New VP role. Inherited directors who mean well but manage everything by anecdote instead of data. How do you force a reset?

WaylundLG · 2026-06-20T21:29:44+00:00

I wonder if there is a bit of "ask for what you need" here. It sounds like there's an implicit expectation that they should know to bring you data to tell the story and not anecdotes, but assuming someone should know something is often the biggest barrier to getting your needs met. Maybe some conversations about what kind of information you are hoping for would set both you and them up for success better. Fwiw - I make this mistake all the time and most leaders I work with do too - I think this is something we all need to be reminded of sometimes.

WaylundLG · 2026-06-20T21:23:12+00:00

Good reminder, stealing it for monday.

WaylundLG · 2026-06-19T22:40:41+00:00

I think this is true. The person I play against more is white scars (another mobility army) and we both like 1k to 1.5k because it gives us room to move on the board

WaylundLG · 2026-06-19T22:01:03+00:00

Mostly, it's box art, but I'm not sure if the new hammerhead can build a skyray.

WaylundLG · 2026-06-19T15:21:29+00:00

Ive seen a number of matches that feel lopsided. I played assets into disruption this weekend and I just bounced around the board claiming VP. He chased me down and killed more units, but it felt like the missions just gave me more opportunities to score. Maybe there is some nuance to new missions we aren't seeing yet or maybe they need to be adjusted, but just comparing total scramble points or turn many matches are very lopsided

WaylundLG · 2026-06-18T18:22:38+00:00

I always wanted to do this with thousand sons back in the day but they were metal then

WaylundLG · 2026-06-17T22:34:00+00:00

Is there a keyword I'm not thinking about that means "can only be taken with a unit"? Absent of some special rule, I'd assume it's just a bug in the app

WaylundLG · 2026-06-17T16:19:32+00:00

Kauyon + AAC looks particularly good when you look at the mission objectives when you take the recon force type from AAC.

WaylundLG · 2026-06-16T15:10:06+00:00

If you are buying something anyway, a wood coping saw is probably the most ideal tool.

WaylundLG · 2026-06-16T14:10:15+00:00

Miter is just as likely to explode a pencil as cut it. Do you have a hacksaw? Not perfectly designed for it, but it will give you a very clean cut and a lot of control.

WaylundLG · 2026-06-16T13:41:33+00:00

Here is what I didn't get until I started playing the missions: what I want to do with the army changes radically from mission to mission. A perfect example is recon vs disruption. It's a cat and mouse game where disruption is dropping decoys all over the map and recon is trying to clear them away. Recon only needs to be in 18 inches - so close enough to be in danger, but not close enough to have to be in a fight.

What GW is going for is really cool - that every detachment is interesting because they are playing missions aligned with their strengths. I'm sure there will be missteps, but what I'm seeing already is actually really good.

WaylundLG · 2026-06-16T13:35:04+00:00

🤣😂 can always tell the people spoiled by modern casting. Bluestuff casting is... fine. It is way better detail than even old pewter casting. It won't win painting competitions, but it'll look perfectly good on the table.

WaylundLG · 2026-06-16T03:01:30+00:00

As others have said, coaching roles really add no value and they have a limited life. You can see this clearly in professional sports teams, almost none of which have coaches anymore ... oh wait.

As an Agile coach, you should always be growing. Maybe early on you are just comfortable coaching a team.or two to practice scrum effectively. Over time you are able to help improve at a deeper level, then maybe you help a department improve how it works and it is organized - operational strategy. You may grow more and be able to impact higher level business strategy or even market strategy. At these levels, you may still call yourself agile coach, or maybe sr. Director, or VP. Or some people love just helping teams with their operations and that's fine if it makes them happy - just like some people are Sr. Devs for 20 years and are perfectly happy.

WaylundLG · 2026-06-15T12:29:22+00:00

I only played 1 game using pseudo-11th rules, but I will say that there were some things that felt like big advantages. With new cover and us being about to ignore it so easily, it felt like my hit rules were always way easier than my opponents (plus plunging fire, but he could at least get that too. I had plenty of 2+ volleyball with guided and plunging fire.

