Classichammer

The Chaos fleet has a big strength in that it can generally outfight what it can't outgun and outgun what it can't outfight. The aggressive shotgun blast approach is very sensible against Tau or to a lesser extent Imperial Navy, but as has been pointed out to me before is more questionable against ...

As the pages of Night Parrot fall open, many a mind is cast back to younger, happier, halcyon days: to that sense of rushing across the playground, a hundred and twenty pages of hot hobby burning a hole in their backpacks. "Have you read it? Have you ?" And from a lofty orthopaedic throne ...

So first: I'm having a horrid day today and those clickbait titles really cheered me up. Thanks, mate. The main reason I revamped the Exocrine and Haruspex was because I was looking at the new models and kind of in the zone and didn't realise they'd already been done! Then I got to the Trygon and re...

Meat... meat... meat... Our correspondent's recent bout of illness and long convalescence has kept them away from the designing easel for a while now - apparently the moons of Ymgarl are not the pleasant rest-cure destination they used to be. Nevertheless, their travails were not without opportunity...

Maybe you can break out the Warhammer Quest models for when the characters gain a sufficient critical mass of experience/gear/infamy? That's not a bad idea. I've also been reminded that I have a handful of Wardancers (entirely compatible with the Shadow Warrior warband) and a couple of Witch Hunter...

True dat. You'll observe from my previous report that we ran for a month of weekly games and then called a winner based on warband rating. It works for the same reason a round robin league works: it's finite. I think telling people there is an end, and when it is, helps with retention - they're not ...

Red velvet lines the black box... Bela Lugosi's dead... In the aeons since my last post, I have mostly been playing disgusting modern Warhammer. I discovered an actual board gaming club just down the road, and the organiser revealed he'd set the whole thing up in the hope of finding other Warhammer...

Chaos ranged attacks: you take what you can get.

Just Tony wrote: ↑Mon Oct 28, 2024 7:10 pm Yep! Ashley painted up those Spawns for the force as I've never really been one to see the value in them. However, at 75 a pop the Slaanesh ones are pretty boss.

I always found Slaanesh or Tzeentch the niftiest Spawn too. The 3d6 movement is really nice, and IIRC the Tzeentch one breathes fire?

Ahh, vindication.

@ matty Thank you kindly! You may be on to something with the unit sizes - the only time I've ever really considered these things is with Tomb Kings (always push to the cap, your stats are rubbish, you need the numbers) and Slaanesh Chaos (everything was multiples of six... yes, I was one of those p...

Hmm. On the one hand, weird about dice (or am I weird for preferring to use my own?). On the other hand... store cat. That does go a long way toward winning my allegiance.

If it's any consolation, I've been looking at your comment every morning since you posted, trying to parse it. "Model count" is such an alien metric to me (especially since I can spring new Core out of the ground). At the end of the day, Vampires are expensive, Skeletons and Zombies are de...

So the other day I was transferring my Vampire Counts from the spare room to the display case downstairs (where they belong) and idly musing on the character count, and how my older fifth edition characters gave me the perfect headcount for 2000 point games, and how I had so many of the smaller scal...

Spot on interpretation. You did the right thing in going back to the Big Red Book. Army books iterate and modify the Warhammer rules, but seldom supercede them entirely. By the way, Loremaster is written the way it is because it gives magic levels to characters who don't normally have them, and do h...

Christ alive. Glad you made it through the storm itself, at least. Stay safe up there.

Another weekend, another enormous pile of plastic and adjectives. This time it's Eldar! (And even less considered than usual: I haven't had a tame Eldar player in decades...) WRAITHKNIGHT Type: Gargantuan Creature! Mass Points: 3 Profile: WS 6, BS 4, S10, T8, W3, I4, A1, Ld10, Sv 3+ Speed: Lumbering...

You will find the National Alien of my people in Warhammer, but not in the Grim Darkness of the Far Future - there's a very suspicious war engine in the original battle for La Maisontaal, in Warhammer Fantasy Role Play of all things, which may have been inspired by a little bit of subcontracting Cit...

I don't know why I didn't just use an Earthshaker. Why didn't I just use an Earthshaker? Anyway. Unable to stop doing the thing, I did more... Gorkanaut and/or Morkanaut Type: Walker Size: War Machine Open Topped: No Structure Points: 2 Characteristics: WS4 BS2 S5 I2 A2 Armour Value: 14/14/12 Speed:...

Wait, there's a 3rd Ed. 40K Facebook group?!?!?!??!?!? I like what you've done here, and the only thing I can add is that you need to get them on the table to find proof of concept. Definitely keep us posted on that. There's a third edition group and a fourth edition group . The Knights remain a th...

I must say I am bemusedly impressed with the discipline to stick to only the options that are included in the model kit... That's what I might call a legacy issue. When I started doing these I was resolutely committed to a strict "this is a pattern of Knight that exists in the rules, here is a...

And Finally... Designer's Notes I don't know why either. I only know that once I'd started, I had to finish. Yes, I am on the spectrum: how did you know? Anyway, I'm quite pleased with the range and scale of absurdities on show here. The Armiger or War Dog chassis is essentially a heavier Dreadnoug...

Dominus Class Knights Are you mad? The Dominus class is the largest Knight, and the largest vehicle in the Imperial or Traitor armoury that can be managed by a single pilot. Among the loyal Households, a prized Castellan or Valiant chassis is likely to be the greatest heirloom of a noble line; amon...

Cerastus Class Knights Cerastus Class Knights are found in the Freeblade and Dreadblade hosts alike, serving either the Emperor or the Powers of Chaos. There is functionally no difference between a Castigator answering the call from an Imperial Guard brigade, or a host of the Lost and Damned follow...

Chaos Questoris Class Knights There are two kinds of renegade Knight in the galaxy. Iconoclast Knights are functionally identical to Imperial Questoris Knights: their vows and oaths have simply led them to side with the Traitor Legions or the Lost and Damned, and honour has proven more vital a conc...