Previous thread: >>53867581 Thread summary incoming &g

1st for the commons, who must be terrified while marines marine, daemons daemon and primarchs primarch on their planets.

>>53895035
Thread summary, as promised:

In the previous thread the ages old IW-IF rivalry had another bout, the (planned) fate of the primarchs and their legions was discussed, anon declared race war on the White Scars, and more!

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First for this is the best /general/. Love you guys
except for femarch posters

>>53894867
Yeah it was pretty clear it was just for rule of cool than anything else (which is disconcertingly becoming more and more common in the books) but what you gonna do?

didn't there used to be a Black Library Mega that had all the Audiobooks? Has anyone remade that, looking for the last few HH audiobooks

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>>53895450
Write a strongly worded letter of protest! No, I won't. Other than that, it was a good story. I just hope they got it out of their system and don't overdo it.

One thing they did overdo: breaking backs over knees.
>Russ to Magnus
>the Lion to Curze
>Sanguinius to Ka'Bandha
>Horus to the Emperor

I'm guessing Gav will forget about that scene and have Luthor break the Lion's back over his knee when Caliban rolls around.

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RIP wallet

>>53895879
That's mah boy! Two Galatus and ten Sagittarum later and I regret NOTHING.

They're beautiful models.

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>>53895035
>>53893784
We literally have BL book about whether it was just to gas Cthonia, IIRC Malcador was fine, dorn was not amused

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>>53895879
Was today a success for transmarines!?!

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I made this in paint to honor our banana painted boys from the previous thread.

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>>53895879
>tfw totalled up everything you need want to buy and it's loads

>>53896360
>tfw i can't spoiler greentext

>>53896114
It doesn't seem Dorn-ish to flinch away from removing such an immediate threat to Terra. Didn't Cthonia get Alderaaned after the Heresy anyway?

>>53895035
>>53893999
>>53894136
>>53894222
On this note I've been really itching to build a Red Talons themed list. What would be the best way to represent them? Orbital Assault like in the tactical assault moon story? Do they have any notable assets that should be represented besides Gorgon termies and Mor himself?

>>53896472
They have a contemptor that's been around since the Heresy so I'd include him.

>>53896472
they have a leviathan and probably loads of those angry breacher fuckers. Lots of flyers as Mor favours fast moving insertion attacks.

>>53896502
What's the dread kitted out with? From the art it looks like a conversion beamer

>>53896536
Someone make an edit of this or remind me next weekend as I'll be free then

>>53896536
Maybe I should take Mor and his Gorgon retinue in a Caestus Assault Ram to get that best of both worlds tank and flyer...

>>53896412
Yeah, they blew up all the traitor homeworlds that hadn't already been blown up. (Okay, it was often a mere scouring rather than exploding the planet.)

While looking up what happened I got a link titled "Colchis, land of the golden fleece." An old kingdom in what's now Georgia (the Georgia that Stalin was from, not Coca-Cola). One of the first to practice circumcision. The description of 40k Colchis in The First Heretic kind of matches. It broke up after being bombarded after the Heresy.

Chemos was bombed and quarantined. Chthonia was bombed, not much info given. No info at all about Barbarus but I'm not sure it could be made any worse. We all know what happened to Prospero, and Nostramo and Olympia were destroyed by their own primarchs.

The Blood Ravens' homeworld is "Cyrene Secundus"???

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>>53896656
>Someone make an edit of this
I don't really know what you were looking for but here you go.

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With or without shoulderpad

>>53896963
With shoulder pad, and a new arm. Astartes bionics are bulkier than that.

>>53896963
With shoulder pad but keep the arm. The skeletal bionics look really cool.

>>53897019
>bionics are of uniform construction and design across all legions and even individual techmarines

>>53897019
>implying a blood angels praetor wouldnt have a more elegant bionic arm
>implying you wont take what you can get when you have an arm ripped off 3 weeks into the siege of Terra and have to get back to the wall before traitor shits overrun you

>>53896850
If the blood ravens got a home world in DoW3 I'm pissed
Also circumcision would first be practiced in the Fertile Crescent because you require civilisation to develop the tools for those practices.
Georgia the US state is based off King George 1 of England founding it.
Also Herodotus had a right laugh making two iberias and two Albanias, which if you look up gives stormfront as the first suggestion

>>53896963
With shoulder pad but you know that head would piss people off

>>53897125
He's a BA, they can get away with it (though I'd still only use MkVII pieces sparingly)

>>53897125
My blood angels will be themed around the siege of terra, so theyll be mostly mk 4/5 with small bits of mk 2/3/6/7 mixed around, and loads of weathering (except on the mk7 pieces, which will be mostly clean)

MK7 is being phased out anyway, figured now is as good a time as any to work it into my HH stuff

>>53896850

>Cyrene Secundus

Cue ADB sperging out over confirming Ravens are canon TS successors.

I like ADB but he freaks out over weird things. And I'm still absolutely tickled that 8E happened after he spent a long time saying the timeline would never advance.

>>53897596
>over confirming Ravens are canon TS successors
Unless something new came out I don't think the Ravens have been "confirmed" as such, just heavily implied.

>>53897632

That HH short story about Revuel Arvida on Prosero made him freak out over how heavily they hinted TS = Blood Ravens.

Some Mongolian history links from a cool thread >>53884257:

http://deremilitari.org/2014/06/the-art-of-war-under-chinggis-qahan-genghis-khan/

http://deremilitari.org/2014/07/the-mongols-in-the-west/

The 40k White Scars' tradition of hunting down an enemy seems to be taken from the way the Mongols hunted down Muhammad II of Khwarezm and Bela of Hungary after they killed Mongolian envoys.

>>53897632
How much is needed to be implied before it's considered confirmed? Because they aren't nudging and winking as much as they are screaming

>>53897112
It's mentioned in DoW II.

>>53897632
>>53897654
Wasn't the link greatly weakened after Revuel Arvida merged with a Magnus shard to become Janus?

>>53897748
It was, which is why I think nobody actually liked it.

That, and shitting on the Omegon twist but w/e

>>53897748
>>53897771

That short story isn't in the mega and I'm not paying GW good monies for stories that short. I'll buy the novels but the short stories aren't worth it.

>>53897782
It isn't anything special, it's just an ass pull nobody asked for

Man I just want 8th edition rules so I can play my Death Guard against my friends xeno armys

>>53897782
It's pretty recent. Short stories don't tend to get pirated until they're in an anthology.

>>53897839
Just use 40k Space Marine rules.

>>53897892
I'm not sure about that; all the other stories which were part of advent 2016 got pirated, I'm pretty sure this one was as well and I've got the epub lying around here somewhere

>>53897839
This

now I cant play my custodes against people unless i use the garbage gw rules

>>53898023
They're an entirely different unit and they're beyond neutered in terms of capabilities. They're worse at reflecting the lore than Titans are.

It's a rumor going around, but in 1-3 months there will be more FW data sheets with a few containing additional Custode pieces.

>>53898023
GW will release a Talons of The Emperor codex eventually.

Any of the podcasts got any good episodes or anything atm? By good I mean having breakdowns or sperging out, I just got done with the strayan youtubers who hate everything talking about how they want to literally attack people in stores who buy 8th edition, shit was autism.

>>53898899
You can't just say that and not link it.

