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Made in au
Numberless Necron Warrior






The first unit I got for my tau was a unit of pathfinders, and ive kept refusing to get them a devilfish, mostly cause of some new army project, and sometimes because I just cant be bothered. I also bought some dark eldar in the hopes of starting a wych cult, but that was the only unit I ever bought. To this day they sit neglected on my shelf
   
Made in my
Veteran Knight Baron in a Crusader






At my desk

I sometimes find it hard to finish a game with an obvious outcome.

I also have a tendency to not be so personable at times with people I don't know. Not deliberately, but I jut really don't know how to humans.

Also forget so many special rules. So, so many. All the time, in my favor or not, I will likely forget.

What I'm most ashamed of, though, is that I have never bought a Codex. I either borrow or 'totally legally' acquire a PDF.

3000pts Blood Angels (4th Company) - 2000pts Skitarii (Voss Prime) - 2500pts Imperial Knights (Unnamed House) - 1000pts Imperial Guard (Household Retainers)

2000pts Free Peoples (Edlynd Fusiliers) - 2000pts Kharadron Overlords (Barak Zilfin) - 500pts Ironweld Arsenal (Edlynd Ironwork Federation) - 1000pts Duardin (Grongrok Powderheads)

Wargaming's no fun when you have a plan! 
   
Made in nz
Longtime Dakkanaut





Auckland, NZ

I mixed up The Horror (tyranid psychic power) at a tournament, and thought it made the target fall back rather than go to ground.

I ran a bunch of units off the table over about 3 games before someone called me on it. I don't think it would have changed the outcomes of any of those games much, but still felt pretty bad about it.
   
Made in za
Jovial Plaguebearer of Nurgle





South Africa

I'm with some of the guys with never having bought a codex, the thing is I want to read all the fluff and it would be so expensive I'd never be able to buy models I understand it's a bad thing to have 'legal' pdfs but I'd rather have money for models and paint than a book that will change in 2 years

Facts are chains that bind perception and fetter truth. For a man can remake the world if he has a dream and no facts to cloud his mind. 
   
Made in gb
Brain-Dead Zombie of Nurgle





Durham, Durham

I refuse to take any 'nid units that I consider to be 'unfluffy' and focus largely on melee units. Then I find myself getting in a bad mood when running towards my opponents grav-cannons and assault cannons and taking the heaviest of losses. I have no-one to blame but myself.

I promised myself I would stick to my tyranid army and not be one of those guys with nine different armies on the go. I have a kid and a mortgage, one army is enough hobby for me. But I find myself lusting over a crimson fist siege vanguard list.

 
   
Made in gb
Longtime Dakkanaut





UK

 munkyphunk wrote:
I refuse to take any 'nid units that I consider to be 'unfluffy' and focus largely on melee units. Then I find myself getting in a bad mood when running towards my opponents grav-cannons and assault cannons and taking the heaviest of losses. I have no-one to blame but myself.

I promised myself I would stick to my tyranid army and not be one of those guys with nine different armies on the go. I have a kid and a mortgage, one army is enough hobby for me. But I find myself lusting over a crimson fist siege vanguard list.


Maybe if you fling enough bodies at them, you'll gain the victory by drowning them in blood.

YMDC = nightmare 
   
Made in us
Veteran Wolf Guard Squad Leader




San Diego, CA

I already threw out my play confession, but for modeling I am such a perfectionis.t I need all mould lines gone, and make sure no glue if showing, and that any gaps are carefully greenstuff filled before I will start paining. All barrels need to be drilled, and the model to be in a reasonable pose. Like its pretty bad because I'm doing an escalation league now and Fallout 4 just came out and I need to study for school but I refuse to half ass my paint jobs like I did in the past.

 
   
Made in us
Jealous that Horus is Warmaster





Central US

I consistently try to join units and independent characters via run moves, falling back, or consolidation moves. It just seems like it should be a thing.

My opponents always catch me and correct me which is fine it's just a reflexive thing. It just feels so natural.

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It matters not from whence the weave flows, just that it doooo
-Nicki Minaj, Prophetess of Khorne

Too moe to live
Too kawaii to die

The Dusty Trail, Adventures in Painting and Modeling  
   
Made in us
Ultramarine Master with Gauntlets of Macragge




What's left of Cadia

My modeling confession: I am extremely lazy about painting. I had played Guard for 2 years before I painted a single model, and the first few ones I did paint were painted half-heartedly. I've gotten better now, but I used to be so bad about it.

TheEyeOfNight- I swear, this thread is 70% smack talk, 20% RP organization, and 10% butt jokes
TheEyeOfNight- "Ordo Xenos reports that the Necrons have attained democracy, kamikaze tendencies, and nuclear fission. It's all tits up, sir."
Space Marine flyers are shaped for the greatest possible air resistance so that the air may never defeat the SPACE MARINES!
Sternguard though, those guys are all about kicking ass. They'd chew bubble gum as well, but bubble gum is heretical. Only tau chew gum
 
   
Made in my
Veteran Knight Baron in a Crusader






At my desk

 Ubl1k wrote:
I'm with some of the guys with never having bought a codex, the thing is I want to read all the fluff and it would be so expensive I'd never be able to buy models I understand it's a bad thing to have 'legal' pdfs but I'd rather have money for models and paint than a book that will change in 2 years


Finally someone else that understands the logic!

