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As funny as it is to point at Guy and go "Ha, gaaaaaaay!" (especially after his completely unsolicited comments about enjoying wrestling despite being '100% straight' in the Rumbleslam video), I think he picked that up from Hatty, personally.
If you are a heterosexual British man in his forties with two kids, it's odd to talk like that. But if you were a narcissist, mirroring your much younger ("She wasn't even born in the '90s, guys, remember!") girlfriend and the sort of slang she would use, in the sort of online spaces she might frequent, I think suddenly it makes a lot more sense.
If you are a heterosexual British man in his forties with two kids, it's odd to talk like that. But if you were a narcissist, mirroring your much younger ("She wasn't even born in the '90s, guys, remember!") girlfriend and the sort of slang she would use, in the sort of online spaces she might frequent, I think suddenly it makes a lot more sense.
Ok, so I know "content creation" economics can be a bit weird if you don't think of it in such a way. But this retard spent probably over $100 after shipping to buy a pound and a half of garbage? Also that 500g box looks to be the worst because if the excuse is using it for basing material and random bits, that larger box is eaten up by a bunch of shitty brick-like parts that probably weren't even printed hollow so they eat up most of the weight and he promotes this crap as if it's a good idea?
Just for comparison sake, I can get a creality halot r6 for $140. 1kg bottle of reason for $15, a quart of isopropyl alcohol from the local CVS for $7, and a plastic tub from the dollar store that'll cost under $3 to rinse shit in. Can cure prints in the sun, and assuming I'm not a retard simply not make a mess and for $165 actually have a printer, the stuff needed to use it, and if we assume wasting 200g of resin on test prints to see that it works(which would be quite a bit) still have 800g of resin to print minis that aren't broken? Certainly having 800g of non broken minis is better than 800g of trash? And any failed prints... then you're back to the same level of trash PLUS you have a printer. Sure it's probably a shit printer but that's still better than buying literal garbage.
This tells me something though. Other than I didn't think he could get more low effort than this. Between this and the video where he spent $100 on new guns for his titan and got 2 videos out of it, I'm certain he's going to make some kind of kitbashing or terrain video with this junk his target is to not spend more than $50 per video for filler bullshit when he can't come up with anything. Is that really his break-even point for youtube before referral links, patreon, the occasional sponsor, merch, cameo, etc? Looking at his other recent videos, he filmed painting someone else's imperator titan thing, made 2 slop op-ed videos, made his mother film his stupid joytoy imperial knight, did another battle with his big models, made a video about make up sponges, using random fallout minis he probably got on clearance... Even his patreon has been in decline since 2021, with a steep drop off in 2022 that then evened out into continual decline so he's probably getting a few hundred a month from that..
It's so weird that he has high "production value" but tries to make a living off of such slop content.
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This is MATI but I fucking hate the cunt, he needs to be punched in the back of head.
He's a 40k content creator lolcalf, that we're waiting for him to do something stupid enough to warrant a thread. Unfortunately for the most part he's just an unlikable shitbag that managed to somehow kickstart his career by putting beige crackle paint on some necron minis and calling it "standstone", and then because he doesn't look like a typical nerd and was in a relationship with a woman while posting videos during covid, had a bunch of people who jumped on the 40k bandwagon out of boredom find his channel and think his content was amazing, which has since been continually falling off because it was always incredibly mid.
And he cheated on his wife a week before she had their twins, with a GW employee likely in the hopes of hoping he could get a fucking discount(wish I were joking) who then quit her job at GW to work as a staff painter for him so she was fucking her boss while working with his wife and knowing she was pregnant.
Fast forward through a bunch of self-aggrandizing bullshit covered in this thread like his ugly nurgle land raider that doesn't look nurgle at all, the idea for which he stole from someone else anyway, but still decided it was worth auctioning, parades his kids into frame on videos when he wants to e-beg, creeped out a bunch of other content creators so he can't get a collab, and on and on. There's other 40k grifters and trannies, but this dude is quite possibly the worst.
Is it? The guy really is just that much of a shitbag based almost entirely on what he's willing to post. If it wasn't for the fact that his ex wanted so little to do with him she wasn't willing to say anything, and he apparently has hardly anyone he socializes with, he'd likely have a thread by now.
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yeah, this nigga Guy is a skunk he needs a fucking bullet in the head, hang that slut hatty while they're at it too.
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You really should though.
