People kept asking, so here they are.
Taken down the club in the best light I could find, the phone camera was a bit suckfail but you get the idea.
I am now orking on a reasonably professional looking presentation for my army list , I’ll tack on the Archons fluff too, with some purdey pictures supplied by the Wonderous BeckJann from Deviant art
If though hast not yet laid eyes upon mine Archon, get thee to yon previous post and forsooth! feast thine eyes on mine finest creation.(ish)
ThEre WilL bE cAkE iF yOu do….
They look lovely all on the board mate, they really, really do. You should be rightly proud of your achievements, now next up is to get your Combined Army painted for Infinity. Perhaps then we can work on some cool Battle reports for the good denizens of the interwebs?
Bonjour Ami,
Thanks, It’s yet to sink in yet, hopefully the pride will come later, currently Im hyper paranoid no one will like them at ToS … it’ll pass just ‘artistic’? jitters I guess..
yeah, Combined up next I think, some bat reps would be awesome, cant decide weather to write them or Vid them ?
They look frakking awesome, Sorrowshard. Great work. Now take names at ToS and show ’em what the Dark Kin can do!
How about some shots of the army in the foam? Be interested to see how it all fits.
Simply gorgeous.
Nice!!
The army looks quite small like that 😀
The jetfighter is wicked, and you’ve got a nice symmetry of sorts with it laid out like that.
Question: From a game perspective, with the jetfighter being a flyer and elevated on the base like that, does it negate cover saves for alot of your opponents units? I know in games I’ve played recently that the extra height would see past smaller terrain pieces, but I haven’t used the fighter yet! I’m more tempted to put Dissies on if this is the case since seeing over barricades and similar would be a real boon.
Lol, small ? its 18 kp’s !! though tbh there are some wasted points in there, I never claimed this was turbo competitive, I think it’;s a nice balanced force with a mixture of cc, and ranged threats, really I would like another troops unit and a second unit of Reavers, I may try to do that for the GT….
I love me that Jetfighter, was going in the list come hell or high water, its also devastating if you can provide it with a suitable target.
tbh I can’t say I have noticed with the cover thing, There is no way I’m loosing two Dl’s, it comes in destroys an infantry unit, from then on you have a viable AT threat with good anti infantry ability (8 shots total) the dissies are a waste of time imo and you will feel the lack of DL’s more than you will notice the benefit (if any) of dissies, the cover system is a big nerf for dissies and termies etc most often have 3++. i think perhaps dissies really needed str 6 to be worth taking (generally)
As long as you are plying with proper terrain you can usually get cover for the fighter too, it’s mobility helps negate cover/gain side shots more than the stem does, but I suppose all together thats a nice bonus when it comes into play.
Thats more what I was thinking about, not cover for the jetfighter, but the elevation above tabletop negating alot of cover from the TLoS perspective for infantry, many termies granted have a SS, but even versus normal marines you’ll be killing quite a few.
There is also less mech with the people I play so for casual games its interesting to try different stuff!
Dissies would be great as S6, and an all round viable choice.
Agreed, str 6 might have seen them getting taken more often, 3’s to hit and three’s to wound often followed by cover makes them a big no no for me, christ anything can get a 3+ by going to ground …dissies are fail Imo
More awesoemness but somthing you can maybe do in time to make it better. Your flying stands are a mess, you have some clear some sprayed and some sprayed with a base that matchs your army it looks very off putting, i still dont like sprayed stems but if your going to do it then everything needs to be done the same way.
Again you know i love your work but sometimes a bit of critisim can make it better, i really carnt wait till you get chance to come back to it to make it really pop out as for me as awesome as it is upclose from distance it dosnt translate as well as i know your ability can make.
Guess I’m painting and texturing all the bases before the GT then, I hate those domed flying bases with stuff on though , urgh ….
My archon is out for definite at the GT he just sucks in two out of three games, 2 games in a row now he has flubbed then gfailed his first or second save and died, useless character.
I’m really starting to dislike the DE, they are not much fun to play with at all and just get grinfucked by GK, there is literally nothing i can do, I get shot to bits no matter what I try, my lances etc do jack shit and I cant beat them in combat, SUCH a broken book
That’s a bit negative!
Sadly I think DE are more a min/max book, the more points you spend in something the more you wince when it gets taken out by some bolt pistol round!
On the bright side that should almost give you the points for more reavers, which = more anti tank! (of the reliable-ish variety)
I think taking advantage of any non dark matter anti tank choices is probably the biggest aim for list building. So scourges/reavers with heatlances out the wazzoo.
Have you tried proxying some bombers to see whether the S9 lances are worth it?
I wonder how the math compares lances vs witches with haywires.