The Warhammer 40.000/Fantasy Discussion Thread Mk.III

[Baltenstein]

GW and FW to cease shipping orders and for stores to close:

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Good move from their part imo, it needs to be done.

Thankfully my order of Valhallans was apparently shipped this morning lol

Time to conceptualise dozens of army ideas only to go with a completely different one once all this has blown over!

With all the Horus Heresy content I've been experiencing lately I've been getting an appreciation for the World Eaters old color scheme and am even starting to prefer the white and blue over the red and brass. This is downright un-Khornate and I need to fix this problem.

Did they actually repaint their armour or did it just get so covered in blood it turned red? The latter would be more in character but I feel is far less likely. Now imagine a World Eater angrily yet delicately painting the legion badge onto his armour.
"Where is my Macragge Blue!?"

Personally, I think their armor slowly turned red by itself due to Chaos warp corruption BS. Just like their helmets grew those demonic bunny ears, I doubt they made those on purpose either.

[Impaled Nazarene]

GW and FW to cease shipping orders and for stores to close:

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Good move from their part imo, it needs to be done.

Thankfully my order of Valhallans was apparently shipped this morning lol

Time to conceptualise dozens of army ideas only to go with a completely different one once all this has blown over!

With all the Horus Heresy content I've been experiencing lately I've been getting an appreciation for the World Eaters old color scheme and am even starting to prefer the white and blue over the red and brass. This is downright un-Khornate and I need to fix this problem.

Did they actually repaint their armour or did it just get so covered in blood it turned red? The latter would be more in character but I feel is far less likely. Now imagine a World Eater angrily yet delicately painting the legion badge onto his armour.
"Where is my Macragge Blue!?"

Dried blood is more of a brown with hints of red into it so I assume the serfs would be doing the painting while techmarines and artificers would be modifying the armour itself.

[Tethys 13]

I am glad to see that Ghazghkull's rules at least somewhat live up to the title he has inherited, even if the lore is a disgrace in that regard.

[Hurdergaryp]

I am glad to see that Ghazghkull's rules at least somewhat live up to the title he has inherited, even if the lore is a disgrace in that regard.

Just reading up on the lore, apparently Ghazghkull's skull was rebuilt with adamantium after his head was in the way of a bolter round fired by a Space Marine. That's the same metal famous X-man Wolverine has been reinforced with, which means that WH40K is part of the Marvel universe.

[The Huskar Social Union]

My Valhallans arrived today! Just need some super glue for them and the construction will be all set. Almost finished a squad of chaos marines too that i got last year, finally have time to get back to them being in isolation.

[Tethys 13]

I am glad to see that Ghazghkull's rules at least somewhat live up to the title he has inherited, even if the lore is a disgrace in that regard.

Just reading up on the lore, apparently Ghazghkull's skull was rebuilt with adamantium after his head was in the way of a bolter round fired by a Space Marine. That's the same metal famous X-man Wolverine has been reinforced with, which means that WH40K is part of the Marvel universe.

Adamantium has been a thing in Warhammer 40,000 for a long time. It is used in Power Armour.

[Crookfur]

Just reading up on the lore, apparently Ghazghkull's skull was rebuilt with adamantium after his head was in the way of a bolter round fired by a Space Marine. That's the same metal famous X-man Wolverine has been reinforced with, which means that WH40K is part of the Marvel universe.

Adamantium has been a thing in Warhammer 40,000 for a long time. It is used in Power Armour.

And there it pretty much comes from D&D. IIRC D&D originally used the historical literary term adamantine but in its spacey spin offs it became adamantium. Basically the term has been used by so many scifi authors and series since marvel first officially coined it in 1969 that it's pretty much become a generic term. In 40k it's one of the trio of uber materials used in power armour along with armour Plas (knicked from 2000 AD irrc) and ceramite.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Neat little animation i found

[Impaled Nazarene]

Neat little animation i found

The TF2 sounds made me unable to take it seriously

[The Huskar Social Union]

Neat little animation i found

The TF2 sounds made me unable to take it seriously

Boo naz boo

[Ameriganastan]

Neat little animation i found

The TF2 sounds made me unable to take it seriously

Same.

