#it probably saw the chip loadout i had…

[library-whale]

i get here and the first thing it does is scream at me

[minisception]

So I saw this guy, ‘Haarkon Worldclaimer” when the warhammer community article went up (link), and I’ve got a lot of mixed feelings about him.

Starting with the good, I love the model.  Yeah, it’s super busy, but I actually really like that in a 40k era chaos marine lord.  To me it’s a great blend of the dark vengeance chosen and current raptor kit.  I like that there’s more of that mutated/daemonic look going than in the Blackstone Fortress character.  Lightning claw and... power lance?  daemon weapon?  Seem like potentially an odd equipment load, but that’s not too hard to convert around if it isn’t particularly effective in game.

Admittedly the posing & proportions are a bit weird.  At first I thought that the central chest armor detail would prevent him from seeing anything directly in front of him whenever he was just standing on the ground, then I noticed the oddly elongated midriff, and realized that his whole upper torso craned back to look forward mid leap, instead of just his neck, which is just sort of awkward.  Also, the connection to the base seems remarkably small and fragile, but that’s been a common problem with GW models lately.  When and if I get this guy for myself, I’ll have to build up the base a bit to provide some more stable contact points.

But again, overall I love the model.  The character on the other hand?  There I’m not so sure.

Before getting into lore stuff, rules-wise the “new characters” lately have just been generic heroes with particular, usually suboptimal, wargear.  The Blackstone Fortress lord is literally just a generic black legion lord with a thunder hammer.  Granted chaos lords can’t currently take thunder hammers, but still.  I kind of expect the same here, just a generic lord with jump pack, lightning claw, and... power lance?  The spear might end up being a unique daemon weapon, but those are pretty hit & miss.  Having a jump pack is a good starting point in the current csm ruleset, though, and it shouldn’t be too hard to convert an alternative weapon loadout, so even if ‘Haarkon Worldclaimer’ isn’t a competitive unit in and of himself, he will make a solid foundation for reasonably competitive conversions.  Well, to the extent that any generic chaos HQ that isn’t a daemon prince can be competitive these days.  So... he’ll be a nice display piece.

The lore side of things is the bigger issue.  I /should/ be excited to see a new name and face added to the Black Legion’s lineup, and I /want/ to be excited to see the legion get some more ‘screen time’, but past experience tells me not to get too excited.

Chaos Marines in general and the Black Legion in particular have a history of being used as the go-to jobbers of the 40k narrative.  It’s a reputation some authors have been fighting to reverse - ADB in particular has done a good job of that in his series covering the origins of the legion - but for every ‘Talon of Horus’ or ‘Black Legion’ that depicts the legion as dangerous and competent there’s a ‘Pandorax’ or ‘Fall of Cadia’ that depicts their soldiers as background fodder and their commanders as buffoons who either fail miserably or succeed despite their own best efforts to the contrary.

There’s this related problem of portraying Abaddon as discount bin Darth Vader and the soldiers under his command as knock-off storm troopers.  This despite the fact that, if any faction in 40k were to be the analog of Star Wars’s Empire it would be the Imperium.  Chaos marines are the rag tag rebellion relying on the individually superior skill and passion of its soldiers combined with hit-and-run guerrilla tactics to chip away at a larger and better supplied foe.

As such, Abaddon isn’t the supreme commander of an omnipotent military state served by countless interchangeable soldiers brainwashed from birth to be obedient to the point of self destruction.  Rather, he’s the head of a ramshackle allegiance of self interested traitors and turncoat drama queens.  Abaddon can’t just expect obedience from his forces, he actually has to convince them that they *want* to risk their lives for him.  Every time he kills his own people it makes it harder to buy that he’d ever be able to do that.  It’s a really awful bit of characterization that never worked to begin with, yet was so commonly employed that it came to define his character, to the point that his Battlefleet Gothic rules had him firing on his own ships if they missed a roll.

