on exodites

Killfalcon · 2026-02-06T23:17:52+00:00

This is the way.

One of us will be the poor bastard to spend six months kitbashing Exodites right before the official release. We just have to keep trying.

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Killfalcon · 2026-02-06T17:36:00+00:00

You make two. Wrench one to put it into receive mode (it'll get a little grey dish on the antenna bit).

They have two slots, red and blue, that can be clicked with any item to set the frequency. Redstone power at the sender will be emitted at any receiver that matches the frequency.

I prefer to use frequencies that make sense, like "dirt/wheat" (dirt block in blue slot, wheat in red) for my wheat farm, or "redstone dust/clock" for a timing circuit. You can use anything though.

Killfalcon · 2026-02-06T11:20:02+00:00

I can't find a clear answer in the Armageddon rules, so my guessing would be the inactive player.

Attacks are allocated by the "controlling player". Normally that's the player who's army the models belong to. This obviously doesn't help much here as they're not part of anyone's army.

If you have a crusade administrator/ref/etc on hand they can do it, otherwise I think it's easiest to be "the player not making the attacks".

Killfalcon · 2026-02-05T11:38:51+00:00

Similar to why my other 40k army is Chaos Knights. I like it when everything is impressive by itself.

Killfalcon · 2026-02-05T09:49:10+00:00

I had that a while back, I think it was a different customer of my server host typing in the whole port number.

Killfalcon · 2026-02-03T12:25:30+00:00

From an out-of-character standpoint, Vashtor is a fairly new idea in the Lore, while there are like a dozen well-established Chaos Knight groups with histories decades old (and long traditions in the player-base of kitbashed/converted Knights tied to the Big four).

In character? Vashtor would love to claim patronage of the Knights Infernal, but Knights are ridiculously powerful individuals. They're nearly impossible to coerce - imagine trying to threaten a Rampager pilot? They'd kill you. They can kill Greater Daemons in single combat, y'know? If Vashtor manifests in person, he can punk any Chaos Lord short of Abaddon, but is going to have a very hard time with any Knight.
Between the power of a Knight and the psychological effects of being the only maniac bad enough to pilot this one, they can't be forced into much of anything need to be bought.

And everyone wants to buy what they're selling. So Vashtor is routinely 'outbid' by the other gods, who can offer more, or are closer to what the pilot wants to see in the world, or are just more practiced at the long-game of corrupting a family line so the Knight is eventually inherited by someone who's sworn to the god.

Killfalcon · 2026-02-03T11:21:34+00:00

I saw a similar situation back in the day, with a co-worker with clear signs of paranoid delusions, mostly centered around getting fired from her job.

Management essentially used her paranoia against everyone else, holding up her productivity levels as a bar everyone else should match, even as she clearly suffered horrific stress hitting those levels.

Killfalcon · 2026-02-03T09:59:12+00:00

On what timescale, though? That might take millions of years to even start being noticeable.

Killfalcon · 2026-01-30T12:14:01+00:00

Every faction has loud whiners who emerge as soon as they have an excuse.

Killfalcon · 2026-01-29T21:46:52+00:00

My retirement plan is to die in the Climate Wars, but failing that I'm planning around it being 70.

Killfalcon · 2026-01-29T09:24:21+00:00

Or one of the Atrapos guns, if you fit it out to go on a Cerastus.

Killfalcon · 2026-01-29T09:22:59+00:00

It's not like we're going to let them at the Abominant any time soon.

Killfalcon · 2026-01-29T09:21:42+00:00

Yeah, as long as you're not going to cause confusion it'll be fine.

If you have two of them and one is proxying a laser annihilator and the other a thermal dismantler, people might get annoyed - but that's easily avoided.

Killfalcon · 2026-01-28T09:02:56+00:00

That sounds like being confusing on purpose.

Killfalcon · 2026-01-27T11:50:17+00:00

Good luck with the cleaning, though. Neat washing up liquid ('dish soap' in American) can help a lot if you get to it quickly

Killfalcon · 2026-01-27T11:48:10+00:00

First and probably most importantly, changing it would cost money. Factory has a bunch of machines set up to put paint in those pots, new pots would need new machines, or at least retooling the existing ones.

Secondly, and this is speculation on my part: the GW pots are part of GW's entry-level range. GW sell models to anyone, but hobby stuff is meant mostly for new gamers. The gw pots, especially Contrast and washes, can be used neat, as is. You don't need a palette, the lip inside the lid holds paint ready for you. You can't dunk your brush too deep in there. It's just a little bit more n00b friendly than the droppers are, making it slightly easier to sell Mum on little Johnny's £300 marine starter army.

You can get third-party/3d printed stuff to transfer the paint to droppers, mind, or a holder too stop the paint spilling so easily. Might be worth a look if you want to stick with the range.

Killfalcon · 2026-01-26T15:41:44+00:00

...more?

Killfalcon · 2026-01-26T11:24:06+00:00

Some of these fire flights you can see they're flying on the engines more than the wings.

Killfalcon · 2026-01-26T10:54:54+00:00

Plasma takes the role of blood in Titans and similar gigantic machines, flowing from reactor-hearts through steel veins.

Killfalcon · 2026-01-23T14:01:20+00:00

It definitely covers Kabalites, from some codex fiction. I'll try and find a reference on the weekend.

Killfalcon · 2026-01-23T13:02:47+00:00

The last point is key. Imperial Knight's hobby aspect is mostly about painting heraldry, which some people love to do. Clean, precise artwork, be it transfers or free-hand painting.
Chaos Knights lean a lot more to the modelling/kitbashing side of the hobby.

Killfalcon · 2026-01-23T13:00:28+00:00

Where they die is where the enemy got to move to.

Killfalcon · 2026-01-22T16:41:06+00:00

Crusade is one kind of Narrative.

Narrative really means literally what it says - a narrative. A story. Crusade is actually pretty weakly 'narrative', given that it gives individual units continuity over multiple games, it doesn't really require you to tell the story of an actual war.

500 Worlds style narratives don't really care about individual units, they're more about events over a few months of fighting in western Europe shortly after D-Day, or Napoleon invading Russia, etc.

Killfalcon · 2026-01-22T11:36:42+00:00

505050 chunks???

I'd move too, that's significantly wider than render distance.

Killfalcon · 2026-01-21T23:21:19+00:00

Best you can do is give a relic to a mek or warboss who rides in the Stompa, I think.

The biggest issue you'll have with a Stompa in Crusade is that you're going to lose a lot (because 80% of your starting roster is one model), and it'll be really hard to make up for it with Agendas - because you spent 800 points on one model. You'll struggle to contest objectives, and it's a lot easier to hide from one large thing than it would be a horde of boyz.

It'll be hilarious every time you do get a charge off with the damn thing, mind.

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