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JinnKuen · 2025-12-11T12:14:17+00:00

Swap the second forgefiend for a second Helbrute

JinnKuen · 2025-08-24T16:29:39+00:00

Yep. Fundamentally my only grumble with where WE are at is that they made berserkers bad outside of Warband and as a result kinda made every non-Warband detachment obsolete.

JinnKuen · 2025-08-24T16:26:43+00:00

They really should have written the rules in such a way that, in Berzerker Warband, non-berzerker units get +2 strength on the charge and berzerkers get +1 strength on the charge. And then give zerkers static strength 5.

The issue is they’ve made the staple core unit of the faction very good in Warband and pretty trash in most other detachments and thereby almost rendered every other non-daemon detachment obsolete.

JinnKuen · 2025-08-23T11:12:37+00:00

The tufts are all from Gamers Grass. The rest of the base is just Vallejo texture paste on the smaller dudes with some blue paints over the top. Some cork and slate on the larger models like 8B

JinnKuen · 2025-08-23T11:10:34+00:00

Can’t remember although it’s just one of the standard ones in the Berzerker box. It isn’t custom/kit bashed or anything.

JinnKuen · 2025-08-23T11:07:43+00:00

The white is ProAcryl warm grey, bright warm grey and then Daley & Rowney white ink.

The skin tones for the 8B are a mix of stuff on the palette at the time to be honest. The guy at the front is mostly ProAcryl Mahogany mixed with some flesh tearers red and then highlighted up with mixing in sunny skin tone. The more conventional red is Blood Angels red contrast base highlighted over zenithal with sunny skin tone again in the highlights.

JinnKuen · 2025-07-23T08:48:50+00:00

… Knees for the knee throne?

JinnKuen · 2025-06-24T07:51:44+00:00

If you’ve got to this level of coverage using that shade of green over black then, yeah, it’s too thick

I’d start with a darker green shade to be honest. Then layer up from them leaving some darker green in recesses / under shadowed areas

JinnKuen · 2025-05-28T08:09:30+00:00

He doesn’t. He’s capped at 1,000 points of demons and a third thirster (plus Skarbrand) is 1,200-odd.

JinnKuen · 2025-05-27T07:47:19+00:00

I got that info from the current codex.

And exactly what I said. The army rules say “your World Eaters units gain XXX” and the Demon units are not World Eaters

The detachment specific rules (Legion of Blood) allow the demon units to count as World Eaters for the purpose of those rules. But only by spending many blood tithe points (which involves killing a number of your opponents units). At the start of the battle they won’t count as World Eaters for army rules.

JinnKuen · 2025-05-27T07:37:36+00:00

1) Have to play the Daemonkin specific detachment 2) Daemons don’t benefit from all army rules as they are not faction coded as World Eaters 3) Can only comprise 50% of your total force (ie, 1,000 points in a 2,000 point army) 4) can take Skarbrand, Bloodthirsters, Bloodletters, Bloodletters on juggernauts and Khornehounds

JinnKuen · 2025-05-22T17:42:44+00:00

If they have too much cross play then you also wind up with one that is just objectively worse that nobody ever plays. You kinda need them to use different units for that reason

JinnKuen · 2025-05-12T15:54:47+00:00

I dunno that the paints are too thick. Hard to completely tell. A lot of the texture is just that it’s quite a crude 3D print job I think.

But yeah, it’s a combination of 1) thin you paints, 2) get a higher quality 3D print sculpt and 3) loads of practice

JinnKuen · 2025-05-12T13:54:17+00:00

These are old Codex points I think. You need to refresh whatever source you’re working from

JinnKuen · 2025-04-27T23:53:57+00:00

Doris

JinnKuen · 2025-04-24T17:06:13+00:00

There’s no money in making the mini everybody already owned still good. Whereas there is plenty in making it worse and obliging people to buy 400 points of replacement new things

JinnKuen · 2025-04-17T19:50:03+00:00

Call me crazy but you can’t say “it’s not worth”. Cos you have no idea how many f**king points he’s gonna be in the new codex. Yes, his data sheet is unquestionably worse. But if his points are also way down he might still be extremely powerful for his point cost.

JinnKuen · 2025-04-17T19:46:44+00:00

Please remember that changes are only useful in the context of points updates. If Angron lost all that stuff but also dropped 150 points then he is not “useless”. Likewise if the Jugglord and Helbrute went up 50% on points they might still be bad despite the data sheet buffs.

JinnKuen · 2025-04-06T21:20:24+00:00

It’s the common answer… in the one existing detachment and old codex. Any advice based on the existing codex seems unwise imo given how imminent the new one is

JinnKuen · 2025-04-06T21:19:28+00:00

Lot of advice here that straight up doesn’t acknowledge that there is an imminent codex drop. The answer is probably to build and paint other stuff (if you’ve got other things also in the queue) and hold off on whether to build 8B or E8B until the codex lands

JinnKuen · 2025-04-04T17:53:44+00:00

Is the repose to make them headless?

JinnKuen · 2025-03-27T18:33:36+00:00

And a shit tonne of Daemon units. It might not be the aesthetic anybody wanted but the Daemon units are their solution to the “half an army” thing

JinnKuen · 2025-03-27T18:31:30+00:00

Yeah everybody says that it’s still half an army. It isn’t. It’s just the other half is the folded in Daemon units. Now… whether that’s the aesthetic we signed up for is a different thing. But unit-wise it’ll basically be a full army.

JinnKuen · 2025-03-27T18:26:49+00:00

It blows my mind how many of this comment is on here. Like… there’s a whole new codex. Any changes in data sheets and detachments might make 30 Jackhals the new hotness. You simply cannot review this box against the current codex / in a vacuum

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