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Humble Architect said:
Anyone grabbing the CSM stuff tomorrow?

I resisted the Kroot box so I’m gonna grab the Dread Talons box, I’m gonna fix the jump pack lord and Raptors have great Noise Marine parts.
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I’ve been thinking about both. I found my kroot mini codex that you could hand downloaded as a pdf back in the day. I think it was originally in a white dwarf? I forgot how much flavor they had as their own subsection.

I also am considering building up a traitor blood angel force but basing them off of the revenant legion as an inspiration.
 
AncientPhosphur said:
I have my Phobos Kill Team painted up as Alpha Legion since it feels more lore appropriate for them being infiltrators and taller than First Born and I’ve seen Nemesis Claw being done up as Alpha Legion conversions. Not sure what they can do with them special rules wise, instantly converting an opponent team model to being an Alpha Legion operative feels way too OP, maybe once per game flipping a captured enemy objective to Alpha Legion if no enemy is within X range of it but that feels too strong. I’m sure there’ll be a “I’m Alpharius” rule where you can instantly swap operative traits (again also OP).
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People always complain about the Smurf boys but no one ever complains about the alpha legion literally being more powerful than every other space marine legion due to the fact that they just have the ******** ability to exist everywhere and anywhere simultaneously plot armor
 
Humble Architect said:
“Insufficient stock amount” with no que

Fucking british pig-dogs and their shitty fucking website.
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They're laughing all the way to the bank, so they have no incentive to improve services on their website. Their stuff sold out once again, like I said it would. These shortages indicate that business is still good for GW, if they're running out of stuff to sell.
 
LORD IMPERATOR said:
They're laughing all the way to the bank, so they have no incentive to improve services on their website. Their stuff sold out once again, like I said it would. These shortages indicate that business is still good for GW, if they're running out of stuff to sell.
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Nah, you gotta spin this the other way around like a grifter would

"GW FALLING APART CAN'T AFFORD TO MAKE ENOUGH CHAOS MARINES BECAUSE FEMSTODES MINIS ARE BEING MADE!"
 
p1138 said:
Nah, you gotta spin this the other way around like a grifter would

"GW FALLING APART CAN'T AFFORD TO MAKE ENOUGH CHAOS MARINES BECAUSE FEMSTODES MINIS ARE BEING MADE!"
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I just can't stop but laugh at this.

Grifters say, ''GW IS GOING DOWN, BOYCOTT THEM, THEY WILL FALL BEFORE US!'' in their usual manner.

GW calls their bluff, raises prices again, just to show how much they don't care.

CSM armies are sold out, to the point where their website is out of stock.

GW just showed how all these calls for boycotting didn't work. The grifters called for a boycott, and at the same time, GW raises prices on their wares, so you'd think the combination of the two would tank sales, at least with the latter. But no, they're sold out, they're selling faster than they can replenish their stock for fucking plastic space men. Which goes to show that the ''boycott'' that the grifters and lore-fans were calling for just passed through like a fart in the wind. GW called their bluff, and it turned out that this boycott is just hot gas in the end.
 
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LORD IMPERATOR said:
I just can't stop but laugh at this.

Grifters say, ''GW IS GOING DOWN, BOYCOTT THEM, THEY WILL FALL BEFORE US!'' in their usual manner.

GW calls their bluff, raises prices again, just to show how much they don't care.

CSM armies are sold out, to the point where their website is out of stock.

GW just showed how all these calls for boycotting didn't work. The grifters called for a boycott, and at the same time, GW raises prices on their wares, so you'd think the combination of the two would tank sales, at least with the latter. But no, they're sold out, they're selling faster than they can replenish their stock for fucking plastic space men. Which goes to show that the ''boycott'' that the grifters and lore-fans were calling for just passed through like a fart in the wind. GW called their bluff, and it turned out that this boycott is just hot gas in the end.
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At this point a 3d printer is cheaper than a Games Workshop army.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Listened to Poorhammer 100K special. I know they joked about bad takes, but saying Tolkien was a bad writer is unsub worthy bad take.
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Tolkien's story was so good that both Games Workshop and Blizzard Entertainment ripped it off. How the hell would it be bad if it was so good others were imitating it? Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
 
LORD IMPERATOR said:
Tolkien's story was so good that both Games Workshop and Blizzard Entertainment ripped it off. How the hell would it be bad if it was so good others were imitating it? Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Probably the usual "too many words, not enough battles" and seeing it as trope-filled despite making the tropes. Like I could get an argument that Tolkien basically defined western the concept of modern fantasy but you can't judge him for that.
 
