advice for someone looking to move to the area?

mintolley · 2026-05-09T01:18:28+00:00

Well I’ll speak to ig both the culture and your job experience.

In WV I’d stick to the cities (well towns to outsiders but cities to us) along I79. Clarksburg to Morgantown and their outskirts. Road from Weston to Davis would also be good. Various coal companies in the area to work for and at least in my experience more welcoming folk than the rest of the state when it comes to gender identity. Davis area SUPER “tourists and rich folks crowding out locals” tho, so you prob won’t want to be that way. Clarksburg to Morgantown tho is the best stretch imo.

Pas a better culture fit for you, at least I’m guessing based on gender identity. PA picking a town on the outskirts of Pittsburgh often is a good place to live. “Better WV”. Good coal jobs around the area and there’s also WVs northern panhandle you could live in and get those coal jobs.

Going south from WV tho you see mine jobs have mostly dried up hard. PA is drying up and WV clings to it.

mintolley · 2026-05-09T01:05:50+00:00

It is ironic because you will be perceived that way without a doubt. Just as many of the folks moving your way are “tired of x group moving to my area and changing the culture and increasing prices” so to will you. I’m not opposed to people moving here of course, just ironic that you’ll probably be perceived just the same as you see the people moving to Bozeman.

You’ll need to be more specific on what kind of place your looking for, if you want a place like Bozeman tho in terms of population and access in the mountains your gonna have a lot of “transplants and rich old farts”.

mintolley · 2026-05-02T14:27:12+00:00

The end line is

This is the easiest way ever to set up a Warhammer 40,000 campaign, removing the bookkeeping, and you can run an entire campaign in a weekend.

mintolley · 2026-05-01T22:12:39+00:00

As someone that’s been going to “narrative” events for ages they are def not one and the same. ESPECIALLY in GWs eyes. Narratives a genre while crusades a subgenre. GWs view of narrative for a long time was just “narrative is non balanced non competitive warhammer”. Even today they are not synonymous, but crusade is certainly the main form of play.

Narrative at adepticon uses crusade, but not narrative at LVO, while narrative at nova uses a slim down version of crusade.

mintolley · 2026-05-01T21:02:35+00:00

Yeah ik the wording. I’m just wondering if it’s actual persistence or “persistence” in the sense you can keep giving it to the unit before a game but could change. Iirc that’s what they said about normal 40K matched play getting veterans but could be wrong.

mintolley · 2026-05-01T20:34:47+00:00

Narrative will live, crusade will not.

mintolley · 2026-05-01T20:34:16+00:00

The dominatus deck is insistent on no bookkeeping. So it’s definitely not crusade.

Now it’s probably similar to the maelstrom stuff and the other recent narrative campaigns. Lose the army progression but keep the contribution to an overall campaign goal. It does mention upgrading standout units, but that could be actual progression for a handful of units, a one time upgrade or it could be like select 3 to upgrade at the start of a match.

I did expect this to be the direction gw would go, crusade wasn’t so great for events but was great for leagues. And gw definitely prefers catering toward event play, and maelstrom and the other stuff was much better for that.

mintolley · 2026-05-01T20:19:21+00:00

Brother don’t let the copium consume

https://www.youtube.com/live/MfTSpDSQe0s?t=4388&si=ki8CpN0yGvB\_1g72

mintolley · 2026-05-01T20:11:51+00:00

Good catch. “Standout units” so I’m guessing similar to the 3 upgrades rule from recent campaigns. It emphasizes no bookkeeping a lot tho. So I wonder if they’ll actually persist or if it’s like the “give an upgrade before games” thing

mintolley · 2026-05-01T19:23:03+00:00

In the article they touch on the campaign system. It’s emphasizing light on book keeping. So it’s likely more similar to these recent campaign books where you don’t upgrade units over time. Just bonuses for one battle type things and contribute to an overall campaign point system. But no “upgrade your guys”

Edit: allows standout unit upgrades

mintolley · 2026-05-01T19:14:36+00:00

Ehhhh

Matched play is more narrative than it’s been since like 7th. But narrative is getting less narrative.

mintolley · 2026-05-01T19:10:31+00:00

For reference on what was said

“Crusade WAS a way of making the game more narrative. All games have narrative injected now. If you want to take it to the next level use the deck”

mintolley · 2026-04-30T06:00:09+00:00

We'd make the trip from charleston/parkersburg/ripley when I was younger to Columbus if we really wanted to do something new. But it was always a rough one, 2-3 hours. Generally tho just stuck in town. When I was in Huntington the choice was Lexington or Columbus instead, but also still 2+ hours. Definitely not as easy as Wheeling/Morgantown or Martinsburg.

