That is a wonderful mental image. I imagine it looks like a 4 legged beetle.
I imagine it looks like that marine hopping off, lifting one of the legs, awkwardly backpedalling with it - head flailing side to side in an attempt to see where he's going over his massive pauldrons - hoping desperately that he doesn't throw out his back, before dropping it, wiping his gauntlet across his brow, realising he's wearing a helmet, and then hustling back up into the seat to pewpewpewpewpew.
The little feet are repulsor pads, you see them on some other models. Presumably it bobbles around.
Yeah, I still don’t see it. Those pads are clearly touching the ground and repulsor equipment usually has a speed on par with wheeled vehicles. If that thing moves at all, its because that Primaris Techmarine pushes it about, grumbling the whole time that he didn’t spend 4 decades at Mars seminary to do the same work as a servitor...
They're short term repulsor pads, enough to boost the gun off the ground but not enough to propel the gun, so the marine operating it has to throw a yoke over their shoulders and haul it around the battle field before settling it back in position.
The little feet are repulsor pads, you see them on some other models. Presumably it bobbles around.
Yeah, I still don’t see it. Those pads are clearly touching the ground and repulsor equipment usually has a speed on par with wheeled vehicles. If that thing moves at all, its because that Primaris Techmarine pushes it about, grumbling the whole time that he didn’t spend 4 decades at Mars seminary to do the same work as a servitor...
Well they haven't made models that can literally hover
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The little feet are repulsor pads, you see them on some other models. Presumably it bobbles around.
Yeah, I still don’t see it. Those pads are clearly touching the ground and repulsor equipment usually has a speed on par with wheeled vehicles. If that thing moves at all, its because that Primaris Techmarine pushes it about, grumbling the whole time that he didn’t spend 4 decades at Mars seminary to do the same work as a servitor...
It lands to fire, then takes off to reposition. Just cause repulsor vehicles 'usually' go faster doesn't mean that all anti-grav equipped things must be swift.
They're short term repulsor pads, enough to boost the gun off the ground but not enough to propel the gun, so the marine operating it has to throw a yoke over their shoulders and haul it around the battle field before settling it back in position.
Maybe?
I will allow this, but I need everyone to model these with two marines outfront of it, yoked into it like two horses.
The little feet are repulsor pads, you see them on some other models. Presumably it bobbles around.
Yeah, I still don’t see it. Those pads are clearly touching the ground and repulsor equipment usually has a speed on par with wheeled vehicles. If that thing moves at all, its because that Primaris Techmarine pushes it about, grumbling the whole time that he didn’t spend 4 decades at Mars seminary to do the same work as a servitor...
Well they haven't made models that can literally hover
Don’t be a goose. Flying or hovering models usually come with either clear plastic stands or some contrived bit of smoke or something to literally keep their “feet” off the ground.
Yeah this thing’s feet look like hover pads, but the rest of it looks like something you’d find on a man-portable artillery piece down to the springs in its legs that probably fold up automatically when the top is disassembled. It just doesn’t visually look like something that moves. The idea that it temporarily hovers is as good an idea as any, but aside from the feet nothing else looks like the rest of SM hovercraft tech. That and I just like the idea of a 7’ tall superhuman in powered armor flexing his muscle by pushing field artillery around.
The little feet are repulsor pads, you see them on some other models. Presumably it bobbles around.
Yeah, I still don’t see it. Those pads are clearly touching the ground and repulsor equipment usually has a speed on par with wheeled vehicles. If that thing moves at all, its because that Primaris Techmarine pushes it about, grumbling the whole time that he didn’t spend 4 decades at Mars seminary to do the same work as a servitor...
It lands to fire, then takes off to reposition. Just cause repulsor vehicles 'usually' go faster doesn't mean that all anti-grav equipped things must be swift.
By the handles on the feet I feel it's like a field gun
It could have the hover technology but no directional thrust, so the marine still has to hop off, overcome inertia and move it then overcome the momentum and stop it before it can fire again, so it has half his unencumbered movement.
The little feet are repulsor pads, you see them on some other models. Presumably it bobbles around.
Yeah, I still don’t see it. Those pads are clearly touching the ground and repulsor equipment usually has a speed on par with wheeled vehicles. If that thing moves at all, its because that Primaris Techmarine pushes it about, grumbling the whole time that he didn’t spend 4 decades at Mars seminary to do the same work as a servitor...
Well they haven't made models that can literally hover
Not without a bit of creative customization, anyway.
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“Stand true! Stand true, you worthless dogs!” Hark yelled at the fleeing Tanith around him. “This is the Emperor’s work! Stand true or face his wrath at my hand!”
Hark was suddenly jerked backwards as Gaunt seized his wrist tightly and spoiled the threatened aim of his plasma pistol.
“I punish the Ghosts. Me. Not you. Besides, it’s a fething Baneblade, you moron. I’d be running too. Now, help me.”
Ibram Gaunt and Ciaphas Cain are easily two of the best characters to come out of Warhammer 40k.
