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The sign identifies this as the “F-X (ステルス機)” or “F-X (Stealth Aircraft).”

"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky." — Alan Moore

Well, I just broke down and bought the PDF+Paperback combo. The “dead tree” edition won’t be here for a month or so, but the shiny new PDF was delivered instantly. Now I just need to pick some demons (and figure out how to actually get a game night in!).

Hey… That’s my birthday weekend!

Ya’ll sinners need Waukeen.

Hell, if I could get a consistent campaign that lasted five months let alone five years, I’d play anything short of F.A.T.A.L….

I did, but then I got a new job that has absolutely been bonkers in scheduling. I’m trying to claw out a consistent day off, but… well… retail. 🤷‍♂️

PM me your address.

I’m just waiting for the new year, when things will stabilize at work and I can carve out some sort of regular work-life balance.

If you’re only getting twenty Napoleonic infantry in a box, you’re either buying pewter figures or you’re getting ripped off. Big. The plastic sets from Victrix average around fifty to sixty men per box and from the Perry Brothers it’s somewhere between 40-50.

I might be interested in the Firestorm Armada stuff…

Cavill collects Adeptus Custodes, so a 3,000 Point army should only cost him about $200… and consist of a whopping twenty models.

I haven’t played Stargrave (yet), but reading it over I see a lot of the same themes and ideas present in Frostgrave (unsurprisingly). What made Frostgrave really “click” for me was when I stopped treating it as a wargame and starting thinking of it as an “roleplaying game without a GM.”

I’m a huge McCullough fanboy at this point and I’ve always liked Napoleonics, so I’m definitely intrigued… But I haven’t looked at the rules yet. I assume they’re similar to Frostgrave and Stargrave in terms of model count? Napoleonic figures are pretty dang cheap… Hmm.

I fell in love with Jovian Chronicles back when it was a setting supplement for Mekton. I kinda wish they’d return to their roots as a roleplaying game, but I was happy to see them succeed in their KickStarter and hope the newest iteration of the game does well.

If they wanted to stay true to the themes and tone that Rick Priestly included in his universe, then GW would be having Chaos, the Tyranids, and Tau, be the source of changes to the status quo of the universe. Not the stagnant and decaying forces of the Imperium, Eldar, and Necrons. Order versus Chaos. That was always the central conflict of the Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 mythology (lifted straight from Michael Moorcock, with a bit of Lovecraft and Orwell added of course). Chaos ascendant meant terrible, horrible, no good, very bad, tentacle-y things. But Order’s primacy meant terrible, horrible, no good, very bad, bureaucratic things. To be a man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war. There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods.

The whole central theme of WH40k’s Imperium has always been the combination of stagnation and hubris. The closer to the center of power you get, the more hidebound and ossified everyone becomes… An insignificant Imperial Guardsman Colonel on the fringes of the galaxy in some minor crusade over a nameless mudball might do something innovative, like change the turret-mounted weapon on their Chimera (and get executed for heresy if they got noticed). But the personal bodyguard of the God-Emperor!? These men should not suddenly cease doing things the way they have since before the Unification Wars on Terra.

I heal the party so that I won’t get hurt (and I even offer them a loyal customer discount).

I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the results I’ve gotten from most Contrast paints; They ain’t perfect, but they’re good enough for knocking out table-top quality models without too much effort. The two big flaws, as she points out in the video, are inconsistent results from color to color and the exorbitant price. Based on this review/preview and a few others also on YouTube, it looks like Army Painter might have solved both issues. I’m eagerly awaiting this paint line.

This might actually be canon in the WH40k universe.

Why the hell they felt the need to misspell “kata” as “ka’tah” is beyond me… As is their decision to use a bizarrely mangled Japanese word in a fictional universe where they have long established that Latin (or at least badly mangled faux Latin or really badly mangled Greek) is the lingua franca of the Imperium of Man. Especially as all of the “ka’tah” have names in Latin. For example, the Kapatris Ka’tah seems to be derived from capisterium or skaphisterion which refers to threshing grain. ”Katah” is a type of bread made in Armenian cuisine. Which makes about as much sense for naming a martial art as using “Astartes,” the name of a Semitic goddess of sex and fertility, to refer to an elite force of fighting men. It also bugs me that the Custodes have always been said to fight as individuals and not with the unit- and army-wide cohesiveness of the Space Marines. So having the entire army all use the same fighting stance at the same time no matter where they are on the battlefield makes no sense to me. At all.