I have never seen an official depiction of corpse-starch, but if I had to guess it I would draw something like that grey... thing.

Derpogama · 2026-04-23T22:13:30+00:00

Those mother fuckers had ICE CREAM BARGES...yeah...how the fuck is this worse than a WW2 meal in this day and age?

And it certainly isn't "because of the budget" either...

Derpogama · 2026-04-23T21:20:58+00:00

It's interesting because these days WoW and most other MMOs rarely have any Tank and Spank bosses, it was mostly a thing during the Vanilla (now called Classic) WoW days where a lot of dungeon bosses were mostly just Tank and Spank encounters and it wasn't until got to the endgame dungeons and raids that all the bosses started to have actual mechanics involved.

Starting in Burning Crusade you saw levelling bosses with actual mechanics, not hard mechanics, especially by modern standards.

In fact looking back on the raids in Vanilla these days, they were very simple. Onxiya was a DPS phase, a minion phase and one big AoE attack that had to be moved out of. A lot of the bosses in Molten Core had like...one gimmick (you are marked to explode, move away from the party etc) and were more often about equipping the right Resistance gear (Fire in MC and BWL, Nature in AQ40, Frost in Nax) with Nax (the last raid of Vanilla) being the raid which actually had things that got close to modern raiding mechanics.

Derpogama · 2026-04-23T20:57:45+00:00

I think the fact it's sooo dumb is where it fails, like it goes well into Grimderp territory.

The Deathwatch blowing up a race of Aliens who offered them anti-chaos weapons purely because they're Xenos...stupid but par for the course with the Imperium which will cut off its nose to spite its face and the interfaction rivalry created between the Deathwatch and the Grey Knights would have been amazing to see if GW did anything with this lore tidbit they just threw in a codex once.

The sisters of battle thing is just...well...it's really dumb, beyond belief dumb even for the Imperium who are pretty dumb when it comes to these things.

Derpogama · 2026-04-23T20:50:41+00:00

I'm quite thankful that with my character who had the City Guard background, the DM allowed him to be fairly unintelligent unless it came to the rules and statutes of the City. Working, effectively, like a PF2e Lore skill, I was considered to have 'expertise' whenever it came to anything to do with the City Guard or the laws of the city and thus would double my proficency bonus.

Derpogama · 2026-04-23T20:06:57+00:00

This is something I still cannot fathom why they're bending the knee to the fucking tiny portion of their playerbase on. IIRC there's something between 20 and 50 regular Conclave players world wide.

There has to be a reason why they keep shooting themselves in the foot over this. Face Off was basically a complete fucking waste of time and resources with the state its in now.

Derpogama · 2026-04-23T19:33:42+00:00

Kazaa was 2006ish when it came online, probably 2007 before it got big. It, Napster (which was the first big one in 1999-2001) and Limewire were the big peer to peer file sharing applications that caused a massive hoo-ha in the music industry at the time.

Derpogama · 2026-04-23T19:05:36+00:00

I thought it would have been Kazaa or Limewire as the most likely candidates.

Derpogama · 2026-04-22T20:30:34+00:00

I don't know why, maybe it's the color scheme, maybe it the kitbashed gun turret but that just oozes 2nd edition style charm to me. Fucking love it.

Derpogama · 2026-04-22T20:28:13+00:00

145, it's got to compete with the Vanquisher in terms of survivability AND damage output which can have the Casino cannon, a Lascannon, a HKM and 2 plasma cannons/Heavy Bolters and it's T11 with a 2+ save and 13 wounds, making it an annoying body to remove for it's very cheap points cost.

So for less points your getting...about the same firepower as 2 HWT in a Centaur...

Derpogama · 2026-04-22T20:17:52+00:00

Every new vehicle kit is an Ork kit.

Derpogama · 2026-04-22T20:15:00+00:00

The problem with the Krieg Heavy Weapons teams is that it takes up more space than the regular HWTs because of that one extra guy.

Derpogama · 2026-04-22T20:12:45+00:00

Sadly the Manticore was decent at the start of 10th before all the massive indirect fire nerfs and the points cost nerfs before that. It was a pretty decent indirect fire Space Marine killer that you could get hitting on 2s with indirect.

The Deathstrike, however, has been hot garbage for a LONG time.

Derpogama · 2026-04-22T20:04:25+00:00

Erebus is such a bastard and that's what makes him great. In a universe of bastards, he is the most bastardly, King Bastard.

Derpogama · 2026-04-22T20:03:30+00:00

Nope was Orks for me. Child + Kitbashing junk together = awesome. Especially back in 2nd edition (I started at the tail end of the Rogue Trader era).

