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Post by commandersasha on Jan 8, 2011 10:16:27 GMT
When I was a noob I thought you could take armour saves and cover saves AND invulnerable saves, one after another. When I was a noob you could take your armor saves and cover saves AND invulnerable saves one after another. "What was it like in the old editions, Grandad..?" ;-) When I was a Noob I used to play 40k with my Skaven Army! Back then the 2 games where much more compatible. Excuse ME! I AM playing with my Skaven! Counts-As-Tyranids! My 'noob'iest errors were in fluff, trying to justify my female Space Marines. Looking back on the first drafts, I still cringe! Got it sorted now, though, and Commander Sasha is still leads her mixed chapter.
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Post by commandersasha on Jan 7, 2011 13:32:24 GMT
Hi, I now have a 1,500pt 40K army of Skaven Counts-As-Tyranids, which I am very proud of! My latest unit to build is a pack of 3 winged Rat Ogres, to count as Tyranid Shrikes, or winged Warriors. I have just had some steampunk wings delivered, and I have the box of Ogres, plus the 2 from IoB. I need some inspiration and advice on how to attach them. The wingpacks have a central part to them, so I can just slap them on, but I need some ideas as to how to make them look nicely grafted-on. I guess I'm looking for close up pictures of personal conversions with Moulder-style extra limbs etc. Any help gratefully received, thanks for reading!
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Post by commandersasha on Jan 6, 2011 12:28:56 GMT
Is it to be a grand design shirt to show off with, in which case downloading a good image and having it printed at a shop will give a very good quality picture, but it will fade with time. A simpler picture, lines and shading rather than full colour, could be screen-printed, that will last more washing.
Alternatively, I love short-sleeved collared shirts with embroidered images on collar tips, breast etc; There are sewing/embroidery machines that you download an image into, put the shirt under the needle and press 'Play', and it embroiders a multi-colour image for you. Repeatedly if you want! A string of rippers crossing from left shoulder to right hip? Harpy, Shrike and Gargoyle in the style of 3 flying ducks?! Check out local sewing machine shop, they'll have cards for private seamstresses that have one of these machines and will do commisions.
If it's a big image you want, most players build their army, and their fluff, around their HQ unit; Does he use a Tyrant, what toys does it have, Does it fly, does it have a guard brood, what colour is it. Then Search, Download and Paintshop it!
Everyone needs a wife like you! I'm lucky, I have one too!
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Post by commandersasha on Jan 6, 2011 12:18:12 GMT
Jeremy Hardy's Radio 4 comedy shows :-)
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Post by commandersasha on Jan 4, 2011 16:45:15 GMT
wow that is amazing. i sold a tau army of the exact same composition last month. how were they painted? Sand coloured, classic T'au sept; quite dusty appearance, nicely 'natural'. Kroot had plenty of meaty bits, on bases and hanging from belts. White helmets on the shas-ui; crisis team had 3 matched guys, but 2 had missile pods on hands, whilst 3rd had his missile pod on his shoulder.
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Post by commandersasha on Jan 4, 2011 16:39:20 GMT
Rectangular clear Chinese take-away boxes. They stack, they're see-through. The lids close firmly. You can write on the sides. They make good paint palettes, and they confer a 4+ coversave.
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Post by commandersasha on Jan 3, 2011 23:40:02 GMT
My Assault Marines ride hoverboards: Star Wars' skiffs that accompanied Jabba's barge. My Techmarine is a little girl with a baseball bat and dustbin lid. My Tyranid army is Skaven models: three Plaguemonks carry a litter, a fourth stands on top casting Warp Blast/Lance; My Mycetic Spore is a 3" cubed packing crate with a smashed hole in the side, made entirely from Cafe Nero coffee stirring sticks.
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Post by commandersasha on Jan 2, 2011 9:31:37 GMT
Justin Bieber seems alien to me, does that count? Seriously, I have always said that the human voice is my favourite instrument, but I have never bothered with lyrics much. If you want the voice taken to an extreme, I don't think you can beat Diamanda Galas, an operatically trained singer with a 7 octave vocal range, whose recordings use everything from whispers, through perfect singing, to outright screaming. The album "The Sporting Life" is accessible, before you head into the nightmare world of "Wild Women with Steak Knives (The Homicidal Love Song for Solo Scream)" What sort of music are you after? Contemporary but just in a different language, or a wider range of world music? A UK magazine is excellent for experimental music, and ignores world- and language barriers: www.thewire.co.uk/The world of music is huge, well done for exploring the boundaries of your immediate experience!
