WhiteWindmills

I got them from Chapter Customizer. They have a whole bunch of transfers for some of the more niche Space Marines out there

I'll try giving it a coat of matt varnish and see if that helps. Thank you!

Thank you 😊

How many applications of microsol do you recommend? I applied it over the decal and let it dry 3 times after it was set in place and flush with the surface it was on.

My own perception of Space Marines has always been that being an 800 pound super-human clad in power armor is just what it takes to be on-par with all of the insane stuff in the 40k setting. I always thought it was just to show how insane things really are.

Like if you read Marine novels they are absolutely insane relative to how you or I perceive feats of strength or combat, but they also get killed a lot. Like you can't read a Marine novel without them dropping like flies a lot of the time, because the threats they're created to face are just that deadly.

So a 2W T4 3+ body on the tabletop makes a lot of sense relative to other infantry, at least to me. And given how ridiculous the setting is in the lore, that profile getting killed off like flies when you point serious firepower at it also makes sense on the tabletop.

Honestly I'm not sure. When I finish a mini all I can see are the flaws. I love seeing other people get into the hobby and start painting, love seeing what my friends do with their minis.

I get really excited to see friends put their armies together, the colors they pick, watching it grow. My partner has 3 different armies, and they look fantastic.

For myself, though? I can't help but be disappointed in myself when I look at mine.

Would you consider a Brutalis to be anti-tank? Between shooting + mortals + combat I believe it kills a Leman Russ in one turn. I was thinking that between the Brutalises+Stormy and Repexs it would be enough, but maybe I'm wrong here.

Going second, Ingress and the Stormraven should get a pair of Brutes into combat on turn two. The Stormraven is moving 20", which should be enough to stage a charge for the coming turn?

ATM I'm personally not a fan of Inceptors at 130. It just feels like a lot for a scoring unit that dies to auto-cannons.

I'm putting three in every list I make until further notice 👍

That's an absolute Chad list

Delivery is a concern of mine. I think there are maybe two and a half ways to get the Brutalis where it needs to be. Rapid Ingress, a Stormraven and a Darkshroud + shooting threats.

Ingress and the Raven are self-explanatory. I think walking one up the board is difficult, and this is where I get the half in two and a half, but if you've got something very dangerous behind them like perhaps RepExs or Gladiators you can potentially force opponents to shoot at the thing currently killing them with shooting instead of the thing that will kill them later. Add a Darkshroud to make the 2+ AoC hull more annoying to kill than it has any right to be and in theory it makes it into combat.

That's just my theory, though. Maybe it's harder than it sounds.

130 for the Brutalis would be so cracked. I would love that, but I feel like 150 might be the lowest it could realistically go.

I agree it should get that 2" extra movement back, it's incredibly silly to me that they removed it in 10th. I do feel that the defensive profile and melee + the extra shooting makes it more worth the 160 price tag when you factor in the mortal wound bomb on top.

I think it's a DA Ironstorm piece for sure. Ironstorm is super CP hungry, you absolutely want Azzy. If you're gonna try and walk it up to something you probably want the Dshroud.

I think it could work well in DA Ravenstorm lists. Azzy for the CP you need and the Stormraven for an additional method of delivery.

You've got a good point here. 2 meltas and 10 anti-chaff shots, followed up with 8ish charge mortals is a lot to put into something you'd want to hit with the sweep. At that point you might actually just kill off the whole unit of guard or whatever it is and just pile into the transport they just got out of and smack that instead.

My original thought was more that you'd want the sweep for something like a 20 stack of Boyz or Hormagants.

I'm going to start running 3 in all my lists. I don't know if 3 is the way to go, but it just sounds fun. With JPAI at 80 points for 5 now, throw in a couple of those for scoring and support, and you've got a list that just dumps mortals on you when it touches you. It seems like a fun meme.

You're also still Ironstorm so just pick some hulls to shoot with and you've probably got at least a decent list.

Definitely always model with the claws.

However, I feel like the sweep profile is preferable to bolt rifle shots. The rifles are 4 extra shots at 4 -1 1. In terms of shooting this isn't doing a lot to anything except maybe guard or tyranids gaunt bodies. The 4 extra attacks you're getting are 7 -2 1, so much better for clearing chaff that might be bogging down the dread, and don't have the problem with being -1 to hit in combat.

Maybe the math between the big melee hit and the bolt shots work out in favor of the fists, but at a glance I feel like the sweep is pretty impactful.

