"It's gotten to where there were teams that were coming up all the way from the top of Texas, down south to the tip," Hill said. Ninety-two of those teams qualified for this event by finishing in the top 10 at one of the 11 regional competitions across the state this season. This is the eighth year of the league put on by HS BBQ Inc., a nonprofit that has 116 teams registered between the Red River and the Rio Grande. Yes, you read that right: There are high school barbecue teams in Texas, and the meets (and meats) are treated with just as much passion and pride as other high school sports. Gene Burton College and Career Academy, was named grand champion out of 92 teams at the 2023 Texas High School BBQ State Championship on May 6. His 205 Pitmasters Team Smoke, representing Rockwall Independent School District's Dr. Just three years after his change of careers, Hill coached a team to his elusive first state championship. "The practices smell better," said Hill, "and at the end of it, you get to eat what you work on all day." But a few years ago, with a decade of coaching experience in Rockwall, just outside of Dallas, he opted instead to follow his nose, giving it all up for the slow-and-low world of competitive barbecue. ROUND ROCK, Texas - Sean Hill grew up following his heart like so many Texans, dreaming of coaching a high school football team to a state championship. Inside the growing world of the Texas High School BBQ State Championship You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser
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Though one word of warning is the Shopkeeper in Grayflayer will likely die from frequent attacks at that settlement. I like this location the most in the swamp due to its close proximity to Shark, Mud Town and the Grayflayer Village. Resources: Copper, Iron and constant Water Stobe's Garden/Greenbeach Mega Base Location Youtube VideoĮnemy Attacks: Frequent Stone Rats and Red Sabre Raids What I mean is, you can build your base below the plateau where the majority of the resources are and when you're attacked by enemies fall back to the top of the plateau and guard it with turrets and defenses. Out of all the locations mentioned on this page I feel this one has the best natural defenses even if you don't build your base on the plateau I am talking about you can still encorporate it into your base design. Skin Bandits in my experience won't bother you until you visit their nest to the south but then they'll send invasions. The native enemies in this area are Reavers and Land Bats you only really need to worry about the Reavers since they have high stats (40 - 50+) and will kidnap you after you fall unconcious. This zone is what I would consider an end game zone and will be very difficult if you're under prepared. I would only recommend this location to people who have a full Squad of 20+ characters with all characters having stats in the 40s - 50s. In this area you will also find a terrace which has an Iron deposit on top and only a single entrance to the terrace making it an amazing location in terms of natural defenses. Also, depending on where you build your base you may have more or less Iron and Copper nodes within your walls than I did. Depending on where you build your base it's possible to have both the Greenbeach and Stobe's Garden Environment characteristics allowing you to grow more than just Arid crops here. This area is actually the border of 2 zones, Stobe's Garden and Greenbeach. Stobe's Garden/Greenbeach Megabase LocationĮnvironment: Green 100% and Arid 50% (Greenbeach) and Arid 100% Stobe's GardenĮnemy Attacks: Crab Raiders, Reavers, Skin Bandits Howler's Maze Base Location Youtube Video However if you're 'at' your base as the enemy raid approaches they'll take damage from acid rain. Basically, if the game doesn't have the environment around your base loaded then there will be no acid rain. In my experience if you're away from your base with another Squad then the acid rain will not damage any enemy units (or your own). The acid rain can also be useful to you against incoming base attacks. Items like Iron Hats, White Plate Jacket, Armoured Hood, Dustcoat, Black Plate Jacket and more will give you protection against Acid and are extra useful in this zone. One of the biggest draw backs to this zone is it will have periodic acid rain throughout the day this is only really an issue when you first start a base here though - assuming that you have no acid protection. You'll be able to grow any plants that do well in a Green Environment here as well as some Arid Environment crops at lower yields. The location I chose for my base has 4+ Iron Nodes and 4 Copper Nodes along with decent fertility. Howler's Maze is a pretty out of the way zone that doesn't experience many base attacks or enemy attacks. Other: Decent out of the way base that typically doesn't see many base attacks South Wetlands Base Location Youtube VideoĮnemy Attacks: Slave Traders, Crab Raiders, Reavers In my personal experience these events have a very hard time reaching your base due to the fact that your base is pretty much on an island and around many hostile patrols of enemies. The only two events that will bother you are the UC Tax Man (asks for some Cats each week) and slave raids. What makes this location so good (imo) is the safety of it. This location is completely devoid of Copper and there's only a single Iron deposit nearby but it's a short swim across some water. If all you care about is building up a farm for food and you'd like a safe location to do it - one of my favorite locations to make a farm base is in the South Wetlands. Other: This spot is good for a small farm unit for making food Also, most of Kenshi is Arid anyway and there are already many on this page.