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The dropship steals the show for me. When I hosted Deathwatch rpg I had them do missions in the Stormraven for stealthier ones or Thunderhawk for assultier type ones.

This though would have been good to have back then since it looks like it does all the above.

It's bringing back some great memories from that game. It's funny but we had someone become I think it was the artificer prestige class. The one who gets the super cool armor.

Anyways he was fighting an escaped something from the vaults down below that was a cthulhu spawn from hell and ge decided to jump on the writhing mass of tentacled and eye flesh to try and...??? They managed to trap it in the reactors and detonate them destroying it but he couldn't break free to escape and perished.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Gamgee wrote:
Anyways he was fighting an escaped something from the vaults down below that was a cthulhu spawn from hell and ge decided to jump on the writhing mass of tentacled and eye flesh to try and...??? They managed to trap it in the reactors and detonate them destroying it but he couldn't break free to escape and perished.

Sounds like a friend of mine who likes to fight things using his basic combat knife.

Trygon incoming? Let me get my knife.
Hey, a Tau Hammerhead? Let me get my knife!
Playing a Wolf Scout and need to take out the Firewarrior guards? It's knife time!

The Hammerhead one's a funny story. Can't remember what we were playtesting (we played so much Deathwatch because we play tested basically every book from Achillus Assault through the the last one they did), but we were fighting the Tau and came up against a Hammerhead in a massive hanger. I almost always bring Meltabombs because you never know when you're going to need them, so myself, one other player and my knife-wielding friend all ran around behind it.

Planted the bombs, and got out of dodge. Well... two of us did. Mr. Knife did not, and decided to hit the Hammerhead. To his credit he did some damage, and then was immediately blasted to itty bitty bits by the explosion. Not long after the rest of us were fighting the Tau Commander and his retinue, on the top of a Manta that was moving into the atmostphere to try and leave the world. Oh, and the Manta was on fire. That was a great game.

That sounds awesome. Your group is oddly competent mine had a high death rate. One time the lone jetpack guy decided now is a good time to fly out into the middle of the open into all the chaos cultists and CSM with bolters to flank them. Everyone else was hidden and in cover and flew over them. He lasted a round of shooting to his credit before landing on the ground in a meaty pulp. Hahah. He took 10+ attacks. His character had the highest insanity and the Emperor told him to do strange things sometimes. His character was a flesh tearer assault marine. Though this flying incident was all on him since he didn't have the insanity at that point. Haha.

Is there any way for me to get a Blood Raven pauldron? I want to recreate my player squad form the rpg.

Ultramarine Pads easy, Dark Angel again easy, Flesh Tearer is in the new kit, I forget what my one player played I think he was an Imperial Fist or Crimson Fist, and then I need a Blood Raven pauldron.

Ultramarine Sniper/Tactical Marine Class.

Flesh Tearer Assault Marine

Dark Angel Tech Marine

Imperial Fist Devastator Marine

I'm forgetting one other players chapter and class. It's been years since I've played.

Blood Raven Captain (NPC/My Story Guy)

The Flesh Tearer was interred into a Dreadnought.

 DarkStarSabre wrote:
So going by the codex table of contents image...

Veterans and Terminators seem to be Troops.

Dreadnoughts their Elites.

Vanguard Vets and Bikes, along with transports and the flyer in Fast Attack.

And Land Raiders as their Heavy Support.

It is indeed a small army. With a small selection of units.

Corvus Blackstar their flyer. Allegedly that is its name from someone who translated it. The funny thing is there is a cool fandex on ATT and I submitted a full flying monstrous creature suit based off the Ghostkeel chassis called the Darkstar. Great minds think alike when it comes to naming stuff.

The image at the bottom lists what is in their codex.

http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2016/08/40k-breaking-deathwatch-flyer-zooms-into-view.html

Where do I find a custom 3d printer? Not the device but a company who could do it? Also sounds expensive.

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Thanks angel.

