Two Threads Ruined for the Greater Good Edition
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>>46237242
>Two Threads Ruined for the Greater Good Edition
Going for Three, gue'la? Because I'll fucking one-shot you with me plasma gun, I swear on me Ethereal.
>>46237242
To avoid the madness of the last thread let's all think of something positive. Like a game called Sister of Battle Stimulator/Simulator.
I feel like getting back into 40k, should I convert all my old guardsmen to Chaos? Used to play Iron Warriors, Inquisition and Tyranids but my nids got destroyed (literally, RIP)
Have some chaos.
>>46237311
>should I convert all my old guardsmen to Chaos?
nah play guard
>>46237312
>reads filename
>Still a post about Tau
why do tau have forehead pussys? is it because they are a poorly written faction thats been shoehorned into the game to try to capitalize on weeb gundam fandom 10 years ago?
>>46237309
Why is his bonding knife looking like a pair of bonding chopsticks?
>>46237352
Could you not? Are (You)s worth it to you that much?
>>46237352
It's to remind Marine players of what they'll never get just before they are 360 noscoped
Nothing personnel... Gue'la...
>>46237334
>>46237312
I bet Michael Tau's a fucking cunt.
>9 wound GUO
Thank you for bringing this to light, /tg/
>>46237370
>it's okay for Taufags to shit up a thread but not everyone else
Have a taste of your own medicine. If you faggots are going to shit up threads then blame Imperials or whoever, then I support this guy's admittedly poor quality shitposting.
best jetbike model coming through.
>>46237408
I didn't even do anything in the last thread. I was >>46236967
For one general is possible for everyone here to act like reasonable human beings?
>>46237462
In the grim darkness of the far future, there is onlyshitposting
>>46237455I thought I was the only one.pic related. My friend has started painting my Necrons as he is learning to paint and I thought it turned out decent
>>46237462
>For one general is possible for everyone here to act like reasonable human beings?
tau players are subhuman, so i wouldnt get your hopes up.
Cleansing every last faggot from any faction in here and starting over.
PURGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>46237507
>GK
>tumblr
>>46237485
But why? Is every two out of three planets in the galaxy space Australia?
>>46237462
>For one general is possible for everyone here to act like reasonable human beings?
Where do you think you are?
>>46237496
You're the same guy who posts the Minnesota Vikings Ravenwing, right?
Your friend is painting your necrons, not his own?
>>46237462
This is why generals are a stupid idea anyway. This isn't /vg/. If fucking quest threads aren't quarantined to their own board, 40k threads sure as hell shouldn't be shoved into a single general on the board created explicitly to house 40k in addition to other games like M:tG and D&D.
>>46237507
He needs a word with his techmarine. Those cracks and gashes are unacceptable.
>>46237507
>posts Mary Sues that out Mary Sue the original Mary Sues
I'm impressed
>>46237516
*literally teleports behind you
*say goodnight heretic
*BLAM BLAM BLAM
>>46237531
Australia is basically a micro deathworld that was attached to Terra, when you think about it
>>46237539
The only benefit to generals is to have an easy place to shove all the dumb questions like where to find codex PDFs or whatever.
>>46237547
Were you describing your own post?
>>46237539
Well these threads better not become like /vg/. Having 40k threads end up devolving into flamewars, inside jokes between an inner circle of 24/7 posting autists, and no help for newfags, would suck.
>>46237547
I wish I could run all hammerheads.
>>46237562
drop bears are cunts m8
>>46237571
Questions like those shouldn't even be tolerated. If you can find it on Google you shouldn't waste peoples' time posting to ask for it on 4chan.
But of course newfags gonna newfag, and dumbasses gonna white knight people telling them to use google.
>>46237532
I'm an optimist.
>>46237562
>Australians were the vast majority of human colonists during the Dark Age of Technology
>>46237588
Say that to my face and see what happens, groundwalker.
>>46237592
Yes, but at least a general thread makes it more likely that they'll just get told to check the OP.
Imagine if there was no general, and instead every time someone wanted the book they made a new thread.
>>46237605
you forgot the apothecary.
>>46237605
SHOO SHOO SPOOKY SHOULDER GUN!
Rolled 4 (1d6)
>>46237605
Undestructablr GK fag save incoming!
>>46237585
Tau vehicle models are fucking sexy.
>>46237533
Yeah.
He just got his rulebook and stuff to start the game and is really interested in my Necrons that I am probably going to sell to him. He wanted to practice painting themand came up with the pseudo-Chicago Bears paint joband I gladly let him if it gets me another person to play with.
I have a full reclamation Legion (~50 warriors 2 monoliths 10 Lych then the minimals) the HQs for Orikan Star and an Annihilation Nexus. Really all he would need is a few transports and some wraiths.
Overlord to Obyron were his first to third model.
>>46237621
It'd push more quest threads off the board at least.
Rolled 2 (1d6)
>>46237605
Might as well do this before I yank out my contacts before I go to bed. God Emperor, I'm not going to be angry of disappointed with my results. Surprise me.
>>46237547
FOR THE EMPEROR!
>>46237462
We're in 40k, if anyone in this big fucked up universe showed the very least bit of reasonableness they'd be either dead or king of the fucking galaxy.
>>46237638
Wha... oh right. I keep forgetting there's a vehicle attached to that railgun.
