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Ah, the page turn bug strikes again...

 Dysartes wrote:
Ah, the page turn bug strikes again...

you'd think after 500+ pages he would figure out a way to counter that....am I right??? Huh??? You know what I'm talking about

Posting more often, maybe?

Trying to get this guy good enough to field by this Saturday. Please, no critiques... I'm just trying to get some paint on him. Will touch him up afterwards.

lol ok ok, no more critiques I get it ! Don't shoot me in the face pls

Ok, but I am still looking.

Shoot Tom in the face! Shoot Tom in the face!

Are you planning on including the white accents, and details like the scroll work, in time for the weekend, or just working on the colours you have here (which do satisfy any 3 colours and based requirements)?

Either way, looks like you're off to a good start. Plastic Contemptor?

@Tom: Please critique... just not before tomorrow. I need this one table worthy in a hurry!

@Yorkright: You SHOULD be getting ready for tomorrow, you weenie!

@Dysartes: Yep, whites are coming. Just have to make some rough decisions about what gets done and what doesn't.

Sorry Gitz not going to make the 30k extravaganza, too many projects around the house. You have a good time and take some pictures of all those pretty armies.

Those color variations look great!

Love a contemptor! Did he do well on the table?

Shiny ? Will you be incorporating nudreads somehow just because of the looks, or will you stick to pure 30k?

OK, here was the progress going into the tournament this past weekend... I tried hand-blending the white bits and it was God-awful, so I just painted over them.




@San: He did fine. I don't think I used him very effectively & I really need to chop off the multi-melta and give him another assault cannon so I can field him as the cheap version of that dread. He definitely caused some pain though... so I was satisfied. Also, the tank did not suffer from new model syndrome and pretty much kicked butt all day. For once my Praetor on the bike did something and routed two units of mechanicus grunt infantry single-handedly, which was really important in that scenario. Most of the rest of the time I kept he and his unit well away from anything (like gretchen) that might beat them up and cause them to flee off the table.

Game 1 vs. Mechanicus: tie
Game 2 vs. Space Wolves: 1-point loss
Game 3... team game with World Eaters vs. Space Wolves & Dark Angels: tie

Overall I did much better than usual. Not sure why... I still have a poorly constructed list. Tied for best painted in a small but hotly contested competition. So... I think the first thing I need to do is finish up the tank and the contemptor. Then I need to do 9 simple tac marines and two rhinos so I can *finally* field some scoring units. That's the next step.


Sorry, no pics. Every battery I owned died within minutes of the tournament beginning (either before or after). I was a lovely day, playing 30k in a park shelter was perfect.



@CK: What is a "nudread"?

I'm guessing CK is referring to the spindly-legged Primaris Dread, Gits, that obviously skipped leg day.

Nice contemptor.

Love the white, very eye catching.

EDC

Sound slike you had a blast, and maybe you did better becasue you're improving? Even with less optimal lists, knowing them and their capabilities is worth a lot.

@CK: What is a "nudread"?

There's a leaked pic on the net of a new dreadnought to accompany the numarines. Hence nudread

Good progress on the contemptor .

Playing outside sounds fantastic, hopefully no wildlife issues occurred.

Good job on the white, really breaks up the model in a good way!

Thanks guys. I may be getting a bit better... Most of my elements are good individually, but certain ones don't really mix well with the rest and I really suffer from having almost no scoring troops. Means I'm nearly always going to auto-lose any mission involving objectives. That will hopefully get addressed soon.

It was a beautiful day in a very tranquil park in the middle of a bunch of houses.

Sounds like a great day man. Jealous!

Dread is looking good. ..see you are getting the Work process down!

All is fair for tournament crunch time!
As an opponent I would be upset you not fielding your best selections... paint quality is important, but not that important! (sacrilege I know!).
Painting the full neon white... must... resist... comment.

I may try and blend them down again, but the first attempt was a horrible failure.

White is tricky like that. But it is easy to bring back to a base colour and try again (as opposed to a custom mixed colour).

That's what I'm planning on. We'll see how the re-boot goes.

Fantastic stuff as always, and congrats on 500 + pages

Thanks DJShadowcat!


