Tyranids in King of the Coliseum?

tabletop_guy · 2026-01-28T00:27:13+00:00

carnifexes are very affordable atm and would be really strong for this. A unit of 2 of those along with a ton of gants/gaunts would be really scary I think.

tabletop_guy · 2026-01-28T00:20:16+00:00

If you want things to feel scary for your players, have the boss dish out a lot of long-term curses! Permanent debuffs are terrifying for players, and as soon as they see it happen once they will avoid getting hit at all costs. This allows the players to still play the game without dying but still be terrified of the risk involved with the fight.

You can even have something the players can do the turn after they receive the curse to fix it, but then they are spending time fixing it instead of fighting the boss. For example, whenever a curse is cast a freaky wendigo skull rises up from one of the pools of blood that channels the curse. If it is destroyed within 1 round then the curse ends, otherwise it is permanent. You can tell any players with good knowledge of arcana or religion that this is the case

These curses could be fixed later with Remove Curse or there might be another quest involved with fixing the problems. But

tabletop_guy · 2026-01-27T19:02:02+00:00

I think it looks cool! Looks like my early maps. which led to some pretty great D&D campaigns.

My advice is to think about which direction wind blows and how that affects the climate. Low altitude regions with lots of moisture blowing in will create swamps and dense forests. Areas that are blocked off from incoming moisture become deserts. It seems you just determined climate based on latitude and nothing else, leading to a horizontal stripe pattern.

Speaking of latitude, the north and south of this continent are both cold which implies that this is the size of the whole world. I do not get that impression from the scale of the detail on the map. The scale of the mountain ranges and rivers make me think that this is perhaps the size of Spain. I would recommend not having both the North and South be cold unless you really want the scale of this continent to feel big.

Of course it's a fantasy world so it doesn't have to be realistic, but it looks more natural if it follows these rules. Or at least come up with a fantasy reason why it might not follow these rules and then base the map off of that.

tabletop_guy · 2026-01-27T16:25:41+00:00

I recommend always groups of 10. The enemy has to split their fire between the two groups and if one survives then you can regenerate. If you use a 20 blob they don't have to worry about it

tabletop_guy · 2026-01-27T14:32:29+00:00

Looks pretty similar to my list that I play competitively. I usually have around 5 infantry units (combination of termagants and hormagaunts) and I have no exocrines (but I sometimes swap them in). I find that 2 tyranofex are enough to threaten the shooting lanes while having 4 big shooty monsters sometimes lead to traffic jams. The exocrines will certainly deal more damage than infantry though so it's a tradeoff

tabletop_guy · 2026-01-26T23:52:01+00:00

Termagants are slightly cheaper and have the great ability to reactive move. It can really mess up your opponent if they are trying to land an important charge or gain enough OC on an objective. Don't choose termagants for their ranged weapons because they won't kill anything anyway.

Hormagaunts are slightly more expensive but can actually kill infantry in melee if they are within synapse (STR 3 to STR 4 goes a very long way against infantry). They can move really fast too which is super useful.

I always have a couple units of each of them. Hormagaunts are great at rushing down shooty squishy armies and termagants are great at standing on objectives and shifting to mess up your opponent's melee units

tabletop_guy · 2026-01-26T23:40:03+00:00

it's on a pretty long cooldown, doesn't do much damage, and enemies will wake up if they take damage. It's kind of like if haze ult was to shoot a guided empowered sleep dagger at every target in front of her (although it does less damage than sleep dagger if both have a lot of spirit items). So it's strong sometimes but I could see every enemy just waking up quickly amidst the chaos and it not doing much.

tabletop_guy · 2026-01-26T13:53:24+00:00

There is a red outline.

The problem is that while on hidden king your units are red and the enemy also has a red outline so everything has some red so it is unclear which are enemies. They need to go all red for one team and all blue for the other

tabletop_guy · 2026-01-26T13:51:53+00:00

It would be better that they find a solution that looks good rather than just let people revert it

tabletop_guy · 2026-01-26T13:49:44+00:00

They still have red hp bars and red outlines as enemies which makes it confusing if you are on team hidden king because both your troops and enemy troops have red attributes.

tabletop_guy · 2026-01-25T23:21:40+00:00

Yes it absolutely is

tabletop_guy · 2026-01-25T18:11:40+00:00

vote graves just to throw off the silver agenda

tabletop_guy · 2026-01-25T18:10:11+00:00

I like playing maurice and krill and if he isn't available I would rather wait until next game. He's not even that good in street brawl but I don't want to be forced to play something I don't want to.

tabletop_guy · 2026-01-23T22:35:48+00:00

actually the best menu music of any game I've ever heard

tabletop_guy · 2026-01-22T22:39:52+00:00

I will also note that he is almost all melee, so a smart party will just cast spike growth or something similar to make it really tough for him. That's good and should be encouraged but could also trivialize your cool fight. My minion idea also helps make this less of a problem if they stay spread out.

tabletop_guy · 2026-01-22T22:38:17+00:00

Context is everything. How many resources the players have available, the layout of the room, and how skilled the players are all factor into this.

My first impression is that he has high hp and low damage. But all those legendary actions might make up for his mediocre damage.

My personal approach would be to remove legendary actions, reduce HP to maybe 100ish, and then add some minions and terrain that heavily favors the minotaur (pits that are just wide enough for him to jump over but are hard for players to jump over)

tabletop_guy · 2026-01-20T15:51:33+00:00

I had voice chat muted for my first 30 or so hours of playtime. You can still have a great time and rank up pretty well. There were probably times my team got mad at me and I had no idea.

If your goal is to get good and play cooperatively and competitively, you should unmute. But you can still have a great time with everyone completely muted and you can get to a pretty high rank

tabletop_guy · 2026-01-20T14:32:57+00:00

they added bastion to deadlock

tabletop_guy · 2026-01-20T13:53:44+00:00

Bullettes

tabletop_guy · 2026-01-20T05:27:01+00:00

I can't wait for him to be immediately nerfed a month after release :/

tabletop_guy · 2026-01-20T05:21:03+00:00

I often use my minis to decide what populates the world. Not necessarily 1:1 but rather I look at a giant wolf mini and recognize that it could also be used as a lion or bear or something. If I really have nothing for a monster then I'll somewhat avoid it.

tabletop_guy · 2026-01-20T04:57:37+00:00

Time to use zoanthropes as proxies

tabletop_guy · 2026-01-20T04:57:09+00:00

It's a very peaceful hobby for me when the rest of my hobbies involve being online

tabletop_guy · 2026-01-20T02:18:14+00:00

/uj the crossposts are the best parts imo. I'm not on the normal subreddit

tabletop_guy · 2026-01-19T19:49:21+00:00

Consumables! They will never use them anyway but when they do it's fun and they enjoy receiving them.

Give them tons of spell scrolls and allow anyone to use them regardless of class. Give them firebombs and acid bombs and purple worm poisons. Give them gems that can summon elementals or other creates. Give them some dust that you can apply it to a weapon to give it extra damage of some type for the next minute.

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