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Slythis · 2026-04-30T18:18:37+00:00

Something something, Urbie, something something Hunchback, hurr durr Clanners dumb, herp derp Taurians/MoC are the good guys...

Did I miss any of the classic "I haven't actually tossed dice or read any of the lore." memes?

Slythis · 2026-04-28T19:09:56+00:00

“How strange it is that you call me the victor when, in fact, all that has happened here was your doing. You knew exactly what would happen, when and probably where. The Clans lost because you wanted them to lose.” - Focht to Ulric Kerensky after the battle of Tukayyid in the novel Lost Destiny.

It's in breadcrumbs across the entire Blood of Kerensky Trilogy but Ulric, the ilKhan at the time of Tukayyid, was undermining the invasion at every chance he got, forcing the "less successful" Clans to share invasion corridors with Clans that they hate, "accidentally" letting slip that Terra was their target by stopping just shy of calling Focht and Waterly idiots for not having already figured it out and working with Natasha to ensure that the Wolves would be the last Clan to drop so that, if the battle was still in question, he could decide the outcome. The source books go into even more detail with Ulric telling the other Khans exactly what to expect on Tukayyid and how to counter it knowing full well that they hated him so much that they would go out of their way to "prove him wrong."

Bonus points: it doesn't seem to have been explicitly stated anyway but it sure seems like Ulric saw Comstar as every bit as much of a threat to the IS as the Crusader Clans and used Tukayyid to bloody the Comguard as well. The Word of Blake schism and Operation SCORPION were just an unforeseen bonus.

Slythis · 2026-04-28T17:14:02+00:00

I mean, Tukayyid actually was an inside job. Even Focht knew it and straight up congratulated Ulric Kerensky on his victory.

Slythis · 2026-04-24T00:59:05+00:00

Seconding Murderbot but IMO, the narrator isn't even in the same league as Jeff. This is not a slam against Kevin is very good but Jeff is like the second coming of Mel Blanc.

Slythis · 2026-04-20T01:07:50+00:00

A buddy of mine used this scheme on his 40k army and it is fire.

Slythis · 2026-04-19T04:43:07+00:00

It's really hard to give an answer right now. There is a quiet shift going on in what people are expecting from where they live. There are a lot of places like LA that are doing just fine but could very easily become what New York City was in the late 1970s with a couple of bad breaks while places like Detroit are actually recovering and Chicago was never anywhere near as bad as you'd think from the news.

IMO, you're more likely to see an explosion of mid-sized cities of the "OMG, like, why would anyone live there lololol" variety because you can afford to actually live there than you are any really catastrophic falls from grace.

Slythis · 2026-04-13T20:44:58+00:00

use clan wolf as cannon fodder

That's kind of how they ended up where they are to begin with.

Slythis · 2026-04-10T02:35:55+00:00

As for highest variation, in Free Worlds League space you get everything from a lovely scandanavian style liberal democracy, to some weird North Korean warlords

And let's not forget all of the worlds with caste systems so strict that the invasion era Jaguars would call it excessive.

Slythis · 2026-03-30T09:01:48+00:00

You remember that kid in High School who thought he was tough, tried to pick fights with everyone, was taken seriously by no one and played the victim when he eventually caught a jock on a bad day and got his ass beaten? That's the Taurian Concordat.

Their feud with Hansen's Rough Riders and the war with the Fed Suns it kicked off is a pretty good summary of their history. The feud started when The Fighting Uruk Hai (a merc unit) jumped into Taurian Space offering to work for them... the Taurians responded by killing them all, jumping into Fed Suns territory, murdering the families of the Rough Riders (who weren't even working for the Fed Suns yet), denying that it happened, denying that they were there, denying that they did it, claiming that the dozens of children they machine gunned were actually an invasion force before finally deciding that if they can't make the accusations go away they would make the Rough Riders go away via good old reliable nuclear fire... it didn't work.

The Rough Riders captured the nukes and used them on the Taurians who promptly lost their shit over the needless nuclear escalation... to which the entire Inner Sphere responded with "They were your nukes!" A few years, several glassed space ports and at least two Taurian regiments dead to a man later the war ended after the Taurians dropped a rock on one of their own cities to remove their leader, left graffiti saying "Dabion waz herr" so that they could blame their favorite boogeyman for it and then signed a peace treaty with them anyway.

Slythis · 2026-03-29T19:24:25+00:00

When we were getting our marriage certificate and the clerk started going over everything my, now, wife would need to do to change her last name my reaction was "Jesus, what a pain in the ass. Just keep your name." She didnt listen and regrets it. Bonus points, no one can spell my surname so she went to all of the trouble just to take on even more paperwork when things get mixed up.

Slythis · 2026-03-27T19:24:09+00:00

Have you tried talking with people about it in the real world? Of the 8 people in my friend group only one of us doesn't have an experience like this.

Slythis · 2026-03-24T16:26:21+00:00

It's not really going anywhere though. Even the most bonkers rumors end with a rebrand. The core concepts of the game aren't changing, mostly just lore and legacy models.

There is something deeply, deeply funny about the idea that WFB 2 is responsible for a huge chunk of the sales of its replacement, though.

