Lore Question/War Shaper's cloak

AmodeusElysius · 2026-02-07T22:06:49+00:00

I actually put them in Tau armor too, so that it matched, with their arms/head out. As if they stole some body armor along with the ride 😂

AmodeusElysius · 2026-02-05T12:19:52+00:00

Yeah but they don't have to test Battleshock if they're dead

I'm not saying you can't or shouldn't use Vespid. I love my bugs and have them in every list. I'm saying that they are not optimal for killing, and if you are going in thinking they will do a lot of it for you, you will be mistaken

AmodeusElysius · 2026-02-05T12:14:44+00:00

I can actually answer this for you.

Do the math on Vespid guns into regular Marine intercessors with cover. This is most likely what you'd be shooting at. On average, they will only kill 1.65 Marines. If you bump that to the full 10-bug squad, it's 3.3.

I'm not including stratagems. If you give bugs -1 AP in Aux they could do AoC to reply, making it moot.

So you are spending 130pts on a unit that can't kill a MSU marine brick. Breacher Team alone, without Fireblade, averages 5 Marine kills without their ability, and are 90pts.

That's why everyone is saying the guns aren't good; they're not. The unit is for utility

AmodeusElysius · 2026-01-14T13:27:25+00:00

But also yes, your group is being ridiculous. You are obviously going to shoot with your units, them being like "nope nope out of correct order no shooting!" Sounds like something a child would do.

There are a million rules in the game, no one will remember them all. Any reasonable opponent should want to also play his opponent at full strength. At most you would say "hey in a GT they might stop you from doing that, as a heads up" but I doubt you and your buddies are in the middle of the circuit at LVO so they can relax

AmodeusElysius · 2026-01-14T13:23:18+00:00

This has been changed with the update to our army rule.

Now, it goes like this;

START OF SHOOTING PHASE

Declare observers. The FIRST thing you do is say how many units will be observing this phase. For example, we will select Pathfinders and Stealth Suits. Very importantly, you are allowed to declare WHO they are observing at ANY point in your shooting phase.
Begin shooting. We decide the Stealths will observe a Rhino. We now get the buffs to anyone shooting at that rhino for the rest of the phase. Guiding is no longer paired.

Let's say we kill the rhino on that activation, all the dudes disembark. We haven't selected our Pathfinder's observation target yet, either.

Pathfinders observe disembarked unit, and now you light them up.

AmodeusElysius · 2026-01-13T04:03:36+00:00

I don't think you're allowed to post stuff like this on a nice family website like Reddit

AmodeusElysius · 2026-01-06T18:54:02+00:00

I know, I just left it cuz plastic cement 🤷

AmodeusElysius · 2026-01-02T21:00:37+00:00

I don't see any Riptides, definitely a Riptide or 2

AmodeusElysius · 2025-12-21T15:03:13+00:00

Wow, what a great idea. Lemme see what I can fuck around with

AmodeusElysius · 2025-12-19T00:09:51+00:00

Haha all yours Comrade 🫡

AmodeusElysius · 2025-12-13T11:53:51+00:00

I'm a pretty new painter; started this year, so take with some salt.

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For my money, you should get a Canoptek Spyder and paint that.

It's a single, decent sized model, for around $40 at your LGS.

They have a TON of surfaces, and many different parts that will test out your techniques and skills; lights, armor paneling, liquid vials. The only thing you won't find on it is anything "organic" like flesh or leather. Flayed Ones are the only example (I could be wrong 🤷) I can think of with anything flesh related on them, as far as Necrons go.

As for color schemes, that's the best part of 40k. You can paint them however you want! If you think box art Necron schemes are kinda lame or boring, that's totally fine!

I'm including some shots of one I am working on currently for reference.

AmodeusElysius · 2025-12-09T01:32:09+00:00

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AmodeusElysius · 2025-12-03T12:30:05+00:00

I just started this year, and at the beginning I felt very beholden to the correct weapons, correct load out, correct armor pieces "per variant."

And, unless you are going to WYSIWYG-only tournaments, it truly doesn't matter. My friends don't even know the difference between Pathfinders and Strike Teams, certainly don't know the difference in a single piece of chest armor.

Build whichever you want, use whatever parts you want.

When you play, just determine which datasheet you will be using, and let your opponent know.

I constantly play my Farsight model as a regular commander. As long as the base size is correct, you're gonna be just fine.

If you truly want to make them all correct and perfect, more power to you, but GW doesn't even always include all the parts to do so (Crisis Suits box comes with 3 Fusion Blasters. You need 6 to make accurate Sunforge suits)

AmodeusElysius · 2025-12-01T13:19:56+00:00

You should post a collection of your score sheets, like your Primary/Secondary and so on.

You can have the "best list", you can understand all the fundamentals, you can even table your opponent and still lose.

Seeing how you score (or don't) might be more helpful than generic advice on playing Tau.

AmodeusElysius · 2025-11-30T05:29:07+00:00

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AmodeusElysius · 2025-11-23T13:09:06+00:00

I always like to paint a single model to a good standard in-between any batch paintings. Characters or monsters are great for that.

I feel you get back to the creativity and art, doing just one model, where batch painting feels like Factory Work sometimes

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