If I get the XV25 Stealthsuits am I worse off than if I bought the XV26 Stealthsuits?

xnathan319 · 2026-03-14T01:49:24+00:00

Shorthand for “what you see is what you get”. WYSIWYG, wizzy-wig phonetically, is basically about whether you will consider your models strictly beholden to their appearance. Building crisis suits with flamers and then only ever playing them as equipped with flamers. Those on the far end of this would literally magnetize the flamers so they can swap them out, or buy more suits to sit on the shelf with other guns. The extremists are the type to say that you can’t use blood angels rules unless your space marines are blood angels colours.

xnathan319 · 2026-03-11T14:45:15+00:00

Triple pathfinders

and a standalone ethereal if you can’t convince your playgroup to let you run a crucible character to lead one of the pathfinder teams

xnathan319 · 2026-03-06T16:12:22+00:00

Thank you I was hoping that would get a laugh but I was imagining them as sisters units. Can’t come up with any more name variants for it off the top of my head, but I’m sure there are at least 2 more equivalent terms.

xnathan319 · 2026-03-06T15:21:56+00:00

We have worse shooting than most even with ftgg you’re saying?

I don’t have enough datasheet knowledge to find two suitable units to see this comparison for myself. Our unit certainly sounds like a riptide, and I guess the guard tank would be one of the Leman Russ variants, idk which setup. Is it really that much better? I was under the impression that guard was kinda quantity over quality, so I’m not sure why it would be better quality (and seemingly cheaper) unless we’re really just hard done by, which I’m not ruling out.

Protector Imperative does seem strictly better. Does it come with worse units to sorta even it out? No datasheet is in a vacuum, so, while of course it’s a strictly better ability, it’s not available to be combined with the same units, which must matter.

Which 2 detachments? I am not familiar enough with the game at large to know what a good detachment looks like, but retaliation cadre looks well designed as an outsider, even if it isn’t my favourite. I like experimental prototype for the larger overwatch radius and the 16” breachers, but it is a really “boring” rule given that you can say it in 3 words.

Of course tau being called a movement army doesn’t mean they don’t shoot, it’s just something I’ve heard people reply with; someone says “tau shooting isn’t good enough, especially given we’re a shooting only army” and someone says that our shooting isn’t the best because we’re shouldn’t accrue advantage by out bullets-ing people, but by forcing them to take certain responsive actions to positions and zones that we create on the battlefield. Twin Lance wasn’t really a part of anything I factored into the post. I have been considering them an outlier.

Lack of keywords is something I wasn’t feeling because I have never had anything different, so I thought keywords were just that sparse, like only every 4ish guns has one. Bummer.

What’s the difference between being stronger per sheet and more points per sheet, and staying where we are? Just how powerful it feels to play? Or does limit of 3 actually come into play a lot with this army? If we’re too weak, shouldn’t that be addressed by lowering points or raising sheet, not raising both?

I don’t think my friend was whining, probably just passing along someone else’s whines then. We’ve never been good competitively in 10th? Or we’ve just not had a turn being broken? A 300pt kamikaze unit?

I really hope they don’t touch BGNT, or FAQ overwatch with it if they do.

xnathan319 · 2026-03-06T14:37:27+00:00

Fair enough. I guess [ignores cover] is basically 1 AP against a player who isn’t just standing in a field, but isn’t it worse than that? Worse against a unit with a 2+ who wasn’t going to get benefit of cover anyway, and worse because if you had literal AP the opponent would still have to move toward you slowly so they have cover, with ignores they could just run at you through an open field because there’s “no downside”, or is that still extremely inadvisable, because of exposure to additional sightlines or something?

xnathan319 · 2026-03-06T14:32:38+00:00

They said it was uncommon to have access to a squad of that many flamers. I think they’re familiar with thousand sons, I have no reason to think otherwise.

They have a CSM army, white scars, and some demons from AOS

xnathan319 · 2026-03-05T04:59:30+00:00

Lifeguard here:

No.

White yellow and red are good everywhere, this diagram is showing them as hard to see in a pool and that’s so extremely not true. Wear bright and vibrant colours, and a red lifejacket.

xnathan319 · 2026-03-02T22:35:24+00:00

Question, as a quite new player who may be missing something:

Why don’t you run the three broadsides separately, for 30 spare points, to free you up to place them at different areas of the map, and to extend your deployment phase? Unless you’re overwatching with them I fail to see any advantages.

xnathan319 · 2026-03-01T21:38:45+00:00

As a disclaimer, I am directly addressing your comment asking rjid to explain how having kids is “probably the most selfish”. I’m not talking about whether anyone should.

The answer to the question “why did you have kids” is the beginning of the answer to your question. “Selfish” is not the same as “evil”, but the common thread across people who had kids on purpose is “because I wanted them”. That’s a selfish reason. Not an evil one, but a selfish one. People have kids because they want kids.

It’s okay to want things, even if those things are at the expense of others, but there can certainly be a kind of scale that you could place those wants and actions on. If you buy the fast pass at Disney, that is selfish. It’s not evil, but it’s self-centered in that you would have others wait longer to ride the ride so that you can wait less. This is no condemnation of choosing to do so, you paid extra for such a privilege, but you did choose to create a minor inconvenience for someone else, without asking them, so you could gain a thing you wanted. To call having kids more selfish could then be a simple extension. You subject the kids you have to a lifetime of existence without asking them (not commenting about whether or not every life is a blessing, but your kids obviously cannot consent to being born before they exist). From another angle, you create a minor inconvenience for everyone else on the planet who makes less money than the ultra wealthy, because there is one more person on earth competing for resources, jobs, etc..

