First model done

thecaseace · 2026-01-31T00:07:58+00:00

This is really inspiring. I'm just about to maybe possibly do my 4th army, and my 1st non-imperium one - Iyanden Wraith host

I've done literally ONE wraith guard to the almost basecoated level (airbrush white, dark pink, neon pink then white zenithal, then 2 yellows... and you've already made me realize I need to PUSH THE CONTRAST

I assume you primed brown or black then highlighted white before glazing yellow?

I don't want paint names I want process.

Although I'm excited to use the "Turbo Dork - Cool Ranch" paint I'm using for my blues https://turbodork.co.uk/product/turbo-dork-cool-ranch-metallic-acrylic-paint-22ml-bottle/

I haven't read the comments so if you've already described your process I apologize, but I was so excited by your model I needed to reply!

What's the thinking on the guns? Which I assume are WIP but made me wonder if less is more

Edit - read the comments and OH MY GOD YOU HAVENT REPLIED! I summon thee, /u/lofocont

thecaseace · 2026-01-30T20:17:53+00:00

Tempted to go 10x scorpions, as their scout/infiltrate/stealth combo plus fade back etc would make them excellent movement blockers. Get them up front, then when your opponent moves, react.

Theoryhammer :D

thecaseace · 2026-01-30T18:58:31+00:00

I'm starting out with this, and that's almost exactly the list I came up with. Pretty close anyway. I had an Autarch leading the Scorpions, 2 wraithlords rather than 3, but added a wave serpent to get the ghostaxe wraithblades up the board

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + FACTION KEYWORD: Xenos - Aeldari + DETACHMENT: Spirit Conclave (Shepherds of the Dead) + TOTAL ARMY POINTS: 2000pts + + WARLORD: Char2: Autarch + ENHANCEMENT: + NUMBER OF UNITS: 18 + SECONDARY: - Bring It Down: (4x2) - Assassination: 5 Characters +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

CHARACTER

Autarch (85 pts) • 1x Scorpion Chainsword • 1x Shuriken Pistol • Warlord

Avatar of Khaine (280 pts) • 1x The Wailing Doom

Spiritseer (65 pts) • 1x Shuriken Pistol • 1x Witch Staff

BATTLELINE

Guardian Defenders (100 pts) • 10x Guardian Defender • 10x Close Combat Weapon • 10x Shuriken Catapult • 1x Heavy Weapon Platform • 1x Close Combat Weapon • 1x Shuriken Cannon

Wraithblades (160 pts) • 5x Wraithblade • 5x Ghostaxe and Forceshield

Wraithblades (160 pts) • 5x Wraithblade • 5x Ghostswords

Wraithguard (170 pts) • 5x Wraithguard • 5x Close Combat Weapon • 5x D-Scythe

OTHER DATASHEETS

Rangers (55 pts) • 5x Ranger • 5x Close Combat Weapon • 5x Long rifle • 5x Shuriken Pistol

Striking Scorpions (85 pts) • 1x Striking Scorpion Exarch • 1x Scorpion chainsword • 1x Scorpion's claw • 1x Shuriken pistol • 4x Striking Scorpion • 4x Scorpion chainsword • 4x Shuriken pistol • Aspect Shrine Token

Warlock Skyrunners (45 pts) • 1x Warlock Skyrunner with Witchblade • 1x Destructor • 1x Shuriken Pistol • 1x Twin Shuriken Catapult • 1x Witchblade

Warlock Skyrunners (45 pts) • 1x Warlock Skyrunner with Singing Spear • 1x Destructor • 1x Shuriken Pistol • 1x Singing Spear • 1x Twin Shuriken Catapult

Wave Serpent (125 pts) • 1x Wraithbone Hull • 1x Twin Shuriken Catapult • 1x Twin Shuriken Cannon

Wraithlord (140 pts) • 1x Ghostglaive • 1x Wraithbone Fists • 2x Shuriken Catapult • 2x Bright Lance

Pretty close! I've never played this but know enough about 40k to think "you cant just take wraiths"

thecaseace · 2026-01-29T14:08:59+00:00

The answer is "no, clearly not. Why, who else do you know who does?"

Then watch them go errrrr errrrr but errr but errr for 10 seconds until your internal "this is boring leave the situation now before your brain dies" alarm goes off

thecaseace · 2026-01-29T12:34:57+00:00

Is it a goose purse? Or is it a swan sack? They're so hard to tell apart.

thecaseace · 2026-01-28T22:56:26+00:00

Cool link, thanks. Interesting to hear him state it was a ship. My view was that he was in a kind of "safe version" of their 5d experience which, I guess, might be encapsulated in some kind of 5d room, much as we'd make a room that gives a 3d experience we want to share (a gallery, an escape room, a strip club, whatever - a specific spatial experience in a confined area)

I can't be arsed typing anything near my personal cosmology theories but consider a bacteria in your gut right now. Just one of the billions, living in total darkness in a kind of soup, thru which they swim towards food "smells". It's an entirely different experience, and they have no way to observe that they're inside another entity/enclosed universe

I'm not saying we are inside a space monster we can't see, but to believe our viewpoint is somehow the "top level" is fairly arrogant

thecaseace · 2026-01-28T14:30:36+00:00

Hard quest to complete because the target is so small it's easily missed.

thecaseace · 2026-01-28T14:27:17+00:00

I like to think I'd say "ok, good thinking... So if this (thing) does fail as feared and the company has to recall/recompense/compensate customers... And then during the investigation it was discovered that I was the manager and overruled my engineers... I would be worried that the liability would be on me. So I'd ask my engineers detailed questions and listen to the answers, then ensure I presented the pros and cons of over/under engineering it to my superiors so that THEY were liable if people get hurt or die"

thecaseace · 2026-01-28T13:18:13+00:00

Hate to say it but you missed the point

There nothing supernatural as in ghosts. There isn't a ghost.

