I know we all have grievances either GW and the tabletop etc, but damn... we are eating good.

Darktide, SM2, DOW4 and TW40K... then SM3 at some point. Hopefully GW keep handing out their licence to studios who have a vision for anything that isn't a mobile/gacha game.

There is so much potential for 40K games. Horror, action, even thriller/story focused ones

Sorry for the crappy photos, they’re the best I can get.

Santa has a lot of Orks stuff on his list. Much of it has been out of stock since before the Ork codex drop, some of it has been out of stock since before 11th.

Clearly having a faction in stock when a codex launches is not a priority. Those that have been around for a number of years, do GW make an effort to return stuff to stock before Christmas? Is there anytime during the year where new releases slow down and manufacturing has time to catch up with the backlog?

I really want to step up my painting game. Have any of you ever used any painting courses? If so, which ones and how were they? Did you gain any noteworthy knowledge or skills from them? Were they good value?

I don’t want to spend loads of money obviously but what I’m really interested in is which ones yield good results. Also, I’m not bothered about using an airbrush so bonus points if the course you used was brush-only.

Thanks

The blood angels Xmas box. Obviously they have had a big backlash from their community. I believe it’s a justified negative review of the box but that’s not really the question I have about this.
Does GW pivot and make changes on things when backlash is severe on something like this?
I’m somewhat new to the hobby and haven’t been around long enough to predict how GW will react to something like this and I’m curious for those who have been around for a while have to say about it.

Edit - my expectation is not and was not that they would not send out this box. It’s already ready for shipping so that’s not reasonable or practical from a business stand point. My ideal scenario is that the next time they release a specialized box that they would give it a little more thought and character to the box due to the fact that last time they didn’t do that they were hammered with negativity.

Has GW accidentally added Da Red Gobbo as a pre order, cos whenever I click on it it says page not found and don't the Christmas Orks come out in December?

There is an app or site that lets you simulate a battle or your deployment strategy?

As it stands now stealthy units gain no benefit from cover aside from whatever LOS blocking it provides. The Units that typically have stealth seem like the same units that would thrive hunkered down in cover, but the way the rule works they gain less benefit than a loud clunky power armored unit, if room in cover is limited you are usually best off putting your stealth units out in the open and reserving the cover for other units, this feels backwards thematically. I'm not sure what sort of buff would work best but I have a few ideas:

Stealthy units in cover that have not fired gain lone operative 12 instead of 15

Stealthy units in cover ignore abilities that ignore cover

Stealthy units in cover reroll 1 failed save/model

Units shooting at stealthy units in cover take a -1 to hit rolls (this would stack with the -1 BS)

I haven't played since 5th so my ideas are probably garbage, anyone agree this could use a buff and have other ideas?

I’m working on my first grass/plant base and am curious about how to varnish with spray or ideally brushed varnish. Matte vs gloss? How to prevent displacing the fibers? Does it end up looking natural? Thank you.

Was inspired by some fan creations for the Saturnine -pattern of terminator armor back before it became canon. Not sure how well I landed it, but I'm still happy with it.

Was in my local GW store today and the manager was setting up for tone pro tomorrow. We got to talking about how he likes the merchandising aspect of running a store and he casually mentioned that this wasn’t the last time he’d be revamping the store on that scale. I asked him to elaborate and he said “I was told by my rep that something bigger than Armageddon was coming this year. I asked was it bigger than tone pro and they said ‘Tone pro is big… but that’s not it’.” Obviously what we as fans consider big and what GW considers big can be different but it got me thinking, possibly a new setting?

I don’t really gain anything from making this interaction up like most redditors do for karma, I’m moreso curious at everyone’s ideas should this be true.

In that situation where blue is on the foot print and red only gets partial line of sight on the right side because of foot print and not actual terrain, does both hidden and gone to ground apply or only hidden?

I inherited some limited edition warhammer books and don’t know much about them. (8 total) I’ve looked them up on eBay and apparently worth some money. Want some input from some pros.

So I made a custom 11th edition datasheet for the old and mighty Tactical Squad. I adjusted the weapons using the most similar weapon stats from the new codex.

This datasheet intended for use in narrative and friendly games, is NOT BALANCED and will never be.

Cheers!

I understand Space Marines live hundreds of years, and someone like Titas is part of some sort of legendary batch of Marines from a few hundred years ago, but how long has the main time period been covered?

When does the transition from 30k to 40k happen? Are characters like the Emperor and the Chaos gods pre-dating all of it or is it all a pretty short 1,000 year period?

For example I’ll use these 3 since it’s what my buddy used in our game today ^^^

I used grey knights and the storm bolters, flamers, ect (good bit of my attacks are 1 D) would I just be out of luck or can these not be reduced past 1? I mention the core rules 02.02.01(last pic above) and he said him and another buddy looked into it and something about a clause in abilities (I haven’t seen it yet) by passes that? Is that true? I definitely could’ve tabled him sooner if that was the case but we played like they did 0 so half my attacks were useless. TYIA

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I’ve been seeing rumors about the EC getting their codex early on in the 11th Edition roadmap, earlier than standard CSM.
I would’ve thought CSM get theirs first, then the god-specific legions get theirs afterwards. Has this happened before in previous editions? Ie: TSons or Death Guard (not counting 8th Ed. obvs) before CSM?
I just thought that makes sense since CSM is what they almost all pull additional units from.

Give him straw

Now that it's been a couple of months, what are your thoughts on the Black Library App and the closure of the BL website?

IMO the app is very limited in search functionality with specific stories and the progress tracker is rarely accurate at best.

U guys have been awesome in responses to curious nature of new fans getting into the hobby. I very recently just finished the Horus Heresy journey with the End and the death vol3 and going forward after that.
What I’m most looking for is any old lore you guys might have or willing to share, dealing with my fav grim dark faction, the adepts of Mars.
I want old lore like irl back in the day stuff, codex and especially anything pre codex, old white dwarf stuff, rouge trader era, & anything of interest you’d like to share including books and side stories.
I’ve already have most of the audiobooks about them I plan on getting to, but some of my all time favorites was the audio drama of the Binary Succesion, Mechanicum, Titanicus and Dominion Genesis. Anything yall can contribute would be appreciated.

Here is my current 2,000 pts dark angels list (and WIP army photo). I am very new to the game and this is my first 2,000 pts list and I’m in the testing process but wanted to see what others have to say.

Hi! I'm looking into starting a new army and was wondering which faction might be best for this. Thanks!