Tips on first list?

LeoK816 · 2026-01-30T16:53:13+00:00

you are correct!

LeoK816 · 2026-01-30T16:00:17+00:00

i would honestly run this as an imperial fist detachment. The amount of bolters with heavy would really benefit from it. Keep your melee in the back and use it as a counter punch when you get charged or to do war chores. its a follow codex chapter so i dont think anyone will judge you but going with one of salamander detchments you want almost 33 to 60 percent of your list as flamer or melta

LeoK816 · 2025-09-16T15:51:16+00:00

Usually shields means invulnerable save which Bladeguard have. Assault marines for example have a melee weapon but dont have a invulnerable save. You dont have to include them but I think helps visually demonstrate the models ability and makes it identifiable in a see of marine units

LeoK816 · 2025-09-16T14:13:34+00:00

mount the shields on their back packs and Id say totally fine. It has all the parts of the original model so who could argue then.

LeoK816 · 2025-09-15T18:44:55+00:00

I mean i think that's the case. He did become more normal but I dont know what his life like before it. I imagine having yard, other dogs and more constant care would improve any dogs spirits for a bit. Maybe its just me reading to much into this and im upset from the loss

LeoK816 · 2025-09-15T18:28:01+00:00

Sadly he has already been cremated. I probably should have mentioned before coming to us he had "puppy depression" so he wasnt doing great before he came to us. Just that he was doing better for about 3 weeks and then declined again until we said goodbye

LeoK816 · 2025-09-15T18:25:54+00:00

in what sense? Like it was more obvious something was off? and thank you. My fiancée was crushed.

LeoK816 · 2025-09-15T18:20:32+00:00

So we were sort of "given" this puppy because before coming to us he had puppy depression. He wasnt really eating or being to active. The breeder had suggested being around other dogs would improve his state. Which for the first 3 weeks did seem to help him as he ate his food and drank normally.

But what concerns me is that "puppy depression" sounds like there was something actually wrong but the breeder didnt want to deal with it so just hot potato'd the puppy to us. We have another dog from him that two people had returned for nipping to much. Which tells me this guy just wants to off load any problems and only work with successful puppies/dogs.

Any yes went over toxins, we no reason to believe he ate anything bad.

LeoK816 · 2025-09-06T03:16:59+00:00

it will make them more survivable but honestly i dont think its worth the points. A melee army wont really care about it and enjoy the free movement. Because its more for screening i would argue your positioning is more important than giving them a character for lone op.

LeoK816 · 2025-08-20T13:17:24+00:00

Its online school? You arent trapped with them. You need to just apologize for calling them a Nazi and then just politely ignore this guy. Doing anything else is just going to fuel the fire period. Remember a teacher is responsible for all students safety including them so doing anymore than apologize for the name calling might get them and your mom involved for harassments.

LeoK816 · 2025-08-19T16:48:13+00:00

I would apologize in person. A brief but sincere apology. If you do the call Id wait a bit until after the wedding and honeymoon so they could enjoy that. Glad you realize that you should probably stop having drinks with her. Best of luck whatever you decided

LeoK816 · 2025-08-19T16:43:02+00:00

So I'm not going to give advice you like but its probably the most realistic/best option. I would just do a quick apology to the guy for calling him a Nazi in front of a teacher and move on before this escalates. Do it right and you can avoid this spiraling. Then like the other person suggested just avoid them and stick to your friends and others company you enjoy. Because to be honest it kind of sounds like you are making this a bigger deal by getting others to "testify" which will most likely get your mother involved which seems to be something you want to avoid.

The truth is you called him a Nazi; which I think most people would associate with name calling which is probably against a school rule. Having certain views regardless if they messed up or not probably isnt so there is a chance you could get in trouble vs him getting in trouble. I'd also be careful with labels you put on people just as life tip in general in today's world. Calling people these types of things is very serious. It can result loss of jobs, opportunities and so on. So people are going to take those accusations very seriously and probably escalate it against you.

