I wasn't talking about tournament games at all. Not having anything to really deal with chaff or vehicles(and nothing for monsters), is a problem that has nothing to do with a meta chasing either. It's Timmy showing up at the game store with his big tyranid monster list because he thinks the monsters are cool and your army has no answer for it. Or a tank heavy guard list that isn't just 6 rogal dorns, or even an infantry heavy guard list and you just don't have anything to kill enough models to avoid just being swamped.
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There is an HH novella, it’s not a long read but it’s very good. “The Purge” by Anthony Reynolds, it’s about a Word Bearer named Sor Talgron, who is a soldier first and not really the “incense and iron,” type.
But it’s his internal monologue, regarding Custodes that gets interesting. See, he notes two things, one being that he feels no kinship towards them, despite both being Emperor-made genetic constructs, the second being that even their body language is individualized and opposite Talgron’s men who despite this being pre-Istvaan V, are still in a “pack” mindset. They are not kin to other Custodes, they are bizarrely more human than astartes despite being even further removed from the baseline human.
That right there is why “female Custodes” are more acceptable and minor a change than female marines. I don’t like either, but when you look at it through that lense, I can see it.
That novella also has one of my favourite Dorn scenes, where after Istvaan III and Garro running the blockade, the Imperium is going full Patriot Act and everyone is suspect. Naturally he wants to question why a force of Word Bearers are at Terra, conviniently around this time.
Lorgar, sneaky fucker he was, did not purge a man like Talgron who is not a believer because he was the perfect one to lie to Dorn.
Dorn pretty much does the primarch equivalent of cracking a beer with Talgron and says, “Son, I wish you were one of mine.” After Talgron gives his cover story and expresses embarrassment at his legion’s eccentric behaviour. Dorn proceeds to release the Word Bearer member of the crusader host and lets Talgron and his men go. Which leads to a daemonhost being imbedded in Terra.
A fucking random Word Bearer got one over the Praetorian by appealing to his values. The absolute state of the Imperial Fists.
For anyone who’s read the Word Bearers trilogy, Sor Talgron is the Warmonger, the most badass dreadnought in the setting.
But it’s his internal monologue, regarding Custodes that gets interesting. See, he notes two things, one being that he feels no kinship towards them, despite both being Emperor-made genetic constructs, the second being that even their body language is individualized and opposite Talgron’s men who despite this being pre-Istvaan V, are still in a “pack” mindset. They are not kin to other Custodes, they are bizarrely more human than astartes despite being even further removed from the baseline human.
That right there is why “female Custodes” are more acceptable and minor a change than female marines. I don’t like either, but when you look at it through that lense, I can see it.
That novella also has one of my favourite Dorn scenes, where after Istvaan III and Garro running the blockade, the Imperium is going full Patriot Act and everyone is suspect. Naturally he wants to question why a force of Word Bearers are at Terra, conviniently around this time.
Lorgar, sneaky fucker he was, did not purge a man like Talgron who is not a believer because he was the perfect one to lie to Dorn.
Dorn pretty much does the primarch equivalent of cracking a beer with Talgron and says, “Son, I wish you were one of mine.” After Talgron gives his cover story and expresses embarrassment at his legion’s eccentric behaviour. Dorn proceeds to release the Word Bearer member of the crusader host and lets Talgron and his men go. Which leads to a daemonhost being imbedded in Terra.
A fucking random Word Bearer got one over the Praetorian by appealing to his values. The absolute state of the Imperial Fists.
For anyone who’s read the Word Bearers trilogy, Sor Talgron is the Warmonger, the most badass dreadnought in the setting.
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I miss the multipose kits where you could have more fun and had more options. The old IG squads, trooper, command, and heavy weapons mixed and matched really well and you could also use the extra bits on tanks. You can still do some fun things with the new monopose kits, but usually just swapping a head or single handed weapon unless you want to do a lot of work with Tamiya thicc cement and your x-acto knife.
