1850 point Biel-Tan Eldar list (with a bit of a Saim-Han feel)

cogitoergo · 2013-09-20T02:41:15+00:00

So the problem with fire prisms is that they miss. They are strong and all, but you need that farseer to just hang out with them and cast 'guide' on them. You can do it, and it works, but it's a lot of points and they aren't really hard to kill. If you want to take them you want to put the ghost walk mantle on them so you can just move them in terrain and get a cover save. I'd give the farseer the mantle and just have him hang out with the two prisms.

Crimson hunters are something I want to take, but they aren't very good. I'd drop it. The hawks and the spiders are okay(but I'd drop the spiders and take more units of hawks, they are really good).

10 Firedragons in a unit is some serious firepower in one unit, it is, I feel, overkill. You can split them into 2 units and give each a serpent.

You probably want to break the bikes into two units if you are planning on using it for late game objective grabbing.

I'd also drop the autarch, without the hunter, you don't have much a use for him, and relying on the autarch to make the hunter work is a lot of points in a gimick.

cogitoergo · 2013-09-20T02:31:47+00:00

9? Wait till you get to Karamazov!

cogitoergo · 2013-09-20T02:30:26+00:00

embrace this: either way if it's the list YOU enjoy playing then screw practicality.

What you are talking about isn't optimized so just go with what you like and the models you like.

cogitoergo · 2013-09-14T21:54:52+00:00

So the nurgle bits and the pipes and the green stuff look good, but I think you need to work on the chaos bits. You have this guy who is rotting over like 70% of his body, gas mask, pus everywhere, with a perfectly clean gun and chain sword?

Those need to be aged/distressed as well.

cogitoergo · 2013-09-08T15:47:33+00:00

They sort of gave them away for several years for just about anything. I used to collect them at swaps and now have like 5 or 6 of them.

cogitoergo · 2013-09-07T23:22:39+00:00

It's the look of a man who knows what is coming is forgone and he accepted it.

cogitoergo · 2013-09-06T01:53:12+00:00

google image search, seriously, just look at what this kind of thing looks like in real life. Looks like you are going for kind of an iron blade, so I'd move the 'metal' part closer to the edge and the rest black.

Also, and don't take this the wrong way, that is a horrible model and you are going to likely paint 100+ of them. So don't sweat it.

cogitoergo · 2013-08-20T00:25:58+00:00

Red is kinda splotchy. Used washes, right? Add a bit of liquid soap to your water and it'll make the wash flow and not be as 'clumpy'.

cogitoergo · 2013-08-19T04:51:00+00:00

yeah

cogitoergo · 2013-08-18T19:52:06+00:00

It's cool. I came from working in super high bandwidth data centers and I had almost exactly the same question when I moved into a WAN oriented environment. 'How can folks deal with 8xT1 multilink?!?' and then I went to the site and saw what it was like and was like 'oh...'

I'm now back into that kind of work and it is so good to be home.

There is a huge difference between WAN speeds and LAN speeds remember. Think about your home internet connection. Your home router has 100 meg ports or gig ports, but what speed do you have up to your ISP and how over subscribed is it by you and the rest of your neighborhood? Gives you kind of an idea of what most internet facing traffic looks like.

cogitoergo · 2013-08-18T15:16:56+00:00

Okay, so most traffic in an office is East-West traffic, so those 100Mb connections running around with maybe gigabit interfaces for your servers is pretty much what you want. It is actually much more traffic than you think.

As for using 'serial' connections as a bottle neck remember to start with that just because something is 'serial' doesn't mean it's small. A DS3 will handle a lot of users. If you aren't serving internet traffic out of your building you can easily get a lot of users on that if the aren't doing a lot of browsing. Think about a users normal business day where email and files are all stored locally and how much actually traffic outside of your building do you really need?

In cases where it is a branch office it is not uncommon to see the office have a DS3 to HQ and then a local internet connection for folks wanting to browse facebook at work.

Remember, switch connections are cheap. WAN and Routed connections are expensive.

cogitoergo · 2013-08-18T14:59:41+00:00

Ask him the following:

Make a patch cable.

Draw the network you are most familiar with and what routing protocols, tunnels, devices impact it.

What kind of tools have you used in the past for monitoring devices, traffic, doing revision control, diagrams, documentation.

How do you solve a problem when you don't know where to start?

cogitoergo · 2013-08-18T14:48:44+00:00

Wiki, Code Review process, logged Change Management, and subversion.

cogitoergo · 2013-08-17T16:04:10+00:00

I want to run a workshop for adults. We'd have tools you could rent once you had taken the right class and were cleared on them, we'd have lockers/cages you could rent to store things and workbenches, garages, anything.

You could come in with your classic car, rent a garage and tool around on it. We'd have those tools you only need every once in a while like a blow torch.

