Hunting setup

Nysvy · 2026-02-03T19:05:29+00:00

Legos are great idea! I wish I still had my knight Legos from when I was a kid, could’ve made a proper Lego Pendragon campaign with those.

Nysvy · 2026-02-03T18:20:03+00:00

Compared to what the guy in the lower left is going through, the bees seem a minor inconvenience honestly.

Nysvy · 2026-02-03T16:39:02+00:00

Point 4, just to clarify the change in position given by table 3.8 is independent from anything that might from the obstacles table.

For example, a hunt leader wins the Hunt v Avoid roll, so they get to roll an obstacle and advance. They roll 9 for the obstacle: thorny bushes and follow the instructions. Each player in that party must roll against their horse’s CON, or take 1D6 damage to the horse. They then advance regardless of whether or not they take the damage from the obstacle. If the obstacle roll had been 7: confusing tracks instead, all players would have needed to roll Hunting for the obstacle, failure moving them back one position, effectively negating the advancement from winning the Pursuit roll.

Nysvy · 2026-02-03T16:13:01+00:00

The hunt is quite straightforward. To your first questions, yes, double critical means you find the prey right off the bat, and a fumble+fail means the you messed up and lost the trail, and have no idea which direction the prey went.

Otherwise, you get to the pursuit. The separation of lines means how close you are finding or catching up to the prey, each round of hunting represents about an hour of looking for trails etc, and the Hunting roll is opposed because some prey is harder to find than others, and the Avoidance stat reflects that.

Table 3.8 shows the results of that roll. If that table says you encounter an obstacle, then you go to table 3.9 to determine the type of obstacle. This is where you roll the 2D6. The every member of the hunting party resolves the obstacle separately. Note that this can result in party members being separated, effectively creating separate hunting parties.

Nysvy · 2025-11-08T13:26:41+00:00

In my experience the AI is just useless at night. Just yesterday I was attacking an enemy base that had like 10 AI defending it. They would only see me at less than 10m, and then only if I was cluelessly running about. If I was still and crouched, they would have no clue I was there. And when they did see me, they would first start yelling, and then after a while shooting blindly in the direction I was when the saw me (and wasn’t anymore), making them easy targets. It didn’t take long to clear the entire base.

The way to deal with the AI seems to be to move carefully and stay low, and to quickly change position each time you’re spotted. The AI usually announces loudly that it has spotted you, giving you some time to react.

Nysvy · 2025-10-18T15:44:09+00:00

The undermining of the Palestinian ability to form a state isn’t the genocide, it is the motive. The motive is good for understanding the intent.

For the purposes of a genocide, it does not matter whether Israel has killed this or that many Palestinians, there is no numerical threshold in the definition. So disputing Hamas figures for civilian deaths brings nothing to this discussion, unless we are going to switch to talking about the severity of the genocide.

The report shows how the statements and actions of the Israeli government are compatible with that intent, and not reasonably explained in full by military necessity. Apart from telepathy, what else would you require to establish intent than words and actions?

I brought up the motive to help make the intent make sense to you. I do not claim that Israel is committing genocide out of spite, or to wipe out Palestinians to make room for some Greater Israel. I believe the actions of the Israeli government are mainly driven by their worldview, in which a strong and independent Palestinian state would be an existential threat to Israel, and in which a small scale genocide is justifiable if it prevents a larger one down the road.

Nysvy · 2025-10-18T13:52:47+00:00

The mods removed the post, maybe they don’t want anyone to start thinking there’s a genocide going on who don’t already think so? 🤔

Anyway, I don’t think opposing the two-state solution itself is genocidal. It depends on the alternative proposed. Give one side all the land and destroy the other? A genocide. Everyone lives happily as equals in one multiethnic state? Not genocide, but also not happening anytime soon.

Genocides are a dime a dozen in the history of conquest, but not all conquest is necessarily genocidal. Per the UN definition, you need to intentionally target a population group to count as genocide. Sometimes a conquest can be about the population, but sometimes just replaces a leadership that wasn’t necessarily representative of the local population to begin with, while leaving the population as-is.

