Hello Everyone,
General Chaos here with a painting update. I just finished up my second Looted Wagon. It been sitting on my workbench for at least a year with just a primer coat. So it was well past time to give it some attention. So without further adieu.
Old School here with a DFG Painting Challenge update featuring Mordian7th's Knight Errant Titan for his Admech army. Let's take a look at this behemoth!
General Chaos here with the State of the Waaagh! address. Assaults are dead! Well lets back that up, they are not dead but they took a big kick in the tail end for us Ork players. Multi-Assaults suffer losing that extra attack, getting Bolter shells in the face from overwatch can really hurt in assaults, and without some very specific movement and placement losing that all important Power Klaw Nob can be devastating. Makes me want to take my Choppa and go home. But us Orks are good at one thing besides Krumpin' ead' and that is we can adapt.
Old School here with a massive post meant to cover everything you need to know on the new Daemons as we can get it from the other side of the pond. First, I will cover the photos, then the prices, then the rules, then the video and then I will wrap up with a few thoughts. Here we go:
Old School here with some breaking news and a video from across the pond with a look at new daemon models. It looks like the soul grinder is going to fantasy, some existing units like flamers have changed and some new units have been added to both 40k and Fantasy. Also we got the plastic Plague Bearers we always wanted. The video may be taken down eventually today, so get it while it is how below. Also are photos of the new models:
Old School here with an It Came From the Forums Update. More than a year ago, we featured the work of Heresy Online's Xenobiotic. Well, Xenobiotic is at it again with more of the Brethren of the Phoenix ... and the start of some new projects! Links will be at the end of the article. Let's take a look:
General Chaos here with another Video Battle Report. Tonight we got my Necron - Destroyer Cult of the Red Harvest vs. Jon's Dark Mechdar. We played at 1850, the mission was Relic, and the deployment was Vanguard Strike. Jon wanted to see how the Dark Eldar are doing in 6th edition.
Some positive findings -
Mass splinter fire is really good. Warriors squads got much better. 10 man Scourges units with Shard Carbines and 4 Splinter Cannons can dump out some firepower.
Razorwings are deadly good anti-tank and anti-infantry fliers.
Don't really need Flicker fields now.
Some negative findings -
The Raiders more resistant to glances but if you get a AP 1 or AP 2 to hit into them they go down really easy by getting plus 2 or 3 on the damage table.
Unit inside open-topped transports taking strength 4 hits on an explosion result, instead of strength 3 for being open-topped in 5th edition, you will lose some of those toughness 3 models.
Overwatch is very unkind to lightly armoured assault units.
+5 Feel No Pain is a big downside when most weapons can cut right thru your spandex leotards.
Jon is planning on focusing on the Dark Eldar and adding in some Psychic powers with some allied Farseers. Personally, I think Dark Eldar will be a real threat on the tournament scene.
Old School here with another addition to my Yellow Necrons. These barges typically fill out my heavy support section (though I will be trying out the Doom Scythe and the Monolith now that I own them). Let's take a look at my entries for this week's painting challenge.
Sammy here and like all tau players I have been just praying that my favorite army would get something in the new rules to help them out. While indeed they did get some help, it was not in the way I expected. As follows I will detail a few of the bonuses that I think may bring back Tau as a playable and possibly more competitive army. I do recognize however that as no local tournaments have been run yet this all just on a observational basis.
Old School here, if you plan to take the Dark Angels as your main detachment or as an ally, there are some great options now and we are Brothers in Arms with some that offer us a good boost. I will be covering Brothers in Arms in this post and will follow this up with a very brief post later concerning other allied options, but that post may not come for some time. As always with these early 6th edition posts, I am not an expert and I think there is much to be learned from discussion as this is a new game for all of us at this point. I don't want to waste your time building it up any more, so here we go ...
Old School here with another post for Dark Angels in 6th Edition. So far we have covered Deathwing and Ravenwing. Today's post is about the rest of the book (at least from the perspective of units I have used on the table). Here is where we delve into territory where our old codex may be screwy in terms of options and points cost, so while I will lightly tough on allies below, it's not the focus. Allies will be part of the next post. Also throughout this post will be images from other hobbyists with great DA models, most are linked! Here we go ...
Old School here with a quick post with news that Forge World just dropped their 6th Edition Allies FAQ, which covers the armies from Imperial Armour.
Seeing this along with the first paragraph you will find in the FAQ really just tells me that FW will be handling the FAQ over to 6th Edition for their units, which really implies that, much like the editions past, IA will be up to discretion of the players or organizers rather than a permanent and fixed part of the game.
I could be wrong, but that is my two cents. Here is the link to the FAQ.
