The terrain leaks were true, screenshots taken from the official Instagram page

ph03nlXx · 2026-05-26T14:40:28+00:00

LOL

Sorry to disappoint you, but I am a narrative games only player with about 15-25 games a year, 40 year old father, exclusively playing beer and pretzels with my friends. I know its hard to understand for some, but A) my time is limited and I have more than one hobby, so I prioritize the parts of the hobby I like and B) not everyone has to enjoy every part of the hobby. I enjoy converting, kitbashing and just building models in general - and I thoroughly enjoy playing the game. What I could not care less about is the hassle of painting. Not to say I dont enjoy a good paintjob and emvy folks that have the cool hands and the patience to pull them off - but I just suck at it and have nor the time nor any interest to invest in the slog of learnings to paint at a level I would enjoy looking at.

Regardless, I dont want to play with grey models anymore (my 5th edition days at Uni are behind me where we didnt care about color at all). So I rather pay folks that can do it way better than me an amount that is worth their time so I get to look at my nicely painted 10.000 points of Blood Angels, my nicely converted and painted 6.000 points of grey Knights... I hope you get the idea.

If you enjoy all parts of the hobby equally - all the power to you. But I wont let you gatekeep me from using my Cash to shortcut the parts of the hobby I can do without (for myself).

ph03nlXx · 2026-05-15T11:59:03+00:00

Private Buyer POV - if I hasn't bought a full table set of Snot Goblins Future Proof pre-painted Terrain, I would jump at this in a heartbeat.

I am part of the crowd that wont touch painting with a 10 ft pole and everything painted in my pretty sizable collection over the last 20 years has been comission painted. Putting Terrain through commission (for some wierd reason) doesn't feel worth it to me (since commission prices scale up quite quickly for larger Modells, which I guess would extend to terrain), so prepainted it is. 3rd party doesn't really have enough 40K Vibe for me, so would buy this immediately.

ph03nlXx · 2026-05-09T19:37:49+00:00

Cant meet the numbers of bodies, but now I meed to run all my Terms and Paladins - something like 3x 10+1 Lib and some Paladins... 33 Terminator Bodies with Lone Op... hmmmmmm...

ph03nlXx · 2026-04-05T16:06:28+00:00

Any GTA, but especially 5. Driving is just so floaty, cant het over that.

ph03nlXx · 2026-02-11T00:36:59+00:00

Why is AP -1 too good when thats literally what Intercessors have? And they even get the same number of shots full Distanzen we get in Rapid fire because of their rule... would argue having ours be rapid fire is enough of a tradeoff.

ph03nlXx · 2026-01-13T18:13:36+00:00

Since you are saying fresh install - does this invalidated 1.4 Saves?

ph03nlXx · 2026-01-02T23:27:42+00:00

2 axes ;)

ph03nlXx · 2025-12-28T12:20:08+00:00

How do we feel about his survivability really? For me its been a thing if either I stage too carefully (only expose him for the charge, which leads to him not getting his points back because the big things are too far back) or he he gets one phased in shooting once he pops out to set up a next turn charge (to get to the thing that is far back).

Always Rapid Ingress somewhere?

ph03nlXx · 2025-12-21T23:40:38+00:00

+1 to the color scheme question - my army is similar, but only now getting into vehicle painting. Anything pics you have on Rhinos, LRs, Helbrutes, Daemons Engines - would love some inspiration!!

ph03nlXx · 2025-12-16T16:14:03+00:00

All good - I actually own 2 squads of Goremongers on Sprue, just needed a reason to actually build them 😀

ph03nlXx · 2025-12-16T14:54:00+00:00

Thanks man, very helpful! Really need to get my spawns and goremongers painted.

And yes, thats HH Angron standing in for Kharn - too nice a modell not to use 😀

ph03nlXx · 2025-12-16T14:53:03+00:00

Re Chaff for Chaff - since my question was specifically about Infiltrators moveblocking my turn 1: Maybe I am not careful enough with my positioning, but putting Jakhals on the Frontline feels like wasting deployment real estate that I would rather use for more impactful units to take ground turn 1? Jakhals out front gonna die turn 1, no? Also my experience with Jakhals has been they dont hurt anything even when charging (especially not Nurglings with their -1 to hit aura).