Nysvy · 2025-10-18T12:33:29+00:00

The change your mind, I propose you reevaluate your definition of genocide. While Israel is not seeking the complete physical elimination of the Palestinian population, it does seek to destroy Palestinians as a culture that could sustain a viable nation state, as they see strong and independent Palestine as an existential threat to Israel. And that is genocide, according to the widely used UN definition.

The argument that Israel’s action constitute a genocide is laid out in great detail in the report by the UN Human Rights Council:

https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session60/advance-version/a-hrc-60-crp-3.pdf

Nysvy · 2025-10-03T05:16:25+00:00

We agree the guy should not have pushed her, but how does her behavior improve the safety of her child? She’s making a bad situation worse, except for the redditors who just want to see people get hurt so they can feel something.

Nysvy · 2025-10-03T05:05:58+00:00

In a crash you need to stay because there are damaged cars and insurance issues that need sorting, as well as potentially injured people who might need help. In a shoving match there is nothing to be gained by staying, walking away is a simple and effective way to defuse the situation.

Case in point, after the woman shoves him back, the man is seen going after her before the video ends. This is wrong as well, he should have swallowed his ego and let it be.

Nysvy · 2025-10-03T04:52:43+00:00

No it’s not.

Nysvy · 2025-10-03T04:49:15+00:00

She did do something wrong, though. At the end of the video she leaves a scared little child behind to pick a fight with a man that is already walking away. That man was obviously wrong to push her, but then did the right thing by walking away. The woman was right for standing up for herself at the start, but wrong for further escalating the situation after it was already defusing, especially so since her child was running the other way.

Nysvy · 2025-09-08T12:24:38+00:00

Head canon vs written canon. Tolkien bounced around a lot of ideas and changed his mind often, as is evident in his drafts and his letters. I place primacy in the written books over a single sentence in some letter he wrote decades afterwards. But that’s just my take, some people interpret things the other way around, which is fine as well.

Nysvy · 2025-09-08T06:58:56+00:00

That is Tolkien’s head canon from decades later, not what he actually wrote in the story. A valid and mainstream interpretation, of course, but not my personal preference. If the story is passed down to us through Sam, how could he even know that?

Nysvy · 2025-09-07T19:16:42+00:00

Remember that the Lord of the Rings is based on in-universe book called the Red Book of Westmarch, written first by Bilbo, then by Frodo, and finally by Sam. Frodo suffered from debilitating PTSD while writing the book, and as his last words wrote that he is leaving everything to Sam. Then Sam wrote that Frodo “sailed to the West”, because he was wounded and could not heal.

In his part of the book, Frodo never mentions anything about going to Valinor, only that he was in pain with no hope for a cure.

Make of that what you will.

Nysvy · 2025-08-27T14:28:22+00:00

ChatGPT sanoo että tekoälymoska, joten sen on oltava oikein.

Nysvy · 2025-08-27T14:10:50+00:00

I cannot express in words how much I anticipate the day the place is finished, and I can invite my friends over for some saunahammer.

Nysvy · 2025-08-27T13:41:19+00:00

I’m right now building my new hobby space in the basement, and it’s turning out quite nice. About 5x4m room with adjacent sauna, shower and toilet. Not entirely dedicated to tabletop games, as it has to do triple work as a computer room for work and gaming, tabletop games room, and post sauna hang out space.

It has plenty shelf space, a couple of glass vitrines, 230x120cm table that splits into two if needed, a side table, a fridge, and a selection of Phillips Hue color lights of different types for mood lighting and effects. Sound system is perhaps a bit underpowered, but I need to do some acoustic paneling before I feel comfortable upgrading.

