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ElderCat
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Forward
Chapter 1: Factions
Chapter 2: Where to buy
Chapter 3: Where to talk about it (aside from here of course)
Chapter 4: Transports
Chapter 5: Painting services
Chapter 6: Hobby supplies
Appendix
What books should I read?
Warhammer 40k is a futuristic tabletop strategy game created by GamesWorkshop that pits multiple races and factions against each other for control of the galaxy. The wiki article can be found here.
[Chapter 1: Factions
- The Dark Forces -
DaemonsLust, hate, despair, sorrow. All emotion has a reverberation within the warp, the worst, most bitterly felt, and the furtherest extreme becoming strong enough to persist, coalesce, and finally, become. It was from the darkest corners of the galaxy's hearts that Khorne - Lord Upon the Skullthrone, Tzeentch - The Changer of Ways, Nurgle - The Final Decay, and Slaneesh - The Feaster of Pain, sprang forth, and they await the time when the veil against the Warp wears thin, and their warriors, spawn, and offspring can pour through.
- The Betrayer -
Chaos Marines At the very birth of the Imperium of Man, fully half of the Emperor's most trusted Legions turned against him in a bitter civil war. Brother fought brother, and Mankind drove itself to the very brink of extinction. Ten thousand years after their defeat, those same traitors still launch their Black Crusades from within the Eye of Terror, their dead hearts intent upon nothing less than the utter destruction of the Imperium and the death of its weakling Emperor.
- The Hammer -
Grey Knights The Grey Knights are the most mysterious of all the Imperium's many organisations. Utterly incorruptible, they are armed with the best weapons and equipment that Mankind has to offer. Above all, they are humanity's last line of defense against the darkness of Chaos
- The Dying -
Eldar An unimaginably ancient race who once ruled an empire spanning the galaxy. Then came the hideous time of the Fall, when the Eldar were consumed by their own decadence and nearly obliterated to the last, the few survivors scattered across the stars. Though the Eldar are few in number, they continue to be one of the most technologically advanced races in the galaxy. This advantage is combined with the prescient abilities of their Farseers, who scry the future and guide their kin along the most favorable paths of fate.
- The Lost-
Dark Eldar These spawn of unquiet dreams inhabit a realm called Commorragh, a place as darkly twisted as its rulers, from which these merciless pirates launch raids across the length and breadth of the galaxy. The purpose of these raids is not to conquer planets or protect territory but to cause mayhem, steal, pillage, and – most importantly of all – capture new victims to be taken back to Commorragh for endless torture. Having fallen far into the depths of depravity, their every waking moment is dedicated to inflicting pain and suffering on the galaxy.
- The Dutiful -
Imperial GuardIn the midst of genetically engineered super-beings, alien killing machines, warrior mystics, and technology that approaches sorcery in its sophistication, the Imperial Guard are mere mortals. Protected by little more than faith, they contend with the most terrifying threats the darkest corners of the galaxy vomits forth. As such it is easy to identify with these brave souls and to see in them the qualities of true heroes. Also: tanks tank lol
- The Ancient -
Necrons Ancient beyond imagining, the Necrons are awakening from their 60-million-year dormancy to plague the living once more. Thousands of immortal, soulless warriors have risen from dusty stasis-tombs, their cold wills bent on harvesting the teeming species of the galaxy. Their miraculous technology was far in advance of any contemporary equivalent long before the Eldar, reckoned the oldest amongst the xenos races, had even begun their existence, and it is only that so few have awoken that they do not pose a greater threat in the current day.
- The Beast -
Orks The most widespread and warlike race of aliens in the bloodstained galaxy of the 41st millennium. From the depths of the galactic core to the distant ghost-stars beyond the galactic rim, burgeoning Ork empires rise and fall. In terms of sheer numbers and planets, Orks occupy more of the galaxy than any other single race, and if they ever unified, they would crush all opposition the stood before them. However, the Orks' passion for violence is so unquenchable that they spend their entire lives embroiled in war, and will fight each other as readily as any other foe.
