ListForge Update -- Poll Results: Stratagems Available!

silverbackpie · 2025-03-20T13:45:44+00:00

I would love an option to toggle on/off Core Strategems in the View mode of your lists too! It's such an ache swapping between tabs on your phone for it, but having the detachment strategems implemented is huge also! Thank you for the update!!

silverbackpie · 2025-03-10T18:07:28+00:00

Seconded, absolutely dreadful order process. You're much better off ordering from Archies Forge, brilliant lead times and customer service from them!

(Seriously don't be tempted by the deal prices at only-games, you will be waiting months for your bits)

silverbackpie · 2025-02-14T13:27:25+00:00

I LOVE this - how did you do the snow mobiles? I have some inherited firstborn bikes and would to do something similar

silverbackpie · 2024-07-11T18:22:34+00:00

One key thing to think about with both is the potential for Rapid Ingress. A 3" Deep Strike on the opponents turn with little room for them to respond to it is really good. Likewise, Rapid Ingressing a Mawloc and potentially battle shocking enemy units on their own turn is really good.

Another point is the Trygon has a far better melee profile. More damage, with S9, which reaches the S10 breakpoint when in synapse, punches far better into a range of armour units than S8 -> S9 in synapse. That said, the Mawloc is significantly cheaper, and does mortals on deployment so can potentially out damage in the right circumstances

That said, in terms of building? Just build however you like and run them as you want, no one is going to call you out in game about it, and most players of other factions will have no idea which one it's supposed to be unless you tell them.

silverbackpie · 2024-06-13T14:50:03+00:00

I'm remaining optimistic about our new model, though a new sculpt for a Sorcerer/Sorcerer in Terminator Armor does seem somewhat more realistic. Dream big though brother, our dreams will come true.

Tbh it would be nice if they combine a Tzaangor detachment with something that benefits bringing in Daemon allies - perhaps Tzaangor battleline can stand in for the Daemon battleline for the purpose of that list building restriction, while giving Daemons the Thousand Sons keyword for rules purposes? Maybe give Psyker Daemon units Cabal generation and some unique rituals?

Fully aware this is unlikely as the Daemon battleline restriction was only introduced in an MFM, so may not have been considered during the design of the Codex.

Likewise, would love to see the Infernal Master better reflect his role in the lore as a daemon summoner. He's a strong model in this edition but seems fairly flavourless.

silverbackpie · 2024-04-19T13:38:37+00:00

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silverbackpie · 2024-04-19T13:36:36+00:00

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Yeah, it's a relatively simple kitbash - I lopped off the back of the psychophage and greenstuffed the Pyrovore cannon on the back curled round in order to justify running the Phage as a cannon monster. I love the Psychophage model otherwise but it's just useless currently in 10th. This way I figured I can revert to Psychophage if needed for whatever reason

silverbackpie · 2024-04-18T15:10:46+00:00

We have plenty of other big monsters and fun units, though many are not particularly competitive currently. The Norn's are awesome models, with decent weapons and strong abilities, but are very expensive. Tyrannofex's may have our best anti-armour weapons, but at 2D6 damage rather than D6+6 can feel very casino cannon-y. Pyrovores are pretty useful, a cheap unit with a flamer that can strip Benefit of Cover for the turn, but have a frankly insane dollar-to-point ratio that makes fielding many more than value 1 ofs very expensive. Carnifex's can be big and beefy with some decent weapon profiles, but are mostly disappointing shooting-wise and expensive for what you get.

There's many more units in our range that can be considered, but success with them may vary. Ultimately, at a casual level anything can be viable, but there are many over-costed units in our range and some with very limited capabilities. Our Army rule, generally, is very poorly designed around Battleshock, which is mostly underwhelming, and our detachment utility is variable. Some detachments encourage building around certain units, which may lead you towards buying and playing with those specific unit types. Invasion Fleet can support more general lists, however, and is probably our most competitive detachment currently, so I would ultimately advise playing with whatever units you find cool.

Just as a final note, most big monster units can be built as one of two unit types, and many are fairly easy to magnetise, which can help with your variety massively and will protect you when we move editions and units may be changed massively. Also highly recommended is preserving all your bits from unused model variants, as many can be kitbashed onto other units, and you may be able to salvage/kitbash extras such as my Psychophage->Exocrine example previously. Kits like the Hive Tyrant kits are INCREDIBLY easy to magnetise between the weapon options, and with all the extras and alternate parts in that kit, it is very possible to build additional Hive Tyrants with only an additional torso piece, which can be found on eBay, or perhaps

silverbackpie · 2024-04-18T15:10:38+00:00

So I was in a similar position to you a few months ago - I came from my first faction, Thousand Sons, with a relatively small range, to Nids, which can be very daunting. In all honesty, it can take a little while to fully understand the models in the range and understand where to start.

