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You can never go wrong with Dr Seuss.

I love the idea of the worm rider too. Very cinematic

Just finished reading your blog (started last night). You sir are an inspiration to the hobby and I have greatly enjoyed following the progress of your youngsters and yourself as you raise your lil' generals. Now I need to go read that mantis blog..

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Gitsplitta wrote:Ooooh... that's a very interesting observation Anvildude... food for thought there.

Use the steampunked necrons as allies to some praetorian imperial guard for full British Empire fun

Throw in some Kroot/Maori for some additional fun.

That's quite racist coming from an American. That's like me saying throw in some fat good for nothing sacks of lard / Americans for fun.
In fact only 60% of americans are morbidly obese.
The fact that you are comparing Maori to cannibalistic savages is quite ignorant of the state of things even back 2000 years ago.
Not ALL Maori were cannibalistic, though granted they certainly did eat each other. My father was friends with the grandson of the last Maori cannibal, and he would be AT LEAST 100 if he were still alive. I think that a little consideration should be considered before saying something like that. Consider it this way. If you could say it to a Maori Kobe Bryant with a bad temper, and not get a least a little bit punched in the face, you can say it. The same goes for all racially offensive comments.




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Lt.Soundwave wrote:Just finished reading your blog (started last night). You sir are an inspiration to the hobby and I have greatly enjoyed following the progress of your youngsters and yourself as you raise your lil' generals. Now I need to go read that mantis blog..

Very glad you like it Lt.Soundwave! Wish there were more inputs from the young'in... but he's into other things at the moment... which is fine. Besides, I'm having so much fun painting HIS Necrons that he'd have to fight me for space at the painting table anyway!

Good luck with the Mantis Warrior blog. It's a BEAST! But... very audience participative (is that a word?)... and as such, pretty amusing all-in-all. Take advantage of the OP where all of the major summaries, battle reports, etc. are linked. It'll make it a lot easier to digest.

Nemesor wrote:

Anpu-adom wrote:

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Gitsplitta wrote:Ooooh... that's a very interesting observation Anvildude... food for thought there.

Use the steampunked necrons as allies to some praetorian imperial guard for full British Empire fun

Throw in some Kroot/Maori for some additional fun.

That's quite racist coming from an American. That's like me saying throw in some fat good for nothing sacks of lard / Americans for fun.
In fact only 60% of americans are morbidly obese.
The fact that you are comparing Maori to cannibalistic savages is quite ignorant of the state of things even back 2000 years ago.
Not ALL Maori were cannibalistic, though granted they certainly did eat each other. My father was friends with the grandson of the last Maori cannibal, and he would be AT LEAST 100 if he were still alive. I think that a little consideration should be considered before saying something like that. Consider it this way. If you could say it to a Maori Kobe Bryant with a bad temper, and not get a least a little bit punched in the face, you can say it. The same goes for all racially offensive comments.




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Rawr

An understandable reaction, if possibly misguided. I feel the poster was meaning to compare the Kroot to the Maori not, however, through the Cannibalism side (and really, Kroot are Cannibalistic? I thought they ate other species- and didn't even know Maori were even Cannibalistic, either- I'm not sure it's as common knowledge, especially in America, as you may think) and that Anpu was more likely using Maori for Kroot as they both have reputations as bad-ass tribal warriors. Fighters who use displays of savagery to cow their enemies before attacking furiously- that sort of thing.

Then again, Anpu might have been deliberately posting racists comments. I feel that's somewhat unlikely, though.


Speaking of, are Kroot really that dangerous? What's a common Kroot statline, anyways?

Nemesor wrote:

Anpu-adom wrote:

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Gitsplitta wrote:Ooooh... that's a very interesting observation Anvildude... food for thought there.

Use the steampunked necrons as allies to some praetorian imperial guard for full British Empire fun

Throw in some Kroot/Maori for some additional fun.

