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The codexes are really the absolute worst part about the shit, especially these days. Even years back, you could just buy the faction rule sets in the warmahordes app(mk3) for I think $80 as a one time purchase, and just have them all meaning you could actually see what the hell your opponent's rules were. not that you even needed to do that in the app, since you could just get the PDFs of the cards for free off the website.

But back to 40k and the shitty codexes. It's especially ridiculous when literally half the damned units for an army(like custodes) aren't even in the damned codex to begin with. I've also seen GW simps talk about how the like the art, and the lore... most of the art has been recycled for years now, and the lore is generally bullshit anyway. $60 for a book of mostly recycled fluff, a useless points page that's outdated by the time it launches, and the moment a balance update happens there's a possibility the rest of the rules are now out of date as well. And to continually make it shittier... GW expects people to buy a $60 codex just for the code in the back to unlock the shit in their app that costs another $60/year and doesn't even have the option to buy just the rules within the app at a discount or even full price just to avoid dealing with a useless book. Then on top of that, once the fucking book DOES come out, if someone were using the app the "free" index rules get locked the Thursday before the actual release of the codex on Saturday so you can't even access the "free" rules you did have in the couple days leading up to the launch of the codex. Fortunately wahapedia, newrecruit, etc. exist but it's fucking stupid.
I think what annoys me the most, is that GW app was actually kinda nice to use, just to get a quick read on your armies list (incase you're dumb and forget something), but also was an easier way to look up detachment stratagems. Unless there's like another app that you can do that with, 'cause constantly going on wahapedia is annoying. Though, I guess kinda lucked out cause Codexes here are like 39-43 euros, but still not buying the book I prob won't use much.
 
I mean I won't lie, I do like the hardcover rule books that come with the box sets. Sometimes I buy one around launch when resellers are trying to offload them, then sell it a couple years later for some profit (after geedubs inevitably increases model prices) and keep the book.

Made more than a few bucks from selling the indomitus stuff.
 
AS someone outside the hobby is it safe to say trench crusade got cucked?

Also how hard is it to build your own game system? I've never played any tabletop wargame or skirmish game but the rules for most seem like they exist or are the way they are only because its "part of the experience" or because other games have them
Actually on working on my on miniatures, lite rpg/ Skirmish system as I type this. I don't want to say too much details yet, but its not quite a wargame not quite a rpg, you use recruit points (think army points) to build a Sect ( game is centered around warring late antiquity style fanatic mystery cults) that is sorted into brigades which consisted a "champion model and their acolytes" usually 1:4 ratio depending on the rules for what ever sect you are playing. the goal is to use the brigades in your sect to complete little quest, while stopping your opponents's sect from completing their little quest.

You can also earn exp for your brigades by slaying enemy models, completing quest and things like just having the models survive to the next round, which can be used to upgrade weapons and skills on a skill tree, between rounds. I can't share a whole lot but plan to have a website, and rules pdfs up sometime in the next year.
 
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They literally think they own the TC community / fandom, and want to ensure it stays that way, that's all. They all recognize this on an instinctive level, so they don't have to prepare themselves. They "own" the TC fandom right now thanks to 28mag worming their way into ta community management role, and are going to gatekeep the fuck out of it if they can.
that is why people should make their own systems ( see my other comment above) And if my game / models/ stl files goes somewhere i plan to be as anti woke as possible. Chuds welcome here.
 
Still think a DoW2 type game could be fun. Start with a unit or 2, capture points that give resources every turn to buy more units in. Still have objective based victory points.

Alternate activations, some sort or reactions/interrupts too. Nothing is more tiring that sitting through someone else's turn of just shooting your guys down. Even as the shooter I can feel the boredom.
 
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Still think a DoW2 type game could be fun. Start with a unit or 2, capture points that give resources every turn to buy more units in. Still have objective based victory points.

Alternate activations, some sort or reactions/interrupts too. Nothing is more tiring that sitting through someone else's turn of just shooting your guys down. Even as the shooter I can feel the boredom.
Do you think that's an idea of worth pursuing than do it and I imagine a more open-ended long term game to go on for weeks . If the person hosting has the room for it.
 
