My latest game of #warhammer40k was insanely fun! Took another Ork Dread Mob list, with a Stompa, against Tyranids, and it ended on a perfect draw, 75 VP each.
What matters is that a Killa Kan exploded and took out a Pyrovore, which exploded and killed a Neurotyrant that was on 1HP, and then the Stompa with 1HP charged a Hive Tyrant, killed it, then the tyrant exploded in death, killing the Stompa, which exploded and thus killed my Mek, a Deff Dread, plus DeathLeaper, and a BroodLord. Awesome!
Fantastic game of #warhammer40k this afternoon! I won with my Orks, 71 to 56, against some nasty Salamanders, with the Dread Mob detachment (without a Stompa this time).
Awesome moments included me missing 10 shots hitting on 4+ with my Meka Dread, all my Meganobz and Big Mek dying to one round of Hellblaster shooting even with 4+ invulnerable saves, 2 vehicles also exploded, which is always fun, and my gretchin were massacred by a flyer in one volley, which is also always fun 😂
@thelinuxEXP I can understand that, they might get a little repeating quickly.
I recently started to eye the Tau. I don't know much about their lore but the models are really cool. Tho I should first finish my minis. :skull_cross:
Well, my #warhammer40k game didn’t go well, as I tried out a dumb Dread Mob list with a Stompa! Sisters of Battle wrecked the poor thing with multi meltas, and did the same to my Gorkanaut in the same turn.
Losing half my army in one turn left me struggling, we finished the game on 53 to 75. I drew horrendous secondaries that I could never score, and my poor Ork boyz got slaughtered by the Triumph of Saint Katherine. Still, insanely fun game, and the Stompa exploding caused a lot of damage!
@kopio@stallmer Yeah, I used to be very annoyed when I lost to one of my friends who always brings ultra competitive lists, and also plays really well, but nowadays I don’t care as much.
I won’t do secondary objectives that I don’t like or wouldn’t fit the narrative I want to build, and if it means I lose, I’m ok with it!
The last two Fellgor are done! My Kill Team is ready to wreak havoc. 😊
I like how the gradient on the shield turned out. And the colour of the cloth parts. And the psyker eyes.
I really enjoyed painting them and I learned a lot. Especially how I want to develop my own handwriting in miniature painting moving forward.
I played a #Warhammer40K game yesterday with my golden boys vs my friend’s Salamanders.
That was my first win in 4 games with the Custodes (admittedly, pre-Codex), the game ended after my turn 3 and before his, as he basically had no way of scoring anymore, and I had a 24 points lead, so he conceded. That was a fun game, I lost a ton of models, he did too, a slugging match!
No weird secondaries to handle, just a good, fun game for a change!
Shame all the Custodes saves are getting removed in the codex, it meant they could really just sit there and hold an important objective. My mate is a little upset about it but I'm sure it will get balanced or the strategies of play will have to change.
@joshfowler Yeah, I’ll wait until we get the real points to make a judgement, but what seems annoying is the lack of replayability / flavor in the detachments.
I already got the AdMech codex to deal with, it’s insanely underpowered, but at least there is some flavor and some fluff to play with: you know you’re not going to do anything, but it’s fun! I hope it will be the same for Custodes :)
I also play Orks, so at least I’ll have that to fall back on 😂
The more I play #Warhammer40K 10th edition, the more I think the game system is disappointing. I just find the « rule stacking » that is encouraged in this edition to be illegible when fighting your opponent.
Each unit has a special rule, their attached characters have special rules on top, your army and detachment add extra rules, and stratagems give even more variance.
Played in a doubles 40K tournament yesterday. It was fun, but a long day. I played my Imperial Guard and my teammate played Custodes. I was the Artillery support for his objective taking monsters.
Irgendwie habe ich heute erstaunlich gute Laune und dachte mir, dass ich doch einfach mal die Skizze umsetzen kann, die ich vor zwei Tagen wiedergefunden habe.
Hier also der kleine DreadDog und mir fällt auch wieder ein, wieso ich den damals überhaupt gezeichnet habe! Und zwar war das, weil mir aufgefallen ist, wie süß die Dreadnoughts in Dawn of War 2 aussehen (so klein und rund) 😶 Deswegen auch die Farbgebung.
First time painting Chaos Space Marines and it turned out better than I expected. I just can't seem to keep a steady hand when painting the edges and armour trim.
Edit: Still a work in progress, but still quite proud of this 🫰
Nothing better than to paint a bunch of #warhammer40k minis after finishing a video!
I do hate myself for painting my Custodes as the Solar Watch instead of just spray painting them gold and calling it a day. Hitting all these small details and arabesques on their armor with very liquid gold paint is pretty nerve racking.
I bought the first of the #CiaphasCain books on audiobook and as a relative newbie to #Warhammer40k I like that it gives more of a ground level look at the world.
It's also funny to me that chuds in the 40k fandom I have encountered through the genral tabletop community are very "No girls allowed" but the main unit in these books is a mixed gender unit.
I'm still new to the #Warhammer40k setting but it seems obvious that being "good" isn't really an option in that world, so Rogue Trader penalizing that path feels narratively consistent; a key feature rather than a design flaw. (I think Inquisitor Martyr handled it pretty well, too.)
I find #Shadowrun similarly challenging, though not quite as extreme, thanks to runners being mercenaries for hire. It's also what makes #SubversionRPG an interesting alternative.
@glecharles Yeah, the alignment of characters in Shadowrun is basically "complicated evil". :) They hate the corpos, but work for them, but get betrayed, but will still work for them, while trying to understand what the corpos really want to do, and then reselling the information to other corpos, while at the same time saving the day by preventing them to do what they want. One foot mercenary, one foot anarchist.
You still can play good guys in the lore, there is something for that : the hooders (from "robin hood"), mercenaries for good causes. There are even documented groups that may act as their patrons. But yeah, never did that, part of the cyberpunk genre for me is "good guys lost, time to deal with the consequences". It's survival but in high-tech world.
40k, I tried to get into the lore through a few videogames (haven't tried Rogue Trader), it was… too heavy for me. 😅 I just felt oppressed.
Happy Slaaneshmas 40k fans! This Holiday season I've been working on a mini-pack of Moirax-pattern War Dogs. These are held together with blu-tac right now, but I'm happy with the results. I need to use clay to smooth out the basing but they're ready to prime when the weather cooperates.
experimenting with some #warhammer40k#Tyranid color schemes. i like the colors on the right model, but i think the middle one is more visually appealing.
Haven't posted anything in a bit, because I was taking a break to keep from burning out while brainstorming what to do with the Cerastus Castigator. I wanted it to be Khorne-themed but the Tempest Blade just didn't work for that IMHO... then it clicked, smash-axe!
Is it at this point still feasible for someone to start learning about and understanding #Warhammer40k in a reasonable time frame?
Would it be on brand to play Rogue Trader or Dark Heresy in some custom fringe corner of the galaxy where the locals are doing there own thing, without covering the ongoing conflicts from the stories of famous heroes? Or would that be missing the whole point of why people are into 40k?
@Yora 40K is one of the most flexible universes. You get to decide everything from technological levels to whether they even know what a space marine is. There’s so much that the canon hints to that is not defined at all.
More progress on the Nurgle Knight Tyrant! I won't finish it completely tonight, but he will be far enough along to attend Tanksgiving tomorrow at the local GW. Still to do: trim on the upper carapace; gun housing stuff; so, so much oozy goo; and hide more Nurglings around the frame!
