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This is gonna be a knife fight.

Just remember folks, this forum is the place to debate rules and the table is the place to play games... and no one should take these debates or the results of the games personally. End of the day, we’re all nerds who just want to play with our toy soldiers.

HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!

The Dirty Dozen (1967) Do I really need to summarize this one? It’s WWII on the eve of D-Day and the U.S. Army tasks Lee Marvin with leading a squad of Expendable Basterds on a suicidal mission to kill Nazis. Needless to say, it’s terribly unrealistic and the anti-hero protagonists commit a couple dozen war crimes... But, hey, this is just an action movie, not a history lesson. This movie pretty much created the “ragtag commandos” sub genre: Kelly’s Heroes, Where Eagles Dare, The A-Team, The Expendables, Delta Force, Inglorious Basterds, Suicide Squad, and too many Seventies and Eighties B-Movies to name pretty much exist only because of The Dirty Dozen. And, of course, Colonel Schaeffer's Last Chancers from Warhammer 40,000. “Donald Duck's down at the crossroads with a machine gun.”

One of my old, beloved Destroyer Tank Hunters had a big gap where the resin casemate met the plastic sidewalls. Couldn’t be fixed by heating and bending the resin, couldn’t really use greenstuff either... I’d already done up some camouflage netting for my Chimerae IFVs and Heavy Weapon Teams so it helped to further tie the whole army together. Stowed netting is easy: Some cheesecloth rolled into a bundle, tied off with twine, and then soaked in sepia wash overnight, then pushed into place, coated in PVA glue, and presto.

If you do decide to add camo netting to your artillery models, rolled and stowed camo netting can hide a variety of sins on other more mobile models.

The model's base is part of the model.

Some 12-13 years ago now (it was before our oldest daughter was born) my husband and I did some mead making. The straight batch of just honey mead turned out poorly (some sort of containment got in there at some point) but the batch of strawberry infused mead turned out great. We sold off all the equipment ages ago, but its always been in the back of my mind to give it another go.

Only if you don't know much about castle design. I just look at it and my head-hurts. Someone needs to coin a name for the variant of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect that causes history majors, like me, to go all nitpicky on badly designed castles (yeah, Winterfell I'm looking at you!), bad costume design (seriously, what the hell is this?), and anachronistic weapons in movies (even movies we love) and get all salty about it. Funnily enough, this was actually used as a plot point in the original Dragonlance RPG modules and novels. During the prelude to the siege of the High Clerist's Tower, the dwarf warrior Flint Fireforge specifically points out (and helpfully provides exposition for the reader) that the tower having three gates makes very little sense defensively and that the decorative loops in the center of the portcullises are more than large enough to let a man pass through... Which all turns out to be part of an elaborate trap for killing dragons.

Note that my "cylinders and rectangles" idea completely avoids this problem.

Games Workshop has an annoying (to me) habit of writing all of their rule books with a "conversational" tone, instead of a more "technical" or "legalistic" one. This does make their rule books a lot more pleasant to read, but it does seem to be the origin of most of the arguments over the rules that I've seen over the years. I'm not saying they need to go full-blown Starfleet Battles* or Advanced Squad Leader with the game, but I'd like to see them adopt the more precise language seen in CCGs like Magic: The Gathering or Dungeons & Dragons Third Edition. * The game's own sales page notes that their game "is often maligned for its vast rulebook (400 pages of rules, plus hundreds of pages of charts, tables, ship descriptions,and scenarios)." Yikes!

Actually, in this instance it would refer to the last referenced subject of the paragraph (usually a proper noun). In this case, the "it" is referencing "the model’s base (or hull)." A trick we were taught in paralegal school for resolving vagaries caused by unclear pronouns is to replace the pronoun with the full name of the subject. It's more awkward to read, but it works:

It's also not not supported by the rules. I'm arguing in terms of sportsmanship, which sometimes means you grant your opponent a little bit more leeway here and there.

Which would be a completely accurate to the tabletop games, just reversed 180° in terms of who was developed first.

I'm saying we should treat the Dreadnought model as being "cylindrical," like in the crude drawing below, so that anything hanging out over it's base does not count. Likewise, we should treat the Land Raider as being "rectangular," like in the other crude drawing below, so that anything "under the eaves" should be treated as being part of the model as well.

Why in the world would you want four gates into your castle?

Like I said earlier, the question you have to ask yourself this: "If it were another model for this same unit, but it didn't have that pose / that gun / that banner / etc., would the same action be possible?" In this case, if that Dreadnought's fist were angled even slightly differently or if it had the missile launcher weapon on that hardpoint, then there would be no impediment to the Land Raiders movement. Ergo, I would call it unsportsmanlike to deny the Land Raider its movement.

That was, indeed, an attempt at literal potty humor on my part.

Can an enemy model move past this Hive Tyrant? It's wings are easily more than 1" away from its body.

100 mm as a matter of fact. The Thunderhawk, Thunderhawk Transporter, Manta, and several of Forge World's other massive flyers all have a rule where you measure to where the model would be if it were on the table, then add 12", to account for the fact that to use these multiple kilogram models you'll either need a non-standard custome built flying stand or you'll have to just have them resting on the table "landed."

Ask yourself this: "If it were another model for this same unit, but it didn't have that pose / that gun / that banner / etc., would the same action be possible?" If the answer is "No." and you do it anyway then you are modelling for advantage. This is a very nicely done conversion of an Eldar Wraithlord, giving some dynamism to an otherwise rather bland model. However, it is half the height of a standard Wraithlord. If you were to play with this model and insist that it could not be shot behind a piece of terrain that blocks LOS to it but would not block LOS to another Wraithlord, you are being a bad sport.

So, basically, you've decided to weaponize modeling for advantage and are getting salty that people are saying it's unsportsmanlike?

I've seen people convert Ork Gargants out of a lot of crazy household albums, but this is really impressive... Are you sure you want to prime it in white though?