9:00 I would like to note that Orks have Boss on Bike and the deffkilla wartrike to also fill the role of a smash captain. Important for the 'junkyard' wing of orks.
I'm very fond of my smash palatine in sisters of battle. It does take a bit of setup but she can consistently run around wounded with the character res strat. 65 points with the blade of st ellynor, 6 attacks on 2s, strength 6 ap-2 d4, and she can do a mortal on each successful wound as well. She's tagged kharn, an onager dunecrawler and a hive tyrant in various games.
Smash sorcerer is no longer possible because he was responsible for so much death and bullshit that Tzeentch promoted him to deamonhood. Also, thanks for bringing up Blood Angels. Almost had me worried you wouldn’t!
Original Smash Captains used to be Bikers, may have been a good idea to just lead with "fast, for example with a Jump Pack" Remember Gorgon's Chain guys?
The Death Guard DP is also a crazy Smash Captain with its dev wounds and forcing battleshock on the charge. It also has an anti-infantry flamer and an enhancement for +1 attack and strength or +2 if it’s defending an objective. Combine that with -1T and -1 save for being Death Guard and it is a monster when contesting the center board with Rotigus and Mortarion.
For tsons the exalted sorcerer on disc works pretty well to. It's got 1 more move and it's got a nice psychic flamer spell and a force staff to buff with vortex. The real kicker is it's almost half the cost
Age of Darkness box is still a wildly good box to start a basic Marines army if you don't know where you want to go. 250 for 40 marines, 10 Terminators, 2 captains, a dreadnought, and a land raider. Amazing kitbash fodder as well.
I want to thank you guys to educating me and getting me excited for W40K TT because I just started painting my first models. Looking forward to this episode
Yall missed the best solo smash captain in 10th I think, gravis captain running solo with any enhancement that gives him a fnp. Hits pretty hard and is surprisingly tough to kill on his own. Pretty fun unit I've seen some people running. Half damage, 4++, and a FNP.
Would love to see an episode dedicated to different armies' smash captains. It'd be a good insight as a new player into what can make a strong model/character
Huh. Didn't know that was A Thing. So, I just happened to be running a Gladius Gravis Captain with relic fist and The Honor Vehement. Because Relic fist has [Extra attacks], it double dips The Honor Vehement +1/+2 Attacks. That gives him 8A, S9, ap-2 D2. +2 A and +1S in assault discipline. And of course, because he is a captain, I can pop Honor the chapter for free, for Lance and +1AP in Assault. With Epic Challenge that just about deletes an enemy character. That's 10A, WS2+, S10, Ap-3 D2, with +1 to wounds. It is certainly not particularly mobile at 5", but we can just rapid ingress it with an unit of aggressors and threaten to pop a free AoC if the opponent shoots it.
I once posted on the Alpha Legion subreddit asking for suggestions on how to build my “Aloha” Legion and someone suggested I make a Smash Captain. I had no idea what they’re talking about, but now I have a better idea 😂
Do the T’au have a smash captain? The best I can think of is Farsight but he’s not exceptionally mobile when compared to the rest of the faction and also completely uncustomizable.
personally, i prefer using tamiya clear blue mixed with clear green. It dries glossy unlike contrast, so you don't dull down the metallic at all. Also it airbrushes better because tamiya paints thinned with alcohol dry in seconds. I know that Vince Venturella uses a 3:1 ratio of blue to green for his alpha legion. My personal scheme uses a blue/purple colorshift as the basecoat, then a few thin layers of tamiya green zenithaled over it. the key that i've found with color shift paints is to hold your airbrush around 4-5 inches away and to give the model a very light dusting with it, then allow it to sit for a minute before you go back and do another layer. if you apply it too thick, you can get this kind of milky appearance where it pools.
the funniest to me is that Tau 9th edition could have an insanely good smash captain if you took a commander and gave them onager gauntlets and the thermoneutronic projector. "You though I was a range army? HAHAHAHAHA"
Necrons and admech being unable to build smash captains brings up a cool subject. Faction archetype gaps; like who is missing a distraction carnifex?
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Necrons *do* have a 'smash captain equivalent' which is the Transcendent C'Tan with the sempiternal weave, but as for most other Necron things, not only is it far stronger than the equivalent from inferior races, but it also costs three times as much points.
Ad-mech absolutely could have a smash captain type unit, either a crazy tech priest, a mad legio cybernetica construct, a pteraxii type character, but GW don't care enough about the ad-mech to give them anything cool beyond the occasional token ranged/buffing skitarii character here and there
I want to say that I really appreciate the work the editor puts into the show. Amazing presentation and it helps immensely when trying to understand the nitty gritty.
