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The GREAT 40k thread

Killer Angel said:
The gargantuan squiggoth sounds fun :)
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See this thing? Fisher-Price star wars toy.
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BIG Fisher-Price Star Wars toy.
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Lots of panels that open up. I'm trying to figure out how to REMOVE those panels without breaking the surrounding shell, at which point I will add gantry walkways, gunz, gubbins, a pilot, and so forth (and some kind of mecha-tusks) to make...

MECHA-GARGANTUAN-SQUIGGOTH!!!

But... first I have to figure out how to take it apart without breaking everything.
 
Tk'ya'pyk said:
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See this thing? Fisher-Price star wars toy.
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BIG Fisher-Price Star Wars toy.
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Lots of panels that open up. I'm trying to figure out how to REMOVE those panels without breaking the surrounding shell, at which point I will add gantry walkways, gunz, gubbins, a pilot, and so forth (and some kind of mecha-tusks) to make...

MECHA-GARGANTUAN-SQUIGGOTH!!!

But... first I have to figure out how to take it apart without breaking everything.
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I like it. I don't think you have to remove the side pannels, just leave them open at 90° and use them as fire platforms

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Imrahil said:
That one is really nice!
Big War of the Worlds vibes.

Grrr, Imrahil
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Yes, and it matches perfectly the look of other units as the canoptek reanimator.

There are a lot of cool conversions for necrons.
This one is "smaller"... imperial knight size, and it would made a nice alternative to the seraptek construct

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speaking of Hierophant(s)...

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i was looking at its stats.
It seems pretty good:
- nice defense (34 wounds, save 2+ / 5++)
- good shooting
- solid melee

850 points is not cheap, but for what it brings to the table is reasonable. And can be fielded even outside apocalypse games.
Thoughts?
 
Killer Angel said:
speaking of Hierophant(s)...

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i was looking at its stats.
It seems pretty good:
- nice defense (34 wounds, save 2+ / 5++)
- good shooting
- solid melee

850 points is not cheap, but for what it brings to the table is reasonable. And can be fielded even outside apocalypse games.
Thoughts?
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Stompas are overpriced, points-wise. You didn't say it had to be relevant thoughts. Seriously though, every army needs a centerpiece model, and you have to admit, a Hierophant is a pretty big centerpiece model...
 
Tk'ya'pyk said:
Stompas are overpriced, points-wise. You didn't say it had to be relevant thoughts. Seriously though, every army needs a centerpiece model, and you have to admit, a Hierophant is a pretty big centerpiece model...
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It's the same story with any Lord of War or Supreme Commander, really, and it's usually also to the tune of them absolutely requiring upwards of twice their value in supporting units just to be tabletop effective. This issue comes up often enough in Horus Heresy that there's a baked in limit of how many points you can spend on a Lord of War or Primarch for a given army size (no more than 25% of the total army's cost may be invested into any single LoW or Primarch), and even then you're unlikely to see even the 500pt ones show up in games of less than 3000pts due to upwards of half of the army being required to support them instead of the other way around.
 
Killer Angel said:
not exactly titans, but superheavy tanks are cool too.

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I can't say much for the hovering Mammoth tank that is the Astraeus for 40k, but the Glaive on the other hand is pretty potent in Horus Heresy as both marine killer and the bane of all infantry and light vehicles. Just don't be surprised if that volkite carronade it carries becomes the reason why your opponent is throwing at it a considerable amount of anti-tank weapon fire.
 
ChapterAquila92 said:
I can't say much for the hovering Mammoth tank that is the Astraeus for 40k, but the Glaive on the other hand is pretty potent in Horus Heresy as both marine killer and the bane of all infantry and light vehicles. Just don't be surprised if that volkite carronade it carries becomes the reason why your opponent is throwing at it a considerable amount of anti-tank weapon fire.
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Baneblade.
 
Killer Angel said:
Leagues of Votann is officially a xeno army
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That's the news I was hoping for!

And it makes sense given that the Leagues have gone down a route that the Imperium would classify as heresy many times over, so that they have fully disassociated the Votann with the demi-humanity they may once have had.
 
Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl said:
That's the news I was hoping for!

And it makes sense given that the Leagues have gone down a route that the Imperium would classify as heresy many times over, so that they have fully disassociated the Votann with the demi-humanity they may once have had.
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Yep.
The whole artificial intelligence thing is enough reason to call exterminatus.
That's kinda the biggest red flag possible for the imperium.
 
Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl said:
That's the news I was hoping for!

And it makes sense given that the Leagues have gone down a route that the Imperium would classify as heresy many times over, so that they have fully disassociated the Votann with the demi-humanity they may once have had.
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Gross over-generalization of the Imperium as a whole, I think, but it's on point if specifically looking at the Adeptus Mechanicus' religious views on AI. It's worth bearing in mind that the AM have their own separate religion apart from the rest of the Imperium, and, as a result of this, what they deem to be heresy of the highest order isn't necessarily what the Inquisition would be actively rooting out (and vice versa).

The Leagues themselves... present an outlier on a couple of fronts. As recognized abhumans, they are afforded many protections offered by the Imperium that the vast majority of xenos would not be able to get at all. Conversely, their "wildcat miner" culture contributes to them having an independence streak a segmentum wide, including not believing themselves beholden to whatever silly ideas their long-lost normie cousins have come up with since their divergence.
 
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Ok, they are beautiful, nothing to say from that point.
....but why it always has to be Cadia?
 
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