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Judge Dredd said:
Didn't this happen with Battletech? All the drama over getting a popular writer fired, getting trans lore into Battletech, etc. And it turned out to be the work of one angry nut?
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Yes. Someone who was faking being a tranny specifically because it made it impossible to criticize him. He was so bad the writer (Blaine Pardoe) had to get a restraining order against the guy. Then it was found out that this fake troon troll was doing it all while also being a CGL employee/freelancer and was spearheading the push to fag up Battletech.

CGL has since just doubled and tripled down, for example turning their demo scene discord (the discord dedicated to people running demo games at FLGSes to get people into Battletech) into a doxing and harassment discord with IIRC the same troll posting about how he goes to conventions armed now despite that being against convention rules, just in case he needs to murder a conservative battletech fan. This was a semi-official CGL discord and a HUGE number of their staff was in there and said nothing or joined in on the doxing of various "chud" youtubers.

Here's a quick video rundown of it:

And some more in depth rundowns and interviews with the guy over it:



Meanwhile he went on to make his own Battletech, with submarines and hookers.

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Oh, and in other news, and a bit off topic but while he was mentioned... that Pardoe guy is working with a comic book writer who worked on the Punisher to make, well, "Death Wish 2025: SJW delenda est."

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Braxton Knox was a veteran, a university professor, a conservative family man—a good person, commanding the respect of those who knew him. Until the day when one innocent slip of the tongue brought down the merciless wrath of the woke social justice mob—ultimately costing him his career, his family, his home, and almost his life.

Unfortunately for the SJWs, they chose the wrong person to abuse. They expected Braxton to do what so many do: roll over and take it. It never dawned on them that he would fight back.

Braxton unleashes a war against those who sought to ruin him. His unique brand of vigilante justice is vicious, violent, vindicating, and fraught with risk…

… but at this point, he’s got nothing left to lose.

From the minds of legendary comic writer Mike Baron (Flash, The Punisher) and political thriller/sci-fi author Blaine L. Pardoe comes the story of a new vigilante in an age that demands such a person. It is a mix of Falling Down, Death Wish, the Equalizer, and Reacher amped up on energy drinks and rage. Ripped from today’s headlines, Tenure is a powerful story of justice, vengeance, and open rebellion against everything deemed politically correct.

Braxton isn’t the hero we want… he’s the hero we need.
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Just in case you're wondering why the wokies stalked him so hard he had to get a restraining order against them.
 
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Oh so that's why Pandaemonium isn't out yet, the King in Yellow has to be rewritten to be the Queen in Yellow so Serena Williams can play Constantina Valdor on Amazon Prime.
 
I think the EC look of pink vs purple is just one thing. But if im going to drop 350 AUD on some EC, the crack addict look (which is accurate i suppose) is a little off-putting. Maybe the answer is get regular CSM or Space Marines and paint them purple and gold (3d printing pauldrons)?

If im debating it this much, the answer is probably no. But I'd love to see some of your paint jobs to maybe sway me back.
 
AncientPhosphur said:
Agreed but I still use the broke Custodes rules for kill team as a house rule just because. 2 Custodes and 4 sisters SHOULD rip apart everyone!
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I play 40k less and less by the month now, but it still gives me great pleasure watching a Custodes player begin seething when his faultless team of gold bananas fail to delete the whole table by the end of turn 1. Sometimes the dice roll for the little guy.
 
Mr Clark said:
I think the EC look of pink vs purple is just one thing. But if im going to drop 350 AUD on some EC, the crack addict look (which is accurate i suppose) is a little off-putting. Maybe the answer is get regular CSM or Space Marines and paint them purple and gold (3d printing pauldrons)?

If im debating it this much, the answer is probably no. But I'd love to see some of your paint jobs to maybe sway me back.
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A good while ago I had seen some art of a Noise Marine, It had Pinkish/Maroon/Razzmatazz armor with like a black leather trenchcoat and was smoking a joint with bright turquoise fire, with a similarly bright turquoise mohawk. When EC get their individual release I might aim to get a box of noise marines or a lord exultant or something and that would be the color scheme I would want to do
Wish I could find that picture
 
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Mr Clark said:
I think the EC look of pink vs purple is just one thing. But if im going to drop 350 AUD on some EC, the crack addict look (which is accurate i suppose) is a little off-putting. Maybe the answer is get regular CSM or Space Marines and paint them purple and gold (3d printing pauldrons)?

