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Just put a painted Tech Priest in the car for the machine spirit
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Huh, I missed that they added Chambers a couple months ago full time beyond the original stretch goal of having him write up some characters or whatever. At this point it's hiring them for their names otherwise they'd have hired them very early on for the actual game design portion unless they plan on doing a major rules revision in the next year or so because they fuck it up that badly.
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I don't mind. He's earned it.
Though I do wonder if he's actually working on anything. I've seen his name attached to a number of no-name projects like Neo Genesis, plus big names like Trench Crusade and Konflict 47. He must be a busy bloke if he really is working on all these games.
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Does there exist a 40k product archive? Or failing that, anything about battleforces from 5th edition or around there? I'd like to know the exact contents. But my google-fu fails and all I can find is pictures of newer kits (2018 and later) and the occasional reddit photo of the boxart.
I also remember going Blood Angels in 3rd edition because I wanted a Baal Predator, but could never afford it. As far as I can tell it basically doesn't exist any more, though might exist in rules for HH? Not sure.
I also remember going Blood Angels in 3rd edition because I wanted a Baal Predator, but could never afford it. As far as I can tell it basically doesn't exist any more, though might exist in rules for HH? Not sure.
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It's no help here but I used to have a print catalogue by GW of all their products from I think 6th edition to 3rd edition. It was quality, nice white glossy pages with squads, characters and vehicles for a bunch of factions.
Shame GW doesn't put out stuff like that anymore.
Here's an archive of most of their printed catalogs(up through 2010), some of which used to have prices up until around 2005 or so.
After that though you'd need to rely on archige.org versions of their website, most of which don't work, or know the exact name of the battleforce to be able to find it. Of course even with the print catalogs some of them were limited runs and wouldn't be in there.
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I want to seeth about the latest Gotrek novel Verminslayer and since the thread of AoS is dead I'll do it here.
First of all the AoS Gotrek books were so far been at least serviceable. But this one is just bad in many many ways:
First of all, no Tharnquall despite being a Skaven book. What the absolute fuck.
Second thing, the book does the sin of referencing a far better book, the original Gotrek Skaven fight, which just further shows how bad it is in comparison.
This time Gotrek has a new sidekick, a sheboon cavalier, after the previous one (a sheboon sigmarite priest) is unceremoniously dumped off because the author didn't know what to do with her. The new girl is a mary sue with the annoying trend of second guessing herself and comparing herself to others, in a bid to fool the reader to think she isn't a mary sue.
The plot setup is that Gotrek works as a sewer patrol man in generic steampunk city #6379, similar to how he and Felix did it in Nuln. This new fantasy city is horrifically boring despite the author trying really hard to sell it as exciting city of adventure. The main issue is that like every high fantasy shit, things just exist because they look cool. Nothing makes sense because magic, fuck you. The city also has a blatantly vampire countess ruling it despite you'd think that, especially in a high fantasy universe, people besides Gotrek will notice how blatant it is. Another noticeable thing is that the city uses literal health potions as currency, which is just retarded and really takes me out of the book whenever they are referenced.
At the start of the book, Gotrek meets sheboon as they encounter a sign of a skaven plot to do something bad and they team up to stop it. The Skaven are noticeably way more boring that the original Fantasy setting, and their plan is foreshadowed halfway too hard to be the machination of a Vermin Lord that it spoils the twist.
Along the way there are many many characters (they introduce like 8 in the first pages!) that I don't give a shit about because they barely have any distinguishing features beyond their own brand of quipping, plus you know most are going to die.
The final battle is notable that sheboon shows she knows about metallurgy than Gotrek, a fucking dwarf, and she beats the Verminlord by decapitating it with a standard steel sword. Did I mention she was a mary sue? To compare, Felix took like 8 books to kill something big (a dragon), and only did it because he obtained a sword made for the express purpose to slay dragons, that also mind controlled him to fight with disregard for himself.
Gotrek throughout the book just mopes a lot without doing much, being there solely to hype the author's OC (if she even gets another book). The author has absolutely no idea what to do with the character because he keeps changing Gotrek's goal every book.
The book ends on a sequel hook that I don't care for because literally every book in that series ends with those and they never matter.
It's absolute shit.
First of all the AoS Gotrek books were so far been at least serviceable. But this one is just bad in many many ways:
First of all, no Tharnquall despite being a Skaven book. What the absolute fuck.
Second thing, the book does the sin of referencing a far better book, the original Gotrek Skaven fight, which just further shows how bad it is in comparison.
