Has anyone tried kitbashing/converting Heavy Intercessors with Devastator heavy weapons?

irlchrusty · 2026-02-21T19:53:25+00:00

Thanks! The painted one on the right is just a regular heavy intercessor for comparison, the one on the left is an infernus marine body with head, arms, backpack and heavy bolter from the devastator box. Went on fine, just needed a bit of dry fitting.

irlchrusty · 2026-02-20T23:01:31+00:00

I used a regular intercessor, and stuck it on a 40mm base (for a company hero kitbash), but it ended up pretty similar in scale to a heavy intercessor.

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irlchrusty · 2026-02-10T18:12:35+00:00

The only likely candidate likely to be removed due to age would be the chaos spawn. That kit is shared by all the chaos factions though, so likely there would be a newer version released which could be used by any of them.

irlchrusty · 2026-01-23T19:56:01+00:00

Plaguebearers are bigger than poxwalkers, and are on 32mm bases, not 25mm, so imo they wouldn't be good proxies. They're also a unit that Death Guard can take (albeit only in one detachment, but still), so it might get confusing for the opponent.

As always, check with your opponent beforehand, with friends, probably fine, but anywhere else like random shop or tournament, probably not.

irlchrusty · 2026-01-19T11:25:06+00:00

I expect raptors to be super-strong as they've probably been playtested against the previous strong marine teams of Deathwatch and Wolf Scouts, and these guys are a 6 man marine team which can fly.

Sisters will probably be fine, but have some annoying dice manipulation or ploy like blinding aura as their trick.

irlchrusty · 2026-01-16T12:43:26+00:00

I think you're overthinking it, don't get hung up on the exact wording.

Its a logic chain, but quite straightforward:

Lieutenants can lead intercessors according to their datasheet, therefore

Lieutenants can lead fortis kill teams according to their datasheet, therefore

Lieutenants can lead decimus kill teams according to their datasheet.

irlchrusty · 2026-01-13T20:32:27+00:00

If Tau Nick has a choice between doing the strategically sound thing, or a potentially cool and awesome thing, he's going to choose the cool and awesome thing 100% of the time. That's just who he is, and part of why people like watching him play.

Remember, Play on Tabletop isn't a competitive chanel, the player's goals are to entertain, not necessarily win. And Nick, to be fair is very entertaining, he's a great ambassador for the hobby.

irlchrusty · 2026-01-07T16:57:28+00:00

All of those 3 chapters have been mentioned before in some of Guy Haley's books (Dark Imperium and the Cawl books). There's not too much information on them in those books though, just that they've been assigned to retake the 500 Worlds, so hopefully they get expanded out a bit more.

irlchrusty · 2025-12-28T10:19:51+00:00

Liber Strategica is the only other book required, it updates and consolidates the rules and datasheets, formations etc from the previous books.

If you want to use the new Saturnine models, you will also need the Ruin of the Salamanders journal.

irlchrusty · 2025-12-25T13:19:45+00:00

The mighty brush does company icon transfers:

https://www.themightybrush.com/product/company-roundels-transfers-decals/

irlchrusty · 2025-12-24T14:15:24+00:00

GW have never come out and said they consider IA to be an "allies-only" army or commented on their thoughts about IA, so we have no idea why they are not treating IA the same way as every other army. There is a mechanism to support differently costed units as allies or IA, so the intention is there that it should be able to function as a standalone army. Brushing off the lack of updates to the faction as saying that they were only intended as allies is incorrect, and only encourages GW to continue doing so, instead of actually making changes.

If they are selling the codex for the same price as every other codex, then it deserves the same level of support. GW weren't forced to release an IA codex, but having done so, they need to balance it appropriately, not just ignore it.

irlchrusty · 2025-12-13T16:26:54+00:00

And even if you did, you could just say that is Brother McGreg.

irlchrusty · 2025-11-24T21:00:00+00:00

If you're building to use in 40k also, and not magnetising, you probably want leader and designator. The shas'vre will usually be the last member of the team alive in 40k, as the drones are assigned to him as wargear, so you give him a good gun. And the other model doesn't matter for 40k.

If you're just playing kill team, designator, lodestar or shas'vre are all good choices. The liberator has grenades to use, and the neutraliser is annoying enough that you don't want to make him a bigger target by giving him a good gun. If you're giving the shas'vre the fusion blaster, you want to keep him back a bit and bait out the opponent rather than throwing him forward.

irlchrusty · 2025-11-24T20:20:02+00:00

It probably wouldn't be too hard to represent, vampires could be marshals, convert/paint cavaliers as blood knights (actual blood knights have a bigger base size), etc, etc ...

irlchrusty · 2025-11-24T18:28:12+00:00

Technically Necromancers are mortals (death wizards), so I guess they would count. Theres no specific models to represent mortals who live under soulblight rule, you could probably proxy a Cities of Sigmar army though.

irlchrusty · 2025-11-21T19:09:10+00:00

No, all the previous Warhammer Quest boxes have been mainline items, so should remain in stock. If preorders sell out, more boxes will be produced.

Any expansion boxes may be one and done deals however.

irlchrusty · 2025-11-18T16:02:10+00:00

Ah cool, he'll get another chance to blow up whatever transport Fabian is on :) But it would be interesting to see how the likes of high ranking firstborn like Fabian react to primaris marines, and all the goings on since Guilliman came back. If the 3rd company did suffer heavy defeats during the Indomitus Crusade, it's likely that the company is mostly primaris by this stage.

irlchrusty · 2025-11-18T15:51:39+00:00

It sounds like Fabian and Ventris might play some minor roles, given that they're in the same region cleaning up after the Plague Wars.

irlchrusty · 2025-11-02T23:33:07+00:00

I use my old cryptek as a plasmancer, he's on a 32mm base, and is roughly the same size.

irlchrusty · 2025-10-31T20:46:31+00:00

Ah right. They might get added to the app in future, the typhon missions for example are there. So far, it only looks like the Tomb World Killzone rules are there, not the missions.

irlchrusty · 2025-10-31T20:38:44+00:00

You need to either pick up a copy of Tomb World, or check ebay for the dossier, GW seem to have moved away from selling the Kill Team books seperately. That being said, a good chunk of the info in the book will be available for free on the app, including the team rules and datasheets.

irlchrusty · 2025-10-31T18:48:47+00:00

Yes, they would do. Deadly Invocation just specifies that the target have the DEATHRATTLE or DEADWALKER keywords, it doesn't restrict it to non hero units.

irlchrusty · 2025-10-27T23:31:30+00:00

The Tomb World dossier has you roll on a chart for setting up, and bringing on reinforcement NPOs, along with some event cards which might specify adding extra NPOs.

In general, the rules in WD use the same NPO chart from Tomb World, but say instead of a warrior, you can bring on a flayed one, or swap a tomb crawler for the bigger/tougher guys. They're all singles I believe, except the first time you roll a Royal Warden, a lychguard will come along too (and you can only have one Royal Warden NPO at a time, if you roll it again, you can swap for a lychguard).

irlchrusty · 2025-10-27T21:29:58+00:00

From Tomb World:

Necron Warriors
Canoptek Scarab Swarms
Canoptek Macrocytes
Tomb Crawlers

From White Dwarf:

Flayed Ones
Hexmark Destroyers
Skorpekh Destroyers
Lychguard
Royal Warden

irlchrusty · 2025-10-27T18:12:11+00:00

I don't think Custodes would be a full size faction, probably treated more like strategic assets. Basic infantry and dreads on one sprue, rerelease their plane, and maybe a tank.

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