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Übertroon said:
I don't think anyone is going to argue it's a good thing. More about how you probably shouldn't get the ick from implied rape in a setting where mass genocide, flaying, mutilation, sex demons, and a faction of raping psychopaths is common occurence.

I honestly find the attempt at soliciting attention by making them all young women more upsetting.
We all know felinids are supposed to be as repulsive as the cast in the Cats movie
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I think the more heinous part of it is that looking from afar it looks kind of wholesome abhuman brigade but once you zoom in it's full of horrific shit. Legit Emperor's Children kind of image.
 
Ratling are an untapped goldmine for footfags when the Tolkien estate gets uppity with copyright.
 
Miriam Margoyles said:
You gave yourself away a bit there, dude.

To you, rape is just another hypothetical on the 'grimdark things that could happen' list.

I don't know anybody who got flayed or kidnapped and tortured by drukhari IRL, but I do know plenty of people who've been raped.

That's why it's different, and that's why people might have an issue with it, when they just want to paint their plastic toy soldiers in peace.
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Why you around so many rape victims? That implies you're also hanging around a bunch of rapists to end up in proximity of so many victims.

I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but you must live in a shithole.
 
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I finally finished off my two tactical squads from my Alpha Legion army. Took me almost a year of on and off painting. Here's a couple of them. When I get some touchup work and varnishing, I'll post a pic of all 20 of them.
 
StevieLasVegas said:
Is it wrong that I miss the darker blue the Alpha Legion used to use?

Minis look great btw @Edward "Caesar" Sallow
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Alpha Legion in 30k have metallic blue for most official art and guides by Geedubs. I've tried with their contrast paints in the past, and are not the biggest fan, and I also find that the aquarius blue I use make them more distinct. It's also Alpha Legion and Heresy, so slightly differing color schemes make sense from a lore perspective. I'm considering trying the metallic look with shades instead of contrast paints for the command squad I'm going to work on next.
 
Miriam Margoyles said:
You gave yourself away a bit there, dude.

To you, rape is just another hypothetical on the 'grimdark things that could happen' list.

I don't know anybody who got flayed or kidnapped and tortured by drukhari IRL, but I do know plenty of people who've been raped.

That's why it's different, and that's why people might have an issue with it, when they just want to paint their plastic toy soldiers in peace.
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We talking rape rape or "I got skeeved out when the fat dude in IT talked to me" rape?
 
Listened to the Lucius audio drama, “The Embrace of Pain” and I liked it, he sounds like Jason Isaacs (the true Primarch of the Third) and his arrogance is more “I’m better than you” rather than what people seem to think he’s all about.

He also shows why he earned the rank of Captain, Lucius expertly coordinates resistance against a Nurgle daemon incursion and uses his rep/curse to keep his underlings in line.
 
Edward Caesar Sallow said:
Alpha Legion in 30k have metallic blue for most official art and guides by Geedubs. I've tried with their contrast paints in the past, and are not the biggest fan, and I also find that the aquarius blue I use make them more distinct. It's also Alpha Legion and Heresy, so slightly differing color schemes make sense from a lore perspective. I'm considering trying the metallic look with shades instead of contrast paints for the command squad I'm going to work on next.
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Fair enough. For the few minis I painted as Alpha Legion, I used P3's Coal Black.
 
Penne Dreadful said:
The problem isn't that it's tasteless, it's that it's not there principally to be edgy or grimdark, it's there as the artist's barely-disguised fetish.
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Exactly. There is a great comparison I have of when issues such as rape are presented as fetish fuel and presented as a horror.

The game Cthulhutech has an adventure where the players are attacked by furry succubi servants of Shub-Niggurath. Failure to resist them results in the player receiving “mindblowing sex” and if you are female, pregnancy. There’s no tension, no fear in the writing. It’s a scene out of rape fetish erotica.

God’s Teeth, a Delta Green campaign, tasks agents with going to a foster home and killing all the adults there. If asked why, you are presented with a pink folder with a cartoon cat on it. Inside are photos taken at the home. This is description of the photos:

Trying to conjure what you saw, you can only imagine flipping the folder open, curious as to why you can’t hold a memory of doing it before. You are certain that, if you did that, you would find nothing inside except a rectangular portal to a huge, sucking void that draws your body and soul into it like a collapsing star. The pages will eat you if you open the folder again. The only thing more absolute than your terror is the knowledge that she was right.
They all have to die.
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You know exactly what are in those photos, but they are never detailed because it’s exploitation.

That’s why horror regarding stuff like rape is very hard to get right. Showing it, detailing it, will come across as exploitative even if the intent is to depict it as horrific.
 
Edward Caesar Sallow said:
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I finally finished off my two tactical squads from my Alpha Legion army. Took me almost a year of on and off painting. Here's a couple of them. When I get some touchup work and varnishing, I'll post a pic of all 20 of them.
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Based horus heresy player, do many people in this thread play horus heresy?