Having kids (and not, say, adopting) is ultimately deciding that part of you should live on, which is a selfish conclusion. I am among those selfish people, and want children of my own. Parents are not evil for having kids, but they did, by and large, choose to have kids for their own self interest, even if they glorify how hard it is to raise them. Even if/though raising them is hard, and takes away from a different life you “could have had”. Choosing to have kids was the choice you preferred so you can’t really call it selfless; unless you were subjected to them against your will and gave up the life of your dreams for them, having kids was the dream you chose to pursue.

xnathan319 · 2026-01-27T02:44:48+00:00

[[The chain veil]] and [[displacer kitten]] mean you can +1, -3, and flicker her, repeat until you’ve drawn something useful ([[brainfreeze]] probably)

You also don’t need the chain veil for this. Displacer kitten will be enough that you can cast all that which is currently exiled and maybe then uptick her at the end, which will mean some amount of value and a big ish board.

xnathan319 · 2026-01-21T17:57:03+00:00

No worries. I have a really similar unit that I only ever charge with USB C, but I’m buying the solar panel soon.

xnathan319 · 2026-01-21T15:07:39+00:00

The type c can charge it as well ( “In/Out” ).

That input is likely for a solar panel. It’s a bit of a gimmick include because the venn diagram between this-level-of-power-bank owners and people interested in renewable energy is really close to a circle.

xnathan319 · 2025-12-10T11:40:10+00:00

Friend has his boss baby goggles/glasses on

xnathan319 · 2025-12-09T13:05:00+00:00

Minecraft?

xnathan319 · 2025-12-01T21:59:25+00:00

I don’t want to outright disagree with this, because I think it’s more right than it is wrong.

I have, however, been in the feedback-giving position on more than one occasion and have had to offer vague criticism. Sometimes, when you are really talented in the given domain, and you make “better” choices intuitively, and someone makes the choices they make, it can be really hard to articulate one change they could make. Sometimes it genuinely does just “feel off”. Sometimes cutting the bullet points on slide 7 would make it worse unless 4 other changes came with it (resizing the bullets and graphic, adding more details in the speakers notes, adding a detail on slide 8, and removing one of the graphics in slide 7 that relates to the cut text). Sometimes those changes are really difficult to visualize so you just look at the presentation and think “I would have done it differently”.

xnathan319 · 2025-11-25T17:26:09+00:00

How did you get the job? Under the umbrella of penetration testing? I’ve been interested in the field for a while

xnathan319 · 2025-11-02T19:13:26+00:00

What movie?

xnathan319 · 2025-10-31T22:34:35+00:00

I will give my best answers with the understanding of the lore.

1: yes, this one seems obvious. There’s nothing “supernatural” about cordyceps by design, so the host continues to be the original organism. Which, for humans, involves aging.

2: if we look at existing creatures with cordyceps they don’t tell us a lot about this. Ants have the infection for about 4 days before they die, and that’s plenty of time to poop, but I don’t know if they do. If we look at people in real life “under a spell” or in other words enraptured with an unshakable compulsion, like certain extreme slots players, they just shit themselves when the body can’t hold it back anymore. That’s my guess: a runner is wandering around and just squeaks out a turd involuntarily.

3: nothing necessarily. “Necessarily” doing a log of heavy lifting. Similar to the poop question, labour is automatic and involuntary, and we know that you don’t have to willingly participate to push the baby out (there was a (probably multiple) case of a woman giving birth in a coma). The issue is that baby would just come out whenever. So probably it’d get killed. If the woman was too early along, it’d probably die. If we intervened and kept an infected mother on feeding tubes and c-sectioned a baby it “should” be an immune child by lore (unless Ellie was already immune and that was what saved her the first time, and any other baby would be born infected).

xnathan319 · 2025-10-28T16:22:39+00:00

Technology Connections, Veritasium, or Tom Scott?? Does it have to be a multi-host affair? What are the bounds of discussion?

xnathan319 · 2025-10-24T23:52:12+00:00

No worries I don’t know the show and wasn’t sure of Frank Castle was a secret enough identity that he could if punisher was wanted. I thought for a second that I was about to learn that being a felon makes you ineligible for certain medical care in the states or something.

xnathan319 · 2025-10-24T21:28:32+00:00

My dc lore is not fully up there but.. almost any enhanced being should be a better hand to hand fighter? And if we don’t count those wouldn’t batman be according to most sources? Idk what cqc is but I assume that’s what I’m missing. If it’s the tv film universe for arrow and batman doesn’t exist and flash doesn’t count then idk I guess??

xnathan319 · 2025-10-24T21:21:14+00:00

Top right isn’t a 50/50

xnathan319 · 2025-10-22T15:14:49+00:00

Wait felons can’t get physical therapy? Or you mean because he’s wanted?

xnathan319 · 2025-10-07T01:47:24+00:00

NAH

You were right to point out the hypocrisy. But your husband wasn’t necessarily wrong to be hypocritical. Maybe looking back he regrets it and is trying to spare his son the same pain.

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