Warhammer 40k

[p1138]

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.

Weird, because they didn't start the Hunter series till long after Paradox had dissolved White Wolf and after they had already created the "Dark Pack" bullshit(that's why they had to put that watermark on their videos) and after they did the Stellaris episode so it was kind of obvious they were working with someone at Paradox 7 months before their dumb "The Fate of TTS" video.
It's actually kinda crazy how he's now at $28k a month via patreon but their views are in the toilet and it doesn't seem like they're doing anything actually exclusive to patreon via the archive sites for that.

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I guess Turnip 28 batreps are enough of a draw?

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

> See a video of someone doing a read of a 40K short story.
> Click.
> "It's been years since the great rift opened".
> Close the video.

It's amazing that the quality of the writing dipped so bad after 2016

 

[Buckaroo]

The 9th edition Sisters Codex (IIRC) had Emperor aligned Daemons of Order

That's something GW has always been teasing but never fully committing to, just look at the Legion of the Damned and Living Saints.

 

[p1138]

That's something GW has always been teasing but never fully committing to, just look at the Legion of the Damned and Living Saints.

That's basically what Celestine and The Sanguinor are. The living saints they've definitely been including recently as well, they just added another in I think it was book 8 of Dawn of Fire? That was blessed by a sister of silence of all things in one of the previous books via a coin, and eventually resulted in the guard trooper soloing a death guard plaguemarine with a power axe that a dead loyalist marine had dropped.

What GW doesn't seem to want to do, is create a loyalist version of chaos daemons that they can't figure out wtf they want them doing on the tabletop and I don't blame them for that. There's some shit that just shouldn't be included on the tabletop otherwise you get nonsense like avatars of khaine and c'tan shards getting wrecked on a regular basis and adding an imperial loyalist version of that wouldn't be great.

 

[Judge Dredd]

So if that's the podcast you listened to, those guys are fucking retarded.

No. It was a different set of retards, and I didn't listen to the whole thing.

If you want to guess. It was a guard reviewer, and the "people who play Sisters of Battle are into feet" guy. The latter of which I don't like as he's one of those guys who just complains about GW and won't move on, and takes reddit r/thathappened tier stories as gospel.

just look at the Legion of the Damned and Living Saints.

What ever happened to Legion of the Damned? I remember them being a huge deal with community submitted ideas and transfers, but then I never really heard of them after my first break from the hobby.

I really don't think GW gives that much a fuck about that Twitter/Reddit/Blusky think about Steel Legion

I used to think that. GW never gave a fuck about their fans and always did their own thing. Then things like fem-stodes and those cringe kids books came out.

the running joke even being how people confuse Krieg and Steel Legion.

Then just keep it as steel legion, but make it an alternate paint scheme for Krieg?

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

I thought that was the case. Except the killing blow was they ran out of ships people cared about the sequel trilogy was shit. It, as a range, was outselling GW at one point. But-

claiming GW is currently on a decline somehow(the opposite really), and just so much other utter nonsense.

I get sick of this too. Ranted previously, but it's stupid how every sci-fi game is hyped as the 40k killer and it really isn't. Trench Crusade being ur example, but there's others like the Gunpla game. I even remember seeing thumbnails about John Blanch releasing a 40k killer, then heard nothing. I think it turned out to be a paint set?

Let's be honest. Bolt Action is the current closest 40k killer. It's a game that people actually play and collect, in part because it doesn't try to be 40k. I can go to a FLGS and see a whole shelf dedicated to it, which is more than can be said about Battletech, X-Wing, TC, etc.

> See a video of someone doing a read of a 40K short story.
> Click.
> "It's been years since the great rift opened".
> Close the video.

It's amazing that the quality of the writing dipped so bad after 2016

What's the problem here? I assume you mean that anything since 8th is bad?

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

What's the problem here? I assume you mean that anything since 8th is bad?

In general yes, but the best 40K story could happen 2000 years before or after the great rift. Focusing on it usually means it's chained to the event and all its retarded repercussions.

 

[Buckaroo]

What ever happened to Legion of the Damned? I remember them being a huge deal with community submitted ideas and transfers, but then I never really heard of them after my first break from the hobby.