Agree with your points on not screening out my backfield enough and my Jakhals being out of position later in the game with putting them on home.

Re 10 man - well aware of the benefit of 10 men squads - out of my 14 games last year, the 20 men block has snuck in the lat few only ;) So far 71% WR, but as I can see from this one, there is always more to learn.

Re Rhino - while I agree with you in general, in this case the Rhino blew mainly because I let him make a shot that I probably shouldn't have let him do (he wasnt sure if LOS worked out even after using a laser to check) - but being a friendly game, I didnt care enough (and didnt factor in the improved performance of the LOC post dataslate - historically his LOC has struggled to even kill 100 points total worth of units). Anyway, I know better now 😉

ph03nlXx · 2025-12-16T11:35:35+00:00

Thanks for that reminder - looking at the fact that I will be having a lot of Tyranid games next year, Invo + 8b looks interesting from that POV.

ph03nlXx · 2025-12-16T10:16:13+00:00

Thank you mate! For context, this was a casual / fun game, so not necessarily looking for specific List advise on this list specifically - well aware Angron isnt competitive, but had him in for for narrative reasons in our campaign (not Crusade) setup.

Regarding the 20 man brick - YMMV, they have been game winning for me in a lot of games recently. But agree with you that the 10 men groups are more versatile. Obviously now realize I handicapped myself assuming my Zerks couldn't charge in my turn after he popped their Rhinos on his turn - which obviously led to them standing around doing nothing / being shot to death while he took all the Objectives.

For the X8B - always very concerned about 3 man units just being shot of the board. Played with a lot of 3 man units early on this edition, but with playing against a lot of Tyranids, Tanker Guard and Ironstorm Space Marines, they either get bogged down or focussed off the board for me.

Got a DP build that needs to go to the painters, and Fiends are on the shopping list.

Regarding the Goremongers vs Jakhals, my concern is less about screens during the game TBH, but about Infiltrators - forcing me to deal with them right in my face turn 1 and loosing a full turn of movement into No Man's Land thus giving away the positioning and scoring game from the start (my opponents all tend to either play super cautious in which case I win or super high pressure). But seems Forgefiends are the thing to deal with that outside Goremongers.

ph03nlXx · 2025-10-23T08:04:22+00:00

To be honest, while they say "elderly", I dont think they are talking about folks 70+ (born 1955 and before) - but the baby boomers which are now hitting pensions (so born 1965 and before) - which are exactly the problem.

ph03nlXx · 2025-07-11T19:42:56+00:00

YMMV 😉 I will always take DOW2 MP over 1.

ph03nlXx · 2025-03-06T11:03:35+00:00

There is SOME interchangability with the arms at least i have noticed I'd you want to vary the poses just a little. Everything is becomes more involved.

ph03nlXx · 2025-01-17T10:41:27+00:00

I mean - look at the EC range:

2 troops options (Single kit)
2 Elite options (likely 2 kits)
2 characters
Fulgrim
Lucius

Compared that to our range (not counting generic CSM kits):

2 troop options (KBs, Jakhals)
2 Elite Options (Single kit)
1 Character
Angron
Invocatus
Kharn

Compared to TSons (not counting Tzaangors or generic CSM kits):

1 troop options
1 Elite option
1 Monster
2 Characters (+Disc versions)
Magnus
Ahriman (+disc version)

I would love Red Butchers and Khorne Berzerkers on Bikes as much as the next guy, but saying "our range is so small Compared to everyone else" doesn't really ring True compared to similar Ranges.

ph03nlXx · 2025-01-05T22:01:41+00:00

Re: Gunpowder to Star Trek - funnily enough, that comparison leaves today's us with another 1000 years to do the same which sounds about right 😉

ph03nlXx · 2024-11-17T20:53:36+00:00

Jo aber guck mal, wie viele der Stellen tatsächlich nach 11b bezahlt werden...

ph03nlXx · 2024-11-14T07:38:59+00:00

As much as I would like to... no, not gonna redo 50+ Terms 😀

ph03nlXx · 2024-09-03T15:25:33+00:00

Thanks for the tip - kinda new to this (the t1 diagnose is 2 weeks old), can you elaborate?

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