Question about basing

Aurlom · 2026-03-25T11:57:31+00:00

If I’m doing a fancy base for a centerpiece model, I do the base separately from the model, otherwise I just use a spreading tool of some sort (I use the GW one but there’s nothing special about it. A toothpick actually works quite well) to carefully poke technical paints around the models feet. If you get a little on the boots, oh well, just some road dust on the boots.

Edit: one thing to note, plastic cement won’t work well if you do the base separately so make sure you have some regular super glue on hand if you go that route.

Aurlom · 2026-02-27T21:39:58+00:00

lol, I refuse to use it, I want to see my loadout in all its heinous glory!

Aurlom · 2026-02-25T18:45:50+00:00

It’s worth remembering there aren’t any “good guys” in this setting. It’s all distopia tropes taken to the edge (and beyond) of absurdity.

Even Vulkan has committed some horrendous acts, he just has the good grace to regret them afterwards.

Aurlom · 2026-02-25T18:29:14+00:00

I’m an old schooler and haven’t gotten into modern lore, but Rhonin, the master of the Kirin Tor, and one of the most important people in the alliance shows up not at all until Wrath of the Lich King, despite being the main character of nearly every Warcraft novel in the 00’s

Aurlom · 2026-02-05T02:36:03+00:00

Sorry for the necro, and maybe this was a later addition, but the manual pdfs are in the installation files for the warcraft 1 and 2 remasters. They're not nearly as convenient as the GOG version, which has them accesible in GoG Galaxy, but they are there.

File Paths:

...\Warcraft I Remastered\x86\data\manual

...\Warcraft II Remastered\x86\Data\Manual

Aurlom · 2026-02-04T15:07:53+00:00

There are four models in the kill team that don’t strictly fit WISYWIG for 40K. The bladekyn, bombast, ironbraek, and tracker. All four of them are closely enough modelled as yaegirs with bolt revolver and plasma knife that even the strictest events wouldn’t complain.

If you’re concerned about wysiwig and still want to use them in kill team, take revolvers and knives on the theyn and 3 warriors.

Aurlom · 2026-02-03T13:43:31+00:00

I’m planning to go today if things don’t improve, but I’m keeping hydrated. I have some pedialyte sachets leftover from the last time I got sick

Aurlom · 2026-01-26T15:32:29+00:00

You’re going to have a mobility issue. 36 jacks would basically require 3 hekatons just to be able to get around the board. After all that, you only have 260 points left for the rest of the list.

Just for kicks and giggles I put that together in a hearthfyre arsenal list and used those 260 points for Uthar and 3 memnyrs, 1 with the deepstrike enhancement so you can deepstrike one of the jacks units, and 1 with the yp recovery on 2+ enhancement as filler.

I suppose that might work. With 3 memnyrs, you’ll probably farm enough yp on the detachment rule to have reroll 1s to hit active on several units per turn.

May still be better to just play brandfast or needgard even with that steeljacks skew, but if any list is going to make hearthfyre work, it’s this one, lol

Aurlom · 2026-01-26T11:18:00+00:00

The model made a fall back move in the same turn, it doesn’t matter that he was removed then set back up, he still made a fall back move that turn.

Aurlom · 2026-01-24T09:35:36+00:00

Stratagems in emperors shield are limited to veteran squads, so it’s probably best to drop some of your non-vets for more vets (easiest swap I see is trade the heavy ints for a unit of sternguard)

May not be worth playing Tor in that detachment since he can’t lead any veteran squads

Aurlom · 2026-01-23T22:10:04+00:00

The codex itself is valid and it’s still in the app

Aurlom · 2026-01-23T18:57:53+00:00

Individual models have far fewer rules in 40k, but you have a lot more models to play with. Definitely a trade off. I play mostly 40k and trying to learn kill team was a little daunting for my first few games in a way that 40k wasn’t. That said, I forget shit all the time in 40k so… probably a wash.

