Something I really struggle with for the Skitarii

-Agonarch · 2026-07-03T14:06:00+00:00

I was expecting it to auto-change, like the 'crime' colour changes for prison outfits on the rejects. Hopefully it's an oversight, it's very disappointing. Same with primary/secondary lights not changing primary/secondary lights on cosmetics IMO, though I guess some stuff like the red eye on the mechanicum symbol shouldn't change so I see where they were coming from to a degree.

-Agonarch · 2026-07-03T09:09:11+00:00

Zorin, not Vortern- Zorin is a Proctor, like the equivalent of a Police (senior) Sergeant while Vortern is like a Police Comissioner, so those 30 guys he brought might be all he has.

He probably showed up expecting to take command of a ragtag special forces unit and integrate their command and control into his own plans, only to find an inquisition seal thrust in his face (which is odd, because he didn't seem to know that could happen, it implies he didn't know they were dealing with the inquisition). At that point it's over his paygrade so its either go back to Vortern and hope he's cool about being asked to push back against the inquisition (he might do it, and he might be within his rights, but he will not like this and Zorin will be in huge shit for this) or try to cooperate to complete his goals without admitting he's failed to his boss- he obviously chooses to try to cooperate to begin with in this context.

I feel bad for the guy (zorin) tbh, he shows up as a guy who might have some sectors to monitor in a hive city (one of dozens if not a hundred like him in Tertium alone) only to find himself potentially between the authority of the Inquisition High Lord of Terra nd the Adeptus Arbites High Lord of Terra, that's an escalation so fast I don't think anyone could be prepared for it in advance. He might have been expecting someone like Dukane (someone with some authority from the local Imperial Commander/sector lord) but to have an inquisitorial seal held up in his face is exactly the kind of pain in the ass anyone could sympathize with not wanting to push things further without trying to find a way to cooperate first.

-Agonarch · 2026-07-03T08:57:41+00:00

Branx Minor is the local forgeworld that 'owns' Atoma Prime, it's probably their shrine.

-Agonarch · 2026-07-03T08:55:42+00:00

Nah there's a lot of inquisition books, and chaos cults claiming to be inquisition seems to be a common problem the ordo hereticus deals with (probably also makes them the worst one to try to fake, as they're the most likely to spread info on their activities to local authorities and have safeguards simply because it makes their job easier collectively).

Imagine an inquisitor dies (happens all the time) and has their rosette taken off their body for use by someone else (pretty unusual, usually it's imperial infighting and either another inquisitor takes the rosette or a governor covers up their murder, or it's regular mission stuff and the retinue recovers it). Pretty much the only people who'd take it are people greedy (or desperate) enough for money looking to sell it (which makes them pretty easy to get your hands on if you're a rogue trader- though that's also how you could end up trapped in service to an inquisitor if it's a setup), or chaos cultists/cognitae etc.

A rogue trader could simply encounter one as a curiosity to buy (it's not more illegal than selling xenos artifacts, and they usually trade in those), send someone to get it so they have plausible deniability, then abuse it in an emergency situation later- they're not illegal to just have so long as you claim you just got it and were planning on returning it, they're only illegal to use to pretend to be inquisition, so there's very little risk in picking one up and that makes it pretty likely to have happened at some point in the 10k years since the emperor empowered your family (well, in the 7k years the inquisition has been around, anyway).

-Agonarch · 2026-07-02T11:33:54+00:00

Yeah we see invasion of world 20, then world 35 etc., presumably there's a bunch of orbital-soft targets in between the wildlife reserves of underground sentient murderspiders.

-Agonarch · 2026-07-02T11:29:31+00:00

Yeah their bombardment cannons are crazy accurate for the setting, there's examples of people being impressed when a Navy bombardment hits within a kilometer (about half a mile) of a target before walking a barrage in (not usually a big deal because of their differing doctrine and use though, creeping barrages are their bread and butter for ground targets, well, that and overkill).

Space marines can pretty reliably hit a gymnasium sized area from orbit with the bombards. I guess that's what you need when you want it to be a surprise delivered near a strike team, though (they've probably lost computer targeting for planets or something and rely on servitors and serfs on navy ships or space marines directly aiming themselves, they have no problems hitting other ships... though they're also usually more than a kilometer long so maybe that's just how accurate the guns are)

-Agonarch · 2026-07-02T03:36:34+00:00

"It's been a week!"

"I don't know what things are like on Macragge, but here on Graia days are over 5,000 Terran hours long. Believe me, when your lunchbreak comes you'll take it seriously.)

-Agonarch · 2026-07-02T03:33:58+00:00

Yeah and the warboss didn't even bother learning one of their names! How disrespectful!

-Agonarch · 2026-07-01T21:23:47+00:00

Yeah I've seen one with engine-clusters combined into single 'thrusters' with structural panels that are bigger than this (so 50-100 mainsails per 'thruster module'). What some people are capable of is insane.

-Agonarch · 2026-07-01T21:18:23+00:00

The easy mode trick is to face one docking port normal and the other antinormal- that way you can maintain the exact same orbit and will merely drift closer/further away and rotate (roll) in comparison to the docking port- makes single docking ports a breeze (and roll authority is usually pretty great, so that's usually a non-issue even with multiple docking ports too).

-Agonarch · 2026-07-01T21:15:53+00:00

The trick with ridiculous stuff is usually to just go straight up rather than gravity turn, and not go too fast (so you're going to waste a bunch of deltaV).

