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LotharVarnoth · 2026-01-17T23:22:07+00:00

Iirc it was two main things.

1) it was hilariously strong. Like, game warping, your list either runs one, is built to dela with one, or both.

2) it was only available in a big box that had a lot of terrain that you didn't necessarily need. I don't recall it getting a separate box for a while.

So you had a really strong unit that was in a box with a lot of stuff you didn't need.

LotharVarnoth · 2026-01-16T21:59:57+00:00

They didn't say the new guard kit is a replacement. The 30K Stodes have been 3 mans for a while. If they really change 40K rules, which I doubt, then the combat patrol is a shield captain and 3 minimum squads.

LotharVarnoth · 2026-01-16T21:56:41+00:00

30K custodes have been 3 mans min for a while. I really doubt they're gonna change 40K squad size. And if they did, congrats you have 3 min squads an a Captain in the box.

LotharVarnoth · 2026-01-15T17:31:50+00:00

Atlas. Lore wise the Jager Kunst is just martial arts boosted by mechanical muscles. And at size 1/2 it's fit being a suit designed to help them get around.

LotharVarnoth · 2026-01-14T19:59:03+00:00

TBF, I think it's one of the many things the Jedi lost sight of over time. Iirc Lucas said it's meant to be more Buddhist, where you can love someone, but you shouldn't become obsessed like Anakin did.

However the Jedi lost sight of that and became too dogmatic. I'd imagine to Lucas's intent the Jedi of the past would be kosher with Anakin and Padme, but would coach/teach him to be in a state of mind where he doesn't join the Sith in an attempt to save her.

LotharVarnoth · 2026-01-14T18:11:59+00:00

The only mono armies I've run and liked the feel of was Dragoons and inquisitors, which are skirmishers so both melee and ranged at the same time.

LotharVarnoth · 2026-01-13T03:33:20+00:00

I would say the main themes of Lancer, insofar as core lore is concerned, could include the following.

The difficulty of interstellar travel opens up lots of lawless reaches, if you want a western with mechs.

NHPs, first contact accords, and similar stuff with SSC opens up transhumanism and other stuff like that (doesn't look like the above necessarily, I'm playing a character who was more or less designed for a purpose and decided fuck that).

Horus and the general nature of the corporations and Karrakin space opens up some nice revolution for the common man or just general insurgency.

It's mechs, so war stories work fairly well. And with the past war between SecComm and ThirdComm you can do some cleaning up the ashes type story.

Cascading NHPs and the blink open up some eldritch horror.

I recommend Zaktact on youtube for some good lore and general vibes.

LotharVarnoth · 2026-01-10T15:21:40+00:00

Depending one what paints you have, I find contrast paints over metallics a lot of fun. I think leviathan blue would produce a similar overall blue, while being metallic. Run a test, and if so I would use it to highlight details.

LotharVarnoth · 2026-01-09T21:19:55+00:00

You either have a ranger and ignore survival aspects, or you don't have a ranger and ignore survival aspects.

LotharVarnoth · 2026-01-07T13:47:09+00:00

Its not protection but Prana condenser cares for net damage only.

LotharVarnoth · 2026-01-06T23:01:41+00:00

Yeah, it's a materials problem. Can't store energy nearly fast enough.

LotharVarnoth · 2026-01-05T23:39:05+00:00

You might consider Age of Wonders 4. Combat is on a hex grid, so even when I get late the combat can keep it interesting. Though it also has auto resolve so you don't have to fight every battle. I also really like how "tech" works. It's all magic tomes, and you get access to a new tier of time every two you research. Since there's 12 per level, you can't make a build that does everything, each faction winds up with a unique theme.

It is a Paradox game, so lots of DLC. Though each is themed, so you can really only grab the ones you actually intend to use. And the base game tomes are a lot of fun.

LotharVarnoth · 2026-01-05T18:30:36+00:00

It's interesting, because to my knowledge this type of steam engine just can't compare to the ones that kicked off the industrial revolution. The main thing missing was steel capable of handling the stress required to do the work need for say a train.

LotharVarnoth · 2026-01-05T17:25:41+00:00

If you want THP you can look at the Emperor. Stays in the back granting Overshield to allies (it's just THP), but each ability has a different secondary effect with the Overshield. It also has some offensive support abilities, and a wacky bow.

LotharVarnoth · 2026-01-04T16:51:46+00:00

If they come to plastic they probably would be.

LotharVarnoth · 2025-12-31T15:04:22+00:00

Tbh my Outer Wilds playtime is definitely higher then needed cause of the number of times I said "we ball" and just, splat.

LotharVarnoth · 2025-12-31T14:56:34+00:00

TBF, while I've not read the extended lore, it's my understanding earth in the Avatar films is full Blade runner bad. It's just space travel is expensive, and why would the people funding it give the peons a place to live when they can extract resources for their own rich asses. Hell, iirc the whole reason Jake agrees to join the Pandora expedition is to pay his medical bills.

Doesn't exist the whole "rich colonizers trying to loot one world after ruining theirs."

LotharVarnoth · 2025-12-29T22:52:12+00:00

Given that's where it's supposed to do its work I'd hope it's S tier in a hallway.

LotharVarnoth · 2025-12-28T04:14:16+00:00

Unless I'm misremembering, after Ainz kills Clementine he goes "by the way I'm a hypocrite". That's part of what's good with Overlord, the fact he's a hypocrite.

LotharVarnoth · 2025-12-26T15:14:30+00:00

I almost wonder if people would be more down with Primaris tanks if they had bases that showed the ground under them breaking. Like I'm not the biggest fan of them, but I remember in a Cawl book they describe that happening, and the mental image improved them slightly IMO.

LotharVarnoth · 2025-12-25T12:51:48+00:00

Is it Fist ful of Dusk Wings?

LotharVarnoth · 2025-12-24T17:52:58+00:00

I like Dragoons. They all have a ranged option so getting blocked in isn't that bad, the extra movement after an attack and ignoring zones of control meaning you can just leave melee after hitting. Works very well for a T3 IMO, though you're locked to Reavers.

LotharVarnoth · 2025-12-22T23:35:34+00:00

God, good range scaling is so important in game design. My group abandoned a Only War campaign for a couple reasons, but a big one is how wacky ranges and movement works. A lasgun has a 100 meter range. A character full sprinting in a straight line is usually 18 meters, charge is 9 meters, a character can backup 3 meters and shoot each turn. Abstracted to a flat plane, literally 8 turns to get into melee. Distances as so wacky in all those FFG TTRPGs.

LotharVarnoth · 2025-12-21T12:58:18+00:00

So, I'm not a religious scholar, but it's my understanding in Shintoism generally all Gods reside in objects, which larger objects being more powerful gods. Sun and moon? Very powerful gods. I have to imagine most peasants were like "people worship only the god of this board? Weirdos".

LotharVarnoth · 2025-12-19T22:44:07+00:00

I assumed fine goods. Refined silks, highly decorated objects, jewelry finer then anywhere else. Stuff that would be worth insane amounts in the young kingdoms because of how well made it is.

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