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I have a 6th or 7th edition set of rulebooks lying around, that I've never read. Last version I knew (and played, even if only twice) was 3rd edition, and that was so horrible that my gaming group dropped 40k like a hot potato at the time. Since then, I stopped playing 40k and just played Warhammer Fantasy for a number of years afterwards. Right up until GW killed off Warhammer fantasy, which was a sad day As for 3D printing, caution is advised. GW's lawyers are as bad, if not worse than Disney's lawyers, regularly scouring the internet. I have a bunch of generic scifi landscape bits and a few custom space marine compatible hands printed (one fist showing the middle finger at the enemy and one fist wielding a coffee cup, because I just thought it was just too hilarious) Stealing troops is the wrong word. What Alpha Legion does is infiltrate other legions, letting their own men act as if they were part of those legions, getting training, gear etc. Like a cuckoo (then returning "home" when the legion calls) It's quite telling, that in the chart of compatible allied units, they stand out as the one legion with no close friends (being a legion of spies, sneaks, assassins and saboteurs) They are known to make use of normal humans to infiltrate human societies and found cults that worship whatever the legion pretends to be. stirring up social unrest and causing entire societies and cultures to collapse without a single legionnaire ever setting foot on the planet. Fight smarter, not harder. There is no such thing as a "Devastator Squad" in Horus Heresy, but they have a close equivalent in Heavy Support squads, which can have 5-10 marines with a particular heavy weapon (say 10 lascannons or 10 heavy plasma cannons etc.). But White Scars don't really want that many guys on foot in the first place. They are all about skimmers, bikes and assault vehicles.

Something I haven't listened to for a long time...

It's not a hobby for the faint of heart... .or purse... or married... or in any way a provider! Took this picture while walking down the street a few days ago. Foreigners always think of all things venomous or full of teeth when discussing Australian wildlife. The boring truth is, the most deadly animal is the horse and the most feared animal (by locals) is the one on the sign (magpie)

Ok, I got the price slightly exaggerated. My prices were shown in Aussie dollars, who are only slightly better than Greek Drachma or Italian Lire. Prices in US dollars are a bit lower than that. No idea about how much it is in SEK shoulder weapons options give you two guns for one price, so you only need one carapace weapon option (you still need two main guns) The body (only including defensive guns) https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-AU/mars-pattern-warlord-titan-body Shoulder weapon option 1 https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-AU/Mars-Pattern-Warlord-Titan-Apocalypse-Missile-Launcher-x2 Shoulder weapon option 2 https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-AU/mars-pattern-warlord-titan-laser-blaster-x2 Main cannon option 1 https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-AU/Warlord-Titan-Mori-Quake-Cannon-2020 Main cannon option 2 https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-AU/Warlord-Titan-Sunfury-Plasma-Annihilator Edit: I checked out the Storm Wardens. You know you can play White Scars in Horus Heresy too? It's actually one of the strongest armies in the game. Their speed means they pick when and where to fight and bar some really lucky dice rolls, not much your enemy can do about it (unless they play Alpha Legion and steal a handful of your troops and pit against you) Al have some funny special abilities like The Reward of Treachery, Master of Lies or Coils of the Hydra, which allows you to pilfer the best units from other legions and field them on the board. Who needs a long army list when you can just cherry pick the best from the other armies???

Wait, are they on a sale??? $2700 will at best give the smaller Reaver titan The body alone for a Warlord titan is $2500 and then $300+ for each of the weapon systems (i.e. each arm and each shoulder) I haven't played a game of 40k since the early 90's, but I got hooked on Horus Heresy earlier this year. Helped quite a bit by the series of Horus Heresy novels. It was a toss up between playing Nightlords or Alpha Legion as a primary army and in the end, AL won out (since nobody knows their true loyalty, you can play them as both loyalist or traitor legion)

Abba and Ace of Base disagree with you Edit: Edit2: How could I forget these.... Army of Lovers

Got my new airbrush set up, hooked up the compressor and ready to go. Took some old miniatures that I had bought on ebay a decade ago to use as test subjects. They came originally with a horrible paint job and were scheduled for an acetone bath (paint stripping). A quick and dirty job with a spray can, putting some primer on them and then off to practise, just some simple exercises, trying to adjust the psi and learn the best distance, amount of paint to let through the double action trigger etc. Good thing they were practise models After adding a bit of paint on top of a white primer, time to try it out on a black primer (the majority of my miniatures). After that, they can go take a swim in the acetone tub

I know I already posted a song from this concert previously ("I am Australian"), but YouTube has a long memory when it comes to suggestions, so here is another one from The Seekers (sadly Judith died shortly after). Not bad for a 79 year old! edit: Just for comparison, the song from 1967. I think the sound is the studio recording that year, but the video used was from their live concert at the Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne (also in 1967), where they broke a few local records. The Bowl was supposed to accommodate 20000 people, at 200000 they gave up counting

