#canoptek plasmacyte

[audley-and-cherry]

Today's goal is to finish the base colors on the first phase of the Crustcron army (and especially my kill team).

Here are the 9 I have left:

A handful of Immortals, 2 plasmacytes, a technomancer, and a plasmancer.

Now for a break before the Immortals' weapons!

[omgkhazadum]

some newly finished dudes

some cryptothralls and canoptek plasmacytes

[nightscalestudio]

Canoptek Plasmacyte of Nihilakh Dynasty.

[kris-belleau]

Painting Warhammer 40K INDOMITUS Necron Canoptek Plasmacyte Palantíri e...

[agbpaints]

Skorpekh destroyers and the weird friend that gives them sketchy drugs.

[banshee-king]

I have to say the Necrons update for 9th ed was honestly such a huge disappointment for me.

Warriors got a new weapon… but it has the same profile as the Immortals’ Gauss Blaster, only difference being 12” Assault 2 vs 30” Rapid Fire 1. So it’s good against exactly the same target (same Strength, AP, and Damage) but at a shorter range. Necrons only have 2 Troops choices, which are barely different to each other. Immortals are just slightly better Warriors. After Gauss weapons lost their anti-vehicle ability, Necron Troops now had 3 similarish anti-infantry weapons for their 2 near identical Troops units. So GW updates Warriors and gives them… a slightly weaker Immortal gun. The redundancy is painful.

Necrons get two news units in the form of Skorpekh and Ophydian Destroyers… which get this, have the same weapons. Both units have Hyperphase reap-blades and Hyperphase threshers. It also gets worse because 1 model for every 3 MUST have the reap-blade. It’s a unit of 3 or 6 models, with 2 or 4 wielding threshers and 1 or 2 wielding reap-blades. There are literally no options whatsoever.

The Canoptek Doomstalker is added as a new anti-tank unit… except it has the same main cannon as the Doomsday Ark but with shorter range. Same Type, Strength, AP, Damage and both units have a similar defensive profile, just slightly different. It’s the Warrior problem all over again.

Flayed Ones got an update too, but only to their looks and their price tag. They got 0 new weapons and are bloody overpriced for 5 infantry models.

For Kill Team Necrons got the worst of any faction so far, no new unit just an upgrade sprue that’s worse than what the T’au got. The Apprentek is at least something, but I couldn’t care less for the Plasmacytes and other cosmetic options. Like 50% of their upgrade sprue feels like a waste of space.

It’s like GW is allergic to giving Necrons more weapons. Necrons before the update were already suffering from a lack of units/wargear/variety compared to other factions. All this new redundancy isn’t helping.

I wish that Warriors instead got a melee weapon so they could actually make use of Strength and Attack buffs and actually function differently to Immortals. I wish the Canoptek Doomstalker was more like a mortar or something and could fire at units it can’t see behind cover. I wish that the Necrons Kill Team update added to the Flayed Ones, gave us Flayed Lord or something, gave them more weapons as well. It’s so frustrating because all this money and attention was obviously spent on them, but it feels so inefficiently used.

At least the Necrons books are good. =/

[castellankurze]

The newest of the Newcrons from the Indomitus Launch box

Top: Overlord 2nd Row: Royal Warden & Plasmancer 3rd Row: Cryprothralls & Plasmacyte  4th Row:  Skorpekh Lord & Skorpekh Destroyers 5th Row: Canoptek Reanimator & Martian War Machine Canoptek Doomstalker Bottom: CHONK Lokhust Heavy Destroyer

More (I couldn’t fit the scarabs and warriors) at the source, plus new primaris marine stuff.

[jakey-beefed-it]

New 40k Starter Box

Thoughts on the contents of the new 9th edition 40k starter box. Overview is ‘Neat! Wonder if I can find someone who wants to buy those ‘crons off of me’. Because I have enough goddamn armies. They are kinda tempting though. Maybe if I went for a more ‘ancient berserker machines’ vibe through paint and kitbashing... cylons meet Reapers meet The Machines from the Matrix...

New Core Rulebook: 

Gorgeous, great artwork. I liked that artwork well enough I bought it on a mug before I knew it was the Official 9th Edition Core Rulebook cover. So that’s neat.

