No, but ADB is the one who gave the excuse about the timing of the writing of the ultimate guide book. GW hasn't been open about who is actually writing what in the codexes for years now.
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ADB is also the guy who openly talked about wanting to do FemStodes years ago, on facebook, but the big bad mean GW corporate refused to let him. It was blatantly a personal army/brigade attempt, he wanted the Sigmarxism types to harass GW until they let him do it. It wouldn't surprise me at all to find out that he was desperately trying to smooth things out so his Dommy Mommy Muscle girl fetish porn gets made permanently canon.
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Maybe it's a style thing? Heroic scale does involve big hands and heads, though this hasn't been a problem for third party modellers.
This is what baffles me about primarchs. Each one should be an 8000 point model. But instead, they're just guys.
Also, hyper elite armies are a flawed concept. It's why I never really liked the idea of Knights from a gameplay standpoint. It just doesn't sound like a fun game where you kill 1 or 2 models the whole game, and where victory comes down to "did you bring lots of anti-tank weapons?". Even space marine first companies had this problem in third, but at least I heard stories of it being a different experience from normal 40k, and the SM player feeling each loss was a major blow to their combat effectiveness.
I got some advice recently to do this for death guard. HH has a lot of alternate colour schemes for legion chapters/companies to steal from.
My favourite 40k youtuber has a video on this exact topic I highly recommend (his video on Ultramarines is fantastic too).
(Edit: If anyone cares, I was asking for Kill Team. I wanted to paint the marines as Raptors, but since the box is SM vs Death Guard. Green v green might get confusing. I was told to paint them in their HH era bone colours.)
Krieg being the darling is the problem. Krieg is new-hammer, and is mostly know via memes. Steel legion is old-hammer and has "problematic elements".
It's not about the lore. It's that they wear THE nazi uniform, and their icon is a lightning bolt in a circle (supposedly this is close to some nazi symbol.)
Yes. I honestly find their weird yellow uniforms unappealing. Maybe if they were dressed in hazmat gear it could work.
But I prefer the guy on the right. (And yes, these are third party kits. Thinking of picking some up and painting them in cadian or starship troopers colours),
One of the popular guard third party options (even Auspex Tactics has recommended it) is using Wargames Atlantic great war germans as krieg. You don't even have to swap the guns (though I would).
An example of someone kitbashing the great war french kit to the same effect.
I say this because you could cut out the middle man and jump straight to World War 2 Germans. Maybe sci-fi some of their guns a bit.
I'm getting into the weeds, but my point is the Steel Legion was fine imo. Even if they use Krieg models with a new colour scheme to avoid redundancy. Retconning out of their moment in lore seems a bit shitty, and needless. GW could make new plastic, but even if they don't. It's an easy fix. Just say that Steel Legion is struggling and Krieg are brought in to re-enforce. Done. But GW doesn't make official plastic for them, and third party kits do exist, and GW doesn't want them getting money.
I've got a feeling we won't see Pretorians for a while either. Unless a wave of patriotism hit the UK. Similar reasons as Steel Legion. GW doesn't (and never did) make kits for them. They are considered "problematic" because they're colonial era British, and third parties already make great proxies. Be it sci-fi kits or historical kits that are painless to convert.
Didn't this happen with Battletech? All the drama over getting a popular writer fired, getting trans lore into Battletech, etc. And it turned out to be the work of one angry nut?
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Just finished a Space Marine 2 music video.
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Yes. Someone who was faking being a tranny specifically because it made it impossible to criticize him. He was so bad the writer (Blaine Pardoe) had to get a restraining order against the guy. Then it was found out that this fake troon troll was doing it all while also being a CGL employee/freelancer and was spearheading the push to fag up Battletech.
CGL has since just doubled and tripled down, for example turning their demo scene discord (the discord dedicated to people running demo games at FLGSes to get people into Battletech) into a doxing and harassment discord with IIRC the same troll posting about how he goes to conventions armed now despite that being against convention rules, just in case he needs to murder a conservative battletech fan. This was a semi-official CGL discord and a HUGE number of their staff was in there and said nothing or joined in on the doxing of various "chud" youtubers.
Here's a quick video rundown of it:
And some more in depth rundowns and interviews with the guy over it:
Meanwhile he went on to make his own Battletech, with submarines and hookers.
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Oh, and in other news, and a bit off topic but while he was mentioned... that Pardoe guy is working with a comic book writer who worked on the Punisher to make, well, "Death Wish 2025: SJW delenda est."
Just in case you're wondering why the wokies stalked him so hard he had to get a restraining order against them.
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Oh so that's why Pandaemonium isn't out yet, the King in Yellow has to be rewritten to be the Queen in Yellow so Serena Williams can play Constantina Valdor on Amazon Prime.
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He looks like a pretend Tim Pool. So safe yet so edgy, wow!
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I think the EC look of pink vs purple is just one thing. But if im going to drop 350 AUD on some EC, the crack addict look (which is accurate i suppose) is a little off-putting. Maybe the answer is get regular CSM or Space Marines and paint them purple and gold (3d printing pauldrons)?
