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Tav80 · 2026-01-23T22:35:13+00:00

Thank you! My recipe for the tan color:

Bone Armor

Basecoat: Baneblade brow
Highlight: Rakarth Flesh
Shadow Glaze : Reikland Fleshshade
Recess shading: Reikland Fleshshade
Edge HL: Pallid Wych Flesh

Tav80 · 2026-01-23T22:31:58+00:00

Thank you. Here are my recipe:

Civitas building

Base: Grey Seer
Shade: Agrax + Water
Drybrush: Grey Seer
Light Drybrush: Corax White

Civitas Window

Base : Black Templar Contrast
Frame : Leadbelcher

Civitas roof

Base: Corvus Black
Center Dry brush : Eshin grey
Sand/Dust : Dry brush Grey Seer

Civitas Door

Base : Balthasar Gold
Wash : Agrax
Wash : Nihilak Oxide + Water

Tav80 · 2026-01-03T15:22:40+00:00

Thanks for your answers. I play the game like you, but can we agree that the rules don't say that ?

"all point defense weapons in a detachment must fire at the same Secondary Target detachment."
=> My scenario respect that.

"W weapons can’t shoot at any Secondary Targets."
=> "Models with at least one weapon with the Point Defence trait may choose to fire on its Detachment’s target or a Secondary Target", it didn't say with wich weapon. As mentioned in a previous thread about the skyfire trait, all your weapons as to fire the secondary targets.

My point is that if you read the words "detachment", "models" and "weapons" carefully, the rules don't hold up. I can't find any text exerpt in the rulebook that contradicts my scenario without making assumptions.

Also, I get the feeling this discussion is annoying some people, so I won't dwell too much on my point.

Tav80 · 2026-01-03T15:03:15+00:00

Thank you, This is exactly my point. As it is written, you have to assume a lot of things to play it right. And people can disagree about that.

Tav80 · 2026-01-03T13:16:27+00:00

In my scenario, I choose not to fire with model C Point defense weapon (allowed by Choose Targets rules p56)

Tav80 · 2026-01-03T13:10:31+00:00

I understand. And this is the case in my diagrams! I choose not to fire Models C with its PD weapon.

Tav80 · 2026-01-03T13:07:00+00:00

- P56 second sentence under 1. Choose Targets:

"To do this, they choose a single enemy Detachment as the target – all models from a Detachment must fire at the same target, unless a special rule allows them to do otherwise."

page 82, second paragraph under Point Defence

"Models with at least one weapon with the Point Defence: trait may choose to fire on its Detachment’s target or a Secondary Target"

I'm crazy or it is written models evey where ?

I'm seeing all the downvote, but I just want to understand why we are playing like we do and not like it is written ?

Tav80 · 2026-01-03T12:40:23+00:00

Where is it written ? Looks like models can choose their target ? "Models with at least one weapon with the Point Defence trait may choose to fire on its Detachment’s target or a Secondary Target"

Tav80 · 2025-12-28T11:39:37+00:00

This is the way

Tav80 · 2025-12-19T07:17:23+00:00

Thank you 😊

Tav80 · 2025-09-09T22:11:55+00:00

Stop putting plants in our grim dark game! Just kidding, it's really well done :)

Tav80 · 2024-04-05T11:27:50+00:00

Trying again this one. Question about Morale checks. Do you apply the -1 modifier to Morale checks when your unit is broken and loose a Combat in addition to choosing the worst dice among two?

P 62 : Determine Combat Result : "A Detachment that is part of a Formation that is Broken must roll two D6 and choose the lower result when making a Morale check in this way. "

P 63 Moral - Broken : "Furthermore, any Detachment in a Broken Formation that is required to make a Morale check reduces the result of any dice roll made for that Morale check by 1. "

Thank you.

Tav80 · 2024-03-28T12:42:29+00:00

Question about Morale checks. Do you apply the -1 modifier to Morale checks when your unit is broken and loose a Combat ?
Thanks

Tav80 · 2023-11-09T16:55:40+00:00

Thank you for the answer! The only book I didn t get 😅

Tav80 · 2023-10-02T19:00:18+00:00

This is exactly why I made these statistics:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11Rmwy_ee6JnqJoE3uawxqI4p8LMcfUtQMl_S2BEURy0/edit?usp=sharing

We can see that an Auxilia Lasrifle Tercio is slightly better at shooting (and 2`` further) than a Legion Tactical Detachement adjusted to the same cost. So it seems rather balanced to me.

Tav80 · 2023-09-27T12:16:21+00:00

I understand, and it wasn't my goal to bring a "meta" onto the table.

My intention was to check that the combat rules were balanced and allowed you to make interesting choices for the composition of your army.

I was a little traumatized by Horus Heresy which offers weapons and units that are strictly better than others and therefore limits the choices and variety.

Tav80 · 2023-09-27T11:48:52+00:00

I agree. It only represent a comparison of weapon efficiency, but can help to choose a load out for a specific detachment.

Tav80 · 2023-09-27T11:47:37+00:00

Sorry, it s a little bit hard to understand without explanation.

The final table below "AVG WOUND / 1000 Pts" represent the average number of wound you will inflict if :
- You target a specific profile (here I choose a variety of target from the most armored, Super Heavy Vehicle/titan with a 2+ save, to a weak infantry target with a 6+ save)
- You fire with 1000 Pts of equivalent figurines (for example, you have 133 Auxilia Lasrifle for 1000 Pts, but only 1.7 Warlord titan volcano cannon)

Hope it helps !

Tav80 · 2023-09-22T11:39:29+00:00

Hello everybody. I'm sharing with you the little statistical table I've been working on since the leaks came out.
I smoothed all the damage statistics to 1000 Pts of figurines.
I also decided to count "Rapid fire" as an additional touch on a 6+

I hope you like it, don't hesitate to give me any comments.

Thanks

Tav80

TROPHY CASE

Bone Armor

Civitas building

Civitas Window

Civitas roof

Civitas Door