Horus Heresy General /hhg/

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Why does the Death Guard have the best color scheme and best dice?

Reposting my question from the tail end of last thread, if that's okay.
>Speaking of the space sharks, how heretical would a shattered legions combo of loyalist death guard (in dusk raider colours) and terran raven guard (in carochadon colours, although still with a raven emblem on their shoulder) be? Couldn't decide between dusk raiders and RG, then thought why not both, and figured those two scheme colours would look good alongside each other. (Would put all the dusk raiders in Mk III and all the RG in Mk VI to meet the "must be distinguishable" shattered legions rule.) Also would prevent me having to paint a load of marines in black.

>>48094612
I say it's heretical depending on how's it done.

>>48094563

See that's what I think of when I hear "paragon blade"

>>48094612
If you're going to make them carcharodons, give them the carcharodons symbol as well, anon. Don't be lazy.

>>48095067
But they wouldnt be space sharks yet, they'd be pale nomads/Terran RG, at most they'd be grey with maori tattoos all over their armor.

>>48095067
To be honest, the bit about them still using the RG emblem was actually an attempt to stay fluffy as I didn't think new chapters (with their own insignia) were really a thing at this point, instead becoming a thing after the siege of terra. Have I got that wrong?

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>>48095086
There's nothing saying that they wouldn't after becoming blackshields. And they were Space Sharks by early M32, so there's nothing saying that they weren't during the Heresy when Corax sent them away because he was racist towards Terrans.

>>48095116
Remember that the Space Sharks are exiled Terran remnants of one of the Raven Guard's chapters from before the Heresy. Also, legion chapters with their own icons are a thing, though they were worn on the shoulder opposite of the legion icon, or on one of the knees.

>>48094612
Sounds legit

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>>48095157
Pic also related, note the symbol on the Terminator's kneepad.

>>48094563
It's grittiness: the colour scheme in grittiness: the setting.

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Power axes or swords on my BA assault marines?

I'm leaning power axes because I think the other 16 guys can handle marines competently enough and the axes might be able to tip engagements with 2+ guys in my favour or take some with me instead of it being just a massacre.

>>48095234
Axes, model them as really big swords though, since Bangels love swords.

Local players keep playing 2+ armor heavy lists and bringing spartans. I introduced Medusas and outflanking Vanquishers. Oh and a Malcador Infernus.

I've been looking at SoH and been wanting to play them. What are your thoughts on their special units? Reavers seem OK and their termies look badass. Are the special characters worth fielding?

>>48094960
>>48095067
>>48095162
Cheers for the replies lads, nobody's called it complete bullshit as an idea as yet so I guess it should be okay. Will do a bit more reading on chapter/legion iconography and that.

At 1250 points, would you play against this list or call it bullshit?

Lehio Cybernetica, 1250/1250 points

== HQ ==
Anacharis Scoria (315)
+ Xanathite Abeyant

== TROOPS ==
Tech Thralls x15 (80)
Ritual of Pure Thought, Carapace

Tech Thralls x15 (80)
Ritual of Pure Thought, Carapace

Castellax x2 (260)
Targeters, Flamers, Frags

Castellax x2 (290)
Targeters, Darkfire Cannons, Frags

== FAST ATTACK ==
Vorax x3 (225)
Frags

Scoria joins the Vorax, everything runs forward and hopefully bodies into the enemy.

I don't want to be a shithead, I just really, REALLY want to convert a Scoria.

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Alright, I found ANOTHER set of rules for planets in 30/40k these being the warzone traits of 6th ed.

>>48095472
SoH were my first legion and I got to say, their special units are top notch. Kitted out reavers dominate the board. Always run 2 squads of 15 with jump packs. Give them power swords and watch them melt units

Lore masters: what period of the Horus Heresy does the Invasion of Paramar occur during? My understanding is within weeks after Isstvan V, lasting for a few more weeks after that. Mostly concerned with the Alpha Legion's activities and presence.

>>48095652
Happened right after the drop site massacre

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>>48095628
Some anon did this compilation a while ago.

>>48095628
Are those for the game or just general descriptions of the gamestore atmosphere?

>Corrosive Atmosphere
>cheetos dust fingers
>High Gravity
>bunch of fa/tg/uys
>Toxic Mist
>BO
>Warp Winds
>noxious farts
>Sub-Zero
>it's ironic, there's actually no AC
>Pall of Night
>store's open later than usual
>Radioactive Hot Zone
>someone ate chili
>Low Gravity
>unsupervised gamestore kid
>Psychich Dead Zone
>somebody forgot their codex
>Haunted Wastes
>nothing but MTG players
>Lifeblood Spores
>someone has a flu

>>48095701
I've had a game set on a ghost world, it was a bitch, but also hilarious since me and my opponent combined lost two squads and a rhino to the same objective.

>>48095812
>charm/charisma level of customers:
>Sub-Zero
ftfy

>>48095116
Yes and no. Chapters, companies, battalions, hell, even squads developed their own heraldry and history, any one of which may have ended up being used for a post-heresy chapter. It's not a perfect one for one, but you'll pretty much guaranteed to find heraldry representing every single second founding chapter represented in some part, somewhere among their parent legion.

>>48095418
You proud of yourself?

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>>48095628
Huh, I just realised that the rule section for lifeboom spores is gone.

>>48095234
The zog is with this?

>>48095392
Normally it would be axes no contest but I can't escape the feeling that I would be wasting the +1I from my RoW if I go with axes.

>>48095939
Alternate universe traitor-slaaneshi Bangel accosts a loyalist Iron Warrior.

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>>48095973
I didn't even see the Slaaneshi symbol.

>>48095652
Paramar was 673.006.M41.
Istvaan V bvegan was 566.006.M41.

>>48095930
>>48095628
>9/11
>image shows two towers
Oh you.

>Unstable Internment
>A Contemptor-Cortus must always make Sweeping Advances if it is able

>Without Remorse, Without Relent
>Models with Legiones Astartes (Blood Angels) must always make Sweeping Advances if they are able.

How many more examples of this are there? Is there ever a reason you wouldn't want to sweep? Should someone tell FW this isn't really a nerf?

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>>48096002
>M41
You're 10,000 years off.

>>48096044
Sorry, force of habit.

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>>48095930
What are those cards from?

>>48095418
I guess the counter to your army would be lots of blasts (muh phosphex) and several lightnings, or what is your AA game?
>>48095636
You could say Justaerin are...top knotch? :^)

>>48094563
>best dice
You may have missed some sets of dice.

Like, all of them.

>>48096041
Don't forget Word Bearers must also make sweeping advances as well!

>>48096078
You are forgiven.

>>48096136
>What are those cards from?
The rules are from 6th ed rulebook, some random guy made MtG card out of them for no reason.
Thanks for putting that image together, I was about to go through the HH books.

>>48096041
Word Eater Blood madness and Berzerker assault

30k maelstrom of war cards when

Id settle for a chart to roll on

>>48096137
Nah mate, the only other dice set that comes close is the Alpha Legion dice. All the other ones are pretty bad.

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>>48096449
What?

Sons of Horus and Emperor's Children are supreme sets.

>>48096283
They should release a deck of cities of death cards first, not sure why they havent.

>>48094563
>>48096137
>>48096449

AL dice are one of the best but you nignogs are crazy if you think the DG ones aren't classy as fuck, and I'm not even a DGfag. The minamlist ivory and snazzy pale green are great.

>>48096250
>>48096156
Is there any disadvantage to having to sweep? Surely if the enemy is already at the point where you choose to roll for sweep it's more beneficial to just kill them all?

>>48097718
You get shot next turn.

>>48097853
Wait, so after the initiative roll-off you could just say "you know what, nah, I'm not going to sweep, lets keep fighitng"?

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Trying out Tamiya clear

Also thinking about using metallic red for Bangels

Fuck me, Dreadnought drop pods are huge. Worth it when my Contemptor-Cortus strolls on out right into some enemy backfield, though.