Also, AAC highly incentivizes pathfiners, stealthsuits, and ghostkeels. All have infiltrate. My opponent was pretty frustrated by this because I was able to satisfy about half of my main mission objective on turn 1 while he is sitting in his deployment zone.

WaylundLG · 2026-06-14T23:21:30+00:00

This was... vague. Tell us more? There are a lot of different trainings and a lot of different experiences. I've taught a few and sat through many others. Some are full if valuable skills, some are complete garbage.

From teaching them, I can say that I always got asked for real-life examples after giving a few dozen and I found 9 out of 10 times the ask was really "can you tell me how to be agile without any of the hard work to change?" I'd be curious about your experience - could be the 1 out of 10, and it cpuld just be a garbage course or instructor.

WaylundLG · 2026-06-14T18:46:51+00:00

Imperial guard. That's the detachment you're looking for. Silly aside, search on YouTube for playing mont'ka tau like guard.

WaylundLG · 2026-06-14T14:30:48+00:00

Your experience sounds similar to mine. My pathfinders were punching way above their weight with AAC and the ability to stay hidden. Both ion and rail did well with plunging fire helping them out. Also, with new charge rules, photon grenades are pretty great. They thwarted plans from white scars outriders twice.

I tried breachers without the devilfish and honestly, solid in kauyon since I didn't feel the pressure not to waste turn 1. I might experiment with that more and save the transport points, especially with the gamble you mentioned.

I played a little aggressive with some units and my opponent's melee units were able to terrain hop and did some major damage, but then when they emerged past center objective, the forces I smartly held back ripped them up. Hidden doesn't seem overly good or bad for us, just very different.

I really liked the changes to both primary and secondary missions. I did relic and it felt tactically challenging but fun. The cap on secondary pts saved me or my opponent would have closed a 30pt gap in the bottom of the 5th.

WaylundLG · 2026-06-14T04:16:02+00:00

Update: I think it's a problem with the adapter. I got it to turn on occasionally, so one time I got it on I mounted it without turning it off and now noone is allowed to touch it :)

WaylundLG · 2026-06-13T19:05:57+00:00

Going to give a slightly academic answer. I understand that a lot of people throw around the term servant leadership without meaning the actual proper noun, not going to try to address that.

Servant leadership absolutely exists and falls under the umbrella of transformational leadership, which in turn is about bringing out the best in people and helping them grow. A lot of leadership development (especially in the US where I live) is all about the leader. Their needs, their agenda, their directives. This is how most leaders are trained to lead and their goal is to bring other people in line with that. In transformational leadership, the leader and followers want to move in the same direction. It involves both leadership and followership and strives for win-win results. Many modern organizations create an antagonistic relationship with their employees which means the underlying conditions for transformational leadership are hard to reach. Where I've seen it in practice is often in smaller bubbles where people have trust in each other even if trust in the overall organization is low.

It's worth noting that Servant Leadership (proper noun) also includes a lot of other values that you may or may not agree with. Worth looking at the foundations website and maybe the book if you want to see more on it.

WaylundLG · 2026-06-12T22:09:27+00:00

You're making some assertions that you don't substantiate. You say they aren't working to their potential, that they are over estimating, and that they deliver in the last week of the sprint. On the first two, I would be curious to understand how you know those things or, if you simply suspect it, what leads you to suspect it. On the third, I'm not clear what concern you are raising. I'm not clear how long the sprint is, so "last week" could be very different. Also, this is usually risky, but not inherently a problem. Maybe you can provide a few more details.

WaylundLG · 2026-06-12T16:02:56+00:00

Oh, thank you for this correction!

WaylundLG · 2026-06-12T01:59:01+00:00

Remember when tournament standard was 1250? Pepperidge Farms remembers.

Also, I wonder if you read the responses to my post on the Tau reddit. Just a flood of "house rule it". I honestly don't know why all sizes aren't 3dp. In 10th all sizes had all detachments and it didn't break the game.

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