They've been toward the top of the meta for most of 10th edition, with a pretty normal percentage(4-6%) of the playerbase in the past few months(meta chasers). Army-wide assault for all ranged weapons, and +1 strength within 12"(so think meltas and flamers) will do that for a detachment.
They've usually been fine and within the top half of the spread for basically... 4-5 years now since they finally got a codex again in 8th and had most of the model range revamped. But that gap of being shit wasn't an issue with sisters of battle, it was GW going multiple editions ignoring armies. Hell, orks got ignored for the entirety of 5th and 6th edition as well. Black Templars didn't get a codex after 4th till 9th. Necrons were skipped in 4th and 6th. Tyranids didn't get one for 7th. Yeah, people liked that from GW for some fucking reason.
I've seen one chick at a tourney who played Thousand Sons, another played the Chaos Space MArines.
Because means they could use broken metas/rules if their army until they had any updates to 'em.
Yeah, that's definitely part of it, and it's ridiculous seeing people stumble over themselves trying to avoid admitting it. This is where a lot of "the rules get updated too quick now!" shit comes from, because GW has been doing a decent job balancing 40k in the past couple of years(internal balance within a codex is another matter, but generally speaking most of the factions are reasonably balanced against eachother with a couple exceptions every now and then that usually get addressed within a few months). Compared to the people who actually liked armor facings and other shit. Basically they can't buy an army 3-4 months after a codex is out and people have found a broken combo, and then assume they may get to just abuse it for the next half decade or more. I've never seen anyone who got the shit end of the stick and was stuck with a crappy set of rules complain about getting rules more often.
Nobody is entirely sure what the status of the Emperor is. That's sort of the point of the Imperium. They don't know if he's truly dead since he's clearly active, or if the throne is holding him back from truly passing on and achieving Godhood. Guilliman spoke to the Emperor but what he said was a few incoherent words. It's said he spoke to Guilliman like a craftsman rediscovering a favorite tool, not like a father reuniting with his son. Is this because the Emperor wants to get back to business and save the Imperium? Is it because his mind is fractured and it's taking him every ounce of strength he has to say even a single word? We don't know, and the Emperor isn't telling anyone.
The best example of this is My Little Pony.
I like the colour wheel on the box there. More paint sets should include a mixing guide too. (edit: typo)
That's too complicated for my smooth brain. My color scheme is called "I like blue".
Would isolating compounds from natural sources be considered tech-heresy? Like extracting salicin ( ie. aspirin) from willow bark ends you being turned into a servitor if you're caught? I'm just brainstorming some stuff for a homebrew project.
Uh, no. Not unless you're trying to make some really fucked-up stuff with it. The IoM is an authoritarian regime, and like all authoritarian regimes they operate on a pretty strict useful/useless hierarchy when it comes to things. Stuff that's mildly heretical but useful gets a pass, even stuff like the IG and Space Marines doing unsanctioned modifications to equipment that makes coolant start boiling out of the ears of any nearby Techpriests. The Predator Annihilator is one such example. The Space Wolves were surrounded on all sides during a Crusade that went south and not even the Long Fangs could get into position to fire back on account of all the incoming fire, so after a few prayers to Leman Russ by the Iron Priests for inspiration, they took their lascannons and bolted them onto their Predators. In an amazing coincidence, 200 years of thorough investigation later the AdMech found evidence that this field mod rigged up by a bunch of drunken Space Vikings on the basis of "What Would Leman Russ Do?" was totally part of the vehicle's original STC.
Thanks for the swift reply! I have an idea of some orks with kitbashed Guard weapons for Kill Team. Like their idea of a lasgun MG is a load of them bolted together. Some green stuff or blue tac wrapped around them painted like duct tape maybe. This is some fluff I'm planning for it.
If we're talking Orks, just have fun with whatever. They're Orks, and they'll make it work because they believe it works. Not familiar with the Looted Carnifex?
Half, if not more, of the fun of playing Orks is doing stupid shit for the hell of it.
