Warhammer 40,000 General /40kg/

Who's the best recaster of FW shit while still have high quality/decent prices.

Fingers crossed for Orks tomorrow!

Fourth for Tyranids are a turn 1 guaranteed assault rapetrain in nu-edition

Honest fucking question, how will any CC army that relies on small numbers of high power units compete in 8e? Like fucking Custodes. How the fuck are they gonna compete against Genestealer spam? Or Deathwing/Ravenwing in any combo. That shit is royally fucked because other CC armies like Nids just got ridiculously powerful.

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Nth for rough riders

>>53375029
>How the fuck are they gonna compete against Genestealer spam?
Other CC units aren't really supposed to compete against Genestealer spam. you're supposed to shoot them. Genestealers don't have guns.

>>53375029

Tons of Attacks and high S/WS/T/Saves

>>53374975
OK, but only if Mechanicus can take all the Tyranid biomorphs and apply them to their units to represent a Genetor army, and the Guard can take Tau or Ork guns to represent a Gue'Vesa or Digganobz army.

I do like these ideas, but speaking as a 30k Mechanicum player where everyone else can take our Cybernetica and make them better than we can by giving them Legiones Astartes rules, it feels like unbelievably one-sided favoritism when the other factions just take your shit without recompense. Mech can cope because they have other options, although it still stings, but I imagine the Guard players are already salty about giving up their iconic tanks and having GSC Outflank them better and buff them up.

>>53375029
Have your custodes shoot them before charging ? I mean custodian spears have bolters built into them for a good reason after all.

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>walk into local Games Workshop™
>its another "everyone is playing 2000+ point games with fully unpainted armies" episode

>>53375085
Tell them that they are scum and walk out

Then walk back in and buy what ever you came to buy from there

>>53375085
This actually happens regularly?

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How i can use this cool guys in csm/daemons army?

>>53375060
>it feels like unbelievably one-sided favoritism when the other factions just take your shit without recompense
That's kind of the point of the factions that do that. Genestealer Cults infiltrate your PDF forces, Chaos corrupts, and Orks loot anything not bolted down, including stuff that was bolted down seconds ago up until they ripped the bolts out.

I play salamanders right now are framers and meltas about the same? I know my drop pod BBQs aren't gonna be as effective but ultimately from what we know it's not a new other than that yeah?

>>53375029
>genestealers charge my ten man Rubric warpflamer squad
>ten die on overwatch
>lmao 2+/4++

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>>53373837
>>53373906

more like they are ashamed, that sisters getting squatted, even after the good sales of veridyan and new celestine

>>53375126
As Mutilators ?

>>53375129
Flamers are better against some targets, much worse against others.

Meltas look to be generally better than before.

Drop Pods are heavily nerfed, however.

>>53375126

Nurgle/Tzeentch daemon prince.

>>53375137
Of just use a tzeentch flamer squad for half the points most likely.

>>53375137
>>ten die on overwatch
Just did the math, it's more like eleven.

I sure as fuck won't be charging those guys with my stealers any time soon.

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>>53374909
>how about you get your own things ?
>implying Orks aren't the OG of Looting other factions' tek
Seriously Guardfag, the Orks have been stealing your tanks and stuff for 30 years, both in fluff and on the tabletop.
Bringing back actual Looted Vehicles instead of bland "Looted Wagons" (which are mostly still just Orkified Rhino/Chimera Chassis when it comes down to it) isn't just justified by previous editions of the game, but also 30 years of 40k lore!

>>53374975
because the guard is it's own faction, if you let everyone pick and choose what parts of the guard he wants then you're invalidating the guard as a standalone army
chaos has renegades , tyranids get genestealers
both of those have unique drawbacks and advantages compared to the guard, as it should be , they are well worked out unique armies.
orks on the other hand get generic vehicles , if they want to convert them from imperial kits be my guest i'dd love to see the result but don't go around asking for a vendetta or a chimera because they're better than your transports/flyers

>>53375126
How big are those? Warp talons?

>>53374327

Hey, I can dream.

>>53375157
I dont think they match dp height

>>53375039

Rough riders,

Is it just me that feels a sexual innuendo on hearing those words every time?

>>53375148

Not to mention that warhammer live game where Sisters destroyed that cheesey Tzeentch daemons list.

>>53375186
Are you the Chinese homo?

Dark Angels are gay by the way

>>53375176
Where did it get the ork?

>>53375202
As expected from a top mid army. Their main problem is the lack of models

>>53375176
see
>>53375186
besides as you say , looted shit is orkified and rarely remains the same in function as it's original imperial counterpart, i'dd be all for giving those looted vehicles more options to represent the different stuff they could be looted from, but the point remains the same

>>53375085

>Walk inside
>Buy the shit you need
>Dont form eye contact
>Leave

There you have it.
There is nothing else to do in geedubya stores since they are anal about third party miniatures and conversions why even bother with them other than buying stuff from them?

>>53375240
>third party miniatures in 2017

>>53375172
Follow up math, the 9 remaining genestealers, having lost their bonus attack for 10+ models in the unit, will then kill about 3 Rubrics. Don't have the Broodlord stats to account for his contribution.

That is pretty fucking rough.

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>>53375202
you mean that game where they confirmed that plastic sisters are NOT coming?

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>>53375189
I think its more like Drednought

>>53375126
I turned one into a daemon prince

made him standing on the floor though by breaking it's legs a bit

>>53375240
>third party miniatures
You're cute

>>53375210
He doesn't type anything like that guy

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>>53375148

There is absolutely no reason why they would release sisters.
They will sell pretty well, there is a huge demand, of that there is no doubt.
They are probably waiting for the selling spree of the chad marines to die down to start another selling spree with the sisters release.

I wouldnt produce two exciting releases one after another because people need to fill their wallets and excitement has to buildd up more after one wave.

>>53375137
whats warpflame profile thought to be in 8th?

>>53375002
Z or CCON are the most popular from what I hear. I don't have their emails tho.

>>53375268

Time stamp?

>>53375289
>thought to be
We have it already, anon, where have you been
D6 auto-hitting attacks, S4, D1, AP-2

>>53375289
Warpflamer profile already came out along with the Rubric Marine profiles.

>>53375060
>Orks and their BS 5+
>"and make them better"

I mean. I don't see how a looted Punisher will be better in Ork hands.

>>53375289
>thought

It's S4 -2 D6 autohits. No dumb "Chaos is fickle xDDD" rule.

>>53375307
>le lol so randumb xD
What did Wrath of Fagnus mean by this?

>>53375268
>>53375268
Why are they so goddamn adamant about not releasing plastic sisters? I don't get it, people bought the absolute SHIT out of the plastic models they've released, why are they turning down a guaranteed sale?