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>>53895240
Femarchs did nothing wrong

>>53898970
If you're going to post them, at least post the other half of the set ya git

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>>53895450
>but what you gonna do?
Sit Autek in the blue chair.

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>>53898970
>>53899421

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>>53899688
The question here is: Who is best girl?

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>>53899661
why don't they do stuff like this anymore

>>53897771
>It was, which is why I think nobody actually liked it.
>That, and shitting on the Omegon twist but w/e
20 times this.

>>53894387
>Jaghatai was trying to find out whether Horus or the Emperor were telling the truth. If the Emperor had broken his oaths to Horus somehow and the Heresy was a response to that then Jaghatai would have sided with the traitors.
>Who is right or wrong mattering on whether or not you side with the Emperor
This is how I know you may be an imperial, but you're no Loyalist.

>>53895228
If the IW are rival to the IF, who are the rivals to the other legions? And can one legion have many rivals? I'm not sure if the UM is exclusively to the WBs or the ALs can be their rivals too.

>>53900099
>BA and WE
>IF and IW
>UM and WB
>SW and TS
>RG and AL
>Sal and DG
>IH and EC
>DA and NL
>WS and SoH???

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>>53896114
People forget Horus recruited from Cthonian and other 38 worlds.
I can't remember for the life of me, but I'm certain I read one bit in a HH book that said:
>It's simply a mistake to think the traitor legions started at maximum size at Istvaan and their numbers only diminished on their way to Terra.
I think they also used forbidden methods, Horus' connections, and gang pressed entire populations to keep up their numbers.

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>>53900195
>Traitor Maximus
>MAXIMUM TRAITOR

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Bois, it's time.

>>53900058
>Who is right or wrong mattering on whether or not you side with the Emperor
There's no need to be a Chaos-tier cuckold who gets fucked over and asks for more. If the Emperor won't keep the oaths he swore to his sons why should they keep their oaths to the Emperor? If the Emperor fell to Chaos should all the legions stay "loyal" to him?

>>53900099
>And can one legion have many rivals
Yeah, you have rivals on either an ideological basis or just bad blood; so for example the IF and IW are rivals because Dorn and Perty don't like each other, but IF and AL are also rivals because their tactics are so different.

Other rivalries

>SW and DA
>SW and TS
>DA and NL
>IH and EC
>WS and DG
>UM vs WB
>BA vs SoH
>UM vs SoH
>Sal vs DG
etc.

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>>53900189
>>Sal and DG
I want stories of the firestriders together. Deathshroud scything the numerous while Firedrakes bring down the towering. Grave Wardens laying low the tough while Pyroclasts obliterate the armoured. Where unforgiving flame worked with noxious chem-cloud.

>>53900237
>possible
>may
>suggest
Discarded.

>>53900342
Seeing as the Emperor is the only bulwark against chaos, supporting him even if he broke his oaths to his sons seems like a Hobbesian choice.

Hell, even Jaghatai says the same to Morty, that while he thinks the Emperor is a tyrant he's better than Horus

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>>53900365
It's still exciting, m8. Don't be a party pooper like this guy.

>>53900381
>Hell, even Jaghatai says the same to Morty, that while he thinks the Emperor is a tyrant he's better than Horus

That's after he discovered the truth of Chaos/daemons and that Horus was in league with them. He was always ambivalent towards the Emperor but was close to Horus before the Heresy.

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>>53900342
The Emperor is the Imperium. If he says the day is now the night, then so it shall be. If he says the psyker legion shall no longer toy with warp power, then that is the law. Love for he Emperor is unquestioning, for there is the Emperor and there is war.

>Mixed armour marks, with increasing weathering and battle damage the older the mark of armour

yes/no?

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>>53900405
He's younger than me. I don't believe this. This has to be a shitty joke.

>>53900484
>with increasing weathering and battle damage the older the mark of armour
The best idea I've seen for armour mixers. I demand pics on completion.

>>53900189
>WS and SoH
If anything it's WS and DG but it's mainly just Jag and Morty. In The Carrion Throne it's shown that Daemon Mortarion and Jaghatai dueled during the siege so we're going to get another showdown.

>>53900468
Calm down Rogal.

>>53900441
I think Jaghatai's friendship with Magnus becomes more interesting when you realize that they're the only primarchs who are more anti-other side than they are pro- own side
>>53900537
>that Daemon Mortarion and Jaghatai dueled during the siege so we're going to get another showdown
What better way to emphasize how epic these duels are than by having one per book?

Authors are mongoloids.

>>53900569
>I think Jaghatai's friendship with Magnus becomes more interesting when you realize that they're the only primarchs who are more anti-other side than they are pro- own side
Too bad they will never speak to each other again :(

>>53900626
You sure?

They were both at Terra.

Cry not that they won't talk to each other again, cry instead that the war-scarred Jaghatai will have to face the soul-broken Magnus

>>53900569
I haven't read TCK yet. Did they explain why Magnus joined the traitors? At Prospero he was still loyal to the Emperor and accepted that his punishment was just. Horus is also the one who ordered the attack on the Sons in the first place.

>>53900626
I want Khan to come back in 40k. He'd be a nice counterpoint to Roboute.

>>53900685
If rumors are to be believed, a loyalist Primarch will be returning albeit mostly traitorous.

It's gonna be Russ or Khan isn't it...

>>53900685
Yeah; his original plan was to save as much knowledge as he could from destruction and just wait for the heresy to blow over, reasoning that "no war is eternal" (kek), but then Malcador had to pull his Janus bullshit and now the last shard of Magnus is stuck on Terra, so they'll join Horus on Terra to regain it

>>53899891
They do

https://regimental-standard.com/

>>53900715
>If rumors are to be believed
Did one of the named rumourmongers say it? If so I'll believe it because they've had a great track record lately. Or is it just a /tg/ism that gets repeated?

>>53900760
rumormongers, sadly. Though a crazed wulfen Russ seems awesome.

>>53900734
So why is such a raging douche in M41/42 who murders random Imperial planets willy nilly?

>>53900760
It's a pretty old rumour, was first brought up alongside Bobby G being rezzed and Cadia being BTFO

>>53900783
Because he never regained that last shard, which was said to be the good part of Magnus

>>53900776
>rumormongers, sadly
Like Atia? Those people?

>Russ but now he's cuh-razy
That seems like perhaps the least interesting outcome desu

>>53900790
>Cadia being BTFO

This is way too funny to me.

>>53900822
I can't recall exactly, but it was the same dude to mention Big Bobby G and Primaris.

>>53900815
>>53900783

And somehow he re-shattered in the interim, the rest of the TSons forgot he ever shattered the first time, and they put him back together in the Ahriman trilogy when they realized it.

McNeil sounded so proud of Crimson King..... Wouldn't French have spoken up and been like: Uh, I already did this exact plot......?

>>53900783
Chaos is a hell of a drug.

>>53900715
>implying any Primarch who fails to fall into lockstep with Guilliman wouldn't be viewed as traitorous

>>53900990
>implying any Primarch who fails to fall into lockstep with Guilliman wouldn't be viewed as traitorous
>it's le ebin 1d4chan meme again

Guilliman literally told the Senate that it would have been better for Horus to have won than for them to have let the Imperium get to this point and nobody did shit.

