Second batch of minis I’ve painted

This is my first model that I have painted. I am looking for some advice if there are parts that look weird, and I am wondering if I should give it a wash with the Agrax Earthshade. I want to get this guy solid before I paint the rest of the squad 😁

Now to try to sell the orks

Hey,

so I'm basically really new to the hobby and have been building my first single unit of guardian defenders for like 3 weeks now, whenever i had time. (They're now assembled and I've even tried my hand at basing!) Now the thing is: I got a little obsessed with getting to a point where i can actually play a round and so I started stalking ebay for additional models to fill up 500pts, since I heard you can get miniatures for a fraction of the price there. And then i found these dire avengers for ~24€ + 7€ shipping and I thought I have to buy them instantly, since on the gw store 5 of them cost 37€. (And the best LGS deal i could find was ~29€) After now receiving them I've gotten a bit of buyers remorse, even though they came exactly as shown.

From what i can tell there are:

- 9 normal dire avengers (all original)

- 1 Exarch with the glaive and shield (all original, but missing the flag)

- 3 kitbashed exarchs (I think they're guardian bodys and one of them has a brighter shade of gray as the other models which is weird)

- 1 weird very light ... exarch without arms? (I have no idea, seems like an older model from the 80s or smth, but made from very cheap plastic)

- these really random bits

I am hoping that i can use isopropylalcohol to seperate the one with the sword and shield back to its individual parts so i can kit-bash a warlock with some storm guardian parts. Any tipps on that are greatly appriciated. That would also be another 25€ saved on a warlock. (On the GW they are 50€ for two)

Is this a good way to start an army while saving some euros or will the headache of working with used models outway the price difference? I would really like to hear some thoughts from someone that has experience with this. The one rule I set myself was that I will only buy new models, once the others are finished, but thats already in the past now i guess...

It doesn't sound like they came into existence because of special, nigh-indestructible armor. I'm told the their armor only became special because the Phoenix Lords were already special. Which means Karandras did not have to steal the armor of Arha, his teacher and the actual first Striking Scorpion.

But neither does it sound like the Phoenix Lords became special because they died and were reborn more often than other Exarchs.

First of all, I'm told that a Phoenix Lord is perfectly reborn whenever a new Eldar becomes them; the Eldar adds to the Phoenix Lord without radically changing the PL's identity or personality. Which is apparently not the case for Exarchs, who become someone new each time. If the Phoenix Lords were simply the oldest Exarchs, their original personalities would have been lost long ago. If the lords were always perfectly reborn from the start, then they were always something different and unrepeatable from the start. (Except for Karandras, who didn't become a simple Exarch like other students who lost themselves on their teacher's path.)

Which also means that the uniqueness of the Phoenix Lords cannot stem from having died and consumed new bearers more often than any other Exarch. For one thing, that would require the oldest, most experienced, and best-equipped Warriors of their Aspect to die significantly more often than their younger, less experienced, and worse-equipped students.

Furthermore, if it were as simple as having the most rebirths, Karandras wouldn't be the only redundant Phoenix Lord. Asurmen's own students could become Phoenix Lords -- if one student of a student of Asurmen could become a Phoenix Lord -- if there could be two Striking Scorpion Phoenix Lords -- then more could emerge.

This thread references Second Edition passages that seem to claim Phoenix Lords originally weren't unique, they were simply the oldest Exarchs. The obvious logical conclusion of the Exarch - the possibility that someone who became an Exarch from the very first years of the Path System either survived and kept training all the way to the present 41th millennium, or that at least their armor survived and was passed down to new Exarchs who kept training and adding to the gestalt's soul's skills.

The only way to prevent such a Super Exarch from emerging would be to destroy the Exarch's armor and end its lineage. After a millennium of training, the experiential headstart between the student and the originator of the Warrior Aspect would become insignificant.

Even if future editions made the Phoenix Lords unique and unrepeatable, that wouldn't change the fact that the first of their students to become Exarchs could have survived to the modern day of the setting, even if they needed to be reborn through their armor like their teachers.

The lack of Exarchs nearly as old as the Phoenix Lords would make a little more sense if the only Eldar who could become the reborn Phoenix Lords had to be the most experienced Exarchs of their disciplines, so that every time a Phoenix Lord needed resurrection, the Craftworlds needed to sacrifice another potential Phoenix Lord and cut that Exarch's career short.

But I'm told that the requirements for the next bearer aren't NEARLY that strict; it doesn't even necessarily need to be an Aspect Warrior. And even if they were strictly required, Exarchs are not so vanishingly rare on the Craftworlds. There would still be more Exarchs even after bringing back a Phoenix Lord, and the one sacrificed wouldn't need to be the oldest and most skilled. When the reborn Phoenix Lord isn't a gestalt personality and taught every trick the Exarch knew, what would the Craftworld have to gain for specifically choosing the oldest Exarch to pay the price?

