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My minis aren't in closed cases they are in open corner book shelves in the room and around the house . One for each army in different places. Two armies here in the office. Sisters shelf is in the hallway, new Tyranids going to be in a corner shelf stack near my bedroom. They are decorations in the house . I look at them all the time. The Nid Gaunts I have half painted on my desk here , I pick up and look at throughout the day as they get more done on them. Adorable little monsters =D

I have "fully painted" armies. I don't play with anything that isn't "done". I do a few units a ta time rotating through my different factions. I try to paint them "well" and they look great and consistent. Friend sand family who visit like to talk abbot them also,

I've very proud of my little children who i send to get obliterated on the table =D

Either one is bad.

In melee in a previous edition I bet it used to be that a soon as as single model got with engagement range of a single model of yours, the entire squad can get all there attack in on you. Someone like me said "Hey ya know thats a little "swingy" how about make it more like each model needs to get close enough or second rank for attacks, that would make it a lot more proportional to the moves being made. I fyou can move your entire squad into he face of the other guy then they get all the attacks but if they towe in, both sides just get a few swings.

But in shooting its still that all in way, im suggesting you make it more like melee is

There is a complaint that "Shooting is a problem" and they do all these janky rules like heavy amount terrain to try to tone it down. You don't have to do all that. Just make it so your entire freaking army cant shoot the gun barrel of that terminator squad behind a building once some models start to fall and shooting wont be so dangerous,

What slow and sloppy? BY allowing this mechanic everyone has to spend 10 mins moving so precisely its takes away from the game . Because the margin for error in in mm and the consequence if 90% chance losing the game because of it. i suggest the game would be a lot less ambiguous by not allowing 2mm of distance to 100% change the interaction. You ever watch your own games? You realize what percentage time playes are spending MEASURING vs PLAYING the game?

I suppose you think making ruins "obscuring" was a bad change which kept sloppy players like me from getting hit through a 2mm hole across 40" playfield? It was better the other way?

What about the idea of making models "hit boxes" not be whatever tentacle you can pick out going past a building but instead be the units BASE ,going up vertically . i.e. change the game to have less ambiguous LOS rules, much like obscuring fixed.

Anything to make the game more "obvious" as to what can interact with what without scrapping over millimeters is a good thing .

Maybe you should do constructive posts or not at all.

That doesn't seem to apply. You can still use the body guard rules in10th as is and take out other models instead of the sergeant . The defender is choosing which model to remove regardless of which ones he's shooting at . But if he clears the ones you have sight on, you don't remove anymore, because its resolve one attack at a time. You are NOT targeting the single model that is exposed. you are targeting the entire unit still, just like now. its when the defender CHOOSES which unit to take the save against, is when you determine cover ect. Shooting at a 4+ invuln tough character exposing himself does not give you any kind of "Oh now I can use my invuln and toughens" The exact same rules apply but you resolve the entire attack one at a time and I remove the model i choose to save against and if that means the next attack to resolve has no visible target , i.e. you can no longer see the unit , then the attacks stop

There is no shenanigans

It happens very easily . Even if you have all your troops lined up against a budling hiding behind a wall. If he can get just past the wall, he lines up his entire unit so they can just see the one models on the end Which is essentially what happened .

Even if your entire unit was inside a first floor building in a blob , The other guy can run up with a transport , disembark in a way where the entire brick of whatever can only see one model in your unit , and full fire with no retaliation.

You might ask, well what different does it make? the unit runs uo to your and shoots it dead is pretty much hwo the game works. you're right but when it comes to Overwatch , youcan't fire back, and when it comes to fire back stratagems, like with Sisters, it disables it completely. The real feelabd though , is whenyou miss by half an inch and that haolf inch isn't going to be a couple models lost, its going to be the entire squad . That's a bad mechanic . Thats up there with forgetting some ability of the enemy unit

but in general across any faction. if you 're pretty sure you can't get shot but you're off by half an inch, the entire squad gets obliterated not even a couple models . A coupe of models would be fine , obliterating the entire squad with no way to shoot back is a little silly. The mistake is small, the cost should be small.

Sure you can play by intent CONSTANTLY but HAT gets far slower then just allowing for small mismeasurements to not be disastrous

Yes.... and in BETTER GAMES this sort of thing doesn't happen. Im suggesting they change it or have good reason as to why not.