The Khan, the man who was tempted the most out of any of his brothers and still kept loyal, would be embraced by both his brother and the rest of the Imperium
>>53900971
Who knows, there's still more milk in the co- I-I mean, books to write

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Finally built my Vets and Terminators, now it's time for 10 Breachers, 10 Autocannon Heavies, and 10 Seekers.

Wish me luck, brothers.

>>53901035
Guilliman was just shifting blame for the failures of a system he designed.

Fucker didn't even think that they needed a rule preventing a single person from holding multiple High Lord positions.

Face it, Guilliman is bad at government.

>>53901320
he underestimated how retarded humans are going to be. It's not like his system was bad, it was just poorly executed.

>>53898899
Age of Darkness tends to have real content and not sperg out. The main guy is too in love with the BL novels for some, but still, it's good.

>>53900971
Someone needs to ask French about all that. Using all the French characters was okay, it was nice to see them in the actual HH, even if it was Graham's usual world-shrinking (the random TS that survive into the 32nd millenium all happen to be the exact same ones Ahriman goes on his Wild Ride with), but actual pre-empting the exact same fucking plot...that's a weird one.

>>53901084
Good luck anon. It'd be neat to see some painted stuff sometime.

>>53901353
>>53901320
not to mention, in his complete absence.

>>53901320
>>53901512
Exactly. Guilliman can do government, but no one, even a primarch, can prepare for the kind of horseshit humans can pull given centuries or millennia of pants-on-head-retarded leaders and policies tampering with the system (or failing to innovate and/or rationalize answers)

>>53901415
Myles is the only good thing about that podcast. The rest of the cast are loudmouthed idiots. Especially that guy who laughs way too hard at things.

>>53901447

Right? I don't really care how they fix it, I just need an explanation.

>>53901447

To be fair, it seems like Crimson king was the origins of his cabal, and those were the guys he gathered again to do Rubric 2: Electric Boogaloo.

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what are the best ways to make my Emperors children look more traitor. i've got some bits of flayed skin and heads anything else?

>>53901940
Yeah, that's true, you're right, I'm just splitting hairs. Them all being in his cabal makes sense. And they show up in the Ahriman series because they're with Amon or he seeks them out.
I guess it was just that they're all there, no-one died inbetween. Even Mordant Hex shows up for a cameo, although that was kinda cool.
The only one missing was Ctesias but I'm not even sure he was a proper original Thousand Son.
I guess it's just that it's so neat. The only question mark was over Hathor Maat, you knew everyone else would make it out okay.

Also, I think there was a cut subplot about Ignis getting Credence. I thought he was going to defeat the cybernetica tech guy and do some magic shit with him, but instead that guy vanishes and Ignis just randomly steals a robot.

>>53902003
tubing and syringes for combat drugs

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>>53896279

>>53902003
Self mutilations. Also, the Emperor's Children post-Slaanesh are almost always described as wearing garishly painted mulicoloured armour as early as Isstvan V. (although in art they're always just depicted in standard purple and gold for some reason)

>>53902003
Mix ALL the human body fluids into your minis.

>>53902003
Honestly, DEldar bits are the way to go. Spikes, chains, trophies, scraps of flesh, combat-drug tubing, etc.

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>>53902207
>>53902192
>>53902189
>>53902132
i like the self mutilation and combat stims

>>53902093

Yup. I saw the Credence thing too.

>I guess it's just that it's so neat.
Agreed. Though it's funny that by the end of the Ahriman trilogy Magnus is STILL incomplete.

Have they mentioned anything about book 9? Do you think my boys in white will finally get the spotlight?

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What legions would you bring as part of a Shattered Legion, and how would you fluff them?
Example: a Warsmith assimilating WE and DG forces into his grand battalion after the latter's Praetors are killed whilst conducting a joint expedition near the galactic core, his combined arms tactics ironically preventing the force being eroded away in the usual meatgrinder tactics.

>>53902691
The Loyal Three just because I like them the most but I guess that's pretty unoriginal.

Death Korps Engineer models for a HH Calth Underground War Auxilia Regiment yay or nay?

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>>53902875
Are you asking if you can use FW mortals to represent mortals in a FW game?

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>>53902892
yeah I guess, HH people tend to be iffy about 40k stuff, but I love the visuals while disliking the lore behind the Death Korps, they fit perfectly with what we've seen of Calth though.

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So, /hhg/, how do you truly feel about 8th edition?

Would it really fit 30k, or would FW streamlining 7E into 7.5E with the new red book be infinitely better.

While I like vehicles being more survivable, not having an armour facing makes a lot of tactics redundant. That and transports and other vehicles are infinitely more expensive. Not to mention terminators.

>>53902964
I think 30k should not go down the path of 8th ed. I have faith that FW can do a good 7.5th ed

>>53902983
So do I. Though I lament Lord Bligh's passing and the repercussions it will have for the series.

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Built the autocannon heavy support squad; time to clean this shit until I die

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...what the hell was that?

>>53903293
TRASH

>>53902964
I think that HH has too many different game mechanics for 8th to represent them well. Whatever your opinion of 8th is in a vacuum I don't think it would work for HH

>>53903293
Reminder that this piece of shit apparently took 7 years to write.

I literally can't for the life of me understand how a man who wrote a thousand sons can write shit like this and the outcast dead

Why is the Basilikon Astra so underrepresented and underrated compared to lets say the Reductors or Titan Legions?

I'd say the Basilikon Astra is the most important, and probably most powerful, wing of the Mechanicum.

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Post your armies that'll never get converted to 8th edition.

So what the fuck does the firewing do anyway? Seems like Abnett might have screwed them a bit because he wanted to make a biblical reference

>>53903574
I understand your point, but the only Reductor that we know of, besides the meme armies of anons, is Caleb Decima. Him and a bit of fluff in HH Tempest.
But yes, there should be more of the Basilikon Astra, and more Autokrator as well for good measure.
What do those guys even do? Do they drive the tanks or do they build them.

>>53903574
Because this is a skirmish scale war game with rules and lote focused on the soldiers on the ground. Yeah battle barges and stuff are probably the most powerful tool is a space marines arsenal but if we wantes to mess about woth those this would be bfg general

>>53903646
my issue is that they are barely ever even mentioned, besides that one guy who gets killed for building a Word Bearers ship, we never get any named Basilikon Astra Magi in the books even.

>>53903634
No one knows really, not a lot of info about them.

>>53903656
Beuacse they aren't that interesting compared to other stuff, they just build and maintain ships. I'd much rather read about d-day and the st nazaire raid than about the guys that built ships.

Does anyone have the Primarchs: Perturabo ePub?

>>53903563
>Doesn't even like the Thousand Sons
>Got forced into writing about them
>Wrote ATS with input from Abnett
>Oh shit everyone like it
>BL make him sign on to do the follow up
>Puts it off for as long as possible
>Eventually starts it
>Gets nowhere....slow
>oh hay i've got a real job now in another country
>gonna be awhile before I get to that book I promised
>well can you do a TS novella to get people hyped and tie into models?
>Can't I just write about Perturabo and my Iron Warriors instead?
>No, Guy Haley is doing that, do Magnus you fucking hack
>OK [hands in a book about how great Perturabo and the IW are, that happens to have Magnus and the TS in it]
>Meanwhile French writes 4 fucking books about the TS
>Graham eventually gets reminded he's obliged to write a TS book actually about them
>Panics
>Reads the French books and WHAT A SURPRISE his writer's block lifts!
>Bangs out the novel
>It has the same actual plot as the French books and 4/5 of the same characters
>Sit back and reap the loyalties

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>>53903694
I'd rather read about the coastal fortifications. Looks way more interesting and fun than the average sandy beach, except for the mines and such mantraps.
You've got to admit: Basilikon Astra, the "star palace", is a fucking cool name, making cool ships. It's understandable to want more fluff about it.

