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Daedalus81 wrote:

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
So after decades of rumours and fans wishing for a plastic Thunderhawk kit, GW finally gives us...a plastic Super Space Marine Overlord kit instead.

This would be so typical of Gamesworkshop.

If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck...it's a duck.

No, it's CIA agent undercover.

Edit this was natfka clickbait, ignore this

Blood Ravens, [edit: probably not] coming to a New Edition of 40k near you

They're referring to the Gabriel Angelos miniature someone else linked in that comment thread

 Rippy wrote:
Blood Ravens, coming to a New Edition of 40k near you

Context! Not coming to a Faeit post near you!

For what it is worth, GW have sold through their supplies of the Dark Imperium set, and are quickly printing more.

(Source: Games Workshop HQ)

I got click baited.

I feel unclean.

 Rippy wrote:
I got click baited.

I feel unclean.

The Emperor Protects.

 Nostromodamus wrote:

 Rippy wrote:
I got click baited.

I feel unclean.

The Emperor Protects.

No, unclean is good, Papa Nurgle protects.


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MongooseMatt wrote:
For what it is worth, GW have sold through their supplies of the Dark Imperium set, and are quickly printing more.

(Source: Games Workshop HQ)

Still for sale on the Aus GW site saying they will ship on 17th.


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Got bored, and whipped up this gif.

Sorry, quickly made so a little rough
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Warhammer 40,000 Vox-Cast - Background Writers

Anyone catch the Dark Angels vs the 1kSons yesterday? How did it go? How do the Sons look?

 nintura wrote:
Anyone catch the Dark Angels vs the 1kSons yesterday? How did it go? How do the Sons look?

Who did that? I've been following miniwargame and I didn't see anything like that.

 nintura wrote:
I understand that I have to get used to not being over the top power like 7th, but he's 156 points which puts him near the top 6 or so in special characters.

If you look at him compared to a Captain, he has the same statline, if you equipped the captain similarly (which you cannot, Heavy flamer(not an option), Relic Blade, Storm shield) he would be 127 with a worse save at 3+. The closest you can get (combi-flamer) would put you at 121. So you are paying 33 points for his aura, a better flamer and a 2+ save. If you gave the captain a 2+ option, he would be over 170 points (with less movement, but more wounds), the relic blade is a little better than Vulkans spear.

So he seems to be costed fairly. I mean a Sterngaurd with combi-meltas and multi-meltas and vulkan will eat vehicles (or 4 multimelta devs). So say against a knight
you are looking at doing 13 wounds.

 nintura wrote:
Anyone catch the Dark Angels vs the 1kSons yesterday? How did it go? How do the Sons look?

Was a Narrative Play mission using Power Levels. Dark Angels got wrecked; Magnus' Smite is incredibly powerful. Heldrakes are excellent harassment units. Thousand Sons with flamers erase things.

DCannon4Life wrote:

 nintura wrote:
Anyone catch the Dark Angels vs the 1kSons yesterday? How did it go? How do the Sons look?

Was a Narrative Play mission using Power Levels. Dark Angels got wrecked; Magnus' Smite is incredibly powerful. Heldrakes are excellent harassment units. Thousand Sons with flamers erase things.

They actually let Magnus on the field? What did the DA get in return?


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 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 nintura wrote:
Anyone catch the Dark Angels vs the 1kSons yesterday? How did it go? How do the Sons look?

Who did that? I've been following miniwargame and I didn't see anything like that.

The Warhammer TV on Twitch

 nintura wrote:
Anyone catch the Dark Angels vs the 1kSons yesterday? How did it go? How do the Sons look?

IRRC the TS won convincingly, but Magnus had only 1 wound left . The DA player had his DW Knights wiped out by Magnus psy very early. I think he didn't had a Watcher in the Dark, would have saved their ass. Heldrake was very good, zipping around and tying up units.

Huh, do they have their reports on youtube / saved somewhere? Not too familiar with twitch.

Man, i hope someone uploaded this to youtube. I'd have liked to have watched it. I dont have a twitch/amazon prime account unfortunately.

