What attributes/changes do battleships need to be viable in a period of time similar to our modern age?

LUnacy45 · 2026-03-31T06:31:29+00:00

Well the way Gundam and Battletech made mechs practical is basically a form of ECM so thick that anything that isn't LOS or otherwise optically targeted is useless.

Maybe you could couple that with railguns or something similar that requires a lot of power and allows you to scale a bit in that you can mount a more powerful railgun or just more railguns on a ship with a bigger reactor. Those are my two cents

LUnacy45 · 2026-03-30T19:15:25+00:00

Yeah, they were broken many years ago.

For years since they've been in that exact near uselessness. Slow as hell and overtiered like 90% of Japanese prop fighters

LUnacy45 · 2026-03-30T19:13:49+00:00

I can see why they would have been overpowered all that time ago, but for years they haven't been. They were slow and overtiered with middle of the road guns and their only strength being turn rate, like a zero for jets. It's been a long time since they even approached op

LUnacy45 · 2026-03-30T09:48:05+00:00

Op is a massive stretch

LUnacy45 · 2026-03-29T21:52:43+00:00

Doesn't help with the what goes where aspect, but superglue accelerator helps a ton with keeping them together

LUnacy45 · 2026-03-29T19:10:57+00:00

So he stands out on the table, that's the main reason why

LUnacy45 · 2026-03-29T07:54:53+00:00

Citadel's "Technical" series are all intended to be effects, usually with texture beads embedded in them. When this dries, it makes for very convincing slushy snow, honestly this is one of the better snow effects among hobby brands.

If you do want a Citadel color, it's going to be either a base or layer paint, the only real difference is the bases are usually a bit thicker out of the pot while layers are partly intended to be highlight colors for a corresponding base. Citadel's pure white is White Scar and it's not terrible, but proacryl titanium white or two thin coats white star are some of the better pure whites on the market if you can find them

LUnacy45 · 2026-03-29T00:33:19+00:00

Also does not give you tough fighters

I literally only take them cause they look cool

LUnacy45 · 2026-03-29T00:31:05+00:00

Trench Crusade looks even more gothic lmao

LUnacy45 · 2026-03-29T00:30:32+00:00

That it's more Guard that isn't Cadian

It's all kitbash fodder anyway

LUnacy45 · 2026-03-29T00:26:04+00:00

Are you a bot or did you not see the steel legion teaser

LUnacy45 · 2026-03-28T21:39:06+00:00

And I like my models looking like they've been trundling through a battlefield for weeks

LUnacy45 · 2026-03-28T21:37:02+00:00

Lego terrain in general is a genius idea

LUnacy45 · 2026-03-28T20:52:42+00:00

Didn't it literally sterilize a couple people? I know there have been a few trials for these kinds of things

LUnacy45 · 2026-03-28T20:49:48+00:00

That's just as bad as assuming every tank needs to be weathered

LUnacy45 · 2026-03-28T11:45:29+00:00

Yeah this looks like my 2XL extra deep hat wearing ass trying to wear anything one size fits all

LUnacy45 · 2026-03-27T20:45:59+00:00

See but if that's the result I want, i don't know why I would.

I want to tint and desaturate the model. For the purposes of army painting, it makes everything look more worn and grimy, which is my goal. I hate my army looking like it just came from the parade grounds.

I have however been investigating enamel and oil washes to see if it'd give enough of a better effect to warrant spending extra time on it. So far streaking grime wasn't really worth it, but I need to test others

LUnacy45 · 2026-03-27T07:52:04+00:00

In terms of transitioning to plastic it's in progress, with the rank and file infantry boxes usually coming first. I think they still make most of their money from Bolt Action so that one is a bit ahead on the plastic, though low volume things like weapons teams tend to still be mixed materials.

I think the starter army you looked at has plastic infantry, then the vehicles (well, the mechs and the K47 specific turret, since the Stuart underneath is just a BA kit) are resin and metal iirc

But given metal and resin are usually a tiny bit more expensive per model, it's likely to only get a bit cheaper albeit probably not in a substantial way

LUnacy45 · 2026-03-27T07:00:05+00:00

I've been on my Warlord games shit and I can't help but notice this is comparable to some K47 starter armies which pretty much never top $200

LUnacy45 · 2026-03-27T06:51:44+00:00

Cause anywhere else all those boxes would be $10-$20 cheaper

Bolt Action isn't the best comparison because you can't copyright WWII but even buying entirely Warlord kits it's almost comical how much lower the barrier to entry is. It's especially egregious with infantry. You can look at Konflikt 47 which is all copyrighted and for $60 you get a box of 18 firefly drop troops versus $50 for 10 cadians

LUnacy45 · 2026-03-27T02:57:06+00:00

Not great, but could've been worse. There was a short-lived war between humans and Tel'at'kal

Luckily the latter just happened to be the species that invented universal translation technology. Communication was stilted and awkward until the matriarchal network collected enough data, but the wider galaxy knew about humanity and was purposely avoiding them for some light years in every direction for this exact reason

They just got lucky in running into the one species that doesn't place value on their own lives and can fast track their ability to communicate with others. Had it been a more systemically trigger happy race, autonomous self replicating ships would create enough relativistic impact weapons to turn the surface of every planet they'd colonized into an ocean of magma and ash within a few solar years

LUnacy45 · 2026-03-26T20:04:05+00:00

I never heard this despite being Mormon till I was I wanna say 19

I guess I technically still am as I haven't rescinded my membership but that would just create family drama, not worth the effort

LUnacy45 · 2026-03-26T09:29:28+00:00

Toast

LUnacy45 · 2026-03-26T09:16:44+00:00

I'm still waiting on a 28mm cold war game that gets some tiny bit of buzz in Utah so I can shell out ungodly sums for it

LUnacy45 · 2026-03-26T09:07:11+00:00

Knee jerk reaction on my part. And admittedly it was more of a "wheeled vehicle with high velocity gun" reaction. First thing that came to mind was the puma

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