<![CDATA[Latest posts for the thread "Views on paint schemes matching rules?"]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/69.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net Views on paint schemes matching rules? Sa'Cea but I intend to use the farsight enclave rules for the Dawnblade Contingent. What are your views on using rules but not painting them the same colour? So this or Ultra marines as white scars etc. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8399151.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8399151.page GMT Re:Views on paint schemes matching rules? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8399154.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8399154.page GMT Views on paint schemes matching rules?
Just want to throw this out there though, are you sure that you have to be farsight enclave to use daw blade contingent?

I thought you could be tau empire and still take a dawn blade. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8399168.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8399168.page GMT Views on paint schemes matching rules?
eleven11 wrote:
I'm not a big fan of it personally.

Just want to throw this out there though, are you sure that you have to be farsight enclave to use daw blade contingent?

I thought you could be tau empire and still take a dawn blade.


Hmm.. Me too, only a few of my models are painted but everything is based black. Not sure I'm keen on re-doing everything.

Nope, it's farsight enclave as far as I'm aware.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8399186.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8399186.page GMT Views on paint schemes matching rules? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8399226.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8399226.page GMT Views on paint schemes matching rules? Sa'Cea Blue and Orange.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8399256.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8399256.page GMT Views on paint schemes matching rules?
 fatbudda319 wrote:
Basically my Tau are painted as Sa'Cea but I intend to use the farsight enclave rules for the Dawnblade Contingent. What are your views on using rules but not painting them the same colour? So this or Ultra marines as white scars etc.


So? I doubt they were the only tau ever to come up with that paint scheme.

My tau are green and my marines are blue. Non sept or chapter specific. They could be anyone. And are played as such.

What's the 'right' way to play? Answer - there isn't one. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8399287.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8399287.page GMT Views on paint schemes matching rules?
The art always shows them in formal colors because rule of cool. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8399290.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8399290.page GMT Views on paint schemes matching rules? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8400485.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8400485.page GMT Views on paint schemes matching rules?
 Iron_Captain wrote:
Don't the Tau change the colour of their armour depending on the mission and environment? I always thought Tau Septs did not have specific colour schemes.


The T'au sept used to have a red scheme like Farsight uses now because of the planet they were fighting on. They changed it to the sandy orange because they were fighting the orks in a desert]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8400499.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8400499.page GMT Views on paint schemes matching rules? id you were allying them together and I needed to be able to tell them apart.

For armies where it’s relevant (chapter tactics on marines comes to mind) it’s a fairly simple counts-as. If it’s not WYSWYG paint, I’d prefer it’s all consistent. “My whole army is White Scars today” is simple to keep track off. "These 3 units are WS, these 2 RG, and the lib and scouts are BA” when they all have the same paint job would drive me crazy.

But frankly I see enough primered/bare plastic armies across the table, I want to eliminate any potential barrier to getting people to paint. Sometimes the rules move away from the army people want to play. If someone is fed up with the BA codex, and wants to use the vanilla rules, I’m fine with that. As long as the minis are reasonable WYSWYG. If I want to play my UM bikers under WS rules, why should I be punished for painting my minis?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8400508.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8400508.page GMT Views on paint schemes matching rules?
 fatbudda319 wrote:
Basically my Tau are painted as Sa'Cea but I intend to use the farsight enclave rules for the Dawnblade Contingent. What are your views on using rules but not painting them the same colour? So this or Ultra marines as white scars etc.


It doesnt help my immersion but do i actually care.... not really. I mean I have used models from various people that don't even match each other and because I just dont see color well, painting is a chore. so I guess to me its just kind of like: the hobby is time consuming and expsneive enough that I dont really blame people for needing to cut corners
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"This is my White Scars army that I spent countless hours painting to a quality level, but today I'm playing them as Blood Angels" said no one ever...]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8400584.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8400584.page GMT Views on paint schemes matching rules?
 fatbudda319 wrote:
Yes but in my instance, enclave guys with orange helmets is a bit off?

My Sept was the Tau Eastern Expeditionary force. Sent to kickstart our progress going that way and give some relief to the septs there. My Sept has yellow markings for it, but story events occur and the septs leader is falsely accused of being a traitor. Instead of taking his life when ordered he goes renegade. So he gets rescued by the men under his command who say they'll follow him to the ends of the universe if need be. The colony ship I was going to be in charge (the only one left of the small flotilla) of instead makes a beeline north for the Enclaves. So we settled as a new colony world there but with no true colony fleet and support it will be a long time before our world is a true and powerful sept like it was intended. I paint my army in their sept colours, but add a dash of Enclaves red to the left pauldrons of everything in remembrance. This allows the troops to remember what the Ethereals stopped them from doing, but shows my allegiance to the Enclaves.

If I can make that up then I'm sure you can find out some reason you have an orange coloration. As the Enclaves grow there will only be more and more diverse septs in them that don't necessarily stick to the classic theme. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8400612.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8400612.page GMT Views on paint schemes matching rules?
I would be really annoyed if they all look the same but have different rules. If your whole army is fSE colour doesn't matter just make sure you opponent knows what you play.
Still vior'la sept fse are close in scheme so Thats how did it I just like red and white bloke combo ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8400613.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8400613.page GMT Views on paint schemes matching rules?
We had White Blood angels and black ones and we had yellow ones... Lol.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8400670.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8400670.page GMT Views on paint schemes matching rules?
In your example the Farsight Enclaves supplement is way for players to represent on the battlefield their forces in a way that is different than the main codex. It doesn't mean that it's only for those who have Red Tau. What's stopping you from saying that your army is organized and fights similarly to the Enclaves? Nothing. Nothing is. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8400687.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8400687.page GMT Views on paint schemes matching rules?
 Jancoran wrote:
Remember when the Blood angels suddenly seemed to adopt the rainbow as their colors in 5E?

We had White Blood angels and black ones and we had yellow ones... Lol.


I actually run a white/red blood angels successor chapter but they were always that way haha.

P.S they are white and red.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8400691.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8400691.page GMT Views on paint schemes matching rules? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8400739.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8400739.page GMT Views on paint schemes matching rules? I was more thinking if I turned up against a stranger in a tournament for instance what would they think. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8400758.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8400758.page GMT Views on paint schemes matching rules? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8400774.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8400774.page GMT Views on paint schemes matching rules?
 fatbudda319 wrote:
Basically my Tau are painted as Sa'Cea but I intend to use the farsight enclave rules for the Dawnblade Contingent. What are your views on using rules but not painting them the same colour? So this or Ultra marines as white scars etc.


There has never been a rule that you have to paint your little men a certain way. The closest thing was the "Red Paint Job" upgrade in the Ork codex, and even then there was no stipulation that your stuff actually had to be painted red to take the upgrade.

This is the RAW interpretation. In practice, people occasionally complain about people jumping ship from Marine dex to Marine dex. That said, in other games (Infinity for one), proxying is commonly accepted, and there are many more weapons options in that game than 40k. Basically it all has to do with Marine players having a ton of flexibility in codex selection, and players who run other factions complaining about it. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8400843.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8400843.page GMT Views on paint schemes matching rules? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8400851.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8400851.page GMT Views on paint schemes matching rules? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8401531.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8401531.page GMT Re:Views on paint schemes matching rules? IMO it looks good.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8401660.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8401660.page GMT Views on paint schemes matching rules?
For example if you wanted to have a uniformed army but use two different SM rules, try not to have the two armies be too close. If you have two tactical squads but one is from Dark Angels and one is from Salamanders, I'd like to be able to tell them apart at a glance. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8401674.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/677392/8401674.page GMT