>>97368383
Nids were only strong if you played very specific lists like nidzilla, and even then they have very strong limitations.
Overall 4th is quite balanced, except for 4th ed eldars when abusing falcons/Harlequins (harlequins were not even ment to be in the codex to begin with) chaos 3.5 had some bullshit when abused, and space marines could put in trouble some factions when abusing drop pods or assault cannons. But overall it's quite ok.

>>97368383
>Also don't like named regiments being allowed to go over the limit.
That did feel like an admission that the basic number for pleb player regiments wasn't going to be sufficient if you picked some of the "flavour" options. Of course that's an easy fix: increase the limit for everyone - I find 7 works fine providing you're not playing with arseholes, which you shouldn't be anyway.

>>97369045
Well, sure, there's cheese strategies everywhere (CSM with Obliterator spam and Bikers spawncamping with daemons, for example), but I was talking more about the casual setting. Nids are very strong at that level desu.
>>97369813
I know, but I generally tend to avoid "giving myself more" house rules. Still, wouldn't mind trying.

Chosen having a gorillion wargear options is fucking kino and I refuse to play any edition where I cant give everyone in a squad jump packs and power hammers

>>97370069
I mean the oposite, there are not that many cheese tactics. The already mentioned ones are basically the only worth mentioning.
Nids are just ok at a casual level because horma/termagants are expensive unless equiped with spinefists, genestealers are even more expensive and fragile, carnifex sucks at melee, in fact most tiranids actually suck at melee. Zoantropes are easy to target if you don't learn how to shield them with other troops, warriors are bad, reaveners are not easy to use etc
Nids are very much fine.

>>97369915
Apologists legit say shit like that tho

>>97350485
It's been said before and is worth stating again: the whole thing coasts purely on the original concept art and thats IT.

Can someone explain whats wrong with this map? I'm seeing a lot of anger about it here but no explanations.

>>97370037
No they don’t because there’s not a single corner of the Internet except I suppose walled garden Christian forums/chatrooms where there aren’t obnoxious online atheists. Furthermore saying this in this very thread or even on /tg/ period is patently absurd. Hence, you have zero self awareness

>>97370264
Can christians really still not wrap their heads around non-christians and atheists not being synonyms?

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>>97358673

>The faggot C-suite managers running those companies into the ground just haven't found out yet that replacing people with chatGPT does, in fact, not work.

If anything it's the layers of management that could stand to be replaced by AI. C-suite pay is insane and most just copy what other companies are doing(turning things into subscriptions etc). Middle management is a bunch of nepo dorks and people promoted until they're in over their heads.

>>97358187
All that means is that GW will keep it under the table when they do use it and when that's found out, it will be a news story here spammed for a month.

>>97358673
Isn't it just "journalists" or whatever trying to make news out of some random sentences in GW's latest investor report?

A lot of people in the corporate world now are saying the word "AI" at meetings, they have powerpoints with graphs and such, because that is what is expected from them and so normie boomers want to know if GW is also saying the word "AI" and in the investor report they say that their managers are currently not saying the word "AI" a alot and probably won't be in the foreseeable future.

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So you're waiting for the AI bubble to burst, huh? Like you waited for the web3 bubble to burst? How's that working out for you?

>>97370258
How are your Apes doing?

>>97291323
>I honestly think Tolkien got it right by not really making a distinction between them
More accurately Tolkien created the term "orc" as another word for goblin.

Would be a bit odd to create a distinction between them given the circumstances. They weren't ever conceived of as separate entities until later.

>>97291866
Orcs have no basis in folklore.

>>97332855
The fact they have two side by side tubes going down their throats has always fascinated me biologically.

>>97370175
They don't. That's their uvula. You just can't see where it cuts off from that angle.

>>97370146
Tolkien didn't invent the word "orc" and wasn't the first to use it for some kinda monstrous being

>>97370196
Ah, damn. My headcanon was that orcs having two windpipes gave them their ability to stay on the march, exhaling out of one while inhaling with the other in a continuous airflow cycle.

>>97369940
i mean draft while your limited rank is bronze or silver is pretty much free money
people will run dogshit cards and miss lethal every other game

>>97369983
just knowing every common and uncommon in a set is a pretty big ordeal, you don't have enough time to read every card in a pack and think how good they are and if they fit in the cards you have already drafted

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>>97363536
the whole point of putting "an opponent controls" on a card is to make the card worse
for example instant speed self bounce for 1 mana is very efficient and versatile protection and stapling that effect onto a card like picrel would just be too much

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>>97370089
If that's your concern, just use a tracker or some overlay to rate cards. But also you don't need to do that, as long as you know the set mechanics you'll be able to estimate the strength of most commons and uncommons. A lot of cards across sets follow similar archetypes. A frequent example is the 4 mana green 4/4 with upside. We get one basically every set, and while the strength varies they're rarely awful. The ones that are bad are fairly obvious, like cautious survivor which is practically vanilla. You don't need to pick up a perfectly crafted deck to win games, especially at the start when nobody else is either. Just take the generically good cards and 9/10 sets you'll do fine. Once you get some experience with the set you can start worrying more about synergy.

