Space Marine vs Death Slaad>Slaad are canonically Chaos
>>97679034Should have aimed a bit higher. $10 on the Death Slaad.
>>97679034Depends on which one GW wants to sell this month and the powercreeped/nurfed stats each figure is given to achieve this. Paypiggies will drop the lowest and rush out to buy the best, before it is nurfed in turn when next month's even newer (and powercreeped) figure drops.
Slaads are jobbers and Space Marines are mary sues, no contest
>>97679034That's a green slaad.Death Slaad are visually identical to gray slaad, who are small and thin.Also, a Death Slaad would win ten times over. They're able to instantly kill creatures in a number of ways, wielding literal Death magic. That, and they have high damage reduction alongside fast regeneration.A space marine, with no access to magical weapons or magic, would struggle to inflict any lasting damage. Meanwhile, the Death Slaad can kill a space marine literally just by pointing at it.>>97679952Most slaad are fodder. Death Slaad are genre shifts, turning heroic fantasy into horror. They can wipe out a party of heroes in a number of unfair ways, requiring fore-knowledge and several layers of specific magical protections if the heroes don't want to be dying left and right.
Hey, it’s been a while since anyone’s talked about Maiesta here, what does /tg/ actually think of it? Both mechanically and in terms of the setting?
Never even heard of it
>>97662246>>97670631If you can reply to this post within an hour instead of waiting a day and a half and samefagging yourself, I'll go into it. I'm not wasting my time and effort on your soulless bumpfag ass, Literary Lord.
>>97670666>Never even heard of itHave you checked out the link?
>>97662246>>97670631>>97674857You should probably kill yourself, LL
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Background Art ThreadLooking Specifically for two things. Modern City Scapes and psychodelic dream worlds
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>>97680166And that's all.I don't plan on using any more than a few of those, but I didn't want to delete images from my folder in case I change my mind later.
>Escorting a young, arrogant, haughty maiden of a powerful merchant king across dangerous lands to her intended fiancé (she's already in love with one of the party members)How does your current party fare?
>>97658133... y'know, the last time I escorted a noblewoman to their destination, she at least worked alongside us. All you've done is whinge, complain and act REALLY inappropriately with our cleric, which, by the way, you're engaged, knock that shit off.>You can't talk to me like that, my daddy hired you to escort me!You're right. He hired us to make sure you got there safe and intact.>Yeah, so...HOWEVER! He gave no instruction about your sensibility and dignity; so listen close. If I hear or see you step out of line once, I swear to the great gold dragon bahamut himself that I'll find the nearest circus and make you perform as a CLOWN , BEFITTING YOUR IMMATURE BEHAVIOUR, AM I CLEAR?>Y-you can't do that, my da-Your father isn't here, and I'm the one in charge of this operation, as chosen by him, SO BUCK UP AND SHUT THE FUCK UP, OR I WILL MAKE GOOD ON THAT, I'M GODBOUND NOW. I'M NOT EVEN THAT RELIGIOUS BUT I UNDERSTAND HOW BINDING WHAT I JUST SAID WAS , AND I AM PERFECTLY FINE WITH THAT.... I'm gonna go ahead. Scout out the path. If I hear a peep!... Grease paint.
>>97668464Isn't Luvia Rin's second cousin? How is that supposed to work? Is she marrying Sakura (disowned but loved)
>>97663756Dude is it any good? My friends really want me to do another go at Lancer but I would rather play Salvage Union.Any resources you use to keep track of mechs and mech parts?
>>97678585Originaly, the Tohsaka were a very minor magus family practicing kung fu magecraft. One of them somehow got apprenticed under the Wizard Marshal meeting him at a hotel. He was given the blueprints for the Gem Sword, and trying to reproduce it pretty much became their family magecraft from then onwards.Around the Third War, Rin's great grandpa hooked up with one of the Edelfelt twins who participated in the war. His dick was so good that the woman fled her family and handed him the Edelfelt gem magecraft, which was vastly superior to anything the Tohsakas had, and was also what they needed for the Gem Sword. That's about it.No matter your magus generation, no one is immune to jobbing, and no one is immune to the dick.
