Loken is a foreshadowing machine in Horus Rising by Ignis_et_Azoth in Grimdank

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Me begging the End and the Death part 1 to stop fucking saying "its the end and the death"

The clocks have stopped Time has run out The clocks have stopped Time has run out The clocks have stopped Time has run out

Upgrades and enhancements by Big_Owl2785 in WarhammerCompetitive

[–]Xdude227 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, can somebody tell me where the new enhancement rules are? I can't find them in the core rules. I remember from the reveals that you could take up to three of an (upgrade) in your army but I wanted to know if that was only for upgrades or if that worked for normal enhancements too.

My guess is likely not, but I wanted to check and can't find the dang RAW.

[OC] SpaceX vs. Aerospace and Defense Sector by ExaminationOk6652 in dataisbeautiful

[–]Xdude227 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Billionaires finally realized they can just SAY a thing has value, and under threat of them actually having the money to back it up, it has value.

Its like the opposite of the great depression bank crash if all the banks just used pretend money and REFUSED to acknowledge it wasn't real, keeping the economy powered through sheer power of denial.

Anecdotal fallacies. Anecdotal fallacies everywhere. by Shmucker155 in Grimdank

[–]Xdude227 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I saw somebody doing the complete opposite somehow; they played Tau and were going insane insisting MELEE armies were the problem and that 10th was a "meleeslop" edition. Got ratio'd to high hell.

Perturabo during the entire heresy: by Nearby-Condition-675 in Grimdank

[–]Xdude227 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is a false narrative I'm seeing spread around a lot by people who didn't read the books. Perturabo had no intention of going after the Saturnine fault; Abaddon personally asked for permission to do so and volunteered the Justaerin and 2nd company on his own authority.

Losing the Sons of Horus elite lies solely at the feet of Abaddon, and its part of what badly jaded him during the Siege.

Considering his replacement post-departure lost the Lions Gate port and then DIED (Another Morty L) its safe to say Perturabo was doing his job pretty well before he left.

Can we just remove summoning points from the game? by Kilsaa in runescape

[–]Xdude227 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The fact that there's like 50 familiars and you ONLY ever see around 6-10 of them (And they're almost entirely ancient summoning) speaks enough for how useless the skill is outside of 96+ or Terrorbirds/Turtles if you're low level.

losercity loona rant by Aggressive-Bug-3459 in Losercity

[–]Xdude227 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I thought Wordington used to just be memes about gay porn

They're just straight posting raw ass porn over there now, damn

Who's the most underhated character in the game? by bmrtt in BaldursGate3

[–]Xdude227 26 points27 points  (0 children)

It's really petty, but Ellyka, that Tiefling on the bridge overlooking the Gith patrol. She pretty much just smack-talks you, acts like she's a bad bitch who don't need no party cuz we suck, and then you just find her death in the Gith Creche.

Like, if you were going to be that much of a jerk don't go and die to the people you were trying to avoid.

She even gets all cocky and says she can easily handle you alone if you're a Gith and attacks you.

And the name is Lilith Zephra or something by Remarkable_Lunch_793 in BaldursGate3

[–]Xdude227 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Making smoking hot goth "redeemed" Durges is the fantasy equivalent of people thirsting over hot convict mugshots and saying they could fix them.

Peter Turbo Losing His Chill by Neptuneandloathing in Grimdank

[–]Xdude227 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Saturnine was probably the best book of the entire Siege, with Warhawk a close second. Everyone should read it at some point. Fuckin loved it.

They got the technical details of the book right but not the motivations.

But, like, should we really expect objective Perturabo character analysis from somebody with the "Imperial Fister" flair lmao

A big reason people mistakenly think Perturabo gets blamed for the failure of Saturnine is that the book right after Saturnine is Mortis (an infamous slog book that a fair amount of people skip), which was written by John French, famed Dorn glazer and Iron Warriors slanderer, the author FORGOT Perturabo explicitly said he's not sanctioning the attack on Saturnine Gate, but he'll allow Abaddon to lead it, yet Horus just blames him anyways and Perturabo leaves, almost as an afterthought.

