>>98417345
Most puzzles are computer generated. You’re right, there are often winning moves that it rejects because it’s looking for a specific line that it thinks is best. That can’t change until the programming changes, and it'll never be perfect.

>>98417345
the goal is to force a rook exchange so you that you win with the passed pawn (it has no opposing pawns)
black wants to avoid that if possible so doesn't take on a2
i don't think the puzzles are ambiguous because there really are best moves that stand out. also if something is equal, like when you have a choice of 2 moves for checkmate it's not going to penalize you.

>>98417345
King to A2 leads to the same result with both rooks being taken and white making a queen eventually, the computer just thinks is best to get black king closer to white's pawn if possible to stop it so taking on A2 is suboptimal

>>98419320
>>98418427
>>98417817

thanks all. that clears up the questions I had. I haven't played regularly in awhile and am trying to brush up my skills.

also, my understanding is that lichess puzzles are generated from real one on one games using a stockfish analysis - but they have changed the program significantly since the last time I was playing on a semi-regular basis a few years ago.

anyway. weird stuff like that stumps me way too much if I can't see the reasoning behind the move so I appreciate the analysis and responses. thanks.

>>98419586
Yeah, Sigmarines have a bit of conceptual identity problems on the whole, if I can rant for a moment.

So WHFB obviously came first and it was a fantasy of knights, dragons, etc. obviously.
With the rising popularity of Sci-Fi and a desire to capture new markets 40K is made, and, conceptually speaking, is fantasy in space.
The space marines in fantasy are, quite literally, Science Fiction knights in no uncertain terms.
40K eventually outpaces FB in popularity in part due to Space Marine appeal and posterboy status, so some cynical suit proposes "why don't we have space marines in fantasy?"
The problem with that is Space Marines already exist in fantasy, they're just called knights. Hell, the entire concept of the Imperium is basically just the better parts of The Empire and Bretonnia smashed together.

And that's where sigmarines exist, they're the Waluigi of Warhammer they exist only in reference to other things.
They could, theoretically, invoke that more epic hero feel, which aesthetically they do, but the problem with that is that they're an entire army, so their inherent "heroism" is spread throughout rather than being focused.
Essentially a handful of Sigmarines may have been actually very cool as a unit type, but as an army their only sense of identity that they could really call their own is kind of lacking.

Sorry for derailing I just find them interesting in that regard.

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>>98419386
What?
That's just a pointy-eared Abhuman!

>>98419386
I mean, in her own setting Freiren is an ally of humanity that seeks to promote a human age of magical proliferation and dominance and is basically the top demon killer in the world.

Translated into 40K terms, Frieren would be an unusually helpful Eldar who unironically thinks that the time of the Eldar is over, never to return, and the only hope for the galaxy is for humanity to complete its own psychic awakening and destroy Chaos. She'd be teaching human psykers to be anti demon weapons and occasionally helping kill powerful demons. I guess if she was going to end up anywhere, a secret weapon of some part of the Inquisition makes about as much sense as anything else.
It feels thematically appropriate that she would have known the Emperor personally. Fits with her "walking with dinosaurs" vibe to predate the Imperium.

>>98419752
>>98419758
>Inquisitor finds an extremely based Eldar and recruits her into his retinue
>falsifies documents to label her as a human with a few minor mutations
>Inquisitor dies on a mission, leaving nobody left alive who knows the Eldar girl isn't just a human variant from some fringe world
>she gets assigned to a new Inquisitorial retinue and is just "that really competent acolyte with weird ears"
And that's how you eventually end up with an Eldar Inquisitor a century later.

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>>98419416

Posting in ebig bread

Historically speaking, werewolves aren't real.

You Fool!

>>98419915
The modern incarnation of werewolfs are based off the 1940s wolfmam movie, which was a clear message about addiction.

'''wolfman''' is too woke. what's wrong with werewolves and wifwolves?

Honestly, making werewolves "historically accurate" is kind of an exercise in futility, considering how hundreds of different cultures all across the world have legends about people who turn into wolves or similar animals (foxes in Asia, hyenas in Africa, etc) with all kinds of different rules.