3000pts Blood Angels (4th Company) - 2000pts Skitarii (Voss Prime) - 2500pts Imperial Knights (Unnamed House) - 1000pts Imperial Guard (Household Retainers)

2000pts Free Peoples (Edlynd Fusiliers) - 2000pts Kharadron Overlords (Barak Zilfin) - 500pts Ironweld Arsenal (Edlynd Ironwork Federation) - 1000pts Duardin (Grongrok Powderheads)

Wargaming's no fun when you have a plan! 
   
Made in ca
Longtime Dakkanaut





I only buy the codex for my primary army. Because I like flipping pages ect and I use it so frequently. Any others are downloaded.
   
Made in us
Member of the Ethereal Council






I get upset at new players.
One time I played a teenager playing dark eldar. Running venoms. He kept trying to roll the cannon and rifle at the same time. I told he couldnt, yet he did. I came there for a competitive game, yet got nothing.

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Made in us
Ultramarine Terminator with Assault Cannon






Bottle wrote:... It kills me a little inside when opponents in my GW just measure the first few models and guesstimate the guys behind.

My new bane is in AoS when they don't measure most pile-in moves.

Anyone feel my pain?


I feel your pain.
   
Made in us
Ultramarine Master with Gauntlets of Macragge




What's left of Cadia

 oni wrote:
Bottle wrote:... It kills me a little inside when opponents in my GW just measure the first few models and guesstimate the guys behind.

My new bane is in AoS when they don't measure most pile-in moves.

Anyone feel my pain?


I feel your pain.


This irks me as well, mostly due to my knee jerk desire to move all my units precisely from 8th edition.

TheEyeOfNight- I swear, this thread is 70% smack talk, 20% RP organization, and 10% butt jokes
TheEyeOfNight- "Ordo Xenos reports that the Necrons have attained democracy, kamikaze tendencies, and nuclear fission. It's all tits up, sir."
Space Marine flyers are shaped for the greatest possible air resistance so that the air may never defeat the SPACE MARINES!
Sternguard though, those guys are all about kicking ass. They'd chew bubble gum as well, but bubble gum is heretical. Only tau chew gum
 
   
Made in us
Longtime Dakkanaut




St. George, UT

I have yet to play a full game of seventh edition. I normally get disgusted by something about turn 2 and just give up because its obvious that I'm not having fun anymore, the rules just aren't working, and the armies have just gotten to the point of ridiculousness.

Then I go back and play my revised fourth edition rule set and we all have a wonderful time.

See pics of my Orks, Tau, Emperor's Children, Necrons, Space Wolves, and Dark Eldar here:


 
   
Made in us
Rough Rider with Boomstick





Georgia

I've played mono IG for something like ten years and I have only fully painted two sergeants and a single squad. GRANTED I had alot more painted at one time but years ago when I settled on running a knightworld regiment I stripped EVERYTHING.

Now most of my stuff sits primed and occasionally dry brushed, especially my tanks as I'm struggling with how to make knightworld paintjobs without winding up having harlequin chimeras. That and I spend a LONG time converting every single guardsman,unique sergeants, and commanders.

Vorradis 75th "Crimson Cavaliers" 8.7k

The enemies of Mankind may employ dark sciences or alien weapons beyond Humanity's ken, but such deviance comes to naught in the face of honest human intolerance back by a sufficient number of guns. 
   
Made in us
Jealous that Horus is Warmaster





Central US

 Ir0njack wrote:
I'm struggling with how to make knightworld paintjobs without winding up having harlequin chimeras.


What's wrong with being festive?

With Guard I've found the best solution to either go full camo, full stealth, full tactical or just not to. Adapting a Marine scheme or a Knight house scheme to IG can look fantastic. Another example would be Vostroyan Firstborn, Praetorians, or Mordian Iron Guard.

The most important part of any force's scheme is uniformity. That matters doubly so for guard because you've got so many models and so many of them are usually rank and file jobbers. But there's nothing wrong with brightness in the Grim Dark.

It matters not from whence the weave flows, just that it doooo
-Nicki Minaj, Prophetess of Khorne

Too moe to live
Too kawaii to die

The Dusty Trail, Adventures in Painting and Modeling  
   
Made in ca
Veteran Inquisitorial Tyranid Xenokiller




I played with an autocannons squad that was just 3 empty 60mm bases with crude 'A' scratched on them for about a year until I finally got around making them.

I spend more time looking at my models, in whichever condition they are rather than actually working on them or painting them.

   
Made in us
Shadowy Grot Kommittee Memba






The likelihood of me painting a model is inversely proportionate to how useful they are to my army.

Melta Veterans, Ork Meganobz and Grav Servitors? Nah I gotta lovingly paint another one of these sick robo ostriches and my custom made rough riders built from a line of Pewter US Presidents that I found.


