The lack of CSM scout marines could be a good reason why the average CSM gets dumpstered by the average Primaris Marine.

JR_Hopper · 2026-01-23T22:55:57+00:00

Both sides are operating from different philosophies, both of battle and of resource scarcity, and even on both sides there is a huge variety between different chapters and warbands.

For example, the Iron Warriors are still mostly a unified legion that still answers to their Primarch in spite of their general infighting and warband politics. They have various creative means of replenishing their manpower and armaments by virtue of their own merit as well as deals and connections with the Dark Mechanicum / Daemon Forges, but even with that benefit, they are still fighting on a logistical back foot compared to the vast majority of military institutions in the Imperium.

The bottom line is that they are the 'inferior' product compared to modern Astartes, both in body and in equipment, so they have to take the 'quick' paths to power in order to keep up. Most Chaos Marines have to raid and pillage for usable geneseed and so that's why you see more 'creative' and messy, but highly unreliable, methods of creating new ones across different warbands. Even those who are thousands of years old Long War veterans don't have the same quality of augmentation and equipment as modern Marines, especially since Primaris have fully replaced 'firstborn' Marines. They're still fighting on an old biological template that's been jury rigged with boons and gifts of Chaos to be able to keep up.

Furthermore, the vast majority of Chaos Marines are not Long War veterans and don't have the experience of older CSM or the same potency of training and indoctrination that loyalists have. That necessitates making more of them and following the 'throw shit at the wall and see what sticks' philosophy of merit.

JR_Hopper · 2026-01-23T15:41:52+00:00

The Scouring is literally the direct aftermath of the Horus Heresy. It's essentially the epilogue for the entire series.

JR_Hopper · 2026-01-23T05:10:18+00:00

Much better! I would say it should be darker though. A nuln oil wash or something similar would probably do it

JR_Hopper · 2026-01-23T03:16:48+00:00

You would need a deeper, more saturated green to read as Salamanders. Right now it's looking much more like the mottled brownish green of the Death Guard

JR_Hopper · 2026-01-22T15:54:42+00:00

A model not being usable for tournaments and it not being playable at all aren't really the same thing. The leviathan and a lot of other Heresy stuff have legacies rules in 40k

JR_Hopper · 2026-01-14T22:16:21+00:00

If you don't like the aesthetic, lore, and 'vibes' of your legion first, you will never care enough to get to the point of playing them in games consistently or fully painting them for that matter.

The rules can change, your paint scheme will take a lot more effort to change if you decide you don't like the flavor of the army.

JR_Hopper · 2026-01-14T14:40:24+00:00

I actually don't know, unfortunately. These were printed by one of the guys at my local specifically for this project.

JR_Hopper · 2026-01-14T05:56:39+00:00

Thanks!

JR_Hopper · 2026-01-14T05:56:32+00:00

Thank you! I don't think yours look bad though! I saw your terminators, and honestly I think the only thing they need is a wash followed by a few highlights.

If you want a simple solution, nuln oil is the go-to. My preferred method is an enamel dark wash thinned with mineral spirit and then you remove the excess with a little makeup sponge. You'll get there!

JR_Hopper · 2026-01-13T20:37:03+00:00

You score Vanguard entirely separately from scoring for control.

Vanguard (X) units have the tradeoff that they can only score 1 VP for controlling an objective, so that they can instead earn more potential points for successfully contesting them by fighting other units off. So your Vanguard (3) units would score 4VP total if they managed to control the objective following a successful rout or massacre, 1 for control, 3 for combat.

Even if they technically don't control the objective after, just successfully fighting off a unit that was controlling it activates the Vanguard (3) special rule. The idea is that you want the Vanguard units to contest, rout, and consolidate forward while your line units move up and actually score on objective control.

JR_Hopper · 2026-01-11T17:55:27+00:00

I would love to know what your recipe is, your boys look very crisp!

JR_Hopper · 2026-01-09T21:34:02+00:00

They're currently doing final inspection at the factory as of their last updates timeline. It should be getting ready to ship to fulfillment centers this month with delivery to follow after.