>>98405168
My dad bought Normandy 44 for us to play together. We got it out and started learning the rules and talking up WW2, why so and so rule was in place and what it modeled in the real world. We even got the unrelated but excellent book by the same name to read. But then he passed before we could play and I don't think I will play it until my children are grown and can play it with me.

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>>98418602
I welcome any recommendations as well. I'm working on a Zulu army to match my gf's Brits but she is more of a skirmish player and due to our work schedule we have a strong preference for playing multiple short games over a single big game that can take days to be finished.

>>98414837
Kek. Top tier reference and pasta.

>>98419265
>wargaming with a woman
I genuinely can't imagine a more unpleasant endeavor

>>98419498
I can, it's called conversing with one

>>98418511
It's like when you see some shitty tiktok star or some xitter political hot take retard and they're raking in tons of engagement and money off the most vapid, worthless content. Sure, you could join them producing endless slop to please the algorithm, but then your life becomes consumed by slop and you have to spend all your time engaging with and catering to people who guzzle slop.

Same idea with a card shop. You could potentially make big money flipping funkos and pokemon cards to degenerate scalpers, but that means your whole life has to be consumed by catering to scalpers and learning about the latest scalper-pleasing trends and new releases. Waking up at 3am to wait outside a target so you can fistfight some other pathetic subhuman for the latest set of cards in hopes of flipping it all for a chance to one day score some holy grail rare collectible that you can sell for 6 figures, which just might offset the debt you went into just to start selling plastic and cardboard to idiots.

>>98412789
I would not open up a cardshop/hobby shop unless you had a really good Ghimmic to go with it.

Thing about hobby shops is they are super Cliche and Niche, you gotta develop a really good group of players that constantly show up there and you gotta do something that sets you apart from the rest of them.

IF~ i had the capital for it, and i was set out to do it, I would actually open up a wombo combo hobby shop + A small short stop grill. It would not be like a fully on kitchen for constant operating hours but I would fire up the grill and deep frier like every 2-4 hours, taking order like the first hour before it opens, and then pump out things like nachos, fries, burgers, breakfast burritos, really easy shit to cook but things that are cheap and hobbiests would love vs having to go some where else.

In the modern era you gotta turn your hobby shop into a place people WANT to just hang out at.

>>98417265
I'm a furfag and I go to cardshops twice a week, and I've never heard anything about this.

>>98412822
What's wrong with Yu-Gi-Oh

>>98419945
Its players stink, and some people will ignore entire sets if it doesn't include cards they want for their deck, a consequence of lacking a rotating format.

>>98415620
lol, kinda just took that from video games, like Project Zomboid. Having to create a new character, and trying to recover your corpse/gear, even if it takes weeks of in-game time

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Is there a solo game for keeping a pet monster in an enclosure? The closest I saw was a game called TSPN - Tabletop Solo Pet Nursery, but it just really didn't appeal to me.

Are there any digital tarots where you can seperate the deck into components? Like only drawing from Major Arcana or Cups or what have you.

>>98418558
You can just use tabletop simulator on steam. There's like dozens of different tarot decks to choose between. You could probably build some type of script to filter by suit, but I'm not clever enough for that, so I would just duplicate the deck, and sort toit out in different piles manually. If you want to draw from the full deck, you still have the full deck, and if you want to draw from a specific pile

>>98410820
I find it helps to decide if you're going to have permadeath or not at the very start of the campaign, so that it feels consistent with your own rules and not like cheating. In my current campaign, I am not using permadeath - if my character dies the events of the day are undone and I reset the character sheet/campaign notes to when they last woke up.
>>98415486
I once used the RuneScape approach. The PC and NPCs could die and respawn but suffered inventory loss each time. This was normal for their world and everyone knew about it. The Goddess of life and death would even empty bank accounts, so there was no avoiding it. It created an amusing scenario in which former villains were reduced to penniless bums sentenced to daily executions. A true and final death was only granted if a person asked the Goddess to stop bringing them back.

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>>98413651
Enjoy eating that ban, go back to whatever /leftypol/ shithole you're raiding from.