>>53903726
Srry Anon, I don't remember the link. It isn't one of the last four in the OP? I have it as a zip but I'm phoneposting

>>53903767
Nope, didn't see it in the OP links. Thanks anyway

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>>53903694
>they just build and maintain ships
so they just build and maintain the most destructive and useful technology the Mechanicum can muster?

What is a Space Marine compared to a Cruiser? Fuck that what is even an Emperor Titan compared to a Cruiser? Yet the Titans get their shafts sucked at every opportunity while they can't even hurt a Voidcraft, much less get anywhere without it.

>>53903574
Because GW hasn't re-released Battlefleet Gothic yet.

Remember when Knights were barely mentioned in fluff? From the end of the original epic in the 90s to about 2014, there wasn't a peep about them.

Now they're everywhere again, not just minis but in lore and books. Because GW re-introduced Knights into the game.

When they remake BFG (which is inevitable by this point, nu-GW is trying to milk anything classic) they will introduce the Mechanicus fleet to compliment those Skitarii and Cult Mechanicus armies. Then we'll get some fluff about them

>>53903833
I get your point, but 40k is very much immature in its priorities. Rule of cool, the guy with the flashiest sword and biggest pauldrons is most important

Space Marines fighting each other with giant chainswords and giant robots battling will always trump shipbuilders.

There is a lot of fan-interest in the Gloriana Class Battleships, I suspect eventually there will be a filler HH book about the crews on them and be about naval combat.

>>53903833
I answered your general point here >>53903646. Yes it would be nice to have more fluff but this is a game about soldiers on the ground and the lore is written to reflect that.

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Finished building the Seekers; same as the Heavy Support squad, they'll be cleaned meticulously soon.

>>53903994
Great.

>>53903994
Legion?

>>53904133
Imperial Fists.

>>53904163
enjoy dying for Dorn for no reason

>>53904196
I fuckin will. These walls will be stained with my blood, guts, and miscellaneous unidentifiable pieces of flesh.

>>53898936
its from the latest outer circle episode, kat spergs out the entire episode

>>53904494
Who?

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>>53903833
Company of marines can board it and destroy from within, navy-marines 0-1.

>>53904536
just a co-host/regular guest of the show

>>53904701
>siege bridges
I fucking hate this

>>53905067
the best part is that they are just stupid bridges with no roof or sides. You can see the ultras running across them like a bunch of ants.

>>53905067
Best part is they are probably powered by manual labor of thousands of slaves.

>>53905169
Did M31 ships commonly use slave labour? It doesn't seem like something Corax would be fine with.

>>53903255
>kalibrax autocannons
>visible mouldlines
>sergeant plume
>mk4
>no etched brass or legion pads
Re do

>>53903634
>it was a metaphor
Sure if you say m8, maybe they just burn all records of them to be a SURPRISE WHEN WE HAVE CUM

>>53903748
>job in another country
Explain

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>>53905512
Ultramarines are fine because romans in spess.

>>53905512
>>53905545
Ratings =//= Slaves, most ship crews are either born in space or penal workers. And even Terra had actual Slave workers.

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>>53905597
>And even Terra had actual Slave workers

>Sic semper tyrannis. Death to slaver pigs!
>*pledges loyalty to slaving tyrant*
Was Corax a Mortarion-tier hypocrite?

>>53905656
Every loyalist is a hypocrite

Trying to convert a Malcador lascannon turret to the battlecannon version. What would work best in terms of turret parts? I'm thinking either the taurox prime battlecannon or the imperial knight's cannon. Only concern is the taurox's might be too small.

>>53903255
>cleaning the mould lines up after assembly
Trust me, do it before putting them together, it's so much easier.

>>53903840
>using Nu when it's actually good
Wew lad

>>53903293
Seriously, fuck this shit. If never having ATS or False Gods meant The Outcast Dead, Angel Exterminatus, Vengeful Spirit, and this shit were never in the HH, I'd make that trade in a heartbeat.

>>53905663
And every traitor is abomination. Your point?

>>53905541
McNeil became the lead writer for the League of Legends lore. Completely serious.

>>53906004
Not him but that is news to me. Source?

>>53906016
http://kotaku.com/riot-games-has-hired-graham-mcneill-as-a-senior-narrati-1708712087

you could have googled

>>53906016
nvmind it's right on his wiki page
Wow.

>>53905656
it's fine, they were only enslaving Abhumans.

>>53905663
>loyalists
>hypocrites

>listen Magnus *skins innocent civillian to summon demon*
>we really are the good guys *virusbombs compliant world*
>our father is a tyrant and only cares about himself *orders Lorgar to murder billions at Calth*
>I'm sure you agree that I am the only true ruler of the empire *orders Russ to murder Magnus*
>I am sure you'll join our just cause to unseat the Emperor and let the galaxy burn? *licks Erebus' boots clean*

>>53906223
No one said chaos guys are better
but they are

>>53906270
they are all without exception shit, they merely have varying degrees of shitness. Even the best of them are still fucking cunts.

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>>53906304
>Yeah you are right, Emperor 4life

>>53906420
Alfa Legion was probably the worst even pre Heresy.

>>53901872
they're all fucking mongoloids in denial about how autistic they are.

>>53903638
>the only Reductor that we know of, besides the meme armies of anons
Are reductor lists memes now, have I missed something?

>>53906593
You seem to forget space wolves exist

>>53906727
Well given the faction background is half a page of text, Decima playing Grand Theft Istvaan and that one Magos in Tempest, not much left but memes at that point. We've certainly not ever seen them in action aside from Calleb building a vortex bomb from parts off a fancy Drop Pod, hijacking two Land Raiders, a Fellblade and a starship and rebuilding Crysos Morturg from broken remains. To be fair, that's a pretty awesome track record for one dude.

Hence the Church of the Crater, I suppose. Although I can't remember any one Reductor player writing characters for them.

>>53904214
This here is a loyalist. I don't know why I don't like the Fists more, I guess my heart was captured by the iron long ago.

>>53902691
Dark angels and Imperial fists, lots of swords and mkII/MKIII, full crusade of retribution sort shit, with the HQ units mirroring an RPG party.

IF praetor as the tank, DA Librarian for the wizard (they used a whole bunch of other unusable shit, so why not librarians too) and a primus medicae from either legion for the healer.

Together they go around killing traitors and being mad about traitors ruining everything

>>53905871
I thought "nu" was for new? It means bad?

>>53907724
>I thought "nu" was for new? It means bad?
It means new but also weak and shitty.

>>53905067
You mad thunderboi>>53907724
It means New but in a bad way
E.g.
>nu-male
A weak effeminate man

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Wellp, I played my second game of 1000 pts yesterday to honestly just get some practice with the new rules.

