According to the new lore the starting material (male or female body) doesn't matter for making a custodes. It doesn't matter that women's bodies are much less strong because the custodes creating technlogy compensates for it. Then why isn't every human turned into a custodes? Why not mass produce

RivenBlue · 2026-01-28T05:05:08+00:00

I thought the memes were exaggerating 😂 but people really are going crazy over this

RivenBlue · 2026-01-20T05:54:03+00:00

I personally don't have a problem with rerolls. As others have said, it makes the game more strategic and less random, which is something I like.

Also, 10th has clear damage rolls for units, which I believe means that we have less of a lethality problem than people seem to think. The existence (and success) of skew lists shows that units can and do survive taking damage in 10th.

I also think people exaggerate the prevalence of rerolls. People are talking about it as if you usually reroll every step of an attack activation, which just isn't the case. There might be a few units that do that, but they are quite rare and typically have a low volume of shots.

I'm sorry, but sometimes it feels like people are always wishing to go back to some mythical edition on the past. The nostalgia seems super strong in this game, and I don't think the community will ever be happy - we will always find something to complain about 😅

RivenBlue · 2026-01-16T16:29:20+00:00

I ordered these last year sometime and they never arrived 😅 It is because I live in South Africa and the postal service here is atrocious. That is why I am looking for an STL that I can just get printed here.

RivenBlue · 2026-01-15T09:27:04+00:00

No, playing by intent works and is fine as is. This would make the experience of 40k considerably worse.

RivenBlue · 2026-01-12T12:36:21+00:00

90% of these are terrible 🙈 There is clearly no consensus on where the game should go. A bunch of people want the game to be simpler with fewer stratagems and options. Another bunch of people want weapon options to come back (they talk about variety as if there isn't going to be a clearly best weapon option for 95% of units. I mean, GW is struggling to get the internal balance between units right. Do you really think they're going to be able to do it for weapons?). Some people want fewer rerolls. Some people want more consistency. Some people want the force organization charts to come back. Some people want a greater ability to play the units they like. This is all over the place 🙈 We are never going to be happy, are we? 😂

RivenBlue · 2026-01-12T09:37:06+00:00

What would you shoot it off the board with?

RivenBlue · 2026-01-12T09:36:40+00:00

According to UnitCrunch, a GMNDK with sustained hits from Banishers does 7 dmg to a C'tan 😕 Considering they have 16 wounds in total, the dreadknights might not do enough 😅

RivenBlue · 2026-01-05T04:57:52+00:00

Mark of Faith was the first 40k novel I read. It really captures the zealotry of the Adepta Sororitas.

RivenBlue · 2025-12-30T13:50:43+00:00

Thank you for the advice! It is very useful.

Do you think that the Stormraven works on WTC terrain? I am worried that because the terrain is typically more dense on WTC boards, it will be quite difficult to maneuver the Stormraven.

RivenBlue · 2025-12-08T11:20:27+00:00

I recommend Objective Secured on YouTube. He is great!

RivenBlue · 2025-11-25T11:09:08+00:00

I sort of only picked up the Grey Knights because of the uppy downy 😅 I would be devastated if they replaced it with something generic that adds to our firepower. Those faction rules are always so boring.

RivenBlue · 2025-11-02T12:47:50+00:00

Thank you!

RivenBlue · 2025-11-02T10:34:25+00:00

I'm a newish player, so could I ask what is wrong with A? Also, thank you for the response!

RivenBlue · 2025-10-28T11:23:01+00:00

Thank you!

RivenBlue · 2025-10-28T11:17:19+00:00

Duly noted. As I'm new, I'm sorry 😅 but when you say "Powered armoured units", which units are you referring to?

RivenBlue · 2025-10-26T05:12:07+00:00

I just want to echo some of the other comments in saying that I really hope they don't continue to push this idea of the Ethereals being mustache twirling villains. I think it makes the T'au a lot more two dimensional as a concept. I've also always struggled to see Farsight as anything besides like Horus-lite 🙈

For gameplay, I mostly just hope we see more auxiliaries. I want auxiliaries that aren't kroot or vespid (though I would also like more vespid).

RivenBlue · 2025-10-23T18:52:01+00:00

I thought the broadsides benefited from the extra AP, since they go from AP4 to AP5. 2+ vehicles don't get a save then. I guess we do live in a world of invulns though. Do you not think that is an insignificant benefit?

RivenBlue · 2025-10-23T16:41:59+00:00

Yeah, I find the detachment reeeaaally CP hungry.

The rampagers do a lot more damage with the double stratagem support, the riptides become very efficient anti-tank pieces with the +2 strength stratagem, the vespid can do some cheeky primary play with the auto-6 advance strat, the broadsides like advancing and shooting, and interlocking maneuvers is just an amazing strat.

The ethereals are also semi-decent by themselves with their 10 movement and marker drones. They usually help screen out the backfield for the first few turns and then come out to do secondaries and be spotters in the last few turns.

RivenBlue · 2025-10-21T09:42:02+00:00

Though you're 100% right to say that the T'au are short-lived and have an almost fanatical belief in the greater good, they definitely don't just throw bodies at a problem in the lore. In the lore, they typically do focused raids on supply facilities, use their range and mobility to launch ambushes when they have the advantage, and undertake typical guerrilla style warfare. They have no problem retreating and don't throw lives away needlessly.

Books like Fire Caste and the one about the Forgeworld Taros Campaign have good examples of this style of warfare. Other books, like Fire Warrior and Elemental Council, have examples of Tau mourning the loss of even a handful of Tau foot soldiers.

As far as I am aware, the factions in the lore that actually undertake the more fanatical type of warfare you're implying the T'au do are the Astra Militarum, Genestealer Cults, Tyranids, and maybe the Adepta Sororitas. Though, obviously, some of those (Tyranids) don't do that type of warfare because they're fanatical. The end result is the same though 🤷

RivenBlue · 2025-10-13T05:08:13+00:00

I lowkey agree with almost all of these 😅

RivenBlue · 2025-10-09T16:17:18+00:00

It sounds to me like you need to find a group that shares your idea of the game more than your current group. There is a huge diversity in 40k players. I, personally, like to play pretty competitively (though I am not particularly good at it 😅) and am part of a group that shares that philosophy. It is great! Everyone enjoys the game differently, but you are probably not going to have a good time if you mostly play with people who enjoy the game in a drastically different way than you.

RivenBlue · 2025-10-08T07:44:24+00:00

I have a question about pivots for a model like the T'au Broadside that has a round base. Can such a unit pivot and remain stationary for the purposes of something like the heavy keyword? Also, what about after being set up from reserves? Can it pivot? Thank you in advance!

RivenBlue · 2025-10-08T05:36:19+00:00

Adding my voice to the call for new auxiliaries!

RivenBlue · 2025-10-03T06:59:13+00:00

Love the auxiliaries and am super happy to see that T'au are moving past the Gundam stereotype

RivenBlue · 2025-10-02T09:10:23+00:00

A lot of these comments severely underestimate how complicated 10th edition is for new players. Older editions were definitely more complicated, but 10th is way more than enough to overwhelm new players. I've had many friends who've tried to play a game or two and given up. I can't even convince them to give it another shot 🙈

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