>>97370206
just reading through the 15 cards in a pack takes almost all the time you are allotted, your options are to use a program that drafts for you or learning the set if you want to play human drafts and win

>>97367336
>the [plastic] failing before either a wooden or metal version would.

Obviously in a general context yes, but I feel it's a bit disingenuous to state that here without the qualifier that pretty much any currently practical alternative is going to have more drawbacks, and be more fragile, than plastic for miniatures, especially high detail ones.
If you notice lean decades down the line, just pin it, bruh. (Even that basra base is thick enough to accommodate a wire with careful drilling.)
Maybe I'm reading more doomerism into your post than you intended, if so, sorry, but really - its an easily mitigated issue, unless one goes full Impermanism.

>>97368322
>I'm actually really smart an I made them seethe!
Bro lol
Maybe you are just retarded and everyone is laughing at you kek

>>97367087
>in my experience anime figures are less rigid and more flexible than plastic models
Stiffness and creep resistance are two different properties. Dunno which creeps the least of PS, PVC and ABS, but I do know we can't tell just from which seems the most rigid.

>>97367336
>and remembered the effect of physical forces
doubt

>>97370125
Aren't kdm minis still hand sculpted? At least, I remember Screaming God and Ivory Dragon were

>>97368952
>40kids can't be genuine manchildren, it has to be an act

>>97368858
I don't particularly see the idea that Custodes could be female as a problem, even if there weren't any prominent female characters among them before. The way that they're made is entirely different than Astartes, so logic could follow that the limitations and restrictions are different too.

It would be a pretty easy writing change that doesn't even mean all that much in the grand scheme of things. It just happened to make a lot of people assmad for their personal reasons.

>>97368702
Konrad Curze because he was literally me

>>97369248
Real

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Daily reminder the anti-GW raid discord is hard at work trying to make people hate 40k. They're now trying to convince people that the 40k or HH lore isn't good, thematic, or deep. They'll conveniently ignore the fact that 40k isn't popular for its gameplay, it's popular for its lore and setting. GW has literally dominated table top gaming and is a household name of nerd culture PURELY because of its lore and stories. But ok. Sure. Let's pretend it's bad because discord raiders said so. Uh huh.

This is the same group of twats that spam the anti-tournament terrain threads as well

>>97367604
It's ok. BTW, I'm in the EU if anyone cares, and I just wanted to mention V20's The Black Hand - A Guide to the Tal'Mahe'Ra has additional rules for Diablerie, and rules for abominations, I noticed abominations have besides the obvious Lunacy and Vulnerability to Silver (duh), also Conspicuous Consumption (ouch) and Infertile Vitae (so they can't embrace). They also tend to seek death, nonexistence, shouldn't they perform like shit in a contest of wills when Diablerized, if not straight up ragequit it?

>>97363664
Ah, doubt you two met, given that. Right circles, broadly, given your preferences for company, but the time and his personality don't quite help a potential meeting. He definitely was out of Europe by sometime in the early 1800s, and claimed to have left even earlier. Not sure he ever went back to the Old World for any reason, or bothered with social outings you'd possibly attend in the New; not impossible, but also not likely. From what I've seen of him - namely, his later years - he was a recluse. Left the caern rarely, mostly used me and the others as couriers and hands. You know that type of elder, probably.

Tall man, thirty-something, on the leaner side in frame, deeply unpleasant as a person. Did all sorts of tricks for his appearance, changed his face and his name, but the broad things were persistent. Loved his little charms and shit, round glasses, and in personality he was utterly inhuman, with general lack of usual bodily wants like sex or snacks or comfort. Neurotic, strict and controlling. This sort of a somewhat insectoid individual, all in all. Very, very focused type, obsessive, to a degree, but he'd definitely hide it outside of his domain. Very, very dead nowadays, this isn't a 'seen him lately' kind of question.

If you did in fact knew him privately, tidbits of any sort about him would be convenient, and feel free to publicize them here, even, I don't care whatsoever about his good name. Information on what the old fuck got up to before he got eaten by werewolves would be a great way to pay me and my coterie for our services and merchandise, greater than regular cash, favors or occult toys.

>>97367419
See, this is why nobody wants to live with you fucking people in your horrid smoke-filled beach hell of a city. Santa Monica's practically a site of pilgrimage and all, in some circles, but it's like there's something in the water in Los Angeles, and, therefore, in the Kine blood, and, therefore, in whoever drinks it there.