Įnemy Attacks: Slave Raids and Swamp Raptors if you grow crops I did not include any Arid Environment locations on this page since all you can really grow there is Cactus and they're not used for much. Locations that have good Environmental values as well as solid Fertility and Water are the primary ones that have made the list on this page. This page includes a list of all the different base locations that I consider to be great for farming. List of Great Farming Base Locations - Kenshi Tindalos Interactive/Focus Home Interactive Individual wings suffer from the effects of attrition and can become less effective during protracted battles. Fighter, bomber, and assault wings are all modeled in Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2. The maneuver worked, causing the enemy vessels to pull up short and take evasive maneuvers. To cover their retreat I slammed my flagship hard to the right and fired a full brace of torpedoes across the enemy ships’ line of advance. Meanwhile, the two new ships I sent screaming away from the enemy forces at a 45-degree angle. With the clock ticking, I sent my flagship charging full-bore into the incoming enemy formation. I ordered all three of my vessels to accelerate to full speed, a pace that the ships would not be able to maintain for very long before needing to recharge. While their appearance tripled the size of my fleet, it also brought a small flotilla of new enemies in hot pursuit. In one early engagement in the Imperial Navy campaign, two new allied ships warped onto the map in answer to my admiral’s call for aid. I’m just a few battles in, but already the game is showing me how highly it prioritizes tactical decision-making and rewards adaptation. Meanwhile, it’s fairly straightforward to flip a single switch and issue orders to your entire fleet all at once. For instance, there are nuanced settings that allow you to control which side of a single ship its AI-controlled captain should keep facing the enemy. Not only do Armada 2’s battles look flashier and more detailed than those in the other titles, eager admirals are given a host of different bells and whistles with which to control their fleets. Compared to similar fleet-level space combat games, such as Stellaris and Battlestar Galactica Deadlock, the difference is night and day. During the cutscene that followed, the wreckage of that collision fell from orbit and cracked the planet itself in half.Įven more exciting than the cutscenes, however, is the sheer quality of the game’s tactical engagements. To properly get your head around what this means in gameplay terms, understand that the tutorial required me to ram an orbital weapons platform the size of a small continent into a starship the size of a large country. What appear to be stationary stars in the background are in fact thousands more ships painted onto the massive skybox itself. The introductory CG sequence alone includes thousands of ships in high orbit moving in parallax against a brightly lit nebula. It’s the same battle where the fortress world of Cadia itself, as the saying goes, broke before the Imperial Guard did.įor PC players new to the franchise, expect to be completely overwhelmed by the scale of the battles that unfold. Fans of the 40K universe will know that engagement as one of the most epic battles of the 41st millennium, with millions of warriors on each side. Its sequel begins at a seminal moment in the history of the 40K universe - the fall of Cadia. Tindalos picked up the slack, releasing Battlefleet Gothic: Armada just three years later to critical acclaim. Sadly, the franchise went out of print in 2013. The game benefits from Games Workshop’s grimdark lore, of course, but also from mechanics that draw upon the hobby game industry’s generations-long love affair with naval wargaming of all kinds. Just a handful of ships is all that’s required to represent crews numbering in the tens of thousands. While traditional 40K miniatures battles are fought by ground forces representing the squad or company level, Gothic is a game of space-based naval warfare. The original Battlefleet Gothic is a tabletop miniatures franchise from Games Workshop, first published in 1999. Games set in the 40K universe are a dime a dozen these days, but the moment-to-moment gameplay in Armada 2 has so far exceeded my wildest expectations. The team at Tindalos Interactive sells the dream of Warhammer 40,000 combat on a galactic scale. After just a few hours with the game’s pre-order beta, I’m legitimately blown away. This time around, I vowed to make time out of my busy spacefaring schedule to check out its sequel, Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2. To hear some tell it, that means I missed out on one of the best strategy games of that year. When the original Battlefleet Gothic: Armada came out in 2016, I decided to skip it. I had alot of success with Rotten Breath for multiple kills. Then the Redmane Greatshield guys 3, then lastly the Cleanrot Spear knights 4. 1st the Brass shield knights, they respawn 3 time so you'll fight 6. Yeah so I did some experimenting, the "main hall" knights will battle each other to a point, then you have waves of knights scaling up at you. Lvled up from 45 to 80 just by doing this. I didn't had the mimicry thing to use, but I suppose it would make things way easier once they start respawning. If you do this correctly, all you need to do now is spam night maiden's mist from the first floor to the floor bellow, and everytime one of them respawns, run back to the grace to de-aggro, or just kill them 1 by 1. If he drops down to your level, repeat the first step until he aggro's with the cr knights bellow. Use your night maiden's mist on him and night night the mf (you can launch it from the first floor to the second). You should now summon the archer redmane in the upper floor, and he will probably aggro the CRs on the lower level. As soon as you spawn the second CR Knight, go straight back to the entrance in the upper level, and this time follow the wall to the right. You should spawn the second cleanrot in the opposite side (you're left on the treasure chest, the cr knight will spawn to the right). Wait until he agro the redmanes that fell, and go straight ahead hugging the wall. Go down the stairs carefully, and you should spawn the first cleanrot knight that doesn`t respawn when killed. By then, they should probably have beaten each other until they fall to the rot level. First go to the pillar left of the entrance, and crouch behind it as if you were about to get your ass whooped to kingdom come (because if they do find you, you surelly will). jump out and either kill or bypass the enemy, and the lever will be on the left.