Its sad seeing these. White Dwarf was so much better when it wasn't just the Games Workshop catalogue. Some of the modules they used to put out for the likes of CoC, Paranoia, the Judge Dredd RPG etc were fucking kino. Not to mention the ads for minis from every manufacturer under the sun.
Big X on that one. I know nontent creators (especially English ones) put on the hospital radio DJ voice, but he's as gay as a kite.
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Unfortunately warhammer/miniature wargaming YouTube has very low standards. Just look at all the AI “lore” slop floating around.
I blame the massive uptick in secondaries, if you’re the sort of “fan” who only engages via Wiki pages, Reddit, and YouTube, you’re not going to have the will to look into if your favorite slophammer tuber is a disgusting, horrible, creep.
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There's so few avenues you can go down with wargaming that if you aren't posting about the latest GW release, go nowhere Kickstarter or D&D terrain no one will watch. I've strongly considered making a channel in the past but decided against it.
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Alright book time.
I enjoyed this, but I can see why some people would consider it boring. It's a pre hersity milk run where rob leads his men fighting orcs on some shithole while dealing with tension in the chapter. The main focus is to get into Rob's head and showcase his personality and tactics. Which I did like and they had a philosophy angle that was cool. Where the ultramarines were balancing their tactics with Theoretical and Practical schools of thought. It was neat to see Papa smurf try to preserve a dead planet's culture star trek style and regret it,
. in addition to seeing him cockblock his more bloodthirsty units until they learned chapter cohesion.
I think my only "complaint" is the version I read had someone randomly put shitposts that made me confused and laugh my ass off. (Rob smacking a fellow marine on the ass, and the final fight using every type of derogatory ultramarine nickname to describe him)
The Greater Good by Sandy Mitchell
If we look past the covers false advertising ( Cain doesn't directly team up with Tau) it's not bad. It's definitely one of the better Cain vs Tyranid stories and I like the details. Sandy is pretty good at writing imperial drama and the friction between different factions. We get some space marines, a tiny bit of death korps and a lot of fun mechanicus guys. Although I dont think he writes combat as well as some other writers, I was frequently having trouble figuring out where the hell enemy positioning was in relation to the environment but It's still decent.
My favorite bit's were the Tau portions. Im a little salty Cain didn't get to cultural exchange with the Tau, but there is an ambassador they send to the imperium who gets a couple fun scenes. It's cool to see the "I like you, Ill kill you last" mentality the imperium has with the Tau when an external threat like the Tyranid's shows up. Even going so far as to sharing information and ways on how to kill them.
Fire Caste by Peter Fehervari
This presents itself as a "Tau" book but while they are the main antagonist faction, this is more an imperial guard story. Specifically this book is a Warhammer version of Vietnam staring iskai Confederate soldiers.
It's fucking amazing. Basically some mirror earth called Providence was in the middle of a civil war and the imperium sided with the Confederates. Then the winners get sent with the Tithe to a backwater the Imperium has been fighting over. Its a demonically tainted jungle craphole (Phaedra) the Tau have held onto for decades and them Duke boys didn't get the memo that it couldn't be won.
We follow a whole army squadron of these guys of various dispositions and beliefs. They have modified clockwork mech suits, mechanical horse calvary, an Indian psyker and a shit ton of southern boys Lead by a saber rattling commander haunted by the literal demons of his past The book plays everything beautifully and brutally straight. I would go so far as to call it bloody based. There's a cool pool of characters who get wacked as the attrition rate grows (don't get too attached to the first Confed character) and It wasn't afraid to set people up and knock em down, but It didn't feel disappointing. It had something a lot of weaker 40k books dont, which is depth and texture. There was a lot of moving parts, drama, mystery and cool lore to go with the bolter porn and carnage.
We dont really see the Tau perspective till maybe half way, but I liked how it established they could effectively work with almost any Imperial faction or technology if they joined up. Cog boys, feral tribesmen, modified Servitor's with Tau tech. Doesn't matter as long as you want to hook into the greater good and fight for them. There's a cynical edge to the Tau in this, but the author is good at treading a fine line between their philosophy and their flaws. So they never feel too good or too bad. Their whole motivation for setting up a killzone planet to bleed the imperium is understandable. The reason for imperium going along with it is a lot more (believably) questionable.
The chaos aspect is much more of a slow burn and doesn't really come into play aside from hints and symptoms until the end. There's a fair amount of ambiguity on where it starts and stops.
But whenever it rears its ugly head its creatively portrayed in a horrific way.