You can also do it in DA, with the Heavenfall Blade, get +1 to A, S and D giving you A6 S10 AP-2 and D3 on the charge, and then if you are battleshocked you get +2 to those, giving you A7 S11 AP-2 and D4, which is really nice, wanted to add how the Sons of the Lion bring to this topic
15:00 As far as I'm concerned, the Smash Sorcerer didn't die. He just ascended to Daemonhood, and is a Daemon Prince (with wings) now. Moving up in the world. Tzeentch thought it was really funny, and would make Khorne really mad, so he promoted the Smash Sorcerer.
I know y'all said you weren't going to use strategems but there is a really good Battle Tactic for the Gladius detachment. 0CP because it's a Captain, you get +1 to Wound on the charge *and* +1AP in the Assualt Doctrine. On top of Strength 11 and the extra attacks.
The World Eaters has the Berzerker Glaive, which essentially promotes every eligible model into a Smash Captain, thanks to being innately fast due to blessings. Funnily enough a lot of the potential candidates feature dev wounds in some capacity, namely the Daemon Prince and MoE.
Just wanna say that i totally stole your guys' idea of playing alpha legion cloaked as other space marine chapters for my first army, im also gonna build a bunch of other stuff to use as "loyalist" csm, such as possessed as admec rustalkers and cultists as agents of the imperium. I love the idea, alpha legion are my fave chapter and i wanted to play similarly!
100% interested in the challenge army! I know you've been interested in alpha legion for a while! You'll even be able to test out all of the subfaction rules ;)
Damn it, I was saving to become a Spiteful Idiot. I had a fun idea for a model, too. Well, since it's not happening, I'm going to share my idea 0 (optional): Pay MSRP to... 1. Acquire a Rhino 2. Build and/or kitbash the Rhino so that it looked beaten, broken, rusted, run-down, etc. I don't want a functioning Rhino, I want a terrain piece. 3. Paint in whatever chapter colors you want, it really doesn't matter as long as it looks beat to hell. My space marine are dark angels, so with that what you will. 4. This is the most important part. I want 'RHINOS ARE FREE' "spraypainted" on one of the larger panels. The rest of that phrase is optional. Admittedly, a Rhino might be a bit much to build and paint for $200, but I was hoping the novelty and inside joke would carry it to approval.
As a Guard Player, our answer to the "Smash Captain Equivalent" is just Sly Marbo Super cheap, has the best deep strike shenanigans in the game, good shooting (with precision, to assassinate characters), great melee profile, and you get access to the catachan stratagems just for including him
I'd love to see the challenge army. I think the alpha legion makes it thematically appropriate. I'd love to see updates and stuff about it. I also think Spiteful Idiots would be a great name for the chapter lol
Unfortunately Blood Angels dont get +1 to wound from the detachment, it +1 Attack and Strength on charge. Though you could add the Enhancement Archangels Shard to give [Lance] which would do +1 wound on charge to make up for it, it's unfortunately the most expensive enhancement at 25 pts. Alternatively theres a strategem that gives [Lance] and [Lethal Hits] for 1CP or you could use the captains free CP for it.
Smash D Prince is even nicer than mentioned, just because of what Tsons do. What do they do? Turn off armour saves sometimes. So that sweep is -6AP when you need it to be :) Honestly, even a D Prince on foot isn't terrible alongside some flamer rubrics. When you can charge, do so. When you can't, move forward with stealth. When something charges you, 9d6 precision Overwatch attacks on their character/unit works ok as well.
I miss having a smash character I went from having my super chaos terminator lord with his crazy nightlords bullshit 3d3 extra attacks on his lightning claws and sendung him in to murder everyone he can and eventually get caught up in a duel with my opponent's smash character to "he technically exsists if you want to bring an extra 200 points of terminators"
Come on Brad show us you Custom champion with a cool RELIC, WARLORD TRAIT.... oh wait we are in 10th not 9th.....darn Can we vote if we can get a painted model or the name because I would love to get a model that I didn't have to suffer over for spiteful idiot or a different teir for the model?
Chaos in general has some weird ones, depending on your definition of smash captain. Syl'esske, hellflayers, contorted epitomes, skullmasters, skulltaker, haarken, etc all "kind of" fit the smash captain mould. It doesn't really matter if they're epic or generic, when there's so many of them, for rules of three purposes. You could probably field an entire smash captain army pretty easily with CSM + daemon allies. Even a Wardog Karnivore fits it, if you don't mind paying the points for a heavy smash "captain".
