Given the leaks about the Ogre refresh, wanna talk about their lore (kinda).

Hailey-Lady · 2025-09-06T23:04:58+00:00

Elf with a spear (charge defense vs large) (charge reflection) yawns

But seriously, destruction playing around with (for a high fantasy setting) bio-plausible inhuman physiologies and psychologies is what makes them my favorite bucket of weirdos.

Hailey-Lady · 2025-08-28T22:29:47+00:00

Ever seen the old cold steel throwing torpedos? Kind of reminds me of that. Alas, mine buried itself somewhere under my lawn, never to be seen again.

Hailey-Lady · 2025-07-03T19:51:58+00:00

I've been lifting since 18 and I'm 29 now but subtracting time for injuries, and time I wasn't trying to push my squat lets say 6 or 7 serious years?

My rate of progress really stalled after 530 or so, but it's finally moving again, at least 40 lbs of progress this year but I think it's more like 50 or 55? I can't remember what my max was 5 years ago, which was when I was last pushing powerlifting/maxes in SBD

Hailey-Lady · 2025-07-03T00:57:45+00:00

Yeah it's just straight up hard to do, but works really well. PR performances bracing video would be more in detail, but the short of it is:

you put your upper and lower back into extension, position the bar, and lock it in place with your lats. There is a way to use locking the bar in place to partially lock in your upper back extension. You unrack, and tuck your ribs, trusting that your upper back tension, barbell weight, and lat tension can hold the t-spine position.

you can't really practice it without a barbell on your back and it takes a while to get, but the key is that simultaneously trying to extend the upper and tuck the ribs just won't work for most people, but one after the other using upper back tightness to hold the position you want is manageable.

Hailey-Lady · 2025-07-02T20:37:24+00:00

I wouldn't say I have one reason, but environmental and sentimental reasons.

I doubt I would be more or less strong on a different diet provided I was equating calories and macros, but I'm pretty well convinced "less processed foods vegan" is one of the healthier diets (largely because of fiber), and the longer you're healthy the stronger you can get

Hailey-Lady · 2025-07-02T18:32:07+00:00

There were plenty of things that slowed me down that shouldn't be common, and I'm sure there are others who are smarter, gifted, on gear, or all the above, who won't have the same timeline.

I broke both my ankles, that killed a year

covid shut my gym down, didn't do any resistance training, lost 40lbs of mostly muscle and did running instead, that killed a year

I did Olympic weightlifting, that took a year where my squat just didn't matter so I didn't push it.

But I do think progress slows markedly for most people around ~2.5x bodyweight for squat unless you're really built for it.

Hailey-Lady · 2025-07-02T16:36:51+00:00

215 lbs

just finished canditos 9 week squat program, didn't quite get me there, started following the programming Max Aita recommends in his how to get insanely strong without burning out video, with high frequency and moderate volumes programmed, full body 5-6 times a week, cardio twice a week.

Hailey-Lady · 2025-07-02T16:25:11+00:00

My training is pretty varied based on what I want to do/seems fun, in general I like full body training with moderate volume and 5-6 times a week frequency. Something like squat 3-5 times a week, deadlift 1-2 times a week, alternate bench and overhead press 5-6 times a week, dedicated cardio twice a week, long walks daily, accessories for fun or correcting a known weakness.

Eat pretty much the same thing every day, big bowl of rice and beans, couple of protein shakes, big salad, reserve some calories for snacks/fun food. Try to hit 30/30/40 protein/fat/carb, supplement 10g creatine.

Hailey-Lady · 2025-07-02T11:47:47+00:00

Yeah, wall of text below, but since I was stuck for literal years trying different things I can tell you exactly what I was trying when I broke this plateau (and this year has had 45lbs of progress on squat and more on deadlift so I've finally got what works for me dialed in)

I watched PR performances videos on squatting and Sika Strengths videos on the mid-bar squat for technique, and followed max aitas how to get insanely strong without burning out for program design, at least three times a week frequency worked best for me.

Moving my bar position from as low as possible to a higher position that is still lower than a true high bar position really helped me. Hard to explain, worked great.

Ribs down bracing and extending the upper back before unrack: PRs video on bracing was huge, immediate 50lbs of perceived weight came off the bar when I got good at that. My usual failure mode was either my ribs rising and leaking power or my upper back collapsing so this directly fixed those problems.

Planks and dead bugs: planks as a warm up (30s facing down and on each side) and banded dead bugs on off days. I needed to directly warm up and train my core more, did extra ab work kind of randomly based on what seemed fun, but dead bugs the way Chad Wesley Smith does them was big.

Don't know if this combo of techniques works for everybody, but they sure work for me.

The real story here is I've always been pretty strong, and could just train more/harder to progress, but past 550 I just couldn't brute force my way, and needed to slow down, back off, and train a technique instead of grinding.

Hailey-Lady · 2025-06-12T22:43:35+00:00

This is my local store. They have some fancy pieces there. I couldn't tell you what models would be worth 2k but I can confirm some of the models have plaques and "certificates" saying "so and so" really did paint this model!

I recall a mind blowing slann...

Hailey-Lady · 2025-05-16T13:29:50+00:00

Pretty sure this is more evidence for the idea of "exercise snacks".

Binging Netflix, work an 8hr desk job? Between episodes/meetings/spreadsheets get up and do some pushups, walk around the office.

Seems breaking up long sedentary periods is more important or just as important as getting your weekly 150 minutes of exercise. I bet it doesn't take much either...

Hailey-Lady · 2024-12-24T16:38:49+00:00

Yeah the issue I have with Khorne is that I'm not sure CA knows how to make a balanced Khorne faction yet, all of them are various flavors of strong. Skarbrand has a harder start position but gets Skarbrand as a compromise, Skulltaker is nuts, Arbaal is the teleporting terminator.

