Thread 96343477

Ragtag squad edition

>What this thread is for:
/tg/ gets shit done again and is creating a “Battle Bible” (Ala 2nd edition) for 4th edition Warhammer 40k.
>What this thread isn’t for:
Alternative ideas for what 4th edition could include, such as alternating activations, new unit ports, etc. This is a Stage 4 process and so there's plenty of time for that later on.
Don't engage edition warriors, trolls and rule revisionists. We're trying to keep it tight; mannered and objective focused.

BATTLE PLAN:
Stage 1:Finish revising and formatting the SRD.
Stage 2:Compile all GW official erratas into the SRD.
Stage 3: Condense all the codices into up to date SRD. - pending
Stage 4: Make a Hobby Enthusiast supplement for the SRD.
Stage 4: Make an Optional Rules supplement for the SRD.

HOW TO HELP:

> Help to update the SRD:
1. Check the latest 4th Ed. SRD here:
v0.98A: drive. google .com/file/d/1KwK1cKvi6J-_38eTp5YRXbzWJvYtmJhA (remove spaces)

Changelog: drive.google.com/file/d/1yLBkFdcigJMjE7s3i8nzuanSt11uTbh52.

Look for any typo, errors, missing rules or dense writing style.
Make sure your recommendation wasn't already posted here:
drive. google. com/file/d/1xP-gIraW1DThssvvtE58YeTd3yDxwyzp/ (remove any space)
Leave your recommendation on the SRD pdf directly by leaving a comment in google drive

- Servo-Gifted anons:
> Get on the Github: github. com/pepsi41999/4ebattlebible.git

- Holo-Gifted anons:
> Get in touch with Inkwash anon >>95934508

RESSOURCES:
Original 4th Ed. Rulebook:
mega. nz/folder/1DMxURza#iLn0OuQ8AVGl4XJvU8J4Ig

FAQs & Erratas :
mega. nz/folder/p95WHYiY#2TZFnrI1vbRtjRSQLWNuYg

3rd/4th era trove:
mega. nz/folder/p95WHYiY#2TZFnrI1vbRtjRSQLWNuYg/folder/pxhlwZZS

4th edition compilation by anon:
mega. nz/folder/PEcnVC5Y#BGZlNvCNOoC2_ZFdw_5KoA

Previous thread:
>>96147320

Sorry if I missed any links in the previous thread lads.

>>96343541
Pretty sure that if you added more links assuming there were then the text limit would be passed.

Just for the sake of conversation, I've got it into my head to make a Squat army using my new 3d printer and pic related stls. For simplicity's sake I'm just going to use IG Doctrines, so I'm thinking the following would be a decent arrangement:

>Carapace Armor
>Die-Hards
>Techpriest Engineseers (for Guild Reps)
>Xeno-Fighters (Orcs)
>Veterans

I never played the editions where real Squats existed, so I don't know much about them from that time period beyond the Paul Bonner art. I'd like to write an era-appropriate 3rd-style Codex for them, but that's a bigger project than needs to be tackled right now. Any ideas appreciated from the true grogs.

>>96344001
>I'd like to write an era-appropriate 3rd-style Codex for them, but that's a bigger project than needs to be tackled right now. Any ideas appreciated from the true grogs.


If you want to do that, then I strongly recommend reading up on what little there is of the Demiurg. They were intended (as far as I can tell) to be the replacement for the "sillier" squats of older editions.

inb4 >reddit , but this should help you.
https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/u06bcq/on_the_demiurg_lots_of_excerpts/

They seem to have some men of iron tech and whatnot, and be rather defensive except vs Orks.

I'd probably not do stuff like the trikes. Probably more mining equipment and things of that nature. Could probably take some inspiration from the newer GSC stuff.

>>96343477 (OP)

I went in the last thread and grabbed some more relevant links:

Tau/Kroot codices: gofile io/d/nEVOh3
Guard/armoured company/ weird regiments:gofile(DOT)io/d/JgC8ec

All other complete codices: https://mega .nz/folder/5SxSAbTK#xTn9hz0PGp1_kMYT0SZXuA

This image needs updating.

>>96344809
Thanks anon!

Made a dark skin wash which is 10 drops of daler rowney red oxide and 10 drops of liquitex carbon black.

Made a strong skin shade which is basically a sepia wash that is 10 drops of daler rowney sepia and 10 drops of daler rowney burnt umber.
I think I’ve covered the basics of diy acrylic washes now.

Remember liquitex carbon black is a semi opaque black ink so if you need to darken but not too much then go with the semi opaque ink as an opaque ink will darken too much.

This has been a fun and messy journey. My pc is currently in for repairs so I won’t be able to draft some pdf pages for the hobbyist edition’s pages until it comes back.

>>96344117
Thanks for the information, I'll give it a read. Maybe I will give that codex a shot, since this thread will have anons best equipped to judge it from the framework of the era. I don't want to clog the arteries of the project at work though.

All that said, I personally like the biker aesthetic they had going on back in the day, so that would be the emphasis I'd give them. Not to exclusion of course, but a Squat Trike isn't any more or less silly than a Space Marine Attack Bike if you ask me.

>>96347023
How much of a hurdle will it be to get an army like that written if the reference point is a previous edition?

>>96344809
>orkanon posting for the first time in a while:
Thanks Anon, I've been away for a bit which has kept me from doing more of this. I've downloaded the docs and added them to the archive.

Any word on Witch hunters? I've been delayed on daemonhunters so long with everything going on IRL that i haven't seen if they're going through the same. I'll see if i can work on daemonhunters this week though.

NuSRD anon: can you give us any updates on the book, or are you still out on holiday? let us know.

If everyone could take a look and see what we can do to improve the core doc that would be helpful. please comment in the doc via google drive to make it more simple to see. once we have the latest round of updates and the FAQ info added to it, we should be able to move on to adding pics and finishing up that portion of the doc.

>>96343477 (OP)
What does SRD stand for?

>>96348701
System Reference Document.

>>96348701
System Reference Document. It's a compilation of all the rules in an easier to read format.

>>96348783
>>96348796
Huh. First time hearing that term.

>>96348116
Not terribly difficult to write, but to make it fair and match the feeling of this era? Those are the trickier parts. I've got some stuff already penciled down so I'll keep tapping away at it in between other projects.

>>96344809
>>96348588
I would be glad to transcribe Armageddon and Eye of Terror, if no one has tackled those yet, in addition to reviewing in the drives.

>>96344001
Squats had flak for all units except hearthguard.

>>96349345
> would be glad to transcribe Armageddon and Eye of Terror, if no one has tackled those yet
No-one's done it, so please do. Although I think that some army lists may have already been done. Ti make sure, please check the mega.

>>96343477 (OP)
Need help finding a rules update for Cypher from around the time of Chaos 3.5 because I know for a fact it exists
And also Guard High Command + Some kind of TSons unit (Chosen of Ahriman I think it was called) I know those were both in another article

>>96352023
White Dwarf 281 for Cypher, 308 for the others.

>>96352950
Nta but
Is there a repository of all white dwarf magazines so that data collection can be easier?

>>96354294
https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/83452870/#q83453645

>>96348588
>NuSRD anon.
Still on holiday. Well... sort of. My wee boy will be back to school in September and then I'll be able to work on the computer without him asking constant questions. Right now it's just easier to share a good time with him than locking myself away and being a shitty dad.

Still keeping a eye on the threads though and super happy that the flame is still burning bright!

NewRecruitfag here
Just dropping in to say I'm adding Doomrider to Chaos for the hell of it

>>96355184
*the Chaos 3.5 list
Making gains on it but I have a mountain of errors to clean up

>>96351186
Yes I'm aware, but they had Toughness 4 also, no? I thought Carapace might be a decent way to represent them being slightly more durable than regular guardsmen. Do you have any ideas of what might be better Doctrines to use?

>>96351747
Looking through the folders I did see that The Lost and the Damned have been taken care of, but not the others. I'll start with Armageddon for now!

>>96354897
Glad to hear. There's far worse reasons for being away from a project, you're good.

>>96355184
I need to figure out a way to add aberrants and proper acolyte and neophyte squads to the gsc rules
Limos and trucks are fun but the citadel journal rules are just ass
I'm getting a more gsc experience by running imperial guard with demo charges and catachan rules than the journal rules.

Were there ever any other supplements for Guard 3.5 besides IA Krieg & Catachans?

>>96355184
CA Cultists are in too for that one Anon

>>96355184
What is the difference between the 1999 and 2002 chaos armies in newrecruit?

>>96357305
NewRecruit is just a listbuilder so it's the same as the books themselves

>>96354328
Thanks anon!

>>96357086
I think there were abhuman doctrines in white dwarf.

>>96357086
There's lists for Elysians and a few others. It's all in the Mega.

>>96355184
Awesome.

