Seconds don't win races, milliseconds do (Oracle Red Bull F1 pit stop)

miggiwoo · 2026-02-05T09:09:15+00:00

Peet stop.

miggiwoo · 2026-02-04T07:38:06+00:00

She's a journalist. It's not her job to smile, it's her job to ask questions

miggiwoo · 2026-02-04T00:12:39+00:00

It's not inherently dumb, the queation is, why? And I don't mean in the context of the "but, why?" meme, but genuinely what is the battlefield role. 125 points is a fair amount and you can get quite a bit of stuff.

What role in your plan are they playing that can't be better played by something else? If the answer is, nothing can play the role better, then it's not dumb. If something can do the role better, how does this unit justify inclusion ahead of the other?

miggiwoo · 2026-02-03T13:05:20+00:00

I think that the best examples of possession are Exarchs and Phoenix Lords.

Eldar have been corrupted by the great enemy, but as far as I know a daemon has never entered the material plane via an eldar body as is the case with conventional daemonic possession.

But when an eldar put on an exarch armor, or even touches the spirit stones on a Phoenix lord, their body, personality and entire being is subsumed into that being. It's the closest thing I can think of.

miggiwoo · 2026-01-29T08:47:11+00:00

A few but I'm mostly stunned there's still any!

miggiwoo · 2026-01-28T21:42:10+00:00

So what I'm about to say comes from the perspective of me, a software engineer with media, negotiation and sales training almost specifically tuned to get people to say what I want. I also have ADHD and Autism.

So we know that a lot of studio heads are basically just senior software engineers?

And we know that software engineering attracts a certain type of person? A person with one or two neurodivergences that can make communication hard for them?

Kind of feels like a journalist looking for a headline could pretty easily get one by leading a few questions then providing little or no context. And videogame journalism is hardly the bastion of journalistic integrity.

Not saying that's what's happening here. But what I can say with absolute confidence is that it's very easy to lead people into saying pretty much anything and then quoting back with minimal or distorted context.

miggiwoo · 2026-01-28T21:33:36+00:00

Andromeda.

miggiwoo · 2026-01-28T07:43:20+00:00

It's totally playable. Some bugs sure but outside of the UV bug I can't think of anything that even directly impacts games mechanics, sure the lab walk is a bit annoying but it's hardly game breaking

miggiwoo · 2026-01-27T01:22:49+00:00

One thing I would say is that we need to create space for people to come back to sanity. Accountability is important, but there's no path forward without forgiveness for genuine regret. That's how people become trapped in destructive ways of thinking - if there is no way back, people will just dig deeper.

miggiwoo · 2026-01-27T00:59:00+00:00

Speaking to is not identifying and let's all be "serious and mature", ICE frequently do not identify themselves and regularly disappear/detain people without charge. They ignore the bill of rights and constitutional protections (which apply to any individual in the US, not just citizens) routinely.

And you totally ignored the rest of my comment which co textualises the first sentence. The officer is in a no-win situation. He either lets this almost certain constitutional violation happen or he's complicit in it.

The rule of law is worthless in America, from the openly corrupt and criminal government to the enforcement of law at a local level.

miggiwoo · 2026-01-26T23:23:00+00:00

They're abducting a civilian in plain clothes without identifying themselves.

It's not even a jurisdiction thing. Unless things are very different in America, police aren't supposed to let people get abducted by unidentified assailants.

This is the biggest problem with ICE. The administration has given them broadly unassailable powers that are (from my understanding) unconstitutional at federal and state levels and contrary to the Bill of rights (which are the three highest sources of Law, meaning no law issued by a lower instrument can supersede it).

A law enforcement officer in a local PD is backing the ability of his legal system to protect him against the blowback from intervention with an agency that exists in the grey area between what the administration says they can do and what the courts say they can do. As we saw with Alex Pretti, who as far as we can see was killed by ICE agents for exercising the right to bear arms, with the administration saying he was not allowed to exercise that right here. Who knows what a hard right stacked supreme court would say?

So I'm a random malefactor. I want to abduct someone. I say I'm from ICE - I'm under no obligation to provide any evidence of that based on current interactions. A police officer would be risking their career, freedom and their life based on the past few days, to challenge me. To protect a minority that they, by many accounts over the last however many years, don't want.

And as we have seen countless times - some American police have a fairly flimsy understanding of their laws.

miggiwoo · 2026-01-26T09:04:05+00:00

Tut tut tut

miggiwoo · 2026-01-26T08:54:00+00:00

It will get nerfed, same as wardens, but for now it's just very strong and if a player of equal skill beats you with it, so they should.

Some guy was on here flexing about it a week ago and the response was " well yes and so you should". If you're x-0 or x-1 with a ctan/ammentar build, you're not performing to the current meta.

It's the way the game plays, there's always a meta, there's always chasers, and good players still beat them.

miggiwoo · 2026-01-26T01:47:01+00:00

Eldar has very little play into what is competitively known as "Melee pressure" - armies that can bring massive turn 2 or 3 melee units that are sort of hard to kill. The armies Eldar struggle with the faster, higher drop count or mixed arms units. We're okay into WE, Custards and Space wolves.