>>48097894
>>48097853
No, because at this point the enemy has already failed their morale check and are attempting to flee. If you elect not to sweep the only thin that will happen is youll have a fleeing enemy on the table who can rally next turn.

>>48098008
It's a pain to transport, too, because no one makes Dreadnought pod sized foam.

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In the old MkV power armour description it says: "Where Mark 4 helmets, armoured plated and cabling were available these were often used." This would mean that it's possible to have suits of MkV armour with no exposed cabling on the limbs, no studs since there's no additional plating being added to inferior armour materials, and instead of the MkV helmet, it'd have a MkIV helmet. So basically a MkVII with MkV torso and MkIV helmet.

So, how little effort and dedication would this take?

>>48098083

Mk V is not just the official Mk V pattern you see on the models, it also refers to the mix and match combat repairs you see during the Heresy. They're saying sometimes they would grab a Mk IV helmet if they could find one, then combine it with inferior suit pieces that they had on hand. The Mk IV assault kits have torsos with no exposed cabling since the assault squads put an extra armor plate to cover the vital power cables on the chest.

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Guys, what would be spookier for you? Being a Legion serf and watching your legion of choose degrade into barbaric slaves to darkness, or being a civilian on Terra and watching all of the twisted minions of Chaos come down onto the homeworld of humanity and see just how far they've fallen? Also I did a thing.

>>48098083
>>48098166
If it doesn't have studs, especially Crotch studs, why would anyone call it "MkV"?

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>>48098062

Battle Foam does. You guys really need to stop buying from the cheaper foam companies just because it's cheaper. You get what you pay for.

>>48098194

Because the fluff for Mk V only says the studs are common because that's the best they had on hand? If you're making a Mk V but have good materials you can make a studless Mk V.

That's like saying why have Mk IV or II pieces on any suit other than Mk IV or II since they're so hard to manufacture.

>>48098180
>Traitor Legion of choice
Send me to the Frills.

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>>48098166
>Mk V is not just the official Mk V pattern you see on the models, it also refers to the mix and match combat repairs you see during the Heresy.

Under FW fluff, there's production and non-production MkV suits. And none of the MkV suits in FW books are "just cobbled together from bits and pieces." They all have a distinct MkV style to them, they just make some things differently or use some parts from other marks.

Production MkVs are the "ones you see on the models." Though which models, is the question. When you look at official MkV models, there's clear differences.

Pic related: Non-production MkVs.

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>>48098372
And pic related: Not MkVs.

>>48098372
>none of the MkV suits in FW books are "just cobbled together from bits and pieces
>they just make some things differently or use some parts from other marks
>posts image of cobbled together suits

wat

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>>48098218
What I'm saying is that studless MkV is like a bringing a Destroyer squad without a rad missile launcher. Sure, you could do that, but then what's the point of it?

>>48098474
Did you just miss >>48098397 which also features suits made from various parts and these are specifically not MkV suits? Or the fact that the non-production MkVs still contains a lot of the features found in the production MkV suits, just have some other bits on them?

I thought that was apparent, but I guess not.

>>48098520
Having something that's a bit different from the norm and still perfectly fluffy? We got decades of history on the Horus Heresy and various sources, pieces of art and models to draw inspiration from, and instead people go and buy the Official(c) Horus Heresy(tm) models from Forge World and paint them in the Official(r) Horus Heresy($) colours.

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>>48098520
That's a shuri-frank!

>>48098520

Aren't the studs inferior to actual armor plates? IIRC the studs are there to attach adhoc armor and to provide some extra protection. None of which is needed if you have actual properly fitted armor plating.

Studs and cables are the hallmark of Mk V though. I guess if you had the facilities to make properly armored suits you wouldn't be making Mk V.

>>48098664
Just because you have a Ferrari's engine and tires doesn't mean you can just make a Ferrari. Especially since you only have experience making Audis. You can make an Audi with a Ferrari engine and tires, but not a Ferrari.

The difference between a MkIV and V is not just the size of the cabling and quality of the armour material. The V used the solid plate design of the IV, but put older style systems into the suit, because most facilities were far more used to working with them and knew them. MkIV was a relatively new and advanced suit, so making it was more demanding.

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>>48098664
>I guess if you had the facilities to make properly armored suits you wouldn't be making Mk V.
Well, production MkV was meant to be "easier MkIV", wasn't it?
> IIRC the studs are there to attach adhoc armor and to provide some extra protection. None of which is needed if you have actual properly fitted armor plating.
Studs are an easy way of attaching extra armour, and there are occasions where you'll want extra protection even for already good armour. Like for the greaves or forward pauldron (left pauldron for right handed people). Or for the crotch.
>>48098372
>>48098397
Nice compilation. Would you happen to have the production MkV as well?

>>48098846
>Or for the crotch.
>posts EC

Oh you

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>>48098846
There's not much to them, really.

It was just something I put together after having a lot of discussion about the MkV and all the different sources. The modern fluff (the cards that came with the special edition SM codex) is not that different from the old RT era stuff. Some details have been omitted, but the general description of the armour and its history is the same.

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>>48098908
>Those crotch plates sure get worn down easily, right, frather astrotechnicus?
>You're wearing artificer armour, brother sergeant. That's 70% unaltered adamantium by weight.
>Such is war, brother. Such is war.

>>48098994
Yes, I remember. Thanks a lot, anon.

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Happy 4th HHG, Hope you all have fun blowing things up.

Why are rampagers the most useless unit in the game?
>Cost as much as vets
>No access to power weapons
>No furious charge
>They can take jump packs if you want to spend 30 points for a WS 4 dude with a jump pack and chainaxe
>They can buy caedere weapons which cost as much as power weapons for vets but are objectively worse
>They get a 6+ FnP
>They have scouts which would be cool but you can't scout and charge on the first turn

I mean I'm not asking for anything OP or even good but I want SOME reason to take them. Give them rampage (they are called rampagers), give them furious charge, make them WS 5, give them hatred, give them preferred enemy in challenges, let them charge turn 1 if they scout. Any of those would at least be a reason even if several of them aren't good reasons.

>>48099554
>Posts the American Legion.
Nice.

Wait, it's already Freedom Day where you are? Huh.

>>48099597
Everything you've said is true, but I really wonder why they get Scout in the first place.

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>tfw Death Guard's special units and color scheme seem awesome.
>Don't really like Morty or Typhon as characters lore-wise. Fine with them statwise.
>Did I mention that I love their colorscheme?

>Iron Warriors are pretty cool, hazard stripes look awesome.
>Special units seem pretty good, the beep-boops are cool too.
>Perty seems like a pretty cool guy.
>Don't really know much about their characters.
>They seem pretty cool all around.

>Word Bearers color scheme is nice, awesome after you factor in the runes and symbols and stuff. Still unsure between blue eyes and green eyes.
>Special units seem awesome, except the Mhara Gal, which has an awesome unit.
>Lorgat is probably my favorite primarch. Their special characters are cool too.
>I like their unique wargear too.

Y'know, from my points listed it seems like I should just go with Word Bearers, but I just feel indecisive. Especially since Death Guard have such a nice color scheme.

>>48099935
You listed three of the most popular legions around here so any choice won't diversify that much. I suggest Iron Warriors due to my personal bias in this situation. Torrent "Angel Extermiantus". It might endear you to them.

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>Buying two 5-man squads of terminators to go with two dreadclaws
>Armed all with power weapons except one spec wep and one chain fist

Should I put both those upgrades on one Terminator or spread them out a little? My instincts say spread em but I wanted some contrary opinions and experiences.

>>48095614
The moment you selected Scoria, I'd refuse to play you.

>>48100136
lol, you just shoot him. it's not hard.

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So I played with Ophion the other day. the opponent's Bangle Preator got shreked.

and then Ophion proceeded to get powerfisted by some low level veteran.

>>48098180
I see someone was all up on dat shark week

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>>48100124
I love that Terminator and it's all thanks to that one picture of him. Imagine all of the horror that one RS has seen. Pic related.
>>48100136
Scoria's just a Primarch but shorter, more tubes, and is more into beep boops than the others.

