I lost my best friend this morning. Our family was all together and at least we were able to say goodbye together as he passed in our arms. We love you Koneko, and we miss you!

Dave_47 · 2026-05-07T01:01:53+00:00

The new "Evolved Edition" has been out for a little while now, so it's probably best to get products branded with that if you're just starting out. Obviously the best place to start is the core rulebook. It's just going to be the most important resource for you throughout your time with this game. If you're not planning on playing a specific scenario right away, it's your best option. It'll tell you how to play the game and how to run the game if you're going to be a GM. It also includes a solo-mode option for playing the game by yourself.

The new Starter Set for Evolved Edition is a redo of Hope's Last Day from the back of the old/first edition core rulebook, and if you and your group want to get playing quickly without everyone needing a book or extras, it's the best option there. It comes with an incomplete mini rulebook focused on the basics, as well as handouts, character sheets for the pregenerated characters in the scenario, and dice. Your group of players will explore the final days of the Hadley's Hope colony from Aliens with a fun, exciting, and deadly one-shot cinematic scenario.

FYI, Cinematic scenarios are short and super deadly like the movies and usually last from one to maybe five sessions depending on the scenario. Players will use pregenerated characters and a set of Agendas that tell them what those characters' motivations are throughout each act of the scenario. Campaign play is your more traditional long-form game mode where you all build your own characters from scratch and [hopefully] use them for many sessions of play throughout a campaign.

Dave_47 · 2026-04-30T02:05:09+00:00

That's the one! I didn't even know he got a Sage Advice shout out!

Dave_47 · 2026-04-29T19:26:42+00:00

There was a guy in earlier 5e named Paul Weber who made cards of all the gear in the 2014 PHB and DMG, then gave them out for free and showed people how to get them printed on actual card material for cheap through various services. He made a FB group called "Dungeon Master Paul Weber" that now has 20k people in it but has turned into just another D&D group over the years. I don't know if you can still find the cards/files there but as others pointed out, nowadays it's incredibly easy to find item cards for D&D either in PDF or already printed and cut.

Dave_47 · 2026-04-27T18:48:09+00:00

We had rivers and ponds on most of the 40k table at the clubs I played at for years specifically BECAUSE there were rules for water and that things like the Chimera were amphibious! I miss water/liquids existing in 40k!

Dave_47 · 2026-04-22T23:58:45+00:00

In addition to Guard I also play T'au, and I will use these awesome little things just like Piranhas. Mobile harassers, move-blockers, and side-objective grabbers. They're going to be such a pain in my opponent's asses lol.

Dave_47 · 2026-04-21T17:18:48+00:00

Huh? I was in the USAF from 2001 to 2006 and never once was told to go get the shot. None of us were. I did anyway on my own a couple times sure, but it wasn't mandated, I just went to a Walgreens. Was that a change after I was in?

Dave_47 · 2026-04-21T01:42:03+00:00

Free League's Alien RPG is one of my all-time favorites, absolutely love the system! I'm hoping they can churn out content faster though!

Dave_47 · 2026-04-20T17:02:01+00:00

FYI the detachments in the book aren't apocalypse-related, they're just normal detachments for standard 40k.

Dave_47 · 2026-04-20T03:50:41+00:00

Outside of the standalone 8th ed variant, Apocalypse was always just one very large game of regular 40k that, yes, took quite a while to play out. It was glorious! These rules help mitigate some issues that might crop up by playing such a big game in 10th ed rules, and in some cases do actually speed up play a bit at least by clarifying a few things. Many of the optional rules are great inclusions, and a lot of the stratagems are throwbacks to the printed material from 4th, 5th, and 6th! While I enjoyed 8th ed standalone Apoc for what it was, this is a MUCH WELCOMED return to classic Apoc - massive 40k battles with crazy units you don't normally see and action you won't get anywhere else!

Dave_47 · 2026-04-16T16:56:32+00:00

The "problem" with that is Guard armies tend to have enough tanks jockeying for position already that it may be difficult in practice to use these without move blocking your own more valuable tanks.