Yes, but you need to subscribe. It's free if you have Amazon Prime, else you have to pay.

Well, fooey on that. I'll just wait for someone to do a report on Youtube. There's already a few 8th ed reports up, though none that I could see on TSons.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Well, fooey on that. I'll just wait for someone to do a report on Youtube. There's already a few 8th ed reports up, though none that I could see on TSons.

Honestly the GW one wasn't very good if you wanted to see Thousand Sons do stuff cause Magnus was such a huge percentage of the list.

skarsol wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Well, fooey on that. I'll just wait for someone to do a report on Youtube. There's already a few 8th ed reports up, though none that I could see on TSons.

Honestly the GW one wasn't very good if you wanted to see Thousand Sons do stuff cause Magnus was such a huge percentage of the list.

Well, it was a narrative game (with rolled reserves) and the DA player was letting the TS dictate the game. So certainly not a great barometer.

But my new favorite idea...

Rubrics with flamers in a rhino. Move rhino, disembark, run if you need to, and cast the move spell. That puts the Rubrics 23-28" across the table to touch something 31-36" in.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Well, fooey on that. I'll just wait for someone to do a report on Youtube. There's already a few 8th ed reports up, though none that I could see on TSons.

I am still waiting for one with orks.

 Megaknob wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Well, fooey on that. I'll just wait for someone to do a report on Youtube. There's already a few 8th ed reports up, though none that I could see on TSons.

I am still waiting for one with orks.

Miniwargame just released one with orks vs marines, so you can have a look at that if you want.

 Megaknob wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Well, fooey on that. I'll just wait for someone to do a report on Youtube. There's already a few 8th ed reports up, though none that I could see on TSons.

I am still waiting for one with orks.

Frontline Gaming did one yesterday on Twitch. I think they put them on Youtube.

skarsol wrote:

 Megaknob wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Well, fooey on that. I'll just wait for someone to do a report on Youtube. There's already a few 8th ed reports up, though none that I could see on TSons.

I am still waiting for one with orks.

Frontline Gaming did one yesterday on Twitch. I think they put them on Youtube.

Don't know if it's on youtube yet, but you can get list info here.

https://www.frontlinegaming.org/2017/06/06/tuesday-night-fight-orks-vs-chaos/

skarsol wrote:

 Megaknob wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Well, fooey on that. I'll just wait for someone to do a report on Youtube. There's already a few 8th ed reports up, though none that I could see on TSons.

I am still waiting for one with orks.

Frontline Gaming did one yesterday on Twitch. I think they put them on Youtube.

Yeah, they did a Orks vs Dark Eldar one yesterday.

Daedalus81 wrote:
Well, it was a narrative game (with rolled reserves) and the DA player was letting the TS dictate the game. So certainly not a great barometer.

But my new favorite idea...

Rubrics with flamers in a rhino. Move rhino, disembark, run if you need to, and cast the move spell. That puts the Rubrics 23-28" across the table to touch something 31-36" in.

Remember: It's DISEMBARK, then move Rhino. No disembarking after moving the transport.

DCannon4Life wrote:

Daedalus81 wrote:
Well, it was a narrative game (with rolled reserves) and the DA player was letting the TS dictate the game. So certainly not a great barometer.

But my new favorite idea...

Rubrics with flamers in a rhino. Move rhino, disembark, run if you need to, and cast the move spell. That puts the Rubrics 23-28" across the table to touch something 31-36" in.

Remember: It's DISEMBARK, then move Rhino. No disembarking after moving the transport.

Oh dangit. Stupid brain. Second turn anyway will get you pretty far.

Yeah, you can only disembark before moving the vehicle now. Its a necessary change now that you can assault after disembarking.

 batchall wrote:

Aggressors are a heavy variant of the Gravis pattern with shoulder mounted missile launchers and flamer fists.

Shoulder mounted missile launchers?
That reminds me of those Jes Goodwin devastator concept drawings that came out years ago (2013?).
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/544835.page

I love Jes' design, but this looks ugly. I know it's a sketch, so hopefully if it does happen it looks better. I just can't imagine shoulder mounted rockets looking good tho.