>>48100302
Did the Bangel have a Perdition Blade

>>48100335
He did. he was regularly putting 6 wounds onto our hero.

>>48100239

Alright, what in a 1250 point game would you bring that could kill Scoria?

I am very interested.

>>48100347
Can't keep a good Night Lord down

>>48100349
10 man plasma support squad.

damn near guaranteed one Gets Hot! death.

>>48099873
I assume the idea is that they are so aggressive that they go full leeroy jenkins and charge ahead of the main army.

>>48100364
He dies really fast to Instant death however.

also in one of the games I took him, a Necron command squad(?) and some wraiths swept him and his squad. it was a sad day.

>>48100371

At rapid fire range it's only doing around 2 wounds to Scoria. That's before the It Will Not Die.

And if you are in rapid fire range that squad will die next round.

>>48100434
Wait, how is Scoria surviving 20 plasma shots again?

send him two plasma squads?

>>48100451
>send him two plasma squads?
Why not seekers with combi-plasmas?
>20 BS 5 plasma gun shots that have preferred enemy

>>48100451

Well, he is toughness 6 with a 3+ invul and feel no pain. He's pretty damn hard to kill.

>>48100401
Well most people die quickly to instant death so I guess that can't be TOO much of a mark against him.

Also 40k doesn't count. Too bloated and OP.

>>48100469
might be cheaper too.

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Hey guys, does anybody have a painting guide (from yourselves or FW) on how to do the tac marines like this?

If it was all able to be done by brush work that would be optimal.

>>48100469

That could work if they can get close enough. Got to make sure you don't get sniped by the castellax.

>Phoenix Guard Champion kills a Praetor in a challenge
>Eidolon and entire palatine squad gets shreked by veterans after failing a charge
>Opponent then wipes out a squad of 17 tacticals by overruning them with 3 vets
>One 5man heavy flamer squad passes 45/48 armour saves (this one made me really fucking salty)

What a fucking game

>>48100532
drop pods?

I've been thinking of doing a orbital assault list actually. I think I'll try this set up in my next game. Lord knows I have the drop pods for it.

>>48100554
That could do it if you get behind the vorax so they aren't soaking the wounds.

Watch out for augur arrays and cyber ocularis though. Interceptor will ruin that.

>>48100538
I love watching games like that, not playing, watching, lol.

Once I saw a game of WE vs IF. In the same assault phase 4 IF vets charged ~20 WE tacs. All the vets except the sergeant died and the sergeant then swept the WE on his own.

Meanwhile on the other side of the board Polux got overwatched by a power fist kheres WE contemptor and died.

>>48100583
honestly though, even if I did get behind Scoria, he would just look out sir all the wounds.

I think if his whole retinue is gone and no primarchs get too close he should be easy to ignore. His multiple wounds don't spill over do they?

>>48100495

FW airbrushes everything.

>>48100495
>Blue eyes.

>>48100538
I fucking love Phoenix Guard just for hilarious initiative. Get some phoenix guard, a praetor, a champion and a chaplain (or two champions or a chaplain and a forge lord with rad grenades), charge anything that isn't a primarch or Sevatar and kill him and his unit before they even get a chance to swing. I've seen glorious Sigismund killed by Phoenix Guards before he even had a chance to swing his fancy sword.

What are the least and most played 30k legions?

What is the most fluffy non spartan way to get into CC with Death Guard? Options I can think of are bikes, jump packs or jet bikes.

>>48100822
Least played are Salamanders or White Scars.

>>48100822
Least Played are definitely Salamanders, though I don't understand why. Most played would be Iron Warriors, Alpha Legion, and likely Imperial Fists.

>>48100900
>Least Played are definitely Salamanders, though I don't understand why.
Salamanders are just really bland
LA rules
>Better flamers and better protected against flamers
>Immune to fear
>Slower than normal marines

Special units
>Special Weapon Squad with dual flamer/meltas as a heavy support choice
>WS 5 TH/SS terminators with 2 wounds

Special characters
>A very hard to kill WS 6 dreadnought
>A WS 6 chaplain with a cool hammer and eternal warrior
>A psychic chaplain who is hard to kill

Special Wargear
>Master craft stuff
>Storm shield
>Eternal warrior
>Can replace heavy bolters with heavy flamers or whatever

Honestly it feels very bland compared to the other legions. EC are all about being aggressive and getting the charge, world eaters spam attacks in CC, Word Bearers have super possessed, Iron Hands are effectively T 5 when being shot at, Blood Angels are effectively all strength 5, Death Guard are all about chemical weapons and shit, even Ultramarines copied the Iron Warriors' heavy weapon terminators. Salamanders just can take extra flamers, some chaplains, and some shit that 40k marines get. Nothing is really a game changer, not like EC wound resolution shenanigans, or better initiative on the charge or unkillable Iron Hands vehicles, or entire armies of super possessed like WB, or S 5 marines with assloads of attacks that can't score and kill themselves like WE.

>>48100822
>Non-spartan DG
>Fluffy

Why arent EC a more popular choice?

You would thing being the absolute best melee legion in the game would be a bigger draw

>>48101221
There's nothing absolutely incredible about them, sure, but who doesn't love flamers, best terminators, and seas of green?

HHgen, I'm putting together some plastic marines from B@C and I want to build a small support squad to ride in a rhino, jump out and blast people.

Plasma guns, flamers, meltas or should I try to scrounge bits to make volkite weapons?

>>48101317
But you can get flamers with any legion, every legion has access to special weapon squads where everyone gets a flamer, everyone has access to heavy weapon squads where you can give everyone a heavy flamer, and TH/SS terminators already exist in 40k, they aren't an interesting unit really compared to I6 AP 2 power spear terminators or super possessed or entire squads of terminators with heavy weapons.

>>48101319
I personally like volkie caliver squads for the wounding on a 2+ at long range.

>>48101303


They were never that popular but they weren't deprived like IH

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>>48101418
Hmm, then I'd have to figure out how to make some. I was thinking of cutting down some Necron weapons since they're high tech looking and I feel like it's a nice coincidence that flaying weapons happen to have been developed on Mars right?

Maybe start with a Necron disintegrator, cut out the whole middle section?

>>48101303
Gays hijacked their colors, shit characters, worst Chaos power. Noise Marines are only cool with guitars, all their other shit isn't that interesting. Some of their specialized models are alright but they're not all that different from typical 40k stuff with aquilas out the asshole.

No point in playing Fulgrim's bitch boys when you can play as any of the other traitor legions and be a kool cid.

>>48101221
I dont think it's fair to say that they are the blandest, that's a really subjective view point. Also there's a lot more to legions than just their rules. Lore and aesthetic also have to be taken into account and whether or not you think those things are cool or not are also very subjective.

I think the only reason Sallies are so scarce is that people who frequent /HHG/ just don't find them cool. Your post about finding them bland kind of supports this. I mean my HH group has about 7 players and the only repeat legion is the Salamanders.

>>48101527
Shit characters
>Initiative 7 with a thunder hammer is shit

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>>48100090
I torrent so you don't have to.

>>48101561
Talking general appeal you midget-enabling fuck, if you're playing 30k for the rules you're probably a terrible person.

Eidolon's a cunt, Lucius is a retard, Fulgrim lusts for incestuous relations with Ferrus' corpse, etc... isn't Tarvitz dead too? Even if he wasn't he was still just generic reasonable, which there are boatloads of in the rank and file elsewhere so he's not that special.

>>48101516
Just buy the fuckers off Forge World, save yourself the misery of trying to hack apart a pile of shitty Xenos weapons. Probably cheaper, too.

>>48101548
Except at the end of the day you are talking about a game. Playing salamanders isn't very different than just playing 40k salamanders. You can take some different vehicles, sternguard are BS 5, honour guard are WS 5, tactical and assault squads are 10-20 dudes and scouts can't be your mandatory troops. Ruleswise there just isn't much to be excited about, I guess their dreadnought character is cool and firedrakes are hard to kill but that's it.