>>96357069
>the citadel journal rules are just ass
They're fine, they're just a different vision for the army. But yes, they are missing Aberrants, the Rockgrinder and Metamorphs.
Also, check the Errata in Citadel Journal 41, it fixex a few things.

>>96359021
>Elysians
Hell yeah.

>>96343477 (OP)
This is sadder than your nogames OSR thread.

>>96359275
Thanks for the bump!

>>96359027
They seem to be rules for a cult in formation, while modern GSC rules are a proper cult.

>>96357309
Yeah I know that. I was just under the impression that the 2002 codex was just a reprint, it has been two decades so memory is fussy.

Now that we're almost done with getting all the codices down for editing, and the core is nearly finished, if someone wanted to work on getting all the expansion rules together so we can have them ready for editing, that would be helpful for the future of the project.

This would include:
the Original combat patrol and Kill Team from the main rules,
Special missions, including battle missions, Breakthrough missions, raid missions, hidden setup, (jungle fighting from the catachan book may have been replaced by this, but it would be worth looking to see if some of that should also be included)

Campaigns, both the structure from the main book and the other options from expansions

Cities of death, and whatever other game modes we can get.

Apocalypse, both game modes and assorted unit rules for bigger models. thankfully the structure of armies at the time was "just bring whatever" so it's more freeform, but those special unit rules will absolutely be awesome to have in one place

This is a whole new leg of the process, so we can take our time doing it, but i figure since there was such an overwhelming response to getting all the codexes done, it would be great to get the next leg going with this too.

>>96355184
I've wanted 4th Edition in NewRecruit (and Battlescribe before it) for many, many years. Godspeed to you anon. If you pull it off you might just save my gaming group from 40k exhaustion.

I think Combat Patrol rules should be altered slightly.
>No vehicles with a total Armour Value greater than 33
I'm of the opinion that this should be increased to an armour value no greater than 34. This way, Orks can still bring Deffdreads and Marines can still bring Dreadnoughts. Both players, for example, can still get access to anti-vehicle/anti-walker weaponry and can swing a Victory Point orientated game like Combat Patrol by successfully killing off the enemies lone piece of armour.
Just my thoughts.

>>96361469
. i think because of this the AV count was very intentional for this to avoid dreads taking over in small scale conflicts meant for mostly infantry. do i WANT to see dreads in there? sure, but not at the cost of messing up the game as intended. we can have a little blurb saying friendly games can increase the cap by a point if they want to have the possibility of dread equivalents on the field, with the warning that they'll pretty much need to bring high strength weapons of 6+ make a dent in them.

>>96362129
I think a simple 1 per army would prevent them from overrunning things. Personally, in my games, I've never had any trouble with Dreads appearing on the table, it's just another aspect to play around tactically or to intentionally target for the points it awards you. Hell, merely disabling it nets you half its points as reward.
Again these are just my thoughts and how we play the game locally, but I think it's worth considering.

>>96357069
The "GSC experience" *is* the Journal list, bub. If you want to play the modern army, play the modern game - "space miners" was a fine enough background for the specific GSC from the Overkill box game, but making it their whole faction identity was lame.

In 4th edition, can someone give me a reason for ever taking Space Marine Veterans when they're 3pts more than standard marines and don't get better stats.

>>96362778
Cool models are their own excuse

>>96362778
Tank Hunters

>>96362841
How do Marines with belt-fed bolters like this get the ammo in?

>>96362778
Larger availability of special weapons
tons more specialization options.
terminator honors may be taken for 10 pts and improve their attacks and initiative. the 3 points is the tax for those options

>>96362930
And if you're playing Black Templars they can go sword & board which is always kino

Does anyone have Eye of Terror without the fuckup on the left?

I couldn't find one in my collection, but here's a shitty photoshop job that makes it at least legible.

>>96363564
no, but altering it slightly made it at least a bit legible

>>96364728
fuckin, nevermind, other anon did it better

Here you are gents

>>96363564
>>96364723
>>96364738
>>96364728

>>96366197
Also, some inspiration, I just finished some EoT Traitor Guard today

>>96363564
I have a pdf of just the Lost and the Damned section by itself, without that fuck up, that someone made:

mega dot nz/file/ 29Qz3BbZ#aMZY1SXOkD3wiwG9vmHZCs3SG9Dff0Y53E7ybOFdi9E

No idea where I got it from.

>>96366222
Very nice stuff, Anon.

>>96362747
Think what anon is saying is that the GSC journal army list hardly works.
Being theme as a starting cult and not a proper army in a wargame kind of screw them up mechanically. The space miners skin is hardly relevant.

>>96362898
They could use partial stripper clips.

>>96360973
please put this in next thread

best as another to-do bullet point maybe?

also do we have a general update on how things are going?

Whipped up a 1.5k test list with the Emperor's Children Combat Patrol I bought + a few other things and I'm amazed how seamlessly the new stuff slots in. Was worried that the Flawless Blades would be a little tricky to adapt but no, just think of them as Chosen Aspies with swords & combat drugs and it all makes sense.

>>96366841
>also do we have a general update on how things are going?
not much recent movement - all but 2 codices are transcribed, core is on hold for another little bit while NuSRDanon is gone. he should be returning in the next couple weeks to update the core book. meanwhile the core still needs to be looked over for typos and poor wording, as well as adding the remaining FAQ info. once that's updated he can add the example pics, art, quotes, etc, and that doc can be considered done.

then we're on to editing the transcribed codex entries and adding additional game types and rules, then the project is done. so, i'd say were about 1/3rd of the way finished with some delays, and a lot of preliminary work is ready to go for the next step.

>>96362898
Low tech - a flap that lets rounds go past then pops back a little to hold it in place.
High tech - some spinny bits that detect when a round is present and pulls the belt in.

Alternatively there could be half of a magazine that inserts into the gun which has a feed mechanism to pull the rest in.

It's always been stupid though.

Just curious, why 4th rather than 3rd or 5th?

5th just has a bunch of bad game design decisions between codex design, tlos, wound allocation, casualties, etc.

>>96368642
NTA, elaborate please. I'm not part of this project and I don't know about the intricacies of wound allocation , tlos or casualties etc But I would certainly like to learn.

>>96367865
We get this exact question every thread. Here's the abridged version:
>3rd
Too fragmented
>5th
We don't like it

>>96366222
great job anon

>>96367865
this moment in time, 4th edition with some 3rd codexes, is really well balanced and is basically the peak of the game.

>>96369142
>>96369846
Makes sense, 3rd and 4th mostly blur together for me except that my Khorne rhino rush army was kneecapped by no charging out of enclosed vehicles and my Imperial Guard army became a lot stronger due to that same change and sweeping advance going from 2d6" counts as charging to 3" doesn't count as charging.

>>96368724
4th Edition
- Wounds can only be allocated to models within range and line of sight of the shooter.
- LoS can only be drawn up to 6" through area terrain (typically ruins and woods), though generally you still use the model's eye view.

5th edition
- Wounds can be allocated to any model in the target unit regardless of range/LoS.
- All LoS is "true" LoS meaning you can see and shoot through basically any visible gap on the table.

I swear I've seen people talk about 5th edition letting you spread wounds around on multi-wound model units but what I'm seeing explicitly forbids it in the same way as 4th edition. Maybe there's a loophole I'm missing or they were just wrong. In 5th I think they made cover saves more forgiving to make up for the lack of concealment but I still think it just makes for a poorer game.

>>96343477 (OP)
Finishing magnetizing the windshield. Magnetized the storm bolter turrets. Working on attaching the grabbers under the fuselage, thinking about making them moveable

>>96366552
On the contrary, it's completely relevant because it was GW attempting to do exactly what you want - turn them into a "proper army". But the whole point of them is that they aren't a "proper army", they're a shadowy cult that controls a society from behind the scenes and, if absolutely forced, will use coopted local military assets to fight for them, a scenario that the Journal list works perfectly adequately for.

Trying to force little niche factions into becoming "proper armies" is one of the ways 40K went off the rails; Deathwatch were fine as a Kill Team. Grey Knights were fine as an ally unit and definitely didn't need their own special baby-carrier superdreads. Arbites shouldn't be capable of fighting at the same level and with the same flexibility as Marines and Guard. Sisters should have been expanded by adding whacky Ecclesiarchy stuff but because of NPCs who only want to autistically collect thousands upon thousands of points of one very specific thing they're now bloated to hell. All these little factions are there to add flavour and variety, as allies and side projects, they aren't meant to be your main thing, and when GW try to make them into a range that will support being that to people they have to contort and retcon the fluff in dumb ways(seriously, have you *read* modern GSC fluff? They give the impression half the fucking Imperium are ACKSHULEE Cult worlds just going through the motions, the headache reading it gave me legitimately cost me braincells).

