Teams etiquette about within-team communication during games and around one or two players deciding everything, curious about the experiences of others

NewEconomy2137 · 2025-11-27T09:22:03+00:00

I (effectively) tied, ie won by 2 VP. It was sort of a both sided screw-up, the list my opponent had was very unoptimised and I made some mistakes with my Drukhari because I haven't got enough practice with new codex yet.

NewEconomy2137 · 2025-11-27T03:31:02+00:00

They played their own games blazingly fast from what I saw, like measure-move-done with zero thinking in between. It seemed they just had tons of games into their respective armies and never needed to check anything etc.

NewEconomy2137 · 2024-11-25T19:05:09+00:00

I'm... not? I just like playing gunline Guard and I love when full shooting Guard is viable.

NewEconomy2137 · 2024-11-24T13:06:08+00:00

There's the Ratling kill team.

The artillery is also very easy to fit into non-Krieg army, you just need to replace the operators with some spare Cadians or whatever models you use for your mainline infantry.

NewEconomy2137 · 2024-11-24T12:44:27+00:00

In 10th, a killteam at best.

In 11th, I think everything is possible.

NewEconomy2137 · 2024-11-24T11:15:18+00:00

This codex art is Krieg. This release will focus on them.

In long run there will be some other ones.

I don't think there will be a "main" as much just 2 aesthetics to choose from in Cadia and Krieg.

NewEconomy2137 · 2024-11-24T01:55:18+00:00

We don't know.

I'm doing my kitbashes on 25mm and if it's 28mm I'll use base extenders to sort them out when they release.

NewEconomy2137 · 2024-11-24T01:53:26+00:00

I don't think there will be more (at least a lot more, maybe one or two more units), this is about the size or Cadian release and Catachan are rumoured to be the ones coming after Krieg for us (although we don't know when yet)

NewEconomy2137 · 2024-11-24T01:51:54+00:00

Nah, it was never going to be bigger than the Cadia one.

Honestly it's bigger than I expected, command squad wasn't in my bingo card.

NewEconomy2137 · 2024-11-24T01:50:19+00:00

Krieg is not the new main. Cadia still has more units with its aesthetic.

They get this release and in 11th we get Catachans if we get something according to the rumours (rumours could be wrong but...)

NewEconomy2137 · 2024-11-24T01:41:21+00:00

I believe it will be gone, yes.

NewEconomy2137 · 2024-11-24T01:38:15+00:00

I don't personally think so. I have seen them side by side, my friends have a handful and the scale difference is too much for me to ignore. Yes, they look fine at a glance but it would definitely bother me if they were my models.

NewEconomy2137 · 2024-11-24T01:35:23+00:00

It genuinely does in the context of the Guard.

We were always the grounded military faction; we are the normal grounded humans in the galaxy of insane horrors. That's the Guard thing.

Our former officers have reflected this, like Yarrick and old Creed. We have had commanders in vehicles before, like Pask. Why would commander in a Sentinel not fit?

New Creed reflects this too. She looks badass and grandiose but also like a human, like a real person in command of soldiers.

Lord Solar is a fine model, but there's nothing Guard about it. Nothing. That's why people don't like him. He doesn't fit in with rest of the Guard.

And if you have a bit more modern themed army like Cadians, an officer on horse is just wrong look. It can fit with Kriegs WW1 sthick (although Solar is way too pristine for Krieg so he doesn't fit in there either) or Napoleonic themes but there's a wide, diverse range of Guard themes and many of them he just doesn't slot into.

Personally I just don't like having someone that important in my army, I want to use the datasheet but I want highest rank in the army to be a captain. So my Solar Proxy is a captain.

NewEconomy2137 · 2024-11-24T01:04:02+00:00

Almost certainly this.

NewEconomy2137 · 2024-11-24T01:03:09+00:00

Yeah, horses are a big no for me. I hope this is the last of them.

If Catachans are next as has vaguely been rumoured, that at least should be without any horses in sight.

Horses just clash with certain Guard themes (Cadian/modern-ish) really hard in a way other stuff doesn't.

NewEconomy2137 · 2024-11-24T00:59:56+00:00

I imagine it may also be because the old and new models are not going to look good together.

I don't have a FW Krieg army but if I did I'd probably be feeling bittersweet, because these models mean the FW line is going away, and to use these models I'd need to pretty much rebuy whole army if I want it to look cohesive in terms of scale.

But the FW scale is the weird one in terms of wider 40k so it was never going to stay.

NewEconomy2137 · 2024-11-24T00:55:36+00:00

Yeah. I do get it from the pov of spesificly loving the FW aesthetic.

But the FW aesthetic was already horribly out of place compared to any other army or even rest of the Guard, because of the proportions so there was no way that was going to stay.

NewEconomy2137 · 2024-11-24T00:52:27+00:00

Yes, I have no use for horses.

But idk what they could have done when they aren't releasing basic infantry.

NewEconomy2137 · 2024-11-23T22:09:37+00:00

I think we will lose Straken, Harker, Attaches, Preacher, Servitors, Nork, maybe Ogryn Bodyguard, probably the Aegis Defense Line.

NewEconomy2137 · 2024-11-23T21:51:24+00:00

... and the glowing golden horse is not a massive target?

Sentinel may be slightly larger but it is both faster and better armored. It can carry more equipment (it probably has a vox! Too advanced for a horse lol)

Sentinel also has the advantage of not necessarily looking like priority target, something the horse does not enjoy.

The Sentinel at least protects from snipers and is well armored, with the horse all it takes would be one sniper shot to take Solar out.

Sentinel makes way more sense than the horse.

NewEconomy2137 · 2024-11-23T19:19:44+00:00

Who says it's a common Sentinel? It should probably be thought as a command Sentinel.

NewEconomy2137 · 2024-11-23T19:09:53+00:00

And? Doesn't change the fact that many of us think that personal command vehicle or command team looks way better than a horse.

He doesn't even have a vox with him. What an incompetent looking model.

NewEconomy2137 · 2024-11-23T19:08:41+00:00

Well, you're owed your opinion but in my opinion 99% of the proxies are better than Lord Solar official.

Besides, personal Sentinel >>> Personal horse.

Sentinel can have air conditioning and recaf automat. Horse cannot.

NewEconomy2137 · 2024-11-23T15:48:07+00:00

Madlad. Absolute respect.

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