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Turns out I'm fairly productive when stuck in my house for months. Got my Titan up to the point where he just needs weathering but I'm waiting on him getting some arms to do it all at once, finished two imperial knights and then did this lot:
Undecided on what to paint next, it's either three different battlewagons and two trukks or another 30 boyz. Swinging towards the vehicles for now.
Undecided on what to paint next, it's either three different battlewagons and two trukks or another 30 boyz. Swinging towards the vehicles for now.
looks greatTurns out I'm fairly productive when stuck in my house for months. Got my Titan up to the point where he just needs weathering but I'm waiting on him getting some arms to do it all at once, finished two imperial knights and then did this lot:
Undecided on what to paint next, it's either three different battlewagons and two trukks or another 30 boyz. Swinging towards the vehicles for now.
Cheers! Now to take a few days off, sort out the bomb site which is my painting area and crack on with some tanks.
Another 9th edition core stratagem:
Psychic Awakening: Pariah is up for pre-order this Saturday -
Planning to pick up the book and the Inquisitor here.
Planning to pick up the book and the Inquisitor here.
That seems like a positive change to the game. Painful enough to make surrounding an emery still worth doing but now it isn't a complete death sentence for shooty armies like the Tau and Guard to have their units surrounded. It makes my Poxwalkers a little less effective at tying up units but honestly the 'Cut them Down' tactics combined with 'Desperate Breakout' will probably do more damage to the trapped units then my pox ever would by themselves.
Another 9th edition core stratagem:
I wonder if this means normally you can't 'fall back' at all normally? Like how overwatch is no longer a normal ability..
The last line seems to suggest there is a standard 'fall back' move for other abilities to affect outside of this stratagem
this seems reserved for when you are completely surrounded and would not be able to normall fall back
That makes sense for it being 2 CP. An expensive emergency maneuver.
I feel Mechanicus was an odd choice to showcase this strategem. It would be more significant for something big like Knights getting trapped in assault rather than a Skitarri infantry unit.
I can't think of any situation I'd spend 2cp to save probably like 3 models in any infantry unit unless I really needed objective secure.
Max squads.
This is designed for gaurd and Tau gunlines imho
Yep. Pull out the guys, if they die they die. Then hit the targets with everything
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Honestly kind of bummed that the "every faction will get new stuff" in Psychic Awakening is getting past on a technicality because Ephrael Stern is a Sororita that can be taken by all Imperium armies it sounds like.
Was really kind of hoping they'd have a bit more varity in Adepta Sororitas with Pariah. Or at the very least give custom orders.
Was really kind of hoping they'd have a bit more varity in Adepta Sororitas with Pariah. Or at the very least give custom orders.
Queue outside Games Workshop reaches two meters
QUEUES outside branches of Games Workshop have reached the two-metre mark as pairs of desperate gamers wait to get inside.
Someone at the Daily Mash is clearly a GW fan because they quite frequently have articles about them that have more than a passing knowledge.
There's WH40K Easter egg in TLOU2. But it's fiction, because it clearly appears someone finished painting all their minis before the apocalypse.
I think that's because of when their codex was written. It doesn't need and update. Necrons are not really getting rules either - makes sense with their 9th edition codex around the corner
Yeah there's not much new for Necrons there, but I can understand why with the new codex coming so soon. They'd either be duplicating more rules content in both books, or Necron players would need to carry two books with them for their army through all of 9th edition.
So, as somebody looking to jump in to 40k hobby the first time, when are you people expecting the 9th edition to be released?
Will every faction get a codex in 9th edition? Looking into the Tau Empire and Chaos Space Marines (World Eaters), but don't want to buy the codex for these armies if their going to get a new codex and range of models soon.
Will every faction get a codex in 9th edition? Looking into the Tau Empire and Chaos Space Marines (World Eaters), but don't want to buy the codex for these armies if their going to get a new codex and range of models soon.
9th edition is expected to hit in July.
9th edition is designed so current codexes will work for basic faction rules and datasheets. But:
Factions will slowly get new codex due to new models, and/or new features in 9th edition.
Every faction will probably get a codex but it could take years.
The Psychic Awakening series was written with 9th edition in mind. It provides some updated rules and features for a number of factions that haven't been updated in a while.
I see. Thanks for that.
In that case I might jump straight in with the Necrons. They look call and they were my second favourite race in the original Dawn of War (right after the Tau Empire).
If you're going to go for Necrons, the new box set seems very good value. You could always pick it up and sell on the marines if you don't want them. Generally the army books are always worth picking up for whatever faction you have just for lore, art, painting guides etc. On the rare occasion that I've picked up an army book and it was replaced less than a year later, I've never felt like it was a waste of cash, as it usually saved me time in getting the force going and practice in on the tabletop.
Man why is everything they've released such a CHORE to read through?!
Thanks for the tip. Might treat myself to the Tau Empire codex this week!
I would be a bit cautious of starting off with Tau or Necron, as someone new to the game.
Tau do not have a psychic phase, and their combat phase is really limited. Necron have no psychic ic phase either.
To learn and get a feel of the game, it's a good idea to try a faction that properly experiences all parts of the game.
Thanks. So I take it Space Marines are a decent all rounder to start with? I take they're also getting a 9th edition codex in July?
I had to laugh.
Space Marines are the poster boys of 40k. You can be certain they will get EVERYTHING 9th edition will bring. That being said, I firmly believe you should start with whatever army looks the coolest to you. A simple start collecting box would do the trick.
yep. im worried.
im worried that 9th is gonna be word diarrhea salad to read.
It's the result of bubble game design. ( designed and writing rules in a bubble with your co workers) with taking little to no input from the normal people.
who upon looking at a "simple" rule cant understand it besides, why in the fuck is it 4 run on sentences.
I feel like the rules writers are trying to dodge potential rules lawyering abuses for tournament play, but it comes across as very wordy. Apparently they've been genuinely taking input from outside playtesters this time around. There's got to be a better way of laying it all out, and it wouldn't hurt to include the promised diagrams in the preview articles to help those of us who find the wording of the new rules confusing.
It'll be a great time to start Necrons with all those lovely new minis and a packed new codex!
ya, but by making solid measuring on terrain a thing for rules to fit it will get people gaming terrain.
"dense" should be applied to "forests, pillars and other like debris"
and the size of the "save" should be determined by the wounds on the model.
i.e. the more wounds, the bigger, and easier to hit.