Rolled 3 (1d6)
>>46237605
>>46237637
more like gay knights lollolo
hay loyalist fags im chillin on my battle barge in the eye of terror while u get merced by fish with legs lololololo
>>46237663
kek.
>>46237656
That one is my favorite, earthshakers are GOAT
>>46237644
>Overlord to Obyron were his first to third model.
>unfinished weapons
>sloppy glaze (or blue wash)
>no highlights
>Primer (or base) showing through everywhere
>paint all outside the lines
Why would you let him ruin a second model, yet alone third and fourth, if that overlord looks like trash?
>>46237605
>literally stretching the tau battle suit image to make him look bigger and better.
Talk about literally stretching the truth.
Tau fanboys should go die.
Rolled 5 (1d6)
>>46237675
Boy I will Mary sue your mutant ass back to the warp
Rolling to hit.
>>46237675
They already killed Slaanesh, they'll hunger for more Chaotic blood. They fap to guro hentai featuring dead Chaos Space Marines and daemons. They teach their young to violate the corpses of Chaos worshipers. Your battle barge and the Eye won't be safe forever.
Rolled 1 (1d6)
>>46237720
And to wound
>>46227790
>Black Legion
I get the logic behind compulsory VotLW, but isn't that why people hate the current Black Legion supplement? The Black Legion recruits from just about anything anyways. Drop making it mandatory and instead consider letting it give a small extra bonus perhaps?
>Word Bearers
Zealot already confers what is functionally the same thing as Fearless, making the benefit of from Mark of Undivided useless. Having one model with Zealot in a unit already grants the buff to the entire unit, making the cost of the Mark an expensive waste of points. Additionally, the only icon units with this mark could take (vengeance) already gives Fearless. I like the idea behind the Dark Councilor, but restricting them to Daemonology with only mastery level 1 seems a tad suicidal (especially since they aren't daemons and any doubles will cause perils). I think you need to step back and retool this Legion's rules in particular. The Word Bearers, fluff wise, make heavy use of cultists and daemons. I think their bonuses could be retooled to reflect that. Perhaps allowing Daemons to deep strike in safely within 6" of an Icon of Vengeance like >>46234908 suggested, or all cultists gaining fearless without needing a Dark Apostle present, or allowing Dark Councilors to only cause perils on two 6's when using Daemonology spells, or something to that effect? Possessed Marines as troops is another idea.
>Alpha Legion
Love it. Sabotage may be a tad bit too strong, but this is probably your most solid Legion.
>Iron Warriors
Havocs as troops needs to be changed. Perhaps allowing Havocs to take an extra heavy weapon instead? I also feel like you should emphasize their use of artillery (like allowing them to bring basilisks) and allow an additional heavy support to be brought if its obliterators.
>Night Lords
Solid
(Cont.)
>>46237741
FUG you get away this time scum.
>>46237741
your weapons are weak, loyalist scum LOLLOOLOLOL
Rolled 5 (1d6)
>>46237727
>yfw you're the Ultramarine on the left
Let's see if this goes different from the other then off to bed.
I'm not sure if I prefer this general over the Tau one.
>>46237763
Next time I will hammerhand and then bitch slap Dat bad booty
>tfw tau are so horribly written and out of place in the setting that its actually making me hate eldar less
stop that
>>46237715
This isn't WIP, and he's fine with it. Take it elsewhere.
I've been away from the hobby for a few weeks, but next month I should have more free time, and maybe my boss will let me request a day off since I haven't taken any days off this year.
Did anything major happen that I need to catch up on?
>>46237715
Because he is my friend and is genuinely enthused about the hobby?
They were boxed up as I prefer to play my RW and we have done a few skirmishes with them. He borrowed the codex and we are supposed to play a 1000pt game tomorrow or Saturday.
Also if he does start playing and ends up buying my Necrons then they are his problem regardless.
>>46237836
Model prices went up 5% across the board last week.
>>46237727
>>46227790 →
>>46237755
>World Eaters
I think you can simplify the rule by saying all units have Hatred: Psykers. I'm a little skeptical of Blood Overfloweth. Maybe lift the restriction on cultists and give them the option to sacrifice a unit of cultists in order to summon a new unit of Bloodletters within 6"? I'd also give Beserkers +1 attack because they currently suck.
>Emperor's Children
I'm fine with this
>Thousand Sons
Straight up make them immune to rolls of Chaos Spawn or taking them at all. Restrict them from taking Possessed Marines and allow them to take cultists (fluff wise Ahriman frequently goes from world to world founding cults). Free spell familiars, Preferred Enemy: Space Wolves, and Mastery 2 Aspiring Sorcerers are great.
>Death Guard
Change the name of the flamer to Bile Spewer and I can dig it.
I'm unfamiliar with the Red Corsairs or minor cults so I'll stop here.
>>46237871
doesn't look like they did? But even if they did, I've got my models for my current force already.
Still have a lot of modelling and painting to do before I can play
>>46237919
I madeyou look
>>46237969
meh, got to see some new (and not terribly interesting) dragon for sigmar at least. The price on that thing is silly.
>>46237785
>over nine thousand hours in Chaos Paint
OUR VICTORY IS ASSURED
tg, What made you choose the faction you play?
>>46238001
I play gk and chaos so I am fine with this lol.
>>46238068
>tg
Bitch stop shitting up both generals.
>>46237899
Complete fanwank
>>46238090
? I guess you don't play then
>>46238068
tau, because i watch chinese robot cartoons that are made for children, and because i have severe autism.
