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[Gederas]

Yeah, the Quake is a nice long range pairing to a belicosa as it doesn't affect your reactor, the carapace Gatlings are horrendous as well, I have a friend who has a warlord with sunfury and triple Gatling. It just deletes Warhounds.

Ooooh yeah.... Keep talking dirty to me... :lol:

 

In other news, I was perusing places to find ideas for the Knights to go along with my Tempestus and found this article on Warhammer community and I have to ask: Where was it stated House Taranis was originally rocking something like House Terryn's colour scheme?

 

I'm mainly trying to figure out a good loyalist Knight and Traitor Knight scheme for the Knights I have.

 

[Iron Hands Fanatic]

Designed some revised icons for my Legio plus one for their Forge World:

[Sherrypie]

Very nice, surely we'll soon see you freehanding them on your legio en mass :D ?

[Iron Hands Fanatic]

Eh, more like modifying what transfers I already have - I can piece the skull portion together using the Vyronii icon, half of the Makabius sunburst and the top of a generic skull, and the 'A' seal is from half of the Legio Atarus hybrid 'AM' decal

[Mandragola]

 

Yeah, the Quake is a nice long range pairing to a belicosa as it doesn't affect your reactor, the carapace Gatlings are horrendous as well, I have a friend who has a warlord with sunfury and triple Gatling. It just deletes Warhounds.

Ooooh yeah.... Keep talking dirty to me... :lol:In other news, I was perusing places to find ideas for the Knights to go along with my Tempestus and found this article on Warhammer community and I have to ask: Where was it stated House Taranis was originally rocking something like House Terryn's colour scheme? I'm mainly trying to figure out a good loyalist Knight and Traitor Knight scheme for the Knights I have.

The first mention of Taranis is in the mechanicum heresy book. It says they’re blue. Whoever designed their 40k scheme obviously missed that part and made them red. There’s a FB group for Taranis and this is probably the biggest topic of conversation on there. Oh and a few years back they brought out a companion book for knights with some fluff and old schemes (all red) that entirely contradict mechanicum.

 

Basically paint them how you want. Don’t bother trying to get the transfers. I’ve got some of the Terry’s ones and they’re too big to actually stick on knights. For an easy life you could do worse than use the transfers that come with the models.

 

Welcome to the forum by the way. You’ll be ell set up to do intro games with a warlord, reaver and warhound on each side. Warlords are expensive to equip, unfortunately. Maybe get a warlord plasma sprue (or a whole plasma warlord, or a psi-Titan...), then hit FW for a macro Gatling, paired Gatlings and mori quake. And maybe a reaver VMB too.

[Gederas]

Ooooh yeah.... Keep talking dirty to me...

 

In other news, I was perusing places to find ideas for the Knights to go along with my Tempestus and found this article on Warhammer community and I have to ask: Where was it stated House Taranis was originally rocking something like House Terryn's colour scheme?

 

I'm mainly trying to figure out a good loyalist Knight and Traitor Knight scheme for the Knights I have.

The first mention of Taranis is in the mechanicum heresy book. It says they’re blue. Whoever designed their 40k scheme obviously missed that part and made them red. There’s a FB group for Taranis and this is probably the biggest topic of conversation on there. Oh and a few years back they brought out a companion book for knights with some fluff and old schemes (all red) that entirely contradict mechanicum.

 

Basically paint them how you want. Don’t bother trying to get the transfers. I’ve got some of the Terry’s ones and they’re too big to actually stick on knights. For an easy life you could do worse than use the transfers that come with the models.

 

Welcome to the forum by the way. You’ll be ell set up to do intro games with a warlord, reaver and warhound on each side. Warlords are expensive to equip, unfortunately. Maybe get a warlord plasma sprue (or a whole plasma warlord, or a psi-Titan...), then hit FW for a macro Gatling, paired Gatlings and mori quake. And maybe a reaver VMB too.

Thank you for the welcome by the way.

 

And okay, so it's basically a confusing mess with Taranis then. Good to know, thank you.

 

Sadly, I kind of.... Well, completely borked up one of the GME Warlords and it's irreperably damaged now. So I've got the Plasma Warlord ordered with my FLGS. So uhh, whoops? Yay for damaged Warlord terrain piece?

 

I am planning on getting the Forge World stuff next month. Probably won't get a Psi-Titan just yet, maybe in a while after I've gotten most of the stuff I've got ordered painted.