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Okay, so the new Tome Keepers chapter the White Dwarf team has created features for the third time in the newest issue.
Yes, it still sounds suspiciously like the chapter we threw together over the course of a week in February and March of 2019. However, it is pretty cool.
This issue goes into how they chose the organization and iconography, and shows off their converted 3rd company captain, who is a PoC!
It's pretty neat. Even if they stole it from us. Lol
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After taking a break since about june, i finally started back up now that a bunch or orders from forge world and artel showed up
I got the solar auxilia storm section, and i'm converting them up to have a bunch of different special weapons. Since i might end up running the auxilia as scions, i've just been basing things off that.
Since i haven't really played since before command points and whatnot were a thing, i'm gonna dip back in with assembling a kill team.
I kinda just googled "scion kill team" and looked up the good lists for that and so it looks like 2 plasma guns, 2 volley guns, comms a leader and 2 troops.
I'm also pretty pleased with this little conversion with an extra volkite gun and about 3 different types of plastic tubes (the plastic tubes on q-tips are a super useful size but are also terrible because glue just doesn't stick to them and you really have to fuck around and you mostly end up making a kinda fragile thing)
So I picked up Avenging Son on Audible (it was $30 on the Black Library app, no thanks!) and I actually liked it. I haven’t read much of the Black Library books; only the Dark Eldar omnibus (Andy Chambers) and the Grey Knights omnibus (Ben Counter). In both cases I was looking for more depth and setting insight than the respective codexes offered and in both cases I was mostly disappointed on that aspect but otherwise felt the narratives were entertaining enough to justify the purchases.
Previously I had picked up Crusade + Other Stories when it was available for $1 on the BL app and I felt I overpaid. It’s so awful: it reminds me of the Song of the Sorcelator storyline that Gabe & Tycho wrote specifically to mock poor writing. It turned me off of future BL purchases regardless of recommendation: “good for a Warhammer novel” was not good enough for my money. But eventually I gave in due to a combination of exhausting my backlog and this Goonhammer article:
With that in mind, let’s talk about Avenging Son. As a stand alone it’s a solid book; as the start of a series it initially struggles with the weight placed on it before finding its stride in the back two thirds. Set at the end of the Battle for Terra, Avenging Son shows the Imperium caught at a critical moment in its future, detailing the start of Roboute’s new regime, the reveal of the Primaris project, a dive into the insane horror that is ‘normal’ bureaucratic life in the Imperium and the initial strike of the Crusade.
I talked about it a bit in the Critical Failures thread, so forgive me for rehashing a bit. Overall I liked the book and thought parts of it stood out enough to elevate the whole beyond the previous Warhammer books I’d read. The low points for me are what I consider the staple of Warhammer novels: epic descriptions of shit I already know about. The strength of Primaris Marines (who still get ripped apart by greater deamons since they lack an invul save), the insatiable bloodthirst of Khorne’s deamons (coincidentally called Bloodthirsters), and the great waste of the imperial bureaucracy (where there are bloody clan feuds over waste salvage rights). Actually I liked that last part because it was both novel and did a great job enhancing the particular story it was featured in. The parts of Avenging Son I really liked are the parts that give insight into life outside the games. Things like the being a cog in the machine of the bureaucracy, or a terrified LT of a routed platoon trying to find safety. There are some game-adjacent scenes I liked as well: the deck workers putting out fires in a hanger, heedless of a thrashing helldrake in its death throes because fire in a ship hanger is the bigger threat. A Tempestus Scion selected at random to die for his Emperor and doing so without any more pomp than arming his hellgun.
With my appetite whetted I went for the highly recommended Spears of the Emperor by ADB and let me tell you it doesn’t get the praise it deserves! I’d recommend it to non-Warhammer fans because it’s a great Science Fiction book, not just “good for a Warhammer book”. I couldn’t put it down and consumed it over the weekend as it accompanied my painting. I’m already making plans to paint an Emperor’s Spears detachment despite the disharmony between a melee focused chapter tactic and the Ultramarines successor chapter doctrine and stratagem support.
I’ve got a few audible credits remaining and an unending backlog of minis so what should I pick up from the black library next?
They really ought to hire the guy who did Astartes and give him the budget to make a full-length movie.
I'm not sure where they announced this but I'm hearing that they were listening I guess, they made the astartes videos official and are hiring that guy to make videos for the tau now.
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I imagine it looks like that marine hopping off, lifting one of the legs, awkwardly backpedalling with it - head flailing side to side in an attempt to see where he's going over his massive pauldrons - hoping desperately that he doesn't throw out his back, before dropping it, wiping his gauntlet across his brow, realising he's wearing a helmet, and then hustling back up into the seat to pewpewpewpewpew.
Yeah I was gonna say, they're the same skid plates that go around the sides of the primaris hover tanks.
It's basically the space marine version of the Eldar hoverplatforms Guardians can be accompanied by (forget what their proper name is).