>>48101303
They aren't the best melee legion, that goes to blood angels. Also EC seem pretty popular.

>>48101678
>if you're playing 30k for the rules you're probably a terrible person.

I thought the whole apeal of HH is it isnt an unbalanced clusterfuck like 40k

>>48101678
>Eidolon's a cunt, Lucius is a retard, Fulgrim lusts for incestuous relations with Ferrus' corpse, etc... isn't Tarvitz dead too? Even if he wasn't he was still just generic reasonable, which there are boatloads of in the rank and file elsewhere so he's not that special.
Yes, EC are dicks. That's the whole point.
>EC before the fall
Look how much better I am than you plebs, I bet you cry yourself to sleep every night wishing you could even polish my armour. Wait you mean you killed 45 Orks and I killed 44? Oh God my life is ruined, I'm worthless. Nobody talk to me, I'm going to write a sonnet to clear my mind.
>EC after the fall
Oh hey I heard you needed reinforcements so I came to help. You see that ridge that your men are on top of that is about to be overrun? I am calling a lance strike on that ridge so when the enemy takes it they won't have the high ground.

>>48101788
There's more than just the game. A lot of people like to collect and paint and a lot of people like to play to make stories.

>>48100495
Those Calth boxes were done by the GW studio fyi

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>>48101678
>isn't Tarvitz dead too?
More or less. We don't know his and Rylanor's final fates but it's for the best if they did die.
>>48101813
You see, Ivan, that's part of the appeal.

>>48101896
Sure, but most armies you see are probably armies collect to play and when you collect an army to play it theme matters quite a bit. I chose World Eaters even though I hate their colour scheme and suck at painting white because I liked the idea of an extremely bellicose legion all about a blunt headlong charge. If world eaters were instead 40k black templars in terms of rules I probably would have chosen another legion because it isn't an interesting thing to play compared to hordes of str 5 6+ FnP tactical marines with 101 attacks on the charge that causes 1 in 6 of them to die.

>>48101965
Well like I said it's all extremely subjective. And I posit to you that even though the armies you see are armies for playing that there are many armies you don't see much of especially on forums like this because the owners arent so much into the playing of the actual games.

>>48101813
It is LESS of an unbalanced clusterfuck.

If you want a 'balanced' game, scrap your entire collection and get into chess. There's no point in buying expensive resin models for the purpose of "balance" - you get people complaining about FW scale and power creep all the time, and I see 40k players regularly spam quad mortars and Fire Raptors too.

>>48101870
If you want to be a dick, you're prooobably a terrible person. By all means, you can enjoy the stories, but it takes a special kind of special to want to make paintings with your own feces. That's the kind of special EC represent, and that's why MOST people won't play them as they just can't identify with it. Same reason nobody plays Salamanders, blacks don't play this game and whites don't want to be black most of the time. :---)

Night, boys. For all of you WSfags waiting for your legions, here's a little present for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rmo3fKeveo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx8hrhBZJ98

>>48100495
That pic has blue eyes.

FW are they green or blue, please tell me!

>>48102005
>If you want to be a dick, you're prooobably a terrible person.
>Baw someone wants to have fun playing an obvious villain
Besides EC are tragic heroes, not in the modern "oh no he is good but bad things happen to him" sense but in the classical Greek sense where the hero is indeed heroic and competent but due to a single flaw they end up causing their own downfall. The EC were a damn good legion, the Blood Angels and Ultramarines both complemented them on doing their own jobs better than them at times, but they were perfections and damn proud of their perfectionism.

The best story about the EC in the FW books IMO is when an EC Lord Commander was trying to fight a war against some human empire. Some military aide realized that he would need reinforcements to end the war in a timely manner and called for the Blood Angels and Imperial Fists to send reinforcements. The EC commander still led the war, the Fists and Angels still followed his overarching strategy, and everyone kept commending him throughout the campaign and after for his competence. But the fact that he needed reinforcements and worse yet that he didn't even ask but had a third party make the request was such a huge stain on his honour that as soon as the war ended he left without bothering to attend the surrender ceremony of the conquered empire.

>>48102086
Weren't they described as being blue, but painted green for contrast?

Who cares though, I paint my IW with blue lenses because it makes them look cooler.

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>>48102086
No one knows. I've seen FW pics say green, this one is red, a couple of 40k art says green, but I keep hearing blue.

What is the best melee Legion so far in your opinion? What about best shooty Legion?

>>48101608
Anon, if you're still here can you post Word Bearers books? I've been wanting to read more about them and Lorgar, though I don't want to pay for FW books.

Also, question.
Is there any particular order to read the Horus Heresy books, or no? And are there any books that are recommended reads in the series/recommended reads in general?

>>48102242
Considering playing World Bearers as my first Legion. Nothing quite like Zealots.

>>48102127
>but painted green for contrast.
That annoys me more than it should. Especially since the pictures have green in the HH books as well.

>>48102135
This one's believable to me, since it's their Imperial Heralds color scheme.

>>48102235
EC and either Ultras or Bangels respectively

What legion has the most game-changing LA and rites/sire rules?

>>48102235
I don't know, but I'm going to guess either Word Bearers for melee and Iron Warriors for shooty.

Could be completely wrong though.

>>48102118
We're not talking about fun. We're talking about sinking significant money, time and effort into something, over a span of months or even years. It's a massive undertaking if you intend to do a good job and not just haphazardly slapping stuff together for kicks.

Most people will pick something they idealize, sympathize or identify with, or just plain think is cool. Why do you think so many neckbeard fucks with a drinking problem play fucking space wolves?

>>48102003
>And I posit to you that even though the armies you see are armies for playing that there are many armies you don't see much of especially on forums like this because the owners arent so much into the playing of the actual games.
That's essentially my point. For all we know salamanders could be one of the most popular armies, it is just that most people who own those armies don't actually play the game and simply collect the miniatures. I'll admit that when I started 30k I seriously considered Alpha Legion just so I could buy all the special units and use them in games with coils of the hydra. I still buy some special units (bought some palatines, phoenix guards, gal vorbak, and dark furies (fuck I love the sergeant's lightning claws)).

>>48102242
The first four books, and only those.

>>48102342
>We're not talking about fun.
We are talking about a game you mongoloid.

>Most people will pick something they idealize, sympathize or identify with, or just plain think is cool.
And glorious marines in fancy boroque armour who are obsessed with single combat, art, and perfectionism but end up falling into degenerate assholes due to their pride aren't something to be idealized, sympathized with, or cool?

If you want nice EC look at Saul, he was a marine who cared more about his duty than his pride.

>>48102235
EC and Fists

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>>48102242
Here's "The First Heretic". As for the order to read these in, no idea. We all know how this story ends, so I just bounce around in the timeline with whatever books interest me

>>48102343
I guess we kind of were saying the same thing then

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>>48102391
I was assuming we were but I am too angry to let a debate die unless I know I have gotten my point across.

>>48102390
Thanks anon! This and The Aurelian are the books I've been looking for!

>>48101608
Also, how is Angel Exterminatus? I'm starting to run out of room so I'd rather a second opinion before I download it.

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Do you think we'll ever get a Death Guard/Mortarion novel. Granted, there's not much they could do during the actual heresy, being stuck in the warp and later all plague marines, but I'm sure a pre heresy book could be done!

>>48102467
Anon who suggested it in the first place here. I liked it a lot. I think it added dimension to the Iron Warriors and Pert especially that wasn't exactly there before, like how "Betrayer," added depth and character to the World Eaters in a way that was still fluffy. What this book did for me was give me a newfound appreciation for Perturabo

>>48102491
Flight of the Eisenstein and Daemonology. Also BL has proven to be a bunch of slackers and have started a Primarch mini-series.

>>48102500
You've sold me. Now I just need The Aurelian and I'll have three books to keep me company while I should be doing things like assembling my models and studying my Russian.