>>97679636So yes, they're second cousins and Luvia is going to be marrying Sakura according to this scenario. I guess my party buys her a bunch of ivermectin. For the worms.
/bgg/ Board Games GeneralPrevious thread: >>97622581Pastebin:https://pastebin.com/h8Tz2ze8*NEWISH* survey results:https://pastebin.com/scAkFdTv>what's the most amount of money you ever spent on a board game related purchase and how much on average do you spend per year on bg stuff?>what would you choose for the rest of the year if you had to: play only 2 player games or play only 4+ player games?>what's probably gonna be your next purchase?
>>97678149And I cant forgive you guys for introducing me to it only to be let down so fucking hard by mismanagement.
>>97678640Ah, you son'bitch. Spirit Island is my go-to solo that I typically 2 hand. Hell, that would have been my answer to the OP. I got all the spirit island stuff and coughed up too much cash to stain and finish the Broken Token crate before Reuss got mad at the guy there for diddling kids or whatever and pulled the licensing deal. I have plenty of other soloable stuff and I dig them I was just hoping to trip over something new.And to all the others I just realized answered the question and I'm too lazy to quote and yammer at, thanks. I've got a list to dig through. I'm going back to my hole in the ground. Thanks for the games.
>>97674671books and video games. soloing boardgames is piss ass boring
>>97674457>>97674473>be me>forever tidally locked at 3p
>>97675802>>97678957so all the expansions or is there a big box?
Are your Orcs Elf-descendants? After all, that would explain their propensity to have hot, steaming tea with elf women...
>>97662687OP self-inserts as the elf twink orcs mistook for a woman.
>>97668399So like a death knight?
>>97678732Or a Dybbuk.
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>>97668438Look at the ads, and you'll see.
What do we think of K47, /tg/? Will it continue to expand?
>>97672949>>97672921Oh okay well I guess that’s killed my enthusiasm
>>97675747Don't let other anon's decide what you're into anon. That is the way of the political cattle, who just think as they're told.Arrive at your own conclusions. I'm just saying what mine are.
>>97672921>it markets itself primarily as a "better than GW" wargame instead of its own thingwhere?
>>97671048It was cool. Now it isn't, becasue they cucked out and removed the Nazis and replaced them with generic Heckin' Badguy Cthulu Cultist Wizard Fascists or whatever. And to be clear, that disgusts me for two reasons: cucking out is for losers, and I want my brave Tommies to kill *Nazis* not fucking supermarket own-brand knockoffs.Also >>97672921 lol lmao rofl, good one anon. T28 and TC "successful". They're instagram trends not viable games. I travel all over for work and play at many clubs - at the ones that aren't purely historicalgrogs I've seen GW stuff, old GW stuff, sometimes some Star Wars Legion, occasionally some Battletech, Bolt Action, or Infinity, and very occasionally some niche stuff like K47, Malifaux, or people playing some unidentifiable indie guff. I have never, not once, not even a single solitary time seen anyone playing any of your faggoty sludgecore arthoe games. Never seen anyone in my metro area with millions of people in advertise looking for games either. I'm sure the poofters into that guff do occasionally pack away their Bad Dragons and venture out into the alien sunlight to play games, but the idea they're even close in number to people playing a spinoff of a longstanding WW2 game system is comedy.Also laughing uproariously at the notion T28 and TC aren't about performatively rejecting GW. Their marketing may not have focused exclusively on that(not that K47's does, which orifice you're pulling that out of I don't know), but you can smell them huffing their own farts over how much cooler and more creative and bettererer they are than GW and its community through the fucking computer screen.
>>97679575Hoop, guess someone was rejected from the discord.
