Warhammer 40k

[Jan_Hus]

https://www.warhammer-community.com...f-sigmar-with-teri-litorcogw-homepage-post-4/

An article in which a little girl is goaded into playing Age of Sigmar by her prodding mother, and remarks that the dull dangerhair on the cover of the new rulebook reminds her of herself. Motherly validation ensues. God knows that's why I started an army of plague monks, because I am a rat man with massive shoulder tumors. The unintended consequences of choosing an army because they look like you is that you are essentially playing mock battles to cleanse the world of people who do not look like you.

Yeah and I picked Nurgle because I'm made of fetid meat, happiness and a desire to spread the plague.

Also there are *female space marines.* They're the Adeptus Soritas,

or hell, get creative! you could make a Slaanesh aligned chaos warband... where the the malign influence of the warp twisted an Emperor's Children legionary into a half twisted mockery of the female form.

 

[SuperSheep]

I'm not particularly opposed to female Space Marines, only needing an appropriate lore reason for them to exist (like, the Emperor had ideas he was playing around with and even making progress with, but had to sideline them in favour of more pressing needs, like conquering the galaxy, and administrating the galaxy, and setting up the Human Webway Project, and making sure Magnus' fuckup doesn't swallow 20 trillion+ souls, and being a barely-living corpse entity doing the previous). I wouldn't give them any sort of special characteristics, though, they're the same 8+ foot tall warriors in body and face-concealing armor.

Because lets face it, you couldn't tell if a Space Marine in full armour was a man, a woman, or a literal smurf in a pixie-scaled Titan.

 

[Zaryiu]

Which Warhammer Fantasy and 40k are good and which ones should i avoid? I found a huge torrent so i'm not too besides the novel about the Tanith First and Only, Eisenhorn, Ravenor and Ciaphas Cain are worth kepping and anything by Goto is to get rid of

 

[Burned Man]

Which Warhammer Fantasy and 40k are good and which ones should i avoid? I found a huge torrent so i'm not too besides the novel about the Tanith First and Only, Eisenhorn, Ravenor and Ciaphas Cain are worth kepping and anything by Goto is to get rid of

The Macharius trilogy for 40k was pretty good. Its about the greatest crusade since the Emperor's and the man who led it told from the perspective of a tank driver and his crew that get involved beyond their pay grade. Outside of Imperial Guard stuff I haven't read too much in 40k.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2018/07/40k-taboo-im-calling-it-female-primaris.html

What's great about this shameless clickbait is the comment section. It's full of SocJus acolytes who clearly do not play the game but Bat signal'd in because a men-only group should never exist, even in a fictional universe.

Bell of Lost Souls has been like this since at least last year when they started writing articles attacking the player base, the lore and the game itself.

People have been dropping the site like mad since January so it's only the matter of time before the site is dead.

Article in question is written by a gay man who's afraid of the gays apparently.
https://www.instagram.com/doriandawes/?hl=en
Considers himself a "Twink"
Link to the article itself.
https://web.archive.org/web/2018073...es/lets-talk-about-warhammer-40k-830b27686a6e

 

[Picnic_Boy]

Bell of Lost Souls has been like this since at least last year when they started writing articles attacking the player base, the lore and the game itself.

People have been dropping the site like mad since January so it's only the matter of time before the site is dead.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=IBKfng1JcIo
Article in question is written by a gay man who's afraid of the gays apparently.
https://www.instagram.com/doriandawes/?hl=en
Considers himself a "Twink"
Link to the article itself.
https://web.archive.org/web/2018073...es/lets-talk-about-warhammer-40k-830b27686a6e

Three quick points:

1) If the author doesn't understand the affectionate parody at the heart of the God Emperor Trump meme, perhaps remarking on the deeper satirical aspects of 40k isn't for him.

