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[CaptainHelion]

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[Spagunk]

Went to my local store for a game and more than half the tables were being used by starwars nerds. No game space for me means no game today. I've not had a game since October of last year.

 

Edit: I mean am I off base for thinking that scheduling starbores on a traditional 40k night is kind of a jerk move?

Edited July 3, 2018 by Spagunk

[Silas7]

Went to my local store for a game and more than half the tables were being used by starwars nerds. No game space for me means no game today. I've not had a game since October of last year.

 

Edit: I mean am I off base for thinking that scheduling starbores on a traditional 40k night is kind of a jerk move?

 

If it was an event then yeah but if it was just a bunch of rando's hitting the tables on the same night, just bad luck.

[Arkaniss]

Damned Rando Calrissians :P I agree with what Silas7 says of course - though I would have liked to have seen you throw down against some Rebels with your Blood Angels - would have been a massacre

 

That's a long time to go without a game though, would it be possible to schedule an opponent in advance? However long in advance as needed to get a game!

[Jolemai]

New BA Unit of the Week:

• Inceptor Squad

[Indefragable]

Spa gunk, where are you living?

[Jolemai]

Today I've found out that I can't paint during a penalty shootout :eek

[Spagunk]

Spa gunk, where are you living?

 

Vancouver WA. The store is great but I just felt really disappointed. Like if you were a kid and you saved all your money for something great and get to the store and find out that the item you wanted was sold out forever.

[Jolemai]

Updated my 1500 Light Mech list for 8th.

[Dont-Be-Haten]

Brothers and sisters. I miss you all so much.

 

Finally on holiday. School consumes my very existence. I've spent my free time reading dark imperium. Need more sons of the angel in my life!

[dread05]

Since I'm pretty new to anything GW related, I'd like to ask this. Remember that forgeworld blood angels terminator that was previewed? How long does it usually take for such previews to release? I want some more stuff from forgeworld and I wanna know if its worth the waiting, cause shipping to greece is like 10 pounds unless I combine orders :P

[Charlo]

Since I'm pretty new to anything GW related, I'd like to ask this. Remember that forgeworld blood angels terminator that was previewed? How long does it usually take for such previews to release? I want some more stuff from forgeworld and I wanna know if its worth the waiting, cause shipping to greece is like 10 pounds unless I combine orders

 

The 30k Preator?

 

Nothing gets previewed that isn't 3 months or less from release :)

[dread05]

 

Since I'm pretty new to anything GW related, I'd like to ask this. Remember that forgeworld blood angels terminator that was previewed? How long does it usually take for such previews to release? I want some more stuff from forgeworld and I wanna know if its worth the waiting, cause shipping to greece is like 10 pounds unless I combine orders

 

The 30k Preator?

 

Nothing gets previewed that isn't 3 months or less from release

 

 

Oh neat, I can wait a couple of months, thats for sure.

[Riot Earp]

Hello frathers,

 

i´m quite busy right now. Although i´m gonna attend to an Grillhammer 2 on 2 on 2 on 2 in two Weeks.

 

My teammate plays Dark Angels so we are going to bring the Angels of Death to the table.

 

I gonna take DC Captain Smashypants and Mephiston with wings and rage along with alot jp dc. So my question is should i stay with this kind of setup or dish one hq for more dc?  ^^

[OrbOfAntioch]

Hello frathers,

 

i´m quite busy right now. Although i´m gonna attend to an Grillhammer 2 on 2 on 2 on 2 in two Weeks.

 

My teammate plays Dark Angels so we are going to bring the Angels of Death to the table.

 

I gonna take DC Captain Smashypants and Mephiston with wings and rage along with alot jp dc. So my question is should i stay with this kind of setup or dish one hq for more dc? ^^

Moar DCs!!

[dread05]

Since I'm pretty new to anything GW related, I'd like to ask this. Remember that forgeworld blood angels terminator that was previewed? How long does it usually take for such previews to release? I want some more stuff from forgeworld and I wanna know if its worth the waiting, cause shipping to greece is like 10 pounds unless I combine orders

 

Quoting myself here, cause I just found out that FW and GW have very different shipping costs (at least for my country). For GW shipping costs 10 euros and its free for orders above 50 euros. For FW its just a % of the price, and its free for orders above 250 pounds (?), so there is no reason to wait for the praetor since I dont plan to go anywhere close to 250 pounds anyway. I wanna buy some BA rhino doors and a assault cannon to convert it into a (cool looking BA themed) razorback. Before I pay, is there any reason NOT to get those? Never bought FW stuff before, but I've heard reports about low quality, damaged parts etc.

Edited July 6, 2018 by dread05

[Ornithologist]

I did the same thing. You can see it in the Painting Comp. Though I painted three different turrets for it.

[Jolemai]

 

 

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ETL VI - WEEK 9 UPDATE

 

 

 

 

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+++ETL VI - WEEK 9 UPDATE+++

 

 

 

Week 9 was way more productive than Week 8 with 29k worth of completed points vs. just 12k last week. We have also collectively surpassed the 100k pts threshold arriving at 113k pts while total points pledged are fast approaching the 400k mark (in fact it may have been surpassed by now.