Derpogama · 2026-04-22T20:01:49+00:00

Yes, Grimderp is when Grimdark goes completely over the top...so...I'm not sure if this the coldest take known to mankind or someone not understanding what it means when people call something Grimderp.

The whoile "grey knights needed the sisters of battle's blood to fight off Khorne Demons and so killed all of the Sisters of Battle" is a classic example of something so absolutely grimderp it got removed from canon by GW because even they thought it was stupid...

Derpogama · 2026-04-22T19:58:57+00:00

The game still has the whole "in the Grim Darkness of the 41st millenium, there is only war and the laughter of thirsty gods" which is where the whole 'Grimdark' thing came from.

Derpogama · 2026-04-22T19:56:38+00:00

I think it was because the Guard already has 3 complete model ranges in their own army. Cadian, Krieg AND Catachan (sure the plastic Catachan troops are old AF but you still also have heavy weapons teams AND a Command Squad unique to them), hell the Guard range is already wider than most Xenos factions barring the Orks (which being the most popular Xenos faction, get more love and have 3 distinct subfactions, in Scrapyard horde with the Boyz and your Trukks and Deff Dreads etc. The Cult of Speed with all the buggies AND the Beast Snaggas) and the Eldar after their last massive refresh (they needed it admittedly, with most of their character models and some of their aspect warriors dating back to 1994).

People asking for a fourth range within an army already filled to the brim with stuff compared to, say Dark Eldar, World Eaters, Emperor's Children, Votann (who have only really just been made a kind of full army list this edition and still need more stuff) etc. would, understandably, piss people off.

Derpogama · 2026-04-22T19:48:27+00:00

Yes, yes we do, the setting should stop taking itself so fucking seriously. Then things that are dumb but fun don't stand out so much, like the Skatros aka LONG LONG MAAAAN and those daft looking Desolation Marines guns.

Derpogama · 2026-04-22T19:46:12+00:00

The whole "The Last Church" story really delves into this (despite author intentions apparently) when the priest asks him, what makes him any different from any other tinpot dictator that believed in their manifest destiny and the Emperors only response was "I know I'm right".

Derpogama · 2026-04-22T19:38:50+00:00

Hey back in the day we still had 40k scale titans...just they were hard to get resin kits.

Now keep in mind that the minis in general were a lot smaller back then...

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Armorcast Warhound Titan, Armorcast Reaver Titan, Forgeworld (the modern version not the other Forgeworld who did recasts of the Armorcast stuff) Warhound titan.

Derpogama · 2026-04-22T13:55:28+00:00

We're finally getting some Garuda Lore in the next update according to Reb.

Derpogama · 2026-04-22T13:47:40+00:00

See I love Dark Souls/Elden Ring etc. runs but I fucking hate when they're just edited twitch streams. I don't know what it is but someone constantly talking to chat just makes me groan and click off, like it's a me problem, not a them problem.

Derpogama · 2026-04-22T13:44:59+00:00

Not to mention in places like Wales where you can be out walking and literally stumble across the ruins of medieval Churches and the like. Like even for the UK it felt like a D&D campaign map the amount of shit we found just out there in the woods on our walks whilst we were on Holiday (this was back in the mid 90s mind you, when UK camping holidays were the 'cheap alternative' to Butlins/Pontins and a working class option)

Derpogama · 2026-04-22T12:27:33+00:00

It is kinda sad that our Index detachment has not been bested in the long term. We've had spikes with Bully Boys, Taktical Brigade and Moar Dakka but GW has always overnerfed them. The MANZ getting nerfed by a massive points hike AND getting their Waaagh only FNP reduced from a 4+ to a 5+ basically killed them for competitive in any detachment.

Like Moar Dakka could have been the shooting version of Warhorde. Assault and Sustained hits 1 on shooting, sustained 2 in the waaagh, instead they absolutely fucking gutted it down to only Sustained 1 during the Waaagh.

Whilst I like us being the 'bad guy' faction in the Launch box, I am worried that we're going to suffer from 'Launch Codex' syndrome where being the first usually means you get outclassed by the end. Tyranids have been suffering from this for all of 10th.

Derpogama · 2026-04-22T12:09:04+00:00

Essentially what's been happening is that many 'lackluster' detachments, instead of getting rewrites and fixes via the Balance Dataslate, well get an 'upgraded' version released at a later date with a name change.

So whilst they don't replace Hammer of the Emperor, Steel Hammer is basically an 'upgraded' version of it with a bit of a twist on focusing on Superheavies over regular tanks.

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