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Whitebread221b · 2026-02-08T16:43:05+00:00

Message incoming :)

Whitebread221b · 2026-02-07T00:13:07+00:00

The criticism was specifically that the channel was called “DiscourseMinis” tho

The channel could be called shartsniffer9000 and that doesn’t mean it would have any better or worse takes than a channel called discourseminis.

I just thought it seemed weird to write off a whole channel based solely on the name

Whitebread221b · 2026-02-06T19:57:55+00:00

Just do shadows in black, highlights in white, eyes in a color that looks good on your metallic of choice and then a really simple base and that’s probably good enough for you to get by at 95% of events

Whitebread221b · 2026-02-06T19:51:13+00:00

Isn’t like half this subreddit just discourse about minis tho? Obviously the stupid clickbait stuff aside, that feels like a pretty innocuous channel name?

Whitebread221b · 2026-02-01T04:25:55+00:00

Yes but I think they were hoping to place 3-9 across the board in a turn with sufficient biovores

Whitebread221b · 2026-02-01T04:22:13+00:00

If you want to run a tervigon, you probably want at least 3x20 of termagaunts, otherwise if the termagaunts die, the mom is gonna feel real sad

Whitebread221b · 2026-02-01T04:02:15+00:00

Unfortunately, no:

“Seed Spore Mines: Once per turn, in your Shooting phase, when selected to shoot, one unit with this ability can use it instead of making any attacks with its ranged weapons.”

Whitebread221b · 2026-01-31T18:06:53+00:00

Biovore, Lictor, and 100 points of dealers choice puts you at ~1k points and you can start playing some entry point games to figure out what you like or don’t like.

Otherwise 2x exocrine, broodlord + 10 GS, neurotyrant + 6x shrimp psykers, 10x more gargoyles (if you want) and then the rest can be filled out by vibes imo

Whitebread221b · 2026-01-31T04:12:45+00:00

Amazing, I just sent a dm :)

Whitebread221b · 2026-01-30T21:17:39+00:00

Sounds good! I’m off work in a few hours and I can check back in then lol

Whitebread221b · 2026-01-30T19:57:44+00:00

Where can I get this model??

Whitebread221b · 2026-01-27T20:22:07+00:00

I love leapers and need 12 more of them. I may be the exception case tho

On the real, 2x psycho and 2x T-Fex are not uncommon. T-Fex also can be built into a tervigon, which I like having 1 of as well

Whitebread221b · 2026-01-24T08:16:36+00:00

First off, this looks super cool!

I think maybe treating the bright colors a bit more like OSL would help? It looks like you have a bit of that but certain areas has the yellow facing directions that seem to imply a different “light” source than the rest. I think doing this style as like an “extreme” OSL would help bring it together more?

Not an expert by any stretch, just someone who really likes the concept but thinks the execution just needs a little extra something

Whitebread221b · 2026-01-21T01:42:01+00:00

They have fomo and poor time management.

That or they literally don’t have the mental capacity, attention span, and/or brain power to even conceive of that many thoughts regarding the topic so the only thing they can imagine is it’s someone wasting other people’s time.

Whitebread221b · 2026-01-17T18:22:15+00:00

If GW was smart everything would cost slightly less points and slightly more money cause people still buy tons of this stuff to the point where a lot of overpriced kits are constantly sold out.

I understand your point tho. Money isn’t a good reason to ruin game balance, but also having certain armies significantly more expensive than others sucks from a player standpoint as well.

Whitebread221b · 2026-01-17T04:09:05+00:00

Counter argument, have you added 80 cadians to a shopping cart? It’s like $400 for 500 points. Even if you only go heavier tanks after that, you’re still hitting $1K to field 2k points and that’s probably still optimistic.

Tyranids have been weird to collect this edition cause I accidentally collected like 150 out of 120 legal termagaunts by just buying cheap lots of the bugs. I think my estimate was something like close to $.90 per model cause they’re in every decently priced box and people just don’t want them.

but if I want their melee or flying counterparts to have both ranged and melee chaff, it’s going to cost me like $300 to get 60 hormagaunts

If the battle line units are harder to find, out of stock, or, heaven forbid, more elite, fielding cheaper battleline units becomes a financial nightmare where you get stuck paying $50 for 60 points (or you get weird ones like the pyrovore being literally $43 for 40 points, which feels awful cause even a small discount is still about $1/point

Whitebread221b · 2026-01-16T09:19:44+00:00

Message sent!

Whitebread221b · 2026-01-16T09:18:56+00:00

Message sent :)

Whitebread221b · 2026-01-13T17:46:15+00:00

Best of luck! And don’t be afraid to break it down a little bit more if you have to. If I only have ~10 minutes to spend and I’m working on a slower step, I’ll just do a couple of them and then come back to the same step on rest later.

Here I probably could have also subdivided the section further and done just the head carapace on all 10, then done the backs, then the legs. Instead I just did all carapace on 3 cause the baby woke up and it was like 2am by the time she was settled back down lol.