This time Gotrek has a new sidekick, a sheboon cavalier, after the previous one (a sheboon sigmarite priest) is unceremoniously dumped off because the author didn't know what to do with her. The new girl is a mary sue with the annoying trend of second guessing herself and comparing herself to others, in a bid to fool the reader to think she isn't a mary sue.
The plot setup is that Gotrek works as a sewer patrol man in generic steampunk city #6379, similar to how he and Felix did it in Nuln. This new fantasy city is horrifically boring despite the author trying really hard to sell it as exciting city of adventure. The main issue is that like every high fantasy shit, things just exist because they look cool. Nothing makes sense because magic, fuck you. The city also has a blatantly vampire countess ruling it despite you'd think that, especially in a high fantasy universe, people besides Gotrek will notice how blatant it is. Another noticeable thing is that the city uses literal health potions as currency, which is just retarded and really takes me out of the book whenever they are referenced.
At the start of the book, Gotrek meets sheboon as they encounter a sign of a skaven plot to do something bad and they team up to stop it. The Skaven are noticeably way more boring that the original Fantasy setting, and their plan is foreshadowed halfway too hard to be the machination of a Vermin Lord that it spoils the twist.
Along the way there are many many characters (they introduce like 8 in the first pages!) that I don't give a shit about because they barely have any distinguishing features beyond their own brand of quipping, plus you know most are going to die.
The final battle is notable that sheboon shows she knows about metallurgy than Gotrek, a fucking dwarf, and she beats the Verminlord by decapitating it with a standard steel sword. Did I mention she was a mary sue? To compare, Felix took like 8 books to kill something big (a dragon), and only did it because he obtained a sword made for the express purpose to slay dragons, that also mind controlled him to fight with disregard for himself.
Gotrek throughout the book just mopes a lot without doing much, being there solely to hype the author's OC (if she even gets another book). The author has absolutely no idea what to do with the character because he keeps changing Gotrek's goal every book.
The book ends on a sequel hook that I don't care for because literally every book in that series ends with those and they never matter.
It's absolute shit.
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Grabbed the BT Castellan the other day, and wanted to convert it into an HQ unit for either my IH or AL armies for Heresy. I'm leaning towards either a Champion or a Chaplain, but would love to hear any recommendations.
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troons are customers too, and they spend a pretty penny.
as long as they don't close/pause their twitter account it's just customer outreach
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Could work well for either legion or either role pretty nicely. For IH champion, if you could get a pair of arms hanging down and holding a thunder hammer or something parallel to the ground, I think you could make that work with the new melee weapon set. Otherwise I'd chop the axe head and the haft below the hand, add a thunder hammer head and a haft reaching to the base - for the right arm maybe swap the arm/hand for the pointing hand from the set or try and sculpt your own.
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Sorry if I'm super late with this. Listening the a 40k rant/podcast in the background I don't normally listen to.
They complained that GW was doing Armageddon again, but Steel Legion was retconned out and replaced with Death Korps of Krieg.
They also theorized that GW is in the process of a soft reboot. That 11th edition will be when they pull the trigger and everything will be nu-40k. No grim dark. Just space marines vs chaos with some xenos and meme armies in the background. Basically the Old World to Sigmar conversion without the backlash.
My thoughts on Steel Legion. I think why GW is retconning Steel Legion away is 1. They don't have any new plastics and modern GW won't write lore or rules for things that don't currently have official kits. 2. Steel Legion are considered "problematic" by BluSky/Twitter/Reddit for looking like nazis so GW will never touch them again for the foreseeable future.
I don't know what to think about 8th > 11th just being a slow burn reboot of 40k into named characters and space marines with a sprinkling of reddit memes. I don't think that's the case, but I've not been back into 40k long enough to know, and I've seen similar opinions here about the lack of grim dark. I think they're putting space marines into every campaign because they're the big sellers and poster boy of the setting.
Having a campaign setting where they don't show up would be dumb from a business point of view. I don't see it as any different than Tau and Tyrannids turning up in Pariah Nexus despite having no reason to be there.
They complained that GW was doing Armageddon again, but Steel Legion was retconned out and replaced with Death Korps of Krieg.
They also theorized that GW is in the process of a soft reboot. That 11th edition will be when they pull the trigger and everything will be nu-40k. No grim dark. Just space marines vs chaos with some xenos and meme armies in the background. Basically the Old World to Sigmar conversion without the backlash.
My thoughts on Steel Legion. I think why GW is retconning Steel Legion away is 1. They don't have any new plastics and modern GW won't write lore or rules for things that don't currently have official kits. 2. Steel Legion are considered "problematic" by BluSky/Twitter/Reddit for looking like nazis so GW will never touch them again for the foreseeable future.
