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Lord_Hambrose posted:That makes sense. The idea of starting with Gun Beasts without the guns makes sense, but I guess it isn't something I had considered. Making lists for Tyranids is way harder than others. Might just stick with Chaos or Eldar. Yeah Tyranids and Grey Knights are more of a "if you really want to" than a proper good idea in SW:A it seems.
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I decided the Kroot need some SW:A love so I've started making a Tau Empire Auxiliaries faction. Max fighters 15, with 3 specialists allowed. Was thinking the following for fighter options, essentially using the 40k statlines from the codex as seems to be the standard for most of the factions: Leader: Kroot Shaper Trooper: Kroot Carnivore Recruit: Kroot Hounds (functions like Chaos Cultists when promoting - eg. remains a Hound but can get new hound-only gear and advances) Specialist: Vespid Stingwing Was thinking about allowing ONE specialist to be a Krootox. Skills access is pretty diverse: Shaper gets all except shooting. Carnivores get Ferocity, Muscle, Stealth. Vespid get Shooting, Guerilla, Stealth, Agility. Kroot Hounds get Ferocity, Agility, Stealth. Krootox would just get Muscle, Ferocity? I need some ideas for faction specific gear that they can get. So far I have the obvious Kroot equipment, a few bits of scavenged Tau gear, and the Vespid's neutron gun. Hound Equipment is obviously all new. I thought they could get some armour, enhanced claws/beak, and maybe a grenade harness thing that detonates when the model goes Down.
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Other specialist options: Kroot Vulture, Krook Ox, Gnarloc Rider. Maybe have a houndmaster and pack of hounds as a specialist (like Ork Grots?) Remove Vespids entirely and make it a Kroot Mercs killteam 
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May 2, 2017 11:42
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https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/05/03/shadow-war-armageddon-one-man-armies/ Sly Marbo, Vindicare and Eversor just got SWA rules.
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May 3, 2017 18:16
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No Callidus! gently caress this gay earth.
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May 3, 2017 18:41
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Black Templars and pure space marine squads are coming soon apparently.
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May 3, 2017 19:00
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Thundercloud posted:Black Templars and pure space marine squads are coming soon apparently. *Prepares for third printing of the rulebook, this time with yet more additional pages.*
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May 3, 2017 19:06
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berzerkmonkey posted:*Prepares for third printing of the rulebook, this time with yet more additional pages.* I would imagine a compendium in about a year consisting of loads of gangs, hired guns, lone operatives, scenarios and expanded campaign rules or another battlezone setting.
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May 3, 2017 19:44
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I didn't realize this, but GW has updated the online Kill Team PDF to include Sisters and Inquisition. In addition, the counters have also been posted.
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May 3, 2017 20:53
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berzerkmonkey posted:I didn't realize this, but GW has updated the online Kill Team PDF to include Sisters and Inquisition. We posted about that ages ago grandpa Zaphod42 posted:E: WAIT. The online rules updated and now include soroitas and inquisition ALREADY!
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May 3, 2017 21:14
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Zaphod42 posted:We posted about that ages ago grandpa Consarn it.
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May 3, 2017 21:14
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Hi friends I need a good terrible pun name for my Blood Bowl chaos team. My best option so far is Indigoats because there's a lot of purple fur in there but I would like more.
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I want Kharn as a one man kill team. *bangs knife and fork on table*
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May 3, 2017 23:54
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I have been blessed with a Dawn of War 3 copy for review purposes. It a blessing akin to spawnhood.
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JcDent posted:I have been blessed with a Dawn of War 3 copy for review purposes. easy review though "its bad"
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May 4, 2017 04:45
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My current Facebook status review is "Things I enjoyed about Dawn of War 3 after playing it for two hours:"
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May 4, 2017 05:28
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JcDent posted:My current Facebook status review is I haven't seen reviews yet but loved the first two games. Did they completely gently caress it up?
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May 4, 2017 05:35
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Sly Marbo must be amended to have a throwable demolition charge, otherwise, sweet rules
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I loved DoW1, but DoW2 introduced boss fights, and Retribution campaigns were total low effort trash like Soulstorm. Didn't get into DoW2 multiplayer, so take that as you will. DoW3 is... I dunno. It wears the skin of a 40k. It probably works if you don't care about 40k. Take Space Marine tacticals as an example. Come in squads of five dudes. No sarges, no nothing. If you give them plasmas, the whole squad gets plasmas. They have the same armor type as ork boys (NORMAL ARMOR in the parlance of the game) and deal normal damage. They are... ok in shooting, crap in melee. And they die like bitches. Anything that's not an ELITE UNIT dies like a bitch. Take your eye off them for a second and an ork shoota squad has killed half a squad. They don't really have interesting abilities or anything, they're just dudes that stand in one place and fire disappointing bolters into ork boys that assault marines (total poo poo in shooting, awesome in melee) are cutting up. So if you totally don't care about Marines bring Marine tough and fighting like Marines, you'll enjoy that. Then you have Gabriel Angelos, the Nuker/Tank class elite. He jumps around in Terminator armor. He does the Assault Marine jump-n-pound because Godsplitter does that. He also has a slam special attack. Early campaign stresses that you can use Godsplitter as basically a jump pack. If you try to look into melee - the camera is locked way higher than in DoW1 - you'll notice that he's just whacking away at orks with his thunderhammer. Its all super boring, finishing moves are a thing of distant past, orks either get gibbed or just fall on the ground. That's because DoW3 is all about masses of faceless troops standing around shooting at each other until they all quickly die. There's no time for you to zoom in and take it all in. You have to micro your Elites and have a basic understang that heavy bolter devastators do damage in a Circle and Slow the enemies. All unit description are these barely english snippets of Keywords. The interface is the worst of colorful cartoony CoH2 crap. The cut scenes are all narrated slideshows. You can't do in engine stuff like DoW1 did, because the models are too ugly for that.
