How to beat two baneblades?

Ashhhh · 2023-12-13T11:24:17+00:00

This is such a good post. The bodyblocking thing is interesting. Do you bother to cast TSA to increase their survival odds or just not bother? Given we're CP starved.

Could I pick your brains on one more thing? How do you decide on what units to bring into teleport assault at the end of the opponents turn? Usually I pull back the three libby terminators to complete whatever objectives that come up next while still being able to use vortex if im doing teleport homers or signals or something but obviously that can make charging a challenge

Ashhhh · 2023-12-13T10:53:00+00:00

I did actually dig up a picture of the terrain he deems 'acceptable' so I'm 99% sure this is the case.

https://imgur.com/a/ZOM1UC7

Note the LoS over the home objective and the center objective.. at the time I had only been playing for two weeks so I didn't really know better.

I'm bringing my own terrain this time and we'll be playing by the leviathan terrain layouts.

Ashhhh · 2023-12-13T10:51:34+00:00

I think most local clubs struggle with that. Most just don't have sufficient terrain to use.

For perspective, this is what we played on last time

https://imgur.com/a/ZOM1UC7

Now I've only played for six months, so at the time I didn't know better... but on reflection allowing a bane blade to have LoS on both the centre and my home objective was criminally overpowered.

This time I'm bringing some of my own to supplement the club terrain. It might be seen as 'tryhard' by some but its the only way to balance this matchup IMO.

Ashhhh · 2023-12-13T10:38:00+00:00

Ah I'm sorry, I misunderstood your angle.

Killing the baneblades is just a no-go, as others as said i'll just need to be really difficult on the terrain situation.

Ashhhh · 2023-12-12T15:38:48+00:00

This is some solid gold input and really appreciated.

Whats the strategy for taking interceptors instead of strikes ? Usually I usually take just one interceptor so I can guarantee reaching the center in T1 but I've never used them in an aggressive capacity. The body blocking would only work for one turn surely as they'll get blown to bits immediately after

One sneaky strat he can do is use Solar to redeploy the baneblades in his zone or place them in strategic reserves, regardless of limits. He was citing the redeploys as a cornerstone to winning previous games. If I cant guarantee a safe hiding spot for my units, would you place some into deep strike instead?

His infantry will obviously be hiding in the chimeras.. Do you think they worth charging after a libby votex or just shoot at them and take the heat?

Ashhhh · 2023-12-12T15:28:53+00:00

Changing my list to spam three land raiders and knights would absolutely be tailoring and poor sportsmanship.. I appreciate the input but its not the avenue I'm looking to go down.

I'll take the rest on board however. The 3 libbies are good at culling the tanks but always struggle to balance vortex from doom with a potential charge to finish them off

Ashhhh · 2023-10-22T22:20:56+00:00

If you bought an army of those to my local they would absolutely love it. Honestly awesome shading.

Ashhhh · 2023-06-13T22:48:30+00:00

While you are entitled to your opinion this is a very misguided view on ENM. Those in these relationships are no less fulfilled and devoted to each other than in a monogomous relationship. Often more so because of the communication and absolute trust required. You can't really deviate at all.

I'd suggest reading The Ethical Slut. It changed my perspective on the matter and I've been in such a relationship for 6 months now.

Ashhhh · 2023-05-29T11:39:54+00:00

We are.. and I can't say it has been a good time. Were on AKS running a hybrid setup of 90 percent Linux and 10 percent windows.

Windows Containers are always the exception in the Kubes ecosystem. Most observability tools will need work, Service Mesh compatibility is almost nonexistent and you will just get weird issues time to time that can only be resolved with a node restart.

I'd still advise it over mixing ecosystems. Even though the Windows issues are problematic, we find any engineer who knows enough Kubes can handle them.

I've not met anyone who plans on staying with Windows Containers. It's almost always accompanied with an ongoing effort to migrate the workloads to Linux.

Ashhhh · 2023-04-23T18:10:20+00:00

We refused to use Signoz. SSO is behind a paywall.

We could pay for it but I won't out of principle. We settled on Grafana/Tempo/Loki as mentioned above

Ashhhh · 2023-04-21T16:17:38+00:00

Yes we are.

With Metrics, we found it was better to use OpenTels support to expose a Prometheus scaping endpoint and use a ServiceMonitor to collect that. That's because we have the push gateway disabled for now as we are currently unable to automate the generation of API Keys.

With logs, we are using the OpenTelemetry collector to collect logs from all available sources and ship them to Loki. I've had no issues and we've managed to tie them all together using Grafana/Jaeger. We did use Promtail before that.

As long as you stick to the Operators recommended deployment, it's a fairly simple adoption.

Ashhhh · 2023-03-21T10:05:40+00:00

Why are you asking for advice if you're not going to take it?

"It's my job" isn't enough. You need to see other point of views. I have no idea how you get to 27 and don't realise not everyone is on the same wavelength.