Even though Wokehammer has always been the final form of Warhammer that its makers intended, the great majority of the lorefans prefer the 3rd-7th Edition of Warhammer 40K where the satire was replaced with dark fantasy played real, where the Chaos Gods and the aliens were the greater evil and the Imperium's lesser evils had to be tolerated to keep them back. It's actually kind of funny that the misrepresentation of 40K's story is more popular than the desired interpretation. That is, at least among the lorefans, since most of the paying customers couldn't give less of a shit if you had tranny marines painted in rainbow colors or female Custodes painted in pink.

The codexes are really the absolute worst part about the shit, especially these days. Even years back, you could just buy the faction rule sets in the warmahordes app(mk3) for I think $80 as a one time purchase, and just have them all meaning you could actually see what the hell your opponent's rules were. not that you even needed to do that in the app, since you could just get the PDFs of the cards for free off the website.

But back to 40k and the shitty codexes. It's especially ridiculous when literally half the damned units for an army(like custodes) aren't even in the damned codex to begin with. I've also seen GW simps talk about how the like the art, and the lore... most of the art has been recycled for years now, and the lore is generally bullshit anyway. $60 for a book of mostly recycled fluff, a useless points page that's outdated by the time it launches, and the moment a balance update happens there's a possibility the rest of the rules are now out of date as well. And to continually make it shittier... GW expects people to buy a $60 codex just for the code in the back to unlock the shit in their app that costs another $60/year and doesn't even have the option to buy just the rules within the app at a discount or even full price just to avoid dealing with a useless book. Then on top of that, once the fucking book DOES come out, if someone were using the app the "free" index rules get locked the Thursday before the actual release of the codex on Saturday so you can't even access the "free" rules you did have in the couple days leading up to the launch of the codex. Fortunately wahapedia, newrecruit, etc. exist but it's fucking stupid.
The fact that codexes aren't just made into free PDFs downloadable online, and the fact that 40K fans are still paying up the ass for expensive books that have shit rules, goes to show that they have the kind of Stockholm Syndrome that most greedy corporations wish their fans had.
 
I think what annoys me the most, is that GW app was actually kinda nice to use, just to get a quick read on your armies list (incase you're dumb and forget something), but also was an easier way to look up detachment stratagems. Unless there's like another app that you can do that with, 'cause constantly going on wahapedia is annoying. Though, I guess kinda lucked out cause Codexes here are like 39-43 euros, but still not buying the book I prob won't use much.
Make a list in newrecruit.eu(it's like if battlescribe weren't written by a moron with no concept of usability), save it as a PDF on your phone. problem solved. it's not like you're building a list on the fly in the middle of a game. That being said, yes technically their app is actually decent this time around and if it actually had the damned rules included wouldn't be awful for the $60/year(even if it could still use some more features but that's a much smaller problem really).

The fact that codexes aren't just made into free PDFs downloadable online, and the fact that 40K fans are still paying up the ass for expensive books that have shit rules, goes to show that they have the kind of Stockholm Syndrome that most greedy corporations wish their fans had.
There's one even dumber. The cards. They launched 10th with a set of cards for every army that included cards for the indexes, I think they were around $30? Anyway, it had the rules and strategms. Because the codexes change things, they're printing new sets of cards every time a codex comes out for $35, still doesn't include the code to unlock the rules in the app, and if I recall correctly does not include detachment rules and strategems anymore either.
 
There's one even dumber. The cards. They launched 10th with a set of cards for every army that included cards for the indexes, I think they were around $30? Anyway, it had the rules and strategms. Because the codexes change things, they're printing new sets of cards every time a codex comes out for $35, still doesn't include the code to unlock the rules in the app, and if I recall correctly does not include detachment rules and strategems anymore either.
So you pay more money, and you don't even get the whole thing. Again, the fact that GW gets away with treating the fans like this is more of a testament to the fans than to GW. Hey, they're just mooching off a market of fans who will pay for anything.
 
So you pay more money, and you don't even get the whole thing. Again, the fact that GW gets away with treating the fans like this is more of a testament to the fans than to GW. Hey, they're just mooching off a market of fans who will pay for anything.
I mean if you're still buying a codex in year of our Lord 2024 you kinda deserve to get fucked by GW. Between Waha and newrecruit etc you really don't need it unless you want the fluff/art.
 
Has anyone read the Warhammer comics? I’ve avoided them because they’re Marvel but I haven’t seen people ever talking about them?
I've read quite a few of them.

