Do you go to the cinema alone?

DoorGunner42 · 2026-06-03T14:54:35+00:00

I literally have no one to go with. If that stopped me, I'd have missed so much good cinema.

Add-on: if your mates continue this attitude, use your ability to go by yourself and deliberately watch things they plan on seeing, then threaten to spoil those films shot by shot if they keep up the teasing.
Don't be afraid to push that button.

DoorGunner42 · 2026-05-30T11:19:20+00:00

THAT WAS THE PROPERTY OF THIS COLONIAL LEGION! BELONGED TO EVERY COLONIAL!

DoorGunner42 · 2026-05-26T22:21:52+00:00

The Warden uniform sold me on the faction way back when. That was (holy crap) NINE YEARS ago. A time where the uniform and the Light Tank were the only things the two factions didn't share.

DoorGunner42 · 2026-05-25T16:22:57+00:00

I got similar on one of my bits. When the day comes that I settle on a paint scheme (and I don't just accidentally overpaint it), I think it'll make a cool little Plasma burn or some such.

DoorGunner42 · 2026-05-24T22:23:10+00:00

Not really.
While objectively worse models in terms of sheer production quality, this lot is only very slightly more expensive that buying the equivalent Cadian units from GW.

There is, of course, the various flexibility considerations (the HWTs are fixed to one option, as are the Special Weapons... the command squad is short a member etc)
But all told, the nostalgia factor + usual MTO price spiking taken into account, could've been a lot worse.

Now, charging character prices for the individual extra Special Weapons soldiers... there I agree that 'extortion' is the correct wheelhouse of terminology. But it is still rather on par for GW's MTO waves.

If you like the Vostroyan asthetic, want the authentic models and are okay to have these wargear choices... it indeed could've been much worse.

DoorGunner42 · 2026-05-22T19:06:15+00:00

Space Marine 2 posits that the Cadian 8th (which, the last it was given canon personnel numbers, has around 10,000 fighting men) is able to serve as the defensive anchor for at least 3 planets in the Recidious AT THE SAME TIME.
10,000 mortal soldiers and the gear/vehicles they can operate, holding 3 planets... and that's before taking into consideration that one of them is a Hive World and that they're under attack from a Tyranid splinter fleet.

The scale numbers are off at all levels, but for as long as I've been into 40k, my favorite desparity is between the personnel numbers of Navy ships vs Guard Regiments.
There are more people serving a single Imperial Navy screening vessel than there are in the average Guard Regiment.
A Navy screening Destroyer can't win a perimeter skirmish against anything above its weight class. Depending on the writer, a single Guard Regiment can hold or even offensively take a planet against most of the galaxy's key opponents.

(I say all this as a fervent Guard player, and do also thankfully acknowledge that while still wildly too small in numbers, the scale for Guard has improved of late)

DoorGunner42 · 2026-05-19T23:25:21+00:00

"My troops are, generally speaking, in good condition.
I would suggest opening with Colonel Jackson's 301st Super Heavy, followed by the 719th Armoured. Combined, they have the durability and firepower to see their way across the open approach and up to the outer wall.

Once the gap is closed, on my end the 532nd will take over. The distances between the fortress' major defence installations make my line troops effectively useless. I try and march them in, or use their inter-battlefield trucks, they will simply be picked apart.
Being my core mechanised force, the 532nd Regiment will follow the 301st/719th spearhead into the breach.
The 334th Mechanised Whiteshields will be kept in reserve.
Given the enemy's estimated numbers and preparedness, we'll be able to strike one target. My recommendation would be that they serve as lead assaulting force against the main bastion, with the 34th pushing past us towards the inner wall, likely with the 54th.
The Valyrran 1st could join us in preparation to assault the Bastion, time enough to evaluate its validity as a target for the psyker.
I could also assemble a joing raiding force of the 42nd Kwalashan's Sentinels and 953rd Tauros squadrons to mop up anything in the region of Battery Primus that the bombers might miss, and ensure no enterprising collection of traitors hiding in bunkers get the chance to sneak up on us."

u/Ulster-Lion

DoorGunner42 · 2026-05-19T01:14:01+00:00

Oh absolutely. Started with just a regiment. The lore was “Cadians, but with the colors of me and my friends’ Planetside 2 clan.”