>>46238068
I choose tau because I suffer from crippling social retardation and love inserting foreign objects into my rectum while shitting myself and screaming like a howler monkey at my local hobby shop.
>>46238068
hammerheads
>>46238133
Don't talk shit about howler monkeys and anal play, you faggot.
>>46238068
i liked the look of necrons and loved the idea of 60 million year old killer robots coming online and pouring out of forgotton tombs.
>>46238186
Wow a legit answer. Good on you anon.
>>46238156
suck macaque
>>46238068
Orks because I love luck-based missions.
I play Goblins in BB for the same reason.
What I'd really like is a game that's a cross between The Last Stand and a tower defense using Imperial Guard.
You'd fight off waves of Nids, orks what have you and have to place Guard trenches, bunkers, heavy weapon teams. Then farther back have artillery and so on.
>>46238068
I chose Space Marines because I like the thought of big sweaty man getting physical with their enemies.
>>46237899
>>46238213
That's cool, never heard of someone liking orks cause of that.
>>46238068
gorgeous art, great fluff and the hipster cred of playing a faction everyone else forgets exists
The 5th and 6th """codicies""" are really testing my patience though
>>46238068
Tau and Necrons.
Tau because I dig their aesthetic and the whole idea of being space Communist weeaboos sounds good to me.
Necrons because Trazyn the Infinite. That was all I needed.
>>46238219
And I'd like a turn-based strategy game with online multiplayer that's as close to a faithful rendition of the tabletop game as possible or for GW to finally advance the fucking plot. But we both are never getting what we want.
>>46238068
I had a bunch of models from long ago and I always liked the idea of marines who choose to follow their own path
of course since then both the fluff and crunch has changed a lot. Now there are all sorts of special snowflake loyalist marines who do everything better and are more stylish with newer models, but you know, its the thought that counts.
>>46238254
I feel you anon. I really hope they get updated with tons of plastics to go around. Gw would be making a mistake if they didnt
>>46238259
I see lots of tau plus necron players. I wonder if this is why.
>>46238068
Guard. Because I don't need to be a special snowflake to win.
Heroes win battles in books and films. Armies do it all the time.
...that and I like the models.
>>46238237
jesus, even their art is edgelord af
>>46238068
WE because FUCK YOU, and lobotomized gladiators are cool.
IF because we have to build a wall and make terra great again. also prussia
>>46238254
That art is cool as fuck, but consider this: If you get an actual new codex now, Sisters art will look like the art in WZ Damocles and WZ Fenris.
>>46238276
What kind of models or chapter did you have anon.
>>46238068
Wanted a quicker and more aggressive army so when I settled on Loyalists and started reading about various chapters I quickly favored the Dark Angels.
Everyone spouts off about muh heresy memes but I prefer the Legion building aspect that isn't usually seen.
Sure everyone has successors but they don't do it like DA do.
Come the end time I hope that the Dark Angels unite under the banner of the First Legion and find themselves being the only ones who were ready for such a thing. They can go either way for all I care though I also prefer to thinkthat Lion was the Heretic and Luther the Loyalist, come at me.
>>46238306
I've reconciled myself with that fact long ago
Plastic sisters that don't cost $8 a model would more than outweigh the inevitably bad art and fluff
>>46238299
Tsundere Space Marine just wants senpai to notice her.
>>46238295
I like that arttitude. Guard are also cool cause of the underdog factor. If they manage to do something it's way more amazing than if a marine does it.
>>46238299
Good contrast. Must be fun to paint both of those and have them play very differently in style.
>>46238340
That's an interesting reason. You play a successor then or just the base dark angels?
>>46238363
>Good contrast. Must be fun to paint both of those and have them play very differently in style.
it should be, i just started the IF so they should be something different.
i had a handful of BT like 10 years ago as a kid so it should be cool to finally make 30k IF and do them justice.
>>46238340
>emo
Somebody misspelled "homo".
>>46238363
It also makes arguments for my stuff being OP a lot harder to make.
With one particular exception, Guard aren't good because they have some OP special snowflake unit you bring one of and it wrecks everything the enemy has.
No, they win because you brought workhorse tanks, well-trained men who follow orders, and lots and lots and lots of guns, and you used them all together like a proper commander.
>>46238447
That's also a good point. I haven't thought of guard in that way.
>>46238390
Yes I play a successor chapter.
Even for the campaign I am in I was lucky enough to be near another DA player so we RPd like some DND kids all up on the forum.
pic related is when my Ultramarine ally and I 2v1s CSM and I had to leave and then he couldn't handle the CSM by himself and got slaughtered.(even though we started with double the points and I took out a fair amount of shit before I had to go).
The picture is how some of the "fluffier(?)" players write their batreps.
No hard feels desu, we all knew my timeframe and tried to squish the game in. Karma is a bitch
>>46238310
chaos space marines
my more recent models have more in the flavor of renegade marine than chaos marine, in part because I like the narrative of these kinds of warbands and in part because I can get far nicer models to represent them.
My current force are outcasts from a unimportant chapter who've turned to piracy and recruited a sizeable human force to support themselves. Fluff wise, that sort of means most, if not all, of the marines in the warband are on the table every game. I pretend they don't lose as often as they actually do.
