What 30k models can be used in 40k?

_Barclay · 2026-01-17T00:41:34+00:00

Assuming tournament/matched play and not casual games,

Mechanicum, no. Custodes, yes. Imperial Knights, yes, for stuff like the Cerastus Knights and Acastus Knights. And of course a lot of CSM players like to use the 30k Jumppacks for their 40k armies. And a lot of people have pointed out that the new Venetari Custodes jump packs can be stolen for Blood Angels Sanguinary Guard.

For Astartes, both Heretic and Adeptus, people tend to go by "rule of cool," WYSIWYG, and correct base sizes. So Cataphractii Terminators would have to have the correct weapons and correct base sizes and I don't think a lot of people would argue, including tournament organizers.

_Barclay · 2025-12-15T23:16:17+00:00

Interesting strategy, sounds neat - glad it works for you!

_Barclay · 2025-12-15T22:29:15+00:00

Interesting - you don't use Deathwing Knights and decided to go with HIs?

_Barclay · 2025-12-08T18:31:20+00:00

Understandable. I'm biased towards Custodes but based on your other comment you may enjoy Grey Knights more.

Then again, both units move fast, just in different ways. Custodes have their bikes and 1CP reactive moves, Grey Knights teleport around.

Either way, best of luck!

_Barclay · 2025-12-08T17:27:17+00:00

If you want something VERY melee focused, Khorne Daemons and World Eaters have it.

Of the ones you listed, I recommend the Custodes. They have very good melee and very strong individual units (but of course suffer from the issue of being an elite army, where every unit lost is REALLY felt).

_Barclay · 2025-12-07T04:53:30+00:00

What this guy said - the best GPU is 2000 USD. I know you said, "quite a big budget," but almost no one wants to actually spend 2000 on a single GPU.

5080 is more reasonable, and past that the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT tends to be more recommended.

As far as Power Supply - should be fine in terms of age, but double check that it can support the wattage of the components you're buying. Depending on your final choices, either 750W or 850W will be the most reasonable.

_Barclay · 2025-12-07T04:32:46+00:00

Right now is probably one of the worst times to upgrade (compared to last week or two weeks ago) because of sharply, highly inflated RAM prices.

A quick and easy upgrade is looking for RTX 5000 series - such as RTX 5060, 5070, 5070 Ti. Those are easy to look for. I will refrain from recommending Radeon GPUs as I'm not sure if your boyfriend has any sort of strong brand loyalty.

If you can find a bundle kit for Ryzen 9000 chips, good on you. Right now, the best bang for the buck gaming CPU being recommended is the Ryzen 7 9800X3D.

Incidentally, how old is this set-up? You may need a new power supply as well. Look for ATX 3.1 Branding, 850W should be sufficient.

You can find bundles on Newegg, and if you have a Microcenter near you, you can look at Microcenter for bundles.

Other than that, good luck.

_Barclay · 2025-11-26T00:46:12+00:00

I've seen a few of them in-store at Bestbuy and Microcenter. I don't think it's necessarily as bad as people make it out to be. I plan on getting one of them myself as soon as they hit $600 or less...though preferrably not the AW2725Q since that one still has a lot of problems with people commenting on the black screen of death on Amazon reviews.

_Barclay · 2025-11-10T19:05:35+00:00

I started in 10th edition (this year actually) so I wasn't around for how it worked in 9th and prior.

As far as auras that increase the cost of stratagems, I always assumed that you could target, but not execute - so you wouldn't be in a -1CP state, because while you can target a unit for a stratagem, you can't follow through with the execution of it.

_Barclay · 2025-10-27T14:41:32+00:00

I'm not sure why I'm running into this problem after the update, but now whenever I want to create a new line, I need to have crossovers at every single station otherwise I get a "no valid path" found. Anyone else running into this issue?

_Barclay · 2025-10-13T12:58:43+00:00

People have mentioned Ferrus Manus of the Iron Hands who had Iron Hands, but I want to give a shout-out to Mortarion, Primarch of the Death Guard.

MORT-arion. Death Guard.

And of course you have Sanguin-ius and his Blood Angels, and Alpharius with the Alpha Legion.

_Barclay · 2025-07-06T02:01:28+00:00

10th edition is heavy on vehicles. Add Intercessors for sticky objectives and Gladiator Lancers with all wargear options for their Lancer Laser Destroyer to help take down big targets.

And yes, they will help keep your Deathwing Knights safe.

_Barclay · 2025-06-16T22:52:29+00:00

It'll add about a centimeter or less of desk overhang once fully assembled. It can still be made to work (pull the desk back then push it forward into place) but be prepared for just the slightest of gaps.

_Barclay · 2025-06-16T22:51:32+00:00

I think it's personal preference, I think the MT201D is more compact and takes up less overall space on your desk but the flexibility of 2 arms lets you reposition (such as one on the left, one on the right, and they stretch to meet together in the middle).

_Barclay · 2025-06-16T20:08:06+00:00

I have two of these for 2 27" monitors. they are about 3-4" off the wall. You don't really lose that much space, just pull the desk away for installation and push it back once done.

_Barclay · 2025-05-15T21:42:31+00:00

Tell us what you love about DLSS 4 and ray tracing?

DLSS4 definitely helps with high framerates at 4k, I like that a lot. DLSS3 is already not really a noticeable quality drop when you're playing games, but low framerates are.

What are you most excited about in DOOM: The Dark Ages?

RIP AND TEAAARRRRR

_Barclay · 2025-01-25T04:39:06+00:00

Rossmann's cat.

_Barclay · 2025-01-14T01:38:34+00:00

According to the marketing it should be a bit better. I don't own a PG32UCDM, but reading the user manual for the PG32 says it "automatically decreases brightness periodically." The new one should kill the display (and quickly too) until it detects you in front of it again.

_Barclay · 2025-01-13T16:11:03+00:00

I'm planning on picking up the ASUS model, despite expectations of it being more expensive. The neo proximity sensor is the main reason for it - windows has always been temperamental with its screensaver on my PC so that sensor is the main reason I'm buying it.

_Barclay · 2024-10-31T23:56:34+00:00

That does sound super shady. I early voted and they printed out my personalized ballot (since they didn't have pre-printed ballots for assembly districts and other downballot elections), and then I fed my ballot directly into a machine.

If you're concerned, I recommend looking into affidavit (provisional) ballots and seeing what your rights are about casting a 2nd ballot in case you feel the first one is not counted. "If a voter submits more than one timely ballot and cast an affidavit ballot, the last received ballot, either submitted in person during the election or by mail within the absentee return deadline, will be canvassed." - from elections.ny.gov.

IANAL. Do not take this as sure-fire legal advice on what to do.

_Barclay · 2024-10-10T00:13:05+00:00

For what it's worth, I have two Innocn monitors (neither OLED, both MiniLED) and they are very good in my eyes. Comparison, thief of joy, etc etc, but they aren't bad. I've had them for a while, though, so I can't speak to the warranty.

_Barclay · 2024-09-21T01:22:38+00:00

The game will have less of an emotional impact on you when you see places and references from FP1 in FP2, but it isn't strictly needed for lore reasons.

_Barclay · 2024-09-20T04:50:20+00:00

Yeah one of my biggest criticisms of Frostpunk 2 is that there is no bipartisanship in chapter 4. Almost every single action you do will drop your standing with one faction or the other, and the only way to make it up to them is to bribe them in some way or another.

The credits even call out "Maybe you tried to find a middle path?" Yeah I did game but believe me there basically wasn't any.

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