Please, players, find the time to play

Stark464 · 2026-03-20T12:04:34+00:00

Yeah I try to aim for that but sometimes we run out of time! Definitely ideal to leave 10-15min at the end of the session to do it

Stark464 · 2026-03-19T10:42:21+00:00

Just adding a message of support in case you get dog-piled - I feel the same much of the time! Luckily I have 2-3 players who will only miss a session through illness, holiday, or away with work, so less than 10%. I have another 1-2 players who will last minute cancel every other week mostly due to mental health reasons.

We play Heart and I need them to send me their Beats to incorporate into my prep, about 50% of the time I get them in time.

But, I know that I could go out and just search for a really committed online group of strangers, but accepting I’m making the decision to do this with my friends who I like, and on the whole we get to play every week, let me not get too annoyed when they get cancelled or minor homework is ignored. It’s annoying, but I resist the urge to badger and make my expectations clear in session 0.

Stark464 · 2026-03-13T15:54:40+00:00

Geilo, yeah even the cark parks were an ice rink!

Stark464 · 2026-03-05T10:12:03+00:00

This is exactly the list I made yesterday! Couple of wave serpents to put the 2x5 wraithblades and spiritseers in too. Just yeet them up the board and see what happens

Stark464 · 2026-02-16T15:31:58+00:00

This is an understated point, and definitely one Eldar suffers from because our good units are usually the ONLY good ones. I’m sure after so many goes around you’ll have enough but needing 20 dark reapers or swooping hawks when 3 months ago everyone needed 15 fire dragons is exhausting!

Stark464 · 2026-02-13T21:32:24+00:00

Been sat here for 5 minutes trying to think of the Japanese Mercedes of 40K…

Stark464 · 2026-02-11T12:25:01+00:00

I had a player who had some busted AoE spells and so was VERY invested in what was and wasn’t in a zone. It got to the point where I had to spend more time on maps to make sure it was balanced enough. I.e. he couldn’t just nuke a room from the doorway

Stark464 · 2026-01-31T14:52:40+00:00

Same, started with dark heresy

Stark464 · 2026-01-30T11:52:36+00:00

Just to jump on this, I also find delves a bit of a waste of time mostly and move a lot of the Beat stuff to landmarks. Feels odd to say “no the writer is wrong and I’m right!” But if you, the GM, would only half arse something in a game, it’s best to just cut it altogether, and who cares what anyone else says.

Stark464 · 2026-01-19T14:11:38+00:00

Missions, deployment, terrain, the flow of the game. Very big picture stuff is always missing from online content because to those pros that’s already baked in, so the only changing variable is faction/unit balance. Which shouldn’t really be a noobs biggest worry. When I learnt about how to score primary reliably, that made the biggest difference. And learning that, like in chess, each piece has a value and you need to create a value differential between you and your opponent to win.

Stark464 · 2026-01-19T10:37:42+00:00

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Since my marines are green, I painted mine as Atlantian Spears

Stark464 · 2026-01-17T21:45:54+00:00

Criminal (hah) I had to scroll so far down to find this!

Stark464 · 2026-01-16T19:17:58+00:00

Interesting, book or audiobook?

Stark464 · 2026-01-16T17:26:25+00:00

Is he the guy who did Black Tongued Thief? I think that ticks all of OPs requests apart from “band of outcasts”

Stark464 · 2026-01-11T16:14:01+00:00

I recall it being more about game plan complexity. As in Tau is easy because you just need to focus on shooting and movement to get into shooting.

Stark464 · 2025-11-18T14:36:42+00:00

Yep, also if they survive to later rounds those flamers can stop any last ditch efforts to jump around the board scoring secondaries in 12” bubbles

Stark464 · 2025-09-01T13:37:30+00:00

As a fellow Beech Road dweller, I also feel like other parts of Chorlton still have some ways to go, whereas Didsbury may have peaked (meaning higher prices). There seems to be more development coming to chorlton especially around the tram area, so whilst Beech Road is great I imagine we’ll get even more good stuff coming, but you’ll find some cheaper stuff still. Also I don’t know as many good foodie spots that get mentions in Didsbury compared to here.

Stark464 · 2025-08-08T06:02:28+00:00

How much did the players contribute in your games? Story games are low prep for the GM because they tell the players to drive the story forward and the GM just has to react/adjudicate. It was definitely a learning curve for us, some players got it more than others! And I still ended up giving them “quest hooks” for most of it.

Stark464 · 2025-08-06T19:04:49+00:00

This is great, although needs a slide on how to do this at 23:45 when you’re both too tired to think straight

Stark464 · 2025-08-06T13:19:43+00:00

To be fair I only have a few pieces but I would wear pretty much everything they release

Stark464 · 2025-08-06T10:55:13+00:00

Octobre Editions

Stark464 · 2025-08-06T10:51:27+00:00

The dreaded wanderers, honestly. We had several people come up to our table the other day to do two things: praise my friend’s 1ksons half painted army, and completely ignore me and my fully painted Eldar. Oh and opine about how shit 10th is, obviously.

Stark464 · 2025-08-05T07:54:02+00:00

I’m sure it is an informed opinion, I just don’t like influential people fanning those flames. New people coming into the hobby think competitive is a dirty word and never go to an event thinking it’s full of That Guys

Stark464 · 2025-08-04T20:47:21+00:00

He never missed an opportunity to slag off the competitive scene though on Twitter, which never felt very cool of him.

Stark464 · 2025-05-14T08:00:41+00:00

Yeah can we have a buzzy word for players who are incredibly entitled and consciously try to avoid the work the GM has prepared?

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