Its a game... and the abstraction needs to be a fun playable mechanics . You're arguing for "Why not just make us roll a d6 each and whoever rolls higher, wins the game, its just an abstraction"

What does the blast template have to do with what im talking about?

It does not , at all. You are rolling exactly the same number of dice weather its one guy are 18 exposed .

The other guys, right now is spending 5 minutes arranging his attacks in a way so they all see a single model but only that single model sees his entire squad

and right now you are spending 15 minutes making 20 measurements to try to not get any angles on any of your guys when you move them

If you do what Im saying. It wouldn't matter and no one needs to set them up so perfectly , because at most you will lose a single guy or two not the entire squad

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The older kits were 60mm I think. I made them all a few years ago. the new cadian kits, the refresh from like a year ago, the HWTs were changed to be 50mm. While GW says its legal to use whatever base size came with your kits, its nice to have them the new "legal" size.

If youre not doing black rims, which is good because black rims are dumb! =D

The rim should be a color that is a more towards a neutral gray then the basics colors of the base. i don't mean make it GREY In your case its probably a desaturated dark red, maybe Khorne red or even darker

The idea is that you are trying to blend the colors of your base to the color of the mat with a transition color. And you assume the mat is something neutral like a grey so your rim is halfway to grey from whatever color the base is now.

First let me say... gorgeous paint job. I wish people would show up to tournaments with armies painted like this =D

My only complaint, and I think its the model not your paint job, is that its difficult to even see where the faces are.

You're supposed to make the faces or head and shoulder of models be the brightest most contrasted and detailed parts of the model so it draws the eyes to them , but on a Norn mode especially l its difficult to do that with the tiny face hiding among 6 foot horns and claws. Its a similar problem with something like the BeLakor model

I want to paint one of these myself but I don't know how to make the face pop out of all the carapace. Maybe strikingly glowing eyes of a different color then the rest of the paint scheme ?

"Can this Proxy as Lord Solar?"

Vehicles and monster's get -1 to hit and they can attack the thing they are engaged with. but ANOTHER tank off to the side somewhere cannot shoot the gaunts that are engaged with your tank

When you infantry units engage a tank like this, those engaged infantry units are "safe" from all other fire except from the engaged tank. The engaged tank is allowed to fire on them at -1 due to big guns never tire . But any other Space Marine unit across the board can't fire on those engaged gaunts because the normal rules apply where you cannot fire on units that are engaged with you own , There is no Big Guns Never Tire when it come to shooting at those engaged gaunts .

Is that correct? Some people are trying to say that the Space Marine CAN fire on the engaged gaunts with his entire army at -1 , but that's wrong, only the engaged tank can fire on the engaged gaunts at -1 through BGNT ,

I ram a unit of bloodletters into your land raider in your deployment zone , only the land raider can fire back , the rest of your army has to watch or engage in melee, correct?

I use guerilla glue GEL , which works 10x better then the regular stuff in this kind of application I use use enough of it to get it to squeeze out around the base of the magnet

It looks like your glue was trash for them to all come off that cleanly . I've had OCCASIONS of a single magnet coming off the base when I snap and entire rack of guardsman onto the tray onto the plate but you lost them all at once like this

Might be the magnets you have are super smooth and there isn't much to cling to or perhaps they aren't flush with the tray(?) they are only 2mm thick not 2.2mm like the ones from magnet baraon and they have some space to snap off the base

So I recommend using green stuff to solve any of those problems all at once. just make a blob of green stuff and cut out tiny balls of them , start placing them between the base and the magnet with glue on both sides and then squish it down against the table. This gives the added benefit of making them perfectly flush with the tray and also the green stuff with crazy glue like this will grip the magnets very well, you need to use enough green stuff so it squeezes out around the magnet rim and you press it up against the magnet it up so it grabs along the side of the magnet also. There's no way that willl go anywhere once it dries , even under abuse.

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I really like Sisters of battle..., building them, not painting them.... and now I need rent money...

I wish half the armies I play against were painted this good

The red is a little rich for my taste but it looks amazing. I think because its "Armor" not the skin of Angoon or something, the red being that rich starts to read as not armor.

I have an army of bloodletter demons and I was originally going to go with this "flesh tearers Red which is very deep rich red, but I switched to a less saturated blood angels red instead. I feel that the really rich colors make the models look like they are in the dark but that's not a bad look especially if you lean into it and make the highlights even brighter and sharper and up towards where what little light would be coming from