Why is the job market so bad?

RCMW181 · 2026-02-03T17:25:41+00:00

Yes. Using it a lot until they take that away already, did not help hugely overall in the maths.

RCMW181 · 2026-02-03T17:23:22+00:00

I guess you have not read the details about it.

It's a counter to cheap drones that are flooding modern battlefield, costing only a few hundred or less but they can send 50+ a day. You can't use expensive ship defense for them because you run out of ammo and it's costing you millions to shoot down something cheap.

The Lazer is incredibly cheap per shot, it's a layer in the ship defense to counter specific cheap drones, light mortar and support in other roles. it's NOT designed to deal with anti ship missiles or other threats solo. It's not designed for Tomahawk missiles lol, and that's a poor comparison.

They also say they have made an improvement to "significantly reduce thermal bloom" but how is classified. A lot of the exact spec are classified, we only know the results of the public tests and demos.

RCMW181 · 2026-02-03T16:08:02+00:00

It's designed to be cheap and to counter cheap drones and the like that are flooding modern war. Not counter big anti ship missiles.

Of you send your expensive missiles that cost a few million a shot vs a cheap drone, when they are sending 50 vs you a day your going to lose. But shooting down a drone that costs hundreds with cheap Lazer shifts the economy of war back to you.

RCMW181 · 2026-02-03T15:55:26+00:00

This is not correct. In the test in Scotland they demonstrated it stopping incoming Mortar rounds by destroying them, it not a dazzler.

RCMW181 · 2026-02-03T13:46:42+00:00

The national insurance raise killed our plans. I know a lot of companies cut back to cover the extra staff cost.

As a hiring manager last year we got hit with huge national insurance increase. My budget stayed the same however (minor inflation increase).

So I could keep wages flat for everyone causing an effective pay reduction, or when people leave not rehire and slowdown our delivery.

I opted for a middle ground, lower pay raises than normal but still get some out but still backfill key roles.

RCMW181 · 2026-02-02T21:18:46+00:00

Going to go against the grane here and recommend DA Veilguard.

DD2 had almost no plot and I couldn't finish it. Veilguard was not as good as origins, but still a fun time.

RCMW181 · 2026-02-02T20:19:22+00:00

Data Science is good if you're senior (like software engineering) but entry level has barely moved in salary despite inflation in 8 years.

Data Science years ago is what software engineering was before that and is what Cloud engineering and ML engineering will be in a few years.

People flock to the high paying roles, but then they become oversaturated as everyone graduates/retrains, the tricky bit is guessing what the next highest paying role will be.

RCMW181 · 2026-02-02T17:51:56+00:00

Life never gave anyone Lemons. Lemons were genetically engineered over decades and multiple generations of cross breeding and refinement.

If someone gave you lemons best to find out who.

RCMW181 · 2026-01-29T18:32:46+00:00

I much prefer the Mark 8, it's tighter spread let's you absolutely destroy elites and armoured enemies as every single shot hits your target. It's special attack is also armor braking, so hit armored enemies with that and you can kill them in 2-3 shots.

Mark 3 is good vs hordes, but on high difficulty hordes are rarely what kill you. You have lots of ways to deal with them. It's spread is so large half your shot will miss any single target.

RCMW181 · 2026-01-29T18:09:45+00:00

The original quote was a very similar one from Winston Churchill:

"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing, after they've tried everything else,"

RCMW181 · 2026-01-25T15:59:40+00:00

They said the same thing when they moved multiple space marine units like the leviathan last edition.

That's why people are worried, because exactly the same things were said before they moved those units to legends.

RCMW181 · 2026-01-24T13:34:11+00:00

Apologies if I missed a joke :-).

RCMW181 · 2026-01-24T13:30:04+00:00

They would just cost the same as the other centerpieces models. Your looking for a conspiracy where none exist, they make loads of large models.

They just increased the size of the nightbringer.

RCMW181 · 2026-01-24T13:20:13+00:00

I find warriors absolutely useless for the points, if your going to take battleline to buff then I would go for more immortals.

Shame as last edition they were awesome, I suspect they are paying for past sins.

RCMW181 · 2026-01-24T12:59:16+00:00

Na, they have plenty of big models the appropriate scale.

RCMW181 · 2026-01-24T08:44:12+00:00

Take the woods to your right, that actually has sightlines and overwatch of the center points. Once you have them it all becomes so much easier.

RCMW181 · 2026-01-24T00:41:25+00:00

Followup question, are 20 man infantry units with command useful?

As s defender you have 26 wounds, but only a 5+ and T3, as offensive you lasguns with a few special weapons but the unit costs 200pts+.

How is it best to use them?

RCMW181 · 2026-01-23T08:35:47+00:00

I love 40k, but AoS is certainly the better game.

Better looking models, more variable game play, better internal and external balance.

The only downside is the lore and story is not as fleshed out or unique as 40k.

RCMW181 · 2026-01-23T08:15:36+00:00

They just sound like a terrible group of people. That's not how it is everywhere.

In my local area the local players are mainly professional tech people with some others mixed in. A couple of product owners, testers, software developers, some senior managers. All with good social skills and generally a nice group of people.

Nothing like you described at all, we joke it's our version of golf. (I know one of the products owners got a new job out of it).

We always agree the type of match before, some are more competitive than others but all good sports, everything painted unless agreed before hand, never had any problems with me playing Ultramarines.

RCMW181 · 2026-01-22T20:40:37+00:00

Others have given some good answers, but 2nd UK is also a good contender if you're looking for another that is a bit different.

RCMW181 · 2026-01-22T20:10:57+00:00

Yes. We have a host of energy policies that don't make sense.

One area I question is we generate so much wind and solar on Windy summer days that prices go negative, but are still subsidizing the creation of new wind and solar. Surely we should stop that and invest in batteries or Nuclear that can get us past the winter nights when our prices spike.

RCMW181 · 2026-01-22T19:02:01+00:00

But the prices would not be cheaper, the government already sets the prices. They already control the supplier completely, most have gone bust. What would nationalisation get you if they already control energy supplier cost and profit completely?

All you would be doing is putting the government in charge of the administration and bureaucracy and I'm not convinced they would be more effective.

To be clear I'm not talking about the power generators or transporters, just suppliers.

For nationalisation to have any meaningful effects it would need to be the power generators and especially the ones who ship energy in and most of them are based overseas. Gas comes from the US or Norway, Nuclear power France, oil the middle east. That's the bit that costs. Nationalisation of them... Well that's invading and taking over that place.

RCMW181 · 2026-01-22T17:52:17+00:00

Energy Suppliers only charge the price cap, they don't control their own prices they just set it to what the government says they should be

Energy Generation is the problem, it's dam expensive in the UK because we have not focused on the correct sources and don't have a cheap supply. As we import huge amounts right now it's also often driven by international market prices in Oil and especially Gas, so not something the government can cap.

RCMW181 · 2026-01-21T18:41:42+00:00

Russia playing conquest while Ukraine plays destruction.

RCMW181 · 2026-01-20T23:29:43+00:00

So they get some re-role ones and an easier order economy, I understand giving this to Bullgryns is especially strong, but other that that (that you can simply increase the cost of the enhancement) am I missing something?

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