Battle Report: 2x Imperial Knight Wardens at 1000 points is rough. My SoB Got their asses kicked. List included.

I was aiming to play at a 1000pt tournament, but I dunno if the Sisters have it in them to compete against other 1000pt lists that are Magnus+Renegade Knight, or just 2 Knights.

Any ideas on how to beat those gate keeper lists?

>>53906727
>>53907640
I meant how, because of the rules incentives, would-be Taghmata players are persuaded to play Reductor because their exclusive units are powerful, they gain super move through cover and the limits (six Thallax, don't over do it on boops) are very easy to fulfill, while Taghmata is like chaos undivided but worse and offers you nothing.
Pretty much the only reason why someone would play regular Taghmata is when they are planning to take three Magi and none of them is a Reductor. The other scenario would be robots, but that's covered by Cybernetica.

>>53907795
>40k get out REEEE

>>53905597
>terra had slaves
They were compensated with knowing without them the human race would survive and they would never be forgotten
>>53905656
It's more the nuking of the children that gets me

>>53907815

Oops I clicked the wrong thread. Cactaphracti Armor is the tits!

Later duders.

>>53907761
>>53907785
The nu-marines aren't the Chadmaris? People seem to like those marines, and they look good rukeswise.

>>53907835
No worries fella, good luck with your sisters, fingers crossed for plastic kits with good sculpts.

>>53905959
Angel exterminatus fun tho?
>>53906004
They have a lore?
Fucking Koreans stealing our jobs
>>53906304
Explain how pertuabo wasn't better than dork

>>53907841
New marines are chad-marines

nu-marines would be if the marines were shitty and weak

>>53907841
They are but it ruins everything about the concept of the space marine
>tarkus liked to paint
That exemplifies how they have miscaptured the spirit

>>53907841
It's more a complaint about the rules and fluff, basically the Eldar gave Guilliman the kiss of life and he woke up and kicked shit for a bit before commissioning his old heresy buddy (who we have never heard of until now) Deus ex Mechanicus to make new shit for everyone.

Seriously this magos has apparently spent the past 10,000 years making new shit so GW can pull awesome stuff out their arse and just say lol, Cawl did it'.

Also while a lot of people like the new rules a lot of other people think they are a dumbing down of the rules with things like leadership and initiative having little effect on things and vehicle facings not mattering anymore.

>>53907640
>>53907810
I keep toying with the idea of making a reductor list myself are they frowned upon in the community? I plan to fluff things out etc.

>>53902875
Yes, do it.

>>53908014
Fluff is always nice, we don't have enough custom armies around here. My Reductor, couple Custodes and Blackshields and a Loyalist Iron Warrior horde is all I can remember off the top of my head.

Reductor is only frowned on if you go full cheese without a good reason, I think. We don't have enough fluff to be hated as a Faction even if our lore wasn't cool as fuck anyway. Just don't go Droplite, Gravidon, Medusa, Krios Venator and Adsecularis spam on some poor Astartes infantry wave and you'll be fine, and there's certainly armies out there who can take on even that, although not many.

What did you want to do with your army or fluff? Know who'll be your main opponents?

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>>53904163

>>53904196
Dorn aint dead, Sonny boi

>>53904494
good episode

>>53905094
I bet their legs are mag locked to the bridge

>>53905545
Surely this is servitor work, wtf Ultras

>>53908120
>What did you want to do with your army or fluff?
I'm building a Dark Angels army that I have wrote fluff for and I would like to incorporate the reductor forces into the fluff but play them as a separate army on the table top. I really like thallax and ursarax, Krios fluff says they weren't used outside of Taghmata forces so i won't be using them because I'm a fluff autist. I'll probably load up on artillery batteries of various types, demolisher cannon and colossus bombard are my favourite. Droplite and Adsec units don't appeal to me at all.

>Know who'll be your main opponents?
I live close to Nottingham so probably a bit of everything.

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>>53908192
>reloading Macro Cannons
>ever Servitor work
dude what? it's meant to happen automatically, but none of the mechanisms function properly anymore. Especially not once the ship has taken a few hits, so they keep Ratings for manual loading.

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>>53908867
>up to 500m long
>emperor titanlets are smaller than a cruisers main weaponry
how can Ground forces even compete?

>>53908970
>how can Ground forces even compete?
They can't, but precision bombing with ships designed to slug it out over huge distances isn't exactly easy.
Hell, the standard shells probably can't even do re-entry (they're vacuum based weapons, atmospheres aren't a thing usually).

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>>53909067
that's why these babies exist
>light speed so accuracy is great
>energy of that magnitude doesn't give one fuck about atmosphere

also there are Plasma Macro Batteries too, which are just insane in every way.

>>53909131
>also there are Plasma Macro Batteries too, which are just insane in every way.
Plasma batteries would suck against atmospheres, the bolts would dissipate very quickly (magnetic bottles don't deal well with interference), lances are much more coherent energy beams, so they don't scatter nearly as much.

>>53908150
>Dorn aint dead, Sonny boi
>Imperial Fists reading comprehension

I miss DG posting

>>53898023
>I can't play using the garbage GW rules unless I use the garbage GW rules.

Literally what???

>>53897907
this

>>53902964
I'm hopeful that Forge World will make Heresy what 8th edition should have been.

>>53907982
>> dumbing down of the rules
that's a meme, stop it

>>with things like leadership and initiative having little effect on things
leadership is very very important now, armies based around it actually work now e.g. DE.
initiative doesnt exist anymore so you have to actually use positioning tactically rather than relying on a number in a book

>> vehicle facings not mattering anymore.
its not a tank simulator and was never meant to be

>>53908867
Where's this from?

>>53903627
Lucky you. You've been spared from the shittest edition of 40k there has ever been.

>>53905959
Never got the hate Vengeful Spirit got.

It's a pretty good book, I think it's just that people are allowing their bias about the revelation about Emp's being a twisty fuck cloud their judgement.

>>53910688
kys pleb

>>53910688
>a wargame shouldn't be a tank simulator
Yeah, we should just go pew pew and declare explosions when we feel like it.

>be Magister Amon
>use sorcery to assault fellow Astartes and a Custodian Guard, the physical extension of the Emperor's will, at a trial to determine whether or not psykers and the Thousand Sons can be trusted
>completely unprovoked for no reason
Is he literally, and I mean literally, retarded? This is who Magnus placed in charge of XVth legion """"""intelligence""""" and chose as his equerry?

His spy got sniffed out immediately too so he was completely incompetent in every single way.

I take it all back, the Thousand Sons deserved everything they got.

>>53910688
>my baneblades track is poking out from behind a building and can draw line of sight to you, that means that i can shoot all fifty-eight guns at you
Hate on facings all you want, but dont claim the new system is faultless when dumb shit like that, or sponsons being able to shoot through their own tank, is allowed.

>>53911003
nice bait my vlka friend, but shouldn't you be shagging wolves or something?

>>53911038
>he has no arguments

>>53902207
>>53902276
DE whips are also fair game.

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>>53903627
>Custodes and WE

>>53911055
Just in case this isn't a shitposter:

You're aware it wasn't actually amon right?

>>53909409
Kek, sorry, three days in the Pain Glove for me.