So, to add salt on this deeply opened wound, why not make it a Deathwatch Army and just have every Kill-Team themed and named after your spiteful idiots ? Because Brad seems to love Deathwatch so much...
I have to say I'm glad the Smash Captain is still a viable idea because way back in 9th I started a conversion which combined the Imperium Issue 5 captain, the Knight Azyros legs and wings, a sanguinary guard jump pack and other Blood Angels bits and a storm shield/hammer, and it looks fucking glorious so I really want to get it painted and on the table in 10th.
Fun easy topic that may be interesting would be an Imperium/Xenos/Chaos draft. Pick 5 characters in terms of power level/lore relevance/the rule of cool and see who has the better squad. Just food for thought
As a Flesh Tearers player, Gabriel Seth hits like a truck for 90 pts. 6A base, 7 on charge, usually adding 2 because of ability, hitting on 2’s with sustained hits. S9, AP2, Dmg3. I put him with Vanguard Vets, and Sang priest so AP goes to 3. If needed you can throw red rampage on for lethal hits and lance. I took out 7 Tson Terminators in one go, granted he rolled poorly on invul saves, but the dmg 3 is pretty big
Speaking as a dedicated loyalist marines player, I absolutely love the idea of the "loyal" Alpha Legion. They're easily my favourite "chaos" space marines by a wide margin, especially after reading Alpharius - Head of the Hydra. Looking forward to reading Harrowmaster next, and hoping that holds up.
I know it doesn’t tick all the boxes but I love the amount of damage an overlord with void scythe can whip out sometimes with hungry void poped, 3A at STR 13, AP 4, D3 and dev wounds, even without the extra str and ap from the strat it still feels nutty.
My current version for Necron is an Overlord with Sempiternal weave with a small bodyguard unit and a pyschomancer with veil of darkness attached so they can teleport in and charge gloriously into the enemy as a tanky meat blender, plus its a platform for the tachyon arrow which is a great opening salvo
The Autarch Wayleaper actually makes for a pretty good Smash Captain. It’s got a jump pack or wings, depending on which model you bought, and the Star Glaive is a pretty strong melee weapon as far as Amish Space Elves go. The enhancements you can run on it strengthen it either offensive or defensive, with Fate’s Messenger allowing you to change a hit/wound/save roll to a 6, or the Phoenix Gem allowing the Autarch to stand back up after death on like a 2+, and get back to shredding things. Also it having access to a Melta gun AND Lone Operative is nuts.
There’s also a pretty powerful black templar smash captain build (get default jump captain and give him the power fist/thunder hammer and give him the enhancement “Perditions edge” it’s only 15 points, this will increase the strength and AP of the melee by 1 and if suffer not the unclean to live vow is active you get an extra attack, also if that vow is active you get both benefits of the stratagem “crusaders wrath” this will increase all of your melee weapons AP by 1 and if said vow is active then +1 strength making it 6 attacks at S11 AP-4 2 damage with lethal hits and the regular squad getting S6 ap-2 chainswords. Who also have lethal hits
I think a Necron Smash Captain (or Smash Team) Would be: Orikan+Anrakyr+5immortals+2cryptothralls. Orikan activates his 1-time ability goes to: 6A, WS2, S12, Every successful wound is critical and devestating. D3 dmg each. Anrakyr gives +1 to wound to the unit. Immortals give Re-roll 1s to Wound (or full re-roll whene enemy is on objective) If we do Strategems, you can use both/either Hungry Void for +1S and +1AP Or Epic Challenge to give Orikan Precision. I did the unitcrunch: You can delete on average 5 terminators. You can leave Angron on 1w, on average. Orikan can delete almost any leading character (I've killed Abbadon this way twice.)
He doesn't have a jump pack, but deathwatches Smash Captain is: Captain in Gravis Armour with power fist and relic blade (5 attacks at WS2+ S8 AP-2 D2 and 2 extra attacks at WS2+ S5 AP-2 D2) Thief of Secret (+1S, AP and D and if you kill a model in melee, you get another +1S, AP D) So 5 attacks S10 AP-4 D4 and 2 attacks at S7 AP-4 D4 hitting on 2s And his ability is, that you halve the incoming damage, so he can survive quite some time on his own or against precision attacks.
