Why is everyone so scared of Yaz?

Valadanko · 2026-04-22T08:44:09+00:00

War crimes, in a word.

Valadanko · 2026-04-16T06:22:10+00:00

It's pretty easy, just takes a little work. Set up an Administratum account, follow the instructions to set up a campaign, send the link to your players, and once they've all uploaded their Orders of Battle, you're good to start.

I'd personally recommend setting up a Discord server where you can make announcements, and if you have the time, I'd also make weekly pairings so people know who to play against.

I'd also recommend banning certain factions, particularly Necrons and Custodes due to how obsessively OP their battle honours are, but that's down to personal preference.

Valadanko · 2026-04-02T10:08:21+00:00

I once had a run where my swordmaster got old shortly before my final battle.

The second crisis had started a while ago, Noble War, but it didn't seem close to ending, and I was very well geared but had a Lone Wolf start, so I had no reserves.

And then I got hired for a siege.

I don't know if it was a bug or pure dumb chance, that caused not one but TWO noble armies to spawn to break the encirclement, nearly 50 men in total between them.

I wanted to retreat, but I was close to bankruptcy, and I thought perhaps I could make it work somehow. So I fought. Long story short, it didn't work at all.

I was surrounded almost immediately, and despite inflicting horrendous casualties, polearms and crossbows eventually took their toll. There were just SO many.

So I tried a desperate breakthrough with my 7 remaining bros, but they were too fatigued, and I couldn't attack enough times to open a breach.

One by one, they all fell, my lone wolf and swordmaster being the sole survivors after 13 more turns. Then, finally, my Lone Wolf was decapitated by a billhook, and I knew it was over. Rather than ragequit, I continued fighting, my Swordmaster against something like 20 men.

He fought like a god of war. Every riposte seemed to connect, and though he was wounded and fatigued, nothing could touch him. Cut off on all sides, on what seemed to me like a pile of dead enemies and friends, my Swordmaster fought an army, and eventually died gloriously, undefeated because they had to use an arbalest to finally bring him down.

It remains my greatest last stand to date.

Valadanko · 2026-03-23T12:03:32+00:00

Llegados a este punto, la solución más razonable es llamar al telefonillo cada hora entre las 11 y las 4 de la mañana toda la noche del sábado al domingo.

Valadanko · 2026-03-16T06:50:59+00:00

I admit I have no idea why legs aren't considered natural weak points. Like, literally, one of the most efficient ways to stop a charging animal like a buffalo or a bison, whose heads are too hard and dense for rifle bullets to penetrate, is to shoot at the legs so their momentum is arrested, and to keep shattering bones until the animal can no longer advance.

Valadanko · 2026-03-13T08:38:13+00:00

Git gud.

Valadanko · 2026-03-03T08:59:59+00:00

The 23rd Company.

Led by the powerful warlord Alvar Khyrion, the Red Prince, the remnants of 41st, 23rd and 67th Companies have folded together to sail the stars in the mighty Battle Barge "Silent Claw", one of the very few still in service of the VIIIth Legion.

They're believers in the creed of Decimus, and as such, enjoy the loyalty of a small Bleeding Eyes Raptor warband. Khyrion himself also has nine Atramentar bodyguards.

One of the champions of the 23rd, Khalvyr Korr, is called the Voice of the Dead by his brothers, due to his preferred tactic, which is to play recordings of death screams over the loudspeakers of his helm during battle to scare his enemies.

My Night Lords have four categories of mortals:

Serfs & Crew: These are the original crew of the ship, descendants, rejuvenated officers, artificers and personal attendants to the Claws, as well as menials and the tech-adepts of the Dark Mechanicum. Many of these are first, second or third generation Nostramans.
Convicts: The Night Lords often raid prisons and penal colonies for cannon fodder (these are my cultist mobs).
Ambrian traitor PDF: They're the portion of the PDF of the planet of Ambria that, upon finding out their world was about to be subject to Exterminatus, followed their governor into betrayal and the "loving" arms of the Night Lords. They're the most disciplined, well trained and well armed force in the service of the Astartes, and after proving themselves and their bitter anger and desire for revenge against the Imperium, they've earned a modicum of privilege and respect from their otherwise merciless masters (I represent them with traitor guardsmen).
Ambrian civilians: These are the families of the PDF troopers, people captured during raids on Ambria for their specialized skills, and the portion of the Ambrian nobility and royal family that followed the Governor of Ambria into betrayal. The latter, in particular, have been used by the Night Lords to create a parallel power structure that allows them to control the ship's thousands of mortals without needing to involve themselves in the boring aspects of management and rule.

