Co'tor Shas wrote:

rohansoldier: I think supporting fire should be a common rule as well (perhaps let Tau do it at 12" and everybody else 6").

The problem with that being that Tau fire warriors train especially to protect each other from charges. If other armies did that than it would make sense , but they don't.

40KNobz11 wrote:
Been out of Warhammer for a number of years. Recently got back into it. Loving it by the way!! Bought my self a squad of nobz to go with my boyz and warboss. Now I don't have the new codex yet but I would like to use these in gaming in the future so my question is what can you run with them or what is recommended haha. So many choices!!! Id like to use all three multi shootas/big shootas (whatever they are haha, im still kinda nooby), 1 choppa, and powerclaw with boss poll if possible. Any help would be awesome. Thanks everyone

 Nevelon wrote:
Dreadnoughts can also be good anti-armor, depending on how you load them up and what flavor you use.

Their main drawback is compeating with everything else in the elite slot.

Wow you should enter into Golden Demons!

 Platuan4th wrote:
Mine doesn't exist anymore, it was on the pre-Yakface boards.

 Platuan4th wrote:
Mine doesn't exist anymore, it was on the pre-Yakface boards.

From personal experience, my girlfriend thinks that space wolves and tyranids look "cute". This has turned into a Hello Kitty Space Wolf Project for me and a few of my friends, one who likes to magnetize things and one who's always wanted to paint a pink army.

well, I'm trying to create my own killa kan type conversion. One of the things I'd really like to have is a nice killy shoota, with a pair of ammo belts hanging from it. The ammo belts on ebay are like $15 with shipping which is at least $13 more then I'm willing to spend on this part of the project. Any ideas for something I can homebrew? I do have greenstuff but can't imagine how i'd do all the points.

thanks!

Fri, Mar/06/2009

Evil Lamp 6 wrote:For those that are against the manner or intent of the measurement allowed by the rules, then how do you purpose that such measurements are done so that they aren't "cheating"?

 marv335 wrote:
how about giving the shotgun "pinning"

 Polonius wrote:

 Platuan4th wrote:
Mine doesn't exist anymore, it was on the pre-Yakface boards.

I"m pretty sure my first posts were prior to the server change.

I'm new to dwarfs too and fantasy 8th ed at that, are anvils worth their points? i mean, its an extra dispel dice and some nice runes, but they seem like they'd be pretty vulnerable. to both enemy mischief and getting blown up from failing to strike ancestor runes (not too worried about failing normal runes, i mean its 2+...but i guess thats what you say as you roll a 1, but anyway yeah not too worried about that).

 SlaveToDorkness wrote:
I joined DAKKA just to post here (it seems I'm not alone either).

I was at Cleveland, TN and know the owner personally and would like to address some of the comments made here.

yes, the tourney was delayed for a bit less than an hour, because of a really bad wreck in Atl. that closed the interstates. There were several players who were coming stuck in this.

The terain was a bit sparse (6 pieces per table) but I have played at GTs with much less. The problem we talked about was that it was all mostly buildings. The issues with terrain were brought up by the group that brought more terrain, and subsiquently started moving eveything around to accomodate their terrain they brought, without consulting with the owner first. Basically they tried to railroad the guy into using more terrain. They also were very pushy with him about other issues early on. This guy is a very nice guy who has a business to run and was nice enough to host both rounds of this tourney for very little gain. He didn't deserve the flak.

The issues with the "illegal" army were brought up after the tourney, but the guy did realize it earlier and I was told quit using the offending model. The issue was he had a termy librarian with a familiar, which doesn't have the "*" by it so it can't be used by a termy character. I spoke with the player who played him with the Familiar and he said it made no difference in their game. If it was an honest mistake he should be able to move on. The people giving Shaun (the owner) grief over the issue were the same people who had earlier. The guy who came in 4th who had the most to profit from it, was fine with him winning. I know the 4th place guy as well and he said Shaun was right.

I have played the guy who was the most vocal about these issues, and I had several rules "debates" with him also, all of which were due to his lack of rules knowledge or a real sketchy interpretation of the rules. Mostly revolving around the phrase "Must move towards" meaning "directly towards" or "end your move 1/2" closer to".


All-in-all I had a good time, came in 7th and hated the screwy missions. The 2nd one was totally mind blowing. I went first and got Massacred (Mephiston deploying 6"=BAD for Guardians!) that put me out. I agree that if GW wants to see who's the best at the game they should play standard missions that people actually USE in the game, not some wacky crap no one would agree to if they had a choice.