I want to have a setting with guns... specifically from the periods of 1895 to 1945 (or somewhere in betweenThe problem is that I have it narrowed down to 2 time periods that'd work best for me...>The prohibition era (1933)PRO'S: It's just perfect in terms of where I want the technology to be, no sonar or jet enginesCON'S: Research material on military outfits from this time period is sparse if not non-existent >WW2 (1945)PRO'S: There's books detailing the outfits used by the various militaries of the time, this is perfect for helping me create factions and kingdoms as my plan is to combine metal armor (Silver, I'll explain later down the post) with Military outfits for a clean lookCON'S: The technology in this era is too far ahead, jet engines and sonar are the big two problems but I worry there may be more... note I still want some military vehicles in the setting OTHER DETAILS (If needed)The reason why stuff like plate, chain, scale ect is being worn is due to a big plot point I have planned... essentially once the atom bomb dropped the God of war died, and to keep him alive the gods did 1 of two things depending on the technology level of the setting, they either froze time to before the bomb gets tested (1945) or rewind time by about 12 years (1933)... then they decided to full the world with powerful magic, different sentiment species (elves and shit) and corrupted the wild life to male humanity have to fight together instead of against eachother against the were-plague... were creature's being unable to touch silver...Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97678784>PathfinderSince when has that corporate garbage been historically accurate?>I want to have a setting with gunsThen put guns in your setting. Pathfinder is fantasy.>The problem is that I have it narrowed down to 2 time periodsLiterally not a problem.>PRO'SWhat do the "pros" possess in these instances?>CON'SWhat do the "cons" possess in these instances?Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97678784Start by not using slop, you're only hurting yourself.
>>97679717FUCK I DIDN'T PAY ATTENTION TO THE HAND...Fucking searched up "mafia elf" or some shit cause I needed a random picrelHow's this one?
>>97679659>If you meant to end your list with "et cetera", it would have been "plate, chain, scale, etc".Here, seems like you need em anon
>>97679578Huh... shit I guess it all works out then... WW2 era here we go...
Legitimate question: Do the few male Howling Banshees there are get a flat chest armour plate or do they just get the standard breasted plate and wear it though it's hollow? I think the latter would be cool to keep the outward image of a bunch of vicious female super soldiers killing people. Because if a dude joins them to begin with it's because he exhibits the finesse and precision they want, so the guy would already be acting kinda feminine, no?I don't know where I could look into to get an official answer to this inquiry
>>97670817Not even for any kind of coomer reasons but Eldar designs are just peak. Howling Banshees look so badass. I really wish Eldar got more love and focus from GW.
>>97679324Yeah I should have specified I meant feminine in like finesse and elegance on battle and such not in like acting faggy all the time or something like that lol
>>97673195I always interpreted that - and before the Path novels, come to it - as being both physical and metaphorical. The physical mask on the helmet is part of the preparation ritual, but the main part ("aspect", even, heh) is the mental disassociation; wearing (masking) the personality of a warrior over one's own so that you don't get your jollies from the thrills and agonies of mortal combat. Induced schizophrenia, essentially. Harlequins aren't the only method actors in the species, it's just that the Banshee genderedness (? is that a word?) is more obvious than the others.>>97679324Also worth noting. You go to an Aspect that calls to you, that can teach a lesson your soul needs. Elaborate anger management, in a way.>>97679428It's well known that GW was fond of paying homage to 2000AD (and mythology in general), and that comic had a number of kick-ass women in it (pic rel), though really the Banshees are just riffing on the same Celtic mythology Slaine was anyway.
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Norwegian Civil War Era EditionPrevious thread:>>97451138>Thread Question: Which unit would you collect purely for the uniforms?>Community Summary of Wargames: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11JoUpGIRDp5DZdgJ24rijKHgyY-qvvR5QnVtHIp57Tw/edit?usp=sharing>List of Historical Tactical, Strategic, and Military Drill treatises: http://pastebin.com/BfMeGd6R>ZunTsu Gameboxes: Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Played a game of ADLG recently and actually remembered to take some photos if anyone fancies a battle report? I was very lucky to be able to borrow some lovely painted miniatures from my opponent.>>97672843You're probably thinking of Muskets and Tomahawks based off of that description. I think there's a Napoleonic version out there as well, shakos and bayonets maybe?>>97658743I'm a big fan of Sharpe Practice personally, its my go to whenever I want any post 30 years war blackpowder. I'm a big lardy-fan though, so mileage may vary if you're one of those few people who bounce off their systems. I find their activation and shock systems work very well for the period.