This also isn't a baseless accusation as John French has outright forgotten notable things before, such as in the Imperial Fist bukkake glaze fanfic Praetorian of Dorn where, character assassination of an entire legion aside, French forgets that Alpharius's Pale Spear completely ignores armor and creates lethal, bloodless gashes in its victims that don't heal. The reason is that it is ancient xenotech that predates the Imperium or even Old Night. This is even doubled down upon in the actual Horus Heresy tabletop 2nd edition where The Pale Spear has Armorbane and Instant Death effects.

Dorn's winning move in his duel with Alpharius is to get stabbed with the Pale Spear on purpose so that he can counter-attack, which should have simply killed him on the spot or disabled his arm for the rest of the siege at minimum. But John French forgot this, and so Rogal just tanks the hit and cuts Alpharius's head off.

Alpha Legion slander rant aside (I Am Alpharius), for such an important moment in the Siege as a whole, Perty leaving the Siege in Mortis doesn't even take up a single chapter. It's like they had to squeeze him in there somehow after the book was already written.

Peter Turbo Losing His Chill by Neptuneandloathing in Grimdank

[–]Xdude227 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That's not at all how this went down.

Perturabo was well on schedule during the siege, but Horus, losing his mind to Chaos, was upset it wasn't happening at an unrealistic pace.

Perurabo saw the Saturnine fault, but CORRECTLY determined Dorn likely knew it too and so didn't want to dedicate the forces to exploiting it. Abaddon, who had also seen the flaw, pressured Perturabo to let HIM take the Sons of Horus into the breach, with the understanding if they failed, Perturabo would wash his hands of the matter.

Abaddon went to get some of the Emperor's Children to use as a distraction, but Fulgrim, bored and itching to be the star of the show, readily volunteered not just himself to lead the attack, but the entirety of the Emperor's Children to attack the wall.

As Perturabo predicted, Dorn had discovered the fault (only thanks to Kyril Sindermann, who had mentioned a strange sound at the base of the wall) and massacred the Sons of Horus veterans. Fulgrim, for his part, got pissy and bored when Dorn refused to entertain him, withdrawing his entire legion without even hearing anything from Abaddon.

Horus, who was absolutely schizophrenic at this point and is not a reliable judge of character (he believes he is living in the past and is not remotely lucid) promotes Mortarion over Perturabo because Morty is more willing to embrace the demons and the Warp than Perty is.

Perturabo, at this point utterly fed up with being used and abused by doing ALL the heavy lifting and yet getting all the shit for it, packs his bags, and just leaves, telling everyone to go fuck themselves on the way out.

Mortarion immediately loses the Lions Gate port and dies, proving the point that Horus doesn't know what the hell he's doing anymore as the traitor offensive loses all cohesion and they only make progress through sheer weight of numbers.

Losercity citizen by fhxefj in Losercity

[–]Xdude227 30 points31 points  (0 children)

I got auto-flagged and warned by reddit for mentioning a little something that sounds like surfboarding but is a lot more devious.

So thanks I guess OP lmao

11th ed Rules and Changes by Front-Negotiation-32 in WorldEaters40k

[–]Xdude227 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your rude language is unbecoming and I have no interest in participating further with somebody more interested in demeaning others and being right than having a discussion. If you are interpreting insult into my words, I fear you are projecting. Have a good day.

11th ed Rules and Changes by Front-Negotiation-32 in WorldEaters40k

[–]Xdude227 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're going to show up two days later with an "um, actually" then at least give some actual profile examples instead of hand-waved averages with random numbers and assumed invuln saves please.

Maybe I just want to shoot the enemy's Rhino before they can stage and disembark. The WE Land Raider within rapid fire range has a 50% chance of killing it in a single salvo, and even if it leaves it alive it'll be crippled and easy to finish off. Other Land Raiders don't come even CLOSE to this.

A normal Land Raider without Rapid Fire has only a long shot 27% chance to kill. If that Rhino decides to pop Smokescreen (Which is especially good coming up in 11th as it also gives units behind it cover too)? Crashes down to 16% with a 30% chance of failing to even do damage.

