Brother Glacius

Ugh, I am loving the new minis. They are spectacular. Thankfully, looks like Scotty has shown me a much cheaper way to get into it. 🙂

Got together with a couple of friends and got in a game of combat patrol. 1st game of 10th and we kept things pretty simple. It was nids vs marines, both players not existing 40K players but were 40k adjacent. It was fun, fairly simple, and went well. The nids won the day as they were able to basically assault the marines with the lictors on turn 1 and then pin the termies down with their barbgaunts. I'm sure the next time, the termies will deepstrike in and put up more of a fight. I will say that the nids rolled so many saves that it really put a hurt on the marines. That opening charge could have been a disaster as the flame marines put down over 20 hits with a great roll....but only half wounded, and then only 2 wounds got through....letting the lictors drop all but one guy. The last sgt did last a few rounds with the help of the librarian and eventually even killed all the lictors. But again, half of the marine force for the whole game. The terms were slowed down by the barbgaunts and then were too cautious moving forward. They did try a turn two charge vs the pycho-thingy, but failed to roll a 6 on two dice twice. Also, the marine player kept rolling 1's for saves and the terms just got whittled down until eventually only the captain remained. VP wise, it was a complete runaway win for the nids. really showed the importance of grabbing vps and either working to hold them or deny them. I think the next game will be better. I keep flopping on what army to try. Hopefully we'll get another day of gaming in soon so I can maybe try out a few options. Both players had fun though, so we should see more games.

Here's something to consider.... once all of the first born marines are gone, does that mean all of the first born chaos marines will eventually be replaced as well?

its kind of like going from rocky road ice cream to vanilla. Still good, but you feel like your are missing out on a lot. I looked over OPR several times. I think the most confusing thing was trying to line up which 40k units are which OPR units.

Some crazy stuff in 2nd ed with the various wargear cards and whatnot...but still seems like fun. 3rd is where 40k exploded for me. I loved what they did with orks and really sucked me into the game then.

Not so sure. I will say, all this talk made me look up the 2nd ed codex so I could look at a simpler time in 40K. I think I have that stuff in storage somewhere. I might have to get the rules a look-see again.

Well the marine line has been super bloated for a long ass time already. I mean seriously....even before Primaris crap, they had too much stuff. And I think GW has proven that meta drives sales. So why would people want to keep buying first-born? And how often can you re-imagine a model/unit without major changes? Take a look at the new "terminators" there really isn't anything special about them except that their scale has changed. Upscaling to Primaris gave them the bandwidth they needed to make significant changes to the newer units. How many people are using the original beakies in their marine armies? It really isn't much different from that. Sucks for us that have lots of first-born though.

are those 6mm or 8mm scale?

My dance card is full this weekend, but maybe we can set up a game after that?

Nice and kind of funny. I have Necons, Space Marines, Ad Mech, Sisters too. I've also got GSC and nids ready to go, Orks, CSM and Tau each need one model built. Eldar, IG, Dark Eldar and Squats all need a bunch of units assembled. None of this nonsense is painted though. My eventual plan is to have enough options so that anyone who wants to play can just come over and pick the army. Right now I'm leaning towards playing Tau as I do have some models painted. CSM is also a contender with a unit of Legionaires done. Necrons could probably get painted and wrapped up very quickly. The rest though are all running that unprimed grey color 😞

I drive right thru there all the time. I'm in the Rose city park district.

I'm located in NE Portland, so depending on where you are, that could be possible.

None necessary. I'd prefer an unpainted one or primed only if that is okay. Willing to meet at WoW or GG if that works. Don't mind paying a fair price for it.

Plasma cannon and hellbrute hammer would be the preferred combo, but really any would be fine. Unpainted or primed would be best if assembled, but I'm not too picky all in all. Thanks Don.

Okay, updated the post. I actually need a hellbrute. Go figure. And yes, I'm sure I don't have one this time. I used to have like three, but you know how it goes.

another option to put them in google drive, and then share a link to them

Well I found one this morning....so yay...I did have one. We will just skip past the part where I lost track of a $70 kit. As to the future of combat patrol, I don't really see one unless GW keeps releasing new ones. Apparently, the CPs are specifically "balanced". I went through the ones I have models for and the base point range goes from 375 to over 500. And like the Admech one has anti-air weapons and yet no other CP has air units. So GW is completely talking out of its ass. Oh, and some of the cards are missing abilities too. Heck the Space Wolf one has a dude that isn't even in the list. There is no Battle Leader on foot. There is Battle Leader on Wolf, or Battle Leader in terminator armor...but no plain battle leader. I will admit that I've just started to look into it...so maybe GW has said that typical 500pt armies are fine to play in combat patrol.

Trying to see if anyone in ordo might have one that they are willing to part with. I want to start playing some combat patrol games of 40K. Just don't seem to have a hellbrute for my Chaos Marines. Hopefully someone can help me out.

well, one thing we can be sure of, it will have an epic price point. I'm going to skip this one. Even though the models look very cool, I know I just don't want to pay GW's prices. The current prices for titans are $75, $100, or $170 in epic scale. I am truly astounded by the sheer level of greed from GW. They have already said that the full contents of the new box is no where near what a full army should be. Seriously? I suppose $750-$1000 is the standard entry point for a new GW army these days? What gets me is that price is regardless of scale. That does bother me. I would have picked up the starter set...and been really happy about all the cool new minis. And then as the new releases come out with, IMHO asinine prices, it would get tossed in the pile and forgotten. Maybe its just wishful thinking on my part that making something more affordable would allow more people to get it and they'd end up still making money instead of constantly pricing things as a massive luxury. Yay 3D printers!

Has anyone picked up a faction deck yet? Was curious if they include the general strategems as well as the faction specific ones.

The new epic is 30K, and it is 8mm scale. So not great news for old epic players but probably not the worst. The big thing is going to be the ruleset. If the rules are good, then they can be applied to older armies and such. Keeping an eye on this as I have a decent investment in epic 40k and would like to see that get revitalized.

More ramblings.

That is an interesting take on basing the model. I can honestly say I've never seen someone paint the cardboard playmat art style on the base as opposed to doing realistic terrain basing.

Just curious. Its been decades since I went to one...and never for 40K. Who knows, maybe I'll get an army painted up and try to make it next year. Would love to hear from people that are going as to what their experience is like.

Got my box set and putting the models together. Wow, GW knows how to build push to fit models. That being said, not sure why they decided to have every character have his head massively turned inside of the dome area? You really need to not put these models together, paint them first, and then assemble them. They are super cool, but nearly impossible to paint well unless painted apart. Hope to have the set completed by the weekend if I'm lucky.