Įlden Ring War-Dead Catacombs Gallery and Notesįor sorcerers suffering with this dungeon: night maiden's mist. Continue along this level until you find another window, with that first archer you saw just outside it. Just before this room, turn right and jump out of the window onto a ledge in a large room with a statue. Continue to follow this route as far as it goes.Īt the end of this path there is a larger open room with a chair and some materials to gather. Follow the stairway up, turn right, and then turn left into a corridor, avoiding a shot from an enemy archer. to find the lever, head into the room with the battling soldiers from the site of grace, and run past them and turn right at a set of stairs next to the doorway out of the room. Heading past the battling group you'll find the path that leads to the boss door, which is locked. these enemies will continuously fight and respawn a short time after death, making this location a good choice for farming runes. Inside is a group of spectral warriors battling each other. After touching it, head down the stars further and to the left and you'll find yourself in a large open room. Entering into the War-Dead catacombs you'll follow a staircase down to the site of grace. You will probably want to draw out a pattern if you are planning on incorporating curved designs. Keystoning can be a little tricky too keystoning is the shaping of tiles to form a curved design. To cut triangles, angle the material at the corner of the chip and apply pressure.Ĭircles are a little trickier, if you’re not experienced, you may want to draw a circle on the glass as a guide and nip the corner of the chip and then bit away at the edges until you have a nice circle. To cut rectangles, simply place the chip between the wheels of the nipper and apply pressure, to make a square repeat the same procedure with the rectangle. When working with material like smalti, marble or ceramic tiles it is best to use a tile nipper. The way you use each nipper varies, check out the videos below to get an idea of how to use them. These smaller glass chips can be cut into smaller shaped using a wheeled glass nipper. Most glass used in mosaics are stained glass chips, vitreous glass chips or mirrored glass chips. The scorer/breaker is used to score and break large pieces of ceramic and glass tile to cut into smaller, more manageable shapes for nipping. In general, there are two nipping tools to use when working with mosaics the wheeled glass nipper and the tile nipper and for larger pieces you have my favorite tool, the scorer/breaker. Don't risk a shard flying hitting your eye.When it comes to cutting shapes for your mosaics, the material you are cutting/nipping and the tool you are cutting with will usually determine how you cut. Tile cutting takes lots of practice, if you find a technique that works for you stick to it! A word on safety - You only have one pair of eyes! Make sure you protect them every time you cut tiles or glass by wearing safety goggles. Used to harder materials such as heavy duty ceramic dinnerware. For a straight cut align the top edge of the nippers parallel with the top edge of the tile. Angle the nipper to go in the direction you want the cut. How the top edge of the nippers lines up with the tile will determine the direction of the cut. By applying pressure to a small amount of tile at the edge you create a fracture along the surface. To cut the tile, overlap the edge of the tile by 3 to 4 mm and squeeze down. Don't cover the entire surface of the nipper with the tile, this will help stop the tile from becoming crushed and your hand from tiring. Tile nippers work best on ceramic tiles, porcelain and china.They are not recommended for glass because they tend to crush and splinter the glass tiles. Cutting with the bumpy side up will allow you to see what you are doing. Glass mosaic tiles usually have small glass ridges on the back side to allow adhesives to bond to the tile more securely, but they can created problems when cutting.To cut the glass tile in a straight line you need to cut quickly, cutting slowly can result in crushing the tile.The wheels of the cutter need to go in the middle of where you want the cut to go. When cutting keep the tool straight (don't get the wobbles) as you can get a curved cut leaning the tool one way or the other. Be careful not to drop this tool as the wheels can move out of alignment which can't be fixed.As you use the wheel and turn it, make successive marks until you have used the wheel. When you first get your nippers draw a line with a permanent marker where you first use them to cut. If you notice the tool becoming dull use an Allen key to loosen the wheels and rotate them slightly.It applies even pressure to the top and bottom of the tile causing the glass to fracture along the lines of the wheels. The two wheels which are made of either steel (cheaper ones) or carbide.Makes cleaner & more predictable cuts when cutting glass than tile nippers.
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