Well Space Marines are back to bottom tier with those Bolter Discipline changes. Deathwatch is back to average instead of at least being competitive. Really disappointing.
as a knight player, F for rotate ion shields and castellan
as someone who plays against knights, thank god for nerfed rotate ion shields and castellan
Ugh, can GW just stop already?
If GW isn't going to give custodes infantry bolter discipline they really should make axes and spears assault weapons.
So a question of the moment - I have a Stompa with some nice resin klaws and grav-cannon - I wanted to turn it into a badass Kustom with shoulder-cannons and the like until the new edition came in. How would a 1500 point game featuring a (modern, no shoulder cannons) Kustom Stompa with a Big Mek +KFF and Lootaz fair against a knight (knights? I never played against them proper so I dont know if the knight would have like, smaller knights flanking him)?
GSC brood brothers models inside a GSC detachment rather than an AM detachment can no longer get orders given to them. Not sure how I feel about that one.
vs. pure knights you're gonna get yeeted off the board real quick unless you're facing something like pure armigers
you're paying potentially almost 1.2k for the stompa alone, which could buy you 1.7 castellans, 3 gallants, or 2 atroposes
Disappointing how overcosted the Stompa is then. Being able to give it a pretty decent invul save and repair 3+ wounds a turn is certainly handy but damn.
Ork Codex is still great overall
a regular codex stompa is "only" 920 points, but that's still horrendously, painfully overpriced for a T8 model with four damage states and no native invuln
They're no longer absolutely top tier, but I don't really think the bolter discipline changes have nerfed them that hard. Outside of storm bolter spam and Land Raider Crusaders, Deathwatch got hit much harder than space marines, and even then they still have plenty of dakka potential.
What is disappointing is that the FAQ decided that Grey Knights, the absolute lowest tier army currently in the game, needed yet more nerfing.
Anyone notice this in the Vigilus Defiant FAQ?
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/58205/ff4d41a3-29b0-4c14-bf8f-55f0f686e50c/Screenshot_20190430-130948_Adobe Acrobat.jpg
Time to rev up that HARAKONI WARHAWKS regiment?
I must be crazy for starting a Dawn of War mod project in 2019, especially because it's been 5 years since I was involved int he DoW mod community in any way.
Sadly I've nver gottent he object editor working, so I'm SOL on modifying models. Everything else is within my means however.
Actually looking at the upcoming Armageddon expansion, I may have to pick it up even if I don't really intend on playing games that large - sorry, the Stompa was a treat for me and I don't ever intend on having more then one, although I may look into making Battlefortresses/Kill Tanks depending on the degree of difficulty hand-making one is.
movement trays I really don't need to say more
You can easily get cheap mdf movement trays online already.
I've outlined my guard faction and started setting it up.
If anyone wants to comment or check it out, here's the doc
Guard Faction
If you're an old timey DoW moddel and can mod soulstorm, you're welcome to help out. All you've got to do is contact me on discord. I mostly just need model help, but anone familiar with data editign can also help me.
It's time to make an OC guard faction. Because forget Spacemarines, the Guard needs more love outside of Cadian.
Kinda read like the Armageddon Ork Hunters
Like the Steel legion, but without the armor focus and less resources, and no horribly deadly world elements. I just took a mix of a few guard faction ideas and put them together in a different way.
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/05/04/australian-championship-warhammer-previewgw-homepage-post-1/
Warcry, AoS Terrain, Chaos Knight codex(?). AdMech transport. Also this guy
https://www.warhammer-community.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/ChampionshipStoreSeminar-May4-IronHands3ukjcef.jpg
Does he have to spend a quarter anytime he wants to use the servo arm up top?
http://agrlv.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/crane_game_standard.jpg
https://youtu.be/tiKPCLVQ6n4
modifying DOW models seems to be some kind of lost arcane science now that relicnews has been dead for a couple of years
i have no idea how to modify models so i'm stuck with stealing them from firestorm over kronus
I don't know, but maybe check with the Ultimate Apocalypse guys?
I finally finished the model i was testing glazing layers with, firstly the picture isnt great, i definitely need a better camera, or another light, because the colours really didn't come out well. But yeah!
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/223764/5849514a-7f8f-4c51-9dc0-5acee29e4b2d/20190505_213202.jpg
About a year and a half ago Games Workshop were the epitome of a faceless corporation who gives zero shits so long as the product sells and now they have an on fucking point meme game.
What warp fuckery is this? What voodoo bullshit happened? It's good shit but yeesh its the one thing I was not expecting.
They hired a social media consulting firm, and discovered that Warhammer 40k is absolutely huge in internet culture.