For the spiteful idiots tier you could make the patrons choose one unit to buy and you should enter one tournament (even if a small one) and try to win with a shitty list. Like someone tells you to buy a chaplain on bike, another a librarian, then you have to buy a jump assault squad, one ballistus dread and stuff that may not be good at all. The patron could choose one unit each time and the unit could have some symbol or marking for each patron. Idk, it seems more fun that way ig and more realiable for the wallet Or maybe each time a patron pays that tier, they could make a list out of the units you already have since you bought models Btw colour scheme could be the podcasts colour. Dark green and cream
I just built a Deathwatch Smash Captain from the new kit using the LH DW Storm Shield (and Intercessor Arm #54) and put a Grey Knights Terminator Force Hammer on the pistol arm. Super easy and would work with almost any Storm Shield or Thunderhammer from any marine kit. If you're new to 40k, sourcing bits can be a pain, but you can always ask a long term player, they always have tons of bits, we throw away nothing. :D
Played Orks against Custodes. Brought boss Zagstruk in a unit of 10 Stormboyz for deep strike objective control. Was not expecting to delete a unit of sisters in one turn, lose my boys to a Shield Captain, only for Zagstruk to go toe to toe and beat it and then tied up Trajan Valoris. If Valoris didn’t hit overwatch and I didn’t forget to use “Orks is never beat” (because I’m a noob) I might have killed Valoris. I now love my Orky Smash Captain very much.
The smash sorcerer still exists, he was just ascended into a demon prince after killing so much in the name of the dark gods
^This
At first I read that as dank gods, which was almost better, lol
Now I have to see every factions smash Captain
As in grade everyone factions smash captain equivalent?
I'm excited to see someone like Tau inexplicably get an A grade on this one
@@keyanklupacs6333 yeah they try and build a smash captain for each faction and grade it like their dreadnot and rhino episodes
Do orks have a smash captain...?
*sweats in Astra Militarum*
Fucking Straken
9:00 I would like to note that Orks have Boss on Bike and the deffkilla wartrike to also fill the role of a smash captain. Important for the 'junkyard' wing of orks.
I'm very fond of my smash palatine in sisters of battle. It does take a bit of setup but she can consistently run around wounded with the character res strat. 65 points with the blade of st ellynor, 6 attacks on 2s, strength 6 ap-2 d4, and she can do a mortal on each successful wound as well. She's tagged kharn, an onager dunecrawler and a hive tyrant in various games.
Something worse but equally fun, Hospitaller with blade of st elanor. It's awful, but it's so funny when it does anything.
Smash sorcerer is no longer possible because he was responsible for so much death and bullshit that Tzeentch promoted him to deamonhood. Also, thanks for bringing up Blood Angels. Almost had me worried you wouldn’t!
I miss tau smash captains. GIVE ME BACK ONAGER GAUNTLETS AND PHASE BLADES!
Farsight?
Original Smash Captains used to be Bikers, may have been a good idea to just lead with "fast, for example with a Jump Pack"
Remember Gorgon's Chain guys?
The Death Guard DP is also a crazy Smash Captain with its dev wounds and forcing battleshock on the charge. It also has an anti-infantry flamer and an enhancement for +1 attack and strength or +2 if it’s defending an objective. Combine that with -1T and -1 save for being Death Guard and it is a monster when contesting the center board with Rotigus and Mortarion.
For tsons the exalted sorcerer on disc works pretty well to. It's got 1 more move and it's got a nice psychic flamer spell and a force staff to buff with vortex. The real kicker is it's almost half the cost
Age of Darkness box is still a wildly good box to start a basic Marines army if you don't know where you want to go. 250 for 40 marines, 10 Terminators, 2 captains, a dreadnought, and a land raider. Amazing kitbash fodder as well.
I want to thank you guys to educating me and getting me excited for W40K TT because I just started painting my first models. Looking forward to this episode
My favorite smash captain variant in 9th was the interrogator chaplain with a master crafted thunder hammer and jump pack pumping out 5 damage per hit
Yall missed the best solo smash captain in 10th I think, gravis captain running solo with any enhancement that gives him a fnp. Hits pretty hard and is surprisingly tough to kill on his own. Pretty fun unit I've seen some people running. Half damage, 4++, and a FNP.
Welcome back Eric! Glad you're feeling a lot better
Would love to see an episode dedicated to different armies' smash captains. It'd be a good insight as a new player into what can make a strong model/character
i put the beastboss on squig in my speed waaagh, love it. i'm going to have to try the daemon prince in tsons
Glad to have this new guest here, hope we will see Eric later, he seem to have decent synergy with our tzeench overlord
Huh. Didn't know that was A Thing.