There's also a lot of twisty turny shit with the perspective and characters going on. For example there's a passionate southern commissioner who's a major character and his POV lapses between sanity and madness at various points.
My only gripe is that it ended abruptly and there's apparently no follow up on the fate of the southerners. However... I found a pretty deep rabbit hole by looking up the author's works. Apparently he carved out his own niche in Warhammer by setting all his books in one particular system of space and having an overarching narrative with a few reoccurring characters. Ill go into it in further detail in another post but so far I dig the heck out of it.
Roboute Guilliman: Lord of Ultramar by David Annandale
I enjoyed this, but I can see why some people would consider it boring. It's a pre hersity milk run where rob leads his men fighting orcs on some shithole while dealing with tension in the chapter. The main focus is to get into Rob's head and showcase his personality and tactics. Which I did like and they had a philosophy angle that was cool. Where the ultramarines were balancing their tactics with Theoretical and Practical schools of thought. It was neat to see Papa smurf try to preserve a dead planet's culture star trek style and regret it,
. The twist is the society nuked itself out of existence before the orcs even showed up, so Rob was wrong and his headstrong cocky legion that wanted to glass the planet was correct. Also he gets in a fight with a giant ass emperor beast orc.
I think my only "complaint" is the version I read had someone randomly put shitposts that made me confused and laugh my ass off. (Rob smacking a fellow marine on the ass, and the final fight using every type of derogatory ultramarine nickname to describe him)
The Greater Good by Sandy Mitchell
If we look past the covers false advertising ( Cain doesn't directly team up with Tau) it's not bad. It's definitely one of the better Cain vs Tyranid stories and I like the details. Sandy is pretty good at writing imperial drama and the friction between different factions. We get some space marines, a tiny bit of death korps and a lot of fun mechanicus guys. Although I dont think he writes combat as well as some other writers, I was frequently having trouble figuring out where the hell enemy positioning was in relation to the environment but It's still decent.
My favorite bit's were the Tau portions. Im a little salty Cain didn't get to cultural exchange with the Tau, but there is an ambassador they send to the imperium who gets a couple fun scenes. It's cool to see the "I like you, Ill kill you last" mentality the imperium has with the Tau when an external threat like the Tyranid's shows up. Even going so far as to sharing information and ways on how to kill them.
The solution for killing the nids by jamming their hive mind with the fragment of another fleet was cool. Rob needs to look into that shit
Fire Caste by Peter Fehervari
This presents itself as a "Tau" book but while they are the main antagonist faction, this is more an imperial guard story. Specifically this book is a Warhammer version of Vietnam staring iskai Confederate soldiers.
It's fucking amazing. Basically some mirror earth called Providence was in the middle of a civil war and the imperium sided with the Confederates. Then the winners get sent with the Tithe to a backwater the Imperium has been fighting over. Its a demonically tainted jungle craphole (Phaedra) the Tau have held onto for decades and them Duke boys didn't get the memo that it couldn't be won.
We follow a whole army squadron of these guys of various dispositions and beliefs. They have modified clockwork mech suits, mechanical horse calvary, an Indian psyker and a shit ton of southern boys Lead by a saber rattling commander haunted by the literal demons of his past The book plays everything beautifully and brutally straight. I would go so far as to call it bloody based. There's a cool pool of characters who get wacked as the attrition rate grows (don't get too attached to the first Confed character) and It wasn't afraid to set people up and knock em down, but It didn't feel disappointing. It had something a lot of weaker 40k books dont, which is depth and texture. There was a lot of moving parts, drama, mystery and cool lore to go with the bolter porn and carnage.
We dont really see the Tau perspective till maybe half way, but I liked how it established they could effectively work with almost any Imperial faction or technology if they joined up. Cog boys, feral tribesmen, modified Servitor's with Tau tech. Doesn't matter as long as you want to hook into the greater good and fight for them. There's a cynical edge to the Tau in this, but the author is good at treading a fine line between their philosophy and their flaws. So they never feel too good or too bad. Their whole motivation for setting up a killzone planet to bleed the imperium is understandable. The reason for imperium going along with it is a lot more (believably) questionable.
The high lords of Terra signed off on wasting men into this shit? Yeah no wonder Rob needed to kick them all out
The chaos aspect is much more of a slow burn and doesn't really come into play aside from hints and symptoms until the end. There's a fair amount of ambiguity on where it starts and stops.