>>46238068
IG. In a galaxy with people who could easilyu be mistaken for tanks, their maniacle laughter fueled brothers, gundams, rapist elvs, wizard space elves, robot egyptian terminators, cocky uruk-hai, and locusts that eat entire planets I like the idea of the common man who fights without super powers. He fights for a home and family that he will never see again, for a god that has not been seen in ten thousand years, for a government that he -knows- values him less than the flashlight and cardboard box that he prays will protect him. The common man who dies by the billion. The common man who sleeps in the mud of a million worlds without the praise of the demi-god Marines. The common man who stares into the greatest and most unfathomable horrors in the galaxy and stands his ground. I play the IG because despite the terrible odds that are stacked against this common man HE WINS. You may breath fire, summon demons, move as fast as sound, and come back from the dead but in the end nothing in the galaxy can stand up to good old human intolerance backed by a sufficient number of guns.
>>46238068
I've always liked the Admech, so Cult Mechanicus+Skitarii was the obvious choice for me.
>>46238479
Guard are a VERY top-down army. With the exception of the tank commander unit, who's there mostly so you can have tanks without using a heavy support slot, and and ONE beatstick character, their HQ's are flimsy, sub-100 point units whose job is to sit in the back of the army telling everyone else what to do.
They don't flail about in the front of the army getting stuck in and yelling like an idiot. They stand right at the center of the army, where they're supposed to be, giving the men direction and confidence.
Guard is an army with no heroes. They do their job. That's it.
![hqdefault[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/dK5wtor.jpg "hqdefault[1].jpg")
>>46238556
The Emperor Protects, trooper. This is a guard thread now.
Fix bayonets!
>>46238068
Inquisition because I like the variety and being able to create a good story with any models.
>>46238556
truth be told the average guardsman, as much crap as they get on the tabletop, are actually amazing soldiers
Think about it. They can be marching around and still hit 50% of their shots. They can suffer the most horrifying losses and only fall back about a third of the time. They are tough enough to shrug off hits from small arms. Even the mighty bolter with is .75 caliber explosive shells or whatever will still fail to wound a guardsmen a third of the time.
>>46238613
>Guard is an army with no heroes
I disagree. Guard is an army full of unsung heroes.
>>46238068
Started out with Necrons way back in 3E. I'd been vaguely interested in 40k and then suddenly a kid at school had a Necron Codex, I read it and thought they were fucking cool. The plastic Warrior kits were impressive (this is back when GW were 'competing' with warped and miscast Tamiya kits and shitting all over them in terms of quality, so $50 felt like money well spent) and big square formations of the bastards looked great and protected you against Phase Out (not that anyone really figured out "pick on his Warriors" until well into 4th Ed).
Picked up Chaos when the infamous 3.5 codex came out. Not for OP builds, I was just getting envious of all the cool conversions, then suddenly there's this Codex of bad-guy Marines with ALL the options you could ever dream of. Infiltrating a 5-man squad with two plasmas was my favorite thing (I never went full ham with Havocs, Troops are cheap and disposable and that let me be brash with them).
>>46238528
Chaos was my first army too. They allow for a lot of creativity
>>46238556
That's pretty poetic. These guard players in here are making me want to buy some guardsmen...
>>46238570
Are you a fairly new player then? Admech really have some cool new units and models that I want to just paint
>>46238660
My nigga, though I only have a few to supplement my main force.
>>46238685
Yeah that's when I picked up chaos myself as my first army. That 3.5 dex was something else. It just felt so packed and dare I say chaotic in its very layout. It's like every time I read it I found something new or interesting I wanted to try. Now chaos feels like dinobots and I moved on.
I'd rather be playing Skaven. I chose Tau so that I could kitbash Skaven and Admech then call them an auxiliary.
>>46238068
Guard: One of the best Aesthetics and atmosphere in the entire setting. Lots of variety, you can have two squads from two different planets that look amazingly different, while space marines tend to just be color changes for the most part. And Humanity fuck yeah. STORMTROOPERS.
Eldar: Non-tabletop friend shilled them to me so I got over my Xeno hate and gave them a try, they ended up being pretty fun, and not all of the craftworlds were super snobby. Lots of options for pretty female models without breaking fluff, though can do this with Guard too and just mix out male and female units and ones you can't tell cause of helmets. Able to be more colorful with them without triggering my autism and just appreciate giving them absolutely flamboyant colors like prismatic boba-fett capes on each infantry unit and lots of glowy light effects painted onto the models and soul gems. Pretty good aesthetic of their own, but some units need heavy modifications to not be shit to me. Their psyker powers are fun too and not many armies top them in that area, and you just have to make sure you're not using shit like Telepathy in friendly games. So the army's really grown on me where I used to hate the faction with a passion with lots of cool units.
Tzeentch: Just as Keikaku, spam demons, RNG, colors, ability to go crazy on their art and modeling without worrying about hurting the lore too much. Sadly I probably won't ever actually play them just because they seem a little too much for my friends to want to play against so I don't think we'd have a good time. Maybe that'll change at some point and their codexes get updated and buffed a lot.
>>46237540
Your gash is unacceptable.
>>46238089So do I!
>>46238734
That's a pretty dope idea anon.
>>46238785
I don't know if anyone's ever told you this, but you've got good tastes and I don't mean that in choice of armies alone, but also the things you like about said armies.