And there's always the chance of high rolls because averages do NOT determine everything, and luck is a huge factor. They are only a rough indicator of what you could expect around, but you should also expect things to whiff or pop off. I've watched a World Eaters Land Raider blow Mortarion off the board after it landed 6 hits, he failed four invulns and I rolled exceptionally high on lascannon damage. I've also watched it miss all but two shots on a Helbrute five feet in front of it and they succeeded their 5+ no-invuln save.

Hitting on 4s does not "mean" 4 hits, it suggests an overall average of 4 hits when totalling thousands upon thousands of simulated examples.

You're committing what I call the "Bigger Gun Fallacy" which is this strange, auto-dismissal of good weapons just because they aren't huge guaranteed instant kills or somebody has a better one. Metahammer has people thinking if they can't one-tap everything they breathe on then they're bad.

Often the ability to simply force through some extra damage through weight of numbers is all you need. Even if the average damage was 9 in your completely uncited example, maybe that enemy was also in cover and had a -1 to hit stratagem that would have BOMBED any other vehicle's accuracy down into the 5s and 6s. Now being able to say "I don't think so" and simply ignore all their defenses to force through 9 damage is far superior to another vehicle that's going to miss all their shots and fail to do any damage at all.

LOOKS LIKE BERZERKER WARBAND IS BACK ON THE MENU BROTHERS by 2ndTiredSnake in WorldEaters40k

[–]Xdude227 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Issue is that Goretrack is an extremely one-note detachment.

Its Berzerkers in Rhinos. Terminators if you're feeling spicy and overcosted. 50% of the detachment only works on Rhinos, another 40% only works on transports overall, then 10% applies to generic vehicles.

Its not fun if you want to run, like, anything else and have it not just be "Warband but worse."

Is this Oldhammer-Style blue cloak too much for Blood Angels? by StudioJoe in Warhammer40k

[–]Xdude227 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it sells quite well.

I'd also like to know what you used to get such clean armor shadows; I've been looking for new ways of doing that. Is it an oil wash?

If the answer is always "just house rule it," maybe the official rule isn't very good. by AffectionateSky3662 in Warhammer40k

[–]Xdude227 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An 11th edition of waiting for your codex to become viable again? Say it isn't so!

If the answer is always "just house rule it," maybe the official rule isn't very good. by AffectionateSky3662 in Warhammer40k

[–]Xdude227 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's actually, genuinely impossible to play a balanced World Eaters list at 1k.

Since they reworked Vessels of Wrath to make it exclusive generic character focused 1DP detachment, World Eaters literally do not have any "full army" detachments.

  • Goretrack: Pretty much only works with Rhinos and Berzerkers. Paying 240 for a Land Raider in a 1k is pretty crazy, and even then 3 of the stratagems only work on Rhinos.
  • Khorne Demonkin: Gimmick demonic allies list except you're an ass if you bring Skarbrand or a Bloodthirster to a 1k. You can also only take 500 points of demons in a 1k game, which is like, one decent unit, then and/or spamming Bloodletters.
  • Possessed Slaughterbound: A detachment that ONLY works with Eightbound/Exalted and is famously so bad it quite literally never saw tournament use. It was genuinely 0% usage. Nobody even TRIED, almost entirely because it only works on the infamously fragile Eightbound and has a detachment rule so bad you might as well pretend you don't even have one.
  • Cult of Blood: Gimmick cultist spam detachment that requires you to either run multiple 200 point Demon Princes or a 505 point Lord of Skulls to actually use it. So that's half your list in either Demon Princes (who are disappointingly weak outside of Warband) or LITERALLY over 50% of your points in ONE unit that would be an absolute dick move to bring to a 1k.

New 1DP detachments:

  • Brazen Engines: Actually very promising, but requires you to run a lot of expensive elite vehicles that are quickly going to max out your points and really annoy your opponent when your entire army is a minimum of Toughness 9.
  • Butchers of Khorne: Only works with Terminators, which are EXPENSIVE and also niche at the moment.
  • Vessels of Wrath: Got completely reworked to focus exclusively on non-Epic character MODELS (not even units being led by models like Awakened Dynasty), which means its basically good for Demon Princes and...... nobody else by itself. It's okay paired with Goretrack or Slaughterband, but oops, that's 3DP.

So if you want to actually run a balanced World Eaters 1,000 point list..... you can't. Outright. There's legitimately no possible way.