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>>53375224
>Where did it get the ork?
It started out as an Ork, but ge(and the Painboy working on him) went a bit overboard with replacing his body with otha git's limbs.

>>53375238
>>53375186
>a key element of being an Ork player should be completely dumbed down to one single vehicle with "options" instead of taking Imperial kits and Orkifying them
>My response is pic related
Considering previous Looted Vehicles operated with the same weaponry as the old Imperial guard/Space Marine just with a BS2 and very limited vehicle selection, you can both choke on the barrel-end of your lasguns.

Orks CAN AND WILL loot your vehicles and use your own guns against you, and you're gonna zoggin' like it!

>>53375126
Paint em blue and give it a beak and you could have a cool tzeentch daemon prince, or paint it all rotten and green stuff organs rather than skulls in his belly and you could have a nurgle daemon prince.

>>53375126
Paint him red and give him some Khornate symbols/pauldrons?

>>53375323
Limited resources. They can't develop new kits for every faction. So they focus on the faction that sells: Space Marines and Space Marine accessories.

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>>53375297
twitch /videos/138631208

at the beginning

>>53374979

>that pic

Do red ones cum faster?

>>53375240
>anal about third party miniatures

I've never got this attitude, why would they let you hang around their store without contributing to the upkeep whilst actively promoting a competitors product?

>>53375361
don't get it

>>53375323
>20 posts in
>someone's already crying about plastic sisters
get squatted you bitch.

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>>53375284
>why they would release sisters.
>why they wouldnt

Dammit, i jinxed it havent i.

>>53375128
I mean, I get the point, and it works with Orks because the vehicles take slight penalties for that, so you don't feel like you're being constantly beaten at your own game. Chaos already has evil versions of a lot of Imperial stuff, they don't need to get every minor Guard vehicle and they have Renegades for that anyway, who take a mix of penalties again albeit at less cost.
Genestealers should not be able to outtank the Guard with outflanking Russes and Chimeras with cheap lascannons in them, however. Factions that take other people's stuff need to be somewhat penalized for it, not buffed, as the price you pay for getting access to new combos and such.

>>53375306

Yeah, that's fine. I was just saying that they should be careful with that kind of thing or make it more widespread overall, since at the moment Renegades and Heretics is pretty much Guard, but better in every single way because they get Guard toys, cheaper, with chaos support and such.

I would be totally fine if they spread the "basic" options out a little, though. Give Admech Chimeras and Goliaths with the Lasgun Arrays/Demo Charges stripped out and a 20pt price hike or something in payment for Doctrinas, give Sisters a similar kind of thing with the old Inq chimeras so they can fire five meltas out of a transport, give Orks Rhino-class or Goliath Rockgrinder transports as an alternative to Trukks for shooty squads, fucking EVERYONE gets the Arvus Lighter, all that jazz. Just don't farm out one or more faction's unique toys and such to multiple other armies without penalties.

>>53375360
But this is a single faction that is still almost entirely metal. I may hate Shitcast, but it's better than fucking metal.

>>53375395
>please tread on me
A reference to the famous libertarian flag with a rattlesnake saying "DON'T TREAD ON ME"

I don't get the other one.

>>53375413
I get the last joke, but I don't understand the point of the first 6 panels at all

>>53375403
I play DEldar, cunt
Fuck off back to /r warhammer

>>53375392
A few guys playing with random models, that allow my consumer to play does not hurt.

Now if every bastard just play and buys nothing then there is a problem

>>53375323
we need to float their fb page with sister images

>>53375413
>the famous Revolutionary War era flag that was co-opted by lelbertarians

ftfy

>>53375410
>Genestealers should not be able to outtank the Guard with outflanking Russes and Chimeras with cheap lascannons in them, however.
Why not? It's perfectly fluffy for them.

Their drawback is that they don't have access to all the same equipment as pure Guard, they only have a limited selection of tanks.

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>rhino rushing is back
>berzerkers now best cc troops in the game
>mfw enemies of khorne will waste their overwatch on angry rhinos before they are charge by the new improved 'zerkers and cut to pieces
YOU ARE HUGE!
THAT MEANS YOU HAVE HUGE GUTS!
RIP AND TEAR
RIP AND TEAR YOUR GUTS!
RIP AND TEAR!

>>53375433
That would require to have multiple Facebook accounts.

There are like 10 SoB players. Usually very old people

>>53375433
>float
Sad fuck

>>53375433
No, that's retarded and obnoxious. There's plenty of people asking in the articles about Sisters, they'll have to either do the faction focus or tell us they're squatted

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>>53375249

>gw cant beat this in year of our lord 2017

still talking shit about third party miniatures ?

>>53375453
>that ghoul-looking motherfucker
Was The Major an aspiring Champion of Khorne?

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>>53375453
>berzerkers now best cc troops in the game
>their stats didnt even revealed
I know khornates have small brains, but this...

>>53375392
Depends. I'd get annoyed if I got shit for my (90%+ GW models) conversions got flak

I use kit bashed guardsmen (Conscripts mostly) and Inquisition Acolytes.

Most are GW, but my Conscripts are a mash up of some 3rd party bits (mostly weapons)
>Chaos Cultists, Bloodreavers, Empire Swordsmen, Brettonia Peasants with 3rd party autoguns

While my Guardsmen use 3rd party gask masks (rest is Cadian) and my Vets in Carapace use Catachan + 3rd party chest for extra beef.


I've had no issue, but would annoy me if they got pissy

Same as for my Daemons my furies are the Angel Minnows from Maelstrom's Edge because the offical models look like shit.

>>53375471
eww

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>>53375471
Now look at the top quality resin model from GW.

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>>53375475
I
LOVE
WAR

>>53375486
>he didn't see the FB post

>>53375424
>le ebin Reddit meme
nobody cares about sisters but sisters players, and 3% of people in 40kg are sisters players. So there's about 8 of you cunts and you're just constantly whining. I genuinely hope you get squatted, tired of hearing your shit.

>>53375412
Exactly. An ENTIRE army. That would be like 4-5 kits.

They could use that to make those valuable kit resources to make Marines instead.

>>53375471
Shame buying them is so difficult.

>>53375002
I've heard generally nothing but positive things from Alpharius, but I can't confirm because I've not made an order yet. CCON is also supposed to be good, but I haven't ordered from him either.

Sylvia White is so-so.

Z has tons of options like individual parts such as assault packs and weapons, and while his prices are cheap, his quality can be hit or miss. Most of the stuff I got from him was good, but some stuff was actually I usable. However, I sent him an email and have replacements coming with my next order.

MI is a personal preference at the moment because she is very easy to order from, has a great selection, good prices, and has pretty good quality, though not perfect.

My next big order will be Alpharius because ive heard pretty great things.

>>53375471
does he still produce?

