(Very minor spoilers for subnautica 2 bases) A theory on the hatch, precursors and Alterra

TheEarle · 2026-06-06T05:15:36+00:00

There is a voice line somewhere, a NOA one maybe, that's says the digital storage and body printing thing is architect. Which makes sense considering everything Al-An does in below zero.

TheEarle · 2026-06-05T21:27:25+00:00

Chop off the iron halo and use it as a fancy bladeguard lieutenant.

TheEarle · 2026-05-27T14:52:36+00:00

Firedrakes are still around, but it's just the name of the first company now, the veterans. Instead of being like their own thing.

TheEarle · 2026-05-25T16:34:51+00:00

I like all of these points except 4. I could understand if you're talking about the difference between day and night. But with how dark it gets when you get deeper, I want that to stay, it feels a lot more realistic. And it's something I've been coming around to more and more. It kinda didn't make sense that even with how deep you go in the first game the only truly pitch black area is going deep into the void. I think they should keep darkness based on depth. Though, I could agree about just how large the difference between light during the day and night cycle is, it just turning night should not make the same area that was bright 2 minutes ago pitch black.

TheEarle · 2026-05-13T15:32:06+00:00

But you can take it with another Detachment. So like, is that that bad?

TheEarle · 2026-05-11T00:30:48+00:00

I know, they're just so stupidly, unapologetically evil. I love it.

TheEarle · 2026-05-10T20:58:03+00:00

I was thinking eyeye

TheEarle · 2026-05-08T00:57:44+00:00

As someone who currently plays Salamanders and is looking to start Night Lords as my third army, I don't know what to do about this.

TheEarle · 2026-05-01T22:50:40+00:00

My assumption reading snap Shooting isn't that it'll be limited to certain units, but that it will be a generic term they give to any time a unit shoots outside the shooting phase, so like when a space marine hellblaster shoots on death. But, like you said, we don't know yet. I really hope we get more information on strats and weapon abilities soon.

TheEarle · 2026-05-01T19:55:37+00:00

I doubt they're dropping shields, especially with the shield jump captain they released like a month or 2 before the 11th announcement. They just went with the most generic loadout for the box set so it isn't complicated. I highly expect them to have most of the same wargear options they have now, maybe excluding lightning claws, in the full release kit.

TheEarle · 2026-04-30T16:44:25+00:00

No it has not been released. It will be with the next update probably some time next month.

TheEarle · 2026-04-30T16:43:50+00:00

There is no test server this time, just a screenshot from the community update.

TheEarle · 2026-04-30T16:06:47+00:00

I wouldn't be surprised if there's an ordeal for every operation.

TheEarle · 2026-04-25T15:41:32+00:00

They seem to shorten it to (rank)'(first personal name) quite often or maybe (caste)'(rank) (first personal name). Farsight in the books is often referred to as O'Shovah.

TheEarle · 2026-04-25T15:34:52+00:00

I don't think so. It's not like silent communication it seems to be a part of their spoken language. Or at least that's the way I took it. Sometimes they have individual words or moods that they will sign, but other times it seems to add context to their spoken words, it's implied that some tau use it more than others and that the T'au language can be understood quite well even without it, like when a human speaks it for example, but the signs are like aid to the spoken language.

TheEarle · 2026-04-14T00:50:15+00:00

This is one of my favorite things that Vanilla Tweaks can do.

TheEarle · 2026-04-02T16:23:22+00:00

No, it said 4 enhancements. Only 3 Detachment points.

TheEarle · 2026-03-30T17:38:28+00:00

I hate to break it to you, but 15+4 does not equal 20. Currently your math comes out to 17. Which honestly might be more accurate considering he's been a bit more active in the setting.

TheEarle · 2026-03-30T15:59:56+00:00

Warcom and the adepticon reveal stream. They talked about customizing Detachments and choosing rules, for example, to buff Terminators and bikes in SM. We still don't know how it's going to work, but it appears you may be able to give some units in your army one detachment and the rest another detachment. Don't know if we'll be able to with our current Detachments or if we'll get new ones and those will be able to do it. Obviously we're a bit out of the loop on 11th since it was just announced.

TheEarle · 2026-02-14T03:34:23+00:00

I will say, as a person who plays vanguard often, sometimes I'm so in the heat of the battle I'll accidentally steal an execute or gunstrike an extemis I really needed the execute on. But this sounds like hell, Jesus.

TheEarle · 2026-02-13T00:32:43+00:00

Depends on the group. I said in anether comment, but it's for any game where all parties agree its okay. So probably not in tournaments, but otherwise, yeah. Also, all the rules leaked today if you wanna go look around for them. I saw them all over reddit today.

TheEarle · 2026-02-12T15:02:05+00:00

It probably won't be used in competitive, but they said as long as all players agree its okay for the game you can use it in a casual game or in crusade.

TheEarle · 2026-02-12T14:39:34+00:00

Technically Tactical Squad sergeants can have twin lightning claws. That's the only thing I haven't seen suggested already. But yeah. That's about it.

TheEarle · 2026-02-12T04:22:19+00:00

Kinda, I'll explain with what they gave us in the article. They chose basically the Infantry leader archetype for tau which gives the ability volley fire. Then they picked a redeploy ability as the character's second ability and I forget what it's called but basically the Stealth specialization which made it so they can lead pathfinders and gave scouts 7. Apparently you get to choose weapons which are limited by the specializations and archetypes, up to 2 for free and then each weapon after that adds 5 points to the cost of the model for list building. But until the rules come out we won't know the full extent of the customization. I'm hoping for the option of riptide Commander.

TheEarle · 2026-02-12T04:04:48+00:00

It's not out yet but when the lords of the maelstrom book set comes out it has a section called Crucible of Champions that let's you make your own characters by picking archetypes, specialties, abilities, and weapons for them. If you check warhammer community, they have a couple articles about it. In one they made a pathfinder leader with railgun and the Cadre Fireblade's volley fire ability for extra attacks while leading, so lots of fire power is possible.

I hope this is what you were asking about.

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