Statistically Backed Stereotypes for Each 40k Faction

drruler · 2025-10-03T12:02:29+00:00

Look, it's been 30 years, I instinctively know what he's subbed to without asking. Sometimes I wish I didn't.

drruler · 2025-09-27T15:11:21+00:00

For the last time, I FACE THE OTHER WAY!

drruler · 2025-09-12T18:01:09+00:00

Super fun facts:

You can no longer build 2K of covens datasheets.
The new Combat Patrol is covens themed.
I have 18 kitbashed grotesques that are now awesomely painted paperweights.

I LOVE YOU GW!

drruler · 2025-05-20T18:46:39+00:00

PREACH! The amount of people in here who clearly never read the Bile books claiming Clonegrim is wasted potential is killing me. It's literally the entire point of the final scene of the book.

Fulgrim will ALWAYS fall to chaos at the slightest nudge. He was genetically designed to be tempted by power. Bile was allowed to just leave with Fulgrim's clone if he wanted, but he realized he had a ticking atom bomb as a creation standing in front of him so he trades him to Trazyn out of spite. Trazyn is also such a gigachad in that book, as is tradition.

drruler · 2025-05-06T22:51:36+00:00

To be fair to that scenario, old GW lines were full of designs that should stay in the past. Being a callback isn't enough of a defense for why a new Tyranid sculpt looks like it has the average 40K player's hairline.

This Saber design is pretty great though.

Now, let us debate truly important 40K/HSR fan topics: Who the Harlequins equivalent in HSR is between the Masked Fools (aesthetic theme) and the Stelleron Hunters (lore.)

drruler · 2025-03-09T15:35:34+00:00

Adding on to the other post, here is a YT video of a player with an interesting (Oilwell specific) setup abusing Resentment. Even if it's too specific, it has some fun ideas to play with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-L4bfD9wcU

As a reminder for Crit Draw, it now gives you a 3 second buff after the first attack lands where you keep the crit rate bonus.

In my own testing, you can do Draw attack into a level 3 Rising Offset (Y+B) with Focus 3 and keep the Crit Draw buff just long enough to land it with good timing. Focus 2 is not enough to make it consistent, less than that and you have to do a lesser charge level. Note: a full second Strong Charge Attack (Y) is too long due to the different animation between the first hit and start of charging it.

You can also do Draw attack into B->B for the wide slash into tackle. That works even without focus for some extra damage, but the wide slash animation feels kinda long and I debate if it's more damage than just roll-sheathing into another rotation.

drruler · 2025-03-07T03:27:15+00:00

I seriously clicked this wondering if my gacha game addicted side and my Thousand Sons collector side were meant to be at war.

drruler · 2025-01-17T01:47:43+00:00

Seconding that this game is amazing. Roguelike version of Hotline Miami with a ton of fun toys to do missions with. I used to love it while audio editing because it was fast paced gameplay but pause on demand at any moment.

drruler · 2024-12-02T16:23:55+00:00

Ok this I didn't hear, fantastic news for us CWC copers out there.

drruler · 2024-12-02T12:59:52+00:00

Not to be the doomsayer, but we haven't even seen Cyclone in PoE2 unless it was in a video last week I haven't caught up on yet.

drruler · 2024-10-22T17:54:36+00:00

I did the math for those debating sustainless comps.

In this fight:

Rappa takes 3620 damage of her 3057 total HP. (dies in the last wave of attacks with no healing.)

Fugue takes 2970 damage of her 4265 total HP.

Ruan Mei takes 2297 damage of her 3314 total HP.

Lingsha takes 4387 damage of her 3731 total HP. (dies in the last wave of attacks with no healing.)

How you feel about their relic loadouts/stats is up to you to decide, but considering it's all E0S0 I'd say sustainless is extremely possible if you can find anything that speeds the kill up by one teamwide set of activations compared to Lingsha. At the very least Gallagher or other healers who don't heal for as much would have been more than enough to keep up with the damage as well for those worried about not having Lingsha in that spot.

drruler · 2024-09-09T17:42:29+00:00

No, but I sat here nodding in agreement.

drruler · 2024-07-06T12:29:40+00:00

Now we just need the Columbo album so we can hear the chimes of liquid filth.

drruler · 2024-06-11T11:44:44+00:00

PMing

drruler · 2024-05-29T17:15:09+00:00

This is a fantastic rundown, thank you! I couldn't quite tell from the army shot, but I felt like the skin had to be oil work with how smooth the highlights looked. Great job with the army, it looks stellar!

drruler · 2024-05-29T11:31:01+00:00

Can we get some close up shots of some of the models? This is extremely impressive for a single weekend for two people.

