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Hey everyone. I noticed that there'd been several threads about warhammer, (fantasy or 40k) in the past, but no threads that seem to be about your own armies. So I figured I'd start this thread. Partially to get some good discussion going, partially to show off, (lol), and partially to see some other people's work that might inspire me to paint more!
First up, my Dark Elves! (Anyone ever gotten a *perfect* army comp score with DE?? ^.^; )
Our fearsome leader who rides to war upon an uncontrollable Manticore! (Dragons are for chobos)
Sorceress with the sacrificial dagger, otherwise known as infinite power dice.
Fear the corsairs! (Shitty in game, but I *love* the models)
Corsair command
Obligatory dark riders.
Executioners! Again, shitty in game, but gorgeous!
Black Guard of Naggarond!
WIP Cauldron of Blood.
A little artillery. And a flying assassin, lol.
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Next up:
Dark Elves... IN SPACE!
I've always thought the Dark Eldar models are wayyy too static. They've got fleet of foot, I5, and no armor. I wanted to give them more of a "If your bolter hits me, I die a horrible death, but it's not going to hit me" look.
Few conversions to make them appear to be running/jumping/dodging.
The new Eldar models make great Dark Eldar bits.
Archon on reaver-bike.
Playing around with color schemes. Yes, the sybarite is a zealot rip-off, lol.
Final color scheme. Not my best, but it's quick and EASY.
A treat for all you SC nerds, ^.^;
+ Show Spoiler +"Looks like you mashed some poor feller's dog sarge..."
"It's a zerglin', Lester. Smaller type o' zerg. But they wouldn't be out this far unless..."
"Oh shit..."+ Show Spoiler +
Random dead marine to be a base for a jetbike.
Concept model for an "Infested Terran" themed army that I'm probably never going to finish. More of a side project to have fun converting. I've made about 10 infested marines so far, and each one has taken bloody ages just to assemble, much less paint, lol.
Alrighty! Comments and critiques are much appreciated!
If any of you play warhammer, (or any tabletop game for that matter), show off your work!
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Nice one. I'm playing WH40K and BFG. Will post pics later ^_^
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damn you have some nice armies, and really well put together. i never had the patience to put mine together  .
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For me it's more fun to collect and paint armies than play the game. I haven't really finished anything interesting except some crushed hormagaunts.
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Cool colors, i also love the corsairs and executioners  too bad i dont know much about the game itself :/ have some friends who paint orcs, lizardmen and skaven
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USA29055 Posts
you do an amazing job with those dude. I love my tyranid army but I am not hALF the painter that you are hehe.
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I always loved the warhammer fantasy world but never have played the game. If i had however It be a dwarf army thats all i know
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Northern Ireland22208 Posts
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Wow, i love what you did with your Dark Eldar and the idea behind it. Its like they are Eldar that just switched to Dark Eldar and are ready to betray all there brothers.
More pictures please!
(I could post some of my Necron but my painting skills suck T_T)
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Norway28728 Posts
i think mordheim is more fun but those are great!! xD
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Nice work, but instead of buying more armies get a better camera! That way we'll be able to get the full visual effect of your armies.
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Haha, thanks for the compliments! I actually have a pretty good camera, I just suck ass at using it, T_T;
The Dark Eldar were actually the first army I ever played. I was probably... 14 or so? when I started collecting them. (AND STILL ON THE SAME CODEX T_T) Anyway, I painted them horribly. Words cannot describe the horribleness. So just recently I simple-green'd the crap out of them, and stripped as much paint as I could, and am trying to do them over. Tis a good way to not have to buy any new models lol.
I'm trying to dig up pictures of my old chaos-mortals army. They were the first army I actually painted well, but I ended up selling them about a year back t.t;
I also play BFG, and perhaps one of these days I will get some pics of them up.
I haven't been painting nearly enough lately. You all are supposed to be helping to inspire me! All I have are WIP shots atm T_T;
Ravager conversion mock up, ^.^
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Dark elves are such a joke army book in warhammer fantasy. They completely, 100% outclass everything BUT vampire counts.
lets begin.
Pendant of Khaleth - 35 points (off the top of my head) for a.... 4+ wardsave or better. a 2+ wardsave vs strength 5. Are you fucking kidding me? how the FUCK do you justify that points cost? every other army pays roughly 45 points for its 4+ wardsave equivelent. dark elves get it 10 points cheaper. wow. Great fucking writing right there GW. you useless fuckwits.
Armour of Darkness (or whatever the 1+ armour save armour is called). - 25 points. no problems here except when its combined with the pendant of bullshit.
Dreadlord mounted on Dragon with Pendant and 1+ armour save. wow. An elf on a dragon where the softest part of the model is the fucking dragon itself. you know, that thing with toughness 6, 6 wounds. fucking wonderful.
Sacricial dagger 25 points - In addition to a free spell every caster knows, (4+ power of darkness, d3+1 power dice. fuck yeah!) they get ANOTHER source of free fucking power dice. Wow. GW, i totally understand your logic in designing this in conjuction with an army book in which the casters have no fucking limit on the amount of dice they can use to cast a spell. (for those who don't play fantasy, there are 4 magic levels, 3 and 4 reserved for lord level casters. casters get to use their level plus 1 powerdice when casting a spell).