The Journal list is niche because the faction as they existed at the time of publication were niche and the faction were niche because that's what makes sense in the fluff.

>>96370699
OH MY SCIENCE! IS THAT A HECKING CENTREPIECE MODELS?! GREAT JOB XISTER WHERE IS YOUR L-SHAPED TERRAIN?

Is there an anon who is going to host the mega where the PDFs will be uploaded?
I don't feel like I am responsible enough for the task.

>>96371067
The obvious counter point is the Lost and the Damned army from the Eye of Terror codex.
It worked fine and was a good mix of Chaos and Guard with a handful of new units added.

Unlike what >>96362747 is saying, I guess they don't know about Second Edition Genestealer Cult rules, the problem is in the execution of porting it that force over not the concept.
The creator of the Journal list removed a bunch of stuff from the 2nd edition army list, but barely added anything new and certainly nothing to fill in the massive gaps left.

-Genestealers in 3rd/4th were nothing compared to their 2nd edition version.
-Psychic Powers in 3rd/4th were nothing compared to their 2nd edition version.
-No Rapier Laser Destroyer, no Tarantula, no Mole Mortar, no Thudd Gun.
-No Land Raider, no Chimera, no Imperial Guard Land Speeder.
-Hybrids reduced from S4 to S3.
-Hybrid Broods in the journal list could have 2 models armed with a heavy or special weapon, in 2nd edition every model in a Hybrid Brood could take wargear from the armour, assault weapon, grenade, basic, heavy or special weapons list.
-Hybrid Broods and Genestealer Broods in the Journal list are Elite choices (max of 3), in 2nd edition they were standard broods 25%+ of your points had to be spent on them and Brood Brothers.
-Brood Brothers max squad size reduced from 20 to 10.
-Chaos Codex Allies could be taken as part of the 25% spent on support.

In return for all this they got given a bike squad, an open topped truck and a 10-50 model WS/BS 2 initiate squad with infiltrate.

>>96371067
The obvious counter point is the Lost and the Damned army from the Eye of Terror codex.
It worked fine and was a good mix of Chaos and Guard with a handful of new units added.

I guess >>96362747 doesn't know about Second Edition Genestealer Cult rules, the problem is in the execution of porting that force over not the concept.
Some aspects were already weakened by changes to the core and Tyranid rules. The creator of the Journal list then removed a bunch of stuff from the 2nd edition army list, weakened some units he didn't remove and also made choices while trying to make the army fit the new Force Organisation Chart system that hurt the list further.

-Genestealers in 3rd/4th were nothing compared to their 2nd edition version.
-Psychic Powers in 3rd/4th were nothing compared to their 2nd edition version.
-No Rapier Laser Destroyer, no Tarantula, no Mole Mortar, no Thudd Gun.
-No Land Raider, no Chimera, no Imperial Guard Land Speeder.
-Hybrids reduced from S4 to S3.
-Hybrid Broods in the journal list could have 2 models armed with a heavy or special weapon, in 2nd edition every model in a Hybrid Brood could take wargear from the armour, assault weapon, grenade, basic, heavy or special weapons list.
-Hybrid Broods and Genestealer Broods in the Journal list are Elite choices (max of 3), in 2nd edition they were standard broods 25%+ of your points had to be spent on them and Brood Brothers.
-Brood Brothers max squad size reduced from 20 to 10.
-Chaos Codex Allies could be taken as part of the 25% spent on support.

In return for this he gave them a bike squad, an open topped truck and a 10-50 model WS/BS 2 initiate squad with infiltrate.

>>96343477 (OP)
>/tg/ gets shit done again and is creating a “Battle Bible” (Ala 2nd edition) for 4th edition Warhammer 40k.
Can you do it in your designated general?

>>96372044
I should have added that I am fine with some of the things being removed, the problem is their lack of replacement.

By 3rd edition you didn't have Imperial Guard with hover tech, the support weapons didn't have rules, Land Raiders were only for Space Marines and Chaos Allies would be pushing it a bit. Okay take those out and replace them with Imperial Guard units that fit the gaps, Basilisk and Griffon instead of the support weapons would be a good start.

>>96372120
This is the designated general for the 3e/4e Battle Bible.

>>96372148
So it belongs to /40kg/. Stay in your reservation.

>>96372153
Are we discussing 10e here?

>>96372153
Better not waste time talking in here you've got 5 D&D threads, 3 MtG threads, 3 Warhammer Fantasy threads and 2 more 40k threads to post the same line in.

>>96346392
My PC is back!
Anybody have the PDF blank template so I can get to making a hobby section when I get the time to do so?
I might make another wash based on AP's discontinued Mid-Brown wash.
Mostly because there is a leftover spot on my acrylic rack that can fit one more 30ml bottle.

>>96372186
Armypainter is gonna make this guy disappear. I hope not.

>>96370699
Impressive model. How hard is it to acquire a Transporter nowadays? Is a chinesium one worth it?

>>96372044
That is my gripe with the citadel journal GSC. I'm comparing it with Witch Hunters, Imperial Guard and Lost and the Damned and I'm having an easier time proxying GSC with those rules than the Journal rules.
>10-50 model WS/BS 2 initiate squad with infiltrate.
Only one unit can infiltrate and squad can't be bigger than 20 models. Which I can understand why it was limited to one squad but why also limited it to 20? is not like the 50 guys have any armor save, while infiltrated was limited by the scenario so even in the context you could not abuse it.
Perosnally I'm just running Imperial guard with random genestealer cult units. The IG command squad with demo charges fit nicely as suicide bombers

>>96370221
>- Wounds can be allocated to any model in the target unit regardless of range/LoS.
I don't think that's much of a problem to be honest, but I do see how it lets you preserve your best units
>- All LoS is "true" LoS meaning you can see and shoot through basically any visible gap on the table.
I imagine this is only a problem if you're playing against a certain type of player to be honest.

>>96372186
Seconding the PDF template. Thinking of doing a proxying guide for modern minis

>>96374085
If I was going to go full "counts as" I'd probably go with Lost and the Damned rules.

Possessed can be tooled up to somewhat represent the past glory of Genestealers, Traitors cover Brood Brothers, Mutants cover badly equipped Hybrids, the handful of Guard vehicles, the Defiler could be pieced together from military and industrial vehicles.
It would eat into the 3 precious "Genestealer" Elite slots but a Chosen squad could cover the old best Hybrids with the best equipment the Cult could find.

Just using the Guard list certainly isn't a bad choice there is a lot of fun stuff in there to play about with, it's a shame Lost and the Damned could only take some of the vehicles.

>>96372135
>replace them with Imperial Guard units that fit the gaps.
The army list explicitly invites you to field Imperial Armour units, however this passage was removed in the Errata, by will of the original author.

>>96375849
Not really much of a surprise the author told them to fuck off even if his original list is pish.

"Editor's Note:
Tim wouldn't have known this when he submitted his article but there are loads of vehicle variants in the Imperial Armour tank book so why not use these for your Cults as well."

Adding that in after the guy already clearly chose to leave out the Vanquisher, Demolisher, Basilisk, Griffon and Hellhound from the standard guard list is either hilariously stupid, or just sliding in an advert the the new vehicle book.

>>96376234
Just looked it up to get the exact wording, it's in the very next Journal issue.

"Imperial Armour (page 14) - we initially noted that Cults could use Imperial Armour vehicles assuming that Tim had neglected to include them, however Tim was very specific in that he didn't want Genestealer cults to have access to the likes of Baneblades etc. In this case ignore the box on Imperial Armour vehicles."

Seems they really were just that dumb, and so is Tim.

>>96376269
Considering this GSC have access to Space Marine Predator Tanks.
This mother fuckers are ridding chapter fortress monastery but a Demolisher is too much of a problem.

Hey anons, should I start a chill 40K blog? I mean, in general it sounds like it could be fun, right? Anyone else here have or read any blogs?

>>96376426
Do it Oldhammer blogs are kino

>>96376426
Please do, I'd be honoured to read it.

>>96376234
>>96376269
Yeah, Tim was an idiot. The list would play so much better and make so much more sense if it didn't have any Space Marine stuff and just let you field Guard vehicles.

>>96376426
imo only do it if the motivation is intrinsic

>>96378469
>>96380475
We're very strongly leaning towards "do it"

>>96380640
>if the motivation is intrinsic
I'm not entirely sure I know what that means.

>>96372186
>>96374254
NuSRD Anon here, I'll try and upload the most recent template today if I can. Excited to see what you come up with!

>>96386751
Thanks in advance!
I await the roasting of my bad grammar and bad image editing skills.

So what stage are we at, at the moment? We have the inkwashanon who is talking about getting the PDF template to make a hobby edition so are we somewhat at stage 4 or are we at stage 3?

>>96392745
I think we’re at 3.5 at this point if I had a bolter held to my head and I had to say something.

