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I can't decide what CSM army I want to build

I like Thousand Sons, Emperor's Children, Alpha Legion, and Black Legion.

WHAT DO

Okay. I got not issue with the Custodes but that ponytail sticking out of the top of the armor is just the dumbest.

>THey don't seem fun to paint
Get an army that you like building and like the look of, you're going to spend way more time hunched over these little minis gluing and painting them then you ever will playing with them. The game changes with editions and supplements, the models don't.

xth for the sick hallucinogenic drugs can be made using the crystallised part of an eldar psyker's brain.

Eldar are quite allright as a main army.
Painting is fine, but assembly is a little irritating with most of the range being resin.

On the table they're quite fun though. Eldar is an army of specialists, and specialists are more fun to play than jack-of-all-trades

space fags

1k Sons if you really like magic, being a scheming jew, and egyptians.

Emperor's Children if you're a memer who likes Slaneesh.

Alpha Legion if you don't want to devote yourself to one god.

Black Legion if you want to devote yourself to all the gods, and are a faggot

I asked this a couple threads back, but what chapters of space marines worship the emperor as a god. I would prefer canon chapters for a deathwatch kill team made up of only these chapters.

So far I know of.
Black Templars
Fire Angels
Red Hunters

I would like to get at least 2 more for a 5 man team, but if I can find 7 more that would be even better.

Bandwagoners will not be judged

Empy's little girls, user. You dont want your "dudes" to thank you for every blessing and look up at you like their big brother?

It's not that bad on the actual model.

It can also be made without the top knot.

Take the one you like the look of the most, dumbass.
but i also support just because i'm a filthy degenerate as well

flamer is just really good. I use those when I want a block of wounds and speed on a budget tho

Make an Iron Warriors army because clearly they are better

The common way it's done is the first edge highlight is on the whole edge and the second is only right on corners. On the pointy tips of the kneepads and facemask on this Emperor's Champion for example.

Black legion with Abby is pretty fun but harder to pull off well than you might expect (curse of the marine army), AL is pretty decent but similar to BL. Sometimes I run BL with a Tsons detachment though and that is pretty sweet

>They have wrist mounted grenade lauchers
Why is that so fucking cool sounds?

So who did it better?

I find it to be the best loadout actualy. It's just too good to skip. But lots of people have the flamer version from the starter.

GKs have stormbolters on their wrists so naturally it had to be 1 upped

Usually OP

Plaguespitters are near goddamn perfect for the unit. Fly around freely advancing, charging weak targets for safety from shooting before flying away and shooting somemore, scary to assault because of Overwatch.

I usually pair them with each other though, they do work

FW is btfo. Cataphractii-like shoulder pads just make the GW version so much better.

user why are you so mad about your GK's being out preformed by custodes?

I've been seeing a bunch of Custodes schemes. Some from FW books I think?
Lol, Custodes will end up having a your dudez aspect after all

Painted the test model for my Xenonians. I tried to keep the scheme as simple as I could since I'll have to paint a lot of these. But I'm pretty happy with it. Now for a whole squad, and figuring out how I want to base them.

gonna stick with GW one, FW is just too much plus their new FW helms look gay

I like the body of the GW version better, but i might see if it's possible to use the FW shoulders on it.
GW shoulders just feel too cataphractii to me

Not mad though. I have Custodes and not GKs

See I feel the opposite, the Cataphractii-like shoulderpads ruin the GW version by clashing with the rest of the design and breaking an otherwise consistent silhouette.

I will Today buy the Tau Starter Box is There are a Download for the Tau how to paint pdf and the xenos 2 pdf?
I am a totally beginner so has anyone Tipps for me in general?

Honestly I think the whole FW Custodes line looks terrible outside of the Dreads. I had zero interest in the army before these new plastic kits.

Looks nice, user. Curious to see what conversions you came up with for the lack of lasguns in the Escher pack.

It's always been canon that Custodes of different ranks/stations use different coloured armour.

I guess it's the matter of taste. Oh, and GW ones have capes.

See i am so worried about edge highlights because i just dont understand to do them on things like Custodes. The Metal on the shield seems strange. It looks like its gold and silver at the same time.

Man, this will always be THE iconic piece of 40K artwork for me.

Not the poster, but I agree. For sure. This is THE moment in the lore, and here it is, rendered beautifully.

There's enough actually if you use the autogun and aren't running conscripts were you literally need ten rifles. That said, I did go ahead and order some Victoria Minatures lasrifles as backup.

Why would you say that? The FW line looks amazing and was what got me interested in Custodes in the first place.
The Sagittarum Guard are probably my favorite unit in the whole range next to the dreadnoughts, aesthetically speaking, if only they had good rules to match.

>Cuss-Toad-Es
Is that how you pronounce it?
I've always said Cuss-Toads

>it had to be 1 upped
wrist grenade launchers have been a thing since rogue trader, though

You can just Drybrush to highlight Custodes. Metallic colors are super easy. Especially when it's almost the whole model and it has a lot of detail. Black is where edge highlighting is unavoidable and challenging.