I don't know what to think about 8th > 11th just being a slow burn reboot of 40k into named characters and space marines with a sprinkling of reddit memes. I don't think that's the case, but I've not been back into 40k long enough to know, and I've seen similar opinions here about the lack of grim dark. I think they're putting space marines into every campaign because they're the big sellers and poster boy of the setting.
Having a campaign setting where they don't show up would be dumb from a business point of view. I don't see it as any different than Tau and Tyrannids turning up in Pariah Nexus despite having no reason to be there.
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They keep leaning towards it. The 9th edition Sisters Codex (IIRC) had Emperor aligned Daemons of Order and "Humble Saints" -- an entire planet of people turned into Emperor aligned psykers that could skullfuck chaos at a glance. (The Iron Hands exerminatus'd the world because they might have been tearing open a hole in the warp on accident. For additional fuckery -- it was the Alpha Legion that arranged for the Emperor aligned daemons and saints to spring up.)
I worry about that, because any reboot risks allowing shitty political based changes. "It's a reboot and a new 40k! And new 40k means letting go of the bad shit of the past! Look, Female Space Marines: They've always existed."
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I really don't think GW gives that much a fuck about that Twitter/Reddit/Blusky think about Steel Legion, its more that you just said the Legion haven't had any models done in a while, I doubt they rank hard on popularity even among Imperial Guard fans, hell the running joke even being how people confuse Krieg and Steel Legion. As for the "nu muh grim dark", I REALLY fucking hate this shit, people always throw that shit but never explain it, they act like its this "gotcha" moment that makes 'em win an argument.
The more likely scenario is that they feel like they don't need 2 factions known for wearing gas masks, DKOK sold better than SJ as forgeworld resin kits, and having an entire line of less popular infantry kits in plastic is a massive investment not only in terms of model bloat for the range but also rules bloat for a codex as you'd somehow need to differentiate them and it isn't like a simple upgrade sprue will do the job since the arms/legs/heads/torsos are different. The same reason they don't do minis for 10+ other guard regiments.
I was laughing at Arch's stupid podcast yesterday(the title about GW doing copyright strikes again caught my attention) and apparently they were complaining about steel legion, insisting that GW shouldn't ever go after any creators over IP issues other than to hire them or write up contracts insisting they pay royalties to GW, claiming that they were going after more creators without naming any(most likely went after people again with a patreon or merch looking to make money off of it), claiming that some of the recent book covers were AI art(it's usually just painted over 3d models like they were doing for the HH 2.0 miniature box art) for stuff in the background) claiming that AoS isn't popular(when it's popular enough that it out-sells most other companies entire product ranges), claimed that Star Wars Armada was close to overtaking GW back in the 2013-15 era(bullshit, it was x-wing which as a licensed game has a lot of problems to overcome). Claimed that the SW sequel trilogy killed the licensed games(armada, x-wing, etc.) which is also bullshit it was x-wing 2.0 that killed that game overnight and a lack of anything to release as new models for Armada meant it was already long dead by that point anyway, claiming GW is currently on a decline somehow(the opposite really), and just so much other utter nonsense.
Hell, they even brought up the discovery that GW had NDA agreements with mini painters and youtube channels they sent product to in advance, well no fucking shit? And that Bruva Alfabusa had to change TTS because of GW(he was dead in the water for his stories that had gotten to the point of taking a year per episode and eventually just copying bat reps as a "story" for an episode) and didn't want to just immediately lose his $20k/month patreon.
So if that's the podcast you listened to, those guys are fucking retarded.
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Also, they later had to suck off the Hunter creator, so he'd give 'em the green light on pumping out Hunter merch, since they couldn't do that shit with 40k.
That too, which hilariously Paradox seems to want nothing to do with these days after everything that's gone wrong with the entirety of WoD in the past decade while trying to get Bloodlines 2 out the door. I don't think that one was much in the way of them sucking off Paradox, so much as it was timed long with Paradox's marketing push trying to get people to put their watermark over their TTRPG sessions and such.
As far as the complaining about eliminating the grim dark... probably the dumbest was the bitching(by Arch as well) about GW releasing childrens books, plushies, etc. as if GW never marketed to kids previously(and there's adults who like plushies as well). This is the same GW that produced this of all fucking things in 1994
That's fucking gay. I don't care what the in universe excuse is, it's gay.
The selective memories people seem to have at times regarding GW are amusing.
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Well, ironically they didn't go the Paradox, but the guy who was behind Hunter the Reckoning. Which, from what I got there was this weird shit with Paradox how that guy was getting to call the shots with THAT one specific thing he created, that's why Alfabusa went to suck him off, thus they could start doing Hunter merch specifically. 'Cause they tried to make Mage and dropped that shit mid character creation.