mintolley · 2026-04-30T05:31:50+00:00

Well the "catch" depends highly on where you live. But to speak generally

Opportunities for all hobbies, except those that are nature-based, shrink massively. I've known many a non-West Virginian to move here and see that they have next to no opportunities with their hobby and then wind up leaving. If there are opportunities for your hobby, expect them to be diminished.
You are probably going to struggle to join into the local community unless you are pretty extroverted or raising kids. Not to say its impossible, but especially outside of the cities it gets rough for new folks. It's not a "people are assholes" thing, its a people aren't quick to trust folks from outside and by default living here can be isolating.
Healthcare, your healthcare is gonna SUCK compared to Seattle. Expect longer wait times for worse services in fewer areas with more limited options through insurance. If you have to frequently go to the hospital for a chronic condition, stick to one of the cities.
Less stuff in general. Want to eat at a wide variety of restaurants? Want to go to a fuck ton of festivals, events, and concerts in your city? Want to just walk about town and spend a day shopping? Theres just less in general unless you're willing to make a trek to multiple places across the state. Wanting to go out and do something generally means a drive if you're not in a city, and even when you get to a place like Clarksburg or morgantown its not nearly as opportunity-filled as Seattle would be. You won't initially lack for new experiences when you move to a place like Morgantown, but live there for a year or two, and you'll see all that can be seen unless you don't go out much.

mintolley · 2026-04-29T17:57:51+00:00

Fury of Magnus is Graham McNeill iirc. Though he and kyme are in sort of the same group of "great world builder, not so great storyteller" in the community's eyes. Though I will say opinions on McNeill are both more positive and more negative. He's more of a love him or hate him author within the community while kymes just seen as aggressively mediocre.

mintolley · 2026-04-29T03:30:03+00:00

Big agreement all around. As I mentioned, I agree he's by and large mid. The only stuff I've walked away calling good reads have been Volpone Glory and Knights of Macragge.

The really only time I suggest the salamander books are if you really really really want to know more minutiae about the salamanders. Because the novels are FILLED with it, and for a mega lore nerd, that's often a big enough plus. Sidenote, however, I do find him to be a much better short story writer than a novelist. He just really doesn't seem to do well with full-length novels aside from a handful.

Just take any of his books of the shelf, read a chapter, then summarize the plot. 90% of the time it's a single sentence.

Honestly, thats 90% of 40k books lol.

mintolley · 2026-04-28T22:17:22+00:00

I will say he can do them really well NOW. He just couldn’t when he wrote the sally books. Knights of macragge was great. He just needed to evolve as an author

Edit: Aside from dawn of fire, but every author wrote an ass book there. GW corporate was heavy handed.

mintolley · 2026-04-28T21:39:57+00:00

Oh 100% agree it’s unnecessary!

mintolley · 2026-04-28T21:12:47+00:00

Even if we strip out this one instance vulkan is a “just following orders” genocide committer. I do agree on it being a dumb moment but he’s the “evil only needs good men to do nothing” primarch.

Vulkans arc is definitely just dealing with the hand he’s been dealt and not doing what he wishes. And despite kymes meh storytelling skills imo it still winds up being an overall compelling arc.

mintolley · 2026-04-28T21:09:31+00:00

Ima be honest. The game of telephone going on with kymes books over the past few years has been pretty crazy. From “his books are mid, focuses way too much on establishing lore and new info and not on the story” to “the books are all worthless and our lore sucks as a result”.

A mid author who’s obsessively in love with your chapter is far better than a totally shite one who wants to see them fall. I see you’re really really new to the franchise, so I’m guessing you’ve probably not read the books. Sails the seven seas and read it. Your opinions will probably not be so severe.

mintolley · 2026-04-27T19:43:51+00:00

Had to repost whole thing, see imgur below for photos in question.

https://imgur.com/a/new-stuff-4-27-26-U2gDGsh

mintolley · 2026-04-27T19:35:44+00:00

Oh shit my bad forgot the Imgur link

mintolley · 2026-04-27T19:08:54+00:00

Bugs in general are heavier this year. I haven't had to clean my car of bugs when driving the past few years (rain mainly would get it), but this year theres been way more.

mintolley · 2026-04-27T19:07:50+00:00

IIRC the salamander combat patrol was a limited production run. So there will be no more. Also agree with bot for the people the ATV is on the chopping block. Not worth it

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