>>96376426
As long as you’re a little bit tech savvy and having fun then your readers will also have fun too.

>>96398143
I don't think it would be only oldhammer, I would want all editions covered, from Rogue Trader to 10th for now. Although I am curious to know what you mean by being tech savvy, I didn't think there was much to blogging unless I'm missing something?
I'm strongly leaning towards starting a blog btw.

>>96398847
I meant tech savvy as in making your blog look visually appealing and easy to navigate and all that website development stuff. Sorry that I wasn’t clear and instead was vague there.

Hope one of you enjoys.

>>96386751
>>96388983
Look at me lying to myself. It will happen this week-end, sorry for that. The week got suddenly busy out of nowhere but I keep my promise on my mind and will abide asap. Sorry again anon!

>>96401966
No worries, anon! This gives me time to make drafts.

>>96374207
>I imagine this is only a problem if you're playing against a certain type of player to be honest.
You imagine wrong, then.

It completely cucks the modelling of terrain. You can no longer render something like a "dense forest" in the game because even if it's a massive 24"-wide feature units will be able to fire through it (because it is impossible to model a 32mm scale forest with the amount of density it would have a 1:1).

>>96405115
>It completely cucks the modelling of terrain.
What a riveting insight you've provided us all.

>>96405535
Must one provide "an insight" to explain a historical fact to someone who doesn't know, and wasn't there?

>>96405862
>someone who doesn't know, and wasn't there?
Bold assumption.

>>96406196
Agreed.

>>96406196
Well the alternative assumption is they're just wilfully retarded and didn't recognise the blindingly obvious despite having experienced the necessary context, so I'd say anon was being charitable.

>>96370221
IIRC in order to spread wounds around in multi-wound model units each model in the unit had to have a different wargear loadout. This allowed the creation of separate casualty pools or something.

Naturally it was a limited problem because there weren't many units that could actually do it AND not die fast enough to make it useful AND still be useful as a unit.

I don't understand why y'all just don't play games with people who try to exploit the rules in shitty ways. My brother and I play 4th and 5th all the time and never bring meta lists or play to exploit rules. If you're playing with shitty people, get new people.

>>96413074
I do. We also change the rules the way we want. Only people stuck playing in game stores are forced to experience such waac.

>>96413971
Imagine living like that. Sounds painful.

in 4th, what's the melee profile of Wailing Doom? I can't find it.

>>96419547
It is an ordinary CCW that provides no extra benefits. The avatar is a MC and so therefor his melee attacks ignore armour saves. Melee weapons at this time did not have profiles like ranged weapons do, instead they used text to tell you what they did, which were almost exclusively limited to “it’s a power weapon” “it doubles your strength and strikes at I initiative 1” and “it can reroll to wound”.

>>96419798
Oh, so I roll with my strength vs their toughness, ignoring armour saves because of Monstrous Creature?

>>96420146
Yep

>>96420487
Neat, thanks for the clarification.

>>96394780
I think you're about right. Should the OP be updated to show that were in between 3 and 4 at this point?

Can you take a dedicated transport by itself as a troop/fast attack or whatever force org slot its normally listed in? Like for example could I run 6 empty devilfish as my troops choices?

>>96429362
In general, yes. Land Raiders are heavy support or can be taken as a dedicated transport for example.
Devilfish being listed as "Transport: Devilfish" would imply they are still supposed to be only used as dedicated transports and that not boxing them out separately from the troops section was a formatting mistake.
Either way Fire Warriors are a 1+ choice.

>>96429905
>would imply they are still supposed to be only used as dedicated transports
But I cant find anything saying this. I have always played under the assumption of good conscience and so its never really come up. Like its *feels* like you arnt supposed to just spam transports but I cant actually find the rule saying you cant. In fact the devilfish is clearly carrying the troop choice indicator, same thing with the ork trukk, but not the waveserpent as a counter example of a transport that is ambiguous.

Basically I was flipping through the ork codex and noticed that burna boys and tankbustas dont have trukks listed as dedicated transports. So how do I get a trukk for them?

>>96430007
>burna boys and tankbustas dont have trukks listed as dedicated transports. So how do I get a trukk for them?

You don't, but you can put them in a battlewagon or looted rhino/chimera/land raider.

>>96430007
If you want an all-mounted ork list, try the speed freeks.

>>96404627
Should I attempt at humor or stay formal for the hobbyist edition?

Is this lore accurate

Can I use this

>>96434328
Yes and yes

>>96372044
>No Rapier Laser Destroyer
Citadel Journal 43 (3rd Edition; just an issue or so after the GSC ones)
>No Tarantula
Imperial Armour - Update 2002 (3rd Edition)
>No Thudd Gun
Siege of Vraks - Part I (4th Edition)

>>96434705
>listen here you little shit!
Nah, but why the fuck would the chimera be missing, but have a random Space Marine Predator Tank. You can't tell me the cult is having an easier time getting their hands on space marine stuff than gear that the local PDF would have. From a thematic point of view is just odd.

>>96434875
Chimera was added in Part 2 of the GSC army list (Citadel Jorunal 41)

>>96434328
10/10 would throw off my concentration and make me laugh.

>>96434705
Are any of those things in the Journal GSC Army list?
Because I sure didn't see them, and the creator of the list made clear he didn't want anything else added to the list.

Now you are right rules for some of those things did pop up later or wouldn't be too hard to create, but that would come under the initial discussion of making a new GSC list with the actual stuff that it should have.

>>96435344
Okay you're right the chimera was added, unfortunately it was added as a Heavy Support choice rendering it still shite.

>>96437320
IMO: If it is in the 2nd Edition list and hasnt be retconned (Imperial Guard Speeder) and makes thematic sense (not all kinds of Imperial Armour tank variants, as the armylist author didnt want, but PDF-issue guns like Rapier and Thudd Gun), why not include them with edition-appropriate rules? :3

>>96435344
>>96437904
Yep as a heavy support along with the rhino. If they where I do not know fast? And also came with some troops inside them then we are talking.
But an empty chimera or empty rhino in the heavy support slot is not fun or fluffy. That has been my gripe with the journal rules for GSC
They are simply not fun to use, specially when you compared it to Lost and the damned or Witch Hunters. Which are also rather meme armies of the edition.

>>96401966
>still hasn't uploaded template
Should I just go ahead and make a PDF of the acrylic ink washes over a transparent background then?

Anyone have the Wargear book on hand?

>>96442450
check one of the mega links

Was ForgeWorld making rulebooks for fourth edition? Have those books been taken into account?

>>96445930
Yes. Not all of them, but the ones missing will be added.

>>96445930
Yes and Yes.

I did Feral Orks, Genestealer Cults and Movie Marines. I Put in a few notes in a README.

https://gofile<DOT>io/d/rZQaJN

>>96439613
You can still embark models in it.

>>96447020
Thank you for your cervix.

>>96447020
>README file about GSC
>rest of the thread
It seems like anyone that has actually read and used the army on the table came to the same conclusion.
It needs a fix or at least be a lot more flexible to homebrew

>>96447455
<3

>>96366222
Cool conversion and paintjob anon

>>96367865
5th is a broken mess.
3rd is just 4th without some updates and clarifications.

>>96352023
Is this really for 3.5 or for the 4th ed codex? The article looks more modern than the 3rd ed magazines.

>>96446113
>>96446118
>https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Imperial_Armour_Update_2004
According to the bottom links of that page, the following Imperial Armour books are:
Update 2005 • The Taros Campaign • Update 2006 • The Anphelion Project • The Siege of Vraks - Part 1 • Apocalypse I
Not sure if the Lexicanum missed any.

>>96366222
I love these, the glowing eyes in particular are great.

>>96453205
>5th is a broken mess.
elaborate

>>96447567
I'd vouch that just being able to take the regular guard vehicles and removing the space marines ones would do wonders for it.

>>96456617
Nta but the quick and dirty rundown is that there was a change of hands where the old guard (the original designers like Andy chambers) were phased out and replaced with the new guys (Matt ward and the Crudmeister). 5th edition is the first edition written by the new guys and so it’s when the game started to get worse. I would say about 70% of the changes go in favor of 4th ed. so in general 5th Ed is a little less of a cohesive and put together system.
An example of where 4th is better is combat resolution. An example of where 5th is better is defensive weapons at strength 4 and running
Calling 5th Ed a broken mess is blowing it out of proportion though. It’s still mostly intact because the new designers hadn’t had enough time and confidence to chance (break) enough things yet.

>>96445930
Tbh you can play probably everything up to IA 11? None of the army lists that I can think of are cracked. After that they started making 2nd edition versions for 6th Ed. IA 12 was 6th Ed by default. I know Elysian got a list remake in IA 8 and that one might be meant to be used with the 5th Ed guard order system I’m not sure, but I’m pretty sure that the siege of vraks books all (maybe not the last one) are meant to be used with the 3.5 guard book. IA 11 has eldar corsairs in it which are cool.

