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You don't like chainswords? I always look forward to putting them on there..Especially on assault marines..Owait

Oh, and I've got a question for you guys. Would you mind terribly if someone proxied a chainsword for a power sword? The cadian sprue only has chainswords on it

Samus_aran115 wrote:You don't like chainswords? I always look forward to putting them on there..Especially on assault marines..Owait

Oh, and I've got a question for you guys. Would you mind terribly if someone proxied a chainsword for a power sword? The cadian sprue only has chainswords on it

So "borrow" a Spess Mehreen's power sword, trim the hand down (or cut it at the hilt) and stick it on the Guardsman. It'll look a tad large, yes, but it's better than a "counts as" chainsword.

Or get one from a Commissar. Or from a Cadian command squad. Or any of the other 5000 places you can get a power sword.

Samus_aran115 wrote:You don't like chainswords? I always look forward to putting them on there..Especially on assault marines..Owait

Oh, and I've got a question for you guys. Would you mind terribly if someone proxied a chainsword for a power sword? The cadian sprue only has chainswords on it

I would go by my standard WYSIWYG stance: If it's the only chainsword on the table OR if all chainswords on your army list are powerswords, sure. If the unit has 3 chainsword but one is a power weapon, then please don't.

See if a Space Marine player/friend will sell you one of his or trade one for the chainsword. Clip off the power sword and chainswords where they touch their respective hands and then glue the powersword where the chainsword was. That would be my first choice.

Also, I like chainswords. Assault marines and Black Templars live by the chainsword!

I was considering putting a CSM power sword on the sergeant, but that would look silly. If nothing else, I can make one out of plasticard

I like putting imperial guard pouches and stuff on but hate having the screamy sargeant heads on anyone but vets!

Oh, and I've got a question for you guys. Would you mind terribly if someone proxied a chainsword for a power sword? The cadian sprue only has chainswords on it

I used catachan bits, use ther big knife/sword and a little bit of wire, paint it blue or something like that and bingo PW

Anything that is just too tiny & fiddly I really can't bother with.

And I can't stand building Ork Warbikers, agin I find them too fiddly. But I love the look of the completed models and I love playing them, so I'm stuck building them.

You could paint the chainsword different.

pdawg517 wrote:You could paint the chainsword different.

If one chainsword in a unit of chainswords is simply painted different and called a power sword, I would not accept that.

There are scant few instances where a paintjob can indicate a different piece of wargear.

The only two examples I can think of off the top of my head are artificer armor and relic blades.

Otherwise there is just about always a difference in the model itself, and even in the two above examples there are different models, it's just very difficult to use them in some instances without heavy conversion.

If it looks like a chainsword, and everything else in your army that looks like a chainsword is, in fact, a chainsword, then it's also a chainsword.

If every single chainsword in your army is actually a powersword, that's different.

Now I'm also stricter than some folks regarding WYSIWYG, but I absolutely hate having to remember different pieces of wargear that don't look different.

SaintHazard wrote:There are scant few instances where a paintjob can indicate a different piece of wargear.

The only two examples I can think of off the top of my head are artificer armor and relic blades.

Forgive me, but I have to: Red Paint Job?

AlmightyWalrus wrote:

SaintHazard wrote:There are scant few instances where a paintjob can indicate a different piece of wargear.

The only two examples I can think of off the top of my head are artificer armor and relic blades.

Forgive me, but I have to: Red Paint Job?

I said a scant few, not none.

And that's a good example of one.

Anything metal

2 handed shooty weapons (bolters, etc)

SaintHazard wrote:

Irdiumstern wrote:I hate all the skulls, imperial eagles, and all that other crap that comes on the IG. I've been carving/sanding all of them off . . .

Someone call the =][=, this sounds like heresy to me.

I'm going for an Independant Planetary Defence force, admech influenced . . . Possibly with some allied semi-chaos support =P

Irdiumstern wrote:allied semi-chaos support

There it is, folks! He said it, not me!

HERESY!

Actually, purely out of curiosity, what's the rationale for PDF forces lacking the Aquila iconography and insignia?

After all, they're still technically Imperial forces, just Imperial forces stationed on and sometimes recruited from the planet they're defending.

Besides the semi-Chaos allies, of course.