[Tethys 13]

So, spiralling into madness in my isolation, these are the army ideas I have had so far:

1. Chaos Space Marines - Dungeon Keepers, a Khornate Iron Warriors Daemon Engine army heavy on Forgefiends, Heldrakes and Terminators with a draconic theme and orange scale colour scheme (painting a zigzag or 'U' shaped pattern horizontally in a dark red over the midtone orange, then 'highlighting' the edge of the scales)
2. Chaos Space Marines - Ascended Blades, a Slaaneshi Iron Warriors Obliterator/Mutilator army (when they get a proper kit) with the idea of seeking perfection as a weapon by becoming one with them. They would have a metallic bright orange colour scheme.
3. Chaos Space Marines - Rustswarm, a Nurglite Iron Warriors or Night Lords jump infantry army, Raptors and Warp Talons along with Greater Bloat Drones with a rust orange colour scheme.
4. Tyranids - Hive Fleet Charybdis, an aquatic/serpentine list of Raveners, Trygons and Zoanthropes in a turquoise and silver colour scheme on icy bases.
5. Tyranids - Hive Fleet Cockatrice, a flying list of Gargoyles, Hive Tyrants, Shrikes, Harpies and Hive Crones, with a vibrant speckled colour scheme.
6. Tyranids - Hive Fleet Basan, an artillery army of Exocrines, Tyrannofexes and Biovores, with a blue-green-red colour scheme.
7. Space Marines - Mammothus Astra/Space Mammoths, a Terminator-heavy army using Chaos Terminator tusked helmets and furs from various kits in a brown and white colour scheme (I would like do do a quartered scheme, but it might look better as brown head, torso and legs with white arms representing the tusks).
8. Genestealer Cults - Miners' Union, a mechanised civilian army heavy on Rockgrinders, cutting tools and Aberrants. Colour scheme would be brown/grey overalls and pale grubby skin.
9. Sisters of Battle - Golden Word, an artillery/gunline army of Exorcists and Retributors with a red and gold colour scheme.
10. Dark Eldar - Swift Mercy Cabal, an Incubus army in Raiders and Venoms with a bone and black colour scheme.

I will likely come up with a lot more before I get the chance to start any of them, and these are already far more than I am ever going to be able to afford.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Oh my

[Tethys 13]

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Oh my

That helmet is gorgeous

[Baltenstein]

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Oh my

Got to admire that last standing Night Lord dude's commitment to cause.

[The Biggles Syndicate]

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Oh my

What chapter is that? Sons of Horus?

[The Huskar Social Union]

New Lumineth models for AoS:

The only thing i dont like are the helmets on the infantry, i think they are a tad awkward. I think they would look a lot better if the horns were down on the main body of the helmet instead.

[The Huskar Social Union]

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Oh my

What chapter is that? Sons of Horus?

Dark Angels. Its Lion El Johnson, their primarch. He finally got a Horus Heresy mini

The Dark Angels colour scheme in 30k is Black and Red as opposed to the Dark Green in 40k

If you mean the marines he is killing those are the night lords.

[The Armed Republic of Dutch Coolness]

The new Warcry warband is insanely cool.

Love the Lion's helmetless head as well, actually looks really cool rather than goofy!

[The Huskar Social Union]

Bunch of extra stuff on here, new primaris lieutenant is gona be available for all to order online for 2 weeks, Eomer gets new plastic kits, Fabius Bile gets a new mini etc

[Baltenstein]

New Lumineth models for AoS:

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The only thing i dont like are the helmets on the infantry, i think they are a tad awkward. I think they would look a lot better if the horns were down on the main body of the helmet instead.

Got milk?

I intensely dislike the hammers. Not only are they an offensively un-elvish weapon, they also kinda look like croquet clubs.

[Vassenor]

So presumably whenever we get Primaris Azreal he's going to get the new helmet design too to go with it?

[Trollgaard]

I am very interested in the Fabius model, and the fact that he's getting his own subfaction! I can't wait for War of the Spider!

[Tethys 13]

New Lumineth models for AoS:

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The only thing i dont like are the helmets on the infantry, i think they are a tad awkward. I think they would look a lot better if the horns were down on the main body of the helmet instead.

Got milk?

I intensely dislike the hammers. Not only are they an offensively un-elvish weapon, they also kinda look like croquet clubs.

I concur with both. They look like they would break their necks just by tilting their heads slightly, and while you can have thematically elvish hammers that look amazing, those do not.

[Chan Island]

New Lumineth models for AoS:

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The only thing i dont like are the helmets on the infantry, i think they are a tad awkward. I think they would look a lot better if the horns were down on the main body of the helmet instead.

Probably the first new army I've seen which I've intensely disliked everything about them. The whole cows theme looks silly, the horns remind me too much of chaos minis, and warhammers don't look elven at all and putting a cow's head on your mainline infantryman's helmet is beyond dumb.

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Fabius on the other hand is looking very fine.

EDIT: In fact, looking at that infantry again, I can't even take their stances seriously. The guy left plus 1 looks like he's at the fayre doing that bell thing, the the guy on the far right looks equipped to build someone a dollhouse and the guy in the middle looks like he's about to go extremely hardcore on whack-a-mole.

Dislike all around.