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Terrain no longer grants a save, it now gives +1 to saves, or +2 for certain terrain types. One of the 8th ed changes I really like.

I'm not sure putting the biggest cities in stasis is necessarily a good idea. That's ten years the rest of the world is missing them, which will just make the disaster worse if it's possible for anyone outside the cities to survive the apocalypse plague, and then you have to deal with the logistics of supplying the cities post stasis when the surrounding infrastructure is ruined. In post apocalypse scenarios you don't want to overburden yourself with too many people before you get back off the ground.

Ideal choices would be places with some farms that fall within the notional city limits, a smallish population with a broad range of technical skills, a good set of schools, robust well engineered surrounding roads that can last with minimal maintenance, mild weather year round, good stockpiles of complex medical supplies, refineries for various resources and they should ideally all be within a reasonable distance from each other to coordinate rebuilding the world together without needing to rely on a likely failed communication network. Clean water sources that will still be available post apocalypse and stasis of course. Bunch of other stuff to think about for after the apocalypse.

Probably wind up picking a few medium sized cities in the region of France/Italy/Spain as a first instinct. The weather's not too extreme to become a major problem unlike a city in Canada or Saudi Arabia for example, decent natural resources, they're close enough that travel/cooperation isn't a major hurdle, populace has a decent basic education level, no particularly problematic diseases or vermin that I can think of.

Cities with huge food/water stockpiles would be a good choice, but I'm not sure if it would outweigh other considerations by itself.

My snake bit me today. Not super surprising in itself, pets bite from time to time, but this is the first time he's done it, or even tried to do it apart from once when he was small and wasn't able to see well due to shedding at the time. So that's about 2 and a half years or so till first bite.

Didn't hurt, but it did take me by surprise. He was fine when I took him out of his viv just after, so I've no idea what brought this on.

Similarly cute is the unrelated Madagascar sucker-footed bat.

Been a few days so I figured I'd just doublepost.




My second Mousillon Marine is finished. Not entirely satisfied with the chest being so plain but I don't want to just cram skulls or something on and only putting up with the flag because it's too much effort to keep fixing and refixing a black on yellow fleur de lis. Still, he looks fine from a distance and goes well with his sorcererous brother.

Gave him a plasma pistol to keep him roughly in line with Blightbringer wargear, as that's his intended role in my space vampire Death Guard.

If I ever revisit him I'm probably going to focus on changing his flag up so that it's a ghost face or something so I don't have to feel disgruntled about my lack of freehand skills.

Leeches: Apparently useful.

Yeah leeches are pretty handy for blood flow stuff. I remember seeing a guy getting facial reconstruction with a few leeches on his face to help blood flow in the area that had been rebuilt a few years back.

We also use maggots for cleaning out injuries sometimes. Some types only eat dead flesh, so we drop a few sterile ones into infected wounds and they eat all the necrotic tissue.

Finished my Mousillon themed sorcerer.

Very happy with how he turned out, now I just need to figure out what models I can use to pull together some more vampire marines.

Do you have a plan for how they can learn the proper activation sequence?