>>46238821brother
>Dat Orky pirate song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHgu_fBlSjk
with all this talk of armies I may ask well speak again about the two concepts I've considered for a second army
>Inquisitor + Scions
I fear it would actually play too similar to my current army unless I use a lot of transports and larger squad sizes, which are not really what Scions do well at. Also even though I love inquisitors, modelling them and all their warband is rough. That said I've written a bit of a backstory for an inquisitor and have started converting one, regardless of whether I field them or not.
>Crash Dummy Tau
The general idea was to get just boxes of tau and a lot of drones, then paint them orange with black and white checkered patterns and lots of weathering. Maybe convert the ethereal a bit.
Narrative wise I have no idea about this army, but it would play extremely different and something about it is very appealing. I am actually a bit scared at how easy and inexpensive it is to assemble a frightening Tau list
I really like the Wraith models that the Eldar have and would like to consider them for a second army.
Are Wraiths really that cancerous? Will people really be that angry if they're used?
>>46239037
Just avoid Wraithguard and Wraithknights. Blades and Lords are both fine.
>>46238927
I can't tell what they're saying.
>>46239071
>15 Orks in a dead mans hold
>Lookin down da barrel of a gun
>Glancin at each ovah
Cant understand what they're saying at the end though
>>46239071
>>46239104
Speak of the devil I just found the longer version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VhNp8xkvJ0&annotation_id=16e8e20c-66f6-457d-a07e-2fd569b052e1&feature=iv&src_vid=ea1-N2J6SfU
>>46239104
>>46239128
yeah, it's just noise
just built a box of warriors and a box of immortals. my tomb world grows.
>>46239128
>>46239152
"Fifteen Orks on a dead man’s hulk,
Lookin’ down the barrel of a gun,
Gruntin’ to each other
through big, sharp teeth,
Sayin’ “This one’ll give us some fun”
Fourteen Orks on a humie’s ship,
Killin’ anything that isn’t green,
Gruntin’ to each other
through big, sharp teeth,
Sayin’ “Times be getting’ lean”
Thirteen Orks with the Captain’s chest,
Hopin’ to quench their greedy thirst,
Gruntin’ to each other
through big, sharp teeth
Sayin’ “I was da wun dat saw it first”
One lone Ork left to steal the loot,
Wishin’ it hadn’t turned out so,
Gruntin’ to itself
through big, sharp teeth
Sayin’ “I shoulda let the pilot go”
- Traditional shipmens’ song from the Cyclops Cluster"
>mfw I look in the comments
>>46238852
>I don't know if anyone's ever told you this, but you've got good tastes and I don't mean that in choice of armies alone, but also the things you like about said armies.
Wow, thanks anon.
>>46239128
>>46239168
Bloody hell, that's actually in english? Even for Orky english I thought it sounded more like Klingon.
>>46238068
Space wolves because I love the emphasis on characters and the rich history of the chapter. Also Bjorn is badassery incarnate. I also like the colour scheme and the chapter structure where each company is almost its own functioning chapter and how the packs progress to different roles based on how many members are left.
>>46238068
I choose oldcrons because of their look and mysterious fluff. Newcrons was, for me, like a kick in the gut.
Now I'm a Dark Eldar faggot, their 5th codex and renovation was simply amazing and I couldn't resist myself.
>>46239493
Distort, mouthfuls of wood splinters and asynchronous singing doesn't help.
>>46238068
Orks, because conversion are my thing and their models have personality.
Later a small Elder force because sometimes it's just more fun to succeed on 2+ and I did Aspect warriors.
>>46238068
Eldar cuz I'm a cunt who loves Swooping Hawks and I think the Fire Prism is one of the best models ever put out by GW.
Also a small bunch of Storm Troopers because I gave into the model hype and I've always had a thing for berets and lasers.
>>46238068
Dark eldar, mostly for the erection inducing models, and their fly down, balls out, no brakes playstyle
Why haven't Games Workshop replaced their designers with the Forge World guys?
>>46237719
It's the commander. It is a taller model.
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-EU/Tau-Empire-Commander-2015
I wouldn't imagine any Fire Caste lower ranked than a commander would be able to speak High or Low Gothic.
Like, there's no point in teaching some Shas'ui how to speak with Imperials when you have an entire caste designed for doing it.
Rolled 6 (1d6)
>>46237605
Purge the alien.
>>46240411
Choosing to learn the Gue'la language falls on choice of the individual Tau.
There are automated translators and water caste but expanding ones horizons for the Greater Good is always an option
>>46240432
Hmm, maybe it's just me, but if I was some up and coming Shas'ui or Shas'vre I'd spend more time studying Puretide's teachings, or reading up on the cracked imperial codex than learning their ugly, guttural language.
We are each a specific cog in the machine of the Empire. I would no more expect a rifle to act as a scalpel, then I would a Fire Warrior to design a waste management facility.
Put maybe you and I just come from different schools of Ethereal governance.
>>46240390
Actually that's the awful-quality-resin one they put out years ago
>>46240509
Aye, but they are the same scale.
I have said resin one, with some work, they are okay to repose.
Had no problem with warping.
Quick question, i'm playing my first ever game against my friend this afternoon, 600 points. He's fielding chaos sm and i'm fielding black templars, what the hell do i bring?
i'm thinking either:
hq: chaplain power armour + melta bombs 125
elites: Hammernators 225 pts
troops:
crusader squad: 1 sword brother with powersword and melta bombs, 4 initiates with boltgun + chainsword + 5 initiates with bolters.
crusader squad: 3 initiates with bolters, 1 with power axe and boltgun, 1 with plasma gun and chainsword
Thats 595 or 600 pts i think. Now, should i replace a crusader squad with a venerable dreadnought?