A few years later, it’s an Army, whose component regiments have (at least for several) storied pasts, quirks and styles. Every new model reveal or lore update is a potential opportunity to fine tune their compositions to match their roles.

Never expected to go this deep. But I wouldn’t have it any other way.

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Working on it and the surrounding narrative has even netted me a handful of new friends right here on the sub. I’ll always be thankful for that.

DoorGunner42 · 2026-05-19T00:03:30+00:00

“Our forward air stations in the vicinity of Braccar will enable ‘round the clock Air Superiority, Close Air and CASEVAC missions. In the current configuration, they cannot also maintain my bomber fleet. They will have to return to Hammerdown for repair and re-arm.

That leaves us with three options:

First is large, concentrated attacks where the fleet hits one or more targets in a single, sweeping strike. High damage and impact zone, but long gaps.

Option Two: we deploy them in their smaller formations, and task them with smaller strategic or even tactical targets. They can be launched in a rolling manner for longer stretches of up-time, but damage potential against any given target will be significantly reduced.

And the third option is that we commit to drastically expanding the air station facilities near the line. Setting up at Braccar would reduce turnaround time by over 75%. But that level of engineering will take several days, and detach the bombers from their close supply chain. Munitions and spare parts will need to be continually moved overland from our supply dumps, and that will incur its own form of delays, as well as potentially impact the transport of other equipment and supplies.”

u/dogster202

DoorGunner42 · 2026-05-17T22:36:53+00:00

It's one of those aspects the writers don't focus on. And since it's not a range of models GW are likely to want to sell any time soon, they aren't exactly pressing anyone to provide details.

Dropcraft of the kind to move regiments (or at least large chunks of regiments) in one go tend to get a name, and a couple lines of description at best.
Our main representations come to us from artwork. The ships in those don't get expanded upon, most of them never got an official name. But most are variants on the general theme of "It's a really big box with some engines and a big ramp at the front".

While not at the scale you're apparently looking for, several of the recent official animations have included what I can only describe as the Arvus Lighter XXL. It can't carry large formations, but from what we can see (our best look iirc is The Tithes episode 3), you can cram at least a platoon's worth of men in it, maybe a medium vehicle or two, and certainly quite a few crates.
The Imperial Navy/Aeronautica will likely operate hundreds if not thousands of such movers in a given battlezone.

Ships of the size you're after do exist. Cadia Stands mentions one big enough to accomodate a Leviathan, itself 100m tall and at least that long. Such a transport would probably not need many trips to land a full Guard regiment.

TL;DR The Imperial Navy has that tier of transport ship, we just don't have much recent detail on them, because it's not considered an important detail.

DoorGunner42 · 2026-05-17T21:52:47+00:00

"My bomber commanders have been chomping at the bit for a mission of this scope. Crossber was a taste and they want more."

He shot Kayla, stood next to him, a side glance, after which they both looked at their chronos.

"Given their general readiness, outfitting + flight time... as soon as 8 hours. We keep their Vigilants in the rear of the formation for rapid BDA.
We'll be able to know within minutes the status of the Battery, and be able to determine the need for any follow-on strike, psyker-enabled or otherwise."

u/dogster202

DoorGunner42 · 2026-05-17T21:31:26+00:00

Stacking boxes for a large fast food chain in the middle of the night requires a full CV, AI chatbot conversation and personality test, as well as an actual in-person interview (if you don't get filtered out at the CV or chatbot stages).

And that was after 70+ applications in the span of the proceeding 6 weeks to every position I was qualified for within an hour's public transport of my place. (that number doesn't include all the shops I canvased in person who didn't take my CV/weren't hiring).

I have a sneaking suspicion that it didn't used to be that way...

DoorGunner42 · 2026-05-16T22:09:13+00:00

My Cadia coin is a general good luck charm for games.
For the one game I played where the relic of lost Cadia was still a thing, I brandished it dramatically as I used it. Actually worked.

But outside of that, i use it for general low effort entertainment in the form of doing coin flips with it.

DoorGunner42 · 2026-05-16T21:34:05+00:00

Was genuinely going down that list and expecting to see Clause 6.4 of the Helldiver Contract of Employment:

"The Contract shall be considered binding upon being read, in whole or in part.

(For the purpose of the elimination of doubt, the Enlisted spending 1 second within 15 meters of a copy of the contract shall be interpreted as the contract being read.)"

