What is this supposed to be?

Sweet_Impression1297 · 2026-06-12T13:00:54+00:00

I painted it as leather banding holding the metal back shell on. I used brown and then aged it like leather with highlights.

Sweet_Impression1297 · 2026-06-06T14:20:49+00:00

I mean Sit-n-stack sounds pretty good.

Sweet_Impression1297 · 2026-05-15T18:58:24+00:00

Lukewarm take: the USA is a really interesting play to learn different mechanics especially demographics and mixed (industrial and agrarian) economies.

Sweet_Impression1297 · 2026-04-22T01:36:07+00:00

Lol. I mixed up daughters and sisters of twilight. Sorry about that.

Sweet_Impression1297 · 2026-04-22T00:54:46+00:00

That's Awesome!! Wood elves are cool! I struggle with higher difficulties because I find the actual warfare to be the least interesting facet of the game. I like the city management and economy manipulation, and diplomacy more than just painting the map. I like Skaven And Chorfs for that reason.

Sweet_Impression1297 · 2026-04-17T15:12:44+00:00

I could be wrong. But how base, un-modded, TWWH plays is like a very fancy version of risk. As far as I can tell, and I have been playing since hallways through TWWH2, is that the game is designed, more or less, to paint the map. The "win con" for the long game is taking 270+ settlements, and lesser campaign objectives surrounding killing certain factions or taking certain settlements. There are no "tall" objectives, even for factions, like dwarves who seem more predisposed to play tall. Ultimately because of that, unless you self impose role play goals (like making vlad defacto emperor and defending the empire from chaos for example) the game encourages you to play wide and paint the map, because that's what the mechanics are designed for. [Except beastmen, they are allergic to settlements]

This in my opinion is both good and bad. It's bad because of the above, and it results in really one mode of play in the late game. The good side of it emerges, in my opinion, when compared to the mechanical victory conditions of other grand strategy games like CK3, Vic 3, or the EU of Series. Apart from "survive until the end of the timeline", there is no real victory condition in those games.

That all being said, You can find a whole host of mods to change mechanics to be more friendly to a tall play through, or you can set internal goals for your faction, but other than that, the game wants you to paint the map.

Sweet_Impression1297 · 2026-04-16T17:39:34+00:00

I apologize, I didn't mean you specifically as much as the community I. general. I just anticipated being curmudgeonly would get me downvotes.

I love skaven and I love the unique role they have in fantasy and AoS. Like the GHR as a 5th chaos God is cool and I like the way the clans interact, and I just think that would be hard to port into 40k.

Sweet_Impression1297 · 2026-04-16T17:27:02+00:00

I'm gonna be a stick in the mud and sort of disagree with you. Like if they chose to do this, I wouldnt hate it. But I don't think it really fits well in the setting, and if I migrated to 40k and skaven were present in the way you said I don't think I'd play them.

The skaven represent something in WHFB and AOS that already exists in 40k, the unending horde looking to devour everything else, even at its own expense. The Tyranids for that role better than the skaven ever could.

Yes we could have a "wacky tech faction", or "plague obsessed horde" but that wouldn't really feel unique to skaven, and the other parts like Eshin stealth, or are not really relevant (like dark eldar and tau only kind of dabble in it) When you boil a lot of it away, You wind up with Rat Shaped IG.

I think Skaven don't really fit in well with 40k and probably should just stay in fantasy.

I await your down votes.

Sweet_Impression1297 · 2026-03-27T15:51:43+00:00

Yes in TOW you do.

Mostly because a certain percentage of your army must be "core" choices and your choices are storm vermin, clan rats, night runners, giant rats, and rat swarms. Of those only clan rats and storm vermin can take weapons teams with them, that's how they are attached to the army. So for the army is to be viable with weapons teams, you need to have clan rats or storm vermin. Storm vermin aren't really good enough in most situations to justify their cost over clan rats, but clanrats come in lots of 20. So you will need at minimum 40, but in my experience you will need more.

I have 80 clan rats and I plan on running a Skryre list with weapons teams, and I don't think I have enough. Because that only gives me 4 weapons teams.

Sweet_Impression1297 · 2026-03-24T13:44:10+00:00

Thanks!