And that brings us back to the actual topic of this post, Haarken Worldclaimer, and I’m sorry to say it but everything about this character and his introduction screams ‘jobber’.  I mean, first, look at is name.  World”claimer”?  So he’s named not for something he’s /done/ but for something he’s boasted he /will do/?  That’s a pretty bad sign to begin with.  And what is it he’s claimed he’s going to do?  Win the Vigilus campaign by himself against like 9 other factions?  Including the big re-release/update of fan and franchise favorite Calgar?

Being showcased opposite of Calgar in particular screams that Haarken is not a serious new player to take note of, but rather a no-name, no-stakes easy win to make the aging Poppa Smurf look good after his recent hip replacement.  Once again, it seems the Black Legion are being employed as the ‘jobber marines’.

But Haarken isn’t just boasting that he’ll take Vigilus from all the other forces vying for it, he’s boasting that he’ll do it in a scant 80 days.  And that particular tidbit, to me, screams that the dev’s aren’t *just* going to have Haarken job to Calgar, but rather are going to have him slink away in failure, or worse keep fighting till the 80 days are up only to have Abaddon show up and kill him for his ‘failure’ in another example of GW clumsily and lazily aiming for “this guy is evil and scary!” but instead landing on “this moron is a bigger threat to his own followers than literally anyone else,” and I’d rather have no new Black Legion character at all than one that only exists to job, and in the process of jobbing to undo some of the hard work that’s gone into rehabilitating him as a credible threat.

So yeah, I *want* to be excited for a new Black Legion character, but everything about the setup for the ‘worldclaimer’ screams “this is a nobody who exists only to make your chosen faction look bad and who won’t even exist six months from now when his model is re-packaged as a generic unnamed chaos lord.”  I hope I’m absolutely wrong about all that.  I’ve been excessively pessimistic about CSMs in the past, so maybe I’ll be wrong again, but we’ll see. 

Honestly, even if I *am* wrong about all that, I still kind of wish this was a Night Lords character rather than a Black Legionnaire.  Even if Vigilus doesn’t go down like I expect it to, and Haarken does stick around long term, did we really need another Black Legion special character when Word Bearers, Iron Warriors, Alpha Legion, and Night Lords don’t have any yet, outside of a couple half baked Forgeworld heroes?  In particular, of all the legions that might want a jump lord model, wouldn’t Night Lords want it most?  If this guy had been a Night Lord to start, maybe the fact that there aren’t any other Night Lords named characters would make the dev’s less likely to waste him just to build up calgar.  And even if they did just set him up to job regardless, the night lords haven’t already been used in that role to the point of losing all respectability.

It’s rare enough that the Night Lords get any ‘screen time’ at all, so getting some focus, even at the cost of taking a loss, would probably be seen as a positive development by most Night Lord players, especially if they got a permanent named hero out of it.  Where as Black Legion already has a named hero, and have been overused as the losing faction in grand imperial victories to the point that, even after Fall of Cadia (which was a rather embarrassing “victory” to begin with), no coverage at all still seems preferable to taking yet another dive.

[jamespdsolmcc09]

REVIEW: The YETI Loadout Bucket

REVIEW: The YETI Loadout Bucket

The circle I spend a lot of my outdoor time in is kayak fishing. When the YETI Loadout Bucket was announced at ICAST 2017, the mocking, outcry, and confusion fast worked its way through the community.

“A $40 bucket!?!”

“I’d never use that!”

“My $2 Home Depot bucket works great!”

I heard it all, but away from the naysayers, a voice in the back of my mind kept asking if this could be the last bucket I’d ever need.

Granted, some people have little use for a bucket while others use a bucket all the time. Eager to see for myself if this was the end all be all bucket, I bought one. Charcoal gray. I paid $40 plus tax.

YETI Loadout Bucket: The Good

The YETI Loadout Bucket is straight up rugged. I saw in a promotional video someone tip it on its side and stand on it so of course I had to do the same. I stood on the bucket, one hand holding a rail, and bounced a little on it. All 200 pounds of me. No issues at all other than my balance being similar to a newborn giraffe. I had an orange $2 bucket nearby so I repeated the test. What I no longer have is a $2 orange bucket. I have lots of plastic in a nice orange color but it is a shape resembling “flat” more than “bucket, or maybe “shards”.

