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Word Bearers are the closest thing that I'm going to get a daemonkin and fully corrupted army in 30k, leaving a lot open for conversion of various kinds. Only the Emperor's Children are close, and they're locked to Slaanesh.
   
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I started my first pre-heresy army in the late 00s when we only had the Heresy TCG, art books and no official miniatures for any of it! It was quite hard to make your force differentiate as being not-40k back then so the World Eaters were an obvious choice as a Traitor legion that had changed its colours. If I tell you I had a few people ask "why are your World Eaters not red?" that will tell you how niche heresy and pre-heresy was back then! A friend commented that I could only paint dark miniatures so that was it, challenge accepted! I also loved the idea of the 'bad boys', with this horrendously aggressive and destructive method of war, being on the side of the Crusade at that period of time.

My 28mm army has now long gone but I have kept up with the boys in white & blue with a large Epic scale force, which is closing in on a chapter's worth of marines. I'm thinking of getting back into 28mm scale force but am not sure what to look at. The current top candidates are a post-Istvaan Iron Hands force (rag-tag collection of marines in damaged/scavenged kit) or a scouring-era Sons of Horus force. I like the idea of a broken force of marines who have lost everything, but are still fighting.

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I like to pick up on a piece of lore or a theme and go for it.

I've got Traitor Raven Guard in the works because the idea of brooding space marine pirates that don't believe in any gods or masters appeals greatly.

I've also got a Loyalist Word Bearer army in the works because the idea of space marines burning down places of heretical worship and doing what their legion was designed to do appeals to me greatly.
   
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 Pacific wrote:
I started my first pre-heresy army in the late 00s when we only had the Heresy TCG, art books and no official miniatures for any of it! It was quite hard to make your force differentiate as being not-40k back then so the World Eaters were an obvious choice as a Traitor legion that had changed its colours. If I tell you I had a few people ask "why are your World Eaters not red?" that will tell you how niche heresy and pre-heresy was back then! A friend commented that I could only paint dark miniatures so that was it, challenge accepted! I also loved the idea of the 'bad boys', with this horrendously aggressive and destructive method of war, being on the side of the Crusade at that period of time.

My 28mm army has now long gone but I have kept up with the boys in white & blue with a large Epic scale force, which is closing in on a chapter's worth of marines. I'm thinking of getting back into 28mm scale force but am not sure what to look at. The current top candidates are a post-Istvaan Iron Hands force (rag-tag collection of marines in damaged/scavenged kit) or a scouring-era Sons of Horus force. I like the idea of a broken force of marines who have lost everything, but are still fighting.


I like how you think. đź‘ŤWould have been awesome to see your army back then.

I do Iron Hands for Epic 30k btw, currently only at 40 marines, 20 Terminators and 5 Characters painted for Infantry since I go armour heavy, but it will grow and also might end up at Chapter ish strength. 6mm is awesome.

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I pick a legion based on which rules are best at the moment. TBH I'll probably just leave all my stuff unpainted so I don't have to worry about being committed to using bad rules.
   
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Aecus Decimus wrote:
I pick a legion based on which rules are best at the moment. TBH I'll probably just leave all my stuff unpainted so I don't have to worry about being committed to using bad rules.

Hmmm.....sounds like you'd be more suited for 9th edition 40k.........
   
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 Gadzilla666 wrote:
Aecus Decimus wrote:
I pick a legion based on which rules are best at the moment. TBH I'll probably just leave all my stuff unpainted so I don't have to worry about being committed to using bad rules.

Hmmm.....sounds like you'd be more suited for 9th edition 40k.........


Nah, 30k is better because buying one army lets you play every faction. 40k makes it more expensive to keep up with the meta.
   
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Aecus Decimus wrote:
 Gadzilla666 wrote:
Aecus Decimus wrote:
I pick a legion based on which rules are best at the moment. TBH I'll probably just leave all my stuff unpainted so I don't have to worry about being committed to using bad rules.

Hmmm.....sounds like you'd be more suited for 9th edition 40k.........


Nah, 30k is better because buying one army lets you play every faction. 40k makes it more expensive to keep up with the meta.