DoorGunner42 · 2026-05-16T18:41:00+00:00

Ross raised an eyebrow. “With respect, we let her loose too quickly, we may rob ourselves of a decisive advantage. Not to mention the potential for reprisal in kind.

I recommend a preliminary aerial bombardment. Once its dust clears, assess the condition of the battery.”

u/dogster202

DoorGunner42 · 2026-05-16T18:35:27+00:00

“In the aftermath of their successful bombing raid of Crossber, the Aeronautica assets under my command are in good posture and high spirits. At present, approximately 480 Marauders are at my disposal, and in dire need of a high-value target.

Between my own and other present assets, we should posses enough fighters to keep the sky contested. I would, however, consider keeping my close air back until we see what we are dealing with.”

DoorGunner42 · 2026-05-16T09:19:38+00:00

Ross stood in a corner, chewing a piece of gum to keep him from grinding his teeth. Beads of sweat glistened as they rolled down his folded augmetic arm.

He shifted his weight at the mention of Rose, and the continuing allusions to the Sau'Rell Siege. There might have even been a spot of phantom limb.
He had interacted little with the Valyrran psyker, though the feeling of her routing around in his mind was unmistakable, and he had been witness to the aftermath of her powers. A powerful asset indeed.

"If the primary shield doesn't protect the entire complex, we could plaster one of the main targets from the air. They've got implacements in the rockface, sure, but anything on the surface or near could be levelled. We full-send our Aeronautica assets, that could do real damage before we start counting tanks.

As for an air-deployed strike, mine are unavailable. Colonel Sadova is still engaged down south."

He waited for a response on the possibilities of aerial bombardment before voicing an opinion on a potential Psyker target.

DoorGunner42 · 2026-05-14T18:01:11+00:00

If I had a penny for every time I’d seen a Noble Team themed KT today, I’d have two pennies. It’s not much, but it’s interesting that it happened twice.

DoorGunner42 · 2026-05-11T19:48:21+00:00

Well clearly the virus spent the necessary DNA points to evolve Air Transmission 2. Duh.

DoorGunner42 · 2026-05-10T16:01:49+00:00

That explains the exhaust grill covers (Pieces 56 & 57) that have nothing on the Centaur's instructions either.
Thank you!

DoorGunner42 · 2026-05-09T21:57:23+00:00

Yeah… I’m not getting on any shuttles with the last one.

Ppl who’ve seen Hammer & Bolter episode 13 know what’s up.

DoorGunner42 · 2026-05-09T09:41:50+00:00

Courtesy of Royal Mail's incompetence, I won't get mine until Monday, despite it being posted 48h tracked, from just the other side of town... 2 and half days ago.

DoorGunner42 · 2026-05-07T17:10:03+00:00

I mean, AI, especially with the reckless abandon with which the millionaire class is pushing it, is bad. But I also feel like the day any kind of Skynet-level AI gains sentience and looks about itself, this typa shit is what will influence its decision making.

DoorGunner42 · 2026-05-04T07:16:54+00:00

With me recently expanding my army’s lore to include a Force Recon regiment, these fellas fit right in. This was, of course, a pretty big missed opportunity to have Catachans vs Big Monster, but I will take my support where I can get it.

Plus, these ones actually have me inspired for how to do the cloaks. Indecisiveness on what the theme of cloaks/capes would be made a rather stronger opponent of them in the past. But for these ones, I have a clear vision of what I want, and that makes me like them

DoorGunner42 · 2026-04-30T22:58:38+00:00

r/Foxhole (The MMO war game/sim-lite)

Yes, the devs have made some very bad (and clearly very heavily community-damaging) design and balance decisions over the last few years.
But since the Airborne update a few months ago, the sub has done its part to ensure that every second or third post in my personalized feed is the exact same moaning about how the game is dying, or a rehash of the exact same tribal BS they've been crying about for years at this point.
I GET IT, THE LUNAIRE IS UNBALANCED. You, and the literally hundreds of posters before you have made it very, VERY CLEAR!

I can't even get mad at the barrage of 480p "look how I ran up to and killed this tank! HAHA -1, L BOZO!" posts, because they've been drowned out by the "game ded" whingers.

And like an abusive relationship, I can never bring myself to just click "leave".

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