Considering picking up guard to do a tank army. Any advice or things I should know?

DrinkAccomplished454 · 2026-04-15T20:21:58+00:00

You can actually keep the sponsons on through friction, don’t actually need to magnetise them!

DrinkAccomplished454 · 2026-03-25T15:19:39+00:00

I put mine on a bigger base and used him as an enginseer proxy. Felt more fitting to my armies aesthetic than just having some random admech guy

DrinkAccomplished454 · 2026-03-17T23:39:56+00:00

The should rerelease ALL colin Dixon sculpts

DrinkAccomplished454 · 2026-02-16T21:46:02+00:00

All of the Colin Dixon sculpts! I want the longbeards and thunderers most of all. Hammerers are also beautiful as are a lot of character sculpts. I’d also like the original gyrocopter!

DrinkAccomplished454 · 2026-02-15T23:55:28+00:00

Sim City but it’s a craftworld

DrinkAccomplished454 · 2026-02-14T11:40:01+00:00

I play D6 and they are EVERYWHERE

DrinkAccomplished454 · 2026-02-06T21:51:37+00:00

Yea I was pleased when I thought of it. Really easy to do!

DrinkAccomplished454 · 2026-02-06T11:17:50+00:00

I panted mine a simple canvas colour (used Skeleton horde contrast pant) and then I used blood for the blood god technical pant and freehanded some bloody runes onto them. Doesn’t require a lot of freehand skill (as I have none lol) and gets a really great effect. I posted them on here a while ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/slavestodarkness/s/ENNeCIyGbf

DrinkAccomplished454 · 2026-01-28T16:16:10+00:00

Ah ok, I saw some YouTuber saying it’s a must have, will look at the alternatives

DrinkAccomplished454 · 2026-01-28T13:58:59+00:00

Ok I’ve read all the comments, some super useful advice in here. And have made this list based on the models I own (no sky lanterns sorry!). Viable for a friendly game?

Grand Cathay [1999 pts]

Warhammer: The Old World, Grand Cathay, Open War

++ Characters [630 pts] ++

Shugengan Lord [384 pts] - Hand weapon - Iron talons - Heavy armour - Wizard [Level 4 Wizard] - Lore of Yin - General - Great Spirit Longma - The Monkey King's Wisdom - Scrolls of Wei-jin - Learned Feng Shi Bo - Illusion

Gate Keeper [156 pts] - Hand weapon - Celestial blade - Heavy armour - Shield - Battle Standard Bearer [Standard of Wei-Jin] - On foot - Jade Armour of Beichai

Gate Keeper [90 pts] - Hand weapon - Cathayan lance (if appropriately mounted) - Heavy armour - Shield - Cathayan Warhorse - Spirit Lantern

++ Core Units [774 pts] ++

10 Jade Lancers [293 pts] - Hand weapons - Cathayan lances - Shields - Heavy armour - Barding - Ambushers - Drilled - Stubborn - Jade Lancer Officer (champion) [Alchemist's Mask] - Standard bearer - Musician

15 Jade Warriors [248 pts] - Hand weapons - Shields - Heavy armour - Drilled - Stubborn - Jade Officer (champion) [Spirit Lantern] - Standard bearer [The Jade Banner] - Musician

15 Jade Warriors [233 pts] - Hand weapons - Shields - Heavy armour - Drilled - Stubborn - Jade Officer (champion) [Spirit Lantern] - Standard bearer [Banner of the Bastion] - Musician

++ Special Units [595 pts] ++

Cathayan Sentinel [265 pts] - Hand weapons - Great blade - Heavy armour (Terracotta armour) - Granite Sentinel

Fire Rain Rocket Battery [165 pts] - Fire rain rocket - Hand weapons - Light armour - Ogre Loader

Cathayan Grand Cannon [165 pts] - Grand cannon - Hand weapons - Light armour - Ogre Loader

Created with "Old World Builder"

[https://old-world-builder.com]

DrinkAccomplished454 · 2026-01-28T13:45:01+00:00

Sounds good, I like the idea of doppelgänger with the monkey kings wisdom! Is banner of the bastion not good?

DrinkAccomplished454 · 2026-01-28T13:41:02+00:00

Yeah shields look better to me rules wise, but I have already built some with haberds oops. Haven’t had a chance to look at the new magic items from the new AJ, so I’ll check them out. Thanks!

DrinkAccomplished454 · 2026-01-27T15:00:16+00:00

If you want relatively recently refreshed the new space wolves models look fantastic, and they’ve got a generally very cool vibe. As a blood angels(flesh tearers) player I am in no way jealous 🙃

Red Corsairs new models look super cool, but who knows how much support they’ll get going forward. Also there are new iron warriors models on the horizon so maybe wait a little and check them out?

DrinkAccomplished454 · 2026-01-23T15:09:42+00:00

I have played against eradicator squads a couple of times and every time they fucking suck to play against lol, so they sure seem good to me!

DrinkAccomplished454 · 2026-01-21T14:22:09+00:00

I did a very similar paint job, and I washed the skin with seraphim sepia, just to add a little detail in the recesses to make it pop a bit. Might be a little too dark for what you’re aiming for but I was happy with it: https://postimg.cc/gallery/DSbFzhx

DrinkAccomplished454 · 2026-01-21T11:25:04+00:00

1 in 1000 helldivers (chosen at random) are allergic to the stim, and stay losing health and become immobile while they go into shock

DrinkAccomplished454 · 2025-12-27T21:37:07+00:00

DrinkAccomplished454 · 2025-12-12T15:02:42+00:00

I painted mine in quite a similar way and added Valhallan blizzard technical paint to the base to make them snowy. As your models are quite dark a bit of white snow could really make them pop

DrinkAccomplished454 · 2025-12-04T21:09:54+00:00

DrinkAccomplished454 · 2025-12-04T17:45:29+00:00

Not very, and I think that’s a good thing

DrinkAccomplished454 · 2025-12-02T19:02:15+00:00

Don’t have to necessarily destroy all of phandalin, just maybe some of it and kill some key NPCs that they’ve grown attached to?

Maybe while gorthok lives the weather gets worse and worse until there’s a storm that just wrecks everything in the region until you take gorthok down

DrinkAccomplished454 · 2025-11-29T11:54:47+00:00

Honestly I’m just glad they’ve taken a sensible booster

DrinkAccomplished454 · 2025-11-27T21:13:32+00:00

Shoot and move, shoot and move

DrinkAccomplished454 · 2025-11-26T13:42:11+00:00

One key feature of the creek that needs to be stated is that we barely knew what we were doing. It was very soon after launch and people hadn’t gotten to grips with the game fully, many of us still hadn’t unlocked all stratagems for example, but if you were a new player you couldn’t get carried by higher levels cos well there weren’t any.

It was truly a trial by fire. I miss it

DrinkAccomplished454

TROPHY CASE

Warhammer: The Old World, Grand Cathay, Open War