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My sarcasm flew right over your head. Yes, I'm aware they exist and one could have an amazing FPS game based around them, especially if you have the enemies be relatively weak like Chaos cultists or the like.

The Tau firewarrior was enormously overpowered, especially for a Tau firewarrior, in the aforementioned game.

A single firewarrior taking on hordes of guardsmen, marines and then chaos marines, it wouldn’t happen in the tabletop game or dawn of war for that matter.

But that is part of fps ever since wolfenstien 3d. The protagonist is always ridiculously overpowered, unless it is something involving stealth.
The games would be very boring if realistic and one could just be single shotted by any bozo with a revolver.
 
If only there was a planet notorious for its Guardsmen who can take on Orks in CQC, with muscles capable of doubling as body armor, and the quality of their one-liners and derogatory remarks. But its a shame 40k just doesn't have one of those despite having one for every other type of Guardsman.
This fan animation shows the guardmen to be pretty effective even without the power armoured glory boys
 
This fan animation shows the guardmen to be pretty effective even without the power armoured glory boys
https://youtube.com/watch?v=xqH7NpkMFrg

Yeah, it seems that a lot of people have the notion that guardsmen are supposed to be like WW2 stalingrad red army conscripts with no training and haphazardly given weapons, thrown into a meat grinder and then the lucky or naturally skilled survivors are selected to go on.

Maybe that was semi an idea in the very early days, but the concept was refined to them being more like Roman Auxiliaries, basically legionaries lite, and the space marines to be the elite of the elite.
Like the SAS and Navy Seals on steroids.

The fact that so many of them are regularly sacrificed is because they are basically an infinite resource where the imperial leadership are concerned.
It’s the needs of the many outweighs needs of few grimdark style.

Plus the fact that there is such an enormous pool, it stands to reason that out of hundreds of billions, they can have hundreds of millions who would be a high standard of soldier.

The Space Marines and other military wings like the sisters of battle and the Adeptus mechanius are put into specific situations where the guard won’t particularly help. It’s not that they are bad, it’s that that’s the reality of war.

I also miss the days when they had made every army a bit overcomplicated.

Like ork stormboyz being essentially their own faction and diverse types of freebooters including rogue Gretchin.
In the guard there were even commissar cadets and Ogryn Sargeants.

I know it made sense for them product line wise to simplify so that they wouldn’t make loads of models which no fucker bought, Gretchin freebooters were pretty useless and cost enough in points that you couldn’t afford enough better units to balance them out.
But I enjoyed reading the new and really specific unit types in White Dwarf.
 
Yeah, it seems that a lot of people have the notion that guardsmen are supposed to be like WW2 stalingrad red army conscripts with no training and haphazardly given weapons, thrown into a meat grinder and then the lucky or naturally skilled survivors are selected to go on
Only that was never a thing, despite what Limey faggotry like Enemy at the Gates says, soldiers were given proper training and provided with weapons.
 
Yeah, it seems that a lot of people have the notion that guardsmen are supposed to be like WW2 stalingrad red army conscripts with no training and haphazardly given weapons, thrown into a meat grinder and then the lucky or naturally skilled survivors are selected to go on.

Maybe that was semi an idea in the very early days, but the concept was refined to them being more like Roman Auxiliaries, basically legionaries lite, and the space marines to be the elite of the elite.
Like the SAS and Navy Seals on steroids.

The fact that so many of them are regularly sacrificed is because they are basically an infinite resource where the imperial leadership are concerned.
It’s the needs of the many outweighs needs of few grimdark style.

Plus the fact that there is such an enormous pool, it stands to reason that out of hundreds of billions, they can have hundreds of millions who would be a high standard of soldier.

The Space Marines and other military wings like the sisters of battle and the Adeptus mechanius are put into specific situations where the guard won’t particularly help. It’s not that they are bad, it’s that that’s the reality of war.

I also miss the days when they had made every army a bit overcomplicated.

Like ork stormboyz being essentially their own faction and diverse types of freebooters including rogue Gretchin.
In the guard there were even commissar cadets and Ogryn Sargeants.

