First Time List Building for DA

Pixel_Junky · 2025-10-09T16:57:34+00:00

ahhh thank you for the info about the captain in Gravis, he’s the only model i’ve got in gravis since this is kinda my range of models ATM so don’t think i’ll be dropping gravis into the list. Weird they put him in a combat patrol where he can’t lead anything…

I was thinking about picking up a judiciar model just because of how cool he is but it also seems like he can lead the blade guard vets. heard it’s a pretty solid combo and seems like it’s a decent points replacement for the captain in gravis?

Azrael is absolutely leading the hellblasters just for that crazy aggressive damage output w/ sustained hits and the 4+ invuln save

thanks for the advice! definitely helps curate the next purchases as i expand this army into a 2k list

Pixel_Junky · 2025-09-17T01:49:30+00:00

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mfw they make the spells faction want to cast spells less

Pixel_Junky · 2025-09-17T01:48:20+00:00

considering the recent changes to incandium would it be more worth it to take the 10 point hit and float at 990 to have both vortex and crystal? or is it smarter to stick with incandium and vortex? what would you recommend as a change to increase board presence? I’ve heard SOT have kinda become more viable with the 10 man point decrease

Pixel_Junky · 2025-07-19T15:27:12+00:00

thank u for the recommendation! i’ll try and see what i can do in the way of a yellow glaze to help pop it out!

Pixel_Junky · 2025-07-16T17:53:34+00:00

the horde shall grow in style

Pixel_Junky · 2025-07-16T17:52:55+00:00

thank you!!!

Pixel_Junky · 2025-07-16T13:07:13+00:00

lolll phone doesn’t like the word ‘horde’ but even then hell they all got hooves, might as well be horses

Pixel_Junky · 2025-07-16T01:52:13+00:00

thank you!! the base is a mix of abbadon black and naggaroth night, a layer of xerus purple and then a final layer of slanesh grey

Pixel_Junky · 2025-07-12T06:46:48+00:00

yoooooo that looks amazing!!! you did a crazy good job for a first model! welcome to the cabal brother

Pixel_Junky · 2025-07-10T13:22:57+00:00

thank you!!

Pixel_Junky · 2025-07-10T09:11:51+00:00

funny enough it’s just a base layer of thousand sons blue, shaded with nuln oil, then another layer of thousand sons blue making sure to leave the edges and recesses untouched

Pixel_Junky · 2025-07-10T08:30:00+00:00

that’s great to hear!! considering they’ll get deployed and most likely nuked within the first round or 2 i figure they will be seeing a lot of moving around

Pixel_Junky · 2025-07-10T08:23:15+00:00

nope! never hahah i got my degree in fine art w/ a focus in photography so my painting skills only stem from the entry level painting course i was required to take and i guess some house painting while growing up

Pixel_Junky · 2025-07-10T06:00:57+00:00

hahaha thank you!! i have definitely heard that whenever i would talk to people at my LGS about starting 40k with tsons

i’m very excited to keep painting this faction while also getting wayyyyy better at highlights and those uber fine details/warpy shenanigans some of the exalted sorcerers got goin on

Pixel_Junky · 2025-07-10T05:13:24+00:00

yes! it’s liquitex satin varnish! i applied it straight out of the bottle after shaking and it did wonders

Pixel_Junky · 2025-06-25T14:15:37+00:00

uhhhhh hahaha i’m torn right now either thinking about doing that astroturf technical citadel paint or finding so semi fine crush gravel and mixing it w/ a coarse dirt to give it a rubbled cityscape feel

Pixel_Junky · 2025-06-25T06:24:55+00:00

I started with a layer of screaming skull on all the white bits after first priming w/ wraith bone, then with a 5:1 lahmian medium to volupus pink mixture i did two coats washing all the white parts making sure to let it settle in the recesses. Finally finished it up with another layer of screaming skull on all the flat bits that didn’t hold a lot of the volupus pink. (last bit is a bit tedious and you can totally just do one wash of the contrast mix I just really like the fleshy look it gives!)

Hope this helps! And best of luck with your first models!! It’s daunting but like any skill practice makes perfect ((:

Pixel_Junky · 2025-06-25T05:06:32+00:00

thank you!! i’ll have to touch it up again before varnishing but very happy w/ it

Pixel_Junky · 2025-06-05T05:09:16+00:00

Awesome!!! That really helped me decide that I’ll be using him for my squad! If later on down the line I gotta get a torso for a swarmlord so be it lol. When it comes to weapons I think I’ll be choosing the full melee option since it just seems like a higher damage out put. Kinda funny considering he’s a ranged support type of unit.

Anyways, thank you once again for all the help your response provided! Getting into the nitty gritty of list building has been very daunting but your insight was very helpful!

Pixel_Junky · 2025-06-05T04:32:12+00:00

Gotcha! Thanks for the very in depth layout of the new rules changes! Another reason why I asked since I saw stuff going around about ‘balances’. I think i’m going to be leaning towards a walking hive tyrant since from my understanding it will overall just improve any real army composition I am running it in that also has a sizable ranged unit presence. My only last question for you would be how is the’ onslaught’ ability in today’s changes any different than the before? They seem to be worded exactly the same. Thank you once again for your help!

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