>>96355500
>>96349345
How's progress going on Codex: Armageddon?

>>96453308
It looks like somewhere around 4e to me.

>>96458785
second vraks book was released during 5th but before 5th guard codex while the third part was released after 1 or 2 months of the codex release. I don't remember if they added the order rules in the original print of the third book.

>>96454730
Someone is covering or has covered these books, right?

I discover and issue when playing 4th with 10th tables.
Ordnance weapons domante.
The lack of things such as forest and creaters make those weapons very oppressive as a result our list have started to take way more vehicles and transport just to have a chance to survive the open field.
At least till we finish making some creaters and trees.

>>96463632
I would suggest drawing some shapes on paper and cutting those out, and just label it as [terrain piece] in the interim. Yeah it's not pretty, but mechanically it works.

>>96463632
4th was designed to be played with thought-out tables that look like battlefields in the 41st Millennium instead of the tabletop equivalent of TF2 Orange maps.

>>96458347
I think in addition to the actual problems with the core rules, dislike for 5th gets - justifiably IMO - amplified in groggy circles because it's also the edition that began GW's modern embrace of named characters. They had tried mostly dropping the "opponent's permission" prohibition on specials already, but the community largely continued to enforce it themselves, and 5th was GW saying
>Oh you won't get on board of your own accord? Fine you ungrateful fucks, now all your subfactions fun flavour rules are tied to a specific dude, howdya like dem apples piggies?

>>96463665
>>96463763
Yep we knew modern terrain rules where ass, but this level suck assery was not expected. The few times we played at my place I live rather far away so the carless folks have a hard time getting here there is very noticeable difference to how games are played. Than when we played at the local store that has the shit ass 10th terrain.
The random sandbags and bushes change a lot how the game plays

Alright, i've been struggling with stuff outside the thread for a bit so i have to drop working on the daemonhunters book.

Who wants to pick up that one and transcribe it? preferably someone who actually played them back then.

>>96447020
Awesome.
Question has someone made the Witch Hunter and/or Imperial Guard?
I'm not seeing them anywhere in the thread

>>96463940
That’s a good point. While I don’t mind the mini heroes like the totally not Rambo characters, I don’t wanna see Calgar in every game. I’m not super well versed in 3rd ed but I do know that in the core rules it mandated that you ask about special characters. They took that out in 4th Ed and it’s one of the only changes I can think of that is for the worse.

>>96465137
The Imperial guard are in the mega link here. The gofile no longer works.
>>96344809

The witch hunters are a work in progress.

>>96467610
If witch hunters does not show up next week. Think I could do it, should have a some free time away from my models so might was well give it a shot. Guess I could use one of the random word files as a template.
Wonder how the fuck I'm going to fit the henchmen section

>>96467689
No offence anon, but someone who speaks better English should do it.

>>96467935
Noted, happens when my mother tongue is Spanglish and not Spanish or English. As a result my sisters and I mix the language a lot and we do not even notice, it does not help that we study in a school that reinforced this stupid crap.

>>96459395
I am working on it, albiet more slowly than I wished. I'll include all the Steel Legion sections, although I believe the regular and mechanized Legions can be better represented using the Doctrine rules. There is no a corollary for the Hive Gang Militia though.

>>96458785
Again its getting too into homebrew territory for right now but I always did love the Ork Dread Mob list from IA 8. A '3rd' version of that would be neat with an alternate Mob Up (like how the Speed Freekz are different) where Mobs might flee until a Dread is between them and the enemy.

Played any games yet? This is my list for my game against lost and the damed.
The scenario is about capturing and securing some witches that move 6" randomly each turn unless secured. Each time someone secures them they pop a large blast S4 AP- attack. (To represent the struggle till either side subdues them with some technobabble of their choice)

>>96471999
That’s a really cool sounding mission actually, did you make that up?

Just this weekend my friends and I played a 2v2, 1300 per side. We did team space marine vs necrons and tyranids playing a mission I made called spearhead: capture the enemy base of operations and you win. So you have to balance protecting your point and attacking theirs.


Are there any actually good missions worth looking at hidden away in any of the older books? The standard 40k missions have historically sucked total butt, 4th and 5th especially. They are all some lame slight variation of try to be the one capturing objectives or table quadrants at the end of the game.

>>96473803
Yeah, I usually make up scenarios and/or use scenarios from other games.
Had a game with my GSC where the enemy had to kill some Biovores before they could kill my Super Patriarch as they where seeding the air with protective spores. While the Biovores could shoot their spore mines each turn.
Got the idea from the Gears of War Seeders and Krill.

>>96473971
So kinda like a vip type mission? I like to play a halo 2 style king of the hill where it moves around after a short bit. And I also have one my brother came up with about escaping a tesseract labyrinth.

>>96471999
what did you use to build your last like that

>>96474166
New recruit and the pretty scribe export option.

>>96374207
>I don't think that's much of a problem to be honest, but I do see how it lets you preserve your best units
Anon didn’t explain it very well. Without getting into the exact rules, both 4th and 5th edition allowed the owning player to preserve the most valuable models in a unit. For example, if you had a sergeant with a power weapon in 4th edition, you could just avoid allocating wounds to him until absolutely necessary.

At the same time, there were mechanics meant to pressure players into removing multi-wound models sooner rather than later. 5th edition worked much the same way. If you didn’t want a model to die, you simply didn’t assign wounds to it.

However, due to how the rules were written in 5th, this opened the door for rules lawyers to exploit the system. By following the letter of the law rather than the spirit, they could make units far more durable than intended. It was never meant to work that way, but some players couldn’t resist bending the rules to gain an advantage. It made things really obnoxious and unfun.

>>96463632
Scatter terrain like barricades help a lot.

Inkwashanon here.
Didn’t see or the template wasn’t posted.
I’ll get to work on one. And take some hopefully serviceable pictures of the ink wash affects. Hopefully I won’t have to modify the washes.

Any questions I should answer in the pdf I will make?

Holy shit I’m looking into getting into this but live in Canada and shits fucking expensive asf here. Should brokies like me just fuck off or are there places to get cheap models?

>>96477882
>places to get cheap models?
Like in bulk or genuinely cheap?
If you want some not!40k models that MIGHT be fitting then try the Death Fields stuff from Wargames Atlantic.
They are basically historical era minis with a sci-fi flavouring.

I wish I knew of more places.

>>96477882
Try getting miniatures second-hand or from third party producers. Some examples are:
-Wargames Atlantic for Imperial Guard
-Mantic Games for Orks, Squats, Demons and maybe something else
-Scibor Miniatures for Space Marines

Then there's the option of print-on demand services: you basically tell them what and how to 3d-print, provide the files and they do It. It's a bit expensive, but less than GW stuff.
Also, never buy stuff directly from GW, as some 3rd party retailers offer a decent to good discount.

>>96463632
By ordinance do you mean large blasts?

>>96478135
Yep. Usually just big dick guns use the large blast template, as a result with no proper area terrain outside the L shape ruins they tend to dominate.
Easily solved with some random craters, forest or simple area terrain. But they have to be made and brought to the local store.

>>96475762
>However, due to how the rules were written in 5th, this opened the door for rules lawyers to exploit the system. By following the letter of the law rather than the spirit, they could make units far more durable than intended. It was never meant to work that way, but some players couldn’t resist bending the rules to gain an advantage.
How though? I understand not putting wounds on your best dude, but that doesn't really make things more durable, right?

>>96464825
Can you at least upload what you have finished?

>>96480371
Normally you'd assign wounds to one model until it was dead then move on to the next model and do the same. If they had different gear loadouts though you could spread wounds around, so units like Ork Nobs where every model had multiple wounds and could take a unique loadout were a nightmare to deal with.

>>96463940
You're making shit up. 40k has been herohammer since 2nd ed. and nobody gave a fuck about asking permission in real life to field named characters.

>>96480824
Huh, I see how that could be an issue.
Sounds like waac shit though. If my opponent did that they would just go onto the "I don't play against you" list.

>>96477882
embrace recasts
I got Space Hulk BA termies for ~30 usd

>>96481968
Who's your chinaman?

>>96480848
>in 4th edition nearly every character is t4
>s4 powerfist users ignore saves and will cause instant death to said characters
>an ork nob or space marine sergeant can 1 tap nearly every single single named and an in named character.
>you can easily field an entire table of models that can threaten special characters by pure accident

>>96480824
It became a bit of a regular thing in my area. I know I’d rather just not play the game then lay down ultimatums with strangers every game.

Part of what makes 40k so good is that you can always find people to play with. I know that if I wanted to play 10th ed 40k I could easily find some one within the hour. Getting the 10th guy to play with something besides a tournament packet is another issue entirely.

