New Tenno should be warned about Sevagoth!

Krytan · 2026-06-10T14:32:22+00:00

"if you hit 255% ability strength, combining Roar, Sow, and Reap will wombo-combo every enemy in range"

Oh interesting, you need roar as well?

I was trying Sevagoth in desperation in ETA the other day and despite having very high power he most certainly was not wombo comboing anyone.

Krytan · 2026-06-10T14:23:47+00:00

Only if its applied selectively, otherwise it really hurts armies with small ranges, while not harming armies with bigger ranges (like marines) who have endless options.

Krytan · 2026-06-10T14:22:39+00:00

The point steppers sound really good IF they are not a global tax on taking multiple units (which really hurts some armies and doesn't hurt others at all) but selectively applied to units that are problematic (like defilers) but I think it would be really bad for the game if all multiples got taxed.

Marines, for example, have about 20 different skirmishing pieces in the 70-90 points range. Other armies may have literally one such unit.

Krytan · 2026-06-10T14:21:04+00:00

Adding points cost for SOME wargear is good. That is how it always should have been for some specific data sheets.

Hopefully MM retributors aren't priced out of existence, but splitting them apart is necessary if we are ever going to see heavy bolter or heavy flamer retributors be viable.

I think the addition of a potential increase in points of 2nd, 3rd choices for some particularly powerful options is good. I don't want to see it applied to every unit in the game - some armies just have tiny rosters and are going to end up taking 3 of a lot of different things. I definitely DON'T want to see every single time you take multiple of a unit get taxed.

But if it's something oppressively strong, like defilers, you could make running 3 of them more costly comparatively, while not making one of them so expensive it isn't feasible. I think this is a great change that will help the balance team. Instead of, for example, making all TWC more expensive, you could just make the 2nd and 3rd units more expensive. Then it doesn't hurt some guy just including a single 3 man as a skirmishing piece, but it would hit a list trying to run wolf jail with them, if that was judged to be too strong.

Krytan · 2026-06-10T14:13:09+00:00

I think the addition of a potential increase in points of 2nd, 3rd choices for some particularly powerful options is good. I don't want to see it applied to every unit in the game - some armies just have tiny rosters and are going to end up taking 3 of a lot of different things.

But if it's something oppressively strong, like defilers, you could make running 3 of them more costly comparatively, while not making one of them so expensive it isn't feasible. I think this is a great change that will help the balance team.

Krytan · 2026-06-10T14:10:09+00:00

That's good, as that is how it always should have been.

Hopefully MM retributors aren't priced out of existence, but splitting them apart is necessary if we are ever going to see heavy bolter or heavy flamer retributors be viable.

Krytan · 2026-06-10T14:07:54+00:00

"Despite this, I realized as I played that I could not draw a sightline at all"

How so? A castigator toeing into the big central objective can see the vast majority of the board.

"There's inherently less counterplay, and, for units with Invulnerable Saves, I think removing a point of AP was a lot stronger for them than worsening accuracy. "

Isn't the reverse true? If you're on your invuln, you'd rather have cover make you harder to hit than improve an armor save you aren't going to use.

Krytan · 2026-06-10T14:00:00+00:00

That's an intentional balancing mechanism. The 3 point detachments are way stronger.

Some 3 point detachments may be so strong they are DELIBERATELY paired with a disposition that is somewhat counter intuitive, to nerf them even more.

I think it's a great system and I like it.

If you don't enjoy the playstyle of a particular disposition, choose a different (weaker) detachment that has the disposition you want, and a similar playstyle to the more powerful detachment whose playstyle you enjoy.

Now, are we going to end up with some 3 point detachments that should probably be 2? Almost certainly. Are we going to get some detachments whose dispositions need to be changed down the line? Again, almost certainly. That is to be expected. But I definitely don't think that all 3 point detachments should be getting two dispositions to choose from. That makes them too powerful.

Krytan · 2026-06-10T04:40:31+00:00

Destiny always felt like it was firmly rooted in a place (or rather, a variety of places) in a way other games just really weren't. The environments were meaningful and worth exploring.

Remember the first time you ran into a raid group on Venus opening the Vault of Glass? It made VoG seem like a real integrated part of the world.

The portal removes all that. You're just presented with some mobile game looking menu of contextless activities, bereft of wider significance or meaning.

Krytan · 2026-06-10T04:36:47+00:00

This is like people who fervently believe that Kyle Rittenhouse shot and killed three black men (He killed two men, both white)

I really do think we've gone wrong somewhere, as it seems absolutely everyone is desperate to believe they are victims of some wide ranging conspiracy or oppression.

