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Starting out Warhammer 40k
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 8:05 pm
by Bonn-o-Tron
Finally, I've found other people with an interest in it. I wanted to go Tau, but the local hobby store doesn't have them so I ended up going with Dark Eldar. Ravenous pirates ftw!
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 8:36 pm
by Tiny Tank Rannon
Way to go, the only person I know that ever played dark space fairies was an employee, and it was her first army too.
btw, when getting a lser pointer for LOS, don't get one that melts plastic.
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 8:51 pm
by Bonn-o-Tron
I didn't really have a choice, they only had Orks (which one of my friends already plays), Eldars (the other 2 use these) and Dark Eldars.
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 9:17 pm
by Shaeph
Great to see others playing this,
I play tau btw
You could order whoever you want online for the same price.
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 2:58 pm
by Orange yoshi
i play blood angels, and tau, along with some orks,
wow... dark eldar!!!!! that is one rare army man....
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 3:35 pm
by piltogg
I play chaos space marines because any modle ever made by games workshop can be slightly modifyed and painted red and black to appear like mutants or hypnotised citizens or traitors to the empire or whatever. (thus you can buy anything on the clearance rack)
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 4:32 pm
by Adean
I went for imperial guard cuz they're more like traditional soldiers. Midget snipers ftw!!!
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:07 am
by Orange yoshi
lol that reminds me! i was thinking about buying some dwarfs (from fantisy) and then putting some SM armor on them, makeing like the midget army!
Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 5:54 pm
by Tiny Tank Rannon
Orange yoshi wrote:lol that reminds me! i was thinking about buying some dwarfs (from fantisy) and then putting some SM armor on them, makeing like the midget army!
Or cutting SM limbs to become smaller and make it easier with the body armour.
Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 7:05 pm
by Orange yoshi
still fun!
Re: Starting out Warhammer 40k
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:30 pm
by Skinnydude
Bonn-o-Tron wrote:Finally, I've found other people with an interest in it. I wanted to go Tau, but the local hobby store doesn't have them so I ended up going with Dark Eldar. Ravenous pirates ftw!
Congratulations, you now play the one army that nobody has a damn clue of how to fight against. =P Automatic advantage for you once you get past the ridiculous learning curve DE apparently have....
Besides, Tau are cheesy as hell. At least, in 4th Edition anyway. Curse you and your insanely long ranged infantry weapons! *Shakes fist*
More good news: Sometime within the next year or so, DE are supposed to be getting new models....
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 1:01 pm
by blackwing77
Against tau you can just take a really tricked out hoverbike squad with your HQ guy having the portal upgrade. Run straight into the middle of their army and activate the portal. There is now ~50guys tooled for CC in the middle of the shootiest army.
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:27 pm
by Shaeph
or if your a smart tau player you have most of your squads in Troop Carriers so you can move them while battlesuits fall from the sky and mess up you flimsy hoverbikes with missiles and plasma.
don't forget hammerheads
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 2:33 pm
by blackwing77
Most tau players I've seen just line up almost all of their firewarriors in the middle with vehicles and broadsides off to the sides. The battle suits are guarding the ethereal which is usally in the back middle. Kroot shouldn't be a problem for dark eldar.
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 8:06 pm
by Shaeph
Well, kroot got a lot better in 5th, they have a 2+ save in good cover. and they basically have bolters, so not that bad (unless you flame them)
There are two kinds of tau, static and mech
static is what your talking about, they just have tons of firepower in a line
mech(mechenized(sp?)) is all about mobility and not being in a line