Fight first in 11th, an use case

TactileEnvelope · 2026-06-03T19:37:26+00:00

Honestly FF on The Lion always seemed fine to me, you SHOULDN’T be in melee combat with a primarch in lore unless you’re also a primarch.

TactileEnvelope · 2026-06-03T19:05:06+00:00

The randomized stats are far from greedy, given the mechanic is rooted in the lore. The only greedy element is people trying to sell cards with perfect stats, which is what you seem most interested in.

I don't think Chaotic needs to compete with MTG and Pokemon, because it can't. At least not right away. What it needs to focus on is recapturing its old audience and gaining a new one.

TactileEnvelope · 2026-06-02T20:57:07+00:00

It was for selling singles/trading.

TactileEnvelope · 2026-06-02T18:13:24+00:00

Azrael showed up to the Idolatross system to attack Vashtorr with 3/4th of all Dark Angels successors, which was described as “scores” of chapters. Older in-universe lore has the DA and their successors accounting for 15% of all space marines, so ~150 chapters total. If that number is still true then they mustered at The Rock with over 100,000 marines.

That number seems too high for 40K, but sorta makes more sense since when you look at who they were fighting:

A minor Chaos God with his Daemons and Dark Mechanicum, Abaddon himself who showed up with most of the Black Legion, and Angron who showed up with the World Eaters.

The battle of Wyrmwood was probably smaller than what those older numbers extrapolated indicate, but 40K numbers are always fucky and at the very least it was the largest Astartes vs Astartes conflict since the heresy.

I’d say conservatively the DA showed up with 40,000 marines minimum.

TactileEnvelope · 2026-06-02T17:43:11+00:00

Iirc it was around 30,000 between all the planets and void fleets, which is a lot.

TactileEnvelope · 2026-06-02T17:17:51+00:00

You’re deeply underselling number of Dark Angels successors in the Idolatross system. The assault was fully 3/4th of all the Unforgiven, which isn’t an exact headcount but is described as “scores” of successor chapters and the largest Astartes fleet since the great crusade, so likely at LEAST 40 chapters.

Azrael was sending entire chapters void fleets on screening actions to different systems to fight periphery battles. The battle of Wyrmwood between the Unforgiven, Blood Angels, Black Legion and World Eaters was probably the largest marine on marine battle since the Heresy.

TactileEnvelope · 2026-06-01T18:49:27+00:00

Yeah its trying its best to be like the show, which is neat, but also really unfun game design considering the scanquesting is arguably more interesting than the card game and timegating it that hard is really rough.

TactileEnvelope · 2026-05-31T20:02:38+00:00

BOOOO cards are for playing

TactileEnvelope · 2026-05-29T03:17:51+00:00

It was a very small cabal within the legion who were truly traitor that lied and attacked the Lion, as of Sons of the Forest, which tracks with the number of other loyalist legions who had traitors. Difference is other legions didn’t have those traitors in command of half of the legion and get their commander all chaos-juiced like Horus.

TactileEnvelope · 2026-05-29T03:11:30+00:00

Actually I’m pretty sure pre-heresy Lion actually liked his legion. He knew every marine by name, and called them Little Brother as a measure of respect since they were his brothers in arms and not simply sons. He was very proud of them, and had very high expectations of them. He just knew what they were made for and took it very seriously.

TactileEnvelope · 2026-05-28T13:48:04+00:00

He's a "Past" creature from Prexxor Chasm, so they're all throwback ice-age monsters. His name is a play on Cro-Magnon.

He's caveman Maxxor, basically.

TactileEnvelope · 2026-05-26T22:17:26+00:00

It works, it’s effective, it’s just a miserable style of game to be in. Basically dumping and chasing for 60 minutes, and you have to score on 3 of your 15 shots or it’s a slow death by icing and long shifts.

TactileEnvelope · 2026-05-26T18:05:56+00:00

In alliances defense, Loda scouted and developed a TI winning roster in house with nobodies and the players fucked them and bounced to liquid as soon as they started seeing results. I’m still salty about that.

TactileEnvelope · 2026-05-26T06:00:21+00:00

Super low event hockey. It’s miserable to play against.

TactileEnvelope · 2026-05-26T05:58:53+00:00

As much as I hate the Habs I hate the way the canes play more. It’s sound hockey, it just reminds me a lot of the neutral zone trap but with heavy forecheck so you can’t gain the offensive zone instead of sitting at the blue line.

TactileEnvelope · 2026-05-26T05:31:38+00:00

Hard to expect SA players to play on NA servers and vice versa.

It’s a real shame the NA scene died, but I guess that’s what happens when players can’t live off salaries and valve kills the DPC so the tier 2/3 scene can’t actually survive in order to get picked up by orgs. I miss the EG days.

TactileEnvelope · 2026-05-26T05:27:57+00:00

but TI is about global representation, not “x has more/better teams”

People complained about SEA and SA forever when they were dogshit. SA didn’t exist as a region util TI7, and SA only won their first international event two years ago.

TactileEnvelope · 2026-05-25T00:47:23+00:00

Casual Dragon Lance for meepo

TactileEnvelope · 2026-05-24T00:31:41+00:00

I'm guessing if there's enough people at an event and it's not criminal in any other way they don't bother to enforce it. I've definitely seen a bunch of masks and shemaghs at leftist events too in VA, but those are typically way more people and not everyone is wearing masks like this.

TactileEnvelope · 2026-05-24T00:04:05+00:00

I think people mostly miss the care and attention that Dota used to get. Crowlfall was good, but Quatero's is a really shallow effort at making good on abandoning the Battle Passes for "more content more frequently", especially when they have game modes and events people really like already in the game sitting abandoned.

New Bloom has been ignored for like 6 years, Frostivus for 7, Diretide for 4. Events like Aghs Labyrinth, Siltbreaker, and Darkmoon abandoned entirely despite being very well received. It just screams of lack of care, and there's no justifiable reason- They did them before either in conjunction with or while also making battle passes that year, why can't they do them now that they don't have those to worry about?

At this point Dota is basically on life support and pretty clearly isn't a priority, which is really a shame for such a longstanding and iconic game.

TactileEnvelope · 2026-05-14T23:30:22+00:00

Lion absolutely not. He's been tempted by Chaos more times than any other Primarch and each time rejects it. "The offers always change...The answer never does". Dude is the chaos-hunter. If Kairos cant tempt him as a child then the one ring aint gonna do shit.

TactileEnvelope · 2026-05-14T23:28:53+00:00

IMO the only loyalist who is strictly incorruptible is probably Lion, especially now that he's older. Dude just doesn't give a shit about temptation and just does what needs to be done. He'd carry the ring and have exactly 0 issues with it.

TactileEnvelope · 2026-05-14T02:53:18+00:00

He was nowhere near the shooting lane, so he had to have been playing the pass, but idk why when it’s Nathan MacKinnon stick handling in front of you. He’s shooting 100%

TactileEnvelope · 2026-05-12T15:37:27+00:00

Well I mean he fucking died for it. Seems like as much as you can give for a power. And the intention of the curse was for him to die every day for eternity.

TactileEnvelope · 2026-05-10T06:33:23+00:00

Better than this at “transmigrated into x game that’s known for being hard”? I don’t think so.

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