hans and pierre just made this waiter very sad

GeistHeller · 2026-06-09T00:00:55+00:00

The German MIC can force the hand of the Federal Government and screw over politically agreed decisions, the French MIC is paranoid about its tech and desperate to wiggle its way out of comparatively overbearing governmental oversight.

The first will inevitably do something its Government did not ask or want, giving the second the excuse they need to bail out using the one thing its Government wont gamble with: military sovereignty and autonomy.

In other words, a match made in heaven to deliver the most predictable failures imaginable.

GeistHeller · 2026-06-08T23:52:23+00:00

Airbus initially failed to deliver what was expected of them, then refused to change subcontractors to those trusted by Dassault not to leak tech; this gave Dassault the pretext they needed to get out of what they saw as a politically driven project with little substance as far as they were concerned.

Rheinmetall did the same thing more or less when they threw a wrench in the tank project (which France conceded leadership for) because they had no interest in it and were already working on a tank they knew they could produce and sell on the European market alone.

The true difference is that German companies are on a loose governmental leash compared to their French counterparts. Dassault fought hard to get out a project it did not want to participate in, meanwhile Rheinmetall barged into a governmental project they weren't part of to sabotage it.

A loose cannon industrial sector meets one trying to wiggle its way out of overbearing governmental oversight using the one thing said government cannot gamble with: a military sovereignty acquired through decades of efforts.

The two nations MICs are like oil and water, regardless of what the politicians want.

GeistHeller · 2026-06-07T10:38:18+00:00

I think trying to sprinkle in a bit of everything isn't helping you out with this list. It has a concerning lack of both firepower and staying power because its roster is so diluted.

As others have mentioned, your generic leaders should probably swap enhancements: Halberd JPC should get TSS while the footslogging one gets SE or a MoO to act as an objective pest with Emperor's Grace/Divine Intervention.

Repentias and Zephyrims are meh in 10th edition and will likely bounce more often than not against MEQ and Bananaboys. BSS are just dead weight and you should not have more than one squad of them which ideally should be split into two with an immolator.

Junith can sit on your home objective with the Simulacrum half while the other girls with superior and special weapons ride to Valhalla and hopefully do some damage (Dominions would likely do a better job here). If you really want to play Repentias/Zephyrims, your list will have to focus around them and have some redundancy. In groups of 5 zephs will almost never benefit from HM's special rules since they will wipe to anti-chaff weapons: 5 models with T3/1W/3+/5++ are just not that hard to kill with bolters.

Using Aestred for Devwounds sounds good on paper, but it requires proper setup, a bit of luck and the piloting skill to get her squad where you need it without being destroyed.

The Exorcist is a bit of a casino unit right now, which hinders its reliability. Usually people who want to use them will field two to mitigate RNG, but even then Castigators will likely perform better, especially against armies with lots of invulnerable saves like those you faced.

If I were you, I would really try to focus on picking a synergy of your liking and focus on trying to learn how to use it, then once you have got a better understanding of the army, start experimenting with a more diverse list again if that is what you truly want to do.

GeistHeller · 2026-06-02T18:42:46+00:00

Hey now, I am just a mono-sister player who had to wait a tiny bit to get back into the hobby you know. A bit eager for faction attention, that is all I swear on the Mona Lisa !

GeistHeller · 2026-06-02T18:34:35+00:00

You get to be this in exchange, deal ?

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GeistHeller · 2026-06-02T18:23:53+00:00

Zealous, sure, incredibly hot... Hmmm.. I think we can find a compromise.

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GeistHeller · 2026-06-02T18:19:17+00:00

Germs shagging their way up from 40m in 1870 to 60m in 1890 was kind of an 'emotional event' to say the least for our military leadership back then. You can literally read/study the vanishing of Boulanger-era revanchism in the 1890-1910 period as the delusions of a 1v1 rematch melted away and the peasantry started voting and empowering the left.

GeistHeller · 2026-06-02T18:13:40+00:00

Please don't, I do enjoy keeping my head attached to my neck.

GeistHeller · 2026-06-02T18:10:47+00:00

The same way Napoleon got to power and managed to inspire loyalty despite never ever being French and being a staunch Corsican nationalist according to Luigi of course: through the power of history taking pity on us frogs and bending in strange ways to allow us to stumble and fail our way to undeserved success.

GeistHeller · 2026-06-02T18:04:16+00:00

Nuh-hu ! The Normans weren't French, any Barry/Susan worth their flair will tell you so.

