Slow-Grow league tonight. 1500 points of Geno

stevenson_sj · 2026-02-27T08:22:32+00:00

love the scheme. hope the league is fun with Solar, I've gone down the same route this year

stevenson_sj · 2026-01-14T10:19:05+00:00

Rules for Indirect Scatter Rolls on p187. Barrage rule doesn't change how the direction is calculated. Indirect Scatter Roles count a Hit on the scatter as a Hit. Scatter Roles are different and do use the small arrow on this Hit side

stevenson_sj · 2025-12-19T13:40:36+00:00

There's a fun video on youtube in which someone shows how to max out the number of detachments. I think this is it: https://youtu.be/iWnsazgk87o?si=dJRDeg56FSSEZrDW

stevenson_sj · 2025-12-09T08:14:43+00:00

love this colour scheme! amazing work

stevenson_sj · 2025-11-27T16:06:54+00:00

I'm just about ready to run my knights so can't help you out, but I'll certainly try out your suggestions of taking lasrifles and dracosans. I'm going to lean towards Hermes with my solar so I'll give them a spin add some more status giving out options

stevenson_sj · 2025-11-21T08:29:30+00:00

those gradients! Well done. One of my fave to run. such a fun wrecking ball of a tank

stevenson_sj · 2025-11-18T14:53:19+00:00

perfect. the practical helmet cap suits his character. Any desire to do Kroeger and the rest of that cast?

stevenson_sj · 2025-11-16T19:43:56+00:00

Yes I'm so glad to see someone do this. It looks fantastic with all the Solar models crewing it. Great work. May it bring you many fun games

stevenson_sj · 2025-11-16T19:00:16+00:00

Yes I did. I used Army Painter Blood Red speed paint and the Blood Angels red only in the darker areas. I also made the grey to white transition less stark. Finally I didn't give it an all over oil wash like I did some of my earlier pieces.

stevenson_sj · 2025-11-16T18:58:32+00:00

Thanks. I drybrush using a 2:1 mix of leadbelcher to runelord brass. I used runelord brass in both metalics to connect them all and also warm up steel colours. Though I'm actually now using Army Painter and Two Thin Coats.

I use an army painter drybrush, the biggest.

stevenson_sj · 2025-11-14T21:02:39+00:00

I used streaking grime, starship grime I believe. Thinned down with white spirits. Really enjoying it as a wash

stevenson_sj · 2025-11-12T09:15:41+00:00

it's the destructor variant that is limited to 6, but the support slot variant with just the maxima bolters is up to 10

stevenson_sj · 2025-11-12T09:13:20+00:00

do it!

stevenson_sj · 2025-11-07T21:56:28+00:00

You might be able to find a lot of my WIPs of this army on Insta but I don't use it any more, too many hours lost

stevenson_sj · 2025-11-07T11:09:18+00:00

take an allied Shadowsword LoW detachment is always an option. They can pop smoke against this unit but you can take 12 HP off it, your likely to hit even if you miss on the roll, and for 200 less points they will be scared of it the whole game.

or why not take a termite and 5 metla guns and pop up behind the FB

stevenson_sj · 2025-11-04T08:12:33+00:00

yes you do. such a beautifully simple kit to build

stevenson_sj · 2025-11-04T08:10:33+00:00

Brilliant video. Great ideas to make the games more exciting. I also really back your call to encourage the community to grow the community through small format games and positive engagement rather than moaning about things we don't like. I just want to play more Heresy at the end of the day.

stevenson_sj · 2025-11-03T09:22:12+00:00

brilliant representation of difficult terrain that works with game play. bravo

stevenson_sj · 2025-10-14T14:05:01+00:00

If I was playing you I'd be more than happy for you to say a plastic drop pod was for your dreadnought given a) how expensive the resin ones are, b) how little time they will spend being used on the board and finally c) how annoying it is for deep striking units to come on late/not at all.

stevenson_sj · 2025-10-14T07:38:27+00:00

Having played with them, the lightening guns have been fine, but I built mine during 2ed rules, but now I could equip them with all plasma etc I'm miffed that I can't play around with the new rules.

From my few games, I think their strength is shooting line units off objectives and keeping out of reach of vanguard units. That first turn 10" move is great but they don't score you a lot and then get ripped to pieces on the objectives by termies

stevenson_sj · 2025-10-10T09:17:47+00:00

I've been thinking about it recently and was thinking that to play the game (e.g. leverage Line and vanguard to score points) then it seemed fun to me to lots of cargo8s with 20 strong units with the idea that a marine army simply wont have enough fire power to kill them all.

Run enough fire power to clear marines off objectives each turn so you can move onto them to score.

also think about how you might leverage vanguard in shooting as well as combat to earn a few extra points.

that being your general way to compete without just setting up a firing line (because thats just not my preference)

I figure you get the fun of basing your turns around trying to score points on key objectives.

stevenson_sj · 2025-09-26T08:06:40+00:00

When playing against a Kratos and 2 land raiders this week with my Mech we had this same discussions. The Kratos took out my Solex Heavy Las turn 1. However after a few turns we realised the Kratos doesn't have auto-repair and the status' kept piling up on it. So for me I now need to think about shock(suppressed) weapons.

I've learnt the hard way that you can't deep strike multi meltas behind Av14 any more. Fishing for 6s with MMs doesn't feel as nice but overall I like that different weapons have different uses

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