Do painted models play better?

[henrythesecond]

yep - talking to them definitely works! Had one game against IG where his Heavy Weapon squads didn't hit anything for three turns in a row. He threatened to have them executed for cowardice and incompetence, put a spare Commissar with the perfect pose (gun drawn, other hand behind his back - you know the one) behind them to emphasize his point - and they promptly blew up one of my tanks next turn... (we even agreed the squad would get a single re-roll for the turn because of the Commissar, but should they fail again he would carry out his threat and execute one of the teams... guess it worked^^)

Lovin' the on-the-fly house rules. That's how this whole narrative, cinematic sandbox that is 6th Ed 40k is supposed to be played!

Just my opinion of course. I do recognise the right of individuals to play 40k in a dry, up-tight, power-gaming, competitive way if they so choose...

[hawkdiver]

Mak the player feel better about his or her army.. you care for your models more and try no to let them die.

[chicop76]

Interesting enough I have a badly painted model do really well. I was bored and slapped on paint on him. Well it did way better than the base coated riptide.

[Pssyche]

I've never fielded an unpainted model in my life, so I wouldn't know.

[bluepowerade]

All my painted models perform better, except for some of my favorite, them being plasma guys. I got this cool plasma effect on them, but apparently I painted it with too much power as they seem to cook themselves off a lot... I even used a SM command squad with them and a divination dark angels librarian and I still rolled two 1's, failed my armor saves, then failed my feel no pain....

But other than that I think my painted models always do so much better because whenever a painted model dies he replaces a random base coated model. They seem to live forever!

[JMichael]

Having painted army certainly makes me feel better!
But like many other's said, the newly painted one that your opponent is showcasing around the room...must die first!
Last week my enemy was showing off his Skarbrand conversion. Painted and very proud of it...So after my Eldar killed the 1st Flying Daemon Prince, Skarbrand came on, and promptly died as well!

[Rissan4ever]

I've never fielded an unpainted model in my life, so I wouldn't know.

You should try it sometime. C'mon, live dangerously!

[Popsical]

Ive never done it either. I cant bring myself to field sprue coloured or base coated figs.
The whole point of wargaming as a hobby is to paint an army and fight pretty toy soldier battles.
Why bother otherwise?
Non painted figs put me off gaming, id rather not play that game. Id go paint instead.

[Wolfshade]

You should try it sometime. C'mon, live dangerously!

They aren't unpainted, there colour scheme is gray, or they have suffered extreme damage so the techpriests haven't had time to paint it...

[Psychosplodge]

They're not base coated they're Relictors...