Not really. If you’re doing what you suggested (not painting your models in order to switch from Legion to Legion), then the same tactic would work for either Loyalist Scum or CSM in 40k, without the added expense of expensive resin Legion specific, or even generic, models. And 30k doesn't really have the ever evolving "meta" that 40k does. No tournament books, FAQs on top of FAQs, etc.

And you can't play "every" faction with one army, either. Unless you're opponent is ok with your proxying your Assault Marines as Thallax, or something
   
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 Gadzilla666 wrote:
without the added expense of expensive resin Legion specific, or even generic, models.


Those are easy to proxy even if you don't want to buy recasts.

And 30k doesn't really have the ever evolving "meta" that 40k does.


Tell that to my 9x phosphex quad mortars. Thank god I bought third-party alternates instead of $$$$ FW resin.

Unless you're opponent is ok with your proxying your Assault Marines as Thallax, or something


Does anyone even play admech? I thought those rules are just for people who want to collect and never play, I've never seen anything but space marines in real games.

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Sorry, I forgot this is 30k where competitive play is WAAC TFG and must be trolling.
   
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 Gadzilla666 wrote:
Don't worry Gert! I'm done here.


lmao seriously. Imagine being a guy that wants to get into 30k for the *competitive* aspect.

There was some post on reddit about someone throwing a conniption about a narrative event. The post started literally with "I'm halfway across the world but this stuff still makes me rage!" and it was a picture of about 4 or 5 dreadnoughts.

Others that were actually AT THE EVENT clarified that it was part of the competitive event, not the narrative one. Numbers suggested there were 70+ people at the narrative event with beautifully painted armies

versus about 6 dudes with barely-painted WAAC 30k 'competitive' stuff.

At the end of the day, that dude can play his 'competitive' 30k army that's space wolves one day and night lords the next, never paint his gray plastic, and play against like-minded people and they'll be happy as can be in their little corner of the world.

The rest of us will actually make something of the hobby.

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drbored wrote:
Others that were actually AT THE EVENT clarified that it was part of the competitive event, not the narrative one. Numbers suggested there were 70+ people at the narrative event with beautifully painted armies

versus about 6 dudes with barely-painted WAAC 30k 'competitive' stuff.


Yeah, that was their mistake. The competitive players should have recognized that the event was going to be too small to be a viable tournament and signed up for the narrative event instead. Fortunately that doesn't happen very often, usually there's only a single 30k event that everyone plays in and the player pool is maximized.

The rest of us will actually make something of the hobby.


Got to love the smug CAAC attitude that you're only "making something of the hobby" if you do everything for narrative reasons and anyone else isn't really having fun.

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Aecus Decimus wrote:
I pick a legion based on which rules are best at the moment. TBH I'll probably just leave all my stuff unpainted so I don't have to worry about being committed to using bad rules.


Is this a troll attempt?


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drbored wrote:
 Gadzilla666 wrote:
Don't worry Gert! I'm done here.


lmao seriously. Imagine being a guy that wants to get into 30k for the *competitive* aspect.

There was some post on reddit about someone throwing a conniption about a narrative event. The post started literally with "I'm halfway across the world but this stuff still makes me rage!" and it was a picture of about 4 or 5 dreadnoughts.

Others that were actually AT THE EVENT clarified that it was part of the competitive event, not the narrative one. Numbers suggested there were 70+ people at the narrative event with beautifully painted armies

versus about 6 dudes with barely-painted WAAC 30k 'competitive' stuff.

At the end of the day, that dude can play his 'competitive' 30k army that's space wolves one day and night lords the next, never paint his gray plastic, and play against like-minded people and they'll be happy as can be in their little corner of the world.

The rest of us will actually make something of the hobby.


True.