Hopefully once I'm done my temporary work schedule in a week's time, I can go back to 3D printing. Haven't had the chance to do so since the end of fall. Guaranteed I'm gonna fuck up my first few prints.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Listened to Poorhammer 100K special. I know they joked about bad takes, but saying Tolkien was a bad writer is unsub worthy bad take.
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Then you must have immediately stopped listening because that wasn't the take.
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Probably the usual "too many words, not enough battles" and seeing it as trope-filled despite making the tropes. Like I could get an argument that Tolkien basically defined western the concept of modern fantasy but you can't judge him for that.
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No.
LORD IMPERATOR said:
Tolkien's story was so good that both Games Workshop and Blizzard Entertainment ripped it off. How the hell would it be bad if it was so good others were imitating it? Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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This was actually more of his issue with it. It's not specifically that Tolkien was bad per se... that doesn't mean he has to be everyone's favorite writer either. The problem, and I actually share this opinion, is that Tolkien's writing has had so much influence it's damn near impossible to get away from it. Blizzard, GW, D&D, Star Wars(not as direct, but the comparisons are definitely there), a bunch of shit from Harry Potter, Shannara, George RR Martin here and there, Damn near every shitty $2 paperback from the 70s and 80s that had a wannabe Boris Vallejo cover. If you're not a fan of Tolkien's work it is damn near impossible to get anything fantasy these days that isn't just more wannabe Tolkien staring you square in the damn face due to the volume of unoriginal bullshit.

Hell, it would be like not being a fan of Boris Vallejo, and being utterly fucking sick of so many artists back in the day basically trying to copy/paste his shit. You get fed up with it.
 
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p1138 said:
This was actually more of his issue with it. It's not specifically that Tolkien was bad per se... that doesn't mean he has to be everyone's favorite writer either. The problem, and I actually share this opinion, is that Tolkien's writing has had so much influence it's damn near impossible to get away from it. Blizzard, GW, D&D, Star Wars(not as direct, but the comparisons are definitely there), a bunch of shit from Harry Potter, Shannara, George RR Martin here and there, Damn near every shitty $2 paperback from the 70s and 80s that had a wannabe Boris Vallejo cover. If you're not a fan of Tolkien's work it is damn near impossible to get anything fantasy these days that isn't just more wannabe Tolkien staring you square in the damn face.
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Depends where you get your fantasy fix. Sword-and-sorcery fantasy like Conan, Xena, and others that predated Tolkien are good alternatives.

Hell, the Elder Scrolls Merethic Elves who have a bad relationship history with mankind are more accurate to the elves of folklore than Tolkien's angelic elves ever were. And it's always fun wasting their sorry asses.

wtfNeedSignUp said:
Probably the usual "too many words, not enough battles" and seeing it as trope-filled despite making the tropes. Like I could get an argument that Tolkien basically defined western the concept of modern fantasy but you can't judge him for that.
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Exactly. His version of fantasy did not jive with the expectations for fantasy in his time.

I'mma real anime gurl said:
Those people buying directly from GW are either subhumans or little British boys with mommy's credit card.
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Probably a little of both. Or, and this is my personal guess, many of them are just people who don't know about the culture/lore wars in 40K and just want to paint and play with shit.
 
LORD IMPERATOR said:
Depends where you get your fantasy fix. Sword-and-sorcery fantasy like Conan, Xena, and others that predated Tolkien are good alternatives.

Hell, the Elder Scrolls Merethic Elves who have a bad relationship history with mankind are more accurate to the elves of folklore than Tolkien's angelic elves ever were. And it's always fun wasting their sorry asses.
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Absolutely. But none of that is recent, is it? Even Pathfinder's elves are supposed to be creepy with their weird eyes and technically are space aliens in the setting of the game(even though I don't believe it ever actually comes up). But for everything you named, there's 50 more than are just aping Tolkien. And it's not as if taking inspiration from something is a bad thing... but when almost everything is taking damn near the same inspiration, and you're not the biggest fan of that inspiration(hell, even if you are a fan of the source material sometimes), it just gets tiresome.

Hell, I'll throw out another story that has inspired so much shit(especially the past few decades) that it's become basically nauseating to see repeated for the billionth time. Journey to the West.
 
LORD IMPERATOR said:
GW just showed how all these calls for boycotting didn't work. The grifters called for a boycott, and at the same time, GW raises prices on their wares, so you'd think the combination of the two would tank sales, at least with the latter. But no, they're sold out, they're selling faster than they can replenish their stock for fucking plastic space men. Which goes to show that the ''boycott'' that the grifters and lore-fans were calling for just passed through like a fart in the wind. GW called their bluff, and it turned out that this boycott is just hot gas in the end.
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You're forgetting that there is more than just people eating up what GW is selling them. GW is notorious for using artificial scarcity as a means for them to sell shit. That scarcity plays right into the FOMO that a lot of things have been experiencing since the covid lockdowns started. With more people coming into the hobby you'll see more people scrambling to get products that will never see a meaningful increase in units produced. Then you have scalpers which GW will happily let them continue their practices as GW sells units whether or not the scalpers actually make money off of idiots willing to buy shit at incredible mark up.
 
LORD IMPERATOR said:
Yet people choose to keep buying GW armies to the point where some armies are out of stock. Meaning that business goes well for GW despite there being cheaper alternatives.
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I’ve been eyeballing some alternative sites for Krieg models lately as an army, but yeah so far not going to buy from GW ever again. Insane there’s people willing to put up with abuse like that still. Some people are way too addicted to that plastic crack.
 
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