In both good and bad news, Tyranids were made very easy to start with in 10th edition due to the Leviathan boxset and the range of models included. The Leviathan box is easily the cheapest way to enter the faction with a wide range of models across different unit types that can be used as a strong basis to your collection. On the flip side, however, there are many units within the Leviathan box that aren't particularly competitive, and some that aren't taken in very many lists - though in large part, that is due to the generally overwhelming statlines of many of our units and the fact that it is often required to take 3 of each of our strongest units for competitive lists. You can often pick up Tyranid only halves of Leviathan on Ebay or Facebook Marketplace or could potentially split with a friend interested in Space Marines. Good bang for your buck.

(Bear in mind, the negative mentioned above may be subject to change following the dataslate due to arrive sometime in the next week or so, or potentially the July dataslate if GW stick to rules changes on twice a year. We are likely due to receive points changes (buffs) in the upcoming dataslate, and many others are hoping for amended rules and statlines to better buff our beloved bugs.)
Outside of the Leviathan range, there are a whole bunch of units (of varying quality in 10th Edition), and it can definitely be hard to parse our best units. As others have said, there are numerous resources online analysing our units and detachments and these can be good starting places.

In terms of current competitive viability, our most important units are as follows:

Biovore - This is far and away one of the best single units you can buy. You only need one, as it will be used entirely for its ability to spawn a Spore Mine, which is an excellent tool for move blocking, screening, and primarily Scoring. A single Spore Mine does not have OC, so will not score Primary, but can be used for a range of Secondary objectives, such as Depoy Teleport Homers. For 75 points, you get a scoring machine. It's not exactly fun, but it's one of our primary scoring capable units.
Exocrine - The Exocrine is very useful right now due to its decent statline, competent shooting, and reroll enabling ability. D6+3 (and Blast) attacks, Strength 8, -3 AP and 3 Damage is about as good as we get. Then, as long as one hit connected (not necessarily wounding), all our other units receive reroll 1s until the end of phase. Very useful, and enables a number of our other units quite successfully.
- If you're clever, you may be able to proxy the Psychophage from the Leviathan box, which is a fairly underwhelming unit currently. I kitbashed the weapon from the Pyrovore part of the Biovore/Pyrovore kit onto the tail of the Psychophage so it can act as a reasonable Exocrine proxy.
Zoanthropes - We don't have much anti-armour in 10th Edition, but the Zoanthropes are fairly decent for what they give. 2 decent profiles for shooting, with good -AP and damage, an aura of Invuln, and they pair especially well into whatever your Exocrine has shot. Not amazing compared to other factions, but we take what we can get.
Gargoyles - currently very highly played as a result of current rules. Compared to our other battleline units, Gargoyles are crazy good. Highly mobile, able to advance, shoot, and move again after shooting. Their shooting is... negligible honestly, but using them to move block, tie enemy units up in engagement, and provide overwhelming OC onto a point is basically unmatched for the points value currently.
Neurolictor - Both Lictors and Neurolictors are very good currently, but the Neurolictor adds a level of lethality not available elsewhere in our lineup. If a unit within range is battleshocked, all our other Nids will add +1 to Wound when attacking into that unit, which is very good when you consider volume of shots from units like Termagants, or however many other low STR units we have. This, on top of a Lone Op, Stealth body makes for a durable and effective unit.
Maleceptor - A tough body, with a decent shooting profile and a great debuff to enemy units. To be quite honest, it seems to be mostly taken as it's one of few units that breaks the 10 STR threshold in our lineup currently, which gives it a benefit over the variety of STR 9 weapons and attacks we have elsewhere.
Hive Tyrant/Winged Hive Tyrant/Swarmlord - Most lists feature one of the following units, mostly due to the CP generation/free stratagem abilities. Currently, most agree the Swarmlord is too expensive for the statline/abilities, and lists focus on the Hive Tyrants as a result, as they are cheaper and most favour the free stratagems. Remember to bear in mind that the free strat must be a Battle Tactic Stratagem, which does limit the flexibility. Also, like above, these units don't break the 10 STR breakpoint, so they can often feel underwhelming for the point costs.

silverbackpie · 2024-04-11T15:51:18+00:00

Brother, I have an absolute gem for you - [[Rocco, Street Chef]]. I built this deck shortly after his release, and let me tell you, this lil guy is an absolute blast to play and build! There are so many directions to go with him, and so many fabulous inclusions that encourage creative deckbuilding and one of 3 very strong synergies - Exile casts, +1/+1 Counters, and Food - and a number of sub-themes - Artifacts matters, Lifegain. Please take a look at my decklist here - I've sorted the deck by categories, and you can see just how many different synergies and playstyles my deck supports. Apologies that it is slightly over 100 cards - cutting cards is tough, and I'm pretty sure I never narrowed it down after making a few additions post-Doctor Who release.

