Custodes are great cause they are super cheap to make an army with
Yes and no. As long as you're not buying official GW crap or only buying discount boxes they're cheap. If you are throwing money at GW, practically every list worth a shit since they've had their codex has involved a pair of FW caladius grav tanks and sometimes 1-3 venatari squads. The bikes are also only just now actually usable since the start of 10th. It's also wardens and not the regular custodian guard that have been getting the bulk of play for infantry because they actually have their durability still due to their once per battle 4+++ for a phase and they rarely end up in discount boxes as well. Plus needing cheap action monkey units means sisters of silence which has 1 boring kit for everything.
I am so fucking tired over this argument REPEATED stop retreading this bullshit already and buy old marines or something. Its not even a kiwi issue I am going insane over seeing this argument repeated over and over and over. Do you just want your opinions reaffirmed constantly or what? They still act like big dumb space marines thats all that matters if that really does not do it for you just play another faction or just replace the helmets you live in a 3D printer era its not hard. See this marine is wearing a beak but is primaris its that easy.
We're coming up on it being 8 fucking years since primaris, people will not get over it. It's been what, 16-17 years now since Matt Ward made players mad with the 5th edition space marine codex and people
still haven't gotten over that. Up until the stupid leagues of votan release, there were people still bitching about squats being squatted, and seeing some of those people complain face to face they weren't even alive when GW axed them from the game and that happened in 1998.
But but.... old thing, good! New thing... bad! Woke, bad! Not-woke, good!
The doomers are just as bad as the tourists tbh. If you hate the new setting theres at least a hundred novels and thousands of firstborn models on Ebay you could buy, no primaris necessary. Hell, there are 3d modelers that have already made Primaris-scale firstborns you could 3d print, not even including bits. Have some optimism. If youre not having fun, and new Warhammer and GW circa 2024 are dead and infected by retards, then fuck off and do something else. No one is forcing you to engage with the current setting.
It really is a sad case of people just not moving the fuck on when they don't like something anymore. I think Star Wars is mostly trash now, I don't watch or read it anymore. Star Trek? Even worse, and I just don't bother with it. The shit is never going to go back to what it was that got me interested, same with some of these people and 40k. No, it isn't just going to be ww1 in space for eternity. Squatty marines? Gone. Armor facings and glancing shots? Gone. Templates? Gone. And they're not coming back partially because GW and everyone else has moved on, but even for some game mechanics the entire industry has moved on. Even ignoring GW's record setting profits and price increases over the past decade, there are more people playing GW games now than there were 30, 20, or even just 10 years ago including people who simply weren't interested in it 20 years ago but could have bought into it if they wanted to.
Like, seriously, who gives a shit?
Autists
That's not an accurate comparison at all. Literally half the Imperium has been cut off from the Throne World while Tyranids are coming and Necrons are awakening. Guilliman and Lion returning are probably the only thing that has gone right in the last 10,000 years.
There might be an ever-so-slight ray of hope, but not much has changed in the grand scheme of things. The returned primarchs still have their work cut out for them.
And even then, the tyranids invaded again AFTER rowboat assembled a crusade to go take back the other half of the imperium(and took part of terra's defense forces with him to do it), so the imperial forces are basically stretched thin and fucked. Even in GW's trailer video for 10th he looks like he's about to just be burnt out with the planet icons flipping to red with updates that they've been overrun by bugs.
Meanwhile the lion has been having to deal with his own legion having been fucking retarded for about the past 10,000 years, Cypher and Luther are still fucking about doing who knows what, while he's stuck trying to put together something on the other half of the galaxy so people can at least defend themselves from the constant chaos and xenos BS, then ends up in a physical fight with Angron of all things, and some lesser chaos god is also screwing around now trying to ascend to a higher power, all while not having access for navigators to even see the astronomican so even getting around for anyone but himself(since he has the goofy forest walk thing now) and an entourage is even less reliable than warp travel was before the fall of cadia.
But somehow, this situation is too noble bright with the imperium on a winning streak? Fuck no, the reality is that at least a large portion of the people doing the complaining haven't actually been keeping up with anything beyond the most basic headlines about Guilliman and The Lion being back. Even in the latest books, there's a chaos faction that's managed to re-forge the anathame now.
