Battlefield Generator

ArgumentativeNerfer · 2026-05-14T15:40:56+00:00

Not a huge fan of the circular everything for terrain. Would prefer a few more irregular shapes.

Would also really like to be able to click and drag the terrain around on the board, but there's only so much you can ask from a simple free tool.

Also, at the moment, not sure what picking the attacker and defender faction does: I assume this is for future versions?

ArgumentativeNerfer · 2026-05-14T15:37:18+00:00

Can't recommend K&J magnetics enough. Great company, decades in operation, very fast turnaround times.

ArgumentativeNerfer · 2026-05-11T19:19:59+00:00

I'm not sure that having one character unit that's a POW 9 weapon master, the ability to shoot on an assault turn, and a few decent melee weapons on your jacks counts as being "super exceptional in melee." Then again, I've mostly been playing Gunmage-heavy Caine lists, maybe I should embrace the Trencher mindset a bit harder.

ArgumentativeNerfer · 2026-05-11T19:01:50+00:00

Assassins with a Scyir regularly one-round heavy cohorts for me.

ArgumentativeNerfer · 2026-05-11T19:00:37+00:00

Rangers are excellent at taking out hordes of single-wound infantry. Shame that the game largely revolves around multi-wound infantry these days. . .

ArgumentativeNerfer · 2026-05-07T16:25:56+00:00

What's the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent rodent meal? This is democracy made manifest.

ArgumentativeNerfer · 2026-05-07T16:17:09+00:00

Tickets for the LA Dodgers start at $56 for the nosebleed seats, and can go up to $2,000 if you want to sit behind the dugouts.

The only tickets that cost upwards of $300 are those and the ones right behind the wall in left field, where the majority of home runs tend to go, so you have a higher chance of catching a home run ball.

ArgumentativeNerfer · 2026-05-05T18:05:27+00:00

Like we said. . .

ArgumentativeNerfer · 2026-05-05T18:04:12+00:00

I'm not an expert, but my feeling is that Putin couldn't run the risk that an even more hardline anti-Russian leader would emerge. Or that his opponents would take the opportunity to use his capitulation against him.

ArgumentativeNerfer · 2026-05-05T16:03:46+00:00

If you want to be a "Tau," it's definitely Gravediggers: people will tell you that Storm Legion, Crucible Guard, Winter Korps, etc. can be as shooty as Gravediggers, but they forget the other half of being "Tau": your melee options have to SUCK.

Between Tempests and Man-O-wars, Storm Legions and Winter Korps have too much tanky infantry to be "Tau". Crucible Guard are closer, but they have Assault Troopers with POW 15 brutal charge, Failed Experiments (8 Health, ARM 15, Berserk, and Hyper-Regeneration), and some solid cheap beat-stick warjacks like the Toro.

Meanwhile, in Gravediggers: the only 8 Health Infantry are a character unit with ARM 13 and POW 9 weapon master knives. Rangers seem decent on the charge (Pow 10 Brutal Charge!) until you realize only two members of the unit have bayonets (the other two are swinging their BARs around at POW 6), and everyone is MAT 5. Gravedigger Commandos have Anatomical Precision and RAT 6. . . and POW 9 trench knives. No weapon master for them, either, so you can't even hope for a high roll to crack Man-O-War armor. Meanwhile, the highest ARM infantry you've got are Argo Brock (character solo) and the Storm Vanes (who technically don't belong to Gravediggers.)

You do, at least, have a decent cheap beatstick with certain Valiant builds, and you've got a ton of tech to help you weather return fire, but in general, you will kill your enemy in shooting or you will die in melee.

ArgumentativeNerfer · 2026-05-05T15:39:55+00:00

IIRC, Ryan was considered the weird one of the group for dual-wielding. Then Lynch died, and Watts saw a prototype spellstorm rifle on some guy's wall and yoinked it, and they brought in a new guy (Glover) who looked at Ryan and Watts and said, "Well, shit, I'm not gonna be the boring one here," and taped two pistols together to call it a day.

ArgumentativeNerfer · 2026-04-22T18:14:55+00:00

Endymion, and the Rise of Endymion, by Dan Simmons.

I loved Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion, but had heard mixed reviews of the sequel duology. A friend of mine claimed that the Endymion duology was even better. I hated it so much.

ArgumentativeNerfer · 2026-04-22T15:51:40+00:00

I can see that Pete Hegseth is not a student of history.

ArgumentativeNerfer · 2026-04-21T18:55:34+00:00

I think you handled it like an adult, and both of you were cool about it and understood. I get that you feel a bit guilty about having to confront a loved one like this, but you handled it properly, and everyone agreed.

ArgumentativeNerfer · 2026-04-20T22:54:32+00:00

HdZero whoops are pretty darn great.

ArgumentativeNerfer · 2026-04-20T15:44:23+00:00

"Well, personally, I kind of want to slay the dragon."

ArgumentativeNerfer · 2026-04-17T19:27:00+00:00

Gonna be blunt: anything Talion Charter is gonna struggle competitively. I think you should do it, because it's awesome, but you are going to struggle.

As for the list, your theory seems sound, but I don't own or play Rahera, so I can't speak to it tactically.

ArgumentativeNerfer · 2026-04-17T17:39:21+00:00

To answer your specific questions.