If im debating it this much, the answer is probably no. But I'd love to see some of your paint jobs to maybe sway me back.
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Resident Third Legion appreciator, expert and apologist.
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The have a lot of schemes, I’ll share some of mine when I’m done work. So you can see what I did.

No consistency, the purples are blending and washed in a way that it looks like each guy is mixing his own paint and that the purple has soaked into every recess of the armor.
 
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Here’s what I’m talking about. Obviously the same force but upon closer inspection each guy is his own thing, the Raptor has crudely modified and painted over his designation, Lucius is being himself, the Dreadnought (FUCKING LOL HAHA GW) still has his honor markings but neat things are happening and the Chaos Lord has ditched the legion colours entirely.

Their pinks and purples are all different too, caused by an inconsistent and erratic drybrush of white or grey underneath all that, done over that black primer, making those layers and their shadows pop more. Soaking a watered-down pink into the recesses of purple is also a favorite technique, which I used on Lucius’s elaborate decals. Then I do a purple wash and like the chemicals in that one Eidolon short, it hits all those different pinks and purples differently and yields highly individualized, yet still “uniform” EC
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Here’s my two Lucius models. Finally completed the 40k-era one.
 
augment said:
I play 40k less and less by the month now, but it still gives me great pleasure watching a Custodes player begin seething when his faultless team of gold bananas fail to delete the whole table by the end of turn 1. Sometimes the dice roll for the little guy.
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Unironically have a friend who all he does is paint and assemble and talk about how he's prepping to play games but very rarely does. Him and a buddy played Custodes v Ad Mech on tabletop sim. Turn 1 he got to his charge phase, failed every charge roll and quit. Mind you this was insanely bad luck, like rolling nearly nothing but 1s on 4 different charges. But rather than say "I'm Custodes I'll kill you all next turn when I can walk up to you" he refused to continue. I even suggested that, for the sake of letting the game continue we let one or two charges succeed anyways which Ad Mech was perfectly ok with. He wasn't interested and quit anyways. This is someone who plays Guard and is normally bitching about how he hates hitting on 4s despite rolling a shit ton of dice. He gets the elite army who nearly always succeeds but also can't accept how swingy they are.
Judge Dredd said:
Also, hyper elite armies are a flawed concept. It's why I never really liked the idea of Knights from a gameplay standpoint. It just doesn't sound like a fun game where you kill 1 or 2 models the whole game, and where victory comes down to "did you bring lots of anti-tank weapons?". Even space marine first companies had this problem in third, but at least I heard stories of it being a different experience from normal 40k, and the SM player feeling each loss was a major blow to their combat effectiveness.
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Knights I think are a failed concept because of how awkwardly they interact with the rest of the game. I only played one game as knights and I hated it. Despite paying a premium their guns are no better than what you get on a few cheap tanks. Their armor is weaker than other vehicles. A base Sv 3+ and 5+ Invuln is pathetic. The high wound count is meant to offset it, but when your opponent's army has nothing else to shoot it does fuck all for you.

Something like Custodes, or even a lesser extent Space Marines, do work because they don't require special rules to make it on the table. Elite armies always have a trade off of losing maneuverability for consistency. Even if your Elite units are really fast, if you are limited in how many you bring you can't be everywhere at once. While 2+ on everything is the most consistent, it still means when something goes wrong it goes catastrophically wrong. A failed charge on some chaff is not a big deal. A failed charge on a 200pt unit means you probably don't have a back up plan. Being out of position is even more punishing. Every failed save and every miss hurts a bit more. They can be balanced, but the reason people don't like them is because people like a death match. I know points win games, it's a strategy game, but at the end of the day what people actually care about is killing models. Armies like custodes mean only one person is really allowed to kill models. To win the other player is expected to out maneuver, and out score them. This is easy enough to balance by point costing units properly so that both armies have a similar damage output/survivability, but people don't want that. They want to sweep models off the board. That's why game have gotten bigger over time.
 
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who was faking being a tranny
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All trannies are faking it.
Male Idiot said:
He looks like a pretend Tim Pool. So safe yet so edgy, wow!
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ADB is the one person on the whole planet that desperately wanted his dad to molest him.

He's just about the worst thing that has happened to 40k by a large margin, though at least there's someone at GW that hates his guts and keeps sabotaging everything he sets in motion.
 
