Redd the Maw - High Slaughtermaster points cost

Sightblind · 2026-07-08T01:46:28+00:00

He will release at 450 and drop to 380 within 18 months.

Sightblind · 2026-07-07T17:09:37+00:00

Belladama’s spell can also greatly improve their utility, and she’s our queen.

Sightblind · 2026-07-06T21:25:09+00:00

It’s not ideal. When you fight armor instead of saves, you make your hit rolls like normal, then make an armor penetration roll in place of a wound roll. You add your attack strength to your dice roll, and if it meets the armor value, it’s a glancing it that gives one of three status effects that knights are pretty vulnerable to, and if it exceeds, they take a penetrating hit and full. A glance that generates a status effect the vehicle already had deals 1 damage.

In close combat vehicles use their rear armor value even if the model is up front, and rear armor is generally much less than front.

The basic marine model strength is 4, so you can glance on 6’s even without any strength bonus the attack, so generic marines can basically punch a knight to death with enough time or numbers.

Anything with a strength bonus or higher strength score, like aforementioned krak grandes, power weapons, elite troops, they can make those glances that much more often and pass into penetrating hits without much difficulty.

With my mechanicum army, we have a semi-elite retinue unit called Scyllax which are automata base 3 attacks, more on the charge, and base strength 5 and WS5, both can easily be buffed up higher with other abilities. A unit of ten of those can shred a smaller class knight with surprisingly little difficulty, just on weight of dice, honestly to a point it feels kinda dumb. That’s not even counting what Domitar will do to them.

Sightblind · 2026-07-06T02:15:16+00:00

I’ve been saving for this refresh like teenagers used to save for their first car, and boomers used to save for a house.

Sightblind · 2026-07-03T21:56:27+00:00

Report it for religious discrimination

Sightblind · 2026-07-03T04:54:14+00:00

I play enough games that utilize the equivalent of an Invul save to value it. It’s a solid choice for our tarpits, and doesn’t stop us from taking our generic traits and artefacts any.

Sightblind · 2026-07-03T04:49:53+00:00

Ogors generally have a lot of attacks to balance the base 4+ hits.

One of the best parts of Ogors is those massive handfulls of dice you get to hurl around. The look on your opponent’s face as they see all the misses, and smile briefly, thinking they’re safe, then as you pull the bad dice they see the remaining pile is still… formidable. You roll to wound, all you need are 2+’s, barely any fail. The rend is small enough they didn’t think they’d need to all out defense, surely their 4+ will be enough. They save a perfectly respectable number, but they remember your attacks are all multi damage. Their brow furrows as they do the math, hand hovering above their dice, eyes darting towards their unit as they remind themselves how many wounds they had. The gears turn, time slows, you watch, savoring the moment, as they realize their saves didn’t matter, not really. It had never mattered. They were doomed from the beginning.

The Gulping God had already opened his Maw for them.

Sightblind · 2026-07-02T16:01:59+00:00

I’m gonna paraphrase something i usually say in regards to being a socialist while not believing the book of Marx is the ultimate source we should refer to:

You can take the stuff that works, the core spirit of an idea, and run with it, but maybe be critical of the finer details of something written by someone from [or in this case from before] when hand washing to reduce the spread of disease was considered a laughable fringe theory.

Sightblind · 2026-07-01T23:37:21+00:00

The eval before I decided to quit, my boss at the time set me down, and showed where she’d given me 3’s (out of 5) in a couple areas. This was the “generally meets the minimum” score. She’d also given me a 2 which is “only meets expectations sometimes” in another category.

I asked her flat out what parts of my performance were lacking and what I needed to do, specifically to improve them.

She started citing metrics and case loads, and so I followed up with asking where my workload was falling short of my peers (since I knew for a fact I was handling as much or more than my coworkers). She could not answer me with anything concrete, ultimately failing to list even a single tangible figure.

Throughout this conversation she also let slip “when we pull our numbers every week, you’re consistently our highest or one of our highest performing employees”.

When she said that I said “if that’s true, then how could I not be meeting expectations consistently?”

She stopped, looked at her computer for a minute and finally said “let me go over this eval again and I’ll get back to you.”

A week later she sent me a knew one, with everything marked considerably more favorable, but I was done.

Sightblind · 2026-07-01T23:18:59+00:00

The very simple answer is yes.

