VonVilkee

So @Fixxer what do you have to say about Bishop? Still waiting on my gencon order... I know he isn't a master but I love my model so much I'll be building around him so master suggestion etc would be nice...

Gimme a place to start! Please?

I've already been approved the time off from work!

Also BTW there are no special characters in the Marine Dex anymore. I don't have any of the supplements so I don't know the interactions there. The main Dex got a few more generic relics and has very little to no chapter specific things.

Kinda nice really!

You get to pick two tactics... But it is clearly defined which ones you can pick.

The main chapters each get one that is unique to them and another that shows up on the list of build your own.

You have the option in the build your own to get all the main chapter things but that takes both your options.

Depending on what things he was taking from the build your own the chapter Astral Claws as a successor (undefined) could take half what white scars had (have) and another tactic that would be seen as what they previously had...

Any clearer? The ambiguity comes with naming for special characters as <astral claws> were never truly defined.

3 hours ago, paxmiles said:

Hmmm....looking at the errata. At present, none of the FW drop pods get access to the updated drop pod rule. It could certainly be argued that the errata for the codex was meant to apply to the Imperial Armour units for that army, but that's not what it says.

It is named the same but at the cost of them I'm not worried, never gonna take them. Just deploy the dreads as you can afford a whole extra dread per pod and almost get there in the same time.

Yeah going second you lack that off the board protection but more dreads is better in my book.

6 hours ago, Fixxer said:

3E is fantastic... Im absolutely astonished with how well they've done with the keyword system and translation of their story/narrative to rules. The crews feel so thematic and work so well together that we wont see all star crews anymore. We'll see most of the masters being played and with their themed pieces. Sure there will always be outliers and circumstances of the contrary but in general a player can play what they like in terms of a master and be successful in the game. Thats not something that could be said for 2E. 

Im hoping ot submit Malifaux for the OFCC next year. Perhaps we can pull some players from other systems... 🤣

Do a late Friday and late Saturday and I'm there! I run a 40k team and won't leave those guys twisting but give me time for travel Friday and dinner Saturday and I'll play Malifaux in addition.

I really liked this years missions TBH. The secondary points tho could have been a little different, they were kinda just win better for the most part.

I do really like when there is a legitimate way to win by denial of primary and getting a few secondary but that requires allot of play testing. OFCC isn't super balanced missions it is some crazy fun with just a little bit of score keeping!

So the above! It is the missions and the idea of fairly consistent competition around the mission structure that makes it feel different not the game rules themselves.

1 hour ago, WestRider said:

To some extent, yeah. There are def still Armies that are worse off than they were before this, but they were, at best, middle of the pack, and probably toward the lower end of the middle.

This the jack of all trades master of none shtick that Marines have leave them competing but not really able to capitalize on anything.

I feel like with the little things that I'll be able to leverage the just keep rolling dice in every phase that works for the Marines.

Those doctrines! So looking forward playing around with when to aim for what weapons getting a -1 ap. Heavy bolters at -2 is gonna be entertaining.

Hey there ordo!

Kinda surprised there hasn't been a thread opened up on this yet... Then again OFCC did just happen!

Either way what ya all think?

Lots of little buffs I'm finding. Dread strategem for half damage, points reductions, drop pod being actually useful, centurions getting additional attack and wound, tech Marine Gunner and thunder fire getting better stats, double shoot thunder fire strategem, warlord traits getting better, more relics, Chaplin litanies and baller relic.

Redid my OFCC list and wow did it get better!

I'll be circling back with more details but.

Game one: Acribus (librarian) perfectly over watching overcharged plasma at charger. Slayed himself (preventing secondary chargers getting the extra movement) and hit with the other die giving me extra damage to capitalize on!

Game two: Khan cookies... Some how finished 7 turns. Pretty sure we just played the same 5 turns late game but we rolled lots of dice and did stuff.

Game three: having to advance my devestator centurions AND my thunder fire Cannon out of my deploy zone. Mission point random and came up be out of your deployment. Kinda figured this would happen but still managed to deploy these two slow pokes just to far back. I even ended up command point re rolling the thunder fire advance just to clear the base. Got my point tho!