>>53375475
>baited a strong enemy far from the battle
>had traitors infiltrated
>almost doesn't fight himself
The Major was a great character, but no Khornian.

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>>53375517
Maybe you give me a link to this post?

>>53375471

>Just as expensive but not as nice sculpts as the original metal minis

I dropped a retributor in my last games and she broke through two floors of a ruin.

>>53375486
Anon, shh. Don't make us look bad. Besides, GW said in fb comments they'd probably be one of the best, he's going off of that

I would like to just once have a 40k thread without SoBstories shitting the place up. You guys have waited over 10 years already for an update, can't you just shut the fuck up and be a LITTLE more patient until they announce it? Genestealer Cult players waited TWICE as fucking long as SoB players and you didn't see them bitching in every thread for eternity all the way up through every edition until they finally got a release in October, fucking did you?

>>53375519
As I said already, I play DEldar
You are very clearly reddit, and I will once again ask that you fuck off back there

>>53375519
I play orks and guard and I'd like to see sisters more, they have a fucking cool aesthetic.

If you want to play goodies vs baddies herowank fuck off to AoSG.

>>53375450

They should then pay a pile more points for the ability to outflank their enemies with Demolishers and Chimeras loaded with cheap as fuck lascannons and double-shot missile launchers, as well as representing the difficulty of infiltrating the Guard and maintaining tanks as opposed to just having them assigned. If they do already, sorry, but Chimeras and Russes are a huge part of what most Guard players have in their arsenal, so getting unambiguously better ones with better support and army rules is a little bullshit.

It's perfectly fluffy for my Admech to roll with every vehicle under the sun and then some, doesn't make allowing Vanguard to take Raiders or getting BS7 superheavy artillery is a good idea.

>>53375519
On what turn did the SoB player table your waac army?

This is a safe space anon we can talk here safely

>>53375544
thicc

Which army do pedophiles play?
SoB or Orks?

>>53375571
>Demolishers
Anon they don't even get Demolishers, for one thing.

>>53375533
To order from MI, can you just use the website or do I need to go hunting on the subreddit again? Looking to get myself some Heresy Mech for less than £80 per troops choice and not dealt with recasts before.

>>53375488
I mean, conversions are fine at my Geedubs if theres atleast 60% of the model made from Gw kits, and that the "GW" is clearly visible.

>>53375471
Middle one should get lashed with a bullwhip to the soles for reloading the bolter like a fullretard.

>>53375598
Tau

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>>53375392

Because no one is playing with 100 percent non-gw miniatures. And no one is going to stop buying your overpriced shit because some fancy model your opponent is wielding has caught your eye and you decided to buy it.

Also most civilised stores offer food and beverages for sale during your game time. If you buy those from them you have more than helped the game store during the time of your stay.

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>>53375306
Can confirm that old Looted Vehicles weren't "buffed up" in comparison to normal Imperial counterparts.
I used to run a Looted Basilisk (because my Orks are a mostly foot-slogging army and I needed some long range fire support for them against my usual opponents, which were Tau at the time), and it was a big risk-reward unit for me since the Earthshaker cannon was devastating WHEN I rolled to hit, but being an artillery piece meant I either ended up hitting the enemy, nothing, or my own boyz. The fact it operates on the same BS2 because it's crewed by Orks is a real down-grade from Imperial tanks.

>>53375410
>Just don't farm out one or more faction's unique toys and such to multiple other armies without penalties.
Oddly enough, the old Ork Looted Vehicle rules did exactly this. For example, Orks could never loot a Baneblade. Strongest vehicle we could take was the Space Marine Land Raider, and that's still hampered by the Ork's BS2 skill.

>>53375598
Dark Eldar or Tau.

>>53375598
I'd say tau since weebs tend to be pedos

>>53375514
The fact they ship miscast/warped items is terrible

>>53375564
First GSC got nuked from 3rd unlike SoB that where in 3rd since the start.

Also there is no SoB release this year, we are getting a new xeno army.

>>53375598
Eldar or Tau.

>>53375602
Well, RIP my Kataphron squad illegally, then. My fuckup, sorry. Should have checked the GSC book.

>>53375605

Use the site, then email her with the order number asking for PayPal. They should get back to you within 24hrs.

>>53375566
>mooommmm! I told him to go back to reddi t and he just made fun of me! I better keep saying it.
You said you play DE, I don't think so, because again nobody but sisters players cares about sisters.
if you did play DE, that's nothing to be proud of, d.e. players are generally the very weirdest people at the store.
get squatted cunt.

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>>53375543
Don't have a link. Here is the pic that was posted here an on B&C.

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>>53375598
>implying Orks are pedophiles
Why doncha 'ave a seat sir...

I want the new fucking rules to know what to fucking buy to reinforce my armies.
And give me that Necron Focus already.

>>53375571
>It's perfectly fluffy for my Admech to roll with every vehicle under the sun

And risk angering the machine spirit in their legs? No. No. They replaced their fleshy legs with robo-legs and robo-legs walk.

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What do we currently know about allies in 8e?

>>53375666
Awww, reddit grognard triggered by strong women.

>I-I think sisters should be squatted
Um, sweetie, no.

>>53375598
DEldar

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>>53375673
>GW just trying to sell edgy teenagers some plastic crack
>GUYZ I BET THEY ARE THE BEST, GW SAID SO

>>53375613
>>53375620
>>53375625
>>53375631
So where's all the loli tau art at?

>>53375542
So more like Tzeentchian in that he likes to shape the battlefield to his will, layers and layers of trickery, etc

>>53375692
>a redditor would be triggered by feminism
lmao

>>53375686
Almost nothing.

>>53375699
Tinfoil in me says that they are trying to move out the old aculpts before unveiling updated models.

>>53375666
what a doublenigger (you) are
I'd like to see SoB get updated kits and I play nids

So it goes without saying Primaris marines will be costlier and have a better stat line than normal marines, correct? They're not scrapping old marines all together right?

>>53375713
They have a love hate relationship with it.

>>53375666
Satan calm down. We know you get scared by women but please have some dignity

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>>53375666
>autist thinks only sisters players like sisters
I bet you play Taudar

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>>53375666
Imagine getting BTFO this hard.

>>53375743
Yes and yes.

Although old marines will probably get very few if any updates, ever again.

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>>53375699
>t-they are only pretending I swear!
Alas, the tears of the degenerate witch.

D
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>>53375686
No such thing.

You take a detachment and fill them with what you want. But one Key Word must match.

So you can do an Imperium detachment and take Guardsmen as troops, Celestine as a HQ, and Marines. But you can only use stratagems that your entire army shares

>Example above can only use Imperium stratagems

While if you took Blood Angels and Ultramarines you can use Imperium + Astartes Strats

And if you took only Blood Angels you can use Imperium, Astartes, and Blood Angels Stratagems.