Much obliged and i apologise for the mess
mfw a full 35 man cultist horde with MoK and fucking 140 dice barely kill half a tac squad. implying more than 15 of them will actually even see combat anyway.
truly chaos is OPactually I know it's retarded to target MEQ in the first place and they do kill 23 GEQ but that's still not good for the points, let me have my shitpost fun
How cancerous does this look as a low points start?
>Farseer (singing spear & jetbike) - 120
>6 Jetbikes (2 shurikannons) - 122
>6 Jetbikes (2 shurikannons) - 122
>2 Vypers (2 starcannons) - 90
>2 Vypers (2 missile launchers) - 110
>1 Vyper (2x shurikannons) - 50
>2 Fire prism (2x holofields) - 280
>1 Night spinner - 100
>Total - 994
I know eldar have a reputation, and jetbike spam possibly more so, but I really like the models for vypers (my favourite mini in the game), jetbikes, and their grav tanks.
>>46240734
if I see those dorito ships one more motherfucking time
>>46237352
Why do Gue'la have penises for nasal vents?
>>46237633
pep
>>46240645
>needed to hit
>5+
Nope
>>46238068
Thousand Sons because I loved the idea of badass ten-thousand year old sorcerer lords escorted around by the zombie-golems made out of their dead kin.
Black Legion because you need some non-Rubrics to man vehicles and provide special/heavy weapons and assault.
Tzeentch Daemons because the rules started allowing me to ally them to my Thousand Sons and summon them.
>>46238068
initially I bought Dark Vengeance as a noob with zero perspective on how wargaming works and just saw "hey it has two armies", without realizing the idea that you pick a faction and make lists and that's your army and it's all this contained thing
then I realized that I really like CSM in theory because they have the best modelling/painting opportunities + dope lore, so I stuck with CSM even though I figured I'd go nids or orks which were my first fluff lovesand have been getting my shit pushed on at the tabletop for 4 years now, th-thanks
>>46241004
shit I'm retarded, but
>it kills 7 instead
oh yeah it's still terrible
Is there a way to make BA not shit in small 500-1000 point games? i'm playing in a pretty laid back meta, but was just wondering as their tac squads are so fucking beautiful.
>>46240641
Any help?
What caste fills the role of doctors among the Tau?
Since we're talking about it. What do you recommend for a Tau newcomer to buy for starting an army?
>>46241272
Earth probably. While many are menial builders, the bright ones become engineers and scientists, which is a similar path mentally to becoming a doctor.
>>46241280
Start Collecting! box is very solid. After that you'll probably want some pathfinders for markerlights, and maybe another box of fire warriors if you don't like squads of 6 (they don't really get shit done at that size).
>>46241280
This. Also, Pathfinders. You need to learn markerlights.
>>46241326
Is it legal to buy more than one?
>>46241272
Earth caste.
Tau society is split "evenly"
Ethereal Caste: Getting assasinated
Fire Caste: Shooting things
Air Caste: Flying things
Water Caste: Talking at people
Earth Caste: Everything else a space-faring civilization needs
>>46241357
No, if you do it GW will track you down and put your in buying two boxes prison.
>>46241363
>earth caste
>not from earth
>>46241363
>>46241272
Since the Ethereals seem to be the ones directing Tau's eugenic programs, I wonder if they are the ones with medical knowledge or just get the advice from the different Castes. They are like the glue that holds together all the castes.
>>46241422
They just give orders.
Earth caste do the actual work.
>>46241422
Etherals are pretty much classic nobility or clergy, telling the stupid lowborn soldiers and farmers how to to their job.
They in turn try to follow orders without losing their army, starting a famine or other disasters cause by following orders of inbred ivory tower elites.
Why is the Earth Caste so awesome?
So /tg/, what colour scheme are your army men and why did you choose that colour?
>>46241600
Did my Orks in the standard black scheme since it contrasted so well with their skin
>>46241511
that water world is so fucking stupid.
>>46241600
I'm going with blue, since I want my Tau to have a police-state feeling.
>>46241511
?
They didn't terraform those planets into those shapes
They just settle odd places - many are probably just space stations in wierd systems
>>46241600
my necrons are Sautekh. silver, green and gold
>>46241697
I agree, it should look more like Uranus.
>>46241708
They blew up the entire crust of the Crystal one.
>>46241600
Purple and yellow DA because I wanted something unique. Which they turned out to be and a lot of people like it.
>>46241600
My first army was by the book Dark Angels. Green Tacticals, Black Bikers, and Bone Terminators.
I got up to around ~2000pts before I sold them for Tyranids which are what I like to play (even though the last year I won all of two games).
They are painted Varying Shades of green (some dark others more electric for highlights) and black.
Unfortunately I haven't had a game since January because of life.
>>46241326
>$100
fuck you GW
>>46240734
Judging by the fact you decided on your own to contain the number of cannons (like the old editions) and include Vypers, which are indeed good models, you're surely better than most Eldar players.
>>46241511
From that water planet's description, it's literally a lava lantern
>>46241600
Tan camo, cause my buggies are LSV's
>>46241600
Blood Angels - red, duh
Death Guard - white
DKoK - field blue/russ grey
Knights - grey/brass
Nurgle Daemons - candy watermelon'd
HH Night Lords - blue with lightning
Im pretty traditional. Only out of the ordinary is my Nurgle army, because I wanted them 'bright' and cartoony. Came out perfect.
