Its cancer even outside the board game. I worked with the FoK mod for DoW1 and the balance issues from implementing TT-like armor saves... real headache to solve the balance issues when Guardsmen have a painful early game thanks to 5+ being negated by just about everything but a godlike late game of 9 Leman Russes (3 Heavy Support slots, 3 tanks per HS slot) that just crack open everything with S8 AP3 battle cannons and are merely tickled by anything short of a lascannon.
You snooze you lose
I like watching other people paint on youtube, or seeing others work on instagram, my game stores group, etc. They're a lot better than me, but it's something I can work up to. I think of it like watching a guy bench 4 plates, both serve as inspiration.
This, actually liking and being invested in your faction is key.
Do you play with unpainted models? If so, stop doing that and make a rule it can't go on the table until it's done.
Yeah, books and batreps are my main inspirations. I got fired up to paint my Dorn model after rereading one of the Heresy books he starred in and started painting my Tyranids the same day I watched a battle at my local store where a Nid army kicked ten shades of hell out of a Deathwatch army.
Strength turned into damage, and toughness and wounds were both used to determine overall HP. Due to the double toughness rule regarding strength a few unique armor types had to be made that took zero damage, but there really aren't that many, thankfully. Armor was simple: if you had a 5+ save which was statistically a 33% to not die, you got a 33% damage reduction against weapons that didn't have an AP of 5 or better. For MEQs and their 66% chance to save, it was a 66% damage reduction against everything that wasn't AP3 or better. Termies? 85% damage reduction against everything that isn't AP2 or AP1. Since DoW uses discrete armor types with arbitrary damage for weapons against said armor types it wasn't that hard to set up. As you can probably imagine if you were a Guardsman you were pretty much dead the minute anything more powerful than an Ork Big Shoota opened up on you, and Marines were extremely tough nuts to crack, necessitating tons of plasma. We actually went non-codex with stats with the Kroot and Vespid and bumped up both their armor saves by one level because of how utterly dogshit they were, but GW seemed to agree with the necessity of those changes when they released the 7e Tau dex and bumped up both of their armor saves.
He gave us trayzan
Try the first HH audiobook.
The Traitors are so much more interesting than the Loyalists, the best books star them and some of them (moreso than others) you actually get why they said “fuck it” and decided to burn the Imperium.
I literally said that, and RoF for melee and ranged weapons was based off those TT values. One attack per three seconds per attack/shot in TT. However since DoW uses fixed animations for attacks separate from the actual RoF of the weapon we made it look like a ton of rounds were getting sent down range for rapid fire weapons, even though a bolter was only shooting once every 1.5 seconds.
Tester, both bugs and balance, and a sounding board for the mod lead and some of his ideas.
I’ve got an Emperor’s Children army themed around Inductii and their whole schtick is that their praetor was one of those “in the wrong legion” types, like he would’ve jived more in a different one. But they’re made from the sons of workers and menials, not pompous noble sons.
