and think it is worth 80 pts then you are an idiot

These guys? Because if so yeah I think they take the cake,

I know Orks are still not great and probably won't get our codex for a while, but I am rock solid looking at that Power Klaw points drop.

scary thing is that basically everyone seems to have had great point reductions while the ork ones are mostly ok

Holy shit, never saw them before. Incredible.

It has two other powers user.

The biggest travesty of 8th is all the investment in riptide models wasted. It's sad they dont try harder to balance it and bring it back even up to Tier 1.5 would be fine, but no.

did you actually look at them user.