>>97676284>Sharpe PracticeCan you play with only around 30 miniatures per side?
>>97677096I'd say a minimum size force is probably more like 40 a side and thats for very elite troops. Osprey's Chosen Men might be a good choice for anything smaller than that.
>>97576097Fun pill me on Italy or France for Bolt Action; never played it and wanted to start collecting (was going to pick UK) but decided one of the more niche factions
>>97679739Check out the roadmap, stuff for each of those nations coming out this year.Looking at the Italian Bersaglieri Starter Army, it looks decent. I like that the hq comes with a medic and spotter model. Only one tank in the kit and you need two to make an armoured platoon in third edition, so you'd have to pick another up (I'd just do away with the rule of needing 2 if you're playing a friendly game desu). Shame about no dedicated AT gun though like in other starter kits, but you do get an AA gun which is neat, model looks good too.The french starter kit looks decent, still just 1 tank albeit heavier, and I prefer the helmet and greatcoat look of them personally.Both armies have a decent selection of units you can add in, but I think Italy wins—more varied selection of models. Looks like France's infantry is mostly colonial or civilian resistance models, but their tank selection is really nice.Italy have some new rules that look all right, too.https://frontlinegaming.org/2026/02/27/bolt-action-third-edition-reinvents-italy-with-smarter-stronger-army-rules/Just pick whichever you like the look of more honestly—I like western front more so I'd go with France, even if Italy seems more fun.Or just pick UK and get the best of all worlds and be able to theme your army anywhere.Also, I know there's nothing stopping us in friendly games, but I wish there was an allied detachment rule. I'd love to take units from another army. I might make that a thing.
>players try to do something "clever" with magic>it's just spamming some stupid spell combo on hapless NPCs who have no realistic way of dealing with it or even knowing what's going on>GM either has to contrive some sort of coordinated reaction to it that doesn't make any sense, or let them absolutely ruin the game
>>97674503Why do you want me to be a liar?
>>97672804This isn't 5e and most of the broken spells are the ones that don't require a "save" at all.
>>97647536Who are you quoting?
>>97678296I don't need to quote anyone.>>97674587>be hostile to your players to assert dominanceI'm sure you're a great GM.
>>97679230Why did you use the quotation character?
I played all of these back in the day except Soulstorm. Apparently I bought them on Steam at some point, I don't remember when or why. Is Soulstorm worth playing?
>>97663028The campaign was fun as far as the overall scale of it, but they made the beyond retarded decision to make it so that your bases went back to square one each fight, making defending in the mid game a horrible slog. If anything, it made more sense to just beeline straight to a stronghold, just so you don't have to play the same two or three maps the exact same way a hundred times.
>>97669881Orks is bestIn fact the same orks turn up in DOW3 as a direct result, but sadly everyone hated DOW3 so we'll have to see if DOW4 will even bother continuing the plotline
I remember how much hate this game got from the tabletop community. You can destroy a landraider with lasguns? How ridiculous!
>>97679134The DOW damage calculations were pretty neat and made this scenario even less believable than doing it on tabletop.A Lasgun deals 1dps to a Land Raider, which has 10k HP. You would need the whole squad to fire uninterrupted for almost 20 minutes to kill it.Compare to TT where you need about 600 Lasgun shots.
>>97679690Realistically neither of those situations are ever going to happen. Lasguns killing Land Raiders is a boogeyman that never actually materialises in reality.
