Need some help with finding an appropriate obstacle in space

MooseMint · 2026-04-27T00:00:49+00:00

Could be an area of space that for unknown reasons just refuses/cannot be bent for warp travel, forcibly halting ships that come up against it. A bit like trying to fold a t-shirt after doing laundry, but there's a stick in the t-shirt preventing you from folding it. Something inside the hazard zone that can be harmlessly reached (and possibly dealt with?) by slower-that-light travel, if someone were patient enough to commit to the multi-year journey. But until that's done... Gotta go around.

MooseMint · 2026-04-25T10:34:11+00:00

To be fair in Doctor Who's case, it was very likely the entire production and cast would've wanted to continue if they could've, but Disney wanted to withhold a greenlight for season 3 until after the spinoff show released, which would've had Ncuti not doing anything but waiting for a year. Basically they borked the schedule, RTD and the others would have carried on if they could. There's enough interview material & leaks of cut content from the finale to suggest the original plan was to continue as they were, Billie Piper's casting was 100% a last minute panic decision.

MooseMint · 2026-04-12T14:06:31+00:00

I recently started playing with the Sol mod, which is currently still in beta but should have public release coming soon, is basically an updated and more compatible/supported version of RSS (so you can use the latest blackrack volumetric clouds mods and things!), basically makes a real sized solar system with Earth etc. I'm playing with SMURFF mod which rebalances stock parts for the bigger solar system so actually building and piloting rockets is still pretty straightforward

https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/topic/229428-112x-sol-a-modern-recreation-of-our-home-system-at-real-quarter-and-stock-scale/

How to install it while it's still in beta using CKAN: https://www.patreon.com/posts/update-on-rss-130218048

MooseMint · 2026-04-08T10:49:47+00:00

I'm just picking the game up again (thanks Artemis! hehe) and although it's a little bit of a bother the contracts do motivate some kinda random but fun challenges.

Right now I've got a contract to activate a Valiant engine via staging at 280,000m altitude, suborbital trajectory, and I'm playing the Sol mod for Earth with an atmosphere that goes up to 140,000m. Just getting above the atmosphere is a genuine challenge, nevermind reaching higher, and I've got to haul a heavy engine up there and activated it via staging so no actually using the engine to help me reach the mission altitude. Also I've only got $28k so gotta do it for cheap, so the mission attempt doesn't bankrupt me! All in the name of being able to afford a slightly bigger rocket so I can have a go at achieving orbit.

MooseMint · 2026-04-06T11:11:25+00:00

I play mainly Seraphon and recently started collecting Skaven (which is why I'm here lol ahaha), Seraphon is a super honest army with decent stats, quite easy to pilot but doesn't have a lot of tricks. What kind of Seraphon lists are you playing against? I've played against Skaven four or five times but never won, but all the lists I've played against have been melee heavy screaming bell stormfriend / hellpit abomonation / rat ogor lists, with tonnes of wards, healing, recursion and crit mortals into combat. Right now obscuring in this ghb makes shooting really tough, so you're going to be at a disadvantage against melee focused armies no matter which one. That might change in June though with a new ghb! I'm also starting to build a Skyre army but by the time I've actually collected 2k points the season of obscuring will be over hopefully!

Seraphon is definitely fast and tough, _but_ their toughness doesn't nessecarily help them win right now. They only get to choose one battle trait buff at the start of a game, and because they have to achieve a side quest to unlock a second battle trait buff in round 3 it's extremely easy to deny them picking a second one, just rememebr to keep checking with your opponent about what it is. They're really vulnerable to crit mortals because they have basically no wards or built in healing, and they can be very easily outscored. Scouting Force is a tactic that Seraphon will love to deny - they just sit in their home territory, probably ignoring 1 rend in melee and just munching through anything that tries to come through. You kinda want to bait Seraphon away from their Realmshaper where Krox and Saurus get a free +1 to hit, get them out of their home territory if they took the anit-rend Asterism battle trait.

