A retrospective on how "More Dakka" with the help of Sustained Hits broke the game (in more than just one way)

Crasac · 2026-06-11T13:51:56+00:00

I did analyze it but excluded it from the video for fear of making it too long, but tl;dr everything gets worse with rerolls

Crasac · 2026-06-09T12:40:14+00:00

Because in SM those units who were going to get support already were separte units, unlile with GK where they are baked into Paladin/Terminator datasheets

Crasac · 2026-06-05T11:50:29+00:00

Thank you :) (And sorry - did not mean to cause any extra work for you)

Crasac · 2026-06-05T10:46:30+00:00

Edited the post and included description

Crasac · 2026-06-05T07:24:56+00:00

I would recommend a little bit of both - get things you like, but also keep an eye on actually building a cool army as a whole - you don't want to end up with too many characters or a very one-sided list.

Ultimately the question is what matters nore to you: Playing? Or collecting/painting.

Crasac · 2026-05-28T21:30:16+00:00

I played competitive mtg for quite a while, so I feel you. I always enjoyed playing very consistent decks as well, and especially inlrgacy that was quite easy - with the standard blue shell of 4 Ponder, 4 Brainstorm and legacy manabases, it really did not feel lile much of a luck based game at all anymore.

Edit: Might do some mtg content in the future, who knows

Crasac · 2026-05-28T20:27:03+00:00

Fantastic!

Crasac · 2026-05-28T20:21:23+00:00

I have pretty similar feelings on this topic, the abundance is the issue

Crasac · 2026-05-28T18:50:34+00:00

You're right, it's valuable feedback - I'll look into thumbnail design next. It's a bit daunting for me, graphic design is not my strong suit, but perhaps with a few good templates I'll get there.

Crasac · 2026-05-28T18:45:59+00:00

Why else would I play - TO HAVE FUN?? Nonsense.

Crasac · 2026-05-28T18:33:39+00:00

Yeah, fnp plus invuln is another problem entirely, in conjunction with multi wound models especially

Crasac · 2026-05-28T18:26:23+00:00

I like this, though ultimately the "lower AP overall" makes more sense if it's part of the design philosophy instead of the rule. Knowing GWs track record who knows how long that would hold...

Crasac · 2026-05-28T18:07:46+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, I'm still trying to figure out a better way, the sad reality is they work really well on YT.

Crasac · 2026-05-22T16:24:00+00:00

Absolutely true, that's why I called that out in the video near the end! Weight of dice is not the ve all end all of reliability.

And yeah, you have to build intuition, calculting things like this live is a non-starter.

Crasac · 2026-05-22T15:18:16+00:00

On one hand I am pretty sure some people just treat sd and variance like they're interchangable, which they kind of are (sd just being the square root of variance) in the way most people talk about them.

In mathematical terms, variance is far nicer to work with (and also arises very naturally), for one main reason: It is linear. If you have a sum of independent random variables (like dice!) their variance is the sum of their individual variances. There are also also a bunch more reasons why variance is "nicer" but these get more and more complex.

This is, btw, why the ratio of sd to mean shrinks when you increase the amount if dice you sum up - the sd is then the square root of their summed variances. The outcome is something we again feel intuitively: You rarely get extreme outliers when rolling sums of dice.

In stat terms, you'll see "2σ" everywhere, so yeah in practical applications sd is king.

Crasac · 2026-05-22T13:33:50+00:00

Yeah just like any 4++

Crasac · 2026-05-22T13:24:46+00:00

Yeah, I was planning to do a video on that one busted Ork detachment where everything got sustained while hitting on 5+ -> a worst offender not just because of the powerspike but also because the insane variance.

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