Warhammer 40k

[p1138]

I can at least see why there's not a lot of massive bombing campaigns in gw's book simply due to the fact that void Shields exist over large Hive section so you really can't bomb something when someone has a massive void feel they can just block most of your.

even though I enjoy the ghost novels it really annoys me when Dan abnett forgets grenades are a thing.

for some reason the Imperial Guard is incapable of working with the Imperial Navy because angry shouting matches.

none of these people have ever picked up a book on combined arms Doctrine or a single book on Modern Combat

Yes, shields exist plus there's also tons of underground areas. But it still doesn't change that even their idea of WW1/WW2 in space gets incredibly fucking dumb at times(it's not as if anything else they come up with is some great literary work, it's all pulp schlock).

I think the biggest reason for their lack of actual combined arms and modern combat, is again their focus on everything being early 20th century warfare in space with the bulk of it really being ww1. Close air support wasn't really a thing, maybe at best you'd be able to get some naval guns shooting at coastal targets, but beyond that it was mostly a ground campaign. Unfortunately I think if GW did ever bother to have their authors write anything resembling modern 21st century combat doctrine, we'd get even more bitching from the fanbase about it.

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

I think the biggest reason for their lack of actual combined arms and modern combat, is again their focus on everything being early 20th century warfare in space with the bulk of it really being ww1. Close air support wasn't really a thing, maybe at best you'd be able to get some naval guns shooting at coastal targets, but beyond that it was mostly a ground campaign. Unfortunately I think if GW did ever bother to have their authors write anything resembling modern 21st century combat doctrine, we'd get even more bitching from the fanbase about it.

Ciaphas Cain novels actually do have combined arms Doctrine especially during the march of the Liberator.

actually performs like a heavy mechanized infantry unit when necessary they dig in but they're still capable of using the light vehicles to strike and flank the enemy

 

[p1138]

Ciaphas Cain novels actually do have combined arms Doctrine especially during the march of the Liberator.

actually performs like a heavy mechanized infantry unit when necessary they dig in but they're still capable of using the light vehicles to strike and flank the enemy

Yet still gets basically no aerial or orbital support the entire time. Again, it's not modern 21st century combined arms. It's not even late 20th century combined arms.

 

[Second Missing Primarch]

there's plenty of members of the Imperial Guard who can body members of the custodians Ciaphas Cain hero of the Imperium

Cain wouldn't kill a Custodian singlehandedly. He'd just distract the banana long enough for Jurgen to get in there with the melta.

 

[The tired cat]

Cain wouldn't kill a Custodian singlehandedly. He'd just distract the banana long enough for Jurgen to get in there with the melta.

Either that or watch a whole ass statue fall on the banana boi

 

[Bonesjones]

Yet still gets basically no aerial or orbital support the entire time. Again, it's not modern 21st century combined arms. It's not even late 20th century combined arms.

Because there's nothing heroic about calling in an airstrike or artillery support. Being mad they try to keep things entertaining sounds like the problem a retarded 12 year old has. Unless they changed something significant in the past 20 years the lore has always been unreliable narratives about events happening millions of miles away, so they don't have to explain away every tiny inconsistency that their autistic fans try to put on them.

 

[Snekposter]

Unfortunately I think if GW did ever bother to have their authors write anything resembling modern 21st century combat doctrine, we'd get even more bitching from the fanbase about it.

Its called the Tau and the fanbase has never shut up about them. The Taros Campaign was exactly that for both sides and the Tau proved so superior at it not even multiple Spess Mehrine companies showing up could save the IG, especially after the Tau response to seeing Warhound titans take the field was to just airstrike one into oblivion with a Tigershark variant dedicated to killing Imperial super-heavies.

 

[daniel day]

Yes, shields exist plus there's also tons of underground areas. But it still doesn't change that even their idea of WW1/WW2 in space gets incredibly fucking dumb at times(it's not as if anything else they come up with is some great literary work, it's all pulp schlock).

I think the biggest reason for their lack of actual combined arms and modern combat, is again their focus on everything being early 20th century warfare in space with the bulk of it really being ww1. Close air support wasn't really a thing, maybe at best you'd be able to get some naval guns shooting at coastal targets, but beyond that it was mostly a ground campaign. Unfortunately I think if GW did ever bother to have their authors write anything resembling modern 21st century combat doctrine, we'd get even more bitching from the fanbase about it.

explain to me how theyd sell a tabletop war game if the novels they commission are absolutely not related at all to the themes of the setting. The current status quo of war is a feature, not a bug. If every fight that was talked about was some no-named IG guy dropping a nuke on a Xenos population, it would get old really quick.

There are more books written about SEALS and not about artillerymen for a reason, even if artillery is a better weapon of war.

 

[Lightning's Heraldry]

A bit off topic, but you guys thing GW is pushing Raptors as a chapter?

Raptors are kind of old news and a lot of players like the theme. GW isn't pushing them so much as riding the bandwagon of a current popular fanbase obsession to make money. Whenever GW does something seemingly odd just think "how does this make money?" and you can probably come to an answer. The only exceptions are when GW is pushing an agenda, which is probably backed by, you guessed it, them being paid to do so.

anyone have some good articles on acrylic paint comparisons? I've always used citadel, but I've found their yellows and whites to be continually subpar. I've heard Vallejo is good, but I've seen a lot of the LGS' I go to starts to sell more Army Painter.

