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I appreciate everyone's support and comments. Team mates have been equally supportive. Let me get another round of practice in with the slightly tweaked list and we'll see where we are.

Tonight I built the last two sternguard and gave a dilute sepia wash to the Iron Clad. It was just too bright and looked out-of-place when compaired to the rest of the tranquility vets. It's a perfect match now and I can go on to painting the damage and a heavy flamer upgrade for it.

OH, and I primed the insides of the drop pods. Wife offered to help so I'm going to set her on a simple bolt gun metal dry brush on the pods for starters.

Gitsplitta wrote:but it's Nids... so it should be a challenge regardless.

Yeah, nids are a challenge, my ors AND my CSMs can't beat agaist them.
(Though allthat WILL change...)


M.K

Dignity? Is that a new concept or something?

I agree with theme over a power list like with my tau i have a very static line with no kroot or vespid (some septs dont believe in using the alien auxilaries) even thou kroot would definitely offset all the assaults i have taken over the years and vespid would support my crisis suits beautifully....or with my salamanders and thier close up firefights yes i can take weapons and equipment that make it a more ranged army but thats just not the promethean way :p

storm ravens would be a nice but expensive addition to the mantis warriors, as it can drop off the dread, which could assault in its delivery turn, plus ot vould be supported by the motf & sternguard. This would definitely be a hammer unit. You could load it up with melta lascannon and hurricane bolters + machine spirit can allow it to target 2 enemies. So pop a LR then gun down termies which get finished off by the dread for example. Plus it can hekp cover weak points by zipping over or harry your opponents (ambush like a demented flying mantis lol). Even if its shot down you'd be really unlucky to lose the dread aswell.
Your remaining points could be used for your marines is razorbacks or drop pods to capture objectives or be the anvil (fluffy snipers or tranquility vets in hiding to snipe etc)

Except Gits isnt playing BA....

Yes well, we'll see if they become generally available. As this is supposed to be the "summer of flyers" I can't imagine GW would leave it's most popular army without any type of aerial support. In the mean time I can do without.

Good to be back painting and modeling again. One of the sternguard has one of the FW meltas of the period, the other has one of my combi-meltas (well I'm working on it anyway). Got some of that instamold stuff and I'm trying to see if I can copy the muzzle of a melta with it. Green stuff is far from the best material you can use as it is very stiff and tends to deform the rubber mold, but it's better than nothing so we'll see if I can come up with anything useable.

I look forward to beginning to paint the damage on the dread tonight. Guess that means I'll have to figure out how to change the needle in my airbrush. *sigh*

Whats the Problem with not having BA's I have Sons of Medusa and I'm giving them a SR.

Perhaps in the past they helped or was given one or two by the Yellow marines in the Melstorm zone.

But in a tournament, unless you are using the BA codex (which doesnt have ironclads or MoTF) you will not be allowed to play.

Well, in friendly games it doesn't matter as long as your opponent doesn't care, but I'm preparing for a major tournament so I have to do things by-the-book... and technically the Storm Raven is a Blood Angel's vehicle, like the Baal Predator, Furioso Dreadnought or flying Land Raider (why do BA get all the cool toys?).

Cuse the like hording the good stuff.

Sorry for the confusion, not bashing anything. In fact i have an SR for my raven Guard lol

Was just pointing out that it wouldnt be any good for gits in adeppticon.

Apologies

No worries Vit, I don't think anyone was offended.

I thought that the most recent UK White Dwarf had Storm Raven rules in it for all other SM armies. I might be mistaken though?

Gathering Storm wrote:I thought that the most recent UK White Dwarf had Storm Raven rules in it for all other SM armies. I might be mistaken though?

You are. It has the rules, but doesn't say they are for any army other than Blood Angels.