>>97369951
My history with the New World can be divided in three chapters:
- a series of fortunate business opportunities when in my mortal days, which began before the golden age of pinups and ended after my embrace;
- a series of visits in search of either the ancient wonders of architecture of pre-Columbian civilisations or modern, open-minded people;
- a series of unfortunate events ruining my attempt at a 2025-26 winter vacation, still ongoing.
I agree it's unlikely we met, unless he had a particularly close relationship with either the higher-ups in the New York Camarilla or my Tzimisce Antitribu friends in Brazil and elsewhere in Latin America - and I would find the latter case rather baffling, going by your description.
>You know that type of elder, probably.
My dear, I'll have you know we have entire nations infested with those emasculated neurotics, who would rather count coins and fold and unfold red tape than do anything tasteful or worthwhile. Imagine a version of the European Parliament that won't bloody die!
Again, I don't suppose I have the information you seek, but I wish to thank you for the conversation, I can always use a distraction in these trying times.

How is everyone back to normal like they ain't got a Boy Toy-shaped hole in them?

>>97370230
funny sentence

>>97369396
Jej, the AI has no idea who we are.
Excellent.

>>97370126
*in the inspirational sense

>>97369466
The Greeks thought small penis was more civilized and big donkey dick was a sign of crudity and barbarism. Probably because small really does seem more civlized to a 12-year-old taking it in the ass.

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this AI stuff is neat. just wondering if i should add more conths and sharsloes.

>>97370199
Needs more sneed

>>97370075
Both have value, depends on your set up.
If the grind is the only unit that will fight, 6 wide. Since that has 1 buffer, then 6 buffer on next RB instead of 3 buffer, 5 buffer on next RB for the 5 wide.
The bigger benefit for the 5 wide though is it gives you more room for flank attacks against what your grinding out since your frontage is smaller.

>>97370122
I fucked up that explanation.
The 6 wide is 12 attackers on defense but 7 buffer. Compared to 10 attackers 8 buffer. If you're tanking more attack, but if your ablative then more buffer

>>97370122
Ok, so 5 is the most versatile, 6 is if you hope to win the attrition war. Against Dwarfs, I tried two rank of 6 and I swear to god all my units got deflected. Like trying to break brick walls.

However my new infantry should outnumber them so hopefully i can hold better.

>>97370009
eh, im really only interested in the archers anyways

>>97370166
Yeah.
There are some other considerations at the margins. For example if the unit is 26 or more models, you need to be 6 wide, 37 or more models 7 wide. You'd be in March formation again due to shape otherwise.
Also which units your using. Gors should essentially always be 7 wide (other than pure maneuverability) because they have no armor (5+ with shield is the same as no save, don't kid yourself).
Otherwise yes, you got it right

>>97370135
I'm afraid it might be a cash-in.

>>97362783
Can't relate.

>>97362783
stop playing with amerigoyim under the age of 35
they are always either porn addicts, trauma dumping fags, or moral auditors

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>>97362783

Playoids are gormless crybabies. They whine about no one GMing a game instead of taking turns running or actually trying to appeal to potential GMs(by offering to host etc) They bitch about not being spotlighted instead of having their characters do interesting things in the game world.

>>97363178
>This. Online interactions don't really scan to the brain as being fully "real".
Yeah I've realized this too, when it's an in person game it's a fun social experience but online it's just disembodied voices if even that and the game just feels like a burden I have to put up with every week once the novelty wears off.

>>97369285
Guess you should get therapy then.

>>97369756
Sorry sweetie the profit margins are NOT high enough

>>97369249
They took out the exemplary battle the bastards

>>97369756
>reprint old rules
Not going to happen. That would allow for the possibility of people preferring old thing to current thing.

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post what you're working on anons

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>>97369249
>>97368874
>>97368869
>lmao 3.0 sucks so much shit they needed to rerelease 1.0's content
This. It's a moral defeat. 1.0's blackbooks are the peak of fluff and it has only been downhill from there.
New Good Old Bad fags atomized.

>>97364302
No, thankfully they screen for that now. None of them make it past the initial recruitment stage.

>>97367339
They don't hire autistics? damn

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place your bet

>>97369770
anish or vincent win, hans middle of the field somewhere

>>97369770
Erigaisi > Keymer > Giri > Erdogmus

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>>97368755

>when someone’s racist uncle refuses to stop ranting about immigrants even after being asked to reign it in for thanksgiving

I was recently thinking about just how autistically normie guys act. You only get clocked as autistic if you're interested in something outside the mainstream like sunken ships and DnD. If you don't have any weird interests no one thinks it's weird that you ignore body language, hit on a woman who obviously isn't interested, or rant to someone about a sports game they didn't watch.

Hell, the autistic guy is likely to stop talking about the Edmund Fitzgerald if someone tells him to STFU. The normie guy will just bowling over everyone else.

>>97363372
>avid watchers of Critical Roll
>Player Conditions
>she
>her
KICK HER OUT YESTERDAY
Youre supposed to clear aaaaall that at session 0

>>97369892
Strawman is correct. Youre harshing my vibes when you turn a game into a therapy session

>>97366234
Huh, I associated it with people who love gaming the lefty equivalent of robert's rules of order (talking-feather committee meetings)