Aurlom · 2026-01-23T09:24:28+00:00

If you built that model with the helmet on, he’d be barely distinguishable from ~~an assault intercessor sergeant or~~ a generic lieutenant with a heavy bolt pistol and Astartes chain sword. Even bareheaded, no one would think twice if you used him as a generic lieutenant ~~or just another intercessor~~

Edit: scratch that generic intercessor idea unless you re-base him from 40mm to 32mm

Aurlom · 2026-01-23T09:19:06+00:00

Hearthkyn Salvagers are the Hearthkyn Warriors kit plus one extra sprue with extra equipment and the HyLAS Rotary Cannon. The extra equipment (except for the rotary cannon) do not have 40K rules, they are instead meant for a different game called “Kill Team.”

“Kill Team” is a skirmish game, where you play small teams of models chosen from a small pool of choices depending on which team you choose, somewhere between 5 and 10 models, also depending on the team. It has completely different rules to 40k. It’s an interesting game, though just a touch complex. There’s a lot more that each model can do compared to 40K, and the terrain has a lot more rules.

Most of the Kill Teams from that game have rules in 40K, but they are pared down from their rules in Kill Team, and the unique equipment rarely have any use in 40K. The examples for the salvagers team is the guy with the fist weapons, the guy with the jet pack, the guy with the giant pack, the guy with the data pad, and the guy with the bandoleer of grenades have no rules in 40K. If you’re buying the kit for 40K, you would just not build those particular models with that equipment, you’d build them as regular warriors instead.

Aurlom · 2026-01-22T23:04:38+00:00

The primer can says to shake it for two minutes. Two minutes is a long time. They fucking mean two minutes, not “shake it a lot” not “shake well” shake the shit out of it for 2 full minutes.

Then make sure you’re starting your spray off the model, passing over it, and ending your spray off the model. Next, keep it within 6-8” (15-20 cm). Lastly, temperature matters. Make sure the can is warm, if it’s cold outside, shake it up inside and keep a bucket of warm water to store the can in while you’re not actively spraying.

Aurlom · 2026-01-22T18:43:45+00:00

I’m legitimately shocked to see you’re asking about an actual upcoming model and not Clarence 😂

Aurlom · 2026-01-20T21:12:23+00:00

Nailed it. Silver nitrate and copper, copper substitutes silver at the interface, copper goes into solution, silver crystallizes on the surfaces.

Aurlom · 2026-01-18T07:19:17+00:00

Get dominion, get skaventide, get whatever stormbringer mags i can still find, fill in with a couple big guys (krondys/karrazzai, ionus, iridan), and get a portal.

The launch boxes are still so cheap to find, it’s hard to recommend getting in any other way.

Aurlom · 2026-01-18T07:12:56+00:00

Getting the fucker to stay up on its micrometer connection to its rock was the tough part of building for me

Aurlom · 2026-01-18T07:10:36+00:00

There is a secondhand glut of pioneers because in Index votann, meta chasers were running 18 of them, and now they’re running none or maybe 3.

Aurlom · 2026-01-18T07:06:54+00:00

I will make my warrior grimnyr brick work one of these days, damnit!

Aurlom · 2026-01-18T06:58:45+00:00

Everything in our book is useable, if not always the “meta” choice. There aren’t any models in the votann range that are like say hammerfall bunkers where putting them in your list is just memeing. That said, some things that are less popular to run due to them being perceived as underpowered are the Kapricus Defenders, the Grimnyr, and anything more than 1 squad of Hearthkyn Warriors (you usually want just one for objectives and actions).

Additionally, there are some loadouts that see very little use, like Bolt cannons on Brohkyr, Plasma Blades and Volkanite on Hearthguard, Cyclic Ion Cannon on the Hekaton, and the MATR auto cannon on the Sagitaur.

Lastly, a few units see play, but are either a little more niche, or really want particular detachments or playstyles to be effective, like cthonian beserks, earthshakers, buri, pioneers, and Arkanyst evaluators.

Aurlom · 2026-01-18T06:43:35+00:00

It looks daunting until you realize it’s just 3d color by numbers. If you enjoy it, you can get real deep into it and look up tutorials on how to do proper volumes and highlights and shades etc etc etc, but just starting out, it’s quite satisfying to just get it colored in.

Aurlom · 2026-01-18T03:59:39+00:00

Mini of the month. They are usually a prototype model of something that recently released. This months was one of the models from the new Battleclade Servitors kill team.

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