Well, no painting... been to busy with work and the yard. Thing 1 is leaving for Japan on Sunday right after finals and his ACT test... so he's been busy too. I did manage to work out a 2000 pt AdMech list for 8th based on the current wisdom for the faction. It's not perfect, but I think it's the best I can do given the figures I have. I'd be happy to share it if anyone was interested.


Hope you guys are well and enjoying whatever season you have (looking at you Southern Hemisphere guys).

We appear to be done with Summer here in the UK. A few days of glorious sun and now it is back to rain and grey...

I for one am certainly interested in taking a peek at your list. I've been trying to decide how to handle my Guard, so you may provide the inspiration needed to unearth them all and start figuring it all out

I've come up with two lists so far, one with knight, one without. Neither is perfect... but they both try to take advantage of the news coming in about admech highs and lows as much as my figures allow. Both lists generate 3 command points.

Non-knight list...

Battalion (+3 command points)
HQ: Cawl (250)
HQ: tech priest dominus, stock (135)
TP: 5 rangers, 2x arquebii (100)
TP: 5 rangers, 2x plasma caliver (78)
TP: 5 vanguard, 2x plasma caliver (78)
TP: 5 vanguard, 2x plasma caliver (78)
TP: 3 katphron destroyers, 3x heavy grav cannon, 3x phosphor blasters (219)
EL: cybernetical datasmith (52)
EL: 5 infiltrators (130)
FA: 1 syndonian dragoon, tazer lance (68)
FA: 1 ironstrider ballistari, twin cognis lascannon (95)
HV: 4 kastellan robots, 12x heavy phosphor blasters (440)
HV: onager dune crawler, heavy stubber, Icarus array (138)
HV: onager dune crawler, heavy stubber, Icarus array (138)
Total: 1999 pts.

Analysis: According to those that claim to know... small units of skitarii, shooting robots (because of a new battle protocol & Cawl), ballistari, infiltrators and dunecralwers are big winners, along with priests (that I don't have). Cawl is still good, dragoons are OK. Dominus and datasmith are a tax for the formation & robots respectively though I think their repair function makes them useful enough. Everything else is crap. Arquebii good, plasma bad. The list above reflects this early wisdom with a few exceptions... I need my plasma guys to fill out my units to 5, and I refuse to give up on the grav destroyers without seeing how they fail with my own eyes. The small infantry units counteract their bad morale and the extra losses that come from it by having so few guys that it really doesn't matter... if they're taking morale tests... they're probably damaged to the point of ineffectiveness anyway. Paying for more guys would just mean you'd auto-lose more guys from failed morale before the unit's guys all run off anyway... so why spend the points?


List #2 makes room for an Imperial knight.

Battalion (+3 command points)
HQ: Cawl (250)
HQ: tech priest dominus, stock (135)
TP: 5 rangers, 2x arquebii, omnispex (107)
TP: 5 rangers, 2x plasma caliver (78)
TP: 5 vanguard, 2x plasma caliver (78)
TP: 5 vanguard, 2x plasma caliver (78)
EL: cybernetical datasmith (52)
EL: 6 infiltrators (156)
HV: 3 kastellan robots, 9x heavy phosphor blasters (325)
HV: onager dune crawler, heavy stubber, Icarus array (138)
HV: onager dune crawler, heavy stubber, Icarus array (138)
Subtotal: 1535

Super Heavy Auxiliary Detachment
SH: knight gallant, avenger gatling cannon, reaper chainsword, ironstorm missile pod, heavy stubber (465)
Grand Total: 2000 pts.

Analysis: I dumped katraphrons, fast attacks & one robot to buy a knight. The knight is good, though apparently the D-sword is a big loser in 8th. Unfortunately all my regular knights have it. As far as I can tell from the images I have access to, what your call your knight (errant, gallant, etc.) is meaningless now. You pay 320 for the hull and stick whatever wargear you want on it.

These are the two armies I'll begin playing with & will see how they do. I think both are decent if not perfect. I can live with that.

While I'm yet to convinced by 8th - even after having a demo this last weekend - I do like the idea of running an army of the Imperium, even if it is just for fun.

Might even convince me to pick up some of the cooler Ad-mech stuff - possibly including the Electro-Priests I've wanted since 2nd edition.

Have you had any thoughts on a Mantis/Ad-mech combined force yet, Gits?