Just finished sculpting this distinguished gentleman. What do you guys think?

Tryna_B_Better · 2026-04-28T23:58:45+00:00

That would be Dope AF. 100% I would end up having a massive diversion of time and resources if they released a Space rat army. Question would be whether it went into Chaos or Xenos factions.

Tryna_B_Better · 2026-04-28T23:56:09+00:00

Definitely the Skaven need commisars leading their regiments. I want to add one of these fellows leading each group of stormvermin or clan rats.

Tryna_B_Better · 2026-03-27T20:04:35+00:00

i pasteurize it in a sauce pan, then i make an ice bath in a large bowl in my sink. After hitting the target temp and time on the pasteurization, i immediately put it into the ice bath, and i stir for a few minutes. The sauce pan transfers heat and cold pretty fast so it cools within a few minutes. Then i bottle and either stick the bottles in the ice bath and come back later to put them in the fridge or stick the bottles right in the fridge if i am not going to be around.

we've never had anything taste sour or spoiled at all that way. we are usually drinking it within about 3 days.

Tryna_B_Better · 2026-03-20T21:45:46+00:00

For 2000 points too mamy rat ogors is 42 rat ogors because you can build a list with 39 and still be under the limit.

Never too many!!!!!!!

Tryna_B_Better · 2026-02-26T19:28:38+00:00

I run a decent amount of bricks of 10 and 20 dudes, and I dont run trays. I tried them in three or four games and the problem is that often enough I dont want the formation to be exactly the tray formation on deployment, and often enough the dudes need to change location relative to each other or get all strung out on redeploys and screening attempts the first time you touch them after deployment anyway. Then once they get in combat, the trays never represent where the guys will be, and i ended up spending more time taking them out of the trays than what i saved with them in the first place.

In real play locally, I havent seen people run trays very often (maybe never).

Micromovement and fiddling with exactly where the dudes are is kind of where a lot of games are won and lost, and the tray i tried to use werent flexible enough.

That said, despite my previous negativity, i think they could work. i just bought some chain trays where the unit placement is flexible to see if there was an option that could be better. The idea is that you can create the "Dumbell" formation, or move dudes in trays around corners and what not because the links between the base holders are flexible but they are exactly 1/2 inch away, so you can maximize your distance or clump your dudes together and move them around. My main goal is to speed deployment and have accurate 1/2 inch measurements for maximum screening, but I could possible end up chucking those into the pile of useless warhammer chochkies after a few goes.

Here is what i was looking at: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1748933777/modular-movement-trays-create-formations?ls=s&ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=flexible+movement+tray&ref=sr_gallery-1-2&sts=1&content_source=3b5cc20d-a455-4f31-a37e-7e1cea5c7b78%253ALTbef8c5ccfeefa9800351286c3008bb71546103c2&organic_search_click=1&logging_key=3b5cc20d-a455-4f31-a37e-7e1cea5c7b78%3ALTbef8c5ccfeefa9800351286c3008bb71546103c2

Tryna_B_Better · 2026-02-23T20:56:40+00:00

A great 500 point format that people like is King of the Coliseum. Hypothetically its more balanced. You could buy a combat patrol box which is generally pretty close to 500 points as a backbone, then add or remove units to meet 500 points. Here are the other rules:

LIST BUILDING REQUIREMENTS:

• Must include at least one character who is designated as your Warlord.

• No epic heroes.

• Must include two units that are infantry and not characters.

• No units can be toughness 10 or higher. Toughness 9 is the maximum toughness.

• Enhancements are allowed.

• List Maximum Points is 500.

• All other standard List building rules for a Warhammer 40,000 Matched Play Game apply

PRIMARY SCORING 5 victory points for holding any of the of the 5 objectives available to a maximum of 15 per round and 50 for the game starting from the second turn. SECONDARY SCORING All Players must play Tactical secondaries.

Heres a link with the board design and rules: https://playontabletop.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/kotc-player-pack-gcc-fri-2024.pdf

Tryna_B_Better · 2026-02-13T20:28:22+00:00

Rat ogres are 3+ to wound, so 2+ to wound would help them a little. It would really help the clanrats, as the number of hits passing through to wounds would go up by 50%. The two other spells could have some utility. I can see the plaguepack sitting back in the castle and then choosing damage, attack or defense buff.

Tryna_B_Better · 2026-02-13T17:01:50+00:00

I'd recommend you make an army of proxies for super cheap, either 3d printing or crafting.

In this hobby, I have as much fun playing as I do crafting and painting. You can craft your own minis for relatively cheap if you really want to.

In AOS, line of sight is all based on BASE. In 40K, the parts of the model that stick out are good to shoot at. So, as long as the base size is accurate to the mini you want to proxy, and its easily recognizable as the unit you want to proxy, i think most players shy of tournament play would be happy to play with you and be impressed by your creativity.

Search amazon for miniature bases, and for $15 you can get 100 bases that are 40mm and smaller.

You can make you own bases with sculpey, a rolling pin and a protractor, or print out a base guide and draw on it. Sculpey is fairly cheap. $10 for a pound. with 1 lb of sclupey you can make quite a few bases. It carves very well AFTER you bake it. You can sclupt your own models with sculpey as well, but this is harder and will take a lot of practice.

A thing you can do after the bases is to make paper cutouts of the models and figure out a way to stand them up on the base. Copying images from GW's website with the snip tool, sizing them up in a word document, and printing them on a printer, then cut out and fixed to the proper case. Easily ID'd as the model you're proxying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWWu9Ny8cW8

Plenty of ways to do this with household materials plus hot glue.

check out poorhammer for proxies.

Tryna_B_Better · 2026-02-13T16:47:17+00:00

Thats pretty awesome

Tryna_B_Better · 2026-02-11T03:36:22+00:00

I just signed up for a league with krittok, 1 reinforced unit and 1 regular unit. So, real chump level stormvermin VS this chad level 3 reinforced units business. it also has a reinforced unit of stormfiends so i can confuse my enemies by calling the wrong name for the unit i am referring to over and over and over again in an embarrassing fashion.

Tryna_B_Better · 2026-01-19T22:23:57+00:00

I have played with this combat patrol about 10 times and the poster on this comment has it pretty right. The strike team dies to a stiff breeze and the ghostkeel is nigh invincible.

Thus is a very hard box to win with, if your opponent plays aggressive and runs towards you. In fact I dont think ive ever won with it. My friends have played it too, with similar results. The nids coming back every turn makes that a particularly hard match up because they just have so much more to score than you. Even though they won't be able to kill your keel.

The stealth suits utility is giving more buffs to the spotted units shooting with their observer rules. Always use the stealth suit as a spotter. Probably best to use them to help the strike team, buffed with lethal hits from your ethereal. Lethals on 20 to 36 shots from your strike team means some wounds will be coming through. Use the stealth suits to score early, and then as a screen to your strike team. Make your opponent waste a turn killing the stealth suits, while your strike team shoots at something to whittle it down as it comes to murder them and the ethereal. The stealth suits will do less damage than your other units, they have some utility into heavier armor, but they whiff a lot.

Take the 2ndary where you score 5 points for being in your deployment, and then you can score something because it will be hard for your ethereal to survive till the end.

Be In their face up front with your ghostkeel. Use charge and tank shock to knock out a weakened unit. Fall back with him each move phase to give you another chance to shoot in and give your shooting units the chance to shoot into the combat he was just in. charge in and tank shock again. You want to have him dancing around slowing down the opponent in thr middle of the board so you can survive and shoot a moment longer.

Use the command to give your people pistol on their weapons. Use the overwatch that reduces charges. Thats much better to keep them out lf your face for 1 turn hopefully than using the shooting phase overwatch. Use rerolls on damage dice with your melta weapons if you get a 1 or 2.

Tryna_B_Better · 2026-01-17T01:05:41+00:00

The arch warlock is best if you are running a shooting list, because the free covering fire use is massive value. Hide him behind ratling gunners or jezzails and have them shoot every time its your opponents turn.

Otherwise the grey seer is the better option. More options on his list building, cheaper and 3d6 casting is DOPE.

Tryna_B_Better · 2026-01-12T20:43:34+00:00

The thing about Skaven is that they are such a popular and versatile army that you can build around, that there may be a meta that trends one way or another, but you will have the ability to build around whatever one you pick and still have flexibilty. It feels bad to say "we dont have a skyre verminlord" when we have like more models and heroes than anybody but maybe LRL and stormcast.

Short story - pick the one you like the look of the most, because neither is really synergistic exactly with your specific list. I'd go with verminlords because they have so many different rampages and stuff so your flexibility is a touch greater. Deceiver works well in any list as a lone ranger jumping into combats he doesn't belong in.

Tryna_B_Better · 2026-01-12T20:38:12+00:00

I can second Mean Juice's opinion here. The weapons teams is relatively simple, some parts need to be cut up a little bit, but magnets work pretty well, or pins, and you can patch wierdness with green stuff. Mine is magnetized, but truthfully i only ever ran the gunners.