You’re probably asking yourself, “Why is standing on a bucket going to prove anything? I’m not a professional log roller.” Basically, you are testing wall rigidity. If the bucket gets slammed up against something, has a board dropped on it, gets dropped from height with weight inside, or something of the like, it shows your likelihood of failure to be considerably less.

Way less. The Browns have a better chance of making the Super Bowl this year than a $2 bucket outperforming the YETI Loadout Bucket. It’s just built wildly stronger. If the YETI is JJ Watt, the $2 bucket is Sheldon Cooper.

The handle on the YETI Loadout Bucket is great and swings the weight well without digging into your hand. It’s formed just right for a good grip. No more metal coat hanger handle with the chipped plastic guard that slides around.

The rubber grip on the bottom is great, especially in the back of my truck. The bucket stays put. Good bucket.

How about a handle that won’t murder your palm under load?

YETI Loadout Bucket: Uses

Many kayak anglers try to envision how they would use a YETI Loadout Bucket and justify the $40 for it. The truth is, while they might be able to use it for a variety of things, it isn’t really for kayak anglers. You can use it for sure but let’s just say you weren’t the target market demographic.

The first thing I thought of is slinging a cast net at the coast. Live shrimp and finger mullet are expensive  so I go catch my own when I’m on the Texas coast. In the past I’ve used cheap five gallon buckets that break, the handle falls off, the bottom breaks in them when a cast net lands in it, and I’m constantly losing all my water due to cracks. The YETI Loadout Bucket solves all of those issues. I can see myself on the deck of the boat or pounding the shorelines casting and dropping with zero issues now.

Another idea that came to mind was all of my friends in the restaurant business. As a former busboy, dishwasher, waiter, and cook, I know the pains of having to refill an ice machine on a soda dispenser. I’ve felt the sagging weight of more than 40 pounds of ice bending the cheap bucket’s handle and even spilled ALL the ice a time or two.

Being food safe, the YETI Loadout Bucket is the end to those trials. Fill it up time and again and fail no more! Busboys across the world unite!

The non-slip rubber foot of the YETI Loadout Bucket

YETI Loadout Bucket: Improvements

Sweet baby Jesus I would have loved for this bucket to have come with the lid. Sure, I’ll pony up another $20 for one but if Ramblers come with lids, go ahead and include one with the bucket.

I’d also really like to see the Loadout come with optional rope handles, one on each side, that way when you put 80 pounds of rock in one to move from the front yard to the back, you can ask your neighbor that always borrows your ladder to help. He owes you but we don’t need a herniated disc on our hands.

What if the YETI Loadout Bucket could be a clear poly? I don’t know if that’s even possible but being able to see what’s inside would be pretty helpful.

The formed no slip grip of the YETI Loadout Bucket

YETI Loadout Bucket: Final Thoughts

I’ve used my bucket as a catch all, to haul rocks, to haul ice, to hold bait, to hold my seven foot cast net with 8 million pounds of lead, and a lot more. I liked it so much I got another one. This bucket may not be the exact fit for you and that’s okay because the people who it is a fit for will buy more than one.

http://ift.tt/2AxuRKr

[bjoeljohnsond91]

REVIEW: The YETI Loadout Bucket

REVIEW: The YETI Loadout Bucket

The circle I spend a lot of my outdoor time in is kayak fishing. When the YETI Loadout Bucket was announced at ICAST 2017, the mocking, outcry, and confusion fast worked its way through the community.

“A $40 bucket!?!”

“I’d never use that!”

“My $2 Home Depot bucket works great!”

I heard it all, but away from the naysayers, a voice in the back of my mind kept asking if this could be the last bucket I’d ever need.

Granted, some people have little use for a bucket while others use a bucket all the time. Eager to see for myself if this was the end all be all bucket, I bought one. Charcoal gray. I paid $40 plus tax.