The Marneus Calgar comics were pretty good, especially for being from Marvel.

The Eisenhorn prequel was decent, but I wish the same creative team had adapted the rest of Abnett's Inquisition novels.

Damnation Crusade is incredibly cool, Abnett and 40k is a comics match made in heaven.

Will of Iron and it's sequel series are probably my personal favorites, but I'm biased because the Dark Angels are my favorite Astartes Chapter.

Deathwatch was solid, and despite ADB being a booger-eating moron politically, he's a good wtriter.

Lone Wolves with the Space Wolves and IG versus Nids is great.

Inquisitor Ascendant is a decent grimdark tale.

Exterminatus is pretty good, but not as good as stuff like Damnation Crusade or Will of Iron.

Blood & Thunder is decent.

I really liked Fire & Honour a lot.



As for other Black Library comics I like that aren't 40k, Forge of War, and Condemned by Fire are both absolutely great, and I still haven't forgiven GW for destroying The Old World and replacing it with Age of Smegmar. I absolutely LOVED the Warhammer Fantasy novels, and it sucks that we don't have more of them.
 
That being said, yes technically their app is actually decent this time around and if it actually had the damned rules included wouldn't be awful for the $60/year(even if it could still use some more features but that's a much smaller problem really).
Wait, but it had to rules on it, least from what I recall it had those. So, what does one get for 60$ a year? Unless I missed something, it just allowed ya to make more than one army roaster, which you'll prob need if you play more than one army and outside of that shit, you can just use the free version.
 
Wait, but it had to rules on it, least from what I recall it had those. So, what does one get for 60$ a year? Unless I missed something, it just allowed ya to make more than one army roaster, which you'll prob need if you play more than one army and outside of that shit, you can just use the free version.
So it has the index rules, but 2 days before whatever the new codex is out, they lock the index detachment(in this case, to be fair they've actually changed a few of the index detachments even if they've retained the same name) behind the codex pay wall, and you need the code from the back of the codex to unlock the rules. let me try to lay this out for you.

It's Wednesday. You're going to a game on friday evening at the local shop, you've got your list of... chaos space marines or whatever. You've paid for $60/year or whatever the monthly rate is so you can make as many lists as you want.

The new chaos space marine codex comes out Saturday.

It is now Friday, you show up expecting to play your index army list, load the app... the faction is now locked behind a $60 codex you can't even get until tomorrow, and you can't view shit other than unit names in the list. You might think that you can just grab the index detachment PDF off the warcom site? Nope, that was pulled down early also.

Yes, it's really fucking stupid and counter to the "the index will always be free"(I believe it was a livestream they said this on right before the launch of 10th?) especially since they pull down the index PDFs, and they're no longer valid once the codex drops anyway. So it's really "your index rules are free till a couple days before your codex comes out". Fortunately, unless you're showing up at a GW store for some insane reason, no one has a problem with you showing up with a list built in newrecruit so long as it was done with a current dataset.
 
"I need your money, because my landlady is kicking me out, and if I don't find somewhere to live they'll be no more Midwinter Minis - one of the most popular Warhammer YouTube channels ever - and besides, I raise so much money fer charidee and muh kids, muh kids.
Anyway, here's my sick 3D printer setup."


Why don't you 3D print yourself a sense of shame, Guy, you fucking dick?
 
"I need your money, because my landlady is kicking me out, and if I don't find somewhere to live they'll be no more Midwinter Minis - one of the most popular Warhammer YouTube channels ever - and besides, I raise so much money fer charidee and muh kids, muh kids.
Anyway, here's my sick 3D printer setup."

https://youtube.com/watch?v=bckg5OpL718
Why don't you 3D print yourself a sense of shame, Guy, you fucking dick?
So he fucked up a 3d print of an ugly model, glues together a literal pile of garbage and slaps some paint on it, and is still begging for people to pay for his deposit or whatever the fuck? Looks like he's raised a whopping 2500 pounds so far for the most recognizable model from the best warhammer youtube channel ever. Also, looking at this bullshit website... holy fuck it's such a scam. 2 pound entry, win a pile of space marine models, they're hoping to make 400 pounds off the tickets by auctioning off 200 pounds of minis, but claiming there's a bunch of instant winners for $1 site credits for this site... this is like those stupid auction sites where you're only doing penny bids, but you pay the money you bid regardless of winning or not. There's even supposed previous cash raffles on the site... that's just shitty money laundering lol and so much warhammer crap.
 