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4 Dreadnoughts is a bit of yesterdays meta overhere. If you know that you will come up against Dreadnoughts it's easy to be prepared. They are only a problem if their occurrence will surprise you or if you have a restricted choice of models. When playing competitive I would expect somebody to bring them or large numbers of elites.
Recon Squad or any other unit equipped with with Melter-Bombs. Squad of Melters, Multi-Melters, Lascannons, Predators with Magna Melta, pintlemounted Multi-Melta and 2 Lascannons in a unit of two. Scimitars mit Multi-Melta, Javelins with Multi-Melta and 2 Lascannons etc. Add an Armistos or Master of Signals to the unit of 10 Lascannons. You might not end with the list you might want to play, but after some games you can fall back to something nice or more to your liking, because the Dreadnoughts will not occur that often anymore.
Players start out new, restricted with what is available in plastic, or with what was good in 1.0, but often isn't in 2.0.
So the meta in HH 2.0 is changing with every new model release. Dreadnoughts were available from the start, but not much to counter them.
With the second Predator kit, heavy and special weapon kits this changed. Also the Scimitars will make a change. They and Javelins are a really bad surprise for your opponent until he realises how to counter them. And so the meta will change again ... and again. Of course only for those who care. Those who want to stick to a list, because it represents some force at a given time and place will have to live with whatever fate throws at them.
   
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For me it was mostly the characters. Eidalon, Fulgrim and Lucius are some of my fave arseholes in the entirety of the warhammer universe. Hopefully we'll get a heresy Era Bile cause he's also a wonderful character.

Saul is also a wonderful archetype, a paragon with everything around them crumbling before his eyes.

The fact that they have the whole swordsman archetype and units to boot is fun too. Another wishlist would be the ability to take Sonic weapons on vehicles/dreads like some other legions can with their legion specific weapons like assault cannons instead of flamers. Except I think Voltkite would be the switch option for the 3rd.
   
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As a Dark Angels player since 1996 I thought that 30K would be a chance to cleanse the palette. Try something new. For context I had stepped out of 40K as 7th dropped as I was not having fun with the game. When 8th dropped I came back and a friend mentioned 30K. What turned me away was the 7th Ed rules.

In 2018 I started reading the Horus Heresy novels - I was travelling a lot and the books went all over the world. I had visions of painting up some Sons of Horus. I had picked up a used Cypher for $5 a year before, though, and decided to paint him Thanksgiving 2019. I really enjoyed it and grabbed a squad of plastic 30K Marines in MkIII armour to be with him. Then twenty used plastic 30K terminators ended up in my hands that I also painted up as 30K Dark Angels (after a long bath in LA's Totally Awesome) for a fun-themed 40K tourney. I did terrible placings-wise (Dec 2019 was not a great time to be a Dark Angel competitive-wise) but enjoyed the hobbying and gaming aspect of the journey. When the 9th Ed Forge World book dropped I was able to pick up plenty of used 30K dreadnaughts to add to my side-hustle 40K force that I took for fun game on Saturdays.

Then Horus Heresy came out. I resisted as I thought my force was not really compatible due to the unit organizations (the Tac Squads were built for 40K). Then I took my 30K-themed Dark Angels to a 40K pickup game this past December. My opponent was a Horus Heresy guy and he pointed out that with Rites of War I could make my 40K list of 30K dudes compatible with Horus Heresy.

I signed up for the local tournament, had a great time and now have forty more 30K marines to make a more viable force and I am having a great time. Still Dark Angels. Ah well. Maybe next edition I'll branch out.


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 westiebestie wrote:
 Pacific wrote:
I started my first pre-heresy army in the late 00s when we only had the Heresy TCG, art books and no official miniatures for any of it! It was quite hard to make your force differentiate as being not-40k back then so the World Eaters were an obvious choice as a Traitor legion that had changed its colours. If I tell you I had a few people ask "why are your World Eaters not red?" that will tell you how niche heresy and pre-heresy was back then! A friend commented that I could only paint dark miniatures so that was it, challenge accepted! I also loved the idea of the 'bad boys', with this horrendously aggressive and destructive method of war, being on the side of the Crusade at that period of time.

My 28mm army has now long gone but I have kept up with the boys in white & blue with a large Epic scale force, which is closing in on a chapter's worth of marines. I'm thinking of getting back into 28mm scale force but am not sure what to look at. The current top candidates are a post-Istvaan Iron Hands force (rag-tag collection of marines in damaged/scavenged kit) or a scouring-era Sons of Horus force. I like the idea of a broken force of marines who have lost everything, but are still fighting.


I like how you think. đź‘ŤWould have been awesome to see your army back then.

I do Iron Hands for Epic 30k btw, currently only at 40 marines, 20 Terminators and 5 Characters painted for Infantry since I go armour heavy, but it will grow and also might end up at Chapter ish strength. 6mm is awesome.