That's quite racist coming from an American. That's like me saying throw in some fat good for nothing sacks of lard / Americans for fun.
In fact only 60% of americans are morbidly obese.
The fact that you are comparing Maori to cannibalistic savages is quite ignorant of the state of things even back 2000 years ago.
Not ALL Maori were cannibalistic, though granted they certainly did eat each other. My father was friends with the grandson of the last Maori cannibal, and he would be AT LEAST 100 if he were still alive. I think that a little consideration should be considered before saying something like that. Consider it this way. If you could say it to a Maori Kobe Bryant with a bad temper, and not get a least a little bit punched in the face, you can say it. The same goes for all racially offensive comments.




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I'm terribly sorry that I offended you, and can only say that it is out of ignorance. Apparently I am ignorant of the Kroot fluff. I was also previously ignorant of any cannabilism/Maori connection.

Well I'm sorry that I have posted that, as the poster- Anpu-adom has explained his original intention with the post and must say that it is me who should be sorry.

And when I say cannibalistic it is cannibalistic as in the fact that kroot eat humans and were Maori to still Eat humans in their culture it would be cannibalism. All though who knows- maybe the kroot are cannibalistic as in many cultures eating someone was believed to give you a part of their strength- from my experience it still works too anyway sorry to adom, it was my mistake, not his, as I suspect that we're my father not deeply involved with Maori at a study of its linguistics level and it's culture as a result of the many years he spent with Maori- even though he is a white man- a pakeha he was given a Maori name and was offered to become for all intents and purposes a Maori, which has led him to install in me some of the knowledge he has.about the cultural matters. I suppose it's time
I payed more attention in history I suppose, so I don't make a Blunder like this again.

so again sorry for any offense I have caused you mr adom for my error of Understanding in your meaning and intentions, but I come from an area (though thankfully I don't live there any more) where communities of
Maori and pakeha are largely separated with little understanding between different races, so it took your innocent post to mean the worst. Im truly sorry.

Return apology accepted, Nemesor.
I can only thank the regulars to Gits's forum for keeping this one of the most civil corners of Dakkadakka.
Nemesor and I have exchanged further messages, and I can assure everyone that there isn't ill will on either side.

Let's all get back to admiring Gits's work and wishing that we were all his sons. *wink*

I knew you'd sort it out. I'm lucky to have such connsumate gentlemen as readers.


More updates in the works! Maybe a pic later tonight!

Not to jump in but no kroot arent cannibalistic the shapers direct thier kindred to certain prey species to take on the preys abilities and that particular group of kindred will evolve and take on traits of the prey ie. kroot hounds krootox and winged kroot

kroot statline reads

ws-4 bs-3 s-4 s-3 w-1 i-3 a-1 ld7 sv-/6

they get a 2nd attack because thier kroot rifles as well

Well... I finished up the modifications on a lord, cryptek, destroyer lord and one destroyer. Hope to get the last 3 destroyers done either tonight or tomorrow in which case I'll post a pic of the whole army. I'll eventually get around to re-doing the Monoliths, but to be honest they're not my highest priority at the moment. It's amazing how good the group of figures looks together. Think I just lucked into a paint scheme that *really* works.

The young'un got a ghost/doom's day ark for his B-day as well (which he's *really* excited about). going to try and figure out if I can build it so that he can use the same figure for both variants. It'll be a nice addition as he does have a ton of warriors and the ghost ark would be a nice compliment to them. Of course what HE'S excited about is the doom's day ark... but then he is 12. "Supporting infantry" is no-where-near as interesting as blowing things to kingdom come!

Gitz,
On the Ghost Ark/Doomsday Ark you seriously need to paint most of it in pieces. Paint the gauss flayers and ribs before assembling them.

I've magnetized my Ghost Ark/Doomsday Ark, and it's pretty easy.
Tactics wise, I'm looking at having 4-5 ghost arks total.

Thanks for the tip Anpu! Wow, that's a lot of Arks! I suppose as with most 40k units, having one of something is no where near as good as having a bunch of it.

You can pass this along to Thing #1 for sure.
With so many of the missions in the new book being based on objectives, you are going to need a lot of troops for a balanced army. Those troops need to be very resilient (something Necrons are good at), but Ghost Arks just make them better.
I like the think of Ghost Arks as a Light Tank that can fire at 3 different targets a turn, and then pop out and take an objective. Besides, it's fast in that you can move 12" in the shooting and still fire everything snap shot (and against vehicles, that's just as good as standing still.)