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Yeah I really hated what I played of the beta. The camera was waaaay too restrictive, the units died too fast with not enough feedback, the whole thing just felt like an early command and conquer RTS and not like a modern game.
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berzerkmonkey posted:I didn't realize this, but GW has updated the online Kill Team PDF to include Sisters and Inquisition. The iconography on those is garbage. I really prefer the ones I made for Necromunda. E: Found my old pics 
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Indolent Bastard posted:The iconography on those is garbage. I really prefer the ones I made for Necromunda. I agree - and there is no good way to tell what they mean by glancing at them.
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Indolent Bastard posted:The iconography on those is garbage. I really prefer the ones I made for Necromunda. As someone who owns a hundred and fifty or so of these things, can confirm that IB's counters are 
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There's a FAQ out for SW:A https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/05/05/shadow-war-armageddon-your-questions-answered/ quote:Q. Who has the Marks of Chaos special rule? Is it just the special operatives? Good job making that unclear in the rules first time. quote:Q. Can Tyranid Warriors swap weapons with another model post-game? What the gently caress? GW just making GBS threads on Tyranids for no reason as ususal. They're bio-symbiotes GW, did you forget your own lore?! On the upside now we can purchase Devourers. Zaphod42 fucked around with this message at 18:20 on May 5, 2017 |
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Their "weapons" are part of their bodies. It's not like they can evolve at will.
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berzerkmonkey posted:Their "weapons" are part of their bodies. ...Did you read my post? Tyranids use SYMBIOTES as guns. We've discussed this recently too. Its part of the fluff that Tyranids can shed their weapons and pick up other ones. This is known. They are NOT part of their bodies. Bio-morphs are. Weapons are not. Weapon are symbiotes. quote:It's not like they can evolve at will. You really don't know poo poo about Tyranids do you? Zaphod42 fucked around with this message at 18:28 on May 5, 2017 |
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Zaphod42 posted:Did you read my loving post? Tyranids use SYMBIOTES as guns. We've discussed this recently too. So you have to buy two gun beasts right away with their biocannons if you want them. Is that even possible?
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TKIY posted:So you have to buy two gun beasts right away with their biocannons if you want them. With 1000 points? Considering you have to purchase a leader? I don't think so. They really just said "gently caress tyranids" with SW:A. Which is par for the course with GW I guess  You can still upgrade the weapons of gunbeasts later on if you buy them with just talons, if I'm interpreting the rule correct. It just means that then if you swap them for something else, you're not allowed to re-use whatever you had on them, or pass them another weapon. Which is something everybody else in SW:A gets to do, and there's no reason to block Tyranids from doing it. Its super punishing because their weapons and units are extremely expensive. Its already very hard to have enough points by the campaign rules to buy a gunbeast after the start.
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If you're in the DC Area and you want to play Blood Bowl, hit me up! I'm the Commissioner of my very own league, The Triple Skulls League! We start the regular season on Monday the 8th, and there are plenty of available spots. Also, we are not horrible shitlords and you will have fun.
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Zaphod42 posted:...Did you read my post? Tyranids use SYMBIOTES as guns. We've discussed this recently too. You're right - I was thinking about the actual process of them evolving (Tyrant Guard, etc.) Zaphod42 posted:You really don't know poo poo about Tyranids do you?
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berzerkmonkey posted:Christ, you're really loving touchy about your toys, aren't you? Dude, what loving thread are you in  I'm just busting your chops, and correcting what is totally not true. You don't have to take it personally and do some kinda bullshit "you're a nerd" defense.
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Zaphod42 posted:...Did you read my post? Tyranids use SYMBIOTES as guns. We've discussed this recently too. As a Tyranid Player even I think you are being pretty  Simmer down.
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Earlier in the thread I broke down a 4 model starting gang for Tyranids, and how to get a venom cannon in there after 1 match.
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May 5, 2017 18:56
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I'm going to play Mordheim tomorrow. Go lizards go!
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Atlas Hugged posted:I'm going to play Mordheim tomorrow. Go lizards go! Man, I gotta get some Mordheim in. It's been a long time...
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berzerkmonkey posted:Man, I gotta get some Mordheim in. It's been a long time... It's no Gorkamorka, but it's easier for people with a pile of generic fantasy models to jump on.
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Thundercloud posted:Earlier in the thread I broke down a 4 model starting gang for Tyranids, and how to get a venom cannon in there after 1 match. Cheers for that by the way, I've got it saved for if and when I get around to a Nid team.
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:Cheers for that by the way, I've got it saved for if and when I get around to a Nid team. I think people underestimate monster teams. But I've done pretty well with my Imperial Guard and people were saying they weren't great.
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The Sex Cannon posted:If you're in the DC Area and you want to play Blood Bowl, hit me up! I'm the Commissioner of my very own league, The Triple Skulls League! We start the regular season on Monday the 8th, and there are plenty of available spots. Also, we are not horrible shitlords and you will have fun. Consider yourself hit up.
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