I'd like to take an in-depth look at the new Luminary Suffusion secondary ability for the Rad-Saturated custom forge world.
What does it do? Luminary Suffusion replaces the Rad-Saturation ability found on Skitarii Vanguards and Serberys Sulphurhounds with an upgraded version. There are 3 key changes.
- Upgraded Rad-Saturation works on any enemy model, including vehicles.
- The aura range is extended to 3". This is critical. Because the Vanguard/Sulphurhounds are at 3" rather than 1", they and their allies can shoot into the units effected by the rad-debuff. -In addition to the -1 Toughness debuff, it also provides -1 Strength. Not really the important part of this, but nice to have for when it matters.
What does this mean? Being able to debuff Toughness at (albeit short) range lets us use AdMechs powerful shooting with a better chance to wound on many targets.
Some quick examples: Astartes infantry are mostly T4. After Luminary Suffusion reduces them to T3, we can shoot them with S6 weapons to wound on 2s. Arc Rifles and Heavy Phosphor Blasters all come to mind here.
T7 vehicles are very common. Luminary Suffusion lets us cut them to T6 and wound on 3s with our S7 weapons, which are quite common (Icarus autocannon, Skorpius missile launcher).
Taking it a step further: Mars Canticle The Mars canticle buffs Heavy weapons Strength by 1. Combined with the -1 Toughness from Luminary Suffusion, it leads to some interesting break-points.
Primaris Repulsors are T8. Luminary Suffusion drops them to T7, and then Mars brings Heavy weapons up. T6->T7 such as Heavy Phosphor blasters now wound "T8" models on 4s. The S7-> S8 Icarus cannon now wounds a Repulsor on 3s. Heavy Grav-Cannons wound T4 astartes on 2s.
These combos seem pretty decent for something which does not require strategems. But what about getting the Lumiminary Suffusion into play?
Only Vanguards and Sulphurhounds have Rad-Saturation. Sulphurhounds are fast and reasonably durable, and are probably the easiest way to get the debuff aura within 3" of an enemy model. As a bonus, they have flamers to punish a charge.
Vanguards will likely need some help though. A Dunerider can carry them in, protecting them and providing some additional firepower and screening for your army. A Manipulus can buff their advances. Handy when Vanguards are armed with Assault weapons anyway. I'm tempted to say the footslogging Vanguard would not be reliable enough. But it's worth a try for how cheap it would
... keep reading on reddit ➡Hey, Reddit! First of all, this isn't aimed at all of you. I've lurked around Reddit for years, so I know that intellectualism reigns supreme. But there are those among you all too ready to brush something you call "classic literature" away as pretention or just another expression of popularity bias, upheld by pedants and their slavish followers for sometimes hundreds of years.
I came prepared to concede a little, so here's that concession now: you're probably not that far off. Our distinction between "classic" and "old story" really can sometimes come down to a wave of popular opinion. Just track the popularity of Shakespeare's plays over the past five hundred years. I'm personally of the belief that Beowulf is 'classic' just because it exists.
But classics have stood the test of time to teach you a lesson about humanity, history, the utility of language: some created the world we inhabit today (everything from our approaches to economic growth to our ideas of what's linguistically appealing or effective), some destabilized a world we'll never know, and others are simply fascinating reads.
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Just one last thing, I swear: We're living in a really interesting period where traditional print is falling by the way-side. I don't think that's bad. Novels weren't always so popular. Now movies and games seem to be supplanting their place. People will always write novels, short stories, poetry, stage plays (if only so that they may be adapted), so I'm not worried about an artistry of language leaving the world. But reading is like your brain doing curls-- especially if you're exposing yourself to unfamiliar vocabulary and syntax. Writing mainly works your mental triceps. So out and read (or write?) a classic, now. Long, brief, like it, hate it-- just give it another try. Maybe someone five hundred years ago managed to express something you wish you yourself had tried to find the words for.
tl;dr With the enemies of poetry I care not if I have a bout, and those are they that term our best writers but
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I'm new to LSD, but I've tried it three times this winter, in increments of one drop, which I've been told is about 90-something micrograms each. On a single drop, I just felt high. On two drops, I started seeing faces differently. Eyes got really pronounced. Emotionally, I was in a very happy place.
On three drops, everything got turned up to eleven. I was completely caught by Bowie's album Hunky Dory. I could see whatever aspect of humanity I wanted in certain high resolution pictures of faces. Certain textures, like my bathroom towel, got a lively fluidity to them. My hands got trails, which fascinated me to a stereotypical degree. But there was one thing that profoundly disturbed me: I started seeing meaning in all sorts of meaningless things. At one point, I started playing a point-and-click adventure game called Broken Age, just to see how that would affect me. And to my surprise, I experienced it as one would religious myth. First of all, I started seeing the story of the young girl as the story of all girls, as if it was a key to femininity in general. The same with the young boy. Further, when it was revealed that the young boy had been living a protected life in a kindergarten world, which he broke free from, I started to entertain the thought that this was a sign, and that I was the one living in a protected, kindergarten world that I needed to see beyond and break free from. Not just metaphorically, but really. That maybe this reality is a sham. Maybe I have some cosmic parental figures watching out for me, guiding me through to become mature enough to face the real reality.
At this point, I got a text from a friend. It was emotionally laden, and I cried for what seemed like twenty minutes. Afterwards, I considered whether he was a guide as well. Maybe I was being set up for an emotional breakthrough?
In hindsight, these were ridiculous thoughts, but they carried so much weight when under the influence. I'm afraid of the effect LSD has on my perception of meaning. Could I become permanently superstitious from serotonin overload? I have a friend that seems to have become just that, confessing a belief in a great spirit of Nature as well as alien visitations, astral projection and more.
I'm hesitant to go to the next step, which would be 4x 90-something micrograms. I do want a profound, life-altering experience, a confrontation with myself (or my lack thereof), but I do not want to flake out and start believing something dumb.
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- that moment when you step into the mouth of a cave you’re in that twilight space, where one more step will cost you the existence of sunlight.. but curiosity overrides every other emotion, and you keep walking.
