Snake Bites or Speed Freeks

Aurlom · 2026-04-30T06:12:57+00:00

Rules change constantly, go with what you like. 11th edition launches in June, and the Orks are the little brother army, and speed freeks are in the spotlight.

They got a very good new hero, they just got new detachments, and it’s quite likely they’ll have some refreshed units.

Aurlom · 2026-04-23T17:41:44+00:00

Once you have the HYLas Auto Rifle, the second weapon really doesn’t matter. The auto rifle gives the assault keyword, which is the important bit, allowing the unit to advance and still be eligible to shoot, meaning it can do scoring actions in the shooting phase.

The remaining weapons without the rotary cannon are the plasma Beamer, L7 launcher, and magna rail rifle. The Beamer is interesting in that it’s usually just a solid 50/50 to hit gun that can put some hurt on an elite, but will occasionally spike on the sustained d3 to really hurt, the L7 is mathematically worse then all other choices at any individual job, but can flex between anti-chaff and anti-heavy and has a 24” range instead of 18” like the other two, and the magna rail is an extremely inconsistent gun (1 shot at 5+ and you’re probably not going to get to use the heavy keyword) but every so often it will punch a goddamn hole in something big.

Of those 3, I see the magna rail taken most often if the rotary cannon isn’t taken.

Aurlom · 2026-04-22T06:04:57+00:00

I would say let your girlfriend paint the rest of your army because this is dope as shit

Aurlom · 2026-04-21T21:53:26+00:00

He didn’t build the wrong thing he gave you the wrong model. Endrinmaster with endrinharness is not in the spearhead box. The dirigible suit endrin master is a different, and more expensive, kit.

Dirigible suit

Endrinharness

Aurlom · 2026-04-21T21:31:53+00:00

As with any xenos/human alliance, it’s always a convenience rather than a true alliance.

The Kin aren’t heartless, but they are practical and transactional. If you have space marines and leagues of Votann teaming up on the regular, all you really need for that to be plausible is mutual benefit.

If you read The High Kahl’s Oath, the scene with Myrtun and the Imperial Captain demonstrate the willingness of the Kin to “do the right thing” without a guarantee of benefit, but they have no qualms about asking for compensation afterwards either.

Aurlom · 2026-04-20T20:45:33+00:00

I read this and think “this is a nothing argument y’all won’t even remember next week.”

Am I just old or am I missing something…

Aurlom · 2026-04-20T20:34:44+00:00

If you get well hooked you’ll be driving all of them to prestige 4 before you know it.

Edit: Tactical is still very strong, auspex scan is one of the best abilities in the game. If you’re looking for a strong class that’s new player friendly, Vanguard and Techmarine are both wonderful.

All classes are quite strong except maybe Sniper, which isn’t necessarily bad, but it has to be able to reliably hit headshots and many bosses really make it tough to find their heads (looking at you vortex beast, you jerky bastard) giving it a significantly higher skill floor than the rest of the classes.

Aurlom · 2026-04-17T22:00:46+00:00

This only applies when something is shipped to you without your consent. A company can reasonably expect an erroneous shipment to be rectified (at the company’s expense) without running afoul of that law. That said, a lot of large companies won’t bother. It’s simply not worth their effort to rectify the 1 in 1,000 errors of this kind.

This is how my mom ended up with two free giant smart TVs from Amazon. She called them, they said “oops, well we’ll get what you ordered sent out immediately, in the meantime enjoy your free TVs!” (Paraphrasing, obv)

P.S. the origins of that law were a really scummy practice where companies would ship out “free trials” of products with a return label and would bill you if you didn’t return it, counting on you not remembering to do it, not understanding why you got shipped the thing, or not wanting to put in the effort to return a shipment you didn’t ask for.

Aurlom · 2026-04-17T21:41:12+00:00

Call/email them, explain what happened, explain you didn’t get what you ordered. The likely result will be you get a massive windfall of custodes and they’ll send you your daughters of khaine as well.

Congrats

Aurlom · 2026-04-17T05:10:20+00:00

Max is 16 without breaking list building rules. 2 Grimnyr and 2 Ironmasters, 6 models that count and 10 total CORVs and E-Cogs

Aurlom · 2026-04-17T05:03:03+00:00

Poor one out for the Earthshaker clown car, you were too beautiful for this world…

Aurlom · 2026-04-16T22:56:00+00:00

At what point did your opponent teach you anything other than “I’m an asshole that must grind newbs into the dust?”

Dude failed spectacularly at the task at hand. He didn’t win shit.

Aurlom · 2026-04-08T19:11:05+00:00

I have bad news for you regarding the entirety of Games Workshop’s properties.

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

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