I know it made sense for them product line wise to simplify so that they wouldn’t make loads of models which no fucker bought, Gretchin freebooters were pretty useless and cost enough in points that you couldn’t afford enough better units to balance them out.
But I enjoyed reading the new and really specific unit types in White Dwarf.
The IG are, for the most part, a well-trained, decently-equipped, professional military force. The annual tithe requires planets to cough up about 10% of their military strength, typically the best 10% because governors really don't want to piss off the Administratum. They're quite capable of handling all but the worst threats by themselves, everything from rebellions to minor Ork incursions to even the Tau thanks to the fact nobody brings as many heavy weapons and combat vehicles to the battlefield as they do. The reason they get such a bad rap is because people assume TT is all of the actual galaxy, when in reality aside from the Orks, Tau (localized almost entirely to the Eastern Fringe), and various cultist factions your typical Guardsman would never, ever see any of those things in his entire career.

Naturally there are exceptions since shit does go wrong and its time to send in everything at hand, and the Imperium needs warm bodies of any sort to throw into a meat grinder and so they'll levy whatever the hell they feel like and give them just the most basic of training and gear, but such is war in a galaxy of eternal war. But even so the Imperium is going to try and call upon the Space Marines to do the absolute worst of the fighting.

Fun fact: in the various RPG games flak armor beats out everything but carapace in terms of protection against explosives, which statistically in war are the number one killer of infantrymen. Just some food for thought there.
 
So this podcast happened a few weeks ago
"wah, I got death threats, my family is german, blah blah blah" at around the 40 minute mark.

Now he's uploaded this(most of the video is him talking about needing to make money), 20 minute mark is when he starts in about it again.
"I didn't mean to insult or antagonize anyone" but... you did. Claims he wanted to engage in an "open discussion" when his entire video was a lopsided clearly biased argument complaining about people playing the bad guys in historical games. Outright lies about not including his personal opinion in the video... fucking bullshit. If that were the case then why did he say his entire position on the matter was due to being german a month ago? "it bothers me that some viewers thought it was an attack on their hobby or personal choices" well maybe because that's entirely what the fucking video was? He included nothing about the other side, didn't ask any members of the community for their opinions before posting the video so he could include other viewpoints, and didn't even acknowledge that there could be other opinions besides his own.
 
Also commissars don't just shoot people they're not there just to prevent heresy that there is a advisory council for the commanding officers.
Just shooting your own soldiers for absolutely no reason would actually get you send the court
 
Also commissars don't just shoot people they're not there just to prevent heresy that there is a advisory council for the commanding officers.
Just shooting your own soldiers for absolutely no reason would actually get you send the court
I thought the point was that they also shot guardsmen to inspire a sense of fear?

That’s how it is framed as a trigger for a combat bonus in Dawn of War anyway.

I don’t recall it being a rule in any tabletop codexes, but I haven’t read all of them.
 
I thought the point was that they also shot guardsmen to inspire a sense of fear?

That’s how it is framed as a trigger for a combat bonus in Dawn of War anyway.

I don’t recall it being a rule in any tabletop codexes, but I haven’t read all of them.
There's usually a tabletop rule(10th currently as it is well) where a commissar can shoot a model to force a unit out of battleshock. Previously it would have been a morale test or whatever in other editions. https://wahapedia.ru/wh40k10ed/factions/astra-militarum/Commissar

But no, the commissars aren't supposed to be going around just shooting people. They're supposed to keep people in line, making people dead for no reason is just making the enemy's work easier. If you read Ciaphas Cain, he actually hates shooting people unless it's the only recourse, and notes that commissars who do frequently pull that crap usually end up getting shot in the back mysteriously in the middle of combat eventually. Regiments actually liking Cain is noted as an oddity, and other commissars in the series are a bit more ruthless and by the book, but even they aren't normally just shooting people for no reason either.
 