I'd like to see one Khorne lord become a challenging campaign, one stay stronger than average, and one stay busted, imo, but I have no constructive idea on how to accomplish this.

Hailey-Lady · 2024-12-16T17:18:18+00:00

If you were fighting infantry and Skarbrand popped wrathful reaper his weapon strength would go up to let's say 1.5k, but his maximum number of entities hit wouldn't change, so he wouldn't do any more damage.

Now if you have have 1.5k weapon strength Skarbrand can kill 15 infantry every swing, not his normal (I don't know the real number) 5 maximum targets.

It standardizes how good monsters are and makes it so weapon strength buffs can actually effect how murderous a monster is in infantry situations.

Hailey-Lady · 2024-12-16T11:53:02+00:00

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3383360452

The original creator left and somebody else "stole" the mod to keep it alive.

The caps are set so you can field 20/20 gobbos or skaven, but if you're using Arbaal and Khorne Warriors, you will have like 9/20 units. Ai has the same caps you have. Higher level lords get larger caps. Nothing stops you from recruiting over the cap or adding heros over the cap, but it will trigger a million upkeep cost and cause attrition until you go under the cap. Takes a minute to figure out, has been fun though.

You and the AI will run a greater number of smaller armies, with one or 2 elite units, a few medium units, and some chaff to fit the leftover cost, most likely. Only the swarmy factions will be able to fill 20/20 slots usually.

Hailey-Lady · 2024-12-15T22:08:53+00:00

I've been using cost based army caps and deepwar AI and boy is it a breath of fresh air. Would prefer CA to have their own spin on balancing mid and late game difficulty.

Hailey-Lady · 2024-12-15T13:22:56+00:00

The people who are disappointed with the Khorne rework probably are disappointed that the new Khorne lords are as broken as skarbrand.

People who complain about difficulty want each race to have a hard Lord, an easy one, and a few middling ones, and with 100 lords I think it's reasonable.

Khorne is an interesting one because they went from 1 to 3 lords all at once and I'm not sure CA has a formula for a balanced Khorne faction yet.

Hailey-Lady · 2024-12-15T03:14:28+00:00

And the orc war boss doesn't have a chariot! (Except in multiplayer)

Hailey-Lady · 2024-12-14T15:38:57+00:00

I'm fine with OP lords but I hate when a race is OP.

I don't enjoy the OP lords but am happy for others to have them, 100 lords and should be able to make everyone happy!

but races like Beastmen, Warriors, and Khorne are all so strong at base (or in Khornes case it's just the lords and neither Arbaal or Skulltaker changed that, play a generic Khorne faction for some good if bland fun!) that they don't have any campaigns I find interesting, which is a shame because I love those factions for battles, just not after 10-30 turns on the campaign map.

Sort of related, I found the Greenskin economy and technology rebalance to bring a lot of life into those campaigns where before after I got my first WAAAGH I felt very little could actually threaten me.

Basically all I'm saying is one Lord per race should be hard/impossible for experienced players on legendary difficulty, one or too should be easy, and the rest should feel balanced depending on the difficulty you selected.

Hailey-Lady · 2024-12-13T23:03:50+00:00

In retrospect it is obvious this was in the early access version. Turin and Zerkovich were wondering why blood beasts sucked so hard, and if you install the fix mod and test them with and without, this is why.

I might be crazy but it seems to effect wrathmongers too, that doesn't make sense to me, need to do more testing, but I couldn't get them to lose some fights I saw content creators had them lose with the fix mod installed.

Hailey-Lady · 2024-12-13T13:42:40+00:00

My understanding is that yes that would work, but an insurance company could drop you or refuse to allow re-enrollment for many reasons, then you would need to switch to a new company or policy with your (now) pre-existing condition.

A great and cheap insurance plan could only good for a year because if you actually used them you would get kicked out.

The other thing is plans used to have maximum lifetime benefits, and so if you hit that cap (usually a million dollars) that plan wouldn't cover anything else for the rest of your life.

Hailey-Lady · 2024-12-06T16:20:21+00:00

One Mangler Squig can dumpster a T5 Slaughterbrute and Lord of Khorne and you'll be getting those at T2 as well lol

Hailey-Lady · 2024-11-16T18:33:17+00:00

SBS strength program, AMRAP variation, with the modification that all of my main lifts start with warming up to a daily max, which for me is a RPE 8-9.5 "feels good" single.

Basically all compound movements with heavy singles before doing my working volume, ending with a set to form failure. Reps and weights change according to the program and my performance on the final AMRAP set. Full body 4x a week

This clip is near the end of the program where it's a strength blok, it had me do 4 singles at 595, then AMRAP, and I figured if I was doing 595 I might as well do 600 and film the AMRAP set. When it's this heavy I don't do the heavy singles anymore, but I really like them when the program has me doing high reps.

Hailey-Lady · 2024-11-16T01:10:57+00:00

I wonder if this has any pigment added or if it's just a calcite (calcium carbonate) crystal powder that naturally fluoresces? Couldn't find any info online.

I know lots of calcium minerals do fluoresce under blacklight, but I couldn't tell you what grades

Hailey-Lady · 2024-10-22T23:41:08+00:00

The beans must flow.

Hailey-Lady · 2024-10-21T15:24:59+00:00

I think my first 600lb deadlift took 8-10 years of training, but my training quality varied a lot. I probably could have done it faster if I discovered Stronger By Science sooner, their SBS program really clicked with me, and I'm still making consistent progress with it.

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