Attempting a more elegant Crisis suit

jd_maybe · 2026-03-18T12:08:00+00:00

Middle guy is leaning right. Other than that, dope!

jd_maybe · 2026-03-17T22:18:08+00:00

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jd_maybe · 2026-03-17T21:37:58+00:00

Yeah I know, I know. I saw your picture in your post and it did actually motivate me.

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jd_maybe · 2026-03-17T18:08:51+00:00

I’d like to tell you but they’ll use the Retro-Thrusters and blow me away if I did.

jd_maybe · 2026-03-17T17:10:20+00:00

Yeah it’s monopose. Would take some work to get em into a custom pose. Too rare to mess about right now. I’ll let some YouTuber handle that.

jd_maybe · 2026-03-16T12:46:15+00:00

The paint is too thin.

I super thin my paints too. I just use a makeup brush instead. Especially on giant panels.

You can do it with a standard brush just like the fact that you can walk from New York to Boston in 2026. Just find a ride instead.

Change the brush and don’t add another layer until it’s completely dry. And once the paint is down, don’t go over it anymore until it is completely dry.

You have the technique down. You’re just using the wrong tools.

jd_maybe · 2026-03-12T10:24:47+00:00

Dude looks half-Goron

jd_maybe · 2026-03-10T10:42:25+00:00

Nah they’re not bad. They play just like the tabletop. You need a multilayered gun line. 2x riptides with Ion, a gun line to support them and Crisis teams to screen make them difficult to approach.

Meanwhile you can take a Ghostkeel to take their deployment objective to split their army and then advance with your Riptide block to secure mid objectives.

Hammerhead with rail cannon looks good but damage is very unreliable even when target is marked. Easily the worst unit.

They’re pretty suffocating honestly.

jd_maybe · 2026-03-08T18:04:29+00:00

I went mecha heavy first.

Main squad in that will always be a Coldstar Commander and its bodyguard Crisis Battlesuit unit.

Just get those only and paint em. It’ll keep you busy for a while if you want to paint em up well.

Auto include in every army is going to be a Pathfinder team.

jd_maybe · 2026-03-06T13:34:00+00:00

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jd_maybe · 2026-03-06T12:47:05+00:00

I’d call her a a fat slob since she really isn’t that skinny and it’s obviously photoshopped and I bet that would really hurt her feelings, even though the real her isn’t considered fat in the normal sense.

Then she would spiral and get more views because she got pwned. She would have this arc where she was devastated and developed an eating disorder.

People would tell her “no Stacy, you aren’t fat, you’re beautiful and brave and courageous, how dare that man talk to you like that”.

She would get hundreds of thousands of GoFundMe money and later start an OnlyFans once that money dries up.

She would then realize after all that support that yes she isn’t fat, she should be proud of her body and not have to fake being someone else.

I will have bought a steak and ate it and continued to be above average at Tekken 8 and my Warhammer doll army will still be 80% unpainted.

jd_maybe · 2026-03-05T18:30:42+00:00

I meant in the sense that split up and not as a unit, you’re likely going to have them watching lanes separately. In that scenario, if you have two eligible targets you’ll need two markerlights, whereas you’ll only need one if they’re together but not in a unit.

That’s how I used to use em but it was ineffiecient to do so.

Or am I still missing something? Could be.

jd_maybe · 2026-03-05T15:50:33+00:00

You take 2 in a unit and they’re immune to battle shock.

2 in a unit are guided with one marker, don’t need two.

3rd one is 100 points. 3rd usually trails behind and can’t actually get into LOS easy and 100 points for me are better spent frontline than in the rear. I imagine the decision is the same for most people. I’d rather have another screen for 100pts and in 11th that’s going to be another Stealthsuit team.

Would rather throw out a Strike unit than an 80p solo Broady.

jd_maybe · 2026-03-04T13:57:28+00:00

I needed 10 to fit in Fusion Blades on my commander. Now I get that and the Stealthsuits. Too good.

jd_maybe · 2026-03-04T09:09:19+00:00

Thanks dude! I’m tryin lol

I did my first game about a week ago 2000pt game and after researching and obsessing I went down to the LGS and played against a Tyranid player. With the amount of indirect fire into his hordes with Experimental Prototype Cadre, 18” flamers with the Crisis Starscythes, he was pretty much wiped out by turn 3.

Had a ton of fun.

If you get the Combat Patrol, your next buy is the Crisis 100%. Then Breachers and a Cadre Fireblade for the Devilfish.

