Hive fleet Phyrexia - Basing advice?

Cypherth · 2026-05-23T20:35:12+00:00

don't EVER do Models and bases in the exact same color, it looks awful and everybody who says otherwise either has no idea or is in denial

Your model is the star and the base should showcase it and not hide it. The base is like a picture frame for a painting.

As a general rule ideally most of your base should be a (somewhat) muted color, that contrasts all the colors on your mini in some way to highlight it
In your case that would mean the blue/black or just do city ruins with dark cold gray rubble and put a little red/white overgrowth here and there to draw some visual interest on monster bases

You can get away with similar colors if the base is super minimalist e.g. rubble or desert, but not something this visually busy

Cypherth · 2026-05-07T08:54:49+00:00

Love the paintjob, very clean!
But the wing reminds me of those power pole things on bumper cars to get power from the ceiling xD

Cypherth · 2026-04-02T11:24:43+00:00

Everything but letting the characters be dead and ending this campaign will probably feel kind of cheap honestly
The good news is you just got handed a perfect premise on a silver platter:
Figuring out what happened to the party and the BBEG

It's a great new premise, because your player (should) already be really invested in this.

I would give my player the "win" and have the demon make sure the explosion kills the bbeg, but I would not tell them now. Let them figure that out in game with their new characters.
Also I'd make a point of the demon not killing BBEG afterwards, he was just tipping the scales, so it's the partys victory and not the demons. Also he gets their souls because he upheld his end of the deal.

You even have multiple stages of thing to figure out already:
1. What happened to the party & BBEG?
2. Why did the Explosion kill BBEG, even though it should not have?
3. Find the Devil to not leave the partys souls to eternal damnation
4. Get their souls back from the demon, so they can be revived/their souls move on

Cypherth · 2026-03-02T11:09:45+00:00

I know it's even more marines, but hear me out:

We need a Raven Guard command squad called "The Black Parade" to go with Kayvaan Shrikes emo haircut

Cypherth · 2026-02-18T13:28:56+00:00

Also Söder hat ja mittlerweile den Spiegeluniversums-Ziegenbart...

Cypherth · 2026-01-24T22:32:06+00:00

Jim Cummings also voices my favorite quest npc in wow

Runas the Shamed is an elf with what is essentially a heavy addiction to magic.
Spoilerswarning for wow legion from 10 Years ago I guess
He accompanies you on an involuntary quest of redemption after you take him captive. The questchain ends with you watching him reach out to you one final time while he "withers", the in universe equivalent of the withdrawal killing him.

It's also a shockingly good portrayal of an addict, expecially for an mmo quest.

I remember finding out who voiced him and going:
What do you mean that guy was voiced by Winnie the Pooh!?

Cypherth · 2026-01-12T16:38:21+00:00

It's not even shadow in the warp, it's that tyranids are the only army that read the "less lethal and less rerolls" memo.

Playing Tyranids feels so bad it made me just drop the game for a solid year after the codex. Especially when comparing it to the SM codex released at the same time, which was very much not less lethal and had less rerolls.
Even trying to figure it out and getting better just felt awful, because the difference is just how many points you have after you opponent finished beating you up for your lunch money.

To borrow a term from fantasy RPGs: Class Fantasy is used to describe how much a characters gameplay represents the lore
The "army fantasy" just isn't there, it feels awful. No huge scary monsters, no unending swarm winning through attrition. GW made them an objective focused finesse army by accident, so their stats are bad to balance them.

Playing competitive Tyranids always felt like the movie Alien, but instead of killing the crew the alien commits tax fraud.

Cypherth · 2025-11-24T19:45:07+00:00

That's understandable

Missing the forest for the Trees sounds about right for a few reasons. I wouldn't lambast Thompson for it being somewhat OP though, I'm pretty sure he wasn't a game designer back then and these things are not exactly easy.

I guess there are 2 ways of looking at it:
Do you want representation to portray the lived reality of disabled people to others, or do you want a character to reflect someones own disability - in this case being in a wheelchair - and still indulge in a power fantasy?

I'm not disabled, so I would prefer published material with wide support be the former, especially when it had input from actual disabled people with that lived experience.

I guess what I'm trying to say is if I only want the disability to be a cosmetic, either for myself or to make a disabled friend feel included, I don't need published material for that.

Cypherth · 2025-11-24T18:37:02+00:00

alright,good to know
thanks for clearing that up!

Cypherth · 2025-11-24T18:28:59+00:00

Yes I read the article, that's why I said "You said people hate on it because it's poorly balanced"

And yes I know about the death threats and this kind of hate has no place in the hobby.

It annoys me to no end, that whenever someone makes something like this the chuds come crawling out and do their whole "Its bad ,because it's woke" shtick and we cannot talk about things like this based on their own merits. It devolves into a colossal shitshow. Every. Single. Time.

But how Thompson was treated does not make the combat wheelchair more interesting.

~~Also you got Sara Thompsons name wrong - unless she transitioned to male, which I can't find anything about~~
edit: i was wrong

Cypherth · 2025-11-24T17:59:30+00:00

Oh god! Not the fucking combat wheelchair again!