So, I just happened to be running a Gladius Gravis Captain with relic fist and The Honor Vehement. Because Relic fist has [Extra attacks], it double dips The Honor Vehement +1/+2 Attacks. That gives him 8A, S9, ap-2 D2. +2 A and +1S in assault discipline. And of course, because he is a captain, I can pop Honor the chapter for free, for Lance and +1AP in Assault. With Epic Challenge that just about deletes an enemy character. That's 10A, WS2+, S10, Ap-3 D2, with +1 to wounds.
It is certainly not particularly mobile at 5", but we can just rapid ingress it with an unit of aggressors and threaten to pop a free AoC if the opponent shoots it.
The chaplain on bike smash version was a thing even on 2nd edition. I used to equipo one with psycannon and seeker ammo
"Spiteful Idiots" killteam campaign would be amazing.
Now I just need a video explaining what a pass captain is
run Deathwatch jump captain with thief of secrets and you can get strength 11 on the charge with ap4 and dam4
My whole spacemarine army was based on the smash captain idea
Alpha Legion is great, but... why not Black Templars? Spiteful indeed!
As a Salamanders player my Smash Captain would be big and green... oh no...
I once posted on the Alpha Legion subreddit asking for suggestions on how to build my “Aloha” Legion and someone suggested I make a Smash Captain. I had no idea what they’re talking about, but now I have a better idea 😂
So.. the Spiteful Idiots will be a custom chapter, right?
I can’t wait to see Lion L Omegon
Could you guys do a video on 3d printing your Warhammer models?
Assault works very will still.
Do the T’au have a smash captain? The best I can think of is Farsight but he’s not exceptionally mobile when compared to the rest of the faction and also completely uncustomizable.
What are those terminator models you mentioned?
31:49 So... Black Templars?
I still have nightmares about RAUKAN ChapterMasterSMASHFKER from late 7th edition...
Gives me creeps just thinking about that asshole
Smashing.
Captain with jump pack can't have dual lightning claws, my Raven Guard are unhappy
So... is a Bloodthirster a smash captain?
Take a shot everytime someone says smash for an any% icu speed run
Please don't. You'd probably not survive.
@@thepoorhammerpodcast cowards die twice
Akhelian Green contrast over bright silver is literally alpha legion scheme in two steps, trust me, works like a charm
Damn it, now I want to restart
@@soffren why's that? Didn't know about the cheaty method?
That my Color scheme for my Stormcast. I like the Celestial Vindicators color schemes
personally, i prefer using tamiya clear blue mixed with clear green. It dries glossy unlike contrast, so you don't dull down the metallic at all. Also it airbrushes better because tamiya paints thinned with alcohol dry in seconds. I know that Vince Venturella uses a 3:1 ratio of blue to green for his alpha legion. My personal scheme uses a blue/purple colorshift as the basecoat, then a few thin layers of tamiya green zenithaled over it. the key that i've found with color shift paints is to hold your airbrush around 4-5 inches away and to give the model a very light dusting with it, then allow it to sit for a minute before you go back and do another layer. if you apply it too thick, you can get this kind of milky appearance where it pools.
This comment section is a party I didn't know I needed to attend. Thanks all.
One of my first experiences in warhammer (I started in 8th) was seeing my friend’s smash captain tear apart my trigon like it was nothing.
As a Brazilian, Berílio is a hero to the whole side with his *belligerent editorial activism*. The Nob on Squig moment was Oscar-worthy.
As an American, Berilio is my fav Poorhammer member
the funniest to me is that Tau 9th edition could have an insanely good smash captain if you took a commander and gave them onager gauntlets and the thermoneutronic projector.
"You though I was a range army? HAHAHAHAHA"
Literally bought Tau just so I could do goofy stuff like that on the table
The rest of the T'au _fire_ their bullets.
I _am_ the bullet.
@@singtothesilence "I am the bullet fired by the Empire against its enemies. FOR THE GREATER GOOD!"
You mean Play On Tabletop's "Shas-O Kickass-O?"
I dig the Alpha Legion idea! As someone who really only does lore, it sounds spectacular!
Necrons and admech being unable to build smash captains brings up a cool subject. Faction archetype gaps; like who is missing a distraction carnifex?
Necrons *do* have a 'smash captain equivalent' which is the Transcendent C'Tan with the sempiternal weave, but as for most other Necron things, not only is it far stronger than the equivalent from inferior races, but it also costs three times as much points.
