Warhammer 40k

Hi everybody :)

I'm not entirely new to wargaming, but I've never played WH40k before. So I have many questions about the game and some tooling around it. I'll start with universal questions in case answers may help some new players too and then I have a couple of questions about the faction I'd like to play. Thank you for reading it and I hope answering some questions :)

1. After a Combat Patrol "phase" what do I need to have to play a full Warhammer 40k game? Dices and measuring tape are obvious. But do I need to buy a codex? Do I need to buy a datasheet cards?
2. How to unlock information about datasheets and detachment rules in WH40k official app?
3. Are there any popular army builder apps or sites? Or we should stick to the official app?
4. When I need to specify units for Dedicated Transports? Should it be specified on an army roster list or it could be decided before the game? If it is former, how can I select it in the official app army builder?
5. The same question about attaching Characters to Bodyguard units?

Specific questions about Space Wolves:

6. New Codex has new Combat Patrol, but I can find this new Combat Patrol as a box to buy neither on the official warhammer.com site, nor on Amazon nor at my local stores. Do I need to buy units separately to play it as a Combat Patrol or it'll come out some time later (when?) or it was already sold out and I missed it completely?
7. Previous Combat Patrol has Battle Leader Thoryk in it. Can I pick him outside of Combat Patrol? If I can, than who is he: Lieutenant, Wolf Guard Battle Leader or someone else? I can find him neither in Legendary Proxies Table nor in Legends Field Manual.

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Very excited. No miniatures, but it has all the deck pieces, doors, and tokens.

She didn’t quite finish writing her sermon before the battle:

Seriously, this dude is on another level, all of his stuff is just fucking amazing.

Super excited for this Box. Great addition to the Tyranid army I started with Leviathan and the rules for the Raveners look super fun. After painting three hoard teams in a row, I’m looking forward to only having to paint 5 models. 😆

Josh over at the Crown of Command podcast asked me if I had considered doing some ork terrain like the old adobe huts they had in 90s white dwarf and here is my first attempt.

It was printed off on an Ender 3 with no supports and can be downloaded from either of my stores if anyone wants to print one for themselves.

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For anyone not familiar, it's basically a free reskin of Excel that runs on Linux. Enjoy!

I'm new to 40K and want to try playing with my group of friends.

From my understanding, 40K is primarily played as a 1v1 or maybe 2v2 game. I was wondering whether there were rules (official or community-made) for running 3- or 4-player free-for-all games.

It seems like it would mostly work within the rules, but I'm not sure how Command Points and the Fight Phase would work with more than 2 players.

My interest in being free-for-all vs two-headed-giant is the element of strategy and politics it brings (like Commander in Magic: the Gathering)

Thoughts are appreciated!

40k noob here, slowly building up to a 1000 point Ork army

So far I have

Ork Combat Patrol
1x Beastboss (80 pts)
2x Beast Snagga boyz (2 x 95 = 190pts)
1x Squighog Boyz (160pts)

1x Trukk (65pts)

1x Killa Kanz (125pts)

1x Stormboyz (65pts)

Which should take me to 685pts

So far I've just kind of been randomly acquiring things based on what looks cool to me in the moment when I see them in a store, which feels like an appropriately orky way to build an army, but I figured I should maybe start applying a little kunnin to my burgeoning WAAAGH

So where would yooz gitz go frum here?

I'm thinking a box or two of gretchin will probably be my next acquisition, which leaves me with 200-some points to fill

EDIT: Based on comments here and a bit of googling, I think I'm looking at getting

2x10 grots
1x Beastboss on squigosaur
1x10 Boyz

Which will get me to 975 points, good enough for me

i don't play but ik a lot of ppl on lemmy do so i thought i should share

just a question I came up with, what would he do? could he survive long enough to begin shrinking planets ? would the necron work with him or would he be a renegade faction all to himself?

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Unliving Voice, Convent of the Four Exultant

The Porphyrion is now epoxied and securely screwed into its base. I didn't realize how far forward I posed this. Granted, as a Chaos Knight having a "long-range" unit charging in for the kill isn't out of the question.

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So I just recently found out the slaanesh wasn't the god of excess originally but essentially the chaos god of sex in older additions. alot of her lore was focused around sex and sexual topics before GW rebranded her to be excess in all its form, which was a good thing. now I'm curious what was the lore around fulgrim's fall during this time or was it not made back then before slaanesh got rebranded?

I've been trying to paint more of my 3D print designs and finally got to put some on the table. We were playing Space Weirdos rather than 40k, but I figured you folks might like to see all the old school 40k terrain on the board.

Hey all! I just played my first game of 40k recently, using a ~1k Thousand Sons list. I got pretty roundly stomped by my opponent using Space Marines.

Admittedly, I didn't really make use of rituals or stratagems, and I'm sure we missed plenty of unit abilities, so it may not have been super representative.

Either way, are there any TSons players here? I'd like to pick up some tips if there are any 👀