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I am so stealing this idea. I would never try to claim the advantage in play, but the modelling opportunities are too awesome.

And its given me an idea to convert my future commandoes to all be holding cardboard cutouts of space marines and shrubs and things they can hide behind when anyone is looking their way.

Have you ever seen Waaagh Gonads's infiltrating Ork
model with a Space Marine poster in front of it?

(I think it was WG)

Oh man breaking minis is NOT cool.

=(

Stelek wrote:Oh man breaking minis is NOT cool.

=(

I agree, but I think you know as well as I do that there are some A-Holes out there who WOULD do it "accidentally" on purpose.

Back in the day, I ran with some of them (but never.... EVER... was one).


Eric

malfred wrote:Have you ever seen Waaagh Gonads's infiltrating Ork
model with a Space Marine poster in front of it?

(I think it was WG)

I haven’t, does anyone have the link?

malfred wrote:
Guess I missed out by not reading enough YMDC.

Yeah, it was just a pic posted by someone (I can't remember whom anymore) to give an example of what a "magic cylinder" essentially was for another poster who couldn't really grasp the concept.

Pretty funny.

Y'know. I think what I'm gunna do, is move the plate to one side of the vehicle. Make them no larger than the vehicles, and put them on every vehicle in my KoS. That way, when I set my army up for display, it's just one long diorama. Ok, I'm guuna go hit the modeling table. Pics when I'm done.

Thanks for saving me from certain physical pain!

Oh, here’s those Kommandos: http://www.the-waaagh.com/images/photos/gf1.jpg
Someone posted them when I put this thread up on Librarium.

-Leo037

That pic is hilarious.

Good stuff.

My most favorite ork ever.

yakface wrote:
All I know is you could have some great games against this classic Space Wolves Dreadnought:

Oh, you still have this!! I lost the original. Thanks for posting it again!

I love those guys. The owner plays at Danger Planet in Waltham, MA, IIRC.

So Waaagh Gonads's orks were the kommandos that
were glued to the base from the torso up?

you could totally get away with one. Also model some Orks "sneekin'" behind terrain, out of manholes, etc.

If memory serves, those sneaky gits belong to Darin Brown (Gorfrag!). First time I saw them was the one time I wanted to just blatantly loot somebody's idea, they're just that good.

In the rule book there's a counter which is only a slugga hand and half an ork head with water effects. You could do a hole army like that.

malfred wrote:Have you ever seen Waaagh Gonads's infiltrating Ork
model with a Space Marine poster in front of it?

(I think it was WG)

I remember the smiling waving humie on a sheet of white cardboard being held up with a green hand. I loved the idea, and have thought of copying it.

If the billboard covered the vehicle and as a stealth wartrakk I would go with it, consider the billboard part of the model for all purposes. You would need to account for the billboard when you work out your guns LOS though. The billboard should be mounted on one side of the wartrukk, orbetter yet surround it as a cardboard cylinder.
Yes it should have los blocking if the conept is sound: i.e the stealtgh billboard is not too big, its crewed by kommando models, there are vision slits for the driver and a raised gunport for the twin linked big shootas which are probably painted in keeping the your happy skyline.

syr8766 wrote:
If you really want your buggies to block more LOS, go convert a bunch of 1/35 scale armored cars and the like. Just be prepared to deal with the consequences. Like Whitescar owning you in the parking lot.

If.)

Hey i did that with 1/35 scale tanks as my preds in my SW army. All my tanks were big. My rhinos and my dred aswell. the marines were tru scale so they were in scale with the larger tanks. I even won best army for it. Some ass did moan but when i proved they were in scale by bring out a normal marine and a normal rhino and then mine he had no leg to stand on. (partially due to me knee capping him with a hammer)

(partially due to me knee capping him with a hammer)

And they say TTg-ing isn't a contact sport.

New idea: Mirrors! One of the buggies will have real mirrors instead of a billboard.

-Leo037

Stelek wrote:Totally freaking funny. Even if you were 'serious' I'd let you do it. It's just too funny a poke at the rules not to. lol

Man talk about a good Sport. Stelek I would love to play you if you had that kind of fun attitude. Seriously I would like to play a game with you if permitting we get the chance. I too would have a laugh and let him do it.

I think it's one of the funniest ideas I've seen in 40k for a while - and viable (just hear me out before the flames start).

In a GT you're going to be playing games at the different levels (Alpha, Gamma, Omega). All of the Omega games include "concealment".

Make them removable, and make one for each unit in your army. Then use them as the "concealment" markers for your army. Just remove them whenever a unit does something that takes away their concealment.

That way you get to use your funny conversions and you're not breaking / abusing any rules. You're simply using them to mark a units status rather than trying to block LOS.