Thanks man! Would love to see your Epic 30K stuff. We have a thread down in the depths of the specialist games section of the forum if you would like to have a look there and post anything!
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/630/791159.page

Epic 30K&40K! A new players guide, contributors welcome https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/751316.page
Small but perfectly formed! A Great Crusade Epic 6mm project: https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/694411.page

 
   
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as long as both players are happy with how the game goes does it matter if someone is competitive?

also does it matter if someone wants to play a few legions before deciding on one or a few?

the benefits of a discussion before a game about what both want from it are massive, locally I have two main opponents, one wanting a more fluffy game, not cheesed and where we both run forces designed to be able to fight each other without being maximised, the other hunts for every last bit of chedder he can find

both are fun, just different (and yes one of the above is painted and one isn't, and its not a trick question to guess which is which)

I had an unpainted, or largely unpainted WHFB O&G force, I learnt that way madness awaits with the ever expanding horde so these days my stuff is painted, but will play againse card counters if its a good game
   
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I couldn't get the proper looking metallic green for Alpha Legion, so I went with my second pick: Iron Warriors.

I like their rules, I like experimenting with rust and weathering powder, and while it's a 40k novel I liked Storm of Iron, seeing the sort of put upon grunts that can do what fancier armies can't.

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 ScarletRose wrote:
I couldn't get the proper looking metallic green for Alpha Legion, so I went with my second pick: Iron Warriors.

I like their rules, I like experimenting with rust and weathering powder, and while it's a 40k novel I liked Storm of Iron, seeing the sort of put upon grunts that can do what fancier armies can't.


There is a GW colour for AL for that specific green blue. And GW released a nice easy to follow tutorial for it aswell

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GW" MONEY.... erm i meant TOO MANY OPTIONS (to resell your army to you again by disalowing former units)! Do you want specific tyranid fighiting Primaris? Even a new sabotage lieutnant!"
Chaos players: Guess i stop playing or go to HH.  
   
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Its definitely a lot easier these days. I remember when all that you had to go on was the colour schemes in the Index Astartes articles and the Collected Visions books, where the Sons of Horus had a different shade of colour in every piece of artwork, ranging from dark green to metallic silver!

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I couldn't decide, and I'm not a massive fan of following official colour schemes... so I did my own colour scheme, Brass and Blue. The intention is play them as Blackshields, until Blackshields get rules for HH 2nd edition,I'll run them as Ultramarines. Local scene has a lot of Traitor Legions, so helps balance that out... and they have blue as part of their colour scheme, which helps to avoid confusion.

I am tempted to male them an unofficial 2nd Legion. The Primarch was killed, the Legion wasn't however. Could say they've been waiting for the perfect time to carve out their own empire, the HH gives them ample opportunity to do just that.

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Kind of a necro post... but for me, it was a bit driven by mechanics.

I built a good sized Raven Guard and a massive (though still not painted) IH force. In 40k I play Ultramarines and Dark Angels the most and I really wanted forces that had a different feel to them.

It's been fun and the RG guys got me an Adepticon medal... so its gone well

I'm curious how many of you would have created your HH force due to a reaction and contrast to a 40k faction? Didn't want to start a new thread and this one wasn't that deep... so apologies if my thoughtful necroposting offends, but it was a decision that seemed warranted.

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Very easy for me, Dark Angels.
In one guise or another I have had a Dark Angels army for 40K since the original beakkies were released in 1987(?)
Wanted a painted army on the table, so a tin of black spray and some paints and lol my first Dark Angels were done.

So for 30k was a no brainer


 
   
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I have over 12k points in Black Templars painted up, so I went with Imperial Fists for my first HH army. Sons of DORN!

I enjoyed the HH books, and thought Horus and Loken were Righteous Dudes, so Sons of Horus is my Traitor army.

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My legion choice started about 30 years ago with a White Dwarf article on the Flesh Tearers. It really pushed the edge of collapse that the chapter was suffering from and included Death Company Dreadnoughts.

Then reading the Horus Heresy novels brought Nassir Amit to my attention and the memories of above, add in the launch of Betrayal at Calth and I was sold on making a Siege of Terra 5th Company Blood Angels force that are proto Fleshtearers.

So Blood Angels, kind of.
   
 
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