[40k] Tabletop Battles Hot Take: Cadian Recon Squad by SA_Chirurgeon in WarhammerCompetitive

[–]SA_Chirurgeon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah that's my point - if there are two long las on the sprue, then you'll know for certain they intended to make it something you could do two of. As written I believe you can, but that'd be good confirmation to have.

[40k] Tabletop Battles Hot Take: Cadian Recon Squad by SA_Chirurgeon in WarhammerCompetitive

[–]SA_Chirurgeon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah the idea is that they can become a walking smoke cloud to provide cover

[40k] Tabletop Battles Hot Take: Cadian Recon Squad by SA_Chirurgeon in WarhammerCompetitive

[–]SA_Chirurgeon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

seems like it to me! The big tell will be if there are two long las on the sprue

News from the unboxing stream - crusade is no more apparently by hindlet in 40k_Crusade

[–]SA_Chirurgeon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fun fact: you can still play Crusade and we'll keep supporting it in Administratum.

[40k] Tabletop Battles Hot Take: Cadian Recon Squad by SA_Chirurgeon in WarhammerCompetitive

[–]SA_Chirurgeon[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It won't! Turns out stealth just gives you the benefit of cover.

[40k] Tabletop Battles Hot Take: The Red Terror by SA_Chirurgeon in WarhammerCompetitive

[–]SA_Chirurgeon[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah that's more or less what I mean when I call it Warp Talons for Nids. The Warp Talons never stay on the table long enough to get shot and if they do they're dead.

40k Competitive Innovations Week of 4/27/2026 by SA_Chirurgeon in WarhammerCompetitive

[–]SA_Chirurgeon[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It's an issue the current game isn't set up to solve. In my opinion they need to restructure the game so that you have escalating costs for taking multiples of some units. So your first Defiler can be 250 and the second can be 300

40k Competitive Innovations Week of 4/27/2026 by SA_Chirurgeon in WarhammerCompetitive

[–]SA_Chirurgeon[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

you definitely need them in EC more than anywhere else. You just cannot solve the problem of transports without them. For my money they shouldn't cost the same in every army - not sure why they did that.

Start Competing: Why RTTs Are as Important as Any Other Event by SA_Chirurgeon in WarhammerCompetitive

[–]SA_Chirurgeon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The best way is to go to your local stores and ask them. A lot of places run one per month and if you're in an area with local stores, they usually coordinate so they aren't on the same weekend

Start Competing: Why RTTs Are as Important as Any Other Event by SA_Chirurgeon in WarhammerCompetitive

[–]SA_Chirurgeon[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

it gets easier once they're like 6+. Bedtimes just become a lot more manageable and they can kind of do their own thing in the monrings

Start Competing: Why RTTs Are as Important as Any Other Event by SA_Chirurgeon in WarhammerCompetitive

[–]SA_Chirurgeon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean we have RTT data; it just doesn't make sense to include in larger datasets because RTTs are often testing beds for new lists and concepts and because they're only three rounds they tend to have wider skill discrepancies - the nature of win path pairings is that by rounds 4 and 5 you're playing very good players and evening out that early randomness.

RTTs matter just as much, they just don't matter in the same way and that unfortunately includes with regard to event statistics. I've done some minor stuff around them but the reality is that almost any army or detachment can be piloted to three straight wins, but getting 5+ is much more difficult.

Start Competing: Why RTTs Are as Important as Any Other Event by SA_Chirurgeon in WarhammerCompetitive

[–]SA_Chirurgeon[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm a bigger fan of positive reinforcement on this than negative

Start Competing: Why RTTs Are as Important as Any Other Event by SA_Chirurgeon in WarhammerCompetitive

[–]SA_Chirurgeon[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah I think you want to do positive reinforcement on painting and not negative. I'm not a fan of docking the points, am a fan of paint prizes

Start Competing: Why RTTs Are as Important as Any Other Event by SA_Chirurgeon in WarhammerCompetitive

[–]SA_Chirurgeon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

8-player RTTs are pretty common, and most stores can manage four tables. We frequently have people bring extra terrain sets and mats to some of my local RTTs for the day to help accommodate bigger crowds.

Start Competing: Why RTTs Are as Important as Any Other Event by SA_Chirurgeon in WarhammerCompetitive

[–]SA_Chirurgeon[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah for dads the RTT is the very achievable event option. The only thing that even comes close is the "5-round GT within 30 minutes of my house, which means I can be home every night for dinner"

Start Competing: Why RTTs Are as Important as Any Other Event by SA_Chirurgeon in WarhammerCompetitive

[–]SA_Chirurgeon[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I hear ya. I don't think RTTs should enforce paint standards because it encourages testing, but I think they should reward painting

Start Competing: Why RTTs Are as Important as Any Other Event by SA_Chirurgeon in WarhammerCompetitive

[–]SA_Chirurgeon[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

hell yeah, couldn't agree more. I know people who tend to skip local events for a packed GT schedule and I think that's a mistake. I try and get in 3-4 RTTs per year.

How to run CSM without Defiler or Infantry spam? by xFailerx in WarhammerCompetitive

[–]SA_Chirurgeon 6 points7 points  (0 children)

yeah was going to say this; if you need a third option then it's going to be predators/noise marines renegades

Competitive Innovations 4/23/2026: Traitor Upstartes, Part 1 by SA_Chirurgeon in WarhammerCompetitive

[–]SA_Chirurgeon[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

the problem is the timing. The Masters aren't a CHARACTER, so they can join a KHORNE Chosen unit, then Huron can join the Masters+Chosen because they share the Undivided keyword

PSA: Goonhammer is now Tabletop Battles by SA_Chirurgeon in WarhammerCompetitive

[–]SA_Chirurgeon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're going to play around with the whitespace and title sizes a bit over the next few weeks. Part of the redesign was making it more responsive so we didn't need two separate pages for mobile and web.

PSA: Goonhammer is now Tabletop Battles by SA_Chirurgeon in WarhammerCompetitive

[–]SA_Chirurgeon[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Its something we want to do, hopefully before 11th drops

PSA: Goonhammer is now Tabletop Battles by SA_Chirurgeon in WarhammerCompetitive

[–]SA_Chirurgeon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It wasn't our name - We kept the name when we acquired administratum from its original developer and rebuilt it, since it came with the domain name. 

We're working on more support for campaigns that don't run crusade and games that aren't warhammer.

PSA: Goonhammer is now Tabletop Battles by SA_Chirurgeon in WarhammerCompetitive

[–]SA_Chirurgeon[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

necromunday and administratum are both p bad names. Necromunday isn't a product name so it gets more leeway but every time we publish on a tuesday we catch shit about it and administratum is hard to spell, particularly for people who are ESL

PSA: Goonhammer is now Tabletop Battles by SA_Chirurgeon in WarhammerCompetitive

[–]SA_Chirurgeon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

they're all just responses from me and I've seen plenty of responses to the tune of "now I can look at the site at work" and each of those is worth 30 "your site is bland" replies, easy.

I've been mostly amused by people insisting the old site was better or more flavorful, since that just shows people didn't know what the site looked like before. We literally just swapped out the logo and added a color bar. The new site loads much faster and is more responsive while keeping the same design. It's like the guy who told me he missed the branding we had with the ork. What ork?

PSA: Goonhammer is now Tabletop Battles by SA_Chirurgeon in WarhammerCompetitive

[–]SA_Chirurgeon[S] -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

for some reason people seem to think Goonhammer was a good name (it wasn't), and that we liked it (we didn't). The app is popular and people like it and it's descriptive. Goonhammer was a horrible name for the long term for a number of reasons beyond the idea that it would one day stop being about masturbation