>>46241792
Like $85 tops off Ebay.
>>46241600
>men
misogynist shitlord
I've got white SoBs with red tabards because I felt like white really went well with their theme and red seemed like a natural colour to contrast it against. I also think a clean white looks impressive as fuck on the tabletop, so I really wanted to give it a go.I'm planning an army of Imperial Fists for the same reason
I've also got DKoK painted more or less the same way Forge World do them since it looks nice. I also wanted a darker base so I could have a go with weathering powders without fucking the base colours up too much.
>>46241936
I see no mentions of heating.
>>46241201
At 500-1000 a turn 1 drop pod with flamer + heavy flamer + power sword will probably be devastating to you opponent.
Death Company with jump packs is pretty nasty too. I run 12-15 of them in larger games, and they do work. Use a librarian with a jump pack and the DC can get pretty scary.
>>46241600
My stuff is all red/black/cream. Wyches are predominantly red, kabalites are predominantly black and haemonculi are creama rmour with red flayed skin elesh norn style.
So I'm thinking of going ahead and buying some SoB proxies from Raging Heroes.
What do you guys think of this, as far as an army list goes?
2x 5 Battle Sisters (Maybe go for a third or 4th here since the squad size is kind of small)
1x 5 Battle Sisters Command (Sororitas Command Squad)
1x 5 Davidians (Sisters Repentia)
1x Sister Ardanna (Canoness)
1x War Pulpit (Penitent Engine
1x Ascended Sister Erzebel (Living Saint)
1x 5 Icariates (Seraphims)
1x 5 Knights of the Chalice Command (Celestians)
2x Sister Trematta Field Resurectrix (Hospitaliar)
I don't really have much experience with the sister's but I've always wanted to get into them. Can someone who knows what they're talking about tip me off as to if any of their units aren't particularly good? I've heard retributors are kind of a waste compared to Exorcists
>>46242273
But they look awful. Why not do the conversion with those german spacetroopers with headswaps and bolters? Those at least look like SoBs rather than fetish dolls.
>>46242339
because that would be 1. more expensive and 2. only allow for basic squads
Plus I don't think they look awful at all
>>46242006
If you look around or post on Bartertown, anon can get 35% off and free shipping.
>tfw when this anon got the Skitarii starter, box of Sicarians, and the Tech Priest from the Tech Command split for under $100 with free shipping.
>>46241600
Grey knights with extra red stuff.
>>46242471
Oh and I picked it cause it looks cool and reds my favorite color
>>46241192
>>46240645
>Using Khorne cultists outside of KDK ever
>Bothering with a full 35 man blob
>Not just having 16 + a Lord with Axe of Khorne to do all the fighting work with his fearless meatshield
>Not running 8 man min squad for easy blood tithe points (especially with slaughtercult bonus)
>Or a 10+ objective camper
You can't completely fail to use cultists or play off their strengths and then complain they suck m8
>>46242273
>Only 1 Penitent engine
Fukn pleb
I haven't played 40k in almost 2 years. 7th and the Ork Codex broke me.
But, I want to go to an event in May. Mostly it's an excuse to drink with bros and throw dice so competition is out the window.
However, with how much shit GW churns out I have no fucking clue where the rules are for my army.
So, I ask /tg/, where the hell are the rules for Orks?
>>46242653
I can always get more later, they're the most expensive unit on the list by far, and I wanted to have enough cash to get a decent set of infantry. I'll have to buy exorcists later anyways, it looks like.
These threads usually.
>>46239128
Well GW just got more of my money. I was on the fence about buying it, but now I want nothing more than to ram some humies while screaming WAAAAGH and listening to celtic punk.
>>46242880
is that a serious question? The first link the the OP.
If you're talking about what books we have, The codex and the gaz supplement are almost everything for orks.
>>46242897
This thread is much better than the last.Please keep it that way..
I have a question concerning Detachments. I'm trying to make a Guard army, but does the entire Infantry Platoon count as 1 Troop choice in the Primary Detachment?
So if I, for example, take 5 Infantry Squads, 3 Heavy Weapons Squads, 3 Special Weapons Squads, and 1 Conscripts Squad, this would all count as 1 Troop slot in the PD, correct?
Any Necron players left here or is it all Tau VS Space Marines still?
I have a question about using the Lychguard effectivley.
My idea like most is to stick them as the bodyguard of my Overlord however I'm really unsure about putting them both in a Night Scythe since even at the best they won't be assaulting till turn 3, sometimes turn 5 if reserve rolls fuck me.
I feel like maybe it would be a better idea to just footslog them up the field, they are tanky enough.
Thoughts? Anyone had experience using the Lychguard?
noob question, I'm sorry
In a 1000 point army, what percentage of that should be used on troops, and what percentage should be used on upgrades/wargear?
>>46243198
There's a lot in the OP and it's not sorted by army. I know about the Codex, but didn't the Ghaz supplement just get redone? And is there anything in the myriad WD/campaign book that get released every month?
I just want to play with my dollies, not dig through books.
>>46243231
Correct
>>46243237
you can be a dick and use a lord, overlord, orikan the diviner and lychguard for a squad with 3+/3++ (lychguard)/4++ for characters, 4+ RP all rerolling 1 failed saves death star. Shit is cash and cheesy as fuck.