>>53375613
>>53375620
>>53375625
>>53375631

Point on the doll where the WAACfag touched you

>>53375706
>>53375542
>>53375475
Its average Alpharius, nothing to see here

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>>53375686
We'll probably see the Blood Angels and the Necrons bro-fisting each other again.

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Oi, you gits ready for Summah!?

>>53375753
You seem to be quite knowledgable about reddit. Gee, I wonder why?

>>53375775
>pedo taufag identified

>>53375666
Look at this fag and laugh.

I have Ultramarines and I wish everyone to have models from at least models from 2010

The fucking bitches are going to have 21 year old sculpts

>>53375775
He killed my Blasterborn from across the table

>magos biologis in charge of backwater forge world delves into psychology/sociology to try to figure out how serfs tick to better motivate them
>makes shocking discovery: cute things are cute
>begins experimenting with Theory of Moe (named after an assistant); machines with more human/feminine aspects tend to increase productivity and morale, reduce mistreatment of machine spirits
>begins sequestering and indoctrinating young girls into local Machine Cult and Skitarii en masse, relying on Hive World imports for labor as prole population swings towards completely male
>invasive biomechanical reconstruction arrests physical growth; as (the appearance of) injury increases coefficient of Moe, warplate is scaled back in favor of subdermal plating, respirators are replaced with mechanical lungs and nasal filters, and artificial muscle compensates for smaller stature
>new Skitarii deployed in limited engagements, favorably edited data uplinks are screened to test audiences with favorable results
>recorded exploits (and later, daily lives out of combat) of Skitarii become cornerstone of forge world propaganda, with vidscreens erected everywhere and in every hab-block
>seeing what could have been their sisters or daughters fighting to protect them, and increasingly desperate for the touch of a woman, manufactorum output and registry for auxilliary forces explodes, fear of the Xeno subsumed by hate, to the point where recruits have to be turned down in droves to maintain production quotas
>Skitarii slowly allowed to retain more personality and autonomy/receive less training to increase Moe appeal and drama; Maniples are supported by forge world auxiliaries, and, in sufficiently dangerous situations, doctrina imperatives turn them into cold, analytical assassins/berserk killbots
>when bandages/cosmetic flesh/metalsculpting can't hide aging or disfigurement, Skitarii are recycled and replaced

reposting for opinions on qt skitarii: slowly working on drawfaggotry

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>>53375666

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>>53375772
So nids and orks are screwed for allies for another edition then.

Neat.

>>53375781
Could you explain the first bro-fisting so I know where to read up?

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>>53375771
I wasnt me, anon. And i really like how everybody happy with 8e

>>53375673
Same shit the faction focus promised

Berzerkers will remain shit because only the champion gets a useful Power weapon and i bet they won't ever fix their costs

Until we know what chain-axes do, 'zerkers are still assumed to be dog-shit

>>53375772
So even if I just take Celestine as a guard HQ I lose out on strategems? That's fucking gay.

>>53375775
You're not doing them any favors by pointing out they like to touch little boys and girls in naughty places that have to be shown on a doll

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>>53375610

It is not as bad as it looks.
If you have any firearm(or replica) with a mag you can try that.
Since the bolters are so fuck huge and heavy she may not have stabilised it by holding it with one hand and may have had to brace it on her upper leg to hold it steady.
As for the mag , if you consider the fact that mags are picked up from the backpacks behind the power armor there can be some sort of a mechanism that requires you to use your finger to release the mag ( like a latch) . When you pick the mag like that yo uare going to hold it that way when you bring in front of you in a fast mag change.
So actually it is a well thought pose.

>>53375791
Getting trigger this hard.

Dark Angels are gay!

>>53375666
This fucking guy lmao

>>53375692
>srsly thinks reddit is anti feminist

lol nigger wtf are you doing

I want to come back to the game for 8th, is it acceptable to play necrons? They are my favorite but are they seen as powergamer shit by the community still?

>>53375816
>nid players
>wanting allies
Fuck off with that shit.

We have GSC now anyways.

>>53375816
Maybe there's a Stratagem Xenos or something

>>53375798
And you guys laught when I said Admech is literally tau but for closeted imperialfags that can't come out and join xenos.

>>53375540

No idea.

>>53375527
Agreed, asshole only sent the minis after a paypal dispute.

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I want to step into the hobby and start my first army but I'm not sure if I should choose Tau or Nids. I like their aesthetic and the basic lore background of both factions is appealing for me. Which other books than codices should I read to sink into their fluff?

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>>53375666
DE players are always on the extremes. I knw one guy who's completely normal, real nice and polite,, a bit nerdy, has an awesome paintjob on his DE, etc...
And then theres the other guy who looks like a crack addict, plays like shit, complains about his armes being too weak, but is pretty much worse to play against than the worst WAACfags we have at the store. He smells like shit, his models are either grey, sprayed black or look like they were dropped in a painting pot, and in the meantime he's garnered a reputation for using weighted dice.

I mean, how the fuck are you supposed to enjoy your game when this dude complains about my nids being "TOO STRONK, OP" while he summons a 250 point bloodthirster into combat with my walkrant.

>tl;dr Dark Eldar are pedo's

>>53375844
Not really, no. Besides the fact that everything is about to get rebalanced anyways, Necrons haven't been top tier in ages, they've been more like the gatekeepers between the bottom of top tier and the top of mid tier.

>>53375816
>Wanting to ally nids with anything

Neck yourself dickhead.

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>>53375666
ayy
lion el homo haha
a fucking gay poet

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>>53375824
>j-just ignore gw theyll be shit because I say so!
Top fucking kek what army do you play?

>>53375856
Naturally, the Tau sent spies to investigate as soon as they caught wind of it.

>>53375838
>says the triggered tumblrina
My sides

>>53375826
That's the joke

>>53375686
faction keyword system
so far we know for sure that "imperium" can be used as the base for an army, but you can only choose from the base 3 stratagems (force org charts basically) if you do same will probably apply for chaos
whether xenos will be a faction keyword remains to be seen and there's also no word if cross faction keyword alliances will be possible yet

>>53375825
Maybe. She might just have Imperium tag. So she can be added and have no issues. Or might have a rule to be an exception.

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>>53375783
Itz gonna be a WAAAGH!in' good time, I tellz ya!

>>53375210
>>53375838
>witchhunting this hard for a witch that's already gone
I think it's time to stop posting.

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Am i the only one who likes old TS helmes more than new? Especially sorc helmet

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>>53375798

I like the idea, make it happen.
You are still a faggot though.

>>53375904
Mr closet homo chinaman!
Did your ban expire?

Are you ready to recive the Dark Angels genseed up your bum?