Newcrons:

Overlord- very cool, loving the beefier aesthetic for the most part, could use a bit more in the way of egyptian-style pharaohnic bling

Royal Warden- nice and beefy, has the right amount of bling for a royal bodyguard who is not himself any kind of pharaoh

Plasmancer- he float. I like his lil beard. He’s weirdly kinda cute.

Cryptothralls- good aesthetic, I wish they’d just been revised flayers

Canoptek Reanimator- The Good Shit

Skorpekh Lord- a bit busy in terms of number of weapons imo but a good overal design

Skorpekh Destroyers- perfect. Good design, not too busy, purposeful, look like they do what they’re supposed to do. You won’t be surprised when they charge you and maul the absolute fuck out of your units though you might be surprised by how badly they do so.

Canoptek Plasmacyte- orbcron is also kinda cute. Not sure what they’re going for with cutecrons but I like ‘em anyhow.

New scarabs- sure are scarab swarms. Hopefully better designed so ‘cron players don’t lose lone scarabs so much while assembling them.

New Warriors- I like the damaged/corroded look a lot more than the super-clean old design and the guns look better without the green plastic rods but they’re not really that different. Which is probably the point, but it means my opinion on them is going to be somewhat tepid.

Stabby Primaris Mreenz

Stabby Captain- aw shit it’s taking my favorite marine aesthetic of Gothic Crusader a-la Black Templars but painting them in my preferred Ultramarines Blue. Just needs a helmet crest to be perfect, but that’s why we have chapter-specific upgrade kits. I do like the flipped-up visor look but might use that for the Lieutenant instead and give the captain a bare head with a crested helmet mag-locked to his faulds.

Stabby Lieutenant- as stabby captain but I am legitimately excited for the volkite pistol holy shit it’s been a hot minute since I’ve had any marines with volkite weapons. 

New Chaplain- that’s just Ortan Cassius, you can’t fool me. I guess he got primaris’ized. I actually prefer the initial Primaris Chaplain with the robes.

Judiciar- I’ve been over this but to recap briefly his head is stupid his sword is too flat (yes I know why it’s shaped like an Executioner’s Sword but it’s still dumb looking) his left hand is too busy with that hourglass thing, BUT, the off-the shoulder robes and general pose have potential. So the model is a loss, but the kitbash is gonna be rad.

Bladeguard Ancient- is he specific to the Bladeguard Veterans? Could you just use him as your regular old Ancient? I like him, he’s neat. See the above comment on the captain about Gothic/Knightly aesthetic.

Bladeguard Veterans- Primaris Sword Brethren for any chapter. Love them. Their holsters look about the same as that on the new L-T so hopefully they also get volkite pistols that’d be siiick

Eradicators- points in their favor are the gravis armor and the weapon loadout, point against is the look of said melta rifle. It’s just a slightly longer meltagun with a dumb handle up top. At least give it a side-handle, jeez.

Outriders- Primaris bikers are Good News for White Scars players (as well as Dark Angels and Raven Guard probably) and while I’ve always liked dumb space marine bikes in the past these are leaving me a little underwhelmed.

Choppy Ladz- enh. At least they’ve got some nice dynamic poses? They’re fundamentally just ‘intercessors with a different loadout’ though so they’re not going to really impress me.

[audley-and-cherry]

First phase of the Crustcron army is complete!

AND since I fixed my airbrush (well, Frankensteined a new airbrush nozzle from a clogged airbrush and and airbrush with a broken inner shaft), I'm going to get the rest of my boyos primed today.

(At *least* primed. Maybe primed and base coated, we'll see.)

[kris-belleau]

Getting Projects Done! ep.33 - Painting Necron Canoptek Plasmacyte and d...

[audley-and-cherry]

Immortals: base colors = done!

Phase One of the Detritekh Dynasty has been color blocked!

Trazyn, 2 Crypto-Thralls, 3 Warriors, 4 Deathmark, 2 Plasmacytes, 5 Immortals, 1 Immortal Despotek, 1 Plasmancer, 1 Aprentek, 1 Technomancer.

[I have a couple more Warriors, 3 canoptek swarms, and a Doomstalker waiting to be primed.]

Today's goal is to finish the base colors on the first phase of the Crustcron army (and especially my kill team).

Here are the 9 I have left:

A handful of Immortals, 2 plasmacytes, a technomancer, and a plasmancer.

Now for a break before the Immortals' weapons!