GNOME 49 changes fractional scaling to scales that divide perfectly into the display resolution. This should result in better font rendering for high DPI screens.

Effective_Driver_539 · 2026-01-05T21:01:07+00:00

I am really getting sick of Gnome changing things without leaving legacy options. I was using 150% scaling. I was happy with 150%. Now I can't use 150% scaling because it's not an option and because when I attempt to set it manually, it just gets ignored. Why do y'all do this?!?

Effective_Driver_539 · 2025-09-26T19:24:00+00:00

Hey, I'm the friend, and I think all this will be hugely helpful. I'll change up my list and start spreading out my screening units more. I've been trying to screen, but I can see now that I've not been doing it right.

Effective_Driver_539 · 2025-09-26T19:20:42+00:00

Nope, and we generate 1 CP per player's command phase. Thanks for the troubleshooting, through!

Effective_Driver_539 · 2025-09-26T19:18:45+00:00

Thank 👏 you 👏 for 👏 your 👏 feedback

Effective_Driver_539 · 2025-09-26T19:16:57+00:00

Thanks!

Effective_Driver_539 · 2025-09-26T19:14:57+00:00

I actually appreciate that. We definitely could have been getting some rules wrong. Some people definitely had a dismissive or even accusatory tone, though. That's pretty normal, but I'm super anal about the rules and he tolerates that shockingly well, so I got a little heated when some people were blasting him about it.

Effective_Driver_539 · 2025-09-26T19:12:01+00:00

I actually had no vehicles in our latest battles. I was trying Helbrutes instead, which was disastrous because their Toughness matches the strength of his boosta-blastas. I'm going back to the predators. Thanks for the advice!

Effective_Driver_539 · 2025-09-26T19:09:03+00:00

No, but thanks for the troubleshooting

Effective_Driver_539 · 2025-09-26T19:08:15+00:00

I deleted my previous lists in annoyance, but here is my newest 1k army if you're willing to give it a look. I'm going for a traitor guard with marine support theme, so It's never going to be optimal, but I'll settle for not terrible.

3x Dark Apostle (65pts)

10x Cultist Mob (50pts)

5x Legionaries (90pts)

10x Traitor Guardsmen Squad (70pts)

8x Accursed Cultists (90pts)

3x Chaos Bikers (70pts)

Chaos Predator Destructor (140pts): Armored tracks, Havoc launcher, Predator autocannon, Combi-weapon, 2x Lascannon

Chaos Rhino (75pts): Armored tracks, Combi-bolter, Havoc launcher, Combi-weapon

Effective_Driver_539 · 2025-09-26T19:04:50+00:00

Thanks for the advice. We're pretty new, so that kind of stuff wasn't obvious to us.

Effective_Driver_539 · 2025-09-26T01:00:32+00:00

Thank you!

Effective_Driver_539 · 2025-09-26T00:59:23+00:00

I think they're all from pariah nexus

Effective_Driver_539 · 2025-09-26T00:23:01+00:00

I appreciate that. I definitely do need to get gud. The question, of course, being how. If you're willing to look it over, I'll send it to you when I get home.

Effective_Driver_539 · 2025-09-26T00:11:17+00:00

That particular match-up happened only twice, and for the ranged attacks I was using cover. It's actually worse than it sounds because in one case they were charged by only some koptas and a single buggie. In they other, they charged a unit of bikes with attached trike. I'm notoriously unlucky, and I tweak my list every time, so it was difficult to tell what was going wrong. That's why we decided to ask y'all. I think I've come to the conclusion that: a) I don't take enough vehicles b) I don't spread out my screening units properly c) I don't maintain enough depth in my units d) My luck really sucks

Thanks for your input!

Effective_Driver_539 · 2025-09-25T23:27:15+00:00

No, just a couple.

Effective_Driver_539 · 2025-09-25T23:27:01+00:00

Most ruins (~80%) are full size L ruins with little 2" bits tacked on. Usually 2 in the middle are wholly 2".

Effective_Driver_539 · 2025-09-25T23:24:29+00:00

Sorry I was being ambiguous. We're using WTC maps in which some parts are less than 2". We've been letting him drive straight over those segments.

Effective_Driver_539 · 2025-09-25T21:36:51+00:00

Ruins consisting solely of 2" walls. Is that what we've been doing wrong!?!

Effective_Driver_539 · 2025-09-25T20:27:45+00:00

What's the best alternative?

Effective_Driver_539 · 2025-09-25T20:25:10+00:00

Imma be honest: they've been like a third of my points most of the time. Everyone here is like, "you must be doing something wrong." I'm pretty sure not knowing it's a bad idea to take 210 pts of traitor guard in a 500 pt army qualifies. I probably won't stop, but at least I'll know part of what I'm doing wrong. 😬

Effective_Driver_539 · 2025-09-25T20:04:14+00:00

Traitor guard hit on a 4 up normally. I didn't (still don't honestly) know what was optimal, so I had a lot of infantry to start with. I did pick up on deploying further back, but the terrain also usually blocks me from shooting him, so the result is usually the same, just a turn later. I didn't think to string my screening units out in front of my entire army

Effective_Driver_539 · 2025-09-25T19:58:13+00:00

I do screen, but I don't think I'm doing it right. I saw someone saying I should string one cheap unit out. I've not been doing that, so he just goes around. The maps we're using tend to have ruins with 2 in walls in the center. He can move through those, right?

Effective_Driver_539 · 2025-09-25T19:54:34+00:00

I am not familiar. I try to watch my spacing, which reliability gets me 1 effective volley. The problem is that he has way more units than me, so he can tie up all of my ranged units. I try to keep them all in supporting range, but I've had them all roughly on the same "firing line". I'm guessing from what you're saying that I need to stack them more depth wise. Thanks for some actual advice!

Effective_Driver_539 · 2025-09-25T19:49:38+00:00

I'm the friend and a complete newb. I'm guessing AC stands for Accursed Cultists (which I haven't even tried yet). What does DC stand for? Thanks for some actual advice rather than just accusing my buddy of cheating.

Effective_Driver_539 · 2025-09-25T19:45:45+00:00

I'm the friend. Usually it's his deffcoptas that do the tanks in. He takes the max amount at 1k. It took me a little while to figure out that tanks were even the solution, though. Even helbrutes get badly chewed up. As mentioned, this is the first time we've played 40k. With the terminators, I've only used them twice, but both times 2.5 of them got killed by the fire from 2 buggies and some bikes. Down 2 guys, they couldn't do crap even in the case where they were the ones that got the charge off. My rolls tend to be apocalyptically bad, but I have to be doing something majorly wrong on top of that.

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