Which 40k armies would we paint? | Warhammer 40k Painting Tiers
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- Опубликовано: 24 фев 2024
- We've done AoS, now its time for the Warhammer 40,000 painting tiers!
This is sure to be a bit more spicy than than the Age of Sigmar video, so lets see which armies we would love to paint
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Kieran says he would like to paint Blood Angels but when he plans his list he's going to end up mostly picking death company and realize he's painting all black again.
😂😂😂 so accurate
If Harlequins get rules again that might be the first time I would be happy to commission someone to paint them for me. A tier list of kitbashing could be kind of nifty, or just a video on it in general. I think vanilla GSC have a few fun models but as a whole are so-so painting-wise, but from a lore perspective the kitbash potential is just so good.
We've got some kitbashing vid's on the horizon!
I've seen a couple internet rumours that the eventual new Assault Terminator kits will come with a BA range refresh. God, that would be nice
We can dream!
I thirst for the release of new Assault Terminators! I hope we get them this year.
Throw in Vanguard Veterans, and I'm satisfied for the edition
As long as I can use them with DA, I'm on board.
Ah yes, my weekly reminder of 'The Kierans hate every army I like' 🙃
It’s not intentional 😭 but cool minis are still cool minis!
@@the_kieran_show And they still are chicken with blunderbusses in space!
I haven't painted a 40K figures in a very long time. But since watching you guys I have bought the Combat Patrols for Sisters of Battle, Genestealer Cults, Space Wolves, Black Templars and I have an old Ork Patrol and Eldar Combat Patrol. I have just bought all the Exarch squads as well. But now watching this, I don't think you, personally, would recommend painting any of them!!!! (although Eldar are one day). 😂😂
That’s A LOT of combat patrols 😂😂
The sisters ain't too bad to paint 😉I just used my own scheme including the tanks, da orks are fun ( again my own scheme) and forgiving, gene stealers I'd rather have the original hybrid guys but I have done a few 😱
I’m just about to start painting black templars
Yasss, a great little army!
I’m painting Celestial Lions, with a detachment of black Templars and emperors spears as they helped rebuild the chapter 🙌🏽
Oooooh that's very cool! Straight outta Helsreach.
interesting. I honestly think that Tyranids don't have a single bad model in their line up. They are also such a great "palette clenser" because they are so different to almost everything else. Painting a WHOLE army at once....yeah you'll end up disliking it but I feel like that goes for every army. But painting A model or a few is great fun.
The Harridan is on the phone and wants a word :D
@@the_kieran_showtell it to wear something comfy I'm on my way with wine.
Are you kidding ??! :D It's a fucking Dragon with 'nid sauce all over it. So cool.
It is funny how much Imperial Guard would improve if they added just 4-5 Krieg boxes as alternatives to the basic Cadian infantry and weapon teams boxes. Just 4-5 boxes...
This (and the AoS) tier list were a bit weird, because you ranked on personal preference, often disagreed, yet still had to find one solid placement per army. The disagreements surely led to some entertaining banter, but I wonder if it had made more sense for each of you to make their own tier list. That way, there would have been less mid-tier compromises. And you could have still argued about how wrong each other's placements were. :P
We did contemplate doing one each, but these two videos have been mammoth edits with all these snazzy stuff and if we did one each we didn’t want the video to be just too long 😅
For me it be simple, since I am simple and do not like complex paint schemes (bar 1 ==> Harlequins):
Tier list:
SS tier: Drool over them mini's, wished I could paint them way better than I can, but still, painting them.
Tyranids: Xenos meet star ship troopers in wh40k ... yummy, the army that got me in wh40k
Harlequins +Wraith knight (3 of them, because I hate all other players that are not players): I absolutely love the models + a trio of Wraith knights at 2k points, because I believe in fair play!
Death Guard: I just love the models, they got me back in the game, even with 60 pox walkers.
S tier: As in yup, have painted an army, will paint more.
Necrons/Iron Hands (primaries only) This is a beginner painter friendly army
Deamons of Chaos: Thanks to airbrush and over that contrast paints, even I can do this
Tau: If they 'forgot' their retarded cousin Kroot on Perch, YES! The only reason there still are Kroot in this universe is because Tyranids will not eat them because the hive mind will devolve after eating Kroot.
A tier: This has easy to paint sh!t, so I can go mr Russ on them, painting by the numbers and feel like a pro.
Grey Knights/Custodes => easy to paint, dip in apropreate metal, airbrush, dry brush, DONE
Drukari => painted 4k of them, got a Tantalus, let the raiding begin (black/pink/green + weapons actually painted = 4 minimum colors)
B tier: I'd rather paint something else
Imperial Knights/Chaos Knights tons of work
non-Harlequin Aldari => have paint paterns almost as complex as them plotting and sceming...
