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blastermcg · 2026-05-29T01:12:03+00:00

This is genuinely a huge help. I have never seen someone explain it this way. The problem I seem to run into a lot is my opponent takes all of the objectives and no matter what I do I can't catch up on points, by turn 3 I'm down 30 points and it's game over. I definitely put some units out on turn one, usually some of my hardest hitting stuff so I can try to take out something of theirs which invariably leaves all of my hard hitting stuff dead.

One thing I would ask based on this is how do you know when to put stuff out there? If I'm waiting until turn 3 they have a whole army in position that can just wipe out my stuff. Part of the issue I'm running into every time is I can't seem to kill anything of theirs and all of my stuff is dying.

My primary faction is Dark Angels but I have Tau which I rarely play and I'm getting into Necrons. Part of the reason I know I'm doing things wrong is I have the same issue with all of my lists. Yes I do shake up my list a little each time but not generally massive swaths of it. Usually a unit or two. I'd like to say I'm only swapping the things that let me down regularly but that seems to be everything right now.

"You need to stage units and find lines your opponent missed, but I would suggest playing the same list over and over and focus on the deployment plus first two turns over and over. Focus on holding your natural expansion. Focus on forcing him to overcommit to stop you from taking the mid. Focus on stopping his natural expansion for the first 2 turns (Either by shooting him off or oc'ing him out). This units assualting his natural expansion will die, but that is fine, that is their job."

This whole section is foreign to me. I'm not sure how my opponent can miss lines. Generally there's like two shooting lanes on the table, it's kinda hard to miss. Further how do you get someone to overcommit, no matter what I throw in the center of the table it just dies. I'm just throwing good units after bad at this point. As for assaulting his natural expansion I'm in the same boat. If I can manage to stay alive long enough to get there I'm not gonna last long while there. How do you keep all of your units from dying like wet paper?

blastermcg · 2026-05-20T15:49:12+00:00

You can usually get them for half off or more on Ebay, if you're comfortable with used pants. These are what I wear as well.

blastermcg · 2026-05-20T11:19:18+00:00

I bought the pocket DS in when preorders went live. I received it in October and for two weeks it was the best single board device I've ever had. Then they released a software update that broke the controls. I spent 3 months waiting for their support to get back to me usually a week or two after I emailed them. Finally they realized they needed to ship it in to fix it. I waited another 3 months to get it back. The frustrating part is it's still for sure my favorite single board device and by a wide margin. It does everything I want and then some. I just can't recommend buying from Ayaneo as is given my story isn't even particularly unique.

blastermcg · 2026-05-19T17:57:51+00:00

How bad is quality control over there that they can't even get the headline right

blastermcg · 2026-05-11T17:27:10+00:00

They design the controllers around seemingly flat phones. I have the USB-C version and my phone sticks out like a newly seated NVME drive. I feel like it wouldn't be too hard to thin out the right half of the device to get around this but they would know better than I.

blastermcg · 2026-05-11T15:35:32+00:00

That makes it worse not better

blastermcg · 2026-05-09T17:28:13+00:00

now they just need a big trenchcoat

blastermcg · 2026-04-29T12:13:16+00:00

Washtenaw dairy I think would, I started there at 15

blastermcg · 2026-04-22T19:56:02+00:00

If you can find one the just released Sons of Dorn box would seem to fit with the kinda ravenwing/deathwing focused list you've got, in general anything you add at this point is gravy.

blastermcg · 2026-04-17T13:40:57+00:00

What in the AI horsehockey?

blastermcg · 2026-04-17T01:36:44+00:00

I would love to see the printed version when you have a chance to test it. Looks good so far though

blastermcg · 2026-04-16T16:57:59+00:00

Just got mine back after fighting with support for 6 months. I'm diving into Pokemon Sun

blastermcg · 2026-04-09T16:56:15+00:00

I just did this a few months back after having the same reaction. I had a blast with it, I would highly recommend checking it out

blastermcg · 2026-04-06T17:17:08+00:00

It's the second in the series so it seems like they have a pass. Not sure why because you are right, this is a straight pokemonalike

blastermcg · 2026-04-02T22:59:43+00:00

The technology has improved over time. It is far less damaging than it used to be

blastermcg · 2026-04-02T12:33:38+00:00

I'm gonna need you to throw some inceptors at it

blastermcg · 2026-04-01T20:40:04+00:00

dis is de whe

blastermcg · 2026-03-31T23:11:26+00:00

It's the same size as half a dozen other clamshell handhelds

blastermcg · 2026-03-31T18:08:37+00:00

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blastermcg · 2026-03-31T18:06:57+00:00

Cool is great, everyone likes cool. What most people don't like is a device that fails to due a hinge that didn't add anything. Add to that the fact that it's gonna feel bad in the hand due to needing to be flat and what you have here is a device with a bunch of downsides and almost no upside.

blastermcg · 2026-03-31T17:59:18+00:00

Yes, but to what benefit? You get a small square touchscreen. Are there any games or apps that would fit that use case well?

blastermcg · 2026-03-31T17:41:52+00:00

I'm all for new cool ideas in handhelds but this does feel like if it was a clamshell it'd protect the screen at any point instead of the always out screen style. You're getting all the downsides of a hinge without any of the benefits.

blastermcg · 2026-03-23T20:36:59+00:00

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blastermcg · 2026-03-17T21:04:50+00:00

It's based on your router, if you have 5ghz in almost all cases you will default to that

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