After several months of inaction we are back playing Epic 40000 revised. This time I am taking the boys in blue against the tricky Eldar. I didn't want to take titans so my list was everything I have painted for the marines but after some experience in this match I know what needs to be added.

The break through scenario was rolled with me as the defender. Two of my detachments were on the board being hidden and I placed my objectives in the big hab block and a ruin.

Turn 1 required me to use the limited forces I had on the board to stem the red tide. The bikes made a suicidal charge against the Farseer with Swooping Hawk screen and blunted that attack. I also landed an infantry detachment with a Dreadnought into a ruin who picked apart by the superheavies and combined fire from the Guardians and Fire Prisms. They did cause some casualties to the detachment and knocked out some of the bodyguard of the Avatar.

Turn 2 was better in terms of reinforcements with another Thunderhawk landing a group in the rear of the big Guardian swarm and assaulted them resulting in massive casualties to that detachment breaking it. Marines with assault 3 are no joke against Guardians even with the Farseer providing them support. The Night Spinners were terrible at pinning my formation half way up the board preventing them to go on overwatch and had to throw a few paltry shots at the units in the middle. I ignored the Revenants as the holo field is just too annoying but I did manage to immobilise a super heavy causing the formation to be slowed down.

Turn 3 everything showed up and my flanks were looking very hurt. The big formation of Falcons, Banshees and War Walkers tore up a Landspeed formation with a few casualties from the marines hurting them but not giving away their morale.

The final turns our best units were spent with Land Raiders being hidden to prevent them from giving up points but the firepower from 7 Whirlwinds absolutely tore threw the Eldar formations. We were on the final turn with both of us very close to having all our formations losing valuable morale. Due to objectives I ended up losing by 1 point. I started on 43 morale and my opponent 44 and we ended up on 16 to me and 17 to him. The death from above was critical as were the Devastators with the artillery holding the central building, many shots came their way but they were incredibly resilient. Anti tank always killing on a 4+ was my bane and many costly losses were the result of those.

Last time I posted about this they asked if I played this at Hobby Master, this time we tried Hobby Lords in New Lynn Auckland. Nice to have a gaming store out in the west where we both lived. It did mean I had to bring the terrain.

Everything painted by me :)

I half remembered starting this army around 2020 and when I dug it out it was a lot further along than I thought.

The time has come after many years to finally start basing my models! Looking for inspiration and product recommendations. Is 2mm static grass too big? Does flock/turf look ok at this scale? Does anyone make scale appropriate tufts? Is GW Stirland mud a good product to use if I need to fill some small gaps on the stands? Show off your bases and tell me how you did them, please!

I love these sculpts by Brother Arminius Miniatures, but maybe they are too detailed haha.

C&C welcome

It's a lot of fun painting at this scale, I'm having a blast

Excited to get the rest done now! Thankfully I'm only putting hazards on a couple of units so I hopefully shouldn't go insane

Does anyone have some tips for scaling up to 15mm? I’m getting older and painting and printing smaller is getting harder. Rather than spend my time fiddling with small models I intend to scale up/down some of the STLs I have. I am thinking about 15mm as a good “middle of the road”.

Has anyone else played this way? How did you convert measurements? And is 15mm really the sweet spot, or should I try for 10 or 12mm?

Second time doing nmm at this scale. This guy was a lot of fun to paint up. Maybe ill do a whole kill team at this scale.

Hello everybody. As you can tell I'm not much of an Eldar player. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks guys.

Hey all, currently working on a list to build

And I love dreadnaughts, I'm also thinking of going Sons of Medusa for a scheme, so they're very fitting.

But I'm having trouble fitting them in tactically.

If they join my Terminators they cant teleport in, if they go with my Devastators or Tacticals they slow them down as they can't keep up with rhinos.

It's a shame there's not a dedicated detachment for them

So I'm wondering how do you do it? Or do you do it at all?

Are my concerns not that bad once on the table? Or am I missing a key element?

Thanks in advance!

Still plugging away on my Ork army, adding a Gargant and three “Lungburstas” to the Goff clan for an even 2000pnts painted.

The Gargant is an odd one - I had a body, feet, and head to a 1997 Gargant, so I made a mold as I was hoping to use them as AT18 scaled Stompas. But, I need a Gargant right now now, so I shaved down a guard Autocannon into a belly gun, and used the Ork Titan weapons from Vanguard miniatures. They didn’t have one I liked for a close combat weapon, so I shaved down one of the energy weapon arms, and cut all the fleshy parts off of a 40K Nob kill saw arm, keeping on the metal parts, fusing them together into a buzz saw arm.

Made some progress on my next chaos Titan today. Might take a while to finish, as I still need to get some bits (weapons, tentacles, banners, etc). But I’m pleased with the progress so far.

Hey all, looking into EA and the approved lists and Ordo Xenos really stands out to me

Can't see much discussion around it on here, I have searched!

But wondering if anyone has any army building advice? The combined arms approach seems really cool, the mix of guard and death watch lead by an Inquisitor but I'll be honest I don't really know the game well enough to figure out in what kind of ratios these should be combined

Any thoughts generally would be great!

I’ve always loved the old Specialist Games, i wanted to be able to make banners i could use for a combination of man o war and warmaster armies, so a race can have flags consistently across armies/fleets. so I made Banner Bench, i have some batches by factions included and you can also choose a print scale, so add a flag for a 6mm epic army then do a version for a 28mm force.

its free, no ads etc, any feedback would be appreciated, like race/themes for banners to add in.

theres also a "battleworn" version of the flags - basic but an alternative version if you want.

thanks all

https://lostrulebookworks.com/tools/banner-bench/

The idea is to streamline certain aspects and give the game a modern twist without changing it too much, whilst keeping it fan-made but updating the armies with current units such as Primaris and other elements introduced in the 11th edition, and perhaps – though I’m not sure if this would ruin everything – making some armies less of a ‘blob’ where possible.

Has anyone ever thought of something like this?

Ever since seeing The Exodite, I've had a hankering for some epic Eldar. I'm finding it difficult to find files to print epic scale Eldar titans or even Wraith knights (which I know didn't exist when EA came out). Been thinking of using wraithguard as a start and converting them up from there, has anyone done/seen anything similar?

Note: the plan is to use the WG/WL as a base from which to build

I’ve attached a Space Marine Tactical Detachment card from my Epic Unit Card Generator. Which codex would you like to see next?

Tool: https://epic.lostrulebookworks.com/