Leagues of Votan: I got too much backlog already
Genesteeler Cults: I'd rather go back to the original, still cool as a project...
C tier: I'd rather do something else like anything including working
Chaos SM/Deathwatch: real easy to paint, do not like the models, except for the DW flyer
D tier: not even as a test for a new painting scheme
Blood Angels/Ultra Marines/Black Templars/agents of the Imperium
E tier: as in F tier for noobs
Space Wolves: I got better things to do, like not drink my paint
Sisters of Battle: cool models, way too difficult to paint.
F tier: not even at gunpoint
Admech/Astra Militarum: Too complex + too much work, love the models but dang, complex + horde
First Born Marines: get back to wh30k where you belong! (I love them as Iron Hands over there)
Orks: Like Humans, the scum of the universe, only green, with a mental speech impairment.
FF tier: (we got SS tier, so why not crap on the ones I really dislike) 😎
Kroot (As in failed Tyranid rejects, drawn by a 5-year old that likes chicken legs because some idiot at school told him a T-rex is an oversized wingless chicken. All of a sudden I should like them because they stole an admech, steampunk inspired blunderbus in the age of plasma anihilators. Get back in the frying pan at KFC and stop world hunger, you can do it, retarded goes!)
Note: for those wondering, I do not like Kroot, that being said, YOU can do Kroot, I will not. I'd rather feed them to my Tyranids at the risk of them becoming dumber.
Kroot in FF tier makes right hand Kieran happy 🫠
The models on the screen are awesome, Looks great! 🎉
Thanks!
I started this video do get some hobbydistraction from things in daily life.
As someone who gave myself the task to finish my admech army this edition and exclusively playing admech during the next 3 years, because the faction was just left on the shelf over 6 years now, this introduction has hit straight in the feelings.
😂😂😂 Hey stilts guy is the MVP
@@the_kieran_showjeah, he kills nothing we all know that. but actually the fact he is an lone operative stealth hq with the admech keyword is quite handy. I kitbashed one with one skitarii, an phosphor serpenta and jezzail by a dragoon and some officearticles to test him....
originaly he should became a vindicare assassin, but when the scatros came out I took the opportunity to switch routes.
what I want to say is, I tested it in rad cohort. he carried my radical suffusion against necrons hypercript legion.
I spammed the whole battlefield with massive skitarii units, infiltrate, scoutmoves deepstrike...
the hypercryptlegion was unable to find a spot to 3"deepstrike out of their dz, his whole faction was unable to leave his dz +6" (to many screening units) and the stiltman skatross was my unhitable lone operative objectivegrabber carrying my enhancement which battleshocked his entire army (from time to time)
in the end he was able to hurt the entire army and scored permanently, without beeing touched once. you could argue that I could have taken diffrent modells, but I would argue, he has a role/job. even it might not be damage. (but you could say that anout the total faction.)
I believe, he surrendered turn 4 with a score of 60:18, when I controlled all objectives rather than his homeobjective.
I just started my LoV army last night. I have a modest pile of shame for them. The army box, combat patrol, both commemorative models, and a box of beserks. So not too bad in terms of model count. Iv only built and painted a single hearthkyn warrior and I enjoyed. Between my Necrons and Sylvaneth who are very similar in aesthetic with metal and wood being the predominat material, it was nice to get a mix of material between the armor/undersuit and the skin/hair. Also I get to experience a smaller range to start off with. Hopefully, LoV wont be getting their codex until next year considering they are the newest faction. That will give me a solid year to get my current collection finished before the second wave hits and then I can focus on the remainder of the units left in the first wave of models
That’s not too bad and easily achievable in your time frame!
I think painting my GK's was one of the most fun armies to paint!
DONT TEMPT ME FRODO
Funny use of ‘that salute’ when you were rating Krieg… 😂
Unintentional...
I cant believe you agreed to the Toga imperitive XD Love the vid guys, keep up the work
Long live the toga
I started with Space Wolves and Nids many years ago...new armies I picked up are Leagues of Votann and Thousand Sons...I will regret the last one as I paint it for sure. But getting some new orks to go with my old models will be a reward after the trim trauma.
T Sons are a great time, it just takes a little longer than usual 🙃🙃
I'd love to do a BA army, but their old models are horrendous. I have a hefty Space Marine collection, and I keep putting the painting off for 'reasons', but I'm secretly waiting for the BA range refresh...lol
They've got so much promise, sadly it's either expensive kitbashes or playing the waiting game I think!
