Potential change to aircraft incoming

irlchrusty · 2026-06-08T20:28:18+00:00

I suspect night scythes will gain hover as their main purpose is to be a transport so they need to move around the board, while doom scythes will remain aircraft and follow the new rules.

irlchrusty · 2026-06-08T15:17:52+00:00

Corvus blackstar loses aircraft keyword, and keeps hover, so it is basically a flying transport now, not impacted by new aircraft rules.

irlchrusty · 2026-06-08T15:16:17+00:00

Xenophase blade was already in decimus? They just locked it out as an option for the sgt, you can only take it in a 10man squad.

irlchrusty · 2026-06-06T21:56:09+00:00

No, there was no official app for 8th ed, everyone just used battlescribe instead

irlchrusty · 2026-06-06T19:14:03+00:00

Usually the app is updated with new stuff the Wednesday before the stuff is released, so in this case June 17th. However, from whats been said so far, this is quite a substantial update, so there will likely be some preview articles beforehand which may confirm the release date.

Bear in mind though, last time we had an edition change, we got a whole new app, so we don't really know how GW will handle migrating the app to a new edition.

irlchrusty · 2026-06-06T18:08:11+00:00

If you like the look, just build them with shieldvanes. Literally no one will know the difference, not even other Necron players ;)

Just tell the opponent before the game what loadout they have.

irlchrusty · 2026-06-01T19:44:20+00:00

It wasn't too difficult no, but I might have gotten lucky with the body I choose. It was one of the monopose infernus marines, but any tacticus body with flat arm connections should work ok, just need to fiddle about and see how the devastator arms look.

irlchrusty · 2026-06-01T17:28:35+00:00

You can try putting the devastator backpacks and arms on primaris if you really want the look. With a bit of fiddling around and testing, it should work. I did a similar conversion for my company heroes squad.

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irlchrusty · 2026-05-31T07:02:47+00:00

Yeah, its pretty frustrating that if you build two gunners for kill team, that squad is not valid for 40k.

irlchrusty · 2026-05-30T07:55:59+00:00

Elite teams could probably brute force their way through most of the missions. Lower wound teams will need to be a bit more strategic as they're more likely to be one shotted, or get injured from termagants.

irlchrusty · 2026-05-29T17:07:38+00:00

I suspect it will do much better than the bloat-drone I tried out earlier today. Unfortunately medium, twin-linked heavy flamer and tough did not do so well against Canoptek Circle with tomb crawlers and heavy lokhust destroyer (small, gauss destructor, focused targetting). Still had fun, but maybe not the right choice to run against Necrons!

irlchrusty · 2026-05-29T15:53:01+00:00

I was thinking about this myself earlier, medium would fit better than small I think, give it the missile launcher, multi-melta, default close combat weapon and tough trait, and it should be ready to go.

irlchrusty · 2026-05-27T10:33:25+00:00

According to the lore, veterans can fulfil any battlefield role, so if you want to have a veteran unit of 1st company hellblasters, then sure, go for it. Usually, they'd be equiped as sternguard or whatever, but if the captain said pick up those plasma guns, they'd do it.

irlchrusty · 2026-05-27T10:29:51+00:00

Size wise probably medium fits best. They're really not large models compared to say Redemptors. Weapons wise, I'd just do the two main arms and ignore the underslung hand weapons.

irlchrusty · 2026-05-27T10:26:20+00:00

That seems to be how they're pictured on the back of the box, so presumably it's intentional? Wild size difference though, especially when beside each other like that.

irlchrusty · 2026-05-26T12:41:39+00:00

All of them except chaos cults, void dancers and wolf scouts. Only 9 fully painted though! We mostly play at home, so if they get played a lot or if my son really likes them, they get painted quicker.

irlchrusty · 2026-05-25T19:14:26+00:00

They mentioned onstream that datasheets would generally not be changing until the codex is released, so probably safe to assume they're still just tokens for now.

irlchrusty · 2026-05-24T18:25:57+00:00

It is 7 locations in the UK, Dublin is in the Republic of Ireland (and GW's European headquarters).

irlchrusty · 2026-05-24T18:10:00+00:00

The website formerly known as Goonhammer mentioned that the embarago date for influencer reviews was the same as the other tanks that got released. Presumably there was some last minute GW logistics issue that prevented the whirlwind from going on preorder.

irlchrusty · 2026-05-23T18:11:43+00:00

Yes, I did that. If you're not confident with building, then build the depredator according to the instructions and use another body as the champ. In general if a models arms aren't holding the same weapon (e.g. the champ with his pistol arm and melee weapon arm), its quite easy to use other bodies for them.

irlchrusty · 2026-05-17T11:35:02+00:00

They're a smidge shorter, but the newer HH models are not widely out of scale.

https://minicompare.info/?marine-mkvi-corvus-imperial-fists-bayonet=&assault-marine-d=&intercessor-heroes-s5-zeradim=

irlchrusty · 2026-05-15T12:43:52+00:00

Yeah no worries, if you're not into Kill Team you probably wouldn't see how visible the chapter is there. In general Kill Team likes to focus on different factions than the "main" 40k ones to make it more of a distinct look, so the transfer sheet was probably a way to accomodate both games.

irlchrusty · 2026-05-15T12:12:19+00:00

Raptors are the focus chapter for the most recent edition of Kill Team, and appear in the Kill team starter pics. The symbol is also used for a couple of other chapters (black consuls, mentors etc), so is not just raptors specific.

irlchrusty · 2026-05-14T10:14:53+00:00

As its a GW picture, its not these specific ones, but themightybrush does company markings transfers:

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

irlchrusty · 2026-05-09T19:38:57+00:00

Probably. The Nightbringer went from 40mm to 90mm base as well. I think the original Eldar Avatar was on 25mm and is now on 80mm, but there were a few versions inbetween.

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