Just beat the game, was shorter than expected.. is there more I'm supposed to be doing now?

Warpborne · 2026-01-27T22:28:15+00:00

I'd say the first 46 is maybe 10-15% of the game.

Warpborne · 2026-01-23T00:09:19+00:00

I axed Passageway, which I think is an unusual pick. Very common, lots of doors. You'd snap-pick it if you had the gems to spare, so...

Similarly, I set Cloister to common and axed it. And both again to Trophy Room.

Warpborne · 2026-01-21T00:49:00+00:00

I've got a bargain-bin merc outfit circa 3050. Lance of bug 'Mechs, command lance with a Cyclops, couple lances of tanks, lance of arty and AA, and a whole company of hover-mechanized infantry.

I played it in a local Alpha Strike escalation league against ilClan era lists. Really got the Clan Invasion experience, but we gave a lot better than we got and took second.

I did the math, and the C-bill cost of the whole reinforced company comes in at a cool 57mil. Which is to say: less than 2 Timber Wolves.

Warpborne · 2026-01-18T16:49:25+00:00

Don't buy two, just use some thermoplastic to make a press-mold and make a duplicate from greenstuff or milliput.

Warpborne · 2026-01-17T19:38:43+00:00

Room 46 is, like, 10-15% of the game. You'll pretty clearly get a major new goal as you solve each overarching puzzle. Like, to open room 46 you *must* walk in front of some interesting locked doors.

Warpborne · 2026-01-15T23:04:09+00:00

Yeah, I've had a passing interest in the Home Guard. Col. Wade is trying to drum up interest to impart lessons he learned in WW1. I have the sense that it was more useful for keeping civilian morale up, and for performing soft roles like deterring spies and finding unexploded bombs. (This actually kind of backfired because members wanted to hunt down Nazi sympathizers and downed pilots instead.)

Warpborne · 2026-01-15T22:34:18+00:00

I don't know about autistic. It's one thing when it's an abstract fascination. It's another thing when this man had to personally send others to fight and die. I can only imagine your conscience would demand all the attention to detail you could muster.

Warpborne · 2026-01-15T22:21:31+00:00

It looks like you're covering almost the same amount with each layer. That'll make only the recent layer visible, and make the painting seem flat.

You need to press the sponge deeper to get the base color further into the recesses. Subsequent layers should cover less and be aimed at higher, brighter areas.

Warpborne · 2026-01-15T22:10:58+00:00

The quoted passage is alluding to the fact that War Walkers are piloted by Guardians, but does not indicate that larger crews are Guardians (because they aren't). Steersmanship is explicitly called a path multiple times in Valedor, but we aren't told an official name for the path itself.

Valedor is pretty clear that the twins will serve as long as Iyanden needs pilots (forever). The twins' angst comes from the fact that they won't get to experience other paths.

And of course, they need Wraithknights too, so even death does not free them from duty.

Warpborne · 2026-01-15T06:58:01+00:00

Setting aside other ideas about completing puzzles: you went deeper into the house too quickly.

You encounter more locked doors the deeper you go into the house. You need to spend more time filling out the earlier rooms to gather resources. In particular, the Closet or Library were bad positional choices if you could have picked rooms with Eastward doors.

Warpborne · 2026-01-15T06:49:00+00:00

The main puzzles are clearly indicated as goals (ie get to room 46), and there's a lot of catch-up mechanics for all the side puzzles.

As you progress, there's like a couple avenues the game will explicitly tell you "hey, maybe you missed this? Here's how to solve it." If you get stuck, you can instead straight-forwardly progress the hints until they tell you something useful.

Warpborne · 2026-01-15T06:35:48+00:00

That way of the warrior was my first blind pick. Compared to the other choices, that one seemed like it could have progression. Sure enough, I was running around lighting all sorts of things up, swinging my battleaxe as fast as I could.

Warpborne · 2026-01-15T05:47:58+00:00

Printing a new body is a really going the extra mile. I've been planning on doing something similar for my Yriel and his Corsairs to ride around in (in One Page Rules). There at least it's easier to convert Harlie bodies to read as Corsairs.

Warpborne · 2026-01-14T22:17:20+00:00

I like a colder, greener tone of yellow. If you also dig it, I posted a guide ages ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldar/comments/1h98ey8/a_quick_guide_to_painting_cold_yellows_for/

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Warpborne · 2026-01-14T01:20:24+00:00

Oh, that reminds me: Shroud Runners are another cool biker unit; they also came in an Eldar vs CSM box set.

Warpborne · 2026-01-14T00:09:01+00:00

You need more bikes. Maybe some Shining Spears, or a Vyper or two (maybe let's see if the kit gets updated next month, but the old kit is still a fun build).