>>48102491
That'd be nice, I'd think. I think that the Death Guard have the best color scheme, in my opinion. How long were they stuck in the warp, again? Surely they had time to fight in the heresy before then, right?

>>48102545
>That'd be nice, I'd think. I think that the Death Guard have the best color scheme, in my opinion. How long were they stuck in the warp, again? Surely they had time to fight in the heresy before then, right?
They didn't get stuck in the Warp until it was time for the main event for this party - The Siege of Terra.

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>>48102467
It's great in my opinion, showing the side of the Iron Warriors that isn't seen as much when just reading the outside sources. Great set pieces, awesome characters, giving us a look into the twisted characters of the 3rd legion, and doing the impossible in making Perturabo a likable character. Fabius Bile's in it, the Eye of Terror gets it's name, the Iron warriors play holographic 30K, and Fulgrim gets shot in the face. The quintessential parts of a good book.

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I love the Mechanicus.

>>48102235
Emperor's Children for melee. Fists, Iron Warriors, or maybe Alpha Legion if you like shooty.

>>48102235
Blood Angels followed by EC for melee, Fists and Iron Hands for shooting.

>>48102738

Hu-... Humanity... Fuck... fuck yeah...

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Just quickly knocked together a test scheme for DG. What does /hhg/ think? Toom much weathering? Too little? Bases will be burnt out cities hence the black ash on the boots and greaves.

>>48103235
>Mk.VII
Anon, plz. I could forgive you if they were test models, but my autism demands an apology.

Other than that, they look great! I feel like the green on the shoulders could be a bit darker, maybe? Sort of like in >>48094563

>>48103265

But they are test models, Anon. I wanted to nail down a scheme and method before buying a shitload of Mk II and III dudes.

>>48103235

Looks good. The white is a bit too brown but the choice of green is good. The paintjob itself is great but the white is just a bit too coffee stained. You can dial back the paint chipping if you want but it's only a little busy and not overpowering.

>>48103284
Oh, sorry anon!

Mind telling me what you did to paint them?

>>48103285
I think that the white's perfect in my opinion, they it might look better if dialed back a tiny bit, I'll agree. I feel like the chipping should be dialed back a little as well, but other than that they look great!

Mind telling me why you're going with DG? Lore, playstyle, or even just the color scheme that drew you to them?

>>48103307

Airbrushed VGA Bonewhite and VGA Dead White over a VGE Heavy Sienna base, then washed the thing with Gryphonne Sepia. Drybrushed VGC Bonewhite and VMC Offwhite over the top before sponging on some VGC Charred Brown and dusting the boots with Vallejo Pigments Carbon Black. Pads are the shitty remnants of my pot of Knarloc Green then washed Sepia. Metals are VMC Bronze with the same Sepia wash.

>>48103285

Cheers mate, I'll see if I can either thin the Sepia wash or push the highlights up with Dead White as well. I was worried I'd overdone the chipping but I think it's just on this side of too much. Not bad for an hour's work though.

>>48103354

Thanks Anon. I went with them for the lore and play style mostly. After reading Path of Heaven I thought My Dudes could be a small cadre that burns the shit out of neutral worlds to scare the others into siding with the Warmaster and also to draw out any Loyalists into a open fight. I love the idea of this Legion just marching their way across ruined hellscapes to get their job done. I'll be running the Reaping and go for mostly infantry and Dreads with some phosphex mortars for backup.

>>48103265
>>Mk.VII
Could be siege of terra era-ish loyalist DG. Every armour mark was present at some point in the heresy

>>48098062
KR does

>>48103452
Mk VIII was present during the heresy?

>>48103747
Towards the end yes, and intermittent prototypes showed up randomly iirc.

>>48103747
Near the very end, it started to show up at the Siege of Terra for sure, the IF at least definitely had more than a few suits by then.

>>48102118
>>48102382
I just want to say thank you for properly describing what's great about EC, but I'm afraid it falls on deaf ears when it comes to that sperg you're replying to.

What is the best use for Mutable Tactics for AL?

I assume Scout to just outflank fucking everything

>>48103235
I like them. How did you do the weathering on the lower legs? I've tried a few times fading the weathering up from the feet but it never looks great.

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>>48104082

I just used a drybrush to pile on some Carbon Black of pic related to their boots then worked it up. Pretty easy to do.

Are we ever getting Learnaen Terminators or are BaC Cataphractii with AL shoulders the best I can hope for.

Also I really hope they spice up the rules if they do a real model release. Theyre pretty bland as is.

>>48104593

Of course legion unique units are going to get a model.

>>48104593
10 more points than a regular cataphractii for +1WS and Stubborn

Im not really seeing how this is supposed to stand out at all in a legion that can take every fucking special unit in the game

>>48105016
>Im not really seeing how this is supposed to stand out

That just means they're the most Alpha Legion unit of them all.

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>>48105047
fuk u

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Arthuritas Daine, Champion of the IX legion
>I wish you good fortune in the wars to come... and now it begins.

>>48105246
This conversion is interesting in that the more I look at it the worse it gets

>>48105246
>>48105314

That pose

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=forahRNJzgA

>>48102491
quite sure a DG book about how Typhon orchestrated their fall to Nurgle is in the works

>>48103265
Christ. It's like when I made a long post about something and specifically said in the very first line "this isn't talking about that one thing we all hate" and the first response is "fuck that thing we hate and fuck you for trying to talk about it."

This is the sort of attention span that leads to people going on angry twitter rants and riling up the people to attack someone over nothing, purely because they read something wrong.

>>48095614
>>48100136
>>48100239
>>48100349
What does Scoria actually do at 1250?

He's walking. at best he scouts with the Vorax. There are no primarchs for him to beat, he's overkill on custom HQs, he doesn't deal with hordes so you can tarp it him. If he's locked in CC then he can't use rite of the beast, wasting much of his appeal. Punk his vorax and let him rot in a sacrificial blob.

>>48105016

Don't they also come with Volkites though, so really your only paying 3pts for stubborn and +1 WS, pretty good deal

plz stop 'BA best assault legion'
BA are NOT the best assault legion.

Pseudo +1 str and a sword only available to HQS.

use your fucking brain and do the math.

Alpha Legion Suzerains are best assault legion.

oh, sorry I mean EC are best assault legion.

Math is hard

>>48105801
I think once BA get their units/characters/Sanguinius they will edge out the top assault legion spot. Then again that's still like being the second best.

>>48105801

Who actually says that though. I think you just misread people saying "best assault cannon legion".

>>48105314
>>48105334
I'm sorry you guys dont like it. I was going for a rendition of this badass motherfucker.

>>48105853
>>48105246
I think it's just a bit too busy. I know BA are known for their bling, but the eye doesn't know where to settle on the model.

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>>48105853
Forgot my pic

>>48105941
Yeah I can feel that. I can always take away. At the moment I'm happy with where it is, honestly.

>>48105801

While there are certainly other legions that hit much harder then BAs, they don't have to rely on a gimmick to make their bonus work, like most of the other assault legions, its just +1 to wound on everything against everything forever

>>48105246
Whats going on with his left leg?

>>48106120
that's just it though, the bonus is shit. struggling to wound isn't an issue, EC are best because of combat resolution and sweeping, they're not reliant upon getting the charge.

>>48106377

The bonus isn't shit, an increase from wounding on 4s to wounding on 3s is pretty decent, but it lacks the dramatic potential of some of the abilities that the WE or EC have.

>>48102382
It's a hobby first, game second. You buy the models, work on the models, and then maybe play games with them. The two proceeding steps are required for the third. Without the funds for the first step or the ability to enjoy the second step, you will not be able to play.

The fall of the Emperor's Children is so hard that in many ways it doesn't really make all that much sense compared to the other traitors, and they're usually written as being thorough bastards rather than perfectionists. Saul was mentioned, but for every Saul or other sympathetic EC character most other legions have a dozen.

