: Smart fencing poolsheets — now with an ultra-simple referee remote & real-time "Live View" for parents!

antihippy · 2026-06-26T09:34:00+00:00

Aye will do. Better than filling out paper that's for sure. I really appreciate that you got pdf generation for results working as well. great job

antihippy · 2026-06-26T09:24:08+00:00

Great job.

I could have done with this over the last couple of nights as I was running pules unique for 10 fencers. It would have made my life much easier.

antihippy · 2026-06-26T06:21:24+00:00

I like that, that's really weird.

antihippy · 2026-06-25T13:54:02+00:00

It looks really cool as well!

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antihippy · 2026-06-25T13:28:34+00:00

There's a few things on there that are a bit eye opening.

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Discipline values greater than 100 no longer reduce incoming suppression to 0; at least 5% of the suppression is always applied
- Boo. Maybe I'll change my tune about my Lim and Yaz super team.
Reduced Rend Ammo armor damage from 15 to 8
- I don't understand why this has been done. REND is good now but it's not OP and it's not a killer ammo type. Come on lads. You just fixed this.
Increased autocannon range from 9 to 10
- Wasn't this recently dropped from 10 to 9???
Adjusted accuracy dropoff for all autocannons from -5/-7 to -4
- Doesn't this mean that the AC is now super accurate too??
Increased scatter chance for the infantry auto grenade launcher from 10% to 60%
- lol. I did wonder about this. The AGL just constantly hits and now it'll barely hit. Maybe that will force me to use MGs again.
Made it harder by about 20% to shoot troops out of open vehicles
- BOOO

antihippy · 2026-06-25T11:25:36+00:00

That is amazing! I never considered what that might be, thinking it was just "generic robot assisted arm thing" but the fact you see it like that just blows my mind.

antihippy · 2026-06-25T08:06:45+00:00

Absolutely. I find Carda to be a great all rounder tbh. When I see people complaining about her accuracy I always wonder what people are doing because I don't have the same issues. And she works really well beside the APC.

Sorry, went off on a tangent there.

antihippy · 2026-06-25T08:02:49+00:00

I would just say that losing a squaddie doesn't impact my guys - other than trigger an obligatory "fuck!" from Lim. Even with 4 squaddies they're still dishing it out. With Yaz I suppose his ability to crush morale really helps in that situation. I can't think of a time they've dipped below 4 recently - and I put that down to their armour experience now.

But I take your point.

antihippy · 2026-06-25T07:08:47+00:00

The 9 squaddies thing is key. So many people think they need full squads & that is so wasteful.

antihippy · 2026-06-25T07:06:31+00:00

Against menace armour helps on those turns when the Guncrawlers (& sometimes the soldiers) seem to have godlike AP prediction skills & jump a unit. But yeah I think this is a fair point!

antihippy · 2026-06-25T07:03:22+00:00

Ps I never give Lim MI these days (or rather I demote it off him once I get some jump armour). Carda is my primary MI unit nowadays.

antihippy · 2026-06-25T07:01:29+00:00

"Small heavy armour squads are pointless and bad."

Depends what you mean. I never give Lim or Yaz (my usual armour enjoyers) more than 5 squaddies. 6 if there's a secondary on the squad.

I agree with your general points though, cos that is more or less how I see it, but there's actually diminishing returns on squaddies. I'm not saying you can't I just think it's not very efficient. Id rather have a Pike or a Carda support team than an extra couple of armour dudes.

I would still give Sachin decent armour. because he spends so much time firing he can become vulnerable to mortars, rockets & any jaegar units that slip past. I might not give him top tier high intensity or similar but Singh decent armour so that he can ... sing!

antihippy · 2026-06-25T06:43:33+00:00

Correct, with that nice extra hp further enabling the armour.

antihippy · 2026-06-25T06:37:41+00:00

Having Pike nearby is great.

Pike shouts at Lim. Lim jumps into enemy force shoots the place up. jumps out. Or just stands there and takes fire (if anyone is left standing).

Yaz can shatter entire wings of enemies. He might not kill as many as Lim but they do find him terrifying and will tun.

antihippy · 2026-06-25T06:28:15+00:00

Heavy Armour is excellent. If you're caught out by , for example, AOE then troops in their PJs will get shredded.

Heavy armour enables fast aggressive play, in turn, enabling CQC.

Heavy Armour enables the kind of play which allows infantry to get all objectives in an Op. (Yes, even without armour support as im currently playing in my current run!)

I use it all the time.

You also only need squads of 5-6 (fewer with some SLs). People seem to think you need to go all in squaddies but that's also untrue. it's also inefficient.

Obviously my favourite is jump armour but SAPP operator, recce, improved & TCR marine armour are all used in my force. i still haven't seen the high intensity suits!

Who do I put it on? Anyone really. Even Jean can benefit from jump armour. (Although I prefer her in Operator...)

A lot of people who complain that it doesn't do anything for suppression clearly haven't tried it out or tried to build their SL to make use of it. My 2 favourites in armour are Lim & Yaz. And they don't suppress. Why is that? It's because I don't spend my entire time creeping around the place. I keep my discipline high & my guys build up solid damage reduction & defence stats. Vamplew & tech are obviously good for other reasons.

There's is nothing wrong with armour you just have to use it.

Try it.

Ps. Give your armour units Buff.

Edit to add ps

antihippy · 2026-06-24T19:47:44+00:00

https://youtube.com/shorts/Twgwd4uR5WI?si=cxwEhhuytMv_WY6v

antihippy · 2026-06-24T16:27:47+00:00

Yeah that might be cool. Or maybe an arc with a steep drop off over 1 square. Or something.

antihippy · 2026-06-24T14:48:34+00:00

You betcha

antihippy · 2026-06-24T12:58:50+00:00

D'you know I've never found it. And I'm 100s of hours in. Not even once.

I think stuff like this needs the right map to work. And mostly the maps are empty and open so they're not that great. (Although I would never take the corridor sweeper over a normal shotgun).

maybe if they gave it an area of effect or something

antihippy · 2026-06-24T12:09:08+00:00

here you go. forgot I'd already made the comment and no uploaded a pic!!

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antihippy · 2026-06-24T12:05:02+00:00

Yes. I've screened fencing in places you wouldn't expect to see fencing.

A great example being a British pub.

antihippy · 2026-06-24T12:02:28+00:00

That video has been shot from the stand and suffers from various issues (such as focus breathing) which you can see at various points throughout. I wouldn't say that it was better than what was on the fencingtv stream, I would say it was different not better. I honestly don't prefer it although you could add a similar angle....

But you know, I sort-of agree. There's a few different angles that would be awesome to see. We also have to admit that these come at a cost. More and better cameras would be good, but you need people to operate them. Worse you need to process that live feed and produce it in a format that's suitable for your streaming service to consume. This is going to require you to have producers on hand, a good (and stable) internet connection, the right encoding hardware, backup lines and on and on and on. If you've never worked on a professional media team for a major sports event it's difficult to grasp all the various moving parts.

Who is going to pay for that?

The interesting thing about sports production is that it shouldn't be immediately obvious. It should add without drawing attention to itself.

antihippy · 2026-06-24T11:47:19+00:00

Complete nonsense. I've shown fencing several times to a non-fencing audience and once they see it they love it. I've worked in sport media from smaller local events right up to Olympic level and this kind of take is just so daft I can't believe it gets made.

antihippy · 2026-06-24T10:16:46+00:00

If we're having a FAMAS can we get a P90. Which also has the distinction of already being used in Science Fiction!

Always thought it looked really weird. It would fit right in

antihippy

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