But yes, put them in a night scythe, they are too slow and everything important my just run away
>>46240487
Mirrorcodex is taboo if you're a citizen of the Tau Empire, since Farsight turned "traitor."
>>46243284
Rules-wise, there's no restriction on anything like that (unless you're playing 30k).
Generally, the amount you should spend on troops depends on your army, to be honest. Some have awful troops so shouldn't waste too many points on them, some have good troops units that it's worth building a decent percentage of the army out of. So, what army do you play/plan on playing?
I wouldn't go too mad on upgrades at 1000 points, you want a decent number of dudes on the field. Especially shitkicker melee HQs, they're normally too expensive at 1000 points.
>>46243442
I know there's no rule on it, I was just looking for best practices. I'm the SoB poster, my current roster looks like this with no upgrades
Most likely going to add an Exorcist as well
>>46240411
Tau education involves implanting didactic modules (microchips containing databases of factual information) into the brains of Tau infants and children, and these include language data. Therefore, almost all Tau can understand and speak languages they might be expected to encounter, including Imperial Gothic. However, while those modules can give information, they cannot impart actual skill, which still requires practice (Water Caste).
>>46241392
It's a translation, dingus.
>>46240411
Other Castes usually pretend to not understand Imperial Gothic with the hope that the Gue'la et their guard down and say something that the Water Caste could use later on.
>>46243316
The gaz supplement in the op never got updated, probably becase no one wants to pay for the same book with 2 more pages and the green tide removed. White dwarf has the looted wagon, the 2 sanctus reach books have a few formations but not many of them are good.
It's mostly just core codex for us. Some of the gaz formations are still good by themselves though. Bullyboyz plus blitz brigade is a meme army thats pretty good.
Also here's the looted wagon pdf
>>46241600
I just copied the badmoons from the ork codex, goffs with yellow helms and shoulders
>>46238068
Chaos: Saw the Dark Vengeance Chosen and loved the idea of highly detailed, customizable champions with their own histories and agendas reflected on armor.
Grey Knights: Loved terminators and the idea of a valiant few psychic guys sacrificing their humanity and personality to protect everyone else.
Skitarii: Spindly little metal men with lots of cool-looking guns and spider tanks were the faction I've been waiting for, didn't much care for the Cult Mechanicus guys.
>>46242351
They look like Sisters who work for Eldar.
>>46243653
How do you figure? I can maybe see that for the daughters of the crucible, who are wearing actual habits, but the regular troops look like power armor nuns to me
>>46243316
Also I have to whore out my personal favorite formation for orks, Mogroks boss boys in the red waagh. 3 big meks, 1 warboss, and a wierdboy. ally in a CAD led by a pain boy and that's a lot of awesome characters with a lot of flexibility. and outflanking a truck full of burnas or tankbustas will ruin a gunlines day.
It is like 500 point after upgrades though.
>>46241600
Dark red and silver detailing for my Chaos marine warband, yellow and red detailing for my Imperial Fists.
>>46243489
My feeling would be some rhinos/immolaters, and flamers/meltaguns, would go a long way. There's plenty of bolters in there, but not a lot else.
>>46243687
Their power armor is sleeker than anything in the Imperium, their helmets are practically pointy, and the wings look like futurey grav tech instead of archaic grav tech.
>>46243578
>>46243689
Much obliged. I know Orks are shitty, it's part of why I stopped playing, but I love the green bastards.
>>46243769
Yep, that's what I was planning on going for, just gotta buy some immolators.
>>46243781
Fair enough, but it's better than paying $80 for 10 sisters.
>>46243781
only the command squad has pointy helmets, the regular sisters have hoods
>>46243808
>Fair enough, but it's better than paying $80 for 10 sisters.
That's true for sure. With the hoods they're fine, but I'd still try to find some kitbash if you decide to go helmets or seraphims/saints.
>>46243689
>tfw using this to outflank an entire greentide
It was almost cheating against a blood angels army.
>>46243784
I think most of us ork players have a love hate relationship with our armys lol.
>don't visit /tg/ for one day
>read about the great shitpostening in earlier generals
>check it out
>Holy shit! All these imperial tears and impotent rage.
Never change /tg/, never change. I need these laughs to keep me going in this world.
>>46244123
>falling for Tau propaganda
Stay heretical gue'la scumyou're right tho, the blustering rage was pretty funny
>>46237400
>9 wound T10 GUO that basically casts rancid visitation on anything it hits
>>46244123
>great shitpostening
What's so great about it?
I just got some advancing infantry (Krieg) from chinaman on eBay. The last ones I got were this weird crumbly resin, these ones are like a brittle plastic.
>>46244278
Forgot pic
Rolled 3 (1d6)
>>46237605
Jokes on you, I have Raptors Tactics giving me SHROUDED. It's a 2+ cover save.
>>46244278
That's the joy of recasters, you never know what it's gonna be made of.
I once bought a pred and the two halves of the left of the side were completely different resins for some reason
>>46243494
What don't the Imperium do that?
>>46243578
Why the fuck is is Thirty *SEVEN* points?
WHAT THE FUCK.
>>46244002
We do.
We fucking love Orks.
We fucking hate everything else in Codex:Orks.
>>46244508
Trukk is 30 points
11 front and 11 side means +1 to armour facing is 3.5 points.
Ergo, 37 points.