Yeah, I still don’t see it. Those pads are clearly touching the ground and repulsor equipment usually has a speed on par with wheeled vehicles. If that thing moves at all, its because that Primaris Techmarine pushes it about, grumbling the whole time that he didn’t spend 4 decades at Mars seminary to do the same work as a servitor...
Maybe?
Well they haven't made models that can literally hover
It lands to fire, then takes off to reposition. Just cause repulsor vehicles 'usually' go faster doesn't mean that all anti-grav equipped things must be swift.
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Don’t be a goose. Flying or hovering models usually come with either clear plastic stands or some contrived bit of smoke or something to literally keep their “feet” off the ground.
Yeah this thing’s feet look like hover pads, but the rest of it looks like something you’d find on a man-portable artillery piece down to the springs in its legs that probably fold up automatically when the top is disassembled. It just doesn’t visually look like something that moves. The idea that it temporarily hovers is as good an idea as any, but aside from the feet nothing else looks like the rest of SM hovercraft tech. That and I just like the idea of a 7’ tall superhuman in powered armor flexing his muscle by pushing field artillery around.
By the handles on the feet I feel it's like a field gun
It's a hover-pogo stick.
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Yeah, but it’s leashed to a 700lb (minimum) superhuman in powered armour. Also, he can probably turn that off.
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Not without a bit of creative customization, anyway.
Ibram Gaunt and Ciaphas Cain are easily two of the best characters to come out of Warhammer 40k.
That is all.
Yes, it still sounds suspiciously like the chapter we threw together over the course of a week in February and March of 2019. However, it is pretty cool.
This issue goes into how they chose the organization and iconography, and shows off their converted 3rd company captain, who is a PoC!
It's pretty neat. Even if they stole it from us. Lol
Hook it up to my veins
I'm just really happy other people are getting excited for it too. It looks great and Helsreach is one of my favorite fanprojects.
I got the solar auxilia storm section, and i'm converting them up to have a bunch of different special weapons. Since i might end up running the auxilia as scions, i've just been basing things off that.
Since i haven't really played since before command points and whatnot were a thing, i'm gonna dip back in with assembling a kill team.
I kinda just googled "scion kill team" and looked up the good lists for that and so it looks like 2 plasma guns, 2 volley guns, comms a leader and 2 troops.
I'm also pretty pleased with this little conversion with an extra volkite gun and about 3 different types of plastic tubes (the plastic tubes on q-tips are a super useful size but are also terrible because glue just doesn't stick to them and you really have to fuck around and you mostly end up making a kinda fragile thing)
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Volume 3 has just been released. Probably some of the best INQ 28 modelling, with a bunch of great writing.
There's an article on romance between space marines that i haven't had the chance to read yet
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Previously I had picked up Crusade + Other Stories when it was available for $1 on the BL app and I felt I overpaid. It’s so awful: it reminds me of the Song of the Sorcelator storyline that Gabe & Tycho wrote specifically to mock poor writing. It turned me off of future BL purchases regardless of recommendation: “good for a Warhammer novel” was not good enough for my money. But eventually I gave in due to a combination of exhausting my backlog and this Goonhammer article:
I talked about it a bit in the Critical Failures thread, so forgive me for rehashing a bit. Overall I liked the book and thought parts of it stood out enough to elevate the whole beyond the previous Warhammer books I’d read. The low points for me are what I consider the staple of Warhammer novels: epic descriptions of shit I already know about. The strength of Primaris Marines (who still get ripped apart by greater deamons since they lack an invul save), the insatiable bloodthirst of Khorne’s deamons (coincidentally called Bloodthirsters), and the great waste of the imperial bureaucracy (where there are bloody clan feuds over waste salvage rights). Actually I liked that last part because it was both novel and did a great job enhancing the particular story it was featured in. The parts of Avenging Son I really liked are the parts that give insight into life outside the games. Things like the being a cog in the machine of the bureaucracy, or a terrified LT of a routed platoon trying to find safety. There are some game-adjacent scenes I liked as well: the deck workers putting out fires in a hanger, heedless of a thrashing helldrake in its death throes because fire in a ship hanger is the bigger threat. A Tempestus Scion selected at random to die for his Emperor and doing so without any more pomp than arming his hellgun.
With my appetite whetted I went for the highly recommended Spears of the Emperor by ADB and let me tell you it doesn’t get the praise it deserves! I’d recommend it to non-Warhammer fans because it’s a great Science Fiction book, not just “good for a Warhammer book”. I couldn’t put it down and consumed it over the weekend as it accompanied my painting. I’m already making plans to paint an Emperor’s Spears detachment despite the disharmony between a melee focused chapter tactic and the Ultramarines successor chapter doctrine and stratagem support.
I’ve got a few audible credits remaining and an unending backlog of minis so what should I pick up from the black library next?
I'm not sure where they announced this but I'm hearing that they were listening I guess, they made the astartes videos official and are hiring that guy to make videos for the tau now.
https://www.warhammer-community.com/warhammer-animation-astartes/