Warhammer 40K Tabletop XXIX: Ro, Ro, Ro Your Boute

[LCP]

Sounds a lot like the GW/Cyanide story. Cyanide release Blood Bowl knock-off, GW comes knocking, decides to take a cut of the profits with a proper Blood Bowl game rather than sue.

[Renegade Paladin]

At 2500 points, it could work.
Especially if you are IG, who are not alien at all to the 30k setting.
Whoever, point that 30k marines are NOT 40k marines. there will be rules to be learned in order to have a proper game.

Luckily, you know is legion, so it cuts down on your learning needs, as you can just focus specifically on them.

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So overall, you need to build your army as if you are facing something between 40k codex marines, and legion based CSM

Well, he did say something about doing 2500 points in 29 models with "zero Lords of War or flyers" (the fact that a Lord of the Legion is not a Lord of War is not lost on me) at first, so I'm expecting Herohammer, superheavies, or both. I'll make a list with the Shadowsword and a list without and use whichever one is more sporting against what he brings. Though at 2500 points of Guard, I basically can't help but swamp 29 models, whatever they may be, in bodies and hulls; at that points level there's nothing else I can do.

Anyway:

[Turalisj]

Sounds a lot like the GW/Cyanide story. Cyanide release Blood Bowl knock-off, GW comes knocking, decides to take a cut of the profits with a proper Blood Bowl game rather than sue.

Sounds like GW is adapting it's strategies to the current times. Copy back what was copying you to get your fanbase back.

[Professor Gnoll]

Warhammer 40k Tabletop XXX: Imperium After Dark

The double meaning gets my vote.

[boomwolf]

Well, he did say something about doing 2500 points in 29 models with "zero Lords of War or flyers" (the fact that a Lord of the Legion is not a Lord of War is not lost on me) at first, so I'm expecting Herohammer, superheavies, or both. I'll make a list with the Shadowsword and a list without and use whichever one is more sporting against what he brings. Though at 2500 points of Guard, I basically can't help but swamp 29 models, whatever they may be, in bodies and hulls; at that points level there's nothing else I can do.

All superheavies are Lords of War, so no shadowsword or so on his side.

At 29 models though?
A tooled up HQ, some SS terminators, and some super dreadnoughts is what I'd expect. 30k has some dreads who are "not quite superheavies, but close"

[Bobby Baratheon]

My vote goes to Imperium After Dark or the Hype Train has a Toughness Value.

I was mulling over the new wound chart and I realized I might be able to pull off a list nucleus I've been sitting on for a while. Not the most original or crazy idea, mind you, just a fun one. My plan was to spam a bunch land speeders and then a bunch of tactical squads in Rhinos and some bikes, with the plan of attack being a swarm of tooled up and armed to the teeth landspeeders (maybe with Sableclaw, whose loadout feels a little more dangerous in this edition, as twin linked assault cannons and heavy bolters in 8th is a lot of dakka that can hurt most things on 5's) and bikes aggressively swamping the enemy while the mechanized tacticals grab objectives. Even heavy-bolter armed landspeeders would be hypothetically dangerous with the new wounding chart, and with a few Typhoons and multimeltas they'd be downright terrifying, while the bikes/black knights handle melee and other specific targets. I never tried it before in full because my land speeders always died to stiff breezes. If land speeders are decent in this edition, I might actually get a chance to try it out. Of course, there's no real substantial information so I guess I'll have to wait for another two weeks of drip feeds.

[LeSwordfish]

Why does nobody else ever link the new thread