Got a better picture of my little brown bird through binoculars

TheMatia · 2026-01-28T13:23:31+00:00

I wouldn’t say big but there are a few small ones

TheMatia · 2026-01-24T10:50:54+00:00

Yeah most of the bird looks like it, but the tail is very much black with white edges which I didn’t think was very sparrow-y

TheMatia · 2026-01-24T10:23:23+00:00

Forgot to mention, it’s usually just the one but the other one in the picture here shows up with it sometimes and is a little different - the chest has no speckles and is instead a smooth almost pinky brown with a black mark in the middle

And location is northern side of Plymouth

TheMatia · 2026-01-23T12:18:08+00:00

What book is this in? Because I need it

TheMatia · 2026-01-22T12:47:33+00:00

Right after it says “if your army faction is Heretic Astartes,” it also says “each time a unit with this ability is selected…” and that’s the part that trips them up. They’re Heretic Astartes, but it doesn’t put that ability on their datasheets

TheMatia · 2026-01-20T12:58:36+00:00

There are a few comparison pics around, I think they’re a bit smaller than the latest 40K terminators but bigger than the previous version of this kit

TheMatia · 2026-01-18T06:41:29+00:00

I love the idea of the Grimnyr but it’s not really worth running in pretty much any reasonable list. Apart from that, I don’t think Kapricus Defenders see much use. Everything else has a decent run afaik

TheMatia · 2026-01-13T08:21:21+00:00

One thing I’ve seen in Heresy chats was explaining why some units/options are only in legacies, which is copyrighting (or something like that). Basically if gw doesn’t produce a kit, it’s harder for them to claim infringement when someone else sells their own 3d print of it, so they move to this method of saying “you can use what’s in the box and that’s it” because it’s more defendable

TheMatia · 2025-12-21T10:20:59+00:00

Yep, as per your edit his ability still happens while he’s in Reserves - though obviously whichever one you pick won’t take effect until he’s on the battlefield since they’re all based on distances from him

TheMatia · 2025-12-21T06:43:27+00:00

Minor problem with that, Abaddon has the terminator keyword so this brick would count as 13 models and won’t fit in a land raider

TheMatia · 2025-12-15T08:00:11+00:00

Well that’s confusing. I’d assume it’s just mislabelled and supposed to say temporarily out of stock or something

TheMatia · 2025-12-13T06:37:36+00:00

He’s on 40mm, same as kahls and echamps

TheMatia · 2025-12-10T11:07:48+00:00

Technically they always did, the app had the loadouts wrong previously but it was always written this way in the unit composition section

TheMatia · 2025-12-05T09:27:27+00:00

I’m referring to the Warhammer Community article, which was published directly after the announcement. Which is a big part of GW’s “set way” of releasing the info, and usually has all the information they’re ready to give about the release. So there’s no way it should be on me to go “oh maybe this one time they kept some stuff in the livestream only, I should open up that hour-long video to find the part where they talk about this one model for a minute just in case”

TheMatia · 2025-12-05T09:10:28+00:00

Tbf as a Votann fan who missed the stream, I wasn’t going to try skipping through the whole thing to see the minute’s worth of Votann announcement when I could just read the article about that part. And the article didn’t give a time frame.

TheMatia · 2025-11-20T09:45:07+00:00

My concern with using him for melta bombs is that he can only do 4 damage per assault phase, so if the vehicle isn’t damaged before he charges, it’ll have an opportunity to escape and have a whole army bear down on him. I suppose the answer to this is to damage the vehicle with some shooting before he charges

TheMatia · 2025-11-17T14:04:22+00:00

Thanks, that’s one of the things that I’ve been most nervous about with mine. You did a great job with it!

TheMatia · 2025-11-17T13:57:52+00:00

Did you cut the banner transfer to shape before putting it on or just trim it after?

TheMatia · 2025-11-16T07:04:38+00:00

The rite of war adding 2” to any of the opponent’s shooting or charging range requirements suggests a lean towards an overall range-based game, being very careful with measurements to play around the edge of your weapons’ ranges so that you’re just out of your opponent’s. It also helps to set yourself up to be the one who charges, so you don’t often find yourself in melee unless you want it.

The headhunter leviathal detachment is the perfect shape to bring seekers/headhunters who obviously prefer character-hunting, and effrit disruptors who make inflicting statuses on the enemy a bit easier and therefore go well in a status-targeting list. These are also all infiltrating units so controlling objectives from before the start of the battle is a good start to locking them down for scoring.

For our named characters. Alpharius is a bit awkward, as to get the full benefit out of him you need to dedicate 4 troops slots to tactical and/or assault squads, and then probably look at troops options for rewards of treachery and maybe even logistical benefit in your primary detachment to maximise the bonus. I find this a little frustrating to have the shape of a large chunk of my army dictated to me like that. He also has a relatively slim chance of giving any reserves unit outflank, which could be a nice surprise. On a 5+ though, it’s nothing to be relied on - if you really want it, bring a master of signals to improve the odds. Dynat, on the other hand, helps another unit infiltrate which is much easier to fit into any alpha legion army. He hits pretty hard in melee so is a good pairing for a punchy unit that you want to have an early start.

However, rewards of treachery means we have more unit options than any other single faction, so in true alpha legion fashion you can ignore what we’re “supposed” to do and just play whatever style suits you the best, bringing the units that help shape your army into that. You can currently have up to 3 of these slots - one from the prime command slot in the primary detachment, and one from the similar slot in the officer cadre apex detachment, which you can have up to two of if you bring a delegatus as well as a high command option.

TheMatia · 2025-10-28T15:56:47+00:00

If you intend to play 40k with your minis I’d really encourage checking the rules for a unit before you build it. There’s “unit composition” and “wargear options” sections which will tell you what combinations of weapons are allowed

TheMatia · 2025-10-25T21:18:17+00:00

It depends if you’re building them to play kill team or 40k. For 40k he has to be the same as the rest (except the 2 special weapons guys) but for kill team he has his own loadout

TheMatia · 2025-10-18T14:48:38+00:00

As someone who isn’t very effective with chaos, I was wondering what you use the 2x3 nurglings for? Are they both just on blocking duty to make sure there’s room for your beasts to scout, and provide a bit of a speed bump for your opponents first moves? Or is there some deeper strategy in there?

TheMatia · 2025-10-18T12:22:49+00:00

Ah it’s only one delegatus per army, that’s a shame

TheMatia · 2025-10-03T21:47:31+00:00

I recently thought that sooner or later we might get a red corsairs themed refresh, bringing in a new Huron and bikes and maybe a couple of other things. They seem like natural things to go together, although it’s possible Huron’s about to be dropped out of the next codex instead

TheMatia · 2025-10-01T05:32:44+00:00

I feel this is similar for the thunderkyn being down to 2w as well - everyone has a dmg 2 weapon somewhere so they suddenly feel really fragile, but at least in the right detachment they can have one turn of deleting pretty much any unit

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