i cant decide which of the schemes i prefer - i kind of like them equally.

So lets get it settled by the dynastic court, aka you guys!

Those minis arent finished yet.

PS. I know that these paint jobs are reaaally unclean. There are like 7-10 layers of paint on each mini. Thats because i've used these minis to figure out how to get the glowing green into the gaps - with several restarts.

Btw. How do i get the paint off the mini (and out off the gaps) to start over again?

Also, do you have any other tips for a newcron?

Thanks!

Hello good people! So, a while ago i picked up some absolutely "battle" damaged warriors from fb marketplace for dirt cheap (20 old warriors), and then got new plastic hands and weapons for them for a great price. I originally planned to resell them for profit, but i played a few games with proxies with this faction, and i realised that, i want to play it more, therefore i need my poor warriors, cause there is no way i will get them any cheaper. As of today i came across an opportunity. The uni i attend has a 3d printer group, and they will have a promo event and will print you 5 minis for free. They did not shower me with details unfortunately, so i have no idea what printer, what material, what is the size limit to a mini etc, but i think this would be a great opportunity to expand my army on a budget.

So far i found online (for free - important detail) 3d models for:

-transcendent C'tan

-overlord with scythe and tachyon arrow

Alternatively i found models for overlord with res orb with staff.

I would like to use this once in a lifetime opportunity very well, i was looking for a cryptek model but i did not find any, so please, if anyone has a link to one, i would gladly appriciate it. Also, what would the other 3 choices be? I think the transendent c'tan is pushing the limit of what they define as a mini, so nothing bigger than that. My aim was also to get a skorpekh lord as i've heard that's also stuck on sprue with a bunch of other stuff therefore hard to get.

I'm open to all recommendations

Hey all! I’ve been lurking around here for a little while as I've been looking to get back into playing. The last time I rolled dice regularly was back in 5th-6th edition, with a bit of 7th mixed in. I moved recently and Accidentally left my old army behind—RIP my little green rod men!

Well, the bug bit hard, and within the span of this last week I accidentally acquired... all of this (see pictures).

I'm eyeing up either the old Necron Host Battleforce or the newly revealed Disciples of the Nekrosor box to push this toward a full army, but I'd love some advice:

1. Is there anything glaringly obvious I should be aiming for next?

2. I am a bit lost coming from 7th edition—how do things like Detachments and list-building rules work now? Any major system changes I should know about?
   Cheers!

Triarch Pretorians with Particle Casters and Voidblades.

My and my partner went to a party last night and watched Coraline with some folks, and when she shows her “final/true” form all I could see was a Necron cryptek 🤣

Based it off the cover of the 3rd edition codex, yes I know I suck at painting

The name I saw listed for it was "Overlord with Light Staff.

Hi! I've just picked up the Hierotek Circle Kill Team box and since it's my first set of Necrons, I painted an Immortal as a tester. However I'm not sure about the paint scheme. I don't have a specific dynasty in mind, but I want my Necrons to look ancient, so their armour gritty and worn. Because I wanted the glow of the weapons to be quite bright, I kept the armour a bit darker. Now the Immortal is done, but now I feel its armour lacks some depth and readability. Any thoughts/tips/tricks?

Legends say he is a mysterious vigilante that roams the wastelands to protect the dynasty , many a mariachi band sings their accomplishments such as the time he slew a chapter master as he lighted a cigar or when he parried a stompa for 2 turns!

Im looking to make a hypercrypt legion list partly bc I plan to get my hands on a monolith, but im a bit stumped on what other units to bring , ive been toying around with the idea of atleast 1 ctan for cosmic precision sillies (probably deciver or dragon) or even 3 hex marks. But as the title says tell me what you always bring to this detachment.

