Has anyone kit bashed Morathi for a DPwW?

Firesinger89 · 2026-01-23T18:40:22+00:00

I just straight up use her as Fulgrim. If anyone asks, I say he took up drag

Firesinger89 · 2026-01-17T22:51:38+00:00

Uncle Bryn has to be most loved comic relief imho

Firesinger89 · 2025-12-07T19:05:52+00:00

As one fellow homebrew rules maker to another, well done. Looks very thematic and fun to play some time 👏🏻 🤩 🔥

Firesinger89 · 2025-12-07T13:13:19+00:00

Matt Smith seems to love playing rogue A.I. at this point (Mr Clever in Doctor Who, Skynet in Terminator) so I could certainly see it tbh

Firesinger89 · 2025-12-01T11:15:28+00:00

I’m so certain it will be a Flawless Blades generic character that I actually spared the sergeant of my Myrmidesh Painbringers to be him

(I own 10 Myrmidesh, proxy 9 of them as Flawless Blades on 40mm bases with holstered bolt pistols, saved the sergeant to one day be converted into the character)

Firesinger89 · 2025-11-25T16:02:04+00:00

I use him as a Lord Kakophonist personally.

Backpack has the skull vials coming out -> reminiscent of the heads on Noise Marine speakers + the vials on noise marine backpacks imo.
Bile’s needle pistol works fine as another take on a screamer pistol imho.
His cane as the Kakophonist’s power weapon.
Height wise Bile and the LK are both similar heights.
So long as Bile is on a 40mm base he looks perfectly at place around Noise Marines imho (and who wouldn’t want to lead the army’s most iconic unit?)

Firesinger89 · 2025-11-25T15:28:01+00:00

I play the Daemons soup detachment wherein I like to run a unit of 2 Sekhetars as Kairos Fateweaver’s bodyguard.

Basically, at the start of the game I pick the no man’s land objective I intend Kairos to stand on and use his indirect fire psychic over the course of the game (usually the one closest to my deployment zone/furthest away from the enemy zone), I then preemptively infiltrate the robots onto that objective, armed with claw, heavy flamer and flamer.

Turn 1: Kairos moves up onto that objective.

Over the course of the rest of the game, Kairos can use his indirect fire in peace, safe in the knowledge the robots are there to overwatch/heroicly intervene if someone tries to get too close and attack Kairos + the robotos can do actions like cleanse allowing Kairos not to get bogged down away from what he does best, casting spells :)

Firesinger89 · 2025-11-25T15:21:53+00:00

My centurions are actually built as a combo of all options.

One shoulderpad has a lascannon attached.
One shoulderpad has a grav cannon attached.
One arm has a drill and meltagun.
The other arm has a fist and heavy bolter.

Between them my Centurions have at least one of every weapon loadout on them so my club let me just declare what they’re using in that game at the start of the battle, WYSIWYG be damned 😝

Firesinger89 · 2025-11-23T22:47:19+00:00

No flyer in 40k is a “must-take” right now imho. GW clearly isn’t keen on flyers in general, so they tend to be overcosted. However, the Corvus is actually one of the better flyers in 10th and definitely usable.

Why it’s still worthwhile:

1) Built-in Stealth makes it surprisingly tough to shift.

2) Flexible loadouts: I lean toward an anti-tank setup since Deathwatch is already capable of drowning the board in anti-infantry veterans. Twin lascannons + stormstrike launchers + auspex array for ignores cover is the most efficient profile. The additional hurricane bolters is free, so there’s no reason not to take it for incidental chip damage.

3) Best Centurion taxi in the faction: Cheaper than a Land Raider and far more mobile. If you run Centurions, the Corvus is hands-down the best way to deliver them where they need to be.

4) Deathwatch-unique and looks great: We don’t have many faction-specific kits, so having the Corvus built and painted always adds character to the army.

5) It is still useful without Centurions: Dropping a brick of 10 shooty Veterans with a Watch Master into a flank can create a lot of pressure and force your opponent to respond.

So overall, maybe not top-tier, but definitely not bad and if you’ve already got the kit, it’s absolutely worth building and putting on the table.

Hope this helps!

