Warhammer 40k

[Tri-Tachyon'sClown]

Second is I crave the symmetry. My autistic brain needs everything to match and see a consistent pattern across my army. I crave the structure of uniformly painted models.

"I craved the strength and certainty of symmetry. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Autism."

 

[Burning Bridge]

"I craved the strength and certainty of symmetry. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Autism."

"Ever since I first understood the weakness of the normie it has disgusted me."

 

[Imperial Citizen]

I’m twenty marines in (painted and completed) and I can look at them individually and think “he’s got a story” even if that marine isn’t elaborate like the officers are, a guardsman head on a backpack, a shattered pauldron revealing the bare shoulder armor or a gouged out eye go miles for characterization.

That’s why I got into this hobby. I love tabletop games but there was never a personality to the pieces. With something like Warhammer, I got to give my army and my game a story.

 

[Meat Target]

I just beat the SM2 campaign. Bravo. I haven't played a game with that level of boner-inducing violence in a while.

 

[bort420]

Knight Atrapos: gotten

the mechaniCUM Knights rise once more....

resin is ass but not as bad as ppl think. just needs some scrubbing and u gotta use a knife. use gunpla technology, the Japanese are centuries ahead of us noobs

 

[AncientPhosphur]

resin is ass but not as bad as ppl think. just needs some scrubbing and u gotta use a knife. use gunpla technology, the Japanese are centuries ahead of us noobs

Also a warm water bath for some models

 

[bort420]

yeah, let em soak in dish soap + tepid water before scrubbing, maybe 15-30min. that said if you DO need to bend something, use some hotter water to make it pliable

Also a warm water bath for some models

 

[Inquisitor_BadAss]

So the Deathwatch index is actually pretty good imo. The Talonstrike Kill team is especially spicy considering you can give heavy intercessors Jump Packs and every model in the unit has access to plasma weapons.

 

[Judge Dredd]

I might be disgusted with the 40k fandom, at least on the internet. Which is a problem as there isn't really a local wargaming scene where I live.

While KF is largely an exception. Online, the majority of things I read or hear are either sycophantic consoomers talking each other into saying £65 for 8 plastic soldiers is a great deal and cheering when a product sells out, or they're black pilled killjoys who just need to shut up and quit already.

I don't know if this is a common observation, but both sides are junkies. The only difference is they justifications they use.


There's also an issue I notice with many 40k killers like Trench Crusade and Infinity, as well as modern GW in general, is the lack of options for "your guys". I get some people want to play stock factions they have lore about, but for me building your own chapter and backstory is part of the fun. A lot of modern games don't have that.

 

[Inquisitor_BadAss]

I might be disgusted with the 40k fandom, at least on the internet. Which is a problem as there isn't really a local wargaming scene where I live.

While KF is largely an exception. Online, the majority of things I read or hear are either sycophantic consoomers talking each other into saying £65 for 8 plastic soldiers is a great deal and cheering when a product sells out, or they're black pilled killjoys who just need to shut up and quit already.

I don't know if this is a common observation, but both sides are junkies. The only difference is they justifications they use.


There's also an issue I notice with many 40k killers like Trench Crusade and Infinity, as well as modern GW in general, is the lack of options for "your guys". I get some people want to play stock factions they have lore about, but for me building your own chapter and backstory is part of the fun. A lot of modern games don't have that.

That's what keeps me in 40K, the most freedom you get with things like infinity is the shade of blue you can use panoceania or the red I can use for Khador in warmachine.

 

[سلیمان عثمان]

There's also an issue I notice with many 40k killers like Trench Crusade and Infinity, as well as modern GW in general, is the lack of options for "your guys".

Honestly, I think this sums up the weakness of nearly every single 40k competitor. For all its faults, when I collected, GW pushed the customization side of the hobby hard and actively encouraged players to create their own custom chapters, IG regiments, Ork warbands, Hive Fleets, etc. Half the reason to keep a White Dwarf subscription was just to see what kind of cool or silly shit people would come up with in the model showcase.

And to be fair to the beardies, when I look back in my time collecting and playing they were mostly encouraging. At worst they would try to correct the occasional lore deviation that went a bit too far when I would get in to a spergy pre-pubescent froth over how my hive fleet is the bestest and most unique and totally 'not like the other hive fleets'

Good times

 

[Judge Dredd]

Half the reason to keep a White Dwarf subscription was just to see what kind of cool or silly shit people would come up with in the model showcase.

I binged watched lore videos about the Badab war after a kiwi mentioned it, and it's funny how half the space marine chapters were clearly a joke made for a passing bit of fluff that have since had to be fleshed out with wiki entries and book series.

I'm reminded of how the map in Eldar Scroll was supposedly made by putting a map in a public area of the studio and anyone walking by could add things to it. In one of the games, a button covered the location of a city so they moved it. Now there's a legion of autists who get mad whenever Bethesda change anything as if the world map was carefully designed by expert historians and cartographers and current Bethesda can't possibly match those grand visionaries.

 

[Stock Footage]

There's also an issue I notice with many 40k killers like Trench Crusade and Infinity, as well as modern GW in general, is the lack of options for "your guys". I get some people want to play stock factions they have lore about, but for me building your own chapter and backstory is part of the fun. A lot of modern games don't have that.