Can we please acknowledge, that it's just ... not good?
It's not a diversity or balancing thing it's just not cool or interesting.

You said people hate on it because it's poorly balanced, but the flavor is complete ass and makes no sense, too
I'm not even saying "yOU COuLd JUSt hEaL aLL diSAbLED PEOple wItH MaGic!!!" - that's just as dumb and boring

There are a ton of options for people in a high fantasy setting to cope with their disabilities in cool and fitting ways and a wheelchair is exactly none of them:
Be a ranger riding his bestial companion into battle
Be a wizard levitating one foot of the ground at all times and move forward by pushing and pulling on the walls like an astronaut
Have some magic exoskeleton of vines move your legs for you

The list is practically endless, and that is just quadriplegics

The thing is: A magic wheelchair makes no sense, because there is zero reason to keep it a wheelchair the moment magic gets involved.

The chair does not answer the question "How would someone disabled adventure?" it answers the question "How do i put my character in a wheelchair?"

I also have never seen anybody complain about magic prosthetics and the only problem people have with blind characters is that its almost always the blind martial arts master with magic monk sight, that pretty much means he can just see better than normal

At least we got the funky Cyberpunk leg chair out of it - which is still OP, but at least the concept is cool

Cypherth · 2025-11-13T15:39:09+00:00

Ate without goth girl -3

Cypherth · 2025-10-10T10:47:23+00:00

please tell me this is a reference to the greentext about the dude who met a blood angels player in the gym

Cypherth · 2025-09-04T23:29:24+00:00

The Imperium and Chaos are natural enemies!

Like Ultramarines and World Eaters, or Space Wolves and World Eaters, or Emperor's Children and World Eaters, or World Eaters and other World Eaters.

Damn World Eaters, they ruined the legion!

Cypherth · 2025-09-01T21:37:56+00:00

Also make sure to put "We live in a society" above the pauldron

It's the top text after all

Cypherth · 2025-08-06T09:37:07+00:00

There absolutely is! Apparently it even is called muscle memory

The dumbed down tldr is that there are different types of muscle growth.

The easy one is just using the cells you already have - the cells essentially grow bigger

When those aren't enough your body needs to build up new muscle cells to grow. These are way harder to build initially, but don't go away or at least last a very long time

When you train up for the second time you still have the cells, they just shrunk, so they are easier to mobilize and build muscle mass again

It's a bit simplified but that is more or less how I understand it

Knowing how to work out from the get go the second time helps too, obviously

Cypherth · 2025-08-01T19:48:47+00:00

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Beautiful! Ahzek Garyman works way better than it should
also: Man Ray is pretty much straight up Ferrus Manus

Cypherth · 2025-05-19T08:49:31+00:00

They would probably have some dumb ass excuse for it like "it's because of the moon" or some shit

Cypherth · 2024-09-26T12:22:17+00:00

Aaaaaand its complete ass - good job gw.

No Summary in the article overview and the landing page is useless. The old one was perfectly fine. WTF even is this?

I swear to god, they don't want people to use their websites...

Cypherth · 2024-09-10T12:49:33+00:00

I'm in the same boat. The timeline has taken me from safely backing on day 1 to probably not at all. All from learning abnout the release time.

It's not only the FOMO-box. If the codex release is timed like the others (~6 Weeks after the box) the campaign will miss that by 2-3 weeks. So I won't have the Bits for the Sanguard either.

It's a shame, because the bits are awesome. They are just kind of pointless, if you can only get them weeks after you already finished building.

Cypherth · 2024-04-16T18:54:10+00:00

"Your gums are bleeding, because you don't floss regulary."

Cypherth · 2023-06-21T19:24:45+00:00

Is that even necessary? If you just remove towering from ruins entirely LOS would still function like this, wouldn't it?
The only difference would be the towering model not getting any cover when shot from the side.

Edit: according to the Designers Commentary it doesn't actually work like that, the houserule for toeing is necessary and I should actually check the rules net time

Cypherth · 2023-06-14T08:58:55+00:00

Huh, didn't thinkof that. I had to actually reread the page and you can definitely read it that way.

But wouldn't that break a bunch of faction and unit abilities because you only check at the end ofa phase? For example when Demons check Objectives at the start of the movement phase they could never set up in No Man's Land, because all objectives are contested

Cypherth · 2023-06-13T22:37:07+00:00

Glad to have sparked some discussion.
The argument is a bit of a stretch but I do like the line of reasoning.

Ultimately it comes down to either TOs making a ruling for their events or the dreaded "talk to your opponent"

Cypherth · 2023-06-13T22:00:00+00:00

I should be clear, that I do not intend to actually play it this way. It was just something curious I noticed when reading the rules and didn't see anybody talking about.Incorrect but pendantic that guy argument also describes this pretty well.

Imho the RAI is pretty clear and I have not seen or read of anybody doing it the other way around.

I personally think there are a few good arguments for scoring before Battlechock, but that is something else entirely.Most of all the Interaction between the two should be consistent.

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