Kyriakin
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For me, there are three factors...:
- How bad the model is (this includes the material it is made from)
- How important that unit is in the army.
- How easy it is to proxy (proxies within GW's range being preferrable).
With this in mind, my three to replace would be...:
1) Icefall Yhetees: These models are goofy, fragile (my god, they are quick to paint though) and historically quite a potent unit that you might actually want to field. The closest GW proxy you can get is maybe the Vargheist/Crypt Horror kit and a lot of greenstuff.
2) Saurus Knights: The mounts have goofy faces and limp arms that hang down like a depressed t-rex, which makes them vastly inferior to their Dark Elf counterparts (which have aged well, despite the riders are a bit stiff). The worst plastic kit by far, and mixing with the DE Cold Ones would cost a fortune.
3) Centigors: With so many Beast-related releases not even being Beasts of Chaos, I suspect this is a dead faction. However, if the goats are ever to get a facelift, these guys are the biggest priority (as their basic infantry troops look fine, IMHO).
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2 minutes ago, Skreech Verminking said:
What about skryre acolytes, warpfire thrower weapon team, rattling gun weapon team and rat ogres.
aren’t those also units that are looking pretty derp
It's more the fact they are metal.
If you wre coming into GW as a new customer and looking at the Skaven, I can't imagine it would be on the list of derpiest-looking models, as I feel the mask hides the era's terrible monkey faces.
As for Rat Ogres, yes they are borderline (those shoulder joints are particularly awful). Whoever got those last Spire of Dawn boxes dodged that bullet.
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With the Soulblight updates (i.e. Blood Knights, Fell Bats, Zombies, etc.), the "Derp List" has been further reduced...:
A few kits narrowly escaped (e.g. Gnoblars, Saurus Guard, Kroxigor, Flegellants, Plague Monks, etc.), but were either not quite bad/dated enough or my expectations for the concept are just too low in general (I mean, what else can you do with Gnoblars...).
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Have any of you guys built Doomfire Warlocks, and thus have the Dark Rider heads lying around?
Looking for the ones that kinda look like hoods/balaclavas.
Cheers,
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23 hours ago, lare2 said:
Okay, I love everything. GW knocking it out the park. Bit worried for my 100 skellies though. What do you think the place for our old bonies will be in this newfangled force? Do you think they'll even have a place? I'm thinking of flogging them off for the new goodness but if they've still got a place... just don't know.
If you didn't like Zombies (aesthetically-speaking), the old skellies would make pretty good counts-as Zombies.
Some peope don't like the "messy" look of the Zombie trope - especially next to their regal Vampires and armoured medieval-style Undead.
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20 minutes ago, MitGas said:
Sorry, it's 99% not a BoC figure....
If Kragnos is not BoC, then BoC have a huge identity problem. He looks very Ghorros Warhoof-esque from behind...
Lots of beasty stuff (e.g. Kurnothi, Ogroids, Warcry stuff, Sphiranx, etc.) are not BoC, and the BoC line itself lacks visual cohesion. It's got Dragon Ogors, brown Goats guys, ornate blue Tzeentch stuff and even weird vestigial stuff like Chimeras and Chaos Spawn,
Looking through their webstore page, BoC feels more like it should be called "Stuff of Chaos".
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8 minutes ago, Dreddships said:
Woah woah woah
The Slaughterbrute is brilliant.
Still
We a Seraphon and BoC big release away now from being almost derp free
... and Clan Eshin and Winterbite/BCR Ogors.
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10 minutes ago, Ratboy genius said:
You can't have a "Derp List" and not include Rat Ogres/ Rat Ogors or whatever
Yea, I always only see the IoB ones in armies, which were great. I kind of forgot the non-IoB ones even existed.
I might eventually scrub the new death stuff eventually, and reset the image with Rat Ogors included. And Bullgors.
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The "Derp List" is continuing to shrink...
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1 hour ago, drcrater said:
Imagine they throw the definitive curve ball: BR Morghur
I called this as my left-field choice before.
His out-of-body form means he is easier to justify coming back after thousands of years and surviving a destroyed world, and BoC and Ghur need a central figure.
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Given your very high standard of painting, you should re-do the three most central circles in the mirror.