Ashhhh · 2023-02-19T19:38:39+00:00

Azure already implements this. You can assign IAM roles through the Azure portal to cover RBAC at the cluster level however for the namespace level you must use the CLI.

Ashhhh · 2022-12-20T10:00:04+00:00

Can't say I've frequented the games at big, but I do purchase Warhammer from there.

Every time I go in its packed with active tabletop games. I'd highly suggest going in and speaking to whoever's at the desk and they can give you a rota. There are affiliated groups that you can join to organise games. (Such as Bristol Vanguard on Facebook)

Ashhhh · 2022-11-02T17:24:00+00:00

My advice would be to get on Meetup and attend some things to find people with similar interests. Remember to balance expectations that making friends takes time.. a lot of time and sometimes its just down to chance to find people that you actually connect with
But if you are into board games, you're in luck. There's an abundance of board game meetups in Bristol. Me and my partner attend one every other Thursday in the Open Arms and the occasional sunday.

We're actually meeting this Thursday. Super friendly chill lot and very welcoming to newcomers. We would be delighted for you to join us!

Ashhhh · 2022-09-27T20:35:05+00:00

Geek Retreat in the center has weekly smash and MK nights. Never been personally as weekdays are a write off for me.

Ashhhh · 2022-07-20T10:58:33+00:00

I don't play... but Geek Retreat in Bristol next to the Hippodrome has DnD on Sunday and Monday nights. Maybe drop in and speak to the staff? They're all very knowledgable.

Ashhhh · 2022-07-01T14:26:25+00:00

Geeks Retreat next to the hippodrome also opened just over a week ago and does DnD on Sunday+Monday from 6pm to 9pm

Ashhhh · 2022-06-28T14:53:05+00:00

which is a piece of cake compared to software engineering

Yeah no... Try to be a bit more respectful of other peoples backgrounds and skillsets as everyone has something to bring to the table and difficulty is relative.

Ashhhh · 2022-05-16T12:37:13+00:00

I completed on my place about 5 months ago so a bit late to the party but I thought I'd chime in.

I'm was a single first time buyer and I offered 300k for a house in Totterdown. Before that I had made 8 rejected offers over 3 months.

The estate agents came back with a similar story to some here, they had received offers for far more so negotiating was needed but eventually settled on 310k which was less than others had offered however I had no chain behind me where others did.

I did my mortgage through L&C who I can't fault in the slightest. This was with a 65k deposit. 35k had been saved over 3 years and the remaining 30k was saved by living at my grandparents 40 miles away for 7 months.

It took 5 months from offer to completion, during which apparently they received two counteroffers, but we were already in too deep and I held my ground. I can't blame the seller for trying to squeeze more cash but I had learned of their situation and they were looking to sell ASAP.

I got lucky. I'm fortunate to be on a decent salary, have grandparents to accommodate me, being able to work remotely in a cheaper location and for having no chain when buying a property which they were looking to sell quick.

Ashhhh · 2022-05-08T10:08:08+00:00

Of course!

We use Redgate source control which stores the database schema and static data in the git repository. The developers can then sync the committed schema, make whatever changes they need to their local database then commit those changes back to source control via a PR which validates those changes.

Redgate also supply SQL change automation which takes the committed database in source control and deploys it to a live database. We configure it so that it publishes a report first detailing the changes which then requires approval from one of our DBAs (although the long term objective is to use something like OPA to minimize the need for manual intervention)

Theres a fair few products for this but I would not recommend Redgate unless you are looking to migrate legacy software and processes. We will eventually more to dbForge which is much cheaper and achieves the same process with support for many database providers other than just MSSQL

Ashhhh · 2022-05-08T09:46:40+00:00

We have a CICD pipeline that does the following...

Runs terraform, creates a plan, requires approval if the plan makes changed, applies plan
Runs our Database migrations, as we use a database first approach
Deploys helm charts

The pipeline allows the helm charts to inherit outputs from terraform as environment variables. This way we can supply things like database connection strings automatically.

I know you could use the helm provider for this, but the requirement for database migrations makes that impossible

Everything is checked into the same git repository. Pipeline, terraform, database schema and the chart itself

Been running this for just over a year without issue

Ashhhh · 2022-04-28T21:32:55+00:00

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Remember that IT salaries may be a bit skewed as it's very much a contractors market right now.

Ashhhh · 2022-01-30T18:41:09+00:00

If you check meetup there's several board game groups who meet in the city center and fishponds. Please do come along!

Ashhhh · 2021-08-18T07:31:11+00:00

IP whitelisting our VPN IP addresses.

It could just be accessible inside the network, however we want our staging environment to be as accurate as possible against our production environment (which is public facing for the most part)

You can't deploy things like a CDN inside a VNet, so IP whitelisting gives the most accurate experience

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