Game four: almost killing Magnus the red through all his defense in a single turn. Stupid reroll misses mechanic! 3 separate mortal wound things rolling 3 denying me the reroll then -1 hit means swing and a miss. Magnus had 2 wounds left after that flank hit him hard. Also the reaction on my opponents face when all of my Marines on the left flank charged into tzangors he was not expecting that! This was in competition for my fav game. I also kept ” warming up” my paltry single two die deny the witch dice, bringing a chuckle to him, and not working at all.

Game five: my 6 scouts spending 4 turns effectively in his deployment zone on an objective and surviving! The army supported them just right killing just enough and it slowing down vehicles enough to let them hide and avoid assaults. This was my favorite opponent.

Looking forward to finding familiar faces in less than 24 hours!

31 minutes ago, pretre said:

@Huffnpuff That sounds good. Just swing by the Mindtaker table when you get there and we'll get you signed up.

@VonVilkee We'll give Huff your ticket, if that's cool and you guys can sort out payment.

Totally cool he can just have it no purchase required. @pretre @Huffnpuff

I do reserve the right to consider @Huffnpuff my champion and claim part of the accolades he wins! 😋

3 hours ago, pretre said:

We are sold out but will have a wait list at the event. Swing by and sign up and if we have any no shows, we can get you in!

@Huffnpuff I bought a ticket but it is super unlikely I'll be attending. If you want my spot post and I will definitely not be on time

2 hours ago, Yarbicus said:

Anyone up for some Malifaux this weekend? I'll bring my crew just in case!

I still don't have my 3rd Ed stuff sadly... Nor the time to track down printables. I'll watch any game that does happen!

1 hour ago, Sgt. Rock said:

That looks super sweet, but T6? Even with 13 wounds and a 3+ save, that seems really fragile. Granted, it fits the theme, but it's definitely a glass cannon. If you're not going first, don't infiltrate it.

Something is gonna die first turn... Best you can do is force a poor choice on your opponent. If the whole force is phobos equivalent who cares! It is still wounds on the table. Difference between T6 and T7 with the new chart is pretty negligible.

Can I get some more pictures in here?

I'm gonna try... Success!

Let's make it official!

@Edosaurus Rex @evil_bryan

We danced around this challenge earlier in the year time to make it official since I got one left!

That is some practiced control application there. Very doable but skillfully done!

19 hours ago, pretre said:

One more person and we are full!

Time frames are looking difficult for me, might not be able to make it in time to the venue... Keep my ticket but also feel free to replace me 😣

3 hours ago, paxmiles said:

Is the idea that they'll be releasing a genaric SM codex, and then each major GW chapter with either have a "codex supplement" or a PDF?

So like $60 to play marines, and another $40 to play ultramarines?

Seems like it but only if you want unique units. The base codex still seems like it will be plenty for those that rail against special characters.

7 hours ago, paxmiles said:

Broken might be extreme, but it's definitely against the rules as intended. It would be like if you changed your chapter to optimise against the opponent, but only after learning what army your opponent was fielding. Cheese, definitely, bad sportmanship too, but probably not broken. 

All models do carry melee weapons. They FAQed that, so models without a melee weapon profile carry the basic unarmed strike melee weapon. That's how TAU use advanced targeting systems to get -1 ap on their melee attacks (which still hit on WS5+....).

Anywho, something they'd do in the ITC, doubt it would be an issue for Narrative players.

I took it as preferred enemy could be a studied and research heavy style therefore they are always ready or it could be the more narrative they have fought the particular faction so much they are good at it. Could be either so I'm not bothered even narratively by changing it up...

I always read it as they could attack that way but didn't have a weapon... I can be pretty pedantic sometimes don't really care either way.

50 minutes ago, paxmiles said:

That preferred enemy has me picturing itc players that change their preferred enemy at the start of every game.

It is only melee weapons and not all models carry melee weapons... Is it really that broken to switch it up all the time?

Technically it also says when the tactic is chosen so that is army list creation. Needs to be printed on the list if some one wants to try so hard to change it see first point and just not worry about it.

Yeah wings and cloth are great places to use apothecary white. Marines not so much, I did a Tau fire warrior and was reasonably happy with the results but their armor has a lot of dividing lines. This let's the contrast do what it does.