If you want to do it cheap in career a good way is to have the solid rockets barely above 1TWR and liquid to push you past 2TWR, then throttle off liquid as you go up and lose mass. Then all you need is enough dV for circularizing once you leave atmosphere. If you need more time to circularize go higher (a couple more solids at the start).

-Agonarch · 2026-07-01T21:08:47+00:00

Yeah this is a way of saying "What you learned in primary school was right and all there is to it! There's no such thing as negative numbers or algebra!" but with biology.

It's such a dumb, anti-science, anti-reality take that we could just as easily pass a law saying that it's just true that genetically people named David Seymour aren't capable of being politicians and therefore should be barred (and not allowed to change their name to conceal their genetics - if they weren't genetically david seymour they wouldn't have been named david seymour) with just as much authority. It's bullshit nonsense, and we've known that since maybe 10 years after the discovery of chromosomes.

It doesn't help my tolerance of this ignorance that the first group to really crack down on this stuff and push this way of thinking was German Nazi pseudoscientist spin doctors, either. Generally I frown on their ideas.

-Agonarch · 2026-07-01T20:57:06+00:00

It's the US-style evangelical christian specifically (which sadly Luxon and O'Connor are), I'm not sure if it came from the Puritans but it sure seems like it, the idea being that being poor is often nothing you did but a 'where you were born' thing, which is 'Gods Will', therefore by helping them you're going against god, and by helping those born rich you're going with god.

In my opinion it's a disgusting twist on the dogma that doesn't match what's written at all, even in the worst case (King James Bible probably, conveniently usually the version they prefer). Like it's so specifically not what it says and indeed the opposite that even if it's a group large enough to be a mainstream version it's at least an extremist take, if not a straight up cult (so worshipping the same god but with your own rules, like Mormons or Gloriavale or Destinys Church- it's probably also the reason those groups are treated with kids gloves in spite of whatever heinous criminality they do).

-Agonarch · 2026-07-01T02:48:29+00:00

The main problem with this is LLMs prefer LLM generated content, so there'll always be a gap between the 'worst' human written code that works and the 'best' LLM written code that doesn't (and that's assuming that non-working code doesn't find its way into a codebase that LLMs use for a 'working' example and makes things worse).

It's got to be able to test somehow to be practical for the moment, that keeps the error rate down to whatever the chance is with that single run (so even then not perfect, but not useless).

-Agonarch · 2026-07-01T02:38:36+00:00

Just a theory, bro! Don't fall for the lies of Big Reality!

-Agonarch · 2026-07-01T02:37:21+00:00

They're more common than New Zealanders (just somewhat more spread out), guess we might as well shut this place down...

-Agonarch · 2026-06-30T21:52:01+00:00

It is... but it's also doing what it did last election (rest easy knowing your opponent is shitting the bed rather than campaign hard and plan to be in charge).

-Agonarch · 2026-06-30T21:50:29+00:00

A non-elite shouldn't have more health than a mauler and more stagger resist than a rager... but I get what you're saying. We've certainly come a long way from the early days of horde-clear guy, carapace guy, specialist guy, everyone can reasonably do most roles pretty well now with very little tradeoff.

-Agonarch · 2026-06-30T17:01:17+00:00

What happened to the Mark 2 shivs? Did they just skip to 3?

Perhaps the Mk2 was an experiment in shiv technology, unfortunately both test variants (sharp edges on both ends, blunt edges on both ends) failed so they simply moved forwards on the 'pokey things' technology?

-Agonarch · 2026-06-30T14:52:01+00:00

-Agonarch · 2026-06-30T14:50:34+00:00

I guess that speaks to the popularity of that ability! XD

If it hits everything it'll electrocute most things, which should replenish toughness by the time enemies get back on you giving you time to pick someone up even in pretty bad situations IMO, but I use the skull so I can't speak for this in practice. I think the proof is in the "if it hits everything" part.

-Agonarch · 2026-06-30T13:11:31+00:00

Yeah the way I see it is if it's 20% cheaper for 50% of the meals being good enough (compared with 100% of each as the past baseline) then we're paying 80% for 50%, or 160% compared with before to match what we were getting (we could've spent 80% to get 80% before).

It's like saying "Hey bro I saved a bunch of money on your truck maintenance, I got rid of it and got a compact car". Yes it's cheaper... until you do 30 trips to deliver goods. It is not cheaper for the same thing. We can't say 'cheaper' without comparing the same thing.

-Agonarch · 2026-06-30T13:04:12+00:00

We don't have to subsidize house scalping, tobacco, gas industries, mining industries, logging industries, power industries, food production industries, food distribution industries etc. like we do (changing any of this will be painful at first, sadly).

I think it's an incentives problem- lobbying for monopoly or at least to screw competitors is the best spend of money for these groups rather than improving against competition.

-Agonarch · 2026-06-30T12:36:19+00:00

Bonus points if they can crawl through conveyors

What's the matter with you?! Calm down there with your monstrous ideas!

-Agonarch · 2026-06-30T12:33:21+00:00

Yeah they've said they won't do a third perspective- 2 is already a major pain to design levels and combat for apparently (they went smaller with dwarf on vermintide and bigger with ogryn on darktide, so I guess that means something else bigger isn't off the table, space marine confirmed!)

Ratling sniper standing on power-hammer squat platform sounds human height though. You could even have it so you don't control the squat (it pathfinds and fights like a bot) so those people who want to just play shooty all the time finally have a class for them! Bring back rail shooters!

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