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Tyranids grouped together in a swarm just looks boring to me. It looks very plain but then again I have only seen about 3 tyrannic armys and I hate them (not just because of the look). So if you can show me a good Tyranid army, I'll be impressed.

I've still got any armies' worth of those old dumping Orks, got 'em for free from a mate, I'll respray them eventually. Probably.

I think Imperial Fists look terrible. But I'm not a fan of yellow, although I think Eldar can pull it off okay.

That's more of just a color scheme issue though.

I like the models for pretty much every 40k army. I think IG and Daemons are the two weakest though. IG aren't sci-fi enough for me, and Daemons are just missing something.

Death Korps look awesome though. If I was a millionaire, I'd pay off my house, set a chunk aside for kids college, and buy a nicer car. If I was a multi-millionaire, I'd do all of that and start a Death Korps army.

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:
40k:

ATM it's chaos for me, because the entire range is spread across several aesthetics, designs and about 15 years of minis. Together on a table, the whole thing looks messy for me, not least of all for the 'hey, we put spike on our gak!' half hearted sculpting/modeling that's gone on.

The Dark Vengence set and several of the minis that came out around the same time were a great improvement on the prior 'horns n spike' marines, but without a reworked rank and file kit, no go.

I agree completely with this. I want to start a chaos army, i do so bad. But the model range is just so half assed. The dark Vengence style looks like how CSM should look, beautiful sculpts. Sooooo where is the rest of the army?

Necrons and dark eldar got beautiful new ranges when they re-released. All with a cohesive look. then comes 6th edition and GW just says "buy more $80 monsters, but keep playing with your 15 year old turd miniatures for the rest of the army."

After seeing the old daemonette models, I'd have to say I dislike the new ones.

But I do dislike the Necrons, but that's just personal opinions because I'm not fond of metallic skeleton-walkers. I mean it's insanely cool, but with the models themselves, I don't find appealing. I do really like the robots, like the Canoptek Spiders and the like.

The new necrons are very bland to look at. All I wanted was a terminator sized model for them, like upgrade the immortals size to about the same as a space marine terminator, have them carry a big heavy gause gun but nope. All the necron units look the same (I know they are meant to) but they could have given them a little variety. All they did is throw in different guns into the sets.

'nids with RIFLES. WITH MAGAZINES AND BARRELS.

/thread

Pretty much all space marine stuff. The infantry is passable, the vehicles and bikes are horrid.

Catachans take the cake. Bloated, horrible proportions, no armor.

Sisters without helmets I don't like. Their helmeted looks pretty cool though. Not my favorite army aesthetic, but far from the worst. Sisters have some really cool figs in their range. Of course, they also have some of the worst (Dialogus, lol), but that's not the army's fault.

Dislike the Dark Eldar, but just because they overplayed the Evil Elf Space Fetishist theme way, way too much. Some Dark Eldar models are cool, others (Wyches, Wracks, Scourges, Hellions, Mandrakes, Jabba the Hutt Skiff) are just plain awful. It's really just an overall terrible aesthetic for the army.

 Razak wrote:
Tyranids grouped together in a swarm just looks boring to me. It looks very plain but then again I have only seen about 3 tyrannic armys and I hate them (not just because of the look). So if you can show me a good Tyranid army, I'll be impressed.

If this doesn't do it for you, you're pretty much not going to like Tyranids,

The IG's - why do the fully flakk armoured cadians have the same cover save as the rambo's??

THEORY: what if the lumps of muscle on the arms are actually flakk armour, and we've just been painting them wrong for years haha


I personally really don't like the new Eldar models, especially the wraithknight - it looks so much like a kids toy, I ( an eldar player ) am going to have to buy it or forget eldar if i ever want to win a game once all the other codexes are updated, if I ever do buy it, i'll also have to buy a special army case for just that model ( if i wanted Titans i would buy Forge World, and PLAY APOCALYPSE ).



