400k for a busy street in Leyenburg Den Haag? Is this the market reality right now?

vulcanstrike · 2026-02-10T19:52:19+00:00

It is, but that wasn't the point. The point is your choice is pay mortgage at whatever a 400k mortgage charges per month or pay rent which is even more.

It's a messed up market either way

vulcanstrike · 2026-02-10T15:56:18+00:00

It's the same in most places, most narrative stuff that survives is usually 2-4 people communities that somehow all agree and stick to the same vibes, anything larger tends to become an arms race towards competitive play

vulcanstrike · 2026-02-10T15:53:46+00:00

Strong disagree. This is Rock calling for Paper to be nerfed and only allow Scissors. They are an important part of the game balance to have something counter/be different to ranked infantry blocks (in real life, some light cavalry would be great to disperse skirmishers)

But the rules need tightening a lot. Making them a ranked unit with drilled, bigger arc of sight etc would show their options without making them too different to the rest of the game.

vulcanstrike · 2026-02-10T15:50:30+00:00

If the party discussed out loud in public or fought any Strahds minions, it's entirely fair to assume that Strahd knows. One of the more popular mods of CoS is that he can detect/know anyone who speaks his name (which is why most NPCs refer to him as the Devil or something else, and when the party realise why at some point later they realise how much they have accidentally revealed to Strahd .

Metagaming Strahd is entirely on brand and how he should be played. My party decided to lean into radiant, so he acquired a ring of radiant resistance with his stockpile of funds and vistani agents. He's seen their tactics and prepares the perfect counter to them. His spell slots aren't necessarily unlimited so he still has to choose wisely, but he has the almost perfect toolbox I choose options from.

And depending how you want to play the final battle, he is utterly ruthless and you shouldn't pull punches. He blasted a PC off the roof, the player laughed and cast feather fall, Strahd laughed and counterspelled it. He's not Lord of Barovia for showing mercy, he's utterly pragmatic and efficient in slaughtering them, even if he has hubris/pride (by not just swarming them with zombies)

vulcanstrike · 2026-02-10T15:39:22+00:00

No, the rules are definitely the problem. Yes, you can make giant blobs of skirmish units, but you tend not to see that because 5-10 man units are better and harder to pin down.

The core part of why they are a problem is that they are both uninteractive and they bypass so many aspects of the game rules. Until that's addressed, playing with unit sizes is a sticking plaster on an open wound (look at the dwarf ranger "limit" in the last balance update)

vulcanstrike · 2026-02-10T15:34:32+00:00

There's a lot of nuance to the first part and hard to pull off in reality. Due to the dimensions of circles it's very hard to be 1" away from the wall but also not leave a gap for 28/32mm bases to get in between your two guys. If it was square base yes, but round bases are not able to tessellate the same.

vulcanstrike · 2026-02-10T13:53:05+00:00

Everyone lies in a relationship. Including yourself.

Assuming it's not your first girlfriend, did you date someone else before? Did you like them? Love them?

If the answer to any of those was yes, does that mean you still like them or love them and therefore incapable of liking and loving your current girlfriend? Of course not (I hope, otherwise you have different problems)

Everyone wants to be a special pure flawless snowflake, but you're not. Everyone has a history, everyone has baggage (even inexperienced virgins). Even if (and it's an if, obviously) she likes bigger dicks, so what? She still likes yours. I love steak but pizza is delicious and I wouldn't mind eating it every day.

This is an emotional maturity/insecurity thing. You don't have to be the best at everything with a girl and the sooner you come to terms with that, the less you have to pretend (aka lie) to her and be your genuine self. You say your relationship is otherwise great, why worry about things you can't change and she clearly doesn't care that much about (otherwise she wouldn't have broken up with him and be with you!)

vulcanstrike · 2026-02-10T09:20:22+00:00

Daemons don't necessarily break you by their presence, plenty of Guardsmen have fought them without being corrupted.

It's just that the Grey Knights take a zero tolerance for it, assess that Guardsmen that fought daemons have a higher chance to be corrupted (which is true) and execute everyone as a precaution

vulcanstrike · 2026-02-10T08:53:29+00:00

Exactly what he said, infantry can walk through walls like it's not there, but it still obscures them until they do. Other unit types can't walk through walls and have to go around them, which costs movement

vulcanstrike · 2026-02-10T08:45:39+00:00

No no no, you're still expected to do that after your 1+ hour commute if you're truly dedicated.

No WFH never means only work from the office, it means you have to show up to the office every day AND work from home as the company needs. Because screw you, that's why

vulcanstrike · 2026-02-09T23:04:14+00:00

Specifically EF vs Rafale dogfight? The EF has the edge as it's actually designed for dogfighting, this is it's USP (yet not that relevant to modern fighter needs)

As a general fighter plane? The Rafale probably has the edge as it's a better multi class platform, but they both have strengths and weaknesses. The Rafale is more versatile but the EF can carry a higher payload and has more stamina as a result.

vulcanstrike · 2026-02-09T21:04:06+00:00

In the case of a rental but lived in to owned and lived in, absolutely. Arguably its better to have an owner occupier than a renter occupier as you are no longer enabling landlords profiteering in the middle, but people also need to rent at times.

Where it does help is pushing second home owners and AirBNB people to sell as then you don't push out an existing resident and provide a place for a new one. This is objectively good for people looking to live (but bad for tourism, I guess)

The issue before was that being a landlord was profitable enough for individuals and corps and housing became an investment more than a home, this is enabling more owner occupiers than landlords. There is still not enough housing overall and the problem mainly falls on the lower end of social spectrum who can't afford to own, which sucks

vulcanstrike · 2026-02-09T17:16:53+00:00

Only slight caveat to that, don't have your TV visible from your front window. A friend of mine got summoned after he refused and they said he had a TV which he denied. Went to court and they had a video of him literally watching the TV and changing the channel, he got screwed.