Old School here with another kill point for the Painting Challenge! This week I have painted by Canoptek Spyder conversions. You may remember these "Bender-esque" droids from a post I wrote earlier this year (before the new spyders kits dropped) and while they may look kind of funny, I do like them much more after painting them. Let's take a look at these critters.
Old School here with the second part of my series on Dark Angels in 6th Edition. Once again, I am adding my thoughts so far. I am not trying to come down from the mountain, rather I am also looking for good feedback to help everyone. So let's get straight into it:
Old School here with another weekly round up from our Painting Challenge contributors! It is incredible that it has been going this long and as I look back, I think I am going to have to count the KP (or VP now) to see how far we have gotten as a collective!
Old School here to talk about the Dark Angels based on my 6th Edition games with the codex and some thoughts I have looking at the FAQ and the new rules. I will cover the codex (and allies) in a series of posts. This will be the first post.
I will cover Deathwing Terminators and some general thoughts in this post and then Ravenwing units and some units I generally used/ plan to use now and what has effected them, our psykers and allies (both who we can take to help us and where we are likely to be used by others) in a series of posts each day until I am done. If you are a fan of the Unforgiven, it may have been a while since you have read anything modern to such an extent! I hope to convey knowledge that may be useful, while not coming off as an expert, because, it is early in 6th edition and we are all new right now!
Old School here to help get the word out about something one of our friends and fellow author is doing that is not only one hell of a challenge, but something I think will be interesting to see progress as a spectator. Rhellion from Rhellion's Tabletop will be attempting 365 days of gaming. Here is his announcement:
The time has come for me to reveal the final member of the Grotesque squad I created for Wolfson. The final subject is called the Carver! He is a pretty simple conversion. Let's take a look.
General Chaos here with another Video Battle Report. This was a 1850 point game between my Necrons and Jon's Space Wolves. I was revisiting the Destroyer Wing to see how it stands up in the 6th edition and the results are promising. There are couple things going for this list now in 6th edition. Preferred enemy now lets your re-roll ones in the Assault phase and the Shooting phase for both to hit and to wound. This makes Destroyers really good at taking down MEQ. Necrons warriors are the ultimate anti-tank units now. Destroyer Lords can join a unit and pass on the preferred enemy rule to the whole unit. Add in the Triarch stalkers targeting array and you can put down some serious firepower. Here are the lists we used. One mistake right off the bat was the Space Wolf Rune Priest took powers from the wrong discipline but it wasn't game changing. Here are the lists we used and the link below. Thanks for watching.
1850 Pts - Necrons Roster - Destroyer Cult of the Red Harvest
Old School here and since I missed the weekly Painting Challenge kill point round up, I am giving Mordian7th a post for me to highlight his Iron Hands bikers. These models are great and while I don't think that Old M7 is going to go Gorgon on us, I do this this is a great side project for a man painting an all white army!
Old School here with CVinton to post our kill points for this week's Painting Challenge together! Cvinton is in Maryland with Wolfson and I this week and in addition to pushing ourselves through "6th Editon University" we have also been painting! Here are our KPs so far:
Old School here with another Subject from the labs of the Kabal of the Obsidian Rose! The victim today ... em, Subject is #9, the Hunger. He is the Aberration of the troop of Grotesques I have been making for Wolfson's Dark/ light Eldar army! Let's take a look at him and I will give you a little back story on him as well.
Old School here to provide my thoughts and observations from my table-top experience so far in 6th with the Necrons and some ideas I have from reading over the rules and FAQs. I want to say up front that I am obviously not an expert on 6th as none of us are, but hey, I'll throw my two cents in and maybe get some ideas back from you in return!
I will cover some of our weapons, some of our units and some things that are new to us in 6th that may be useful.
General Chaos here with another Video Battle Report. This was a 1500 point battle between my Orks and Jon's Space Wolves. This was my first game using the 6th edition rule set so if we get somethings wrong I apologize in advance. Jon took his standard Wolves list while I took a little bit of everything to test out the new rules. Hope you enjoy it and thanks for watching.
Old School here with a break in the 6th Edition coverage to introduce you to Subject #8 in the Kabal of the Obsidian Rose Grotesque Squad I am building for Wolfson! This one is called the cutter! The docs gave this one a time-bomb in his heart, a belly of grabbing, stabbing spines and a couple of hydrolic cutting blades for hands!
Well, we all have had time to look and read over parts of 6th, and I will give you a few opinions on what I think so far on how it has affected the Imperial Guard.
SeerK here to have a sit down with all
of you about 6th edition and how its affecting the Eldar
and the Grey Knights. After reading the rulebook for the few hours
that I have had it, I have some thoughts and observations to share
about my favorite army and my new army. Wolfson will be bringing you
coverage of the Dark Eldar and Eldar as well. I will be going more in depth on the
Eldar and Dark Eldar back over on Craftworld Lansing also.
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