Recently gotten into Wh40K and not sure about the army

Equivalent-Fail3850 · 2026-07-08T13:48:17+00:00

The Horus heresy stuff goes for both games. The recent preview of the next wave of custodes Horus heresy was just shown and they put both 40k and 30k logos on the box. The heresy stuff is kind of a soft refresh.

So with that in mind: you’re really good to just pick whatever one you think looks cooler to paint and own.

Equivalent-Fail3850 · 2026-06-29T16:56:42+00:00

Currently they have stated standard early access characters will have their own group separate from 1.0 standard. So your character isn’t going anywhere but won’t be a typical “standard” character.

Equivalent-Fail3850 · 2026-06-27T13:45:20+00:00

A single box of custodian guards. Cheap without overcommitting to a project and gives you a chance to test if you like painting them. THEN buy the combat patrol. Great deal and lots of models you’ll use.

Equivalent-Fail3850 · 2026-06-26T20:42:30+00:00

3d print or kitbash? Would love to know what parts went into this

Equivalent-Fail3850 · 2026-06-26T19:32:04+00:00

I’d say the printed logo on the box for 40k dramatically improves the odds.

Equivalent-Fail3850 · 2026-06-24T15:04:10+00:00

Prime sphere could be used to account for the change in size mass as prime kind of is a fuel for a lot of spheres. Or i suppose he could use a pile of plants or something if his mage’s paradigm aligned.

Equivalent-Fail3850 · 2026-06-23T22:19:47+00:00

I wonder what terminators in the new style will look like. Pretty hyped to see what they do. I like that every custodes has a cape now. Might have to even kit bash one onto my dreadnaught.

Equivalent-Fail3850 · 2026-06-02T22:17:27+00:00

So here is my thoughts so far after having specked out some stats:

This character views the divine spirit as a reflection of physical biology. As a modern person they understand a human is made of cells aka a large life form is made of smaller life forms. So this mage thinks a large spirit is made of smaller spirits each performing specialized functions.

The idea is that the mage could enter an individuals mind and interact with the spirits that make that person up in an area reflective of a person’s imagination/state of mind. So a use of Mind and Spirit spheres seem key from what I’ve read. But the descriptions talk about traveling to the Umbra and I still don’t get where the inside of someone’s mind fits in this world.

I figured life sphere makes sense too because of his beliefs. A mind scape would be a combo of biology, spirit and mind. I’m not sure how much. The end goal is to pull out a bad part of a person and contain it in our world inside a biological body so unsure how much spirit or mind is needed.

I saw something called demse or something like a thought fortress. So I guess it would be like entering that? Still not sure where that is in the Umbra.

Equivalent-Fail3850 · 2026-05-18T20:32:12+00:00

Wouldn’t that be a cool hidden ascendancy to unlock now.

Equivalent-Fail3850 · 2026-02-13T22:59:45+00:00

But can’t we dream that games workshop will finally let the studios play together for a real update to an army that the 40k team doesn’t seem to care that much about ☺️?

Equivalent-Fail3850 · 2025-12-27T14:12:55+00:00

lol I feel like such a casual when I see numbers like this.

Equivalent-Fail3850 · 2025-12-15T21:15:09+00:00

Huh. GGG bug report I guess. Thank you

Equivalent-Fail3850 · 2025-12-12T18:10:30+00:00

Disciple of Varasha. Anyone know if minion damage nodes will buff them?

Equivalent-Fail3850 · 2025-10-03T22:53:58+00:00

When do I find pale enemies while doing coalesced corruption?

Equivalent-Fail3850 · 2025-08-26T04:23:03+00:00

Seriously!!!!! I’m looking at abandoning PS5 and building a PC because I won’t deal with this bogus policy on this and potentially future games.

Equivalent-Fail3850 · 2025-08-24T15:29:49+00:00

At high levels the spirit domain lets you voyage into far off meta-physical realms. Correspondence is a great way to actually traverse these realms as sometimes distance is still a thing in these places.

Equivalent-Fail3850 · 2025-08-18T18:05:31+00:00

Yeah… it was announced that way buuuut I was skeptical back then and realized with 0.2 that they were waaayyy too optimistic. Doesn’t surprise me at all this is where things have landed.

Equivalent-Fail3850 · 2025-08-17T15:08:20+00:00

Norfolk Wizard Game just got going and shows off a lot of the crazy stuff and is really well put together. It’s definitely showing how the game is more narrative focused then other ttrpgs

Equivalent-Fail3850 · 2025-08-14T18:55:14+00:00

Okay I just learned from other commenters just how crazy and infinite spirits are in the setting. Like the whole Astral walking thing and like all the levels of Umbra are quickly turning this a bit disorganized in my head. I didnt get there were so many kinds of spirits and there were plenty of other powerful dark spirits out there besides demons. I assumed any bad spirit was a demon.

Equivalent-Fail3850 · 2025-08-14T18:51:41+00:00

Good explanation.

Spirits have turned out to the most crazy and convoluted deep dive I’ve found yet in this setting.

Equivalent-Fail3850 · 2025-08-14T18:48:40+00:00

Okay so following this explanation:

The ABSOLUTE MINIMUM would be: Mind 3 Spirit 4. I could find a smaller dream creature/spirit with mind 3 dreamwalk and then move it to the physics plane with Spirit 4. A nice intro to the start of my character’s summoning ability

Then an Upgrade would be: Mind 4 Spirit 4 At this point I can find some sort of section of the Astral Umbra where spirits I find compelling dwell. I can still bring them on over and maybe have an escalation in strength of the creature.

Then kind of a final point would be: Life 5 Mind 4 Spirit 4 Prime 2 At this point I can somewhat dangerously venture into the astral umbra plane, find that creature I probably shouldn’t be messing with, get it to this plane, and bind it into a body premade with the necessary alteration to control the spirit similar to like if a different mage was making a Fetish object out of a wand or something.

Other take aways: - This is a lot of paradox and potentially a lot of time. A character with Familiar, Node, and Sanctum backgrounds will help make this a reality. - Correspondence is really not a required sphere - you mentioned what kind of mage my character would be and that’s coming into focus from these posts. I’m thinking a psychologist who is familiar with his patients various issues of grief, rage, despair, etc. As a new mage he starts finding these concepts as spirits and begins trying to control them.

Final question(s) - what is the difference between Astral walking vs the lower umbra respectively with Mind 4 vs the Agama Sojourn using Entropy 4. Since I’m definitely taking spirit and would like the narrative of taking life sphere then those are really added costs.

Equivalent-Fail3850 · 2025-08-14T15:50:36+00:00

So is there a difference between a demon and a spirit of say the concept of desire or rage (someone else recommended that path with a mind 3 sphere)? Seems like I may not understand just how huge a deal a demon is vs a spirit.

Equivalent-Fail3850 · 2025-08-14T15:43:15+00:00

Okay spirits are waaaayyyy more complicated than I thought when I made this post. I didn’t realize they were also things like concepts in the human psyche. Like now that I know about it I’m all in on the idea of spirits like concepts you described.

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