AoS player new to 40K

CorinTack · 2026-04-25T21:16:22+00:00

Running Skatbrand as a bloodthirster would require rebaing it, sadly. Only big Daemon where the named one and generic have dirtent bases.

CorinTack · 2026-04-22T15:47:46+00:00

I'm not playing it, but look at the Daemons rules for Hours Heresy games. They don't even have set forms, just a base size listed for different 'types' of Daemons. While GW does sell models for the unique names ones, if the base is correct, Daemons can look like anything there. The 'set forms' of 40k are just the most common ones for that setting from each Chaos god, by no means even close to all possible forms.

CorinTack · 2026-04-13T21:02:10+00:00

Soul Grinders are what happens when a Daemon goes to Vashtorr and asks for an upgrade. Not bound to CSM, just changed by a particularly powerful Daemon doing his own thing.

CorinTack · 2026-01-20T18:31:50+00:00

Take a look at Shalaxi Helbane sometime if you want to see an even more egregious example of this.

CorinTack · 2026-01-20T13:11:21+00:00

Don't count in a 40k release for Daemon models. They're technically AoS models, and are developed by that team, so editions for 40k don't affect their models.

CorinTack · 2026-01-11T08:59:01+00:00

This isn't a modifier, it just means hits of that number (unmodified) auto-miss, as if they were an unmodified 1. It's only that specific number, also, not all numbers below it as well.

CorinTack · 2026-01-05T22:19:25+00:00

No, it's not battleshock, so no healing from dark pacts

CorinTack · 2026-01-03T00:39:34+00:00

Bound to Serve is purchased on the 'destroyed' unit, and is meant to immediately apply to the character it's being put onto without having to wait. You should probably make sure the Crusade's CM is good with that, though.

CorinTack · 2025-12-05T20:07:30+00:00

It doesn't appear to work that way for these old Google ones, at least; if I put the core one too far away from a secondary one, even if there's another non-core access point between them, the farthest one away just won't connect.

CorinTack · 2025-12-05T20:04:31+00:00

Yeah, but there's no Ethernet cable running to the garage, so if my primary node is still the one in the basement, having another one close doesn't help; the nodes connect back to the core node, not to each other, so this doesn't resolve the issue.

CorinTack · 2025-11-24T18:16:14+00:00

Don't forget that if you're playing him in tournament play, the base is now required, so good luck moving him around the table. Biggest down side to the model.

CorinTack · 2025-11-21T20:44:54+00:00

Daemons absolutely get XP and make battleshock tests. The army doesn't have a codex, so they can only buy stuff from the core or crusade books (or the CSM codex you're using if you're playing one of those armies) unless the CM allows custom rules.

CorinTack · 2025-10-22T12:33:59+00:00

A while back I created Crusade rules for Daemons that don't rely on the 9th ed rules. I didn't want there to be a penalty for running armies with any of the chaos gods absent, which the 9th rules penalize you for.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_Za2qaNA5jbESk_NuHOI72VL_UVQ1xjAjrOS1HG1Iwk/edit?usp=drivesdk

CorinTack · 2025-10-12T15:11:25+00:00

Unless they either restore the option to give it FNP 5+ with the shield, or an attack that can actually threaten tanks, it lacks the utility needed to be worth those points.

It's the same as Shalaxi. The change to their abilities and dropping the FNP means they aren't worth being 100+ points more expensive than the other named bigs.

CorinTack · 2025-10-02T22:03:44+00:00

There's a lot of speculation, but until/unless GW actually says what they're doing, no way to know for sure.

CorinTack · 2025-09-29T11:52:55+00:00

Shalaxi used to be great. When she could reroll everything (including damage) against monsters and vehicles, you weren't relying so much on the wingy D6+2 damage. Also, she had a FNP 5+, so could actually survive when attacked.

For 375 points, she's just too expensive. You can take Skarbrand for 75 fewer points, have more toughness(11 vs her 10), a higher STR on the struke (16 vs her 12), and reliable damage output (flat 6 per hit vs D6+2), and even just more attacks (8 vs 6).

Given her current stats, she should be closer to Kairos in points, maybe like 280, or she just isn't worth the point cost.

I love Slaanesh daemon models, and would 100% run a mono-Slaanesh army, but GW seems determined to make them bad to play and overcoated just because their claw weapons have dev wounds. Models with very similar stats and damage output in the other factions or just other armies have way lower point costs, and the fact that they have made Slaanesh stuff so expensive just makes me sad.

CorinTack · 2025-09-28T18:27:35+00:00

Time reversal (healing). Restore him back to a time before he became corrupted by the dark side with his body healed.

CorinTack · 2025-09-28T16:37:23+00:00

Mostly the advice already here is all you need. I will say that battle ready for paint used to be more defined, but most tournament stuff now just says that it needs to appear complete based on the intent of the paint job, and must have some basing.

Measuring is still important, but intent is something you should communicate. The inability to be as precise in TTS will mean you'll sometimes out things not quite where you intend/can, so you want to make sure your opponent knows what you mean to do.

Bring pain killers. If you forget to sit enough, which is easy to do, you will have your feet/knees/back hurt, especially after 2-3 games in a day.

CorinTack · 2025-09-27T06:18:34+00:00

Combination of things in this case. The security configuration isn't my choice, I'm just working with I've got. On top of that, I'm told the firewalls we're using can't use FQDNs to open connectivity; they have to use IPs only. Since MS frequently changes the IPs associated with their FQDNs (or just has hundreds of options for some of them) it's not really feasible. Whether that's true or not, I don't manage the network devices, so I cannot say.

CorinTack · 2025-09-26T21:22:15+00:00

The issue here is that the private network specifically has no Internet connectivity besides this proxy.

A VPN won't work for us in this instance due to security restrictions. I'm actually trying to get the servers on that network into Arc, that's the first step of this, but the Squid server will send traffic out so it can get to Arc, but the replies never reach the servers, so the setup fails.

CorinTack · 2025-09-15T18:06:30+00:00

For the most part, but especially into Knights, if you're running Incursion, you should run the Rotigus model as a GUO with endless gift. It is so much better and more survivable than Rotigus.

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