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Counter point, good luck buying half your army. Anything that's still in resin is permanently out of stock. You want bikes, terminators, dreadnoughts, or a grav tank? Hope you can find someone willing to trade, or buy second hand off Ebay.
The resin bikes and terminators are shit in 40k. The dreads get used in one detachment. The grav tanks(not the small ones and not the transports) along with the jump pack troops are the only FW stuff even worth considering.
The shitty bikes(which are also larger than the plastic ones) get lovely rules like
So you can opt to not charge with lance weapons for some reason? Meanwhile the plastic bikes get a once per battle if your bikes moved across a unit do mortal wounds in place of that, while costing half as many points(and probably moreso dollars), and being higher toughness with more wounds, and better shooting.
The resin terminators get
Meanwhile the plastic terminators get full wound re-rolls against characters/monsters/vehicles for any weapons, while costing less.
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Custodes just need tanks in plastic and they will be a menace. I'll happily take the jump pack guys (look sick) and dreads of all kinds (uh, big tanky robot anyone?) in plastic but tanks need to be first.
I wouldnt be surprised if supply of plastic tanks bumps the winrate because of access/cost to a reasonably core unit.
I wouldnt be surprised if supply of plastic tanks bumps the winrate because of access/cost to a reasonably core unit.
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I got the Flawless Blades kit today. Holy hell those alternate heads look better, there’s literally a head in the kit that is just what Lucius should’ve had.
Three heads per guy, spare pauldrons (EC anf blank) and two sets of arms per guy. Pretty good value, you can easily make three more Flawless blades from regular guys and some 40mm bases.
Those coneheads are awful though and are exclusively going to be used for Fabius abominations.
Three heads per guy, spare pauldrons (EC anf blank) and two sets of arms per guy. Pretty good value, you can easily make three more Flawless blades from regular guys and some 40mm bases.
Those coneheads are awful though and are exclusively going to be used for Fabius abominations.
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All EC kits leave you swimming in bits, its beautiful, excessive even.
Tormentors/Infractors kit gives you 12-15 weapons per kit so when you build 1 you have leftovers AND the whole other half of the box. Heads and puldrons galore too. Flawless Blades you can mix and match so much that no two will share a pose/weapon/head. Working my way through the Noise Marines to see what spares they offer.
If you can get some spare bodies, thats a lot of free units you can make.
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I'm amazed Amazon insisted on adding a female Custodes for their show when Sisters of Silence are far more interesting story wise than Marines++.
They're Pariahs, so that would enable stories about isolation and finding your purpose.
They fight psykers and daemons all over the galaxy, instead of kicking back on Earth. They'd give a lot of flexibility to the plot.
They're mute, and all female, giving Amazon diversity points without resorting to showing women of faith in a good light.
They could be played by ordinary actresses without CGI unlike the giant Custodes.
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I remember a guy once asking if the random imperial knight gun in Iron Throne was a daot super weapon to kill a custodian. Because seemly they are not allowed to die to knight sized melta guns after being shot 3 times in point blank range.
I know people make fun of the harlequin incident, but it saws a lot of how power creep the custodes are that people need to go 9 years in the past to find a single event where they lose to a numerical inferior force
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I didn't know they had a model range at all
There is a kill team traitor guard kit available in plastic, limited build though reckon there's enough left from sprues to kitbash regular guard with.
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I didn't know they had a model range at all
There is a kill team traitor guard kit available in plastic, limited build though reckon there's enough left from sprues to kitbash regular guard with.
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Why do that when you can just subvert the setting?
There are a bunch of themes you could have explored for your strong independent wamen character that wouldn't need any embellishment. As you say, isolation is a big one. Fighting for the very people who would probably have hunted you down like a witch when you were younger. The horror of the Black Ships. Shit, you could probably even take a dive into the metaphysical aspect of being a blank - in a setting where the soul is real, how do you reconcile not having one? Yes, I know that what the pariah gene actually does is still up for debate. You've got fertile ground there for some good story telling, but nope, lets have a Custodes with tits.
Yes. Yes they did.