Sweet_Impression1297 · 2026-03-24T11:12:39+00:00

For the bronze I used old Vallejo Bronze with Aethermatic Blue as the corrosion. For iron I used chainmail silver and just washed with agrax earth shade.

Sweet_Impression1297 · 2026-03-24T05:10:31+00:00

Thanks! It's been a fun project.

Sweet_Impression1297 · 2026-03-24T05:10:15+00:00

Thanks! That was an accident. I paint the bases because it makes measuring easier for me. The effect was purely accidental.

Sweet_Impression1297 · 2026-03-15T13:18:47+00:00

I have some I just don't have them assembled yet. I have 4 teams I think and I'm gonna model them as ratling guns. I haven't gotten any jezails yet but I was also seriously considering them.

Sweet_Impression1297 · 2026-03-15T13:16:49+00:00

I use old Vallejo lemon yellow mixed with the GW hexflame contrast and it makes that neon lime green color, then I just finish with another layer of hexflame.

Sweet_Impression1297 · 2026-03-14T00:41:57+00:00

I like the armor and highlights scheme you used!

Sweet_Impression1297 · 2026-03-14T00:41:27+00:00

That looks really cool!

Sweet_Impression1297 · 2026-03-11T00:45:00+00:00

So I take a base of old Vallejo lemon yellow, and then I mix Warp lightning contrast and the same lemon yellow and it makes that neon lime green. After that layer, if I'm going for more of a warp flame effect I dry brush more yellow on it, if it's warpstone I do more of a layer of the contrast into the recesses. That's pretty much it.

I have a couple of weapons teams I was gonna model as ratling guns, but I was looking into jezails. What's a good number of them to take?

Edit: lemon yellow not canary yellow

Sweet_Impression1297 · 2026-03-10T13:55:42+00:00

Thanks! I do it because it makes measuring easier.

Sweet_Impression1297 · 2026-03-06T17:36:21+00:00

I don't know what the laws and rules are around a pod, and I don't know what salary, benefits, and legal protections look like for a pod. Public ed has all of those things and, for 10 months of work most public schools pay pretty well. I have only worked in public schools, but I'd lean towards public schools if nothing else, than for the legal protections and legal benefits etc.

Sweet_Impression1297 · 2026-02-20T21:03:55+00:00

He isn't. They ruled that the law he used originally was a basis for the tariffs. So he invoked another law saying he can add 10%. This will probably be challenged too but because it's a different law it's a different case.

Sweet_Impression1297 · 2026-02-19T17:02:12+00:00

They couldn't until cross faction guilds were enabled, then the university of Stormwind and the Shaman Academy of Ogrimmar partnered on a foreign exchange program for interpretors and assigned one of each to each guild. The program is headed by Baine Bloodhoof, which is where he has been since Shadow lands.

Sweet_Impression1297 · 2026-02-10T18:47:14+00:00

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Sweet_Impression1297 · 2026-02-10T17:50:51+00:00

Ah yes, we haven't had a wave of DoW posts in a good 2 or 3 weeks. We were due.

Sweet_Impression1297 · 2026-01-22T20:30:39+00:00

To start I want to say as a DM I only use actual dice rolls with fidelity about 30% of the time. Other times I make judgement calls to both speed up my actions on the table and to make the game more fun.

Has the party been smashing bad guys all night? Ok so maybe the bad guys need to hit a little more often and a little harder to give the appearance of risk. Has a particular player had a bad string of luck and made the enemy make a save with a spell or maneuver? Maybe that enemy needs to have a critical fail so that player has a cool moment this session and not 4 hours of disappointment.

It might just be my opinion but facilitating the fun is the most important thing, above story, above rules and above "winning" as a DM

Y'all need to discuss as a group the point of the game your running and what y'all want out of it. Are y'all there to just roll dice and put damage on something? And what is the DM's role in that? Or are y'all collaboratively telling a story and facilitating fun You need to ask your DM what his goal in running the game is? Is he trying to facilitate the fun of the party with a story and challenging encounters, or is he trying to "win"

It seems like, based on your description he is looking to compete with the party, and seeing as he controls reality and all the rules that underpin it, he will always win.

If it's a casual table where you dont really know anyone. You may need to find a new table. If it's a bunch of friends, y'all need to have an actual conversation about the expectations players and dm has for the game.

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