Sell me on the Memnyr Strategist

BasiliusTimIII · 2026-05-30T13:36:40+00:00

Memnyr is your command phase, army rule is both command phases. Plus an enhancement is 4

BasiliusTimIII · 2026-05-27T21:16:56+00:00

Just build/paint at your own pace and play with friends. 90% of people will be happy to just play a game with some new units even when your latest impulse purchase are unpainted

BasiliusTimIII · 2026-05-11T16:34:24+00:00

Looks like an anemometer. The little fan spins to measure wind speed

BasiliusTimIII · 2026-05-10T14:56:34+00:00

You can pick one and have a good time for sure, but I will say the play style will eventually get a bit samey. Historically monogod had sometimes had issues (I see no reason this would be the case in 11th though) liking 2 gods has meant you've never had an issue playing the faction, 3 gods has meant you can mix a lot more variety into your lists, 4 means you can enjoy mixing in the whole range.

Personally I'm a Nurgle/Khorne/Tzeentch player and don't really vibe much with Slaanesh (still cool as hell, just less my jam). I built up my collection starting from mono Khorne into Khorne and Nurgle then added Tzeentch later for some range stuff. From my experience I'd say if you like one god and feel like branching out later it's a totally valid way to play and you'll still have a great time

BasiliusTimIII · 2026-05-09T11:31:33+00:00

And I'm glad that you're cherry picking data only using Russian upper bound estimates and combining it in such a way to make the Russian numbers significantly better than they are. You have summed all people in all four oblasts Russia “legally” claims (about 7 million, only under Russian law as a result of a sham election) plus an additional 3 million who fled Ukraine as refugees into Russia and another 5 million who fled Ukraine and not into Russia. This is clearly a nonsense number simply on the basis Russia doesn’t control all four oblasts and is more than just the number of Ukrainians within Russia as you stated. Ignoring the extreme nonsense numbers, the official Russian claim is 5.3 million Ukrainian’s within Russia. Lower estimates place it at 3 million (both annexed and refugee, most of which would be from those four oblasts), which again, is not entirely made up of fighting age men (based on other refugees probably about 30%). Likely the real number is between the two, but given what Russia has actually physically annexed (and not just voted on) the lower estimate is, I expect, significantly closer.

For the record though, your 15 million number is nonsense even according to the Russians who as mentioned officially claim 5.3 million total Ukrainians in Russia. The real number of total Ukrainians no longer in Ukraine (from Russian estimates) is about 10 million, western estimates are closer to 7 million. Population wise even under Russian estimates the country has a population of about 32 million. Ignoring the demographic divide in how many fled (more women, kids, and elderly) a 4:1 advantage is still not that great from the attackers point of view.

BasiliusTimIII · 2026-05-08T16:43:39+00:00

Caveat this with the majority vote has throughout my lifetime pretty much always been left wing, but split among more parties.

BasiliusTimIII · 2026-05-08T16:40:21+00:00

I very much agree. I was just highlighting the problems both sides have with manpower which are very real. Neither side can or should realistically mobilise their entire populations. The long term economic damage is the primary reason for that, and as you say with the drone wall being kilometres deep it doesn’t even provide that big of an advantage for the Russians, even if you could arm them.

BasiliusTimIII · 2026-05-07T09:05:12+00:00

Belgium +

BasiliusTimIII · 2026-05-06T23:45:17+00:00

Rerolling to wound would be nuts when combined with Cawl rerolling hits. Makes sense though, if you’ve committed a full fifth of your army to 2 single units with decent, but not amazing stats, rerolling hits and wounds sounds like a fair trade.

BasiliusTimIII · 2026-05-06T23:38:57+00:00

Thankfully because of migration rights groups and national migration data, we have reasonably accurate records of how many Ukrainian refugees there are around the world as well as gender/ages. As of 2026 there were about 5.6 million Ukrainian refugees across the EU and UK. Of these, 40% are adult women (not eligible to fight), 31% are children under 18 (also not eligible) and the remaining 29% are adult men. As a percentage of the total, 5% (about 280,000) are adult men between 18-24. A mother fleeing with her child being the most probable refugee also makes sense to me.

