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Just a quick question, in my last game I had 3x units of 9 knights. 1x Regular, 1x Questing and 1x Grail with a Character leading each.

In future lists I'm thinking of splitting the KotR unit into either 1x3 & 1x6 or 3x units of 3.

My thinking of smaller units is so I can go for more targets like War machines and other similar threats as well as use them to tie up enemy units without tying up as many points on my side.

Last game I tied up a Steam Tank but using a pure points comparison my Knights + Paladin was significantly more expensive than the Tank.

Even though I won, I felt the KotR could have been far more effective broken down into 2 or more units to harass and target more threats.

The Grail Knights and Questing Knights worked brilliantly as larger units so I'm reluctant to reduce their unit size (plus I don't want to change too many things in my list in 1 go). 🙂

EDIT: I'm also toying with the idea of 1x 5 Questing Knights (with a Baron and maybe a Prophetess) and 2x 6 Grail Knights (1 with a Duke and the other with maybe the Prophetess instead of the Questing Knights).

TIA

Hey all

My awesome wife just bought me the Core Rules (and I bought the Forces of Fantasy book) for my birthday next week.

I'm currently going through the rules and hitting down notes on rules I know I've previously got wrong (only just started again after a 20yr break) or breaking down the more lengthy/complex rules.

Basically I'm breaking them down as bullet points and collating rules that are scattered through the book.

This got me thinking about making a document, similar to the quick reference, where all the rules are compressed into a more simplified form and language structure (I hate the legalise syntax GW use).

Before I start, has anyone done this previously?

My Anker Sound Core Q40 headphones have just died. The headphones are fine themselves but the battery has given up the ghost and moved on to the big electronics store in the sky.

I'm struggling to find a new set of them so was wondering if anyone had any recommendations around the €80 ($90) mark or less?

Preferably over ear (but It's not a complete deal breaker if they're not). I just want something with a good battery life, minimum 24hrs and comfortable.

Back around 3rd ed I was a veteran Chaos player able to field roughly 12000pts worth of Chaos.

I got the chance to start playing again so decided to start with a Bretonnia list (I also have a Beastmen army that I had my first game back with), partly because the rules for Bretonnia are relatively straight forwards compared to some others. I felt you can easily build a workable list with a minimum of different troop types.

I played against a mate's Empire list yesterday and mistakes were definitely made with the list and deploying them the game went remarkably well.

The Men at Arms held up remarkably well even though they got charged by some Empire Knights.

The Bowmen didn't seem to do a lot, so I think they can be better utilised but even so they seem to be really weak units unless you're fielding masses of them at close range.

I definitely lacked enough hard hitting attacks to deal with things with the Griffon or Steam Tank. Once the initial charge hit with the lances was done I was doing nothing more than scratch the Tank's paint and the Griffon was a real grind.

Still, with a bit of luck and some surprising resilient Men at Arms the day was won, the Griffon with his General sat on it had 2 wounds left with a Baron and 3 Questing Knights about to hit it, my Baron with 9 Grail Knights still behind him was about to flank charge the Empire Knights and the Paladin with the unit of Knights of the Realm still locking up his Steam Tank in melee, my opponent just didn't have much chance and conceded the game.

So yeah, my first impression of Bretonnians is pretty positive.

I was told years ago about why STP wrote Feet of Clay and I'd like to know if anyone knows if it's true or not.

The story I heard was way back in the murky days of internet message boards. There was apparently an argument about what films Sir Terry had referenced or not and the only thing they could all agree on was that he'd never referenced Robocop.

Shortly after this discussion, Feet of Clay was written.

It certainly sounds like something he'd do, but is it true?

EDIT: It absolutely has references to Robocop "undead or alive, you're coming with me" is a paraphrase of Alex Murphy's (Robocop) catch phrase.