- The Loyal -
Space MarinesThey are the most powerful and dreaded of all the human warriors in the galaxy. No longer strictly human, but superhuman, superior in all respects to mere men by a harsh regime of genetic modification, psycho-conditioning and rigorous training. Being few in number compared to the uncounted trillions of humanity, Space Marines are organized into small independent armies called Chapters. Their unswerving loyalty is to the Emperor of Mankind first, their Chapter second, and none other beyond that.
- The Young -
Tau Empire Since their first contact with the Imperium in the 35th millennium, the Tau have risen from a hunter-gatherer society to a star-faring race in less than six thousand years. Absolute obedient to the command of the enigmatic ethereal caste, the Tau believe that now is their time. It is their race and their Empire that will bring unity to the stars, all races equal, and the Tau first among them. There is no foe their technology cannot overcome, no quandary their science cannot resolve, the stars and all that lies between to be joined beneath the aegis of the Greater Good.
- The Hungry -
Tyranids Without a doubt the most alien race encountered by Humanity. They have been likened to galactic locusts, remorselessly hungry and too numerous to stop. Tyranids are a nomadic, space-dwelling race that emerged from the void between galaxies into our own in search of new resources to consume. These hive fleets have discovered sustenance in abundance in the forms of the myriad species of the Milky Way galaxy, stripping planets of all bio-mass before moving on, leaving nothing but a ball of scoured rock in the wake of their titanic swarms. What's worse, no one seems able to halt, let alone reverse, the Tyranid tide as its tendrils bore ever deeper towards the heart of our galaxy.
- The Faithful -
Witchhunters The darkness contained within the Imperium itself is a sinister and subtle threat. The heretic, mutant, and rogue psyker threaten humanity with an internal rot far more damaging than any xenos invasion. The Ordo Hereticus exists to seek and burn out this threat. Known as the Witch Hunters, these Inquisitors command the might of the Imperium – especially the Adepta Sororitas – in their hunt for the witch, the mutant, the heretic, the fallen cleric, and none is permitted to escape the cleansing fire of their wrath.
Chapter 2: Where to buy
Chapter 3:Where to talk about it
Chapter 4: Army Transports
Chapter 5: Painting services
Chapter 6: Paints, tools, and hobby supplies:
Appendix
Gallery of Cool Custom Dice
Nifty pictures to follow:
A Gentleman's guide to the modern codex:
What books should I read?
Chapter 1: Factions
Chapter 2: Where to buy
Chapter 3: Where to talk about it (aside from here of course)
Chapter 4: Transports
Chapter 5: Painting services
Chapter 6: Hobby supplies
Appendix
What books should I read?
Warhammer 40k is a futuristic tabletop strategy game created by GamesWorkshop that pits multiple races and factions against each other for control of the galaxy. The wiki article can be found here.
Spoiler:
[Chapter 1: Factions
- The Dark Forces -
DaemonsLust, hate, despair, sorrow. All emotion has a reverberation within the warp, the worst, most bitterly felt, and the furtherest extreme becoming strong enough to persist, coalesce, and finally, become. It was from the darkest corners of the galaxy's hearts that Khorne - Lord Upon the Skullthrone, Tzeentch - The Changer of Ways, Nurgle - The Final Decay, and Slaneesh - The Feaster of Pain, sprang forth, and they await the time when the veil against the Warp wears thin, and their warriors, spawn, and offspring can pour through.
- The Betrayer -
Chaos Marines At the very birth of the Imperium of Man, fully half of the Emperor's most trusted Legions turned against him in a bitter civil war. Brother fought brother, and Mankind drove itself to the very brink of extinction. Ten thousand years after their defeat, those same traitors still launch their Black Crusades from within the Eye of Terror, their dead hearts intent upon nothing less than the utter destruction of the Imperium and the death of its weakling Emperor.
- The Hammer -
Grey Knights The Grey Knights are the most mysterious of all the Imperium's many organisations. Utterly incorruptible, they are armed with the best weapons and equipment that Mankind has to offer. Above all, they are humanity's last line of defense against the darkness of Chaos
- The Dying -
Eldar An unimaginably ancient race who once ruled an empire spanning the galaxy. Then came the hideous time of the Fall, when the Eldar were consumed by their own decadence and nearly obliterated to the last, the few survivors scattered across the stars. Though the Eldar are few in number, they continue to be one of the most technologically advanced races in the galaxy. This advantage is combined with the prescient abilities of their Farseers, who scry the future and guide their kin along the most favorable paths of fate.
