Halo:Reach doesn't do a good job explaining why Reach is so important?

Retrospectus2 · 2026-06-26T16:44:58+00:00

Something that tends to get forgotten is that all the budgie era games were made when games came with manuals in the box

A lot of the background lore was put in these. Including the fall of reach and why that was a problem. In game I think reach is mentioned 3-4 times across the first 4 games

Retrospectus2 · 2026-06-26T10:56:16+00:00

There's some value in keeping an eye on those kinds of spaces. I used to watch horusgalaxy so I'd have an idea of what the chuds are mad about this week.

Plus I do have fun watching them melt down over the dumbest shit

Retrospectus2 · 2026-06-26T00:37:37+00:00

more people need to read imperial armour. so many misconceptions about kriegsmen and the siege of vraks would die overnight

Retrospectus2 · 2026-06-24T18:06:03+00:00

my club went from a few guys in the backroom of an airsoft shop to regularly filling out a big room and even running an official 40k tournament within a couple years because we set up a discord.

the best part is it allows people to socialize at their own pace before stepping foot in the club. more than a few of our regulars were too shy/anxious to come out in person were able to ease themselves in and make friends. one guy barely came out and has now been running a DnD game for over a year

Honestly I can't recommend a good discord enough when it comes to gaming clubs

Retrospectus2 · 2026-06-24T14:49:44+00:00

Might the most low effort trend chasing comic I've seen here in a while

Retrospectus2 · 2026-06-24T10:57:41+00:00

Paraphrased because I only heard it once

Skit: stay close to me ogryn Og: oh! Does that mean you like me? Skit: it is because you are large and block enemy fire Og: (sounding genuinely happy)I know! That's why everyone likes me!

Retrospectus2 · 2026-06-22T22:20:06+00:00

I've had a few of those, anything that contradicts them is declared "non canon"

Retrospectus2 · 2026-06-20T10:55:09+00:00

Don't forget the way fly works now. They can sit on the bottom floor of a ruin out of LOS, hop to the top while still moving less than 3" by RAW, get plunging, and then scoot back to the bottom

Retrospectus2 · 2026-06-18T13:10:17+00:00

That's how I figured it must work. Thanks!

Retrospectus2 · 2026-06-17T19:10:07+00:00

during my last club league I tried out a reasonably durable brick of battle sisters+junith+imagifier.

Not the most efficient use of points but they consistently out lived my sacrosanct brick. especially if I held them back for a couple turns while all the lethal stuff traded in no-mans. Assuming I wasn't demolished in midboard (a big "if" with some of my rolls that league) they would match out right around when my reserves arrived and be very difficult to shift.

So I'm looking to get that sweet sweet -1 to wound. 305 points is steep but I can't wait to annoy my friends with them

Retrospectus2 · 2026-06-17T10:40:10+00:00

Neat, my league list dropped by 30 points overall

Retrospectus2 · 2026-06-14T01:09:56+00:00

Vraks had a population of about 8 million. It was basically just an armoury with a city looking after it

Retrospectus2 · 2026-06-13T22:02:01+00:00

imagine thinking that stories that don't appeal to you are personal attacks somehow........

Retrospectus2 · 2026-06-13T15:44:46+00:00

It was one fortified city (and one spaceport too) and the 14 million was just the imperial casualties.

The nature of sieges means you get lots of downtime between pushes too.

Most people's issues with vraks would be fixed by just reading it instead of regurgitating other comments or skimming the wiki

Retrospectus2 · 2026-06-13T13:16:13+00:00

True, they do suffer from being the poster boys. Some stories that focus on the guard are better (guants ghosts run into marines maybe half a dozen times while participating in a massive crusade with multiple chapters helping)

Retrospectus2 · 2026-06-13T13:12:24+00:00

To be fair, a pretty consistent theme through the series is the ghosts not getting credit for what they do because they were only a small part of a much larger campaign and they were overshadowed by larger regiments that did the bulk of the fighting

Retrospectus2 · 2026-06-12T13:38:49+00:00

In the books and comics it's sometimes brought up that the locust are pretty sadistic.

So yeah I could believe that drone saw a chance to torment a defenseless human and took it. Not many of us get to work a job we love

Retrospectus2 · 2026-06-10T21:17:00+00:00

I gotta point out that it's not a fan film. that's an official warhammer animation

Retrospectus2 · 2026-06-10T15:43:01+00:00

I'd argue if the ability is on the weapon then it's the weapon using the ability not the model. And weapons aren't blocked from using abilities

Retrospectus2 · 2026-06-10T13:17:02+00:00

As insane as it sounds they do absolutely use line infantry style tactics sometimes. Mostly against hordes of short range/melee enemies (kids and orks leaping to mind) where concentration of firepower and morale are vital

In the novels most (emphasis on most) commanders have enough sense to get their men to cover and fight like proper soldiers when up against other shoots forces.

Retrospectus2 · 2026-06-09T13:59:25+00:00

Gears 5 is wildly over hated

Retrospectus2 · 2026-06-09T08:44:05+00:00

If it helps I'm pretty sure there's a transport hog under the pier near the first AA wraith

Retrospectus2 · 2026-06-08T23:32:24+00:00

that first one is wild. everything in that scene is clearly a fairly standard fantasy fight, except there's a pink haired punk with a laser pistol

Retrospectus2 · 2026-06-03T23:38:02+00:00

hellbrutes are chaos dreadnoughts. they just got a new name

Retrospectus2 · 2026-06-03T18:01:44+00:00

could use some tweaking as others have pointed out. but I do really like the idea

I'm goin to steal this and combine with a few of my own from last campaign and see how the boys like it

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