If im debating it this much, the answer is probably no. But I'd love to see some of your paint jobs to maybe sway me back.
If im debating it this much, the answer is probably no. But I'd love to see some of your paint jobs to maybe sway me back.
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I play 40k less and less by the month now, but it still gives me great pleasure watching a Custodes player begin seething when his faultless team of gold bananas fail to delete the whole table by the end of turn 1. Sometimes the dice roll for the little guy.
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A good while ago I had seen some art of a Noise Marine, It had Pinkish/Maroon/Razzmatazz armor with like a black leather trenchcoat and was smoking a joint with bright turquoise fire, with a similarly bright turquoise mohawk. When EC get their individual release I might aim to get a box of noise marines or a lord exultant or something and that would be the color scheme I would want to do
Wish I could find that picture
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Resident Third Legion appreciator, expert and apologist.
The have a lot of schemes, I’ll share some of mine when I’m done work. So you can see what I did.
No consistency, the purples are blending and washed in a way that it looks like each guy is mixing his own paint and that the purple has soaked into every recess of the armor.
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i feel that EC armies shouldnt have a uniform colour scheme, they have always been described in lore as daubing their armour in an eclectic collection of hues and shades.
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Here’s what I’m talking about. Obviously the same force but upon closer inspection each guy is his own thing, the Raptor has crudely modified and painted over his designation, Lucius is being himself, the Dreadnought (FUCKING LOL HAHA GW) still has his honor markings but neat things are happening and the Chaos Lord has ditched the legion colours entirely.
Their pinks and purples are all different too, caused by an inconsistent and erratic drybrush of white or grey underneath all that, done over that black primer, making those layers and their shadows pop more. Soaking a watered-down pink into the recesses of purple is also a favorite technique, which I used on Lucius’s elaborate decals. Then I do a purple wash and like the chemicals in that one Eidolon short, it hits all those different pinks and purples differently and yields highly individualized, yet still “uniform” EC
Here’s my two Lucius models. Finally completed the 40k-era one.
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As much as Razor is...well, Razor, he has the best rundown of it. Mage Leader is great too.
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Unironically have a friend who all he does is paint and assemble and talk about how he's prepping to play games but very rarely does. Him and a buddy played Custodes v Ad Mech on tabletop sim. Turn 1 he got to his charge phase, failed every charge roll and quit. Mind you this was insanely bad luck, like rolling nearly nothing but 1s on 4 different charges. But rather than say "I'm Custodes I'll kill you all next turn when I can walk up to you" he refused to continue. I even suggested that, for the sake of letting the game continue we let one or two charges succeed anyways which Ad Mech was perfectly ok with. He wasn't interested and quit anyways. This is someone who plays Guard and is normally bitching about how he hates hitting on 4s despite rolling a shit ton of dice. He gets the elite army who nearly always succeeds but also can't accept how swingy they are.
Knights I think are a failed concept because of how awkwardly they interact with the rest of the game. I only played one game as knights and I hated it. Despite paying a premium their guns are no better than what you get on a few cheap tanks. Their armor is weaker than other vehicles. A base Sv 3+ and 5+ Invuln is pathetic. The high wound count is meant to offset it, but when your opponent's army has nothing else to shoot it does fuck all for you.
Something like Custodes, or even a lesser extent Space Marines, do work because they don't require special rules to make it on the table. Elite armies always have a trade off of losing maneuverability for consistency. Even if your Elite units are really fast, if you are limited in how many you bring you can't be everywhere at once. While 2+ on everything is the most consistent, it still means when something goes wrong it goes catastrophically wrong. A failed charge on some chaff is not a big deal. A failed charge on a 200pt unit means you probably don't have a back up plan. Being out of position is even more punishing. Every failed save and every miss hurts a bit more. They can be balanced, but the reason people don't like them is because people like a death match. I know points win games, it's a strategy game, but at the end of the day what people actually care about is killing models. Armies like custodes mean only one person is really allowed to kill models. To win the other player is expected to out maneuver, and out score them. This is easy enough to balance by point costing units properly so that both armies have a similar damage output/survivability, but people don't want that. They want to sweep models off the board. That's why game have gotten bigger over time.
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All trannies are faking it.
ADB is the one person on the whole planet that desperately wanted his dad to molest him.
He's just about the worst thing that has happened to 40k by a large margin, though at least there's someone at GW that hates his guts and keeps sabotaging everything he sets in motion.
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Can someone explain the deal with the ADB chap and why everyone acts like he shotgunned their family?
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Here's his 1d6chan page. Goes over his legitimately strong start as a writer, then the issues he started putting into the setting.
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He's to 40k what the jeet is to Castlevania and DMC.
He's a woke bugman that, stereotypically, identifies with demons and bugs more than humans, projects hangups he has about his father onto Imperial authority figures (usually the God Emperor), likely is the bottom getting pegged in every relationship he's ever had and basically necessitates years of rewrites, retcons and backpeddaling by GW for every retarded decision he makes.
It's a genuine crime that GW would promote this subhuman as Head of Narrative.
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Okay, next time try explaining without sounding like a 4chan retard. Though, reading that 1d6chan posts, the guy really has huge hang ups on Big E.