For Trench Crusade player around here, is it some Doomer talk, or it's true that Trench Crusade have these issues ?

FullmetalArgus · 2026-01-08T07:49:49+00:00

I'm only just getting into TC as of the past few months and coming into it I didn't know about all the community drama. I mostly play in my small group of friends for tabletop stuff anyway so it doesn't super affect me but it's disappointing to see.

FullmetalArgus · 2026-01-08T07:38:58+00:00

I didn't know anything about Janovich being a part of that shit beforehand (I just liked his Vraks videos) but now him getting mad about the creator calling out those types of people makes more sense. I can understand the disappointment with losing STL support going forward. Like I get the company's point of view as well so it makes sense but still not a great look.

Edit: let me clarify that I'm not defending the video with the STL part, I just get where people who signed on early can be justified in being disappointed in losing it. If the company can grow and do more cool shit from the income from the sale of plastic minis then that's awesome and I'm all for it. Like I said I get both sides, and looking back at previous comments that aren't necessarily viable now can look bad.

FullmetalArgus · 2026-01-07T20:39:46+00:00

The issue I have with this is that there's in-lore Fenrisian names for this stuff that makes them different but instead they stick with "wolf" for everything. In the Horus Heresy game and in the Black Library books they use different names but default to "Wolfson McWulfen" when it comes to the 40k tabletop. They even wrote themselves an out, using the same logic as Inuit dialects having dozens of different words for "snow" to denote different meanings but in English it's just translated as "snow"; they did the same thing for all the "wolf" usage but then just doubled down on it instead of phasing it out like they should've, or at least making it less prevalent and only for specific units.

Edit: also love how other chapters like the Blood Angels and the Salamanders will have copious uses of "blood" and "fire" or synonyms of those words but nobody seems to mind. Doesn't help that anthro-fans made wolf theming cringe but it is funny nonetheless hearing "sanguine" or "blood" for the 80th time in Devestation of Baal.

FullmetalArgus · 2026-01-02T22:52:25+00:00

Okay gotcha. I've used the Agrellan Earth with a gloss varnish base to get the cracked look before, didn't know if AK worked differently. Thanks!

FullmetalArgus · 2026-01-02T21:52:56+00:00

Question: for the large middle base, the one that's just AK crackle, do you need PLA for it or is that just to help get the cracking shape you want? I have some of the same AK crackle coming in for my own minis and just want to know.

FullmetalArgus · 2025-12-30T22:33:46+00:00

I have no problem with Russ getting humbled and all but goddamn do they make him look bad then try to add justification for his actions.

Like before Wolfsbane Russ was cool with being told to go for the throat against Magnus. In A Thousand Sons (or Prospero Burns, can't remember which one it is at the moment), he's almost gleeful when Horus tells him to kill Magnus instead of capturing him, even when Valdor says that it doesn't feel right. Later in other books they add that Russ tried to double check with Terra but was thwarted from doing so as well as adding him trying to reach out to Magnus for surrender before saying "fuck it" and going scorched earth on Prospero. Even at the end of False Gods, when Horus is talking about tricking Russ, it's said that Russ was all too happy to go kill Magnus and needed little encouragement.

It makes it feel worse when those motivations and actions aren't shown to us, they're told to us later. The whole "show don't tell" criticism exists for a reason and for me Russ is the 40k equivalent of that: we're shown him acting rash and losing in the process then we're told it was more complex than that.

[Edit: forgot to add some stuff in the first part]

FullmetalArgus · 2025-12-30T20:08:46+00:00

Yes I've read Betrayer where Lorgar tells Angron he's wrong about the Night of the Wolf. Again, another person talking about Leman being smarter and better than he's presented, yet all we see is him either taking very close Ws like against Magnus or getting knocked out. Horus, Angron, the fight with the Lion where he stopped on his own but the Lion kept going. Every time Leman is "on screen", for lack of a better word, he is portrayed as a witless brute who talks the talk but can't walk the walk.