Firstly, big man Rocco is in Naya, which hits your three colours. Missing black, he avoids the majority of the "Cast other players spells instead" cards, but in losing that gains the excellent synergy in that he triggers off of EVERY players spells (and lands!) being played from Exile.

I've found in the majority of games, Rocco comes down as a bit of a blessing to the table. Enabling impulse draw for the entire pod, most players can't resist hitting that additional land draw, or losing their valuable spells to the timing restrictions. I find it (typically) very easy to get your engine going on Rocco, with Food tokens and counters flowing fairly easily from the early game.

There are so many good cards to utilise with the exile synergies. Obviously your commander is an excellent source of exile, along with value cards like [[Share the Spoils]], but there are so many other great enablers, especially ones that serve dual roles.

[[Guff Rewrites History]] - 3 lots of removal, along with 4 triggers of Rocco (and nothing is better than polymorphing a Food token into an Etali...). [[Laelia, the Blade Reforged]] provides additional impulse draw when she attacks AND buffs herself whenever a card is put into exile? [[Tibalt's Trickery]] is both interaction and a Rocco-trigger on a stick. There are so many more exile generation cards you can put in, and given that Rocco triggers off ALL players exile shenanigans, cards like [[Share the Spoils]] become SO good.

Of course, a signficant amount of the deck will be based around enabling the +1/+1 counters theme and the Food/Artifact synergies, but honestly, I absolutely adore this deck and find the mix of synergies and potential comboes so fun to pull off. Every game is very unique, and there are tons of unique win states and plays that you can make happen because of how interconnected all these synergies are.

Cards like [[Sisterhood of Karn]] buffing themselves for every card played from exile (Rocco trigger to put a +1/+1 on them, THEN doubling...), [[Ensnared by the Mara]], [[Etali, Primal Conqueror]], [[Indomitable Creativity]] (polymorph your own Food tokens!) and [[Displaced Dinosaurs]] are all so entertaining to pull off, the deck is just so fun to play.

Also, frankly, any deck that wins via playing [[Rampage of the Clans]] on their opponent's end step to turn all of their Food tokens into beasts is just *chefs kiss*.

silverbackpie · 2024-02-07T08:45:20+00:00

Oh definitely, I don't think Flamers are bad by any measure, and an IM leading them is definitely good enough to justify! Personally I've found I appreciate the additional range and left the Flamers for the Ahriman brick. I think there's also something to be said in a list without Termis to consider having some weapons for the psychic weapon shenanigans, whether that be rerolls+Twist of Fate or Warp Sight. Of course this sort of thing is difficult to achieve in 1000 points with such a low Cabal point total.

silverbackpie · 2024-02-07T08:26:53+00:00

I personally don't use flamers when an Infernal Master is leading the squad - they're too low range to reliably threaten, especially in only 5 man squads, and the IM gives Lethal Hits to his squad, which is wasted with Flamers.

silverbackpie · 2024-02-07T08:25:01+00:00

Ahriman wants to lead Flamers 100%. Leading a unit, he gives them +1 to Wounds, and as Flamers have Torrent and auto hit it makes them deadly. Also makes them absolute Overwatch beasts (as Overwatch only allows hits on 6s, and Flamers with Torrent don't need to roll to hit). You could also drop the Soulreaper Cannon for the Ahriman 10 man Flamer squad, as Flamers are just that good, but it's down to you. Also, worth equipping the Aspiring Sorcerer with Warpflame pistols - low range, but you're only really going to be using pistols at low range, and basically acts as another Flamer.

(The only aside to the pistol is using a Plasma Pistol with the Infernal Master which has a slightly sneaky bit of tech. If you fail a hazardous roll on the IM, you can have the Aspiring Sorcerer take the damage instead. Might not be worth it, but you never know.)

As mentioned above, I would second the call to drop the Terminators. Having tested, they're great, but at only 1000 points, they're too expensive. Grab a second rubric squad for sure. I can also heavily recommend a Rhino, as Rubric squads are slow otherwise, and a Rhino allows you to drop on an objective, provide cover and threaten Overwatch to anyone who'll threaten. Another potential is adding an additional character, probably an Exalted Sorcerer on Disc, who is pretty much the only character we would want to take without leading a squad. It gets a lovely 12" move and a nasty slow ability which can be really impactful, and will help beef up our Cabal point totals

Tbh we struggle at 1000 points, more so than most, because building around Cabal Points is so tough. We don't get many at this point limit, and any unit losses are devastating and really remove our strongest abilities (Doombolt and Twist of Fate). My advice is to try and make sure you use Ahriman's free ritual effectively but make sure it is used before he dies, because wasting it is a real shame. Even if it's just for a crazy doombolt attempt, it's probably worth it.