Edited October 5, 2020 by Gederas

[corvus.calvariam]

 

 

Yeah, the Quake is a nice long range pairing to a belicosa as it doesn't affect your reactor, the carapace Gatlings are horrendous as well, I have a friend who has a warlord with sunfury and triple Gatling. It just deletes Warhounds.

Ooooh yeah.... Keep talking dirty to me... :lol:In other news, I was perusing places to find ideas for the Knights to go along with my Tempestus and found this article on Warhammer community and I have to ask: Where was it stated House Taranis was originally rocking something like House Terryn's colour scheme? I'm mainly trying to figure out a good loyalist Knight and Traitor Knight scheme for the Knights I have.

The first mention of Taranis is in the mechanicum heresy book. It says they’re blue. Whoever designed their 40k scheme obviously missed that part and made them red. There’s a FB group for Taranis and this is probably the biggest topic of conversation on there. Oh and a few years back they brought out a companion book for knights with some fluff and old schemes (all red) that entirely contradict mechanicum.

 

Basically paint them how you want. Don’t bother trying to get the transfers. I’ve got some of the Terry’s ones and they’re too big to actually stick on knights. For an easy life you could do worse than use the transfers that come with the models.

 

Welcome to the forum by the way. You’ll be ell set up to do intro games with a warlord, reaver and warhound on each side. Warlords are expensive to equip, unfortunately. Maybe get a warlord plasma sprue (or a whole plasma warlord, or a psi-Titan...), then hit FW for a macro Gatling, paired Gatlings and mori quake. And maybe a reaver VMB too.

They sort of fixed this discrepancy for Taranis in Defense of Ryza, where they say that blue Taranis knights repaint their armor in Mechanicum colors in recognition of help given. Now there's room for Taranis to play around with both color schemes in the 30k setting.

[Mandragola]

Sadly, I kind of.... Well, completely borked up one of the GME Warlords and it's irreperably damaged now. So I've got the Plasma Warlord ordered with my FLGS. So uhh, whoops? Yay for damaged Warlord terrain piece?

 

Ok so this can be an issue in AT. Personally I’ve never screwed up a Titan badly enough to lose it entirely, but some people have. I’m prepared to break apart stuff that’s wrong and repair it. At that point, what do you have to lose?

 

The best thing is to try and avoid it happening of course. Here’s how:

 

Slow.

 

Down.

 

And read the instructions carefully.

 

It’s usually the legs that get you. People stick bits on backwards or on the wrong sides. I saw a really nice warhound on the Facebook group that had a leg stuck on backwards, for example, and it just looked terrible. Reaver legs - and especially their feet, are very often stuck on the wrong sides.

 

The other problem is building a skeleton and then finding that the armour plates won’t fit on. This happens all the time with armour plates, especially around the ankle joints. When you’re building titans, and especially Reavers, try to avoid having much of an angle at the ankle joint. And if it’s a reaver or warbringer, check you have the correct foot.

 

The good thing is that the skeleton is actually pretty well hidden by the armour. Minor damage isn’t very noticeable. You’ll be amazed what you can repair. Want to show a picture of the problem, so we can advise?

[Xenith]

TITI: Finally pulled the trigger and ordered the base game - that's another 2 reavers, hounds and knights for my Legio, adding to the battlegroup. I think I might have to order the plasma annihilator for the warlord also - would that be a good shout to have more variability?

Edited October 6, 2020 by Xenith

[Sherrypie]

TITI: Finally pulled the trigger and ordered the base game - that's another 2 reavers, hounds and knights for my Legio, adding to the battlegroup. I think I might have to order the plasma annihilator for the warlord also - would that be a good shout to have more variability?

That's plenty already, have some games first to see what you enjoy :D

 

With those two boxes you already have like 2300+ points (with a normal game hovering in the 1250-1750 range) with the option to go for a variety of maniples. You could just get a second Warlord with the plasmas instead of separate sprues to add into the mix in case you like the occasional heavier setup.

[Mandragola]

If you currently have one Warlord then you'll probably want a second eventually. It's a better deal to get that from a discounter than to buy the sprue from GW. You can get the whole titan for roughly double the price of the sprue alone.

[Gederas]

Sadly, I kind of.... Well, completely borked up one of the GME Warlords and it's irreperably damaged now. So I've got the Plasma Warlord ordered with my FLGS. So uhh, whoops? Yay for damaged Warlord terrain piece?