>>53375819
IIRC, it was in a BA codex update by our spiritual liege, one of the little entries about past battles had "Dante teams up with Necrons to beat a Tyranid Hive Fleet".
It was later expanded and rectonned many times so it was at best a desperate alliance and at worst the Necrons manipulating the BA.

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I actually got 3rd place at a tourney with Orkz

I'll drop a couple pics I took of my games

>>53375869
Really? Decurion necrons handed me my ass as Tau most of the time

>>53375921
Well we are talking about SoB the Witch Hunter codex

Gay DA chinaman is basically a meme now for turbo autism

>>53375935
>muh chink DA boogeyman
Top fucking kek sure everyone who triggers you is that ONE specific shitposter XD

>>53375914
They're might be a detachment that lets you mix key words, but with penalties.

>2 HQs, 4 Troops mandatory
>nominate 1 HQ in this detachment, so long as he is alive all units gain the faction tag <Unlikely Allies>

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>>53375952

>>53375743
>old marines(see named characters) can be upgraded to chadmarines
what do you think ?
i'm pretty sure it's just so they don't piss of every marine player in existance by saying their marine models will be useless in 2 editions

>>53375958
No, witchhunting as in randomly trying to offend irrelevant posts in the name of hunting down a boogeyman.

It's pretty common on hobby boards for some reason.

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I need some advice.
I manage to snag pic related for like, less than 10 dollars. It came with a 60 mm base and it's pretty fucking huge, bigger than the regular Great Unclean One.

I intend of doing some minor conversion work, like putting on him a mark of Nurgle on his back and sprinkling him with Nurglings and painting him in a diseased green tone. Do you think this mini would pass as a "Great Unclean One"? I'll have to paint it's axe to be disease ridden as well.

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>>53375666

>nobody but tau players cares about tau.
>nobody but ork players cares about orks.
>nobody but tyranid players cares about tyranids.

>>53375617
>never loot a Baneblade
Reminds me of my first ever experience with Superheavy vehicles. A friend of mine with six billion armies traded me an old metal Inquisitor for a bunch of Kataphron and Dunecrawler guns, then next match he rolled up with this abomination of a Baneblade hull sprayed red with unpainted 'Cron, Admech and Ork guns mounted all over it, plus beer barrels and assault ladders, before firing seventeen separate weapons at my War Convocation that I was using one of his Knights to run. I eventually managed to stab it with a Reaper Chainsword and a squad of Rusties, but I'd so lost track of all the guns it had he could have bolted a Deathstrike to it midgame and I wouldn't have noticed.
Fucking Kustom Battle Fortress, man
And before you asked, I took WarConvo to try out max Canticles, but took every upgrade (and I mean EVERY possible upgrade) at full price anyway. I narrowly won after two scattered Rangers shot Grukk in the face after he tanked pretty much everything I had that turn aside from them.

Also of note is the Killsaw Mek that killed a squad of Rusties, the Knight Warden's last HP and my Dominus singlehandedly before being showered with Stubber shots from my main gunless Dunecrawler.

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>>53375884
I PLAY Khorne you fucking mongoloid

I want berzerkers to be not utter shit more than your memeing faggot self. I want all combat units to be worth fielding.

But i have no faith they will pull it off, keep sucking the GW chode if you insist, i expect nothing but the same shit-tier units we always get

>>53375967
How much Lions cock do you suck daily in the Rock gay club?

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>>53375816
The only thing I want to ally as Orkz is my Renegade Knight I bring as an ally

>>53375987
I think it's less to do with that and more >"we'll have to remake an ENTIRE new legion of Marine characters as we kill off the old ones."

>>53375990
Definitely has potential.

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>>53376017
and this is the best one I took by far, but thats it, I always forget to take pics

>>53375990
go nuts , though seeing armor on a nurgle deamon feels out of place

>>53375692
I guess ill just reply to the first one because you samefagged pretty hard.

Dont care about feminism one way or the other, i play IG, and im really just sick of seeing sisters players crying every thread

i get it, you cant get your fapfic/waifu army in plastic. I cant do anything about it, so why are you telling me?

oh, its just because you like to bitch?

get squatted cunt

>>53375990
I think it would 100% work if you actually put the work in modeling and painting him

>>53376061
>This mad over plastic toys

Top kek, stay butthurt faggot.

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>>53376005
Sure thing you false-flagging tzeenchcuck. Your demoralization tactics won't work on this one berzerker. They've already said TWICE that we will rip&tear the living shit out of everything they put in front of us, even more so now with the transport buffs.

Stay mad forever lmao

>>53376061
lmao

>>53374979
I'm sketching out a 40k short story, and I'm not much of a 40k guy, so I just had a quick question about scale.

Is an IG regiment from a homebrewed planet with around half a million troopers, 6k artillery pieces, and about 700 tanks in the right ballpark for an "average" sized regiment that would be entrusted to clean up an ork resurgence? I can't seem to easily access material that goes into that kind of fluff.

>>53375988
Look at >>53375967 the fucker is triggering hard.

At this point he is asking for it

>>53376012
>he still thinks I'm the chink homo
Stay in your fantasy world to avoid being even more btfo top kek

>>53376108
That reads more like Cheetahfag than DAfag.

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>>53375863
Bump this

>>53376094
that sounds reasonable, 40k keeps it vague on purpose desu

>>53375029
>>53375137
>Laughing burna boys

Come get some stealers.

>>53376114
Confirmed for homo china!
Oh my god he is back guys!

>>53376124
Well they are both fag. So there is that

>>53376147
>15D6 auto hits just on overwatch
lmao

>>53376083
They say 'omg it's going to be so powerful srsly guys' about every fucking unit people ask about.

Also you can't move transports and charge and you don't get charge bonuses for charging it of transports.

>Move rhino up near enemy
>Sit there for my whole turn while I move back, blow it to shit which gibs a bunch of your red marinelets

Kek.

>>53376150
Trying a bit too hard there buddy. Maybe you'd fit in better on a site with usernames instead since you're so obsessed with recurring identities?

>>53375029
Shields made of meat and dakka.

>>53376055
I'll make the armor look rusted and the skin on his back rotten. I agree it's a bit weird though, this is why I'm a bit scared it won't look proper.

>>53376150
>Oh my god he is back guys!
I don't think so alas, there was already enough to trigger him hard, he would have gone full ballistic.

lifta droppa rules state when you hit a vehicle and the models fails their save it gets thrown 2d6 and explodes right?

I know it has to be 4W or below, but thats the rule as I understand

>>53376128
>>53375863
This should be easy. If you are a girl or girl (male) go for nids. Otherwise go for tau.

>>53376150
>everyone who triggers me is the gay chink!
back to the kitchen bitch lmao

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>>53376083
>transport buffs.