>>53910745
VS is like a big popcorn flick, with the planetary assault from space, then the beachhead and all the battles. I like it for what it is. The Knight errant stuff is a bit silly however and brings down the book.

>>53911135
>it wasn't actually us we were framed
Typical Thousand Sons logic

>>53911003
But that wasn't the real Amon, it was a daemon trolling the SW and TS both.

>>53911032
It's okay anon, we'll get updated vehicle rules in an expansion within 3-5 years.

>>53902964

I would like 8th if only for the fact that it makes melee armies more viable.

Otherwise, eh. Both systems have their flaws.

>>53907872

Dorn didn't blow up a planet in a ditch of autistic rage.

>>53911225
>woof can't into reading comprehension
Thanks for making the point for me

>>53912263
Perturabo didn't blow up his legion in a fit of autistic rage.

>>53912803
yeah he only blew up a tenth

>>53912809
My point exactly.

>>53905067
>>53905094
I'm sorry but space siege ladders are utterly in the spirit of 40k

>>53907260
they fulfilled their purpose and didn't undermine Imperial institutions.

>>53912803

Not through lack of trying, only lack of means.

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Had some spare bits and made a Centurion/Consul. Thoughts?

>>53907872
>Explain how pertuabo wasn't better than dork

this is easy
>is immature
>his legion are discount iron hands
>commits treason first chance he gets
>thinks culling his own Legion for his own failures as commander is justified
>hated even by his own Legion because of that
>gets uppity like a little child when the emperor doesn't want to use someone who can't even trust his own legion as praetorian of terra
>despite being a super smart superhuman who should be above such petty squabbles
>did I mention he is a traitor?
Dorn is the superior version of Pert. And I don't even like Dorn.

>>53913406
>thinks culling his own Legion for his own failures as commander is justified
He culled them for their own failures. When he was introduced to the legion they had just spilled spaghetti all over a campaign out of pride.

>>53913446
>Murdering your own staunchly loyal troops for basic misgivings

Right.

>>53911237
>a Daemon
>on Nikea
>in view of the Emperor and Magnus

half the Thousand Dindus are posessed by Demons, so it's still their fault for escalating Nikea. They dabbled in things far beyond their reckonning and they paid the price for it.

>>53913466
>basic misgivings
They got their troops slaughtered because they were too emotionally invested. The decimation whipped them into shape. The lives of Iron Warriors are to be spent to achieve a goal (the decimation served its purpose to prove a point) not squandered.

>>53913306
Bretty cool anon

>>53913666
Woo boy that's sociopathic

>>53913666
good leadership could have had the same effect without decimation. But pert was not a good leader. He was just an angry, bitter, manchild.

>>53913306
My thoughts are that you should paint something instead of posting pictures of unpainted models. Any one can glue plastic together, make a name for yourself, BY THE BLOOD OF DORN BECOME FIST-BRO. Because at this rate you will become unpainted model spamming guy.

>>53913306
>>53913719
kek, what he said, get some more painted models, naked resin isn't really impressive by itself.

On that note, is everyone painting them fully assembled? I always paint the guns/shoulderpads seperately because they rarely allow me to get all details painted fully assembled.

>>53913706
>>53913712
Yeah Perts a sociopath but his logic makes sense even if it's absurdly harsh.

>>53913719
Why do you guys have problems with works in progress that people do?

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>>53913895
WIP is fine, unpainted is worthless (barring some impressive kitbashing, sculpting or converting).

Basically, unless you're actually doing something to make your models truly YOURS, they lack vision and frankly it's an insult that we're expected to care.

Have a decent tabletop standard.

>>53902579
Nothing's been mentioned. My guess is that it'll be the White Scars + Tallarn.

>>53906598
>implying Mongoloids aren't the best
Eh, plenty of us enjoy the podcasts. You may be taking the hobby too seriously.

>>53913795
I paint assembled, since there are rarely spots that I cannot reach that will still be seen. Combined with a broad application of the base layer and any washes, missed spots are almost un-noticable.

>>53913306
Also, as they've said, lets also see some of your painted work. Even if it's only a little bit at a time, something is better than nothing. Anyone can trim and glue a miniature together, even if it does look nice., but your painting skills are where the quality of your work will be truly judged. I know my work is mediocre at best, but even I've gotten a few positive remarks, so give it a crack and let us see it!

>>53910745
I liked it, but I could've done without the entire Loken arc. A lot of HH novels tried to split their focus too much, imo. Should've just turned it into a novella or something.

I liked the knight house on Molech.

>>53913895
A WIP is a WIP. An unpainted miniature is eh at best, and unless it is some sculptural work of art, it doesn't really mean much.

Because even the most well designed miniature will only look as good as its paintjob allows it to. A good paintjob can make a shitty miniature look amazing, and a bad paintjob can make an amazing miniature look shitty. Your work is fine, but there's not really a whole lot we can say about it til we see paintjobs. The only thing you might get, of negative value at that, is some armor-autist crawling out of the woodwork to complain about the suit being incorrect or something.

>>53914001
Is there some kind of unspoken rule to post this picture in every thread?

>>53914203
Don't feed him.

>>53910688
>its not a tank simulator and was never meant to be
>>53911032
Armor facings are probably the one thing I'll miss the most when we switch over. In theory, FW could bring them back by adding a special rule a lot of vehicles (mostly medium tanks) that would give a -1T modifier for hits from the side or rear. That would mean adding arcs back into the game, but that's fine; the current HH rules add a few things on top of 7th ed 40k rules (like 6th ed scoring rules). They can always add things.

The problem is that defining arcs is tricky and, like templates, is probably one of those things that resulted in arguments and time-wasting. It's easy enough to draw lines through the corners of a Rhino or Land Raider, but what about a Caladius, or a knight? Maybe simplify it and take a toughness penalty if the enemy (or just their weapon?) is behind a line drawn tangent with the frontmost part of your vehicle. Yeah, I'd do something like that.

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>>53914058
Oh I've been posting my painted models, they're just taking a backseat to my Custodes

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>>53914222
I'm genuinely curious. I know nothing of this anon's work besides that single IW, which pops up for one reason or another in ever thread we've had for weeks now. Every other anon posting their stuff has some kind of variety to it, even EC guy and the Custodes players. But his is just that ONE miniature every time.

>>53914374
Oh, lookin' mighty fine to me, carry on then.

>>53914392
He has an OC donutsteel cringecore backstory for that mini. I assume he's waiting for someone to express interest so he can post it again.

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>>53914392
I have other pics, and I do post them now and again. I have some semi-decent Custodes half done, and I'm working on a SoH Praetor converted from Geigor Fell-Hand.

>>53914533
What sort of perverted monstrosity would claim to be in it for the fluff and NOT have a backstory that's at least semi-detailed? Like I said in the old post (a bunch of threads ago Anon asked for army fluff) most of that was inspired by drunk-watching Disney songs on youtube and then mashing it together with the bits and pieces I had before.

>>53914374
Could you post more of your banana clad warriors?

>>53914943
Yeah sure. Are there any specifics you want? I have about 8K of them

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Because I have nothing better to do, have some IV Legion.

>>53915025
Just show us your favorites, anything is fine.

>>53915092
I forgot about that ravenwing apothecary. Might have to steal that conversion.

>it's an IW vs. IF model showdown

>>53914943
Wait. Banana as in IF or Custodes?

