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You might want to check out the Oathmark Dwarves, thirty plastic minis for £25 GBP is a heckuva deal. They’re also a lot less “cartoonish” than the typical Warhammer Dwarfs from Citadel Miniatures and not nearly as expensive as their LotR sets. (I’d love to get a Frostgrave game going here in Portland... But just don’t have the free time to organize anything.)

I’m stoked to see Monica Rambeau is appearing, even if they’ve taken her out of the Coast Guard and put her into the Air Force.

I found this set of alien heads on Shapeways when looking for potential Kill Team conversions. Only one mon calamari head in the set, but the other alien heads would fit in with Tau too.

Only one non-character unit can be embarked on the Gunrig and you’ll definitely want someone in their to make the gun useful... But I think you should also attach a shieldline (or two). The shield line gets you 10 wounds at toughness 6, with a 4+ save (3+ for Dal’yth if standing still). That lets them ignore morale tests until the wall is destroyed. It can also reflect back a mortal wound for any save of 6+, not a huge bonus but not nothing either. A mere 150 points gets you 10 fire warriors and a shield line. I wouldn’t play a Tau gunline without one or two.

I’m not saying you don’t want Æthereals... I’m saying you don’t need more than one. He’s a force-multiplier and he’s very good at it... But other Tau HQ choices offer other benefits.

Looking forward to seeing this movie, even if it isn't about the only superhero I will ever call "Captain Marvel."

30x Firewarriors, 9x Crisis Suits, 3x Æthereals (you probably only need one)... Yeah, add a couple Broadsides and maybe a Tidewall and you’ve got a solid 2,000 Point Tau army.

We might be falling for the classic gamers’ trap over over-planning all this. Like the monkey trap where they put food in a box with a hole large enough for the money to put his hand in put too small for him to take his hand out unless he drops the bait... Gamers often have a tendency to over-plan when writing rules for ourselves. We might just want to pick a set of point values for each week and then play. No monkey business.

1) Strictly rules as written, no drones can embark inside Fortifications. They’ll need to “Combat Squad” and go off on their own. 2) GW’s photography department doesn’t worry about the rules, they just make pretty pictures. 3) Yes.

That’s true... Maybe we should come up with some sort of “League Detachment” chart? Unlock a new slot or two each week, but it’s “unit type fixed” once you fill it. So in Week One, I could field two Tactical Squads. That “locks” those slots as Tactical Squads, but I could make them bigger or smaller, change their wargear, whatever other options they have... But they’d always be Tactical Squads.

Personally, I say any army built to the appropriate point values, using a legal Force Org chart and a legal codex/index/imperial armour book should be allowed in. Knights, Baneblades, Hellblades, whatever! I also think we should encourage (if not absolutely require) the use of the same units throughout. Take a Firewarrior Squad during Week One, you should be incentivized to use that same squad in each subsequent week. Maybe every week that a unit is reused gets you +1/10 of a “League Victory Point” or something small like that.

That’s clearly just [big bad swear word]ty rules writing (and GW shooting themselves in the foot by their constantly conflating “model” with “unit”). The intent of the original rules seems clear to me: each gun has two crew; you can add up to two more guns (each with two crew) to the unit; during/after deployment, each gun (with its two crew) is treated as a separate unit...

I’m lucky (sorta) to live in the Inner Northeast. Makes getting anywhere in the city proper pretty easy for me, even though I’m carless. On the other hand, getting to Beaverton, Hillsboro, or the outer Southeast can take over an hour and a half... but would be fifteen minutes by car. Oregon City or Salem might as well be on the moon.

Ahh, young love.

What are the issues with the unit? It doesn’t strike me as especially “broken,” in either sense of the term.

Downtown? Did we move...?

500 / 500 / 500 / 750 / 750 / 1000 / 1000 / 1500 This is my vote. 500 Points for most factions is an HQ and two (maybe three) units. Most factions can add another unit or two for ~250 Points. This gives a nice progression towards a “final” army and lets everyone have a couple weeks to figure out how things work for them and to build/paint new things to add. (I would also move that we officially adopt a “fudge factor” rule to allow people to go 5-10 Points over the limit in any week but the 1500 Point finale. But you’re honor bound to buy your opponent a candy bar or something.)

Yeah, just blurry and low rez enough to make me want it but unable to actually see what it actually is... Like the naughty movies on the scrambler’d out PPV channels when I was a teenager. If I strain my eyes, I think I can see a boob read that one Stratagem turns one squad of Intercessors into “Veterans” for 1 CP, giving them +1 A and +1 Ld for the rest of the game. Kind of “meh.” Another Stratagem gives Veteran Intercessors with Stalker Bolt Rifles the ability to ignore targeting restrictions on Characters for a single phase. Pretty nice. And I think the next Stratagem does something for regular bolt rifles, but I cannot make it out.

Yes. That’s the one... Anyone got anything about what the Indomitus Crusaders Specialist Detachment entails? All I’ve managed to glean from the googles is that it costs 1 CP to unlock, like all Specialist Detachments, and then apparent it costs another 1 CP per squad to upgrade a Primaris squad (or possibly just Primaris Intercessor Squads) to be “veterans.” But I haven’t found out what that means. Thats a lot of CP to spend in an army that can sometimes struggle to get many CP to begin with. Yeah, I could wait a month and read the damn book then. But I wanna know nooooow! [Whines in High Gothic]

So, anyway... How about that new Vigilus book?

Occam’s Razor. I think it’s more likely than not that @pretre found a post by the actual home-hobbyist who created a really good 3D sculpt of his own, rather than the idea that there’s a rogue sculptor loose inside Citadel who has decided to risk his career (and possible jail time) to leak a picture a few months ahead of a product release.

I would actually be quite surprised if GW did not make use of 3D printing for prototyping and other pre-production type stuff. It’s no secret that they’ve moved to digital sculpting and CAD-based design. (I’m not saying the above Battle Sister is an in-house 3D print.)

But there's no points of articulation... That thing is permanently flying around looking like an integral symbol: ∫

Interestingly enough, given the timing of its release basically coinciding with the Imperial Fists holiday bundle, the new detachment for the Imperial Fists that they included in the preview doesn’t offer anything helpful for Primaris Marines...

Chag Urim Sameach! A Lichtige Chanukah! Happy Hanukkah! May all your latkes be crispy golden perfection, may all your dreidel spins come up ג, and may none of your chocolate coins cause you any cavities.