2) The awfulness of the Imperium is rarely glossed over. The author clearly has rather limited knowledge of the setting or he'd know that the bible of the setting, the core rulebook itself, begins with a hard-to-miss forward that describes the Imperium as "the cruellest and most bloody regime imaginable." I can see how he'd miss that though, since his expert opinion is obviously limited to Dawn of War and half-hearted wiki observation.

3) He clearly hates the core concepts behind 40k. His opinion of what could be done to turn the setting into a safe space are thus invalid. Basically, because he thinks space churches are pretty and Orks are sillyfun, he should have free reign to ruin the game for the established player base. Sounds pretty dictatorial to me, perhaps the author has more in common with the Imperium than he would care to admit.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

@Ted_Breakfast I rarely see any Leftist nut job actually write any of these sorts of articles that actually knows what they're talking about. I checked the games this person has played online and they don't seem to touch any Dawn of War games.

At least they're a gamer. Can't say that about other writers who make these articles.
https://steamcommunity.com/id/rodrigoslullabies/

 

[Emperor Julian]

Dorian Dawes twitter buds are largely people who have pages here. Which says a lot I think.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

Dorian Dawes twitter buds are largely people who have pages here. Which says a lot I think.

Even follows some trans tabletop devs who could probably use a thread. (Probably a community watch thread for tabletop games)

 

[Picnic_Boy]

He also describes himself as a "gender-disaster," which I think is a synonym for, "mooooo."

 

[Da Biggest WAAAGH!]

Hey there, I’m thinking of picking up the starter set for kill team and the box sets for Orks and Tyranids, does anyone know any good paints for those factions?

 

[That Chris Guy]

I'm not particularly opposed to female Space Marines, only needing an appropriate lore reason for them to exist (like, the Emperor had ideas he was playing around with and even making progress with, but had to sideline them in favour of more pressing needs, like conquering the galaxy, and administrating the galaxy, and setting up the Human Webway Project, and making sure Magnus' fuckup doesn't swallow 20 trillion+ souls, and being a barely-living corpse entity doing the previous). I wouldn't give them any sort of special characteristics, though, they're the same 8+ foot tall warriors in body and face-concealing armor.

Because lets face it, you couldn't tell if a Space Marine in full armour was a man, a woman, or a literal smurf in a pixie-scaled Titan.

I am, because they already exist: They're Sisters of Battle/Adeptus Sororitas. Saying that there needs to be female Spess Muhreens completely ignores the women-only group that's already around, and gives nothing but imminent lore fuckups. There's no use in giving ground to the ignorant who don't actually play the game anyway - next they'll be telling you how misogynist it is that Orks have male-only traits.

 

[SuperSheep]

I am, because they already exist: They're Sisters of Battle/Adeptus Sororitas. Saying that there needs to be female Spess Muhreens completely ignores the women-only group that's already around, and gives nothing but imminent lore fuckups.

As compensation, we can start putting male figurines into the Adeptus Sororitas. The lore limitation on female Space Marines is biological, while the limitation of male Adeptus Sororitas are political. Granted, the difficulties in overcoming the politics of the Imperium is so vast that it may very well be easier to overcome something that stumped the Emperor when he was focusing on it than it is to make a policy change.

 

[That Chris Guy]

As compensation, we can start putting male figurines into the Adeptus Sororitas. The lore limitation on female Space Marines is biological, while the limitation of male Adeptus Sororitas are political. Granted, the difficulties in overcoming the politics of the Imperium is so vast that it may very well be easier to overcome something that stumped the Emperor when he was focusing on it than it is to make a policy change.

I think a better solution would simply be to make Robust Girlyman have the Sisters undertake the Adeptus Astartes program through creating a sister Primarch, although that would undermine the original intention that they are independent of genetic enhancements and draw power from their faith and devotion, and would still make no sense in that this kind of technology is in a Dark Ages-esque situation where they can only repeat the old procedures of gene-seed technology they used to do yet never innovate, understand or improve. It's still a better solution than the alternative.