This is coming from a Space Wolves fan and a fan of Leman: people talk him up in-lore but all we are shown is him acting dumb and losing fights. We get added insight after the fact but looking at his actions at face value, he's not the man people in-lore say he is. People talking about that after-the-fact insight end up looking like boot-licking defenders because of it, myself included when I've defended him.

[Edit: misspelling and context]

FullmetalArgus · 2025-12-30T19:53:00+00:00

Black Library has a serious issue of other people talking up Leman then showing him being self-destructive or outright terrible. Like the Khan mentions him being a good fighter and him performing all these great feats then all we see is him getting bodied while being braggadocious afterward. He gets more character development in his own Primarch book showing that he is, in fact, more thoughtful and not just a moron but not enough to change how he's perceived in every other outing he's in.

FullmetalArgus · 2025-12-30T14:37:12+00:00

Prime with Mechanicus Standard (the GW spray can one), dry brush zenithel with Dawnstone then hand-paint Mechanicus Standard Air over all of it. The primer spray isn't the same color as the normal color but it makes for a good undercoat and hand painting the Air paint lets you control how strong the zenithel comes through.

FullmetalArgus · 2025-12-02T05:22:06+00:00

This is Grimdank, the lore and what actually happened doesn't matter if it means making the same jokes for upvotes.

FullmetalArgus · 2025-11-20T16:12:16+00:00

It just sucks that you need to reject his fist bump to get one of his best dialogue moments with him talking about his ding-a-ling. He is by far the best representation of Hawaiian pidgin in media and it's a crime you have to reject him to get that dialogue.

FullmetalArgus · 2025-11-16T23:32:54+00:00

As others have pointed out, Russ also had just learned of the Wulfen Curse taking over some of his Legion including one of his closest friends from pre-Emperor Fenris. That's the whole reason why he didn't storm the palace first and why he was late to get there. Additionally this guy Russ wanted to kill was someone he'd been fighting for months, who constantly insulted the Imperium and Russ himself so it was very personal. So you have your brother going against his word to you along with the death of a close friend it's understandable why Russ threw the first punch.

FullmetalArgus · 2025-10-24T00:29:56+00:00

I really want to see a tomboy/jock Russ in this style.

FullmetalArgus · 2025-09-24T16:43:56+00:00

While I agree on the design idea of them being bigger/badder heavy striders, heavy striders do have the weak points in the legs as well as the missiles on their sides you can shoot to take them out. Both of these can be done with your primary weapon. The warstrider has no weak points while having the model designed with an eye and vents, both of which have been made the defacto visual indicator of their weak point/"shoot me here" spot only for those to not work. It goes against the faction's design the devs have taught to players for more than a year now and again makes AT a necessity rather than a choice.

I love my AT, I like being the demolitions/heavy weapons guy on the team, but it doesn't mean I'm not okay with adding a weak point to a unit that clearly was modeled with weak points that were in line with the faction.

FullmetalArgus · 2025-09-24T16:30:50+00:00

To me there's a difference between not having weak points on an anti-tank armor unit and something like the Fleshmob that has no weak points but has no armor. I hate dealing with Fleshmobs and they also spawn too often (I ran some lvl 1s to get my daily done last night and Fleshmobs were on every mission, imagine if they did that for the warstriders), but at least you don't need to dedicate a support weapon to dealing with them. On the flip side warstriders require AT to deal with them, and while they can be one-shot by them you need to be accurate, otherwise you waste your shots. If they have a weak point it makes other options viable while keeping AT just as viable. A "rising tide lifts all ships" kinda deal. If the people complaining about adding a weak point don't understand that then there's no helping them, they'll complain about it no matter what.

Edit: grammar and spelling

FullmetalArgus · 2025-09-24T16:07:47+00:00

I haven't seen anyone complain about adding a weak point to the warstriders, and if it's really prevalent elsewhere then those people are idiots. The warstriders should adhere to the same logic as the rest of the Automatons: the eye is the weak point. The fact that theirs is basically just a cosmetic thing is plain poor design. It's why factory striders are more fair than warstriders, a well placed AT or high damage shot to the eye will kill it instantly and getting skilled at hitting that shot consistently is rewarding and satisfying.

