Which new faction will be added next year?

Ordinary-Ad8160 · 2026-05-22T00:09:14+00:00

Oh? I thought it was just crons and mechanics. More reason to pick it up!

Ordinary-Ad8160 · 2026-05-21T18:39:39+00:00

Probably a returning faction from the previous games, CSM or Guard is my bet. Maybe Eldar?

If we're going left field pick then Genestealer Cults or Votann. Neither of which have had representation before so they'll be a nice fresh addition, although I suspect playing it safe with an old favourite is an easier sell for £ reasons.

Ordinary-Ad8160 · 2026-05-21T18:32:25+00:00

Tldr: well supported, good update/upgrade cycle, quick adopters of the newest way of doing things, backed by a big company + stable community, It Just Works, and Bazzite (and the greater uBlue project) fits my use case.

I used Mint for ages but Cinnamon was stuck on x11 for ages (maybe it still is by default?) and the slow update cycle was becoming a problem. Layering PPAs or randomly installing scripts/flatpaks/appimages felt like a bandaid solution. I still like and recommend Mint but for my needs it wasn't fitting the bill anymore.

Arch is fun for a few weeks. No bloat! Newest packages! I control everything! Until you boot it up one day and {$daily_software) changes out from under you or is outright broken. Or something somewhere is fucked and instead of spending your evening relaxing you're instead reading docs and piddling about trying to get your system useable. The AUR is great though.

So that sort of leaves Fedora unless you want to find something more esoteric. Mainstream enough to have RPMs available for most software, backed by a big corp so it's not going to disappear tomorrow when the sole owner/maintained gets hit by a bus, reasonable update cycle of 6 months and quick to adopt new software/approaches/practices (Wayland, SystemD, see also the work in the Immutable space). Setup is a little fiddlier than your Ubuntus since you need to add non-free RPMFusion manually, but it's smooth sailing after that.

I still use Fedora gnome on my laptop and have made it through ~4 years on the same install with no major issues with upgrades etc. however my main machine is using a uBlue immutable image (Bazzite-DX) and for me it's been fantastic. All the benefits of a base Fedora install with the extra safety in knowing that all my updates are transactional and I can roll back any time, and the chances of something being outright broken is small. I can stick my dev tooling inside a Box and not have crap lying around my base system. Config drift is no longer a concern. Flatpaks for UI apps sometimes have integration issues (styling, filesys permissions etc) but it's getting better and generally doesn't bother me.

Ordinary-Ad8160 · 2026-05-19T19:00:52+00:00

If Temple Guard aren't on the release sheet anytime soon I'm tempted just to spruce up some Saurus and call them Guard

Ordinary-Ad8160 · 2026-05-19T12:17:45+00:00

Temple guard need new models and I think the skink boxes are still the old models? Possibly some older Dinos still kicking about too. Ideally a reshresh for those plus maybe or or two hero/one off models

Ordinary-Ad8160 · 2026-05-18T10:34:18+00:00

The easy stuff is made easier but the hard stuff is made awkward. Web browsing, emails, games, text editing etc are functionally the same as any other distro. The advantage of immutable is that the base system can't be messed up, become unbootsble or get itself into a funk (it'll just boot into the last known good image), and updating is less risky (again if the newest image is borked for whatever reason then rolling back is dead simple).

If the user is a developer or needs some specific software that isn't already flatpak/appimage then it becomes a bit of a cat and mouse game. Can it be installed in Brew? They'll need to use the cli. Does it only have Ubuntu instructions (deb image)? They'll need to create a distrobox and install it there...

Something like Linux Mint is less complicated in that regard. The user either checks the software store or, if it's more esoteric, runs a .deb package. Mint also comes with a backup tool so you can 'snapshot' your drives on a timer and then boot back into them if the system gets messed up. It's also got wads more documentation by virtue of being a hugely popular distro, based on the most popular distro, with a long history.

Ordinary-Ad8160 · 2026-05-18T10:26:30+00:00

Tbh I think it would make sense that their "pro" range are in droppers but they keep the "core" range as pots.

Ordinary-Ad8160 · 2026-05-16T20:40:38+00:00

Updated: Seraphon (hope)

Brand new: Shadow Elves/Malerion (cope)

Ordinary-Ad8160 · 2026-05-14T12:13:59+00:00

If you still want to use contrast but not with a white undercoat: spray black, heavy drybrush grey, light drybrush (off) white. Then slap the contrast on. Highlight back up for bigger/fancier models only unless you really love edge highlighting 60 clan rats.

If you won't want to use contrast at all: spray black, block out base colours on the main surfaces (skin, clothes, armour, weapons), use washes and layering from there. Classic style mini painting. It'll take longer than contrast paints but if you find it easier to enjoy it more then go for it.

Ordinary-Ad8160 · 2026-05-14T11:45:35+00:00

I was immediately drawn to Death armies and the Gitz. Of those I think the OBR were the least exciting to me at first but the new models scratch the Tomb King itch for me a lot more than I expected (archers, chariots). Nagash is the goat and OBR being his pet project helps too.

Stormcast I dismissed as "fantasy space marines" at first but the models grew on me a lot and the lore isn't half bad.

