GW Announces WH40K 8th edition

[Lidless Eye]

First game of 40k 8th edition. The Forsaken Sons bring the joy and love of their adoptive father to the Eldar of Gamma 225s. 

 

 

 

Normally I wouldn't include the blurry photos, but I had to include it in the set as it is from the same round the Harlequins charged in.  Poxwalkers are good, getting lucky with Disgustingly Resilient is even better!  Great Reaper Goth'ma, my not-Typhus, didn't even get to attack.

 

 

 

[Arc 724]

So i have my one little figure and I'm thinking of just painting him up as and Ultramarine but I thought I might want to do something else but can't seem to decide what color scheme to go with.

[Sergeant_Crunch]

Pick a color you like and go from there.

[Bustedknee]

That's one of the best things about space marines, the possibilities are endless.  Picked up the First Strike starter set and my daughter is having a blast shooting up "the gross guys" with her pink marines.

 

[Unruly]

On 7/24/2017 at 8:57 AM, Werkrobotwerk said:

40k skirmish, was published earlier this year. Based on the old necromunda rules. Does include necrons as an option.

 

Heard good things about Necromunda, so that's a plus. But also saw that the box set they did for it was a limited release that's sold out now. Which bums me out, because I don't have terrain suitable for 40k and I've read that the box set had some good terrain in it.

 

Another plus is that it has a severely limited unit selection, so I can get a Necron force built with just a few unit boxes. A box of warriors, a box of immortals, and a box of lychguard will have every option covered. Which, in the grand scheme of things, is pretty good. It would mean that for rules and every possible configuration for one army I'd be out about $200. Not an insignificant cost, but also not something that would send me running like trying to do that for a full size 40k army.

[Reaperbryan]

8 hours ago, Unruly said:

 

Heard good things about Necromunda, so that's a plus. But also saw that the box set they did for it was a limited release that's sold out now. Which bums me out, because I don't have terrain suitable for 40k and I've read that the box set had some good terrain in it.

 

Another plus is that it has a severely limited unit selection, so I can get a Necron force built with just a few unit boxes. A box of warriors, a box of immortals, and a box of lychguard will have every option covered. Which, in the grand scheme of things, is pretty good. It would mean that for rules and every possible configuration for one army I'd be out about $200. Not an insignificant cost, but also not something that would send me running like trying to do that for a full size 40k army.

I get about $20 a week in my hobby budget, so I tend to make my hobby purchases monthly or semi-monthly. I've also started setting rules for myself, like "Buy this model/unit next, but only after you finish painting this model/unit". My current rule is that I can pick up 1-2 boxes of zoanthropes/neurothropes once I have finished painting my Primaris from the starter box, and another 30 termagants. The next purchase vs paint priority will be established once that's complete, but it will probably be something similar to "you can get 1-2 boxes of venomthropes/toxicrenes after you finish painting the zoanthropes and the last 30 termagants". Since 30 termagants is a week's hobby time, that's a simple goal.

[Werkrobotwerk]

9 hours ago, Unruly said:

 

Heard good things about Necromunda, so that's a plus. But also saw that the box set they did for it was a limited release that's sold out now. Which bums me out, because I don't have terrain suitable for 40k and I've read that the box set had some good terrain in it.

 

Another plus is that it has a severely limited unit selection, so I can get a Necron force built with just a few unit boxes. A box of warriors, a box of immortals, and a box of lychguard will have every option covered. Which, in the grand scheme of things, is pretty good. It would mean that for rules and every possible configuration for one army I'd be out about $200. Not an insignificant cost, but also not something that would send me running like trying to do that for a full size 40k army.

Honestly, you only need about half of each of those boxes for necromunda. So if you can find someone who needs a few extras for their big army, you could probably split some with them.

[Lars Porsenna]

3 hours ago, Reaperbryan said:

I get about $20 a week in my hobby budget, so I tend to make my hobby purchases monthly or semi-monthly. I've also started setting rules for myself, like "Buy this model/unit next, but only after you finish painting this model/unit". My current rule is that I can pick up 1-2 boxes of zoanthropes/neurothropes once I have finished painting my Primaris from the starter box, and another 30 termagants. The next purchase vs paint priority will be established once that's complete, but it will probably be something similar to "you can get 1-2 boxes of venomthropes/toxicrenes after you finish painting the zoanthropes and the last 30 termagants". Since 30 termagants is a week's hobby time, that's a simple goal.

