>>97365315
>Vanguard just behind Digimon
Not bad actually.

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Durable Pacifist

CONT: Sentinel

AUTO: When this unit is put on (GC), choose one of your units, and it cannot be hit until end of that battle. If your hand has two or more cards, choose a card from your hand, and discard it.

Luminous Breach Dragon

AUTO RC:For each card in your damage zone, this cost is reduced by [Energy Blast (1)]. When this unit attacks, [COST][Energy Blast (5)], and this unit gets [Power]+10000 until end of that battle.

>>97366312
Hope Stoi gets a battle siren PG if we're getting a cycle of cute girl PGs.

>>97366289
>>97365409
You guys are coping hard. The game is about to die.

>>97366412
It's down, obviously. But for a niche TCG It's doing fine despite the awful management.
If it dies it dies, I love this Franchise but I'll just move over to a different game if this one goes up in flames. Though I hope it doesn't, none of the other games I play are as fun as Vanguard other than Digimon.

>>97366353
stop avatar fagging with shitty anime girls and no they're still bad.

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>>97366440
I'm not the vampire guy, I'm a different guy. And that was just the second piece of Empire fanart I had in my Fantasy folder. I don't think you would have been happier if I'd gone with my first one

>>97366353
State Troops are still overcosted for what they do, which hurts the entire army if you try to build it the traditional way. The City-State of Nuln army is doing good if you like to spam outriders. Haven't seen anyone play the Knightly Orders army, but it seems a bit costly for what you get.

>>97366464
I forgot, the State Troops with swords are doing pretty good (but not great) now that Parry is a thing. Having that 4+ in melee really helps.

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>>97366480
>4+ SAVE in melee
I need to slow down and reread before I hit post.

>>97362333
I use Fate for all settings I run. I tried to play Labyrinthus and Lewd Attack exactly for the reason you're pointing out, I wanted to see how it made things work, but I prefer simpler systems.

>>97362380
Then you either start reading erotic novellas or try to use the tables from the systems. Otherwise you can't expect much from just using a generic setting with no attempts to implement lewd mechanics or lewd scenarios

>>97358587
where are her teamates?

check spacesuit for smaller tentacle monster
put it on if there are none
go outside ship or remove air from room whichecer is easier
jill off in peace
move on from there

>>97361032
NTA but the more I like a character, the harder time I have putting them through the absolute suffering dick-train that is being a heroine: it does make playing a male character easier in that way (but similarly, the lewd starts taking a backseat to the gameplay for me at that point).

>>97366429
You don't choose to have bad things happen to your girl, they just happen - but if you love her then you are more worried about her and thus the action is more tense.

>>97365947
This is a fair point, and a component of balance. How much you can afford of something. But i liked what they were capable of u.u

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>>97365963
Yikes
>>97365968
Yuck
>>97365978
Yum. Triarii had never looked so good. If Rhinos are good, then Triaroses are probably good too

>>97365968
Why pickelhaubes?

Already, I couldn't resist and grabbed the Siege Battle Group with the new Cataphractii, Leviathan and 10 breacher. I want to start a melee centric chapter and I think it will be Space Wolves. They aren't cringe and have a neat paint scheme, unlike 40k decedents. Plus nothing is more frustrating than failing a charge and it looks like they get a huge bonus with the set-up moves.

What other units should I get for a more melee centric force?

I think I can still find the 2.0 starter set, which would give me lots of bodies, more termis and a spartan to deliver them (although having Cataphractii in 2 different scales kinda blows).

Are Contemptors and Levis decent in melee in the first place? Are Grey Slayers a decent line unit? I sure fucking hope so since they came with shields and axes stock, which is awesome.

I thought about getting the Saturnine set, but from what I gather Saturnine Terminators and Dread are shooty and suck in melee?

>>97366468
Grey Slayers are one of the best Line units. Fenris axes are better than chainswords, and they got combat shields too.
Contemptors and leviathans are okay in melee, but most effective against other tough models like vehicles. Leviathans need ranged weapons so they have something to do if they don't get a chance to reach melee.
The saturnine dreadnought is indeed purely a ranged weapon platform, but saturnine terminators can be build as a command squad which is the toughest elite melee unit marines can field. The rules for saturnine command squads are in the Forges of Saturn journal.
But unless you really want the new saturnine units there's no reason to grab that box if you already have enough infantry models.

All variants of command squads are very deadly in melee, as are assault veterans. Tartaros terminators are so mobile now you can get away with not using a transport. There's no reason to take Despoilers when you have Grey Slayers. Assault marines are a neat harassment unit, but SW disliked jump packs so not really fitting.