- The Lost-
Dark Eldar These spawn of unquiet dreams inhabit a realm called Commorragh, a place as darkly twisted as its rulers, from which these merciless pirates launch raids across the length and breadth of the galaxy. The purpose of these raids is not to conquer planets or protect territory but to cause mayhem, steal, pillage, and – most importantly of all – capture new victims to be taken back to Commorragh for endless torture. Having fallen far into the depths of depravity, their every waking moment is dedicated to inflicting pain and suffering on the galaxy.
- The Dutiful -
Imperial GuardIn the midst of genetically engineered super-beings, alien killing machines, warrior mystics, and technology that approaches sorcery in its sophistication, the Imperial Guard are mere mortals. Protected by little more than faith, they contend with the most terrifying threats the darkest corners of the galaxy vomits forth. As such it is easy to identify with these brave souls and to see in them the qualities of true heroes. Also: tanks tank lol
- The Ancient -
Necrons Ancient beyond imagining, the Necrons are awakening from their 60-million-year dormancy to plague the living once more. Thousands of immortal, soulless warriors have risen from dusty stasis-tombs, their cold wills bent on harvesting the teeming species of the galaxy. Their miraculous technology was far in advance of any contemporary equivalent long before the Eldar, reckoned the oldest amongst the xenos races, had even begun their existence, and it is only that so few have awoken that they do not pose a greater threat in the current day.
- The Beast -
Orks The most widespread and warlike race of aliens in the bloodstained galaxy of the 41st millennium. From the depths of the galactic core to the distant ghost-stars beyond the galactic rim, burgeoning Ork empires rise and fall. In terms of sheer numbers and planets, Orks occupy more of the galaxy than any other single race, and if they ever unified, they would crush all opposition the stood before them. However, the Orks' passion for violence is so unquenchable that they spend their entire lives embroiled in war, and will fight each other as readily as any other foe.
- The Loyal -
Space MarinesThey are the most powerful and dreaded of all the human warriors in the galaxy. No longer strictly human, but superhuman, superior in all respects to mere men by a harsh regime of genetic modification, psycho-conditioning and rigorous training. Being few in number compared to the uncounted trillions of humanity, Space Marines are organized into small independent armies called Chapters. Their unswerving loyalty is to the Emperor of Mankind first, their Chapter second, and none other beyond that.
- The Young -
Tau Empire Since their first contact with the Imperium in the 35th millennium, the Tau have risen from a hunter-gatherer society to a star-faring race in less than six thousand years. Absolute obedient to the command of the enigmatic ethereal caste, the Tau believe that now is their time. It is their race and their Empire that will bring unity to the stars, all races equal, and the Tau first among them. There is no foe their technology cannot overcome, no quandary their science cannot resolve, the stars and all that lies between to be joined beneath the aegis of the Greater Good.
- The Hungry -
Tyranids Without a doubt the most alien race encountered by Humanity. They have been likened to galactic locusts, remorselessly hungry and too numerous to stop. Tyranids are a nomadic, space-dwelling race that emerged from the void between galaxies into our own in search of new resources to consume. These hive fleets have discovered sustenance in abundance in the forms of the myriad species of the Milky Way galaxy, stripping planets of all bio-mass before moving on, leaving nothing but a ball of scoured rock in the wake of their titanic swarms. What's worse, no one seems able to halt, let alone reverse, the Tyranid tide as its tendrils bore ever deeper towards the heart of our galaxy.
- The Faithful -
Witchhunters The darkness contained within the Imperium itself is a sinister and subtle threat. The heretic, mutant, and rogue psyker threaten humanity with an internal rot far more damaging than any xenos invasion. The Ordo Hereticus exists to seek and burn out this threat. Known as the Witch Hunters, these Inquisitors command the might of the Imperium – especially the Adepta Sororitas – in their hunt for the witch, the mutant, the heretic, the fallen cleric, and none is permitted to escape the cleansing fire of their wrath.
