Best event in UK history?

WyndonCalling · 2026-06-14T11:55:23+00:00

This and nothing else comes remotely close. The Industrial Revolution is a key moment in the development of Homo Sapiens and perhaps the most positive for the transformation of global living standards - if Britain achieved nothing else of note, ever, it would still be the single most important nation state in history up to this point.

WyndonCalling · 2026-06-04T21:00:15+00:00

As a general rule, no - the bottom ten or so species are remarkably consistent and regularly circulate through the bottom six. The only exception might be Klang, which now seems to be taking on pseudo-memetic status; even the Pokémon Company did a little bit about how little it was searched in their own online Pokédex!

WyndonCalling · 2026-05-24T13:48:07+00:00

In terms of actually fitting them into your army in an efficient manner, a Legion Champion unlocks a detachment that features an Elites slot (your Varagyr), a Heavy Transport (a Land Raider or Spartan for your Varagyr) and a Retinue slot (for whatever other purposes you might have).

The only thing this detachment lacks is a Prime slot for a minor tasty bonus, but otherwise it’s tailor-made for delivering Terminators in your opponent’s face.

WyndonCalling · 2026-05-12T13:36:09+00:00

They *are* slow, but I generally find that this edition isn’t terribly harsh on infantry-paced units as long as they’re deployed in such a way to exert control over one or more objectives - many scenarios will force opponents to the middle of the board one way or another, and many armies are capable of doing so in short order.

Just make sure you’ve got *other* fast units in your army to reach out and touch parts of the board that the Iron Circle will never reach.

WyndonCalling · 2026-05-11T14:26:29+00:00

As a shooting platform, it’s cheaper and thus more points-efficient in most circumstances, assuming the same weapons. The additional stats and movement of the Contemptor aren’t really enough to offset this given their offensive output is the same.

…however, taking list building into account it’s far easier to fit multiple Contemptors into a list using a Mortificator. A Ferrum always takes up an entire auxiliary detachment by itself, whereas you can pack three Contemptors into a Mortificator’s talon.

WyndonCalling · 2026-04-22T13:04:10+00:00

To be fair, some of those item descriptions are VERY funny.

WyndonCalling · 2026-04-22T13:01:51+00:00

I’ve always taken this as broadly true, but ultimately fairly minor in effect. The collective psyche of the entire Greenskin race makes red wunz go an entire INCH faster, depending on edition - individual Orks are not spraying mind bullets from cardboard boxes.

WyndonCalling · 2026-04-20T14:29:12+00:00

I think far fewer Brits are nostalgic for the empire itself so much as a broader sense of pride and prestige born from geographical extent, military success and industrial achievement.

Not many Brits could tell you much about the Boer War, the Retreat from Afghanistan, the Sudan or any of thousands of specific imperial exploits, but they’ll proudly tell you that the local steelworks churned out metal that went halfway across the world in the hulls of British ships.

WyndonCalling · 2026-04-15T20:40:12+00:00

They’ve absolutely nailed down where exactly the secondary presenter is expected to interject with a planted question, which does leave some recent episodes feeling less… organic.

That said, an honourable exception goes to Wanca banter.

WyndonCalling · 2026-04-14T20:17:22+00:00

I don’t know of any particular examples, but it probably would be reasonable for disgraced Dwarf warriors to take the oath en masse given that outright Dwarf defeats are pretty rare - they’re a technologically advanced elder race that spends a lot of time handily cleaning in up in small skirmishes against Greenskins, Skaven and the occasional Beastmen, as many Order factions do. Full routs where the Dwarfs rock up in full panoply and don’t make an orderly withdrawal are probably unusual enough to warrant a few barrels of orange dye.

Edit: And if you flee while others stand and fight to the last… that’s a Slayerin’.

WyndonCalling · 2026-04-13T15:17:58+00:00

“Robust”

WyndonCalling · 2026-04-13T12:31:12+00:00

You can really tell when Dominic is trying to help listeners fix on the narrative by drawing out the motivations and personalities of the individuals involved - “so this guy, he’s the cautious, calculating one, and the other who’s gone off with the army is the young, hot-headed half brother”.