Except for, you know, the others legions nobody plays.

>>48103969
The question was never what made them great, but why people don't play them.

>>48103235
Little more definition in places would be good, but colors seem rock solid.

>>48103265
You know all he would really have to do is cut away the aquilas and purity seals and add some studs and he'd have instant MKV and none of y'all black hoes could say a damn thing about it.

Though personally I'd recommend 32mm bases.

Is there some general consensus on low points (up to 1500) mechanised infantry Ironwing Protocol? Sure, the Rite may provide some unused bonuses, but close range advantage looks like it may tip the balance.

>>48106670
So it's almost...balanced?

>>48102582
It's not good, it's amazing.

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>>48105960
Personally I would bring his legs a little closer together. The pose is actually pretty damn rad man. His right hand might need a slight rotate so his palm faces more towards his torso.

Try to make his hips a little narrower, and take pictures from another angle. I want to see more. The hair looks pretty neat by the way, can you give any close ups?

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Tell me about how your last game went.

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>>48105246
Daine?

>>48105246
What's with the EC symbol on his shoulder?

>>48108092
sanguinary guard shoulder pad?

>>48108092
Eagle wings are not exclusive to Emperor's Children. In fact, there's really not a whole lot of symbols across the legions that I would consider truly exclusive to a legion. The Palatine Aquila and the Hexagrammaton being two of them.

>>48107816

1500 points againts 40k IG. He brought a shadowsword.

Stomped his ass real good.

I get so fed up of fucktards saying this same shit over and over...

The EC do NOT use Eagles, or the imperial Eagle, such as you see on the imperial aquila, or on IF and Ultras.

The EC use the Palatine Aquila, which was the Emperor's personal heraldry and its a PHOENIX not an Eagle.

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>>48107683
Thought the model was giving the thumbs-up.

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>>48108360
I need more info.

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>>48108380
I just thought it was similar to pic related is all.

>>48108401
Sweet tits on the Man Emperor's mother it's real. Apparently track 7 is the most violent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUN7eRlka_U

>>48108401

Shadowsword nuked one of my venator tank destroyers turn one. The other one got stunned.

Second turn Pask and another leman russ died to castellax dark lance. I love double sixes for explode. He also found out that lasguns don't really work well on castellax.

Turn three the only surviving tank destroyer stripped 5 hull points off the shadowsword.

Turn 4 the shadowsword died to the tank destroyer. Some scion came in, did 2 wounds to a thanatar, and then received a plasma shot to the face.

It was over after that but we finished the game up.

The shadowsword missed entirely for three of its four shots that game.

>>48108538
>The shadowsword missed entirely for three of its four shots that game.
No wonder it died. The Machine Spirit needed to die.

To who does /hhg/ owe their allegiance?http://www.strawpoll.me/10663447

>>48105597
He's there to make people piss their pants at some imagined impotence of theirs to stop him from being meaningful.

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Quick! Make this 30k related!

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>>48107816
My Sicaran Venator finally penetrated a Superheavy. It almost felt unfair seeing my opponent's Fellblade become useless and die for most of the game.

But then his Dreadnought Deredeo decided to be the MVP and tear apart most of my army.

I kept shooting at it with my Vindicator Laser Destroyers but the dude had a 3+ cover due to rolling Master of Ruins on the strategic table.

It was my NL vs his BA

>>48110090

Leman Russ vs Magnus the Red.gif

>>48096000
>>48095973
>>48095939
>>48095234
Which alternate history is this one. I thought they fell to Nurgle in the Dorian Heresy?

>>48110090
Beareversor finds his target.

>>48110090
Something something alphbearius something.

>>48107027
>You buy the models
Which for the EC look amazing. Palatine Blades and Phoenix Guard look amazing in baroque armour painted in purple and gold, the colours of emperors. If you prefer a grittier legion that is understandable, but some people like the idea of a legion dressed in fancy armour to look glorious in battle and the EC do that better than any other legion.
>and then maybe play games with them.
And the EC have good and fun rules that match their legion. They are aggressive, they murder guys in CC quite possibly without a scratch and are only matched in challenges by the Imperial Fists. Their generic praetors are the 3rd or 4th best due to striking first and lowering enemy WS by 1.

>The fall of the Emperor's Children is so hard that in many ways it doesn't really make all that much sense compared to the other traitors
Look up the Praxil Compliance in book 1, it is the third battle the EC have mentioned in their section and perfectly illustrates the flaw of the EC. Lord Commander Iddinam was trying to conquer a powerful empire alone but needed reinforcements. After getting reinforcements he utterly stomped the empire but was so ashamed of needing aid that he left rather than accept accolades for what he had considered a defeat. The EC are the poster boys of pride, jokes directed at them are taken seriously, compliments are assumed to be veiled insults, congratulations for what they see as a failure burn horribly. When Iddinam was being praised for his successes to him it felt as though everyone was mocking him for needing reinforcements to succeed.

>>48110459
Wait, so how would you rank the generic praetors? I'm interested.

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>>48110459
Be fabulous or be dead, there is no other option.

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>>48110555
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I'm that same anon from a few weeks back who realized I never really was a NL fan and I was an IW player all along. Whats the story of you realizing your true legion? I'll go first.

After high school I went to school to be an engineer for a bit, but ran out of money and joined the Army to get the GI bill. It was around this time that I learned one of my biggest life lessons: I'm not special. I joined the Army during the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and was told every day that I was going to get deployed and die. At some later training I met with members of other legions... er branches of service and learned that the Air Force got a special quality of life allowance for having to live in sub-par conditions on Army bases, and I was constantly reminded by the glorious Marine Corps that the Army wasn't the first ones in, the best equipped or trained. Later after I got out, I got a job in manufacturing as a quality assurance tech. MFW none of my incompetent, lazy bosses know how to read a blueprint, let alone a metrology report. I now run the lab in all but name and get "adequate" employee reviews at best despite working about 20 hours of overtime a week.

I don't hate my job by any means, I like what I do, but if Horus asked me to turn traitor on the CEO of my company I'd definitely think about it.

>>48110508
DA, EC, BA, WE, and Salamanders all have a good combination of LA and equipment.

>>48110580
I'm distrustful of others, prideful, and dislike specialisation.

>>48107816
1500 points against Tyranids. Contemptor with dual Kheres, Sicaran, and Leviathan shot most of the army to shit. Terminators and Gal Vorbak cleaned up the rest.

>>48110459
You misunderstand me. There is nothing wrong with their models or your preferences. It just so happens that the aspects you mention simply do not hold broad appeal, hence why not many people play them. People like their gritty, reasonable soldiermen regardless of flavor, because in many cases it is a manly ideal, or their noble savages. The Emperor's Children deviate from that, and so are less favored.

>>48096606
Death guard get shit

>>48110814

>dual kheres contemptor, sicarian and leviathan

Next you are going to tell me you allied 10 myrmidon destructors with vulkie culverins against green tide.

>>48110508
1. Salamanders (3++ and eternal warrior makes them able to go toe to toe with Sigismund)
2. Blood Angels (double wound sword and wounding 1 better gives them either a str 6 paragon blade or effectively 12 str 5 AP 2 attacks, plus rite of war for better initiative on charge)
3. Emperor's Children (-1 to enemy WS combined with striking first (or at absolute worst the same time) gives them such a big edge that DA don't get a benefit, WE just make up for the WS loss, and Fists still have to survive to get their rerolls)
4. Iron Hands (3++ while being able to get extra attacks is simply too much for most legions to handle)
5. World Eaters (+1 WS and an extra attack if they charge is simply too much for many targets)
6. Fists or Dark Angels
7. Fists of Dark Angels

>>48111027
What makes Fists so good? They only get one reroll per phase.

>>48111088
Better than nothing, also they have access to storm shields. 6th or 7th place isn't very high and one reroll per phase helps them to some extent vs EC and World Eaters while Dark Angels gain no benefit against either of them. I can't think of any legion outside of those 7 that have any advantage in a challenge over other legions.

