40k was actually dying for awhile from the same issues we're in a sort of GW renaissance right now actually. Those problems did not help WHFB and certainly contributed to the decline but also it's a more niche game and will never have the market share of 40k so people leaving affected it way more
Exactly, the problem is WHFB started with a 500 dollar barrier to entry instead of 100 or so. Most models being metal or finecast instead of plastic made things even worse.
40k is basically Space Marines vs Space Marines since it's inception. The only reason it doesn't seem that way now is because of other lower entry level armies as well as the wide availability of Start Collecting boxes.
All the Epic and Armageddon stuff was always a niche thing, they've sold more models as display pieces than have ever been used in games. It's just an excuse to bring them out in public every few years. I remember that happening even with the Armorcast stuff.
Around the time 8th edition came out, I remember someone saying they couldn't increase production any more because the power plant that fed GW couldn't power any more tooling. So they were physically capped at plastic making.
It comes down to Space Marines being both a boon and a burden. They make the game easy to get into, they are ubiquitous so everyone knows what to expect, and they function as a second currency. If you buy into an army you end up hating, trade it for marines. A box or two of tactical marines can be kitbashed into any other marine unit. The problem is no other army gets any where close to that level of support, so if your favorite side army ends up lack luster, you are fucked for years.
I know that I can separate art from the artist, but honestly? I don't think I can even listen to Stringstorm anymore. I think Bruva Alfabusa also cut ties with them over it.
We get it you like Night Lords you dont need to larp as their doomer mentality either
Im a bit late but its kinda funny how the female commissar Severina Raine was attempted to be astroturfed to the point where they gave her a model as a promo for her bookCanonically? No one cares. The important thing is that you're human, it doesn't matter what colour you are or what chromosomes you have. The hellish nature of everyday existence in the Warhammer 40,000 universe has, ironically, actually been a real boon for racial and sexual politics, because everybody has more pressing things to worry about.
However, that's a bit of a Thermian Argument, because honestly? You know and I know and everybody knows exactly why the artistic decision was made to depict that character as a black woman.
I don't actually have a problem with it, lorewise - the Astra Militarum ultimately just wants more meat for the grinder at the end of the day - but from a marketing perspective, I'm just noticing it more and more, and, frankly, it's starting to rankle and strike me as cynical pandering. I hasten to add that I'm not saying that I don't think there should EVER be a black protagonist or a female protagonist, it's just...
Well, it'd be nice to see a new Astra Militarum book come out from Black Library and it NOT have the most prominent person on the front cover be a woman in military fatigues.
Oh, but of course, she still has to be somewhat conventionally attractive, though, because they made Ursula Creed look like Miss Trunchbull, and nobody liked that.
Minka Lesk's model is also only intended to be a Sergeant in a unit of Cadian Shocktroops funnily enough, and somewhat a bit more meatier as a command squad member, but not by much, some people just use her model to kitbash Mira from the Space Marine vidya as a Cadian Castellan
What's that you want the Valhalla and 591st as models screw you.
Ironically the lower production stuff when it was made by only a few people is better quality than the new shit with the new team.
Lol the fuck is this? I had to read that twice.
(Why am I replying in reverse?)
Fuck I love Night Lords.
Or Bricky
Most of the traitor Primarch novels are good. Actually most of the Primarch novels are good except Guilliman's and Vulcan's.
Which is why I like it, because he's so morally conflicted at times about what's right versus... well, what's right. Eisenhorn was the same way (emphasis on the was part) which is what makes his fall from grace all the more emotional.
I mean, if she was created by Bile... seems like the sort of thing he'd do just for the hell of it.
Angels of Darkness with Chaplain Boreas and Astelan the Fallen is the same way. Astelan spends his whole interrogation telling Boreas how fucked up the Dark Angels are from their penchant for secret-keeping, only to get proven right at the end.
I don't think the newer stuff is higher production quality, and like I said I don't think there's a "team" behind it anymore either.
Yeah, that kind of shit is why I think this person is using AI at a minimum to write lyrics or just has no understanding of how to do so and had been relying on someone else previously.
Those are definitely the worst two.
I may have worded it poorly so let me reword it. The older stuff that is lower production is higher quality, limitation breeds creativity...sometimes. I'm pretty sure it was originally the one guy who had "hirelings" but eventually became an actual team.
I'd ask around but I'd probably be told to suck a lemon on Plebbit and 4chan...hmm, maybe. Doubt I'll get answers on DakkaDakka since it's mostly the wargaming side, and I don't know much about " Bolter and Chainsword" but I can try. I dislike making accounts but if it drives conversation...
What's the best one in your opinion? Haven't got around to reading the books lately, will remember to pirate a few sometime...
What army? I haven't gotten an army fully together yet and I haven't played Tabletop Simulator in years.
I'm not sure I'd recommend the third trilogy, it has some cool moments but a lot of the modern Dan Abnett writing sins starts rearing their head.
