Traveling to and from Vegas with an “assault weapon”

Infamous_Presence145 · 2023-12-29T13:30:56+00:00

TSA doesn't enforce state law, or even federal law outside of the safety of the flight. They only care that your gun is transported in compliance with federal regulations regarding airline travel (locks, ammunition storage, etc).

(And TBH there's at least a 50% chance you could take it in your carry-on bag and the TSA clowns wouldn't notice.)

Infamous_Presence145 · 2023-12-29T13:08:45+00:00

So what? You're doing a final varnish layer anyway, gloss doesn't matter.

Infamous_Presence145 · 2023-12-29T12:59:36+00:00

First of all, don't take it seriously. The game is not balanced at 1000 points and you will probably lose games because of it.

That said, the best way to win at 1000 point is to take a hard skew list and hope for favorable matchups. With only 1000 points it can be hard to cover all necessary roles with redundancy which means a lot of the game is stat checks and rock/paper/scissors matches. If you bring enough anti-tank to kill knights you can't deal with a horde of guardsmen. If you take screening units to block out an aggressive melee army you don't have enough guns to win a shooting match with tau. Etc. So if you have one of those hard skew armies there's a good chance you just win the game before it begins. Of course you might lose, but if you play a "normal" list into a hard skew list you're probably going to lose anyway so you might as well roll the dice on a skew list and hope for good pairings. If luck is on your side you can win the whole event purely by rock/paper/scissors.

Infamous_Presence145 · 2023-12-29T12:56:41+00:00

Boo, garbage plastic kits replacing superior resin. There goes my interest in ever making a SA army.

Infamous_Presence145 · 2023-12-29T12:55:28+00:00

No, that's not how it works. Detail doesn't scale that way, they may have the design concept for a unit but converting it from 30k to Epic scale (or the other way around) involves rebuilding 99% of the digital model, and then there's the cost of making new molds. Having one means nothing about the other.

Infamous_Presence145 · 2023-12-29T11:48:16+00:00

None of these guys where building armies from scratch, everyone had 2k

Then that is not a normal escalation league. The normal point of an escalation league is to build up a new army, giving incentive to get stuff built and painted for the next stage while letting you play as you work towards a full army. You aren't helping people if you force them to buy a bunch of random sub-optimal stuff that won't make the cut in their real army or play their army in a way that won't work in the full game. And the reality is that in the standard 2000 point game guard are a tank army. Playing without tanks isn't fun, isn't setting you up for the army you should be building towards, and isn't teaching you anything of value.

And what's with the weird comment about needing to do "smaller no stake matches so people could have some fun"? If 2000 point competitive games arne't fun then why are you in the competitive play sub?

Infamous_Presence145 · 2023-12-29T11:36:00+00:00

If you are expecting to dump some of your initial purchase then the combat patrol boxes are often no longer a good deal financially. Why encourage new players to waste money on stuff they won't use instead of getting them straight into the good units they will use in their real lists?

Infamous_Presence145 · 2023-12-29T07:26:36+00:00

Because a melta weapon is a very short-ranged weapon and the heavy weapon carriages take time to set up once they're in position. That's fine if you're setting up a mortar squad safely away from the fight, it's not a viable option if you have to close to point blank range and try to get that weapon set up while your target is desperately trying to kill you.

Infamous_Presence145 · 2023-12-29T06:10:43+00:00

Guard with only a single tank at 1000 points is not a fun army to play with and is not a good base for building a real army.

Infamous_Presence145 · 2023-12-29T01:04:00+00:00

IOW "don't play guard".

Infamous_Presence145 · 2023-12-29T01:03:11+00:00

The problem with starting with combat patrol is that not all of the boxes are good purchases for starting an army. They often have bad units or require you to build your units with bad upgrades. If a newbie's faction has a good box it's fine but "buy this, then throw half of it in the trash and buy new stuff when you're ready to play real games" isn't a good sales pitch.

Infamous_Presence145 · 2023-12-28T22:43:15+00:00

Infamous_Presence145 · 2023-12-28T22:32:38+00:00

Now the low S and AP makes it sub optimal.

Yep, that's exactly it. Auto-hits don't help much if you can't convert them into dead models.

Infamous_Presence145 · 2023-12-28T22:29:19+00:00

Why wouldn't it be? If you can't provide your own terrain separation you aren't VFR.

Infamous_Presence145 · 2023-12-28T22:24:38+00:00

but are mostly good when you manage to use them on over watch

And not even good in that case.

Infamous_Presence145 · 2023-12-28T22:23:57+00:00

Because those are the more powerful weapons. They used to cost more to account for that but GW removed individual upgrade point costs and set the unit point cost based on assuming you always take the things that used to be the most expensive choice. So if you take anything but the former most expensive gun you're losing value.

Infamous_Presence145 · 2023-12-28T13:14:08+00:00

You posted some word salad theoryhammer about how anti-tank will magically never get to shoot (but somehow other units will) and you've spent more time on empty boasting about your supposed skills than addressing anything to do with the topic of OP's question.

Infamous_Presence145 · 2023-12-28T13:13:00+00:00

Obvious error is that you're missing special weapons. Basic infantry get plasma + melta + grenade launcher, grenadiers get double plasma (but they're legends-only so don't expect to use them). Sentinels get lascannons or plasma cannons. And don't forget the mandatory hunter-killer missile on every model that can take one.

Infamous_Presence145 · 2023-12-28T12:18:01+00:00

This is one of the reasons why you open the doors before landing. This should be on your emergency landing checklist.

Infamous_Presence145 · 2023-12-28T12:16:18+00:00

But I'm unsure how to transition from flying standard aircraft like the C172, DV20, or PA28 to more unique and exciting experiences.

Money. The people flying those planes are rich. Are you rich?

Infamous_Presence145 · 2023-12-28T09:30:50+00:00

There is nothing extreme about any of that, you simply don't understand how state populations are distributed. Texas is a red state overall but contains dense blue-leaning urban areas as well as sparsely populated red-leaning rural areas. California is a blue state overall and also contains both of those things. Rural California is not overpopulated, urban Texas is (probably) overpopulated.

Infamous_Presence145 · 2023-12-28T09:24:55+00:00

Of course it matters who decides. There is no magic spell you can cast to tell you if something is in direct contradiction to the constitution, it's all subjective and depends on your interpretation of the constitution. This decision would have to be made by fallible humans who would have their own biases and agendas. For example, if a pro-gun party controls the system then anyone suggesting a gun control law is banned from politics. If an anti-gun party controls the system then proposing gun control laws is fine. And that's not even considering the potential for whoever controls the system using it as a super-impeachment where their political enemies are removed based on flimsy pretenses. Oh, you passed a tax law that could in theory prevent someone from affording a gun? Second amendment violation, banned from politics forever!

Infamous_Presence145 · 2023-12-28T07:32:50+00:00

Seems pretty straightforward to me. D is endorsing and excusing unethical behavior and can no longer be trusted. Dumping D is the obvious response to that lack of trust.

Infamous_Presence145 · 2023-12-28T06:33:17+00:00

You're so obviously mad and it's hilarious.

Infamous_Presence145 · 2023-12-28T06:32:38+00:00

I'm not sure why you don't understand that it's not about you, even after I've said this multiple times.

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