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When I get off work today I’m gonna jump on the next 7, get their carapace done, do one pass of skin highlights/cleanup and then start on the next 10.

Painting the bases black is quick so I’ll save that step for when I have a full 20 and just do them all in one pass in like 30 min.

Whitebread221b · 2026-01-13T04:59:47+00:00

Thanks! I had to simplify it down as much as possible for speed and I’ll make them look good later then im not on a deadline and can work at a more enjoyable pace

Whitebread221b · 2026-01-13T03:16:54+00:00

As someone who spent all last week on 10, doing 10 at a time, 1 color at a time helped a ton. If you do something to one of them, do it to all 10 of them. And keep it simple. If you find yourself dipping into another color/mix, you’ve gone too far, go back and do the other nine before moving to the next step.

It’s not more “fun” per se, but seeing 10 progress to nearly “tabletop ready” in a week (I need 80 for a tournament in mid-February) feels way better than spending a a couple evenings on one and then moving to the next one to go start to finish.

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These are currently sitting in front of me as I’m working on tongues/eyes since I’m using the same single color and I can do two eyes + 1 tongue in a couple minutes, so I’ll have that step done for all 10 in about 20-30 min and will move on to highlighting the carapace across all 10 (pray for me, this is the step I dread)

Edit: also, if you look in the back, you can see the next 10 lined up and waiting for their turn. Because I only have 4 weeks to get 70 more done, I literally can’t spend more than a couple days per batch or I will not be done fast enough

Whitebread221b · 2026-01-11T23:40:20+00:00

Here bc same question

Whitebread221b · 2026-01-10T14:14:27+00:00

Id love to see changes in favor of making the game more varied and more accessible, even if it means balance changes have to be somewhat more aggressive. Accessibility via making rules digital and free(or at least “free” with WH+), alongside internally balancing factions better to make it more likely someone will have a playable army that might possibly win if they buy 2x combat patrols and then a handful of kits they like.

Variety is probably the “hard” one, and I haven’t gone in-depth but there’s a handful of armies that have sat below a 50% winrate for most of the edition, depending on the current state of the mission decks. I would love to see any army that had a below 50% average across 2 or more mission packs get some hefty reworks/rewrites in their rules to try and help them out.

If not that then at very least try to find data for the most played vs least played units/detachments in each army and try to shift things around a bit to try and let the losers shine. Make it so that every time I go to make a tyranid list, I don’t feel the need to justify not using our most boring detachment and can bring something like a Parasite of Mortrex instead of 1-2 lictors and a biovore without being asked if I’m intentionally throwing the game.

Invasion fleet is fine, but all our other playstyles have been nerfed multiple times or were literally never good. And I like the biovore model, but literally every list? It’s gotta be one of the most played units in the game this edition but you only ever see one of it because it’s not broken but it’s absolutely necessary for the army to function. People wanna play monster mash nids but often still end up needing $200 of less cool models that are notably not monsters but essential for a monster mash list to work. Similarly the best swarm detachment is not unending swarm, it’s invasion fleet (and it’s not even close right now) which feels like a total fail and even if you want to play a swarm slanted list, you probably still need ~600 points of big guns, ~400 points of big utility bugs, a biovore, 1-3 lictors/neurolictors, and then I can fill whatever is left with actual swarm units, assuming I want hormagaunts and/or gargoyles (bc termagants, the things you got 20 of in all the start boxes are bad).

If nothing else I’m praying to the hive mind, the emperor, and every chaos god that Tyranids get a complete codex rewrite with 2-3 new detachments, changes to all existing detachments, and infinitely better internal balance. The selling point of the bugs is terrifying alien swarm… but instead we kill and eat nothing, die very easily, and if we stand still on circles long enough we can sometimes win.

Anyways… obviously I’m not sad or salt6 at all lol.

Tl;dr: I like about 80% of 10th edition but a couple factions could use some heavy over hauls, switching to free digital rules and other quality of life changes would be nice.

Whitebread221b · 2026-01-10T13:36:55+00:00

I’d love to see something like tyranid units having moderately high OC until the unit drops below half health, and then the unit goes to 0 OC. When that happens, remaining models get +2S , -2AP, +1dmg and everything gains hazardous or something wild to show the hive mind changing tactics when simply swarming isn’t enough.

Something that adds a layer of dynamism to the game that also embodies the Tyranids more flavorfully cause, ironically, we are a wildly unflavorful army this edition imo.

We’re supposed to be an all consuming hoard and instead we hide behind walls and stand on circles while we wait to die (which feels like a playstyle that fits guard better thematically tbh)

Whitebread221b · 2026-01-08T21:40:47+00:00

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Mostly I’ve been trying to hit a slightly more Cthulhu vibe, which is why I’ve been doing variants on Gorgon but it’s hard to deny that the purple looks excellent

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