YETI Loadout Bucket: The Good

The YETI Loadout Bucket is straight up rugged. I saw in a promotional video someone tip it on its side and stand on it so of course I had to do the same. I stood on the bucket, one hand holding a rail, and bounced a little on it. All 200 pounds of me. No issues at all other than my balance being similar to a newborn giraffe. I had an orange $2 bucket nearby so I repeated the test. What I no longer have is a $2 orange bucket. I have lots of plastic in a nice orange color but it is a shape resembling “flat” more than “bucket, or maybe “shards”.

You’re probably asking yourself, “Why is standing on a bucket going to prove anything? I’m not a professional log roller.” Basically, you are testing wall rigidity. If the bucket gets slammed up against something, has a board dropped on it, gets dropped from height with weight inside, or something of the like, it shows your likelihood of failure to be considerably less.

Way less. The Browns have a better chance of making the Super Bowl this year than a $2 bucket outperforming the YETI Loadout Bucket. It’s just built wildly stronger. If the YETI is JJ Watt, the $2 bucket is Sheldon Cooper.

The handle on the YETI Loadout Bucket is great and swings the weight well without digging into your hand. It’s formed just right for a good grip. No more metal coat hanger handle with the chipped plastic guard that slides around.

The rubber grip on the bottom is great, especially in the back of my truck. The bucket stays put. Good bucket.

How about a handle that won’t murder your palm under load?

YETI Loadout Bucket: Uses

Many kayak anglers try to envision how they would use a YETI Loadout Bucket and justify the $40 for it. The truth is, while they might be able to use it for a variety of things, it isn’t really for kayak anglers. You can use it for sure but let’s just say you weren’t the target market demographic.

The first thing I thought of is slinging a cast net at the coast. Live shrimp and finger mullet are expensive  so I go catch my own when I’m on the Texas coast. In the past I’ve used cheap five gallon buckets that break, the handle falls off, the bottom breaks in them when a cast net lands in it, and I’m constantly losing all my water due to cracks. The YETI Loadout Bucket solves all of those issues. I can see myself on the deck of the boat or pounding the shorelines casting and dropping with zero issues now.

Another idea that came to mind was all of my friends in the restaurant business. As a former busboy, dishwasher, waiter, and cook, I know the pains of having to refill an ice machine on a soda dispenser. I’ve felt the sagging weight of more than 40 pounds of ice bending the cheap bucket’s handle and even spilled ALL the ice a time or two.

Being food safe, the YETI Loadout Bucket is the end to those trials. Fill it up time and again and fail no more! Busboys across the world unite!

The non-slip rubber foot of the YETI Loadout Bucket

YETI Loadout Bucket: Improvements

Sweet baby Jesus I would have loved for this bucket to have come with the lid. Sure, I’ll pony up another $20 for one but if Ramblers come with lids, go ahead and include one with the bucket.

I’d also really like to see the Loadout come with optional rope handles, one on each side, that way when you put 80 pounds of rock in one to move from the front yard to the back, you can ask your neighbor that always borrows your ladder to help. He owes you but we don’t need a herniated disc on our hands.

What if the YETI Loadout Bucket could be a clear poly? I don’t know if that’s even possible but being able to see what’s inside would be pretty helpful.

The formed no slip grip of the YETI Loadout Bucket

YETI Loadout Bucket: Final Thoughts

I’ve used my bucket as a catch all, to haul rocks, to haul ice, to hold bait, to hold my seven foot cast net with 8 million pounds of lead, and a lot more. I liked it so much I got another one. This bucket may not be the exact fit for you and that’s okay because the people who it is a fit for will buy more than one.

http://ift.tt/2AxuRKr

[jessemcdonnellq86]

REVIEW: The YETI Loadout Bucket

REVIEW: The YETI Loadout Bucket

The circle I spend a lot of my outdoor time in is kayak fishing. When the YETI Loadout Bucket was announced at ICAST 2017, the mocking, outcry, and confusion fast worked its way through the community.

“A $40 bucket!?!”

“I’d never use that!”

“My $2 Home Depot bucket works great!”

I heard it all, but away from the naysayers, a voice in the back of my mind kept asking if this could be the last bucket I’d ever need.

