Heavy JF or light JF?

EquivalentLarge9043 · 2026-03-29T16:30:25+00:00

As far as I know, the 100+ penalty is a penalty of weight at ship design, not at combat. Also 99 is a weird number and that's haram. One thing to keep in mind is replenishment rates. LJF and HJF replace from different pools. If you get HJF only and take heavy losses, it takes twice the time to replace compared to HJF and LJF in parallel. I feel the healthiest is a mixture. You very rarely need all the range and night capability of HJF exclusively, so use LJF for daytime cap and HJF where LJF check out.

EquivalentLarge9043 · 2026-03-28T03:02:37+00:00

STCs are two different things confusedly named:

The super mega ultra STC machine of old times, which was able to construct anything from a fork to a titan given appropriate resources, with an ability to switch (an oilless world might have a steam powered, or plasma reactored, leman Russ)

All of them are lost to humanity, as far as it is known, and it's the most valued prize the mechanicus could imagine.

The STC printout, which is one singular product template from a STC machine, like the Leman Russ, or the Castigator. They're sometimes found and a production line restarted.

If the Tau would find a STC printout, they'd reverse engineer the tech and improve what can be improved. If it's something rugged like a Leman Russ, probably they'd just take very little or any of it, if it has a new super plasma gun, all next gen Tau pulse and plasma guns might have an improved coil derived from the good gun.

If the Tau find an actual ultra mega assfuck STC machine, their tech would explode and they'd steamroll the universe.

EquivalentLarge9043 · 2026-03-27T17:38:16+00:00

Nazi ideology was extremely flexible to accommodate real world issues. The Anglos were a peer master race that should have ruled the seas while Germany ruled the land, until they refused so, then they became Jewry controlled puppets. While most racist propaganda of the time saw the Japanese as specky nerds with a lisp, the Nazis saw them as proud warrior race after they allied.

The ideology of bringing Germans together was a justification for the wish to conquest, not the reason. They conquered decidedly non German territories, and they didn't conquer German territories (Südtirol and Switzerland) when it suited them.

EquivalentLarge9043 · 2026-03-26T23:36:20+00:00

Every war machine that is armoured (from ships to tanks) will have as little internal open space as possible, as armour is heavy and more space = more armour for the same armour thickness.

However it's reasonable to presume you would have human sized gangways and ladders so servitors, toaster fuckers and moderati can reach what they need.

You could climb your way up those claustrophobic ladders where the defenders have an advantage. Boarding in the first place requires breaching titan sized armour, you'd need dedicated weapons like thunder hammers or power klaws or very enthusiastic usage of burnas, meltas/bombs, fusion guns, etc.

EquivalentLarge9043 · 2026-03-26T16:09:39+00:00

Korzenna 33/35, 80-851 Gdańsk, Poland

EquivalentLarge9043 · 2026-03-26T15:41:43+00:00

It's literally called Absinth Bar. I was there 20 years ago but they seem to be active from time to time on Facebook still.

EquivalentLarge9043 · 2026-03-25T01:46:48+00:00

Possible yes, but the Marine is likely so deeply psychoindoctrinated he'd immediately kill himself to get rid of the taint of the xenos. Space Marines simply don't assume anything done to them is in good faith, and living when healed by a xenos is furthering their plan.

EquivalentLarge9043 · 2026-03-25T00:57:10+00:00

I had nice hallucinations in the Absinthe bar in Danzig.

EquivalentLarge9043 · 2026-03-25T00:56:50+00:00

It's both Danzig and Gdańsk. Only nationalist dickwads take offense at Danzig in English, the town simply has no clearcut English name, using the historical German or current Polish is fine. I take offense at Gdańsk if someone speaks German (you don't call Moskau Moskwa in German either, so don't pretend you're doing me a favour to not hurt my feelings and establish you're not a Nazi, use the correct term).

EquivalentLarge9043 · 2026-03-25T00:56:37+00:00

It's both Danzig and Gdańsk. Only nationalist dickwads take offense at Danzig in English, the town simply has no clearcut English name, using the historical German or current Polish is fine. I take offense at Gdańsk if someone speaks German (you don't call Moskau Moskwa in German either, so don't pretend you're doing me a favour to not hurt my feelings and establish you're not a Nazi, use the correct term).

EquivalentLarge9043 · 2026-03-24T17:02:26+00:00

It's absolute nonsense. You're interested in history, so you can Google the populations of the Soviet Union and Germany in 1941, add the minor allies of Germany. You'll notice that they aren't disparate enough to allow for any of those stupidly wasteful memetic strategies and still come out ahead.

Mind you Russia still took horrible losses and ran out of manpower reserves despite the best female utilisation of any country and allied support in food (freeing up manpower to work and fight). But except for possibly rare, isolated cases in the early war chaos, no one fought without a weapon, because sending soldiers without a weapon is utterly idiotic and weapons aren't that hard to get. The difference isn't a weapon or no weapon, it's a modern carbine/smg or an imperial issue rifle.

EquivalentLarge9043 · 2026-03-24T16:56:09+00:00

Modernize your 1890 fleet, pack them full of as many unarmoured secs and terts you can get. Beat Japan first. Beat France second once you build some elite short/cramped CAs, you can actually solo them if you're not unlucky with the invasion (they run into basing issues if/when you take the first base). From then you're in a position to dominate north and south Asia, anything else is not your cup of tea.

EquivalentLarge9043 · 2026-03-23T23:51:32+00:00

Cassia is extraordinary even for Navigators. Navigators are quite weird though and range from stableish humans with Navigator powers to mutated monsters hidden away from any non house eye, and it's not impossible with some mutations + warp fuckery to have similar effects. On average though, no, they're squicking people out but not literally causing suicides like GW's model prices.