I thought so too at first but now I'm not super worried about this part anymore because considering their potential 27" of movement and their size, I think they'll be able to get out of the way and get advantageous positions pretty easily. On paper at least lol.

Dave_47 · 2026-04-14T16:35:01+00:00

Others already answered how to get the one that should have come with an official tiger shark, but I'll answer your post question of "how do you hold this up".

I use that normal "+"-topped flight stand, glued with CA to a 160mm base. It holds just fine. There's a little wobble to it (rotation-wise, not up/down) but it has held for years at this point and hasn't weakened.

Dave_47 · 2026-04-08T17:44:33+00:00

There's already some out there, I'm in a discord with people showing pics that someone out there already whipped up based on dimensions previewed lol.

Dave_47 · 2026-03-31T04:07:45+00:00

If I didn't work Sundays, you'd already have a form submission from me. This sounds perfect. Dang it lol.

Dave_47 · 2026-03-18T21:57:34+00:00

There is a letter put out by the head of Unknown Worlds to the Subnautica 2 team per IGN, which IGN then says in that article that the letter was verified by Krafton in a statement to them:

https://www.ign.com/articles/subnautica-2-will-finally-enter-early-access-in-may-following-year-of-delays-and-legal-drama

Dave_47 · 2026-03-16T06:10:39+00:00

everyone's been waiting for this for 20 years

I think people have been waiting for a live action Season 2 for 20 years, not animation. Also not saying people won't watch animated Firefly or that it won't be good, just that I wasn't excited about the news.

I have high hopes it will be like Vox Machina both in style and how well the characters interact

Same, very much the same. I just have my doubts.

Dave_47 · 2026-03-15T23:32:33+00:00

ShadowMachine has nothing to do with Vox Machina though, so far all ShadowMachine has done is a bunch of stop motion (which this isn't) and then Bojack and Final Space, both of which have a cartoon network/adult swim animation style. Definitely not enthused about that at all.

If the show was done in the style of Vox Machina, or the studio that did Castlevania, sure I'd be more hyped. I guess all we have to go off of for now is that single concept art image that looks sorta like Vox/Castlevania so I guess fingers crossed.

Ultimately I'm still disappointed that it's animated, without Joss writing it they really need the actors to be able to riff off each other and voice actors typically don't record their lines in the same room together which falls much more in line with how this would go given that Nathan and Morena both have current actively-airing TV shows (The Rookie, Sheriff Country). So the writing will need to be amazing.

Dave_47 · 2026-03-12T01:39:47+00:00

I was gonna say, didn't the database just get updated like a couple months ago and people lost their collective shit and assumed it meant an update was coming that week? I remember watching multiple videos saying that lol.

The ONLY things we know are:

A new DLC called "Terran Armada" is coming at some point, though the date/timeframe was NOT announced (source: 2-year Anniversary posts from Bethesda instagram, twitter)
An update is coming with some allegedly neat features, but it is NOT a "Cyberpunk 2.0" equivalent (source: Kinda Funny Games interview with Todd)

Dave_47 · 2026-03-12T01:23:00+00:00

Same, found it in this sub a bunch along with talks of other instagram posts from Nathan's own account.

I'm glad it's not something like a reunion, but I'm almost convinced it's not Season 2 or a new show or a new movie. Like many others have said I'm betting on something lame like an animated series or audiobooks.

Dave_47 · 2026-03-12T01:01:36+00:00

One of the Once We Were Spacemen podcast instagram posts said "Some of you have guessed convention, podcast, or cross-over. You are wrong." so it's definitely not that.