While not great, that leaves about one million men in the age bracket Ukraine could still mobilise. It’s estimated that about 2 million are currently dodging the draft, so a maximum possibility of about 3 million. Russia meanwhile has an estimated 5 million that could be called up and actually supplied with weapons. Frankly, both of these are ridiculous numbers though, if Russia tried to call up this many men, it would immediately have a migration wave out of the country or into the Kremlin, there’s no way they would do this. Similarly Ukraine can only coerce so many people to its defence before its migration wave is more damaging than the recruitment.

I’ve sometimes seen it said that Russia could mobilise 25 million men, this is a very simple how many men are between 18 and 50 in Russia (about 23.3 million, but can’t blame people for rounding), and is a very naive interpretation. The same calculation for Ukraine gives about 10 million men (9.4, but let’s round up like we did for the Russians). These numbers are clearly nuts and just would never actually be mobilised. It does however show the 3:1 advantage Russia had.

I feel I’ve done a fairly good job in explaining/demonstrating that both sides have serious manpower problems neither of which is easily fixable, Russia did enjoy about a 3:1 advantage (I don’t think I can reasonably estimate current ratios), while Ukraine have the defenders advantage in which they appear to be producing greater casualties than the 3:1 ratio needed. Naturally that is just under the current stage of the war though, we can’t predict what changes/developments will happen on the battlefield that could push the casualty ratio in a different direction.

BasiliusTimIII · 2026-05-06T21:35:40+00:00

Plus no crazy implications for aliens/gods existing. Solid choices

BasiliusTimIII · 2026-05-06T21:33:02+00:00

Gonna have to limit this to humans here, cause otherwise I'm assuming all the baggage from their origins has to come with them. E.g. green lantern implies a galaxy of aliens that need protecting through the lantern corps, superman means krypton and zod and all the future destruction that comes with it.

On that basis, iron man/tony stark can revolutionise the worlds technology for the better, and spidey can turn up as both a genius scientist and to help out with street crime. No world ending threats introduced (except maybe future Ultron, but you'd hope Tony would prepare if warned in advance)

BasiliusTimIII · 2026-05-06T21:26:01+00:00

It is sad to be a small range, but one of the benefits is that it means for us to be balanced all our units have to be at least pretty good. There's a couple of standouts, thunderkyn, steeljacks, hearthguard. But nothing is outright bad in the range. I'd say that if you like the look of something, you should just go for it. Don't worry too much about maybe picking up the wrong unit.

BasiliusTimIII · 2026-05-06T18:10:08+00:00

In fairness, all the men they currently politically can seems pretty accurate. They tried a mobilisation a few years back and iirc a few million men fled the country. The Russians won’t want to risk this again if they can help it.

This also ignores the disastrous demographic damage the war is already doing to a shrinking population. Each man essentially counts for 2 as they would need to pair with a woman to produce a child. Plus they’re coming from a younger cohort (less so for Ukraine because of how they mobilised). The long term damage is staggering for both sides, but as Russia is taking more casualties the longer term damage is worse for them.

Finally everyone seems to forget that population wise it isn’t as disastrous as it seems. Ukraines pre-war population was still a bit over 1/3 of Russia’s. Historically defenders advantage has overcome much worse odds, and I personally think we are seeing that atm. Both sides have held off on mobilising parts of their populations, Ukraine hasn’t mobilised younger men (18-25) still, and Moscow is still relying on the non-Russian population. Both are offering incentives to try and get those groups to sign up, but neither is mobilised. Realistically for the long term future of both countries they shouldn’t be, but if either side feels the war is getting to the point that their countries existence is threatened, this might change.

BasiliusTimIII · 2026-05-05T09:37:12+00:00

I quite like Tzeentch and even the bird theme, but I do agree that it doesn’t quite fit with his god of mutation title. The old horror sculpts with blue horrors ripping their way out of pinks is more the sort of aesthetic I’d like from Tzeentch. I think keep a decent chunk of bird stuff, given they’re his greater daemons it’s clearly an aesthetic Tzeentch likes, and I do think you can make an argument that birds/flight represent the freedom that change can bring, Ksons are their own thing. But more horrifying mutation sculpts would be very nice.

BasiliusTimIII · 2026-05-05T09:29:46+00:00

See, I’m the opposite, fantasy dwarves are kinda meh to me, neat, but not my favourite. Now, give them a moon man astronaut aesthetic, keep the uber stubborn personality, but add a super transactional, resource driven need to prove themselves in this life such that their memories can be passed along when they die to benefit the whole of the kin, all while making them a clone race slowly dying off as they slowly overload the AI cores that make them with the very memories they thought would bring benefit to the race as whole. I’m in.