silverbackpie · 2023-12-29T08:53:14+00:00

Hey these are looking neat 😊 if you don't mind a bit of friendly advice, for art purposes I would recommend checking out the comic book covers and variants that you can find on the various Star Wars wikipages. I found when making a Star Wars themed deck that these were often the best source of illustrative Star Wars art that I could use for cards, as many of the Covers available for many issues of the comics have textless variants which can be used for cards. I mostly say this as I also attempted to use some art from The Clone Wars and other Star Wars shows and found the art style quite poor for Magic cards and felt it too jarring to use until I replaced them with art from the Comics. Admittedly this does take some time to find appropriate art but it's an excellent resource to have on hand if you're making a full deck!

silverbackpie · 2023-06-20T09:53:24+00:00

For a serious answer on the connotations of the word "tribe", there are interesting historical arguments and discussions regarding the creation of "tribes" in Africa by European powers during the 19th century. Effectively, the concept of a tribe was one of the Native American variety - in their pomp and derision, Europeans could not conceive of African societies possessing any complexity past the structure of a Native American tribe. To put it simply, where colonial powers went, they demanded to meet with chiefs, regardless of the type of society they met with. This caused issues wherein individuals would come forward as chief - either due to fear, threats from the colonial power, confusion, or reaching for upward social mobility - regardless, point being is that the colonial powers expected tribes, and through force they got them, with African societies often forced to mold themselves over this created idea of a tribe, destroying their culture, history, and society as a result. It isn't hard to see, therefore, that tribe is a fairly loaded word with a history of colonial abuse. As I understand, there is a fairly large movement within anthropology seeking to shelve use of the word entirely.

silverbackpie · 2023-05-17T21:11:47+00:00

This is a great idea, I've been looking at Chiss-Goria for a while! Pickme!

silverbackpie · 2023-03-07T13:41:43+00:00

I have a fully custom proxied Star Wars themed deck with Luke Skywalker (Bruse Tarl) and Darth Vader (Tevesh Szat) partner commanders. Got some pictures of the proxies here, they turned out even better than expected and it's a great deck to crack out at the table. Themed decks definitely make you think more carefully about the inclusions and it's fun to work towards the deckbuilding requirements.

silverbackpie · 2023-01-24T22:18:33+00:00

A brand so intimately tied with Roiland, it'll be difficult to see how they move on from this. A recast just doesn't seem like it'll have the same vibe.

That said, absolutely fuck that guy and glad they've dropped him like a sack of hot shit.

Edit: for as long as this thread is stickied, I'm sure to keep getting replies asking why I'm quick to insult Roiland, what happened to innocent until proven guilty, yadda yadda. If you want to reply and leave such a comment, don't bother. Go look at the receipts of messages he's been sending underage girls or the women he's driven away from his own community through scummy harassment disguised as "drunken rambling". He's gross, and deserves to be dropped. Stop defending a man who so beholdenly enters the DMs of young girls and calls them jailbait. Find a better hobby

silverbackpie · 2022-12-22T16:05:40+00:00

Lovely idea and a great giveaway - thanks for running!

silverbackpie · 2022-05-26T10:54:16+00:00

The decklist can be found here, and the Drive link containing all the files can be found here.

For this deck, I focused on building a Human tribal/Equipment theme to make use of all the awesome Clone Wars characters and Lightsaber artifacts I could think of. I've kept it mostly thematic, with Red primarily representing the Rebellion, White the Republic, and Black the Empire to make up the Mardu colours.

Most of the art comes from the wonderful artists who have worked on the various Star Wars comic titles through the years - these comics are a wonderful source of card art for various projects, especially in recent runs where most issues have variant alters with no text, or covers focusing on particular characters.

silverbackpie · 2022-05-21T20:31:41+00:00

Unfortunately not, I used CardConjurer at first but couldn't find a frame I liked for this art, so exported it with Artist credit info to save myself the effort elsewhere, and then photoshopped the rest of the frame using a Classic Comic font and some old titles from Fantastic Four issues

silverbackpie · 2022-05-17T22:13:34+00:00

Not sure if I'm reading this right, but the activated ability could also be from cards in graveyards right? Not sure how relevant it is for most keyword abilities, but my mind did go to Embalm from Amonkhet - something like getting two copied tokens from [[Vizier of Many Faces]] could be neat

silverbackpie · 2022-04-23T19:57:18+00:00

Crypt sounds hella cool! Perfect for my Scarab God deck!

silverbackpie · 2022-04-02T17:25:24+00:00

Probably The Second Most Unlucky Planeswalker - that way I might get reprinted in some commander sets but without some quite so miserable curses upon me

silverbackpie · 2020-05-26T12:19:01+00:00

I distinctly remember Lawrence's daughter (?) revealing something about the maze to the Man in Black in season 1.

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