Chapter 2: Where to buy
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Chapter 3:Where to talk about it
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Chapter 4: Army Transports
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Chapter 5: Painting services
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Chapter 6: Paints, tools, and hobby supplies:
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Appendix
Gallery of Cool Custom Dice
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Battlescribe, the army builder alternative:
http://www.battlescribe.net/
Files:
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http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?p=19420215#post19420215
Welcome to the world on this side.
I down. Never played bfg before though.
Welcome to the world on this side.
In other news, Maelstrom has today's Finecast releases available for order and their 18% off voucher (GW-ROW) works with them, so it's not all doom and gloom. Unless you already bought Ushabti for the higher price last week or something.
DropBox invite link - get 250MB extra free.
They won't auto-forward you, mind, so you might have to reload the page.
DropBox invite link - get 250MB extra free.
PS: the links are a copy/paste from the last OP, I just changed the descriptions.
Welcome to the world on this side.
BT list
champ w/AAC with 8 initiates, 1 neophyte, melta and fist in a rhino
another 8 initiates w/melta&fist & 2 neos in a rhino
ven dread w/TLLC and flamer & tankhunters
land speeder typhoon
Guard list
PCS, 3 melta, chimera w/HF
2x infantry squads, ML, grenade launcher, Chimera
vets, 3 melta, chimera w/HF
LRBT with Lascannon
2X armord sentinels w autocannons
armored sent with missile launcher
BA list was something like this
assault termies (3 LC, 2THSS) with termi priest in crusader (libby in here too)
big dev squad with ML, plasma cannon & lascannon
baal pred with asscan and HB
Sanguary guard w/infernus
2xassault squads w/Jump packs, power weapons/melta bomb sargents, priests, and plasma pistols.
We were trying to teach the guy with my BTs how to play so we just had one objective in the center of the board. Not that it mattered as we called the game after turn 3. BA guy had horrible dice, if we played turn 4 everything he had left would have been dead or tied up with atleast 1 av12 walker.
short summary,
First turn,
Dread blows the MM off the crusader, and the vendicator wrecks it. shooting kills some bolter guys in the dev squad and I think couple of termies. Baal gets shot but nothing happens. Baal wiffs on shooting a sentinal, devs cant pen the vendicator, libby falls short on range for lance on the vendi.
turn 2,
typhoon kills the baal, everthing else shoots termies or the dev squad. Termie squad is left with only libby, priest and 1 TH guy. Devs loose some more bolter guys. All his reserves come in, sang guard knock all the weapons off the russ, assault squad kills the vendi, other assault squad knocks a multilaser off a chimera. All his other shooting does nothing.
Turn 3,
Shooting kills priest, TH guy & leaves the libby with 1 wound, he is cut down by the emp champion and his squad are in range to assault and kill the dev squad next turn. Sang guard squad is killed off to 1 guy by the CCS and its chimera. 1 assault squad is assaulted by a sentinel, other by the dread and a sentinel. His turn he kills the CCS and some crusaders, but the Dev squad and the lone sang guad will be dead next turn by shoooting/assault. The assault squads need 6s to hit the walkers, and other than the 1 melta bomb need 6s to even glance, so they are stuck. Even if they do break out they are surrouned by other guard squads to shoot/tie them up more, so we called it there.
They seem to be pushing the resilience factor as well, which is interesting if true. I'm always knocking shit off the table. Sign me up for Chaos Navy BFG, and IG (traitor) 40k.
That's a lie, of course. I always need more mans.
So I'll be student teaching in the fall at a middle school here in Omaha with a kick ass supervising teacher. However I will most likely be quitting my job as I do not want to be in a school with a bunch of tweens from 7 to 3 all week then go right to work afterward. In fact they actually recommend not working during this period and my parents are pretty awesome and supportive to help me out.
What this means is that I'll have a shit ton of time to play this come the fall at night and on weekends as I'll be needing a way to relax that doesn't involve spending more money. (For once having 16,000 points of IG might pay off!)
What this means in the short term is that I'm working as much as physically possible to save up money.
Also I'll ask a single question. Finecast. Does this mean I can get Vostroyans in resin now?
40k: Black Templars
BFG: Imperial Navy/Astartes Fleet
This man speaks the truth.
All the finecast posts/reviews are amusing. Some are great, others are horrible...... crap is just all over the place.