>>48111120
Alphas can get a cheap extra attack with a specialist weapon thanks to power daggers. Meh.

>>48111153
Well I assume we are working on pure fighting ability over any sort of cost efficiency. Sort of like if you put them all in a tournament with the best wargear you could to ensure they win (eg. jetbike, thunder hammer, master-crafted paragon blade, digital lasers, iron halo, stormshield or cyber familiar if they have the option, sonic shrieker, etc.) and their placing was their odds of winning the tournament.

>>48111120
But Dark Angels do get the benefit if they successfully hit with a stasis grenade or missile. They also have the ability to take rad grenades which, combined with -1 to WS and I, and Mastery of the Blade makes them deadly against stronger foes. Sure it's a bit too complicated to make it work in every situation, but you've dismissed them too early.

>>48110944
I just used the models I actually had. I'm still making my army.

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>>48107816
6k of alpha legion vs 3k of loyalist WE/allied knights led by Garro and 3k of mechanicus lead by "totally Not Scoria" (for narritive purposes, he was trying out the rules). The Glaive is a fun beast, Not-Scoria is an ass, and was also the only thing left alive for the loyalists at the end of the game. My vigilator managed first blood in the deployment phase against a WE contemptor, which is always a good sign of the game to come.

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>>48111362
Where did the mechadendrite touch you?

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How would you go about converting the emp's children models to reflect heresy era emp's kids with their jared leto mom's gonna freak slaaneshi perversion aesthetic

>>48111398
This was my introduction to scoria, I never rread his rules before, and I thought my praetor could kill him with a paragon blade. I was mistaken. As soon as combat ended he walked over and bad-touched my glaive, ending that too.

>>48111449

Ohhhh, you fucked up anon.

>>48111449
Yeah alright, the opponent should have explained him to you. That's like bringing Horus and leaving it at "he's just my HQ don't worry you'll figure it out as we play"

>>48111461
>>48111480
It's all good, Scoria spent most of the game babysitting a squad of Castellax that hung back cause my opponent didn't realize what he does either.

>>48111027
And if we allow relics?
>>48111088
You have that backwards, we re-roll all ones.

>>48111521

Did you bring Alpharius?

>>48111240
While I would give you rad grenades I would probably say no to stasis weapons because it is like letting each praetor take their own consuls as an escort so everyone now get zealot and -1 enemy toughness from a forgelord. While I will admit that the idea of an outright list is flawed due to the fact that just because legion A can defeat legion B doesn't mean it can defeat legion C even if B defeats C. However I think the overall standing is still more or less accurate, and illustrates the point that for the most part wargear>skill because 3++ saves and sonic shriekers make more of a difference than +1 WS or hitting ties on a 3+.

>>48111573
Nope. used my LoW on aforementioned Glaive

>>48111586
Preators can get stasis grenades through combi-grenade launchers

>>48111522
>And if we allow relics?
I doubt relics change much. Photonic blade isn't much better than a paragon blade and is worse than a perdition sword, shield mocker and EC sword are both AP 3. I suppose the single automatic 6 is good for EC because it gives them a better chance of IDing anyone that isn't salamanders but besides that I can't think of a good melee combo.

>>48111671
Nanyte Blaster on everyone for some extra ranged AP2 fleshbane.

Rumours say it is indeed BaC individual kits this week. (From Atia, so probably reliable.)
>Space Marines Heroes: 39 €
>Mark IV Space Marines: 39 €
>Cataphractii Terminators: 52 €
>Contemptor Dreadnought: 46 €
That price for the monopose dreadnought is hilarious.

>>48111027
What about Word Bearers? Making the Praetor a Psyker and the WB LA rules seem pretty good?

Plz no bully, am new.

>>48111522
>>48111586
Looks like I got it wrong, the Fists indeed reroll ones.
Why not the stasis weapons though? It is standard equipment. True, guys like EC are much cheaper while having the same potential, but different armies have differemt playstyles and loadouts, and the EC still has to get off the charge.

>>48111664
Fair enough, although it requires that you shoot them and then charge in the same turn which isn't always possible which is why I mentioned that it simply depends on too many factors. DA might be higher than I suspected but honestly I doubt I would place them too much higher. But whatever, the whole point that led to this was EC are good at challenges which still stands.

>>48111778
Wait, how much do you lose over buying all those instead of buying BaC? I can't into foreign currencies.

>>48111869
B@C is 125 € so you lose A TON of money, easily 100 €.

>>48111671
Idominatan mantle gives the IF EW.

>>48111869
BaC is €125. Everything separately is €254. BaC is basically half price.

>>48111778
Kek, looks like I'll just buy from FW in the future.

>>48111778
>Mark IV Space Marines: 39 €

That's fucking Leman Russ money! I'll wait for confirmation and if it's true, I'm buying two MkIV sets on eBay as soon as I can. Then I got all MkIVs I need. Then all I need is MkIIIs.

>>48111778

Don't you fucking jinx it.

I want to believe.

>>48111770
That doesn't help with challenges.

>>48110724
>dislike specialisation.
Why?

>>48111778
Will this mean the death of BaC?

>>48112274
Too limiting for a normal human lifespan, I enjoy many things.

>>48111778
Those fucking prices, holy fuck

GW thinks their shitty plastics are worth FW money

People only loved Calth because it was a CHEAP way to get into HH

>>48112323
Yes, now lets wait for the new HH box.

>>48111778
Makes sense since these roughly line up with the prices of the 40k equivalent in the US at least.

Unless they changed up the Contemptor, no one is going to be retarded enough to spend $46 for a monopose snap-fit tier generic dreadnought when they can spend ~$20 more and get a infinitely better FW contemptor from the chapter of their choice with weapons.

I am only interested in seeing what transfer sheet they include with the tacticals.

>>48111362
I always say I only buy models I intend to play, but the Glaive is so damn cool I might have to make an exception.

Or just use the damn thing, it's rules are awesome, too.

>>48111778
>tfw no money
I need to buy BaC now.

Might as well post my World Eaters "drown them in corpses" list
3500 Points, the crimson path

Gahlan Surlak: 110 Points
Forge Lord: 100 Points
>Rad Grenades
Praetor: 200 Points
>Iron Halo, Master-Crafted Paragon Blade, Falax Swords, digital lasers, meltabombs

3x20 Inductii: 250 Points
>Replace bolters with chainaxes

3 Apothecaries: 135 Points
6xContemptor cortus dreadnoughts: 870 Points
>Replace Heavy Bolter with Chainfist
10 Red Butchers: 510 Points
>Extra power axes, devoured gets a pair of power fists

3x Leviathan Siege Dreadnoughts: 825 Points
>Leviathan Siege Drills

Not a complex strategy, everyone charge headlong into the enemy and rips it apart. I figure between 60 inductii, 10 butchers, and nine melee dreadnoughts I should be able to clear the battlefield of anything that isn't a flyer, which is good because nothing in my army can score. And before you ask, no this isn't my usual list, my usual list has some scoring units.

>>48112589

While certainly thematic its not great, I'd drop a dread or two (of any kind) and get some drop pods for your leviathans, and look into at the very least getting a landraider, if not a spartan for your Lord+Forgelord

>>48112737
My thoughts were that between nine dreads and 70 marines (all of them with 5+ or 4+ FnP that improves by 1 when in the enemy deployment zone), 10 of which are 2 wound cataphractii my opponent would be extremely hard pressed to kill them especially since my entire army is going to be running every turn until they get into charge range. But yeah dropping some dreads for drop pods may be in my best interests.

>>48112737
Theme isn't everything.

>>48112775
Transports are always in your best interest.

>>48112589
You need dreadclaws and drop pods, at 3500pts two Typhons will fuck you up and rape your remains, hell two baneblades will fuck your ass up like a cheap whore.

Wanting to build a fluffy Iron Warriors list, with fortifications and emplacements. Heavy Artillery ect.

>>48112589
Do you think you might get a better result using berserk assault?

