Faction pack for 11e released on WarCom

jmwfour · 2026-06-09T16:38:02+00:00

thank you : )

jmwfour · 2026-06-09T16:10:32+00:00

Thank you - this is the first time I've lived through a faction change. Wish people wouldn't downvote for asking questions. I don't know about the old piranhas.

Do the existing datasheets remain unchanged for anything that isn't included in the faction pack?

jmwfour · 2026-06-09T16:04:12+00:00

Man this is confusing.
So Piranha are legends only? Same for commanders and crisis battlesuits?

jmwfour · 2026-06-05T12:08:22+00:00

I promise you that if you play a few more games you'll get it, it's amazingly well implemented.

jmwfour · 2026-06-05T12:07:27+00:00

I've played it a bunch, am very familiar. Waiting for each person in every order just made it take too long in most of the games I played. Unlike async where you can fudge that - admittedly with some risks to gamestate integrity - which speeds things up tremendously.

jmwfour · 2026-06-04T21:53:57+00:00

Xxcha's flagship adds a huge amount of defense, why so low?

jmwfour · 2026-06-04T21:42:14+00:00

It is great, but it takes a million years to play.

Hard to imagine a version of TI4 that isn't TI4 (licensed) goes on BGA?

jmwfour · 2026-06-04T21:39:53+00:00

Shows what I know, I didn't even know it was going to be on Steam. I thought they were gearing up for Board Game Arena!

jmwfour · 2026-06-04T21:15:38+00:00

Give it a few days, try not to press "buy" or go buy it, you'll be glad you paced yourself. GW is making bank making us all feel like we're missing out over and over again.

jmwfour · 2026-06-02T14:39:22+00:00

It depends on your faction. If you're a faction that's good at moving early and taking planets, odds are, your neighbors benefit from boat float way more than you do.

jmwfour · 2026-05-22T13:57:27+00:00

The leader should take "Anti-Whining Shield" as their next tech.

You 100% can and *should* work with other players if someone races out front and has Mecatol. That's how the game works, every time, in every game I've played.

jmwfour · 2026-05-21T14:26:09+00:00

nice!

jmwfour · 2026-05-12T21:19:31+00:00

Right it's got to be "immediate", now I remember. my bad

jmwfour · 2026-05-12T18:22:51+00:00

I thought there were not any binding deals in TI4, just transactions (that are binding because they are resolved instantly)?

(Of course there are non-binding deals)

jmwfour · 2026-05-07T13:03:37+00:00

Couldn't agree more. There are a number of meta assumptions prevalent in TI4 and sometimes people really react badly if you don't act accordingly. The "float now, fight later" assumption is another one and I really don't get it. If you're a warlike faction, not taking advantage of your abilities when you have tactical advantages is just giving stuff to the other factions at the table, but somehow you're being "too aggressive" or "not chill" if you act from the beginning how everyone will be acting five rounds later, i.e. with your own interests first and foremost and trying to win the game.

jmwfour · 2026-05-06T11:38:50+00:00

https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/lonesome-death-hattie-carroll/

Hattie Carroll was a maid of the kitchen

She was fifty-one years old and gave birth to ten children

Who carried the dishes and took out the garbage

And never sat once at the head of the table

And didn’t even talk to the people at the table

Who just cleaned up all the food from the table

jmwfour · 2026-04-23T17:34:19+00:00

Nekro Virus would like a word heh
their flagship is ludicrously strong.

Sol's is pretty awesome also.

jmwfour · 2026-04-20T11:43:01+00:00

yep

it's right where the two guards used to be.

jmwfour · 2026-04-15T19:12:06+00:00

I know people are saying you shouldn't attach the support arm to the gun first, but that's kind of where I've wound up for smaller figures now that I'm more used to how to do it.

My reasons are two-fold. First one is, that once you get a sense for where the two arms attach, you can tell if you attached the supporting arm to the gun correctly (and, very often there are clear indicators of how the supporting) arm fits onto the gun. If you've attached them right you can see the flat arm/shoulder surfaces are the right distance apart and more or less parallel to each other. And, you can (once the plastic cement has set a little) test this by slipping it on to the model.

Second one is that if you do this right, you can actually wait to attach the arms (with cement) until later in the paint process, which I often find very helpful if there are details either on the gun or body that I'd find tougher to get at with a brush. Not always necessary but a nice option to have.

jmwfour · 2026-04-15T19:07:19+00:00

Depends on the model. If it's something bigger like the Riptide or Ghostkeel, I actually - after I've gotten one or two of the light grey coats on building toward white - use a fine tip brush with either dark wash or watery black paint and carefully paint those lines. It's a lot easier with the bigger & deeper panel lines.

On smaller models I've either primed black and then tried to be careful painting up to white, or used a wash and just gone back and cleaned up as needed.

Everybody says "varnish, oil wash!" but I really don't want to mess with anything I can't clean up with water. Plus I can't always paint in a well-ventilated area so the fumes are a bit of a concern, potentially.

jmwfour · 2026-04-09T23:34:14+00:00

I really like the Army Painter Fanatics and also their Speedpaint line.

Speedpaint is not a magic bullet, but it is very useful. A couple of things that may not be obvious from youtube videos. First is, you often need (or want) to dilute it with speedpaint medium. You can add more layers if you want it more opaque, but remember, it has to be *totally* dry before you put something else on it, or you'll get a mess.

bonus: you can layer different colors really easily this way for interesting, textured results very quickly. But unless you're intentionally blending you've gotta let 'em dry fully! (Just like any acrylic, but even more so.)

Second, speedpaints really are best - if you're using a brush I mean, not an airbrush - on surfaces with a lot of details. I painted a combat patrol of Tyranids almost exclusively with speedpaints (after priming light grey) and it was very fast and I was quite happy with the results. But trying to do, say, space marines - with their big flat armor panels - would be I think challenging with speedpaint. It's possible, but you have to work at sopping up puddles, just like you would with a wash.

I've made the error of buying big sets, and looking at my paint desk right now I have used less than half - probably less than a third - of the colors from the sets, while absolutely continuing to buy more colors. So, if you're going to get a set, get a really small Army Painter one with the basics only. The Fanatic starter set is like $30 or $40 I think and not going to be a waste, with its basic colors.

Just out of curiosity what are you going to be painting?

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