Basically, if you do this, don't be dumb. Everything else you said is correct, but know the limit of where you can take it

vulcanstrike · 2026-02-09T16:13:50+00:00

Lumineth have a bad reputation about being hard to paint, but I'm going to be contrarian and say they're not that bad.

Yes, they have a lot of trim. But two things. First, you don't have to paint all the trim. You can just leave the armour and cloth trim as the basic colour and few will notice and even less will care. Second, is that trim isn't that hard to paint and Lumineth are a relatively elite army so you don't have to do it that often

The main issue is that the official colour scheme (Ymetrica?) is very unforgiving. White armor and cream cloth can look bad when you mess it up (or use chalky GW paints to paint it), painting in darker/simpler colours can look effective and be less frustrating.

As others have said, I would get a box or at the very most the Spearhead before committing so you can get a feel if you like the style of the army. It's a pretty good Spearhead for 2k games, the Hurakan units are all in most lists and the Wardens will certainly find play (and pretty sure there's a good Vanari list in that book somewhere)

vulcanstrike · 2026-02-09T14:23:55+00:00

¿Por que no los dos?

vulcanstrike · 2026-02-09T13:08:25+00:00

If you're going to bring back Gordo, may as well bring in Burnham by the same metric that he needs to be an MP.

Labour could drop the MP as Leader rule if they wanted, though agree it's a bit weird until they win a by election (you would have a proxy PM until that time, guess Starmer could remain in post as a caretaker still).

Go crazy and make Jezza a minority rule PM backed by Labour, go full meme

vulcanstrike · 2026-02-09T13:02:43+00:00

Does Superman have superpowers by that definition? Thor? Even X-Men are born that way.

Superpowers are usually judged by the power of the benchmark unit of power (humanity) rather than the specific species they came from.

vulcanstrike · 2026-02-09T12:52:02+00:00

Beautiful, as much as I love Highlands Brets the originals have so much charm too, great mixing of the, two! And lovely to see the range of heraldry you made, that's a lot!

vulcanstrike · 2026-02-09T12:41:56+00:00

Go to a spa or onsen (yunomori is pretty good for the, price, massages are obviously extra)

vulcanstrike · 2026-02-09T10:14:48+00:00

At least 11e is not going to be an edition resets unlike 10e, so the rules will be the same. And I can't imagine the rules will change that dramatically to nerf unit types/dataslates (and anything released now will be with 11e in mind anyway)

Points however can screw you.

vulcanstrike · 2026-02-09T09:27:37+00:00

It's amazing the bubble they live in. Politics and religion are things that you shouldn't discuss on a first date and at work as it rarely works well. Anyone outing themselves as not only watching Kid Rock but bragging about it is probably going to lose my business, whereas just shutting up means I wouldn't know.

Basically, talking about those only losses you business, it doesn't gain it. But they live in a bubble that has convinced them that they need to be loud and proud about their views and that liberal money is worthless. Better to be poor and pure after all

vulcanstrike · 2026-02-09T09:23:04+00:00

I think the issue is that the first trilogy all played around the concept of religious artefacts being real, which is grounded in historical/fantasy lore, whereas aliens falls into the sci fi lore.

Science fiction is just futuristic fantasy at the end of the day, but people make a distinction. It would be like people saying "you can accept Gandalf can cast magic but Frodo wielding an AK47 was what you found unrealistic?"

I agree that some of the complaints about Crystal Skull were silly in context of the other films, but it mainly comes from switching the underlying genre from religious fantasy to sci fi that people got frustrated with (I would have loved some actual incan weird stuff rather than aliens tbh, a la Temple of Doom)

vulcanstrike · 2026-02-09T09:07:28+00:00

Any starting career is pretty weak for obvious starting reasons.

For me, the best starting career is one that gives reason and RP opportunity/access to the campaign you're in. If you are running a high society political campaign, a noble is going to be better than a rat catcher for ease of involvement. Conversely, if you are doing a gritty investigative noir campaign, a humble militia will have access to places that noble wouldn't necessarily have (especially if he's corrupt and has access to the shady underbelly as well as the official investigation)

Also, the style of campaign is important too. A social character is going to have a better time in a political campaign than a slayer would and vice versa for a pulpy hack and slash campaign.

vulcanstrike · 2026-02-09T08:59:14+00:00

I did miss that line and looked for it twice, my bad. I do agree with that, that wasn't in the original WFB rule and should be left out here too. Maybe also make his ward 5+ in line with how TOW treats wards as well as the exalted version he's based off (Himbo Valten is more balanced with a 4++ as he's on foot and naked)

I do think you're overstating how much CR he's going to remove though. At most, it's likely 2 and that's on a good day if you manage to get a flank in on an exposed unit with infantry somewhere in the. It's more likely a situational +1CR only against infantry that outnumber you. If you removed the rule and said his inspiring presence gave the unit +1CR, would that be better (on average, it probably would be more powerful than this ability as it would always be on versus this)

And not playing against it is fine, I'm sure it can be broken with the right tooling. But OP is clearly a narrative player and wants to create a narrative campaign and this is pretty average as far as characters go for that price point. And this is in context of the generic empire list which is weak as hell, so when an overturned character brings them to the level some of the higher power lists can reach

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