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[Areyar]

I agree it looks fine, just looks like a place where the shifty GS can occur.
Advice in advance really, rather than criticism.

Ah! the wire is flexible? It looked like metal wire in the pic, so I assumed this was it's final position, with the PSU on the pauldron.

Really going to try to sleep now. Had to return to correct the ballpoint idea.
Happy modding! I'll be looking forward to your progress.

edit: As well as that battlereport! Does it deserve it's own thread?

[Jakkarra]

It is metal wire, but jewelry wire.

Perfect for this sort of project.

When it's painted up, i'll post again.

[Akigagak]

Well, it's like three posts long, so I'd say yes.

Anyway, EPIC pics.
Not including the end-o/start-of turn pics, they weren't epic enough.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

How it began: Aqizzar (Chaos), Metal Milita (Orks), Cthulhu (Space Marines), and me (Imperial Guard).


Cthulhus' Librarian, after smiting the Chaos lord, charges the mofo.


FAILS HORRIBLY, getting no wounds, when he only needed one.



On his go, Aqizzar charges my veterans, and shreds four into little bits.


What happens next is the first EPIC moment of many.




That's goddamn right, the IG killed a chaos lord.
IN MELEE.

one turn each later...


There's a story behind this picture:

Fist, the chaos dreadnought was immobilized. Then it lost one arm. Then the other. I still had one more damage result to get, and it was weapon destroyed. So we decided that the dread had had it's last leg blown off, and that it was now a metal box screaming at itself in the middle of the field.


Notice the big group of red splats? That was half a chaos marine squad after Cthulhu shot it with a Vindicator.

Spoiler: More pics (click to show/hide)

Heres something distressing for IG players:

Yes, the greens all died. Or ran off.

GUARDSMAN SHRUGS OFF A KRAK MISSILE.



My commander and his squad gets raped, commander shits himself and runs:




Discussion about the badassery of every IG unit except for the commander:


Later, the warboss charges the squad who killed the chaos lord...


...who this time fail to get the necessary wound. But they don't all die.

Spoiler: Yet more pics (click to show/hide)

General hilarity with initiative rolls.


The warboss kills the last of the veterans, but is exposed to many auto and lascannons...

WHO ALL MISS. FROM TWO INCHES AWAY.

Cthulhu charges the git.

GUESS WHAT HAPPENS.


Sweet fuck all.

Turn 5:


Aqizzars' only badass:



Who can't shoot straight.

Cthulhus' Tac squad fails to wound. Again. But gets hurt this time..



And the end of all reason:

Massive epicness later.

[userpay]

Hmm I'm somewhat interested in throwing my hat into the ring here, though I probably won't have much time to play until another two weeks when finals start and end. It appears I have the main rule book though I'm not sure what edition it is but I don't have any other book either.

[Sir Pseudonymous]

I put together a couple of armies, both terrible, I'm sure. If I can manage to be on at the right time I'd want to play a game, though I doubt I will be. D:

I'm curious, what exactly is it that renders deldar so outdated they're "impossible to play"? They don't seem meaningfully worse than normal loldar.

[Aqizzar]

I'm curious, what exactly is it that renders deldar so outdated they're "impossible to play"? They don't seem meaningfully worse than normal loldar.

Look again.  For instance, their basic troops have rapid-fire, strength 3 guns compared to the sword + strength 4 pistols of the worst Eldar troops, at 8 points instead of 6.  Power creep all over the place, and a lot of units didn't work all that well to begin with, if the historians are to be believed.  Among other problems, their only transport options are AV10 skimmers, so against any opponent with three or more brain cells they're going to be walking most of the game.  Essentially, they're forced to play like Orks, but they're more expensive and not as tough.

[Sir Pseudonymous]

Er... Probably should have said "what changed to make them worse"... But yeah, they do seem weaker for the cost, and they don't actually get a meaningful bonus to their mobility. As far as I can tell, anyways...

[Neruz]

What changed is power creep; shit is just plain stronger than it used to be. I remember back when i started playing 40k in, oh second edition i think, you were doing real well if you were hitting and wounding on 4's.

Now it's not uncommon to be hitting on 2s or 3s and wounding on the same.



Dark Eldar were never that good to begin with; they were like Eldar, but even more extreme, and extremely difficult to play. They had a couple of neat tricks, like the Raider Squad Flat-Out trick that allowed you to dump some fairly serious firepower basically anywhere on the board, but their tricks were always limited enough that a decent player could build an anti-DE army that would trounce them 9 times out of 10 (the 10th time he'd roll all 6's and blow up all your dudes on the first turn.)

[Keita]

Yer sorry for pulling out by brother was being a dick, anyway I'm online again and have most of the day to myself. I also have two 500pt and one 1000pt Eldar army that I'm happy with.

[Ampersand]

I had this awesome idea for the Tau the other day. Since they draw some inspiration from the Humongous Mecha of Japanese anime and TV.

The Tau have a distinct lack of Titan level units; they have something that amounts to just a large transport vessel  bristling with guns, but not a walker, despite the backbone of their army consisting of walkers.

Thus; I would introduce a series of sub-titan size battlesuits designed to fit into a particular niche, which while quite powerful on their own, are not independently capable of going toe to toe with, say, and Imperator Class Titan. I'd call these battlesuits X0-RD battlesuits

they would have to work together in order to handle such a foe. They would do this by modifying their overall shape, and locking together to form a so called 'Mega X0-RD' battlesuit.

[Org]

I am getting on soon. Who wants to play? How many points?

[Org]

I set a room up.

Anyone on? Other than Metal Militia

[Keita]

I'm playing some other dude so I'll join in a bit

[userpay]

I set a room up.

Anyone on? Other than Metal Militia

Well after I get some quick chores out of the way, set the program up, and attempt to cobble together an army I'm in.

[DJ]

What do I need to play this? 5th edition rulebook and 5th edition IG codex?

Oh, and how complex are the rules? Compared to, say, 3.5 D&D?