There is so much I want to do. I need to finish damn tidewall, need to do the Ta'unar, then I want to do the Tau flyers, then start Beastclaw Raiders/Orruks Ironjaws, and now Deathwatch. I have not the time and certainly not the money. :(

That... is actually very smart. Until you get ganked by those sneaky ambush kroot. My Ultramarnes sniper player learned to hate them when they were a known presence on a mission and he kept closer to the group since they would just ambush him and nearly always kill him. He also hated lictors always dragging him out of the area of operations and devouring him. The NPC Inquisitor I had on some missions used a Tau carbine and an Eldar power sword. Ah I love the Deathwatch.

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Oh I also got to actually play instead of host once. It was a Rogue Trader game. I managed to outsmart the Eldar and Dark Eldar combined, stopped an Ork waaagh with dozens of rokks, back stabbed the general about to assassinate the planetary governor and frame him. Then take up his position, chase down the big bad end game in my frigate and nuke him. All in the course of a day. Suffice to say my FLGS still considers that game legendary. And the people thanked me for saving them. My GM an old Vietnam veteran claimed I was very "Machiavellian".

That is funny and reminds me of something similar and far worse. In the campaign we had the CSM did their dastardly stuff and created a Bloodthirster. The enemy psyker was casting his powers and he summons a chaos deamon prince. Hahah. My group was sweating now. I didn't even mean for this to happen.

Then my friend sees its a last desperate stand. He puts all he has into a power and... summons another deamon prince. Hahaha.

Oh my god. So we had all these huge deadly threats running around. The players immediate bolted. Like two people didn't make many had to burn fate points. One guy made it out at a limp.

I took some mercy on them and thought this is the perfect chance for all these deamons to start duking it out. With only one marine they will all be vying for control. So they start inter fighting and the one player managed to get the bodies of the survivors and make his way to their ship.

Great times.

 Knight wrote:

Cataphract wrote:
YEP that's a Ynnead reference

Wow, most interesting.

Can't wait until the inevitable DE releases.

Can't they take grav weapons?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Warms the heart...



I almost feel sorry for those Tau.

Almost.

A dark day for the Tau. Oh well we can always build more Crisis suits and Riptides.

Back in my days Grav guns were so rare my player had only 10 shots for his gun through the entire 1.5 year campaign with no way to reload.

Now Grav guns are a dime a dozen and the power creep goes on. Hahah. My players are jealous of the spoiled marines of today.

Back in my day we didn't even have dice! Had to make up numbers and trust we weren't cheating. It drove more men mad than I can remember.

Due to crappy canadian shipping more and more shipping companies are slowly not taking money, debit cards, credit cards, or even cheques. I have to open up an online payment system with each and every single delivery company in Canada now apparently. Which is simply slowed. They even want me to set up automatic payments.

For 24 dollar shipping fee and the Canadian tax on importing goods.

-_-

feth no.

So ordering anything into Canada is now fething impossible apparently.

USA please annex this pitiful as feth country and get us some sane shipping options. Please. Put it out of its misery please. I feel genuinely bad at living in this country and embarrassed. A country where the criminal breaking into your home has more rights than you do to defend yourself and there is a good chance you'll be charged for injuring him getting him out of your home. :(

 Crazyterran wrote:
...I just bought an imperial fist guy off eBay here for 10 bucks, including shipping.

What websites are you using? Lol.

Canadian ebay usually and Forge World.

FedEx was the delivery company. I've opened a dispute with Paypal basically saying they won't deliver it and offer no sane options for payment. I also forget the other company but can look up the receipt. I'm now worried ordering something online is going to make me have to do that random crap. It's got to be the most inconvenient thing I've ever seen in my life. My last two deliveries have had both pants on head slowed levels of strict payment requirements. I wonder if being in one of the 8 crappiest Canadian cities and Ontario has something to do with it?

I've never had to not pay customs and I've been making regular online purchases for at least a decade or more.