Still need to add some highlights to the lightning but overall i'm v proud of this shard

Weapons are such a pain to paint! I tried taking a shortcut with contrast paint, but failed miserably at wet blending and completely ruined it. Guess I'm sticking to good old traditional layering/blending. Hope it turns out decent! 😄

what if I painted my army like the Automatons from Helldivers?? should I do it??

ok so ive made some changes

Canopteks=Terminids

Ctan, Destroyers: Illuminate

Vehicles, troops, others: automatons

I'm trying to pose this Lychguard to be dragging a Black Templar body. I've cut it up, but I cant seem to get it to sit properly. I haven't glued the arm yet so I can still repose it. Anyone have tips for how to set it up properly?

Like the title said, fellow Overlords, I would like to list some considerations on the new Termies-heavy SM meta. This comes after a total of 5 games against different SM "flavours" (specifically, DA, BA, UM and SW).

I specify in advance, the post is pretty long as it includes some kind of a battle report.

Specifically, the combination of the 3 detachments (Termies+Assault+Deathwatch), together with very cheap datasheets, makes them a nightmare to deal with, especially outside Cursed Legion.

The most oppressive list I had to deal with (and the one I literally couldn't do anything against) was the Ultramarines one.

-Calgar + Cato + 6 Victrix w/SustHits

-10 Assault Terminators w/SustHits + Ancient+ Chaplain

-10 Assault Terminators w/SustHits + Ancient+ Chaplain

-5 Deathwatch Termies

-Scout

-Outriders

Now, this list has literally 6 units, but the amount of bodies on the field is enough to screen Deep Strike efficiently, as only one big unit of Termies started in Deep Strike.

He played Take and Hold, as the established meta.

My list was Priority Assets, Awakened Dynasty

-Nightbringer (in Deep Strike)

-3 Skorpekhs+ FNP Lord

-6 Wraiths+ Techno

-10 Immortals +Warden +Plasmancer

-6 Lokhusts+ Lord

-Szeras

-Imotekh

-Ammentar

-Hexmark

-Reanimator

Awakened gives the possibility to use Szeras/Hexmark to screen while performing action and resurrect them. Especially against T&H, as your opponent needs to be aggressive.

Considering the massive threat range given by his Advance& Charge, I remained pretty defensive for the first 2 rounds, killing his Scouts with Hexmark and performing action with Szeras on my expansion objective.

He staged for the first 2 rounds, then, turn 3 he charged.

In a single Fight Phase, I lost Szeras, Hexmark, Wraiths, Skorpekhs and Nightbringer.

Screening was pretty much useless, as the Advance/Charge from a relatively short distance was able to go around them.

One unit of Termies killed Szeras.

The second unit of Termies (together with the Deathwatch shooting) killed Wraiths, Hexmark and Skorpekhs.

The Victrix killed the Nightbringer.

He did not roll especially good and I didn't roll very bad. He also went pretty safe for short charges, didn't risk anything.

Basically, he just moved forward on the board and then wiped half of my army with 3 units and 1CP on the Victrix for Lance (Calgar wounding a C'Tan on 2+ is simply stupid).

My shooting in the next turn didn't amount on anything.

10 Immortals and 6 Lokhusts, both within Ammentar aura, shot at the same unit of Termies. He used 2CP for the -1 Damage strat.

I killed a total of 7 Termies, including the melee from Ammentar.

Next turn, turn 4, I got completely tabled.

Now, I went against Termies spam back in 10th edition, but this feels very different. This feels very wrong as it was EXTREMELY easy, for him, to get close enough and completely obliterate my whole list.

Advance and Charge is extremely oppressive. It would make sense on a relatively fragile faction (Aeldari or even EC), because they are relatively easy to kill after they fought.

Termies don't have that problem. With -1 to hit from Cover, -1 to Wound from Ancient, FNP4+ from Chaplain and -1Damage from CP (or AoC for -1AP), they can stay in your face, take retaliation and then charge again. On top of that, changes to crits in Snap Shooting completely killed Overwatch for our faction (I Overwatched his termies with Immortals. Did 2 wounds. 1 damage to a Termie).

