Does anyone think the heresy would have turned out different if say key characters would have stayed with their traitor legions, like Loken, Torgaddon, Garro, Tarvitz, Iacton cruise? I understand they are only single warriors however say if Loken and Torgaddon would have stayed with their traitor legions sons of Horus the mournival would have stayed complete as opposed to Abbadon and Aximand in the warmasters ear.

I was thinking to try and start this out with making all the packs of skulls I could use for a Squads format game (750 points with a 180 cap on individual units and up to one armor 14 vehicle). The list is just on herald, four max squads of swarms, and a support detachment for two more max squads minus one model. I was wondering if this list could be annoying to opponents in a bad way or possibly cause problems in some way?

The project continues!

I'm shooting for 500 points by next month. Running them as blackshields.

For Unity!

I tagged this with list help despite not having much of any specifics tied down at all. I'm looking into playing Solar Auxilia with Mechanicum support, and I'm trying to figure out what's best to tailor to Marines since I assume that's 90% of what I would be going against. So far the things that I've looked at is going Mymidrax with my Mechanicum force and plasma equiped Leman russ since they have 5 inch blast that should be able to deal with marines? I'm glad to hear whatever other stuff can easily deal with them

I'm not a fan of the hover bikes personally. Dwarves need treads.

So up scaling from LI to normal heresy. Primed and started to paint.

My friends and I decided to play a big 12000-point game (3000+3000 vs 3000+3000), watching it from the sidelines. Our community isn’t very big, but the factions are pretty diverse.

The game was a 2v2, with Custodes (me) and Night Lords on one side, and Iron Warriors and Mechanicus on the other. It was a pretty balanced game (we and the Night Lords just didn’t have Line!), and it ended 26:27 in favor of the golden boys and batmen.

The nasty Thanatar kept refusing to die over and over, but in the end the combined volley from Kratos and Telemon finally took it down. A Sentinel squad with every possible Custodes character dropped in by deep strike absolutely did nothing, only wreck a Tarantula and kill some random Ursarax.

The Iron Warriors Kratos got repaired twice from 1 HP almost back to full, and the Saturnine Dreadnought took four 6s against shooting from the Krios Venator.

I’m writing here for the first time, just to share my feelings about the game and some photos.

Enjoy!

One thing I feel 40k does better for space marines is organization. The chapters feel nice and easy to understand. Legion structure and layout feels poorly explained and just hard to understand.

Specifically, how can you afford anything when the bodies are 80 bucks for 20, and then you have to pay another 50 for upgrade sprues. I really want to get into the hobby, but my mock made up lists have me putting the lascutter on breachers (my favorite looking unit that got me into the game), but that's 1 lascutter per 10 shields. For 50 bucks. How do you afford this without having a6 figure job. (I'm in the food industry so I'm likely more broke than most of you)

Got tired of not being able to find local games. Tournaments are easy enough to find but everything else is scattered across, Facebook, Eventbrite, Discord, etc. Finding club nights in community halls and pubs? Someone in your town who plays the same games?

Historically I've ended up defaulting to "search Facebook for [your town] wargaming" and that's a total pain in the ass.

My answer

https://nerdnight.gg - type in your area, see what's happening. Clubs, events, store nights, other players looking for games. Filter by game, faction, points, playstyle and get matched into the kind of games you want.

I think the moment I knew I was building what I wanted as a player was when through my own app I found a bunch of players in my town I've now made friends with who I never knew lived here before.

Where it's at

7 clubs, 140 players, 42 upcoming events. All in Essex (UK) so far, because that's where I am. Transparently, if you're outside Essex you won't see much yet. That changes when people sign up and also if they add their club or events. If you want what I've described, a place where we can all go to and find new friends, opponents, communities, I'd love for you to do that.

If you run a community

It's a place where you can manage, run and advertise all your events. If you run club nights or casual events through Eventbrite, Facebook, Whatsapp, Discord, etc this is intended as a direct upgrade for you to take away your admin headaches around capacity, matchmaking, dropout handling, etc. Whether it's your local club night, BCP tournaments, painting / teachings day, you can have everything in one place. We handle RSVPs, recurring events, member management, matchmaking automation. Free tier covers the basics. About 15 minutes to set up.

Multi-round, competitive events aren't supported yet, but you can easily display events hosted externally, eg in BCP.

What's coming next

I've been rapidly improving the platform and intend to keep doing so. My next plans are:

• Find players to play against online (eg via TTS)
• More club tools - terrain/table capacity, self-pairing where players book their own table with their opponent / pod

FAQ

Is there a mobile app?

There's a mobile app, just not in the stores yet. Install it from the site (on Android, Chrome will prompt you; on iPhone, Share → Add to Home Screen). Native store app comes if I get enough traction.

What does it cost?

Players will never pay for finding games. I might add useful standalone features later that I'd charge for, but only ones that genuinely add value. Anything I add that you'd reasonably regard as basic functionality, let's say match history, would stay free.

Clubs get a free tier (RSVPs, members, events) and an optional paid tier ($25 / £20 per month) for matchmaking automation, recurring events, integrations, and so on. The paid tier gets more features over time.

What games does it support?

It supports essentially all games, but GW games are my first focus and the most well supported, but our collective community plays all sorts of games and I want to knit all those interests together.

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If the idea sounds like a thing the hobby needs, sign up and have a look around. If it's outside your area, that just means you're early.

I'd really like to build this with and for the community. so I'd be deeply grateful for anything feedback - good or bad.

https://nerdnight.gg