Even though Wokehammer has always been the final form of Warhammer that its makers intended, t

Your theory is a bit retarded, you saying it all over again won't make it not retarded somehow.

Warhammer started out as an edgy atheist fedora tipping sarcasm joke, went straight face, and now is trying to go woke and make the Imperials le inclusive for the far left.

This is just how Lucas intended the Rebels to be vietcong, but their ww2 american aesthetics, the Empire being too nazi, made them into le chungus american freedom revolutionaries, with disney later making them into the BLM resistance. BLM and vietcong are two different beasts.

This is like saying that a kingdom becoming a democracy than becoming a military junta has always been a junta as the original founders intended.

What's hilarious is that they are trying to make the Imperium to be the good woke guys, instead of the thatcher evil conservatards they were originally meant to be.

Ripping on Tatcher OR turning her into a wheelchair bound lesbian negress who always wanted to help the working class but got neophallus blocked by her incompetent white male servants are two vastly different takes.

Though I know nuance isn't an american virtue, this is a fairly big difference. If they made the Tau or Chaos the good tranny inclusive woman power faction, and the Imperium the bumbling white men, you would have a point. In fact, Rebel Moon is closer to what the original plan may had looked like in current year. Which flopped like the original Rogue Trader.
 
I expect them to over-correct and make the Custodes too OP in the next patch. Or just not address the matter at all.
Custodes like knights are cursed. They will either be OP y UP, but due to how hard they skew, it's almost impossible to get them "right". Should be removed outright from the game or as a very conditional one of in certain imperial armies, but the genie is already out of the bottle, so good luck taking that back.
I was going to buy a Custodes army before this, but after these rules came out, I decided to cancel all plans of it.
This was what was really noteworthy, Goonhammer, kings of the cucks, never even mentioned the femstodes thing in their review, they were too busy shitting on how BAD the rules were. Custodes has been a horrible release and the numbers seem to confirm it. At least till 11th or a dataslate makes them op again and the cycle starts again.
As for the Sisters of Battle, I suppose you can justify it better if they were abhuman women who come from some worlds in the Imperium that breed tough women. Then you can write that usually, they're used as breeding women by the military, or whores by guys like Goge Vandire and other wealthy lords who like muscle-mommy-waifus to be chained up and plowed, but the Imperium passes a tax on them and take enough of these women to be given to the Ecclesiarchy and be made into Sisters of Battle.
But you run into the immediate retardation of "why would you breed the women for battle when men are more efficient always". Only way you justify women in military in a "realistic context" is them being something like Ogryn or ratling where they are their own stable mutation of a human where they are the equivalent of Mantis where the females are bigger and stronger than the males (and eat them, tap into that vore market while you are at it). Of course going realism is kind of pointless and I've seen enough girls wielding gigantic hammers in my weeb shit to know that it's usually not relevant in sci fi and fiction, so it's probably best to not bother explaining it and just have some extra female heads here and there and not go into detail on why Sororitas get to have top tier equipment like servoarmor and bolters while even the most elite Imperial Gaurd get caparace armor at best. Basically, never explain rule of cool, it never ends well.
. I don’t know why they hate them so much, but they also hate biological women so it’s understandable.
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Got to Press X to doubt on that one buddy.
ya'll should just play one page rules fuck games workshop
Agreed, but my god is it a slog to get anybody out of the plantation. Doesn't help that the local OPR community seems more busy bashing GW than actually playing their fucking alternative game because my god I never see any events.
The TC news has been pretty bad for me personally. I have spent the better part of the last decade doing amateur ttrpg design (for personal use) and in the last year pivoted to the creation of a platoon scale fantasy wargame which I had intended on releasing for playtesting by end of this year. This was meant to be my big attempt at getting into tabletop design as a career, a lifelong dream, and I had set aside a few thousand USD for paying artists for marginalia/art so people might actually consider buying/trying my game.