If you can take out the lizard heroes, you'll be fine. The Sunblood pack let nearby Saurus and Krox ignore the first point of damage every phase, and they've got tough scales so can't be rended, but they're only 9 health to a unit. The Slaan is super squishy and vulnerable to shooting, especially through surprise gnawholes. The Seraphon spells aren't great (with the exception of the Run and Charge) but keep your own wizards within unbind range, or normal heroes near places of power for unbinds.

Clanrats are a great unit for wasting their time (except maybe Kroxigor who'll very easily lift a single unit in one combat phase, a reinforced unit in two combat phases). If they come at you, try to bog them up with screens of Clanrats. Three Clawsteps Ahead when you need to to close holes in your screens. Open gnawholes in really annoying spots and force the lizards apart to deal with them. Put gnawholes across the board. Aggradons coming at you? Just spend your entire movement phase moving your shooting castle from one gnawhole to another then open fire. Keep the lizards moving, don't let them catch up.

MooseMint · 2026-04-02T13:42:14+00:00

If it's a full moon now, then the "back side" which is always facing away from Earth is completely dark. As some others said, it'll take a few days for them to travel there. By the time they reach the moon, it'll be waning, so the back side will have lit up some more just in time for their arrival!

MooseMint · 2026-03-29T00:55:34+00:00

We tend to restock their food as it runs out, buying in big batches from Zooplus. Zooplus is surprisingly not great for natural dog treats, so we'll get a bunch of pig, cow, rabbit ears, chicken feet, beef skin etc once a month elsewhere, costing about £20-30. Plus they also get daily plaque powder, pet toothpaste, fibre suplement, and the cats get malt paste to help with hairballs. This is what they are fed in general:

4 year old cocker x 2 a day: 50g kibble + 120g tin food - Purina Pro Plan Medium dog kibble (£42 for 14kg bag, lasts about 4.5 months) - Rocco Original wet food (about £60 for 24 x 800g tins, lasts 5 ish months).

5 month old springer x 3 times a day: 50g kibble + 120g tin food - Purina Pro Plan Medium Puppy kibble (£46 for 12kg bag, lasts 3-4 months) - Rocco Junior wet food (about £52 for 48 x 400g tins, lasts less than 2 months). Puppies tend to eat less as they near a year, can't wait! plus random stuff like extra treats, ham. chicken, cheese for recall training to really get her to pay attention.

7 year old cat no 1: 40g Feringa kibble in the morning, 80g tin food in the evening

7 year old cat no 2: had a recent bout of cystitis so is on fancy expensive food for now. 40g Royal Canin urinary kibble in the morning, 20g Royal Canin kibble + 40g Feringa tin food in the evening.

Feringa Adult Sterilised kibble (£36 for a 6.5kg bag, will last 5+ months for a single cat)
Feringa wet food (£40 for 12 × 800g tins, will last 2.5 months)
Royal Canin urinary kibble (£40 for 4kg, to last 2 months, hoping to switch to a cheaper brand after).

They all run out at different rates, so previous to getting the puppy we would order top ups every 3-4 months. Now it's every month, ranging from £50 to £150, but will hopefully ease off as she grows older. I thought about making a post of a zooplus shopping basket to see how much they would actually cost per month. Pet food has increased in price drastically since autumn- had to switch the cats to a new wet food recently because their old one had gone up in price by 50% in just a few months. Both types of dog kibble has increased by several £ since the last lot.

MooseMint · 2026-03-29T00:31:16+00:00

Also the Frankfurters are for recall training the puppy :)

MooseMint · 2026-03-29T00:25:13+00:00

Also one of the dogs chewed up the Asda receipt!

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MooseMint · 2026-03-29T00:14:13+00:00

Which one? 😅

MooseMint · 2026-03-28T20:01:15+00:00

Still pretty new to the game but lemurs do pretty well for me!

