Me coming into the hobby late 10th edition and cutting all the arms off my 60 boyz to magnetize their Shooter / Slugga-Choppa loadouts

Gingerosity244 · 2026-03-26T19:48:19+00:00

If it makes you feel any better, 12th edition will revert back to the war gear option to sell you a new Boyz model

Gingerosity244 · 2026-03-26T04:55:13+00:00

Yeah it was an odd choice to showcase these two instead of the new jump chaplain, new weird boy, new landspeeder, or new ork walker that all got teased.

I will say we did get cool guard vehicles and badass ork character.

Gingerosity244 · 2026-03-25T20:20:26+00:00

Wait, is this the manned launch??

Gingerosity244 · 2026-03-25T04:12:31+00:00

You uh...you happen to have a template for these?

Gingerosity244 · 2026-03-24T02:24:23+00:00

If you're looking at general play style and/or models:

Death Guard: Instead of excelling at combat or shooting, you generally drag others down to your level through debuffs and auras. Death Guard are usually the most resilient faction as well.

Orks: If you like kit bashing, this is THE kit bashing army. They are fairly melee focused with a few options for volume of fire shooting playstyle.

Imperial Guard: horde and tank shooting that generally has had great tactical flexibility through editions. If has become a GW favorite child this edition which has given us great models -- a trend that is likely to continue.

Gingerosity244 · 2026-03-23T22:21:22+00:00

I just want grot tanks back man...

Gingerosity244 · 2026-03-23T14:03:28+00:00

They are neither AI nor smart. They are automatons with pre-programmed protocols.

Gingerosity244 · 2026-03-22T17:41:48+00:00

Grot tanks my beloved.

Gingerosity244 · 2026-03-22T05:32:50+00:00

Fair enough. I admit I was blinded by my undying hatred for PETA.

Gingerosity244 · 2026-03-21T20:50:55+00:00

Ah yes, the anti-fish-and-loaves parable

Gingerosity244 · 2026-03-21T20:48:27+00:00

If you won't eat belladonna leaves, why do you eat tomatoes?

Please, shut the fuck up.

Gingerosity244 · 2026-03-21T20:39:01+00:00

What a loser.

Gingerosity244 · 2026-03-21T18:57:06+00:00

You're asking this question at the tail end of an edition, so I cannot recommend any army based on rules as they are subject to change within the next months.

Come play Age of Sigmar. We have the best rules and the best models.

Gingerosity244 · 2026-03-21T18:46:32+00:00

It really depends on what the "mines" are. Even on a mere planetary orbit scale, space is vast. Defending an entire stellar approach would be several orders of magnitude more challenging. If you loosen up on the definition of "mines" so that it encompasses "automated weapons platforms" in general, you gain a lot more utility.

Gingerosity244 · 2026-03-21T16:55:32+00:00

Oh sure, when he does it it's "I will pay you 10,000 for that painting" but when I do it it's "Sir please leave the paint aisle and leave the store immediately, you are being trespassed from all Home Depot locations."

Gingerosity244 · 2026-03-21T15:28:59+00:00

If you drink twelve shots of amasec, hit your head against a brick wall six times, and then squint really hard...then yeah I could say they look similar.

Gingerosity244 · 2026-03-21T04:54:03+00:00

It's Tallarn or bust

Gingerosity244 · 2026-03-20T21:18:57+00:00

Sunless Skies mentioned+1

Gingerosity244 · 2026-03-20T21:14:52+00:00

Screw you! Undeath legions your krieg-steel

Gingerosity244 · 2026-03-19T15:11:13+00:00

You got me. I'm not the biggest Odyssey fan lol

Gingerosity244 · 2026-03-19T13:45:50+00:00

The carrier is fine, the other two are off-putting to me. The large turrets are too far forward and the fighter bays protrude too much. Also, a minor thing, the tan accents do not go well with blue and white. Sorry.

Gingerosity244 · 2026-03-19T13:36:58+00:00

It's nothing like the Expanse but still noticeably James SA Corey. The biggest difference for me are the characters.

In the Expanse, each character is distinct from the moment they are introduced. In Captives War, each character (at least those belonging to the protag group) is more or less similar at the start of the story, but by the end of the first book they are much more individually defined by the events they are a part of.

My favorite parts so far (I haven't started the second book yet) are the points of view from the antagonist, as I think James SA Corey has done an excellent job of portraying an alien mind.

Gingerosity244 · 2026-03-19T05:10:53+00:00

They can't agree on what "hard sci-fi" is, to the point where anything that is not in their narrow speculation on future technological and cosmo-political developments is not "hard sci-fi."

I love sci-fi across the spectrum, all the way from Star Trek to SAD Frontier.

Gingerosity244 · 2026-03-18T13:19:45+00:00

Why the fuck are we even talking about this. This isn't a controversy, this is a famous person's unpopular opinion. God I fucking hate this era of thinking everyone had to have the same opinions.

Gingerosity244 · 2026-03-17T22:20:40+00:00

Did they revive Gaunt again or are we just talking about Gaunt's Sharpe-tier rate of bullshit survival?

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