With the TC news it feels like I missed the boat. I wanted to get an apolitical or right leaning artist for book art and likewise for a sculptor. But I can't advertise that because I will invariably either get brigaded by the terminally online troons for not being a commie, or I will attract right wing grifters looking to just get in and start drama. I want to create something fun and engaging with good rules, but the culture war is now here on the doorstep and I won't be able to run from it. I could learn to do my own art, a mere 5+ year investment, then learn sculpting so I can produce my own miniature line, another 3-4 year investment. Maybe in 11 years when I can write my own rules, do my own art, sculpt my own minis will I be able to take the risk of making my own wargame.

The honest truth is get woke go broke doesn't seem to really be true. If I just gave in I could have sculptors and artists tomorrow, I could open my llc to investment for DEI and ESG money and I would be taking almost no risks myself. Even if I failed my name would be in the community and I could likely get work at another firm riding on blackrock cash. The people saying "I won't give GW money for femstodes!" weren't their paypiggies anyway. I know the IRL whales and they will slurp up this slop just as greedily as the last bit of plastic GW put out.
Don't get disheartened fren, you can't control the insanity that is around us. If you have something functional just release it and take it from there and if not, just keep chipping away at it. Thankfully all of the AI bullshit can really help you set up a base if you don't have talent drawing or with other similar things.
I’ve been a Patreon member since near the beginning and I’ve literally got a dozen fully fleshed out armies that I can print, plus so many other things. Tons of terrain, objective markers, even custom rulers measurement tools. Plus there is a ship based space miniatures game that you get models for, too.

I may steal a lot of STL files but I always pay for my favorite artists.

Their models are way past what GW gives us. Their sisters of battle knight is one of the coolest models.

ETA thread tax. Been playing wirh my CSM army and I love it. I’ve also been playing a lot of 7th edition WHB and have been really enjoying it.

Old editions are fun.
I find their models hit or miss. Their Eternal Empire not Tau I love for the most part, but their bootleg eldar have been pretty miss for me.
you don't need art if you don't have any lore, and if you have any lore you don't need any sculpts either. unless you want your own mini business and your setting is niche like turnip28 or something there's really no need to bother with that. and even if it's successful there are plenty of sculptors you can work with at that point, or people do their own sculpts to jump on the train. for example modiphius works with titan forge for official five parsec minis. stl miniatures did 2 kickstarters that were all about frostgrave.
besides that the more you push your own minis the more you increase the likelyhood of people not buying in. people having to basically start from scratch to "play another game" is one of the reasons warhammer has such a captured audience due to sunken cost. you really wanna go mini-agnostic, unless you hook up with a big enough company you can sell the rules to.

art is also a secondary concern since I assume you wanna publish digitally first, where all you'd really need is an eye-catching cover. if and when you do a printrun, there's still enough time to look for an artist then, after collecting some kickstarter money for it, and unless you advertise it as NIGGERS GETTING BUCKBROKEN + TITS, no one is gonna care. it's not like they need a reason to cancel you anyway it they want. or just find a publisher who takes are of all that itself.
you're more likely running into shitty unprofessional artists who gonna steal your money or take ages to finish the work. might as well learn how a LLM works to be ready once the OMG AI topic has been phased out of the newscycle.
Well, you are right, but lets be honest here, if you don't have something that catches somebody's attention at a glance, it's a shit ton harder to get traction on something. You can have the best ruleset in the world, but how are you pitching it. How are you getting people to give it a chance? I do agree that model agnostic is the best way to go unless your proposal is a small skirmish thing, but you do need some visual assets and some fluff to make things attractive. "40K but not a clunky mess" is not that good of a pitch even if it's very true.
After all the tranny culture war kvetching about Warhammer being better without chuds and a core building block of the hobby (discount boxes) is worse than its previous iteration after a major yearly price increase

https://youtube.com/watch?v=71E9m3xIB3A
GW's gambit is going to pad out some personal pockets and seemingly compensate all the pay piggies leaving by just selling to the (admittedly rare) zealot with actual money
I still remember how GW was actually in a death spiral... 15 years ago? And their recent actions remind me on what was taking them there, yes, the hobby is full of paypigs, but even they can get off the train and each one you lose is actually noticeable.
Also how hard is it to build your own game system? I've never played any tabletop wargame or skirmish game but the rules for most seem like they exist or are the way they are only because its "part of the experience" or because other games have them
Depends. Do you want to fuck around with your friends and house rule on the fly? Easy as peanuts assuming your buddies don't get too anal about it.