I've got 2-3k points of salamanders but I've never really counted thoroughly.

great models btw
 
Only tangentially on topic, but has anyone here played imperium maledictum and have some opinions on how it feels/plays?
 
W'rkncacnter said:
Based horus heresy player, do many people in this thread play horus heresy?

I've got 2-3k points of salamanders but I've never really counted thoroughly.

great models btw
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I haven't played in a while, but I've got HH Imperial Fists and Alpha Legion armies.
 
I have a passing interest in Horus Heresy but I don't even own a 2000pt 40k army yet. Buying into another system isn't really on the table for me, especially when it takes months for me to build up any motivation to paint. It sounds like a fun alternative to 40k. I typically enjoy playing Xenos more, but I can see myself playing Salamanders.
 
W'rkncacnter said:
Based horus heresy player, do many people in this thread play horus heresy?

I've got 2-3k points of salamanders but I've never really counted thoroughly.

great models btw
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My EC were an investment, carefully planned to get me into three game systems with only one army, KT, 40k and HH.

Lorewise the EC looked like this only months after the Istvaan fun and games so I had no problem mashing up the AoD box with CSM to make my army.
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My guys do lean into the HH aesthetic because that system does place value on the narrative, AKA no fucking Primaris bits, I hate those helmets on modern CSM trophy racks.
 
Got some Sisters of Silence paint questions I cant seem to find the answers to elsewhere

1. Cloak and hair colour scheme? Ive seen a lot of purple cloaks and black hair, but also red on both. Thoughts?
2. Aleya, what the fuck do you do with all the black? Black chest, cloak and hair but all different highlights?
 
I found a blog by Phil Sibbering, an illustrator who used to work at GW and Black Library. He has these pages and archives for his own space marine chapters based off his own head-cannon prior to 9th edition iirc and a public archive of canon and custom fan-made space marine chapters from random people.
This is the 1,000 Chapters Gallery Project: a collaboration between Dazzo and Philip Sibbering to collect up, and list, all the known canon and fan made loyalist chapters out there. Use the tabs above to navigate the Canon, DIY, and MIA galleries. Each marine image links to a chapter resource page. Most of the canon chapters link to the Lexicanum. The majority of fan made chapters link to an Index Astartes posted on Bolter and Chainsword’s Liber Astartes forum. A few link to fan sites, or a gallery of painted miniatures. Unfortunately some chapters have fallen, and no longer on the net, these are collected under MIA. Anargo Sector Project Archive
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https://1000chapters.com/canon/colours/tags/canon/
https://1000chapters.com/diy/colours/tags/diy/
https://philhammer.com/warhammer/40k/space-marines/reimaged-chapters/
https://philhammer.com/warhammer/40k/space-marines/philips-chapters/blood-eagles/
It is from the loosing tribes of the inter-tribe dome wars that the recruits of the Blood Eagles are drawn. Those young males who have lost the right to life through their father's failures, are marked for execution via death matches. Within the arena they are pitted against their own tribal brothers; else their female relatives be put to the sword. If they win their mothers and sisters (and occasionally daughters) are spared and taken into the winning tribes families.

All Blood Eagles start their journey to become a marine with the blood of their kin staining their hands, and the execution of the women folk of their fallen brothers seared into the minds. All Blood Eagles are filled with a deep self loathing and hatred born of this loss.

In time those who survive the arena may become all powerful marines, yet they do not take revenge on the winning tribes. Instead their spite is tempered by the veterans marines into ruthlessness of action, and when they are elevated to full battle brother they join the others and become the guardians of the system and enforce the draconian rules. They also stop all further building and artificially limit the tribes environment (this is to stop any contamination via potent biological agents thawing out from the ice). They also keep an eye on their female relatives and ensure they are treated well.
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The Chapter is non-codex and divided into two houses: the low house and the high house. The high house is basically analogous to the first company, consisting of all command and specialist marines. The low house is all the regular marines, divided into war bands led by a sergeant of the high house. The war bands are in a constant state of flux and change almost on a daily basis according to the results of the daily fights of morning practice. The marines fight all the time, both playful sparing and full on murderous rage (Bionics are common, though considered a sign of weakness and failure), but scores can only be settled during morning practice. Any killing outside morning practice is considered 'traitorous'.

In time of war, sergeants pick marines from those who are combat ready, and often pick whole 'gangs'. Gangs are marines who stick together and are doing well in the daily fights.

It is entirely possible that a marine can be killed by other marines in the daily fights, though often strong marines are not killed but join the winning gang. Powerful gang leaders become sergeants in time, and appoint a 'second' to run their gang (Killing/ beating a 'second' makes you a second).

Though psychotic, they understand that being part of a gang increases their chance of getting into the high house, therefore the keep those they need alive.
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