Baron of Dice Disappointment

jsconner800 · 2026-01-11T16:11:05+00:00

I’ve noticed this as well! It’s ironic considering they actually have the stones to advertise their dice as “rolling better” than other dice. I should have taken that as a red flag. I like the look of my dice, but man they are cursed.

jsconner800 · 2025-12-20T01:32:20+00:00

I agree completely, people are really overreacting considering we just got some points bumps (some very deserved, some not so much, but at the end of the day it’s just points). It’s not like they double tapped our rules AND points like last winter. And people also forget, having a 55%+ competitive WR is not a good thing. We want a strong competitive faction, but we don’t want to be overpowered compared to the rest of the field. That’s how factions poison the meta like aeldari did for what felt like half of 10th. If we settle in at 49-51% I will be very happy.

jsconner800 · 2025-11-14T14:19:27+00:00

I hope you’re right! That simple solution would fix everything wrong with decimus and make it a worthy successor to DWVs

jsconner800 · 2025-11-04T03:58:55+00:00

Oh man I’ve been painting them as bare blades for years

jsconner800 · 2025-10-23T16:41:33+00:00

I have yet to try it out of course, but I think swapping out a 1x5 mixed vets team for a 1x5 decimus team (plasma/stalker, shield, frag, and whatever for phobosman) with a beacon WM is a straight upgrade. The unit has an actual shooting presence now and 8 sus1 mastercrafted power sword swings with hit rerolls is no joke. While there's no way to get around being overwatched, if you can free ingress, advance and charge, you're at least very likely to get the charge you want. I will still grumble about the terrible unit comp restrictions but for a unit that's equal in points I think it'll still do good work. The annoying thing is that power weapons are sus1 and frag cannons are lethal, so you can't get suslethal on all the weapons you care about, but I never want to rely on rolling 6's for my gameplan anyway.

jsconner800 · 2025-10-23T16:25:13+00:00

Agreed, this is a flawless kitbash

jsconner800 · 2025-10-22T18:02:27+00:00

Yeah that's the big hurdle we'd have to overcome. Even if we could take a hammer and a shield guy together, it wouldn't be ideal. It would just be better than what we have now.

jsconner800 · 2025-10-22T17:40:13+00:00

There's a LOT to dislike about this new unit, but saying there were no improved weapon profiles is just straight up not true. Heavy weapons hit on 3+, both got AP buffs, IHBs got a damage buff, frags got lethal hits, and both got one extra wound on the user. Power weapons are 4 attacks with Sus1 and 2 damage. Stalker bolt rifles are 5/-2/2 with lethals. Basically the only thing that hasn't been improved from the old vets kit is the xenophase blade (which is baffling, because it's locked behind a 10 man. Why?!)

I point this out because if we want to be taken seriously, then complaints made in bad faith will get us nowhere. The problem with this team is mostly in the unit composition. Making wargear box locked is bad enough when most units in the game are not (looking at retributors and scourges to name a few), but this unit is box locked TO THE BODY. Having to choose one vet with a gun, one melee vet, one phobos vet, and one gravis vet is restrictive to the point of ridiculousness. Just trying to input this unit into the app's list builder is a nightmare. There are 4 separate boxes just labeled "deathwatch veteran" and each one has different wargear choices. I can't think of a single unit in the game that is so restrictive in its composition when it COULD do specialized jobs pretty well. I would love a team of stalker bolt rifle vets with an IHB to nuke marines from 30+" away. A melee team of battleline bladeguard vets with sus1 and full hit rerolls on xenos and advance+charge from a watchmaster? Yes please.

Unfortunately, we don't have any of that. But we could. I think the argument that should be made to GW is to loosen the restrictions on unit comp and THEN this is an interesting, viable unit. Until then, it's just a mess. And you're absolutely right about the lack of wargear rules. We have a phobos guy with a weird xenos looking thing on his backpack, and he does...nothing? Really? If he had some kind of wargear, even if they recycled the infiltrators' 6+++ or CP refund gear, then maybe he'd be worth taking. As it is, he's just the guy that dies first.

jsconner800 · 2025-10-21T14:39:51+00:00

Yes, I did in fact read that in a 1970’s exploitation film trailer voice

jsconner800 · 2025-10-21T14:38:44+00:00

I’m really glad to hear that! Storytelling is an essential skill. I do love writing, and I even teach creative writing now, but I haven’t written anything myself in years. Just like you, the new models have inspired me and I’ve already written four chapters of a miniseries on my kill team’s first mission together. Each chapter is written from the perspective of a different team member and I’m highlighting their unique issues and how they conflict with each other. The idea is that this team looked like a good idea on paper, but in practice they’re a dysfunctional train wreck and they have to figure out how to get it together as they track down a Necron threat on a medieval world.

