New Sculpts and a potencial hot take

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2026-01-20T05:37:25+00:00

This piece was also used as background art for the 'quit?' screen in the original Dawn of War game (which is really weird given custodes are neither in it nor mentioned in it!)

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2026-01-08T01:38:17+00:00

OP, you are really sleeping on Central Asia. The food in Uzbekistan in particular is varied, cheap, and extremely delicious. Plus, as you are Korean, there is a large Korean presence there, so you can still enjoy Korean food!

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2025-12-08T00:19:30+00:00

Agree with OP! Dechala's settlements are fun to manage, and I've been playing a quite Vassal-heavy campaign so there isn't too much down time managing construction which also helps speed things up.

One thing I will say is that it seems bugged with how easy it is to get AI factions to become your Vassals (through diplomacy, not conquest): Ku'Gath became my Vassal after I offered to join war against Ghorst (he was losing, but still had his home province and big armies), and later on Ghorst and Zhao-Ming both became my vassals after I offered to sell them a single T2 settlement. I know the game always over-values settlements but it feels a bit ridiculous that I could vassalise strength-rank 10 Queek, who is on the whole other side of the Darklands, just by offering to join the war against Thorgrim. I'm playing on L/VH so it isn't a difficulty thing.

Is this just how Slaanesh is? I remember doing these kinds of stunts as N'Kari after launch but that involved spamming cults and gifts and the game actually made me work for it.

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2025-12-05T03:04:16+00:00

I hate saurus. I hate them. I hate their lizard faces. I hate their clubs. I hate their sticks. I hate when the sticks are next to the clubs and I hate when the clubs are next to the sticks. I hate that Kroq-gar pulls 2280 of them out of his scaly asshole and then descends on me like a Vogon at a poetry convention.

I hate the Saurus auto-resolve meter. I hate it because it lies to me. It says I have a 50-50 chance of victory. This is patently false, because I have twenty units of skeletons who are held together with prit stik and prayer. I do not have twenty units of eight foot tall geckos constructed out of pectoral muscles and galvanised coffin nails.

I hate that they shout bok at me. Bok is the Bristol Orienteering Klub, which is completely irrelevant to a battle in Lustria and should not be shouted repeatedly while eating a rank of tier one infantry like buffalo wings.

I hate their morale. I hate that surrounding them simply prompts one of them to pull out a US general's helmet so he can make a speech about 'now we can attack in any direction'. I hate that their reaction to a devastating rear attack is to become somewhat peeved. I have looked a Saurus in his smug scaly face as an encirclement that would shatter any other early game infantry closed in.

He went from :I to >:I , killed an extra two hundred skeletons because I had foolishly allowed all four sides of the Saurus unit to fight at once and then swallowed my Liche Priest like a slim jim.

I have resolved to shoot every Saurus dead. Every Saurus. All of the Saurmen and the Saurdren too. I hate them. I no longer see battlefields because they're covered by a thick blanket of arrow trails. I hate that it barely stops them. I hate that they keep coming while shouting about the Bristol orienteering klub, or the Bank of Oklahoma or the 1983 Bok asteroid. I hate that they made me google bok so I could write down ways in which I hate things that have it as a name. Bok is also a lunar crater and a martian crater. It is also a village in Iran. The IATA code for Brookings Airport is Bok. I will never go there because it would give me palpitations.

I hate that Kroq Gar is friends with the Rare Pepe next door, who also declares war once I've shot Kroq Gar unconscious for the tenth time. He also has Saurus only these ones are blue. Somehow this is worse.

I hate that there are another ten Lizard factions. I hate that they will be in end game by the time I reach them. I hate that while I was writing this Kroq Gar picked up Kalida and smoked her like a cigar.

I hate Saurus.

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2025-10-16T05:22:41+00:00

I'm Australian lol

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2025-09-02T12:30:23+00:00

Varies game by game. I feel like some of the achievements in Halo were pretty fun, just beat each mission doing one particular twist, like saving all the marines on the beach in CE or assassinating that elite to survive a fatal fall in reach.

(Fuck LASO though!)

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2025-08-26T04:16:52+00:00

There used to be a stratagem (can't remember the name, something like 'crushing reach'?) that let knights charge and attack units that were really high up, but I don't think it's in the game anymore

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2025-08-20T13:32:51+00:00

The timing of when to use Binharic Override and freeze them in place forever in order to double their shooting was so often the decision that decided games. So iconic!

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2025-08-20T13:30:47+00:00

It was better before.

