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Personally, I’ve been holding off until they release a complete book and/or new Spyrers and Arbites.

I’d like to see 2+ armored units added to Kill Team. I mean, what else is Space Hulk other than a kill team of Terminators fighting Genestealers in spaaaace. Obviously, you’d need to point them out correctly and probably limit them from certain wargear choices... But it could work. A Custodes Guardian with just his bolter-spear is probably pretty close to a full 100-Point team on his own; Space Marine and Chaos Terminators are probably 35+ Points, with Deathwing being a bit more if they have some of their special rules ‘ported over; and so forth...

That’s why I proposed bringing back the Imperial Guard platoon-as-single-slot of yesteryear.

“Oooh, look a chance for me to natter on nonsensically about medieval political trivia that no one cares about! My student debt was worth it after all!”

Back in 2e/3e I used to have a small Space Marine Demi Company of my own custom chapter — The Grey Ghosts — who all had power armor that I lovingly and carefully painted in WWII inspired stiengrau... And everyone thought they were plastic even though they were mostly pewter miniatures. Something about certain shades of grey just don’t “read” right on models of this scale.

I think Genestealer Cults, Tyranids, and Orks can all fill out a Battlion FOC fairly cheaply too. The main difference is that they don’t have the same “soup ingredient” options that the Imperium does.

They were distilling bourbon almost a century before Bourbon County was established and it was a popular drink in the saloons and taverns along New Orleans’ Bourbon Street by that time too. The name for both the county, the street, and the liquor derives from the royal House of Bourbon. The Bourbons originated in 1272, when the youngest son of King Louis IX married the heiress of the Duke of Bourbonnais. They’d spend the next three-hundred odd years as a “cadet branch” of the royal family... But Henry III died without any heirs in 1589. A few rounds of Game of Thrones style intrigue later, Henry IV was crowned as the first king of France of the Bourbon Dynasty. By the late 18th century, the House of Bourbon held thrones in Spain, Italy, and France. Heck, Spain and Luxembourg have monarchs of the House of Bourbon right now!

Just spitballing here, but what if the Imperial Guard was returned to having an Infantry Platoon (infantry squads, special weapon squads, heavy weapon squads, etc.) all fit into the force org chart as a single Troops choice? This would make it harder to “fill” a Battalion FOC with a minimum amount of Imperial Guard. Plus, narratively it would make more sense that the amount of Imperial Guard grunts that we’ve been calling a platoon since the early Nineties isn’t now a Battalion!

Well, I seem to have received the blessing of Father Nurgle and will not be able to make it tonight.

Frankly, I think they should just assign points costs to them the way they do for Warscroll Battalions in AoS.

Meh, it’s obviously “marketing speak.” Which is always about getting (and keeping) your customers excited, happy, and eager to spend money... without making any firm promises as to when, where, and what. Always gotta take these sorts of things with a grain of salt. Still, compared to the complete “radio silence” we saw from them for the 2000’s, I’ll take it.

The Imperial Bastions would actually make a pretty could base to build the legs out of... You’d need to make them “double wide,” add some bling, and scratch-build the “toes.” Ahh, if only those PowerBall people would stop giving the prize to other people.

Isometric projection is the best way to do caverns.

Always wanted to build it... I figure a couple of Macro Cannons for the shoulder weapon implacments, a bit of PVC plumbing pipe and gubbinz for the central battery, a modified paintball mask (and some LEDs) for the head, and a metric ton of Sanctum Imperialis terrain sets... You could build a pretty nice “ruined” Imperator-class Titan as a 3’ D x 4’ W x 3’ H table. I just need about $1,000 and a couple month’s time.

Too soon?

Imperator-class Titans are also something close to 54 meters tall in-universe. That’d mean the model would have to be approximately four feet tall in WH40k... and given the width of the cathedral on its back. Yowza! That’s not a model you game with, that’s the terrain you game on!

It’s really refreshing to see how open and up-front GW has become, given the notoriety they previously developed for secrecy and keeping fans at arm’s length. City Fight was always my favorite way to play WH40k (just as Seige was my favorite way to play WHFB). Encourages building great looking terrain, generally favors common infantry and vehicles over elites and rare stuff... But it still looks awesome as hell to see a Chaos Scout Titan slugging it out with a Knight Lance up-close and personal.

And you just know that options for replacing the Quake Cannon are sitting in some Forge World designers sketch book... I cannot afford one of these beauties, but I do love daydreaming about them.

“Faster! Faster! The flogging will continue until morale improves!“

Do not think too hard nor dwell too ling on the logistics of the Imperium of Man. You’d go less insane playing four-player paradox poker with Tzeentch, Yog-Sothoth, and Mephistopheles.

November and December are generally "slow" periods for wargamingg, roleplaying, and other hobby type stuff. Everybody's busy with family, holidays, end-of-year work stuff... and so on and so forth. Things should go back to normal after the New Year. As for places to play, Guardian Games is pretty much the epicenter of all forms of hobby gaming in Portland. There's a standing WH40k League Night on Wednesdays at 6:00 PM, you'll usually see a dozen or more players every week. You can usually get a pick up game, but since its an active league, you might have to wait a while... Especially if there's a tournament coming up as everyone is trying to get in some practice games. There's also usually a handful of guys playing WH40k on most Saturdays, but its not a given. Red Castle Games has a standing Saturday and Sunday WH40k Escalation League, starting at a low point value and moving up every couple of weeks, a great way to get into the hobby on a more serious level. It's all the way down in SE Portland, so if you're one of Portland's many car-free residents (like me) then getting there can be a real pain in the proverbial dice bag. The Portland Game Store doesn't have any organized WH40k right now (seems to be more of a WarmaHordes crowd). But it's a very nice store and you can probably get someone to meet you there for a game without too much fuss. Game nights at the Ordo clubhouse are also an option. We don't have any leagues or campaigns going on right now, but you can always drop a note here on the forum (or on the Facebook group), you'll usually get a bite.

Really kinda sad to have seen the Dirty Harry films close on such a weak entry. I mean, it's not a bad film by any means... But the tone and style of it make it feel more like an Eighties Buddy Cop Movie than the modern noir-sploitation of the earlier Dirty Harry movies. Like... If it had been a Die Hard or Lethal Weapon flick with Murtaugh and Riggs or John McClane instead of Harry Callahan, it'd probably be one of the better films in those series. But, as it is, its the weakest entry in its series. For the record, I'd rate the series from best to worse as: Dirty Harry (1971) > The Enforcer (1976) > Magnum Force (1973) > Sudden Impact (1983) > The Dead Pool (1988).

I’m planning on being there and Kill Team sounds fun. Although if anyone is interested, I’d also be up for some Gaslands. I’ve got the rule book, templates, and a dozen cars... Everything but the custom dice (they’re in the mail), although the game can be played with regular D6s without too much fuss (and I have plenty of those).

Given the fact that a “normal” breath contains about 80% Nitrogen, 18% Oxygen, and about 2% being a melange of Argon, Carbon dioxide, Neon, Helium, Methane, Krypton, Hydrogen, and Xenon... Most of what we inhale isn’t what we actually “breath,” so the gases of no use to our body gets exhaled right away. I’d reckon that an increase in the amount of water vapor in the air isn’t going to have any statistically significant effect on a normal respiratory system. People with compromised respiratory systems probably struggle with it... But I’d imagine that it’s probably a minimal risk. I’ve seen “smog warnings” and “smoke warnings” before, but never “fog warnings.” (And before anyone brings it up, the infamously fatal “London Fog” of the Victorian Era and the Post-War years was not actually fog.)

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