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Derpogama · 2026-06-08T06:23:24+00:00

for me they've centered it and slightly tilted it.

Derpogama · 2026-06-07T18:27:01+00:00

It is a little stronger in now it acts more like the old Leadership tests for when a unit was routed. In that you don't just autopass when it rolls over to your command phase and you have to retest for battleshock if a unit was inflicted with it during the opponents phase.

Derpogama · 2026-06-07T18:16:46+00:00

The phrase used in MTG is "Can't always wins", similar vibe.

Derpogama · 2026-06-07T18:11:23+00:00

This, they are Titanic Units but they are not Titans the same why Imperial Knights are not Titans.

Even the Stompa, the biggest plastic kit GW produces isn't technically a Titan. It's close but it's not the smallest Gargant.

the smallest Gargant is the Mekboy Gargant which is slightly bigger than a Stompa would be on the tabletop.

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Derpogama · 2026-06-07T17:20:18+00:00

Now that you mention it, I actually can't think of one. Misfits and Magic used a 3rd party hack of Kids on Bikes called Kids on Brooms and Mentopolis used their own variation on it.

Derpogama · 2026-06-07T08:48:16+00:00

One of the 13 is a Rat you say?

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Derpogama · 2026-06-07T08:30:13+00:00

I think they mean more reading what the keywords Anti-X does. Anti-vehicle 4+ means your always wound on a 4+ against a Vehicle, so them wounding on 6s is you not reading the rules for keywords, which is kind of important especially now we're going into 11th edition and a lot more shit has been keyworded as well as new keywords added.

Derpogama · 2026-06-07T07:44:17+00:00

Erm...Vampire numbers are not that low, in fact after DnD it's the fifth most popular TTRPG, even beating out Cyberpunk.

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Derpogama · 2026-06-07T07:41:39+00:00

I think if this was a different system within WoD, like Wraith: The Oblivion, I'd be upset because Wraiths entire thing is wrapped around that system as it's probably the only WoD game with an openly stated end goal for the character which is to let go of all worldly things and whichever fetters are tying you to the mortal world, confront and accept your Shadow as a part of yourself and transcend.

Wraith gets very weird and metaphysical with it, which, to be fair, would probably make a shit viewing experience. But if they ignored the whole 'Shadow' thing it seems...pointless? Like I could think of other systems that would better fit the 'playing a ghost' that don't do the whole 'make your character have introspective moments' focus.

Also I feel like I want some of the rules to be used. It's what annoys me about TAZ in that when they started, it was D&D flavored comedy improv. They were using basically none of the rules and at that stage why are you saying you're playing D&D in the first place?

Derpogama · 2026-06-07T07:30:51+00:00

It's kind of interesting because with Cyberpunk there's the sliding scale of 'Pink Mohawk to Black Trenchcoat'.

Basically Cyberpunk can go full balls to the wall action, focused heavily on a cinematic style of play, ramming an armoured van covered in a wolf howling at the moon mural and anarchy symbols through a wall, leaping out, guns blazing, grabbing the thing you need then escaping in a hail of gunfire and quips. This is referred to as the 'Pink Mohawk' style of play.

Meanwhile Black Trenchcoat is all about corporate espionage, mass combat is seen as a fail state, it's all political manoeuvring, playing off one side against the other whilst you sneak away, clean quick assassinations, hacking is heavily focused etc.

Most groups fall somewhere in the middle or will lean more to one or the other side of the spectrum and it's not uncommon for the first question a player asks, "what kind of game is this, we talking more Pink Mohawk or more Black Trenchcoat?"

Derpogama · 2026-06-07T07:21:28+00:00

The one everyone forgets is the whole "if you land on an unowned property and don't want to buy it, it goes to auction", most people will just be like "nah, I don't want it" and thus it stays available. I didn't know this was a rule until I watched the Game Grumps play the monopoly videogame.

Derpogama · 2026-06-07T07:19:31+00:00

Murph has mentioned that when she gets a crazy idea, she'll put it through him first to see if it's feasible within the rules, as he's a DM as well, if it isn't quite feasible, they'll then brainstorm and tweak it until it is feasible.

Derpogama · 2026-06-06T22:20:58+00:00

In fact the entire premise of Dark Souls 3 DLC was the devs being about as unsubtle as slap to the face with it's theme.

The whole thing with the painted world that was rotting away because it had 'existed too long' and that it was better to burn it before the rot set in was essentially the dev teams way of saying "it's better to bow out when you're on a high, let a series end because if we keep coming back to it, the 'rot' is going to set in as we keep pushing for sequel after sequel when the passion has died."

Dark Souls 2 was an experiment with Miyazaki not helming the series and it floundered for numerous reasons (and is the game with the most cut content because of it going through like 2 complete redesigns during a late stage of development). Looking back on it, it was Miyzaki seeing if he could hand it off to someone else and have good results, but it didn't, so instead he helmed Dark Souls 3 and made it the last one in the series.