>>97366096
Yeah they are cheap simple spells that witchers learn. They are basically making a rune gang sign that lets you do a simple spell. No proper mage would consider them 'real' magic but they don't need years of in depth learning so they are great for witchers.

>>97366191
Honestly the signs are useful as fuck.

>>97366096
So Witcher signs are ninja bullshit then? That makes sense somehow.

>>97366191
But could you, for example, draw the rune using light magic without moving your body and get the effect, or is the gesture a physical incantation?

>>97366238
From what I know the motion is required for witchers. Mainly because of how simplified their magic training is.

>>97257539
What are some gods/Titans that you hope will get 3e writeups and why?

>>97357851
I goofed and it won’t let me delete this, sorry.

>>97344885
Reminds me of a Sidereal charm in Exalted.

>>97353725
I'm guessing he means dominion boons which lets everybody in your group get a special stunt to use with enhancement to using it if there is more than one scion in the party with that purview up to +3.

>>97331589
How many Native people do you interact with on a daily basis? I live in a major Canadian city, and I could see a Native wearing that shirt ironically, as a joke.

Bump

>>97366292
I can think of two ways that could still make me happy. One would be for a priest of some sort, the other would be a new plastic herald to replace the one they lost.

>>97366292
I know this sounds weird but the faction is actually in need of more specialized heros.

>>97366351
>a priest of some sort
Mindstealer Hierosphiranx.

>>97366366
>50% of the battletome is heroes
While I really want a refresh of Blue Scribes, Tzeentch actually doesn't need more heroes.

>>97366232
I think Stormcast should get a big dragon that carries them around in lightning form and the gimmick is that it gets a once per game attack where the dragon hurls the lightning at the opponent and regardless of whether it wounds or not thw Stormcast they were holding are in battle with the target now.

>>97364589

>>97364589
Matrix bot vibes in the backside.

>>97361428
Ah gotcha. Thanks for the info, anon.

>>97363974
Sorry, I dont play blizzard games or aos

>>97365643
I like tom and respect his opinion but I've grown tired of their slowly presented top 100 years ago. It'd be fine if they were either better at describing the essence of a game or had more visuals, as I remember it it was largely the picture of the games box with a 7 minute monologue struggling to convey why some nebulous concept in the game is really fun.

>>97365756
They didn't even bother upressing, brushing up, nothing

Just a screenshot

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Here's my top 9 games of 2025, 2024, 2023, etc.

>>97302370
How does it compare to Through the Desert?

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So I've just gotten Marrakesh after telling queen games I want my money back because of their complete radio silence for 9 or so months. They actually upgraded it to deluxe edition for free because the one I pledged was sold out. Holy shit, what a scam this is.
Aside from the """"deluxe"""" edition being basically the og game with a few screenprinted meeples sold at a premium, it came with gametrayz. Neat, I initially thought. But holy shit. People unironically pay for these flimsy pieces of shit plastic? It's not even a full step above these standard molded plastic inserts. I genuinely don't think throwing everything in ziplocks is any slower. Also, imagine my suprise that even the deluxe edition doesn't come with metal coins, that's something you'll have to buy extra ;^)

Are all deluxe versions such massive scams?

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Here's a thing. Or two.
https://files.catbox.moe/s0ua8g.jpg

>>97352795
Neat, going to approved anime

Also, bump in case someone drops something good.

>>97337004
Look at the Bluesky user right there

>>97346599
Checked and great list Anon.

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For me it's the gnoblars.

>>97350843
Peak in the sense that they are a real and terrifying threat, as opposed to comical bad guys you meet on low-level dungeons.

>>97356791
Just makes me think of psychicpebbles.

>>97348465
That might be more Meg Mucklebones, from Legend, though she's closer to a D&D troll I guess.

>>97342902
>Jackson
I REALLY don't see it. Too "2000s dark fantasy".

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Crush, smack! Whip crack!
Smash, grab! Pinch, nab!
You go, my lad!
Ho, ho! my lad!

>>97364997
>Yugioh only requires skill at the deckbuilding level, which is fully obviated by netdecking.
Ahhhh if only that were actually true. You need to know your opponents comboes choke points and how to recover from your opponents interactions and hand traps hitting your choke points with less than ideal resources, likewise how to play through your opponents reduced board states. Maybe 10 our so years ago you would have had a point but not anymore.

>>97365785
>should I imperm the thing that's going to make me lose or not
High level decision making to be sure. A complex and interactive game for only the King of Games.