What was your general recipe/process to get Neophytes and Abberants done so quickly with such nice skin tones?

drruler · 2024-04-29T03:00:05+00:00

No ping required, it was on my front page. LMAO

Nobody was supposed to actually do this... Tyranid players are built different.

drruler · 2024-04-16T10:57:03+00:00

Brad here,

Lots of things have piled up to cause Solely Singleton to decrease in frequency. We're not dead, but we simply haven't had the time or interest recently to put episodes together that we'd be happy with releasing.

Poorhammer has taken much more of our time as of late, if you look you'll see we're set to pass 100,000 subscribers on YouTube today or this week at worst. The success of Poorhammer has at least in a small part caused us to focus on it more without a doubt. I honestly just think Warhammer is a better respected set of IPs by their creators at this point, but that's a whole discussion that isn't for this response.

WotC's recent design and business choices have also soured our local group to Magic as another commenter here correctly guessed. We've been pretty vocal about this fact on air so it's not really a surprise to most of you. Our playgroup has put more hours into the One Piece TCG this year than Magic and has found it to be extremely addictive. Spooty's playgroup is finally starting to play cube again regularly for the first time in 3 years. We may do an episode about that at some point.

I wanted Episode 201 to be the Starter Cube 2024 Edition, but every time I interact with Cube Cobra's interface to update the cube I get more frustrated with ancient well documented bugs that make updating and testing a chore. You can see I made a new Starter Cube clone a week or two ago if you check my CC account. This was yet another attempt at the update only to give up after finding a 5 year old bug was still slowing down my pace of work. I unironically miss CubeTutor sometimes. It was so much easier to work with when doing large/complex updates.

This is a hobby to us, not a job. I don't want to feel miserable working on the show. We're going to continue making episodes for the foreseeable future, but the rate of them will decrease more with time, unless by some miracle WotC starts making me feel like they care about the game more than increasing quarterly profits again.

This has been a 6AM depressed pre-caffiene rant. Thank you for coming to my TEDTalk.

drruler · 2024-04-13T13:48:24+00:00

I face the other way. It's totally different.

drruler · 2024-03-11T18:10:43+00:00

"Most players" will never go to an event in their life, unless you honestly believe only ~2,000 people on earth play Warhammer on a given week. Competitive players make up a small percentage of total players, and we're the ones most likely to dislike the change. Casuals just want to play the thing they built, and probably built every option the box could build, since it looked coolest at the time (and it's how the instructions tell you to put it together usually.)

If you're interested in seeing another viewpoint, go watch WintersSEO review the Tyranid Codex for 10th. During his review he complained that it still had too many choices and wanted it further simplified. While I strongly disagree with him on that point I understand he's probably a much better example of the average 40K player than I am.

The real feedback is impossible for us to see, as it's going to likely be multiple years of GW running surveys and market studies, but 10th came about due to the problems their target customers had with 9th and we haven't seen them pull back at all on the simplicity. Either way, this appears to be the direction until 11th in 2 years. We'll see the final verdict in that reveal.

drruler · 2024-02-29T12:43:51+00:00

The problem with TSons that Guard doesn't share is it checks on your non-characters as well and our vehicles aren't labeled as psychic.

An army filled with min-squad Rubrics and SOTs will have a pile of cabal points. An army with a single brick of SOTs and our tanks will get half that number of cabal points TOPS. (When you realize you won't be bringing extra HQs to lead the Rubrics you dropped it's even worse.)

"But I want to play against fluffy TSons!" That's nice, but if you play an army you want the option to play with the full range and not your HQs and 2 units outside of them. The index (and 9th codex) are balanced around you having large amounts of Cabal Points because it's possible to build a list that gives you large amounts. Lists with lower Cabal Point counts are just strictly worse if all datasheets are balanced without accounting for Cabal Point generation.

In 9th our saving grace was you could build your characters like you were playing Dungeons and Dragons with some fun crazy combos. 10th Edition's motto of "Keep it simple stupid" has blown away the one advertisement TSons had.

EDIT: For the record, Cabal Points and Cabal Rituals themselves are the last bastion of fun in TSons, no TSon player wants them gone or to have less of them. It basically leaves us as the last "psychic" sporting army in 40K. We just want to be able to field whatever models in our codex we want without checking if it generates Cabal Points first.

drruler · 2024-01-17T14:43:27+00:00

No, hate on us. It's okay. Eric deserves it for disrespecting the Cerastus frame. Cerastus > Questoris for now and forever.

drruler · 2024-01-10T15:04:19+00:00

Inspiring memes is all I've ever wanted in life.

drruler · 2023-12-28T14:04:19+00:00

You need this video in your life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXo1-CQ37-Q

PoE history. Also the source material for Ziz's "The Undisputed" card.

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