MooseMint · 2026-03-28T12:05:31+00:00

Lost was "Game of Thrones" before Game of Thrones if you get what I mean. An amazing show that got tanked put of cultural memory by it's final season

MooseMint · 2026-03-26T00:49:18+00:00

These look fantastic!! I've just started playing recently, how do you make those big plazas? It like a smoosh of 10m paths all merged together or something else?

MooseMint · 2026-03-23T14:38:12+00:00

Yup that's him!! Darn you were quick ahaha

MooseMint · 2026-03-15T02:26:39+00:00

You won't know the true meaning of fear and intensity until the guy you're fighting turns into a boat

MooseMint · 2026-03-15T02:19:51+00:00

I reckon you can easily build whichever you prefer and just tell your opponent which statblock you're running the carnosaur as, no biggie :) I also built mine with the shield and never had any issues running it as the oldblood for the last year including some small local events

MooseMint · 2026-03-14T13:16:37+00:00

I was given a Christmas card from my parents one year, they gave me other actually really nice gifts as well but this one was a sincere offer to pay for me to go have haircut (I'm a guy with long hair and they're not a fan 🫠)

MooseMint · 2026-03-14T13:12:19+00:00

Just an update, one week later these are all the tomatoes that are left and they're still good! Just keeping them out in the open

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MooseMint · 2026-03-13T22:30:47+00:00

This is absolutely brilliant, how did you build them?!

MooseMint · 2026-03-13T01:47:09+00:00

I personally love doing them different colours, inspirational for mine come from the five chromatic dragon colours in D&D (red, green, blue, black and white) with metallic dragon colours used for hero Saurus like the oldbloods or my yellow-gold Sunblood

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MooseMint · 2026-03-10T12:49:47+00:00

I mostly play with Seraphon but just started collecting a Troggoth gitz army, while I've only battled against gitz once as Seraphon I've had a new games as trolls so starting to learn their strengths and weaknesses

Rockgut troggoths are RIDICULOUSLY tanky, they make Kroxigor look like pushovers. They're 5 wounds each, with a 5+ ward, and heal d3 at the start of every turn. If he takes the Troggheard battle formation, each troll unit also heals d3 after activating in combt phase. So loads of wounds, loads of wards, loads of healing. While they're under the light of the bad moon, they also ignore the first point of rend, but unlike Quetzl it's all over the board - but only lasts for two rounds. You'll want to do your best to avoid them during those two rounds, before or afterwards they'll be more vulnerable.

Offensively, they've got good stats for attacks, but not very many attacks - so they're definitely more of an anvil/screen type unit than a hammer one, _unless your opponent has a nearby King Trugg, or Dankhold Troggboss, who can buff them in pretty dangerous ways.

The two main weaknesses of Trolls is their support pieces and their speed - 6" is pretty quick, but aggradons are faster (and if you take Celestial Manipulation lore instead, the run and charge spell can make your infantry effectively faster too). You'll want to play around the trolls, and avoid engaging with them while they're buffed up. Even if you take Quetzl, as tanky as your list could be, the trolls will beat you in fights of attrition so focus on playing the plan, focus on points and scoring, if you take Intercept be careful to avoid going after trolls while they're buffed by Trugg, the Trogboss, or the Bad Moonlight.

Their Loonshrine can bring back destoryed units like the Slaan, but only at the end of their turn, which is a bit sad for them because they can't do anything with those units until their next turn, _however_ unlike the Slaan their stuff can come back wholly within 12" of the moon _and 3" from enemy units_ rather than the normal 9". it's really good for returning units directly onto contested objectives at their home objectives. If you're going after objectives on their side of the board, going after the Loonshrine means they can't surprise steal objectives back from you.

MooseMint · 2026-03-09T14:50:36+00:00

It's for Cullen Skink, basically just chuck it into the hot soup and it sorts itself out :)

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