I have a debit card and the ones I happened to get didn't take it!

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My latest order is in a warehouse in town not being delivered until I make an online account to pay them by online banking which for some reason might take up to a week on their end. Why the hell is this happening to me!? Except to make my online account I have to call them by phone! Or send them a letter by Canada post which I think is on strike or is it? At any rate it means even more weeks just to make my online account.

I'm not ordering Tau its a dremel to magnetize my Tau'nar. And its 120 sitting in limbo.

:(

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I'm a quasi-hermit. Unless the last time I traveled to the states for black sabbath I really pissed off one of them for simply looking out the window of the truck I doubt it.

I want my damn money back and I'll drive to the friggen tool store myself and get one at this rate it will be faster and cheaper.

This is the country trying to outlaw colored spray paint. I feel bad making fun of Canada. Like it's like I'm talking about that one slowed kid and I hate it. Our country got so dumb somewhere along the line. :(

When my house was broken into. I had to ask the cops why they didn't dust for prints. They said they should and then left and never came back.... after a 24 hour response time to the break in. A diffent cop came by the next day and asked if they did and said that was weird they didn't. He also didn't dust for prints. Then whey they caught the thief she got off for being a Councillors daughter ans has been caught a dozen times and gotten off every timer on the reserve or in town.

I'm starting to get the feeling Canada is starting to fall apart.

I can't even make this gak up.

 angelofvengeance wrote:

 Gamgee wrote:

This is the country trying to outlaw colored spray paint

Sorry to veer off topic here: Err... Why?

I couldn't possibly tell you. Graffiti? Maybe? Hahah. :(

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When I talked to the officer and asked what he would have done with a break in at night he said he had no idea but it wouldn't go well for the other person and would use any means to stop them since he has four people in his house. When I asked if its a good idea to get a knife for self defense he implied a big no... so defense is only for the police? I'm confused.

I was kind of hoping GW would take a lesson from the Tau release when they started putting more guns on the sprues.

Alas it seems the Marine premium on weapons will continue.

I'm listening to it now. I like how GW is actually talking about stuff now. I found it linked somewhere else though. Ah yeah they cite the rpg as a major inspiration. Even though FFG is now moving to be an enemy of GW I got to thank them. If it wasn't for the popularity of that rpg I don't think we would have seen the DW codex. I also got to thank GW for putting up a podcast with the designers talking. I love listening to this and their though process.

GW's models have been getting increasingly detailed. Their Tau release and their Age of Sigmar releases are simply stunning. I'm not too familiar with the other 40k releases between Tau and now so I can't comment. So far though these DW look to continue that exceptional level of detail that GW is so quickly setting the standard for.

They probably look at the DW rpg. Also before any physical modelling is done I can only imagine they have a sit down and do some brain storming and rough concept art. Since on ATT there are pictures from decades old concept art when they were trying to figure out how the Tau would look.

Got to save something for next time ladies and gents. My Apothecary player and Techmarine/Forgemaster player are annoyed when I told them they didn't get GW models.

So for sure I want to see those as options. Perhaps some more cool high tech gear. Maybe a new DW exclusive variant of power armor to show just how badass their weaponry is. I imagine next time we get models for the DW they will hopefully include another two dozen chapter pauldrons since I want one for Blood Ravens in there without needing to go to great lengths to get it from the internet or buying Spacehulk.

Other than the two glaring omissions model wise this has been a great release. I would like to see a line of DW vehicles. One each.

So one tank, one unique ground transport, and so on and so forth. They can be extremely heavy modifications to existing chassis or completely new designs (prefered) that suit the DW's highly mobile and elite style of warfare. The rhino is a great cheap transport but I would love to see something cooler for the DW.

This way we can see the high tech stuff they only have access too and bring some more flavor to such an elite force. I have a feeling the Corvus Blackstar is going to be a big hit.

Opposite sides of the Inquisitorial coin.

