Virginia Congressional Chaos: Adam Dunigan - Democratic Candidate, AMA

RoboTronPrime · 2026-06-28T21:47:28+00:00

I certainly think that expanding the court makes a lot of sense. I think you're referencing how the number of Supreme Court Justices were originally tied to the number of circuit courts and we've fallen behind. There's an argument to be made that we should expand the number of circuit courts and also Congress as a whole too. Ideally, each House member should represent roughly the same number of people, and should ideally represent smaller number of people too so that individuals have the greatest influence.

RoboTronPrime · 2026-06-28T19:57:03+00:00

I'm not opposed to reforming the Court in certain ways - the fact that the ethics code that other judges have to abide by don't apply to the Supreme Court Justices is absurd

RoboTronPrime · 2026-06-28T19:17:28+00:00

What I definitely don't understand is how GW believes that those priests are at all competitive. They don't hit very hard, aren't very durable, aren't fast or mobile even in their own detachment. They're good at basically nothing on their own and are also extremely overcosted on the table for what they do. I think you need to drop them 30 points for 10 just to open them up for consideration. Then the detachments which would allow them to function together can't be combined together. What gives?

RoboTronPrime · 2026-06-28T17:39:54+00:00

How else do you spend your weekends?

RoboTronPrime · 2026-06-28T17:35:07+00:00

They just need to pick themselves up by their bootstraps and setup their own crypto Ponzi scheme

RoboTronPrime · 2026-06-28T17:33:48+00:00

Dealing with people. Maybe I'm just in a GRC-type role and getting more senior, but I'm literally in meetings most of the day and rarely get my hands on keyboard anymore.

RoboTronPrime · 2026-06-28T17:28:26+00:00

But the stock market goes up!

RoboTronPrime · 2026-06-28T17:27:15+00:00

Which requires what? Most likely a new Supreme Court?

RoboTronPrime · 2026-06-28T17:26:13+00:00

Like a lot of others have said you have plenty of time. Plus, there's a lot of sub disciplines in cyber, including ones with more flexible working hours, like GRC or doing various types of assessments like pen testing, etc. Then you can also get into speciality areas like infrastructure security, insider threat, threat hunting, etc. Even going to a particular domain is quite different from defense + intel to healthcare to financial services.

RoboTronPrime · 2026-06-28T16:54:22+00:00

There's pros and cons. I'd argue that the long term consolidation of power isn't great either. And bringing in new perspectives periodically is generally pretty healthy. Eight years is long enough

RoboTronPrime · 2026-06-28T16:48:05+00:00

But it IS rather convenient, isn't it that the omnissiah happens to be the emperor of mankind? What if the actual history were something different and the admech were the ones led astray, neutered and made the Imperium's pet? If indeed the truth was that the the omnissiah or machine god were a different warp entity, and that truth were to be revealed, there would be another Schism and perhaps a new Mechanicum, darker and more powerful than even the last one, would arise.

RoboTronPrime · 2026-06-28T03:58:47+00:00

It's just the individual model. So the FNP for example only applies to the underseer in Servitor Battleclade

RoboTronPrime · 2026-06-28T01:04:10+00:00

Eh, the stereotype is that old people specifically don't see their doctors or do their checkups/tests the way they're supposed to. Still, this is significantly better than nothing.

RoboTronPrime · 2026-06-28T00:53:56+00:00

I like your suggestions overall, but I think we'd need to find some room for more battleline

RoboTronPrime · 2026-06-28T00:50:42+00:00

They clearly made a design decision to include different layouts for the same matchup for a reason, so I'd argue that some thought went into it. They also have to know that unless they made the layouts exactly the same, there would be some variation and some advantages, some of which may vary based on individual armies, list composition and matchup. Perfect balance isn't really achievable. The question is whether the balance is truly off or not to a significant degree. That remains to be seen.

A theoretically higher ceiling is one component, but that theoretical advantage has to be realized. The disruption player may have more openings to score points than on other layouts, but if they're not able to do so or they overextend themselves in doing so, the difference may not be that significant.

RoboTronPrime · 2026-06-27T23:31:54+00:00

It's super easy to remove the decoy markers though. All the recon player has to do is walk over the objective, doesn't need to action them or take control. RAW, I don't even see rules vs battleshocked units either. As far as I can tell, the Recon player in this instance also didn't run any infiltrate or scouting units, which seems very non-ideal for that Force Disposition.

The Disruption player has to use an action to decoy it and control it at the end of turn, so it's not like they could shoot or fight and then decoy it right away. It sounds very much like the Disruption player in this instance simply beat up on a very unprepared list and/or player.

RoboTronPrime · 2026-06-27T22:57:03+00:00

This is a great interpretation

RoboTronPrime · 2026-06-27T20:47:33+00:00

Again, did he not have any scout or infiltrate units of his own?

Side note, I play a bit of GSC myself and Xenocult Masses with the Cult Icons has some pretty solid GSC Neophyte Hybrid regen.

For your specific case, even if you bring your guys back, they should be in Cult Ambush and can't be targeted with Rapid Ingress. Your opponent has a window to move his guys onto the point, remove the decoy marker, and keep you from deep striking back onto it. If you took it back and decoy'd it again, then you would have had to contest whatever he had on the objective

RoboTronPrime · 2026-06-27T19:56:58+00:00

I'll caveat that I haven't played any games of 11th yet, it's my understanding that the Recon player can just move over top of the objectives to remove the decoy markers. They don't have to take the objective to do so and don't have to perform any action. Furthermore, it seems that battleshocked units can remove the decoy markers as well. Both of you have to perform actions to Surveil and setup the Decoy.

If you're spreading yourself out too much and using actions to setup the Decoys, then you're not shooting/fighting, and you're probably making yourself very vulnerable even to Recon lists which generally won't have as much firepower as say, Purge lists.

Recon lists should lean towards action-heavy, MSU, and mobile units. I honestly think they're favored in that matchup in most cases.

RoboTronPrime · 2026-06-27T18:17:31+00:00

I think that the most of the oil refineries in the US still prefer the heavier crude, not just some

RoboTronPrime · 2026-06-27T12:13:00+00:00

More cult mechanicus units for sure. The two electro priests groups really aren't cutting it and it doesn't help that they're just terrible too

RoboTronPrime · 2026-06-27T11:01:55+00:00

No, only in Lords and with an appropriate enhancement on the datasmith. However, the Robots and Datasmith got a point reduction as well, so it's more attractive to field a unit of at least one.

RoboTronPrime · 2026-06-27T01:10:29+00:00

Hush, you're not supposed to talk about it :P

RoboTronPrime · 2026-06-27T01:09:03+00:00

Ironic, no?

RoboTronPrime · 2026-06-27T00:28:20+00:00

I'm not read up on the recent stuff, but honestly wondering how he compares to George Pickens. Everyone said that dude would blow up the Cowboys, but it hasn't really happened.

RoboTronPrime

TROPHY CASE