Ninjaed by the Master Slowpoke.

i spoke ro a gw staff member in the dundee store (who was from the edinburgh store doing some covering work) and i was told that the storm raven would be for general use as the rules for it are published in white dwarf, this means as long as you have the white dwarf with you when you use the storm raven then all is copacetic.
It would be worth confirming with adepticon that you wouldnt breach their rules to use it.
I plan on getting 2 for my space wolves (if i ever get back to them) as it lets me get a charge in, it would help neutralise the furious charge rule by giving me the chance to get in first

I've heard that put forward before dantay, but I am skeptical since is not explicitly spelled out in the article. Our way it is still considered a BA thing exclusively. I would not put it past a GW rep to pitch that it was available to everyone just to increase sales.

Guess it might be one of those things (like the FW rules) that get's interpreted/accepted differently depending on what side of the Atlantic you're on. At least this one is easily fixable. A single sentence in White Dwarf or the Space Marine FAQ would settle it. Not that they'll do it... but it would be an easy fix.

It is in a section of white dwarf that is "Blood Angels Design Notes" or something similar. By the logic that it is in WD, anyone can use it, so could eldar, CSM, or Nids. If you take one to a tourny, expect it to get shot down. I would also not allow it in a casual game. My BA can't run thunderfire cannons, ironclad or venerable dreads, thunderwolf cav, or things from other Dex's, I'm not allowing people to use my stuff in theres.

Agreed. In my mind it's a BA thing. If it becomes official for general use... cool. If not, I'll just use my own toys.

And GK, once the new dex comes out (they will have it, the kit has bits for them and there is a painted GK one on the back). As Gits says, if it becomes useable for everyone, cool, but at this time it has not, and there is no way you will convince me otherwise. This game is based on what you can do (IE, you may upgrade this to this for 20 points) not what you can't (doesn't say I can't take a dark lance on my land raider, so I can) and no where in that article did it say anyone can take it, therefore only those who already could can now. /end rant.

Im gonna get another for my Night Lords

Shouldnt have to worry about changing the needle- the Talon seems to be a really user friendly brush.
I jammed it twice using the foundation paints a while back, and had to totally disassemble it. It unscrews great, and screws back together without a complaint. Changing the needle should be interesting, but I have every confidence that you can do it Gits.

dantay_xv wrote:i spoke ro a gw staff member in the dundee store (who was from the edinburgh store doing some covering work) and i was told that the storm raven would be for general use as the rules for it are published in white dwarf, this means as long as you have the white dwarf with you when you use the storm raven then all is copacetic.
It would be worth confirming with adepticon that you wouldnt breach their rules to use it.
I plan on getting 2 for my space wolves (if i ever get back to them) as it lets me get a charge in, it would help neutralise the furious charge rule by giving me the chance to get in first

yeh, no offence to him but that is a guy working in the store...its not him that makes the decisions on what is used in tournaments, FAQs, etc. We shall have to see...

Well, I still have the instructions (somewhere)... I'm sure I'll sort it out. High time I take my brush apart and clean it anyway.

You make me laugh Git. You seem to have had that airbruh for like 40 odd pages (not sure what that is in real time, I have replaced it with the new calendar of "new pages on gits blog" ) and haven't cleaned it or changed the needle! The laugh is almost painful now as I realise that you have achieved so much, especially those razorbacks, with minimal adjustments.

PS - whats an instruction manual? My wife has mentioned these alien words to me before.....

Its the paper thing you throw out of the way to put something together like a man.

Might be the thing I put my mug of tea (with 2 sugars ) on.

Instructions are something that magically appear once you're over 40, unfortunately by that time your eyes are so bad (even if you never need glasses before) that when you hold the book far enough away to focus properly the letters are too small to read. I have "cheater" glasses salted all over my house, cars, office, garage, fishing tackle box... you name it.

BLAM! I was way to lazy to set up anything to make the pics better. As I told Gits, I may have made the most expensive RT Plastic Beaky ever. Maxmini Sword, Head, and Leg, and FW Bolt Pistol