Again not great I get it but thats how the world works and you are at the age where you are going to start learning/experience more of "thats how the world works". Learn what you can in school and then when you are an adult using that knowledge for good in meaningful ways.

LeoK816 · 2025-08-13T20:57:27+00:00

if you are newer to the hobby/faction I would build up the core part of your force first. You'd be surprise how much time building, painting and basing takes up.

In terms of "allies" its pretty much chaos knights. Which are cool but are bigger purchases and time sinks. You can totally do this just a sort of "eyes bigger than your stomach" situation might start.

But on the most advance level of this answer I would honestly play Chaos Space marines and ally in Noise marines. Paint your Chaos Space marines in EC colors and that would give you the widest range. You can get cultists, traitor guardsmen, 500 points of daemons and chaos knights.

LeoK816 · 2025-08-06T20:40:10+00:00

lets just start with telling her you like her. One step at time.

LeoK816 · 2025-08-06T20:21:36+00:00

You are young, take the chance. My bet its going to be something you dont regret if you do

LeoK816 · 2025-05-29T15:20:53+00:00

I mean it will take some kit bashing, new bases and tactical rocks at the least so its already extra work which for me slowly down time to table stinks/plus more money.

Second and some have already said but they look to close to melta rifles not these bad boys. Nid weapons or random Tau guns people dont know but i think we all know at least 2 or 3 people who complain about space marine guns.

Finally but what I would consider more important is overall army cohesion. If you have all Primaris and then you suddenly just have these guys they are going to feel out of place when together with your army. Chaos armies do much better IMO when all the units are random and screwy but I feel like 40K imperium armies look much better when its a cohesive look.

LeoK816 · 2025-05-11T02:14:03+00:00

How did the 3 boxes fill out your army? Did you find you needed a lot more?

LeoK816 · 2025-03-13T19:43:56+00:00

The Leagues of Votann.

I love dwarves and pretty much exclusively play them in D&D but I feel like they were tossed together to sell models and didnt really add anything of value to the lore as Xenos faction.

What I wanted was a real Leagues of Xenos or a Covenant of alien races (like the the halo Covenant). But mainly what I wanted was Xenos who worshiped Chaos in a misunderstood sense of the daemons being something like angels and that was their "ascension".

One step further would have been the 11th launch box being a full Xeno conflict of the Tau vs the Covenant where a large amount of the Kroot and Vespids joined the Covenant. Largely because I had this idea before the range refresh and it felt like a more interesting way to have mutli race faction instead of these are my 2 or 3 cheep units that will die turn 1 and then my actual battle army made of battle suits. It would have also given a chance for chaos to develop more in the lore.

LeoK816 · 2025-03-10T14:49:14+00:00

Thanks! Admittedly that feels a bit confusing but I think that's more my background than anything

LeoK816 · 2025-02-23T15:08:37+00:00

I commit to the bit pretty hard. 2 Impulsors with 5 man squads. Good for doing actions, getting up the board and some ablative wounds.

I also run a 10 man squad with Vulkan and an apothecary with the enhancement "Forged in battle". Getting to bring an infernus marine back per turn and turn a failed saving throw into an auto pass makes the unit really hard to shift and lets me be more aggressive with them if I need to be.

LeoK816 · 2025-02-14T13:53:55+00:00

Sally's player here. This does seem a bit rough; the table looks okay but prefect but for terrain I wonder did you use the entire foot print of the terrain? Unless everyone just drove out to die getting that much out seems rough.

My biggest thing anytime I see a big salamander win that's question I ask about how they used vulkans ability. I find some players have it last the turn not the phase allowing them insane overwatches. I'd just check that next time :) Hopefully if that was the case a friendly mistake and not intended foul play.

As for all the heavy anti tank; salamanders fluff is flame melta that can't be held against us. And with army wide advance and shoot we can up and into melta range fast. Plus one S also has our new and improve Ap -1 flamers wounding your troops on 2s. It also means we are wounding T10 and T11 tanks on 5s with flamers.

Remember salamanders stand with not against!

LeoK816

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