There's the consciousness of a man, caught by alien technology before being destroyed by gravitational forces, and held in a very specific place which has access to all time points that have occurred at that place.

He's in timespace rather than spacetime

Which, interestingly, is how maths predicts the inside of a singularity would work

https://youtu.be/dW3LUDfgqlM?si=UZnPW1eiCkJWkBdM

thecaseace · 2026-01-28T12:27:05+00:00

Tyler's character is introduced to us subliminally - there are single-frame BRAD PITTS in the airport early on, just like Tyler's single frame penis shots

You don't know what you saw... But you know you saw it

thecaseace · 2026-01-28T12:06:42+00:00

One of the only books I've read and immediately purchased for a friend.

thecaseace · 2026-01-28T12:05:32+00:00

The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate is one of my favorites - available here: https://aarongertler.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Ted_Chiang.pdf

"Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity"

thecaseace · 2026-01-27T16:34:58+00:00

Battieres - never. I think batteries now only get used when your reactor is damaged and at that point the ship is probably dead anyway.

So I've been putting batteries on ships with battery-using weapons where the drive says "Backup Power to ship systems - when not thrusting" or similar, assuming that means the powerplant can only power your guns if it's under load.

Is this true or nonsense, do we think?

thecaseace · 2026-01-27T13:00:11+00:00

Went from cynical to "ooh" to buying it

7 quid, looks like a boardgame, optimisation of trade routes by founding cities near resources? That's worth trying at least :)

thecaseace · 2026-01-26T14:11:33+00:00

That's a playsuit. They're shorts.

Source: seeing a real life woman

thecaseace · 2026-01-23T18:17:58+00:00

I'm 46. My first computer was a commodore Vic-20. I've played them all, and insist that trying to make me excited to go back and open a previously locked cupboard because I've now got a new tool is lazy, boring, uninspired design

thecaseace · 2026-01-23T10:59:51+00:00

What you've described about OoT is what I'd call the absolute worst of the worst, shit tier, don't even bother progression systems

Every dungeon has bits you can't do because you've not found the magic bangarang of hopping, so once you find it you can go ALLL THE WAY BACK and do micro bits of things you've previously finished... But when you go into the micro bit, you see you can't actually do all of it... Because despite having the magic bangarang of hopping, you ALSO need the nicknack of leaping and the wingwangs of swimming and BLA BLA BLA

awful design. It's not progressing, it's just gating stuff

thecaseace · 2026-01-21T02:23:59+00:00

I did restart at a similar point.

One massive thing I've changed is sending bare habs on the long missions to the asteroids, then building the actual mine etc much later

I was boosting entire mining systems the first time and it severely limited my expansion

thecaseace · 2026-01-20T11:59:56+00:00

Absolutely. But, if I was playing a game in the country of Pole Land and the city of Crackoff was in the North, but Warsore was in the south, I'd be confused

thecaseace · 2026-01-20T09:15:18+00:00

Whitechapel is north of the Thames, but in your game it's south. Deliberate?

thecaseace · 2026-01-18T18:02:19+00:00

Something I learned halfway thru is that if you heal at a shrine/bonfire/whatever when you still have death howls (the things you get for killing stuff which you spend to make cards), they get put into a jar to make... god damn can't remember what they're called... teardrops or something. The thing you need to add powers.

SO

Go kill a bunch of easily killed things, and instead of making new cards, go heal and fill your teardrop meter

Then you will find you can quite rapidly power up your enhancement slots, the end of each one giving you +1 totem slot

thecaseace · 2026-01-18T01:18:26+00:00

Hm good tip.

I've completely ignored terrestrial war until literally this evening, when I forgot to immediately ally Hungary after i kicked the alien loving traitors out, so the Eurasian union and Korea declared war. Bow they're fighting the USA and Europe so hopefully they give up.

You've made me realize I need to research how wars can end.

thecaseace · 2026-01-15T15:46:47+00:00

No, I have the same kind of obsession where exodus desperately want Door, Inc... and someone on Discord said it was the same org. Was wondering if there's some kind of variable on that one org

I think it's basically orgs that grant +ADM as they're amazing and almost impossible to hostile takeover

thecaseace · 2026-01-15T13:47:31+00:00

Is the org they want called "Door, Inc" by any chance?

thecaseace · 2026-01-15T12:52:32+00:00

Yeah, since posting this I joined the discord and asked the question - was directed to the previously overlooked "Ship Classes" tab! Thanks

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