Leaderboard

Hello everyone, This is now complete. We will monitor the performance of the site after this to see if there are any appreciable changes. Thanks for your time.

Must you be miserable and negative about every cool announcement?

Robert Rath himself posted this.

Got a serious bug report here - now that the site is back up, my wife is asking me why I won't go to bed. Please advise. Also, when I ring my doorbell, my toilet flushes. Any help appreciated.

As well, I finished building the last 2 figures for my dark commune squad. Pretty simple conversions, though I think they work well - the guy on the left is the same AoS Hedonite sorcerer I converted with a halberd, this time with a spear from a Hedonite seaker rider (I think they are called Slickblades - they are in the Spearhead box, and I used a bunch of their spears for my raptor conversions), and a AoS Wyche dagger instead of his mirror. Guy on the right is one of the archers (same model as the guy with the red foot I posted above) with a demonette seeker banner and an Escher autopistol. He also has some EC infractor grenades on his butt. And here is the whole squad together - also gave the guy in the middle a holster, otherwise I'll never remember he has an autopistol (only he and the flag guy do). I find it kind of funny that of the two spear/halberd guys, with one with a mirror and the other a knife, they are kitted out to give the leader a close shave whenever he wants one.

I've heard very good things about The Infinite and The Divine, should probably give it a read. Glad to hear it's getting a follow-up!

Greetings, I invite all of you to check out Cartographia Imperialis You can orbit the galaxy, toggle between the pre-Rift M41 era and Era Indomitus, and open a dossier on any world Terra, Cadia, Krieg, Macragge, the Eye of Terror, and dozens more each with its own record, timeline, and status. The reason I made this is because it seems dare I say the Imperium's own cartography is full of uncertainty. GW's maps disagree with each other across editions and there is no canonical coordinate system. So rather then pretend at certainty I took it upon myself to approximate the positions of the markers and worlds you see on this site. This was a massive undertaking, and I would GREATLY appreciate the input of people more knowledgeable in the lore than myself. If something here blatantly stands out as wrong please let me know! If nothing else it will be cool to see the community discuss various and ambiguous lore topics regarding the markers on this map! Best, A humble servitor

Literally judging the book's quality before it's out.

Yeah, thank god Hollywood never made Alien 2, Star Wars 2, or Terminator 2

You're right, not everything needs a sequel. Thank goodness we're getting THIS sequel

This is why I'm of the opinion that all Marines should be in one book, or they should be spread across two - the same way they do it in the Horus Heresy. One codex for all the generic units and army rule, and a 2nd codex supplement for the chapter lore, all unique units and rules. Everything gets released at once, you don't have to wait years for your chapter to get updated rules, model drops for the faction are more condensed so other factions can get more attention for the rest of the edition, etc etc etc. We all know the Marine codex will drop at some point this year, but Space Wolves/Dark Angels/Blood Angels/Templars could end up waiting months/years before they get their updated rules.

What? No Malum Caedo? For shame! He is the greatest Ultramarine ever. Plus, if you had the model you can point at your opponent and yell any of the following statements at them:

Thank you very much! That's the plan, I'm thinking of adding different tabs to potentially cover various Xenos and their territories in a similar fashion.

That was 7 years ago?

Here’s hoping all chapters get the care and attention they deserve! Though personally I can’t wait to see more Ultramarines! I love this sculpt and if they do a new Guilliman (without the angel wings) Cassius and Tyrannic War Veterans I’d be very happy indeed.

There is a difference between complaining about your faction not getting a model, and attacking another faction for getting one. One is an expression of disappointment, the other is spiteful negativity. It's even worse when the focus of your spite isn't even the main culprit. So yes, I will stand by my point of view; I think all the chapters should get more support, and the Space Wolves and Dark Angels are the gold standard that should be followed. Anyways, we have a lot more Marine releases in the coming months: New Intercessors, New Eradicators, New Outriders, Outrider Captain etc etc, and there WILL be new characters - one rumour points to a new Pedro Kantor.

He's literally judging it by it's cover

As @W.A.Rorie said, it would look great with Agrax. I've had success in the past with thinned Seraphim Sepia and Reikland Fleshshade as well. You could drybrush Retributor and a lighter metal and it would look great. Purple is a great choice.

Officially yes as Cawl was unaware of the Grey Knights as was most of the Imperium. It was not until Roboute Guilliman returned and was presented with the Primaris did Voldus reveal the Grey Knights. Now this can all be retconned at a later date. Really the only thing that stops people is how much it costs to make cool grey knights using multiple kits

Rygel "The Machine-God made this universe, his perfect machine, the Great Work. He made us, and put us into it so we might flourish, and we do so by knowledge and the perfection of the Omnissiah. Each of us weak to test us, learning of knowledge to strengthen us, failure unique among sin that we can turn it into virtue when it drives us to succeed." Rygel looked up from his communion to the auger display of the shuttle. as it hurtled through space. Long had been his penance but not idle, and now he was called upon once more.