Ad-mech absolutely could have a smash captain type unit, either a crazy tech priest, a mad legio cybernetica construct, a pteraxii type character, but GW don't care enough about the ad-mech to give them anything cool beyond the occasional token ranged/buffing skitarii character here and there
@@simonleach6632 The real answer is because the 2 most likely candidates, Scoria and Draykavac, both joined the Dark Mechanicum instead.
I want to say that I really appreciate the work the editor puts into the show. Amazing presentation and it helps immensely when trying to understand the nitty gritty.
You can also do it in DA, with the Heavenfall Blade, get +1 to A, S and D giving you A6 S10 AP-2 and D3 on the charge, and then if you are battleshocked you get +2 to those, giving you A7 S11 AP-2 and D4, which is really nice, wanted to add how the Sons of the Lion bring to this topic
Always happy when a poorhammer episode drops.
11:19 Pausing to read all the file names made me cackle, kudos for putting so much effort into that joke.
The patrons took great joy in coming up with those over the weekend.
I wish the Blood Angels detachment still gave +1 to wound on charge. Unfortunately, that was 8th and 9th.
The Firestorm gimmick is beyond fun though!
yeah, +1 to str just does... pretty much nothing. +1atk nice at least.
Berrelio stacking up clips so he can blackmail Brad and finally get that raise.
A Challenge Army sounds like a sweet idea, I'm a strong proponent of the "the doors were opened so I went in through the window" approach.
15:00 As far as I'm concerned, the Smash Sorcerer didn't die. He just ascended to Daemonhood, and is a Daemon Prince (with wings) now. Moving up in the world.
Tzeentch thought it was really funny, and would make Khorne really mad, so he promoted the Smash Sorcerer.
I know y'all said you weren't going to use strategems but there is a really good Battle Tactic for the Gladius detachment. 0CP because it's a Captain, you get +1 to Wound on the charge *and* +1AP in the Assualt Doctrine. On top of Strength 11 and the extra attacks.
God, the editing today was ON. POINT.
The World Eaters has the Berzerker Glaive, which essentially promotes every eligible model into a Smash Captain, thanks to being innately fast due to blessings. Funnily enough a lot of the potential candidates feature dev wounds in some capacity, namely the Daemon Prince and MoE.
Smash captain: player let me smash
Player: what?
Smash captain: let me smaaaaaaaassssssshhhh
Just wanna say that i totally stole your guys' idea of playing alpha legion cloaked as other space marine chapters for my first army, im also gonna build a bunch of other stuff to use as "loyalist" csm, such as possessed as admec rustalkers and cultists as agents of the imperium. I love the idea, alpha legion are my fave chapter and i wanted to play similarly!
Now I wanna do the same thing even more!
100% interested in the challenge army! I know you've been interested in alpha legion for a while! You'll even be able to test out all of the subfaction rules ;)
Damn it, I was saving to become a Spiteful Idiot.
I had a fun idea for a model, too.
Well, since it's not happening, I'm going to share my idea
0 (optional): Pay MSRP to...
1. Acquire a Rhino
2. Build and/or kitbash the Rhino so that it looked beaten, broken, rusted, run-down, etc. I don't want a functioning Rhino, I want a terrain piece.
3. Paint in whatever chapter colors you want, it really doesn't matter as long as it looks beat to hell. My space marine are dark angels, so with that what you will.
4. This is the most important part. I want 'RHINOS ARE FREE' "spraypainted" on one of the larger panels. The rest of that phrase is optional.
Admittedly, a Rhino might be a bit much to build and paint for $200, but I was hoping the novelty and inside joke would carry it to approval.
How about that in AOS, tiny goblins are riding Squigs, and in 40k it is larger Orks. Someone should discuss Squig evolution through the timeline.
My favourite variant is the Age of Sigmar FEC Smash Bat.
"Can Smash Bat Smash that? Yes."
Smash Captain is what my wife calls me.
*Edit: what my wife calls her boyfriend.*
As a Guard Player, our answer to the "Smash Captain Equivalent" is just Sly Marbo
Super cheap, has the best deep strike shenanigans in the game, good shooting (with precision, to assassinate characters), great melee profile, and you get access to the catachan stratagems just for including him
I'd love to see the challenge army. I think the alpha legion makes it thematically appropriate. I'd love to see updates and stuff about it. I also think Spiteful Idiots would be a great name for the chapter lol
Smash Captains are to Warhammer what the Let Me Solo Her meme is Elden Ring.