Granted, some people have little use for a bucket while others use a bucket all the time. Eager to see for myself if this was the end all be all bucket, I bought one. Charcoal gray. I paid $40 plus tax.

YETI Loadout Bucket: The Good

The YETI Loadout Bucket is straight up rugged. I saw in a promotional video someone tip it on its side and stand on it so of course I had to do the same. I stood on the bucket, one hand holding a rail, and bounced a little on it. All 200 pounds of me. No issues at all other than my balance being similar to a newborn giraffe. I had an orange $2 bucket nearby so I repeated the test. What I no longer have is a $2 orange bucket. I have lots of plastic in a nice orange color but it is a shape resembling “flat” more than “bucket, or maybe “shards”.

You’re probably asking yourself, “Why is standing on a bucket going to prove anything? I’m not a professional log roller.” Basically, you are testing wall rigidity. If the bucket gets slammed up against something, has a board dropped on it, gets dropped from height with weight inside, or something of the like, it shows your likelihood of failure to be considerably less.

Way less. The Browns have a better chance of making the Super Bowl this year than a $2 bucket outperforming the YETI Loadout Bucket. It’s just built wildly stronger. If the YETI is JJ Watt, the $2 bucket is Sheldon Cooper.

The handle on the YETI Loadout Bucket is great and swings the weight well without digging into your hand. It’s formed just right for a good grip. No more metal coat hanger handle with the chipped plastic guard that slides around.

The rubber grip on the bottom is great, especially in the back of my truck. The bucket stays put. Good bucket.

How about a handle that won’t murder your palm under load?

YETI Loadout Bucket: Uses

Many kayak anglers try to envision how they would use a YETI Loadout Bucket and justify the $40 for it. The truth is, while they might be able to use it for a variety of things, it isn’t really for kayak anglers. You can use it for sure but let’s just say you weren’t the target market demographic.

The first thing I thought of is slinging a cast net at the coast. Live shrimp and finger mullet are expensive  so I go catch my own when I’m on the Texas coast. In the past I’ve used cheap five gallon buckets that break, the handle falls off, the bottom breaks in them when a cast net lands in it, and I’m constantly losing all my water due to cracks. The YETI Loadout Bucket solves all of those issues. I can see myself on the deck of the boat or pounding the shorelines casting and dropping with zero issues now.

Another idea that came to mind was all of my friends in the restaurant business. As a former busboy, dishwasher, waiter, and cook, I know the pains of having to refill an ice machine on a soda dispenser. I’ve felt the sagging weight of more than 40 pounds of ice bending the cheap bucket’s handle and even spilled ALL the ice a time or two.

Being food safe, the YETI Loadout Bucket is the end to those trials. Fill it up time and again and fail no more! Busboys across the world unite!

The non-slip rubber foot of the YETI Loadout Bucket

YETI Loadout Bucket: Improvements

Sweet baby Jesus I would have loved for this bucket to have come with the lid. Sure, I’ll pony up another $20 for one but if Ramblers come with lids, go ahead and include one with the bucket.

I’d also really like to see the Loadout come with optional rope handles, one on each side, that way when you put 80 pounds of rock in one to move from the front yard to the back, you can ask your neighbor that always borrows your ladder to help. He owes you but we don’t need a herniated disc on our hands.

What if the YETI Loadout Bucket could be a clear poly? I don’t know if that’s even possible but being able to see what’s inside would be pretty helpful.

The formed no slip grip of the YETI Loadout Bucket

YETI Loadout Bucket: Final Thoughts

I’ve used my bucket as a catch all, to haul rocks, to haul ice, to hold bait, to hold my seven foot cast net with 8 million pounds of lead, and a lot more. I liked it so much I got another one. This bucket may not be the exact fit for you and that’s okay because the people who it is a fit for will buy more than one.

http://ift.tt/2AxuRKr

[mariefoster2k19zs1]

REVIEW: The YETI Loadout Bucket

REVIEW: The YETI Loadout Bucket

The circle I spend a lot of my outdoor time in is kayak fishing. When the YETI Loadout Bucket was announced at ICAST 2017, the mocking, outcry, and confusion fast worked its way through the community.