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I would like to see Sisters at some point as well. However I would like to see them redesigned mildly from a fluff and model perspective to make them stand out more. As it was they were just female space marines with terrible lore. I've said this before but all the coolest most memorable sister units are not the power armored sisters but the crazy things like repentias and the walker thing. Basically the design elements that emphasize their insane zealotry and heretic hunting. Grey Knights cool as hell name that says a lot. Deathwatch badass as hell name that says a lot. Sisters Of Battle.... ? Like some women who fight... okay. It's comparable to naming a space marine chapter Brothers who Fight chapter. Like duh. Want your generic brand everything to go with that? Nothing puts me to sleep more than just hearing the name Sisters of Battle just due to how nondescript it is.

I get the feeling that Eldar of all sorts will be getting their updates soon. There was also the rumor they were going to make an Eldar Exodite army for next year. Sooner rather than later the pendulum will swing back to the Tau during this great end times. They will likely have several parts to this ongoing story and at some point there will logically be one for all the major factions/areas of the map. It's just in which order and when they come out that's the question.

I have a feeling the Eldar plot to kill Slaanesh is going to end poorly. With good odds Slaanesh survives and Yinaeed awakening and not being so friendly. Otherwise we could see Slaanesh dying and Yineead arriving and being horrible and taking the place of Slaanesh in the pantheon just with death theme. The third option is Yineead is stopped/fails. I find this the least likely is the plot fails entirely since it's clear they have been building up to this in the lore as an emergency print money button. It is still a possibility and must be listed. There are others of course but I find these the most likely. If the Eldar do manage to save themselves from Slaanesh the birth of a warp god that powerful will have effects on the galaxy. I can see huge return and upswing in Chaos as the story progress into their arc thanks to the mistakes of the Eldar.

I get the feeling the Exodites are going to be pissed at their Craftworld and Cammoragh kin. They had it the most right. Just go away from the universe and settle down on a planet with a limited amount of tech since their ability to affect the warp is so strong.

Unfortunately Eldrad can't leave well enough alone and messes up. I imagine with the birth of a second dark god and its affects on the galaxy might prompt the Exodites to return to wipe out all of their kin and once that is done possibly themselves.

That is just one theory for how they might be pissed off enough to come back after Eldrad does his thing.

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After all these various campaigns go down and we get back to the Tau walled into their gulf we will see their emotional devastation. Emotionally devastated from the warp effects, from the loss of the high ethereal, all their anger at the injustices and why Farsight is still exiled, and anger for their losses in the gulf. The Tau are a race that seems to have nearly endless drive to ever go onward except now there is a dark side emerging to them with all of these effects. I think we'll see Tau psykers and warp travel or possibly a new type of FTL. Most likely warp to go in with their devastated and now more warp awakened minds. This will have dire consequences for the galaxy. This is some extremely long range speculating so as books and lore comes out I will have to slowly fiddle with the theory. We will likely get an answer if Farsight is a champion for the good races of 40k that is prophesied... or for the bad races of 40k.

 Wolfblade wrote:
How powerful are the exodites? Would they really be strong enough to wipe out ALL the craftworlds AND Cammoragh?

They aren't powerful now, but they are the most numerous and stable population of Eldar. I imagine they will have to get back into the swing of ruling a true space empire for a bit. Of all the Eldar they impressed me by being the most humble of their kind and they have prospered with being widespread and numerous for it. More so than the craftworld Eldar. They would be more akin to the wood elves in space aspect that is missing. Also allegedly they use more beasts and animals in war. So that would be cool to see and then add in Eldar weaponry mounts on them.

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I found it less likely as well given some of the newer stuff people have shown me. Still it is a possibility. I think we'll see Yineead just added to the chaos pantheon.

Some people are getting the wrong impression from these end times. This is not End times the story with 40k character pasted into it. It's its own event. People just refer to it as the End Times of 40k due to the similarities in how GW is handling it.

Comparing characters from each game and saying they are like x is only going to lead to wild disappointment as usual.