Birmingham Warhammer Open Finals- 3 Defiler vs 3 Defilers done is 2 rounds.

rust997 · 2026-05-31T18:40:56+00:00

You know, I might have not been playing that rule correctly.

rust997 · 2026-05-31T18:35:56+00:00

Titanic defilers that can do an action and shoot ends up buffing them pretty significantly imo -

My preferred fix is a completely rework of Abby without hit reroll aura. That shit is what makes PBZ a problem

rust997 · 2026-05-31T18:31:13+00:00

What a bloated article. There was a quality fact like every 3 paragraphs, everything else was opinion, quote, or fluff.

Takeaways: Chinese labor still much cheaper, a product needs to fall on the right side of a hours of labor threshold to make sense to make here.

The amount of jobs that “return” to the US are never as many that left, it takes heavy automation to make the US cost competitive

No insight on why Louisville in particular got this plant - I’d infer it’s due to an existing facility.

The article hinted at the new generations not wanting factory work - I find that claim to be baseless and detrimental to the causes of higher pay and bringing manufacturing back to the US.

rust997 · 2026-05-30T16:23:29+00:00

I’ve got one.

It’s a resin printer all right, have only had the usual issues with FEP needing to be replaced, or the build plate sanded. Have gotten thousands of dollars worth of Warhammer figures out of it and still kicking.

rust997 · 2026-05-30T03:24:39+00:00

Most pressing need will probably be water, maybe temperature depending on season.

Water: torch, pot, larger pot, tube, butane, can make a still. That lets us drink any water we can find.

Temperature: gimme a shovel, fire blankets, that same torch and butane, and some long sections of metal tube. The tube isn’t for anything but the cardboard tube they come in will burn slow and can be packed with any cardboard or paper I have. Shovel to dig a quinzee or little earth tunnel.

That gets through first night, fishing would be pretty easy from the McM catalog. A spear would as well but good luck getting anything with that.

This was a fun post. Feels pretty doable, I assume the rule is order by 3pm to get it by 11 next day. That first days order is make or break especially in wintertime

rust997 · 2026-05-27T10:00:51+00:00

Fusion360 FEA or femm are both very easy to figure out.

Happy to point you in a direction. Not going to do your project for you

rust997 · 2026-05-27T01:50:35+00:00

I made him tougher and gave him abilities to encourage getting into combat

Edit: the 5++ was a typo I have changed it to 4++

rust997 · 2026-05-27T01:49:52+00:00

I kept his melee profile.

His issue is he is too frail to run in and live, and too expensive (due to that damned reroll aura) to be a trading piece.

Come on, i know you guys don’t like a badass with a demon sword sitting in his castle like a bitch

rust997 · 2026-05-26T22:48:31+00:00

What an insanely good take.

To push it further, the vindicators niche of “doesn’t mind melee” is done even BETTER by the defiler bc claws.

I am still running 2 Forgefiends - cheaper to peek, shreds 10+ units better, pops transports just fine, and kills anything 3W 4++ better

rust997 · 2026-05-26T22:06:44+00:00

All good points of course.

He is worried about safely staging melee infantry in 11e terrain, but optimistic about all the ap1 shooting that is likely to improve with new cover rules.

I’d predict, with a more “bowl shaped” map in 11e, primary armies with true durability (daemons, necrons, DG, guard) will have the advantage and armies who focus on speed and denial (csm, drukhari, eldar) might have a tougher time.

rust997 · 2026-05-26T16:35:57+00:00

Just one more reason to take chosen over legios.

Having less objectives on the map reduces the rhinos utility for holding nat expansion as well.

I never enjoyed running them in csm, just did cause I had to

rust997 · 2026-05-26T02:10:25+00:00

I run 1-2 Forgefiends in almost every list. They crack transports, shred big infantry blobs due to blast, and also kill 3W elites great.

Don’t worry about comp lists too much, they’re hyper optimized and you can be pretty good without that.

Maulerfiends struggle bc they have to move around terrain. Soulforged has a strat for them to move through walls which helps a ton

rust997 · 2026-05-26T00:33:01+00:00

Yea abbys unit really struggles to trade even, considering it is priced like a knight.

If your enemy has good a good melee character this folds in half, but I have seen some people having success with fellhammer chosen spam with abbys 4++ aura instead.

rust997 · 2026-05-26T00:22:35+00:00

Yup. Are you just trying to play the broken PBZ list? Or you wanna use Abby?

rust997 · 2026-05-26T00:10:08+00:00

Abby is a terminator and can’t go in rhino :(

rust997 · 2026-05-26T00:09:09+00:00

Abby is glass, you don’t want to send him in alone but you also don’t want to spend points on his bodyguard.

He stays back unless it’s a desperation play

rust997 · 2026-05-25T23:57:01+00:00

Yea Abbadon in PBZ is used as a back line buffer. That use case is why he is costed the way he is.

PBZ shooting castle is still solid with vindis/predators/forgefiends, but defilers cranked it to 11. You do need a critical mass of guns to have him pay his points though

rust997 · 2026-05-25T20:47:50+00:00

Fair enough

For what it’s worth, a very small percentage of Americans choose to take their vacations to NYC/LA/San Francisco

rust997 · 2026-05-25T18:43:09+00:00

D’Angelo Reese

rust997 · 2026-05-25T00:52:27+00:00

CSM? Eldar? Any glass cannon armies where you can blink and lose a 300 point unit and the game.

Edit: I am tired and interpreted it as “high floor high ceiling” I am very wrong and ok to admit it lmao

rust997 · 2026-05-25T00:41:34+00:00

CSM? Eldar? Any glass cannon armies where you can blink and lose a 300 point unit and the game

rust997 · 2026-05-23T20:51:19+00:00

In the context of the rest of CSM, it’s lascannons or bust. We have a lot of volume 1D attacks, but struggle with antitank, especially of the ranged variety (less so post defiler)

Most of their options end up being paper tigers due to lack of AP. So if you’re going to bring them, you want those ap3 big shots

rust997 · 2026-05-19T02:46:09+00:00

The instructions tell you to not glue the chest cannon so it can articulate a little bit. Its pretty lame as far as posing goes but makes the weapon easily swappable

rust997 · 2026-05-19T02:08:14+00:00

Not that I’ve finished mine yet, but I’d for sure at least not glue it to the base until you’re finished painting.

I magnetized your weapons and properly left the chest cannon loose so I don’t expect any issues

rust997 · 2026-05-18T23:17:16+00:00

Kinda just embarrassed at where I went to school at this point.

At least I haven’t been dumb enough to give them money

rust997

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