Ok so this can be an issue in AT. Personally I’ve never screwed up a Titan badly enough to lose it entirely, but some people have. I’m prepared to break apart stuff that’s wrong and repair it. At that point, what do you have to lose?

 

The best thing is to try and avoid it happening of course. Here’s how:

 

Slow.

 

Down.

 

And read the instructions carefully.

 

It’s usually the legs that get you. People stick bits on backwards or on the wrong sides. I saw a really nice warhound on the Facebook group that had a leg stuck on backwards, for example, and it just looked terrible. Reaver legs - and especially their feet, are very often stuck on the wrong sides.

 

The other problem is building a skeleton and then finding that the armour plates won’t fit on. This happens all the time with armour plates, especially around the ankle joints. When you’re building titans, and especially Reavers, try to avoid having much of an angle at the ankle joint. And if it’s a reaver or warbringer, check you have the correct foot.

 

The good thing is that the skeleton is actually pretty well hidden by the armour. Minor damage isn’t very noticeable. You’ll be amazed what you can repair. Want to show a picture of the problem, so we can advise?

It was both the legs and hips of the Warlord. I glued the legs in on a weird angle which resulted in the Warlord's torso being tilted upwards at an awkward angle, like it's about to topple backwards, and I didn't realize it until the glue was completely set. So I thought I could just cut the legs out at the hips and repose it. That.... didn't work at all, as I'd have to rebuild the entire leg assembly.

 

And since I used plastic glue, it lost all structural integrity at the hips, so I'd have to use a lot of pins and greenstuff there to fix it. I decided to hell with it.

 

I think my lesson here is: Build the legs from the feet up, not the hips down? Or at least have a pose in mind and go with that.

[Mandragola]

My advice is to build the torso first but don't glue it at the waist. Then you have it there to test out positions with.

 

I still reckon I could fix that, but I quite enjoy that kind of thing. If you'd rather just get a new one and put it down to experience, fair enough.

[Mendi Warrior]

 

It was both the legs and hips of the Warlord. I glued the legs in on a weird angle which resulted in the Warlord's torso being tilted upwards at an awkward angle, like it's about to topple backwards, and I didn't realize it until the glue was completely set. So I thought I could just cut the legs out at the hips and repose it. That.... didn't work at all, as I'd have to rebuild the entire leg assembly.

 

And since I used plastic glue, it lost all structural integrity at the hips, so I'd have to use a lot of pins and greenstuff there to fix it. I decided to hell with it.

 

I think my lesson here is: Build the legs from the feet up, not the hips down? Or at least have a pose in mind and go with that.

 

Maybe the solution is to cut the base? Cut the flat part around the feet and glue it to a new base, on a slope so as to regain a better angle for the torso. Do you have a picture of the current state?

 

Three pieces of advice: dry fit, dry fit, and dry fit again. Having a pose in mind does help, but don't glue the feet to the base until you are satisfied with the result. You can always add some layers of plasticards or other material to change the elevation of the feet at a specific point and therefore correct the torso's angle.

[schoon]

Welcome to Legio B&C, Princeps Gederas.

 

As has already been pointed out for Titan assembly, read the instructions. Then re-read them. I've come SO close to making disastrous errors, and while gorgeous, the kits aren't cheap.

 

For posing, my sequence is:

1. Draw a stick-figure sketch of the pose I'm imagining - no art degree required since you're the only one who will ever see it
2. Glue together the sub-assemblies for legs and hips, but do not glue any of the joints
3. Test fit one leg and the hips - see if it's going to work with the hips about level
4. Make sure the foot is not at some crazy angle that will not allow the armor plates to fit
5. Do the same separately for the other leg
6. Now start gluing the joints

Hope that helps!

[Gederas]

Maybe the solution is to cut the base? Cut the flat part around the feet and glue it to a new base, on a slope so as to regain a better angle for the torso. Do you have a picture of the current state?

 

Three pieces of advice: dry fit, dry fit, and dry fit again. Having a pose in mind does help, but don't glue the feet to the base until you are satisfied with the result. You can always add some layers of plasticards or other material to change the elevation of the feet at a specific point and therefore correct the torso's angle.

 

I don't have a picture. And yeah, the dry-fitting is necessary. Live and learn and all that.

 

Welcome to Legio B&C, Princeps Gederas.

 

As has already been pointed out for Titan assembly, read the instructions. Then re-read them. I've come SO close to making disastrous errors, and while gorgeous, the kits aren't cheap.