>mods are leftists banning rightist thought
>mods are rightists banning leftist thought
are mods just le gods who ban polshitting of all kinds? i kneel...

>>98415186
Based if true

>>98417362
>is WarmaHordes good for counts as?
not really, some Menoth units (eg. Choir) might work for Antioch and Skorne warbeasts probably could be converted into Lions of Jabir but besides that it's very different aesthetics, TC revels in grit and grime, Warmahordes does more WoW-like bright fantasy

>>98407524
Why do the serious posts actually discussing the game and such get no discussion but the bait/meme shitposts produce back and forth jibber jabber? It makes me unironically wonder if the people that actually play this game just post in another spot on the internet.

>>98420079
it was a accident vro

>>98419889
Why do autistic faggots act like their format is the one and only best format? Its because literal retards cant be good at anything else ever.

ok i need to cut one card from this deck for Forge Adventure Mode

what do i cut

Main:
1 Annex Sentry
1 Apostle of Invasion
1 Basilica Shepherd
2 Bladed Ambassador
1 Charge of the Mites
1 Compleat Devotion
1 Crawling Chorus
2 Duelist of Deep Faith
1 Infested Fleshcutter
1 Mandible Justiciar

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>>98420112
>extremely powercrept universal solvent
My retarded tron artifact control deck might be back on the menu

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>>98420213
>universal solvent

>>98418795
retard

I want a new speed duel box.

>>98419245
The 5Ds decks were pretty close and almost feel like they were supposed to be some sort of SD product. It wouldn't surprise me if the rose dragon list it was made years ago then transfered and shipped as is for this product with little to no revisions between then. The one new (on release of the deck) trap card in the junk deck also screamed speed duel tier design.

>>98418839
>>98418861
(this is the same type of set that overhauled Toon and fixed Witchcrafter)

I want new Harpie support.

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>>98412538
I don't. Beast-furry races just attract furries, who are always bad players and bad people. Every setting is better off without them.

>>98419545
Always has and always be a dumb reasoning. At that point you are bending over backwards potentially excluding cool things or things you even like just because some people can't control themselves. Might as well ban female characters/npcs, elves, demons, robots, dragons, all sorts of stuff just because people are out there that MIGHT like them too much.

Mutants that came about because a wizards guild specifically specialized in transformation spells and potions, but would dump the reject potions in the rivers to avoid costly clean ups and an angry local royalty. Goes down stream, local village water supply and wildlife eventually start showing mutations.

>>98412538
One of the gods is basically Zeus but he only fucks animals and all of his children became their own races which can breed with humans but only produce more of their own kind. Weirdly, they can't breed with other animal types, only their own and humans. Each progenitor animal was a rare member of its species, like the equivalent of the Nemean lion or the Cretan bull.

>>98420132
>Being able to punch hard does not make you fast.
You're still stuck in video games. Strength is not only punching hard.

>You get durability for USING the ability.
To wade through air is an application of strength. To wade through water is an application of strength. To wade through debris is an application of strength. To wade through bullets is an application of strength.

>>98419940
Second favourite Star Wars cyoa I think.

First Job: Smuggling

Training: The Lightrunners

Becoming Special: Force Users Favored Tool

Skills:
- Focus, 4 (Free)
- Awareness, 4 (Free)
- Style, 4 (Free)
- Pistolero, 4
- Pilot, 4

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>>98419540
>The Inquisition
>-Taboo
>-Progeny
>-Crusade

>Fox

>Caravan

>Chosen of Air and Darkness

>Scouts

>Power

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>>98420185
>Second favorite Star Wars cyoa I think.
You're favorite is this one, right? >>98419845

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>>98420189
3rd actually. But it's a close tie amongst the three and some days Jedi Guardian could be second or first.

At the moment the cyoa I made picrel for is my favourite. It just does the most to open my imagination and let me enter that wonderful galaxy far, far away.

Why does /tg/ have this thread every week?

>>98420141
>Do you genuinely think every table out there is made of just the most weird and convoluted characters possible?
Yes actually because that has been my experience. I thought it was just a local thing after playing at five different tables but when I tried online games it was the same freakshit with people not knowing how to play.

