Eddie Orlock

Lately I've been dreaming up a 4'x8'x1' multiaxis cnc table to use to create contoured battlescapes ad hoc from generative code all of one piece.

There are some provisions for understrength squads in the core rulebook that may be worth looking into depending on the competitiveness of your games.

I mostly hope for some kind of rule that'll allow retinues in some capacity to not break detachment/army bonuses.

Glossary on page 365 defines 'In Terrain' in a manner such that even if a lip of the base was overlapping the terrain template the model would be interpreted as in the terrain. This is consistent conceptually with the discussion of WITHIN AND WHOLLY WITHIN on pg 199 and the related glossary definitions in the lower left corners of pg 367, particularly in contrast with 'Wholly in terrain' in that region. Obscuring on pg 263 makes reference to the on or within, which feeds back to the glossary definition of 'in terrain' that being part of a base overlapping the terrain would be considered 'in'. So it seems to come down to if 'touching' counts as 'on'. I would likely think not, but without imagery it's hard to say, and in practice it would come down to player agreement. Something to talk over with your opponent, ideally between games when feelings are chill.

We've wandered off topic into arts and crafts. At request I can reopen this another forum.

Again, the stipulated procedure is from the bound of the objective marker. Any other procedure would be an unofficial short cut. So: for competitive play you'd stick strictly to what's defined on page 237 of the rulebook and any pertinent errata. While that page does recommend 40mm round markers, it explicitly allows '... any suitable marker, ...'. So they could be larger or smaller, or not even round, unless your event organizer stipulates otherwise. But such a local stipulation would be just that, a local rule and not an official rule portable to other events. Further, your sloppy conversion from metric to customary units has extended your range by a couple thou. So if you could measure to such precision and accuracy and not resort to declaring it ambiguous and dicing for it it would've been cheating to claim that a figure who's base was at 3.8" from the centre of a 40mm.

Why would you measure from the centre? Marker size is variable and the rules imply from an edge.

As much as this feels like a lazy answer: Depends on your playgroup. It's like asking how far you can modify a rhino and still have it count as a rhino. I would probably look at the envelope that would yield from following the printed instructions and stay close to that. Swap out parts rather than just adding them. It's also a question of perceived motivation and if people think you're doing this to gain an unfair advantage or because your thought the alteration made it much cooler. So, if it's fully painted and modeled when first seen I would anticipate a more favourable reaction and more slack.

Once upon a time I played a game against a marine biker company. In this game my army had an ageis defense line. Now, at that time the set up rules for the line were a bit vague, mostly stipulating that each piece had to be placed in contact with another piece. So, I abused this to stack the long pieces atop the short pieces to create little platforms, thus insulating key parts of my forces from close assault. Now, everyone in the shop, myself included, acknowledged that this was incredibly gamey, but strictly complied with the text. In later months I saw this concept roll through the community right up until GW functionally banned it with errata. GW actually has a long history of banning gamey fortification practices with errata. So, even if it is allowed by the rules you shouldn't abuse it because it's very likely not what's intended.

I believe 'Wargames Foundry' or was it factory (?) out of the UK made commission plastics for people at one time. They might still be in that business. I'd also look up Ben Skinner of trouble maker games, he's done a fundamentally similar thing releasing his range of plastic building parts. I believe he has a british sub-contractor and has worked out some relatively economical mold solutions.

How do you tell which model is in which squad if they all get piled-in at some point, or in Tournaments? What I normally do when I charge things with multiple units is face all the models in each unit is a specific direction unique from the others.

No, if you check your sequences in the core rules you alway check for re-roll conditions before you apply modifiers.

The Deffgun wielded by Lootas and the Burna wielded by Burna Boyz in codex: Orks has specific language that says they take one die for the whole unit and apply it to all the shooting models, but this has ever been the special case counter example.

I was going to look for an old man-portable model heavy bolter and convert it onto the pintle mount from the new sprue and swap out one of the hatch rings for this. A left over heavy bolter from a new sisters unit sprue might also do the job.

I think, with the perspective of years, that the nature and presentation of religion and theology in the setting has changed over the years. My gut feeling is that this can probably be sliced and diced into a handful of eras that likely correspond to who was in the studio and when and how they were driving the canon of the canon. There may be some thing analyzable in how later authors differentially embraced and overturned the works of their predecessors. I recall that some very early works, particularly the realms of chaos books touched on this kind of thing and went into some detail of the metaphysics of the setting in ways largely glossed over by the stuff that followed in the next few editions of the game. Admittedly, this RT era stuff was in some regards there to inspire the player to come up with cogent ideas for their own warp powers for DIY factions so it had a definitely practical bent to it. —————— Have you considered getting in contact with GW to request access to their internal archives? I’m given to understand from various things implied in interviews and seminars over the years that there’s a considerable body of writing and art that’s used to inform the setting to new studio staff that’s never directly made available to the general audience. Failing that, I’d consider trying to track down any former creative staff to see what they have for unpublished notes.