The bad ones I see and I just can't believe they are that bad. Then I think, why..... why would you buy someting you can physically look at and see it's messed up. Oh yea, Nerd Rage on the Net makes you awesome.
I'm sure I will find something I "need" but I don't think I will look for the most jacked up one on the shelf and then scream about it on the internet.
I'll probably find the best of the bunch and tell no one!
Selling my black Templars, info in sig, for 450$ this weekend (through Monday) or a nids trade (well painted or unpainted).
buy warhams
"Look at that subtle off-white coloring, the tasteful thickness of it... Oh my God, it even has a watermark."
Grim and Dark?
Except the Pyrovore, that's $62au. Who the fuck is going to pay that for a Pyrovore? And the Hive Tyrant is now $96au. Good thing I never planned on buying a GW Tyrant.
Aaaand then I checked the Fantasy prices. Fuck. A Varghulf went from $44au to $62au? How the fuck? 5 Blood Knights went from $150au to $165au? Really?
As to AU pyrovore prices... maybe GW is hoping some people will fall for, 'if it's expensive, it HAS to be good!'
1) necromunda house rules. someone is running a campaign with them what were they?
2) GW stores. do people really go to these? my FLGS has 30+ tables and I get 30% off stuff (15% off direct sales). Last time I was in a GW store it was in a mall, had a couple tables, everything sold at MSRP, and high school dropout types were working there.
Woo?
Finecasts come in a opaque box, you have to purchase them before you can check. Most gaming stores I know would let you check in the store and swap boxes if you got a bad one, but...
Uhm, not that librarian. You can easily see the contents of every blister. As for the normal boxes, it's no different than the stuff right now. The most ridiculous thing about all of this is the fact that out of the tens of thousands of blisters they're sending out across the world, people are flipping shit about half a dozen really awful miscats that got put up online. I guess I shouldn't be surprised though.
I hope this would be fairly common practice anywhere. Even at a GW Hole in the Mall. If you grab a pack, pay for it, and open it at the counter..... surely they would let you exchange it if it was truly farked.
Dakka has the best rage thread at the moment. Several back and forth about "I bought one and it makes the Sistine Chapel look like a turd in a bucket." vs. "Mine is so hosed it went back in time and punched baby Jesus in the face!"
[Edit] Just saw the Carnosaur in the Dakka thread (I know it's not 40k) and that thing looks amazing compared to the metal.
Depends on your country. In England, and I assume most of Europe, GW sotres are more common than normal LGS's. So a lot of store absed gaming goes in in GW stores there. In the US, there's a lot more LGS's, and these tend to be larger than GW stores.
Australia is a lot like Europe. LGS's worth going to are few and far between. Most offer some kind of discount, but are a lot like a small GW store - a table or two to play on, a single staff, and no painting area. So given the enthusiasm GW staff show (and from experience, they're pretty enthusiastic) people are just drawn to GW stores here rather than LGS's.
There are exceptions, my FLGS has a large shop, and two similar sized shop fronts on either side being worked on as gaming spaces. It's already big, so seing it three times the size is going to be incredible. They stock everything, are friendly and even have a painting area paid for by the store. As I said though, it's an exception, not the rule over here.
GW has stores like this too. They're called Battle Bunkers. Lots of gaming space not reserved for introduction games. So comparing your FLGS to a small GW store is a bit unfair, go to a Battle bunker and see what it is like.
As for pricing, expecting GW stores to have discounts when they have zero competition on their own shelves... not going to happen.
Solution - open it in the store after purchasing, return on the spot if it is miscast. They can't refuse a refund or replacement if you open it in front of them and show them the casting errors.
edit - saw your comment and that... shouldn't be legal. You open it in front of them, show them there's a miscast if there is one, they have the product to replace it, they should replace it.
You could have linked the images
The best store has non specific gaming tables, but not a lot of players for the same system at any given time. I go into my GW store, and 9 times out of time, I can get a pick up game then and there. If I can't, and it's not too busy, then the staffer will get an army out of the case and play against you.
If there's a really good gaming store in Baltimore area, I'd love to hear about it. Otherwise, given that the local stores have nothing to recommend them over the GW store...
Otherwise I like the idea.