the most important thing is being NEAT, as long as you paint neatly, it'll look ok, even with minimal shading.

From a crossbow website: Another type of crossbow used by the Chinese since at least 210 B.C. was a repeating design with a gravity-fed box magazine! The magazine was situated above the bolt track. When the lever at the rear of the crossbow was first raised and then lowered, the box moved forward, c...

I made a special 10-wide tray for my RxBs out of GW trays by scoring the trays with my modelling knife and then snapping them, I then glued the bits I needed with plastic glue and stuck the wholre thing on a bit of cereal box card, and laid some on the top of the tray for extra solidity.

The thing with pink is, that to shade it down, you must not add black, the shadows of pink objects either have a more reddish or blueish tone, depending on the colour of the ambient light. Try adding some scab red or midnight blue.

I picked it up by horribly mutilating a large number of plastic miniatures before I finally got the hang of it. And I have an array of pinkish and orange blood angels to prove it ! (as well as some positively irradiated dark angels)

Perhaps orcs have such affection for those dear creatures who inhabit the same planet as them, that they have a strong desire to grant (read force) peace to all said inhabitants. After all, if you're dead, you're peaceful, right? So you're saying they're sort of like Americans in a way? (joking, jo...

Remember, converting an entire army is only cheap if your time is worthless.

Shooty armies really, really, really hate harpies. And as already noted, be sure to have your DR breathing down his neck asap like so:

turn one: move DR forwards and preferable behind some form of cover

turn two: charge with DR.

with any luck he'll panic.

Well, you'd best hope the enemy figured that with their nasty strike first character in the regiment he wouldn't -need- a normal champion as well, in which case at least your rank and file gets to hit back.

hehehe if you have a decently sized courtyard, you could line up a firing squad with two RbTs some distance behind the gate, and then just -let- them open it

Did we mention massed RxB and RbT fire?

You are absolutely correct. I misread a line there. I've deleted my previous post to avoid confusion.

Well it's not inconceivable that some DE raiders would oust a small garrison or seek shelter in an abandoned outpost for a day before returning towards the coast and their ships. If the local military presence got wind of it, they might scramble to catch them before they slip away under cover of nig...

I somehow find the idea of sticking a Hydra behind a gate most amusing...

picture some soldiers cheering as they break the gate of your fort, only to see a multi-headed monstrosity appear in the open doorway

Don't forget that "immune to psychology" also means no panic tests

on a side note about copyright, directly quoting (part of) a rule from any GW book as part of an explanation about HOW it works does not comprise copyright infringement, nor does GW care most likely. Thing only get hairy when you start quoting large paragraphs of rules text and/or fluff. So if I say...

you'll find the relevant rules on page 88 of your rulebook, right hand side, all the way at the top.

A weapon choice lasts for an entire combat.

I think this is the part where all of this begins to bother me, and I state firmly: "If you think it's too expensive, find another damned hobby"

Dark Elves are not a brutal sledgehammer army, even your most hard hitting troops are fragile, and won't survive protracted melee combat too well, a good starting point for your tactics would be to firmly hammer the idea "never charge with only one unit" into your head (walk around all day repeating...

I dunno, the cost of GW minis doesnt really bother me much, sure they're much more expensive than when I first started the hobby a decade or so ago, but then, EVERYTHING is more expensive than it used to be. I was already thrilled to find the wonderful new multi-part plastics, they look absolutely f...

We are druchii, therefore we do not err, it is our incompetent subordinates that do that. They will of course be summarily executed, flayed, and their skins hung from our balconies as a warning. Even if they had nothing to do with anything.

this is a very unefficient way of handling this. just PM me if you haven't gotten one yet, I'll post here when I run out (only gave out 2 so far)

I' downloaded it last month, it's fairly decent, much better than the first one, but lacking in scary moment.

I still have the old Male Dark Elf wizard, i was toying with the idea of making an army led by a renegade male wizard, seeing as they are no longer allowed to practice magic.

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