Valrak was talking about a rumoured Blood Angels named hero in Terminator armour....

I've started building my blackshields allied squat. Weapons of Desperation allows them to take those nice guard weapons: The next one will have two of these:

Is it a primaris breaking the lore thing…i.e. will GW and the BL have to find a workaround as to how they become Primaris? Is there a reason they aren’t/can’t? Im making my rip off Non Sanguinary Guard Pretorain guard units a bit GK by adding some old steampunk knight helmets I’ve ordered off etsy.

I really want a generic Chapter Master.

I thought about putting up a Chaos Knight I converted years ago (2018ish, before I was painting stuff) for the CtA, but it being fully assembled and all the other stuff I wanna do this year put me off of it. I'm really good about getting my newer purchases painted up, but completing stuff from my pre-painting says has been slow Best of luck, my hobby time has likewise been hurt so far these last few weeks. @Dr_Ruminahui Great job! Love the character in particular, and your squad markings are always great

I've finished my first squad and character, putting me about 1/3 of my way into my vow.

So with the drop of 11th, GW has reworked some of the combat patrols and possibly nuked the rest. I’m hoping not, but at current I will only have four working CPs at time of writing. The Vengeful Brethren (DA) The Vardenghast Swarm (Tyranid) Bane-Slayer’s Bulwark (votann) Assault Force (SM) Still under construction is: Dryan Lance (IG) ‘Ardmob (orks) So these will be the ones I focus on for now. It’s kind of one of the reasons that I didn’t want to buy new models for this project. Outside the excuse to get more of them painted. I know I have others I can work on, but I'll take stock later. All the CPs that did survive have had a major rework. While the models remained the same, they had ability changes and (in the case of the marine one) some had weapon modifications. All have been given a Disposition which would allow the mission deck or app to be used to track/decide missions. Which would be easier if you could select them, but it only allows those from your battleforge to be selected right now. As for the change to the CPs themselves. I’m still going through them. I like the change to the nid one. The psychophage is its speedy self again with an aura bonus. The prime is more important since they gave it a summoning ability that functions like the old reinforcement strat the CP used to have. So it kind of has to survive longer. The new hidden rule and his movement do give him some nice hit and run capacity. I do understand after seeing the rework that not all of the previous CPs would make the transition to 11th. I was hoping to have at least one per faction, which we almost got. IK, CK, and DW all lost theirs. I understand the IK/CK because those were modified even in 10th for how they worked. The lose of DeathWatch was a bit weird since IA got one. Anyway, if I did the mission bit correct here then the missions are actually kind of neat. From looking at the mission deck there are 25 missions, each disposition has 5. So if you use just your disposition you may 5 missions types (down from 6 prior), but unlike prior your opponent isn’t on the same mission. Also if you wanted to, the app does allow for ‘custom’ mission objectives which is a choose your own. So as long as your opponent is ok with it you can just take a random mission. That is if they use the standard missions. While fooling around I did find a combination that by RAW doesn’t work. Disruption - Priority Assets = Locate and Deny - Extract Relic These missions work pretty much identical to each other with the LD player setting up the markers. But the action has to be on a central objective and CP doesn’t have one. Personally I’d just rule that it has to be near the center of the board which the preset maps have terrain there. While there is only 3 preset mission maps, but once again, you can just shift terrain as long as your opponent is ok with it. Just try and keep it even. Honestly in my first game I frakked up the terrain placement, but it really didn’t seem to hinder anything. Also the fact that GW is releasing a box set of patrol terrain will help. Personally I won’t be getting it as I have plans for the larger pre-painted set. No battle reports till next month as I'm focusing on painting right now. I'll post the Assault Force once I get a better picture. Thanks for reading.

Finally some good effing food!

Retributor armor will be good for base coat with Agrax earthshade wash. And highlights. Purple would be awesome as it would give a nice pop of color.

Modern Tyrannic War Vets with loads of bionics, damaged and improvised armour and chitinous trophies would be awesome. And I'd love for a new Cassius to join them. A new Guilliman I could take or leave, but if it was wrathful Guilliman along the lines of the cover of the 'Know No Fear' cover I could be convinced. But I hope any more Ultras love comes with love for the others. A minimum, all the first founding chapters should get another character and an upgrade sprue on par with the UM, BA, and DA ones. As for the actual topic on hand: I wonder what the rules will be like for Kaius? I can see him having leader, but maybe being able to gain support as long as he is joining a unit with Calgar? But that would step on the toes of Sicarius a little.

I have a lot of anxiety when it comes to color schemes... (That's why I never finished my Space Marines) I'm thinking of spraying them Retributor Armour and then... I don't know. I am leaning towards purple... maybe give them a very roman custodes look. Any suggestions?

