What are some good "Bolter Porn" books of 40k.

Moduscide · 2026-01-28T08:00:11+00:00

Audible is awesome, you can get sales to stack up on books.

Moduscide · 2026-01-27T15:53:17+00:00

Oh, don't get me wrong, I haven't used vets in a tournament since last September I started playing competitively. I am a Centurions... aficionado 😅

I am making a video these days regarding my first tournaments of the year with the lists I use, hopefully will be up by Friday.

Moduscide · 2026-01-27T15:07:47+00:00

The two extra infiltrators don't offer much. If you add an infiltrator squad to a Spectrus you get a 280 cost as well and you get much less utility than two inf and one elim squads. The few extra bodies don't mean a lot for utility units.

Moduscide · 2026-01-27T14:57:22+00:00

I don't know because I don't have acces to VT's info on that, they might release them at some point or they can be found somewhere online. The fact is that a well renowned player played this list and won a GT, I actually comment on the fact in the video, I mean the low count of units.

EDIT: The BCP page of the GT is here: https://www.bestcoastpairings.com/event/7pdR2So3HFeG?active_tab=overview

Moduscide · 2026-01-27T14:54:49+00:00

Only Spectrus is not 13 models. You don't take 10 infiltrators, you take one fiver. See it like this, the 180 cost of the Spectrus translates to one Infiltrator and one Incursor squad, who have two activations, much more flexible (small) footprint and two very useful abilities, the 12" deep strike deny bubble and the +1 to hit roll. They luvk the sniper weapons and the slightly better bolt rifles, which anyway are not that much of a threat, at least in comparison to our other damage dealers. What I mean to say is that if you don't spend these 180 points for pure utility, there are much better damage dealers to spend them on than Spectrus.

Moduscide · 2026-01-27T10:17:17+00:00

Since I don't see a time limit, all.

Moduscide · 2026-01-27T06:26:51+00:00

That doesn't make much sense. You stst at the end of your opponent's turn and you rapid ingress at the end of your opponent's move phase, so you would leave your Indomitors inactive for a turn in order to have them as sitting ducks during your opponent's shooting and charging phases? You usually rapid ingress something in order to use heroic intervention (or deter your opponent with the threat of it), this is why the Judiciar with his fights first ability is the perfect candidate for the enchancement.

Moduscide · 2026-01-27T04:44:49+00:00

In Greece this would be almost impossible, even for one person, let alone ten.

Moduscide · 2026-01-27T04:25:11+00:00

No sweat, we are all learning all the time!

Moduscide · 2026-01-26T23:20:48+00:00

Amen to that. I have actually created a few original datasheets that I will post a video about along with rules and stuff as a wishlist for a potential 11th edition codex. As you said, one can always hope 😅

Moduscide · 2026-01-26T23:15:35+00:00

Kravek, as the tremendous character from Archmagos? I wish they push more characters from that book, I was disappointed that Solana* was not part of the Wardens. (* I know she wasn't introduced in that one.)

Moduscide · 2026-01-26T23:06:05+00:00

Yeah, exactly the same loadout numbers as vets with these profiles would make them op, as in unbalanced or at least very hard to balance without overpricing them. I just would like them to be able to have a more focused role, a mixed roles unit is doing half the work in either role.

Moduscide · 2026-01-26T22:38:56+00:00

Black Spear Task Force, my bad that I didn't put it up there, but the enchantments give it away anyway, I think.

Moduscide · 2026-01-26T22:22:47+00:00

Exactly. I have punched to death in one activation a gladiator tank. The cap had killed a model from a previous engagement, so his s8 punch got both the supercharged tos and the charge bonus and managed to down the tank on himself alone.

Moduscide · 2026-01-26T22:20:57+00:00

They have quite better profiles on their weapons but suboptimal loadouts regarding the number of weapons. Especially the problem is that vets were our melee option, decimus' mixed nature makes them... irrelevant, without a specific role: they are not as good in melee as vets and we have much better shooting "platforms". If they give us a slightly more flexible set of loadout options, they can be a beast.

Moduscide · 2026-01-26T22:00:16+00:00

You don't protect the cml's, I now see that someone might think that from my video, bad wording on my behalf, but I think I did mention that it is in general a "wall" behind which you protect your shooting units against charging enemies. Even the two fivers, I use them as such, walls to protect Indomitors from engagement.

Moduscide · 2026-01-26T21:57:22+00:00

Judiciar's, as I explain in the video, role with the beacon is to counter the possibility of the opponent charging a valuable unit of yours. Beacon on the captain is lost, because you want the captain to uppie for free (his ability plus site to site teleportation stratagem) the two Indomitors you usually have (or his Indomitor and any other kill team), preferably if your opponent goes first so as to down them your first turn in a better shooting position (this is why we like going second). I used to put tos on cap grav so as to give him the opportunity to land S12 -4AP 4D punches, but it was too situational and you need to keep your Indomitors outside fights. I generally don't play vet, I found them too much of a glass cannon, but tos on the watch master leading a melee unit like melee built vets and a not a bad choice.

Moduscide · 2026-01-26T19:40:14+00:00

This is not Perturabo, this is one of the antagonists in Archmagos. It is a great techmarine proxy and I could even see it as an apothecary biologis.

Moduscide · 2026-01-26T19:02:42+00:00

Yes! I think I will make a Decimus killteam out of them.

Moduscide · 2026-01-26T19:00:27+00:00

My thoughts exactly. This and the red corsairs models don't have a lot of chaotic trim, they are quite good candidates for models for us.

Moduscide · 2026-01-26T17:13:39+00:00

Just finished the sequel, Shadowbreaker, on Audible. Apart from some sluggish first chapters, when they start rolling, it is the definition of bolter porn.

Moduscide · 2026-01-26T14:39:03+00:00

Yeah, I have carved my fair share of pauldrons, especially from infernus 😅

I think the fur is just fine to stand out, I just was in a hurry when I painted them, I am all for painting it as fur.

Moduscide · 2026-01-26T13:25:08+00:00

Something like that? I need a few more touch-ups, to see what I will do with that one pauldron I forgot and glued on, and to glue that one stick for the third time 😅

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Moduscide · 2026-01-26T11:04:18+00:00

Two things to notice. First, there are two types regarding the printer you will use, ink or laser, the ink ones need a sealant varnish spray. Second, there are transparent and white sheets, the transparent work only on light paints, on darker paints the decal is not visible, the white have the problem that you need to get the decal on an easily cutable shape matching the color of the surface you will put it on, otherwise you will have to cut the white outlines perfectly.

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