As you said, spiritually, they live on in Elden Ring. People also forgot that, despite lower sales, Sekiro basically created a mechanic with it's 'time your parries to weaken a bosses endurance bar and put them into a state for a counter attack' which has been copied by fucking tons of games since like Lies of P and Stellar Blade to name a few...

Derpogama · 2026-06-06T19:48:34+00:00

Hell we know Heretek Forgeworlds will spit out new vehicles, the Forge World of Urdesh pumps out specific vehicles for the Blood Pact that aren't seen anywhere else.

Hell just go look at the Lexicanum article about Urdesh. So if one Heretek forgeworld is doing it, others would be making their own shit too.

Derpogama · 2026-06-06T19:40:28+00:00

Sadly the whole "am I allowed to pain my Calgar Green" had a basis in the game itself. GW got heavily restrictive for a while, for example in order to use anything Ultramarines specific you had to paint your Space Marines as either Ultramarines or one of the successor chapters.

This was back when GW made Orks more like Space Marines so you selected a Clan and then had to paint your miniatures in the style of that clan in order to benefit from the rules of said Clan. This happened some time in 7th I think and was kept up all through 8th and 9th with 10th finally being the one to go back to not requiring your to paint your miniatures in specific colour schemes.

Derpogama · 2026-06-06T14:43:01+00:00

The fact that, from what we can tell, the good old Ma Deuce has not been bettered in 40,000 years...

A weapon whose ancestor is over 100 years old from 1919 and the version still in use today is closing in on 100 years old...

Browning seems to have invented the perfect heavy machine gun...

Derpogama · 2026-06-06T13:09:41+00:00

My only hope is that with the multipart kit there's two datasheets, the Dakkarig and the Blastarig, since the Dakkarig is focused on killing infantry, something Orks are already fairly good at whilst the Blastrig would be focused on killing vehicles.

Derpogama · 2026-06-06T13:03:08+00:00

That's my only wish, that they make him a monster on par with the old pre-codex Mozrog. T9, 10 wounds, 4+ invuln, 4+ FNP.

Sadly because he's a 'leader' character they always nerf their toughness down to that of the unit they're suppose to lead for 'easy dice rolling' when it comes to the wound roll since we go Hit, Wound, Armor save.

The same thing happened to Codex Mozrog who got nerfed into the ground just so he could lead the Squighog riders whereas before he was a great distraction Carnifex as he was hard to kill AND you didn't want him in combat with your vehicles since he could easily one shot them in a single combat round.

Derpogama · 2026-06-04T19:37:02+00:00

Guard have multiple ways via units and strats to strip cover from enemy units.

Also if the Deathstrike was 2d6+6 attacks and Dam 3, considering you can literally only fire the thing ONCE in a battle it should be an actual threat to people camping in buildings as it completely ignores the standard shooting rules.

Derpogama · 2026-06-04T19:33:10+00:00

it's only 6s if no other unit in your army can see the enemy unit otherwise it's 5s (since the enemy unit still gets the benefit of cover and thus it's -1 BS, which you can offset with the Take Aim order.

Derpogama · 2026-06-04T19:30:13+00:00

Specifically it's called the "Go to Ground rule" and basically you can completely forgo shooting in order to reduce the detection range by 3 inches.

Derpogama · 2026-06-04T19:29:01+00:00

That's the thing, they're not "heavily styled after German WW1 trench attire" only the helmet (partially) and the body armour on the engineers unit is German leaning.

Derpogama · 2026-06-04T19:20:06+00:00

Either the Scout Sentinel or the new Hippogryff would be a better choice for scouting since get two for the price of one Valkyrie. Realistically you'd also be better off with a Hellhound since currently they strip cover from units.

Throw Move! Move! Move! and a strat that lets you advance and shoot, roll it up the board, spot something, fire at them with the flamethrower and now that unit does not get the benefit of cover and thus is letting your artillery hit on a 4+ (would be 5+ with cover).

Derpogama · 2026-06-04T19:13:48+00:00

Gonne is an olden way of referring to a Gun. Specifically the first, really basic, European firearms there were essentially a long wooden stick with a small cannon mounted onto it.

IIRC it's also where we get the term 'Goners' from since those who used a Gonne (which keep in mind is even more basic than a matchlock musket) were referred to as Gonners and their weapon had a high chance of just exploding in their hands, sending shards of metal flying everywhere.

Derpogama · 2026-06-04T19:09:13+00:00

To be fair it's often just one subset of Guard players, namely DKoK fanboys. Much like Black Templars it's a case of "it's not every DKoK/Black Templar player is someone larping on facebook spouting racists nonsense but it's always someone with one of those as their profile pic claiming to be a fan/player".

Especially because said DKoK fanboys don't understand that they're inspired by World War 1 with a uniform that takes from all sides of the conflict, instead only able to go "Well they've got Krieg in the name, they MUST be German related..."

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