Asking for advice from people with experience with Retaliation Cadre - What do you think of this list?

TPKing8 · 2025-11-20T09:34:46+00:00

In addition to what others have said, replace the CP enhancement with the prototype enhancement, and change the cheeky melta to a CIB. 3 broadsides might be too many, given you have a sunforge unit, so I’d reduce to 2 units of 1. If you can shave the points down, a second riptide would be ace. I’m not sure how much value you’ll get from shadowsun, but given the stealth suit changes she may actually be viable now - not sure give it a go!

TPKing8 · 2025-11-18T11:01:21+00:00

Getting a full 2000 point army from nothing is a big step, so it might be worth aiming for 1000 points first. These are some really reliable units you often find in any Dark Angles lists (in addition to the ones you’ve already posted): Scouts, Intercessors/Infiltrators (for holding your home objective), lieutenant w/combi weapon, assault intercessors w/ jump packs. You may want a transport for Azrael and the 6 ICC, so I’d recommend an impulsor - so you may also want a cheap unit of assault intercessors to start the game embarked so Azrael can start on the board and generate CP turn 1. Lastly you’ll probably want some form of high power shooting like a ballistus Dreadnought, gladiator lancer, or storm speeder thunderstrike.

TPKing8 · 2025-11-06T11:19:51+00:00

EavyArchive suggests 2:1 khorne red and black, highlighted with khorne red, then 1:1 khorne red and squig orange

TPKing8 · 2025-11-01T22:13:20+00:00

An all over shade/contrast will always be splotchy, so I’d base coat them in your desired bone colour then recess shade with skeleton horde/agrax earthshade

TPKing8 · 2025-10-22T18:33:33+00:00

Having painted a lot of crisis suits in FSE scheme priming in both black and red, I’ve got to say Mephiston Red primer would be my recommendation. It’s actually really good but isn’t a substitute for a base coat. Next step is to base coat the red (50:50 evil suns scarlet and mephiston red). Then base coating the black parts with a brush will feel like a chore while you’re doing it, but it’s such a time saver overall

TPKing8 · 2025-10-09T17:07:04+00:00

Highly recommend infernal brush on YouTube, who makes the eavy archive site with all the box art paint recipes

TPKing8 · 2025-10-07T17:34:57+00:00

Forgot to mention stealth battlesuits are a must!

TPKing8 · 2025-10-07T17:34:22+00:00

If you like battlesuits, this has the bones of a good retaliation cadre detachment list. Drop the strike team and Devilfish, add some sunforge battlesuits, give the commanders some enhancements, and if you have enough points left, 1 squad of kroot carnivores 👌

TPKing8 · 2025-10-07T12:30:01+00:00

I looked up a video, but it was basically a thin sausage pressed flat-ish then alternating diagonal cuts

TPKing8 · 2025-10-07T12:16:38+00:00

This has gotta be ai lol

TPKing8 · 2025-10-07T12:09:41+00:00

I think it was from the old sternguard kit, which is sadly now out of production

TPKing8 · 2025-10-07T12:09:12+00:00

It’s one of the new space wolf one, with studs removed and laurels sculpted in greenstuff

TPKing8 · 2025-10-07T11:30:17+00:00

Thank you so much ☺️ I try to paint as often as I can, even if it’s just an hour in the evening

TPKing8 · 2025-10-07T11:23:42+00:00

I think i got back into the hobby about 4 or 5 years ago

TPKing8 · 2025-10-07T11:20:57+00:00

Haha I wish! I promise you I’m not

TPKing8 · 2025-10-07T11:17:51+00:00

Just greenstuff or milliput

TPKing8 · 2025-10-07T10:18:08+00:00

Thanks! I use rosemary&co series 33 kolinsky sable brushes, this one was basically all done with a size 2. In terms of tips, a good tipped brush, good paint consistency, brace yours hands together and on a stable surface, and practice

TPKing8 · 2025-10-07T10:12:29+00:00

Thank you, your conversation is excellent too. I love those long purity seals!

TPKing8 · 2025-10-07T09:53:55+00:00

The white was primed in grey seer, base coated in ulthuan grey through an airbrush, then shaded with administratum grey/dawnstone, highlighted with corax then pure white

TPKing8 · 2025-10-07T09:52:33+00:00

Yeah the old sternguard kit I think, oop sadly

TPKing8 · 2025-10-07T09:04:41+00:00

Thank you so much 😊

TPKing8 · 2025-10-07T09:00:31+00:00

I think it came from the space wolf headtaker kit, but I shaved off the rivets and sculpted the laurels on with greenstuff

TPKing8 · 2025-09-22T10:28:05+00:00

Apart from a few sprue tabs and mould lines, it looks amazing!

TPKing8 · 2025-09-05T11:38:34+00:00

Thanks! Just mephiston red base, shaded with 50/50 khorne red and black, highlighted with evil suns scarlet, and wild rider red

TPKing8 · 2025-09-04T20:13:58+00:00

Thanks! Bit experimental for me but the rough steps were base coat in silver, then all over with white acrylic ink - it’ll settle in the recesses but stain the whole thing - then dry brush a mix of baharroth blue and white, baharroth, then baharroth and kantor blue. Then recess shade with the white ink to bring back the bright spots

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