“A $40 bucket!?!”

“I’d never use that!”

“My $2 Home Depot bucket works great!”

I heard it all, but away from the naysayers, a voice in the back of my mind kept asking if this could be the last bucket I’d ever need.

Granted, some people have little use for a bucket while others use a bucket all the time. Eager to see for myself if this was the end all be all bucket, I bought one. Charcoal gray. I paid $40 plus tax.

YETI Loadout Bucket: The Good

The YETI Loadout Bucket is straight up rugged. I saw in a promotional video someone tip it on its side and stand on it so of course I had to do the same. I stood on the bucket, one hand holding a rail, and bounced a little on it. All 200 pounds of me. No issues at all other than my balance being similar to a newborn giraffe. I had an orange $2 bucket nearby so I repeated the test. What I no longer have is a $2 orange bucket. I have lots of plastic in a nice orange color but it is a shape resembling “flat” more than “bucket, or maybe “shards”.

You’re probably asking yourself, “Why is standing on a bucket going to prove anything? I’m not a professional log roller.” Basically, you are testing wall rigidity. If the bucket gets slammed up against something, has a board dropped on it, gets dropped from height with weight inside, or something of the like, it shows your likelihood of failure to be considerably less.

Way less. The Browns have a better chance of making the Super Bowl this year than a $2 bucket outperforming the YETI Loadout Bucket. It’s just built wildly stronger. If the YETI is JJ Watt, the $2 bucket is Sheldon Cooper.

The handle on the YETI Loadout Bucket is great and swings the weight well without digging into your hand. It’s formed just right for a good grip. No more metal coat hanger handle with the chipped plastic guard that slides around.

The rubber grip on the bottom is great, especially in the back of my truck. The bucket stays put. Good bucket.

How about a handle that won’t murder your palm under load?

YETI Loadout Bucket: Uses

Many kayak anglers try to envision how they would use a YETI Loadout Bucket and justify the $40 for it. The truth is, while they might be able to use it for a variety of things, it isn’t really for kayak anglers. You can use it for sure but let’s just say you weren’t the target market demographic.

The first thing I thought of is slinging a cast net at the coast. Live shrimp and finger mullet are expensive  so I go catch my own when I’m on the Texas coast. In the past I’ve used cheap five gallon buckets that break, the handle falls off, the bottom breaks in them when a cast net lands in it, and I’m constantly losing all my water due to cracks. The YETI Loadout Bucket solves all of those issues. I can see myself on the deck of the boat or pounding the shorelines casting and dropping with zero issues now.

Another idea that came to mind was all of my friends in the restaurant business. As a former busboy, dishwasher, waiter, and cook, I know the pains of having to refill an ice machine on a soda dispenser. I’ve felt the sagging weight of more than 40 pounds of ice bending the cheap bucket’s handle and even spilled ALL the ice a time or two.

Being food safe, the YETI Loadout Bucket is the end to those trials. Fill it up time and again and fail no more! Busboys across the world unite!

The non-slip rubber foot of the YETI Loadout Bucket

YETI Loadout Bucket: Improvements

Sweet baby Jesus I would have loved for this bucket to have come with the lid. Sure, I’ll pony up another $20 for one but if Ramblers come with lids, go ahead and include one with the bucket.

I’d also really like to see the Loadout come with optional rope handles, one on each side, that way when you put 80 pounds of rock in one to move from the front yard to the back, you can ask your neighbor that always borrows your ladder to help. He owes you but we don’t need a herniated disc on our hands.

What if the YETI Loadout Bucket could be a clear poly? I don’t know if that’s even possible but being able to see what’s inside would be pretty helpful.

The formed no slip grip of the YETI Loadout Bucket

YETI Loadout Bucket: Final Thoughts

I’ve used my bucket as a catch all, to haul rocks, to haul ice, to hold bait, to hold my seven foot cast net with 8 million pounds of lead, and a lot more. I liked it so much I got another one. This bucket may not be the exact fit for you and that’s okay because the people who it is a fit for will buy more than one.

http://ift.tt/2AxuRKr