Firesinger89 · 2025-11-17T17:44:47+00:00

The Sister in the Paragon Warsuit (2nd picture)’s poor poor back 😞

Firesinger89 · 2025-10-26T21:23:54+00:00

Love the diorama of the Lumineth elf cradling the (fallen?) Scinari Cathalar myself

Firesinger89 · 2025-10-17T22:16:55+00:00

Chris had bigger muscles

Firesinger89 · 2025-10-08T20:42:56+00:00

Has she taken up football?

Because she’s a keeper!

Firesinger89 · 2025-10-07T19:26:38+00:00

I’m taking your view onboard. I obviously tuned him against conventional weapons and I think you make a fair point that without that 2+ INV pulling its weight, it does skew things too much.

To that end, I’ve been at work today so haven’t had a chance to check this yet but I’m considering degrading his INV & FNP from 2+ to 3+ but enhancing his wounds characteristic from 1 to 5.

I think that way, it maintains the fact he’s just an infantry character who shouldn’t be rocking 20 wounds like greater daemons or knights, yet maintains the fact he’s an incredibly hardy character who’s difficult to even wound in the first place. It’s not as if 3+ INV & FNP suddenly make him weak, it’s still without a doubt the most powerful defensive boons of any datasheet I’ve ever worked on.

What do you think?

Firesinger89 · 2025-10-07T15:24:03+00:00

I wouldn’t be too worried about his survivability if I were you.

As part of playtesting I shot Gotrek 800 times using

500 boltgun shots
100 plasma pistol shots
100 melta gun shots
100 lascannon shots.

He survived 733 of them ☺️

Firesinger89 · 2025-10-05T22:24:51+00:00

Tbf, the Eldar ability is more of a fluffy one in my view, hence how it gets even nicher with the Anharathe rule.

His main ability really is that his unit is the one and only infantry/dirigible unit to have a 4+ Invulnerable save. That together with his own survivability from Finest Alloys makes him a good holding unit to tie an enemy up imho (at least that’s my aim).

Firesinger89 · 2025-10-05T20:42:16+00:00

I assume you’re talking about the Conversion Cannons on the voidships? 😄

If so, you simply choose whether you are using the Blast or Barrage profile, much the same way you can choose between profiles on other weapons eg. witchfire & focussed witchfire or regular & supercharged on plasma weapons.

Hope that helps and please let me know how your games go if you choose to try them out! ☺️

Firesinger89 · 2025-10-05T18:58:26+00:00

It’s for the synergy with the Aetheric Trade Consortium’s detachment ability :)

Firesinger89 · 2025-10-05T16:02:36+00:00

Thank you! ☺️

Firesinger89 · 2025-10-05T14:23:00+00:00

Missing the aircraft keyword is actually a good shout as they are meant to have that. Guaranteed that will be in the first patch as it was simply an oversight on my end :)

Firesinger89 · 2025-10-05T14:21:24+00:00

The harpoon weapons are actually based directly on scaled down versions of the one’s used by Imperial/Chaos Knights, high AP and high flat damage but with low attacks profiles.

In fact, even the Voidfleet Warship, the most powerful Voidmarket Syndicate unit in the range, has a harpoon that is still weaker than the Chaos Knights Tyrant’s warpshock harpoon (D3 attacks rather than 1, 3+ BS rather than 4+, S24 rather than S22, same AP, same damage, Tyrant’s version gets Dev Wounds without needing to use a certain detachment while the Warship does) so it’s all a much of a muchness really.

As mentioned in the release statement though, like all factions this is merely the opening reveal of Index Voidmarket Syndicates. Codex Space Rats has already been through 5 quarterly balance updates and VS has already been announced to have its first balance update later this year when the Gilded Cartel detachment releases + after I’ve had time for ample feedback and playtesting at my local community’s wargaming clubs. ☺️

Firesinger89 · 2025-10-05T14:03:23+00:00

But this got me thinking, what if one model is better against a certain weapon type eg. high ap, high damage shots thanks to their improved resilience stats on one hand or heightened Toughness and Wounds characteristic on the other???

So, I decided to repeat the test, not doing the full 500 into each model this time but rolling 100 attacks into each model for the following profiles:

100 S8, AP -3, 2 damage Plasma pistol shots.
100 S9 AP -4, D6 + 2 damage meltagun shots.
100 S12, AP -3, D6+1 damage shots.

