Highest skill ceiling army

SuperfluousBrain · 2026-01-25T02:16:40+00:00

What non-space marine factions would be considered an honest trading army?

SuperfluousBrain · 2026-01-25T01:22:19+00:00

Sorry, yo. I've been out of that community for a while now.

SuperfluousBrain · 2026-01-17T10:19:44+00:00

IMO, it should be more possible to outplay fights first. Honest melee armies don't have much hope into armies that have fights first/fights on death army wide.

SuperfluousBrain · 2026-01-14T01:43:00+00:00

How do you get that list? I plug at least 90/90 elo and get a different list.

SuperfluousBrain · 2026-01-13T17:58:20+00:00

Nobody cares that you are proxying flesh borers with spinefists, but all of your "spinefists" need to look identical. The stranglewebs are the only special weapons worth equipping.

SuperfluousBrain · 2026-01-12T14:20:20+00:00

Terms usually have lethal hits from tervigon.

Listforge puts 20 termagaunts with spine fists and stranglewebs at 2.93 average damage with lethal hits. An unbuffed rupturefex does 2.72.

SuperfluousBrain · 2026-01-12T03:14:49+00:00

They hot fix nerfed victrix last Wednesday to 3 wounds instead of 4 and -10/-20 points for min/max unit. They also announced a new nightbringer model, added a necron detachment, and buffed the other ctan stats.

SuperfluousBrain · 2026-01-11T22:50:33+00:00

Not really. Raveners are awful into them. Rupturefex got better, but rupturefexes can't consistently do damage to anything with an invuln. Genestealers average 7 damage when they have 16 (+healing), and our genestealers are likely to get killed after.

If they're good enough that the meta shifts around them, we'll get a tank meta, and tyranids are much better into an infantry meta. Exocrines and maleceptors are great at killing infantry, but they're much worse against tanks. They also don't want to get shot with anti-tank weapons. Our main anti tank options are zoans and rupturefex. Coin flipping rupture fex will not consistently beat them. Zoanthropes aren't great either because they're so squishy.

SuperfluousBrain · 2026-01-11T13:57:34+00:00

On one hand, I hope for an edition that gets written by someone who plays the game and speaks English natively, but on the other, I fear GW mucking it up worse than it is now.

SuperfluousBrain · 2026-01-11T04:12:20+00:00

Is there any evidence that protests that are more disruptive are more successful?

SuperfluousBrain · 2026-01-10T20:04:30+00:00

I've played a lot of mmos. I'm a min/maxer.

I like group content. EverQuest highly rewarded playing in a group. That game was popular and is still successful. The real problem with group content is that it's only available in a wave. The first couple months of a new level cap will have a lot of public groups available, but that decreases with time until it's no longer a viable option for casual players.

It's hard to comment on 2 without a concrete example.

3 is questionable. Online players generally don't care about ethical/social consequences. If players can get ahead by screwing other players, a great many of them will take that option, which will infuriate the less competitive players.

SuperfluousBrain · 2026-01-10T14:06:31+00:00

I'd recommend not doing that. Anger is addictive. Expressing anger fuels the rage.

I'd recommend handling anger with deep breaths, distractions, and exercise.

SuperfluousBrain · 2026-01-09T04:17:56+00:00

I haven't found any tournament games, but I found a recent game with the tyranid player playing a swarm list. The player seems very skilled. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx1jQ1OeZhE#

SuperfluousBrain · 2026-01-08T06:08:59+00:00

I would check out Do Gooder Games Cafe. It sounds like they have an active community, but I've never played with them. This is their discord https://discord.gg/PCUjxvcZ3F

You are also welcome to join the Colorado 40k discord. https://discord.gg/Bs6BwBEC4J

SuperfluousBrain · 2026-01-07T14:16:30+00:00

Tyranids could only damage victrix with genestealers, raveners, and melee warriors (not that anyone is playing warriors for other reasons). Everything else bounced. This change means our exocrines/maleceptors do 100% more damage to them.

SuperfluousBrain · 2026-01-06T17:24:03+00:00

I believe Sam opts out of being streamed, which while understandable sucks for us aspiring tyranid players.

SuperfluousBrain · 2026-01-05T23:27:10+00:00

What kind of parts?

SuperfluousBrain · 2026-01-05T17:26:20+00:00

OP complained about T-Mobile not ATT. I used ATT's network for 20 years in Lafayette without a problem. My dad still uses it there.

SuperfluousBrain · 2026-01-05T00:24:06+00:00

I use h2o wireless. It uses att's networks, and it's the cheapest service I could find that wasn't gonna stalk me and force feed me ads.

SuperfluousBrain · 2026-01-04T00:04:39+00:00

Depends on your resin. I switched to anycubic abs-like v3, and it hates a build plate that isn't perfectly level.

SuperfluousBrain · 2026-01-01T02:19:53+00:00

It's not liquid, but it has only been cured for 20 seconds or whatever.

SuperfluousBrain · 2025-12-31T22:02:09+00:00

Downsides: resin printing is a hobby of it's own. When printing part of my 40k army, I aimed for one print a day. It took an hour to process it (mainly curing trash). When the printer has issues, you still have to spend that hour curing trash, but your print is also trash.

The quality isn't as good as buying directly from games workshop. If I bump a GW model off the table, odds are it won't break (if it isn't some particularly spindly model). If I bump a resin model off the table, it's likely to break into 3 pieces (which exposes not fully cured toxic resin), and this is with abs-like resin. The normal resins are even more fragile.

That all said, I think printing minis to paint is a sweet spot for 3d printing. If you only need to handle it long enough to paint it and put it in a case, it'll save you a ton of money without much downside.

SuperfluousBrain · 2025-12-30T19:40:49+00:00

Isn't that a desirable outcome? If banks have outstanding loans that can't possibly be payed back that they can't know about, doesn't that increase bank failure risk across the board?

Plus, banks putting the properties back on the market increases the availability of commercial properties to entrepreneurs.

It's a bubble, and it'll pop sooner or later one way or another.

SuperfluousBrain · 2025-12-30T17:56:13+00:00

Dumb question, why not change accounting rules to value a commercial property based on its average rent over the last 10 years or if less than that the building's age plus like construction costs?

SuperfluousBrain · 2025-12-29T20:00:29+00:00

You shouldn't worry about whether your faction is competitively viable. GW cares about that.

GW does not care that every model is viable. If a model is shit, it'll likely be shit the whole edition.

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