>>96482788
Ignore the fag, he is having a literally women moment.
>usually people from South American speak Spanish
>I knew someone that spoke French

>>96482845
In my third world country during 5th the wound spreading was also a thing, Ork Nobs on bikes still give some players Vietnam flashbacks when discussing tanky units.

>>96480848
>I'm a retard who played with other retards, so everyone in the whole wide world must also be retarded hurrpa durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Herohammer has knob-all to do with Special Characters you fakegrog faggot it's just a term for 2nd making characters generally too powerful - 99% of which came from people making *custom* characters not using named ones you absolute cretin - and people took Opponent's Permission so seriously and that was true so widely that it was a constant source of bitching and moaning from Special Characterfags on earlier forums like Portal because they bought their special snowflake mini and found nobody wanted to play with such unoriginal creativelet poofters.

>>96476438
Just had a thought. Should I try humor or just be formal in description and instruction?
I'm thinking of just being formal.

>>96484864
Just be formal. The setting is funnier if you take it seriously.

>>96483975
"Herohammer", a term that came from WHFB just means that games are dominated by characters, named or not, but usually the big ones in codexes.

The only fake grog that clearly never played a 40k game with real humans in the 90s is you. Classic example of thinking that shallow reading of old sources is a substitute for having experienced the real thing. WD battle reports were not how 99.9% of 40k games were played, just like they aren't today. You must be one of these terminally friendless online retards that still believe going to an LGS/GW shop to play is how most people play the game, instead of in private clubs or at home.
Also lol at internet forums during 2e. I'm sure there were Usenet newsgroups, but whatever was going on in there had zero impact.

When some kid spent a sizeable portion of their allowance on Calgar or other character, there was no way they weren't going to use it just because you didn't like it. And nobody wouldn't even ask, because everybody wanted to see cool models in the table, and was an arms race.

As an outsider and a rare passive observer I wanna ask: what are you all (or the leader of the project, hopefully there is one) in order to address the publicity and "marketing" issues?
You know, you gotta eventually sell this to the larger community, which is not something that can be done on 4chan. OPR did it and it went decently far. You'd eventually have to adopt a model of either OPR or at least create a big community movement like Broheim.

>>96485303
First it needs to be a finished product that anyone can download with a couple clicks. No barrier to entry. Nothing that makes people think of the "bad 4chan" except in the credits.
Then it needs to be promoted in Dakka, FB groups and 40k subreddits. Even create new ones for it if necessary. Yes, really.
The B&C guys have no real interest in old rulesets, do not bother.

>>96485324
That's an adequate response, I do hope it takes off.
>except in the credits
I wouldn't promote it even in the credits or at least keep it simple as "CREDITS: - Grimblo & GSCanon & FuckyWucky & etc."
>The B&C guys
Pardon my ignorance/airheadedness, but who?

>>96485332
The Bolter & Chainsword, one of the more well know 40k forums

>>96485241
NTA but my older friend who played during 3-5th told me at their club they had gentlemens agreements to ask before using special characters

>>96482239
>Who's your chinaman?
*russiaman
though it's a bit difficult getting it with the whole war thing
I have a friend there who picks things up and mails them to me
even with all the mailing fees it's still less expensive, especially for older oop models that you have to get on ebay for at least x3 the price.

>>96485816
Taking a long shot here but does your russiaman have the old metal male dark eldar lord and if he does can we maybe get in touch via discord, email or telegram because I'm trying really hard to find one of those shits for my buddy for his birthday since its one of the only models he's missing from the old deldar range

>>96485241
Take your fanfiction elsewhere, fetus, some of us were actually around in the 90's. I *ran* the local club for most of that time, and travelled a lot for my job so played all over the UK and Europe: No SCs Without Asking was absolutely the standard almost everywhere except for a few backwards incestuous little shithole local scenes(like yours, evidently, assuming you're not just a LARPing poofter which is a supposition that only looks more accurate with every post you shart out). Also lol @ the whole "terminally online muh shops" thing when your pathetic attempt at a gotcha is "uh little kid tho", as if 99% of little kids' games weren't at a GW store or on their livingroom carpet - if some brat showed up to any club I've ever played at with the entitled expectation they could just do whatever the fuck they liked without asking what the rules were and what vibe the club was aiming for first they'd be Educated or told to fuck off.

I'm sorry you lived in a shithole where your only gaming options were subject to the whims of toddlers, but most of us had the benefit of playing with actual adults who understood rules and accommodation rather than viewing wargaming as basically masturbation, focused only on getting your own rocks off.

>>96485829
>old metal male dark eldar lord
This one?

>>96486044
bingo that one exactly also nice dubs

>>96486049
Not the one I usually get things from, but there are a couple of recasters who have him.

>>96485146
>Just be formal
Alright. I'll bust out the airbrush and get to priming some bases the job when I get the time to do so.
>The setting is funnier if you take it seriously.
Yeah it unironically is. And that makes me love it more.

>>96486041
>in the 90's. I *ran* the local club for most of that time, and travelled a lot for my job so played all over the UK and Europe
It's hilarious how you keep outing yourself. You've clearly never were an adult before the Internet.

But I do believe you "ran" a club. You sound exactly like the type of entitled nerdy cunt that tries to bully everyone into your own interpretation of the rules and play king. Until everybody leaves, and you're left with weak minded lapdogs usually way younger than you. So you claim victory while people are actually having fun elsewhere. It's a classic pattern I saw first hand within several fandoms.

In reality, clubs and tournaments are overrepresented and the game has suffered from GW paying too much attention to them. At best you probably were like one of these whiny cunts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw5NfJlRrcQ

>>96485829
There's one available dirt cheap in the UK
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/326760369490?_skw=dark+eldar+metal&itmmeta=01K4FYVYH1MSBJXQRFNJ7QEAKZ&hash=item4c146f8d52:g:K-MAAeSwiXJou0Vr&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA0FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1f55b84IKwU%2Ft0F9cwXWohC6h8bf%2FzEVX%2FhwJ%2B03ie5e%2BdOgGCch4x3gWB%2BtafhrBpSelOvZBrfaupHWzIcP11foEyg1VMiVZCSeglbqhjC8o%2BitKWKBx%2Fv31ZtxCmX8888wWE6yAuBkoyLLB5UOkVMnNqE1k2HD28EVgZXYByNfDF8kvjLKIPMZl2ApTN%2BXQO8xJtUPeigJSlx%2BAeL7%2BSEJkpnqAQs5ib1c6MqSvCHVqFl7Sxh7cXg0uPAQgOUahw%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR-Lo7_6jZg&pfm=1

>>96486886
thank you but I live in new jersey

>>96486999
Shipping to high? I've ordered from the states plenty of times and still came out the other side saving money in the long run.

Why don't the Eldar train their main chaff units?

>>96488526
I gotta read thread subjects better.

Has most of the steam run out here?
I’ve been eyeing this place for a while.
Never had anything to contribute to though.

>>96360415
The newer one doesn't have Doomrider.

>>96489932

I think the bulk of the text is pretty much done it just needs someone to put it together and pretty it up. srd anon went on holiday but that was a fair while ago now.

>>96489932
>>96491802
NTA, but About that: I tried summarizing Cities of Death, but I'm wat too much of a retard to do it properly. Instead I'll condense the alternative scenarios and game modes in the main Rulebook, like Kill Team, Combat Patrol and Campaigns.

Looks like I've found some revised Vehicle Design Rules.
Wonder if there's any kind of metric for making custom infantry units in 3/4e official or otherwise
https: //www .oocities. org /warhammerkingdom/40kvehicles .pdf

>>96489932
I'd say that most of the work is done at the moment and people just need to find the time to get shit done along with what they're already dealing in their present lives.

Because someone got fired at my work and now I have to fill the void he left for me.

>t. inkwashanon.

>>96482788
>>an ork nob or space marine sergeant can 1 tap nearly every single single named and an in named character.
The character will just kill the sergeant or nob first.

>>96493070
Those changes were included with the VDR when it got put in chapter approved.

>>96486715
Ahhhh there it is, the sad attempt to link clubs - the default mode of play in civilised nations - with tourneyshitterfaggots. Thus the nogaem reveals itself, hissing as the light strikes its heinous pale form. Just because you mashed models together alone on your carpet because nobody wanted to be around you doesn't mean everyone else had the same experience. And holy shit faggot, who bullied you? Because you have to be carrying around some serious unresolved issues to believe that's what "running a club" entails lol, it's admin and marketing you don't make the rules you absolute mongoloid, the job sucks so much it usually gets assigned from the club board by drawing lots. No matter how hard you cope by pretending everyone else's experience was as shitty and isolated as yours, it's not gonna stick bud, too many of us were actually around.

