So my pledge will be to continue on with my army painting project! Hopefully I won’t have anymore uploading woes… I’m on to the gun casings for my Dread which should be done quickly, though I do have a couple of exams next week, so we’ll see how it all goes. As for questions, I barely noticed it was Easter (I eat chocolate at any available point), I’m still upright, and I wish @dignity all the best for his Getting Older day! ONWARDS!

From the previous thread @woldenspoons

Hey man,

I saw you tag me with this:

Bit more work done on the Repulsor. I stopped at the part where I have to make weapon choices.

Has anyone else built one? Are they easy to make interchangeable or are we talking magnets?

@mage, @dawfydd thinking of you here.

I have to make myself and haven’t played in a while, but, I did see this and put in some research to not let you hanging. Its just I was super busy with my son for the last seven or so days.

The consensus on d4 chan, which is a copy and paste is:

Repulsor:

The Primaris flying landraider, trading a little armour for absurd more firepower. Holds 10 Primaris Marines (models with Gravis armour count as 2) and carries a fair number of anti-tank or anti-horde weapons to protect its passengers. While it can be built to be a veritable battle tank in its own right, it is a heavy point sink and requires support to get the most out of its statline. As most of its anti-tank damage comes from having the potential to equip the equivalent of four lascannons, it might be best to aim for a mixed build to capitalize on its potential to melt hordes and severely damage vehicles. However, its costs can rack up quickly, so unless you plan to field a lot of Primaris Marines you’re probably better off taking a Land Raider variant. It also has the FLY keyword with all of it’s dis-/advantages. Take it with a squad of 8 Reivers, a Primaris Chaplain, and Apothecary for a rather mean, if expensive assault/harassing Unit. Just hope it survives the onslaught of AT weapons long enough to get them in position.If you’re just looking for lots of lascannons or horde-clearing weaponry, there are probably cheaper – if somewhat slower – means of getting them on the table, like a Devastator Squad or Redemptor Dreadnought. Anti-armour setups, in particular, have the issue that the las-talon has only half the range of the twin lascannons, which means it’ll only be able to unleash half its anti-armour firepower at its farthest range. At that matter, most of its other weapons struggle with an equally short range compared to most vehicle-mounted weapons, so it will likely need support when dealing with long-ranged attackers.

Defensively, it’s nearly identical to a Land Raider; although its armour is only a 3+, it has the same number of wounds as a LR and does a good job at discouraging charges with its Repulsor Field rule (-2 from any charge rolls). The optional Auto Launchers supplement this with an extra -1 to hit on opponent shooting rolls if the Repulsor doesn’t shoot.

Three Aggressors with Auto-Boltstorm Gauntlets, a Captain in Gravis armour, and a Primaris Lieutenant and Apothecary all fit snugly in this beast, hit like a brick, can heal models around it, and protect otherwise slower models. Outfit the Repulsor with Heavy/Onslaught Gatling Cannons and say goodbye to any infantry in 18″. If you take a regular Primaris Captain instead of one in Gravis armour, you can also toss a primaris ancient into the floating death-bawks so that the aggressors have a chance to fire when they die as well.

When kitting the Repulsor out, decide if you want it fighting tanks or hordes. In terms of pure output, for anti-tank take the Las-talon and Twin Lascannon, for anti-horde take the Heavy Onslaught Gatling Cannon and Twin Heavy Bolter and for balanced take the Heavy Onslaught Gatling Cannon and Twin Lascannon. Do note that in terms of points effectiveness the Twin Heavy Bolter is better than the Heavy Onslaught Gatling Cannon, though.

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Also, I asked on facebook in a Primaris group for you. The following are rephrased summaries from three different users:

(1) they always have OGC 2 storm bolters, icarus roclet pod, fragstorm, krakstorm, lascannons and swap the main gun depending on what they need. The las talons limited range hurts a bit. He builds or would build in future full dakka versions as the Executioner tank is way better as an anti tank unit.

(2) Also says full dakka keeping it fairly cheap and giving it a good damage output against light stuff.

(3) Dakka and more dakka

This weeks goal is to play another chapter of Tainted Grail, and perhaps even finish it. I also want to paint a model for my local club’s painting competition.

I just finished some K47 models. Full project entry here: https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1467945/#snav

1. Did you find all eggs? We only had two this year, so we kept hiding them over and over again for a couple of hours to keep the kids entertained.
2. Are you still holding up? Had last week off (we had supposed to be going abroad for a family holiday). So last week was easy but not looking forward to resuming working from home again next week.
3. What are you wishes for @dignity as he just had his birthday? Hope he had a good day. Not a great time to celebrate a birthday when you can’t meet up with people.

I built my Repulsor as dedicated AT, but it IS heavy on the points. She’s fun, and I honestly don’t find the range on the Lastalons an issue as most games will have it in range on turn one. That being said, I used it against my brother’s Genestealer Cults and it got massacred. I knew it would, but I wanted to prove to my brother that it suffers severely in smaller games (he thought it would annihilate him). I don’t think of it as an APC, though, and more of a gunship. At the time, the Executioner was not an option. 😛