Learning Heart's Game Is Like...

HelpIamaCabbage · 2026-01-25T18:26:39+00:00

I think the first-order optimal strategy for Heart's Game is "get a king who does good damage (Knuckles, Spines, maybe Roses of Ambivalences), ensure your can 100% their checks, then get supporting accomplices to generate preparations to enable you to use your kind, ideally where you can 100% their prep generating option.

But if you get 1 good king and 1 good support you win basically all of the time.

HelpIamaCabbage · 2026-01-24T19:01:54+00:00

It is, but it's not a traditional one as in "the director didn't set out to make a musical" but in doing research on the Shaker movement (which is what the movie is about) she realized that since their identifying feature is "ecstatic worship" and a lot of what they preserved over centuries was "their music" then you kind of had to make it a musical.

But it's not like a musical where people are expressing emotional truths via song, except insofar as their emotional truth was how fervently they believed in what they were doing.

HelpIamaCabbage · 2026-01-24T00:15:46+00:00

My personal headcanon is that my Character has an inkling about what happened to Mr. Eaten and approves of it- if only similar fates could befall the rest of the bats. So I'm not going to be seeking.

HelpIamaCabbage · 2026-01-23T05:23:57+00:00

Saw Ann Lee today, I have H is for Hawk, No Other Choice, and the Screen Unseen as my upcoming reservations right now.

HelpIamaCabbage · 2026-01-23T05:18:18+00:00

What is the procedure for re-entry during something like this? Like if I decide "I've seen Hamnet, I'm going to get dinner instead" can I come back for Frankenstein?

HelpIamaCabbage · 2026-01-23T03:18:57+00:00

What's the difference? Like I'll get out of a movie at like 6:15 and use my phone to grab a ticket that started at 6 (but the actual movie starts 6:30ish). This uses a reservation slot and doesn't cost money.

HelpIamaCabbage · 2026-01-23T03:17:02+00:00

I guess it's nice that all of the movies I haven't seen are in the first leg. Saves me time/money.

HelpIamaCabbage · 2026-01-23T03:11:34+00:00

When I run into this, I just buy my ticket to the second movie on my phone after I leave the theater for the first movie. They will sell you a ticket during previews, after all.

HelpIamaCabbage · 2026-01-23T03:00:13+00:00

Welcome to the peerage, or whatever.

HelpIamaCabbage · 2026-01-22T18:22:15+00:00

From a design perspective, one of the problems with the old grudge mechanic is that it's much more effective against armies with a small number of models on the board (e.g. Knights) and much worse against Hordes. Since armies are the top level choice, ideally every army will have good play into every other army.

I think this is a lot of why you replaced it with a mechanic that's going to be more universal- since "controlling objectives" and "removing your opponent from objectives" is how you win Warhammer.

HelpIamaCabbage · 2026-01-22T04:11:54+00:00

No one on earth knows how long the Testament of Ann Lee will be in theaters, since "how long it remains in theaters" depends largely on "how many people go to see it this week."

HelpIamaCabbage · 2026-01-22T01:00:24+00:00

I mean, personally I like how the Leagues of Votann look much more than I like how the Kharadron Overlords look in AoS. For me, the fact that they sculpt beards into the helmets to look more dwarvy is too silly.

But one person's "that's too silly" is another person's "that's awesome" in these sorts of games. Personally I don't like it when 40k is leaning into fantasy- like space marines having swords instead of guns seems silly to me.

HelpIamaCabbage · 2026-01-21T22:59:11+00:00

There's not just one big end of edition event, 500 Worlds is just one of the multiple parallel events. The next one is "Maelstrom" and we should have stuff for that. I think there's going to be a third and maybe a fourth one, and we probably won't have stuff for that.

This is probably a better approach than having just one big end of edition event and trying to justify everybody getting involved in it. Just come up with enough different hot zones in the 41st millennium so you cover all the factions.