The tired cat said:
Can someone explain the deal with the ADB chap and why everyone acts like he shotgunned their family?
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He's to 40k what the jeet is to Castlevania and DMC.

He's a woke bugman that, stereotypically, identifies with demons and bugs more than humans, projects hangups he has about his father onto Imperial authority figures (usually the God Emperor), likely is the bottom getting pegged in every relationship he's ever had and basically necessitates years of rewrites, retcons and backpeddaling by GW for every retarded decision he makes.

It's a genuine crime that GW would promote this subhuman as Head of Narrative.
 
regalterry said:
He's to 40k what the jeet is to Castlevania and DMC.

He's a woke bugman that, stereotypically, identifies with demons and bugs more than humans, projects hangups he has about his father onto Imperial authority figures (usually the God Emperor), likely is the bottom getting pegged in every relationship he's ever had and basically necessitates years of rewrites, retcons and backpeddaling by GW for every retarded decision he makes.

It's a genuine crime that GW would promote this subhuman as Head of Narrative.
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Okay, next time try explaining without sounding like a 4chan retard. Though, reading that 1d6chan posts, the guy really has huge hang ups on Big E.
 
The tired cat said:
Okay, next time try explaining without sounding like a 4chan retard. Though, reading that 1d6chan posts, the guy really has huge hang ups on Big E.
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The 1d6chan stuff is correct, although in the grand scheme of things(and ignoring his excuse about why femstodes weren't in the ultimate guide) he's not any worse off than any other BL author that's written more than a couple of books over the years. There are plenty that are for more egregious, and laughably so that they'll basically never write for GW again(hopefully) https://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/C.S._Goto compare that to ADBs page and it makes ADB basically nothing by comparison.

If you want a consistently decent author who doesn't shove his retarded shit into his writing, I'd suggest Chris Wraight
 
The tired cat said:
Okay, next time try explaining without sounding like a 4chan retard. Though, reading that 1d6chan posts, the guy really has huge hang ups on Big E.
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That’s all true though.

ADB insists on pushing the “muh freedom fighters” narrative onto CSM and Abaddon, rather than the heavy metal, over the top evil space knights that literally everyone who likes them knows and loves. He will always, have a squad of quirky yet likeable diverse MCs with a token human woman who is treated as an equal. If that sounds like that awful Bad Batch show, you’d be correct.

However, unlike that mohawked retard who did the Lelith novel and put Sargon into 40k, ADB has talent, that formula he uses was good, the first time. Night Lords is great.

It was after Night Lords that problems started to develop, but what’s bad about him making slop, as opposed to that retard Abnett, is that ADB can still make good stuff. Betrayer is one of the greatest HH novels, even the two Black Legion books have some interesting elements. He’s just someone who never should’ve been given slack in his leash.

He also openly fetishizes Serena Williams, which is so, so telling. That tweet is in the thread highlights if you wanna see it.
p1138 said:
The 1d6chan stuff is correct, although in the grand scheme of things(and ignoring his excuse about why femstodes weren't in the ultimate guide) he's not any worse off than any other BL author that's written more than a couple of books over the years. There are plenty that are for more egregious, and laughably so that they'll basically never write for GW again(hopefully) https://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/C.S._Goto compare that to ADBs page and it makes ADB basically nothing by comparison.

If you want a consistently decent author who doesn't shove his retarded shit into his writing, I'd suggest Chris Wraight
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Wraight is a pro, White Scars, EC, Death Guard, the man writes very different factions and unlike ADB, doesn’t use the same template for his novels.

It’s a crime Lords of Silence didn’t get the trilogy treatment, like Word Bearers, Thousand Sons and Night Lords got.
 
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The tired cat said:
next time try explaining without sounding like a 4chan retard
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I am a (former) 4chan retard.
Humble Architect said:
ADB has talent
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Talent is worth nothing if he keeps using his novels to rag about his daddy issues. He's been using BL novels in lieu of therapy for more than a decade, and it's tiresome.

Also, holy shit, I just saw a recent picture of him while googling and his metamorphosis into the perfect bugman is almost complete. All he needs is a cringe Nintedno tattoo somewhere.
Humble Architect said:
Wraight is a pro, White Scars, EC, Death Guard, the man writes very different factions and unlike ADB, doesn’t use the same template for his novels.
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And unlike so many other BL writers, he can write convincing religious characters that can and do rise above their own flaws and doubts through the power of faith.

Wraight should have been Head of Narrative.
 
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