>Okay Khorne-khuck, you can charge outta your little tank...
>..But only if you don't move first!

Khorne BTFO as always

>when you try posting right at the start of Designated Shitposting Hour

>>53375029
you shoot GS, also remember I isnt a thing anymore just get the charge off on the bugs and you'll squash them with a unit like Custodes

>>53376199
it fucking sucks dude, I feel like it's just trolls trolling trolls, but then I remember that there are motherfuckers genuinely stupid enough to type this shit out and mean it

>>53376163
>17.5 dead 'stealers

Best bet is to charge a different target and then 'sweep' them in combat with your 3" pile in.

>>53375863
I'd say Nids, because I prefer their mini and their lore.
In the end, you should pick the one you prefer the models and fluff above else, I know that's why I still enjoyed playing my army even when it was shit-tier.

>>53376206
Good point, I get PTSD flashbacks from 3e because of fucking I6 stealers

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>>53376189
Khornate always start friendly fire for no reason?

>>53376076
>plastic
:^)

I'm going to laugh when SoB get their faction focus. Anti-SoB and SoBfag will suffer greatly

>>53375952
>Facing eldar
So did ya win that particular match anon?

>>53375665
OK then. Much obliged.

How are GSC played usually? I like their models and they give me a sort of Lovecraftian cult vibe, but I'm more used to tanky shooting armies.

>>53376054
I see a fox in your opponent's crotch

>>53376181
>>53376236
B-but Anons, I will decide by myself. I just want to read some more books about Tau and Nids and I need titles

>>53376245
GW already confirmed it so no need to shitpost or autisticly screech about it

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>>53375128
>We need dem bolts

But seriously where is the gaurd love? Having X unit from X imperial sub faction also be included in guard isnt enough imo.

Also not leveling them up makes no sense in fluff marines are great and all but the line is the guard.

>Hey Robby G we got your Chadmarines ready to roll now how about the Imperial Gua....
>Naw im good
>But there is literally millions of guard for every marine if we could upgrade them logis....
>I said im good.

Primarches.

>>53376279
You could always check older codexes, and I think Shield of Baal is BA vs Tyranids, and Tau also have a campaign with them.

>>53376179
thats exactly how it works, nothing like tossing a dreadnought through the air lel

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>>53376164
>>53376189
>turn 1
>move entire army of rhino'd zerkers until charge range
>wait 4 next turn
>disembark
>charge the rhinos to eat overwatch pulling anything within 3" into combat
>charge with zerkers and rip the living shit out of your screaming army
my sides! knew you didn't play khorne for shit

>so asshurt he had to false flag
top fucking kek

>>53376279
Tau codex, both older and newer ones. Taros campaign. Fire warrior. New warzone: damocles books are ass.

>>53375863
for tau you open any fanfic website/deviantart oc

>>53375249
>Not third party minatures in 2017

Its like youre scared of awesome.

>>53375863
Careful mentioning Tau, the autists immediately start flinging shit about that local WAACfaggot that spams riptides

>>53375060
that's because half of the factions in 40k are imperium, and can all take allied detachments of each other

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>you will never be that skull

>>53375798
the ad mech does NOT WANT their things to be user friendly.
they dont want anyone but a magos working on their machines.
they dont want anyone but a magos commanding skitarii
they dont want other armies to fight better alongside skitarii.
you dont understand the ad mech, 2/10 apply yourself.

>>53375914
>but you can only choose from the base 3 stratagems (force org charts basically)
What? Stratagems are not Force Org Charts, the Detachments are the Force Org Charts. Stratagems are the special abilities you can activate during the game by spending Command Points.

We already know for a fact that Chaos is a Faction Keyword and that Xenos is not.

>>53376302
>Best case scenario
>Entire army still gets no charge bonuses

Top khorne cuck.

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>>53375795
They are gonna be old to drink their sadness in the US. That is truly fucking sad.

>>53376232
Use the Mawloc to soak up the overwatch maybe.

>>53376339
Luckiest little skull in the world

>>53376341
yeah my bad , used the wrong word

>>53376333
>wanting models of different styles in your army that makes the whole thing look inconsistent

>>53375956
Tau were only slightly better than Necrons unless they were running Riptide Wings. The Top 4 were Eldar, Tzeentch Daemons, Space Marines and Dark Angels.

>>53376313
I just asked a question, no need to shitposting mate
>>53376334
Well, I just want to read some more stories about armies I want to pick. Luckily most LGS players are fine with both new Tau or Nid player. Actually noone runs them in my area

>>53375003
S-sauce?

>>53376249
Yup, my Big Mek stompa ate his Wraithknight alive, and my lifta droppa actually hit so I threw his tank through the air and killed some of his bikes with it

Only really scary thing he had was the bikestar that was invisible the whole game, but I just killed everything around it until it was the only thing left

what crippled him more than anything was his lack of commitment to moving up, he had a solid footslog list, but he stayed back out of cover and as you can kinda see in the pics, I came up so fast at him he didn't have time to get inside a forest or behind anything. If we had a different deployment things would have been harder on me tbqh

>>53376340
>they don't know how to fix their stuff
>better just keep faking it
Cogboys were a mistake.

I'm new to painting and I was wondering if I should thin my paints when painting the main body of a vehicle.

The warhammer TV guy is always saying you should thin your paints but when he paints a rhino he never does it with the main color.

>>53376302
how many wounds do you reckon rhinos will have? it seems each HP translates to about 3 wounds in vehicles to compensate for lascannons doing D6 damage
i'd be surprised if they have less than 6 wounds

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>>53376354
>no charge bonuses
>i literally can't read
Top kek either that or so assblasted he has to play dumb. Zerkers make their own charge instear of joining so they get all their bonuses.

You literally cannot get more smug than I am right now.

>>53375176
>Orks get your own thing
>Looting is orks own thing

Just ordered Roboute off eBay. How pleased will I be with this guy on the table?

>>53376273
cult ambush, basically you either win via tabling (charging your deepstriked units) turn 2 or you lose.

>>53376363
You'll probably take 3 Wounds (assuming 6+ to Wound) from Overwatch and only have a 27% chance to make charge. (Assuming you're charging from DS.) And if you fail your Genestealers can still be overwatched.

>Best be is to shoot those Burnas and call it a day.

>>53376393
Thin them, but I would recommend you to buy a spray paint for vehicles

>>53376393
ALWAYS thin your paints.

Always. ALWAYS.

>>53376393
> thin your paints
I always read this as "thin your pants"

>>53376398
Maybe the same as the necron one but with higher toughness?

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>>53376370
Then why the fuck are people so butthurt over Tau if they aren't even the top 4?
Yea i understand riptide spam is bullshit, but enough to doom the entire playerbase?

