u/ElectricPaladin

I'm revisiting the background for my corsairs and I'm looking for inspiration, so I'd love to read about your guys.

Obviously these would have to be fan-made, but nevertheless, what Armies of Infamy would you want to see for the Vampire Counts in the Old World?

Personally, I would love to see something like the old Von Carstein army list, with some limitations but the addition of living human troops drawn from the Empire army list. That's one that I'm trying to make.

What else? A savage vampire army made of Strigoi and ghouls? Other vampire bloodline armies?

Hi all. I was playing Vampire Counts at the tail end of WHFB, just in time to rebase them for Age of Sigmar, and now I'm putting them back on squares to use them in the Old World. I am still a little dubious about the long term fate of the legacy armies, but I'm not really using them for Age of Sigmar anyway, and between work and having a kid, I don't know how long it's going to be before I can set out to get a big army fully painted... but these guys are painted and ready to go! So I'm going to go for it. I don't know if my Vampire Counts are going to fully supplant my Empire army, but my Empire army is still mostly in boxes and these guys will be able to hit the table in a couple of weeks, once I get some bases and trays. So... I'm very excited to be back.

Here's my problem: for some reason, I have a last-generation plastic zombie dragon almost fully painted... but I have vampire rider to put on him. I don't know what happened to it. Maybe I used it for something else? Maybe the bits are just lost.

So I was wondering if anyone has a recommendation for a replacement rider I could get without breaking the bank. Old metal Fantasy-style riders are ridiculously expensive, and most of what I find when I search are reasonably cool vampire-looking characters modeled riding on horses, and I don't want to have to cut and scrape to remove them. I could get something printed, but I don't have my own printer, so finding a third party model for sale somewhere is probably more economical than buying an STL and then finding a service to print it in resin and ship it to me.

Has anyone got any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

So, I don't know if you've been watching Strange New Worlds, but in SNW 3x09 and more recently in SNW 4x02, they have introduced the idea of Division 12 - the body that Starfleet uses to actively investigate unexplained phenomenon. They are Starfleet's ghost hunters, looking into spooky things that sensor scans can't explain. When the Space Weirdo is identified as an anaphasic entity that consumes human neurological energy, that's not their department. When the ship escapes without ever figuring out what the problem was (or, you know, doesn't escape, but there are logs), Division 12 are the ones who look into it.

It hasn't been long since Division 12 was introduced, but has anyone had a chance to try using them in a game? Or plan to? Or even have any ideas for how you would?

Personally, I'm enchanted by the idea of some Division 12 stories, so I'd love to read what you all are thinking about.

I have a question about Battlefront Valkyrie - Fat Dragon Games' 3d printable space combat game - and I am hoping that someone here who has played the game can answer it.

What first drew me to the game was the granularity of the ships having pools of energy that you could spend to buff up their stats - that and the Star Trek adjacent ship designs. This seemed like a system that would create a lot of really interesting tactical choices. However, as I read more, I saw that the ship profiles inverted one of the usual premises of space navy games. Typically, cheap small ships are fast and maneuverable and big powerful ships are slower and clumsier. This theme tends to make sure that your small ships have a role to play. They aren't just there to soak up points, they also do flanking maneuvers or rush out to score objectives in ways that your "better" ships can't. While you could play a skewed list of big slow ships or a horde of tiny fast ships, a balanced fleet needs some of both. That's how most space navy games are designed.

In Battlefront Valkyrie, though the big expensive powerful ships are also faster. I am concerned that this creates a situation where the small ships basically have no role. There's no benefit to having any number of smaller ships - you can get everything, speed and power, by simply using as many big ships as you can afford.

Is there anyone out there who has actually played this game who can let me know how it goes? Is this a real problem, or does a different dynamic emerge in play?

I recently bought the STLs and rules PDFs for Battlefront Valkrie and unless I just can't find it, only one thing seems to be missing: a guide to what a good starter fleet actually is. If I was going to print out some Terran and Kurgan ships to put together some fleets to learn and teach the game, which ships would it be?

I have read that these models are optimized for printing in resin, but filament printers have come a long way. I've seen some minis that were printed in filament that really surprised me. Has anyone tried printing these minis with filament and had it work out?

I'd love to read your stories of Changeling: the Dreaming characters swearing oaths without thinking it through, and what happened next.

Personally, my favorite story is when my Pookah childling wanna-be knight had part of his glamour stolen by an instantiated formorian and angrily said "I'll have that back from you, that and everything else you ever stole, I swear it, I swear it" without realizing that she had stolen a bunch of souls from humans and changelings. So he and his motley had their work cut out for them!

Later on my character stole some glamour from her basement and had a Nocker make swords out of it without knowing that that glamour was some of the souls the formorian had stolen. That was also a lot of fun.

But what are your stories?

What are your favorite Clan mechs to put in an Inner Sphere mercenary company, with the caveat that I mean *only the ones on the mercenary MUL* - ones made for sale to Inner Sphere markets.

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I'd also love to read what you like about your suggestions, if you're up for writing more!

[why did u do that to urself? u knew it would be confusing]

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What the hell did I just read? Can anyone who has broader knowledge of the setting help me to interpret it? Here are my general takeaways:

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There is a place that is neither Firmament nor Blink where Metat Aun and Ra can meet.

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Ra may have been created by the Five Voices, but it now exists throughout time.

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Both Ra and Metat Aun value something. For Ra it's humanity (a human child) for Metat Aun it's a perfect world.

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Ra is kind of a dick, but it views humanity paternalistically (a human child is the thing it values).

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Metat Aun is a part of a greater entity who sent it into the world to protect the thing it values (the perfect world).

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There's something else but it's completely unclear what it is. It could be an entity, but maybe it's a concept? I have an instinct that the gunsnake is war: gun for violence, snake for the Eden myth, the loss of innocence. Or maybe it's another Monist, perhaps with it's own parallel dimension the way Ra has Blinkspace and Metat Aun (or its greater self) has the Firmament.

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And… what else? Or what? I don't know.

Just wondering if I'm the only one!

ETA: wow, I am not the only one. That's not what I was expecting.

I'd love to read the community's favorite punny shadow names. I'll add the two I've invented so far that I like as comments, but I'm more interested in reading all of yours.