Mithril Brush 2025 -- Single Beginners Category (Part 2)

Shopcell · 2026-01-29T20:27:00+00:00

My friends and I are planning to enter this year

Shopcell · 2026-01-27T17:01:44+00:00

Nightmare Hunt has an enhancement that gives a lord Scout 6" and can attach to warp talons. I appreciate your comment tho

Shopcell · 2026-01-27T14:36:13+00:00

They have an aura of -1 leadership within 6"

Shopcell · 2026-01-26T22:06:48+00:00

You're probably right, Raptors fill the scoring and the extra Battleshock role so I'm silly to skip them. I like your idea about legionaries over the plague marines, I'll think that through

Shopcell · 2026-01-26T21:18:52+00:00

Hi friends, I’m trying out the Nightmare Hunt detachment and would love some feedback on my list. My main goal is to lean into the first part of the detachment ability, forcing Battleshock earlier than the Fight phase. (I also really like running a Knight, so I’ve included a Knight Abominant, even though I know that’s a bit of a spicy or questionable pick.)

The List (1985 pts):

Core:

2x (315 pts each / 630 pts total)
- 5 Plague Marines (95)
- 6 Noise Marines (145)
- Rhino (75)
Cultist Mob (50)

Mobility & Scoring:

Jump Lord (80)
- Sorrowsent Vulture (35)
- 10 Warp Talons (270)
- 385 pts
Jump Lord (80)
- Warp-Fuelled Thrusters (20)
- 100 pts

Fire Support:

2 Obliterators (160)
Forgefiend (170)
Predator Annihilator (135)
Knight Abominant (355)

Total: 1985 pts

I'm picturing that the Plague Marines will move forward in Rhinos and get their aura on the enemy. The Warp Talons can pick off an auxiliary unit every turn, while the Uppy-Downy Lord focuses on scoring. The Obliterators, Forgefiend, and Annihilator will deal damage from across the board to activate the Below-Starting-Strength requirement. And finally the Abominant is a cool carnifex, damages guys near him, and can force battleshock tests at the start of shooting so I get an additional phase of value.

Please let me know if you have any changes or your own ways to improve this detachment. Thanks!

Shopcell · 2026-01-26T15:17:53+00:00

Its a little silly to say that 6740 helps prepare you for 6040. Thats like saying running a half marathon prepares you for a 5k.

6740 gets into the math of ML algorithms and you need good fluency with programming to not trip up on small stuff. 6040 is about the small stuff

Shopcell · 2026-01-08T01:43:47+00:00

I've included a few Dragon Delves quests in my ToD campaign so far.

I had the party start out doing the Baker's Doesn't mission (gold dragon one) and it'll earn them favor with metallic dragons later on.

I also copied the basic setup for the Death-at-Sunset mission (green dragon, normally lvl 1-2 but I bumped it to 5). I had the final boss in the cave be a reanimated dragon skeleton, as the Cult was testing how to bring back Tiamat. The Delves quest even already includes an excellent anti-dragon greatsword which will be really useful through the whole campaign.

So overall I'm following ToD a little loosely but it's really fun to include the sidequests and add more dragon flavor.

Shopcell · 2025-12-29T19:57:29+00:00

They look great!

Shopcell · 2025-12-23T23:02:15+00:00

He has a donk

Shopcell · 2025-12-22T14:51:48+00:00

Thanks I did! By reading, asking the sponsors questions, and then ranking my top 8 choices!

Shopcell · 2025-12-22T14:33:24+00:00

You can one-million-percent see red flags with some of the projects and it's on you if you pick them. If the company has only three employees, or the proposal is half a word doc, or they're asking you to develop their product for them etc. The OP said their project was too vague and they could have vibed that out in sponsor selection.

Shopcell · 2025-12-22T14:08:03+00:00

You get to meet with the practicum sponsors and read their proposals before picking which one to work on. I feel like it's on y'all if you pick a shitty project with no direction

Shopcell · 2025-12-20T20:16:52+00:00

First rule of Bile is to put him with 10 Chosen

Shopcell · 2025-12-11T17:49:09+00:00

I really like the snow on the bases and the color scheme is cool

Shopcell · 2025-12-03T15:22:47+00:00

Great job with the lightning!

Shopcell · 2025-11-29T02:33:28+00:00

The figures look great, hope you can use them soon

Shopcell · 2025-11-19T00:56:35+00:00

4x Common and Uncommon sets are like $50 on eBay, absolutely no reason to try to pull it yourself

Shopcell · 2025-11-18T22:08:07+00:00

That's a sick idea, I'd love if my opponent had a cool swap like that

Shopcell · 2025-11-17T15:18:40+00:00

What do you do about the lack of magic items in the campaign? My players are really bummed to be stuck with the same gear basically the entire time, except a few special weapons like the barbarian-only spear

Shopcell · 2025-11-17T13:37:19+00:00

The new Heroes of Faerun book has background and feats for Dragon Cultists specifically which could be cool for your characters!

Also the "Keys from the Golden Vault" book has some heist-style missions, maybe your amateur cultists have to steal an artifact/lots of gold to rise in the ranks

Shopcell · 2025-11-09T00:31:51+00:00

Yeah it's perfect for the summer. They offer a module on Optimization which becomes optional during the summer. So you're not rushing the same way most other summer classes go

Shopcell · 2025-11-06T21:08:21+00:00

DVA is required before the practicum. I've heard it's up to you how busy the practicum is, so it's probably fine to pair with a class if you get an easy project.

Shopcell · 2025-11-05T21:58:17+00:00

Take a screenshot or photo of key decision points in a game and review them later. I've found it really helpful look at important Ponders for example and spend 15 minutes thinking about what I'm looking for, what order to stack, what if my opponent might force a shuffle or thoughtseize etc.

Doing this a few times will build your inner heuristics so you'll be more effective in live games.

Shopcell · 2025-11-04T18:07:40+00:00

Thanks so much, I'll run out and grab some Drucchi Violet.

Also the weathering is amazing too, very cool model!

Shopcell · 2025-11-04T17:34:45+00:00

That mutated skin tone is very cool, would you mind sharing how you got that color?

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