One thing I like about 40k is that even with the stock factions like Ultramarines or Krieg you will have different interpretations of them depending on the player/modeler. Some players stick with the stock UM look, others will make the smurfs lean more into the "Space Rome" aesthetic from the lore. Its cool going on places like Etsy and finding chapter specific bits and upgrades and seeing the different interpretations of iconic SM chapters. I don't play much 40K games but the hobby side of things is what keeps me coming back to the game because it offers so much freedom in customizing/kitbashing models.

 

[bort420]

I might be disgusted with the 40k fandom, at least on the internet. Which is a problem as there isn't really a local wargaming scene where I live.

While KF is largely an exception. Online, the majority of things I read or hear are either sycophantic consoomers talking each other into saying £65 for 8 plastic soldiers is a great deal and cheering when a product sells out, or they're black pilled killjoys who just need to shut up and quit already.

I don't know if this is a common observation, but both sides are junkies. The only difference is they justifications they use.


There's also an issue I notice with many 40k killers like Trench Crusade and Infinity, as well as modern GW in general, is the lack of options for "your guys". I get some people want to play stock factions they have lore about, but for me building your own chapter and backstory is part of the fun. A lot of modern games don't have that.

Slaanesh comes in many forms.

Tolerate corruption and it festers, does it not?

 

[Humble Architect]

Next week’s MTO

FYI, the Company Command, that sprue came with the Sevrin Loth and bodyguards from earlier this year and there was heavy degradation. Just so you know.

Slaanesh comes in many forms.

Tolerate corruption and it festers, does it not?

More like Nurgle, Slaanesh followers fucked up though they may be do have standards, insane, unrealistic standards but they would have them. They’d ask, “Why are you stopping at faction lines? Why aren’t you buying all of it?!”

 

[bort420]

the other chaos gods hate slaanesh for it feeds on all excess. including their own. slaanesh becomes nurgle. nurgle becomes slaanesh.

 

[Humble Architect]

the other chaos gods hate slaanesh for it feeds on all excess. including their own. slaanesh becomes nurgle. nurgle becomes slaanesh.

Well they all hate each other, except for Khorne and Nurgle, their followers have an amusing history of locking the fuck in getting shit done.

Just the older brothers bullying their nerdy middle brother and their coomer little brother/sister.

 

[bort420]

Well they all hate each other, except for Khorne and Nurgle, their followers have an amusing history of locking the fuck in getting shit done.

Just the older brothers bullying their nerdy middle brother and their coomer little brother/sister.

decay and violence do go together

 

[Spilled Spaghett]

Nurgle and Khorne will still clash though. The reason Khorne hates Slannesh is because they play with their food and wont kill their victim. This applies to Nurgle as well. Those zombies just wont fucking die or bleed and it's beyond infuriating. Imagine being a berserker and all you want is to cave someone's head in until you finally see the light leave their eyes. But no matter how much you chop them up or bash their head they keep smiling and moving.

Likewise Nurgle doesn't like Khorne because in Nurgle's mind death is part of the cycle of rebirth. Death is not the end, it serves a purpose. Your body decays and gives life to all kinds of organisms, or returns to the ground to fertilize his garden so something new may grow. Khorne has no greater plan. Much like how Angron would fuck up battle plans by charging head first into the enemy line I'm sure Nurgle gets pissed off seeing berserkers screaming and running ahead without any kind of plan other than kill everything.

Though it probably doesn't cause much conflict I'm sure Nurgle doesn't like the endless rage either. He wants his followers to accept death, and embrace suffering as a part of life instead of constantly raging against the system. He wants things constant, sedentary, and Khorne is like listening to your gamer neighbor screaming nigger in their call of duty lobby at 2am through the wall when you're trying to sleep.

 

[Humble Architect]

Nurgle and Khorne will still clash though. The reason Khorne hates Slannesh is because they play with their food and wont kill their victim. This applies to Nurgle as well. Those zombies just wont fucking die or bleed and it's beyond infuriating. Imagine being a berserker and all you want is to cave someone's head in until you finally see the light leave their eyes. But no matter how much you chop them up or bash their head they keep smiling and moving.

Likewise Nurgle doesn't like Khorne because in Nurgle's mind death is part of the cycle of rebirth. Death is not the end, it serves a purpose. Your body decays and gives life to all kinds of organisms, or returns to the ground to fertilize his garden so something new may grow. Khorne has no greater plan. Much like how Angron would fuck up battle plans by charging head first into the enemy line I'm sure Nurgle gets pissed off seeing berserkers screaming and running ahead without any kind of plan other than kill everything.

Though it probably doesn't cause much conflict I'm sure Nurgle doesn't like the endless rage either. He wants his followers to accept death, and embrace suffering as a part of life instead of constantly raging against the system. He wants things constant, sedentary, and Khorne is like listening to your gamer neighbor screaming nigger in their call of duty lobby at 2am through the wall when you're trying to sleep.

No shit, don’t Chaos-splain.

I simply noted that of all the god-aligned forces, it is consistently Nurgle and Khornates who work together.