Shuffled into Legends back in 8th and moved to Imperial Agents in 10th (still Legends though).

 

[The tired cat]

I used to think that. GW never gave a fuck about their fans and always did their own thing. Then things like fem-stodes and those cringe kids books came out

Dude, have you even read those "kids books"? Like, sure the covers look ass, but they're dark as fuck. As for the femstodes shit, Im sorry but this boat barely makes sail and antiwokers STILL arent shutting up about it, despite everyone having long forgotten about it.

 

[p1138]

I thought that was the case. Except the killing blow was they ran out of ships people cared about the sequel trilogy was shit. It, as a range, was outselling GW at one point. But-

Kind of. It was going to happen for sure because as a licensed property they can't just make up new shit for the game. But it wasn't the sequel trilogy, it was x-wing 2.0 and telling their entire playerbase to get fucked and have to re-buy all of the cards(that were also overpriced) along with updating the bases(more expense) that killed it so quickly(went from having a tournament scene to being dead in about 2 weeks). It's also why they didn't want to announce the big update for SW Legion as a "2.0" but have still hit a problem trying to convince people to re-buy the same storm and clone troopers for the 4th time in different sculpts. Even if the sequel trilogy wasn't shit, they'd still run out of sculpts eventually anyway. For Marvel Crisis Protocol, at least there's been enough various costumes and shit for characters over the years that they can(assuming Marvel allows it) go into that well for sculpts that are interesting rather than needing Luke or Han in a different shirt.

I get sick of this too. Ranted previously, but it's stupid how every sci-fi game is hyped as the 40k killer and it really isn't. Trench Crusade being ur example, but there's others like the Gunpla game. I even remember seeing thumbnails about John Blanch releasing a 40k killer, then heard nothing. I think it turned out to be a paint set?

Which hilariously got called the "citadel paint killer" and "this shows GW is fucking up" in thumbnails. The reality is it's meaningless since GW never produced sets like that before and has no reason to going forward.

Let's be honest. Bolt Action is the current closest 40k killer. It's a game that people actually play and collect, in part because it doesn't try to be 40k. I can go to a FLGS and see a whole shelf dedicated to it, which is more than can be said about Battletech, X-Wing, TC, etc.

I see more people playing battletech at stores in my area than Bolt Action. They're probably on par with eachother and it's going to depend on region. TC doesn't have retail product, x-wing is dead(isn't even being supported by the company anymore). Battletech still has people playing it in spite of what CGL seems to be trying to do to it.

those cringe kids books came out.

Dude, GW has marketed to kids since the 80s. Also a pile of kids running in terror from a necron warrior isn't exactly noble bright happy rainbows. From a purely business standpoint, no politics from either side, GW is a business with a customer base. That customer base over time is basically a leaky bucket. Customers will either die, age out of it, get bored over time, etc. and leave. If you as a business do nothing to add new customers to that group, you're fucked. This business has been around so long that it has a couple generations of customers now that are parents and some even grandparents that are still interested and may want to get their kids/grandkids into it. Why should GW not provide a product for them? And again, GW has marketed it's products to children since the 80's(you can see kids pictured if White Dwarf articles about playing into the early 2000s).

Then just keep it as steel legion, but make it an alternate paint scheme for Krieg?

Because the majority of the fanbase just doesn't give a shit. No one cares about Arch's 20 hours of video covering Vraks and the Badab war. In the podcast that I mentioned listening to the other day one of the people on it(with a ridiculous Italian accent) was crying that he spent hours doing "research" about the badab war to make an hour plus long video but someone else's 15 minute video gets more views. That's probably because no one wants to listen to the ridiculous accent, and partly because no one wants to listen to someone regurgitate 20-30 year old lore for an hour. People were buying DKOK forgeworld armies, people weren't buying Steel Legion even though GW kept it available for years, and even did a made to order run of them a couple years ago. If shit doesn't sell, you stop selling it.