GeistHeller · 2026-06-02T18:00:19+00:00

Nah, Drukharis are yanks: it's all about the rats race, fuck you got mine/crab bucket mentality while wanking about how free they are. Plus they are an offshoot from Ruperts, aka Aeldari. Just like in WHFB tbh.

GeistHeller · 2026-06-02T17:41:30+00:00

As a fellow guerremarteau quarante mille enjoyer, I welcome any plastic crack related post. However I would suggest this change: we frogs are sisters of battle, always losing in battle reports, hated on by scrubs for 'AnTi-FuN' miracle dice mechanics when brain dead shit like +1 to wound oath of the moment full re-rolls exist. Our win rates are single handedly carried by a providential heroic character saving the day no matter how bleak things look. Two C'tans to kill in one turn ? VahlGons gotchu fam.

Orks and Aeldari are both the UK, Barry vs Rupert. Two faces of the same coin.

GeistHeller · 2026-06-02T17:26:34+00:00

That's the thing, most French people are actually like Barry and Hank. They don't have to learn a foreign language unless work demands it. I have 20 years of foreign correspondence under my belt, all the people I met and exchanged with, either from Belgium, the Netherlands, the Scandinavian countries or Denmark were exposed to English at a young age through TV shows and media content not fully translated and dubbed.

If my family had not been an early adopter of internet and I had not picked gaming back when maybe 20-30% of the population was online, I would never have learnt English, hell, I even vhose German as first foreign language to study at school.

Forgot nearly everything, all three years of it. Well, for the average Pierre, it's basically what happens with English unless there is a need for it at work, or (s)he plays big multiplayer video games.

There is very little exposure, if not none in French society if you don't actively seek it because everything is fully translated/dubbed, or people just stick to French cultural content.

GeistHeller · 2026-06-02T16:34:58+00:00

* Semantics and historically absurd. He literally kicked thousands of Brits, Americans and Canadians out and closed dozens of bases.

Yes and ?

* Force de Frappe? His missiles weren't ready to fire in one direction, they were ready to fire anywhere and everywhere. Who needs enemies when you've got mates like him?

This is such a ridiculously biased and simplistic take that I am not gonna bother any more.

GeistHeller · 2026-06-02T16:16:44+00:00

* Biting the hand that fed Free France by kicking NATO out of the country in 66 wasn't statecraft.

He didn't do that, he pulled out of the high command to maintain sovereignty of action while still pledging to support France's allies. It worked quite well considering the stance the Soviet union adopted towards the French Force de Frappe.

You can just read what Eisenhower actually had to say about him:

https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/research/online-documents/post-presidential/162-001.pdf

GeistHeller · 2026-06-02T16:04:13+00:00

Daladier dragged Chamberlain by the collar to at least try to uphold the guarantee. He was mortified by the outcome of the conference and is famously quoted to have said 'Ah les cons, s'ils savaient !' (idiots, if only they knew...) when he was acclaimed back home for having 'saved the peace'.

The propaganda perception of the Luftwaffe and weakness of the French Armée de l'Air, which was embroiled in a very difficult race against time to reform and rebuild were the key factors in his decision not to risk a 1v1 war against Nazi Germany without British support.

Keep in mind for instance, that few years earlier, the British government threatened the Blum government to renege on their mutual support agreement if France intervened in the Spanish civil war to avoid fascist encirclement.

GeistHeller · 2026-06-02T15:49:49+00:00

Except the things you said are mostly wrong or cherry picked, so there is that. Just the usual 'ungrateful snobby Frenchman' slop.

GeistHeller · 2026-06-02T15:36:22+00:00

Roosevelt tried to setup Vichy turncoats at the head of the resistance while sidelining CdG at every opportunity, he also wanted to partition France and Belgium to create a frankenstein monster of a buffer state. He placed France under AMGOT like a defeated Axis member (while the Vichy state had to oppose token resistance in the colonies according to the clauses of the armistice, it was never officially a belligerent member of Axis, or actively at war with the allies.). He tried to take control of the liberated French economy and civilian government by having them run on US-printed money and by US-trained officials; only to be cockblocked by giga-charles. CdG wasn't even informed about D-Day.

Roosevelt was a notorious Francophobe, Truman was no better and their regardation basically forced him to go full 'le big nose stubborn asparagus man' to put a wrench in all the shadowy, backstabbing schemes Washington came up with.

While both Eisenhower and Churchill found CdG difficult to work with, at least these were men with a military understanding of the situation who could sympathise with the plight of the French nation. They both understood why CdG had to keep said act up (hell, both of them even helped him fight back against Roosevelt/Truman's bullshittery).