Its either
>cuss toad ease
Or
>cuss toad ayys
If you want to sound extra cultured, pronounce it as ayys with a spanish roll from the d to the e, the way antonio banderes would.

It's pseudo latin so it's definitely /kʌs-təʊ-diːz/

Clearly FW has a more consistent aesthetic, befitting of custodes. GW designs are all over the place and makes them look like some pleb marines, not the best of the best.

See, I don't like this. But it very well could be the paintjob.

Cuh-stoads

This is the opposite of amazing. The tanks and FW bikes are likewise pretty bad. The plastics blow them out of the water.

How the fuck do you people believe that it should be pronounced that way?

huh why would you go with dry brush for metallics?

youtube.com/watch?v=Y-dv5eEk80o

I also think the flyer looks awkward, but the tanks have cool and unique aesthetic to them.

It's funny you should say that because I hate the way GW paints Custodes, It's more banana yellow chrome than it is gold.

Yea i know its Cus-toad-Es. I was wondering why people think it is Cuss-toads.

>lass cannons
>lass guns
I wouldnt trust the british with how to pronounce anything, let alone pseudo latin.

Also while I think the riders of the GW bikes look better because of the less static poses and cooler lances, the bikes themselves are much cooler in the FW version.

>Literally megas at the top of the thread

Play some small games, get acquainted with how your basic doods function before you start inflating game size and have to remember a billion different things across a dozen different units. Actual read your dex and the core rules so you don't come back here with some asinine question spelled out on page 4. And don't sweat what's meta or isn't until you know the game a decent amount, just try to have fun.

It's very personal. To me these grav tanks look like CIS tanks from Star Wars prequels. I don't like that.
And in regards to the paintjob, I feel like FW's paintjobs are always so dirty.

This thing is almost as disgusting as the sisters transport

Can you stack leadership debuffs? Say if a Interrogator Chaplain rolls around with a unit of Reivers do they inflict -2 on morale? Or say add a hero with Eye of the Unseen for -3 morale on units in melee with them?

I don't get these bike leathers. On GW and FW's both.

Custodes bikers, admech dragoons and a Knight for a knigtly noble order and mass lance charges. yay/nay?

>To me these grav tanks look like CIS tanks from Star Wars prequels.
wtf i love custards now

Different debuffs stack. Same ones don't unless stated otherwise(like Night Lords)

What a nice spread

>It's very personal. To me these grav tanks look like CIS tanks from Star Wars prequels. I don't like that.

Honestly, when I think of those I think of Tau Hammerheads a lot more than the Custodes tanks.

>FW's paintjobs are always so dirty.
That's what make them better than GW paintjobs so much worse, the cleanliness doesn't fit the tone of the setting at all.

git some taste user

So the chaplain has -1 from Aura of Dread, Reivers -1 from Terror Troops and the dude wearing the Eye of the Unseen is a relic granting the debuff of -1 within 3" of the bearer. So all 3 are different?

On something like Krieg or Space Sharks? Absolutely. On golden angels of the Emperor? No. They should be perfect, clad in radiant gold. I really like light gold washed with Reikland Fleshshade.

What's wrong with the Repressor? It's a rhino that's been bulked up and with a kickass dozer blade.

I bet you like doritos too

It stacks then. But two squads of Reavers won't give you -2, I think.

It's very common to drybrush metallics. Oftentimes its done as a basecoat over a black undercoat but it works equally well as a highlight when don't lighter. You'll see Duncan do it all the time. In my experience the nature of applying metallic paint over metallic paint often hides the "dustiness" you normally see in drybrushing and makes the effect work even better than on normal colors.

And even so, the more important factor is how dense the detail on a model is. the Denser the detail, the more suitable it is for drybrushing and Custodes are packed. If you're not confident about your edge highlight you should give it a try.

he means the kharon acquisitor

>waagh where is my rhinobox GW

You know damn well what I'm talking about you dildo loving soulless freak.

feels bad that all the new art will never reach this level again.

>the bikes themselves are much cooler in the FW version.
STRONG disagree. Those look terrible.

>GOLDEN WAAAAAGH!!!

How are they expected to hit anything with the lance if it is barely longer than the end of the jetbike when put straight? Dumb gold toads

Bright yello chrome does not look like real gold, the FW ones look like old burnished gold that has withstood the ages and seen aeons. It looks antique which fits with the setting and makes them look distinguished and venerable.

It's for much the same reason I think the FW character looks like a wizened general and the GW character looks like a gay pornstar.

Oh, Sisters of Silence. Right, my bad.

its pronounced cus-tard

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They look slick, aerodynamic, phalic and powerful.
The GW version look overly busy (in a non ornate way), chunky and snub nosed.

NOPE

I wonder how expensive they'll be.

That's better. Also they must be monstrously swole and mechanically aided to withstand the impact forces upon hitting an armoured enemy at full frontal speed with the lance. Cool.

can't wait to get some of those

Convincing argument.

Probably $60 USD