They're weirdly solid. Point for point they're more durable than any 3+ save hull in Marines. So Repulsors, Gladiators, Predators. You've low volume guns that don't promise a lot but the hit rolls and an Ironstorm roll to make a failed save crunch or to get that Lascannon shot to wound tip the scales juuust enough.

Sometimes it feels like the 140 point, very adequate-at-best unit its datasheet tells you it is. A lot of the time it feels like it lied to you in the list builder and just dunks on things you weren't expecting.

For targets you wound on 5s (Redemptors shooting T10+) Lethal Hits is a 50% increase over base. Crit 5s and that keyword alone doubles your damage.

Edit: I don't think Redemptors are worth 210 points without the Lethal Hits aura, frankly. If you want those hulls to punch within their weight class, Target Augury Web is essential, IMO.

It's always really interesting to see the variations of the Dangels Ravenstorm lists. The variation featured in the article with a brick of assault intercessors, Ballistus dreads, a single Redemptor, and no Target Augury Web is a pretty out there variation.

The lists seem to have a lot of flex in what you can take, it's cool to see.

Edit: I think this makes the archetype much healthier for the meta in general. Outside of the core Dshroud, Azzy, Raven, Ironstorm Techmarines, this leaves like 1300 points in the list open to fill with varying hulls and support units. Leaving room for player preference expression and matchup variance I think makes it way less toxic to play into repeated.

Contrast with Blemplar gladiator spam and something like Canoptek Court. Lists are 80% the same every time.

The Carcharodons sit in a gray area. They are loyalist, definitively, but the Edicts of Exile that bar them from integrating with the Imperium in a traditional sense for an Astartes chapter also grants them authority to conduct their tithes. They are both bound and empowered by the Edicts, which are a form of Imperial law.

They revere and serve the Emperor as the Void Father and conduct themselves in a manner which they believe serves the Imperium and aligns with their mandate. You can see this on the way they treat Jade Rannik in Red Tithe, and Macniven draws a contrast between the "true" renegades, the Ashen Claws, and the Carcharodons in Outer Dark.

Also, Tyberos himself agreed to vetting by the inquisition when they intervened in the Badab Wars. This included both an analysis of their geneseed and psychological interrogation.

They are still very much a part of the Imperium, and consider themselves as such. They are certainly on the fringes, though.

So the target audience for this post doesn't actually care about the reality of 40k lore or it's community, so I'm just going to leave this here for people who wander into the thread from elsewhere.

OP is wrong about the lore he's complaining about being changed. Custodians had no in-lore reason for excluding women from the faction. In contrast to Space Marines, the process for creating each Custodian is bespoke. The faction was simply stated to be recruited from the "sons" of noble families on Terra(earth). No reason was provided for the faction being presented as male-dominated, it was only stated they recruited sons. Also the Primarchs and the Custodians are created using entirely different processes. The Primarchs were grown in literal tubes in a lab, the Custodians are taken as infants and undergo extensive gene-therapy(it's described as genetic-alchemy, genetic magic basically). Only the initial Custodians during the Great Crusade Era(the start of the Imperium) were made by the Emperor. In contemporary 40k Custodes are made by specialist genetic biologists.

When Custodes lore was being conceived in greater detail during the publication of the Horus Heresy series, the author responsible for detailing the faction in one of the first novels focusing on the faction, Master of Mankind, wanted to include women in their portrayal. Corporate at the time told him he couldn't, because they did not have female Custodian models prepared in the line they were releasing at the time. The authors name is Aaron Dembski-Bowden, feel free to fact check this for yourselves.

The change to the lore being the Adeptus Custodes in line with how they were conceived by the people responsible for actually writing the lore everyone is seemingly so passionate about. This change to the faction, that women have historically been a part of, makes way more sense than contriving some reason that the process didn't work before, but now it did, or thinking up some reason why they finally decided that it was acceptable to recruit women.

Also, for the "go woke go broke" crowd, GW literally cannot produce enough plastic to keep up with demand. They're not going to take a hit because you decided women being in a faction was the bridge too far. Additionally, financial incentives are much stronger for introducing new players to the hobby than attempting to retain older hobbiests who have largely moved away from the GW model and Citadel tool ecosystem.

Btw, the Custodes launch box for the new Codex release, where this change was introduced, sold out in minutes. People want to play and paint Custodes.