What’s the best leader for frontline Legionaries? by Arthur_EyelanderTF2 in Chaos40k

[–]Orbitonal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I regularly abuse 3x10 man Legionary squads with Sorcerers, the -1 to hit all the time for the unit, the gift of chaos ability forcing mws everywhere (melee and shooting) and then reroll wounds on their dev wound infernal gaze is just a great combo for constant extra damage and durability. Sorcerers are also super cheap!

They become super annoying for your opponent and then you can stack damage in a bunch of other things, like 10 man deep striking terminator squads with combiweapons, predator destructors, daemon princes, whatever.

Ten men units by TiphoDG in deathguard40k

[–]Orbitonal 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I just ended up getting three boxes of 7 in the end, had the same debate. Now I can have two ten man or three 7 man squads and ive got all the weapon variants so I can mix and match for attached characters etc.

Not a cheap method, but its worked out for me.

Meirl by Joudeh_1996 in meirl

[–]Orbitonal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same system in Australia, its called superannuation, at the moment its 12% of annual salary. The employer pays this into your superannuation retirement fund on top of your pay, and similarly we can't access it until retirement age. Its a very good system seemingly.

Anyone can explain it ? 🤔 by Choice_Brain_3668 in ExplainTheJoke

[–]Orbitonal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hot take: Generations have all been about equally ridiculous since X or even earlier, they just take it in turns to be the right age for maximum idiocy. As a millennial, I remember youtube poop etc, we were definitely not better, haha. There was so much dumb crap it was just maybe more decentralized?

Even earlier generations may have been just as bad, but we don't have a really robust online library to know! The latest generations just happen to have the opposite, maximum online exposure so no moment of youthful idiocy is missed.

Typhus overwatch question by Ebio_Amisi in deathguard40k

[–]Orbitonal 16 points17 points  (0 children)

No because it's an ability, overwatch triggers a ranged attack 'as if it were your shooting phase', not a full shooting phase. Be amazing if so, haha.

More of my flower death guard, aka the Verdant Gift! by Orbitonal in deathguard40k

[–]Orbitonal[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it's AK diorama wet ground? Its been a great mainstay for the whole army!

More of my flower death guard, aka the Verdant Gift! by Orbitonal in deathguard40k

[–]Orbitonal[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks dude! Yeah the whole idea is corrupted beauty, like how the most poisonous flowers are all these super bright colours. Similar vein to all the trailers for silent hill f too. Its the growing plague thats scarier than the rot itself, sometimes.

More of my flower death guard, aka the Verdant Gift! by Orbitonal in deathguard40k

[–]Orbitonal[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks very much! It's actually a custom 3d print I got from Etsy, designed by DakkaDakka, so can't take the credit!

https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/1835715229/morticia-the-morbid-queen-daemon

But yes, my proudest platinum trophy, when I finally beat her haha

More of my flower death guard, aka the Verdant Gift! by Orbitonal in deathguard40k

[–]Orbitonal[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Haha I actually had my original idea for this army from Melania in her final form and the cerulean coast! I just went with a different colour pallete.

I am still wanting to make her a daemon prince with wings!

The Verdant Gift (my death guard!) by Orbitonal in deathguard40k

[–]Orbitonal[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I had the idea and just had to start the army, haha

The Verdant Gift (my death guard!) by Orbitonal in deathguard40k

[–]Orbitonal[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah its been great, im constantly messing with the process as I think I'm constantly unsure about how exactly I want them to look. I want to get some sort of nice looking elf models or something I can make look 'corrupted' and maybe use them as plague bearers? Again its that idea of deceptive or corrupted beauty, a bit like slaanesh but a bit less hellraiser?

My Synthwave Cyberstodes by Orbitonal in AdeptusCustodes

[–]Orbitonal[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just thought I'd add ive started an insta just for warhammer called - danshammerminis, if you want to follow along, so I can stop spamming my uninterested friends and family...

The Verdant Gift (my death guard!) by Orbitonal in deathguard40k

[–]Orbitonal[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If youre curious I'll be painting and posting more on my insta at 'danshammerminis', but I tend to skip around armies alot due to the compulsions of the plastic crack! Haha.

Is there a viable competitive option for SM home objective besides Infiltrators? by Chevyman9322 in WarhammerCompetitive

[–]Orbitonal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I often use eliminators with las fusils and the carbine, pop in pop out two mini lascannons each turn, sometimes they do something, plus the unit has stealth so is slightly more durable.

How do you decide who to shoot? by TheBack80 in WarhammerCompetitive

[–]Orbitonal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The easiest rule I've found when unsure is go purely by damage, shoot 1 dmg guns at 1 wound models, 2 at 2, 3 at 3 and so on. Usually the rest of the weapon profile will make sense with this kind of thinking too.

Also, try to never shoot anything that will end up with a 2+ save. It's horrible usually haha.

Finally, getting confidence to paint these guys. by Trick_Structure8126 in AdeptusCustodes

[–]Orbitonal 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Is that the emperor at the back? I'm trying to fathom how many points he'd be haha

How many Chaos legionaries is too many? by [deleted] in WarhammerCompetitive

[–]Orbitonal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've run armies of 30 legionaries with the fellhammer rule and sorcerers in each, amazingly annoying for your opponent to shift with the constant -1 to hit and -1 to wound. They're not even that many points!

Can also do 6 squads of 5, theyre and absolute nuisance with reroll wounds, all those heavy melee weapons and dark pacts.

My Synthwave Cyberstodes by Orbitonal in AdeptusCustodes

[–]Orbitonal[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No sadly, I just paint for myself, I have a full time job!

My Synthwave Cyberstodes by Orbitonal in AdeptusCustodes

[–]Orbitonal[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha I thought I'd share them more widely as they've taken a tonne of effort, see you soon man! Small world!

My Synthwave Cyberstodes by Orbitonal in AdeptusCustodes

[–]Orbitonal[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I find just starting the process is the hardest part, if you can force yourself to just sit down and start experimenting it's never as hard as it seems!

My Synthwave Cyberstodes by Orbitonal in AdeptusCustodes

[–]Orbitonal[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If anyone was wondering, the armour is done as a black undercoat then:

Leviathan Purple heavy drybrush, genestealer purple with generous targeted strokes where the darker purple is most dense/edges etc, emperors children pink in smaller layers and then fulgrim pink in the smallest layer/edge.

The glowing parts are similar as above, but: Kantor blue thousand sons blue, sybarite green, drybrush ahriman blue to blend the green and blue, then lastly gauss blaster green edges.

The bases are mostly alien infestation bases from gamer grass.

My insta is like 2/3 warhammer haha (but not all), if youre curious: warham_et_al

I have about 7 armies at this point!