Plainville's Official "Unofficial" Tuesday 40k

[Dissimulation]

I like tau for the same reasons, pretty much.

[Loranus]

Need to do more painting

[Benjamin]

As for Matt Ward generally from the 2 Codexes I read he wrote.

Pat, you've read the Space Marines codex, yes? That's Matt Ward too.

[Loranus]

No I  haven't read it :/. I just use Army Builder and Number Crunch :O.

[Benjamin]

I have good news and bad news.

The good news, today is Thursday!

The bad news is for Wes, whose Necrons will lose tonight. Not even a new codex can save the souls of your plastic space men!

Either that, or I roll crap like usual. See, already setting up to blame the dice. That's advanced strategy. Take notes, new players.

[Wes]

I think the problem people have with ward is that he keeps making armies TOO powerful what ever that means. Some of his combos and units can seem a bit over the top. Im not giving my personal opinion, but i know that many people do gripe about him and his dexes. And as for wanting a powerful dex, i dont need super power, i want a dex with tools. Look at the aging tau codex, it certainly doesn't have any "super units" and many of its options are a bit pricey, but i love how much of a tool box it is, you can do a lot, and it forces you to really think about how you are going to play. lets compare it to another shooty army, say guard (i know this is not a ward dex, im just using it as an example), i have never seen a guard player use blocking vehicles, typically what i see is a guard army just line up on the back table edge and just plug away at the enemy. Nothing against guard, but to me this is kinda boring, both to play as and against. Tau can't really generate the ridiculous volume of fire guard can, but often when i am watching tau play, i see a lot more clever artistic playing with a lot more strategy then just target priority. Just my thoughts.

This.

[Rurouni Benshin]

Need to do more painting

This is how I envision Steve D. when he paints his Ultramarines.

[Benjamin]

I was pretty focused on my match, so I don't remember too well what else went down.
Eldar vs Space Wolves, featuring Thursday 40k's first LED lighted models
Tau vs Space Marines
Tau & Tau vs Tyranids & Orks (??), all I know is this had the coolest-looking Tau deployment I've seen, bubble-wrapping with Hammerheads

After two weeks, the throwdown between Daemons and Necrons went down. Spearhead Annihilation. Wes goes for a familiar tactic of castling up. What I didn't expect was Wes to roll as poorly as I did. Long story short, the lesson learned was that Solar Pulse is optional. You know what helps Daemons? The cover of darkness. ("Stormlord, O-VER-RATED!") Daemons made it into assault, and we all know how Necrons handle that. My Keeper of Secrets was the hero, killing a Monolith, 5 Scarab bases, a C'tan Shard and a 10-man Immortal squad before finally succumbing. My Daemons did get the win, but I have to give Wes a rematch. Most of the models that would have helped the Necrons aren't even made yet. I'm posting my thoughts more in the Necron thread.

[Wes]

Imothek is quite overated
So are Monoliths,

I'll have to get some annihilation barges.



Also, somewhat relevant awkwardness to be explained later.

[Ian Mulligan]

Its a bummer to see Monoliths get hit so hard

[Wes]

Its a bummer to see Monoliths get hit so hard

I know, 62$ a pop for them to become 12 bolters and an str 8 sp3 template down from being 9 and possibly ap1 if it landed. Without the old living metal moving six inches a turn without better firepower isn't so good.

[Ian Mulligan]

No living metal also makes deep striking (the only way around that abysmal movement) is suicide. Frown. Town.

[Benjamin]

Its a bummer to see Monoliths get hit so hard

It's also easy to forget the Portal of Exile. It essentially caused one wound in our game. MEQs are going to fail that 1 out of every 3 times... just like power armor.

[Ian Mulligan]

What a shame. I love that model and it was iconic of the army for a decade. lame.

[Bill]

What a shame. I love that model and it was iconic of the army for a decade. lame.

This. I love the old lith because even the stupidest of armies were just helpless. And the book was a decade old.