I have four IF painted. 8k of Custodes painted

>>53915256
Banana clad implies the yellow armour of the IF but otherwise bananas mean the Custodes helmets. However in this case I would like to see your Imperial Fists.

>>53915299
Shit. Well then I certainly fucked up.

>>53899421
Out of morbid curiosity, why are all of them dressed semi appropriately, but the corax stand in looks like she is dressed for the strip club?

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>>53915168
Same hat!
I've actually made two Apothecaries that way using the Ravenwing kit, since I use them for my bikers, though I don't have a pic of them on their own.

>>53914772
Stop being so defensive over someone being curious about why you spam that pic and fluff of your Jago Snowflakanus guy, you actually fucking do it, he's not misrepresenting you my dude.
That aside good job, better than unpainted Custodes execution force / 10

>>53915419
>tfw no Cora strippers

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Alright everything is finally built. Breachers were just done and I'm gonna get to work on painting them tomorrow.

>>53917619
What are you planning on painting first? Are you doing things in 5/10 model amounts or will you batch paint the whole lot.

>>53917774
I'm going to try and get things done on a squad by squad basis in batches of 10 each. I'll do the three Vereran squads first, the Seekers, and then a toss up between the Breachers and Heavy Squad. I'll break that all up with the Terminators and characters sprinkled inbetween. As it it stands I'm painting a Mortis Contemptor and Xiphon right now.

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>>53917619
How's the quality on those Shapeways boarding shields? I've been thinking of ordering some for my own guys, and possibly some shoulder pads too

>>53918431
They're super nice actually! Very sturdy and lots of detail. Zero flex or chippage on any of them

>>53918623
What about the layered texture 3D prints often get?

>>53918699
On these it's very thin, I have zero concern about hitting them with two coats of primer to fill it all in.

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anyone have a link to the new steve lyons deathkorps novel?

>>53919085
https://mega.nz/#!3EJjiLSa!aAVARAhw8CoBdMhvnifq_9aBrdGVcWXhC-NhGp9jdfQ

>>53919114
thanks bae
you duh real OH GEE

>>53914334
I'd agree with the -1T from behind rule for vehicles. As for determining facings, that's easy as hell, Anon.
Draw a cross, rotate it 1/8 of a spin, and that's it: an x over your vehicle, no matter what it is. Anything coming from the lower angle is a rear shot.

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>>53914392
It's because the general doesn't like it when people wear names...but by posting his mini he gets around that. In the end, the general catched up and now simply dislikes it when people use a signature pic too.
In the end times, anons will develop witch sense and also hate on people they can recognize by their writing style. Then life will be the crime, with death as the punishment.
Then they will gaze into the fist of Dredd

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Any idea on how to make her look more like an Oblivion Knight Centura? She has an archaeotech pistol and execution blade.

>>53921416
- the helmet doesn't work for a centura
- the pteruges just kinda float there, embelish them a little
- the holster bloats up the model unnecessarily
- powersquat and arm positions don't mix well

>>53921416
Cut off some of the bling sticky-outy bits from custodes and attach them? Find a bigger, furrier cloak? Taller helmet? I think painting is gonna be the biggest help mate.
She looks good apart from the loincloth desu, I'd either GS the top side edges a bit or use a differnt one, it looks like it's just hanging off her clunge.

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>>53920140
To be fair, most of 4chan hates the idea of names and identification, so it's hardly unique to the general. Even so, posting any kind of personal content will render someone identifiable to some degree, he just happens to be focused on by that single picture.

>>53921863
>that gigantic avatar of armored death and destruction
>balanced on those teensy little exposed hip joints

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The schematics for the stormwhale may have been compromised. Who's the captain and how will it be used, Anon?

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Torgaddon ;_____;

>>53922360
>Hey Tarik, you know your best buddy Loken, who you mentored into command, sponsored into the Mournival and have long, intense meaningful sparring sessions with?
>Yes Zeke, I am aware of this gorge- I mean, accomplished man you speak of
>We were thinking, could distract him while we murder his poet 'friend'?
>What?
>Yeah and then sign this affidavit which says he totally murdered all those civilians?
>...what?
>Come on bro, it'll be a laugh
>No way man I'm ditching you and this shit party with all your shit friends who happen to be literally every single officer in the legion except the senile cunt no-one listens you
>W-w-well you'll be sorry!
>Fuck off, Abaddon
>...at least promise not to tell we just suggested framing a Legion officer for murder and are plotting murder of our own?
>...okay. I mean, who'm I going to tell? Certainly not all those remembrancers I know who have printing presses or the Crusade's Primary Iterator who is a personal acquaintance of Malcador the Sigilite
>And don't tell Loken either!
>Okay
>Pinky promise?

I loved Loken and Torgaddon, but they spend the entire time from that Army General's murder being completely retarded.

>>53922215
>Reductor children's books with Cogitator's first schematics.
That's adorable. I have no idea how the Mechanicum/OR treats kids, although I suspect it's some variant of "get out the way and go learn to siege".

I told Canaris to stop experimenting with those blasted Warpstone engines, but I guess they seem to work.
Cargo hauler variant, probably not a huge information leak given they're not exactly combat ships, but it does explain the increasing numbers of floating tiny pet whales in the geneoforge vats of late. I thought the kids just wanted Cyber-Occularis, but apparently not.

>>53922536
It's mentioned in other books that Abaddon was widely known even among the other legions as an asshole of a stupendous degree.

desu I'll never know how they justify him being first captain when he's such a retard in the books

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>>53914533
Well, since you brought up the subject, I find lately that most of the folks in my local heresy group frown upon people who create backgrounds for their dudes snowflakey or otherwise.

It's sucking the fun out of the hobby for me to play against generic armies that, despite being modelled and built very true to the lore, lack a sense of character.

I would love to hear some OC background stories for HH dudes, snowflakey or otherwise.

>>53922187
>>53921863
We stand by the will of the Emperor.
We move by the will of the Emperor.
We crush the enemies of empire
FOR THE EMPEROR!

>>53923081
>I would love to hear some OC background stories for HH dudes, snowflakey or otherwise.
Then hold onto your butt because this is snowflake city.

https://pastebin.com/UH76sKbX

>>53923225
More characters and their positions within the hexagrammaton. Everyone will eventually get full profiles anf fluff etc.

Praetor: Paladin-Captain Eilam Cephas -Deathwing
Champion: Paladin Ardwyad Siward - Deathwing
Librarian: Epistolary Gwydion Kaelen -
Ravenwing
Moritat: Destroyer Captain Shaddai Ashkenaz - Dreadwing
Siege Breaker: Siege Master Morthwyl Zur - Dreadwing
Chaplain: Chaplain Asir Orel - Ravenwing
Delegatus: Decurion Barzel Kanaph -
Ironwing

>>53923225
>Having been given permission to defy the Edict of Nikaea by the Knight Errant
Does they have the authority to do that?

Overall bretty good! The only slowflakeyness comes from the Knight Errant's presence and even that's not too bad.

>Eilam Cephas
>Shaddai Ashkenaz
Oy vey

>>53923381
Any fluff inconsistencies or clunky sentences will be ironed out in time. Regarding the edict I may have a bit about the Knight Errant being given permission from Malcador to "do whatever is necessary and use any weapons he has at his disposal" to complete his objectives, the KE interprets this as psychic time bitches.