So, now you need to decide. Do you close your eyes to what you've seen and go back to sleep? Or do you come with this psycho burnout and do the impossible against the unbelievable and keep the future at bay for another day? What's it going to be? In or out?Yeah? You dumb shit.>Thread Question:How do you pace a scenario so the horror sneaks up instead of exploding?>Unofficial Resources:https://delta-green.neocities.org
>>97676288So, you've got three locations, a crack house, a dentists office, and a research lab. You've also got the concepts of dreams as a clue, and a green box you want to include.So, for my inciting incident I'd do something like this: a grisly crime scene with unnatural overtones has gotten Delta Greens attention. The victim is a college student, unknowingly killed by her involvement a designer drug. The crime scene and the victim have clues that point to the crack house (where she was scoring drugs), the dentist office (where she was working) and the lab at school (she was working for a teacher their for credit). I'd also throw in a scene at her dorm room, where they can find her journal, a document that gets progressively more unhinged as the dreams the drug are giving her being to take over her life. Some of the nonsense dream journaling would make more sense as the scenario progresses. I'd also probably tie this murder to an older Delta green case, which is where I would hide the info about the green box.Then it's just a matter of seeding clues to each of the other two nodes at the three second order nodes (an odd amount of people going to the dentist office from the crack house, evidence of chemicals going from the lab to the dentists office, etc.) and all of your second tier nodes also have a clue leading to your final confrontation.This is a very, *very* broad overview, but that's how I would morph it into something more open ended. I still don't love it, because I think that all good Delta Green scenarios should involve some kind of Horrible Choice that the players have to make and I don't have time right now to figure out what they would be, but I think that structure is a little better than the "and, then, and then" that the generator provided.
>>97672967>>97676500Interesting approach to the restructure.I focused on the given objective, rather than the scenes.In an attempt to avoid "a weird murder" or "a Friendly gone missing" or "visit this Green Box", I went with>find and take the TOME soon to be purchased in Townville.Known Antiques Dealer is missing - antiques and pawn shop locked up as normal, inside shows a struggle.Police = "KAD reported Crackmen harrassment". > crackhouseOffice = recent inbox notes about customer seeking TOME. Answerphone message from customer (Yoga Babe) at Gym's number > gymShop = chimp-like handprints in strange places (top of bookshelves etc.), chimp hair fibres. > labCrackhouse - Pusher pawned bling, KAD legally sold it on, beef. Pusher hasn't seen Yoga Babe gf in weeks.Visiting any local crackhouse shows consistent graffiti of scar-man firehose-ing flaming apes. Search finds several map scraps to reach Gym.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97672967>>97677795Gym - Yoga Babe receptionist is 'innocent' damsel in distress seeking WitPro and constant company, and is a recent Cthuga cult convert. CCTV shows late-night visitors leaving with duffel bags. Locker search finds kit to cut Crack, including chemicals and instruments from Lab.
>>97677795>>97677803Lab - remote Biological Resources Unit of state university, animal house with chimps playing with matches in cages. Anonymous (Yoga handwriting) research notes include dreams about debating scarred Mr Drill, re: "flame of knowledge," "living within flames" etc. as well as strange distillation recipes for drug trials. After Agents enter, self-immolating chimps attack.Recognising Yoga Babe's handwriting and confronting leads to showdown with flaming Gymbros (feel the burn) and chimps.Contacting DG about Drill and scars reveals Agent Drill fought a Cthuga cult and Green Boxed their HQ in the 70s. GB address is nearby, tailed and attacked. TOME in Green Box holds ritual to not be burned by fire.
>>97677808Fringe was cool
'Black Coffee with 4 scoops of Heavy Cream, no sugar' Edition>Community Links:https://www.warhammer-community.com/https://www.unitcrunch.comhttps://www.newrecruit.euhttps://wahapedia.ru>3rd Party Models Pastebin:https://pastebin.com/Q33bkBUh (embed) (embed)>Pre 10th Torrent:Info hash: d91d8b9daa9c5dc9105fc0ec09812cbc17a752b5>10th Edition Rules:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>97681640naked, decomposed, missing their tail and standing tall, but they are
>>97681504Based potion seller
>>97681617>>97681624I find these very boring
Get squatting editionPrevious Thread:>>97237452Check out here for useful links and a catalogue of relevant miniatures retailers:https://pastebin.com/nnNqqFLnThe Rogue Trader magazine article compilation:https://mega.nz/file/C4oSnArA#sA2O_7V6OnhZCOLCf0Sba1KW_wao3pZvc6IUmlHvpsk
>>97671296Godspeed anon, my brother gave up on his metal Hellions as a lost venture.
>>97671646I can't fucking blame him.
>>97677854Sweet looking table, a game of yours or something found in the wild?
>>97679101Found photography