>>53376398
Considering even the fragile Harlequin transport skimmer got 6 I would say 6+ is a safe bet for Rhinos, yeah.

>>53376398
T7, 8W, 3+ (maybe a 4+)

>>53376430
No, the obnoxious fucking players such as yourself doom the playerbase.

>>53375628
tell me about it. im painting up a Chaos Hellcannon that is failcast and its more crooked than a dog's hind leg... meanwhile today I just got a pewter Hellcannon in the mail and its 100% better than the fail cast in every shitting way

>>53376339
That model has the most disappointing butt.

>>53376430
Mainly a few very loud shitposters specifically on this general.

>>53376368
>Not wanting the options and models to give your army consistent style.

>>53376442
Woops meant T6** not T7.

>>53376429
>>53376435
>>53376442
I'm thinking 8W toughness 7 yeah. That does make them a LOT more durable than currently which i'm very pleased with, got 4 rhinos gathering dust from my maelstrom of gore days

>>53376409
>buying anything before 8th ed is out
It's like pre-ordering a AAA video game...

>>53375805
Most of the posters here probably aren't old enough to remember Clippy.

>>53375666
I want plastic sisters, I play Crons.

>>53376479
You can refund this in origin and steam

>>53376430
The big thing is that it's pretty easy to make a good Tau list without even trying and to play it decently.

This poses problems in casual environments, where other armies have to be more careful with how they make lists and play.

Thus two players of the same low skill level will generally lead to Tau coming out ahead.

Add Riptides on top of that and it's annoying to try and deal with for the average player.

>>53376410
Hmpf, I guess I'll wait to see their rules in 8th, but at least it'll be a change of pace.

extra armor?
dozer blade?
smoke launchers?
searchlight?

>>53376474
Toughness 6 sounds more correct. Dreadnoughts is AV 12 and T 7 Starweaver is AV 10 and T 5

>>53376430
A whole bunch of reasons. Taufags tend to be insufferable weeaboos (not all of them, but it's a pattern), their plot armour in the lore is just as often insufferable, many people don't think their aesthetic fits the 40k universe, their playstyle can be annoying and considered cowardly or unmanly even if you beat them, their most abusive units are easily the equivalent of the top 3 army shit even if the rest of the army as a whole is not, and so on. They're just easy to hate on for the widest variety of reasons and many a WAACfag Tau player has earned the scorn.

That said I know a couple bro-tier guys who play Tau, it doesn't make you an evil person, it just makes the already annoying guys much more hateable.

>>53376495
I could be wrong but thats the only way I've seen them played. Also, people give them nidzilla support usually.

I don't mean to discourage you but they are one of my least favorite armies to play against. The games over one way or the other turn 3. Other people don't seem to mind though.

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>>53375453
Yer gunna get krumped with the rest.

>>53376481
Jesus that's sad.

>>53376430
Tau are just a grating faction to play in general for anything that wants to get into melee with them

>>53376513
dread is only t7? that is strange
I thought it would be tougher than the cron barge because it's not open and a lot less delicate

>>53376255

No problem. Enjoy. Just a fair warning, though. China crack is more addictive than a stud crack.

>>53376527
>melee race
>i2

>>53376543
Open topped seems to determine save instead, being 4+ instead of 3+.

Necron barges were also weird with the special rules for their armor.

>>53376557
>i
what's that?

>>53376543
Necron stuff is stronger than you would expect due to being made of bullshit magic necronmetal tech.

T7 for a Dreadnought is the same as the Kastelan Robots of the AdMech and higher than a Riptide, so it's pretty solid.

>>53376430
They have a functional codex that plays true to their lore without being shit or overcosted. Unlike 90% of the armies in the game. Bitches be bitter and jealous.

>>53376552
More addictive than plastic crack*

if you like stud crack, I mean...

>>53376430
Here's the long one:

Theory 1: Hating Tau Says More About The You Than the Tau

Statistically, most of us are average players. That’s how averages work. And then a bulk of us (and I would include myself in this category) are below average players. The Tau’s wheelhouse is being a middling-good army. That means lots of us are playing at or below the level where the Tau can be expected to do well, and relatively few of us reach the rarified air where we’re good enough that they’re no longer a threat.

Theory 2: The Tau Are Somehow Unfun

There are mechanics in the Tau codex I’d define as “unfun” – things where really only one side of the battle is enjoying things, rolling dice, etc. The flexibility of the Tau in countering certain mechanics in the game (anything cover related, anything with a vulnerable rear armor value, etc.) can trigger a feeling of helplessness. And that’s not fun.

Beyond that, because of the synergy in the Tau army and their weakness in melee, Tau success is very front-loaded. There’s lots of killing while the full army is up, marker lights are abundant, and units can support each other. So for the first few turns, the Tau roll dice, and their opponent removes units.

Then, if their opponent survives that, the tables start to turn. When the Tau crumble, in my experience, they start crumbling fast. Which means that un-funness switches. Tau are being removed in droves, and then the final tally ends up being much closer than it felt like earlier in the game. And while in a game sense this might be balanced, two or three turns of unfun on both sides doesn’t average out to a fun game.


TLDR: They shitstomp bads and don't play by the same rules as everyone else.

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>>53376573
Your new army-wide keyword.

>>53376582
Some games might go like that, but Tau do have melee options. Deepstriking also changes up that formula

with the new edition rules grots might actually see the field as something other than objective fodder now

I can already see myself having a blob of them in front of my boys to absorb charges and then counter charging with my boys, maybe they'll give rules to the little shits like in the old days to make them give a cover save to everything behind them

>>53376540
There are plenty of shooty armies though

>>53376616
A guy I know is planning a lost consisting of 400 grots and ghazgul.

>>53376452
That model has the most disappointing hair.
Seriously, it is so long that callidus would probably trip on it.

>>53376340
>they dont want anyone but a magos working on their machines.
>they dont want anyone but a magos commanding skitarii
I'm pretty sure I didn't imply either of these things, anon

>they dont want other armies to fight better alongside skitarii.
???
They're the Admech's personal army, sure, but I just re-read the Skitarii codex, and I don't remember seeing anything suggesting they're not able/allowed to coordinate with other Imperial forces.

Also, deviating from the Cult doctrine is neither unheard of or even particularly uncommon, particularly the farther you are from the grasp of Mars; Enginseers are forced to do so on the regular for pragmatic reasons, and literally just BEING a Magos Biologis is to stand in defiance of one of the Cult's most central tenets (re: the weakness of the flesh)

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>>53376516
>That said I know a couple bro-tier guys who play Tau, it doesn't make you an evil person, it just makes the already annoying guys much more hateable.
Old-school Orkfag who played a lot back in 4e and 5e days here.

Two of my best friends growing up were both Tau players, and they were pretty bro-tier about the whole thing. So yeah, the more annoying Tau players really drive me up the zoggin' wall because of my prior experience with Tau players.