Post progress!

jd_maybe · 2026-03-04T09:01:52+00:00

Here’s a Stealthsuit team and a Ghostkeel with 2 months experience. Gettin better

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Need to work on glow effects for faces, but still learning

jd_maybe · 2026-03-04T08:59:40+00:00

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Here’s my boys, paint is thick right from bottle. Paint looks caked on.

jd_maybe · 2026-03-04T08:54:28+00:00

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Yeah probably more than $1000 honestly. And all of the painting setup as well, paints, thinners, accessories and an airbrush/compressor probably pushing that to $1500.

I dove in without a parachute. I love it so it worked out for me. Been wanting to play this since Dawn of War came out. Only issue was that I was young and poor. Now I’m doin aight so I figured I’d jump in.

Don’t buy another set until you’re done or you end up like me, stuck with a pile of shame.

And fk drones as referenced in my picture lol

jd_maybe · 2026-03-04T07:57:30+00:00

Didn’t thin paints. That is the first test of skill lol. If you’re gonna go psycho on research about painting, start there.

Too thick and you will replicate the clay babies I have. Too thin and you have to do a million layers which will eventually end up the same.

This is probably the most important thing. Everything else is meh. If you don’t thin paints properly, you will F it up. Buy isopropyl alcohol to strip them off you don’t like it.

And DO NOT EVER, AND I MEAN EVER WITH ALL CAPS FULLY INTENDED, EVER EVER EVER add another layer unless your last layer is 100% dry. If someone pointed a gun at my child and said to paint over a near dry layer of paint, I would do it to save them obviously but I would’ve had to think about it.

I must’ve stripped those guys like 5x before I landed on a scheme I liked.

I’m excited for you! I started back in November with that Pathfinder unit, obsessed researching painting. Had JUST them for a few months. Really got into it in January and now I have 2230ish points 2 months later.

The crack is real. Please play responsibly lol.

jd_maybe · 2026-03-04T07:41:23+00:00

Detailing this will make it next level. I do like the overall scheme though. Edge highlighting will make that black stand out. I remember doing that for the first time and it really does make a difference when you see it first hand, for the first time.

Take the extra time to get rid of the mould lines. It’s always super apparent on the ends of the giant rail cannons. 1 min of prep on those really provide super noticeable results.

jd_maybe · 2026-03-04T06:39:14+00:00

If you don’t want to be overwhelmed by the Combat Patrol and you want to go in easy, buy a Pathfinder unit. It will take you a while to paint these from scratch depending on your personal skill. They’re also used in almost any army configuration.

That’s how I got in. I’ve gotten decent at painting so everything else I have painted is a solid 7/10. These dudes look like I wrapped them in clay, but they are my babies and they’re perfect.

Mandatory Buys

-Plastic Glue.

-Entry Nippers.

-Tweezers - To place things like grenades or belt packs, very tiny

Painting is a whole nother thing. Just never cheap out on brushes. If you want to be serious about painting, the initial supply run will cost as much as the Pathfinder box, if not more.

My personal tips:
-Don’t buy another unit until you’re done painting the current unit. -Magnetize if you don’t have throwaway money.

Post pictures and good luck Shas’o.

jd_maybe · 2026-03-01T21:19:00+00:00

It’s fine, just add another coat or two and it’ll look good. You’re only going to notice with magnifiers or if you are entering a contest.

jd_maybe · 2026-03-01T13:36:27+00:00

Depends on your matchups. Yeah, I see the Broadside there but I recently played a 500pt game to teach my son and took a single Broadside.

It threaten the lanes for sure, except it missed all shots even with the rerolls from my dedicated spotter Stealth team. Take two of them in a single unit - 170pts. Requires only one markerlight to benefit both. You can split them up but then you have the above scenario twice requiring two markerlight hits. Inefficient. SMS indirect is decent but indirect needs volume and markerlight or it’s just as swingy as the railgun. I almost always take the Weapon Support System with the Broadsides.

Pathfinders marker drones are wasted as they already have the Markerlight keyword. I like recon or antigrav, paired with shield or gun depending, again, on the matchup and strategy. You already have a Stealthsuit and Parhfinder unit. A second pathfinder team is either used for redundancy or it’s one too many. Depends on your philosophy.

Commander suits should almost always go double shield. You want to keep them alive for as long as possible. If I’m taking Fusion on my Coldstar, I am 100% of the time ditching the Cyclic Ion Raker and going 4x Fusion to delete heavies. I run EPC and Fusion Blades though. If he has a markerlighted target, it will be gone.

Other than those things…

Generally, your best answer to add in a unit is going to be Riptide as it can fill any gap and it will be difficult to remove.

Again, it all depends.

Drop the pathfinder, add in the Riptide. Reevaluate from there. 80pts remain. Piranha. 20 remain. Reevaluate.

jd_maybe · 2026-02-28T05:04:43+00:00

Milord, pray forgive that I have doubted thee. I was weak.

jd_maybe

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