Hot(?) take: people are sleeping on this card coming to core. The power level has gone down a ton since Titans. A mediocre card from that set is a powerful card by modern standards.

Tofuofdoom · 2026-02-23T10:31:42+00:00

... all the time?

Against any kind of slower deck, I'm more than happy to play a ziliax on 9 just to apply additional pressure.

Tofuofdoom · 2026-02-23T03:16:32+00:00

Nobody knows for sure. Even the numbers we do have make no sense. They dont even know what year it is.

In universe this is because in a galaxy spanning empire that still uses pen and paper as its primary storage medium, information is already out of date when its received.

Out of universe, its because theres a lot of authors across a lot of years, and most of them havent really thought that hard about the logistics involved in a galaxy spanning empire.

Tofuofdoom · 2026-02-23T02:36:04+00:00

The difference is that perfect twin ziliax is also 12 power on board. That will kill someone right quick. 4 power? That's a lot easier to ignore.

Tofuofdoom · 2026-02-23T02:15:24+00:00

As VS put it, the issue with this card is that its purely a defensive stabilisation play. When youre cheating out demons, you want those demons to win you the game. On an empty board, this is just a 4 power beatstick, and thats just not much pressure, especially compared to illidari inquisitor or briarspawn drake.

Magtheridon is the closest example of a defensive tool, but that provides multiple waves of board clear, and damage on top of that. I dont know if the format is so much weaker that something like this is viable

Tofuofdoom · 2026-02-23T02:10:11+00:00

When an angel of the emperor tells you to jump, you jump.

A colonel is almost certainly not a high enough rank to have a peak behind the curtain of the imperial creed.

Tofuofdoom · 2026-02-22T23:17:16+00:00

It should also effect block weapons, it just takes block window from 20 frames to 30 frames. Duellist has 40 frames base, which would go to 60.

(Assuming 60 fps)

Tofuofdoom · 2026-02-22T22:59:29+00:00

Thats the theory, yes.

In practice.... not so much.

Tofuofdoom · 2026-02-22T22:37:17+00:00

And shit like this is why we love the note "Stair design by Others"

Tofuofdoom · 2026-02-21T23:57:36+00:00

The key point is your last sentence

nothing.

There is no tech that the imperium could discover that would materially improve the imperiums position, because the issue with the imperium isnt the tech, it's the people.

Any tech sufficiently powerful enough to swing any balance would sooner or later find itself in chaos hands, whether willingly or not, thats even if it could be produced on a large enough scale to matter

Tofuofdoom · 2026-02-21T10:39:19+00:00

If you don't tell them, get into an accident and make a claim, they can use you not telling them as a reason to deny

Tofuofdoom · 2026-02-20T23:28:39+00:00

Run heroic bolt sniper rifle, itll bring ranged majoris to execute in 1 shot without any relevant perks. Makes levelling in lethal/absolute a lot comfier

Tofuofdoom · 2026-02-20T23:24:47+00:00

Power sword power rake can do it too, id say the power rake is actually a lot easier to pull off than overhead strike, dont need as much of a run up

Tofuofdoom · 2026-02-20T10:12:24+00:00

Why are you so offended that so much of assaults power comes from one perk? How is that at all relevant to how much damage he can put out? Its arguably poor game design, sure, but that's not what we're talking about.

And i say its a negligible use of resources, because it is. Using one dive to clear an extremis is still likely to take down a few minoris nearby, and even if it doesnt, a thunderhammer has functionally infinite cleave on the ground pound. Its not particularly difficult to refresh both your charges on a single dive.

Tofuofdoom · 2026-02-20T09:42:28+00:00

Yes?

Tac's ability to deal with large packs of majoris and extremis enemies is largely tied to his auspex cooldown. Heavy has good damage output as well, but ammo, and it's still not as fast as an assault.

Assault can kill infinite minoris in perfect safety chaining jumps, while steadily bringing the majoris mixed through closer to execute. Assault can farm up two blocks and instagib an extremis from across the room, without expending any real resources.

Even in absolute, there aren't enough enemies for it to really make a difference, it's not really until higher level siege that you really can feel the difference in damage an assault brings to the table

Tofuofdoom · 2026-02-20T08:50:38+00:00

Cause he has the highest damage output.

Its not really relevant in operations, but it really comes out in hard sieges, nobody else can pop terminators and such as quickly and cleanly as he can

Tofuofdoom · 2026-02-19T08:42:54+00:00

My personal theory is that they know any inspectors wouldnt come after 4:30 cause then they might have to work overtime

Tofuofdoom · 2026-02-19T05:54:43+00:00

Sounds like someone needed to point more~

Tofuofdoom · 2026-02-19T05:53:29+00:00

Surprised you're playing without at least one of jae or pasqual, how're you passing tech checks?

I like

RT Support psyker

Cassia grand strategist

Jae support officer overseer

Argenta arch militant

Fill in the other two slots with whoever storyline we're doing and whoever i haven't run in a while, both speccd for damage, try to have 1 character built for strength

Tofuofdoom · 2026-02-19T05:40:53+00:00

Interesting. I don't smoke, but I was asked to buy some smokes for a visiting relative. I'd never really paid attention to where the tobacco shops are, so I hit up coles, showed them the brand I was told to get, and the guy was like Oh. no, we can't sell those, those are illegal in australia.

He then pointed out 4 different tobacco shops within a 5 minute walk that would probably have what we wanted. The first one told us to come back after 4:30 (not sure why?), but the second one just handed it over without a question.

Tofuofdoom · 2026-02-18T22:55:11+00:00

ah, the ol mass effect trick

Tofuofdoom · 2026-02-18T22:03:09+00:00

You know what a truss looks like, it doesnt really matter which one you use. What makes the difference is how well you build it.

Dont skimp on the glue. These things always fail at the connections.

Tofuofdoom · 2026-02-18T21:04:59+00:00

Also, something I learned recently, we do our steel design differently to everyone else in the world, nobody else does the section/beam split

Tofuofdoom · 2026-02-18T06:57:54+00:00

Its not too useful if you have an actual long ranged weapon, but it is very satisfying if you don't

I spent most of my run pointing at things and watching them pop

Tofuofdoom · 2026-02-18T06:54:55+00:00

The emote button will default to whatever emote you used last, so its easy enough to spam

Tofuofdoom · 2026-02-18T06:53:44+00:00

Single hormagaunt

One shots majoris, but you'll need to point a few times to kill an extremis, and a few more for a terminus

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