>>98420160
Some anon really wants freakshit to become a real word everyone uses.

Honestly, the only real gripe I have is how much more modern the parrot and the blue guy's outfits look compared to everybody else. What's up with that? They doing a time travel campaign?

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>>98418044
Hasn't this been a thing since Lord of the Rings?

>>98420106
Any unit of infantry that has the deep strike special rule (but isn't also anti-grav) can deploy using the teleport strike stratagem. There are a few unit with built-in deep strike, and warmongers exist.

>>98420002
and yet the rules for Movement clearly state that models without Movement Characteristics cannot "otherwise change the Model's position on the Battlefield regardless of any other Rules", which means even Reserves and Deployment rules cannot change the fact they are unable to be deployed from Reserves, which would change their position on the battlefield

don't worry though, they're not Casualties, they're just stuck in a crate somewhere

the big clue you should have noticed is that Reserves is a sub-phase of Movement; and the second big clue is that the Reserves Rule itself also states

>Entering play from Reserves is considered to be moving for Rules that are affected by a Unit having moved, even if the Models in the Unit that is entering play do not move after being placed

(AoDR p242)

so it's clearly defined as Movement (and happens in the Movement Phase) and is, by definition, not something a Model with a Movement Characteristic of - or 0 can do; the following page has the Moved vs Stationary Rule, which defines that

>In order to have moved, one or more Models in a Unit must end the Movement Phase in a different position than that which they started the Phase


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>>98420168
>which would change their position on the battlefield
They arent changing their position on the battlefield because they dont have a position on the battlefield.

Or are we going to argue drop pods cant actually deep strike?

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>spend 2 hours looking for a pointing army that I know I have
>don't find it
started on the melta bomb sapper vets

>>98418228
Tbf, I Do think you ought to put in some effort to HH the mini's but people having a fit over a 40k sword is just silly. Or a 40k armor Wich is made of HH available parts for a character, call it MasterCrafted or something. Logan had the eagle curras, I'm sure there are more marines who have personal touches like that.

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>>98356996
Probably the Mobile Suit Gundam Battle System. Homebrew game based on 40k. The leddit hasn't had a new post in almost a decade; but there's a small group doing an update to correct the errors and balance gameplay a bit. Melee is still a bit too stacked; but that's just holdover from the 5th edition roots of the game and there might be some easy tweaks with reducing attack numbers to bring them in line with shooting. Its still being playtested atm.

>>98417382
I thought it was based on (the better) MESBG?

>>98419148
Not sure, the original version uses a good chunk of 5th edition 40k stuff, including the scatter weapons rules, melee being a bit cracked and even the stat lines looking like they came out of 5th. Also, their Gdoc's have updates using editions of 40k from 6th through 8th edition; but it's all chaos to try to use with their original book. I've never heard of the MESBG, myself. Got a link to it?

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>>98413547
The Dragon's Heaven OG version is top tier for me

>>98415326
It's an interesting mech progression
Jerid starts with the MK II and Todd with the Dunbine
Jerid gets the Gabthley while Todd bounces around, then we get to the Byarlant and Vierres, top tier antagonist mechs.
The Byarlant and Vierres have similar design cues and the dual wielding was awesome as an antagonist
I guess Tomino wanted to show them getting hand-me down Mechs with the Baund Doc and Wryneck to showcase how they're no longer the main rival for Kamille / Shou, just a has-been

>>98417382
Honestly 40k is a pretty good fit for Gundam, S vs T, fail your Armor Save and then turn into a pink explosion. A high T Gundam can weather S3 or S4 attacks but a high S bazooka can still potentially take it down.
Downside of course is 40k doesn't really do "dodging" and the d6 generally limits you to +/- 1 on modifiers.
Haven't played it but I'm curious if their version of Newtype does something besides "You have Ballistic Skill -1 when attacking a Newtype target"

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>>98417382
Also, love that Gelgoog Jaeger, is that yours?

don't remember asking

Despise tripfags desu

So once you get to your rank in draft, you just never seen more than 3 wins?

>>98415781
She's missing her left tit

Ashlizzlle!!