I have an idea, name the thing you hate most about current 40K lore.
That’s the biggest problem, but people seem to just ignore that the prices are retardedly high.
This reminds me of the reserve list apologists in magic that tell you that you’re just going to have to pay $800 for a piece of cardboard if you want to play the game consistently. Also lmao @ calling their miniatures “AAA quality”, I’m waiting on a replacement sprue for a canoness because the plastic injection only filled halfway and GW takes their sweet time. While I do appreciate the quality being better than when I left, it’s definitely not AAA.
That’s something that I’ve never understood: they don’t play games, but they’re angry about them.
Nah some of the best 40k fiction in recent years has come out of the Necrons retcon, Infinite and the Divine and the Twice Dead King books come to mind.
LOL, what's funny is this idiot almost has a point but is going about it the wrong way. yes, GW minis are expensive and overpriced. It's 5 cents worth of injection molded plastic, for which the molds even if they cost 100k were amortized ages ago(considering the ages of some of these things) being sold at $10+ a mini for a 2 inch tall plastic dude that you still have to paint. However, in the words of George Carlin "Hobbies cost money, interests are quite free". The simple reality is, plenty of other hobbies cost as much if not far more than 40k.
Their quality is really good when it works - they might be second only to Bandai in that regard.
I'd say everything they've revealed about the backstory - the Horus Heresy is a 20+ year, endlessly prolific exercise in turning a founding myth into capeshit. Everything that they've revealed about the War in Heaven is, if anything, even worse. That said, none of that applies to 40k per se - it's all distant history in-setting. For that, I'd need to point to the Eldar writing by Gav Thorpe and his ilk. They're a dying race with great foresight written as throwing themselves toward Guard-level casualties and constantly losing, going against pretty much every description in Codices and the like of how they're actually supposed to operate.
The completely different army of scheming, politicking Egyptian sorcerer-kings leading around their armies of cursed automata that were once men.
Anyone remember that faggot bitshammer bitching at the warhammer twitter a few years ago about a 4chan post claiming to be an executive or something at GW?
Even if you could afford to drop the cost of a Lamborghini (or even a Corvette or Mustang) on GW miniatures, it's not like you have the time to paint and assemble them, learn the rules, and actually play with your army at a local store or against people in your area. You might have the time to research, purchase, assemble, paint, store, carry, and play with an army only a few times a week tops if you are dedicated. And you might need to buy additional units because the meta at your local store is competitive. Or some rules change might necessitate purchasing different units. Which means more time assembling and painting and researching.
My biggest issue with Chaos is how despite them being universally insane cultists they seem to have better logistics than the Imperium itself.
Those are really cool.
Sure but that's my point. None of these people own $50k worth of warhammer minis. Yes, there is a very very small handful of people out there who own 100k points worth of chaos shit or whatever. Even the rare handful of people who own multiple titans. 5 or 6 of those still isn't going to equate to something as "cheap" as getting a used miata and setting it up for track use(safety equipment, trailer to haul it, tires, regular maintenance, fire suit and helmet, and so on) and then track and league fees on top of that. Plus, once you've painted those minis, yeah you might want to get some more every year, but you're not actually buying $2000 worth of minis annually even for a few armies just to keep up with releases. 40k is expensive for what it is, but it's far from being an expensive hobby if you actually look at some other not even uncommon hobbies out there. People's idea of dumping a "ton" of money on 40k is very warped.
Sometimes they do. Disney's hurting right now thanks to their losses on Star Wars.
That does seem likely, however, walking back the nerfs on the Custodes would be easier.
Past few years........they've been doing that since the 90s. Past few decades, more like it. If 40K fans can't stand up and have a spine when GW does something that stupid, how can we expect them to actually stick to their guns when GW does something like Primaris or Fem-Custodes? The answer is, we can't.
They're grifters. They try to mobilize online mobs to drive up clicks for their channels.
That's because the Imperium's logistics are shit. Chaos doesn't have a burdensome Imperium held back by superstition and idiocy. For them, what works, works, and they can appear to attack at anytime. The political infighting among the Imperium's forces holds them back, while the open infighting among the Chaos forces keeps their skills sharp. Not to mention Chaos Daemons and Primarchs go a long way to helping coordinate things.
So basically, Thrawn from the Filoniverse? Loses a thousand battles, but it's "just as planned" and his plans go forward anyways. Kind of like a bargain-bin Light Yagami written for little kids.
There’s a lot of interesting tid bits in this series. I don’t remember which video it was but they mentioned they were told they needed to make rules for all the models they could sell so people can put them on the table. So that’s part of why they copy and paste from a lot of franchises but change things a bit. He mentioned Dr. Who and the Daleks specifically.
It was funny when he mentioned the nightmare it was translating the rules system to other languages because the rules are literally longer in German so the layout gets screwed and the smaller print runs in various countries being far more expensive per copy made them literally loose money per sale in some places.
That’s less of a boycott and more that the stuff they are making is mostly so shit everyone stopped caring.
One thing about these interviews - which are great - are how many of the things I kind of twigged on when I first read through the source material in like 91-3... Turns out to be correct, and this is a big one.
God knows I want it to be true, but why should I believe this faggot?
Had to give you a rainbow, no way in hell they are rolling this back when the damage is already done. Less of Amazon bucks are at stake.
I'd love it if they all dropped dead, but one could say that they are already dead inside anyway.
That would be hillarious and would be one less balancing headache.
But if he walks he becomes the king of the chuds! Cavill is kind of fucked no matter what.
My ice cold take. Primaris. It's extra funny when they got cold feet and never released primaris chaos marines. That the empire can suddenly innovate kills a lot of the pseudo space barbarian and tech mysticism spirit of it all. Why not zerg rush the tau and steal thir shit then?
As a guy who still keeps a finger in the pulse of 40K but hasn't spent more than 200$ on store bought models (not counting second hand purchases and paint supplies) in 15 years. It's because I WANT to enjoy it but it's a constant dissapointment and I adore the setting. I also DM campaigns in the setting and have played in them, so I still participate in other parts of it.
I stopped reading the novels after Know No Fear (made me get a lot more respect for the ultras) but they just became too much to follow. I don't need that much detail and imagine it devolved to faggy drama to pad it out.
The Asterians from Firefight from Mantic had the right idea and their bootleg Eldar don't fight directly but through drones. But GW has always been retarded when writting long lived races in decline. High elves died im droves yet could keep multiple theaters of war. Wood Elves at least stuck to their tree and Harlequins rarely act directly (or at least used to be the case), but the High and Eldar are always there face first.
Reminds of a retard from a 40k chat group (don't know why I stick there...) that would constantly post "look what I got". There was no way in hell he was even building stuff at any rate to cover how much shit he bought. Guy was also functionally retarded, played one game of 9th with him and I swore never again, I knew his rules better than him and I didn't play that much 9th either.
Don't confuse boycott with apathy. One is fueled by anger, the other is just nothingness.
I hate niggercattle like this too. They completely miss the point and hand waive it with "muh premium plastic", "just try to be less poor lel" or "they produce AAAAAA+ top premium plastic with golden inserts of course they are not affordable".