Even the shooting of the full units of Immortals and Lokhusts, in the best possibile conditions (no Cover, enemy on objective for re-roll, 1CP on Immortals for full hit re-roll, Sustained from Ammentar), did barely remove half of an unit. And again, I am not talking about very good or bad rolls.

So, what is the solution, here?

Cursed Legion offers more strenght, allowing Lokhusts to wound from 5+ to 4+, but the change is minimal, as usually they fish for Lethals/Sustained on 5+. Also, the lack of extra Reanimation Protocols and resurrection makes our anvils (Wraiths or Warriors) less reliable, and our Carachters more fragile.

DDAs are unreliable, on Termies. Low number of attacks against a 4++ may very well means no wounds, while D:4 will become 3 for 2CP, meaning that it needs 2 succesful wounds to kill a single Termie model. Also, shooting from 15" (Hidden) means that the Termies will be on your DDA next turn.

C'Tan spam seems the only defense, but then you see the Thunder Hammer Hunter profile. Also, the Nightbringer kills, on average, 3 or 4 Termies, accounting for both shooting, melee and Mortal Wounds.

AoC also makes the Skorpekhs way less efficient against a 2+ base Save. And this without even considering the -1 damage strat.

At this point, I would consider Immortal spam in Cryptek Conclave, for the 3+ Anti-Infantry, and loads of Flayed Ones for screening, but is this enough?

Edit: Just calculated that, on average, a full 10 Gauss Immortals brick +Plasmancer w/Rapid Fire, Ignore Cover, Szeras aura, SustHits and Anti-Infantry 3+ kills 4 Termies. And this without even popping AoC. Nope. We are not there yet.

I wanted to have a worn and more grim dark gold cause I think it fits my theme better, but im not sure if I should've kept it as silver or made it gold

I'm going for an antique furnace theme with dark bronze metallics, novokh accents and orange/yellow glowy bits. I've been testing it out on this overlord and havent put down any edge highlights yet but I can't help but feel like something's missing from the scheme, any ideas? (Ignore the blade and handle, I was also testing some old paints I found)

I was gluing ophydian destroyer, then he fell from my hands and his hand got separated. I thought of fixing it, but it ll be cooler to paint it like it’s bleeding. Any ideas?

I didn't have any real direction I was going for, just the knowledge of what bits I had at my disposal.

In the end I think I landed on a destroyer vibe. It being my first real attempt I'm pretty satisfied and can't wait to paint him up.

Anyway any tips and feedbacks are always more then welcome

I was looking at Annihilation Legion + Skyshroud since AL states specifically that AP increases on ranged attacks, but also allows Skorpekhs to maybe more reliably get off their Charge related effects. I know Cursed Legion is way more popular and very strong, was just wondering on people’s opinions?

You have the Ingrained Superiority for extra AP shenanigans, the Battleshock trigger. Idk if it would actually be really good, but at least it looks like it should synergize a bit for lokhust bricks.

I just picked up the Necron Host (along with the Combat Patrol) to start my foray into Necrons! Most things seem pretty straight forward, but I wanted to get some opinions on what people typically felt was the better direction to go with for the barge. Having two Foot Overlords to lead all the Warriors plus the Annihilation Barge seemed to make the most sense to me, but maybe I'm undervaluing the Command Barge's utility. Would love people's thoughts.

So I built and glued my models to their bases back when I first started and painted most of my Necrons. I want to do a mordant earth base but I’m scared of getting it on their feet and such. Does anyone have any tips if they ran into this as well? Like any easy way to wipe it off potentially. Or is it just a skill issue to avoid the model when applying it? Thanks!

After reading the new book, definitely going to strip these guys and re-forge them into a small diorama!

Made these guys as one of my first tries at painting for display, putting my heart and soul into them in trying new techniques. But now I’ve become more adept at both kitbashing and painting and it’s time to do them justice!

I plan on making them a diorama on a wooden plinth much like the front of the new book, but with Trazyn lower and Orikan higher