I don't remember act ii, but as @Gromnir said, thirty days is the grace period you get after capturing a fort before something bad is supposed to happen. One of the three tower icons on top of the HUD turns yellow after said thirty days in act iii and act v. I didn't leave them in that state for long though, so I don't know the practical implications of it. The only this was a concern was during the end game, as I forgot to space the conquests out a bit and I had all towers under my control with nothing left to take. I suppose I could have left a tower under enemy siege to its own devices and go re-conquer it. But the moral changes may end up being a net negative if doing it that way

I do not work for Obsidian, but... That is beautiful! Happy New Year to you too

Same as Austria (reading the post by@majestic). We "celebrate" on the 24th, kill our cardiovascular systems and livers on the 25th and nurse the hangovers on the 26th

My Serbian friends are doing it all wrong then They (always) celebrate Christmas on the 7th of January. Dang heretics!

I guess it shows my age when I think of this as "new" music...

To be honest, I *think* this is business as usual (with increased media spotlight on it). There is a reason the oligarchs have become all pliable (unlike say during the Yeltsin days). Powerful billionaires don't dance to your tune if they aren't afraid of you.

Yeah, Safari (whether you like it or not) got hit hard a few days ago. Can't post, can't react, can't do basic moderator stuff (move, merge, split etc.) At least FireFox just eats 50% of my posts and they are there if I refresh the page and click on new post again (showing the text that was supposed to go in the post inside the text box). Just hit submit again and second time it usually works without changing anything Since I'm not using my work computer at the moment, can't say how it behaves in Edge

Ah, for me it just so happened, the first time he charged me was after I saved his butt of all things (I think that was chapter v? After my date with Nocticula)

You meet a guy later in chapter iii that lets you relevel and respec your character (over and over). At no cost as far as I could see in chapter iii (he later charged you for it in chapter v iirc)

There is a long, ongoing thread in the Obsidian General forum about the board's current issues, like eating whole posts, everything past the first line or not working at all on some browsers. One thing that didn't work was using brackets without quotes around them Edit: the brackets in "(test)" without the two "'s will give you an error for example

Started my new game and made it as far as picking the Lich path (making "friends" with the old necromancer, graciously lending his want back to him). Playing as (vanilla) sorcerer at the moment, with the undead bloodline. Played through to Drezen (chapter iii) and one of the building projects seems to be a pyramid of a kind Also, romancing spider girl. I suspect she's one of the few that wont drop me like a hot potato if I turn into a walking corpse some day. Edit: The Dirge Bard looked like a very interesting alternative to Sorcerer, but I worry that the "fun" abilities wont be there until late in the leveling up process (i.e. mutually exclusive with sorcerer) if wanting the best of both worlds (and not going for Legend with it's 40 total levels). I might flip/flop a bit between the two classes later on, to see what appears to be the most fun to play

The forum software is now completely fubar on Safari (most recent IOS version from a couple of weeks ago, Australian English). You can't post, rate (like, thanks etc.) or perform several of the moderator functions

That I can wholeheartedly agree with. Those who know me know I abhor people in powerful positions acting without accountability.

There are some issues with the forum software the moment. I've been away most of the day and wanted to reply to this earlier via my phone, but Safari is now completely FUBAR for use with this version of the board software. What I had wanted to post was suggesting to make a post of it in the forum issues thread in the Obsidian General forum. Admin is collecting as much info as possible, trying to sort out some issues. Currently it eats any and all posts submitted from Safari, as well as blocks any post ratings. The only two things I've been able to do most of the day is either approve posts from new accounts or kill off suspected spam bot accounts. No moving of threads, no posting, nada, njet, nix, null, nein

That default action hiding on the left hand side of your skill bar caused me a lot of grief for quite a while at first. Until I eventually discovered I could right click it to disable said default action

I'm not really a fan of those after the fact witch hunts. Before the war, a significant number of countries thought of Russia as a perfectly profitable trade partner. Should the same kind of investigation be done to see if countries have ties or monetary interest in trading with say China (lots of stuff sold to western companies manufactured by slave labour) or Saudi Arabia (the Saudi led war in Yemen has so far cost over twice as many lives as the war in Ukraine)? Should companies be boycotted for trading with such countries or buying oil from them? Sometimes "The West" is perfectly happy to do business with the devil as long as it doesn't hurt the next election. After the fact is a different issue. The moment Russia crossed the line (literally), it was time to break all connections of any kind that might benefit it. But before that moment, it wasn't really a "crime" doing business with dubious trading partners. Edit: Tl;dr; if you want rules for conduct, apply them evenly or not at all

Australia is a bit flexible in that regard. If one of those dates falls in a weekend, we get the following Monday off instead. Whether it being Christmas, New Year, Queens Birthday (RIP) or whatever. Downside, we only get four weeks of annual leave, whereas people back in Denmark get six weeks