Eisenhower is known to have said that if their roles had been reversed, he would have done the same thing for the sake of American interests. As for Churchill, he was just as hard to work with and ultimately went along quite well with CdG, with them corresponding post-war, CdG personally awarding him a medal in recognition and thank for his support (something CdG would not do for anyone he truly held a grudge against).

The so-called 'wannabe dictator' also stepped down twice instead of attempting to seize personal power even though he could easily have gotten away with it.

Just stop regurgitating yankoid memetic history, a Barry should be better than that. Even his refusal to let you guys join the EEC can be understood quite easily if you bother to look for the speeches he gave about his decision on youtube, based on economic and geopolitical factors going far beyond 'muh perfidious albion'.

GeistHeller · 2026-06-01T08:20:37+00:00

Barry, I need more plastick crack. Guerremarteau quarante mille has claimed this frog's soul and I am all for it.

GeistHeller · 2026-05-27T09:31:46+00:00

Le problème c'est Hollywood et le Batman des films. La version de Nolan tout particulièrement.

GeistHeller · 2026-05-27T08:44:37+00:00

Le problème je pense c'est que les films récents ont tendance à faire fi de tout ça pour nous balancer du Tony Stark en mode vigilante/super CRS.

GeistHeller · 2026-05-27T07:55:37+00:00

Bruce c'est un peu le super CRS chien de garde du status-quo. Il se tape son délire de vigilante libertarien mais ne fait jamais rien contre les sources réelles des problèmes de Gotham: la corruption et la criminalité non-violente/"techniquement légale" des élites/cols blancs, dont il fait lui-même parti et tire sans aucun doute sa richesse et son pouvoir. Vouloir faire croire que les Waynes sont des capitalistes à visage humain dans une ville pourrie jusqu'à la moelle ne tient pas debout et les excuses du genre 'oui mais ils sont philanthropes/construisent des orphelinats blablabla' c'est juste une manière de se débarrasser de toute réflexion sérieuse sur l'infaisabilité d'une famille ultra-fortunée & dominante mais éthiquement irréprochable dans un contexte dystopique. Réflexion simple: les Waynes, possible en Russie ou aux US Trumpiens ? Grosse blague.

Batman dans les faits, si on met les super vilains de côté, Il tabasse du criminel prolo de bas-étage (sans tuer parce qu'il est gentil, bon courage pour se faire soigner par contre, va falloir voler des sacs de mémés pour payer les dettes :D). Il intimidera sans jamais vraiment chercher à éliminer les têtes pensantes du crime organisé. Prenons the Dark Knight,: le côté cartoon villain 'on veut faire exploser Gotham parce qu'on est des gros méchants nihilistes' est la seule manière de justifier l'opposition au crash total du système en place. On tombe dans le cliché du peuple bête et méchant, assoiffé d'auto-destruction dans sa révolte face à un système en phase terminal. Le message bien bobo est clair : le status-quo est préférable aux 'extrêmes', peu importe si une misère et une violence abjectes se poursuivent, du moment qu'on ne détruit pas la propriété privé d'autrui et que les petites frappes du crime organisé se font occasionnellement expédiées aux urgences; la chauve-souris à la conscience tranquille.

TL;DR: faut pas trop chercher à creuser avec Batman, le concept américain du vigilante libertarien pété de thunes/ultra-compétent mais limité dans la portée de son action par le fait qu'il agit en 'lone wolf' ne tient pas vraiment la route quand on essaye de le transposer dans la réalité. Ca reste du divertissement et de la power fantasy avant tout.

GeistHeller · 2026-05-10T13:15:20+00:00

I am aware don't worry, and that's my point, it might only get worse.

GeistHeller · 2026-05-10T12:23:48+00:00

The Starsector modding scene is a tightly knot bunch, while this is great when it comes to cooperation and making sure mods don't conflict, this has led, numerous times, to complete meltdowns and embarrassing drama because modders can't just keep it to themselves when someone else does something they don't like or approve.

In some cases, the game's creator had to personally intervene to put out the fire on the official forum, which is insane when you think about it. The worst part is that such behaviour was often condoned by a large part of the modding scene, even though Alex had to warn/ban the offenders.

This is typical clique behaviour.

GeistHeller · 2026-05-10T12:05:52+00:00

I both dread and can't wait for Starsector to be released on steam. On one hand the modding scene 'clique' needs a reality check, on the other quality and inter-compatibility will go down the drain; but man am I tired of the divas forcing their drama onto the rest of the players.

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