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That's a z-job.
As I was a student, I never really bought much to change my Salamanders, so every time he came around with a new Tau army, I had to think during games. Which is rare.
Like, he started out with a fairly standard gunline Tau army backed by a couple of Hammerheads. Then he tried suit heavy, with anti tank being done by Crisis suits with Stealth suits as support. Then faster moving armour (Ion Cannon equipped Hammerheads and Devilsifh with Pathfinders) backed by Broadsides. Every few weeks, he had a new build for me to play against.
What's more is neither of us had assault oriented armies. I had extremely short ranged Salamanders (Tactical squads with plasma guns and multi meltas, assault squad with 2 flamers), the only real range was my Land Raider and Predator. Fighting against Tau, trying to get close enough to use my firepower but not get into assault, against medium/long ranged Tau, using cover to best effect... Made some really intense games. Most went right down to the last turn before the winner was obvious.
Tyberos Will be Rocking it out with his retinue of Tyberos's fin. I'll be the Other White Dude younger guy as I am only 20, gonna be rocking my Games Day 2010 shirt with the Stompa and the Baneblade on Front. Will be around 1:30 if all goes well should enter with a group of people one real young guy (15). I have a list made up for 2k points but I plan on making some more tomorrow so whatever you have I can match (unless it gets stupid big 3k+). Looking forward to playing ya!
Joline Lovejoy: Gifted Priest/Pistoleer - Chains of Corvis IKRPG
You should Totally start Fantasy. That way by the time I get back in Baltimore there will be some PAers to stomp on my Empire army.
Looks like I'll have to do some trading in the near future for bitz.
Also gonna apologize in Advance my army is not painted. The stuff that is Painted isn't finished, I've been trying to get them all Table Legal but I couldn't finish my last few guys in time.
"Oh mother tell your children, Not to do what I have done
Spend your lives in sin and misery, In the Raider of the Rising Sun"
It's always fun to see non-codex color schemes.
That's how I felt, I loved how the units were varied and customisable that they could fill several roles, and unlike most marine models, it was possible to swap out what they had. Sure you can magnetise but I found just the slots on crisis suits were more than enough to stick something into and have it hold for an entire game.
I just can't bring myself to sell off my chaos in order to trade back or consider buying a new army at the new prices, especially when I liked how the army plays, but some of the casting on the firewarriors was godawful, and I just can't get around the look of the crisis suits. As in I still hate them.
I just wish it were possible to have several basic models, and have them be modular that their entire role is changed with how much gear you can swap in/out.
I mean is there any singular easy way to swap out the main/secondary weapons on any Marine vehicle as there is a hammerhead to turn it into a transport/long range anti armour/medium range anti infantry. Or for your elites (crisis suits) to swap out their weapons to be short/medium range anti infantry, short range anti armour? Even the firewarriors have that interchangeable aspect, in that you can easily say "these are bonded" or "he has a hardwired drone controller" to give the squad two invuln saves or two extra assault weapons, which is hard to see in any other army.
With the latter, the WYSIWYG in most other armies is much worse, where you have to chop off some (invariably it is a metal) dudes hand, try to superglue that plasma pistol onto the stump and hope nothing untowards befalls that mini. Hell, how on earth am I supposed to give my metal khorne champions (one of each pose from old metals) a powerfist/chainaxe/powerweapon/plasma pistol/bolt pistol, depending on the situation I'm going to face.
I'm going to stop because this is just turning into words, and I hope everyone knows what I'm getting/bitching at.
Straight: DE, by far!
Joline Lovejoy: Gifted Priest/Pistoleer - Chains of Corvis IKRPG
Dark Eldar are much more finesse/fragile with the chance for horrible things to happen if your placement is bad, and I'd say are the most "different" playstyle to what you currently have.
Tau/IG are varied, and unless you have a ton of las in your SW/CSM, you haven't felt the joy of reaching a table away to railgun/earthshaker the field into craters....and either of those are so varied in lists, from mechanised to heavy support or tank or infantry heavy.
See whateveryone else has to say.
You should give me your CSM though. I mean, I can give them a good home if they're going to be neglected and all...
I tried that once, and I've avoided white ever since because it turns into a disgusting and dirty looking mess.
All I can think of is try doing a 'selective wash', as in take a fine brush with the areas you want the wash to be in, and carefully apply it into there. Have a couple secondary brushes that are damp but not wet to help blend and wick away the excess.
If you're making rust rivets or the like, just selectively drag or touch the wash down where you'd think water/rust/wear would occur naturally, rather than slathering the whole thing.
That and I always say look at chalks and smudge sticks from tamiya, those are great ways to age things that aren't the standard wargamer method of "base/paint/wash/drybrush".
Joline Lovejoy: Gifted Priest/Pistoleer - Chains of Corvis IKRPG
If you're not worried about rolling over hyper-competitive tournaments, I'd go with a swarm-style Nid army. Super fun, super nasty, not nearly as point-and-shoot as you'd think.
Play it enough and you'll even come to hate your Space Wolves!
The answer, as always, is orks. All you have are tough, small model count armies. You need a horde of easy to kill stuff!
Needs more lances. 25 is not nearly enough.
Edit: link: http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/CONTEMPTOR_PATTERN_DREADNOUGHT_BODY.html
Rules: http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Downloads/Product/PDF/c/Contemptor.pdf
"Look at that subtle off-white coloring, the tasteful thickness of it... Oh my God, it even has a watermark."
WHY THE FUCK WASN'T THIS THE DREADKNIGHT MODEL?!
Ugh, $75. Man it is awesome, but is it $75 awesome?
He towers over a normal dreadnought:
I'll take any chaos love that's going around, even if it is FW.
Agreeing with you here, which is why I ended up converting mine.
Hide your plastic mans. We rapin' errbody up in here.
No, Richard is coming with me. Actually he's driving. Like right now.
What I'm saying is we're en route and will be there soon.
I'm sad, I was hoping to show him a warhams game tomorrow.
edit: he can't do tonight
Thinking about it, is there anything in a 1:35 scale from gundam/macross/whatever that could be used instead? Or to mix/match parts to make hybrids?
I found this, http://www.maschinenkrueger.com/joomla/
Might work better as a proxied dreadnaught than anything tau though. I can see that dropship being used as a Valkyrie or whatever.
Its so cool to see the crazy stuff Forgeworld keeps churning out. My favorite stuff is always the smaller things that I could reasonably afford some time soon (Severn Loth).
Forgeworld is the best.
21 terminators bodies (10 assaults and 10 regular w/2 CML & 2AssCan)
121 marines (40 assaults all with meltabombs, 40 w/BP&CCW, 40 in 5man squads with bolters and a HW)
77 guardsmen (including 9 HWTs, 10 stormtroopers, a CCS w/MoO and a big platoon w/commissar)
i will pics him soon, but he is not in very good condition.
"Look at that subtle off-white coloring, the tasteful thickness of it... Oh my God, it even has a watermark."