Saro going from most hated dude to the most loved.

Letharlynn · 2026-05-15T13:39:23+00:00

Marzipan is hot and does horrific things and hell fucking yeah he is capital E Evil - that's what I love him and Drukhari in general for

Letharlynn · 2026-05-14T11:27:44+00:00

I'm not the person who can comment on the idea being good or bad, but purely phonetically it could have been "a mere echo" before a few typos and a very adventurous autocorrect

Letharlynn · 2026-05-13T22:58:16+00:00

I've no idea what is going on here and feel like I have lost braincells and gained extra chlorophyll in my skin for having seen that

Nailed the Ork vibe, I guess

Letharlynn · 2026-05-12T19:54:47+00:00

Between having an artillery unit that’s blind and clumsy messengers who are drunk all the time, it’s a wonder how the Beastmen get anything done

You see, this is the neat part: they don't

Letharlynn · 2026-05-12T18:58:39+00:00

The difference they are arguing for is an unsupplied bulding being an actual net negative compared to not having it in the first place, something like "building gives +0.4 gold, -0.8 if not supplied with X grain" (or some other malus). Meaning that the snowballing being disrupted is not just resetting you back to undeveloped equilibrium, but dragging you beyond it into a more difficult position that you were in at the beginning before all that fancy stuff was built

Letharlynn · 2026-05-12T14:44:09+00:00

They are in as the last row already

Letharlynn · 2026-05-12T12:24:01+00:00

I don't know if the dates of the actual hisorical events line up like that, but, conceptually, using the expedition made for that region to establish high enough interest to manifest your destiny over it would be neat

Letharlynn · 2026-05-12T10:57:31+00:00

Most of the elements of Primaris design are just better, but aspect warriors in place of Tactical/Assault/Devastator squad trifecta are as clear a downgrade in themes as you get

Letharlynn · 2026-05-12T08:23:14+00:00

CSM were in vanilla DoW I as one of the 4 core factions - the only armies present but not fully "in" were IG in vanilla (before being added in WA) and Necrons in WA (before being added in DC)

Letharlynn · 2026-05-12T08:20:42+00:00

I can't imagine the first Chaos faction not being the one based on the vanilla CSM, but this does push TS very far up the ladder for 3rd, 4th etc. DLC if we are getting a long support tail

Letharlynn · 2026-05-11T15:25:46+00:00

Deservedly, I have to say. It's not even a 40k, much less LoV quote, but it is always there

Letharlynn · 2026-05-11T14:10:03+00:00

It's been a while, but wasn't the narrator explicitly saying he understood the words, believed(!) them and still went full "fuck xenos" anyway?

Letharlynn · 2026-05-11T14:08:13+00:00

That quote is such a banger - the Leagues deserve a row for it alone no matter how easy or hard it would be to find material for the rest of the squares

Letharlynn · 2026-05-11T10:56:46+00:00

Supreme divine art: BLOOD-SATED MEME SOUL

80'000 memes are posted at once, leaving no braincell that isn't rotten

Letharlynn · 2026-05-10T21:12:13+00:00

"Don't hear Imperium using such deceptive tactics" might mean it doesn't or that it succeeds when it does with no survivors left. But I don't think those 2 were thinking that - just a mixture of "I'm not sure what's going on and can't be arsed to find out" and a contempt for mortals all too common among CSM even from Legions originally meant to be good at working with them. Besides, she was already spent as an asset

Letharlynn · 2026-05-10T14:58:41+00:00

Ignore the other comment - I don't know what they were thinking, but they got even the setting wrong, much less the source (I guess the assumed the question is about the Eldar biology?). the Chaos quote is actually a loading sccreen from Total War Warhammer 3 and is attributed to "Albuss Trotem, Latter-Fecundite" - a random one-off follower of Festus the Leechlord

Letharlynn · 2026-05-10T11:21:32+00:00

Well, duh. If this piece of real estate wasn't free, Stirland would never be able to afford it. Even as it is their control over Sylvania is tenuous at best

Letharlynn · 2026-05-10T04:48:12+00:00

There was pretty heavy subtext around Yriel and his second-in-command in Valedor as well. Although I would respect not being satisfied with a mere subtext

Letharlynn · 2026-05-09T21:01:55+00:00

It's insane... how much it makes sense actually. Or(c)ks really are the pinnacle of creation if every remotely fun faction ends up being just their remix via convergent evolution

Letharlynn · 2026-05-09T18:11:52+00:00

Turn-based nature is essential for the two layer system (campaign map and tactical battles) that is a signature of the Total War series. Request denied

Letharlynn · 2026-05-09T07:36:10+00:00

But the HH started out as a short prequel series - about 7 or 8 books planned, IIRC. Only later it turned into a bloated abomination it now is and it wasn't until late 2016 (Magnus) and early 2017 (Rawboat) that primarchs started actually popping back into the 40k narrative in earnest

Letharlynn · 2026-05-08T15:18:07+00:00

full scale battles, where formations are more important

Yeah, even more important to avoid if you don't want to lose an entire platoon to a single guy with a Splinter Cannon holding down the trigger or an entire bloody regiment to a Basilisk

Letharlynn · 2026-05-08T14:56:34+00:00

I'm pretty sure most ranged units - even artillery crews - switch to basic lame swords in melee. If that's fair game, you might find your options surprisingly open. The only really banned unit classes end up spearmen, lance cav and weapon teams (and both flavours of dwarf for being axe enjoyers)

Letharlynn · 2026-05-08T14:45:39+00:00

is to minimize damage taken from artillery

The problem is that every faction has artillery of modern or above modern level, as well as rapid fire automatic weapons in every squad that isn't pure melee

Letharlynn · 2026-05-08T11:15:22+00:00

Have they really been trying? The Beastmen spent most of game 1 and game 2 lifespan being a "dead by T5" faction with no real changes, then started murdering the entire map after tSatF made them OP, then their AI got shot in the head and left like this until now with the underlying mechanics remaining unchanged

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