That makes me think that 1 good form of Necron army will have 4-5 units of Warriors in Ghost Arks.

Finally an update!

- I finished the last of the regular destroyers.
- I decided that the warriors needed a bit of updating, so I changed the "tube" on the front of the gun from scorpion green to copper & gave them a steel spine like the rest of the figures. The updated figure is on the right.



I decided NOT to put blue on the regular warriors or the regular scarabs as I wanted something in the army to contrast a bit with it... also the "lesser" troop types I wanted to keep a bit plain in comparison. With things like the crypteks and lords having blue pads it'll make them stand out a bit amongst the regular troops so I don't forget about them!


And the long awaited (hopefully) army shot. Just about everything's done now. Will plow my way through the last 20 warriors and eventually (no promises) get around to modernizing the monoliths.



It's a big pic. Feel free to zoom in, tell your friends, etc.


I plan on giving a sub-set of this a run in a few weeks at a doubles tourney with WyFox at our FLGS. Should be fun. Be interesting to see how it's received.

Good mix of old and new stuff to be sure. I really do like the colors too. I *almost* asked what was next

Thanks! It's an old Cron army that's being dragged into 6th Ed. Most of it held up pretty well though. Glad you like the color scheme. I'm quite fond of it myself.

Love the way you're breaking the 4th wall as it were having them step off the base
I wasn't entirely sure about the lack of blue on them but I think your rationale is good. Like the spines, too, it offsets them well.
On the subject of arks, one of my pals has based the "folded" crons as more infantry (he argues they're just reawakening - and they do look cool) and built the arks as doomsday.

New Battle Report up!

"Steamcrons"... or "Tombpunk" Necrons (whichever you'd prefer) vs. Mantis Warriors: 1500 pts

The link dosen't work....

Looking nice though!

Yeah, the link allows you to write a batrep, unfortunately not read one.

That's because apparently I never actually posted the bat rep. Damn. 3 hours worth of work down the drain...


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OK, let's try this again...

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/468184.page#4622848

I pm'ed you so as not to fill the thread with "link broken" posts Lesson for everyone though - when creating large posts - copy and paste the contents into a saved text file regularly. You'll thank me for it!

Yeah i always do it in word, only for batreps though. Those things take so long to write, its heartbreaking to see the net eat them.

Arakasi wrote:I pm'ed you so as not to fill the thread with "link broken" posts Lesson for everyone though - when creating large posts - copy and paste the contents into a saved text file regularly. You'll thank me for it!

See, the bugger of it is I DID that. I've had bat reps disappear on me before so I always cut-and-paste them into Word as I go so I don't lose them. The problem (I think) is that rather than "submit" it, I pushed the "preview" button... then got distracted by something else & when I came back it *looked* published. So I made the links for it on the other blogs, deleted the reserve copy and went my merry way.

In any case, it's up now. Hope y'all enjoy it.


On another note, I stopped by my FLGS yesterday to pick up some black wash & walked out with 3 crypteks, 1 lord & 10 tessla immortals. The have a re-sale room and all were half-priced (assembled but unpainted). Also got a good chance to talk to one of the guys who's a successful tournament player about how to use it all. Very enlightening. So, more Necrons to come... and at least now he's got an Elite unit for the FOC (other than the tomb stalker proxied as a triarch stalker).

^Wow. And I think I'm a sucker when I get tricked into buying my kid a bot-shot.

Well, I'm having so much fun painting them and for once I want there to be ONE competive army in the family..

Gitsplitta wrote:

Arakasi wrote:copy and paste the contents into a saved text file regularly.

...So I made the links for it on the other blogs, deleted the reserve copy and went my merry way.

I highlighted the problem areas Yeah, I don't clear out saved items for at least a couple of days (I imagine my other suggestion - checking your clipboard - may have expired too...) You need to be less trusting of both your software and your wetware

In any case, I did enjoy it - thanks for making the effort - twice!

Glad you liked it! And yes... highlights are well taken!

Hey mr gits, seen these bad boys?
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/NECRON_CANOPTEK_ACANTHRITES.html