There's usually a tabletop rule(10th currently as it is well) where a commissar can shoot a model to force a unit out of battleshock. Previously it would have been a morale test or whatever in other editions. https://wahapedia.ru/wh40k10ed/factions/astra-militarum/Commissar

But no, the commissars aren't supposed to be going around just shooting people. They're supposed to keep people in line, making people dead for no reason is just making the enemy's work easier. If you read Ciaphas Cain, he actually hates shooting people unless it's the only recourse, and notes that commissars who do frequently pull that crap usually end up getting shot in the back mysteriously in the middle of combat eventually. Regiments actually liking Cain is noted as an oddity, and other commissars in the series are a bit more ruthless and by the book, but even they aren't normally just shooting people for no reason either.
Yeah, I didn’t think they just did it for laughs.

There is no shortage of actual heretics or chaos cultists to legitimately shoot if they want to kill for kicks.

It was more of a thing to indicate the general ultra zealotry and devotion required to progress in the ranks of the imperium.
Plus a dig at officers in the WW1 trenches and some WW2 battles in which commanding officers did shoot kids with “shell shock” or who had just frozen with fear.

Games Workshop and Fleetway were physically close in the early days and strongly influenced each other as they were all nerdy guys drinking in the same London pubs after work.

Pat Mills, one of the main creators behind 2000 AD also wrote Charley’s war, a powerfully anti war comic set in WW1.
I should think he gave them some ideas on how to make the Guard especially grim.
 
Working on these really janky looking war dog proxies Ghamak sent me. Not really feeling the paint, will probably strip them. They are broken on a few of the spikey parts too, like most of the toe spikes and the smokestack spike on one of the exhaust ports. This was a real shame because these prints were actually a bit expensive and took awhile to arrive, since he had to ship them from overseas. Pretty disappointed with how they showed up and how little detail is actually on them, they don't look nearly as cool in person as they did on the 3D print scan display. And they are much smaller than I thought they'd be.

In any case, I decided to try a little bit of freehand chaos star action on the shoulders. It turned out really shitty. I will almost certainly strip and re-do all of this. They aren't even close to being done anyway though...



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Easy. Kasrkin in a game set up similar to Republic Commando.

Come on we know they can't make them like that anymore.

Comissars were never portrayed as shooting people for the lolz, they shot fleeing guardsmen and planetary governors that were up to war profiteering and such. It just got memed into an overblown state.

They will nerf out Havocs for Space marine 2 because Gay Wokeshop squatted Devastators and forgot to give them Primaris Lascannoneers and split Heavy Bolter to Intercessors, Multi Melta to Eradicators, Plasma cannons to Hellblasters, and Missile Launchers to the Desolators.

Even in the better days od gaming, assymetric balance was hard. With a tranny lead writer, I am not sure they can even get mirror faction pvp right.
 
Warhammer's biggest wanker, Guy from Midwinter Minis has made a little video, something of a 'state of the union address' with regard to a number of topics, or, as Guy himself describes it, in his typically cloying, smarmy, pretending-to-be-your-bezzie-mate style. 'a good ol' chat about lots of interesting topics in this chilled, casual channel update'.

The vibes are off.


He starts by giving us an update as to the fate of his 'body horror land raider', a model that he once braggadociously referred to as 'one of the most famous and recognisable Warhammer conversions in the world', and that he refers to in this video as 'one of the most infamous Warhammer models out there'.

Guy, if you're reading this - this is a converted Nurgle predator, made by David Soper.

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All of the detail on it was painstakingly sculpted by hand, out of green stuff. It's also quite lovely and I love his cheery little grin. It has appeared multiple times in White Dwarf, as well as several official Warhammer army books, including, I believe, the much-beloved blue 'How To Paint Citadel Miniatures' book from the '90s. It also won the Slayer Sword and gold at Golden Daemon in 1990. Your land raider, by comparison, has not won such accolades. You literally even uploaded a video to your YouTube channel of it, a month ago, failing to do so.

Now, I'm admittedly not any kind of Warhammer authority, but if I had to pick out a miniature that could be accurately described as 'one of the most famous and instantly recognisable Warhammer conversions ever', there's only one Nurgle tank that I'd be picking, and it wouldn't be the one with a load of craft store cabochons and plastic, Chinese sweatshop-made Incredible Hulk arms hotglued onto it.