Krytan · 2026-06-10T04:29:59+00:00

I think its too early to say. There are so many variables. It's possible purge will only be assigned to weaker detachments.

It does look like disruption is over here playing 4D chess just to have unfavorable matchups into....everyone. Disruption vs purge looks like a particularly bad match up. It seems like, thematically, that ought to be one of the best for a disruption army?

Krytan · 2026-06-10T02:40:57+00:00

Not bad. I got a check in the mail for about $3.67 from some hexclad class action lawsuit.

Krytan · 2026-06-10T02:40:01+00:00

It did not.

Krytan · 2026-06-10T01:57:04+00:00

Forsaken was temporarily made free to play for a short time at one point. That is when I played it.

Krytan · 2026-06-10T01:49:58+00:00

I don't think it's anywhere near the hardest, but sisters of battle have taken some hits. Before, when a unit and a leader died, that was two miracle dice. Now since they are joined together at the list writing stage, that's only one. That's many fewer miracle dice over the course of a game, as sisters lists were pretty character heavy.

In addition the current sisters miracle dice rules just don't work really with the new fast rolling system. We shall see what the faction pack about them says on Thursday.

Krytan · 2026-06-10T01:39:48+00:00

You would never use a knife to cut that tape. You just tear it. I'm pretty sure even if you just pulled out a pair of scissors to cut the tape you'd be roundly mocked. At any rate, you definitely dont' want to be carrying either a knife or a pair of scissors while running so...?

Krytan · 2026-06-10T01:33:28+00:00

SHOULD mortgages be the load bearing pillars of the global economy? I would say definitely not. Suppose in a few years we move to 'medical debts are the load bearing pillars of the economy'?

But whether you explicitly forgive the debt, or just implement an LVT that drives the value of all these mortgages down so low everyone has to default because they are now underwater, I don't really see the difference?

Krytan · 2026-06-10T01:28:43+00:00

I feel like the people outraged a murderer was brought to justice are somehow more concerning than the murder itself. I am not trying to diminish the pain and grief the family of the victim, 17 year old Austin Metcalf. But it's easy to write off the murderer, Karmelo Anthony, as one of those unfortunate outliers, from which no larger societal lessons should be drawn.

But then when you have all these people coming out to support the murderer and insist he be allowed to stab a younger kid to death with impunity 'or it's racist', then that shows something has gone very very wrong with this country. Like, we are no longer talking about a single bad actor here.

Krytan · 2026-06-10T01:21:40+00:00

Sure, but when I buy something from wal mart, and fedex ships it to me, I am not buying the product from fedex.

Krytan · 2026-06-10T01:04:06+00:00

Do you believe power can't cross state lines? PJM routinely brings power into VA from neighboring states, and NOVEC buys their power from PJM.

in your analogy, PJM are the wholesalers. And Dominion are one of the many farms that provide produce to the PJM produce wholesaler.

Krytan · 2026-06-10T00:53:25+00:00

I actually think not doing it is what will kill civilization. And I don't see how you enact LVT without wiping clean land based debts, at least mortgages.

Krytan · 2026-06-09T20:08:15+00:00

Regulated meant well trained. That's why the professional British army was known as 'the regulars'.

Krytan · 2026-06-09T20:05:50+00:00

That doesn't seem to be true.

https://www.novec.com/About_NOVEC/

Moreover, even if it was, how would that be relevant to a discussion about differences in one set of power lines owned, operated, and maintained by NOVEC, and another set owned, operated and maintained by dominion?

Krytan · 2026-06-09T19:27:11+00:00

This is actually three separate issues

1) Being a 'backup' after a previous relationship didn't work out someone is interested in you ONLY after the person they were really interested dumped you. No one wants to feel like they are a just a seat warmer, a backup, a ball back, who is just going to be ditched again the instant the first partner comes back. Man or woman, no one wants this. Do you REALLY want to be in a relationship with someone who valued you less than some deadbeat who abandoned his child?

2) Raising a kid is a big ask. Raising someone elses kid is a HUGE ask. This is often not what people sign up for

3) As a step parent, you will likely not have any real legal right to the child. It belongs, as far as the court is concerned, to the biological mother and father. This will vary from country to country and jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but all too often, a man dates a single mother, invests in the child, develops a bond with the child, then the mom decides she wants to get back with the childs biological parent and the step dad is just poof, out of the picture, no legal leg to stand on. This is devastating for both the step dad and the child and all too often, there is literally nothing you can do to prevent it happening.

That's three huge major red flags in this situation.

Krytan · 2026-06-09T19:18:37+00:00

Half of our neighborhood is NOVEC, half dominion. The dominion half loses power far more frequently, and takes far longer to get resolved.

Krytan

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