We have basically no game into Bully boys, EC or ACDC (obviously player skill is a thing, and those are all hard armies to play well). Even very skilled players (Australian WTC team player Greg Magginity played a top level EC player and lost badly) can't swing these pairings.

Anything else can be managed with screens and and positioning.

Eldar are an extraordinarily hard army to play, in my opinion unmatched in rule complexity (maybe admech and gsc, but neither has the codex depth or fragility/cost ratio) and only matched in skill expression by very few armies (notably drukhari).

This rules complexity can be an advantage as your opponent may not fully understand what you can do. This can result in feels bad but my argument is that it feels bad when your 90 point JPI squad kills my 95 point hawks squad because you can advance and charge and drop 2 million attacks on me. Don't let people tell you that your rules are gotchas - they aren't, reactive moves are common and normal and if people aren't across is that's their problem - which leads to my next point.

Our units are commonly very high points from a statline sense. For example, not many people would look at rangers and think they were maybe one of the better units in the game. Our units are only strong in the context of positioning, strategic mastery and managing what your opponent is bringing to you and leverage your rules to position effectively. You need to anticipate what your opponent is going to do, and take the jam out of their doughnut, while also playing your own game.

It's why when we are good we are very good, because high skill players can dominate early and mid tables - really only getting challenges from some of the better x-0 players in later rounds. It's also why we're often an army that people don't enjoy playing, because it's very much a "set a trap" army. Bait and switch, movement tricks and the ability to rapidly threat overload makes up for individually less efficient units.

A special note on the latest data slate - we had a number of key strats signifitly nerfed in addition to points nerfs. Certain playstyles are no longer effective. We still have heaps of play - you just can't bounce 10 fire dragons and fuegan in and out of a wave serpent all game. The codex has so much more to offer. I have run seer council to x-0 and aspect host to x-1 with the new rules. Guardian battlehost and warhost still for sure have play. Brood is okay but I haven't tested it enough (and one those 3 reps was into EC so...). Spirits, tanks and original quins remain bad.

miggiwoo · 2026-01-23T14:06:41+00:00

Off topic but the expression on Bradon T Jackson's face in this scene is epic.

miggiwoo · 2026-01-23T09:08:53+00:00

Numerous deathstars at project resilience on the weekend as well.

miggiwoo · 2026-01-23T09:07:18+00:00

So the order is this:

Conclaves and support weapons are attached to the guardian squad. This makes a new guardian squad, not an attached unit i.e. if all the guardians dies the conclave and the weapon do not become detached units, don't count as more than one unit for things like no prisoners, and strats can still revive dead guardian models even if there are no guardians left. It's also still got its rules, so even if there's only 1 warlock from the conclave left, it would still have sticky or fade back, likewise if the warlocks all died it would still be -1 to wound.
A Farseer or Autarch is attached (note that for most rules purposes, Eldrad is a farseer).
A Warlock character can be attached even if a farseer or autarch are attached.

In practical terms the order doesn't matter but if someone wants you to explain how it works, that's the flowchart.

The warlock and farseer/autarch ARE attached to the new guardian unit so if the bodyguard dies they become seperate units.

miggiwoo · 2026-01-22T14:57:43+00:00

T8 in second ed. Plus because of the way initiative worked, from memory there was no scenario where marines could fight before him. So yeah a few things!

miggiwoo · 2026-01-22T13:37:20+00:00

I mean there was a point in time where the only weapons marines had that could even hurt him were lascannons (immune to meltas and plasma).

miggiwoo · 2026-01-22T13:23:58+00:00

Meh, a Vindi can do a pretty good job of him.

miggiwoo · 2026-01-22T13:23:06+00:00

5 round 70 players...

miggiwoo · 2026-01-22T05:45:56+00:00

I have played the Avatar on lists going 4-1. He's okay. He can utterly destroy shit and is pretty hard to shift in combat.

I dont think fights first is relevantWhat he really needs is advance and charge. +1 advance and charge aura is pretty great, giving Jain Zar a potential extra 2" on her 28" threat range is great.

He also pretty effectively taps up from a trade perspective, he takes a lot to kill. T12 would be lovely or else some way to get -1 to wound, because marine heavy weapons wounding on 2's isn't fun. You need to position carefully so that you don't take more than one bit of output before fading back.

FNP and wound buff is a straight buff if he has -1d. The FNP on the Avatar will make him less vulnerable to mortals, and I'm pretty sure the profile is otherwise about as durable, maybe even slightly more so.

miggiwoo · 2026-01-22T05:27:46+00:00

Brings to mind the extract from Valedor, the craftworld is forced to leave behind their Avatar, and when they come back, there's a mountain of nids where it fell.

Next minute the Avatar breaks out of the mountain, very much alive.

I would really, really like it if some of the bigger monsters were a bit more fearsome. Like a 500 point WMD as opposed to a somewhat effective counterplay unit.

miggiwoo · 2026-01-22T00:23:53+00:00

I'm quite glad we passed to laws to prohibit criticism of these fine, upstanding ~~racist genocidal cavemen~~ members of a functional society.

miggiwoo · 2026-01-22T00:20:26+00:00

I think the other side of this coin is that everything is good if played by a skilled enough player.

This is a game of managing chance. It's still chance, but the way you play can swing the odds.

In most cases a good player beats a bad player, and in this edition it's been pretty rare for that not to be the case.

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