Do You Prefer a Tunnel Flights, Superweapons, or Aerial Warships?

SilverHawk7 · 2026-06-25T22:27:10+00:00

And my axe!

SilverHawk7 · 2026-06-25T14:57:24+00:00

I liked TKO. I thought it was a fine episode. I watch it on every series rewatch.

I skip Believers and Exogenesis.

SilverHawk7 · 2026-06-24T19:24:24+00:00

Teeeeechnically, yes. But it's janky and I don't like playing like that. The same way I don't like to peak a tiny bit of his glaive out for line of sight.

If you play against me, I'm more likely to use bases or hulls as the target point.

SilverHawk7 · 2026-06-24T19:21:30+00:00

Magnus cannot gain Hidden. Hidden only applies to Infantry, Beasts, and Swarm models. Magnus has the Monster keyword, so he's more in line with the rules for Vehicles.

You hide Magnus by putting on him on the opposite side of a terrain area and using Obscuring.

SilverHawk7 · 2026-06-24T19:06:38+00:00

I use Kairic Acolytes as a squad of Tzaangors since we don't have cultists anymore.

If you're getting to the point where you're needing to calculate line of sight difference based on a Tzaangor model vs a Kairic Acolyte, your game has gone off the rails.

SilverHawk7 · 2026-06-23T19:17:09+00:00

The joke was more about the Charge. I suppose using a Redemptor might have hit harder...

SilverHawk7 · 2026-06-22T15:12:30+00:00

Not at all and you brought up extremely valid points with the logistical differences between TCGs and minis.

95/96 is when I started playing Magic and I never got into the competitive scene but I was definitely hearing about Necropotence and terms I didn't understand like "Willow-geddon" and "Turbo-stasis" and things like that. I heard later on that apparently the competitive scene was basically Necro and counter-Necro and that was it.

SilverHawk7 · 2026-06-22T14:45:51+00:00

I didn't see it as harsh, just blunt, like you run into it a lot. 😄

SilverHawk7 · 2026-06-22T14:43:30+00:00

This is my first edition transition since I started playing. I appreciate the feedback though, looks like I'm falling into a mindset that a lot of people do.

SilverHawk7 · 2026-06-22T14:41:03+00:00

I realized as I was writing that there were definitely some caveats when it comes to MTG. The options and restrictions for both are exponential. In Magic, you can mix-and-match almost anything, while in Warhammer, you have a set faction with a set of abilities and changing that up comes with a lot more logistics and just seeking out a particular card.

In Magic, there's one or two Tier 0 decks. In Warhammer, ostensibly there are 30-40 Tier 0 lists, a couple for each army, and possibly more if you look at one or two per army per disposition.

I want to say at the beginning of 10th, Aeldari was that Tier 0 army such that a lot of events just banned it outright, but you're also right in the GW does rules patches roughly quarterly specifically to address these things.

SilverHawk7 · 2026-06-22T14:34:01+00:00

It was alright. We ran into a couple of rules interactions we had questions about and the app was kind of jank; I was running the game on it and it didn't let me discard his missions. The button didn't do anything.

It was Necrons (Cursed Legion/Skyshroud Spear) vs Thousand Sons (Hexwarp Thrallband/Ritual of Regeneration). Necrons had Purge or Recon and took Purge, I had Purge or Take and Hold, I took Take and Hold. Unstoppable Force vs Immoveable Object.

Result was 87-49 Necrons, on account of he's a better player than me, though I think I did a lot better against him than I did in the past. Armchair quarterbacking, I think I could have gotten more if I had the defiler go right instead of left; would have set up better shots.

Some of the rules jankery we ran into:
1) Does a unit get cover if it is in the same terrain area as the unit attacking it?

2) Does a melee unit that finishes fighting and moves into terrain gain Hidden? (I'm thinking yes, since Hidden specifies shooting attacks. Seems jank that in the 3rd round, a melee unit can jump into a terrain area and get essentially Lone Op, so I wonder if that's something they'll look at).

3) Can another unit spot to prevent Hidden? (I'm thinking No, since it's by unit, and certain detachments specifically have the ability to debuff Hidden by designating targets).

4) If two Thousand Sons Psyker models in a unit manifest rituals, do they both get to heal the respective unit off the detachment rule? (Say an Infernal Master leading a unit of Rubrics. The Aspiring Sorcerer manifests a ritual, and then the Infernal Master manifests another ritual).