 

Haha, you have a lot more discipline than I do!

 

Damon.

[Reaperbryan]

54 minutes ago, Lars Porsenna said:

 

Haha, you have a lot more discipline than I do!

 

Damon.

To be honest this is a new policy, about 2 months old, but it's highly motivating. I've only made one purchase outside of my structured plan!

[etherial]

2 hours ago, Reaperbryan said:

To be honest this is a new policy, about 2 months old, but it's highly motivating. I've only made one purchase outside of my structured plan!

My wife and I each have $100/month discretionary income. Mine is called "Transformers" and mostly gets spent on toys and games. Hers is called "Yarn" and mostly gets spent on craft supplies and pedicures. Outside of a certain miniature company's Kickstarters, I generally never overextend my supply...

[Unruly]

So, found out that I missed out on a $110 Dark Imperium box. Game shop told me today that they sold two of them at that price on ebay. They said they both sold in minutes, and they seemed to be surprised by it. It was $50 off! But I found out I could get a similar price on it in the future if I wanted. Maybe not quite $110, but $120-130, so still a good deal in my book.

[Dai-Mongar]

On 2017-7-26 at 6:08 PM, Unruly said:

 

Heard good things about Necromunda, so that's a plus. But also saw that the box set they did for it was a limited release that's sold out now. Which bums me out, because I don't have terrain suitable for 40k and I've read that the box set had some good terrain in it.

 

Another plus is that it has a severely limited unit selection, so I can get a Necron force built with just a few unit boxes. A box of warriors, a box of immortals, and a box of lychguard will have every option covered. Which, in the grand scheme of things, is pretty good. It would mean that for rules and every possible configuration for one army I'd be out about $200. Not an insignificant cost, but also not something that would send me running like trying to do that for a full size 40k army.

 

Raging Heroes is doing a Kickstarter over the next couple of weeks for a set of gothic sci fi printed card terrain. Should be a great choice for filling up a table with terrain for 40K and Shadow War without breaking the bank.

Otherwise you could look into Mantic's plastic terrain, there's some cool industrial kits in their sci fi line.

[Werkrobotwerk]

17 hours ago, Dai-Mongar said:

 

Raging Heroes is doing a Kickstarter over the next couple of weeks for a set of gothic sci fi printed card terrain. Should be a great choice for filling up a table with terrain for 40K and Shadow War without breaking the bank.

Otherwise you could look into Mantic's plastic terrain, there's some cool industrial kits in their sci fi line.

coffee cans+ a couple sprues of mantic for details = a nice dense serviceable refinery table

[TheAuldGrump]

World Works has some printable PDF terrain that I used a lot when I was running a Necromunda game a while back.

 

They have both a platforms style set - a bit like the original Necromunda game, as well as some Gothic style terrain.

 

Some are flat - and have no interior, but are fast to build -

 

Others use a post and panel system - a lot more involved, but the bits can be rearranged a lot faster -

 

But for Necromunda I still like the older platformer set -

A bit too colorful, a bit lower resolution, but it just feels more like Necromunda to me.

 

 

 

The last time I used a lot of World Works PDFs it was for a Fallout game - they have some sets that are great for making Vaults.... (I just realized this is a lie - I also ran a huge dwarf* Pathfinder campaign, and I am using their Maiden of the High Seas for Pathfinder as well.)

 

Sadly, World Works is semi-pseudo-sorta out of business, focusing on a computer game, and letting the PDF terrain business falter.

 

If GW ever wants me back as a customer, all they really have to do is come out with a new version of either Necromunda or Mordheim - I have played more of each than of all their other games combined. (GorkaMorka was also a lot of fun - but I am very, very bad at it. )

 

The Auld Grump

 

* The campaign was huge, not the dwarfs.... taking place along underground canals.... I was planning on resurrecting it for the kids game - but got sidetracked by pirates.

[Werkrobotwerk]

2 hours ago, TheAuldGrump said:

 

If GW ever wants me back as a customer, all they really have to do is come out with a new version of either Necromunda or Mordheim - I have played more of each than of all their other games combined. (GorkaMorka was also a lot of fun - but I am very, very bad at it. )

 

Interestingly enough they made a comment indicating there's something necromunda in next month's white dwarf.