If you want to guess. It was a guard reviewer, and the "people who play Sisters of Battle are into feet" guy. The latter of which I don't like as he's one of those guys who just complains about GW and won't move on, and takes reddit r/thathappened tier stories as gospel.

No idea who that would refer to. But it's funny you mention one of them talking about people being into feet, because Arch had some retard chick on the show who kept talking about feet, he'd repeatedly mention feet, and so on.

What the fuck is with supposed 40k fans and feet?

 

[Inquisitor_BadAss]

That's something GW has always been teasing but never fully committing to, just look at the Legion of the Damned and Living Saints.

If there's a set of marines that need rules again it's legion of the damned.

 

[daniel day]

Does anyone that says "the grimdark is going away" have any serious examples? Frankly, I dont think they actually read the novels if they really believe that. Ive been trying to keep up with new black library releases, and I can say pretty confidently that GW writers have stayed overall consistent compared to the books Im reading trying to catch up to modern 40k. Whether the writers are good is another matter.

On a better note: does anyone have any good STL files/know where to find STL files for model rips? I know there was that one guy that got nuked off patreon by GW's lawyers, but I cant find anything by him or anyone else doing it.

 

[Muad'Dick]

I get sick of this too. Ranted previously, but it's stupid how every sci-fi game is hyped as the 40k killer and it really isn't. Trench Crusade being ur example, but there's others like the Gunpla game. I even remember seeing thumbnails about John Blanch releasing a 40k killer, then heard nothing. I think it turned out to be a paint set?

There isn't going to be a 40K killer. Not at this stage. You've got 30+ years of fluff (as retconned as it is) to compete with and, even if the advent of digital sculpting has given us asset flips sat on rocks, a fairly unique aesthetic. The rules to the game don't matter. 9th and 10th have proven that. 40k has more than its fair share of secondaries that have never even rolled a dice who will keep the IP afloat for decades to come.

The time for the 40K killer has been and gone. That was back in the 90s. What are the options? X-Wing? A fuck you to the fans that GW would be proud of. Star Wars: Legion? Cards and tokens: The Game. Star Wars as a direct competitor to 40K is dead in the water anyway, even if you forget that Star Wars as a franchise hasn't been any good since 1980. Marvel? Completely played out to all but the most ardent neckbeard. You're not going to get people that pretend to buy the comics to invest in a tabletop game. Gunpla? A massively wasted opportunity by not basing it on the model kits themselves. We all know about Trench Crusade, so theres no need to beat that drum again. Whats left? Bolt Action? Potentially, but the idea that somebody, somewhere might unironically like playing one of the Axis forces is enough for some people to shit the bed. There are plenty of smaller games out there that (mechanically at least) shit all over 40K, but they're never going to beat it because they either don't have mass appeal or lack the financial backing to break out of their niche.

Whatever we've got; we're stuck with it. Customer churn is going to force GW's hand into making increasingly more retarded decisions to feed the beast, and people will still lap it because (for the foreseeable future at least) its the only game in town. Thats your grimdark future. Just pray your chosen faction doesn't get a range refresh.

 

[Judge Dredd]

What the fuck is with supposed 40k fans and feet?

With that guy (northan exile) it was a throw away joke that became a bit of a meme with his followers. He was doing a break down of who plays what faction (orcs players are based dads, guard players are history buffs, etc.) and he made an off hand joke how people play sisters because they want to dommed by kinky nuns with guns and are probably into feet. But it kept getting brought up in other videos. In his defense, it was very much a "I didn't do it" boy moment. It's also funny to see sisters players get defensive in the comments.

And for completeness, the podcast that got me asking about Steel Legion was Northan Exile and Mordian Glory with the topic of "GW is burned out on 40k". It's 2 hours, and I only listened to 20-30 mins.

And to be clear, I don't like Northen Exile. Nothing against the guy personally, but like inner circle and arch, there's only so much whining about GW you can do before you should just move the fuck on. Also many of his "hobby nightmare" videos sound fake to me.

Dude, have you even read those "kids books"?

No. But the fact they so much as had the cover at all instead of going "lol no get fucked" like 90s-00s GW would have is a surprise and a bad sign.

