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@master of ordinance: if you click on "post reply", below the white box where you type are two yellow buttons, "options", and "attachments". click on "attachments", and then "choose file" and you can upload a pic directly from your computer. that is how i upload my codex.

orcs would make good Brutes, you just need to get a different head or greenstuff one or something, and just paint it brown.

Space mushrooms actualy-base them on orks and use gray flock for fur.

thanks Blackhoof will do soon.

so... anything else? is the list reasonably balanced? is it playable? any points issues? anything you disagree with? at all?

yup.
now we just need models.
i really need to get a camera.

Sabreu is doing a review of my codex on his new blog- Index Xenos that archives all the custom Xeno codexes he can find

you guys hould check it out, it is only new and could use some traffic lol

http://indexxenos.blogspot.com/

crap.
just noticed that youve got the brute cheiftan down as WS4 on the reference sheets.

also the cats just squished my 1 and only locust model.

thanks for the pick-up- stupid reference sheets are filled with typos.

also, dang :(

i was lucky to have my brother get a Halo Wars megablocks locust that is kinda to scale, so i use that lol.

Good reading for a plain and boring afternoon. I would be interested how people would see the pros and cons of Elite lance and Brute lance.

crap+1!!!

the prophet of truths grav throne is listed as being armed with TL grav cannons but theres no rules for them.

last night i did some competition fights between the Arbiter and Tarturus then Arbiter vs Truth.(i used the Covenant plasma cannons for truth.)
NOTHING can kill the Arbiter. I doubt even a Titan could.

ha..

i CAN get pictures on now.
YAY
now just to get some photos of my models.......

lol, i will have to revise the Arbiter then

Blackhoof wrote:lol, i will have to revise the Arbiter then

DONT YOU DARE

HES WELL REPRESENTED AS HE IS.

he just kept making his I check when Tarturus swung at him.

and the cover as a bit dense for a certan Truths plasma cannons to be of good use.

oh by the way the Banshee is listed as having TL covenant plasma cnnons but shouldnt this be TL Banshee cannons??

thanks, i shall fix that

Just as a note-were is the frigate and the super cruiser. ive built models to represent both but there not in the codex. why is this. they are an important part of the covenant fleets. also have you considerd the super destroyer. that would be cool and yes it does appear in the fluff.

well, i originally had the frigate and the super cruiser in the list originally, but i ended up ditching them since they arent really necessary. i will add them both back if you like.

Thanks.

then ill be able to replay the battle of reach

tell you what.... i will add them...

IF you show me pics of your models

DAMN YOU!!!!

you want me to steal my mums camera now...

alright.

give me a few days....

yu have all the time you need

she nearly caught me...

this may take a while....

why dont you just ask to borrow it?

HE GOT HIS HALO IN MY 40K

uh.... yes.... yes i did O.o

I love it. I love it more than you can imagine. I don't know enough about points, or fluff, or any of the fancy jazz to give a good suggestion, so I'll stick with just saying I love it.

You need to do all three codexes. Covenant, Marines, and the... Flood? I forgot their names.

As for your worry about not having enough marines, take notes from the 40k Space marines, and IG. Try to set some Marines apart from the other, in terms of what weapons they can get. Like a heavy weapons group, a recon (Stealth/Snipey) group, etc. But there are more than enough vehicles to fit in. From the simple Warthog, to the elephant, and beyond.

The flood though... Yeah, I can see THAT being a bitch to make a codex for, since in the games I think there were only like... 4/5 different types? Excluding the Tentacled monster thing. Sorry, I know VERY little on Halo fluff for names.

I'm going to do a playtest with my group here soon, I hope. Given I can convince them to do it -_- No one trusts Fandexes around here.

For the Flood you could make it like, an entire army of Parasites. Start with a couple of the basic explodey ones, and maybe a swarm or two of the little infection forms. Then, every time they make a kill, you can replace that model with one of the models that you had bought.

There's plenty of variants, as long as you give them enough strength to get by with few- or make them multi-purpose enough to have a bunch of the same.

Infection forms, Carrier forms (the ones that explode), basic infected that would maybe take the T value of what they had killed, the shooters, the tanks, and that last one that I forget.

Maybe make the Gravemind a big HQ choice, or an Apoc unit.

Anvildude wrote:
Maybe make the Gravemind a big HQ choice, or an Apoc unit.

I'd say Apoc. I don't know allot about the Gravemind itself, but it strikes me as a very, very, very powerful and threatening unit. If it IS added as a unit, Apoc would be it's Niche.

So, what we're looking at is Tau, Imperium, and 'Nids, translated to Halo and back?

Takeshishin wrote:I love it. I love it more than you can imagine. I don't know enough about points, or fluff, or any of the fancy jazz to give a good suggestion, so I'll stick with just saying I love it.

You need to do all three codexes. Covenant, Marines, and the... Flood? I forgot their names.

As for your worry about not having enough marines, take notes from the 40k Space marines, and IG. Try to set some Marines apart from the other, in terms of what weapons they can get. Like a heavy weapons group, a recon (Stealth/Snipey) group, etc. But there are more than enough vehicles to fit in. From the simple Warthog, to the elephant, and beyond.

The flood though... Yeah, I can see THAT being a bitch to make a codex for, since in the games I think there were only like... 4/5 different types? Excluding the Tentacled monster thing. Sorry, I know VERY little on Halo fluff for names.

I'm going to do a playtest with my group here soon, I hope. Given I can convince them to do it -_- No one trusts Fandexes around here.

thank you!

someone else is already doing a UNSC codex, but as for the Flood, i have written some drafts for them to be Creature Feature additions in Sabreu's Xeno blog (link in my sig). Creature Feature was an old ruleset that allowed yo uto create and field the monsters and creepy critters that did not have a place in their own codex, and have them as random battlefield dangers, objectives, allies or what-not. The Flood could be like random threats in an otherwise normal battle. Have random amounts of flood units spawn from diffeerent points around the field and you have to fiight your way around them. they would work well in Necromunda as well.


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KilroyKiljoy wrote:So, what we're looking at is Tau, Imperium, and 'Nids, translated to Halo and back?

well, Covenant are more Eldar/Tau crossovers than just Tau....

I had this great idea for BFG.

in one of the novels the covenant fleets can perform short jumps across the battle feils but their systems are down for a short amount of time afterwards.

so heres how it is.

The covenant ships may take an LD check just like all ahead full.
if they succeed then the ship may be positioned anywear on the feild facing any direction.
however once it has mayed this move it may not move shoot or launch ordnance for the rest of the turn. in the opponents turn it counts as having sheilds 0 and cant brace for impact.
this move may be used to disengage and "jump" off the board.
if it jumps into an asteroid feild it takes 2d6 auto hits(dont forget it counts as sheilds 0 till its next turn.

Whoever is doing the Marines codex best remember the Elephant :I that was the funnest, if barely used, vehicle in Halo 3 MP