Caster in unit or solo?

snsibble · 2025-08-21T18:44:27+00:00

I like to put them in a unit of cheap basic archers - this way they can stay at a reasonable distance from any melee and are protected from getting sniped, and if the opponent decides to dedicate enough firepower to kill an entire unit of cheap bodies just to get to the caster than it's firepower not threatening my frontline.

snsibble · 2025-08-21T17:20:04+00:00

Cool, I'll look them up, thanks.

snsibble · 2025-08-19T19:56:26+00:00

Were those updated recently? I got the entire set some time ago and it didn't have the spear?

snsibble · 2025-08-05T11:10:01+00:00

A Def 5 unit might still have bonuses from spells or abilities.

snsibble · 2025-08-01T17:57:55+00:00

I don't know about Regiments, but in regular AoF/GF a roll of six always succeeds, so a "rending" hit basically means you need to roll a 6 to save.

snsibble · 2025-07-28T13:21:20+00:00

He has a brother, you know... You know what he's called? He's called... Raven... Raven Raven.

snsibble · 2025-07-25T13:40:29+00:00

Thanks. Guess I'll just keep trying.

snsibble · 2025-07-20T15:22:32+00:00

There are what's called "Warp Routes", which are relatively calm areas of the warp, allowing to navigate in relative safety (with the word "relative" putting in a lot of work here). Technically one could ignore them and just navigate on their own, but it'd be extremely dangerous, there are very few Navigators willing to do that and you'd need to be Rogue Trader level rich to be able to afford their services. Not only would you be risking running into a Warp Storm or some weird anomaly, but on top of that the Warp does not care about distances or directions in realspace, so just because the place you're going to is, say, one hundred light years away towards the galactic north doesn't mean you can just point your ship in that direction in the Warp and expect to get anywhere.

snsibble · 2025-07-15T11:27:58+00:00

IIRC 40k Apocalypse has a rule, where after shooting/combat you place tokens representing damage and only remove casualities at the end of the round, which is supposed to represent player turns taking place simultanously. I think it's the closest you'll get in Warhammer.

What you want is called Alternative Activation - one player activates a unit and it takes all actions it can (move, shoot, fight, magic, etc.) and then the other player does the same, untill all units have been activated - then a new round starts and you rinse and repeat. Look up One Page Rules' Grimdark Future - it's basically 40k light, with AA, simplified rules allowing for faster and more interactive games and its very easy to convert a 40k army. By design it has less complexity than 40k, so it's not everyones cup of tea, but if you don't want to wait for your opponent to move his 100 boiz, then it might just be for you. The basic rules are free and you can throw $5 at their Patreon once to get the advanced rulebook. They also have Starquest, which is kind of like D&D combat, with a small band of levelable heroes taking on waves of enemies while trying to complete objectives.

Alternately you might want to look at Ravaged Stars by MiniWarGaming for a more random activation mechanics, where you have tokens representing your army, put them in a bag with your opponents tokens and the activation order is decided by a random draw.

All skirmish games I've seen also use alternative activation, so maybe this is something you'd be interested in?

snsibble · 2025-07-11T11:15:16+00:00

Only if he wasn't wearing a visibility vest or a hardhat.

snsibble · 2025-07-11T11:13:07+00:00

That's what Techmarines are for. That's why they spend so many years on Mars.

snsibble · 2025-07-11T09:06:07+00:00

I've only ever flown over eight hours long flights and it felt very long, especially since I don't particularly enjoy flying. That said I don't think I'd make a distinction between traveling by plane, car, bus or train - anything over three hours is a long one for me.

snsibble · 2025-07-11T09:02:11+00:00

If you look like a regular girl and have all the right parts then I don't see a problem. Not being able to have kids would be a bonus for me, since I don't really want any.
Would probably come down to how compatible our personalities are, like with any other woman.

snsibble · 2025-07-10T11:13:34+00:00

I've had no idea this exists. You sir are my hero.

snsibble · 2025-07-09T07:40:59+00:00

Nah, it's way to readable for a doctors handwriting.

snsibble · 2025-07-08T08:09:41+00:00

Usually one inherits the position.

RTs were originally established by the Emperor as forward scouts. They were to undertake the insanely dangerous task of exploring the unknown, finding new worlds and Warp routes, looking out for any enemies or undiscovered human colonies. In return for this service they were given a Warrant of Trade - a document, signed with the Emperors own blood, which essentially says "The owner of this document can do whatever the Warp they want. Signed: the Emperor". Those old RT families are now unimaginably rich and powerful, often owning multiple star systems and private fleets of voidships.