>>53376582
>Theory 2: The Tau Are Somehow Unfun
>There are mechanics in the Tau codex I’d define as “unfun” – things where really only one side of the battle is enjoying things, rolling dice, etc. The flexibility of the Tau in countering certain mechanics in the game (anything cover related, anything with a vulnerable rear armor value, etc.) can trigger a feeling of helplessness. And that’s not fun.
>Beyond that, because of the synergy in the Tau army and their weakness in melee, Tau success is very front-loaded. There’s lots of killing while the full army is up, marker lights are abundant, and units can support each other. So for the first few turns, the Tau roll dice, and their opponent removes units.
>Then, if their opponent survives that, the tables start to turn. When the Tau crumble, in my experience, they start crumbling fast. Which means that un-funness switches. Tau are being removed in droves, and then the final tally ends up being much closer than it felt like earlier in the game. And while in a game sense this might be balanced, two or three turns of unfun on both sides doesn’t average out to a fun game.
The issue is also that the weak armies in 7th edition usually can't even get past that initial point to where the Tau start losing. So they never even see that as a thing, while the Tau who lose to good armies feel helpless about competent melee, so their whining looks especially bullshit and entitled to the aforementioned weaker guys.

>>53376404
Looks like you are the one short on reading comprehension khorne cuck. If you disembark and then charge on the same turn you get no bonuses. Unless you have your little red smurfettes sit there for a whole turn? Kek.

>>53376430
Because they are weeaboo commie faggots.

>>53376632
lel, I have about 200 grots and I fielded them all once along with boy footslog

all in all I had 400 models on the table, my opponent pretty much shat himself

>>53376582
This basically. They're heavily skewed pubstompers. Also they're the poster child for the "monstrous creature problem" or perhaps "vehicle problem" of 7th.

>>53376625
yeah but most of them don't just get to fly away 12 inches after I got the charge off

>>53376552
Noted. Converting a lot of stuff because it's a custom Magos Genetor army anyway. Still do need an Archmagos, two squads of Thallax and any Ursarax and Myrmidons I might use.

So make and send off order on website, then email asking for a PayPal invoice for Order #X using the email adress on the website. Seems simple enough.

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> Be captain of the Steel Confessors 2nd Company
> Actually interred within a Contemptor, I ascended to becoming one with the omnissiah a mere eight centuries ago. And before that I served the lords of mars with twelve-hundred centuries of glorious battle in the name of the omnissiah.
> Hear about how we have some of these newfangled "Primaris Marines" getting drafted into my company.
> WTF, My company is made entirely of dreadnoughts, since when do the newfags get to stomp around with my fellow ascendants?
> A set of about six strange new contemptors end up stomping into my office(more like an auditorium.. My office is big enough to entertain an entire company of scouts), they're a full two heads taller than me. And trailing a whole gaggle of rather giddy looking techmarines.
> "BIG BROTHER CAPTAIN, TELL US SOME STORIES"
> "BIG BROTHER, TELL US ABOUT HOW YOU DIED."
> "LOOK BIG BROTHER, WE ARE NOW ONE WITH THE OMNISSIAH JUST LIKE YOU"
> Mfw

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>>53376654
>if you disembark then charge on the same turn you get no bonuses
>Units now disembark at the start of the Movement phase, before the Transport moves, but can then move, shoot and fight normally in that turn
>so shitter-shattered he starts making shit up
lmao
we are still fast as fuck
we still tear you a new one in combat
we still make you astronomically butthurt
praise khorne my nigga
best edition

>>53376733
Fix. Bayonets.

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>>53376733
YOU DONT GET SHIT FUCK YOU FAGGOT


PIC RELATED YOU RIGHT NOW YUO FUCKING KHRONE FUCK NIGGER SHIT

>>53376697

Yea. It's possibly the easiest order besides ebay. I think you have to make an account, too. Just make sure you follow the right link.

>>53376509
Nobody knows

>>53376712
c-cute

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>mfw Tyranids main problem even when they were a top tier army was always killing metal bawkses
>mfw in this edition people are going to charge their metal bawkses INTO ME instead of me having to chase them down

>>53376509
What about them?

>>53376771
All we need now is someone posting 'BRAAAAAAAAAAAP' and we'll have a proper shitpost.

>>53376582
One of the big thing is they ignore key parts of the game. (Cover) which for some armies IS their durability (Dark Eldar spring to mind) and also their counterplay / flexibility (which isn't bad, but it's ridiculously good.

>Any suit can buy Skyfire and/or Interceptor

Most other faction's Anti Air is dedicated AA and dead weight otherwise. Not Tau.

Interceptor is strong vs. anyone who uses reserves.

Combined that with the move-shoot-move that suits can do and you can literally be unkillable as your units just keep running out of LoS.

But keep in mind Tau aren't the only one who have this problem.

>also they were "weak" in melee yet in 7e they (suits) hit Marines on 4+ while Wound them on 3+ vs the Marine who hits on 3+ and Wound on 4+.

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>>53376759
>>53376771
>>53376791
Prepare to get rekt. BftBG!

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>>53376821
>BRAAAAAAAAP

>>53375666
I'm a Marine player and I would like to see plastic Sisters too, and new units for them
And you should too, since that would mean they have no reason to complain anymore

>>53376867
I'd rather they get squatted, that would be hilarious. Though I wouldn't mind them getting models as long as they stfu.

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>>53376855
But how you survive your charge in flamers?

>>53376866
Good post

>>53376712
> Later that week
> Chapter master calls up a "Storytime" with the 10th company
> Uuuuhhgghhhhh
> Gather all my dreadnoughts in a fuck-off-huge building. Even the new "Redemptors", who arel ooking around with their simulacrum-heads with what I could almost swear was childish glee. Everyone sits down, various weapons systems pointed up in the air.
> The newfags are totally confused.
> I explain to them that part of our duty as Ascendants is to occasionally entertain the new 10th company scouts with tales of past glories. We are also to impart battle-wisdom onto them.
> About a hundred or so of the aforementioned scouts all rush into the building. There's also about fifty of the new primaris marines included.
> Everyone sits down in little circles around my Ascendants
> The newfag "Redemptors" immediately start explaining to the other newfag primaris guys some totally alien concepts like cover, concealment, and proper marksmanship.
> One of them ends up recounting the story of how he died. Apparently he fell off a twenty-story building, but he survived long enough to crawl into cover. He even took out a squad of orks before finally bleeding out.
> Most of their stories are unfortunately about inane shit, like the different kinds of flowers they've discovered, or how adorable the tiny human children can be.
> This day can't possibly get any more entertaining

>>53376889
Was it ever confirmed you could take a full squad of flamer Rubrics?