Ish

The ladz got name-tags now. So youse gitz will know ‘xactly who krumped ya!

I’m going to bring my Custodes and my WarCry Orcs...

King Orcthur’s Kwestin’ Khanigitz Faction: Ironjawz Quest: A Proper Scrap King Orcthur and his Ironjawz Waaagh! smashed its way into the Eightpoints many seasons past, but a few of da King’s Khanigitz got lost on their way back to da big shiny portal that led back to da Kastle. These brave Kwestin’ Khanigitz have come to enjoy life in the Eightpoints well enough; it is a brutal place, filled with deadly monsters to hunt and an endless supply of painted humans to crush beneath their armored boots. Despite the constant, unrelenting violence, the ladz are becoming dangerously bored. So few of the opponents they have krump’d recently have provided any decent entertainment. If they don’t find a proper scrap soon, they might have to start krump’n each other. Klaw Klawbite - Brute Boss with Boss Klaw and Brute Smasha (Leader) [ 250 Points ] Thakko - Brute with Gore-Choppa [ 200 Points ] Rolfur da Mage - Brute with Two Choppa [ 180 Points ] Ravin’ Karvem - Brute with Two Choppa [ 180 Points ] Donjon Masta - Brute with Two Choppa [ 180 Points ]

The studio army models for those units all date back to the late Nineties. They’ve probably just been taken out of the rotation for studio photographs because they want to emphasize the new products and because they’re just plain old... On the other hand, the cover of the upcoming codex does show a Chaplain in Terminator Armor, a Land Speeder, a Castraferrum-pattern Dreadnought, and a Thunderhawk. All of which are non-Primaris units.

It’s a fairly well-balanced list, although it leans towards the Death Guard’s usual schtick of short-ranged fire fights and being stupidly hard to injure, but there’s a decent amount of mêlée counter-punch, anti-armor, and anti-horde for such a small list. Drop the Fœtid Blightdrone and it’s exactly 500 Points, perfect for a small Combat Patrol game. A second squad of seven Plague Marines (no upgrades) would get it to 750 Points... ++ Patrol Detachment 0CP (Chaos - Death Guard) [41 PL, 638pts] ++ + Configuration + Plague Company: Mortarion's Anvil + HQ + Lord of Contagion [7 PL, 112pts]: 1. Revoltingly Resilient, Manreaper, Warlord Malignant Plaguecaster [6 PL, 95pts]: 1. Miasma of Pestilence + Troops + Plague Marines [10 PL, 138pts] . Plague Champion: Plaguesword, Plasma pistol, Power fist . 5x Plague Marine w/ boltgun: 5x Blight Grenades, 5x Boltgun, 5x Krak Grenades, 5x Plague knife . Plague Marine w/ Special Weapon: Plasma gun Poxwalkers [6 PL, 100pts] . 20x Poxwalker: 20x Improvised weapon + Elites + Noxious Blightbringer [4 PL, 55pts]: Plasma pistol + Fast Attack + Foetid Bloat-drone [8 PL, 138pts]: 2x Plaguespitters, Plague probe ++ Total: [41 PL, 638pts] ++

Also in today’s news, another set of Errata brings the last couple of Psychic Awakening books up to snuff... And of deep concern to me and the other three people that have considered buying their miniatures, Valerian and Aleya remain completely unusable in a Battle-Forged army and still cost more points than anything else in the Adeptus Custodes army list except the two super-heavy aircraft.

Actual starter sets designed for people actually getting started in the hobby: https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/07/27/warhammer-40000-new-starter-sets-sighted/

• All 8th Edition codices, supplements, and campaign books are still valid. (Specialist Detachments have been removed from Matched Play). • CA 2019 is invalid, CA 2020 was just released.

Oooh! I have a crazy idea! In order to give Intercessor Squads more flexibility during a game, maybe they could have a few guys in each squad carry some sort of harder hitting weapon or some sort of specialized weapon? It’d probably be unfair to let too many of them have it. Maybe, I dunno, one in five? The idea isn’t to make them a dedicated anti-tank squad or a dedicated anti-heavy infantry squad, right, we just want to give them a bit more well-rounded tool box than just everyone having a bolt rifle. This would make the Squad more Tactical. Nah. This idea is too silly. It would never work.

One Crusade Point added to your Order of Battle allows a summoning pool of, say, 5 PL? That the average PL for a minimum sized squad of the lesser dæmons (e.g., Plaguebearers or Dæmonettes) if memory serves. Another option would be to add Dæmonic units to your Order of Battle, like other units, and allow players to summon them and only them... So you’d have a 50 PL Order of Battle, put together roster for a 25 PL game, and be able to summon those extra units.

The Chapter Approved 2020 Munitorium Field Manual book that was released yesterday has updated points for everything. BattleScribe hasn’t incorporated those changes yet, but undoubtedly a thousand nerds are pounding six thousand cans of Red Bull as we speak and updating those databases...

Those are Requisition Points. Command Points are the “currency” spent in-game to fuel Stratagems.

It’s in the new Chapter Approved book.

I’ve always wondered why there isn’t a bigger third-party decal market. Fighting Pirannha Graphics does BattleTech and C.A.V.; Little Big Men do historicals of every era... and that’s about it. Surely there must be a market for third-party, WH40k compatible decals?

That’s definitely a factor.

It’s mostly an issue of transportation logistics. I don’t own a car, so any army I collect has to be collected with an eye towards Tri-Met...

I do love a horde army. I just don’t have the room in my life to have one of my own these days... I’ll live vicariously through yours.

In my idealized world, the main codex is the big fat $60 book and the supplements are thin little $30 books... maybe even $20 soft covers.

Space Wolves had one of the better arguments for being a distinct army list, seeing as how they had far more unique units than the Blood Angels or Dark Angels (the other "Big Four" that usually got a separate codex). But, honestly, even then it always seemed like something that could be handled better with a single Codex: Space Marines and a two page spread of rules for each of the "big name" chapters... and then put the super-special stuff into an optional Codex Supplement: Space Wolves that has the extended fluff, the unique units, and that sort of thing.

What if it’s an Undead Bear?

They’re not sweating, they’re releasing spores... Better put some paint on them now or your gonna have 80 Ork Boyz to deal with...

Weird that it would work on some models and not the other, given that they’re pretty much the same convex surface... Sometimes I think painting techniques and hobby techniques are as much about supernatural forces as they are actual skill.

I know this will annoy a lot of my fellow players, but, allow me to say: About @&$#% time! I have hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated the design decision to have so many separate codices for Space Marine for the last couple decades.

New Ork Boyz? From the latest teaser video, we get these two brief snippets. It’s definitely an Ork of some kind, but the weapons seem kind of basic and what little of the body we can see doesn’t have much by way of flashy bling. So I’m thinking it’s not an HQ or an Elite, but just a basic rank-and-file grunt.

Try using Q-Tips for Step 11, instead of paper towel. Use the name brand though, they’re fluffier.