To attempt to commercialize? Stupidly hard. You need a core rule set that needs to have it's own spice to make it stand out compared to the shit ton of systems that already exist, something visual to get people to actually even pay attention to it, be it art, fluff, settings, models anything. Also, your system needs to have a clear idea of who you are targetting, do you want to tap into the beer and pretzels crowd or the tournament crowd? Do you want your game to be complex or simple? Both of those have their advantages and disadvantages. What scale do you want to operate on? Skirmish, company, battalion? What scale do you want to target, 12mm, 25mm? Game length?

And well, aside from all that crap, it needs to be fun and engaging. And it has to be something that in a game or 2 can get people invested, having a game that is the shits but you need 20 games to start playing competently is a death sentence.
Your theory is a bit retarded, you saying it all over again won't make it not retarded somehow.

Warhammer started out as an edgy atheist fedora tipping sarcasm joke, went straight face, and now is trying to go woke and make the Imperials le inclusive for the far left.
Have to agree, I came into 40k in 3rd and paid passive attention up to 5th 6th I'd say and the setting took itself very seriously in that time, no "nudge nudge wink wink look at how we pwn the chuds" or whatever the fuck the equivalent of that was 15 years ago. That with the resurrection of Guiliman they are suddenly course correcting to a more heroic sort of GiJoe thing is a whole other topic.
 
Have to agree, I came into 40k in 3rd and paid passive attention up to 5th 6th I'd say and the setting took itself very seriously in that time,

Yeah, they got that because the pawn the chuds didn't work.

The OG stance was:
-Huh fellow nerd, look at how dumb these chuds are. We made the chuds retarded, like how they are in real life. Birmingham is a planet that's like always dark because they are dumbasses, haha so funny, roight mate? They don't even know how the on button works, you want to be smart like me huh? Laugh at the chuds with me.... oh wasn't my own fart so graceful, an elegant allegory for capitalism? This will show them for all the wedgies uh-haaah! -read in nasal voice.

The new take isn't even satire. It is just plain old cult programming.
-We must add brave latinx black poc transqueens into everything. It is the doctrine. This will own the chuds and inceease my DEI score. Everything must be trans or the world will end! We must sissify and goon harder! Current year!!!! - read in robotic anger voice.

This will mean that all factions that can even remotely, will have trannies, faggots and niggers. Because not having them is what makes a faction good or bad.

Woke is a religion, and its tenets must be followed. Everything must contain it. The woke are like fundies on roids and state enforced mandates.
 
Your theory is a bit retarded, you saying it all over again won't make it not retarded somehow.
It isn't retarded; it's the truth. The people who owned 40K from the start were always left-leaning, and thinking that it would become this conservative funland just because a good number of fans loved the Imperium and thought it was ''based'' was always stupid.

This is just how Lucas intended the Rebels to be vietcong, but their ww2 american aesthetics, the Empire being too nazi, made them into le chungus american freedom revolutionaries, with disney later making them into the BLM resistance. BLM and vietcong are two different beasts.
At least with George Lucas, when he was in charge of Star Wars, he welcomed dissenting opinions in the SWEU and allowed for works that depicted the Empire, the Mandalorians, the Separatists, the Sith, and other enemies of the Jedi to be depicted in a sympathetic light. He allowed authors for works like TIE Fighter, Republic Commando, SWTOR and other works to make the movies' antagonists look good while shitting on the Jedi. Lucas himself saw the Jedi as heroes, but he had no problems hiring the likes of Karen Traviss and letting her write anti-Jedi propaganda. Contrary to GW always saying that the Imperium represents the worst of humanity, Lucas described the Empire as ''good people working for a bad man'' when asked by a kid if the Stormtroopers were the baddies.

GW has always stood by the idea that the Imperium is a satire of fascism, and that trying to depict them in a sympathetic light is a misunderstanding. Even Matt Ward's Ultramarines stand in stark contrast to the rest of the Imperium; their Ultramar is an island of order and efficiency in a sea of decay and despair that is the rest of the Imperium, hence why Matt Ward praises them to the detriment of everyone else in the Imperium. And GW's recent statements on the matter reinforce that idea; that the Imperium is evil, that it's basically a satire of fascism and religious extremism, and that thinking they're somehow the lesser evil or the good guys is wrong.