EDIT 2: I think I've found the truth behind the rumour:

• The "Breadcrumbs" were intentional, not a reaction: Pratchett did not write the book because fans noticed a lack of RoboCop references. Instead, because he was highly active on the alt.fan.pratchett Usenet group in the early '90s, he knew exactly how meticulously his fans hunted down pop-culture references. When it came time to write a book about "clay robots" (Golems), he deliberately planted the RoboCop and Terminator Easter eggs from day one as a playful game for his online readers to find. [1, 2, 3, 4]
• How the myth grew: Over the last few decades, internet lore has compressed this timeline. Fans online often misremember the event, turning "Terry Pratchett put RoboCop jokes in a book to play with his online fans" into "Terry Pratchett was spite-challenged by a forum into writing an entire 400-page book."

I'm rereading the Witches series currently and a thought struck me, which led me to a question.

As a rule, Autistic people struggle with indirect communication (say what you bloody mean!!!!! =p), particularly metaphors. STP's books are riddled with metaphors and sly jabs at various things which, in theory, should make them difficult for Neurodivergent people like myself to fully enjoy them.

But, personally, I enjoy the metaphors as much as anything else and got to thinking why?

Is it because it's written so you've got time to think about it or some other reason? Are the metaphors written in a ND friendly in some way?

It's an interesting question.

A question for my fellow STP fans, and others who've tried and couldn't get into the books.

As a rule we struggle with metaphors that riddle neurotypical communication, I'm *too* bad but i think that comes more from being undiagnosed for decades and me breaking my brain and learned to decrypt neurotypical communication.

Terry Pratchett's writing is riddled with metaphors but yet I have no issues with understanding what he's referring to, quite the opposite, I find the metaphors an enjoyable part of the books.

For those who enjoy his books, why do you think his metaphors are potentially more relatable/understandable for us. Is it because it's in written form and we can take our time to decipher them or some other reason?

For those who have tried and couldn't get into the books is it because the metaphors made it harder to read the books?

It'd also be interesting to see if there's a split between diagnosis early or late in life. Did a late diagnosis make it easier to understand metaphors?

This happened this morning dropping my daughter off at nursery.

The nursery is currently camping at a Middle Age Center just round the corner from us so we drop off at 9am and pick up at around 3pm at their camp ground just outside.

I rolled in on my trike with my daughter in the bike trailer chatted a while and went to set off home. As I was turning i hit a hidden dip in the grass which tipped my trike over...in front of a load of parents, kids and teachers!

Why do these things never seem to happen when you're alone?! lol

I've now got a lovely scrape and bruise where the throttle dug into my leg, other than that no injuries and at least I know now, if the trike tips the trailer stays upright. =D

Hey all, I'm hoping someone here will be able to answer this or point me in the right direction.

I 3D print a lot of models, mainly with Resin and end up with a lot of dirty IPA to either try to clean or dispose of. I've tried multiple ways of cleaning the dirty stuff but nothing works very efficiently.

One thought I had was to cobble together a kit to distill it. My current plan is to use a pressure cooker to put the dirty IPA in, run some copper pipe out of the top into a large pan full of cold water. Coil the pipe in the pan (which will be slightly above or level with the top of the pressure cooker) and have it exit from the bottom (or lower side) of the pan into a storage container (probably an old IPA bottle).

I've tried pricing up a proper chemistry distilling kit and it's bloody expensive, hence trying to create my own. I'm thinking the pressure cooker is a relatively inexpensive container that seals. In summer I should be able to just let run with ambient temperatures or use a minimal of external heating.

So, the questions are, is this a practical solution? And does anyone have any advice for layout like height and size of the cooling pan, how many coils would be best? Or just any other thoughts about how to make it practical and safely.

EDIT: I'm also looking into Vacuum Distillation as a way to avoid issues caused by heating IPA.

Can I make a positive from Play-Doh and use it to make a Tin Silicone mold?

I know it potentially releases Sulfur so Platinum Silicone is out.

What I'm hoping to do is use texture rollers on Play-Doh to make a master and mold with silicone so I can cast resin sections.

This may be a stupid idea, but, I was playing with my daughter and had an idea about using texture rollers on Play-Doh to make a master to create a silicone mold.

I've run the idea through AI and it suggests using Tin Silicone could work but as the saying goes..."trust but verify".

So, is it a possibility or a stupid idea?

My other options are to use the texture rollers on polymer clay or use a fusion or Blender mod to create textured models and 3D print them.