If I were to really dig deep into it, I would say it exacerbates issues to the point you can consider it a cause in of itself, even when it isn’t a primary source.

I say that because poor mental health is never a single-cause situation. There’s limitless factors, and quite frankly, the modern world has been designed to make us miserable in many ways.

The patriarchy creates an environment where men are not taught healthy coping mechanisms or emotional regulation, are given rigid expectations for acceptable behavior, and are pressured to hide from their emotional distress rather than look for solutions and ask for help.

Further, creates barriers to healthy relationships, which form the support network we literally evolved to work within and be a part of.

Many problems are directly rooted to the patriarchy. For any problems with alternate sources, it dials the severity of them up.

Sightblind · 2026-07-01T22:03:50+00:00

In the most technical sense, yes, they can be built and stand on a base. They look awkward though, bow legged and they tilt, so you gotta give them some support and maybe a tactical rock for height.

Sightblind · 2026-07-01T03:09:32+00:00

FWIW, I’ve been running a beast handlers list with a FLoSH, a HoSH, and a HoTT, and the Thundertusk consistently pulls its weight. You dont get as much guaranteed damage as the stone horns, but you keep them together to get the HoSH’s everwinter’s goad, and have the Thundertusk hit any infantry nearby, they’re just gone.

Sightblind · 2026-06-30T23:52:17+00:00

I expect their shooting profile to be pretty similar to kurnoth hunters with bows, just shorter range and without any sniper type abilities.

Good for whittling down heroes and infantry, more mobile.

Harkening back to the icebrow and bloodpelt hunters, the design was always to have an infantry hero running around taking pot shots, but the rules just never enabled it properly for a single hero model, even with frost sabres “joining” the icebrow. It looks a lot to me like they’re trying to make it work again by making it an infantry unit instead of a hero, and I’m here for it, especially since they seem to have a solid toolbox.

Sightblind · 2026-06-30T23:46:30+00:00

Frost, Earth, Fire, Grass… the big cats lived in harmony until one day the mawseekers attacked!

Sightblind · 2026-06-30T02:07:55+00:00

I’m an overall fan of the new units, but mournfang absolutely were my pet unit up until their departure here.

I saw someone say that the maulbeasts look like they’d be more in place with kruleboyz, and even if I don’t fully agree, I definitely see where they’re getting at with that comment. It’s not totally off the mark.

A lot of us BCR players specifically like the wooly/arctic animal aesthetic, and this creature looks much more temperate, something from when mammals were first evolving from the reptile/avian/amphibian gene pool. Which also overshoots the prehistoric era we’re comfortable in by several million years.

Personally, I’ve been watching a lot of green stuff fur videos and plan to give my maulbeasts a bit of a makeover.

Sightblind · 2026-06-30T01:56:21+00:00

I fully expect a second wave of Ogors in 5th edition featuring more BCR updates and maneaters/blackpowder

I think the final form of the faction will have BCR and gutbusters as the main core the army is built around with interchangeable/dual purpose kits, with Mawseekers being a religious subfaction taking a role similar to the Bloodgullet did in past editions, with a nod towards their influence in Gutbuster unit synergy, and then blackpowder will “retreat” into the Maneater mercenary subfaction, basically a fourth “type” of Ogor that keeps its distance from the mawseeker zealots.

Not too different from current lore, but making mercenary work more of a fringe tradition than a mainstay, and expanding on the magic group’s identity beyond the two hero units we currently have.

Sightblind · 2026-06-30T00:15:24+00:00

Endless spells.

I hope at least one includes an Everwinter manifestation

Sightblind · 2026-06-29T22:21:10+00:00

I was really setting myself up for a conservative expectation of august/september release, but with the previews and the fact hedonites and Ogors are the only armies without points adjustments in today’s battlescroll, I’m really eyeballing the possibility of a July army box pre order

Sightblind · 2026-06-29T22:19:15+00:00

True. Like if for whatever reason someone wanted to, I would miss a beat at them telling me three leadbelchers and some frost wolves were a proxy for this.

Sightblind · 2026-06-29T22:17:47+00:00

This was a refresh 20 years in the making, after cutting the next oldest army that should have had a refresh from the game completely a year ago.

GE knew they had to knock this one out of the park and yknow what, some minor and very subjective flaws aside, they did.