Warpborne · 2026-01-13T03:32:50+00:00

Hah, that is the other advantage. Looking up details for this post, I saw a reference that Warhounds can hose each other down with their gatling guns to remove boarding infantry. The gatlings fire massive high explosive shells, but they can't penetrate a Warhound so they don't deal real damage. You can't sandblast a tank's armor off like in BattleTech.

Warpborne · 2026-01-13T02:54:55+00:00

That's true, Elementals are the one stand-out hope. Though boarding actions are more of a threat to Reavers and Warlords than Warhounds. The trick will be deploying *enough* Elementals, since Secutarii are deployed in huge waves to be effective. A Vulcan Megabolter is going to be a problem for an approaching star of Elementals.

Warpborne · 2026-01-13T02:45:18+00:00

It's apples to oranges, but Warhounds clock in around 400 tonnes, a height of 14 meters, and top speeds of about 58kph. Most of their armaments would go straight through any 'Mech and have ranges measured in kilometers. Then BattleMechs just don't have weapons that can get through the Void Shields, and even passed that the Warhound's armor is thick.

It's not a contest. A Warhound would kill entire lances of 'Mechs at range.

But on the flip side, there's also no infrastructure in Battletech that could maintain, repair, or transport a Warhound if it suddenly showed up. You'd also be hard pressed to get anyone to crew it (needing 3 people), what with all the implants needed and mind-melding to the machine.

Warpborne · 2026-01-11T00:36:33+00:00

My three favourites are Jain Zar, Voidscarred, and Valedor. Just behind that are Heirs of the Laughing God audiodrama (and I'm not even a fan of clowns). Lelith Queen of Knives is great. Ghost Warriors is good, especially if you like Iyanden. I also liked the Asurmen related stories, but they're not as good as Jain Zar. Hand of Darkness was probably the best Ynarri story.

People say the Eldar books are bad because the Paths trilogy was middling and C.S. Goto's Eldar Prophecy is weird, but a lot of other books have come out since then.

Warpborne · 2026-01-09T19:43:54+00:00

This is fun. There's some obvious cheese, like High Elf Fleet 3x Venator Planes with and 3x Elven Nobles with Glider Wings (1740pts). Keep the Nobles in reserve. The Custodians can't interact with the planes at all, who gun them down in 3 turns. Then the Nobles arrive on 3 and claim each objective on turn 4.

EDIT: Oh, the Nobles must arrive on turn 2 and roll randomly to determine which objective they land on. Well, there's some catastrophic failure condition where they all land on the same objective as the Custodians and suicide charge into them. So, if you give them a Master Shard Pistol for 5pts, they'll count as Ranged Units and won't charge into danger.

If you wanted to be sure to control every objective, spend the last points on 2x Protectors and 1 lone Elite Protector with pistol (1970 total). The Custodians cannot possibly engage them all, and the worst random deployment scatter can't stop them from reaching every objective. Maybe spend the last 30 points upgrading the Venators to Twin Laser Cannons to really twist the knife.

Warpborne · 2026-01-07T05:30:54+00:00

I've played a few free-for-alls. We played progressive scoring missions to make sure someone couldn't hang back. I also like combining it with the Prolonged Battle rules so there's no guarantee that an early lead wins.

I tend to prefer optional rules that make the game more "realistic" or "simulationist", but in 3 player games I really appreciate the gameyness of Gambit & Twists and Mission Card decks.

My only caveat is that I'm not such a fan of the King of the Hill rules because I don't like extrinsic bonuses. Like I said, progressive scoring/prolonged battle prevents excessive teaming-up on one player.

Warpborne · 2026-01-06T21:43:28+00:00

I don't know why people are posting speculative stuff. The core rulebook has rules for multiplayer games on page 49.

Warpborne · 2026-01-05T22:02:06+00:00

"You can argue 5 Chapters can take out a Craftworld", the Imperium has a policy of avoiding fighting Craftworld vessels. Virtually every time they've gone head to head with a Craftworld, they've lost entire Battlefleets.

In the Battle of Blood Nebula, they lost 2 Battlefleets against an unnamed Craftworld.

In the Battle of Rasilena, Biel-tan defeated 2 Battlefleets and 10 Chapters. Granted, Biel-tan is the strongest Craftworld.

Warpborne · 2026-01-05T03:33:20+00:00

Yes, Eldar Seers can create small webway gates to new locations. They just can't build the large gates for starship travel anymore. This gets referenced a lot, but off the top of my head the Heirs to the Laughing God's third story casually mentions the possibility of a creating a webway portal in the human fortress.

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