I got my Necron painting done and my next army was Custodies, and dear lord I disagree. Love the video you guys made me laugh though
Hahaha glad you enjoyed it
I will rate them based on how many points I would be willing to get (or got)
Unlimited: Dark Angels - love them since the late 90s and HH just made them even cooler (though I hate painting black)
up to 4000: Chaos Space Marines - I combined them with DA veterans and HH models for Fallen, but the Chaos Marines are just among the most fun models no matter how annoying their trim is.
up to 1500: Grey Knights - they were freaking easy to paint with Vallejo metal air colors and look still solid from painting perspective... models are mid, but I've embraced the suck of Firstborn in my Collection :D / Thousand Sons - I'm waiting to finally get Greenstuff World's airshift colors, can't wait to get to them, you can kitbash all the sorcerers which is fun and I combined them with Blue & Pink Horrors (which were surprising fun to paint with airbrush) and a Lord of Change that I still need to get to.
up to 1000: World Eaters... basically got a Bording Action party with spares. I'm looking forward to them, but I don't need a real army / Space Wolves - again embracing the Firstborn suck for a Boarding Action party, but paint scheme will be based on HH because that probably one of my all time favorites with the darker grey and burgundy red.
up to 500: Astra Militarum - mostly to have something for scenarios/narrative as victims / Cultists and Traitor Guard - the same as the loyal boys / Agents of the Imperium - depending on the release this summer (sorry Keiran, time for the toga, Emperor's Children will come later :P).
Everything else doesn't really interest me, definitely not the Xeno races. If White Scars would be supported I would probably eyeing them for 500 points.
Oooo ranking by points painted is very interesting!
I’m about to start painting a chaos demons army. I have painted Rotigus, 20 plague bearers and 6 nurglings. All else is built and about to based black. Can’t wait to paint the Greater Demons; Skarbrand (big coked up/roided up 90’s wrestler), Kairos (giant Egyptian bird librarian), Shalaxi (sexiest nightmare made real with giant spear and shield) and of course the OG bad boy- Be’Lakor. IVE SOLD MY SOUL TO CHAOS. And it’s working out great.
Glad to hear! We will be tackling great demons very soon 👀
I have been thinking about what could make Guard cooler and rank higher on your list. There will soon be the option to use 30k Solar Auxilia models as Guard infantry. How do you like those guys? Or would you rather wait for the hopeful future release of Krieg infantry?
Truthfully we’d rather wait for Krieg and hope they actually come out!
I love painting my Drukhari, mostly because I get to be creative with the horror side of things; you can make them as gory and horrible as you like, and it looks like it deserves to be there. Using Zombies as hanging mutilated corpses from the front of your Raiders, or bodies on spikes, Vlad the Impaler style from them, or having chained and tortured slaves lining the decks, is a good look for the army. Costs a little extra to buy the zombies and extra body parts you need, but it's worth it, especially if you're a horror fan like me.
Oh using zombies is a great idea!
You boy's Should do a chapter tier list
We will do!
Ive painted Tyranids and im starting on my death guard now and so far im really enjoying it, then again im cheating by using an airbrush to get all the nooks and crannies without giving myself carpal tunnel
Hey nothing wrong with cheating! Work smarter not harder 🤓
As an AoS guy, Grey Knights are the only faction that look halfway decent to me. The only problem is they're all short kings. When they get a refresh, I'll almost certainly pick up a strike squad to make a kill team and eventually a Terminator squad to paint up just for funsies.
EDIT- the Dark Angels have been growing on me as well, but I can't see myself buying them.
That grey knights refresh will be god tier when it happens
Totally agree with the list! The amount of effort needed on Black Templars was what made me quit the army and create a Blood Angels successor, which I am having so much fun with! Although a lot of their models are outdated they have a lot of potential especially when combined with other Chapter aesthetics. If the Grey Knights got a range refresh I would definitely start a GK army for sure! Personally I avoid horde armies and anything on less than a 32mm base as I just don’t have the time,patience and more importantly skill to do them well 🤣
Yeah 32mm is totally the sweet spot! Anything under that just becomes demoralising
@@the_kieran_show totally agree, that’s and highlighting black 👀🤣 the joys of Death Company you can make them look very battered 🤩
You don’t have to paint diamonds on harlequins. If you’re cool with a simpler scheme they’re a fun army to paint.
Its more the sculpts I think that we would hate painting, so fiddly!
I genuinely want to paint some Kroot in a white colour scheme with red hair spikes now after that chicken comment
The chicken little army is real
This list is all over the place. Ive never seen ad mech and custodes appear next to each other on any tier list ever.
You have now!
Was this recorded before the new kroot box got announced? I agree old kroot are potatoes but the new ones look really good
Yeah it was after we had them, right Kieran just isn’t a fan but left Kieran is so gassed for them
I still think your Tyranid rankings are hurt by that crazy scheme of yours, which you claimed is easy, but it's far harder than almost anything an actual tyranid player picks. The new range is made for contrasts, not dry brushing, and definitely not trying to paint anything black really carefully. With a good scheme, it's basically painting seraphon, which you had in S tier, with very good reason.