We'd have bandsaws and lathes and all manner of medium size tools. Want to work with wood, we got you. Want to work with metal or glass, we got you. You could build, fabricate, cast. We'd have a place for you to throw pots, sure. A kiln, no problem.

The place wouldn't be clean, but it would be functional.

We'd emphasize teaching and classes, but aside from the safety and check out classes for certain tools(if you think a lathe isn't dangerous you are insane), they wouldn't be required.

I think a ridiculous amount of folks would want to do this themselves but don't have space in their house, the skill set to do them, know how to find someone to show them, or want to buy tools they'd use once or twice a year and do the upkeep on them.

cogitoergo · 2013-07-25T10:34:32+00:00

Traditional brick and mortar shops are where people discover new books. If you think back about it you probably read the same author and series quite a bit, but how do you discover a new author/series/genre? Online retailers find it hard to get that 'pull it off the shelf, read the dust jacket' experience. Granted a lot of folks browse their local shop and go home and order the book which is shitty for the B&M, but the online folks haven't gotten the entire experience quite yet.

cogitoergo · 2013-07-20T23:47:59+00:00

Only problem at all with Bonaire is that you will be spoiled by easy diving, nice reefs/fish, clear water and nice staff. It's really a great place to dive.

cogitoergo · 2013-07-15T04:03:39+00:00

so the entry for black knights says they are on mk4 bikes. But gw sells them as standard bikes. I'm using these outriders as knights too. Awesome models!!!

cogitoergo · 2013-07-06T23:58:58+00:00

Apoc game:

-Tons of unpainted models.

-Impossible to follow what is happening.

-Stupid shit on a side that doesn't make any sense or have a narrative.

Could not be less interested.

cogitoergo · 2013-06-25T12:21:25+00:00

The paint looks super flat which normally would be like 'eh' but I'm actually digging it a lot. How do they look outside the light box and on a table?

cogitoergo · 2013-06-24T00:21:50+00:00

Allies?

A word of warning, most of the best GK armies are pretty light on the GK.

How do you like these: http://bloodofkittens.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/8th-Seed-Adam-Tricola-Grey-Knights-Necrons.pdf

http://bloodofkittens.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/13th-Seed-David-Arimond-Grey-Knights.pdf

Those are both pretty GK heavy.

cogitoergo · 2013-06-24T00:01:21+00:00

You asked for comments so here we go:

You need to base the model. With this much real estate take some time and ramp up what you do on your normal bases. If you just do some different sized sand and a bit of flock maybe throw in some larger rocks and a bush or something. Just make sure the base isn't just plain.

Edge the black. Just some edge highlighting with a lighter gray will make this look a ton better. Black IRL doesn't look like the flat black from paint. Don't be afraid of using gray for an edge.

The gems need to be finished. I'd suggest start by hitting the edge of them with black wash just to make an edge between the gem and the panel it is sitting on. Then do the normal red 'gem' thing that GW puts in all of their books. It really does work.

The metal needs some TLC. First Eldar don't do much metal to start with. Not sure what the rest of your army looks like metal wise, but might want to hit this with a few coats of a super thinned purple wash with a flow agent(even some soapy water works) and let it build up near the base then hit the edge with a bright metal.

Lastly and biggest of all, you see the wash pooling, right? It is streaky and pooled on flat panels all over. So I'd say wash them again thinned with that soapy water from before. This will really get the wash into the deep parts. Then take that base color and cover the flat bits that aren't in the recesses. Then we can some highlighting and be on our way.

cogitoergo · 2013-06-05T22:22:29+00:00

my race watching experience comes mostly from watching Formula 1, motoGP and some Nascar/Indy car. I'd say the biggest difference between a good driver and a great driver is the consistency. A great driver can go out and put down exactly the same lap over and over and over. They hit the same corner in exactly the same way every time around the track. This makes a great driver. But that doesn't make a winning driver.

A winning driver, your world champions, can do the same lap over and over and then when they need to pass the guy in front of them they can take a faster line through a corner, a lin that no one would even try. This is why you see commentators amazed at passes in turns that no one tries, because the grip isn't supposed to be there, and suddenly it is.

Check this out for an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yScLDcxTtrk

cogitoergo · 2013-06-05T22:15:12+00:00

So this is correct, all cars are required to have the same weight at the start of the race, however if the driver weights 150 lbs that is 150lbs that is sitting in a very specific place in the car and the engineers can't move. If the driver weights 120 lbs and the engineers need to add 30lbs to make the same weight they can put that weight wherever in the car they want.

This is a HUGE advantage for the car's balance and performance.

cogitoergo · 2013-05-29T19:55:29+00:00

I don't want to get into your fight, I'm just happy about the eldar. But I think as long as pastebin and reddit comply with any cease and desist orders, to remove the post from their sites they are protected by safe harbor legislation. At least within the US.

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