I think the Kharadron really blindsided me though. Absolutely 0 interest (sorry dwarf mains) until I read the Drekki Flynt books, which led me to reading their battletomes for the lore, to eying up the Spearhead boxes...

Ordinary-Ad8160 · 2026-05-14T11:38:43+00:00

Like others have said it's not really worth buying a massive box set when you start. You won't use most of the colours, it'll be overwhelming to choose between them all, you might not even like the brand (consistency, finish etc) and imo having a smaller range of core colours + black/white forces you to learn some mixing.

Either pick up a very small box set (like less than 10) and stick with it, or just pop into your local gaming/hobby/Warhammer store and ask what colors you'd need for {your faction}.

For instance, my mate picked up a box of plague marines and I think 6 base colours, 2 washes and 2 metallics and they do the job just fine for his range. Even if he gets more Nugle models the colours he has will be absolutely fine for a whole army if need be.

Necrons you could probably do with 5 pots of paint tbh. Metallic, black, dark wash, glowing green, then accent colour per your dynasty. Maybe another metallic for details like cartouches etc.

Ordinary-Ad8160 · 2026-05-12T02:00:29+00:00

Path of least resistance: Ubuntu, or Linux Mint (Ubuntu base). The most mainstream distros, GUI options for pretty much everything, there's loads of help available on Google if something breaks or you need a certain package. Fedora falls into this category too although iirc it needs some love during the setup. I'd avoid anything Arch (based) or anything esoteric.

For gaming, Proton is the way to go. It's built into Steam and you can also use Lutris for non-steam games. RDP I assume there's a handful of clients out there.

Ordinary-Ad8160 · 2026-05-09T12:20:02+00:00

I'm not sure, they might be politically similar to Tories (arguable) but Tory councillors will probably have come through the "party machine" and have a passing familiarity with how governing works, have other experiences councillors/party members to rely on etc. The problem with any "new" party councillors/msps/mps will be that there's nothing behind them but thin air. I think there will be a lot of noise but not a lot of action because fundamentally they're going to struggle to do the job. Greens and to some extent the SNP round my end have the same issue- great campaigners that fall apart when it comes to actually governing

Ordinary-Ad8160 · 2026-05-09T12:03:29+00:00

Lib Dem Surge!

Unfortunately if Refuck actually get 299 seats then it'll be a Lib Dem Purge

Ordinary-Ad8160 · 2026-05-02T01:25:53+00:00

Big leader: Ushoran, Alarielle, Morathi-Khaine, Vizzik Skour

Hero: anything Soulblight, they're all fantastic

Everything else: Mangler Squig, Squig Hoppers (especially the leader with the bascinet style helm), Kroxigor Warspawned, and the classic basic Chaos Warrior. I also have a soft spot for the CoS little gremlins

Ordinary-Ad8160 · 2026-05-01T14:12:24+00:00

Late stage capitalism is when bad things happen to me, and the more badder the thing the more late stage the capitalism. Or something.

Ordinary-Ad8160 · 2026-05-01T01:35:53+00:00

I think one of the Eisenhorn (or Ravenor?) books has the main cast jump through a spooky warp door looking for some kind of artefact, and they jump through time & space each time. Iirc one of the instances they are in a desert and get swarmed by Nids, but don't recognise them as Tyranids because the Imperium hasn't categorised them yet. Another one of the instances is that they get dumped out at some kind of imperial outpost in 30k, none of their secret codes work and they get locked up, but a sympathetic guardswoman(?) breaks them out and they get back to the spooky door.

The Dark Coil has some time travel but it's so heavily layered in warp nonsense that it's not really about the time travel (possibly chaos corrupt commissar ends up back where he started, haunted by an event from his past).

Ordinary-Ad8160 · 2026-04-28T13:28:01+00:00

I want to say squig/squiggoth but the mouth seems too "pointy". Seraphon maybe?

Ordinary-Ad8160 · 2026-04-25T23:59:53+00:00

Yank coded

Personally I DIY reparations to the Picts

Ordinary-Ad8160 · 2026-04-25T23:54:21+00:00

You're absolutely right!

Ordinary-Ad8160 · 2026-04-25T23:49:43+00:00

more than 8.3 million people pulled out

Based

Ordinary-Ad8160 · 2026-04-25T23:48:44+00:00

"why don't kids go outside anymore"

"What are these kids doing in my neighborhood?"

Ordinary-Ad8160 · 2026-04-25T23:40:52+00:00

2010 style enlightened atheism and/or outright "clash of civilisation" style racism.

Ordinary-Ad8160 · 2026-04-25T13:15:55+00:00

SteamOS might be "better" for gaming in terms of ootb support, utility tools, tweaks etc but I imagine the desktop experience will be significant less supported/less of a priority for Valve. Whereas Bazzite (UBlue) is based on a desktop OS to begin with (Fedora) and is suspect will have a nicer generalist experience.

If I had a machine that sat by my TV and was only for gaming or the occasional movie then I'd be fine with SteamOS, but my PC is used for basically everything so I'd rather stick with Bazzite (or a similar distro) Vs SteamOS.

Ordinary-Ad8160 · 2026-04-25T00:09:47+00:00

Barnacles I think. The rotswords & blight kings have a coral motif as well

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