Im not a hundred percent sure on if they played into the demons hands or locked it in a timeloop
There's also a lot of twisty turny shit with the perspective and characters going on. For example there's a passionate southern commissioner who's a major character and his POV lapses between sanity and madness at various points.
My only gripe is that it ended abruptly and there's apparently no follow up on the fate of the southerners. However... I found a pretty deep rabbit hole by looking up the author's works. Apparently he carved out his own niche in Warhammer by setting all his books in one particular system of space and having an overarching narrative with a few reoccurring characters. Ill go into it in further detail in another post but so far I dig the heck out of it.
LOL, fucking GW and their codex writers. Seriously? This gets literally just a sidebar?
And what even is that? Malcador didn't expect to get killed on the throne and was intending to go back to Titan one day and go "it was just a prank bro, I wrote it on a napkin from Olive Garden one day at dinner"?
And what even is that? Malcador didn't expect to get killed on the throne and was intending to go back to Titan one day and go "it was just a prank bro, I wrote it on a napkin from Olive Garden one day at dinner"?
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Isn't Emperor a perpetual now? They need a retarded explanation why he hasn't resurrected yet.
He is, and currently he's not completely dead either, which is why he hasn't resurrected yet and there was that sub plot about some loyalists wanting to kill him so he could finally resurrect and walk around the galaxy again. His body is rotted but most of his soul is still attached to it on the throne to focus the astronomican and keep the failed webway gate in the throne room sealed.
It's also kind of weirdly abstractly covered in that lion son of the forest book where he basically tells lion el'johnson to not bother trying to save him from the throne yet because he's still busy getting shit done, and why when guilliman visited him in the throneroom the "conversation" he had was basically mental torment from a disjointed crazy person because he's not entirely there and busy lending his power around the galaxy powering saints and shit.
The old assumption about the terminus decree is that it was to actually completely kill the emperor so he COULD resurrect at some point if shit got so dire it could only be resolved by him in person, and the siege of terra books heavily implied it was actually Basilio Fo and his astartes coof virus(which was sent to Titan along with Fo himself) to only be used if shit got so dire due to the chaos space marines, because killing all of the astartes in the galaxy instantly would mean the loyalists ones wouldn't be able to defend against xenos either.
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The sisters of silence alone would body each and every one of them before the custodes even knew what was going on.
I'm pretty sure it's because perpetuals can take thousands of years to reincarnate and since he's technically on life support he isn't coming back for some time.
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I recently finished Farsight: Blade of Truth.
I wrote up a bunch of notes and had a really long winded review, but I'll try to keep it short with some thoughts. Overall the book was meh. I didn't hate it, but it's not the strongest.
The Inquisitor lady (I listened to the audio book I have no idea how to spell her name) got fucked in this book. They set her up for a new Khorne arch where she'd have to fight off his influence, but instead we get Tzeentch again. She lost her powers in the last book after putting on a Khorne collar so it'd eat the demon. It left scars on her neck that can't be hidden, except this book tries to claim that the collar had to be surgically removed. I don't know why he changed his mind about this detail. Now her powers are back because of the hive fleet I guess? But why the shadow in the warp is only suppressing Khorne I have no idea. Why she isn't going insane once she gets her powers back I have no idea. None of it matters anyways because her gay lover arrests her at the end anyways and after a domestic dispute she decides fuck humanity, I want to die for the greater good. Even in 40k lesbian relationships end in abuse.
Farsight spends most of the novel getting tortured again. He gets cut, beaten, dismembered, and still manages to keep talking and fighting for several chapters after getting stabbed by a Swarm Lord. He instantly grants Torchstar the rank of sub-commander for the honor of being the first person to stumbled on his wrecked battle suit.
Torchstar is the new girl to the team because they needed an 8th person (Khorne's sacred number hint hint). She fills the same role of the overzealous young commander as Brightsword. She's inoffensive I guess but she really feels forced.
There's a lot of bullshit in the novel that stretches what's plausible even for 40k standards. Farsight survives the worst trauma and often just "puts aside" the excruciating pain by will I guess. He started aging again without his sword but everyone else is still plenty alive too. Arrak'kon and Sha'vastos are just regular T'au without chaos magic, or a life support suit keeping them alive. I don't know what kind of time frame we're meant to be looking at here but surely these two at least should be ancient by now? Aun'va makes an appearance in the flesh so we know this is pre-assassination. Aun'Shi is alive too and he doesn't even have an enchanted sword with +lifesteal on it.