 

For posing, my sequence is:

1. Draw a stick-figure sketch of the pose I'm imagining - no art degree required since you're the only one who will ever see it
2. Glue together the sub-assemblies for legs and hips, but do not glue any of the joints
3. Test fit one leg and the hips - see if it's going to work with the hips about level
4. Make sure the foot is not at some crazy angle that will not allow the armor plates to fit
5. Do the same separately for the other leg
6. Now start gluing the joints

Hope that helps!

Thanks! And yeah, I learned my lesson to be smart about this in the future.

[Mendi Warrior]

If you could take a picture, we might be able to offer some more useful pieces of advice rather than more generic ones. No obligation of course.

 

From your answer, I assume the idea of cutting the base off and rebasing at a better angle is not sufficient to fix things?

 

Depending on how botched it is, another option might be to go Legio Mortis after Nurgle gifted them with his blessings.

 

Best of luck solving this.

[Xenith]

Starting to play with some ideas - I think getting 2 hounds and a reaver painted first is reasonable - how's this for a starting battlegroup? Is 750 points normal? I guess I can just add another warhound to make 1000?

 

+++ Test Roster (Adeptus Titanicus 2018) [750 Points] +++

++ Battlegroup (Battlegroup) ++

+ Maniple +

Venator Light Maniple
. Reaver Titan: Gatling Blaster, Melta Cannon, Vulcan Megabolter [RVR]
. Warhound Titan: Plasma Blast Gun, Vulcan Megabolter [WHD]
. Warhound Titan: Plasma Blast Gun, Vulcan Megabolter [WHD]


+ Allegiance +

Loyalist

Created with BattleScribe

[Sherrypie]

750 is pretty small, but any game where you have 3+ units per side at least offers actual maneuvering decisions. The maniple itself is solid, all its parts are capable of holding their own should the others get taken down. A third Hound is a fine addition.

[schoon]

750 is an excellent choice for your first couple games, while getting a feel for the rules.

 

I did a little progressive set of scenarios here that can serve to ease a newer player into the game, but you can do the same by using 750, 1000, 1250, 1500, and 1750+ point values in sequence.

[Banjohero]

Today I started the armor plates for my warlord. What a fun kit to build and paint. 

 

 

 

http://i.imgur.com/gpd8B3fl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/EREJriXl.jpg

 

My first warhound is also nearing completion. I have yet decided what to do for transfers on them. Toying with the idea of getting some custom transfers, but its looking to be quite expensive. 

 

http://i.imgur.com/9WW5MfAl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Rq3Q2yel.jpg

[Banjohero]

Today I mostly finished my warlord. I'm not sure yet what I want to do for transfers/markings. I used a couple that I liked the look on for the shields. 

 

Been also thinking about who my legio is. Main them is sunlight, sunset/sunrise etc. Not sure how much I managed to "catch" those themes. Thinking I'll name them something along the lines of "suns fury", "fury of the sun" or something along those lines. 

 

I'm quite happy with the colors.. But I guess I knew that, seeing how I'm also painting some white scars...

 

Need to start thinking about the base. I want to make it a little diorama-like. I ordered some small 6mm guardsmen and vehicles for use as scenery. My only regret being not getting a tech-adept or two (to stand outside the door on the back..).

 

 

http://i.imgur.com/w9GHb7lm.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/tWQtSDim.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/CJpDWNum.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/tf5FZDUm.jpg

Edited October 10, 2020 by Banjohero

[Dosjetka]

Over the weekend in Titanicus, I assembled a Reaver and two Warhounds for a new Ferrox Maniple. They've been sitting on a shelf for a couple of years now, it's about time I get them sorted!

[Mandragola]

Today I painted a load of blue and then maybe (probably not) half of the trim of my 4th Astorum Warlord with fancy liquid gold from Vallejo. Getting more used to working with this stuff now, and I'm pretty happy with how it's coming out. I'm using the "red gold", which has a bit more colour to it than the "old gold" I started out with.

 

It's good stuff and I kind of recommend it, but it's not too easy to work with. But neither is Retributor gold in my experience, and you get better results with this stuff.

[Iron Hands Fanatic]

I've finished applying transfers, masked on the stripes and glazed the armour panels so I can move on to basecoating the outer trim on my Warlord:

Edited October 13, 2020 by Iron Hands Fanatic