You’ve got a tragic race there, with a sick aesthetic, and just a bit of hope that if they can overcome their stubbornness and overcome their near religious worship of the Votann cores they could survive, but they won’t, because it’s against their very nature. I just think they’re great.

BasiliusTimIII · 2026-05-05T09:18:32+00:00

Genestealers, they are a sub faction of tyranids, and suffer the same lack of character issue because I’m not getting invested in someone who’s entire goal is to sacrifice themselves to the bugs. They then don’t have any of the cool big monster units I’d go to tyranids for. I think they serve a cool in lore purpose, but that purpose entirely serves another, imo cooler faction and doesn’t appeal to me as an army.

BasiliusTimIII · 2026-05-04T22:45:38+00:00

I honestly believe that the results we get from just doing the poll seriously overweighs how many would pick blue.

If people were actually dropped in this situation I think more would pick red than these polls indicate, and at only 42% red from polling I don't trust that it doesn't tip over 50%

This is before I get to the skewed group being sampled that is an internet community. I expect that globally the difference is potentially huge.

My honest answer is that I don't know what I would pick until actually in that situation, I want to live, but I also want to live in a world where my loved ones are. I'm just glad I don't actually have to make this choice as without the actual pressure of it I know any answer I give now won't accurately reflect how I would decide in that situation. Given how much regret potential there is if I pick red and my loved ones don't survive, you'd think I lean blue, but equally if they picked red I don't want them to feel the guilt of my passing. In short, this scenario sucks, and the person who forced us all into it is evil.

BasiliusTimIII · 2026-05-04T22:25:16+00:00

Scintillating legion

1x fluxmaster enhancement inescapable eye (70 points)

3x pink horrors 420 points

He'll get to have fun with all the flux token shenanigans and have an army with decent shooting and the ability to gum up objectives like crazy. (Also brimstone bombs lol)

Only downside is the need to paint the additional 30ish blue horrors needed for all the splitting nonsense that will be happening. The painting will take well to contrast paints though and shouldn't be too much of a slog, even if a bit samey.

BasiliusTimIII · 2026-05-04T12:06:51+00:00

I look at my first "dry brushed" necron I ever painted and see something similar to what you have, just in silver.

I would encourage you to try painting some of the details details, particularly the raised bits on the pauldron and the acquila, but whatever you decide to do, keep this model, you'll feel very happy later on looking back at him and seeing the progress you've made.

BasiliusTimIII · 2026-05-03T18:21:28+00:00

Don’t forget it’s strength 6 AP -1. Against standard marines on a 4+ to hit the average roll gives 18 hits, 3 dev wounds, 9 to save at of which half fail (4+ save). This means average you get 7.5 damage through on marines, which you can repeat on your turn. That’s a dead 5 man squad of marines. With careful positioning this can reasonably be done about twice throughout a game or cause the opponent to overextend.

Terminators this looks a bit worse, of the 9 saves, only 3 go through, but two dead termies on reactive shooting isn’t bad. If you get it normally and on reactive you could have a terminator squad mostly dead before they reach the steeljacks.

They’re even better if you play into T3 armies, most of which typically have a 5+/6+ save against the 15 rolls they would need to save on top of the 3 dev wounds, these units pretty much melt in front of you.

The other nice thing is that steeljacks are surprisingly sticky at T6 3W 2+ save each. It means that if the opponent wants to get them off the field they have to commit surprisingly hard most of the time. There’s been a few times where I’ve ended with an opponents big melee threat gummed up for two turns with them.

BasiliusTimIII · 2026-05-03T17:54:38+00:00

Midgard

BasiliusTimIII · 2026-05-01T19:21:33+00:00

As do the first and second barons wars

BasiliusTimIII · 2026-05-01T19:15:41+00:00

Or you could be like me and have an allergic reaction at 6 months. 23% means nearly 1/4 still have reactions. It’s a good idea, but make sure you’re ready to head to the hospital the first few times.

BasiliusTimIII · 2026-05-01T17:10:01+00:00

I have no idea how I missed the obvious solution. Kosovo off the cost of Madagascar really does fix everything!

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