Custos Umbra

You could just switch back to an older edition.  Formations weren't a thing until 6th edition.  Personally, I wouldn't mind trying Horus Heresy myself except for the obvious problem that it excludes xenos factions entirely. 

I'd like to switch to some older edition, but I'll be the only one playing it around here. Playing against yourself is kind'a close to insanity, unless it's a simple testing.

If I do a 30k Army, it will be smurfs though.

They do have a nice ruleset, great special units and named characters in HH. 

Their Invictarus Suzerains are simply the most detailed and beutiful SM unit I've ever seen. Not sure if I like Roboute Guilliman's model, though.

Yes. I've placed in on altar and praise it as my God and Savior, for without it I wouldn't make it through this summer.

I have the same issue (sort of.)

 

It's the formations that particularly annoy me - they add more special rules, meaning that you get more value for your points, and too many of them don't have any meaningful limitations. The Tau ghostkeel / stealth suit formation that always hits the rear armour of vehicles is a particularly annoying one for my guardsmen, as I just love the infantry wave with tank support army (never mind how effective it is against any given opponent, it just feels right to throw over 100 men and three tanks at an objective.)

 

I suppose it was never particularly well balanced, but the formations seem to give the more competitive players a sufficient advantage that my 10-minute, low-planning 'oh, about 1500 points of tanks and guardsman will be fine' lists just don't win at all. It's more about finding matching players.

Same thing with Librarian Conclave and Skyhammer.

That's why I prefer Horus Heresy. It's harder to break the balance here. No completely broken units, no formations and huge variety of viable playstyles. That's my choice.

I chosen, I have 2 tactical squads awaiting paint.

They shall become crusader squads for the Black Templars.

That is the chapter I have picked.

I may post pictures when I am done.

Black Templars? You've won my respect =D

How do you like these guys? They are what Black Templars used to be back in the 30k =)

really so why are you holding a plushy shining armour

That's not Shining, that's Tia

Um, Chrysalis?  Whatcha doin? 

Feeding on our feelings, what else?

If Gilda kissed me

 

i'd kiss her back and snuggle up to her

Not sure kiss of the beak would feel good. Or is even possible. Just saying.

I'd pack my bags and catch a ride straight to a madhouse.

"Small scale Tactical Superiority for Dummies"

Oh my. That's beautiful. Definitely want to see more of this.

@@Custos Umbra do you mostly play 30k or 40k?

Do you prefer one vs the other?

I play 30k Mechanicum against both 30k and 40k, preferring 30k as opponents.

Playing agaist local 40k players just isn't fun most of the time, since they try to build as broken rosters as they can, no matter how boring or stupid (fluff-wise) they are.

Someone kill me. Or help me rehabilitate my English speaking skills. Maybe both, I wouldn't mind.

Through the dark art of Magi Bioligis, rise, you condemned thread!

Time to try to revive it, so I'll make an attempt to start discussion about strong and weak sides of different factions of Warhammer 30-40k.

Let's start with Legiones Astartes from Horus Heresy.
It's very versatile faction with lots of options,but is limited due to high point costs. Currently it has 16 Legions + Blackshield faction to chose from:
-Dark Engels
-Emperor's Children
-Iron Warrioirs
-White Scars
-Imperial Fists
-Night Lords
-Blood Angels
-Iron Hands
-World Eaters
-Ultramarines
-Death Guard
-Thousand Sons
-Sons of Horus
-Word Bearers
-Salamanders
-Raven Guard
-Alpha Legion

All Legions, while mostly having same units and gear, have different rules which dictate their playstyle. If you're interested in some particular Legion - respond.
For now let's end with basic pros and cons.

Pros: Rites of War which further change your playstyle, Large Squads and upgrades with fixed "to squad" cost, Sergeants in Artificer Armour, Availability of Jetbikes. huge customization of your HQ.

Cons: Lack of Combat Squads and special weapons for Tacticals, lack of ATSKNF, costly units, lack of any Eternal Warrior options.

If you want that kind of information... you know what to do.
 

Well yeah. I read the first and the last 3-5 posts. It keeps me informated enough to consider writing something myself, but doesn't make me read all of the damned 10+ pages of posts.

With no doubt, Dawn of War!

Bloody hell this post has exploded anyways I have been looking into some stuff and I found out about the red forest a place where alot of rubbish and fallout fell when it fell there the leaves turned red thus sparking the name "the red forest" anyways maybe I will do a fanfic about ponies Comeing into the chernobyl area anyways thanks! Will be posting soon.

I believe, The Red Forest no longer exists. Got cut down.

Yes I know about soviet officials being stupid and not evacuating witch I think we can all agree on was very stupid.

Actually, that was far worse. Local government was so desperate to cover their failure, they declared, that normal temperature of human body is 38° C, or a bit higher.

I can't remember the name of the game right now but it's about fallout in Moscow war I think anyways it's all about the savivovors liveing in the metro

"Moscow 2033" and "Moscow 2034". Nice games, good book series.

Chernobyl disaster is fasinating! I mainly like it from the WONDERFULL Stalker game franchise and, the Stalker universe with all the book and fanfics. That version of the disaster is more interesting

You do realize how wrong that sounds, right?

Is it Moriarty in the second picture?

"Doctor and his axe-wielding assistent enter patient's room.
D: Alright, time to amputate patient's left leg.
*chop*
D: I said left!
*chop*
D: I said leg!!!"

There was some much funnier joke I had... but I forgot it. Nevertheless - LAUGH, GODS DAMN IT! 

It's a biological weapon that will turn every life form on Earth into ponies.

No. But my brothers once had one. It was me =3

Apocalyptica: Not Strong Enough, Hope vol. 2, Broken Pieces, Letting the Cables Sleep

La Troupe: L'Assasymphonie, Le Bien Qui Fait Mal, Place Je Passe

Lacrimosa: Feuer, Halt Mich, Lichtgestalt, Kelch der Liebe

Seether: Fake It, Remedy

Helium Vola: Omnis Mundi Creatura, Excalibur

Savatage: Chance, Gutter Ballet, Morphine Child, Prelude to Madness - Hall of the Mountain King

Aviators: Zero, Party Song, Bulletproof, Set Me Free, Open Your Eyes

Blue Stahli: Ultranumb

AND OF COURSE... Save Ferris - Come on Eileen

R.I.P. "Warhammer 40k/30k" thread. 2016-2016.

Another failure of mine.

I have no idea what he's saying, but it looks quite cool. Animation is a bit... clunky, but that's understandable for now.
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Today I played my first game against Space Marines with their new Psychic Powers. This nonsense is broken as hell -_-

I wasn't ready for a flying Firestorm Redoubt filled with hard-hitting Centurions with Graviton Cannons :_(

I don't know any off the top of my head sorry, but I'm sure there is one out there

Ave Omnissiah! It actually exists! Looks like WIP, but it exists!
http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-mechanicum/images/main-menu-character-wip#imagebox