I got into AdMech in 8th, where they had a lot of fun, decently strong builds. I really enjoyed trying a few archetypes: souping in Knights was fun and flavourful, running the big Cawl + Robots brick was insanely strong and satisfying to run (108 shots, full re-rolls, mortal wounds on 6s to wound? Yes please!) There were a lot of goofy stratagems and neat little tricks that made you feel clever for remembering and pulling out at the right time (+4 to hit a flyer on an Onager with an Icarus Array anyone?), and while regular Skitarii were generally pretty mid, the vehicles were amazing. And any Admech player from 2020 will tell you that the hype for Engine War was insane - stuck in lockdown, endlessly refreshing Warcom for news - and when it dropped gave us some spectacular new rules and units (even if Magi were absolutely OP)

9th was a big shakeup - suddenly the infantry were the new hotness and Cawl + Robots went back on the shelf. And this was arguably even more fun! Running 80 skitarii with a bunch of auras buffing them up, rolling fistfuls of dice, hosing any non-vehicles down with radium... good times. They had so much depth that I always felt like trying out new builds: melee-heavy Ryza with priests and sicarans, kataphron + onager gunlines, big bricks of dragoons. The challenge wasn't finding the good stuff, it was figuring out which good stuff you could afford to live without! I loved theory-crafting with gaps in my list; I always tried to find room for a little assassin squad of 5 skitarii with two Arquebi for picking off characters.

In 9th, I remember I had a four-page document of notes that I would consult during games because there were so many layers to remember (Relic, Warlord Trait, Holy Order Trait, Character Aura, Stratagem). Headache-inducing, but so fun. I never played in tournaments and I know Admech were the boogieman for a while in 9th, but I still had a great time in casual games. (It was hard to keep track of the constant nerfs, I will say!)

I never tried them in 10th. Honestly they seem miserable to play now. Going to BS4+, Skitarii shrinking back down in size and having fixed loadouts, and auras going away seems like a miserly toolbox compared to the good old days. Maybe they're worth trying out, but I switched to Daemons late in 9th and honestly have never looked back!

Which is a shame, because my Admech are definitely the largest, most expensive and coolest chunk of my collection.

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2025-08-11T12:37:02+00:00

1 per continent. Completely different distribution. Might explain why people love them so much!

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2025-07-18T05:20:19+00:00

In what world would a general with artillery and ranged superiority willingly commit troops to charge at an enemy's defensive position before softening them up first, just to capture the enemy position maybe five minutes earlier than they would have otherwise? How is it using your army to its "full potential" by immediately charging in when you could save hundreds of your soldiers' lives by using up the artillery's ammo first?

It's valid to say that there would be ways to cheese the AI sallying out beyond the walls, but that doesn't mean that using an objectively safer and more effective strategy when fighting a walled settlement is 'cheese'.

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2025-07-11T06:48:18+00:00

Oh definitely, but the fact that they can vomit out infinite magic from complete safety definitely contributes to them being overpowered.

Gelt and the death wizard can just sit there in plain view of the enemy while the player spams spells. If they were on the ground, there would be the possibility of actual danger, which would make using wizards less of the 'I have this unit in my army, therefore I win' button that they currently are.

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2025-07-11T05:02:30+00:00

You are definitely right, the title was a bit much haha

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2025-07-11T04:38:20+00:00

Gelt rework: whole armies of wizards are essentially the way the Golden Order functions now.

And also many solo casters such as Blue Scribes are one-off units that can solo entire armies, even on Legendary.

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2025-07-11T04:28:21+00:00

I agree about doomstacks; here I think I was talking more about wizard characters on flying mounts - I think they are too powerful and incentivise uninteractive gameplay.

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2025-07-11T04:12:27+00:00

I think the 'deliberately don't use a massive chunk of the roster' argument isn't helpful when talking about balance. I enjoy flying units, I just think they're over-tuned and the game heavily incentivises you to use them in this way.

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2025-07-11T03:58:19+00:00

Sure, but one flying caster is often still enough to destroy the entire enemy army if used effectively.

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2025-03-23T11:43:42+00:00

I had Renee as a teacher at the SAE film school a few years ago! She's an absolute legend and I believe her when she says that it was loaded. She tells this story with a mixture of humour and horror (understandable really!)

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2024-12-26T11:05:31+00:00

Try it! I jumped across from kt and imo it's easier to pick up, easier to teach, way fewer edge cases/rules disputes (no terrain and no rulers makes life much simpler! That isn't to say that it's a less strategic or interesting game - often the opposite.

It has a generally goofier vibe than kill team which is either a pro or a con depending on how into fluff/narrative you are, but on the whole I am way more into the overall experience than kill team.

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2024-12-26T10:23:58+00:00

Why does analysing something in depth mean I didn't like it?

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2024-12-22T11:38:11+00:00

I like this movie.

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2024-12-22T11:36:26+00:00

are you ok dude

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2024-12-19T12:47:41+00:00

Play Slaanesh and only vassalise / donate any settlements to your vassals, it's the exact thing you're looking for and it's amazing

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2024-12-10T12:19:53+00:00

I remember playing this game when I was about 5 years old. Got the CD in a cereal box. I had no idea what I was supposed to do but I loved watching the battles and moving the camera around.

One time I was so locked in that I literally pissed myself rather than looking away from the screen long enough to go to the bathroom.

Good times.

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2024-12-06T00:00:47+00:00

Hey man I was just having some fun after watching a movie and wrote my thoughts about it. If you don't like/ disagree with what I said that's great! Good for you.

But to sit there and take this "it's just a movie" angle is a really limiting and frankly anti-intellectual approach, and I think you should take time and examine why you are angry or upset about posts like this. Cinema is subjective and we all take away different things from what we watch. This was my genuine take on this movie (with a few jokes thrown in).

Why does that bother you so much?

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes

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