They look like I did them, which is not a good thing.
I think companies like Tamiya do pens for drawing lines on mechs, (etc.). I guess they would have a white or light blue version.
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Dark Riders?
Douby they'd be dropped, as they are tied to the Doomfire Warlocks, which (I believe) are still in the new DoK book.
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After my negative first experience a few years ago - where the hardener had turned orange (not a good thing for making ice-water bases) - I finally have got back into epoxy resin.
It really can be a ballache, but that waxy finish of Vallejo Stillwater (I've never tried the Woodland's Scenics product) just doesn't do it for me.
So, far I have learned the following...:
- Buy MDF bases with vertical edges, and attach the neodymium magnets on the top side of the base (i.e. embedded within the basing material and/or resin). These magnets should be strong enough to still work through the base itself for transporting purposes.
- Don't use GW Pyroclast Orange to colour the resin for a magma effect, as it will turn it into a milky peach colour (in fact, many GW products do not seem to fare well).
- However, the Secret Weapon washes that I have tried so far seem to work very well for this purpose.
- Never use masking tape for the temporary "wall" to contain the resin. It will become a gooey mess. Instead, create rings from plastic sheets using the 2πr rule (i.e. 78 or 78.5 milimeters for 25mm MDF bases), and wedge the bases in tightly.
Who else is using resin for basing, etc.? Any advice?
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With some of the new sculpts being draped with literal animal carcasses, it got me thinking about that letter from PETA to GW that did the rounds a few years ago.
I was never sure if it was 4chan mischief or genuine (we're deep into "Poe's Law" terrtory here), but the letter was requesting the removal of furs from GW sculpts...:
If it was genuine,the letter didn't seem to work too well...
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Just now, Aelfric said:
On the plus side for FW - they made the Troggoth Hag.
They made the incomparable Preyton, too...
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I was thinking of paining an army as Blisterskin, but not sure "Fire Ghouls" would survive being folded into Vampires.
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On 2/28/2021 at 9:50 PM, SentinelGuy said:
The way I see it you have two options - the distraction carnifex (hydra/kharibdis) or the brick wall (dino knights). I'd probably bounce both of them off of a pirate captain, as he's our cheapest hero.
I will probably do it with the Assassin, as he unlocks Shadow Warriors battleline as a General.
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On 2/24/2021 at 10:58 PM, acr0ssth3p0nd said:
That's hilarious, considering that I'm thinking of picking up that box of 20 Mirkwood Rangers to use as Sisters of the Thorn.
Mirkwood Ranger are a fantastic kit.
They would be good Living City Shadow Warriors, IMHO
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14 hours ago, SentinelGuy said:
The way I see it you have two options - the distraction carnifex (hydra/kharibdis) or the brick wall (dino knights). I'd probably bounce both of them off of a pirate captain, as he's our cheapest hero.
It is so annoying that it is limited to 10 models.
40 Corsairs wouldn't have been game-breaking, but they could have been flung on an objective, at least.
Everything about this city seems gimped for no reason.
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On 2/25/2021 at 11:23 PM, SentinelGuy said:
Finally getting around to looking at the new cities and my gut feeling is that they put 5 minutes of effort into the entire CoS section. Those narcotics are weak, no spells, only 1 useful option for the general and only 3 magic items. Even the errata is a joke, just an extra useless narcotic. The only thing this city has going for it is the ability to drop a hydra or kharibdis up close. I suppose you could try 10 drakespawn knights but they're doing nothing but blocking. I'm torn as to which is worse, this or Phoenicium.
The Phoenicium is better in terms of rules, but has no defineable theme.
Conversely, Misthavn is very "Rule of Cool", but has terrible (both in terms of competativeness and flavour) rules.
PS: Why not drop a DLoBD up close? Can't another (cheap) hero be dropped-in, and then you slingshot the DLoBD off him/her?
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28 minutes ago, amysrevenge said:
A interesting variant on "how old are you" might be "how old were you when you started the hobby".
I remember White Dwarf #179 being my first, and that's apparently November 1994...
That would have made me 12. Sounds about right...
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If only these guys were bigger (those are 40mm rounds)...: