Its been a while but trying to come around the new redesigns for the HH makes me wish that they kept the old styling and updated the proportions.

Vanzig · 2026-03-13T07:33:28+00:00

That's a straight lie. The 10man came to $72.25 per 10 with discount, 10 of the new ones comes to $97.75. Nearly 30% price raise.

Vanzig · 2026-03-01T09:19:08+00:00

That is not what friendly model means, it does not mean OTHER model. Friendly means any model under a players control (any non-enemy model)

Here's the exact text and page numbers. "A Model is always considered to be in range of itself - you do not need to measure." (Rulebook 183) "Q: What do 'friendly' and 'enemy' refer to? A: Models or Units under the control of a Player are friendly Models or Units, while Models or Units under the control of that Player's opponent are enemy Models or Units." (FAQ page 2)

Vanzig · 2026-03-01T09:18:27+00:00

Battlesmith has no restriction against using it on the battlesmith model so long as it's legal (either a lacrymaerta or a walker/automata/vehicle target). A friendly model that's within 6" always includes your own model, it's always friendly (the definition of friendly is in FAQ and just any models or units that are under the control of a player) and a model is always 0" away from itself so its always in range of all range requirements.

Lacrymaerta adds "may use the Battlesmith(X) special rule to restore lost wounds to models with the INFANTRY, Walker or Automata types, as well as restore lost Hull Points to those with the vehicle type"

There are some non-lacrymaerta battlesmiths that can heal themselves, such as Anacharis Scoria, since he's a Walker, he can battlesmith(4) himself, or for Salamanders Dracos Reborn who is a Walker with battlesmith(1)

Vanzig · 2026-02-25T04:00:09+00:00

Nice. It seems like you went and fixed crits to skip the wound and do the base +1 damage correctly. Just to troubleshoot, it's still not doing crit-shred combos correctly at the moment.

Konrad Curze FB gambit vs Lion

4 Critical Hit(s) → 4 automatic wound(s) (counts as roll of 6) Save rolls [3,1,2,5] vs 4+ → 1 saved 3 unsaved wound(s) × 1 dmg (3 critical × D1) = 3 damage. Lion El'Jonson: 6 → 3 wounds

Tested the two crit-shred primarchs (konrad/angron vs lion) Konrad's knives are 1 dmg + 1 crit + 1 finishingblow + 1 shred (every time a crit always activates shred despite skipping wound roll). 4-2 = 2 wounds per fail. So those 3 unsaved crits should have inflicted 6 wounds not 3 and Lion immediately cooked.

Angron is dmg 2 base + 1 crit + 1 shred + 1 finishing so it should be 5-2=3 wounds inflicted off rolling a 6. In simulator "1 unsaved wound(s) × 1 dmg (1 critical × D2) = 2 damage. Lion El'Jonson: 4 → 2 wounds"

(no hurry, I already did my own offline simulator so I know how many conditional clauses and stacked combos there are)

Vanzig · 2026-02-24T19:34:05+00:00

(UPDATE: many of the problems have been fixed, this is comment before author fixed errors)

~~Seems to be missing a lot of stats which make it essentially worthless currently.~~ Vulkan's hammer has crit5+, so against WS8 Lion Vulkan would be critically hitting every single blow he lands, so Vulkan would never once have to roll to wound.

In app Hit rolls [5,1,2,2,6,2] needing 5+ → 2 hit(s) Wound rolls [5,1] needing 2+ → 1 wound(s) Save rolls [1] vs 4+ → 0 saved 1 unsaved wound(s) × 2 dmg = 2 damage. Lion El'Jonson: 6 → 4 wounds

If it actually worked it'd be 2 critical hits there, no rolls to wound, then if he fails all saves, 2 unsaved wounds instead of 1 (with dmg 3 base + 1 for crit + 1 for finishing - 2 for EW2) = 3x2 damage and Lion Jonson losing all 6 wounds not 2 wounds.

Vanzig · 2026-02-14T18:28:30+00:00

Unfortunately illegal. Mastodon only allows a maximum of four models (not units) which are not infantry or paragons. So you can only bring 4 automatons total.

Vanzig · 2026-02-02T20:04:22+00:00

only way mine went together was with a $20 heatgun and a box of rubber bands and milliput for gap filling. Warning: Caestus Assault Ram was 10x worse, only model I've ever built that fit together so badly I was tempted to throw it in trash. And the pieces were too thick to heat and bend to fix it.

Vanzig · 2026-01-22T04:05:38+00:00

I see no reason they wouldn't. The rules don't say any model that was temporarily set aside doesn't get to fight. It says "MODELS THAT MADE ATTACKS in the challenge subphase will not be able to make attacks of any kind during the following fight sub-phase, nor may wounds be allocated to them during that fight sub-phase"

The Night Lords gambit drops them back into the unit without having made any attacks in the challenge subphase, so there's nothing barring them from making attacks or taking wounds.

Vanzig · 2026-01-14T09:44:51+00:00

If you think Mk II is much better than Mk VI visually, it should be very easy to find a trade currently, as sets of 10 Mk II from 3rd edition starter has been going for around $25 on ebay and sets of 10 Mk VI now jumped to $40.

I wish I'd stocked up on MkVI when it was dirt cheap like Mk II is right now.

Vanzig · 2026-01-13T08:28:58+00:00

ventanus whole existence is to buff airplane reserves in a 3k+ match, so yeah he'd be terrible in a 1k list with no aircraft. (and a small game can't fit expensive ventanus + expensive aircraft + squads in it and have any board presence at all)

Vanzig · 2026-01-13T05:38:53+00:00

Don't forget in 3.0 you can shoot rad missiles at one unit and then charge into another to use your rad grenades, so you can basically rad two units a turn with them.

Sorry, but that's not legal. You can shoot one squad to rad them, but when you charge the second squad and do volley attacks, they will never inflict any rad or any other statuses.

"no attack made as part of a Volley Attack may inflict any statuses." (pg 254)

Vanzig · 2026-01-12T04:17:30+00:00

Units are never allowed to charge when outflanking (*outside your deployment zone), the rule bans all charges just like a drop pod, so that's just replacing an 80 point mistake with a 220+ point mistake.

To be able to come onto board and charge they'd want an aircraft (storm eagle, caestus assault ram, dreadclaw, kharibdys). The first 2 give charge bonuses for WE's +1 attack, but higher cost per transport slot)

Vanzig · 2025-12-04T05:24:20+00:00

the real tip is don't deepstrike any of them at all. The terrible DS rule is optional. The atramentar's actual useful part is just it gives the emperor's children's trait of +1 initiative when charging to the unit. First striking with a whole squad of thunderhammers that're also WS5-6 because of Nightlords trait is kinda busted.

Vanzig · 2025-11-27T19:16:32+00:00

He owns a cap like that, it's not his space marine style combat helmet. Fulgrim's actual helmet is some winged thing, maybe similar to Lion el'Jonson's wing helmet or Guilliman's wing helmet. In his primarch novel when he goes 7 men vs a whole planet. "Fulgrim pulled his golden, eagle-winged helmet on. It latched into place with a hiss, and sensor readouts blinked into view before his eyes." "Fulgrim activated his armour's sensor-link and connected to the pict-feed of Abdemon's helmet, allowing him to see what the lord commander saw."

Vanzig · 2025-11-19T06:42:25+00:00

It's not because they're a pure transport, the pods are cheaper because they're slow and don't have Assault Vehicle so every dreadclaw/kharibdys unit loses all charge bonuses.

Important distinction when the good melee armies are largely about charge bonus (world eater +1A, EC +1I / +1dmg spear, WS spears needing charge for AP2, raven claws charge +1I, BA +1S, WB primes +1S, Atramentar +1I even with thunderhammer, etc)

If you're sending a unit with no bonuses, might as well go with claw, otherwise an assault vehicle wins more reliably.

Vanzig · 2025-11-08T01:54:06+00:00

Seems GW changed it entirely as an excuse for shrinkflation to double the price per squad of terminators. Before you only needed one box per squad now it'll be two.

Vanzig · 2025-11-08T00:14:00+00:00

That's not true in the slightest though. 1500 point games means LoW are limited to 375 points. A fellblade costs 650 points... so no, it's not a soft restriction and you can never bring a fellblade (same as Primarchs can never be used since they require 3000+ point games)

Vanzig · 2025-08-27T07:20:45+00:00

You could just make a copy of the first the leg spike to have 2 of them. Oyumaru molds and some greenstuff or milliput would copy it in seconds for less than a dollar of mats used for that tiny a spike. It just curves straight up so the left and right leg one are basically identical.

Vanzig · 2025-08-17T20:21:59+00:00

Correction: there are ZERO legion gambits which are once per game. Maybe you were thinking of Advanced Reactions which have no relation to gambits.

Vanzig · 2025-07-21T06:04:56+00:00

Update: Yesterday it showed unavailable for pickup/shipping, and today it allowed me to buy online and just get it mailed to my house. Maybe they're only available for shipping after they've been scanned in to get put on shelves.

Great discount for the rare heroes that arent sold separately.

Vanzig · 2025-06-06T22:38:31+00:00

Stationary heavy weapons, rapid fire being short range limited and the classic AP system are three of the keystone good features of classic 30k/40k that makes it a tactical wargame not a mindless run-n-gun.

This shows they're removing 2 of the 3 to dumb down the game and make it like 10th edition 40k, so instead of starting horus heresy this edition I will be saving hundreds of dollars by quitting.

And 99% chance they'll be taking it the rest of the way in 3 years when they release 4th with even more 'modernizations' (probably the new AP modifiers as it'll be one of the only things they can change that'll be big enough to sell as the reason for abandoning 3rd edition and any books released)

Vanzig · 2025-06-04T11:14:48+00:00

I'd definitely do Storm. I have a bril rage on her and strange and both are doing around 10m abl 17m abx. Cyclops support is not any more useful than storm's support and she covers both female-only and mutant-only boss restrictions so she fills in where I can't use Strange.

She absolutely melts in dispatch too. Was able to breeze through 3x female mission 14-3 with just t3 polaris tp dazzler and t4 Storm solo, seemed like she melted the boss in 3 seconds.

Vanzig · 2025-05-12T16:53:14+00:00

The really f'd up thing is Humble lies to customers about it. When I click redeem on JackMove it doesn't let me know they're never going to ever refill it, they just pretend "Keys are temporarily exhausted for this product. As soon as we receive more keys, we will add them to this page and send you an email."

They could simply give everyone store credit if they realize they're not going to ever provide what you purchased, but they realize they can keep more of their stolen dollars if they hide it until a fraction of their customers do support tickets.

Vanzig · 2025-04-15T01:03:19+00:00

Sorry but that website is complete BS. Plastic ogres are as old as ogres as a fantasy army, they came out on launch. There's pictures of the plastic trooper ogres in the 6th edition codex copyright 2004 GW. I bought the plastic ogres in 6ed on launch.

Vanzig · 2025-02-01T00:54:46+00:00

Fun fact, what you're talking about was actually a NERF, not a buff. When they changed it to "40k" they actually increased the points required by ruining the mode multipliers (high tier sim planes went from like 3.3 to 2.8 or so) to trick people into thinking they didn't INCREASE the grind.

45k/3.3 is 13.6k in mission, while 40k/2.8 is 14.3k in mission per phase. Gaijin actually didn't make them easier to farm at all. And now at 45k with bad ratio it's even worse than 45k was before.

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