Anyway, Guy informs us that 'despite some impotent rage from Reddit' it wasn't a scam, and was in fact, won by literally the saddest family in the entire world, who got into Warhammer during the pandemic and all claim to be Midwinter Minis super-fans. If I were Guy, I probably wouldn't have included the bit with the teenage daughter talking about 'fingering the butthole', but y'know, different strokes for different folks.

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I also wonder whether the wife just, by sheer happenstance, was wearing her favourite 'Midwinter Minis' T-shirt when he dropped by, or whether Guy, known egomaniac, brought it with him and told her to wear it for the video. I don't know about you, but I have my theories. Honestly, the whole interaction between him, Hattie and the winner and his wife has an uncomfortable, unspoken 'swinger's party' vibe to it that I do not like.

Guy also whines about being snubbed by Games Workshop, after Battletech gave him a load of free stuff and slobbered all over his balls at a convention. 'I've made over 200 videos on GW products over six years and they don't even give me the courtesy of responding to my e-mails'. As if they fucking owe him something. I would like to point out that in this very video, Guy has previously recommended a dragon miniature from a company called Dungeons and Lasers, on the grounds of it being far cheaper than Games Workshop's cheapest dragon and of about equivalent quality.

Hmm. I fucking wonder why Games Workshop wouldn't want to do business with you, Guy. It is a mystery. 🤔

We also learn that Guy drives an electric car and that Hattie is a Disney adult. Because of course he does, the ponce, and of course she is, the basic bitch. I get the feeling that Guy doesn't like a partner that challenges him intellectually, but that's just conjecture on my part. You went from 'a doctor' to 'a Disney girlie'.

Heartbreakingly, for anyone hoping for an upcoming 'Midwinter Minis - homelessness arc', Guy has also informed us that his landlady has agreed to give him a further two years on his tenancy, so we sha'n't be seeing videos with clickbait titles like, "Can I REALLY paint a Start Collecting box with only free sachets of ketchup from McDonalds and my own piss and tears?"

The undisputed highlight of the video, though, is when he channels his inner deputy head schoolteacher and gives all us meanie trolls a good telling off.



I'm a big fan of the 'stupid rumours and spreading of harmful misinformation' line, because to me, it seems like the obvious way he could debooonk all these so-called stupid rumours and all this harmful misinformation, would be by being open and transparent. He could post the DMs between him and Hattie and him and that tranny, Dana Howl, and show that it was all entirely on the up-and-up, and there was nothing sleazy or incriminating about them whatsoever.

The fact that he doesn't, and in fact, doesn't seek to explain the situation any further at all is sus as fuck. I mean, I know people are entitled to their private lives, but if you're a public figure, you kind of make that sort of stuff public, especially when you separate from your wife and kids, whom you've plastered all over your YouTube channel, and then, five minutes later, some new bitch pops up with no explanation whatsoever.

I wish Penny would be like Count Dankula's ex and come out and say, "Yeah, he did this, this and this," but she's decided to remain silent. The fact of the matter is that the timeline we have shows Guy leaving his wife, while she was pregnant with their twins - something that is statisically quite common with narcissistic men (although trooning out is more de rigueur now), when they realise they will no longer be the centre of attention in their woman's life - and then along comes Hattie with no explanation. She doesn't really make a big contribution to the channel, and her painting, while serviceable (and certainly a lot better than Guy's) isn't really anything to write home about. What do you expect people to think?

I dunno, man, if you want to talk about disgusting, morally abhorrent behaviour...
 
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that nurgle tank he made is - I'm so sorry, I know I am not some world class painter myself - But that thing is HIDEOUS. It looks absolutely terrible. I normally would never call someone elses' painting "terrible", but I make an exception for that THING. It's not "cool gross", it's just gross. And very amateurishly finished. It looks like it actually stinks.
 
I've just noticed he changed the thumbnail. Originally, it looked like this:

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Do you think he wanted to avoid the obvious connotations of putting his face next to the word 'SCAM' in big red letters?
 
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