Take the artist paint pill and just buy Golden SoFlat or Liquitex Heavy Body Acrylics, learn what a pigment is and how it actually works and then never be beholden to garbage ass hobby tax again. You WILL get a better end product than anyone is selling if you are willing to learn your pigments and mix your own stuff.

I say this as someone who owns far too many different kind of paint, from Vallejo, ProAcryl, MiG, Tamiya, Mr Color, Citadel, Green Stuff World and even Alclad II.

If you want the truly based option then you can move onto artist grade oil paints and experience the freedom that comes with mono-pigment paints with truly transparent binders. Cadmiums are not the boogeyman you think they are and haven't been for a very long time. Most modern paints are pretty non-toxic to anyone who isn't a brush licker. Just varnish your models if you are that worried about dust or something.

Spoiler

Of course if you are a brush licker though then lol lmao you deserve the tax.

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

Take the artist paint pill and just buy Golden SoFlat or Liquitex Heavy Body Acrylics, learn what a pigment is and how it actually works and then never be beholden to garbage ass hobby tax again. You WILL get a better end product than anyone is selling if you are willing to learn your pigments and mix your own stuff.

I still find it interesting at all of you guys paid gws full stop pay for paint I don't pay for anything that I can't fit in my pocket.

 

[Penne Dreadful]

I still find it interesting at all of you guys paid gws full stop pay for paint I don't pay for anything that I can't fit in my pocket.

We can tell by the triangle.

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

We can tell by the triangle.

sorry I don't care about the prophets of multibillion-dollar corporations that have destroyed all small businesses in my town I literally could care less if they lose a small amount of money out of the balance sheets boohoo is the world's tiniest violin

 

[AncientPhosphur]

sorry I don't care about the prophets of multibillion-dollar corporations that have destroyed all small businesses in my town I literally could care less if they lose a small amount of money out of the balance sheets boohoo is the world's tiniest violin

I mean… GW is overwhelmingly a white male hobby and given current demographics and GW’s license profit I imagine it won’t make a dent in their stuff compared to say Walmart with their theft levels…

However… still very nigger of you

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

However… still very nigger of you

poor poor GW they might actually start having reasonable prices instead of charging $170 for

Baneblade​

.
all start giving them actual money again when they stop promoting homosexual creeps with the disgusting Marines
here's the simple fact of the matter GW keeps sending more and more record breaking profits every year but for some reason they need to increase the price of everything repeatedly so until prices go down back to where they were from 2010 I'm going to continuously buy my plastic models of totally legitimate second party sellers.

is this thing I would have no problem paying $15 a month for a Warhammer plus if it was an actual access to absolutely every single one of the books and no limit to how many devices I could put it on.

 

[augment]

I would be more impressed if you somehow managed to steal GW's chief financial officer's car than just pocketing a pot of nuln oil to stick it to the man.

 

[Lightning's Heraldry]

I still find it interesting at all of you guys paid gws full stop pay for paint I don't pay for anything that I can't fit in my pocket.

Why would I steal? I'm white.
If I really want to own the libs (GW) I can do that by 3d printing and buying artist grade non-hobby paints as I described above.
I own comparatively few plastic models in any case, as I prefer pewter. Give you one guess who doesn't make pewter models anymore.
No, Old World reprints don't count.

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

Why would I steal? I'm white.
If I really want to own the libs (GW) I can do that by 3d printing and buying artist grade non-hobby paints as I described above.

I'm mainly ethnically Eastern European and Irish on both sides of my family so I'm not white sadly so stealing to be the second nature.

I do have some stuff I have 3D printed over the years but mainly I build really nice terrain with Woodworking anda combination of rocks and mortar.
the only annoying thing is it's really really heavy Terrain features and when we're moving it around my friends basement it gets kind of tiresome.

also GW doesn't make any Sabbat worlds models so I've had two 3D print a lot of them because me and my friend are doing the entire sabat worlds Crusade with our group.

I'm advocating that we start at the beginning of the stuff with Slaydo but he wants to start with the ghost novels beginning.

don't know how we're going to do the stumble guns but we'll get to that when we get to that part of the Crusade

 

[p1138]

Because there's nothing heroic about calling in an airstrike or artillery support. Being mad they try to keep things entertaining sounds like the problem a retarded 12 year old has. Unless they changed something significant in the past 20 years the lore has always been unreliable narratives about events happening millions of miles away, so they don't have to explain away every tiny inconsistency that their autistic fans try to put on them.

I never said I was mad about it, I was pointing out that it's stupid.

I still find it interesting at all of you guys paid gws full stop pay for paint I don't pay for anything that I can't fit in my pocket.

Because I don't want my life ruined over stealing a fucking pot of paint or a mini like a damned mongoloid.

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

also just finished Dead Men Walking and I would say it's one of the better guard books along with the shadow sword and baneblade

 

[Van Darkholme]

Imagine stealing Citadel paint pots like a fucking nigger instead of just buying the better and cheaper Vallejo paints