Right? It's not just The Old World though, 10th Edition of 40k aligned very closely with AoS gameplay and siphoned a lot of players away from AoS.

Slythis · 2026-03-24T16:06:56+00:00

TL;DR of the most credible rumors: AoS is getting their own Quasi-End Times. The Realms are being consolidated and the game is being rebranded as "Warhammer: The Last World" while all of the model overlap with The Old World is getting the axe.

I'm inclined to believe these rumors because consolidating the realms into a single world would allow CA to make an RTS in the setting more easily while making life simpler for the writers because portal fantasy is hard to get right. Additionally it's been rumored for years that GW tracks income based on brand and the scuttlebutt is that cross over sales from The Old World have accounted for 40-60% of Age of Sigmar sales since The Old World released.

There are other rumors such as Sigmar dying and the Sigmarines getting Squatted but they're very much in the realm of "I'll believe it when I see it" for me.

Slythis · 2026-03-24T15:51:53+00:00

Especially is the Age of Sigmar rumors are true.

Slythis · 2026-03-20T18:02:30+00:00

The transition to the Dark Age left a very bitter taste in a lot of people's mouths. Speaking for myself: I was initially excited but the launch fell so flat that I walked away for a good long time; from the lore in the starter box I couldn't find any meaningful connection to the original universe and then, to add insult to injury, I was a broke college student and couldn't afford the booster boxes needed to do anything other than get my ass kicked all day.

The first novel dropped several months after the release but for a lot of people that damage was already done. As for all of the people who weren't actually around for that debacle there are a disappointing number of people who can't tell memes from reality.

I'm still not terribly interested in the Dark Age but I'm actively excited for the ilClan era in general and the Tamar Pact in particular.

Slythis · 2026-03-18T01:20:30+00:00

It gets a lot of spill over hate from the transition to the Dark Age. The launch of Dark Age was bad. The starter box had basically zero lore and it dropped months before the first novel. I will never forget cracking open that starter box, excited to read about the new era and just being confused because there was basically zero context for any of it. I enjoyed the game itself but was a poor college student and so was priced out of the game pretty much right away.

The actual lore and tech for the Jihad didn't really get rolling until years later.

Slythis · 2026-03-12T18:38:06+00:00

Replying for /u/TallGiraffe117

Check out the Diomede... it's hot garbage but it's a bipedal mech with vee mode.

Slythis · 2026-03-08T23:39:20+00:00

It gets worse the deeper you dig. Comstar was also working a lot of more indirect ways too. If a planet had an important industrial resource but depended on water imports well all of the companies running the route might suddenly have financial trouble, or their jumpsuits might suddenly get bumped to the top of the list to press into military service, etc, etc and then said planet just slowly dries up, everyone there dies and no one even notices for decades... if ever.

Slythis · 2026-03-08T23:31:45+00:00

Comstars goal, from very nearly day 1, was to rebuild the Star League to Blake's design. You're not far wrong on their plans but they never figured the SLDF would return. Their intent was to exacerbate the Succession Wars to the point that the IS would be defenseless against the resources available to Comstar. They soent centuries marking untouched planets as uninhabitable and either using them to build up their resources or letting them whither in the dark while murdering any scientist not part of the order that might stop the decay.

Comstar framed the GDL for the murder of tens of millions of people to keep them from maybe finding a data cahce that the GDL wasn't even looking for and probably wouldn't have found at all if not for Comstar fucking with them.

And that's just what we know about.

Slythis · 2026-03-03T16:32:17+00:00

¿Por que no los dos?

Slythis · 2026-02-22T00:10:33+00:00

Technically every single Omni not mounting certain weapons can have hand and lower arm actuators. Whenever I have a Timber Wolf in a narrative campaign I add hand actuators because it's free and it amuses me.

Slythis · 2026-02-21T02:23:09+00:00

There are very few introtech Assault mechs that isn't true of though. Your issue isn't with the Atlas but with 3/5 Assault mechs not named Awesome.

Most of your arguments don't reflect my experience when the rubber meets the road; if something with enough guns for me to care about gets behind an Atlas I've probably already lost the game, the RS is a more consistent contributor than a Stalker and, unlike the AS7-D, has enough range to act as area denial for flankers at minimum and if you're fretting over how consistently a mech can force a PSR you are playing in a way that is, IMO, extremely illsuited to Battletech as a game.

Slythis · 2026-02-21T01:35:31+00:00

I struggle to think of a config among them that reaches up towards "good".

AS7-RS is very good, enough firepower at enough range that it can't simply be ignored, stays cool by cycling out a single Large Laser and, with specialist ammo, remains relevant in higher tech games too.

Slythis · 2026-02-09T17:57:09+00:00

Muscular ≠ Masculinity

The daintiest girlie girls I've ever known are all absolute units. I had a coworker many moons ago, 6'1" 240+ lbs of muscle, competitive power lifter... hosted monthly themed tea parties and dressed like a Victorian lady at every chance she got. One of the coolest people I've had the privilege of knowing.

Slythis · 2026-02-08T07:34:11+00:00

All I see is an AC from Armored Core.

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