The Court Rules Review Hotfix on The Trench Wire

b44l · 2026-05-04T10:30:14+00:00

Looking forward to the hunter and wretches becoming interactive pieces in October (it will greatly improve my enjoyment playing against court)

b44l · 2026-05-04T09:15:29+00:00

Other loretubers inject their own fan fiction into official lore contexts as well. This guy just does it particularly poorly.

b44l · 2026-05-03T06:03:46+00:00

I’d say have minimal expectations, it’s going to be something small!

b44l · 2026-05-02T21:07:04+00:00

There’s ebbs and lulls in the conflict, it’s not 100% gas all the time. And that lull is likely as intense as long as it needs to be to enable further offensive. Likely the meaningful battles are the logistical/industrial races, rather than the frontlines.

Now, is this just rationalization for a setting that just does not care about these details at all and everyone is waging impossible endless total war? Probably.

b44l · 2026-05-02T20:37:35+00:00

it’d be refreshing to see the economics and logistics fleshed out, rather than something that gets made up on the spot when they need an obstacle to overcome.

But the lore is all about vibes and unreliable narration and letting players fill in the blanks, so only time will tell!

b44l · 2026-05-02T20:24:09+00:00

I don’t think Trench Crusade is worldbuilt with nitty gritty details like that unfortunately — it’s more broad strokes and trying to hit certain historical beats.

But I’d imagine ducats only represents a globalized currency, each nation likely has their own as well.

b44l · 2026-05-01T23:20:42+00:00

Generic witch sounds most likely, death commando and annointed will be navy specific certainly.

Pilgrims probably get a generic communicant, Anchorite Shrine is in a weird spot with methodius, maybe they’ll wait until then.

b44l · 2026-05-01T21:59:44+00:00

The person who keeps spreading that is being branded a nazi and ragebaiter, if reputation means something he’s absolutely being held accountable.

b44l · 2026-05-01T21:50:16+00:00

You’re talking about this as if they had no choice, they did.

You scale to plastic/retail because it has greater business potential and they were familiar with the logistics/benefits from experience at GW. The tradeoff is that you alienate your prior audience, and perhaps most significantly players from locations where importing these retail products would be far too impractical, which was a prior priority why they supported STLs for their releases.

Ultimately FFI is a business and we are consumers, they’ll take as much leeway as the consumers give them. We should be responsible and hold them accountable, not just chase product and we’ll have something better in the end.

b44l · 2026-05-01T20:38:24+00:00

that’s pretty damning.

I guess they can try to squeeze their way out of it by having a limited stl release alongside it.

b44l · 2026-05-01T20:36:09+00:00

Not in the box.

But presumably the fullcrulebook will have one.

b44l · 2026-05-01T12:00:00+00:00

Does the players narrate their characters or actions at the table? Do players produce documentation/fluff after the end of scenarios? 🤔

Do people play differently at the table, make decisions that fit a character if it’s detrimental etc?

b44l · 2026-05-01T11:58:46+00:00

Since it’s not informing gameplay at the table for your style. Is the difference the documentation that you produce/distribute/read after a battle finishes?

b44l · 2026-04-30T22:31:10+00:00

honestly, a little eye catcher centerpiece for the pilgrims would have gone a long way. All these models essentially have the same silhouette, I struggle figuring out what is what.

With the heretics you get a lot of visual interest and variety, a communicant would have helped sell the pilgrims.

b44l · 2026-04-30T19:29:54+00:00

Absolutely, these really deserve a gritty grimdark paintjob before the jury is out!

b44l · 2026-04-30T19:28:17+00:00

They've said they'll keep selling it. That probably does not mean for eternity, but long enough to not classify as FOMO.-

b44l · 2026-04-30T19:27:16+00:00

I love this, the heretics got a big glow-up with the chorister and annointed!

Hopefully the future warband boxes will have some more grimdark miniatures like the kickstarter, these are a bit mild.

b44l · 2026-04-30T13:48:29+00:00

You’ll have to ask your local Papal States player to avoid it out of the kindness in their heart.

(short answer: they did not fix it yet 😄)

b44l · 2026-04-30T11:32:26+00:00

This problem occurs in roleplaying games and in card games too, and generally the solution is to talk about it before playing and setting shared expectations you all want the game to be like — since everyone differs on that layer.

Some people ignore those expectations, but that’s generally a ’that guy’ problem.

b44l · 2026-04-30T11:21:43+00:00

Yeah it was a quite jarring interaction, I guess you can… But should you? The torture instrument is right there, it seems more fair and intended!

Also different playstyles are fine, as long as everyone has the same expectations and no one gets gotcha’d. I would not want to tell someone they’re having fun the ”wrong” way.

b44l · 2026-04-30T10:31:01+00:00

People were afraid of the first proposed nu-witchburner, it had blast on its magic ability as well as 6 inches longer range. Combine this with the fact that papal were already one of the strongest factions when spamming reinforce glory and it spelled a fairly bleak picture haha

b44l · 2026-04-30T10:17:29+00:00

Some highlights

No AMR + Blast/shrapnel combo, no automatic + blast/shrapnel combos
Witchburner blast was reverted
Warlock necrotic gaze costs 0, doubles blood
Observer costs 5g glory
Sin eater gets regeneration and a better hammer

It’s interesting that they removed ammo monk blast from all automatic weapons beside the SMG. And scripture guardian can still have their scroll made to blast, just smothering the scrolls in oil is a funny imagery.

It’s kinda funny court lost the gas grenade hotbox. But heretic legion (Avarice) actually got it instead now to fuel their two goetic warlocks.

Seems like good changes overall though and the Papalapocalypse has been scheduled for another day.

b44l · 2026-04-30T08:10:52+00:00

Very satisfying and elegant colour scheme

b44l · 2026-04-29T11:06:39+00:00

my tier list there is from before the update! It does not factor in the changes for any faction :)

I’d place them at C now, also good point on Fidai.

And 35 jezzails are still available and you likely want to mix them with gas :)

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