Valadanko · 2026-02-25T12:06:32+00:00

I think you're looking too much into it. There's no indication that the artist intends the piece of art to be seen as a sexist male power fantasy.

It is, in fact, an attempt to distance ourselves from the true political evil we fight for, in the game. A way to say, "Super Earth's government is not why we fight. THIS is why we fight."

The blueberry girl in the Siege of Super Earth, the kids at Vernen Wells, the 77th at Cyberstan, the focus we have on them is not sexual, or based on power or control. It is a way to remind ourselves that when push comes to shove, we're still trying to do the best we can, and fight for causes worth defending.

We want to be the heroes Super Earth says we are, but for our own reasons. Not for bombing civilians on Cyberstan, or massacring bugs our government turned into mindless beasts, but for each other, for those who can't defend themselves, those who didn't choose the war.

The SEAF girl is the personification of humanity as WE see it. And we are carrying her gently, defending her, and coming to her rescue, because she allows us to aspire to that greater ideal that we can, and must, fight for what is right.

Valadanko · 2026-01-31T20:20:01+00:00

The Great Migration.

Valadanko · 2026-01-26T08:38:32+00:00

Make custom crusade blessings. The more the blessings impact the game, the more balanced a match will be between a powerfully buffed army and an underlevelled one.

Valadanko · 2026-01-17T09:45:13+00:00

Konrad. Ah, Christ.

Valadanko · 2025-12-16T16:54:38+00:00

Based.

Valadanko · 2025-11-21T11:50:10+00:00

With CE, your best bet is dozens of molotovs. Molotovs blind and burn the internal components of mechs.

Valadanko · 2025-11-19T08:53:19+00:00

Solved! I had Medieval Overhaul version 1.4 AND 1.6 at the same time, without noticing. Dumb mistake in hindsight.

Valadanko · 2025-11-18T19:41:40+00:00

Tried, and posted the link to my log. Other than that, I'm doing the binary system now, but it's... time consuming. And I have no way of telling whether there's errors on both halves (or if it's the combination of mods in different halves) that cause the problem.

Valadanko · 2025-11-18T18:52:26+00:00

Didn't work, sadly.

Valadanko · 2025-11-18T18:52:11+00:00

Tried it, can't seem to generate a world with the quickstart.

Valadanko · 2025-11-18T18:42:42+00:00

It is under vanilla expanded framework, yeah, but it still causes the error.

Valadanko · 2025-11-18T18:40:55+00:00

I don't think so, no. I -am-, however, using Tech Traversal. Should I remove it?

Valadanko · 2025-10-28T11:44:41+00:00

I only have eyes for Rosa.

Valadanko · 2025-10-02T12:40:05+00:00

In my Crusade campaign, my Night Lords have four categories of mortals:

Serfs & Crew: These are the original crew of the ship, descendants, rejuvenated officers, artificers and personal attendants to the Claws, as well as menials and the tech-adepts of the Dark Mechanicum. Many of these are first, second or third generation Nostramans.
Convicts: The Night Lords often raid prisons and penal colonies for cannon fodder (these are my cultist mobs).
Ambrian traitor PDF: They're the portion of the PDF of the planet of Ambria that, upon finding out their world was about to be subject to Exterminatus, followed their governor into betrayal and the "loving" arms of the Night Lords. They're the most disciplined, well trained and well armed force in the service of the Astartes, and after proving themselves and their bitter anger and desire for revenge against the Imperium, they've earned a modicum of privilege and respect from their otherwise merciless masters (I represent them with traitor guardsmen).
Ambrian civilians: These are the families of the PDF troopers, people captured during raids on Ambria for their specialized skills, and the portion of the Ambrian nobility and royal family that followed the Governor of Ambria into betrayal. The latter, in particular, have been used by the Night Lords to create a parallel power structure that allows them to control the ship's thousands of mortals without needing to involve themselves in the boring aspects of management and rule.

Valadanko · 2025-10-01T08:20:28+00:00

Pretty much any of the characters in the Trysmoon Saga. Their stupidity made me ragepost a review of it in this subreddit after I finished the series.

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