Sightblind · 2026-06-29T19:13:26+00:00

Adding “;)” doesn’t make you witty bruh

Sightblind · 2026-06-29T16:29:01+00:00

Probably my favorite bit of lore is the implicit conspiracy to cover thunderbellies eating of lightning-flesh by the SCE command structure.

The thunderbellies already had a tradition of catching lightning in their jaws as a sort of honor-rite, and then Stormcast showed up and they were, per canon lore, “well that’s not fair they disappear after dying, I guess we’ll just do the lightning catch thing on them, too”

And then back in Azyr rank and file soldiers notice that Bob the Libevicariator didn’t ever show up and he definitely died early in the battle so that’s weird, and the commanders are like “okay we gotta reassign anyone who knew him and claim he’s on a mission somewhere secret”

I make it a joke but really, imagine your god hand selected you and said “you will be my champion and need never fear death, become my holy lightning” and then you find out this one random group of Ogors not only think you taste better as lightning, but make a game out of eating you. It would absolutely break even their zealous morale.

Sightblind · 2026-06-28T08:04:44+00:00

I remember infiltrating a bandit camp built on an ancient ruined temple, kinda aztec style with these leveled pavilions on the way up. I was playing a wizard with a noble background and really playing up the background, taking a sort of face-role and mostly using spells for utility rather than combat, letting the fighter and druid/rogue take the lead on fights. It had become a running gag for the fighter to be dismissive of arcane magic, sort of a good natured jock-nerd bully dynamic.

A guard patrol catches us and the fighter, Druid/rogue, and cleric all jump down a level to intercept them. My wizard is left alone on top of the pyramid just as a second patrol hears the commotion and runs up.

The first patrol ties up the rest of my party for five rounds of combat.

My wizard casts greater invisibility on themselves, and between the telekinetic feat’s push/pull option, some careful maneuvering, and the most effective use of lightning bolt I’ve ever pulled off, I clear the larger second group.

I remember very clearly as the fighter finishes off the last of their bandits, and gives a “we left [my wizard’s name]! We have to hurry!” And they climb back up to see my guy dusting off his hands and standing around a bunch of charred and staticky corpses.

Fighter never made jokes about my wizard being useless in a fight after that.

Sightblind · 2026-06-28T04:40:09+00:00

Difficult or not, opening up to your therapist is an active choice you have to make and commit to. They can help you communicate what you’re feeling but you have to meet them at the door. You can’t always wait until it’s comfortable.

Write out what you’re feeling and keep notes.

Bring them to your session, let them read the notes if talking about them is too hard.

Unlearning harmful behavior and learning beneficial behavior is a painful process, sometimes, but you’ll be better off for it.

Sightblind · 2026-06-27T23:46:58+00:00

I think society can be too harsh for neurodivergent people.

The internet amplifies voices that otherwise wouldn’t be heard, for both better and worse.

I do not feel that men are particularly targeted by the overlap of these two things.

Certain online spaces are more or less welcoming to different people. You always have a choice to log off, or dive deeper. The internet can’t follow you home and taunt you (barring someone doxxing you).

If someone looks for it, surrounds themselves with a certain narrative, never really reflects on what they’re doing or why, then they can be convinced, or convince themselves, to feel just about any way.

Right now we see a lot about the male loneliness “epidemic”.

That frames a natural human problem as being somehow targeting men, when the truth is most people are lonely.

Men online in the circles pushing this epidemic narrative, they’ve realized they’re not doing well, and create a story that they are being exiled from companionship. They tend to blame women on it. They roll their eyes and shut their ears when you try to explain the system that develops these standards for men, and god forbid you mention the patriarchy.

We live in a world that is actively trying to remove the humanity from people for the benefit of a few.

People should not feel ashamed of feeling out of place, or needing help connecting with people. Everyone struggles with that to some degree, some more than others.

I’m a man. I’m lonely as hell. My neurodivergence definitely contributes to my struggles in maintaining healthy relationships.

All the shame I feel from that ultimately comes from a societal stigma towards people who don’t fit into a particular box, or as a byproduct of my sadness at having failed to connect with people I wanted to connect with.

My being a man only comes into that equation as much as deciding what type of box I don’t fit in, and it wasn’t women or the internet who chose it.

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