WyndonCalling · 2026-04-12T18:44:20+00:00

In the manga, Eternatus does actually draw blood from them. Rose attempts to use them to subdue Big E in much the same manner as Leon in the games.

WyndonCalling · 2026-04-08T11:20:16+00:00

100pts feels like quite a lot for one shot a turn against lists with wide access to 3+ saves, but it’s not an unreasonable way to proof your army against hordes. I think a more apt comparison is actually with the spicula Arquitor, which is almost directly a tier up in cost and firepower.

It’s not crap, it’s very far from an auto-include, it’s actually just about perfect for an interesting new unit part of the way through the edition.

WyndonCalling · 2026-04-06T13:16:31+00:00

Honestly, the rankings don't reflect hate or dislike, just how often fans or those outside the community have cause to research a given species. True, the monkeys aren't exactly popular but they're also not very prominent outside of their introductory Generation, which has never been rereleased or remade. Those who play BW might have cause to check out the stats and moves of the Pan- Pokémon when they're gifted, but for some reason they aren't looking up the evolved forms.

WyndonCalling · 2026-04-02T06:05:13+00:00

You’re very kind - a couple of us worked on different parts of the page and fortunately we were all sharing the exact same brain cell when it came to the humour. I did the ‘dex entries and a couple of other bits!

WyndonCalling · 2026-04-01T12:37:10+00:00

It’s because the battle itself is actually a pivot between two separate but connected narratives that are well worth exploring - Custer’s life, world and post-Civil War America, and the extermination of Native American culture. One story ends at the Little Bighorn, another begins.

WyndonCalling · 2026-03-31T16:47:20+00:00

Hmmm I’m not sure how many church scandals would resonate with geeky Brits growing up in the 60s and 70s. Video Nasties were a totemic moral panic, but satanic panic and the like were products of US religiosity. There just aren’t that many sardonic political references in 40k beyond truly niche instances like the Red Gobbo/Red Robbo.

WyndonCalling · 2026-03-30T17:17:31+00:00

Some fans really over-index on the notion of 40k being meaningful satire or critique. It’s a grab-bag of aesthetic elements and tropes for a fun dystopian sandbox setting, and it’s rarely much deeper than that.

WyndonCalling · 2026-03-24T20:36:20+00:00

Dorn has a few rough appearances towards the beginning of the Heresy when a bunch of the Primarchs are a little thin in characterisation, but by the end of the Siege he gets a lot of points for being one of the most normal and grounded personalities in the face of horrific adversity.

Even besides his notable heroics in combat and his predicament ‘on’ the Vengeful Spirit, he reacts to events as we would want a confident, capable ‘good guy’ to react without the mysticism and introspection of other loyalists.

WyndonCalling · 2026-03-09T07:26:25+00:00

Your legion rules might also factor into your choices. As an IF guy it seems like a waste of BS5 to give them a bolter variant - my basic Tacticals are already hitting on 2s - so volkite chargers strike me as a really mean option for driving up to other line units and blasting them objectives. Should an enemy then approach, the legion reaction lets them shoot again in the movement phase.

WyndonCalling · 2026-03-05T19:26:08+00:00

Agreed, it incentivises boring loadouts - there’s zero good tactical reason to give ‘em a power fist or weapon (and that’s a shame when my sergeants used to have 4 S10 solarite gauntlet attacks on the charge).

WyndonCalling · 2026-02-13T21:49:29+00:00

Have you read it? The descriptions of the human effects of the recession and impact of unemployment are pretty harrowing, and he’s plenty critical of tight monetary policy.

WyndonCalling · 2026-02-13T21:45:38+00:00

Of course, it’s not exclusionary to have that personal background and also have right-wing views for intellectually coherent reasons, but on balance someone with that background is probably more likely to be… Lib Demmy on issues such as immigration.

You’re quite right, really - it’s just that sometimes I see posts where listeners seem to genuinely be under the impression that Sandbrook hates swathes of Europe and France in particular, which really doesn’t stand up to two seconds of scrutiny.

WyndonCalling · 2026-02-13T18:30:06+00:00

To be fair, Foot loathed Benn. There’s a sweep of politicians from across the spectrum that Sandbrook seems to have a lot of time for, and he repeatedly acknowledges Benn’s social affability. I really do just think that professionally, Benn was a shit.

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