I still have PTSD from Smash Captains in 8th lol
Unfortunately Blood Angels dont get +1 to wound from the detachment, it +1 Attack and Strength on charge. Though you could add the Enhancement Archangels Shard to give [Lance] which would do +1 wound on charge to make up for it, it's unfortunately the most expensive enhancement at 25 pts. Alternatively theres a strategem that gives [Lance] and [Lethal Hits] for 1CP or you could use the captains free CP for it.
Smash D Prince is even nicer than mentioned, just because of what Tsons do. What do they do? Turn off armour saves sometimes. So that sweep is -6AP when you need it to be :)
Honestly, even a D Prince on foot isn't terrible alongside some flamer rubrics. When you can charge, do so. When you can't, move forward with stealth. When something charges you, 9d6 precision Overwatch attacks on their character/unit works ok as well.
I miss having a smash character
I went from having my super chaos terminator lord with his crazy nightlords bullshit 3d3 extra attacks on his lightning claws and sendung him in to murder everyone he can and eventually get caught up in a duel with my opponent's smash character to "he technically exsists if you want to bring an extra 200 points of terminators"
Come on Brad show us you Custom champion with a cool RELIC, WARLORD TRAIT.... oh wait we are in 10th not 9th.....darn
Can we vote if we can get a painted model or the name because I would love to get a model that I didn't have to suffer over for spiteful idiot or a different teir for the model?
Chaos in general has some weird ones, depending on your definition of smash captain. Syl'esske, hellflayers, contorted epitomes, skullmasters, skulltaker, haarken, etc all "kind of" fit the smash captain mould. It doesn't really matter if they're epic or generic, when there's so many of them, for rules of three purposes. You could probably field an entire smash captain army pretty easily with CSM + daemon allies.
Even a Wardog Karnivore fits it, if you don't mind paying the points for a heavy smash "captain".
So, to add salt on this deeply opened wound, why not make it a Deathwatch Army and just have every Kill-Team themed and named after your spiteful idiots ?
Because Brad seems to love Deathwatch so much...
That alignment chart almost killed me.
31:10 It was during the Chaos Propaganda video. Been rewatching that one lately while working on my own Chaos Warband
This episode made me sad. I was saving up to get The Yncarne painted by Eric. I'm sadly not interested in the name plate :(.
Alpha Legion? Why not go with the Thousand Sons successor chapter? Blood Ravens 😆
"Knights of the Spiteful Idiot" painted in Alpha Legion colours. Fuck yeah
No thunder hammer on termi captain has ruined my plan on my 11 strength devastating wounds melee blender salamander captain.
Berellio (spelling? I'm so sorry) is a national treasure and should be featured on every episode.
Smash captain is not exatly what I though it would be. Maybe I tainted by chaos
I have to say I'm glad the Smash Captain is still a viable idea because way back in 9th I started a conversion which combined the Imperium Issue 5 captain, the Knight Azyros legs and wings, a sanguinary guard jump pack and other Blood Angels bits and a storm shield/hammer, and it looks fucking glorious so I really want to get it painted and on the table in 10th.
What do you mean “not quite right?” Those look just like Tartaros terminators. Nice sculpts too; good decoration in the design.
Fun easy topic that may be interesting would be an Imperium/Xenos/Chaos draft. Pick 5 characters in terms of power level/lore relevance/the rule of cool and see who has the better squad. Just food for thought
As a Flesh Tearers player, Gabriel Seth hits like a truck for 90 pts.
6A base, 7 on charge, usually adding 2 because of ability, hitting on 2’s with sustained hits. S9, AP2, Dmg3.
I put him with Vanguard Vets, and Sang priest so AP goes to 3. If needed you can throw red rampage on for lethal hits and lance.
I took out 7 Tson Terminators in one go, granted he rolled poorly on invul saves, but the dmg 3 is pretty big
Speaking as a dedicated loyalist marines player, I absolutely love the idea of the "loyal" Alpha Legion. They're easily my favourite "chaos" space marines by a wide margin, especially after reading Alpharius - Head of the Hydra. Looking forward to reading Harrowmaster next, and hoping that holds up.
Dont mind me just currently souping up a bunch of catgirl marines and maid power armor to send to the P0 Box for the Spiteful Idiot army.
Are we talking about Maid Marines of the lost 2nd Legion?
Berilio is a treasure
I know it doesn’t tick all the boxes but I love the amount of damage an overlord with void scythe can whip out sometimes with hungry void poped, 3A at STR 13, AP 4, D3 and dev wounds, even without the extra str and ap from the strat it still feels nutty.