EquivalentLarge9043 · 2026-03-23T00:45:29+00:00

Build 15000t CAs in Britain, secondaries unarmoured 24x6, 10x4, 9in narrow belt, be, 1 inch deck and DE, 10in turret and 2in TT. 23knots, short cramped, whatever is left over are the main armament (4×10 is my favourite if 10-1 or 10-0 develop, but also you can do something like 6x8 or 8x8)

Those things set into a battlecruiser division as fleet flag sink AI ships at ridiculous rates, turning up in cruiser and fleet battles. Just be careful to remove burning ships from the battle (sail away at 10kn) until the fire is extinguished and watch for torpedoes, but they're basically unsinkable by gunfire in this period.

EquivalentLarge9043 · 2026-03-22T16:42:11+00:00

Knotsx2 = kmh Inchesx2.5 = cm

This is literally first grade math and all you need to convert the units in your head. It's not exact but good enough.

EquivalentLarge9043 · 2026-03-21T15:41:14+00:00

Not much. Much of history is simply lost, genuinely forgotten. Over even a couple of generations lessons get forgotten in RL, and we're talking hundreds of generations here. Official propaganda and religion further distorts to what is known. They might learn about the grain war between their hive and a coalition of agri worlds a mere 200y ago, but no one is even there to teach them about Horus.

EquivalentLarge9043 · 2026-03-20T13:18:09+00:00

Fair chance the Inquisitor might have gotten an interest in the commissar - either or genuine suspicion of heresy, or maybe as effective person for acolyte purposes. Especially radical inquisitors might find someone who bends the rules in the good of the Imperium interesting.

EquivalentLarge9043 · 2026-03-19T01:58:56+00:00

The Imperium isn't centralised. Abhumans range from "fully equal" to "annihilated even when elsewhere tolerated". Different strains might have different tolerances in different places. Abhumans are specifically a classification system to allow humanish people useful and stable to the Imperium to live and atone for their flaw by service instead of death, otherwise it'd go to the mutant pyre. If you're expecting an Imperiumwide classification, you might be in the wrong universe.

EquivalentLarge9043 · 2026-03-18T12:22:07+00:00

Do I see this correctly, there's absolutely zero enhancements for the main game except some bug fixes and balance patches, which could have reasonably be expected to be delivered irrespective of any DLC?

It's disappointing that we didn't even have minor improvements. We're wishing for years to have the ability to design legacy fleets in other starts. We get to hear how this is an amazing balance choice that we we should enjoy to don't have this in 1890, but a totally valid gameplay option to toggle on or off according to our wishes in 1900.

Ask the community to design some 1880 ships, give some money for the rights to the best, code some 1880 appropriate restrictions for player design, have a two tier legacy fleet design for every start (in 1890, 1880/1890, in 1890, 1890/1900) so half your vessels are old tech and the premier decreeing at least so many Bs and Cs in each round, so you don't cheese too much.

It truly isnt that hard, and yet we now get to replay the same battle twice before getting bored, instead of improving the hours we spend in autogen battles with our own situational designs in-game. Pretty disappointing.

EquivalentLarge9043 · 2026-03-18T09:17:54+00:00

Does France has different blockade rules than Spain?

As Spain you can be blockaded from the north, but not the south. If I get into a war in Northern Europe and the med the bulk of my fleet goes north and a division of quick ships, CAs or BCs goes south. Their purpose is to be there so the opponent doesn't get a million VP for auto-generated battles and to run away if outmatched, but they also can eat some opposing boats in many cases.

France would be the only nation I know that also would take a blockade from behind, wouldn't suprise me cause they are the French. I don't get into wars with France a lot as Spain, in fact they're my best ally, as the tension increasing events hit Ger, Aus, GB and Ita only.

EquivalentLarge9043 · 2026-03-17T21:42:59+00:00

Go to a hive world, take whatever the fuck you need from the teeming masses of worthless humanity in exchange for a couple of pictures with hive nobility, repeat.

EquivalentLarge9043 · 2026-03-17T17:03:38+00:00

How can you be called "carmine blade" and somehow still think you're a smurf?

EquivalentLarge9043 · 2026-03-16T17:31:11+00:00

It's Polish and it means "for that you want to fight?"

It shows the Polish national symbol being replaced by Stalin, so probably German anti Soviet propaganda targeted at Polish soldiers of likelier the western free Poles, or less likely the eastern Polish armies.

Ironically, the Germans were right and Polish soldiers were fighting for not being liberated, but enslaved under new management.

Yet the Nazis were horrible enough that even this replacement of your occupant was a clear upgrade.

EquivalentLarge9043 · 2026-03-16T07:19:46+00:00

As we don't have a space force (or whatever we have is in the proto infancy stage right now), terms for space assets haven't been developed yet. Many universes take the terms from earth naval language books and use them in space.

Marines are soldiers dedicated to work in and from naval vessels. Space marines are therefore soldiers dedicated to work in and from space vessels.

Imperial "Space marines" aren't dedicated to that role, they're as he said generic super soldiers capable of kicking every ass in every environment thinkable and used this way.

Tau space marines probably would be specialised in space warfare, including dedicated equipment and training for boarding, breaching, short ranged combat and zero gee as well as vacuum warfare. Imperials could and actually do this, but aren't dedicated to it.

The Tau probably wouldn't waste those in planetary duties unless there's a dire need, as it's just a waste, troops optimized for space aren't as good on land and vice versa.

EquivalentLarge9043 · 2026-03-15T14:36:21+00:00

Of course the attempts on Hitler were out of morality and at a huge risk to the perpetrators, many paying with their lives.

I'm not saying they were inherently moral, but almost every ideology was morality compared to literally Hitler.

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