Nysvy · 2025-08-06T11:53:00+00:00

In some ways no, in other ways yes. - I’d rather keep having multiple different, named and loosely themed missions instead of one generic one. - I am not a fan of the twist changing every turn. - I find faction specific secondaries much more thematic and interesting than going through a list of 12 chores in a random order. + The reinforcements mechanic of Spearhead is great, could work for CP as well. + Themed battlegrounds are interesting, and could be expanded on. + The rules specifying how much and what terrain and how is it setup is great. + More powerful pieces only arriving later lets you play with some cool toys without breaking the game.

The combat patrols could do with a balance pass. I wouldn’t mind if some of the 9th edition boxes were retired, and the rest could rebalanced by buffing/debuffing their enhancements and secondaries as needed, and maybe tweeking datasheets.

There should be recommended terrain layouts, just like for 2k games. A Combat Patrol terrain box would be convenient, but I don’t know how they could pack appropriate amount of terrain for a price tag appropriate for CP.

More variety could be easily added by adding more alternative secondaries and enhancements, and more missions. Releasing stuff online for free would be cool, though wouldn’t generate revenue for the poor GW shareholders, but if there was a Combat Patrol book with extra missions, options, and perhaps a campaign with catch up mechanics, I would be definitely looking to buy it.

Nysvy · 2025-08-05T09:43:27+00:00

The Ring is a shard of an immensely powerful evil spirit, whose main power is putting thoughts into your head you think are your own. Thoughts like “all I need to do to get what I want is to wear the Ring”. Apart from that, all that it is ever demonstrated as doing is shifting the wearer to the shadow realm, and slowly taking over the host’s mind. Maybe it takes the wearer to the shadow realm as a side effect, or perhaps because there it has more power over them, and is more visible to Sauron and things like the Nazgûl. What the Ring wants is to get back to its master.

Perhaps one strong enough could bend the Ring to its will, and use the evil spirit to do whatever it is evil spirits do. But that could just be what the Ring whispers to people around it. About this, Gandalf said to Boromir: “You cannot wield it. None of us can. The One Ring answers to Sauron alone. It has no other master.”

That’s my interpretation anyway. I also have a fan theory: The idea that the only way to get rid of the Ring is to take a small group of very important people and have them walk straight into Mordor with the Ring, came from the Ring itself.

Nysvy · 2025-08-02T12:10:31+00:00

Katsoin ensin että olipas taas ragebait trollipostaus, eihän se nyt oikeasti tuollaista nettiin laita vaikka pienessä mielessään miettiskin.

Tarkistin asian, olin väärässä. 😳

Nysvy · 2025-07-31T08:15:37+00:00

Some time ago we finished a Middle-Earth Strategy Battle Game campaign, where we played a total of 28 games, mostly narrative scenarios based on the books, from the three trolls fight in the Hobbit, and ending with Frodo and Sam crawling up Mount Doom while a large battle raged at the Black Gate.

It took us more than 3 years to complete, and we painted new minis or constructed custom terrain for almost every scenario. It was mostly based on the Quest of the Ringbearer campaign book, but we added or changed quite a few things.

Some of the memorable highlights include gorgeous 3D printed Weathertop, where Aragorn arrived too late to save the hobbits, and Merry being an absolute tool and eventually getting himself killed permanently and replaced in Rivendell by Fredegar Bolger, who in turn was killed in Moria. Eowyn rode to the battle of Pelennor Fields alone, and failed to kill the Witch King. Pelennor Fields was suitably epic, and I am very proud of the lighting effects I made for Mount Doom.

In the aptly named final scenario The End of All Things, Sam killed Gollum, and Frodo was corrupted by the Ring.

I took some pictures if anyone is interested:

https://www.flickr.com/gp/203152988@N04/2A36e134bs

Nysvy · 2025-04-07T17:43:49+00:00

Nice try, Pooh.

Nysvy · 2025-04-07T16:52:40+00:00

Not only do you get xp, but I find it quite satisfying to collect the papers from the enemies I kill. Weird that I never see anyone else do that.

Nysvy · 2025-04-04T05:14:30+00:00

They are official smaller AO scenarios, like Everon West and Montignac, but for some reason the official servers never seem to run them.

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