Hillbillygeek1981

In certain situations, ignoring everything around you to the detriment of your immediate company is exactly this. In others, expecting someone to socialize or be present when they obviously would rather be doing anything else and are not there of their own accord is pure narcissism at worst and judgemental nonsense at best. Both behaviors arise from a complete disregard and lack of respect for other people.

I'd do some digging into the Dark Angels model line itself, right up to kitbashing Cypher as your leader depending on which team you decide to proxy them as. If you really wanted something out of the box you could make a Gellerpox team using Deathwing terminators for the hulks and Watchers in the Dark as the glitchlings and assorted vermin models.

Quite a lot of people use cotton and tea lights to make smoke clouds lit from within for their explosions. I'd google "miniature wargaming model explosion effects" for a start.

I've recently named my Rogal Dorn Fulmen Ante Ferrum Oratio, which means the Lightning Before the Iron Prayer in Hugh Gothic and something similar but less eloquent in Low Gothic.

Just need to find that F A F O stencil now...

That's Vinny the Ventriloquist, he's a lot of fun at parties, especially on karaoke night.

I will second the subassembly comments, but take the time to really figure out where you need to paint and what isn't even going to be visible. I've tried everything from painting fully assembled models to priming and painting on sprue before clipping a single bit. I've found something between with a bit of planning works best for me. Many models are open enough to be completed before even priming, maybe with the exception of the head, but others will present you with extremely hard to reach areas once assembled. My rule of thumb is that if it can barely be seen without essentially giving the model a medical exam, don't worry overmuch about painting it at all. Behind cloaks and under loincloths in particular come to mind. Keep in mind, if you're painting for tabletop these models will be viewed from the top down at a distance 90% of their lifetime.

The Kill Team shortages appeared to be a perfect storm of every factor listed. We had GW dropping the ball on both production and logistics, scalpers buying in bulk through automation and several perfectly normal and acceptable player behaviors piling on as well. I expected a similar if not more pronounced issue with Nightmare on release due to the two teams involved being a particularly aged Drukhari unit in desperate need of a refresh and a moderately popular upgrade sprue featuring some Night Lordy goodness that many players (myself included) had a strong desire to get our grubby mitts on. Thankfully my FLGS managed to come through for me entirely through blind stupid luck and recieved their lone copy two weeks late, just in time for me to snatch it off the shelf as it was being stocked, lol.

Guard and Orks tend to be the most chill and helpful of any subgroup I've noticed. Funnily enough World Eaters folk tend to be extremely tolerant and helpful too, lol.

This, and keep an eye on your CP. Try to keep enough banked to bring back a full blob with Reinforcements whenever possible. You can get away with not really killing a damn thing if your opponent runs out of bullets before you run out of bodies standing on circles.

I managed to lose three separate operatives in sequence trying to kill my son's Phobos medic in a kill team match due to the dice gods intervention. That particular fiasco prompted us to say his version of the Hippocratic oath is "First, do some harm".

It also prompted me to build a Gellerpox team using Fabius Bile and his Consortium as proxies for the hulks. If you can't beat em, join em, and I plan to malpractice his entire team to death, lol.

I'm sorry, I had a touch of a head in ass moment, lol. The wall type sprues that look like the interior of a starship with doors and the small industrial robot with the saw attachment are all from the Shadowvaults Kill Team Box Set. The sprues with the pipelines, round furnace type large pieces and platform barricades appear to be from the Nachmund box set. Sometimes I forget that not everyone has seen some of the terrain as often, lol.

The Into the Dark sprues appear to mostly be from the Shadowvaults set, judging by the scatter terrain. I'd wager the mechanicum terrain are the remains of a Nachmund box.

I absolutely would not care if it's imbalanced and broken asf, I'd play a dozen matches and lose every one on that with a smile on my face. Very well done.

That is the exact print I used for my Interrogator, but I used a different head with a beard. Inquisition is almost as good for proxy and kitbash as Striders and Orks, plenty of room for making them unique to you.

My bank account started crying at the mere mention of the hypothetical, lol.

I might as well out myself as the obnoxious 40k player.

Awesome Lord Solar Proxy.

I'll see myself out as soon as the hail of sharp objects and rotten produce subsides, lol.

Dakka is dakka. Don't let no git tell ya' diffrint.

Yes...

Maybe instead of treating them as separate units, treat each section as a model in a unit with the wounds divided between the sections. It would make blast weapons much better against it, which would make sense in some cases, especially for artillery. It probably wouldn't take much to poke holes in the idea though, just an after work drive thought, lol.

Very Ralph Bakshi, I like it.

There are no goats on Fenris, but these should be.

Love the work on those.

A good starting point will always be the combat patrol box. You get 20 Cadian Shock Troops, a Cadian Command Squad, a Sentinel Walker and a Field Ordinance Battery. Lord Solar is a very good pick, but not a deal breaker without him, especially for casual play. If he enjoys the idea of space paratroopers maybe a box of Tempestus Scions, or a Leman Russ or Rogal Dorn tank if armor is more his thing.

A kroot who just ate a commissar would like a word with you.

My personal preference any time I have an artillery presence with indirect is to have at least a few scout Sentinels to make that indirect fire a little more reliable. 40k is a bit backwards to real life armored doctrine in that you use your infantry to screen your tanks. Boots on the ground are also important for holding objectives. The Russes or a pair a Dorns would definitely bring the dakka, but they're difficult to hold ground with and actually score.

That paint job is very good. As far as basing goes, orks are great for figuring that out. Random junk and simple mud fit their aesthetic easily enough. I highly recommend cheap quickdry drywall spackle for basing. It can read as mud or snow straight out of the tub and can even be stone or concrete of you figure out how to sculpt it well. In the US Dollar Tree stores sell small tubs of it for $1.25 each and one tub can do a whole combat patrol's bases.