This is very unexpected and pleasant news! 'The Infinite and the Divine' is one of the best BL novels to come out in modern times.

Its been along time since we have seen a dedicated Ultramarine Codex. This is 31 years old now...

I probably got the Black Templars and Dark Angels mixed up, and I don't count the upgrade sprues but I guess you can add 1 kit to all the chapters. But Wolves and DAngels are the standard, so until all the "popular chapters" have as many riches, we shouldn't complain about any of them.

calgar tigarius cato victrix titus & co guillliman upgrade sprue this guy then they also had the black library model (hammer chap) and uriel ventris (currently still usable and not legends) included those two separately as neither are readily available but both still add to the perception. Templars have marshall castellan helbrecht grimaldus champion upgrade sprue sword bros crusade squad Execrator ancient blood angels have dante astorath sanguinor mephiston captain priest sanguinary guard upgrade sprue dark angels have lion azrael Black knights/ravenwing bikers interrogator darkshroud/vengeance nephilim/dark talon Belial asmodai Lazarus deathwing knights inner circle companions ezekiel sammael upgrade sprue makes 8 ultramarines (10 if you include the black library guys but lets not) and 8 blood angels, 10 templars, 13 dark angel kits and wolves have 20 (very clear outlier there)

Finally finished my Iron Hand Infernus marine! I went with a clan raukaan company decal and I thought 10th squad since it's also their old legion number. Finally just tidied up the shoulder with pro acryll amp steel which I'm using as a substitute for iron hands steel now. I used my usual muzzle burn formula of overlapping stippling of agrax, druchii violet and druchii mixed with talassar before just a spot of black on the tip. The head is courtesy of grotsmasha. Now just the Raven Guard and the White Scar to go.

well done!

Excellent. We were desperately short of Ultramarines characters. We just heard about new Outriders, therefore Marneus Calgar on a bike must only be a week away from being unveiled.

On one hand, Ultramarines have plenty as is. On the other hand, the seething from people that hate Ultramarines is super satisfying.

Starting to suspect Matt Ward is back at GW. Its a nice model though.

I do genuinely like the model in isolation, but it is very "damn did we really need another Ultramarine character and in power armour at that?"

Legit requests for other factions aside, I think that's a banger of a mini. Great Ultramarine and great named character, nice to see someone genuinely new. I really like the Russell Crowe, Maximus-esque vibes the unhelmed version gives.

Sick model, really like it. More interested that they finally mentioned Cassius, was convinced that they forgot he existed Maybe non Ultramarine chapters should try harder if they want more models I'm just kidding. Probably

I, Focslain, heed the Call to Arms and pledge to paint 20 Boyz, 10 gretchin, 6 Deffcoptas, 3 killa-kans, a warboss, bigboss, painboy, weirdboy, Waauugh banner, wartrike, dakkarig, wartrakk, Wazbom Blastajet, Squigbuggy and Kustom Boosta-blasta for 105.5 pts for the Glory of the Ork Faction and the Xenos Stronghold on or before 15th September 2025, or bear the badge of failure until year's end. Time to get this Waaugh off proper.

Thought I should probably introduce myself here. I'm from South East Texas. I'm fairly new to Warhammer in general. I only discovered my addiction around September of last year after decades of staying away from it. I was mostly scared of painting. I was finding video games less fulfilling by the day, so I decided I wanted to do something different. A friend who is an avid 40k enjoyer suggested checking out a book to see if I liked the environment. So I read The Siege of Vraks. And then two weeks later, I bought my first combat patrol - it was Deathkorp, naturally. And I've been hooked ever since. I bounce back and forth between 40k and 30k in terms of what I like more. My current project is establishing and writing the lore of my Iron Warriors army for Horus Heresy. I'll end up posting a blog on it pretty soon most likely. Other than that, I'm also finishing up an Emperor's Children army. I'm also a big lover of Kill Team. I play Kasrkin, Breachers, and Inquisitors for now. But I'll likely finish off my Phobos Strike Team sooner or later and play that where I can. Anyways, I look forward to being here and talking Warhammer with y'all.

I am incredibly whelmed. What a waste of a kit imo. To have such illustrious customisation as to have the bike on a 10% tilt to the right or the left. How will anyone recover from the sher shock of a kit that is basically a hand and head swap away from the push fit.

The Khan and his mates could literally just walk out of a webway portal talking about how they are sure those dark eldar went into this portal and it wouldnt even be a retcon. Total time missing 1-5 mins.

Blood Angel Company Ancient (if that is still a thing).

Only true answer is... LEGION OF THE DAMNED, LED BY FERRUS MANUS!

Have finished off some more War Hounds: A jump pack Centurion, and a couple of Rapier teams. I am using the MkIII command kit & the bits box as a way to economically add some officers to the force.