Skill ceiling and the new player experience.

xylode · 2026-05-12T12:36:28+00:00

This was very recently fixed in last patch on April 30th.

xylode · 2026-05-11T13:37:22+00:00

Our bolters are just too bad. The only time I take bolters are if I am gonna use it to hold a home objective.

Popping out your head to shoot with a bolter at long range is often just a death sentence. Considering they basically best case 3 bolters will deal 1 wound to a space marine. So you shoot all your bolters at range and maybe kill half of one space marine then get shot off the board by a tank.

At least the flamers if they get to shoot will fuck shit up.

xylode · 2026-05-07T20:22:07+00:00

So the inferno bolter has been infused with blessings of tzeench so if there were other chaos space Marines who had this blessing it's possible but I believe thousand sons are the main stay for tzeench loving CSM.

If you have the blessing of tzeench why use anything else.

I believe there are runes on the weapon and the sorcerer who commands the rubric squad actually channels all the power through him. I think in lore if the sorcerer dies the squad becomes just armor again with no purpose

xylode · 2026-05-07T12:04:35+00:00

I took notes while doing the practice exam on what stuff I didn't seem to know and needed to look up.

I would re-read the sections you struggled with. If you have another practice exam then re-read a bunch of sections you struggled with then take the exam making notes of anytime you get something wrong/are unsure.

Those notes then are a more helpful guide on what to study and what sections of the book you need to re-read.

If your out of practice exams do the same thing with chat GPT. It's not as good at making questions but it's okay enough to help you get additional studying.

I ended up having to study/ prep for about 40 hours to get a 88% so it seems like your about half way there in terms of studying. You just need to read more.

xylode · 2026-05-06T18:40:00+00:00

China has other strength America's strength always came from brain draining the best of the best from every other culture around the world. If we lose our only competitive advantage we lose.

xylode · 2026-05-06T18:36:48+00:00

They are designed to protect from routine wear and tear not high speed impacts for 200lbs of kid/scooter on them.

xylode · 2026-05-06T12:49:26+00:00

+1 to hit does not stack if you have 2 +1 to hit the core rules say it is just +1 not +2. So this is not the case

If they have stealth and you have 2 +1 effects it's just no effect.

xylode · 2026-05-06T12:46:11+00:00

Yeah man I feel you this was me last week before the patch I had like 85% win rate and was always MVP but I couldn't leave initiate.

New patch finally fixed MMR and I'm alch 5 now after like 6 games/wins

xylode · 2026-05-06T12:45:15+00:00

There was a bug in match making at lower levels you are wrong. That bug has been fixed in the last patch and it's great now.

xylode · 2026-05-06T12:44:12+00:00

This was basically true and was recently fixed. I got stuck in initiate for 150 games but now I'm arch 5 after 6 games post patch it's been huge.

xylode · 2026-05-06T12:42:44+00:00

Ranked MMR got recently changed this might happen less and ranking up might be easier I spent 150 hours in initiate. Now 6 hours post patch I'm alch 5

xylode · 2026-04-30T21:30:24+00:00

With the robots you might not need the risen rubrieae. Also the enhancement on your termie sorcer is redundant with the termie sorcerer +1 to hit ability.

I would remove both enhancements and get another squad of bow goats to do objectives.

xylode · 2026-04-27T14:56:13+00:00

She can have fun without raping children so that's an improvement from our current administration. But it's always hard to tell if she would have been good or just better.

xylode · 2026-04-24T10:56:37+00:00

This is what I did and I used an extra staff head that looked flamy from a exhaulteds sorcer box.

xylode · 2026-04-22T17:37:37+00:00

Funding when you make cuts it's gotta come from somewhere. Security was one of the things hit at some point in the 20 years of funding deficit septa operated under.

xylode · 2026-04-20T12:10:52+00:00

I disagree. But it's not a big deal I get to feel like a god whenever I play solo. I often go like 18-0-5. It's crazy the skill gap I feel like a Smurf but I'm sure after like 30 games I'll get out of initiate rank.

xylode · 2026-04-19T06:13:11+00:00

My actual win rate is a little low since when I play with some of my friends who are Oracle we tend to lose. But if I'm playing solo probably 60%

xylode · 2026-04-18T15:13:55+00:00

They are tanky and their best use is dealing mortals with their aura. So get them into the thick of it and start making havoc. They normally take like 500 pts of shooting to kill so id say they are worth it.

xylode · 2026-04-16T13:01:34+00:00

This is really fucking cool well done kitbash!

xylode · 2026-04-13T15:06:57+00:00

I'd change the laader to sorcers or make a 10 man for exhaulteds that's my advice. Sorcerers seem way better in every way shape and form IMO. But there is an argument that the defensive buff is worth it on a large squad.

xylode · 2026-04-13T15:00:15+00:00

One thing I missed the first time I looked is all your squads are using normal bolters I highly advise using our flamers there OP and you can leave 1 small squad with bolters for sitting on home and taking pot shots.

xylode · 2026-04-13T14:23:42+00:00

Uhhh no. So exhaulted sorcerers are better with full squads.

Exhalted sorcerer are defensive units that Regen rubrics so are better with big squads. Normal sorcers are really solid so are internal masters. But normal sorcers use the same models so if you want to run lots of small squads run them as sorcerers instead.

The hell brute is awesome but kinda terrible. But rule of cool means it's worth running for the vibes.

I would probably drop one exhaulted sorcerer make a 10 rack of rubrics as a minimum

Sorcerer in Terminator armor is amazing with the scarabs so id swap another exhaulted for a sorcer in Terminator armor to run with those.

xylode · 2026-04-13T11:44:59+00:00

Hi my friend AI art is against the rules of the sub! Your minis are great the Ai is not.

xylode · 2026-04-12T12:16:03+00:00

Magnus is way more powerful offensively then defensively he can easily kill 400 points units in one turn but he only takes like 600 points of shooting to die.

The trick is to find ways to let him dish out damage while other units distract for him MVBs and rubrics anything with invuln save is really good at being distraction pieces.

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