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Now those are some good Night Lords rules!

Dig the article too, especially the line "Fair fights are for idiots with more honor than sense". Now these guys get the 8th Legion. Can we get them to talk to the 40k rules writers, please?

 Gadzilla666 wrote:
Dig the article too, especially the line "Fair fights are for idiots with more honor than sense". Now these guys get the 8th Legion. Can we get them to talk to the 40k rules writers, please?

No. Your 10,000 years of experience in the Long War means you are slightly better with pistols after a battle's been going on for a while.

Fluffy!!!

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Gadzilla666 wrote:
Dig the article too, especially the line "Fair fights are for idiots with more honor than sense". Now these guys get the 8th Legion. Can we get them to talk to the 40k rules writers, please?

No. Your 10,000 years of experience in the Long War means you are slightly better with pistols after a battle's been going on for a while.

Fluffy!!!

Nothing more "fluffy" than CSM following the "Doctrines" of the Codex Astartes.

And having 'Tactical Squad' weapon limitations.

Which is a funny mix-around considering Legion tactical squads have no special weapons.

 Gadzilla666 wrote:
Now those are some good Night Lords rules!

Dig the article too, especially the line "Fair fights are for idiots with more honor than sense". Now these guys get the 8th Legion. Can we get them to talk to the 40k rules writers, please?

I was thinking the same thing, but then realized that 9th doesn't have pinning.

 ClockworkZion wrote:

 Gadzilla666 wrote:
Now those are some good Night Lords rules!

Dig the article too, especially the line "Fair fights are for idiots with more honor than sense". Now these guys get the 8th Legion. Can we get them to talk to the 40k rules writers, please?

I was thinking the same thing, but then realized that 9th doesn't have pinning.

Sadly, no it doesn't. But they could still do the "outnumbering" thing. Or just write meaningful morale rules, y'know, like pinning.

 Gert wrote:
His soul is still about. Had a nice chat with Dante when the latter nearly kicked the bucket during the Devastation of Baal.

That doesn't contradict old fluff. Only horus has been said to be dead and soul annihilated by emperor. Sanquinus was killed by horus. State of soul wasn''t specified.

Now if abbadon starts having chat's with horus soul time to pick up pitchforks

 Gadzilla666 wrote:

 ClockworkZion wrote:

 Gadzilla666 wrote:
Now those are some good Night Lords rules!

Dig the article too, especially the line "Fair fights are for idiots with more honor than sense". Now these guys get the 8th Legion. Can we get them to talk to the 40k rules writers, please?

I was thinking the same thing, but then realized that 9th doesn't have pinning.

Sadly, no it doesn't. But they could still do the "outnumbering" thing. Or just write meaningful morale rules, y'know, like pinning.

Oh gods yes. Also stop giving every army book a sub-faction that ignores attrition. Never counts at below half? Sure. Auto-passes it? No. Stop it. Bad.


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tneva82 wrote:

 Gert wrote:
His soul is still about. Had a nice chat with Dante when the latter nearly kicked the bucket during the Devastation of Baal.

That doesn't contradict old fluff. Only horus has been said to be dead and soul annihilated by emperor. Sanquinus was killed by horus. State of soul wasn''t specified.

Now if abbadon starts having chat's with horus soul time to pick up pitchforks

I thought he soul was stuck on the Vengeful Spirit in the form of a crystalline statue?

As for mixing/matching armour, I'm planning on equipping my Breechers and Heavy support squads in MkIII and everything else in MkII, just for the sake of breaking up the 'sameness' of having just one type of armour, and is in theme for the Imperial Fists anyway.

Adding to this, I will also look at sourcing some bits from the Iron Hands selection, as some of their upgrades can do wonders for kitbashing some models or adding some flair to certain squads.

In my IWs I currently have marks II to V in various numbers.

I might paint some beakies for them, but I'm not sure I like how they look, and I want to do a RT Battle for the Farm set, so...

How to Paint: Horus Heresy Blood Angels

GoatboyBeta wrote:

 Strg Alt wrote:
The artist didn´t paint the legion symbol on the shoulder pad in the NL video. Was he told to wait for the inevitable upgrade sprue?

I've watched a few of the HH painting vids, and I don't recall Legion badges being used on any of them. Possibly they are waiting until a later date to release a vid on transfer application.

Transfers tend to suck badly when applied to a curved surface. Trying to get them properly aligned by cutting slightly into them didn´t work either. It´s just bad. Either you do a free hand painting (difficult and time consuming depending on the symbol) or you get specific shoulder pads with molded symbols.

The 2nd Night Lord transfers had upward folded wings which were easy to apply to shoulder pads. Next generation of NL transfer had wings which spread horizontally. Those were way more difficult to align. So I just proceeded to paint lightning bolts instead of placing transfers.

Nahhh just get Micro Set and Micro Sol, StrgAlt. Makes easy work of pauldron transfers.

 JohnnyHell wrote:
Nahhh just get Micro Set and Micro Sol, StrgAlt. Makes easy work of pauldron transfers.

