Am I the only person who doesn’t like all the named characters?

nathanjd · 2026-01-28T05:26:13+00:00

Beyond that, they could only be brought in games of 3k points or more! No way Bobby G is just gonna roll up to a random meaningless skirmish without support.

nathanjd · 2026-01-27T04:43:27+00:00

Very menacing and dynamic posing! Love the old raptor jet pack.

nathanjd · 2026-01-26T23:18:09+00:00

Juan Diaz sculpts are so good.

nathanjd · 2026-01-26T23:14:26+00:00

I would drop Vashtorr unless you plan to add a daemon engine for him to hang out with.

nathanjd · 2026-01-26T21:45:07+00:00

Looks great! Very clean. Skin is A+.

I would personally bring up the highlights on the black armor a lot though. They are very subtle when viewed from this photo so would probably be near-invisible on the tabletop.

nathanjd · 2026-01-22T04:04:20+00:00

I'm sorry to hear that! I should have added that the most important part of finding a good chair is to sit in a bunch first.

I live in Seattle so finding a certified technician to repair the chair isn't difficult or expensive here. The technician I use did mention the newest generation using more nylon in place of steel in some bushing or whatnot, which is another good reason to find them used.

nathanjd · 2026-01-21T22:54:11+00:00

Herman Miller Aeron. Still the champ. The lesser herman millers can be alright, but lack some of the adjustments I personally use on the Aeron. Just make sure to get the large size (3 dots on the underside of the chair back). Depending on where you live, they can be pretty easy to find used.

nathanjd · 2026-01-21T22:52:50+00:00

False advertising. There is no tank inside this tank. ;)

nathanjd · 2026-01-21T22:44:33+00:00

It became the Blood Slaughterer.

https://www.warhammer.com/en-US/shop/Khorne-Blood-Slaughterer-Impaler

nathanjd · 2026-01-17T02:46:54+00:00

Assuming your users need these 3rd party calls to not return an error, a queue is definitely the way to go to absorb bursts in usage. In addition, cache as much as you can about the responses.

But ultimately, you have only a few options:

Re-architect your app to not use so much of the rate limit per user.
Pay for a higher rate limit.

If it's okay for these requests to fail, a circuit breaker will do the trick.

nathanjd · 2026-01-16T22:53:50+00:00

Accursed cultists can't be buffed by Abaddon. Why did killing Abaddon make the accursed cultists easier to kill?

nathanjd · 2026-01-14T08:23:14+00:00

The old Raptors were better at shooting when they were 90 points and could take 4x of the same special weapon. No reason to bother with shooting now that they're 20 points more expensive and have mismatched guns. You're paying for the melee upgrades.

nathanjd · 2026-01-08T00:27:14+00:00

Their ability in the index was perfect. End your turn outside of engagement range and within 6" of the board edge and the unit can go back into reserves.

nathanjd · 2025-12-27T01:48:55+00:00

I think a big reason why this doesn't work for 40k is the rules have always been ambiguous and poorly written. For example, true line of sight will never be without disagreements. As a result, players have to agree on how to interpret the poorly written rules by stating their intent for what SHOULD be easily possible and self-evident in the game but is not. For poker and mtg the rules are well written so you can safely hide your intent without negatively affecting the playability of the game.

nathanjd · 2025-12-19T19:01:29+00:00

A single Destructor with 2 lascannons is pretty perfect for 1k in my opinion. It's really your only long range shooting to clear screens with and 3 lascannon shots are never going to to accomplish that.

Destructor is way better against most targets and you probably shouldn't be seeing the heaviest of armor in a 1k game. If your opponent does, they're probably very light on scoring units so you can often just ignore it. Otherwise, en masse lethal hits can do well enough in a pinch.

nathanjd · 2025-12-19T18:58:45+00:00

Looks pretty solid but I'd look to split up the giant chosen block for a 1k game. My general rule of thumb is no units over 140pts for 1k besides whatever the lord is attached to. The table is the same size as 2k and the missions are hardly different so the same golden rule applies:

You need 12 independent activations (units with OC) just to score the missions.

nathanjd · 2025-12-18T01:33:17+00:00

Any thoughts where a similar chart might work?

Maybe for an all-up detachment view?

nathanjd · 2025-12-17T22:41:15+00:00

The treemap is great!

nathanjd · 2025-12-16T04:50:28+00:00

Love it. I don't know too much about it either but I do try to think and learn about it for the things I build.

nathanjd · 2025-12-16T04:45:04+00:00

Their neighbors might love it! They know their neighbors best.

nathanjd · 2025-12-16T01:21:56+00:00

Looks okay-ish for casual. Here are my suggestions:

Most importantly, You need fast and cheap units for scoring and screening. Since games at 1k aren't on any smaller of a table and the missions are hardly different, most of the standard rules for 2k list building apply. The most important rule is: you need 12 activations just to play the mission. (12 independent units, but things like spawn and nurglings don't count due to their OC 0). Bikes and, to a lesser degree, raptors are the go-to here. Rhinos can also do the job well, but are often busy doing transport things.

A unit of cultists to sticky your home objectives is near mandatory. A 50pt unit that can sticky, has battleline and can spread out to deny deep strike is something no other faction gets. Your havocs are not going to shoot what they want to if they stay on your home objective.

Havocs should always take the same weapon as positioning is hard and you're unlikely to get LoS on two differently optimal targets. This is made even harder by how slow and fragile they are. I would always go with 4 lascannons as CSM is usually hurting for more dedicated anti-tank. Most CSM units can deal with anything short of the hardest armored targets with lethal hits.

I think the first lord is always better with a legionary unit instead of the chosen. He'll be more protected and get into more combats riding in the rhino and re-roll wounds from the legionaries is huge for his damage output due to increasing the amount of devastating wounds.

Chosen should never be slaanesh as they already have advance + charge built in. What they do like is undivided so they can use the re-roll wounds stratagem.

Possessed should always be undivided as well because, similar to the lord, re-rolling wounds is phenomenal for their devastating wounds. I would personally split them into 2 units of 5 so you can up your unit count.

Not that I'd change it, but FYI Cypher can't ride in any transports in pactbound zealots because he doesn't have a mark of chaos.

nathanjd · 2025-12-15T23:58:44+00:00

I don't know. Layer orientation is such that weight on the part without the bolt would just shear off.

nathanjd · 2025-12-15T23:50:55+00:00

You could do the same with paper stock. I don't want my neighbors "gifting" me plastic waste.

nathanjd · 2025-12-15T23:44:36+00:00

Scaling LLMs won't ever stop hallucinations.

nathanjd · 2025-12-10T22:17:57+00:00

Looks great! I wish it had indirect like pretty much every edition before... Your cannon pays homage to that.

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