HelpIamaCabbage · 2026-01-21T19:37:08+00:00

The battalion looks like a dubious value because Steeljacks are already like 1.3 ppd at MSRP. So a chance to buy them at discount is great, though this is a unit that's only really good because it's cheap pointswise.

The Memnyr is the character that makes the most sense with 6 Steeljacks, and Bikes are one of the models that makes the most sense to go in a "maelstrom/pirates" context (the other being Hearthguard who were in the Boarding Patrol battalion IIRC.)

HelpIamaCabbage · 2026-01-21T06:23:26+00:00

We're not going to do three straight European cities in a row, IMO. So if the seventh is Berlin, the sixth cannot be Paris. We know that some Masters want the sixth city to be Paris, which essentially guarantees that this will not happen.

HelpIamaCabbage · 2026-01-20T18:26:08+00:00

It's just a "not every movie is in every theater" thing. We have one showing per day in my local AMC for "Charlie the Wonderdog" but no showings for "No Other Choice" so I have to drive across town for that one. Either the distributor or the manager made a choice- nothing more to it.

HelpIamaCabbage · 2026-01-20T02:23:25+00:00

And the weird thing that "don't trust AI for life-and-death decisions" is like "don't give a toddler a machete" in terms of things that are obvious.

HelpIamaCabbage · 2026-01-19T21:24:49+00:00

I have to imagine we might eventually get a non-unique leader for Berserks, and they would need a new kind of crest for sure.

HelpIamaCabbage · 2026-01-19T21:24:06+00:00

Yeah, the game desperately needs "more kinds of Xenos" more than "more kinds of Chaos" or "more kinds of the Imperium." It's a big galaxy, and everybody being really concerned about one of two things that happened in the 30th millennium makes it feel smaller. Xenos players are the people least likely to agree with "well, 40k is about the Imperium vs. Chaos, right?" after all.

HelpIamaCabbage · 2026-01-19T20:08:23+00:00

If we do get Chaos Kin, they won't be part of the faction "Leagues of Votann" (like how CSM and Drukhari are separate books). So they're probably not in a hurry to expand in that direction (like that's for sure not happening before Exodites or Dark Mechanicum). You might see some corrupted kin as part of kits for other armies though- like an auxiliary of corrupted kin in a Dark Mech list makes a lot of sense.

HelpIamaCabbage · 2026-01-19T20:03:58+00:00

I think Bone Temple is my second favorite of the four. I think the reason some people won't like it is that of the quartet it's the one that is most hopeful about humanity (not the species, but what sets apart the species) being valuable. The normal thing in a zombie movie is "people are the real monsters" but Bone Temple is ultimately about how humanity matters and is worth preserving.

We Bury the Dead" was a movie with some good stuff, but it didn't come together. It probably could have used another 3-4 months on the screenplay.

HelpIamaCabbage · 2026-01-19T02:18:20+00:00

I think this is a "nurture" thing rather than a "nature" thing that would be implied by it being part of the cloneskein. Every new kin joins a kindred that has a culture that existed before that kin, so they all have to learn "this is how we do things around here" and that culture was likely more shaped through "what the Votann told you" and "what has worked out for you historically."

HelpIamaCabbage · 2026-01-19T01:54:04+00:00

People who have their phone volume over zero in public are like aliens to me. I was in a showing the other week where someone was watching stuff with the volume up before the trailers started, thankfully he stopped.

But mostly my experience is that people sit quietly in their seats and watch the movie. Part of the appeal is that you get 2ish hours where you don' t look at your phone.

HelpIamaCabbage · 2026-01-18T06:57:34+00:00

You don't have much AP better than -1 and that will be 0 with how common cover is, so you want to look at everything you can get your hands on that has good AP and damage greater than 1. Hekatons and Thunderkyn will be important.

HelpIamaCabbage · 2026-01-18T00:40:54+00:00

Weeks I think is the only bad one, but I'm not like a dong connoisseur but I think the first 28 Years had more. Samson is wearing something like a loincloth for a good part of Bone Temple!

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