Yeah, but the entire premise of the franchise is also "shit happens for some incredibly frivolous reasons, here's an army of muderhobos." It's not really that far from the direction that the "Templars vs Furries" series is going.
Well, they were always gaudy; but they kind of fitted in with the "everyone gets an elite group of bodyguards" bit. Except that, you know, the very fact that they exist kind of proves that the God-Emperor of Mankind isn't perfect on several fronts.
But do they need an entire army? The same problem with shit like World Eaters. Do they need an entire army? Now I can't build a list that has havocs, regular CSM and other crap while playing World Eaters.
Personally, I blame shit like this on "the game has to be balanced!" Beside, the World Eaters never really struck me as the type to be constantly lugging around an set of heavy guns
No, WE doesn't need an entire army. They should have just been a detachment that happens to allow WE specific units. Same goes with DG and TS.
Yet the loyalist snowflake chapters get to take whatever they want from the vanilla loyalist book. Honestly if anything, having to make every single thing it's own army fucks up balance more than anything due to making it next to impossible to ever do any reasonable amount of testing purely because of the number of iterations required.
Custodes were never meant to be his bodyguard long term. They were what the Emperor was going to replace normal humanity with once the Human Webway Project was finished. They were never meant to be soldiers, they could fight of course, but they were also scientists, philosophers, leaders, craftsmen...
No, though both belong to the inquisition, just different parts of it. You can easily justify the two groups meeting once a xenos threat becomes a chaos one.
Because they're a slightly different flavor of super space marines.
They need to purge all of the old stuff, they already have a "counts as" and ditch 90% of the characters for 40k. 30k, they make sense. But for 40? it's unnecessary. Don't forget, marines got a pruning in 10th(with people complaining about it as if it wasn't going to happen), of course it wasn't drastic enough. In theory, having everything in a squad with the same loadout can speed things up. If all 10 models have the same gun, you can usually just speed roll the entire batch in one go. Look at the plaguemarines datasheet from 9th... holy shit 17 weapon entries(and plasma still needed 2 profiles)? BT crusader squads in 10th have 31? Some things that are really unnecessary for space marines, having 3 land raiders, 3 storm speeders, 2 centurion sheets, 3 sheets for the gladiator, 3 sheets for the primaris dreadnoughts ,that's 9 redundant sheets right there that could have been removed without making a handful of data sheets a mess or being particularly concerned about rolling 5+ different weapons for a single unit at a time repeatedly.
I don't think there's a chance in hell they could pull that off without tons of autistic screeching, more armies being burned by idiots, etc. and that's before weirdos getting idiotic ideas into the mix for new stuff. Of course other companies have done similar with... very poor results. X-wing 2.0 basically dumpstered 90% of the playerbase, privateer press basically threw the entirety of their warmachine game in the trash(to be fair, it was already on its last legs) and is just about out of business now. I'm not sure what it would look like for GW if they finally just cut out the unnecessary shit from over the years. Hell, before they brought squats kind of back(the necromunda ones look way better) you'd see people screeching about squats online who weren't even old enough to have existed by the time squats were initially removed. And WHFB for all of the screeching there when it ended had no one fucking playing it, let alone buying anything when that got nuked.
I just think that they at least should've done it similarly to how they handled SM special detachments at least. I have no idea why Blood Angels and such have an access to rest of the roster, but all the CSM split armies only get a few of shared units. Raptors for WE? Could be cool. Possessed and Eightbound in one army? Sounds mighty. Not to mention that because of these split armies have little to no characters. TS and WE can't take in chaos lords, but DG can for some reason.
Because of their insane amount of Force Weapons and anti-demonic armor.
This was kind of touched upon in Chaos Gate where the bored court-martialed knight was complaining that they're weapons have become so specialized, that they aren't the best choice at killing aliens. But since the only thing that was on that Craftworld was an few corrupted turrets and an contingent of bored Plague Marines...
For the Blood Angels...Just look at what happened with the Devastation of Baal.
The lore kind of wrote this off as them not giving an shit about logistics like their sane brethren did. It's kind of dumb, but then again, it's 40k
Because GW realised they can sell space marines with different gun loadouts and wipe out tacticals, thus tripling profits.
Custodes getting off their ass is relatively new, plus they answer only to Big E and not inquisitors. It's also debatable how much they are chaos resistant, plus I don't think any of them are Psykers.
I like that WE has a codex but it doesn't make sense to me how they decided to arrange it. Why don't I have an option to run a lord without a juggernaut?
They aren't psykers in any capacity beyond maybe their neural net mental communication thing(I can't remember wtf it's called) and is why they rely on sisters of silence to assist with demon suppression. There aren't any that have been corrupted that I'm aware of, but there are some that have been mind controlled by chaos and treated as puppets. The only real questionable incident would be how abaddon wound up with drachnyen since Big E stabbed Ra Endymion with it and told him to run, and at some point eventually abaddon got it in a black crusade but I don't recall it ever being explained what happened between those events(he just found it in a labyrinth?).
Because GW halfassed the WE launch leaving them with less units available than a WE army would have had prior to their release(due to army/detachment rules not applying).
That would honestly makes sense for them to do considering how few models the GK range even has in the first place. 4 characters(1 of which is generic), combo kit of terminators and a combo kit of marines, and the baby carrier? That doesn't need to be its own army either.
The racial segregation among Chaos Space Marines is frankly disgusting and it’s the biggest crime in the 41st millennium. Fucking gross, we need a non-racist Warmaster
That kind of fucks them for tabletop balance. Angron HAS to be good. If he isn't, the army is unplayable.
Sure, same problem with the new squats, they only have half of what their army should be available. Like I said, this micro-sub-faction-army shit just makes any attempt at balancing the game even more ridiculous. They're at least technically in a better place than GK? They at least have a couple daemon engines to pick from, and some mounted and on foot characters. But for the meat and potatoes of the army all you get is terminators, berserkers, some cultists, and "eightbound"(that still make zero fucking sense as a WE unit, if anything they should have been for wordbearers, but whatever).
According to The Emperor's