>>96493192
You can't target individual models within a unit.
The rest of the unit are basically extra wounds for the Nob with a power klaw
Unless you are sniper or some special rule like turning someone into a spawn

>>96493070
Dug deeper and managed to find a VDR calculator
https: //www. ageofstrife. com/tools/vdr/index. html

>>96495432
Turns out I misremembered, because in the 3rd edition characters can direct their attacks in close combat. The nob still has to be engaged with the IC in the 4th edition, and boyz who are not engaged with the IC can't be allocated wounds caused by the IC.

>>96458347
Running fucking sucks, buy a transport.

>>96458347
Dude 5th is a broken disaster, its point by point worse than 4th.
Real LOS is a disaster.
Wound allocation is broken.
Going to ground is juat dumb.

>>96496272
Not to mention the terrible codex books, the worse vehicle rules etc.
>>96458347
If you ignore 90% of the core book with all the terrible changes then yeah apart from all that the game is intact.

>>96495606
Cool!
>80 points for a Rhino
Something feels off here.

In newrecruit is there a way to add an inquisitor or Sisters of battle to an Imperial Guard army?

Has anyone tried to play 4th edition with epic scale models?

>>96498653
Why not just play Epic at that point ?

>>96496753
Besides making a second list not really. But when I get to the Inquisition I'll plug everything in
>t. NRAnon

>>96498691
Well if you play with 4th rules you have way less range compression, the table becomes huge, you can play with less models than epic, terrain is easier to store. You can actually use the apocalypse rules and units too.
Just curious if someone has done tried.

>>96499035
I went into discord the horror and asked. There is an option "Add Force" select Witch Hunters and it opens the options to add them an allied detachment.
Whoever made the Witch Hunter army list for newrecruit thank you.

>>96499175
>There is an option "Add Force"
Yeah that's what I meant

>>96499144
Also this way the bigger imperial armour become way more feasible.

>>96499208
The bigger imperial armour scenarios* sorry

>>96471999
Had my game.
Celestians performed way better than I expected. The fact that I could easily give them an invulnerable save made them tank hits like champs. Also hitting on 3+ while on melee made thos Eviscerators very consistent. The same could not be said of the Canoness, but their jump pack made them very fast and a result vehicle and Space Marine Raptors where trying to keep their distance from her.
That said 20 zombies eventually will cause her to fail her 2+ saving throw, so lesson learned. She can tarpit guardsmen and marines. Once you go over 10 models that is no go zone.
Deploying on the short end of the table really screw me up. I spend at least 3 turns going 12" inside vehicles just to get close enough to do something while a single destroyed transport could jam up the entire movement phase. Something that usually does not happen in a deployment along the long table edge.
Sentinels and random dudes with missile launchers and grenade launchers really could ruin the day of my AV11 transports

>>96499144
I've not, but I have been working towards getting 15mm Heresy off the ground locally - unfortunately 3.0 has taken that out the back and shot it at least for now.

15mm works better than Epic because individually based miniatures can still work pretty easily(though magnetic "movement trays" for situations where individual model positioning isn't a big deal is a real QOL addition. 15mm models and terrain on a standard size board, and the rules modified by halving template size, squad coherency, and all the stuff that's based on areas of effect or relies on bases(aura buffs, leadership ranges, "hits everything within X of the target" weapons & abilities and so on). Really feels like a sweet spot.

>>96499268
>>96471999

I didn't see your post earlier. But: I would suggest taking only 1 HQ choice in games under 2k. Generally, you just need a character with a power weapon and invulnerable save. Also, drop a Pentinent Engine or two. This would free up enough points to take two more squads of sisters on foot with heavy/special weapons to use as a base of fire for protecting objectives from your deployment zone. And IIRC gives you more faith points.

But ya, you generally want to move up 12 inches turn 1 with Rhinos, pop smoke, then move and unload on turn 2. From there, they harass enemy units with storm bolters while your infantry moves onto the objective. Unfortunately, Sisters suffer from everything being on a Rhino chassis, meaning their vehicles are quite squishy.

Have you tried games at 1,750 and 1,850? Those were the high-end games in this era with 2k being more for special scenarios like the Eye of Terror campaign games.

>>96480520
>0▶
>>96464825
>Can you at least upload what you have finished?
yeah, i copied it to a word and pdf and uploaded here: mega .nz/folder/EW5j2IwI#nNSwZkycnpXfCT1YhyP2Cg

>>96476438
>>96484864
>>96486576
Update. Scrapping my first draft. I feel that it was too wordy and not straight to the point.
Also I kept feeling as though my writing was wordy in the sense that I am desperately trying to reach an essay word count.

I could use some suggestions on how you all want the writing to be.
Such as whether you are okay with things being wordy so long as they're descriptive and helpful or just straight to the point.

>>96503761
Well you can get a 2++ with sisters on your character using faith points so. The double HQ is mostly due to the name of the list "フキユトフクミ" that I just notice I, misspelled it.
The PE are there because I have 6 of them I'll try to run as much of them as I can, but yeah they didn't do much beside eating shots.
I could easily just give one of the HQ a blessed weapon. Would only be S5, no bonus against vehicles, but keeps the I4 and one re roll to hit.
The third celestian squad could be replaced by a Callidus, but then on HQ must be an Inquisitor.
My main issue was the deployment as I said deploying on the short edge really dick me over, because in other games usually I lose a turn moving 12 popping smoke like you say. Maybe two tops. But here I was 3 turns inside my transport just trying to reach his lines.
Didn't help the damn witches (objectives) scatter towards his direction kind of fluffy though.

>>96362778
Fun kitbashing and modelling project to make them look cool

>>96362898
Autoloading. Slamming a round in through the magazine well regardless of magazine locks the first round into place. since it's hooked up to a basic belt loop that means the rest follow.

Could anyone familiar with the edition cook me up a quick 500pts tyranids army? I have no idea what makes decent nids army and I don't want to just get rolled over by the homies when we play but I also don't want to stomp them either.

>>96506271
That's... not how belt feds work. The belt would fall out of the gun after the first shot without a proper belt feed

>>96506807
Correction, the belt would fall out of the gun after the first round got loaded, that's if the belt doesn't jam the shit out of the bolt and get stuck. Tl;dr lrn2gun

>>96506614
Play 400pts and use the combat patrol rules instead.

>>96504275
I'm looking at my work and it seems there will be a lot of figure references like figure one, and figure two, etc.
Is that alright with you guys?

>>96506833
I proposed that to my freind group and the one guy who actually played when 4th ed was the current edition said we'd be better off just doing 500pts normal rules

>>96508079
Combat Patrol rules in 4th if I recall correctly had some limitations like no vehicle with armor valued superior to 33 (ex: Chimera 12, 11, 10 = 33), you had to bring the gimped version of your leaders like if you had the options of the Turbo Chaos Lord the everchosen or Warband leader, you had to use the warband leader. Because it made no sense that someone like Creed or Calgar in terms of Rank would be patrolling in butt nothing hill.

How much interlap is there between 3rd and 4th edition. I know a lot of codexes and articles from 3rd carry over into 4th but I wasn't sure if the extent.

>>96508583
Extreme overlap. 4th edition is essentially 3rd edition with the experimental/trail rules for 3rd ironed out and added in.

>>96508601
Are there codexes that did get updated but people prefer the older ones since they're basically compatible?

>>96508647
I mean dark eldar had the same codex for 12 years
3rd, 4th and 5th are very compatible to each other.
6th and 7th are also compatible with older editions, but one big noticeable difference is that melee weapons have AP instead of nothing or power weapons

>https://youtu.be/lWHS6k3kSWc
Last year I thought a 3/4e OSR was just a pipe dream but it's starting to look more and more like a possibility if even Comphammer e-celebs are looking at it

>>96510821
nah once 11th ed comes round their interest will die overnight like it always does, waacfags literally cannot play an established meta with rules they can't game. The heresy was GWs catch net for 4th nostalgia but the SGS just threw that out for a pet project edition.

>>96506820
>>96506807
Shit I better tell the guys who made the hotchkiss gun that ran on strips that their functional machinegun design for 40 years doesn’t actually work, fuck.

>>96510985
>11th ed
I hope GW sees some sense and rolls back some of the more idiotic things, I expect them to double down and go even deeper into the retard mines

>>96476438
Sorry matey, got a lot on my plate but the good news is I'm back on this project full time mid-next week. Try this link, let me know if you managed to get the file and if it worked on your side:
gofile.
io/d/8suWYh

You might have a bunch of errors messages regarding missing fonts or images but I included them in the zip so hopefully it's just a matter of tweaking around for a handful of minutes.

>>96514602
>Sorry matey, got a lot on my plate but the good news is I'm back on this project full time mid-next week
I get ya.
Something is wrong with my PC that while functional I can't quite get the AFTEMPLATE file to work.
Let's just say I don't do much work on a computer about this sort of thing.
I'm right now waiting for some white primed bases to dry.