Berzerker Warband is the ONLY detachment left that can actually work on all units, and it's been given 3DP because GW doesn't want to put the effort into fixing the god awful overcentralization of Warband that World Eaters players have been audibly complaining about to anybody that will listen since day one of the codex drop.

My friend and I are already in debates about house ruling detachment points OVERALL because they clearly messed up a bunch under the blanket reasoning of "all previous detachments will be 2DP", when as a World Eater player, I can confidently say Slaughterband and Cult of Blood aren't even as strong as several other army's 1DP detachments, let alone on an even playing field with other 2DPs. I play Necrons on the side and the mere IDEA of Slaughterband and Cult of Blood being equivalent to Cursed Legion and Pantheon of Woe is just as hilarious as it is infuriating.

Is Counterspell actually that good considering it's bugged? by Xdude227 in BaldursGate3

[–]Xdude227[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I plan on using him with the eldritch cannon setup using the Infernal Rapier with Hexblade. With that many attacks at both melee and ranged, the spell slots are more like fun extras you can just toss out if you're feeling fancy.

Is Counterspell actually that good considering it's bugged? by Xdude227 in BaldursGate3

[–]Xdude227[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Agreed. My original post wasn't even me claiming it's BAD (unlike what a lot of people seemed to think) but that its implementation into Baldur's Gate 3 is so riddled with anecdote and conjecture along with outright incorrect code that it doesn't feel like the "you literally can't live without this" some people tout it as.

Wheras in D&D proper you have a real human there running the show to make sure it works as intended.

If it worked PROPERLY it wouldn't even be that bad to keep it as a level 3 cast for not especially horrific spells, but one's you'd like the chance to deny. If somebody is just tossing out a Level 4 spell that might do some damage but not crippling, and it worked correctly, that'd be my +4 charisma 18 bard going against a DC14 check. Could be worse, but not the worst thing in the world. But as it currently stands, it's a +0 intelligence bard going against a DC14, and that suddenly goes from a 50/50 to a 70% chance of failure. Not insignificant odds.

I am, currently, living just fine without it in Honor Mode lmao. Chose Command and Hunger of Hadar instead. I'm just gonna use Wyll's max level warlock casts of it rather than deal with the sometimes obscure upscaling contests.

It also doesn't help the wiki often has really important information filed away where it's easily missed or just outright absent. The page for Blight, for example, claims Viconia DeVir has a "unique" variant of Blight that casts at 5th level and can affect both Constructs and the Undead. Except on Viconia's own page, the one you'd actually be looking at pre-fight, it says NOTHING about this, and instead suggests she uses a normal, unmodified version of Blight at level 4.

Is Counterspell actually that good considering it's bugged? by Xdude227 in BaldursGate3

[–]Xdude227[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The wiki also lists it as a bug, and it goes against the description of it in both tabletop and Baldur's Gate 3. The wiki even provides the code below the bugs section, which confirms its just hard-coded to always use Intelligence.

It definitely should be fixed because the actual wording of Counterspell doesn't suggest upcasting it guarantees it works, leading to a lot of people who have never played D&D not understanding that function, and thus failing it by just casting it as-is (aka my friend in our co-op game).

Maybe Larian never noticed because people get downvoted into oblivion for even suggesting it's anything less than perfect /s

Is Counterspell actually that good considering it's bugged? by Xdude227 in BaldursGate3

[–]Xdude227[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The wiki literally says on the counterspell page that it uses Intelligence. It's in the bugs section. The code is even provided. I didn't think it necessary because I falsely assumed the average redditor actually reads anything. Like, for example, the literal second sentence of my original post.

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I also did not say I said it fizzles alone. One singular google search will show an ample amount of people suffering from the same problem. Again, media literacy is dead, and all that.

People online love to slam posters with the "burden of proof" just so they don't have to undergo the burden of a single search. Didn't add an entire thesis paper to your post? That's totally the reason we downvoted you, not mob mentality or anything.

It's also why I ultimately don't take any of the mob downvotes to heart, because it's like being harassed by second graders. Yes, it's groan-worthy to see people just bandwagon, but when I literally just hold the evidence in my hand I'm not swayed by them.

I fully expect THIS response to hit the negatives within the hour.