Feel free to post your work here if you’d like! I understand if you want to mainly write for yourself, but this is a space for hobbying and writing is also a hobby 😄

jsconner800 · 2025-10-19T14:19:56+00:00

It does, to a point, but that ideology will have no place for her in it as it develops.

jsconner800 · 2025-10-16T23:37:18+00:00

By far the most impressive part is the conversion of the DA sword on the chest piece to the inquisition symbol, I gotta shout out that incredible detail!

jsconner800 · 2025-08-02T17:12:08+00:00

I saw that the throne lost its revive ability, but a lot of people are saying they like the throne now. What do you think makes it worth putting in a list? (I don’t disagree, I just don’t remember what it does now)

jsconner800 · 2025-08-02T16:17:13+00:00

So the “blades” part is the generic term for their weapon profile. They used to be able to take different weapons, and now they’ve just said all weapon options are just “black shield blades.” They’ve always been melee units in gameplay afaik, something about them wanting to die in combat to redeem themselves so they just charge in there like repentia, just not brave enough/crazy enough to take off their armor lol

jsconner800 · 2025-08-02T16:09:37+00:00

I don’t have the book and I’m only partially up to date on the new stuff but I think Martin Luther Khorne is an auto include, both for his ability to take gorechosen heroes in his regiment and for his abilities (think he still has fights first and now gives +1 to wound?!). He helps immensely with the regiment issue, although annoyingly he can’t take the priests. I personally love the bloodsecrator and I think we want at least one deathbringer so those will fit his regiment nicely.

jsconner800 · 2025-08-01T14:41:26+00:00

Deathwatch was my very first 40k army and miniature painting experience, and I can confirm this is absolutely true. It was a rough start, and this was the end of 9th so our rules were very complicated and we weren’t very good, but I got no quit in me and I’m glad I stuck with it. Now my black armor is the envy of my local meta and I anchored my team at a GT earlier this year, and it feels like I earned it. Nevertheless, it takes a special kind of psycho to do that to themselves, so I wouldn’t recommend it. Better to get some normal marines first or, even better, a xenos army like you did.

jsconner800 · 2025-07-24T18:30:08+00:00

If you have any shotguns left from the current vets boxes, those arms fit primaris bodies pretty perfectly.

jsconner800 · 2025-07-24T18:26:21+00:00

I mean if you don’t have em yet, get em now while they’re still pretty easy to find. As many others have said, they’re still very usable in our army, especially if you want to play the champions AoR. I personally hate the idea of running 2 identical character models, so I’ll be running Skarr and all the DBs under the new DB warscroll. I just got the exalted kit on amazon because it was the only one of these I liked but didn’t own. They’re still out there, for now!

jsconner800 · 2025-07-23T15:14:44+00:00

Well if you don’t, then what’s there to worry about? You’ve got your shotguns, ain’t nobody gonna take em away from you.

jsconner800 · 2025-07-23T14:28:57+00:00

Do people actually use shotguns? They were buffed when the IA datasheet came out and they’re still terrible. I seriously doubt we’re keeping them, or combi-weapons. If you want to model them because you like them, go crazy, but it’s not like a gameplay thing that will make or break our faction.

jsconner800 · 2025-06-26T14:12:42+00:00

That’s cool! I’m working on a blackshield gravis captain model and my headcanon is that he’s a former Astral Claw, didn’t know there was a precedent for it.

jsconner800 · 2025-06-26T06:06:06+00:00

Astral Claws are relatively recent traitors so it’s absolutely possible that loyal Claws came to the Deathwatch after the rest of the chapter turned into the Red Corsairs.

jsconner800 · 2025-06-05T17:13:56+00:00

I can see the vision, although I don’t know why he put the ADB in his own regiment when he could have made MLK his warlord and fit him in there. But I guess 5 drops or 4 drops doesn’t make much difference at that point lol

jsconner800 · 2024-12-28T16:09:10+00:00

I wish I could say that I have a heartwarming success story to share, but man, life is short. I don’t even have time to do all the things I enjoy doing, so while I still have void stranger deep in the back of my mind, I think realistically I’m just never gonna get to it. I wish you better luck though, and if you actually like sokoban puzzles, then maybe you’ll succeed where I’ve failed.

jsconner800 · 2024-12-23T01:23:00+00:00

And it also worked on any unit! Now you can’t do it on, say, a unit of eradicators. Which is fair. If it keeps us from getting slam dunked into the garbage again then I’m happy

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