 

This week I identified two mistakes that I made. The first was that I had incorrectly counted Mad Santa in the BA team in my spreadsheet (instead of SM) and the second was that I did not count Draegher’s completions in the AoD-T; both of which are now corrected.

 

So, as far as factions go, the SMs still lead but by a much more narrow margin vs. the AoD of just 1.2k pts. Chaos is third and the Xenos and the Forces of the Imperium are pretty close to each other despite the Astra Militarum’s excellent performance 

 

So let’s see Week 9 in detail:

 

E TENEBRAE LUX VI – Week 9

Faction/ForumParticipantsVowsPoints pledgedAvg. Vow Completions CRSCRAdeptus Astartes 185 247 159,814 64740,677 25.5% 10,353 Space Marines 6791 50,541 555 11,125 22.0% 2,449 Blood Angels 44 6141,270 677 13,139 31.8% 4,183 Dark Angels 45 61 38,194 682 10,076 26.4% 2,658 Space Wolves 29 39 29,809 764 6,33721.3% 1,347 IFOR 67 85 76,583 901 17,06922.3% 3,804 Adepta Sororitas 6 7 4,303 615 519 12.1% 63 AdMech 13 18 11,285 627 3,679 32.6% 1,199Astra Militarum 21 28 22,034 787 9,045 41.1% 3,713 Imperial Agents 12 13 21,676 1,667 894 4.1% 37 Grey Knights 2 2 2,658 1,329 0 0% 0 Deathwatch 13 17 14,627 860 2,932 20.0% 588 Realm of Chaos 67 95 61,182 676 20,351 31.7% 6,453 Chaos Space Marines 55 80 50,353 629 18,430 36.6% 6,746 Chaos Daemons 4 5 4,145 829 738 17.8% 131 LatD 8 10 9,684 968 1,183 12.2% 145 Xenos 41 48 30,488 635 9,774 32.1% 3,133 Aeldari 10 11 3,492 317 718 20.6% 148 Necrons 10 12 7,507 626 3,460 46.1% 1,595 Orks 4 5 3,600 720 1,307 36.3% 475 T’au Empire 13 15 12,773 852 4,031 31.6% 1,272 Tyranids 4 5 3,116 623 258 8.3% 21 AoD 47 68 62,451 918 19,849 31.8% 6,309 AoD-L 26 37 33,874 916 11,120 32.8% 3,650 AoD-T 21 33 33,212 1,006 13,672 41.2% 5,628 Total ETL VI 407 545 398,153 731 112,663 28.3% 31,880

 

 

 

BLOOD ANGELS:

Amazing performance! They have the highest completion rate within the Astartes Faction and this is reflected in their significantly higher score that lands then in the third position overall. Their re-vowing rate is also the strongest in the Astartes context at 39% – although by no means among the strongest in the ETL overall and not that much better vs. the SMs (36%) or the SWs (34%). So the strategy here is (apart from completing the first vows of course – this applies for all Forums) to intensify re-vowing. Other than that, things look good for the BAs!

 

 

 

Another good week, with internet cookies going to Lamentermarine (Mr Yellow) for scoring two super-vows this week

 

Currently sat in third overall (on ETL score) and within touching distance of second, so it's still all to play for. Whilst the SMs have slowed down some, they certainly aren't out of the running (same goes for both AoD and DA Factions) but it should be noted that Chaos has kicked on, as is there way. So long as we keep with them and get a higher completion rate (which is easily doable), then football the ETL is coming home

 

[Blindhamster]

So...

who is excited to do a kill team of the emperors finest? (that'd be us!)

[Jolemai]

Honestly, I'm not feeling it at the moment but only because I've got a billion other things on the go :( Doesn't mean I wont in the future...

Are you?

[Blindhamster]

Honestly, I'm not feeling it at the moment but only because I've got a billion other things on the go Doesn't mean I wont in the future...

Are you?

At the very least its an excuse to finish painting some bits I started 6 months ago!

[Ekfud]

Actually kind of like the idea of using it to intro some family members to a demo sized game. Which I guess is the point of the release...

Figure I can paint both sides and have a couple of skirmish level rounds in an evening without having to do a crash course on 8th ed rules nor paint a complete non BA army for them to use. Not 100% sold on the Skitarii base set though. Maybe see what the faction releases look like.

[OrbOfAntioch]

So.... I finally built the mastodon today. About time considering I had the whole thing washed and trimmed almost a year ago.

Took about 7 hours which wasn't as bad as I thought. I'd post a WIP but THE GOD DAMN FRONT DOOR  WON'T CLOSE! 

Trimming resin around it didn't work. Magnets are not powerful enough. Short of me just calling it a day and glue it down shut forever it's just not having it. 

   

[Jolemai]

Nightmare! Anything you can do bar sticking it in the freezer?

[OrbOfAntioch]

The door is 90% closed, but there is a gap wide enough to fit through a thunder hammer...

It's also kind of beyond freezer action at this point, since I scored all the joints and used so much putty and epoxy glue.

I'm gonna try some more heat gun action to see if I can force a wrap fit. Problem is all the components are really thick and the resin starts smoking before it bends. It's also super hot here and I'm having to choose between ventilating toxic fumes and the inferno outside.