Today in Titanicus I...

[Kenzaburo]

Haha, I was considering Atarus with it's red and white scheme. But the green of Astraman looks sooo nice. :)

[Kenzaburo]

Aaand today I built my first AT model, a Questoris Knight. Really cool little bugger. :)

[Brother Dallo]

Today in Titanicus I started playing around with 1250 point lists as a gaming buddy is looking to start Legio Fureans with a Battleforce. This means:

 

1. I’ve got some motivation to get back to my Krytos painting project

2. I might actually get a game in.

 

I think I’ve settled on my list (Two Warlords and a Warhound to avoid a mirror match and to cut down on painting), but there are some interesting things you can do at 1250 points, including six Warhounds (mainly with bolters) or four Reavers in addition to the standard Battleforce list.

 

Looking forward to getting my Maniple ready.

 

Dallo

[Rabenga]

I try not to think of what goes on in the titans that fall to Slaanesh.

Why not? I sure am...

[Fajita Fan]

What mat are you guys using to play in a GW store? I was told I can't bring my 4'x4' asphalt mat because it's not a GW product when GW doesn't actually sell a mat.  They used to sell something called the "City Ruin" mat which is a hideous 28mm scale 4'x4' and OOP so I can't use a GW product they don't sell. 

 

I can't wait till GW starts their Citadel Snacks line of refreshments and they prohibit outside Pepsis.

Edited September 1, 2019 by Fajita Fan

[noigrim]

Just play on the plastic hill thingies

[Fajita Fan]

With the exception of huge spiders there's nothing GW makes that I despise more than the giant plastic hill thingies. 

[Dragonlover]

Today in Titanicus I showed a mate the game and have now played a multi Titan game with orders and scenery! All that's left to introduce now is stratagems, maniples and Legio rules.

 

Dragonlover

[Burni]

My first game with strats involved my opponent using sabotage in the first turn and then rolling shutdown on my key positioned Reaver...

 

TIAT I built my first sprue of spires.

[Black Knight]

Does anyone have an updated review of our new Knights after all the sky falling prophecies when they were released :D

[Achinadav]

Does anyone have an updated review of our new Knights after all the sky falling prophecies when they were released

I played a 2000 pt game a couple of weeks ago with 1 acastus on my side (me & another player with 1000 pts each) and 2 on the other. In the first turn, one of the enemy acastus evaporated a banner of 3 questoris knights and then got terminated with extreme prejudice. My own acastus dealt the killing blow. These little guys are tough and it took a lot of firepower to drop it. The next turn, my acastus got shaken by a quake cannon shot and spent the rest of the game wandering around and achieving nothing, largely because of the penalty to hit and my inability to pass a command check. The other enemy acastus basically did nothing. Either couldn't get line of sight or my reaver passed a ludicrous number of 4+ void saves. This was on a table with rather less cover than I was happy with.

 

My overall impression was that they're very reliant on orders for their accuracy. That hampers their manoeuverability, which means it can be difficult to get them decent lines of sight to prime targets. They are tough little blighters and I do think they're still undercosted. Just no where nearly as dangerous as some of the hype would have you believe.

 

Also, I read facebook post suggesting that each template should be fully resolved before placing the next one. The implication being that blast templates each hit a different location. I haven't reread the blast rules yet to see if I agree with the interpretation. It would really rein in acastus, & also plasma blastguns.

 

Meanwhile, TIAT I took delivery of my new Feldherr box. My venator maniple can now travel in style! Instead of balanced precariously on top of the rules box.

[Blood and skulls]

TIAT I ordered my feldherr boxes and finished my last titan. Legio Gryphonicus and Mortis forces done. Now I just have to paint additional weapons and name plates then I’m finally done.

[Fajita Fan]

I had to google what Feldherr was.

[Sherrypie]

 

Does anyone have an updated review of our new Knights after all the sky falling prophecies when they were released

I played a 2000 pt game a couple of weeks ago with 1 acastus on my side (me & another player with 1000 pts each) and 2 on the other. In the first turn, one of the enemy acastus evaporated a banner of 3 questoris knights and then got terminated with extreme prejudice. My own acastus dealt the killing blow. These little guys are tough and it took a lot of firepower to drop it. The next turn, my acastus got shaken by a quake cannon shot and spent the rest of the game wandering around and achieving nothing, largely because of the penalty to hit and my inability to pass a command check. The other enemy acastus basically did nothing. Either couldn't get line of sight or my reaver passed a ludicrous number of 4+ void saves. This was on a table with rather less cover than I was happy with.