The real golden nugget of this book is towards the end where Farsight and Aun'Va have a big debate. Farsight finally tells him to his face that him, the Ethereals, and their water caste bootlickers talk like fags and their shit's all retarded. Aun'Va says Farsight and his band of brothers are warmongers and are wasting T'au lives constantly fighting wars. Farsight says they cost more lives with their silken conquest by antagonizing The Imperium. But then Aun'Va makes the claim that actually they wanted to start a war with The Imperium all along to teach them a lesson. He knew they'd over-reach and weren't capable of actually breaking the T'au's defenses. He claims they retreated because they were locked in a stalemate, and the Tyranid invasion was a convenient excuse to not look like they ran away from a losing fight. By goading the Imperium to fight them from a disadvantageous position it was easier win a large scale conflict that made the T'au appear stronger than they really are. It makes the Imperium hesitant to pour more resources into wiping them out, and it encouraged more races to join them. It also gave them an opportunity to get their hands on more Imperial tech like warp drives. Farsight snaps back saying how could you tell me I'm a warmonger when you intentionally started a war to teach a lesson you were incapable of teaching through words and diplomacy? This is where it starts to derail because Aun'Va doesn't have any retort he just talks about some other famous people Farsight never heard of and just calls him a warmonger again. It mostly devolves into more shit flinging. Farsight does get a nice line in "Fire Caste leadership for a Fire Caste world. It could be no other way." At least Farsight understands the importance of not allowing filthy foreigners into important positions of powers.
The next nugget is what happened on Arkunasha when he was forced to retreat from a nearly won war. Aun'Va claims that during Farsight's war with the Orks the Sept worlds were fighting Tyranids, and that either his request for reinforcements were never received, or were impossible because it meant damning over worlds to Tyranids. Notably he never outright states that either one of these happened, and it can't be both. In earlier books they were pretty clear that they got the message and didn't want to send reinforcements, because they send Aun'Shi to tell him that one Ethereal is all he's getting. What they don't explain is that if this major war was going on, how did Farsight never know of it? Why didn't they tell him that was the reason they couldn't send him more cadres?
The last I have to say is on Puretide as a character. Farsight has a lot of flashbacks to his time as a student that's supposed to give context for where Farsight learned whatever trick he was about to pull off. But every lesson is either him getting beaten, or Shadowsun nearly freezing to death, and then the two of them getting stood up at the alter when Kais didn't show up for the bonding ceremony. Here Shadowsun is a real bitch for no reason. I don't know why she wouldn't form a Ta'lissera bond with just Farsight. Either way Puretide as a teacher comes across less of a wise but harsh master and more of a complete asshole. He always calls Farsight idiot boy, and tells him what a failure he is. Despite every T'au and even Farsight agreeing that he was super wise, and really good at his job we don't get to see that much of it. Making him some kind of buried personality in Sha'vastos' brain is a smart way to keep him involved as a character despite being dead. I wish he had more opportunities to show his wisdom, but it seems like that wasn't the intention for him. At the very end Farsight actually confronts him and tells him he was a shit teacher who didn't teach him anything, that he built his own Empire not because of Puretide's teachings but in spite of them. So at least we get to see Farsight finally admit that his old master was really a shit head.
The Inquisitor lady (I listened to the audio book I have no idea how to spell her name) got fucked in this book. They set her up for a new Khorne arch where she'd have to fight off his influence, but instead we get Tzeentch again. She lost her powers in the last book after putting on a Khorne collar so it'd eat the demon. It left scars on her neck that can't be hidden, except this book tries to claim that the collar had to be surgically removed. I don't know why he changed his mind about this detail. Now her powers are back because of the hive fleet I guess? But why the shadow in the warp is only suppressing Khorne I have no idea. Why she isn't going insane once she gets her powers back I have no idea. None of it matters anyways because her gay lover arrests her at the end anyways and after a domestic dispute she decides fuck humanity, I want to die for the greater good. Even in 40k lesbian relationships end in abuse.
Farsight spends most of the novel getting tortured again. He gets cut, beaten, dismembered, and still manages to keep talking and fighting for several chapters after getting stabbed by a Swarm Lord. He instantly grants Torchstar the rank of sub-commander for the honor of being the first person to stumbled on his wrecked battle suit.
Torchstar is the new girl to the team because they needed an 8th person (Khorne's sacred number hint hint). She fills the same role of the overzealous young commander as Brightsword. She's inoffensive I guess but she really feels forced.