>>97366029
>hmm yes I have one maybe two negates in hand
>let me just negate one card on my opponents field leaving 3 negates still up
>instead of hitting a key searcher somewhere in the middle of their combo to minimize their end board
>dependent the on which engines they're running
>when yummy, branded, dracotail, exosister, maliss, vanquish soul, and others are in the metagame
>meaning you won't have an ideal hand trap in every starting hand turn 1 over the course of a locals let alone a ycs
kys nogames

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Honestly across all card games I've played so far I haven't had an experience as skill-testing as playing Doomsday

>>97364997
Same with magic, which is even more braindead because of the large community dedicated to solving the meta

>>97364271
>feel like it is straightforward from the get go
Not as much as you'd think. Learn the assist system, it's fundamental and yet plenty of players refuse to heed it and allow their defensive lines to get unraveled by just some mildly smart positioning. If you get the vidya it can be a good kicking off point, it does a lot of the work for you in the background though so reading the rulebook is very recommended to understand exactly what's going on. I'm in an online league that runs off BB2 myself, that's a ruleset more similar to BB2016 but legendary edition gives you all the teams and goes cheap during sales.

>>97365071
>>97365252
BFG is quite interesting regarding army size and game duration. You got less units, but you got alot of weapons to fire. And there is a time when a squadron splits and suddenly the movements become units.

>>97365252
I just have the 1 mate from my group who has several fleets he built as a teenager in the 00s, so I assume both our fleets will just be a bunch of stuff we thought looked cool lol, afaik he does have all the markers and shit that we'll need from the original game, but I have a neptune 4 if I need more of them.
>You'll want at least 4 launch bays per 1000 points
I do have a cruiser on the way that I was gonna build as a lunar class, is it worth building it as a dictator? I'Il also have some weapon battery light cruisers on order so maybe that will cover my macrocannon/torpedo needs for a bit.
>if you're in the South Sound
Sadly I am not, I am a norf bonglander lol

>>97364748
>https://litterbox.catbox.moe/

https://litter.catbox.moe/aurird8bxfivlg3k.zip

Yeh. Fuck Puckee.

>>97365532
>>97364748

Here, I accidentally set the last one to expire too quickly.

https://litter.catbox.moe/hofwcb75pu5ejael.zip

>>97363434
Thanks man. Unfortunately, I think they are one of those 'factions' that slips through the cracks. Most people into medieval wargaming are interested in western Europe, and if they aren't interested in western Europe, they are interested in the crusades, in which Byzantine forces played only a small role with the exception of the 4th and even that, not really. And if you like the early middle ages, then up to about the 7th C (just) you can just use the ubiquitous late Romans, with a little modification if you are really into accuracy.

It's a real shame, but not unsurprising - the market dictates what is made.

>>97363434
>>97363829
I recently discovered that all Byzantine minis based on Osprey publishing books are wrong. They didn't wear a padded garment over armor, that's the researcher translating or interpreting evidence wrong. I believe V&V have the most up-to-date Byzantines. There's also a Russian guy that sculpts good Byzantines but I've forgotten his name.

>>97364431
It’s not technically incorrect, it was just not the standard practice that older Osprey books made out - the quilted gambeson was called a νευρικόν, and the Taktika of Leo VI states that all soldiers should wear mail (λωρίκιον αλυσίδετον) UNLESS they could not afford it, in which case they could wear the νευρικόν alone (Leo VI, Taktika, Diataxeis 5-6).

>t. Wasted my life getting a PhD in Byz history.

>>97364535
Or rather, I should say you are correct that they didn’t wear it over mail (which is commonsense really) - but they clearly did wear a quilted gambeson alone if they were poor enough.

Can someone give me a QRD on Firelock Games'... games?
Are they pretty similar in mechanics but with different themes? Do they have different mechanics and, if so, does one really shine above the rest?

>>97366106
Seconding the request.

>>97364896
>everything seems to be about self-insert sjw bullshit and netflix tier romantasy railroading by DMs
tbdesu i used to think this way until giving old school games a try and playing a bunch more crpgs. in reality you can play something like 5e in an old school way just like you can play ose in a "new" school way. some people take to the pseudo mmo west marches style old school stuff, some people like the more on rails with feats and traits and whatever. i can see the merits in both styles even if i personally prefer running old school games because i like dungeon crawling more than being theater kids. if you're playing it with your friends then it'll be fun no matter what.
wizards of the coast can get raped and killed tho kill every suit kill every exec

>>97366059
>>97365803
>>97366091
much appreciated anons

>>97366059
>Showing players the map is not an option because they can get lost,
Thank you for saving me the effort of making this point.

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Keep seeing this game on DriveThruRPG, anyone got any experience on it?