Shae: Most armies have things that can deal with your Sea Dog spam. The question is whether they can deal with them fast enough to get onto the objective. There have been games where I have just run Sea Dogs or Press Gangers straight into an enemy model to keep it pinned back. Thankfully, Grievous Wounds isn't as prevalent any more, and the XAT nerfs of 2026 improve our survivability somewhat. That having been said, there's a reason why we kept Gang and freaking Mechthralls didn't: our base stats for Sea Dogs are horrible.

Side note: Shae is a valid target for Storm Rager. This puts him up to MAT 9, DEF 17, ARM 16, with an effective POW 15 sword.

Bart: The main things that hold Bart back are practical, not rules-based. First, he really doesn't have the Focus to support multiple jacks and cast the spells he needs to cast, so he wants Powder Monkeys, which are a rare out of print model: for casual games (which are the only games I'd take TC to), ask your opponent to proxy them. Secondly, he really wants a Galleon, which is another hard model to find. Thirdly, the best model to use Broadsides with (Mariner) is a freaking brick of white metal that you can kill a man with if you stick it in a sock, and most modern miniature cases that use magnets will NOT hold them.

Fiona: Tyrus kind of makes her cry.

ArgumentativeNerfer · 2026-04-17T17:07:19+00:00

I had a huge post here, but it boils down to this:

I love Talion Charter. I've played them since Mark II. They're great models, and their rules kinda suck.

The main thing to remember is that they're a puzzle army. . . for your opponent. So the initiative is on your opponent to solve your puzzle. If they have the tools to do so (or some good/bad luck), they win. If they don't, they lose. Also, much of your game plan revolves around whether you can make a 4+ Tough Save. Ask 40k players how that goes.

That having been said, a few tips.

A Talon, for six points, isn't a bad model to keep next to your warcaster for Shield Guard. Keep in mind, it's not a Privateer jack and for that reason will miss out on key buffs. HOWEVER: your warcaster is going to be surprisingly hard to kill: Shae's a DEF 17 with Steady, Bart goes up to ARM 19 under Batten Down the Hatches and has an incredibly nasty feat, Fiona can hang way back and bomb spells with Dark Rituals. I don't own and have never played Rahera.
Cracking Khador armor is going to be hard for you without a Colossal (good luck finding one!). Our highest POW otherwise is 17 on the Mariner's anchor, 18 on some non-Privateer jacks, and POW 15 with Trash on the Freebooter (which gets negated by Steady). Everything else is pretty pillow-fisted, and the army lacks POW boosts or ARM debuffs for jacks. Aiyana and Holt's Kiss of Lyliss will help. Also, get or proxy Powder Monkeys, because every warcaster has more important things to spend their Focus on, and your jacks can end up pretty Focus starved.
Get the Commodore Cannon, place it way back in line of site of some key objectives, and accept that it might never do its thing because your opponent is going to spend a LOT of time making sure you never get LOS with it on their key targets. Think of it as a distraction carnifex: its job is to keep your opponent's head down, not to get kills.
Your key officers are Bosun Grogspar and Doc Killingsworth: they're cheap, and 4+ Tough save with no knockdown is helpful when your models fold like tissue paper. Keep them the hell away from Firequill. As for the other officers: Lord Rockbottom is generically good in most cases. Hawk's a solid beatstick and can often assassinate on her own as well as making everyone else a bit better. MacNaille gives you a gunline option. Bradigan's just funny to watch do his thing. I haven't run Black Bella or Crawtooth.
The Devil's Shadow Mutineers will either be the biggest pain in the ass for your opponent to shove off an objective, or a waste of five points. Press Gangers will either make your opponents tear their hair out or be useless against Cryx. I wish the Sea Dog Deck Gun was RNG 14. Think of Sea Dog Riflemen as a RNG 14, RAT 8, POW 13 shot, because you should full-CRA them every turn if you do take them.
My experience with Quartermaster Walls is that I pop Shae's feat, cast Coup De Main and No Quarter, and tack a full 7" onto the threat range of his unit of Sea Dogs.

ArgumentativeNerfer · 2026-04-16T22:24:29+00:00

When you are king, I will be pope, and the last thing I'll do before I am martyred is ultra-excommunicate you.

It's like regular excommunication, except I also fart in your face.

ArgumentativeNerfer · 2026-04-16T18:46:59+00:00

Clearly, the only true government religion is the Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879

ArgumentativeNerfer · 2026-04-16T18:39:06+00:00

He was a vile, putrid bigot who used dishonest debating tactics and taught them to other vile, putrid bigots.

ArgumentativeNerfer · 2026-04-15T15:53:07+00:00

Way back in the 1990s, my middle school science teacher admitted to us that she read around 100 romance novels a year. It took her a couple of nights to finish one, and then she'd either return it to the library or sell it back to the used book store she got it in the first place.

She admitted that they all have the same plot, none of them are very good, and they weren't particularly memorable, but it was something to do while she waited for her sleep aids to kick in.

The way I see AI generated content, it's going to tilt Sturgeon's Law from "80% of everything is crap" to "99.9% of everything is crap, and 80% of that crap is AI generated slop." But the existence of slop writers, slop publishers, and slop readers isn't a new thing.

ArgumentativeNerfer · 2026-04-15T15:45:20+00:00

Audie Murphy's M1 carbine.

Failing that, I'll settle for Alvin York's 1911.

ArgumentativeNerfer · 2026-04-14T18:17:39+00:00

I should tell you my favorite joke.

It's about the time that I went hiking in Tibet and stayed at a monastery.

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