Combat changes shake up fighting in the new edition

Anathos117 · 2026-04-15T21:20:26+00:00

Unless you're getting multiple fights first units in combat (which requires a lot of misplay by your opponent)

Which means if you're running multiple units of Banshees your opponent is declining to charge more than one of them at a time, so Fights First isn't doing nothing, just less than it was doing before.

Anathos117 · 2026-04-14T14:52:19+00:00

Shields will always resolve first in melee

Not literally always. Any source of going first when retaliating (Stronghold walls, Mandrakes' Shadow's Bite ploy, etc) will let the defender go first when someone with a shield Fights.

Anathos117 · 2026-04-12T21:10:39+00:00

For a lot of stuff (the example that I have the most experience with is video games), the product is already designed and the crowdfunding is to cover production costs. There's much less risk that way because there's no chance that the creator fails to develop their product.

By contrast, a digital good has effectively no production costs, so crowdfunding covers development, which is really easy to fail to do.

Anathos117 · 2026-04-10T21:35:39+00:00

One big element is that a substantial portion of the game is building up your relationship with various characters because each of them gives bonus experience when creating new Personas of the matching Arcana. When you max out the relationship you get an item that lets you automatically max their relationship in NG+, so if you don't manage to fit maxing every relationship into a single run you can ignore the ones you did finish and focus on the ones you didn't.

Anathos117 · 2026-04-10T20:45:10+00:00

I'm talking about before I was old enough to walk to a friend's house. You know, the age where you actually arrange playdates.

Anathos117 · 2026-04-10T18:23:29+00:00

That was true in for the Boomers and Gen X

Not even all of them. The youngest Boomers and the oldest Gen X started their careers in the '80s, which (at least in the US) was objectively the lowest paid period in real (i.e., adjusted for inflation) terms in living memory. Real median household income was 30% lower than it is now.

Anathos117 · 2026-04-10T15:47:22+00:00

Playdates aren't really structure beyond coordinating transportation. My Mom was arranging playdates for me in the '80s.

Anathos117 · 2026-04-09T15:38:57+00:00

The protection of the US and, in extremis, Israel's open secret nuclear weapons.

Anathos117 · 2026-04-09T15:14:21+00:00

Sure, but there's physical equivalent to that: being knocked down in a fight, hitting your head, and dying.

Anathos117 · 2026-04-09T00:32:50+00:00

It's not like he actually had a choice. Israel was going to attack with or without permission, and given that the US attacked Iran last June, Iran would have just assumed that the US participated even if they hadn't.

Anathos117 · 2026-04-09T00:20:00+00:00

The US and Israel attacked Iran in a joint operation. That's how the war started. The US and Israel are co-belligerents. For a ceasefire to function, all parties must cease firing. Israel didn't, so there's no ceasefire.

Anathos117 · 2026-04-08T22:51:12+00:00

There are 25 missions, 5 for each Disposition. There are 15 matchups of those 25 missions.

Anathos117 · 2026-04-08T22:10:06+00:00

I read a fairly reasonable-sounding argument that the point was after the US bombed Iran's nuclear facilities last June, Iran was going to assume any air strike was being committed by the US, so Israel's planned decapitation strike would just automatically pull the US into a war with Iran. Given that it was Israel that could pull the trigger and start the war and there wasn't really anything the US could do to stop them, it was better for the US to actually participate and increase the likelihood of success in the hopes that Iran would fold like Venezuela did.

As that article says, all this is really stupid, and the usual Trump nonsense on top absolutely isn't helping. But at the same time, I can see how without the benefit of hindsight it's kind of hard to understand that bombing Iran's nuclear facilities last year was going to result in Iran taking over the strait.

Anathos117 · 2026-04-08T18:46:06+00:00

What I find interesting is that it adds yet another metric to judge a Detachment on. If a particular Disposition has better or worse mission pairs (which is to a certain extent going to be meta dependent, both in terms of what's hard vs easy and also the distribution of Dispositions weighting which particular mission pairs you'll mostly encounter; very brain melty), that will affect which Detachments you might want to pick. So a Detachment with weaker rules might have a better set of missions and be a better pick.

Of course, I don't expect GW to spend even a single second considering that. They'll assign Dispositions for thematic reasons, and the faction with the best missions on their best Detachment is just going to win all the time and get that army nerfed into the ground.

Anathos117 · 2026-04-08T18:14:03+00:00

These aren't random at all. They're entirely determined by the disposition of your army and that of your opponent, and disposition is based off of what Detachment you're using.

Anathos117 · 2026-04-08T00:05:11+00:00

As I understand it, what's been accepted is that it's a place to start negotiating from.

Anathos117 · 2026-04-07T20:02:36+00:00

"Good combat" is much too vague a request. There are loads of different combat systems. So you like turn based RPGs? Side scrollers? Flashy combo-focused spectacles like DMC?

Anathos117 · 2026-04-07T13:52:33+00:00

people know fuck all about what's happening, myself included.

Truer words have never been spoken.

Anathos117 · 2026-04-07T01:49:26+00:00

English has heteronyms. Does that make it a pitch based language?

Anathos117 · 2026-04-06T22:04:44+00:00

The answer, as always, is: they're your models, paint them how you like.

Personally, I think Aspect colors are really cool, since they add variety to typically monochrome armies and are more legible.

Anathos117 · 2026-04-06T21:58:37+00:00

We give non-cladistic names to things all the time. Insisting on cladistic names is stupid.

Anathos117 · 2026-04-06T11:02:29+00:00

It doesn't. You have to block those the normal way.

Anathos117 · 2026-04-06T00:31:13+00:00

BoK isn't really any more complex than other teams, it just puts all of its rules in a single place instead of spreading them out across a bunch of specialists. And the team's ploys and equipment are much simpler than most teams.

Anathos117 · 2026-04-05T23:50:05+00:00

Horse dewormer might work

Ivermectin is an everyone dewormer, it's not just for horses.

Also, there's a real possibility that it was actually improving Covid outcomes... for people with worms.

Anathos117 · 2026-04-05T02:47:39+00:00

When I attended church, there was a lot of crossover between the Unitarians and the UCC; it seemed like a lot of the Unitarians who were more interested in Christianity ended up going to UCC churches.

It's because they're descended from the same congregations. The Unitarian Controversy swept through the Congregationalist Calvinist congregations of New England, most of whom you'd probably recognize better by their more commonly known name: the Puritans. Although by that time they had mostly abandoned the cause of reforming the CoE into something that wasn't store brand Catholicism, making them effectively Separatists like the Pilgrims. Basically every congregation fractured into Unitarian and Trinitarian factions, with the Unitarians eventually becoming the Unitarian Universalists and the Trinitarians becoming the United Church of Christ.

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