That with the resurrection of Guiliman they are suddenly course correcting to a more heroic sort of GiJoe thing is a whole other topic.
What's hilarious is that they are trying to make the Imperium to be the good woke guys, instead of the thatcher evil conservatards they were originally meant to be.
As for the Imperium going good guy/GI Joe, I foresee that it will be restricted to Imperial factions considered ''sympathetic'' like the Ultramarines. After all, the Leftists that GW are trying to placate with these lore changes wish to hang on to the idea of the Imperium being a satire and being a hellhole. Although that might change soon, since Sabbathiel from the Iron Will comics was brought back as an Inquisitor who now acts with the Emperor's will, so maybe down the line the rest of the Imperium can reform, too, if even members of the Inquisition are getting a thumbs-up from that fedora-tipping retard that GW obviously wants to show as logical.

But even so, the Imperium becoming ''good'' would probably have it become less religious and more atheistic or progressive as time goes on. Such progressive changes would probably have a good-guy Imperium constantly denounce what they once were, kind of like how the Brotherhood in Fallout 4 chides the Fallout 3 Brotherhood for doctrinal differences. The ''Imperium Eterna'', which is the in-universe word for the Imperium from 3rd-7th edition 40K, will always be considered evil by GW.

Custodes like knights are cursed. They will either be OP y UP, but due to how hard they skew, it's almost impossible to get them "right". Should be removed outright from the game or as a very conditional one of in certain imperial armies, but the genie is already out of the bottle, so good luck taking that back.
There should just be an ''imperial'' faction with the guard and the Sisters as the regular units, the Space Marines as the elite units, and the Custodes, Grey Knights, and Primarchs as the super-elite units. Even for Space Marine factions, they have their own self-sustained militaries complete with their own soldiers who serve below the Space Marines.

This was what was really noteworthy, Goonhammer, kings of the cucks, never even mentioned the femstodes thing in their review, they were too busy shitting on how BAD the rules were. Custodes has been a horrible release and the numbers seem to confirm it. At least till 11th or a dataslate makes them op again and the cycle starts again.
This is what happens when you have an ''elite'' unit that gets too hyped up in the lore. You bring them to the tabletop and either they'll be too OP for a balanced game, or you can't properly represent their power in the lore through the tabletop game. The former pisses off the people who play against them, the latter pisses off the people who play as them. Why the hell would I play Custodes when they're not as strong in the Tabletop as they are in the lore, when I can easily play as the other factions for a more practical army?

Other games don't have this problem. The Pokemon TCG, for example, properly represents powerful Pokemon along with their strengths and weaknesses, making it so that the powerful Pokemon not only can hit hard and take a beating, but they'll also have resistances to certain types of attacks. But they are very rare, and most of the powerful Pokemon have to be evolved from the weaker, more basic Pokemon, so it's not that easy to bring them to field.

The Custodes have always been rather over-hyped in my opinion. We've never seen them actually fight in film or animation, and most of their elite combat ability comes from the lore, which has always been shaky since GW absolutely refuses to commit to a canon, which is frustrating.

But you run into the immediate retardation of "why would you breed the women for battle when men are more efficient always". Only way you justify women in military in a "realistic context" is them being something like Ogryn or ratling where they are their own stable mutation of a human where they are the equivalent of Mantis where the females are bigger and stronger than the males (and eat them, tap into that vore market while you are at it). Of course going realism is kind of pointless and I've seen enough girls wielding gigantic hammers in my weeb shit to know that it's usually not relevant in sci fi and fiction, so it's probably best to not bother explaining it and just have some extra female heads here and there and not go into detail on why Sororitas get to have top tier equipment like servoarmor and bolters while even the most elite Imperial Gaurd get caparace armor at best. Basically, never explain rule of cool, it never ends well.
I suppose you can say that they come from a planet where women have mutated to be stronger than the men there. Yes, kind of like the Mantis.

Not to mention that the excuse for their existence, the law that says the Church not being allowed to field men at arms, has been broken in spirit by the existence of the Sororitas. Maybe the Imperium thinks they can control the Church better by having its armies be made up of what is usually considered to be the less physically-strong sex, but the original intent of the law is that the Church wasn't allowed to arm itself PERIOD, and the Sororitas are just taking advantage of a legal loophole that goes against the spirit of the law. They might as well get rid of that law outright and bring back the Frateris Templar.
 
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