Ish

I want to like the Primario Kart, but just like with the Repulsor, every time I look at it I just see another little detail that irks me...

I’m sure that the third-party bitz market will figure out some means of converting it into something less hideous eventually. (Heck, Pop Goes the Monkey managed to fix the Dreadknight.)

16 minutes ago, MexicanNinja said:

I want it!!!

The thing that bugs me about the Primaris Tarantula, or whatever they’re going to call that weapons platform, is that it doesn’t appear capable of elevating or depressing the guns...

14 minutes ago, blackvigil said:

This is ugly, and looks like an ork buggy, or mario cart ride.

Ultramar-io Kart.

Hmm... Not bad, but not Eurovision enough.

They won’t even let us ride our horses on the pitch!

Well, the peasants have lousy armor... But I said Bretonnians. They don’t count.

Bretonnians have good Armor, but only middling Strength and don’t start with much by way of skills... So my guys spend a lot of their time flat on the ground. 

15 minutes ago, WestRider said:

Shoulda used Careless Whisper

I still believe that they should have used I Still Believe.

I defy anyone to name a better song by a multi-instrumentalist jazz musician/bodybuilder. 

WHFB Night Goblins, with guns and a few choice bitz here and there, could be painted up to look like Orkish “Tek-Priezt.”

I think they might have decided to push the Primaris Marines into new squad types in order to make them even easier to play. People have quite rightly compared them to Eldar Aspect Warriors in how specialized they are: these are your anti-infantry dudes, these are your anti-vehicle dudes, these are your long-range dudes... and since everyone in the squad has to have an identical load-out, it’s hard to “screw up” with them.

I’ve said since the Primaris Marines debuted that I felt GW mishandled their release. In my opinion, they should have simply introduced the new sculpts and said out with the old sculpts... But kept the classic squad structure. Basically, instead of Intercessor Squads, just made Tactical Squads out of Primaris models. (Along with rules changes like better boltguns and two Wounds.)

Then put out a magazine article, a blog post, and a YouTube video that basically said “Look, we haven’t had a fundamental redesign of the Space Marines since we phased out the Beakies in 1992. They had a good run, but it’s been thirty years. The new models are bigger, better looking, and we hope you like them.”

But that’s not what they did. 

Oh, I’m under no illusions that they’ll continue to manufacture the older models once the molds wear out and they become too costly to continue production of them... But that’s just a standard part of the miniature business.

There’s a difference between “removed from the shelf” and “removed from the game.”

People have been saying it was going to happen since Primaris were announced, that doesn’t make it so.

I’m not interested in either set of miniatures, but if any of you end up with an extra rulebook*, I’d be interesting in buying it off you.

* Assuming they keep to the last several editions’ practice of including a complete rulebook in the set.

Everyone knows that the Ultramarines are the greatest musicians in the 41st Millennium!

9 minutes ago, Andrewgeddon said:

I feel like GW had an extremely easy opportunity to make a "Highway to the Danger Zone" reference, and they didn't take it.

They literally subtitled a huge section of the article “The Danger Zone,” made another reference to the song in the article’s text, and they quoted Maverick in the caption for one picture.

I mean... Did you need to see Roboute Guilliman playing guitar for a Kenny Logins cover?

2 minutes ago, scottshoemaker said:

Regarding aircraft, seems like the typical basing is obsolete.  Maybe a tripod cradle out of clear acrylic is the way to go.  Or a GorillaPod?

• Install a 6’ x 4’ sheet of ferrous metal on the ceiling above your gaming table.

• Attach an eye bolt to the dorsal surface of all Aircraft models, attach a length of fishing line to that eye bolt.

• Attach the other end of the fishing line to a strong rare earth magnet.

• Attach magnet to metal sheet.

• Request permission to buzz the tower.

And so, after all this time, they’re basically making Aircraft work the way Forge World has them work back in the original Imperial Armour books from Third Edition.

Seems reasonable.

I seem to be in the distinct minority of players who holds to WH40k Third Edition without the revised "3.5" close combat rules as my personal favorite edition.

I really like the current Eighth Edition's core rule set, but feel it broke down under the weight of too many supplements and too many subsystems (detachments, stratagems, command points, codices, codex supplements, campaign books, yadda yadda yadda). WH40k Third Edition had a nice clean and streamlined core rule set, only had one codex per faction, and only had two supplemental add-ons... which were dirt cheap and only contained about one page of altered rules for each of the four or five factions in them.

It was 1-0 in my favor and we were at kickoff for the start of the second half. I had one Peasant sent off for fouling, but she had three Linewomen (I think they were all Linewomen) injured and out of the game.

Odds are good I’d have won in the end, but I’m willing to replay the game if that works better for everyone.

Is there anyway to replay just the second half?

I’m guessing forests will be Area, Light Cover.

I’m very sorry to hear that the HPE ProLiant DL560 Gen10 entry server with Intel® Xeon® Gold 6130 processors that was responsible for providing your neighborhood’s internet service was mysteriously sabotaged by an unknown person using a Craftsman® CMCS300B Reciprocating Saw.  

But, hey, a win is a win...

That’s the plan!

I was definitely thinking of separating out enough “standing firm” legs to make the whole squad of Sagittarium Custodes look like they’re standing together. It’s a minor bit of aesthetics, but it’s important to me.