Anyways thank you! I'll try my best, but I got a feeling that typos may be inevitable, and I don't even have the ESL excuse for that.

>>96496253
Found you ;)

>>96510985
My theory on this is that it takes a cataclysmic fuckup for people to put in the effort to look for a new system. So you had better have it ready and waiting for said fuckup (like the release of 10th edition). But if nothing is ready to jump ship to, then it won’t happen. It took the literal deletion of WFB to get people to try a homebrew version even though people did nothing but complain until the end.

statistically speaking almost nobody was playing tabletop before the late 2000s so when I see people arguing about who was actually there playing I just see a bunch of bullshitters wasting their time jacking each other off

>>96496489
It deliberately overcosts things as a balance-factor towards specialization and freedom. I believe they even tell you that in the article.

Has there been any codex/ army list work mocked up yet? Curious to see what that might look like. I will definitely be using the rules SRD to play some games soon.
I have mostly used the 2e battle bible in the past, but 2e is a bit much for some, so I am looking forward to this.

>>96504233
Much Appreciated. The work has been completed.

workupload . com/archive/bkngr9sLVg

>>96362898
You just clip the belt to the one that is already in when it's getting low

>>96518361
Good post anon!

>>96516031
Are you using Affinity Publisher? Typos aren't a big deal, readers will let you know when they spot some.

>>96520825
>Are you using Affinity Publisher?
No just Microsoft Word with some images thrown in at this point.

>>96512319
It works because of the dedicated feed system that runs the clips. Take the L nogunz, bolters can't fire linkages realistically. It's all rule of cool

>>96495616
>You can't target individual models within a unit.
>The rest of the unit are basically extra wounds for the Nob with a power klaw

This is exactly how it works.

>The nob still has to be engaged with the IC in the 4th edition, and boyz who are not engaged with the IC can't be allocated wounds caused by the IC.

Anon, i dont think you realize just how forgiving these rules are. It's barely an inconvenience. Pic related.

>>96522889
Yep, reason why things like Celestian Superior with Eviscerator in this example >>96471999 hitting on 3+ due to their special rule and invulnerable save of 3++ thanks to the faith points is was very effective.

>>96477882
If you have space for it and you aren't retarded, buy a 3d printer. They take a little effort, but after a day or two of trial and error you'll have a dedicated toy factory in your garage or closet for the same cost of a modern starter box.

Even with a 3d printer I would recommend buying period accurate second hand models online, if there is a unit or a piece you just cant afford make the printer go brrrr.

I myself want some of the old school Kommando sculpts and I'm not interested in paying $300+ dollars for a unit of them, so i have to turn towards the 3d printer.

>>96523149
No need for even that. You can just hook up with whatever local crew of 40K there's around and 100% there will be some dude with a printer happy to take an order. If somehow there isn't such dude, national chat groups like Whatsapp will have them. That's how I get my prints. On the other hand, getting scans from the period may prove trickier.

>>96523666
>a printer happy to take an order
I have yet to find a guy with a printer that is not some kind of diva about it.
They might exist, but for some reason the local ones have all 3D printed a stick up their asses.

>>96524030
Maybe it's a regional thing? All the ones I know are super nice about it.
t. Godo

>>96524030
boss do you live in the USA? I live in new jersey and have a very nice resin printer and I'm not a diva about it, I'll print shit for you at a reasonable rate just give me a way to contact you. Sorry if this is too pushy im just trying to make some cash for a convention I want to go to in november.

>>96524091
South America.
Friend has one but is currently broken and we are waiting for parts. Everyone else acts like the entire thing is this super hard thing to do.
I could deal with the cunts but some are asking more than GW for a print. It almost feels like the dumb twats got into for the FOMO and now are desperate to justify the space for the printer to their families.

>>96522633
>dedicated feed system
>almost like bolters have this

You are a blatant reddit retard and should check if your ruger .22 still has a round in it by looking down the barrel, faggot.

>>96343477 (OP)
Have we finished stage 3?

>>96525233
>South America
Ah, that makes sense. Anywhere else those kinds of fags would be occupied whaling for GW plastic.

>>96522633
>Take the L nogunz

How many belt fed weapons do you currently own anon?

>>96525248
A standard box mag bolter was the one in question, not a heavy bolter that has a lore explained belt feed mechanism. But I accept your concession, and forgive your disengenuois goalpost shifting.

:)

>>96525963
You don't need to own a lmg to understand basic engineering, doofy

>>96526045
>>96526079
>doofy
>2009 era reaction images

Alright everyone its been a busy summer and I'll admit I have been mostly focusing on getting the last codex done for my homebrew.

But with that said I took some time to pipe out said codex using the bigrulebook.cls I put on the github as an example of what it can look like. Please understand that the rules I have in this book is for my homebrew, I just wanted to showcase the formatting with respect to a codex.

https://gofile.io/d/BQqtgt

>>96514602
>>96516031
>>96520825
>>96521905
Alright Libre Office let me down as well in trying to get this template to work.
I'm just gonna get something out when I get the time to and hopefully this works.
As for the ink washes, the recipes will be in the pages along with pics of the washes shoddily applied over some Citadel mechanicus bases.

The "v1" of this will be open to review. I'll try to make sure to have a breakdown of Lester Bursley ink wash recipe and then recipes on various ink washes. The "basic washes" if you will.

I found this profile in a australian WD.
Somebody should collect and compile all this cool profiles.

>>96526920
Laius Rift Campaign, such a nice article. Nice use of the Imperial Guard codex to make an AdMech force. It made me really want to make an AdMech Guard force. Here's the pages/pdf if any Anon hasn't read it:

https://mega.nz/folder/q8wRlRCZ#FxqgjnijjvBT1iMYnB0aSw

>>96526920
>>96527043
Oh yeah, they also have an Imperial Guard hero, who is neat a callback to MacReady from The Thing (at least he seems to me).

People are saying they are after Witch Hunters, I've got the codex. What do you need from it? I'm happy to supply any information needed.

Thinking of gathering guard army for 4th
How many infantry squads do I need? I'm thinking 6x10 guys should be enough.

>>96526079
and even though youre an absolute virgin you know how to make all the ladies squirt too.

>>96527993
Depends.
A single troop choice is a command squad (5 models) and 2 infantry squads (10 models each)
HQ is 5 guys + what ever extra you want.
Unless you go armored fist then you need Chimeras for everything, but your troop choice can be just 10 models plus their transport.
In other words regular guard is minimum 55 models

>>96527993
Pretty much what this Anon said >>96528166

The one and only time I played a pure infantry list of guard it came across to me as incredibly unwieldy and very unforgiving. I'd go more vehicle heavy if it were me.

>>96527993
Have you figured out what your Doctrines are going to be? Some can vastly alter the amount you'll need/be able to afford.

>>96528237
Yep, even if you fully kit out a single troop choice.
Command squad, with plasma pistol, plasmagun, power fist, missile launcher, medic.
Two infantry squad, both of them with missile launcher, and grenade launcher. They just cost 272 points
Make them cheaper and remove the medic, melee and plasma and give them just more GL and Storm Bolter, two identical squads is 468 points.
With all the S8 and S6 shots, along with templates and hitting on 4+, you have solid gunline that requieres from your opponent to overcommit resources in order to eliminate them. But they are so shit on their own that they'll ignore them in favor of bigger threats like Leman Russ or a some veterans in a Chimera for example. Either case your opponents will have a bad day choice wise.
And remember that is just two troop choice.
Imperial Guard gives you a lot of options to make your army however the fuck you want since the basics core is solid

>>96506614
Broodlord might be a bit much at 500. Probably do Tyranid warriors as an hq choice, some termagants and genestealers for troops, and a zoanthrope as a heavy support.

>>96528166
>>96528237
I see, well, I'm getting 60 guys then, plus materiel.
>>96528272
>Have you figured out what your Doctrines are going to be?
I'm going with valhallans, so aiming for these.

Inkwashanon here.
I finally got the time to create a "bare bones edition" of the ink wash hobby segment.
https://gofile.io/d/wmXou8

Please note that this is just the barebones or "skeleton" of the project. I plan to add the background and header at a later time when I can figure out how to get the aftemplate working. Or I'll just look at what you amazing lads have been making and just recreate that manually.

Anyways feel free to point out what I have done wrong, where I can improve (virtually everything to be honest) and just general suggestions if you feel like you should mention them.

Sorry I had a rotated image. Cropped it and hopefully I get it right this time.

Once again. This is the bare bones skeleton of what is planned for in the future.
As I couldn't seem to get the resources working.
https://gofile.io/d/wmXou8

Feel free to point out to me what I've gotten wrong, what can be improved, etc.