Most of my DA characters have yo olde English or Hebrew names, I think these names fit their fluff quite well.

I might take this this fluff in the direction of how far can they go before they aren't exactly the good guys anymore, with some characters saying that the end justifies the means and others being like yeah okay but don't phosphex a bunch of human shields to kill one traitor astartes.

>>53923225
Dope. Would play a narrative campaign with/10.

Do you have any of them modelled yet?

>>53923515
>but don't phosphex a bunch of human shields to kill one traitor astartes.
This sort of thinking sounds insufficiently LOYAL to me. That's a good trade.

>>53923081
While I like the idea of fluffing out my EC dudes, I honestly haven't had a lot of time to seriously think about it much with IRL being crazier than usual for me. I've got a chapter/grand company/millennial name, general disposition, and a named Chaplain. Maybe after I finish this Phobos LR I'll take some time to properly commit some fluff to paper.

>>53923515
>aren't exactly the good guys anymore
To be fair, the definition of "good guy" is rather wide compared to what they're fighting. Hell, the Reductor wouldn't even blink in that situation, they'd happily go all Sierra Madre on somewhere for minimal miltiary gain as long as there was SOME, and they were mostly Loyalist (despite everyone playing Traitor Mechanicum because they get even more cool toys and characters) and widely praised in comparison to the Cybernetica, who just killed people with power fists, bolt cannons and plasma for the most part and were considerably more humane.

>>53915419
Because she's a slut

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>>53923081
My fluff for my Heresy-Era Imperial Fists isn't too bad, I think.

The 1st Company of the 1st Battalion of the 13th Chapter of the Imperial Fists, known as "The Lucky 13's", is a force within the Legion that compromises entirely of veteran battle-brothers. Their specialty is that of all other Imperial Fists, however, their history is an odd one; compromising of an unusual number of original Terran-Crusade based legionnaires that were present before Dorn's arrival, these battle-brothers found themselves on personal request operations from mouth of the Primarch himself, an abnormal amount of trust placed within them amongst a handful of other companies compared to any other forces within the Legion.

While not unusual, The Lucky 13's found themselves doing an inordinate amount of siege work on rebel or alien worlds during the Great Crusade, almost always being the first and last word for compliance amongst planets. It was here they made their name, as they found themselves continuously lucky in numerous ways during each mission; whether it was unusually fast warp jumps, no casualties during an operation, or even something as bizarre as a Lascannon shot simply scoring light burns across some battleplate. It was only after the Heresy began did the 13's find their luck being tested. Still finding themselves breaking down walls, this company now also found their calling in running even more personal request operations from the Primarch; often razing traitorous garrisons, headhunting specific traitors, and working misdirection operations amongst many others.

>>53923604
Thanks, I have a couple of things and posted some stuff here but I totalled my car recently and my increased commute time makes ne too tired to paint. I'm currently drawing a sector map for them on my lunch breaks.

>>53923969
It will mostly focus on my praetor as he is super noble and honourable. He will understand that this is war and his actions are necessary but the amount of collateral damage that occurs will eat away at him while his lieutenants try to sit him firmly on one side of the fence, the dreadwing and ironwing warriors want him to embrace full destruction while the ravening and Deathwing would prefer a lighter approach. There isn't enough info on storming and firewing for me to decide where they sit.

Seeing as people are posting fluff, I'm doing a BA force. The idea is that they predate the reunification with Sanguinius (or some of them do, at least), so they're less noble than most of the legion and more given over to acts of ruthlessness as a result of hanging around too much with SoH and DA. They suffered the effects of the red thirst fairly heavily before Sanguinius was brought in and the geneseed stabilised (as did all the legion). Their aesthetic is more medieval gothic than renaissance, a bit closer to the typical Imperial look in that regard. The idea is that they're the precursor to the Knights of Blood 40k chapter, so they share their badge and aesthetic of metallic armour with red pauldrons, helmet, and backpack. The force I'm building has a lot of dreads and some land speeders, wears MkIII on footsloggers I pray every day for plastic MkII assault marines, and one day I think I'll get them a caestus.

>>53924333
Cool story. Any named characters yet? Specific battles in the heresy they were a part of? A good idea to grimdarken that fluff would be to somehow have something happen during the heresy that turns their luck around or imply that there's some sort of sinister reason (warpcraft?) behind their 'luck'.

I've mostly been working on the lore for my preator. I'll see if I can post a quick version when I'm done with work.

>>53924598
Not big on BA lore, but are the Knights of Blood an official GW chapter or also homebrew?

>>53924611
I will probably write something while I am on my flight later this morning; I've had some battles and thoughts on their luck in my mind for a little while.

I also came up with a few names last night after doing a headcount of my current models. Germanic, Greek, some
Swedish names fit the Fists hilariously well.

Chapter Master Praetorian Helmuth Teichos
1st Battalion Commander Ferro Landis
1st Company Captain Archvald Petros
Signal Master Achillus Vunn
Chaplain Agart Roah
Champion Ingo Terrak
Moritat Octavius Nychta

>>53924644

Official GW, a crusading chapter that was declared renegade for a bit too much teamkilling. They show up in canon from time to time to help out the parent chapter.

>>53924916
they're now extinct

>>53924961

Possibly nommed by Leviathan (though the rulebook only states that they showed up for that fight, not whether they got wiped out in it). Good thing I'm more interested in the 30k force.

How would be the perfect new HH plastic set for you anons? Keep in mind the previous ones, their prices and contents.

>>53925375
2 generic plastic Consuls, 30 MK II or MK V tacticals with the same options as previous kits, with maybe something other than a Heavy Bolter? Lascannon or Multimelta or something.
3-5 Jetbikes, and 5-10 of any of the following (to replace the terminators and Contemptor/SoS+Custodes): Breachers, HH Assault Marines, Destroyers, Recon Marines or Seekers. Hell, maybe a HS/TS squad with loads of options you rarely see like rotor cannons, volkite stuff, heavy flamers...

Depending on how much power armour the price could be a bit lower than BoP or somewhat higher than BaC.

>>53925375
>Istvan III
>20 mkII dudes
>5 bikers
>3 BULLOCK jetbikes (instead of termies)
>1 javelin (instead of dread)
>2 whatever HQs (maybe a MoS?)

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>>53925375
MK II and MK V Marines. Dark Angels versus Night Lords or something. Each comes with a specific HQ Like a Captain and Librarian. Contains one squad of Outriders or Jetbikes and one squad Assault Marines.

Allows you to make a Captain/Praetor, a Librarian, two Tactical/Veteran Squads, one squad of bikes, and one squad of Assault Marines

>>53925438
>>53925445
>>53925446
How uncomfortably similar.

>>53925458
The fact that there's at least 2 of us is quite telling, yes. Basically people expect GW to continue introducing different armour marks and, now that Contemptors and Terminators have been released, we expect some variation.

>>53925458
It's not that wierd.
>already have MkIII and MkIV
Oh well I guess MkII or V is next up.
>already have both variants of regular termies
Well, what other variant of regular marines are there, oh I know bikers. And jetbikes are badass and unreasonably expensive.
>BoP and BaC have two HQ models
Well I guess we'll have two HQs.