Fuck, they kept saying no to female guard even though the lore was full of em. We now have third party kits and 3D printing. But again, the attitude of GW for years was to piss in the eyes of the fans and expect them to ask for seconds.

I see more people playing battletech at stores in my area than Bolt Action.

Ah. I'm a Britbong, so BT has barely any footprint here outside of the PC games.

This business has been around so long that it has a couple generations of customers now that are parents and some even grandparents that are still interested and may want to get their kids/grandkids into it. Why should GW not provide a product for them?

Agreed. It's like @HawHawHeeHee said, or at least implied. GW, despite it's fuck ups, is far from dead. It's not impossible. Look at how Marvel, Dungeons and Dragons, and Disney (Star Wars included) have gone from too-big-to-fail to being unsellable trash no one will touch with a 10 foot pole.

Might have said this before, but fuck it. There's a saying I forget, but it's something like "If coach is yelling at you, it's because he cares. It's when coach doesn't yell at you you should be concerned, because it means he's given up on you." People complain about GW so much because they care. Nobody really complains about DnD any more because it's over. You don't see RLM doing Mr Plinket reviews of new Star Wars because it's a dead franchise to them.

 

[GoodWinSon]

Now I'm saying this as someone who is relatively new to wh40k (only started army building 2 years ago), but it seems GW is trying to simplify the lore so it seems more approachable for new customers. I bet stripping out subfactions is part of this.

 

[p1138]

With that guy (northan exile) it was a throw away joke that became a bit of a meme with his followers. He was doing a break down of who plays what faction (orcs players are based dads, guard players are history buffs, etc.) and he made an off hand joke how people play sisters because they want to dommed by kinky nuns with guns and are probably into feet. But it kept getting brought up in other videos. In his defense, it was very much a "I didn't do it" boy moment. It's also funny to see sisters players get defensive in the comments.

And for completeness, the podcast that got me asking about Steel Legion was Northan Exile and Mordian Glory with the topic of "GW is burned out on 40k". It's 2 hours, and I only listened to 20-30 mins.

And to be clear, I don't like Northen Exile. Nothing against the guy personally, but like inner circle and arch, there's only so much whining about GW you can do before you should just move the fuck on. Also many of his "hobby nightmare" videos sound fake to me.

Ah that explains it. Yeah, I don't normally listen to Arch either(he's a fucking idiot) and Northern Exile isn't dumb but his shit is a bunch of creative writing prompts that wouldn't have happened in a damned 1970s sitcom I'll even come up with an example of every Northern Exile story

"so as my opponent was cheating but I was still ahead 75-15 at the bottom of round 4, the space wolf player named Dave who had been jerking off in the corner finally blew his load while fondling the store's Logan Grimnar model, at which point the GW store manager slipped in the furry spunk now on the floor, did a cartwheel and landed on the gaming table next to me, sip some tea, accidentally kicking a warhound titan in the process which managed to fly across the store and hit my evil ex girlfriend in the head who had an abortion because I refused to name our child anything but Rogal Dorn, while the local Trump supporter stood in the doorway of the store menacingly watching the entire thing as we looked on in terror because we didn't know if the right wing guy cosplaying as donald trump might have a gun, at which point the regional GW trainer showed up and gave the store manager a good bollocking and explained this is why games aren't allowed in the store anymore"

Outer Circle is a fuckwit who on his own channel explained how he hadn't played 40k since 2014 because a TO at a local tournament pissed him off so it wasn't even GW's fault. At least he seems to have stuck to 30k on his channel for the past year or so, that he presumably actually plays instead of complaining about the number of rivets on 40k model reveals(I think it was when beast snaggas got shown off he complained about rivets).

Mordian Glory does play, but his channel has also devolved into regularly bitching about GW. However the idea that GW is burned out on 40k when the company is flush with cash having 40k as their main product line, and setting records damn near every year for most of the past decade, is a fucking joke. At least he's tried moving on in his content adding Bolt Action to the mix rather than just becoming yet another GW salt channel(I also saw his video calling out majorkill's steroid shilling, so that's also a plus). I'll see if I can give a bit of this episode of theirs a listen because I'm morbidly curious what they have to say beyond sperging about steel legion.