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Post by commandersasha on Jan 1, 2011 18:21:00 GMT
This was all their Christmas presents, so they won't be looking at acquiring new models, so any list jigging needs to be proxied! Is it worth dumping the Ethereal, which seems useless to me, and changing the crisis unit to a Crisis commander+pals?
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Post by commandersasha on Jan 1, 2011 18:17:29 GMT
Right, here's what he's got (and the painting is awesome! certainly shop-display standard!):
1 Ethereal, no guards
3 Crisis, plasma rifle, missile pod, multitracker 3 Stealth, shas-ui, bonding knife
2x10 Fire Warrior, pulse rifles, grenades, shas-ui Devilfish, burst cannon, gun drones, disruption pod, multitracker 20 Kroot, Shaper, 2 hounds, 2 Krootox
7 Pathfinders, grenades, shas-ui Devilfish, burst cannon, gun drones, disruption pod, multitracker Piranha, burst cannon, gun drones, disruption pod.
Plus 1 shield and 8 gun drones.
Hammerhead, railgun, smart missile system, disruption pod
1,498pts, perfect! Now, what should he do with it!?
I think like a marine or a Tyranid: is the Piranha a land speeder? How should you implement the pathfinders? long range spotters or in-your-face scouts? Should Tau ever charge into combat, or is that never a good move?
Initially his main opponent will be his brother, Ultramarines with Tactical Termies/Chappy in a LR, plus footslogging troops and captain, a Dread and a Vindi. After that, my son's IG, tank gunline plus Valk and Straken/vets.
Thanks for your help!
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Post by commandersasha on Jan 1, 2011 13:45:35 GMT
I have a cult of 10-12yr olds, including my son, who play 40K; I referee, advise, and am generally treated as an infallible source of information, thanks to this site and B&C! I have all the rulebooks, supplements and codices, and am good for most armies, but I've never had anything to do with Tau, and the younger brother of one of my lads has just asked for & received 1,500 worth of painted Tau, a ready-to-play Ebay job. Can anyone help give me some pointers and tricks for him please? I know they are all about the shooting, the jetpack jump-shoot-hide trick, I think I have markerlights figured...any other ideas? I joined Tautacticaonline, but I don't have enough interest to add ANOTHER site to trawl through every day, I spend too much time here and on B&C already!
I will be meeting his models today, so will find out what his list comprises of.
Thanks, this kid will get spanked and scared off if his Ultramarine 11yr old brother has all the advantages (very competitive kid)
Pastoral advice I'm ok on: how to teach, nurturing ideas, not railroading the kid etc; it's the Tau details I need!
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Post by commandersasha on Dec 31, 2010 10:12:39 GMT
And just to make things more complicated, when an Independent Character is attached to a squad, he can be 'hidden' in the above way from shooting, but not from close combat. This might be the source of your brother's mistake?
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Post by commandersasha on Dec 30, 2010 9:29:12 GMT
I agree that the carapace looks almost like raw plastic, but I really like the lava-granite theme; Tyranids would certainly modify their colour scheme for camouflage, so your choice of colours works for me. To get round the problem, maybe use Tamiya Smoke and black/brown washes to make burnt/smoke damaged rock, grading from bottom edges upwards.
Vanish on 'Nids looks great, all organic and slimy; what about trying varnishing the orange , and not the grey, to suggest living flesh with rock armour?
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Post by commandersasha on Dec 29, 2010 21:18:32 GMT
Army Painter coloured undercoat sprays are your friend here: even if you only get time to do the spray, at least your models are already the right theme.
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Post by commandersasha on Dec 29, 2010 21:15:13 GMT
With a new Inquisition Codex imminent, just as you're getting somewhere, your new pet project should get a big boost! Win!
I started my Skaven counts-as Tyranids 6 months before the new C:T was released, so apart from re-thinking a few models (I've got a lovely Queek that was going to be my Lictor...), I was overjoyed and top of the food chain!
Start now, and no-one can accuse you of bandwagonning!
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