My current version for Necron is an Overlord with Sempiternal weave with a small bodyguard unit and a pyschomancer with veil of darkness attached so they can teleport in and charge gloriously into the enemy as a tanky meat blender, plus its a platform for the tachyon arrow which is a great opening salvo
Hoping for that every factions smash captain
The Autarch Wayleaper actually makes for a pretty good Smash Captain. It’s got a jump pack or wings, depending on which model you bought, and the Star Glaive is a pretty strong melee weapon as far as Amish Space Elves go. The enhancements you can run on it strengthen it either offensive or defensive, with Fate’s Messenger allowing you to change a hit/wound/save roll to a 6, or the Phoenix Gem allowing the Autarch to stand back up after death on like a 2+, and get back to shredding things. Also it having access to a Melta gun AND Lone Operative is nuts.
Solitaire for insane space elves
There’s also a pretty powerful black templar smash captain build (get default jump captain and give him the power fist/thunder hammer and give him the enhancement “Perditions edge” it’s only 15 points, this will increase the strength and AP of the melee by 1 and if suffer not the unclean to live vow is active you get an extra attack, also if that vow is active you get both benefits of the stratagem “crusaders wrath” this will increase all of your melee weapons AP by 1 and if said vow is active then +1 strength making it 6 attacks at S11 AP-4 2 damage with lethal hits and the regular squad getting S6 ap-2 chainswords. Who also have lethal hits
All I could think of was saying “Thanks for watching this weeks video and don’t forget to like, comment, and SMASH that Captain!!!” 😂
I think a Necron Smash Captain (or Smash Team)
Would be:
Orikan+Anrakyr+5immortals+2cryptothralls.
Orikan activates his 1-time ability goes to: 6A, WS2, S12, Every successful wound is critical and devestating. D3 dmg each.
Anrakyr gives +1 to wound to the unit.
Immortals give Re-roll 1s to Wound (or full re-roll whene enemy is on objective)
If we do Strategems, you can use both/either Hungry Void for +1S and +1AP
Or Epic Challenge to give Orikan Precision.
I did the unitcrunch:
You can delete on average 5 terminators.
You can leave Angron on 1w, on average.
Orikan can delete almost any leading character (I've killed Abbadon this way twice.)
I have no relic but i must smash
He doesn't have a jump pack, but deathwatches Smash Captain is:
Captain in Gravis Armour with power fist and relic blade (5 attacks at WS2+ S8 AP-2 D2 and 2 extra attacks at WS2+ S5 AP-2 D2)
Thief of Secret (+1S, AP and D and if you kill a model in melee, you get another +1S, AP D)
So 5 attacks S10 AP-4 D4 and 2 attacks at S7 AP-4 D4 hitting on 2s
And his ability is, that you halve the incoming damage, so he can survive quite some time on his own or against precision attacks.
For the spiteful idiots tier you could make the patrons choose one unit to buy and you should enter one tournament (even if a small one) and try to win with a shitty list. Like someone tells you to buy a chaplain on bike, another a librarian, then you have to buy a jump assault squad, one ballistus dread and stuff that may not be good at all. The patron could choose one unit each time and the unit could have some symbol or marking for each patron. Idk, it seems more fun that way ig and more realiable for the wallet
Or maybe each time a patron pays that tier, they could make a list out of the units you already have since you bought models
Btw colour scheme could be the podcasts colour. Dark green and cream
I just built a Deathwatch Smash Captain from the new kit using the LH DW Storm Shield (and Intercessor Arm #54) and put a Grey Knights Terminator Force Hammer on the pistol arm. Super easy and would work with almost any Storm Shield or Thunderhammer from any marine kit.
If you're new to 40k, sourcing bits can be a pain, but you can always ask a long term player, they always have tons of bits, we throw away nothing. :D
The entire spiteful idiots needs to eventually become a 2k list and you need to play it against bricky, playontabletop, etc. The Challenged Legion.
Played Orks against Custodes. Brought boss Zagstruk in a unit of 10 Stormboyz for deep strike objective control. Was not expecting to delete a unit of sisters in one turn, lose my boys to a Shield Captain, only for Zagstruk to go toe to toe and beat it and then tied up Trajan Valoris. If Valoris didn’t hit overwatch and I didn’t forget to use “Orks is never beat” (because I’m a noob) I might have killed Valoris. I now love my Orky Smash Captain very much.