Yeah in retrospect that’s tyranids scheme was a bit too complex. But the problem was we loved it when we finally finished one 🫠🫠🫠
24:51 Tyranids are so frustrating. The models are beautiful. Once they've been painted even moderately well, it's so cool to walk past a shelf they're being displayed on. They are an absolute nightmare to paint, though.
Of the armies I've started, Tyranids have been the only one I didn't enjoy painting. I don't really like doing Daemon infantry either, but their characters are tons of fun, and my wife's Be'lakor is definitely the best I've ever painted a model (he's also my most recently painted model, and it's always a nice feeling when you feel like you've just one upped yourself).
I think with Horde armies in general they look phenomenal when they're done, but it's the process that absolutely kills you.
26:26 Orks are one of the funnest factions to paint if you get into an Ork mindset, throw on some Gwar, and paint away like you're a dumb grot or a stoopid hoomie that's gonna get his teef kicked in if da boss ain't got enough checker boards and hazard stripes on 'is choppa. The fact that you can freehand everything without needing to be good or precise, and "Dis piece is gonna be blue, 'cause I likes blue," and you're not locking yourself into a single paint scheme is brilliant. If you're under time constraints they would be terrible, though.
37:08 To be fair, my Thousand Sons army isn't blue and gold, and that might change things, but I absolutely loved painting them. I also didn't put Magnus's chest armor on, and he was in my top 5 favorite models I've ever painted.
My CSM warband has black and blue armor with mostly silver trim and blue or white cloth. I initially planned on running a few Rubric Marines with them and using Ahriman as a Sorcerer, so I started painting my Thousand Sons the same way, and now have about 4000 points of them because they were so fun.
@@FranciscodAnconiaI know a guy who has a Thousand Sons kill team that he just dry brushed some tan, hit them with a flesh wash, and painted some glowing parts neon blue. They look amazing for like no effort.
@@TheLordofMetroids I've seen Necrons painted like that and was amazed at how good they looked. I bet all the trim makes the effect even better on TSons.
Votann being so low is a shame. It really has been a fun army to paint
I think at the their release it would have been higher and maybe when they get a new set of models they will climb up!
@@the_kieran_show fair point! Im also looking forward to the rest of the army releases!
great to see that none of my choices reach above B-tier, then again my plans are mildly insane for at least orks if not all my armies(hello Votann with 4 sepperate colour schemes because my friend made a Deep Rock Galactic joke and I went: "Bet")
4 colour schemes!? thats truthfully insane.
@@the_kieran_show One for each playable class
Regular SM are a nope. If i'm going to paint SM it'll be for my Dark Angels or Space Wolves.
I really, really hope the summer release will EC.
Historically, each of the other 3 were released at the end of the cycle, 3rd year. Hopefully they break the trend!
Yeah end of the cycle seems likely 🫠
"I'm not the biggest fan of the Tau."
Agreed.
"But the thing is Tau have Kroot."
Yeah and thats my iss-
"And I never want to touch those ugly chicken things."
Surprised Pikachu face.
The guy has totally lost his mind. Those space chickens deserve better.
Drukhari is a dated range?! Oh my... how old am I? 😢
It's okay Grandpa we got you ❤️
No love for Kroot?!!?
NooooooOOOOOooooOOOoooooooo!!!!
Left Kieran loves them!
@@the_kieran_show I knew he was my favourite for some reason... ;)
I just can´t get over the fact that you remind me soooooo much of the lead singers from electric Callboy.....watch some videos of them and tell me i´m wrong
I’m familiar with them and I don’t see it 😂
@@the_kieran_show i can't unsee it anymore
Orkz should be higher on this list, a list of many of the same thing but that is GW and it’s brainwashing, Orkz have the character for enjoyment.
The only reason they're not is because we have to agree 🙃
The kroot hate is so based
Half of us love the chickens 🐔
I agree with what you say with how AOS models are better. They certainly are, so much more creativity and when painting an army you don't feel like your painting the same model over and over again, even if it's a different kit. I've not bought anything 40k in years now because the ranges are too bland and samey. So for me every army would be in the nope catagory
Yeah there is so much variety even within armies!
Slam ad mech all you want but leave stilty boy out of it 😂
Long live Inspector Gadget
Guys I love you dearly, but I will literally buy you individual microphones
We are currently using a shotgun mic, but do have a wireless lav system on the shopping list (funds pending)
You continue to disappoint me with your bad opinions. Love you guys
So sorry ❤️
Are you maybe a little burnt out? That tierlist looked awfully stuffed at the bottom 😢
Wouldn’t say so, we’ve just already painted a lot of 40k stuff 😂