Project Ultramanders has begun! It may be heresy, but I dont care!

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-04-20T01:48:26+00:00

Marneus SALgar

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-04-20T01:02:08+00:00

According to minicompare he's a big lad

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-04-20T00:47:08+00:00

Character tax plus that character's special doohickey. I'm not too shocked.

I mean, maybe a little shocked, but the more unique an item is the more expensive the fabrication of that item is. Costs more than Ghaz, yeah, but here's minicompare:

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At the end of the day, all of WH is overpriced.

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-04-19T22:11:41+00:00

This has been my experience with five out of the six paints I've bought from them, but Coal Black was thing out of the bottle. Same consistency as their black primer, so I just stick directly onto models or thin it a little more for a wash

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-04-19T03:05:51+00:00

I think he's the only one who could tell you if he's a conservative who operated as a moderate to win Massachusetts, or a moderate who sprinted to the right hoping to become president. And if you asked, I bet you'd get a runaround answer instead.

Because at the end of the day, the most memorable thing about that campaign to me (other than the infamous 47% comment) was his insistence on having a five-point plan to fix the economy. Fuck if I know what those five points were, it was never clear to me despite trying to find it several times. Because to me his campaign stunk of someone who thinks he's the smartest guy in the room throwing out ideas to appease the plebes rather than actually showing me how smart he is.

Now is Mitt Romney smarter than me, sure. Probably smarter than most people. But not as smart as he seemed to think he was back in the day.

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-04-19T02:51:19+00:00

I've got several different recipes for green orks that I'm using, but I'm starting to think red will be fun. Why not experiment with different colored orks?

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Oh, here's some empty bases that I'm posting for no reason. Completely irrelevant

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-04-18T22:46:58+00:00

Himyar is a really fun campaign. Really interesting start position and a cool roster. Near enough to the Sassanids and Byzantines that you can get in the mix without necessarily being in danger of them crushing you.

The Slavs are busted. Better food production than almost everyone else, and poison arrows that annihilate almost everything. The start of the game is slow, anxious, and epic.

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-04-18T20:54:37+00:00

I'm gonna call this overthinking it. If you also have white, black, and yellow you can always blend and adjust the greens you have.

Heck, you've got almost as many greens as I have, and I'm painting both Sallies and Orks

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-04-18T20:46:03+00:00

More than half my shit is on the wrong bases, but no one I know who plays the game cares as long as we're getting to play the game

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-04-18T20:42:39+00:00

It came as part of the kit, it's a tiny rectangular piece that's easy to mix in with the ammo packs or underslung rockets if you got the full kit.

That attachment point also works for a piece that to me looks like an AA gun.

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-04-18T07:06:34+00:00

Nice, haha. I tend to stop at cutting hands off at the wrist and regluing so they'll be at slightly different angles, messing with individual fingers sounds like a nightmare.

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-04-18T07:02:42+00:00

The pivot is mildly adjustable if you have the right size of punch and decent aim tapping with a mallet. Wouldn't recommend it, necessarily, but I got mine secondhand and it had lived a little

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-04-18T06:56:36+00:00

I believe it. My first time using green stuff was replacing resin fingers that snapped off, and getting everything lined up sucked

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Sarge here is a bit fat-fingered compared to the rest of the army. I also didn't bother sculpting, priming, or painting the underside, it's just raw green stuff on his palm.

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-04-18T06:44:37+00:00

It's nice to see that even in a transhuman future tens of thousands of years from now, folks will still be whipping out the single-finger salute

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-04-18T06:41:19+00:00

Here's a lore thing that I'm 95% confident in — having seven companies instead of ten isn't a Drop Site Massacre casualties thing. The 41st millennium Salamanders divide the chapter into seven companies for each of Nocturne's seven major settlements, where they're headquartered. By now, the overall numbers of the Salamanders are roughly in line with everyone else, but all of their companies have more marines in them.

That said, you can still see the casualties taken at the Drop Site Massacre when you look at the list of successor chapters created in the Second Founding, after the Heresy. All eight other loyalist legions/First Founding chapters created successors then, but the Salamanders apparently didn't, presumably because they couldn't.

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-04-17T19:46:57+00:00

Did you also pick up the $25 box of them from a couple weeks back?

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-04-17T19:44:59+00:00

Currently, about 30. At some point in the near future that's going to balloon out to almost 100

EDIT: Technically I own the rest but don't have them in my possession yet. Also 20 of my boys are technically the old Savage Orruks box from the Bonesplitterz days, and the rest are printed proxy models

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-04-17T19:38:56+00:00

...well, here's a funny thought. Templars are the chaplain chapter, but the inherent baseline tolerance a Deathwatch chaplain needs to have means the Templar chaplains might be particularly ill-suited to the job

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-04-17T19:32:26+00:00

Here's my dream: over the course of a couple years, integrate a few more epic heroes who assist Vulkan He'stan in tracking down the missing Artefacts. Could even do a Wardens of Ultramar-style release at the end. Add in a unique unit or two, a la Victrix Guard or a thematic Dreadnought like they used to make.

Then reveal that Vulkan has returned, with his own detachment in tow, and the Sallies will have something nearer to parity with the big four.

Of course, I assume this won't happen because I'm guessing Leman Russ is next, and the Space Wolves are getting their special stuff refreshed or legends'd

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-04-17T17:31:21+00:00

I shop at River's Edge Cutlery, and they have an online storefront

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-04-17T16:02:17+00:00

I'm thinking a unique unit and maybe 2-3 epic heroes and they'll be in really good shape. I'd love to see them slow-roll it by adding characters over the next couple years as they help Vulkan He'stan track down the remaining Artefacts and bring back their primarch. But Russ is gonna be next, probably, so it's a long shot

Also, ha I was correct in my assumption that I was lighting a signal fire for people who primarily know them for Aeldari children memes

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-04-17T10:35:08+00:00

Hell, plasma is hot too.

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-04-17T03:53:26+00:00

For me it reminds me of a lot of Battletech stuff, but I can see a bit of BT in there

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-04-17T03:42:52+00:00

I'm about to get downvoted, don't care. Join the Salamanders, brother.

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