 

My overall impression was that they're very reliant on orders for their accuracy. That hampers their manoeuverability, which means it can be difficult to get them decent lines of sight to prime targets. They are tough little blighters and I do think they're still undercosted. Just no where nearly as dangerous as some of the hype would have you believe.

 

Also, I read facebook post suggesting that each template should be fully resolved before placing the next one. The implication being that blast templates each hit a different location. I haven't reread the blast rules yet to see if I agree with the interpretation. It would really rein in acastus, & also plasma blastguns.

 

Meanwhile, TIAT I took delivery of my new Feldherr box. My venator maniple can now travel in style! Instead of balanced precariously on top of the rules box.

 

That post is rubbish, then. A multidice Blast weapon is still only one weapon and hits a singular target as per the rules BUT each blast is rolled for separately in "to hit" because of scattering. This basically means that you shoot X blasts, can cause some hits on multiple targets after rolling a ton of hits ans scatters, total up how many each target took and make a single separate roll for each target. Say you fire a 4 Dice blast, hit dead on twice and scatter one blast on top on another target. Now the first target, under the hole, takes four hits that all hit the same location. After resolving those in their entirety, the other target also suffers two hits where we roll the location another time. It's just a longwinded way to say "it would be silly if I rolled four attacks at once and all misses went to the same direction, right?" without overriding any normal properties of firing a singular weapon.

Edited September 2, 2019 by Sherrypie

[Achinadav]

 

That post is rubbish, then. A multidice Blast weapon is still only one weapon and hits a singular target as per the rules BUT each blast is rolled for separately in "to hit" because of scattering. This basically means that you shoot X blasts, can cause some hits on multiple targets after rolling a ton of hits ans scatters, total up how many each target took and make a single separate roll for each target. Say you fire a 4 Dice blast, hit dead on twice and scatter one blast on top on another target. Now the first target, under the hole, takes four hits that all hit the same location. After resolving those in their entirety, the other target also suffers two hits where we roll the location another time. It's just a longwinded way to say "it would be silly if I rolled four attacks at once and all misses went to the same direction, right?" without overriding any normal properties of firing a singular weapon.

 

 

Having reread it last night I agree. There's absolutely nothing in the combat or blast rules that suggests what was said on Facebook.

[Kenzaburo]

TIAT I started on the purple parts of my very first knight of House Orhlacc. So I have at least decided on that. I'll leave the decision on the legio for when I buy my first titan. 

[Fajita Fan]

TIAT I started on the purple parts of my very first knight of House Orhlacc. So I have at least decided on that. I'll leave the decision on the legio for when I buy my first titan. 

Your painting is really nice from your Instagram, you should make a thread.  I also have a Custodes army to assemble and GSC army to finish assembling and paint!

[Kenzaburo]

Thanks, FajitaFan! Once my test model is done, I probably will make a thread. As well as for the Custodes and the like. So far I've only posted some pictures here, most recently for the ETL. 

[Blood and skulls]

Has there been any news on the stratagem cards returning to stock? Does anybody have a definitive answer from GW?

[Gore Crow]

TIAT I'm back to working on some warhounds. After doing custodes for ETL painting not-gold is going to be a treat!

[Kenzaburo]

@Gore Crow: I feel you, man. I decided to take a short break from gold ... and painted all the metallics on my first baby knight. That went...alright, but wasn't the change I was looking for. :D

[Gore Crow]

I'm looking forward to seeing your knights, based on how your Allarus turned out!

[Kenzaburo]

Ha, thanks, Gore Crow. I'm looking forward to it myself. I just bought some more colours, my own selection of purples was severely limited so far. :)

[Kenzaburo]

Wow, continued painting that first knight...and ran into problems. First of all, Genestealer purple, while a great-looking colour, is a pain to paint. it's almost like a gel and won't really cover. It behaves a lot like my Scale 75 colours. Need to find a workaround here.

 

Then, there's the thing with knight heraldry. I had started to paint the body armour with highlights, was happily creating colour transitions, when I realized that this is a knight, with quite a bit of heraldry on many plates. While Orhlacc might have less than other houses, they still use it. 

 

So I need to correct my painting steps: block in heraldry colours first, then highlight the different sections appropriately. 

 

Maybe I'll have a pic ready in the next couple of days with some progress.

[Sherrypie]

Today in Titanicus I learned that the next expansion might be the Battle of Calth, if Twitch is to be believed.