Well, the fluff I came up with was a small forge world, cut off from the Empire of Man by distance and a warp storm. The planet was run primarily by a council of Adeptus Mechanicus, which mostly overruled and ignored the planetary council of various generals, governors, ect.
After the warp storm cut off communications, an aspiring Ad Mech Artisan decided that the strictures placed upon him by the Adeptus Mechanicus were too stagnant to survive (Plus he wanted to build cooler toys than allowed). He convinced the Planetary Council to rebel against the rulers which had ignored them for so long, and they succeeded.
After that, the forge world turned to its own devices, building new and incredible machines in preparation for the war that is sure to come once the warp calms again.

As for the chaos allies, I was thinking a small warband, led by one of the Sorcerers that aided Ahriman in his spell and was cast out by Magus, flew out of the treacherous warp storms surrounding the planet. Having seen what Tzeentch would do to his allies, and what the Imperium does to traitors, they decided to use the third option that presented itself. Of course, navigating through a warpstorm accurately is impossible, so Tzeentch probably had a hand in it.

Mainly, I wanted the armies I am working on to be semi related. My IG are going to get a color scheme similar to the Thousand Sons, especially on the tanks, while my Thousand Sons will be using many outlandish machines. I'm also thinking about making a psyker battle squad chimera with some sort of strange arcane weapon on its back to represent them.

Edit: Heresy? Bring it!

That's some pretty cool fluff, and it makes sense, though you may have some trouble making combat against just about anyone in the galaxy fluffy if you're still cut off by a warp storm. Even so, not bad.

Well, warp storms end all the time, so I'd just advance it a bit and say the warp has calmed. Alternatively, whatever way the Thousand Sons arrived is replicable and allows them to raid through the warp storm. Either way, it works

indiana1000 wrote:I like putting imperial guard pouches and stuff on but hate having the screamy sargeant heads on anyone but vets!

Yeah, I used that one because the other one's didn't look cool enough. I hate that head though. That helmet doesn't even fir over his head!

tyranid guants are boring they all look the same

Magnetizing Tyranid Warriors. It's almost mandatory because they come with such an incredibly large variety of ways they can be outfitted. It's just an incredible pain to do. The chest is two-part, the arms are spindly and heavy and there's not many parts concealing any mistakes you make.

One thing I hate building... That would have to be Kroot. The fact that their arms are so thin and you need to line up both arms with the hands on the gun and the shoulders is just too much of a pain for me. I've only ever built one and there's a reason for it. The same thing applies for SM Scouts, although not nearly as badly because they aren't as scrawny.

The piece that I don't like to use... That would probably have to be the heads that lack a helmet. I know it adds character to your army, but I just don't like having a model stand out like that. I have other ways of identifying my sergeants. This might also be because I can't afford to buy more paints that I will only use for small parts of 1 out of every 10 models. Plus I feel like all my sergeants would be sensible enough to keep their helmets on in the middle of a battlefield so as not to get shot in the head because they were trying to be dramatic.

SaintHazard wrote:

SmackCakes wrote:As for bit I don't use... I don't use those things that come with marines that look like nunchuks! Mainly cause I can't figure out what they are. What are those things?

I'm not sure what you're referring to. What Marine set does it come with? Tac? Assault? All of them? Is it on the Sergeant sprue or the regular Marine sprues?

Is it held in a hand?

@SaintHazard
They come with the Tac squads IIRC and they are not held, they are a decorative piece that goes on the belt.

@SmackCakes
As far as I can tell they are incense burners. I personally like to use them simply because they look cool, which is exactly what they are on the sprue for.

1337m45747r0y wrote:@SaintHazard
They come with the Tac squads IIRC and they are not held, they are a decorative piece that goes on the belt.

@SmackCakes
As far as I can tell they are incense burners. I personally like to use them simply because they look cool, which is exactly what they are on the sprue for.

Dude.

We addressed this and sorted it out like three pages ago. Keep up.

I avoid the long ammo pouches on my Space Marines, and the Melta bombs, since they don;t really fit anywhere. I've also never used the Combat knives, since I wan;t to avoid any confusion about whether or not they have an additional CCW.

At this point, I hate building Rhinos, thought that's probably because I've done about 6 of them.