...and it's £70


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Also the Chaos Space Marines set is getting a bit old - the only change since 4th edition is they took out the cool chaos mutations sprue

New Daemons for me, the only thing I quite like from the recent releases is the Seeker Chariot. Pretty much everything else has been a big step backwards, to the point where I threw out my plastic Daemonettes because I found them so boring [have replaced with Ebayed big claws]. And I disagree with what a lot of people said - Slaanesh is ALL about boobs! Much prefer the old Plaguebearers, Pink Horrors, etc. etc.

Interesting how a lot of the models people have said they don't like are the ones I love. Sisters for me are probably the best looking army out there and I really like the old Dark Eldar models [got about 2k points worth for next to nothing on Ebay too ]. Maybe it's an age thing? I like the older models which had a sense of humour in the way they were modeled, maybe you young folk like everything to be GrimDark because this game should be taken seriously God damn it!

 Jacknife wrote:
The IG's - why do the fully flakk armoured cadians have the same cover save as the rambo's??

THEORY: what if the lumps of muscle on the arms are actually flakk armour, and we've just been painting them wrong for years haha


I personally really don't like the new Eldar models, especially the wraithknight - it looks so much like a kids toy, I ( an eldar player ) am going to have to buy it or forget eldar if i ever want to win a game once all the other codexes are updated, if I ever do buy it, i'll also have to buy a special army case for just that model ( if i wanted Titans i would buy Forge World, and PLAY APOCALYPSE ).

From what I'e seen a lot of people are actually saying the new wraithknight isn't worth taking. It is tough and everything, but it still has a 3+ armour save and no invulnerable. Also it can have guns coming out of its ass but it can still only fire 2 every turn. A lot of people have explained it's shortcomings better than me in other threads but it is definitely not the new helldrake!

KaiyaA wrote:

 Jacknife wrote:

I personally really don't like the new Eldar models, especially the wraithknight - it looks so much like a kids toy, I ( an eldar player ) am going to have to buy it or forget eldar if i ever want to win a game once all the other codexes are updated, if I ever do buy it, i'll also have to buy a special army case for just that model ( if i wanted Titans i would buy Forge World, and PLAY APOCALYPSE ).

From what I'e seen a lot of people are actually saying the new wraithknight isn't worth taking. It is tough and everything, but it still has a 3+ armour save and no invulnerable. Also it can have guns coming out of its ass but it can still only fire 2 every turn. A lot of people have explained it's shortcomings better than me in other threads but it is definitely not the new helldrake!

I haven't seen the codex yet, or seen the reviews, I based that on the DK and the riptide.
Hopefully one of the nice looking fliers will be the new Eldar 'auto-take'

I find regular Space Marines bland and boring and don't feel really inspired by any of their HQ characters. Only unit that I like are the Legion of the Damned.

Chaos, well it's just the nurlge I don't think I could paint with all the gore.

Tau. Generally I don't like the Tau. I don't think they fit in with the darkness of 40K. But I do like the Kroot models and painting makes a big difference with Tau. I've seen some wonderful painted Tau armies that nearly made them look appealing.

I was discussing the appearence of the Sisters with somebody on /tg/ recently, and he convinced me to soften my stance a little. They used Sister Miriya as an example, actually.



How would everybody feel about something like this as a new look for the Sisters? Not as "ugly" as the current models, but doesn't look less soldier-y. Strong chin, scar, ect. Seems like a nice balance between the two viewpoints.

 Troike wrote:
I was discussing the appearence of the Sisters with somebody on /tg/ recently, and he convinced me to soften my stance a little. They used Sister Miriya as an example, actually.

Spoiler:

How would everybody feel about something like this as a new look for the Sisters? Not as "ugly" as the current models, but doesn't look less soldier-y. Strong chin, scar, ect. Seems like a nice balance between the two viewpoints.

That'd work fine for me. ^^

If they got Sisters plastics looking like that, I'd start an army of them.

 -Loki- wrote:
If they got Sisters plastics looking like that, I'd start an army of them.

I'd replace my whole army of metal Sisters with them. : D

Not just because it means scalies and furries, either! ^^

At the moment its Chaos daemons. I just don't like anything about them in their current style.