While I liked False Gods, I did kinda scratch my head at where the Chaos Demons essentially pull a "Oh, we aren't evil! Yer daddy is just being cray-cray and wants to wreck our world!" and Horus buys that shit instantly.
Man do I ever feel this. I have a Strike Marines box to assemble ASAP and 75% of arm poses involves the model holding a melee weapon in front of himself with both hands. Also makes painting the chest details a pain in the ass. I usually glue the arms onto the torso first and then hope of the best by gluing on the hands/weapon last.
I didn't get that impression at all. At least not within the confines of the book.
Subassembly painting. Glue arms and hands together and then paint them separate from the body. Might want to just paint the arms first so you can hold on to the plastic by the weapon. Then glue everything and paint the weapon.
For better or worse, the main issue of early HH is the absolute breakneck speed of events and plot, only to switch to glacial pace when GW understood they have a goldmine. Also the idea of convincing Horus the Imperium is a bad idea by using current day Imperium is genius.
Like I said before, there is no lesson to be learned from 40k since it's an arbitrary future made by writers to be excessively grim dark and limited in options. The Imperium is the only way for humanity purely by how stacked the deck against it and how fracturing will make its slow reactions even slower.
and I checked again and the Vanus's main contribution was suggesting the Callidus change her brain folds/structure to match the pilots as well as make it look like it was recently damaged to explain any minor differences, the rest was the pilot teacher her the 12 hour long bonding ritual and ancestor recollection.
The Astartes had it coming though. IIRC what ticked off Karkasy and the remembrancers hard was the Mournival rampaging through the hangar deck to get Horus to the infirmary after he got shanked by the anathame. Its not stated outright but from my understanding the crews were hosing people off the walls and floor from how brutally they smashed through the crowd, and they didn't even have the balls to apologize or offer up any sort of mea culpa, which pissed off even the commander of all the non-Astartes forces in the fleet from the blatant disregard towards him and everyone else.
Such a manipulative asshole he killed another kid and stole his identity to go join the priesthood, where he eventually wound up embracing Chaos because they're the only douchebags as big as he is.
Get a rule book.
Assembling and painting the figurines is a hobby in and of itself. And that's before you even get into customizing and the like.
Then you have to go out there and find a group of players which itself can turn into a logistical nightmare.
small town is an especially hardcore version of this challenge cause finding a WH circle not full of actual autists was impossible to me
While it was a bad incident, there were already a lot of people unhappy with the astartes having carte blanche in their war and the couple of legions that basically annihilate entire world populations until what remains get accepted into the Imperium. While the Astartes themselves had their problems with becoming either stuck on Garrison duty or becoming Thunder Warriors 2.0.
There’s a reason Henry Cavil keeps coming back as Superman.
