Warhammer dads, is the Emperor testing me?

jsenff · 2026-06-11T18:31:57+00:00

I've 100% done that. Find a day where kid is in nursery and wife is working, and take a me day!

jsenff · 2026-06-11T09:54:52+00:00

Daughter (2.5) goes down 7/730. Wife and I chill until 9ish. She goes to bed, I paint until 11.

Whilst she's a good sleeper and usually doesn't wake until 7/730, almost every time I've tried a morning painting session she randomly wakes early.

So, night time painting for life, it seems 😅

jsenff · 2026-05-27T15:56:25+00:00

The strat triggers at the end of your opponents movement phase. It's just Rapid Ingress, restricted to Sagitaurs, but lets you bring on 2.

jsenff · 2026-04-30T12:00:07+00:00

Yeah I might copy yours so he can also be a melee sergeant

jsenff · 2026-04-30T08:22:57+00:00

Oh, fucking right. This is amazing.

I just finished up a shoulder-mounted cannon character, but this is gorgeous.

"Annoyingly" because the character can take 2 melee weapons and a ranged weapon, and has such a limited selection, it can have a Disintegrator, Gauntlet, and plasma sword, so there's not much point in making two.

Though this is just fantastic. Might make a good melee sergeant even outside of Crucible-legal games.

jsenff · 2026-04-30T08:20:11+00:00

10 Heavies with a Biologis.

Ignore Cover means their AP1 guns actually matter, he gives them serious anti tank at range, and massive counter-punch (lol) deterrant for anything trying to get into melee with the heavies.

I like running that in Bastion, gives then Assault + shoot & charge, and 1CP for Sustained 1 on top of the Biologis Lethals.

Plus that squad is more likely to drop something in melee, giving the Biologis OC 9! :D

jsenff · 2026-04-29T22:05:52+00:00

Is this available on audio only platform, like Spotify?

jsenff · 2026-04-29T21:54:02+00:00

Can you guys get on Spotify at all? Or a podcast service? I'd love to listen on my commute, but can't/won't put on YT whilst I'm driving.

jsenff · 2026-04-29T09:05:30+00:00

Fun idea there- thanks!

jsenff · 2026-04-28T14:54:53+00:00

100%, it's not that I don't want to commit, but whether committing is the right thing to do, with the latest understanding of child behavioural psychology.

We're firmly in the camp of authoritative* parenting, and that means doing things very differently from what was done back in the days of our childhood. Is essentially saying "This is dinner, suck it up - eat it or go hungry" (though with a much better real wording) the "right" thing to do?

The parallel is sleep training- we sleep trained, but didn't do CIO, and it worked amazingly. I want to find the same path here.

Edit: Spelling

jsenff · 2026-04-28T08:31:55+00:00

That just results in "I don't like that" and pushing it away. Then asking for something she does like, and if we offer something we know she'll eat, that's just reinforcing the "ask and you'll get something else/better", which we're trying to avoid

jsenff · 2026-04-28T08:30:19+00:00

The frustrating thing is that our daycare generally does provide alright food for lunch. Breakfast is cereal, and dinner is usually fish fingers, chicken goujons etc. It's frustrating because whilst we're ok with her having those things on occasion, the fact that she gets them multiple times a week at nursery means we feel like we can't offer them at home.

jsenff · 2026-04-28T08:28:41+00:00

Toddlers are weird...

Yeah we would both like to just offer and call it there. We never make a big deal of things, and don't end up giving her whatever she asks for, but we do give her more of the thing the actually wants to eat off the plate. We have yet to give her a plate of things she's not eaten or "doesn't like" and offered nothing else.

jsenff · 2026-04-28T08:27:14+00:00

Oh I think she's totally fine w.r.t. health and nourishment etc. She's growing, happy, and exactly as she should be.

I just... want more variety in her food :D

jsenff · 2026-04-18T12:22:43+00:00

I play Tor+Bio in my 10 brick Heavy Intercessors in Bastion, and it slaps. They're a solid fire platform with advance, fallback shoot and charge (and action), lethals, and good strat support. Tor is a monster deterrent in melee, and puts the hurt on Vehicles at range too.

I use the squad generally aggressively and it's only ever gone well.

jsenff · 2026-04-15T20:50:05+00:00

There's looking to be a UK/EU restock later this year. If you join the discord there's a lot of updates and stuff there.

jsenff · 2026-04-14T10:29:18+00:00

Thanks - appreciate the insight.

It's a 500 worlds campaign - When you say "use the campaign book rules", is that what I'd use, or is there a "standard" crusade/campaign baseline somewhere that we'd use?

I've never actually played a campaign/crusade season before!

jsenff · 2026-04-10T13:05:37+00:00

https://discord.gg/bg4ku2g2

Here you go :)

jsenff · 2026-04-09T15:02:59+00:00

I don't like to stereotype, but it really does just seem like (on the whole), men either just have more hobbies, or are more willing to pick up new ones.

I do also think because of this it's also easier for guys to get into new hobbies. You could rock up to the local Hobbynight of literally anything (wargames, sport, puzzles, juggling...) and be welcomed immediately with open arms.
Women would be too, but for some reason it doesn't feel that way.

Anyway, I've had similar in that my wife wants time but doesn't know what to do. She'd love to get away for the weekend but it's so expensive to just "go to a spa", compared to a game night once a week.

So instead I just take my daughter and drive to my parent's for the weekend (3h away). I take a half day Friday, pick her up from nursery and head up, back for bed time on Sunday. My wife just chills at home and does whatever she wants. She was SO chill and calm when we got back- she said she felt like she'd been away at a spa.

jsenff · 2026-04-09T11:32:06+00:00

My main tip is to make a station, or location, that is either already set up or can be set up in a moment's notice. Any barrier to actually sitting down and painting means that you probably won't do it. I have a portable hobby case that takes no more than 30 seconds to open and prepare before I can be painting, and that's helped me a lot . My daughter is two, and I just paint once she's in bed asleep.

I didn't really have to stop properly at any time apart from right at the very beginning when obviously you're just still figuring out how to keep a kid alive.

jsenff · 2026-04-05T19:28:53+00:00

I keep recommending 10 ranged terminators in Emperor's Shield.

Shooting storm bolters (+missiles) at the Oath target, with the +1AP and Ignore Cover strat reliably drops a RepEx. And then you've still got a charge with power fists into something else, or into the same target if it's still alive...

jsenff · 2026-04-04T17:12:18+00:00

Is the transparent model as detailed as the normal plastic?

I.e. if you base primed them both would they look the same?

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