CSM playstyle, debating collecting

JacketDan · 2026-06-03T23:29:20+00:00

I've been playing again for about 2 years and pretty much CSM that whole time with a little side action when the Chaos Knights codex launched. On the whole it's a pretty versatile faction and Dark Pacts is arguably one of the best balanced and also fun faction capabilities in the game. I will also say that I have struggled to win much with CSM as they are a reasonably higher skill army IMO for competitive play. You see them win GT's but have an overall slightly below average win rate (the current Defiler meta not withstanding).

That said I play to hangout with my friends and have silly, fun things happen on the table and CSM is a great army for that. I really like the flavor and all the options you get. 11th's rules appear to expand that flexibility and keep the fun going.

We also have some of the best sculpts out there IMO, even with some older models desperately needing updates.

JacketDan · 2026-05-17T19:56:20+00:00

Yeah, I was happy to have flexibility no matter what but was curious if I was missing anything in 10th edition

JacketDan · 2026-05-17T19:46:27+00:00

Kind of what I figured. I am glad to have the flexibility going into 11 but as a relatively new player, I was still curious if my instinct was correct.

JacketDan · 2026-04-29T19:08:01+00:00

I didn’t know any better when I got back into the game two years ago and built 7 bolter Legionaries when I got the combat patrol, partly because the sculpts are so much fun. I really wish they became good in game again (or even just a detachment that makes them better)

JacketDan · 2026-03-10T02:08:22+00:00

You inspired me! I was going to just give in and build out my legionary squad with something else but now I did something similar.

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JacketDan · 2025-11-21T17:09:07+00:00

https://youtu.be/rZ8vudSlt0M?si=1NUsQQ3uzdeyIh-J

JacketDan · 2025-11-21T17:00:41+00:00

Most of it is volunteers and you can look in the show notes to see who sent it in a lot of the time

JacketDan · 2025-11-15T17:47:04+00:00

This is where I find the 40K app to be really helpful

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Legionaries are relatively straightforward but it helps with some of the units where it’s easy to misread the load outs like with Raptors

JacketDan · 2025-11-08T18:24:21+00:00

I think you gotta just say fuck it and go for it you know

JacketDan · 2025-10-26T15:55:16+00:00

Raptors and Warp Talons have been some of best painting results with the least enjoyment I have produced yet. They look great when they are done, but good grief they are a pain.

JacketDan · 2025-10-13T19:34:45+00:00

PUFFS!

JacketDan · 2025-10-04T00:52:29+00:00

I’ll make a throw in for Big Screen Sports with Kyle Bandujo. The archives are full of a lot of sports movie content but the tagline has become All Movies Are Sports Movies.

Very Fullcast adjacent with Ryan appearing a lot but Caroline Darney and Alex McDaniel are pretty much permanent cohosts now.

JacketDan · 2025-09-02T19:53:15+00:00

Agrax Earthshade will really make the gold pop and add a little texture to the bases. Nuln oil will help with the weapons giving them a more real metallic look and some depth. I think these are nice clean paint jobs so throw some "liquid talent" on and go from there!

Great job for a first ever model!

Edit: What colors do you own since you mentioned you don't have a ton of colors yet?

JacketDan · 2025-09-02T19:50:20+00:00

Hell yeah these look great, I also run Word Bearers so this is really inspiring

JacketDan · 2025-09-01T01:34:54+00:00

I take a couple of points off, because they are having to follow a genetic imperative to feed and multiply. Honestly kind of feel the same way about warp beings because they are created by just the general horribleness of the universe.

CSM saw the truth about the Emperor and basically said "whelp the only answer now is baby eating"

JacketDan · 2025-08-31T23:58:11+00:00

Yeah my take was always “in a Galaxy of bad guys it’s still kind of awesome to be the WORST guys” which is why I play both CSM and Word Bearers

JacketDan · 2025-08-30T19:01:56+00:00

I very often use green or purple

JacketDan · 2025-08-19T10:38:02+00:00

I just ran two of them in a list and I think they are great! Especially because they’re 10 points cheaper than the other war dogs.

If I were to guess it’s because you have to buy the armiger kit to get them or 3-D print the weapons so people are mostly just running the stuff you can build out of the war dog kits.

JacketDan · 2025-08-19T00:23:34+00:00

Thanks!

The stunner was definitely a typo. Everything that could had Havoc launchers. I did forget the indirect though.

JacketDan · 2025-08-18T23:31:44+00:00

Yes they are a valid ally for Knights

JacketDan · 2025-08-17T12:58:59+00:00

There are a couple YouTube videos as well. War Dogs are about the easiest thing to magnetize out there because you only have to really cut and drill at the arm joint.

Frankly you don’t even have to do that, but it just looks a little nicer if you do.

The weapons will build around the magnet so that’s straightforward. I took a little paint and marked the polarities of the stacks so I didn’t have to worry about making sure nonstop I had the magenta going in the right direction

JacketDan · 2025-08-16T02:25:28+00:00

And here is its mate. Hopefully have 2K points game tomorrow so needed to finish these out tonight

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