ChrisNoAnts

If you are prepping for a tournament setting (as in you really have no idea about the meta you are playing in) I feel like Breaker with Bossy Pants is kind of a safe choice.

Hey, thanks for input. However, I'm not quite sure I understand your process. Did you undercoat the area in dark grey so that the cloth color comes out darker? Edit: I think going yellow might be a great idea. I'm thinking Agaros Dunes or Iyanden Yellow contrast.

Guys, I need some help. After painting my first unit in the Ymetrica color almost killed me, I'm planning to paint the rest of the army in Iliatha colors. How would you go about painting the "extra" fabric on the archer models? I don't want it to be red. The loincloth / tabard is already going to be red. I don't want it to be orange as most of the fabric of the archer model is already going to be orange. Black won't work either as gloves and boots are going to be black. White could work, but the armor is already white. I feel like I should introduce an extra color for those models or just paint the fabric white. Do you guys have any suggestions?

Building and painting both. I tried to have the riders separate from their horses so that I can paint them a little easier. After building them that way, absolutely nothing lined up. I had to paint them in once piece and I totally messed up the build. I really love the models, but unless I find a painter who can finish them for me I'm not gonna touch a second unit. Totally unrelated: What do you think about the Cathallar's Darkness of the Soul spell? My take is that it's totally busted, especially in the Teclis / Powerstone list where you can pretty much guarantee that it goes off. For an opponent that brings something big, i.e. a max unit of anything, it is straight up in negative play experience territory for me.

Posting some progress...I've been working on this model for what felt like a month. I'm pretty scared by the idea of painting a whole army like that

From a hobby point of view I'm starting to think that the Lumineth are going to be an awful choice for new players. I assembled my first Dawnrider yesterday, which took well over an hour. Some key takeaways: - Mold lines as bad as I've ever seen them. It's not only their positioning but also the quality. They feel way to harsh and pronounced for a brand new mold, which makes me think that they changed up things a bit in course of catching up with COVID. OBR Models where way better in that regard. - Tons of subassemblies required. I'm usually a "if a brush can't reach it you aint gonna see it" type of guy and love painting my models fully assembled. On these models, however, not a chance. There are at least 3 subassemblies per rider, with serious hobbyists going up to 4,5 or even more. To make things worse for beginners, the way the kit goes together doesn't allow for clear subassemblies as the riders legs go with the horse instead of with the body. - Unclear gates. I messed up at least one part that I had to repair with filing and molding on the first rider as it was really hard to make out what's part of the model and what's the gate. - Lots of fiddly bits that break real easy. - That Paintjob... Seriously, I painted a couple of Thousand Sons and swore to myself that I'm never going to paint another army with such a rim type of armor. I don't know why I picked up this damn army as the rim on these models is about a million times worse, plus, there are at least a thousand details on every unit, which aren't even very expensive, points wise (so you gotta paint a ton of 'em). As a PS regarding the last point: I did a test model (see attached) to try a few things out. If you want to paint the rim anywhere like that, the color you want to use below the gold (as a foundation and shading at the edges) is contrast Wyldwood, straight out of the pot. I cannot stress enough how much of a help it is. The marks on the spear blade are from the cat.

Every wizard can pick a spell from their appropriate list. So, your Cathalar has Mystic Shield, Arcane Missle, his own spell and a spell from the Lore of Hysh. In addition, OP chose Zaitrec as his Great Nation (although the list says Ymetrica) which gives every wizard the ability to cast Overwhelming Heat (which isn't really part of the Lore of Hysh list, another typo). That's why you see multiple spells per unit on the list.

Thank you for sharing your detailed analysis, this saved me a lot of time. I've got a bit of an alternative take on the matter. When we compare points for damage / defense efficiency we factor in a lot of faction stuff. What we cannot properly compute though is our ability to fight twice during combat, which can have a huge impact on actual unit performance as it sort of works offensively and defensively simultaneously. When we consider that our defense can potentially be great while our damage is mostly mediocre, Lightning Reactions could be the thing that pushes everything over the edge outside of efficiency computations.

Here's another take on the Bonereapers!

Guys, whats the general opinion on Immortis Guard? I was planning to include them in a list with Katakros and a couple of casters to keep them safe from sniping attempts, but now they seem like a large-ish investment, considering that they compete with Stalkers points-wise. Unrelated, here is a new paint scheme that I'm starting:

Finished my Stalkers, building the Falchions despite their bad math. They just look too cool.

Dude, thanks for pointing it out like that. Turns out I never truly read his rules. I'm kind of speechless, this bird is absolutely bonkers. Now I truly want to buy a catapult.

That is true, the units got a really healthy internal balancing. Even choices like swords / spears are actual choices. I just wish they do something about Petrifex Elite. They are just too strong and overshadow the other options.

Hey guys, I recently finished my nexus and I'm currently doing the last strokes on a 20 piece blob of Spearmen. I'm already afraid that the next squad of 20 is going to break me a bit. Attached is a crummy cellphone pic of how they'll look like. Did anyone manage to make the Kavalos Deathrider work yet? I mostly see them in squads of 5 but upon reading the battletome for the first time, their big formation looked really good on paper. The 15 model unit would average out on 5 mortal wounds per charge and with the battalion they could keep doing it. Initially I thought this would be really awesome, but the point investment is massive. My plan is to run them in a 15/5/Arch-Kavavlos formation under Preatorians.

I did a bit of mathhammer to confirm my suspicion that something about the Stalker is off. This is based on a single model with 5 attacks (Spirit Blades). It obviously scales with models. No other buffs are present. The target got a relevant save of 4+. Both reroll modes yield 1.98 wounds The rend/damage mode yields 1.85 wounds while only computing for the extra rend These numbers are pretty much equivalent and would allow for actual choice, depending on the situation, however: The actual rend/damage mode yields 3.7 wounds, vastly outperforming the other offensive modes. Note that on weaker saves where the extra rend does not matter, the picture does not change. If the target had a 5+ save it looks like this: Reroll mode: 2.47 wounds Rend / damage mode: 4.44 wounds tl;dr: It is almost always wrong to go for the reroll mode (outside of going for defense) It is always wrong (math not shown here, but I did it and it checks out) to go for the Falchions This feels like a huge oversight / bad game design. It feels like the +1 damage slipped in somewhere, it does not makes sense as a rule choice. Also, after doing that math I'd wager that these guys are something like an AoS-wide Top 5 raw damage unit, if not better. It's a 200 points unit that can butcher pretty much everything in the game except the biggest monsters and heroes. They are boxing far above their point-weight while being tanky and versatile at the same time. @ScurvydogYou might be right that without the rend/damage mode, they would just not be a valid option. But I stand by opinion that the choices they offer are garbage and that they output is incredibly high.