Godspeed sir. It was a pleasure.
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Update: I discovered Titanium Wars, and it is exactly what I've been looking for - its very "vanila+" but still expands the game significantly. I played it for a few hours and it didn't crash once, which alone puts it above most DoW mods.
I also really like how the mod improves AI - even on the lower difficulties it spams turrets (I don't think it even did build them in vanilla) and vehicles like crazy. My only complaint as a whole is that it adds only one (very big and fun though) map, but its not a big deal.
As for anime shit, picrel is the closest example I could find, but even that is debatable.
Here is the download link, I highly recommend it.
>Mod which is a huge technical achievement is ruined by a single degenerate
Many such cases. I'm already waiting for inevitable accusation of him grooming someone / drawing kiddy porn and resulting destruction of the whole mod.
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If the setting was remotely realistic then the Tau would be ruling the galaxy because muscles do not stop bullets and logistics always win agains sheer strength. Problem of women in combat is less that they have breasts and uterus which are dead weight and more with women having less testosterone, which results in lesser performance in stressful life&death situations. Like war, but you want endurance & agility for a soldier, not tons of muscle which would make him tire very fast and would be a huge problem when you want to move that behemoth around the field in an APC. Muscle is useful when you run out of bullets and need to move something heavy, both issues are readily solved by a robust industrial base and machines.
Shooting at paper cutouts on a target range is not the same as shooting in trenches where fractions of a second make a difference. Tau are supposed to have duller senses and reaction time than humans (iirc) but they're very good at shooting... which makes no sense, really. A slowpoke does not make sniper material.
And I'm not even talking what happens to female soldiers when they're unfortunate to end as POWs. Or why an officer would want a private with a vagina under his command.
Math alone means that when you're waging total war, the best use for women is breeding the next generations of soldiers. If you send them to battle like an early optimizer you lose by attrition. You could dope them with hormones so they could come close to a man in battle performance... which begs the question of why the fuck don't you send the men instead to get killed if you're not short on manpower?
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The canon timeline is:
Event horizon ------ Star Trek ----------40K-----------The Culture shows up and closes the eye of terror
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I finally got over 2k points of minis at least assembled, most of it painted. Never would've thought it'd be Tau that pushes me to this point but I'm happy with how they turned out. The main takeaway I get from getting to this point is that if I bought everything through official stores it would've been at least three times more expensive, closing in on four, Chinese recasts and dudes 3D printing saved a bunch of coin there (you can get close to 1k points of space marines per 100 bucks from just Chinese recasts if you go for value options).
Also that starting several armies at once is very fun until you have like five and every project stalls but that's more on me for being unable to resist sweet community deals. Once I get a couple of Hammerheads to double as transports and a Stormsurge I'm considering the army done.
Also that starting several armies at once is very fun until you have like five and every project stalls but that's more on me for being unable to resist sweet community deals. Once I get a couple of Hammerheads to double as transports and a Stormsurge I'm considering the army done.
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They're not better at shooting. Fire Warriors, eugenically bred and trained to fight from birth, are as accurate as the average guardsman. So they're just okay at shooting.
Their discipline, coordination, superior weaponry and technology like marker lights are what raises them up, but they're not actually better.
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Well the entire point of the Amazon show is to bastardize and ruin the setting. Once you factor that in, it makes perfect sense.
I didn't say that the uterus would be useless in combat, and therefore 40K cannot have any woman engaging in violence. I actually think 40K is one of the settings where having women be highly involved with combat makes sense, since the Imperium is more than willing to throw anyone they can get their hands on into the meat grinder. My point was that specifically for the Custodes, who are repeatedly said to be the hyper-elite soldiers of mankind, it does not make sense. They are the absolute pinnacle of mankind's martial prowess, and they are forced into retirement if they ever show even the tiniest signs of slowing down. Specifically for someone in that role, having a gut full of baby making organs which cannot make babies is nonsensical.
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Why would surgically removing organs stop from being women if they still have XX chromosomes?