There's a lot of bullshit in the novel that stretches what's plausible even for 40k standards. Farsight survives the worst trauma and often just "puts aside" the excruciating pain by will I guess. He started aging again without his sword but everyone else is still plenty alive too. Arrak'kon and Sha'vastos are just regular T'au without chaos magic, or a life support suit keeping them alive. I don't know what kind of time frame we're meant to be looking at here but surely these two at least should be ancient by now? Aun'va makes an appearance in the flesh so we know this is pre-assassination. Aun'Shi is alive too and he doesn't even have an enchanted sword with +lifesteal on it.
The real golden nugget of this book is towards the end where Farsight and Aun'Va have a big debate. Farsight finally tells him to his face that him, the Ethereals, and their water caste bootlickers talk like fags and their shit's all retarded. Aun'Va says Farsight and his band of brothers are warmongers and are wasting T'au lives constantly fighting wars. Farsight says they cost more lives with their silken conquest by antagonizing The Imperium. But then Aun'Va makes the claim that actually they wanted to start a war with The Imperium all along to teach them a lesson. He knew they'd over-reach and weren't capable of actually breaking the T'au's defenses. He claims they retreated because they were locked in a stalemate, and the Tyranid invasion was a convenient excuse to not look like they ran away from a losing fight. By goading the Imperium to fight them from a disadvantageous position it was easier win a large scale conflict that made the T'au appear stronger than they really are. It makes the Imperium hesitant to pour more resources into wiping them out, and it encouraged more races to join them. It also gave them an opportunity to get their hands on more Imperial tech like warp drives. Farsight snaps back saying how could you tell me I'm a warmonger when you intentionally started a war to teach a lesson you were incapable of teaching through words and diplomacy? This is where it starts to derail because Aun'Va doesn't have any retort he just talks about some other famous people Farsight never heard of and just calls him a warmonger again. It mostly devolves into more shit flinging. Farsight does get a nice line in "Fire Caste leadership for a Fire Caste world. It could be no other way." At least Farsight understands the importance of not allowing filthy foreigners into important positions of powers.
The next nugget is what happened on Arkunasha when he was forced to retreat from a nearly won war. Aun'Va claims that during Farsight's war with the Orks the Sept worlds were fighting Tyranids, and that either his request for reinforcements were never received, or were impossible because it meant damning over worlds to Tyranids. Notably he never outright states that either one of these happened, and it can't be both. In earlier books they were pretty clear that they got the message and didn't want to send reinforcements, because they send Aun'Shi to tell him that one Ethereal is all he's getting. What they don't explain is that if this major war was going on, how did Farsight never know of it? Why didn't they tell him that was the reason they couldn't send him more cadres?
The last I have to say is on Puretide as a character. Farsight has a lot of flashbacks to his time as a student that's supposed to give context for where Farsight learned whatever trick he was about to pull off. But every lesson is either him getting beaten, or Shadowsun nearly freezing to death, and then the two of them getting stood up at the alter when Kais didn't show up for the bonding ceremony. Here Shadowsun is a real bitch for no reason. I don't know why she wouldn't form a Ta'lissera bond with just Farsight. Either way Puretide as a teacher comes across less of a wise but harsh master and more of a complete asshole. He always calls Farsight idiot boy, and tells him what a failure he is. Despite every T'au and even Farsight agreeing that he was super wise, and really good at his job we don't get to see that much of it. Making him some kind of buried personality in Sha'vastos' brain is a smart way to keep him involved as a character despite being dead. I wish he had more opportunities to show his wisdom, but it seems like that wasn't the intention for him. At the very end Farsight actually confronts him and tells him he was a shit teacher who didn't teach him anything, that he built his own Empire not because of Puretide's teachings but in spite of them. So at least we get to see Farsight finally admit that his old master was really a shit head.
Also this. Nevermind the fact that if most of the sons of horus, iron warriors, deathguard, emperor's children, world eaters, some alpha legion wordbearers and nightlords, a handful of thousand sons, chaos daemons, 4 daemon primarchs plus perturabo, an army of traitor guard and beastmen couldn't fucking do anything... what the hell would possibly make the grey knights think they could survive assaulting the throne room? They'd probably get wiped out outside by a psi-titan first.
Yeah, sometimes they can come back instantly, sometimes it's thousands of years, no consistency as it's based entirely on what the plot demands. Magnus killed Vulkan repeatedly in the webway but he's just not felt like showing back up after the best nonsense?