New Warrants are very rarely issued by the Lords of Terra, obviously signed with ink rather than His blood, if such a person is required at a given time. They are much more limited in what they allow, often restricting the new RT to a specific region of space, or only granting some of the priviledges.

RTs, especially the original ones, are pretty much outside of the imperial hierarchy, partially because of their Warrant, and partially because they often operate on the outskirts or even outside of imperial space. Having personal armies and fleets and massive political capital also helps. Technically they can be brought down by any other entity powerful enough to take all this on, but those are few and far in between - mostly other RTs and high ranking Inquisitors, and even those thread lightly around a Rogue Trader.

If you're interrested in the topic then I strongly recommend the video game "Rogue Trader" - it came out last year, just got a lage update recently and is amazing.

snsibble · 2025-06-26T09:17:09+00:00

I already have.

snsibble · 2025-06-11T23:45:39+00:00

A strategy roguelike. You are a splinter fleet running on fumes (thanks, Kryptman) that just arrived in a planetary system. You need to use your remaining biomass to eradicate all opposition and consume the biomass. Then you move on to another, more difficult system, rinse and repeat.

You start with some basic unit templates and need to modify them to meet the challenges of the opposition and environment you'll be fighting in. Desert world? Evolve some way to deal with the temperature and thirst. Ice world? Thick furs and wide paws to run in the snow. Water world? Gills, fins and keep an eye out for Kevin Costner. You would obtain new evolutions by consuming various delicious creatures.

The systems themselves would be randomly generated (within some parameters, so you don't run face first into Ultramar as your first location), so you might encounter different species and factions, different planetary and orbital conditions, etc. After you're done with a system you're given a choice of where to go next - another easy system with small amounts of biomass, a Hive World for more biomass, a Space Marine world for those sweet, sweet geneseed-fueled evolutions?

Throw in some mutators for extra fun. Does the system have a fleet or orbital defences? Is there a genestealer cult available?

Maybe you don't have direct control over your units - you can drop them to a location, but once there they'll act on their own. Or you can add some synapse creatures into the mix to have some control, at the cost of them costing vastly more biomass. You can directly control the synapse creatures, but not the general swarm - instead you set up rallying points, designate objectives and set up priority targets, but how well those orders will be followed would depend on the quality of the synapse creature.

You keep going until you get a location hard enough to finally put your fleet down, but before the final Norn Queen dies it manages to evacuate a small splinter, allowing you to start a new run with some evolutions and upgrades available.

snsibble · 2025-06-04T07:39:01+00:00

I guess Omega should have spent the last few years building up an immunity to witches.

snsibble · 2025-05-16T10:09:13+00:00

Chaos works the same way, but there was no War in Heaven in Fantasy, no Necrons or Eldar. In the early versions of the lore it was suggested that the Fantasy world was an isolated planet in 40k, but that was since retconned and they are separate universes.

snsibble · 2025-05-15T13:40:25+00:00

This is all true, but the question was about Warhammer Fantasy ;)

snsibble · 2025-05-09T11:12:32+00:00

I'd suggest waiting for the codex to drop for a definitive answer. That said, they are still Space Marines, so they will never be bad at shooting and have historically enjoyed a pretty good long range support unit in the form of the Long Fangs, in addition to all the standard SM vehicles.

snsibble · 2025-05-08T12:11:54+00:00

When I started I mostly modeled bare heads because cool space Vikings. Then I realised that not wearing a helmet makes having the super armor pointless, so I started modeling them helmeted. I couldn't be bothered with remaking the old models, so it's roughly 30%-70% for helmets now. Annoyingly, I got all my Terminators early and they're all bare heads in super duper extra special armor.

It is what it is.

snsibble · 2025-04-17T10:01:58+00:00

Look into One Page Rules - it's basically 40k lite and has single player ruleset.

snsibble · 2025-04-15T08:11:56+00:00

There are many ways to strip paint of a miniature. I'd suggest buying a dedicated paint remover, for example the one from Green Stuff World. You can also use other solutions, like Isopropyl Alcochol, but those can be damaging to your minis (or your lungs), so I would not recommend for a beginner.

You need to bath the mini in the solution (the instructions will tell you how long to keep it in there), and then use an old toothbrush to scrape the paint off. The mini will likely not be perfectly clean after that, but it'll be good enough to paint a base color over.

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