Ring of hotek 25 points. Are you fucking kidding me? For the same cost as a scroll, you get the absolute best magic defence in the game? ahahahah yeah you must be joking. Oh wait, your not? Give me a fucking break. a bubble with a 12" radius (which you can fit 90% of your army into) that is a big fuck off to any spell cast with 2 dice or more? wow what a fucking great idea for a 25 point item. only army thats effective agaisnt this is Vampire counts (who can get +2 on single dice rolls to raise back models to their units, thats a different kettle of fish fucking entirely). and tomb kings, who by virtue of their magic phase auto cast. wow!
Assasins. 175 points. This is with their best kit, either +d3 attacks killing blow re roll 1's, or the infamous strenght 7 throwing stars. my major gripe is that they don't use up a hero slot. where is the fucking logic in that.
Repeater crossbows being armour piercing. Making a great shooting phase into an excellent one. wow!
Armywide hatred. as this needs to be fucking explained. Completely removes the element of luck from the combat aspect of the dark elf army. oh yeah btw they can do the combat phase better than 90% of other armies too!
hydra 175 points. Absolutely the most undercosted unit in warhammer. 175 points for a unit that moves 12" a turn, moves like a skirmisher expcept when charging, has 5 wounds, s5/t5, REGENERATION, a 4+ scaly skin save. strength 5 breath weapon.
oh btw, it has 7 strentgh 5 attacks with hatred, and then because gw are fucking retards they decided that.... the hydra wasnt good enough and needed and extra 6 armour piercing hatred attacks from the handlers. guess what else? You can only attack the handlers if YOU CANNOT HIT THE HYRDA. ok. lets have some real talk here. Unless your high elves with a unit 10 wide, or dark elves with black guard with ASF banner and your also 7+ wide, you can't fucking touch those handlers. Yep, even 5 models only get one fucking guy at the handlers. wow. just wow. i have no other words to say but wow.
Black Guard with ASF banner. their captain puts on his ring of hotek (he can have 25 points of magic items, fucking excellent!) their magic standard allows them to strike first.
commonly taken in units of atleast 14, they pack a fucking stupidly good punch. 3 attacks from the champion, and another MINIMUM 6 models in the front rank for a gigantic 15 ws5 ETERNAL hatred s4 attacks that strike first. as if that wasnt good enough, they are also immune to pysch, and have stubborn. Stubborn LD9 with a bsb equates to the lovely lovely lovely lovely lovely percent to fail of 3-4%. fuck my life.
Shades. Put an assasin in here and get a first turn charge. Deploy out of line of site 10" as per scouts rule. Reveal your assasin first turn. displace the closest shade to the enemy. he gets a free 1" movement forwards. charge in that turn (given that revealing can be any part of the turn, EVEN BEFORE FUCKING CHARGES ARE DECLARED). because of the skirmishers rule, only 1 shade makes it in, rest rank up behind. OH WAIT A FUCKING MINUTE, THE ASSASIN GOES TO THE FiGHTING RANK BECAUSE HE IS A CHARACTER. WONDERFUL.
Dark elves are an EXTREMLY poorly designed book. for 8ish years they where the bottom army in warhammer, well, they where better than ogres/cd/DOW. even then they could STILL compete with the lower tier armies. Now they are equivelent with Daemons and VC. infact the circle goes... VC > Dark Evles > Daemons > VC. fuck my life. nothing justify the bullshit overpowering they got.
What else is, combine a Cauldron with your already fuck off hard army and you get....
im going to stop writing about dark elves.
rawr.
BTW im an australian tournament warhammer player. I used to play woodies but right now im playing with empire (who im having a shiiiiit run with atm. fuck!)
On August 12 2009 00:09 Manit0u wrote:
Nice one. I'm playing WH40K and BFG. Will post pics later ^_^
Poland just came second at the ETC in warhammer fantasy. Go Polska!!
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Yes the current Dark Elf book is overpowered. I started playing them way back when they were one of the weakest armies, so please don't give me crap about my army being OP, lol.
Also, I really try my best to field a friendly list. No pendant, only 1 hydra, lots of corsairs and executioners, manticore instead of dragon, etc. The army book may be too strong, but I certainly try to play nice.
And in my local gaming circle we play the ring of hotek as a 55 point item. Even when it's 25, it rarely makes it's way into my lists.
But I agree with you. When I'm feeling like a heartless bitch and want to play my army cruelly, High Elves are the only army I really have trouble with. (ASF is a bitch!!! )
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Don't worry, im not having a go at you, im having a go at the stupid stupid stupid writers over at gw.
It makes me think they didnt play test it at all, and if they playtested it, they got monkeys to do it.
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i used to do mech tau before it became mainstream
then i got bored of fish-of-furying my way to victory with the occasional fusion blaster up the ass
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I remember my almost 10 year old basic set that I haven't even touched yet..
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I don't play the games, but I love seeing people's armies. I hope people post more!
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man i played a long time ago- dwarves and then my mom's brittonian army cuz it was fun painting (i didnt really ever get in to the game too much... took so long). Needless to say, your painting is amazing.
I could never get the eyes quite right. With the dwarves I would just say they are drunk  .
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