Anyways, its late and I'm going to curl up next to the lovely wife, sorry for ranting in my first post, but others on here pissed me off.

- K

 MrMoustaffa wrote:

Kanluwen wrote:

Yes, the Vulture has rules. Through Imperial Armour...for quite awhile, in fact. Since IA1.

What is Imperial Armor? I'm new to Guard and I keep seeing this popping up around the forums. Are these extra vehicles that just arent in the codex for normal games, or is it like apocalypse where they can only be taken in certain gametypes?

I've seen some of the vehicles on Forgeworld and I have to admit theyre pretty awesome. While I cant afford the kits, I can probably figure out how to make a few from scratch if I really wanted em. That is if they're even legal for normal games of course

It looks pretty cool, but I'd need to spend a lot more money to play it right.

 Jimsolo wrote:
I checked the main entry on page 67 and the Army List entry at the back of the book...and the wording is kind of crappy there...but if I were organizing a tourney or something, I would have to say it was technically legal.

 Wyrmalla wrote:
I used to have store bought copies of pretty much all the going armies at the time, plus fluff books, but with GW rising the price of Codexes to a ridiculous £17 I can hardly see myself going out and buying the latest versions for my armies when it only takes a minute to print them off a site for free, plus a lack of interest in the actual gaming side of the hobby and constant drain on money that is my social life really swings my opion. =P

Almost anything having to do with Slaanesh.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with Monster. I've been drinking it for 8 years and have had no heart or other cardiovascular problems from it. All it is flavored caffeine.

In addition to military personnel consuming large quantities of energy drinks and caffeinated dip, physical laborers also drink quite a bit. I had a boss in the restaurant industry who went through 3-5 of the 24 oz cans a day.

 Eldarain wrote:
PM sent.

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
Partial assembly. The arms get in the way of chest details and it gets frustratingly hard when you are trying to do your best.

I can sympathise with the whole thing where GW guys think that they're a notch above the gamer.
Several times have I experienced irritation when I help someone with a rule, and some douche of a GW employee comes up, tells me I'm wrong, and when asked to qualify this replies, 'I'm a GW employee, which means I should know'.

It's like as someone said before, they feel they get to be 'King Geek', which puts them above the gamer.

I must admit it's scarily good fun to whip out a rulebook and prove them wrong though.

Here's a nice quote from the local Canterbury manager
,'See, the thing is with those people on Warseer..'
*I interrupt* 'Actually, I read DakkaDakka'
'Pfff. Whatever. Any of those crappy little gaming forums. You have all these older gamers who think they know everything, and most of the time, they're wrong. After all, if they were half as good at the hobby as they think they are, they'd work for GW'.

After this, I stumbled outside chuckling to myself, and realising that there was no worse fate I could wish upon that man, as he ALREADY works for GW!

Tibbsy wrote:
@Baiyuan

Dude, I have to thank you for this incredible blog... I've been browsing Dakka for about 2 years now and have never seen the need to register before, but I've just spent the last several hours going through every page of this thread and I have to say it was an incredible inspiration to me.

So much so that I'm going to dig out some of my bits and get converting!

Yours also has the distinction of being the first thread I have commented on, and will be the first thread I subscribe to Please keep up the fantastic and awe-inspiring work.

 DogofWar1 wrote:
Personally, I'd like to see Tactical squads be allowed to take either 2 heavy or 2 special weapons or 1 of each, instead of JUST 1 of each like now.

That, and either:
A) make bolters assault 2 (will never happen) (or just give them storm bolters like GK)
B) give them another CCW
C) give them counterattack (again, won't happen)

Then, transport is probably the biggest problem, rhinos are cheap but slow, easily popped, and aren't assault vehicles. GW doesn't need to address all three of those issues to make them good, but it'd be nice to see them do something there.

Land Raiders and Stormravens are just too expensive to be ferrying standard 3+ power armor marines into combat.

Allowing apothecaries to break off into squads would certainly help with survivability, but I somehow doubt that happens, since that's the BA thing, along with fast vehicles.


Or better than all of that, how about they just tweak Sternguard to 23pts/model (in line with Thousand Suns), and Vanguard base cost to 25pts/model WITH a jump pack (and maybe WS5, if they're feeling generous), make them troops, and then make the Rhino an assault vehicle (or new STC, the Hippo).

I don't think they'll do much though. If they do anything except drop the points by 2 per guy, I'll be surprised.

EDIT: Whoa, dracpanzer said a bunch of the same things 34 seconds before I did. Cool.