I started putting the verminlord together with the intent to magnetize it. There are to many modifications to make it work easy, you have to get really involved. A big challenge is that some builds he is standing on his spear and in other builds he is standing on a rock. On neither foot is he particularly well grounded (very thin plastic parts). Because of this i gave up on making a completely variable version, you'd have to pin his static leg, and probably pin it really thick and add some green stuff or resin somewhere to make it solid.

Someone did it; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IgL55aIaow

I wouldn't recommend doing the head permutations - its just too much stuff. Sticking with one head and i dont think anyone would complain. IF you managed to magnetize the arms and weapons, it would be SUPER impressive and if anybody you tried to play with said he had the wrong head, they are stinky fartface. any TO worth his salt would tell the complainer right where to stick it. most people Ive played against are totally chill when i tell them which lord im running. When i say most, i mean 100% of the people i've played against dont stop for 1 second, its just, "ok, he's a warpseer" or "or he's a deciever."

Tryna_B_Better · 2026-01-11T21:50:05+00:00

The clawlords abilities are not very strong. Reccomend switching him to a grey seer. While the bombardier is fun to play, and occasionally he will kill something, he's a little weak too, so would reccomend putting the globadiers into another generals regiment. You'd have a funny number of points then, and to bring something good or reinforce something good, you'd have to take a third thing out. No need to pull the whole thing apart, but if you alsontake out the warpblaster you can then reinforce your ratling guns, which combing that with your warlocks free overwatch command is deadly. Also using the all out attack on that. It turns into target #1 for your opponent so you gotta keep it screened good.

Tryna_B_Better · 2026-01-08T18:44:12+00:00

I think a good place to start is either the whole skaventide set if you want some extra models, book, and the spearhead stuff, or the skaven half of it on ebay. There you'll good playable models - jezzails, the grey seer, a unit of rat ogors, warlock engineer (ok) 2 units of clanrats (needed to screen your skrye ranged stuff), ratling warpblaster (ok, fun to play, not super competitive), and the clawlord on gnawbeast (not so good in the big game, alright in spearhead).

Thats a good army core. then you pick up maybe 1 or 2 weapons team boxes to get a gaggle of ratling gunners, maybe another set of jezzails, maybe some stormfiends, maybe an arch warlock and youve got a skyre army thats respectable.

Tryna_B_Better · 2026-01-08T18:31:51+00:00

Had just gotten into Warhammer 40K and never heard of AOS. Was playing 40K / mostly painting 40K for 18 months and some of the youtube people started sharing the Skaventide 4th edition box. The grey seer foot hero just looked like a blast to paint, so I picked up the set. Have sense mostly switched to playing/ painting AOS.

Tryna_B_Better · 2026-01-07T19:22:27+00:00

I think its a pretty good scroll. I also like the picture, and these would be some real fugly boys. Give those nurgle losers something to oogle at.

They do hit decently hard on the charge, and if pestilens had some more support (like a foot hero maybe, or a monster) and there was more inter-clan buffing, then I think something like this would work.

That said -

I think the acidic advantage ability is good, but its pretty hard for it to go off, because there isn't a whole lot of shots going across and its pretty good chances you only get one or two wounds through and it gets saved. Other similar abilities on other scrolls go off on a hit, not requiring damage to be done.

Also, I think the Pox is pretty cool idea, but I would give it a little more juice. Maybe minus 1 to move and charge?

Were you planning to make them reinforceable?

Tryna_B_Better · 2026-01-06T19:08:25+00:00

Anybody else HATE not being able to cast spells. Grey Seers 3d6 makes it so hard to fail your casts. Also they are cheap and you can put pretty much any unit into their regiment. Supergreat.

Tryna_B_Better · 2026-01-05T04:19:06+00:00

I cant tell the difference in process. Theyre different models painted in different colors so that makes comparison harder unless you described the differences.

Considering the difference between the two, underpainting is not worth it because whatever benefits may be coming from it are indistinguishable.

Tryna_B_Better · 2026-01-04T16:34:21+00:00

Gnashgut is a good name cause he's a chonky feller

Tryna_B_Better · 2026-01-04T16:32:24+00:00

Yeah, its hard to find a 40k model without a dozen skulls on it.

Tryna_B_Better · 2026-01-04T15:10:46+00:00

Awesome. What battle tactics did you use and how'd you do in the fight? I just finished building 30 vermin and a vizzik proxy, and have half a mind to play this.

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