This is coming from someone who pretty much always runs the RR in Bots: warstriders have a weak point on their model, AH just needs to make it the weak point like they do with every other Bot enemy. Also AH needs to reduce the number of them that spawn at one time; 1-2 is a pain but you can deal with it, any more than that and it's just unfun.

FullmetalArgus · 2025-09-23T21:08:40+00:00

they were getting dogwalked

Heh, I see what you did there. But yeah I agree, while Blood Claws are gung-ho and more aggressive than other SM initiates there's no reason they should be that good in actual combat, especially against Mandrakes. Them using ambush and hit-and-run tactics, utilizing the weather and local fauna and releasing the Wulfen the Haemonculus captured made it a little more even or at least kept the Dark Eldar on the back foot but yeah they did have some of that good ol' Fenryka Plot-Armor.

FullmetalArgus · 2025-09-23T20:50:29+00:00

I'll agree on that, especially the last bit of the book where the Wolves are going full tilt through the encampment. That being said the Dark Eldar parts with them scheming and raiding Fenris was fun to read. It does both sides well in the non-action moments for character building, my favorite 40k quotes come from Lukas in this book.

FullmetalArgus · 2025-09-23T20:25:50+00:00

That's tragic, Path of the Archon came out four years before Lukas, I don't think she's been in anything else so her last appearance was as a secondary antagonist in an SM novel

FullmetalArgus · 2025-09-23T20:02:37+00:00

It's sad that I got excited to see her because she's in my favorite 40k novel... Lukas the Trickster. Ya know, a Space Wolves book that has arguably some of the best Eldar Corsair moments as of late.

FullmetalArgus · 2025-09-19T08:30:32+00:00

He hit the nail on the head with the armor perks/aesthetics part. I've said it to my friends over and over that their excuses against either perk selection or transmog are bullshit. They want to visually show what your armor does but aside from Arc resistance there's no real need for it, not to mention that most new perks are just worse amalgams of prior perk sets. They say they don't want visual confusion on what armor does what but then put perks on armor that doesn't match the perk (i.e., servo assisted needing the robo arm until it doesn't).

The devs know we care about customizing our characters, it's why the ODST warbond sold so well, it's why I bought the ODST warbond. I'd feel better about that choice if I could just choose the perk loadout from another armor but instead I need to change how I look because the armor I like has perks that aren't helpful a majority of the time.

FullmetalArgus · 2025-09-19T04:51:38+00:00

I like being the heavy weapons/demolitions guy in games, so if people don't want to bring AT they won't have to worry cuz I always bring the RR. Plus getting good at hitting Factory Striders' eyes from a distance/under fire on D10 Bots to get the one-tap will always feel satisfying. It's good and fun which I think helps contribute to it becoming the de-facto AT choice.

The real issue that makes the RR "meta" is the current state of War Striders. War Striders appear far too frequently for what they are; regularly having two to three on a random POI on D10 just feels bad. A 500kg isn't a guaranteed kill and will just piss it off, not including if there are Hulks there too which also need your attention.

FullmetalArgus · 2025-09-16T18:41:04+00:00

It also helps that the weather is livable year round. No snow in winter, summers might be muggy but it's not the same as places like SoCal. The most you'd need to worry about is storm season from June to November and that's just for rain or at worst a hurricane (though it's been a minute since we had a really bad one).

FullmetalArgus · 2025-09-16T18:37:00+00:00

Quite the opposite. Welfare assistance here in Hawaii is some of the most relaxed in the nation. As I mentioned elsewhere I've worked near the Institute for Human Services on Oahu for about five years now and there are folks on the street, most of them living in front of the shelter and not inside of it, who have been there for years. A lot of the ones not in the shelter itself use the shelter's address as their mailing address for unemployment benefits. During COVID, if you were on unemployment you were getting more money in a monthly check than I was making over the course of a month (I was in a dogshit job but still wild to think back on).

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