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so with all the leaks from 8th edition, I'm currently building a demi-battle company, and I find I'm doing some stuff that would have been crazy bizzare a few months ago.

such as:
-putting heavy boltguns in my tatical squads
- Building a unit of assault marines with 5 chain swords, 3 plasma pistols and a combat sheild.

has anyone else got any stories of "... this actually works now" ?

Building a Raptor/Warp Talon heavy Night Lords army. Finishing my Thousand Sons list with 2 more units of Rubrics. Removing Obliterators from my army...

Putting heavy bolters and stubbers on my manticores. With no more ordnance restrictions, they are just extra shots for cheap.

Putting bloody storm bolters on hellhounds! Stubbers are heavy, so bad for moving units. Rapid fire 2 though, much better.

Lascannon and bolter battlecannon russes. Such a horrible mix of weapons, but with split fire is now fine.

A tyranids horde army

Bringing Annihilation Barges and Doomsday Arks

Mortars. Wtf.

 Shadelkan wrote:
Mortars. Wtf.

Jup all barrage weapons got ehm... interesting.


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I am also seriously considering fielding large amounts of bubble chucka's. Those rules are just too weird to pass by.

Chaos Space Marines...

Like 60 Tzaangors.

Tyranids without Flyrants.

Bullgryns with mauls and Slab shields. Not a possible combination until now. These things are like economy grade TH/SS termies.

Nids. Finally won't feel like a total chump just for thinking about it.

Sisters of battle

Two Words: Tactical Terminators

Pyrovores.. haha jk. Not because i dont want to. I do. But i will wait for the nid codex release and see if we get a plastic vore kit that can be made into several things.

Meanwhile i built a swarmlord

1500 point pure foot Deathwing (i.e. using a bit of teleport assault). I haven't played a list like this in aeons.

20 models, over 60 wounds and it contains actual tactical terminators that will start on the ground alongside dreadnoughts.

It looks like something I would have fielded back in 2nd Edition and I love it.

Now, hopefully it will actually be good!

Just need to finish re-arming (literally) some of my DW command squad units to support the DW Knight teleport charge. Also need to pick up or make a Belial with a sword and storm bolter, that profile got crazy good.

contempt


..orkz



A 10,000 year old research project nobody knew about




..jk, I pulled my unassembled Nob kits I bought near the end of 6th out. I figured they'd become relevant sometime.. They might finally see playtime as a Powerklaw squad assisting some shooty orkz in a Blastywagon.

40K models themselves.

I wasn't exactly against Games Workshop nor Warhammer 40K (nor was a much of a fan either) up until this year. The game sounded terrible, the price of the models were too expensive, and the company itself seemed like mustache-twirling villain. If you had asked me if I would ever play a GW miniatures game back in October. I probably would have said, "I could play a few games of Space Hulk if the other player owned it and bothered putting some paint on the minis." Other than that, I would say no.

Now, I have enough of collection to sort of field for about an 1850 point game if I use some of my Fallen Dark Angels as count as Chaos Space Marines or "Forge the Narrative" allies.

I even would like to build a full on Fallen Dark Angel army some day, but the crazy GW prices stop me cold. Much of what I have was on sale/old box sets (Dark Vengeance, Crimson Slaughter expansion, some fairly old Chaos box set I don't remember the name of). I just can't see moving creating Fallen army based on the current prices. Heck, I want to pick up the Dark Angel 10 Marines plus a Rhino set, but still consider it a little more than I want to pay.

Rough Riders and Ratlings.

Tau army without any of the large suits: Ghostkeel, Riptide, and Stormsurge.

Penitent engines, repentia, and using the elite slot for literally (no seriously, I've never taken anything in the elite slot in a Sisters army in my life) for the first time ever.

 Shadelkan wrote:
Mortars. Wtf.

Why, because they're 9 pts be HW team in a AM list? I had to double check that number the first time read through the list. 81 pts for 9d6 barrage. Sweet.

MONOLITHS!!!!!!!!!

adding to my current list, an entire squad of devestators with... MISSILE LAUNCHERS!

a garden if that counts.. 6 months ago.. was had alot of snow on the ground over here.

waiting to find out if an imperial stronghold counts as 1 or 3 fortifications far as the new rules go.. if its only one my little fortress will grow from one to three strongholds..

Heavy Bolter Havocs, Missile Launcher Havocs, and a third unit of 2 ML, 1 autocannon, and one lascannon leftovers.

Also a Power fist and plasma gun Plague Marine Champion.

On the other side, my Centurions lost their Drop Pod, but I can now use my Stormraven instead. Probably have to get some more Scouts now that Bikers aren't troops.

My ork Kommandos can finally come out from hiding too.

 Nightlord1987 wrote:
On the other side, my Centurions lost their Drop Pod, but I can now use my Stormraven instead. Probably have to get some more Scouts now that Bikers aren't troops.

There's a detachment with 0-6 Troops and 2-6 FA, so you can still run pure bike lists. No Scouts necessary.

Two Leman Russ Executionerers with Plasma Cannon sponsons, started building them that way since I just liked the look of it. Can't wait to use them now... soooo much plasma pew pew!