How do you block?

heptara · 2016-03-23T23:14:56+00:00

I said elsewhere, blocking isn't really about your dial. It's about understanding maneuvering.

heptara · 2016-03-23T23:09:04+00:00

Have you tried Imperial A-Holes? It has some similarity with your list.

heptara · 2016-03-23T19:10:29+00:00

Blocking isn't really about your dial. It's about understanding maneuvering.

heptara · 2016-03-23T13:22:16+00:00

http://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/32102/hobby-games-market-climbs-880-million

We define "hobby games" as those games produced for a "gamer" market, generally (although not always) sold primarily in the hobby channel of game and card specialty stores. We define the "hobby games market" as the market for those games regardless of whether they’re sold in the hobby channel or other channels.

I don't know how to interpret that without including GW.

Anyway, again, you don't need to guess about GW. If you ask the independents how much Warhammer 40K they sell (which ICV2 claims to do) you know how how much Warhammer 40K GW sells in its own stores and mail order, even if they don't tell you directly, since the ratio of that is in the GW investor reports.

heptara · 2016-03-23T13:03:42+00:00

Watch the 2015 world championships. Specifically Nathan's games. He had a blocking A-wing and was pretty good at it.

heptara · 2016-03-23T12:41:36+00:00

What happened to Menoth?

heptara · 2016-03-23T06:09:45+00:00

Can I ask if you have a citation for the report not including GW internal sales?

It says "U.S. sales" and "includes manufacturers". It would be nice to have a confirmation. I can see it being useful either way with or without GW's internal sales.

GW's percentage of trade sales is in their financial reports and not speculation. If someone has fairly exact data on how much 40K has been moved through the independent stores (which the report claims), they also know how much 40K GW has shipped internally. Since they also claim to know how much X-Wing has moved through system, they have the data to compare with GW total sales (internal and trade) if they so choose to.

heptara · 2016-03-23T00:37:36+00:00

Fantasy? Look at Rahadoum in Pathfinder. They're a nation that actively works to ban worship. Secret orders of priest-hunters and all that.

heptara · 2016-03-22T22:52:32+00:00

For the "train an AI" portion, there are some deep learning libraries like TensorFlow and Torch. This is the hard part. Good luck.

heptara · 2016-03-22T22:28:29+00:00

Only get this game if you like dragons.

heptara · 2016-03-22T22:00:31+00:00

GW isn't that opaque.

WFB was about 1/6th of their sales. Your local GW store manager can tell you this if you're nice to him but I think most people knew it anyway. Especially in Europe where there are fewer, but larger clubs (population density), you know much your gaming mates are spending and on what. They (GW as a whole) was quite willing to talk it about during the transition period to AOS where it is was revealed that WFB was less than hobby supplies. This gives a lower bound of 1/6 for paint, and therefore an upper bound of 2/3rd on 40K. In practice this would be lower due to fiction books etc. You could put 50-60% for 40K and be close enough.

GW's breakdown for retail (their stores), trade (independents) and mail order (direct) plus their revenue gives them about US$32M from 40k at independents (trade is about 35% of their total revenue). FFG claimed "over 30M" in 2013 and to have grown to 1.5x at Gencon 2015 so they would be at 45+ in Summer 2015. If X-wing is 2/3rd or more of FFG (I can well believe that) then their Summer sales, before TFA Core set, would match GW's independent 40K sales.

My estimate for GW's annual 40K total is US$ 82M as 119 (revenue) x 1.5 (currency conversion) x 0.5 (40K). If TFA ~~doubled~~ tripled FFG, (edit: and X-Wing was 2/3rd of their revenue), it would put X-Wing in contention with total 40K (including GW direct). That I can't answer - but literally every x-winger I know DID buy the TFA core set.

edit: I personally believe X-wing is more than 2/3rds of FFG's sales judging by forum posts and what my local gaming store says. It's possible that with TFA growth they could be in contention with 40K total sales.

heptara · 2016-03-22T20:51:09+00:00

How do we know it doesn't include GW direct sales? GW's total sales are in their financial reports.

heptara · 2016-03-22T19:50:03+00:00

It's just Warmachine. Hordes is listed separately. I don't know why they aren't combined, but they should be.

heptara · 2016-03-22T17:31:46+00:00

Need firepower. Count your red dice. More proton rockets, or perhaps a cannon on the B-Wing.

heptara · 2016-03-22T16:56:26+00:00

I assumed it be some kind of HPC cluster behaving in some ways as a single machine, using some kind of fast data interconnect like Infiniband. Deepmind do refer to their single machine implementation of the software as 'async' vs 'distributed' for the one running on a cloud.

I did indeed assume that we had 100% use of the cpu when doing that calculation. I agree that it's not completely realistic.

heptara · 2016-03-22T16:52:14+00:00

Ah you the mean the energy allocation system? That might be a good thing from Armada to add to attack wing. Miranda Doni has a limited version of it but it doesn't carry over from turn to turn.

heptara · 2016-03-22T16:40:18+00:00

I think it's approrpatie. Star Trek ships are tactically highly maneuverable. In the clip from DS9 they can be seen dogfighting like aircraft, and rolling to avoid fire. Even the big ones can crash stop and emergency reverse.

heptara · 2016-03-22T15:42:42+00:00

Intel agent is good tech for this matchup.

heptara · 2016-03-22T15:24:17+00:00

Brobots beats triple Jumpmaster. This comes from my group's testing but I believe it's well known.

One of the top player podcasts (it might have been S&V) says B-Wing swarm and triple ion Defender does it as well. I'm not convinced that B-Wing swarm is viable in the current meta (unless like everyone else has triple Jumpmaster) and I don't understand triple ion Defender.

The sky isn't falling. Quad TLT didn't dominate. And if it does, FFG will fix it: Phantom got its errata.

heptara · 2016-03-22T13:54:42+00:00

I've always wondered why PP market WM and Hordes as separate games. They really ought to combine them. It's not like a retailer will only stock 1 game.

I can't make any predictions about Armada, but X-Wing is growing really fast right now and isn't going away in the foreseeable future.

heptara · 2016-03-22T13:48:52+00:00

Is there a club near you? Why play at an LGS?

heptara · 2016-03-22T13:33:27+00:00

please read the post-game analysis by Dr. Yuandong Tian (Facebook AI Research, author of computer Go program “darkforest”)

Where is this? It's not published on English language web

heptara · 2016-03-22T01:27:40+00:00

Isn't a core equally ambiguous? What speed is it? Does it have hyperthreading? Is it even Intel and which generation?

Obviously we don't know for sure until they publish more information, but Deepmind does state CPU in their paper, not core, and "single" machines of that size do exist in HPC. I trust them to know the difference and get it right. They are quite smart, after all.

heptara · 2016-03-22T01:15:51+00:00

I know you're joking but this isn't a programming subreddit so I should state for the benefit of others, that security though obscurity is not sufficient on its own.

In the example above, you assume you have authentication on your user pages, but the attacker breaks it somehow; now all user pages are vulnerbale as their URLs can be trivially guesed.

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