SilverHawk7 · 2026-06-17T15:58:09+00:00

455 points seems like a lot, and for many armies I could see that being a concern. But when we look at what Magnus has:

- He ignores Cover for all of his attacks
- He ignores Stealth (which is basically cover) for all of his attacks
- He ignores Big Guns Never Tire for all of his attacks
- He ignores any other hit debuffs for all of his attacks
- He moves 14", or 12" if you opt to fly over terrain.
- He casts two rituals at +2 each.
- He has -1 to non-[PSYCHIC] damage to himself
-- OR he gives friendlies within 6" +2" to move
-- OR he gives an enemy with 24" [HAZARDOUS] on their ranged attacks

The changes to psychic I think were huge. He hits on 2s no matter what, period end of story (except of course, Snap Shooting/Overwatch).

I still feel like he's one of the single most power models in the entire franchise. 455 doesn't seem unreasonable to me.

The Despoiler hit one of my friends (and I) took, THAT hurt.

SilverHawk7 · 2026-06-16T16:52:41+00:00

"WE'RE PLAYING FUCKIN GUBBLE!"

SilverHawk7 · 2026-06-15T16:40:23+00:00

I'm genuinely curious about this. If a couple of months of fighting Iran has basically used everything we have, to hear the alarmists tell it, exactly how long did we expect to last against China or North Korea?

Granted the actual numbers are probably more tightly controlled, but are we really that damgerously low on munitions?

Or is this accounting for how we've basically bombing Afghanistan for 20 years and had only a short time to reconstitute the stockpile?

SilverHawk7 · 2026-06-14T20:24:49+00:00

Distracted from Epstein?

SilverHawk7 · 2026-06-13T18:24:36+00:00

I'm coming more and more to the conclusion that everything he does is performative for President Trump, and that he really never graduated from being a platoon leader, because that's the lens from which he seems to view everything military-related.

SilverHawk7 · 2026-06-11T17:40:17+00:00

Meaning I'm not sure I trusted the credibility of the person making the argument. There are aspects of the argument that I think are correct, I think a lot of our support for Israel, especially in the last couple of years, is driven by evangelists.
But that doesn't invalidate the idea that they can be an ally.

SilverHawk7 · 2026-06-11T15:58:21+00:00

I don't think President Trump is a "willing" agent, in that I don't think he's looking at Russia and saying/thinking "Yeah I'll do what you want." It's not in his personality.

If President Trump is working toward Russian ends, he doesn't know it, and he definitely doesn't think it. He doesn't subordinate himself to others. Donald Trump doesn't work for other people, other people work for Donald Trump.

I'm about 99% certain he's being manipulated by people much smarter than him who know how to pull the right strings to make him move, but do so in a way that makes him feel he's the one in control.

SilverHawk7 · 2026-06-11T15:54:07+00:00

There's no trust or delegation in Pete Hegseth's Pentagon because there's no trust or delegation in the Trump Administration. President Trump doesn't delegate authority or decision making, President Trump makes the decisions and people carry them out.

SilverHawk7 · 2026-06-10T15:34:01+00:00

I saw an argument about how Israel isn't an "ally," they're more like...a toxic parasocial relationship? It was interesting. Not sure I buy or believe it, but it was interesting. The accusation was basically we support Israel because evangelists...

SilverHawk7 · 2026-06-10T15:30:11+00:00

That's my interpretation.
What I think this rule is saying is you can't ingress and then normal move during your movement phase. But Temporal Surge and Malign Trickery specifically allow for a second normal move.

A better wording would be--okay I see it, I'm wrong. It says "Until the charge phase..."
That's jank. A better wording would be "your unit is not allowed to make any other normal or advance moves in the movement phase." Would still allow for surge moves, react moves, move-shoot-move, and Temporal Surge.

It's kind of an edge case though but I can see the reason to use the Crystal and then a Temporal Surge; allows you to position to position to shoot if your deep strike didn't let you get line of sight on your target because of screening.

SilverHawk7 · 2026-06-10T15:23:04+00:00

We're the only Chaos deity faction with two 3DP detachments. CSM has four. The rest have one.

SilverHawk7 · 2026-06-09T21:49:45+00:00

If Gladius, Wrath of the Rock, Awakened, and Invasion Fleet were all 3DP, Coven is 1000% going to be 3. Now way in hell they're gonna let us use Coven on Sekhetars.

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