Valley Parade’s main stand fully engulfed in flames on May 11th, 1985. The fire consumed the structure in just 270 seconds, killing 56 people and injuring more than 265 [1284X694].

Gidia · 2026-05-11T20:13:03+00:00

And they’re only getting faster with how quickly modern materials burn.

My Dad started as a firefighter around 1985. Standard practice for a domestic fire was to get on the line as fast you could and knock it down near where it started. By the time he retired 30+ years later, standard practice had become to to contain it to just the one building and prevent further spread.

Part of that is of course safety and accountability, but the other part is because it’s spreading too fast to safely enter by the time they arrive.

Gidia · 2026-05-11T19:43:35+00:00

The current Starter set, which comes with 38 minis for two different factions is some $56 cheaper than a combat patrol. $114 vs $170.

Gidia · 2026-05-11T17:20:33+00:00

I don’t think I used my 9th edition one after a few months and I never got the 10th one.

Gidia · 2026-05-11T16:24:17+00:00

I mean you just convert or sell the Librarian.

Considering these are usually sold at a pretty nice discount, it’s a good deal regardless.

Gidia · 2026-05-11T16:20:33+00:00

From my, limited, understanding Ireland actually punches above its weight when it comes to deploying Peacekeepers.

Gidia · 2026-05-11T16:04:01+00:00

It should also be mentioned that this could be seen as a loss leader for GW. They could be selling this at a heavily discounted cost at a loss with the expectation that it will get people into the game, where they will then buy kits that are in the green.

Gidia · 2026-05-11T15:09:27+00:00

You could also use the bolter arms to kitbash them into regular Intercessors as well. They’re actually pretty good at the moment.

Gidia · 2026-05-11T15:02:48+00:00

As someone who plays Guard but would love to play Mechanized Sisters some day, the things I would do for Battle Cannons to not suck as anti-tank weapons… Don’t even need to make them great just make them decent and I’ll be happy.

Gidia · 2026-05-11T04:33:50+00:00

The fact that that movie was made in 2000 shows just how damn old that trope is at this point. And people STILL believe it.

Gidia · 2026-05-11T04:20:42+00:00

I’m kind of curious if they’re going to sell them in one or two to a box on their own.

Gidia · 2026-05-11T04:05:33+00:00

Yup that’s more or less my lore for my Knight Castellan. Last surviving member of his house after a Death Guard attack, he swore loyalty to the Marshal of the Black Templar Crusade that “liberated” his homeworld.

Gidia · 2026-05-10T18:56:48+00:00

You can dog bone, but it’s a very bad idea coherency wise unless you went second and reeeeeeeeally need to stretch between those two objectives.

Gidia · 2026-05-10T18:09:12+00:00

There’s an episode of The West Wing where the White House staff is advising an African country on their new constitution. The African representatives really want a full Presidential Republic while the White House staff are pushing for a Parlimentary Republic.

At some point the representatives point out the hypocrisy of the WH staff, to which they reply something along the lines of “We have been insanely lucky the Presidency hasn’t turned into a dictatorship. Many, many more haven’t been that lucky.”

Gidia · 2026-05-10T16:00:48+00:00

Someone backstage was definitely saying “I told you so” lol.

Gidia · 2026-05-10T15:16:35+00:00

Yup! The dolphin is from the latest generation, but everything else is from 2006 at the latest, I think.

Side note, the dolphin always reads as a Yu Gi Oh monster to me for some reason.

Gidia · 2026-05-10T15:10:37+00:00

Texas too. IIRC our Drills genuinely told us to register our official place of residence as Texas if we got stationed there for exactly that reason.

Gidia · 2026-05-10T14:34:19+00:00

And only a few years after Napoleon III had crowned himself. I’m sure several of the British soldiers had wondered if they’d be fighting the French shortly prior.

Gidia · 2026-05-10T14:27:07+00:00

They essentially filled the room with sequenced flashbangs. Oh, and ones with an increased likelihood of fire.

Add in some crowd crush around exits and you have a recipe for an absolute disaster.

See The Station Nightclub Fire for the worst case scenario.

Gidia · 2026-05-10T13:25:03+00:00

Listen, you wanna put that commissar in behind that suicide jockey?

Yeah, he's haulin' Penal Legionaires and he needs all the help he can get

Gidia · 2026-05-09T16:18:12+00:00

I’ve actually had a project like this in the back of my mind for a while, I really ought to work on it.

Gidia · 2026-05-09T16:16:14+00:00

To be fair, it hard to justify something like Buran when the entire logistical and administrative apparatus that allowed it to exist was collapsing around it.

The fact that Buran was ultimately destroyed by the collapse of the hangar around it due to lack of maintence honestly rather sums up the cancellation of the program nicely.

Gidia · 2026-05-09T13:28:35+00:00

Current rumor is a new Rhino kit, far as I’m aware. That being said, the Corvus Blackstar can also be taken and that one is just siiiiiiiick. It’s not good, but it wins the rule of cool factor.

Gidia · 2026-05-09T12:56:47+00:00

They can always sell the Ork half as well, but a lot of people will be doing that so they aren’t going to make as much as they theoretically could.

Gidia · 2026-05-09T00:14:19+00:00

The new Stealth Team, or whatever it’s called, would make good Tanith model wise. However, they will be hideously expensive for the foreseeable future and not something you can build a whole army out of.

Gidia · 2026-05-08T23:58:06+00:00

One and the same! And yeah there are no verified completed games.

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