 

[AncientPhosphur]

Mordian Glory does play, but his channel has also devolved into regularly bitching about GW

To be fair this is the way everyone plays 40k

 

[p1138]

To be fair this is the way everyone plays 40k

I bitch about the things GW has done that are worth complaining about.

As far as this podcast with Northern Exile and Mordian Glory. I've got to tap out. 14 minutes in and I'm done. Mordian Glory says he's paid zero attention to any lore from GW since the launch of 8th and only just very recently looked at the primaris wiki page. Now he admits he's not a lore guy, but someone's opinion about the lore who hasn't looked at the lore in 8 years is irrelevant.

North is claiming that the grimdark is going away but can't specify anything(like usual) and then proclaims that female space marines will be included in 11th.

These guys are just complaining that shit isn't the way it was in 3rd-5th but can't articulate what the problem is other than "it's different" and that doesn't need an hour and forty seven minute podcast.

 

[Muad'Dick]

People complain about GW so much because they care.

Bingo. But when you make a career out of it while not even playing the game you can get in the pit. I'm against shoehorning niggers and women into things as much as the next man, but most of the stuff these clowns complain about are nothingburgers or they are just shouting into the void.

For example, whether you like it or not, you will live to see female space marines. Its going to happen and no amount of hashtags or clickbait is going to stop it. The germ of the idea is already there with the Stormcast. Female space marines won't make a dent in things. People will say they'll boycott, but they won't, they're too addicted, and even if they do they'll still feed into the IP by bitching about it on social media, giving GW free advertising. When they do arrive, you don't have to play them. Not unless they create an explicitly female unit with its own stat line (which will be the meta for a week or so to help get boxes off shelves), and even if they do; thats what kitbashing is for. If troons can clear out my inventory of female heads for their affronts before God, people wanting to RETVRN can just consult their bits box.

The thing that pisses me off about the prospect of female space marines isn't that they're contrived, its that you've already got two exclusively female factions. One of which is neglected more than a nigger at Christmas; The Sisters of Silence. Just read Inferno (ignore the tourists in the artwork) and look at their lore, gear and unit choices. You have got a faction there which is more lore consistent than Custodes in the 40K setting and would make Imperial Agents worth playing again (yes, bring back the soup).

 

[Spilled Spaghett]

I bitch about the things GW has done that are worth complaining about.

That's really the crux of the argument isn't it? Everyone has a different opinion about what's worth complaining about. If you don't play you couldn't care less how shit the rules are. If you're a lore nerd having an accurate number of rivets on a model probably does matter to you. There are spergs who argue about the authenticity of their historical war game models. If you're just an artist then yeah I can see why the details of a model would be important.

As an aside, why are we pretending like female space marines haven't happened yet when we already have femstodes? Custodes are just beefed up space marines but they are space marines. This is like pretending that primaris marines are totally unique because they aren't first born marines. It feels like people keep talking about it's coming rather than that shit already happened months ago. If you're really invested in the argument having female custodes is far worse because of course the women has to be the absolute best of the best because men are dumb and stinky. Really feels like showing up to the battle after the city's already been bombed.

 

[p1138]

That's really the crux of the argument isn't it? Everyone has a different opinion about what's worth complaining about. If you don't play you couldn't care less how shit the rules are. If you're a lore nerd having an accurate number of rivets on a model probably does matter to you. There are spergs who argue about the authenticity of their historical war game models. If you're just an artist then yeah I can see why the details of a model would be important.

If you don't play, don't read the books/lore, don't play the video games, and don't paint... then what are you doing? Yet these channels persist.

As far as the rivets, on what was a brand new model at the time there was no "accurate number" of rivets to have. It was bitching for the sake of bitching. it wasn't about the number of buttons on the jacket of a historical mini or something.

And no, custodes are not space marines and never were. People quit talking about the femstodes crap because no one cares about it and it had zero impact on the faction being played, getting to the point of more of the right wing grifters complaining about it months later than the amount of cheering the trannies did(who eventually went back to ignoring it).