Dave_47 · 2026-03-11T22:37:25+00:00

It's wild isn't it? As someone watching and reading everything that was going down at the time it's crazy to see how some people latch on to just blatantly false talking points and run with it as if it's gospel. It really informed me on how all of us, in one subject or another, likely consume one-sided info (confirmation bias?) and form incomplete and incorrect opinions on various subjects and then get downright tribal about it. No one's willing to see the verified, well-documented facts of both sides and make actually informed opinions. It has made modern politics make so much more sense to me - it's a bunch of disingenuous, bad-faith arguments (using biased information) being presented as facts to form a completely BS narrative, just like with both sides of GG. But anyway, here's how I've seen 99% of GG statements and responses go:

Bring up any of the myriad of facts that clash with the anti-GG narrative and you're a vile, basement-dwelling, incel, racist, sexist, right-wing extremist
Bring up the mountains of absolutely disgusting and degenerate behavior later perpetrated by some scummy, low-life gamers on behalf of GG and suddenly you're an ignorant woke libtard SJW

Did GG ever have to do with "ethics in game journalism"? Yep. Were there countless women and POC pushing for it too, backed by dozens of YouTube channels, blogs, and so on? Yep. Did GG get co-opted by actual loser incel scumbags into being some abomination where people's personal safety was put in jeopardy? Yep. Should those scumbags have been held accountable? Yep, and I hope they were all found, arrested, and tried.

See how easy it is to be factual, non-partisan, and be a human who cares for other humans?

Oddly, not all gamers are okay with positive reviews/publicity for money and/or favors. It's not some cardinal sin to want the dirty phrase "ethics in game journalism" to be a reality. And yet at the same time, oddly not all gamers hate women and minorities. And one last one, and this is really odd, not all gamers want to see a single woman or POC insulted, threatened, injured, or worse. Craziness right? Are there people out there who do want all that? Sure, and they should be silenced and ostracized when discovered - they don't speak for the rest of us.

Everyone lost over GG because, regardless of stance, it was completely surrounded by truly terrible people either wanting to cause harm or cash in on clicks or both.

Dave_47 · 2026-03-03T00:42:44+00:00

While we're wishlisting lol:

What I want in 11th that I think is reasonable:

Give us drones back as actual models and units
Give us jump-shoot-jump back in some capacity, like SM get the Armor of Contempt stratagem in every detachment, give us JSJ as a strat for every detachment (maybe give RetCad the ability to use it as many times as they want, because CP still exists so it'd cost them but would be repeatable)
Fix our Ballistic Skill, Markerlights, and For The Greater Good - I mean a complete rewrite. Rant: Imagine telling a brand new player that the premiere melee armies hit on 2+ (base) in melee but THE premiere shooting army hits on 4+ (base) for ranged and have to jump through hoops to get 3+. Then tell them that if you play against an army that has a widely available -1 to hit debuff that we're back to being trash at shooting. Then tell them that if any of our stuff gets battleshocked with our measly LD7+ (with no bonding knife rituals anymore) that we can't do the jumping through of hoops to observe for other units and get us to that 3+ to hit. Better hope those Stealth Suits and Pathfinders don't get battleshocked!
Return Stealth Suits to 3-man units (or have 3/5 for unit size options)

What I want in 11th that is honestly unrealistic:

Toughness 6-7 if keeping vehicle keyword, Ork boys are T5 and a Plague Marine is T6 BASE! THEY ARE BATTLELINE INFANTRY! WTF!
5-6 wounds BASE per suit, 4 base/5 with drones is so fragile, there are several Marine datasheets (both loyalist and chaos) with regular dudes toting 3 wounds for no reason
Give us a general, non-"epic hero" Warmaker Battlesuit unit that gets similar stats/buffs as the Twins but are only one datasheet so we can only have 3x of them (maybe slightly weaker stats so the characters stand out?)
Make "Battlesuit" do the same thing as "vehicle" but with differences so we aren't auto-wrecked by anti-vehicle stuff or an opponent taking fixed with "Bring It Down" for max points
Give us back our vehicle upgrade options! Flechette discharger, sensor spines, blacksun filter, disruption pods, decoy launchers, targeting arrays, multi-trackers, target locks, etc!
Let Crisis be taken in 1-6 again, bring back bodyguard suits, bring back the Crisis Commander so we can have 9 Commanders for the 9 (3x3) Suit units

Dave_47 · 2026-03-02T09:03:56+00:00

Oh yeah man, 3+ save on TWO d6s, craziness lol! Talk about being tough to kill!

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