Yep. It's a solved problem.

 Strg Alt wrote:

GoatboyBeta wrote:

 Strg Alt wrote:
The artist didn´t paint the legion symbol on the shoulder pad in the NL video. Was he told to wait for the inevitable upgrade sprue?

I've watched a few of the HH painting vids, and I don't recall Legion badges being used on any of them. Possibly they are waiting until a later date to release a vid on transfer application.

Transfers tend to suck badly when applied to a curved surface. Trying to get them properly aligned by cutting slightly into them didn´t work either. It´s just bad. Either you do a free hand painting (difficult and time consuming depending on the symbol) or you get specific shoulder pads with molded symbols.

The 2nd Night Lord transfers had upward folded wings which were easy to apply to shoulder pads. Next generation of NL transfer had wings which spread horizontally. Those were way more difficult to align. So I just proceeded to paint lightning bolts instead of placing transfers.

Micro Sol and Micro Set are your friends for transfers.

Odds on a Twilight joke in today's post, with a link to the Space Wolves?

 ClockworkZion wrote:
I thought he soul was stuck on the Vengeful Spirit in the form of a crystalline statue?

Sort of, but the CSM still on the ship constantly smash the statues which then reappear somewhere else on the ship.

I've always got the vibe that Sanguinus would be resurrected somehow in the long run.

Although that might just be a 35 year Vet of GW / Blood Angel lore reading too much into allegories.


[Edit] https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/05/19/legions-of-the-horus-heresy-find-beauty-in-battle-with-the-blood-angels/

It's not just Sanguinius that is a crystal statue, IIRC. Which may mean that's not how they would go about resurrecting him.

Especially since we have the Sanguinor ex machina.

Hasn't the mystery behind the Sanguinor already been revealed as

 Matt.Kingsley wrote:
Hasn't the mystery behind the Sanguinor already been revealed as

Spoiler:

Alatron, transformed into a warp entity during the heresy after taking up the role during the whole Imperial Secundus thing

Yea, there's that also, lol

That's another reason I don't buy anything 100% in "Lore"...



Inigo Montoya: “He's dead. He can't talk.”

Miracle Max: “There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive.

Basically the same rules as BA have right now. Not bad.

I know these are biased jokes articles but this ones reads exactly like the BL Bangles.

There, fate would see the Angel Encarmine battle Ka’bandha once more – and this time he put in a cracking performance. We’ve yet to see how the Siege of Terra ends, but based on Sanguinius’ track record, it seems a pretty safe bet that he’ll emerge from this whole fiasco without a scratch.

A nail in the coffin of the Sang vs Angron fan theory, which is good. As per the precedent set by Mortarion and Jaghatai, Angron should smash Sang to bits.

Fulgrim got beaten by Dorn though. So the current standing is 1-1.

 Gert wrote:
Fulgrim got beaten by Dorn though. So the current standing is 1-1.

Was that after Fulgrim instantly regenerated all his wounds and Dorn shat his pants?

beast_gts wrote:
How to Paint: Horus Heresy Blood Angels

Spoiler:

Once again, there seems to be a disconnect in how GW themselves paints things and how they teach their customers to paint.
The colours used in the tutorial look way too red/pink compared to the Eavy Metal example in the the article

This topic of red shade is a pet peeve of mine. I am a big proponent of a more "desaturated orange"/vermillion over bright red for BA

PS - Am I the only one who finds the weak gun barrel drilling on the model a flocking eyesore?

 tauist wrote:

beast_gts wrote:
How to Paint: Horus Heresy Blood Angels

Spoiler:

Once again, there seems to be a disconnect in how GW themselves paints things and how they teach their customers to paint.
The colours used in the tutorial look way too red/pink compared to the Eavy Metal example in the the article

This topic of red shade is a pet peeve of mine. I am a big proponent of a more "desaturated orange"/vermillion over bright red for BA

PS - Am I the only one who finds the weak gun barrel drilling on the model a flocking eyesore?

Better than Space Wolves gun sights being on the bottom of the barrel , but yes. Photoshop could have fixed that easily.

 tauist wrote:
PS - Am I the only one who finds the weak gun barrel drilling on the model a flocking eyesore?

I mean, if they're not going to take writing about a project seriously, what makes you think they'll take the modelling/painting side seriously?

 Dysartes wrote:

 tauist wrote:
PS - Am I the only one who finds the weak gun barrel drilling on the model a flocking eyesore?

I mean, if they're not going to take writing about a project seriously, what makes you think they'll take the modelling/painting side seriously?

I don't know what you're talking about. It's clear they're taking this super seriously. I mean just look:

We’ve yet to see how the Siege of Terra ends, but based on Sanguinius’ track record, it seems a pretty safe bet that he’ll emerge from this whole fiasco without a scratch.

Looks like we are getting Legion specific Bonces and Badges, albeit in Resin.

Imperial Fists are first out the gate, with more to follow.