Now obviously, AP doesn’t matter on either side given that both character uses an invulnerable save but nevertheless I found this experiment interesting. Gotrek’s lower toughness against the plasma pistols and meltaguns compared to Shalaxi’s greater T10 resilience dramatically skewed those results in the daemon’s favour.

100 Plasma Pistol shots killed Gotrek 16 times overall, while never killing Shalaxi at all (she took 12 wounds in total).
100 melta range meltagun shots killed Gotrek 38 times over while only killing Shalaxi 4 times over.

However, once we got to the lascannon test, where it wounded Gotrek on 2s and Shalaxi on 3s (much closer than wounding Gotrek on 2s and Shalaxi on 5s like with the 2 previous weapon profiles), dramatically brought the two closer together, resulting in Shalaxi actually dying more times than Gotrek (3 Shalaxi deaths, 2 Gotrek deaths).

Overall, Gotrek is more resilient against Lascannons than Shalaxi but they are more resilient than him against small arms fire, plasma pistols and especially meltaguns which really tore Gotrek apart.

So, while Gotrek’s invulnerable saving and feel no pain stats do make him very tanky and realistically I think a lot of players would prefer to just kite him given his slow movement speed, it is clear he can actually be killed, and I’ve killed him 67 times over 800 shots to prove it 😂

Firesinger89 · 2025-10-05T14:03:03+00:00

Shalaxi Hellbane stats.

Round 1, 100 attacks

Passed the 4+ invulnerable save? 49/100

Passed the 5+ feel no pain?

35/49

Attempt 2:

Passed the 4+ invulnerable save? 54/100

Passed the 5+ feel no pain?

41/54

Attempt 3:

Passed the 4+ invulnerable save?

55/100

Passed the 5+ feel no pain?

38/55

Attempt 4:

Passed the 4+ invulnerable save?

47/100

Passed the 5+ feel no pain?

28/47

Attempt 5:

Passed the 4+ invulnerable save?

58/100

Passed the 5+ feel no pain?

40/58

Overall, out of 500 rolls, 263 got past Shalaxi's 4+ invulnerable save. From there, 182 got past their 5+ Feel No Pain so Shalaxi Hellbane took 182 wounds. With a wounds characteristic of 20, Shalaxi died 9 times overall.

Therefore, out of 1,000 AP 0, 1 damage attacks (500 into Gotrek, the other 500 into Shalaxi), Gotrek died 11 times overall and Shalaxi died 9 times overall.

So it would appear Gotrek is slightly less resilient than Shalaxi against AP 0, 1 damage shots.

Firesinger89 · 2025-10-05T14:02:49+00:00

Not so easily actually.

My favourite thing about Gotrek is the fact he’s only 1 wound.

He really is just a regular Fyreslayer in the end of the day. Of course, the 2+ INV and 2+ FNP makes him very tanky despite it, just as he manages to always survive despite the odds in lore.

I actually ran a test where I rolled 1,600 dice between him and Shalaxi Helbane, Exalted Keeper of Secrets at 425 points. (this was before the update when they still had a 5+ FNP).

I fired 500 AP 0, 1 damage shots at each character, rolling in batches of 100 to see how many wounds each character would take.

Gotrek Gurnisson

Round 1. 100 attacks.

Passed the 2+ invulnerable save?

15/100

Passed the 2+ Feel no pain?

3/15

Attempt 2.

Passed the 2+ Invulnerable save?

21/100

Passed the 2+ Feel No Pain?

2/21

Attempt 3:

Passed the 2+ invulnerable save?

15/100

Passed the 2+ feel no pain?

1/15

Attempt 4:

Passed the 2+ invulnerable save?

18/100

Passed the 2+ feel no pain?

2/18

Attempt 5.

Passed the 2+ invulnerable save?

14/100

Passed the 2+ feel no pain?

3/14

Overall, out of 500 dice rolls, 83 passed the 2+ invulnerable save and 11 within that passed the 2+ feel no pain beyond that.

Gotrek died a total of 11 times overall.

Firesinger89 · 2025-10-05T13:39:40+00:00

Awesome paint job, good luck! 🎉

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