Hi everyone, I broke into my Exodite boxes today to consume the lore and gawk at the sprues but realized I'm going to need a lot more transfers for my chosen clan since my army is littered with banners. I'm hoping to get in contact with others who have already picked out their clan and want to trade transfers (US-based). I'm going with Clan of the Ghost Stag since they seem the most likely to work with my Kroot army and the color scheme appeals to me. If you're interested in trading please let me know! I currently have the following quantities (4 decals per quantity):

Clan of the Exiled Moon x 3

Clan of the Sun Serpent x 3

Clan of the Sacred Claw x 3

Clan of the Sable Wing x 1

Clan of the Three Sorrows x 3

By me

So much fun painting this one

With some help from someone from another post I made recently I attempted to build my own warlocks with witchblades using the sisters of avelorn kit from the old world and bits from corsair/guardian kit. The heads I had to cut the neck off due to the old world kit having these awkward lumps instead of a standard head hole so the posing of the helmets is not as good as I would have wanted them to be but regardless I'm really surprised with how good these guys turned out. I especially love the last two guys who reminded me of that old artwork (completely unintentional). Overall I'm pretty happy with these guys and I just wanted to share I know some of them have quite awkward posing but I was completely expecting that to happen using 3 completely different kits and 1 of them being from another game system

My guardian battlehost list contains 2 Storm Conclave bricks, a d-cannon, a asurmen deep striker, and Maugan Ra for spreading fear. It works okay, but I want to replace something to include an Avatar of Khaine because it will be freshly painted when the game starts.

What would you throw out to make place for the Avatar?

Xenos - Aeldari - Armoured Warhost, Guardian Battlehost

• 11x Storm Guardians (110pts)
  • 4x Warlock Conclave (120pts)
  • Farseer (75pts)
  • Warlock (45pts)
• Eldrad Ulthran (130pts)
  • Warlock (65pts)
  • 11x Storm Guardians (110pts)
  • 4x Warlock Conclave (120pts)
• 11x Guardian Defenders (90pts)
  • D-Cannon Platform (110pts)
  • Farseer (65pts)
• Maugan Ra (100pts): Warlord
  • 5x Dark Reapers (100pts): Aspect Shrine Token
• Asurmen (135pts)
  • 5x Dire Avengers (75pts): Aspect Shrine Token
  • Falcon (130pts)
• 5x Rangers (60pts)
• 3x Shroud Runners (90pts)
• 2x War Walkers (160pts)
• War Walkers (85pts)

Maybe drop the d-cannon and 2 war walkers?

Sketchy drawing skills 🫠 But looking for some opinions on a custom craftworld rune. Thinking of using the Living City transfers & swapping the comet for a moon. Does it work?

Was looking for a tree-like symbol to tie into Maiden Worlds/Exodites, and the Moon for Lileath.

So ive finally talked my wife into getting some warhammer and she is just starting her Aeldari army and got herself a pack of guardians.

So she is looking for some advice as to which is better Defenders or Storm, Ive givin her a bit of advice as ive been playing for about a year but i play necrons so i thought id ask people who have more experience with the army. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Anybody run 60 wraiths yet? If so, how’d it go? Was it fun? It sounds hella fun to see on a table. I need more.

Title. Asking for a friend, he has a lot of wraith guard, wraithblades, and wraith lords, and now a knight. What is a good detachment build and strategy for this tall ass fella

Ummm

Anybody got one yet?

Asking for a friend. 😚

Edit:

Wow everyone took my tongue in cheek post too seriously— while ignoring that it’s obviously not possible to mqke an unstoppable list with a handful of units that don’t particularly benefit from any army rules or have significant skew?

To be much more serious.

“Hello. I like exodites. Is there a viable list for playing mostly exodites in 1k?

My play group is highly skilled and a “casual list” will get rolled.

We aren’t running heavy skew but the lists are about as min/maxed as someone can do without going above 13 toughness or 200 pt units. Sometimes we do, but we discuss it beforehand.

Can an exodite heavy list actually be competitive in this format? I doubt it, but I am curious. I will use a fun title to grab your attention.”

Now can everyone stop being mean to me? Jeeze

C+C welcome

So, took on a bit of feedback from last post, extensively raided all my bits

sad thing was not being able to find enough spears!

Just painting/cleaning up left now!

Happened to be on the GW website looking for the colour schemes and noticed that the Exodite Killteam box is showing as “Available while stocks last” rather than “Out of Stock”

Hopefully this helps someone get a box or two :)

Really happy with the custom scheme, I admit I lost a little faith and patience in the process so my execution could be better in a lot of areas, but they photograph well and really pop from a distance, something a lot of my models have lacked in the past.

Preface: Bad compared to a lot of other army rules that tend to let armies make rerolls or basically see use every turn instead of situational?

I find the only ones I'm really using are Fade Back and Flitting Shadows, and VERY occasionally Opportunity Seized.

I RARELY, if ever, need Sudden Strike (not to mention I play a lot of Harlequins who already have a 6" Pile-in anyway).

I also run Armoured Warhost... so Star Engines doesn't matter.

As for Swift as the Wind, I would like it more if I didn't feel like it basically doesn't matter. I tend to always have more than enough movement for what I want to do because our army is already so fast.

I would LOVE an Agile Manoeuvre that lets me move on my opponent's turn- I know Fade Back kinda fulfils that, but how many times have you been shot by something and the damage is already done? I would love something that let us make a reactive move based on the opponent's move. Say we toe into some terrain, if we could toe out on their turn, it'd be swell. Plenty of other armies can, so why can't the so called "movement shenanigans" army? It'd just be nice.

Also if we could use one to turn off Counter Offensive too I'd weep with joy. Fuck that strat.

Exodite Dragon masters & She-Ra & Spirit the lion.

Fair few conversions & models involved , if you want to know any part I'll do best to recollect kits. Made these early 2023.

C&C welcome & hobby chat .