Why? Because the Imperium isn't an all-inclusive, diversity-harbouring, cuddly, accepting, gender-fluid organisation. It's a hateful, rigid, highly xenophobic, corrupt yet self-policing superpower that doesn't have everything going for it, and that's partially represented through their strict dogmatism and predisposition to witch-hunting/burning.

 

[Picnic_Boy]

Hey there, I’m thinking of picking up the starter set for kill team and the box sets for Orks and Tyranids, does anyone know any good paints for those factions?

Depends on which brand of paint you're using. Every reputable brand has an equivalent of Goblin Green, which is something you'll need for your Orks. As for Tyranids, it depends on what Hive Fleet you're taking. You might want to make your own fleet, so you won't feel pigeonholed by a single Hive Fleet adaption.

 

[MidUSA]

Hey there, I’m thinking of picking up the starter set for kill team and the box sets for Orks and Tyranids, does anyone know any good paints for those factions?

I'm rather fond of the Armypainter brand. Dropper bottles are the "pc-master race" of model painting, and they're decently cheap.

You might need to initially shake some of them like a madman though. They like to separate a bit on the way from the factory.

 

[That Chris Guy]

Hey there, I’m thinking of picking up the starter set for kill team and the box sets for Orks and Tyranids, does anyone know any good paints for those factions?

Aren't Orks supposed to be getting revamped in the next few months?

 

[Da Biggest WAAAGH!]

Aren't Orks supposed to be getting revamped in the next few months?

I think their codex is next to be released, but I’m not looking to build a whole army just yet. My idea is to buy some Kill Team stuff and work my way up from there.

 

[I-chi]

Which Warhammer Fantasy and 40k are good and which ones should i avoid? I found a huge torrent so i'm not too besides the novel about the Tanith First and Only, Eisenhorn, Ravenor and Ciaphas Cain are worth kepping and anything by Goto is to get rid of

Probably superbly late on this, but since you mentioned some of the most beloved 40k novels; toss the Heresy in there. Really anything written by Old Man Abnett and Graham McNeil you literally can't go wrong with. Avoid Goto like the plague, yes. Really that's all just confirming what you know.

As for FANTASY, I'm sort of just starting with it myself but I can wholeheartedly recommend a good starting point is Gortek and Felix. It really has that 80's fantasy sword and sorcery vibe in a good way without needing to do anything to change or fuck with the setting of WH Fantasy to make it work. There's a lot of novels to go through in that one and you can get the E Books or PDFs fairly cheap. This of course leads into my second recommendation: Skaven centric novels. That comes partly from bias, but Headtaker and the Thanquol & Boneripper series are some of the most fun I've had in rooting for a set of villain protagonists; just in the way the books manage to be entirely self aware of HOW horrible and reprehensible these creatures are.

 

[Picnic_Boy]

Probably superbly late on this, but since you mentioned some of the most beloved 40k novels; toss the Heresy in there. Really anything written by Old Man Abnett and Graham McNeil you literally can't go wrong with. Avoid Goto like the plague, yes. Really that's all just confirming what you know.

As for FANTASY, I'm sort of just starting with it myself but I can wholeheartedly recommend a good starting point is Gortek and Felix. It really has that 80's fantasy sword and sorcery vibe in a good way without needing to do anything to change or fuck with the setting of WH Fantasy to make it work. There's a lot of novels to go through in that one and you can get the E Books or PDFs fairly cheap. This of course leads into my second recommendation: Skaven centric novels. That comes partly from bias, but Headtaker and the Thanquol & Boneripper series are some of the most fun I've had in rooting for a set of villain protagonists; just in the way the books manage to be entirely self aware of HOW horrible and reprehensible these creatures are.

Yeah, what's great about Thanquol is that he is one of the most potent wizards in Warhammer. When it comes to using magic for purely destructive purposes, he might be unmatched.

But then on the next page he's squirting the musk of fear.