How are Headhunter kill teams in practice?

Poor-mans bladestorm seems cool but not exactly reliable

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>>48111425
PLS REPSOND

>>48113192


>poor mans bladestorm

Wait what, did they get FAQ'd?

>>48112775
Keep in mind Red Butchers, being in Cataphractii, are unable to run.

>>48113805
Honestly you might be best off replacing them with normal tartaros terminators. Much easier to kill and fewer attacks with worse WS but they can get into CC easier and might save enough points for you to buy some transports.

>>48113831
Don't get me wrong, Butchers are great, they just really need a dreadclaw.

>>48113065
My thoughts were that berserker assault would make my forces too easy to kill and prevent me from getting rad grenades to wound on a 2+ (only one consul and I need Surlak for inductii). Plus the red butchers already have hatred.

>>48113909
I mean yeah but any transport they take, kharybdis included costs almost as much as the unit to take. For something with relatively little offensive abilities it is a pretty big price to pay.

>>48111362
Shit man ibwish I had players like you around where I live. I have 6k worth of IF and 3k worth of SoH. Never get to field over 1.5k

>>48113805
>You stupid fucks have one job: you run towards the nearest shithead who's not painted in white and fuck em up
>Hurr durr wot's running

Can we get a setting where the Great Crusade is executed effectively with the threat of Chaos kept in mind?

>>48114040
That order must have been hell to give once they started their transition to being red

>>48114100
Sure

>Horus doesnt fall
>Mortarion/Angron/Lorgar/Curze rebel separately and are culled one by one, their loyalist legionnaires inherit the legions
>Crusade continues onto Commorragh/Webway.

>>48107114
DA RoWs are best used for high points games. +1 to wound on low strength weaponry is going to be hard to take advantage of while adhering to the restrictions and also remaining under the 1500 points limit. Plus at such a low points level you'll be wasting half the RoW since you won't have enough spare points to invest in things that earn bonuses. Better to just run another RoW, either Armoured Spearhead if you want to focus more on the tank side of things or Pride of the Legion if you want to focus on the infantry side of things while still allowing tanks.

>>48114101
>Okay, today we're fighting the White Scars you mongrels
>You see something painted white with red accents and shiny brass or gold bits? You fuck em up
>Hurr! Hurr! Me got it, white and red and brass bad

>>48114153
>Guilliman absorbs all their legions into the Ultramarines
>Gifts the Lion a forest world
>Even though the UM are now full 50% of the LA, the Iron Warriors still get the shit jobs.
>"It is well done".

>>48114153
>>48114272

Some of that seems contrived, in an a true Crusade against Chaos setting I suspect none of the Primarchs would fall if the Emperor had more of an impact in micromanaging them. IE, they don't get seperated into the warp.

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>none of the stores with Forge World bits have the various MKIV and V bits I want
These sites are oddly inconsistent with their stock, I mean I get Forge World bits don't exactly flood the world, but it's such a crapshoot

>>48114295
Based Chinaman?

>>48114293
>if the Emperor had more of an impact in micromanaging them. IE, they don't get seperated into the warp.
So they unite the galaxy for 10k years until the tyranids and necrons show up and are killed by the 100 million astartes and 10 trillion Imperial Army soldiers who all have combi-bolters and entire armies of baneblades. Not exactly an interesting setting.

>>48114293
Well, Horus was merely upset with the Emperor's way of running the Imperium, but wasn't treacherous on his own.
The Mother of Daemon weapons and a chaotic ritual were needed to get him on the Dark Gods' side.
But Curze and Angron were pretty much lost causes even before the heresy.
But why would Mortarion rebel? He does serve the Emperor simply because he lost a dare, and does consider him an asshole, but he would endure like his legion. He only went traitor because Horus, his only friend, was traitor too anyway.
As in, he didn't side with the Dark Gods, but with Horus...right? Goddammed witches

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>>48114324
The only way for that setting to be interesting would be to actually make the Tyranids a competent faction.
Not gonna happen.

>>48114324
There setting wouldn't lose interested, there's always some other threat, I would simply enjoy seeing the direction a competent Imperium would take, surely some equally potent intergalactic force would emerge and EVERYONE would be able to enjoy their Legion/Primarch having more depth than what some shitty BL writers can avail us, especially considering how shoehorned their downfalls are.

>>48110555
Dat shading on the large symbol up front
Penis status: erect
Vagina status: moist

>>48114373
>Tyranids encounter the Necrons
>Accident during a battle between them and the Necrons involving mutiple C'tans leads to a new race
>Necronyds invade the Imperium
>3+ Save tyranid hordes with gauss weaponry that self-repair and infect machinery

>>48114399
So you end up with a setting where the galaxy is being invaded by a villain of the week who easily would have wiped out everything 10k years ago but instead faces a force that can repel them. Well it is damn lucky that the Imperium rose to power when it did and not say 10k years later or else the galaxy would have been destroyed.

The only real threats to the galaxy in 40k are the Necrons and the Tyranids, everyone else would just be wiped out by a united Imperium well before 40k.

>>48114173
>>48107114
Actually now that I've sat and thought about it you could actually reap the benefits of all the bonuses if you're careful. See the below list, your two tank units cover the dread and HQ, for Exterminators you have tacs and vets, Pred squad gets Interlocking Fire, enough tanks for Dust of Untold Worlds and a Fear/Tank Hunter dread via Goliaths of War. The unit upgrades are subject to change, maybe drop all CC upgrades for more shooting, but there you have a list that uses all the bonuses and also doesn't have any glaring weak spots.

HQ (115pts)

Delegatus, Artificer Armour, Combi-Weapon, Power Fist, Refractor Field, 115

Troops (410pts)

Tactical Squad, Rhino, Additional CCW (205pts)

Tactical Squad, Rhino, Additional CCW (205pts)

Elites (250pts)

x9 Sniper Vets, Heavy Bolter and Suspensor Web, Power Weapon, Legion Rhino (250pts)

Heavy Support (725pts)

x2 Legion Predator Tank, Heavy Bolters 190pts

Leviathan Dreadnought, Drop Pod, Leviathan Siege Drill] 340pts

Sicaran Venator, Dozer Blade (195pts)

Pardon a few scrub questions: since Apothecaries and Commander Squad members are characters can they take Calibanite War Blades ? Battlescribe doesn't give them the option but I'm not sure if that's not a mistake?

Can the statis grenades be bought for a combi-weapon with a grenade launcher ?

Is it only me or is the Champion consul a bit lackluster?

>>48114534
Only INDEPENDENT characters can take those

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>>48114442
>>3+ Save tyranid hordes with gauss weaponry that self-repair and infect machinery
Horrifying

>>48111778
>10 BaCtical sprues on Ebay (with bases included, don't get jewed out): £24 + £4 shipping
>10 repackaged BaCticals through Wayland Games (or any other place that offers 20% off and free shipping): £26

Basically, Ebay is worth it if you buy 2+ sprues, and especially worth it since you don't have to wait over a month for Wayland to ship your models.

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>>48114442
>>3+ Save tyranid hordes with gauss weaponry that self-repair and infect machinery
The scariest part of your horrifying scenario is that it could happen regardless of what you do.

>>48114534
>Any character model with the Legiones Astartes (Dark Angels) special rule with access to a power
sword as part of their Wargear options may instead take a Calibanite war blade for +10 points instead, or
exchange a power sword that is part of their basic equipment for a Calibanite war blade for Free.
>Any character model
Don't see why not.

>>48114553
You're thinking of the Terranic Great Sword.

>>48112354
One the contrary, one human lifespan is not enough time to truly specialize into some crafts and sciences

>>48114308
I didn't wanna hassle with ordering from Chinaman and waiting weeks to get it, plus I only needed like 3 bits, not five whole dudes

>>48114442
>>48114559
Should we do it though? Would Cruddance still be able to be drain the life force of this Necroynds?

>>48114534
>Commander Squad members are characters
Command Squad members AREN'T characters btw