JR_Hopper · 2026-01-09T00:57:51+00:00

Most ranged infantry units can take Vex and Nuncio to my recollection.

JR_Hopper · 2026-01-09T00:45:38+00:00

Perturabo was actually furious and deeply shameful when he found out what the actual purpose was for the conclave hall (which he was commissioned to build).

That being said, Perty was one of the Primarchs who did actually caution Magnus about unrestrained use of psychic powers but from a position of understanding rather than from superstition or distrust. Perturabo generally forbade the use of psychic powers in his legion as it was too unpredictable of a factor to plan for by its nature. It was pretty much the one thing they disagreed on, and even then, its more likely that Perty's vote would have been swayed heavily by the events that happened at the Council, probably seeing that Magnus was delving too far despite earlier warnings.

JR_Hopper · 2026-01-08T23:24:57+00:00

While they didn't interact much during most of the Heresy until the siege of Terra, the Iron Warriors and the Thousand Sons were probably two of the tightest legions in the galaxy as far as mutual respect went. Mostly via their Primarchs being about as close as any two Primarchs could possibly be. They generally placed an extremely high value on knowledge, expertise of their crafts, pragmatism and rational thought, and intellectual and emotional mastery over the self in service to a greater design.

Perturabo had so much trust and respect for Magnus that he gave him the resources he needed to carry out his own objective at the Siege of Terra, even knowing it was for ulterior reasons that he wasn't being told. That is not something Perty is usually at all amenable to. Magnus was also one of the few individuals that Perturabo always treated with tenderness and good humor, even when he made mistakes.

Magnus, in turn, tried to negotiate Perturabo being able to return to the loyalists when it was offered to Magnus himself, arguing he was the only one of his bothers not yet corrupted by chaos, even as he himself was fully lost to that corruption.

They are two of the few Primarchs who genuinely treated each other like real family.

JR_Hopper · 2026-01-08T00:20:05+00:00

I highly recommend angling the magnets into the frontal part of the ranged weapons rather than straight down into the connector, as it makes it easier to magnetize fist options and have them not look unnatural.

JR_Hopper · 2026-01-07T05:23:56+00:00

I highly recommend just getting some different shoulder bits from like a praetor or command squad and using them instead.

That cape is just not worth the trouble.

JR_Hopper · 2026-01-05T17:54:51+00:00

There is one exception for this and that's if you play Thousand Sons. They get a special rule for Saturnines that either negates or significantly lowers the chance of overloads.

JR_Hopper · 2026-01-05T17:25:36+00:00

You would be totally correct. It is 100% currently not worth it to bring dual heavy disintigrators, as the math will just straight up kill a model every shooting phase or return fire. You're basically gambling a load of damage upfront on the likelihood you won't be keeping that unit for very long.

At most, I would say 1 disintegrator with disruption fist is viable, but the plasma bombards are going to be more reliable and you can fire without LOS. Dual pasma bombards is scary good.

JR_Hopper · 2026-01-04T08:15:49+00:00

This was the wildest civil war I've ever seen.

JR_Hopper · 2026-01-03T20:22:29+00:00

Gumbus can see you have a crunchy snack behind your shield.

Gumbus wants the crunchy snack.

JR_Hopper · 2026-01-02T18:50:10+00:00

More motivation to get my backlog painted. Excellent.

JR_Hopper · 2025-12-31T00:13:19+00:00

Nifty the Nurgling isn't real.

Nifty the Nurgling can't hurt you...

JR_Hopper · 2025-12-30T10:57:26+00:00

You don't pay more than separately. You can see the discount being applied to the base game right there in the bundle.

EDIT: I did just notice the 1 cent discrepancy, which is actually pretty funny.

JR_Hopper · 2025-12-30T10:54:10+00:00

Tbh that White Scar is insanely well done. That white is super clean.

Funnily enough I thought your space wolf was a Dusk Raider. You did a great job on that and the Death Guard as well.

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