"Got you, Yugi! Your Rubric Marines can't fall back because I have declared the tertiary kaptaris ka'tah stance two, after the secondary dacatarai ka'tah last turn!"

"So you think, Kaiba! I declared my Thousand Sons the cult of Duplicity, which means all my psykers have access to the Sorcerous Facade power! Furthermore I will spend 8 Cabal Points to invoke Cabbalistic Focus, causing the rubrics to appear behind your custodes! The Vengeance for the Wronged and Sorcerous Fullisade stratagems along with the Malefic Maelstrom infernal pact evoked earlier in the command phase allows me to double their firepower, letting me wound on 2s and 3s!"

"you think it is you who has gotten me, yugi, but it is I who have gotten you! I declare the ever-vigilant stratagem to attack your rubrics with my custodes' ranged weapons, which with the new codex are now DAMAGE 2!!"

"...which leads you straight into my trap, Kaiba, you see I now declare the stratagem Implacable Automata, reducing all damage from your attacks by 1 and triggering my All is Dust special rule!"  
   
Made in us
Shas'la with Pulse Carbine



San Diego, CA

I'm the TFG of my group; always preparing for the tournament I will never go to... it's at the point where I can't run certain models because my FLGS can't handle them.

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Made in us
Fresh-Faced New User





Inquisitor Jex wrote:


I spend more time looking at my models, in whichever condition they are rather than actually working on them or painting them.



Yeah, this is me. I really like sitting at my painting table, lovingly turning models over in my hands, and... not actually accomplishing anything. It's awful, but they're so pretty. D:
   
Made in us
Dark Angels Neophyte Undergoing Surgeries





Florida

I made a new kid lock himself in the FLGS bathroom and cry once for tabling his Nids in two rounds.

:  
   
Made in us
Jovial Plaguebearer of Nurgle






Our groups most competitive and angry player plays tau and necrons, abusing the cheese as much as he can.
It makes me hate both those armies.
And I've almost started eldar multiple times so I can try to do the same to him.
   
Made in gb
Longtime Dakkanaut






In a Trayzn pokeball

1) I almost always bring at least one basilisk to my games.

2) I have had an Imperial Knight set for 6 months, and I am only now getting round to actually completing the building and painting.

 JohnHwangDD wrote:
The hobby is actually hating GW.
 iGuy91 wrote:
You love the T-Rex. Its both a hero and a Villain in the first two movies. It is the "king" of dinosaurs. Its the best. You love your T-rex.
Then comes along the frakking Spinosaurus who kills the T-rex, and the movie says "LOVE THIS NOW! HE IS BETTER" But...in your heart, you love the T-rex, who shouldn't have lost to no stupid Spinosaurus. So you hate the movie. And refuse to love the Spinosaurus because it is a hamfisted attempt at taking what you loved, making it TREX +++ and trying to sell you it.
 Elbows wrote:
You know what's better than a psychic phase? A psychic phase which asks customers to buy more miniatures...
the_scotsman wrote:
Dae think the company behind such names as deathwatch death guard deathskullz death marks death korps deathleaper death jester might be bad at naming?
 
   
Made in us
Shas'o Commanding the Hunter Kadre




Olympia, WA

 Cannibieas wrote:
I made a new kid lock himself in the FLGS bathroom and cry once for tabling his Nids in two rounds.


That's... unfortunate...

Always the problem with young players. Delicate line between teaching and tabling. Lol

Hold out bait to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and then crush him.
-Sun Tzu, the Art of War
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Made in us
Drone without a Controller




I just noticed today that when modeling my Broadside I glued his shoulder pad on upside down. It's been like that for literal weeks and no one has noticed.
   
Made in se
Glorious Lord of Chaos






The burning pits of Hades, also known as Sweden in summer

I paint a lot less than I should. I have a very big queue of gorgeous models just waiting to be painted.

It's FW, so I paid a lot for that model quality, which makes it more painful still.

I should think of a new signature... In the meantime, have a  
   
Made in gb
The Last Chancer Who Survived




United Kingdom

I avoid buying the fancier models because my painting style only looks good when the model itself does not.
   
Made in us
Ultramarine Master with Gauntlets of Macragge




What's left of Cadia

I usually don't play out a game when the outcome is obvious. I really don't feel like being curbstomped for 2 more turns when both me and my opponent know how it'll go.

TheEyeOfNight- I swear, this thread is 70% smack talk, 20% RP organization, and 10% butt jokes
TheEyeOfNight- "Ordo Xenos reports that the Necrons have attained democracy, kamikaze tendencies, and nuclear fission. It's all tits up, sir."
Space Marine flyers are shaped for the greatest possible air resistance so that the air may never defeat the SPACE MARINES!
Sternguard though, those guys are all about kicking ass. They'd chew bubble gum as well, but bubble gum is heretical. Only tau chew gum
 
   
Made in us
Painting Within the Lines






Like the OP, I too have never fielded a Basilisk ever. Admittedly I've only been playing IG for 7 years.

   
 
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