Anyone who ties their image to a specific IP or franchise is spiritually dead. I have a certain irk against nintendo nerds for the same reasons. If you can't diversify yourself through showcasing your many interests then audiences should assume that you're as interesting as cardboard irl. Wish Red Letter Media still did Nerd Crew videos they always encapsulated my hate for those types so succinctly.
I want to believe. I want to enjoy my Night Lords on the tabletop without it being Black Legion coded. Death Guard, World Eaters, Emperor’s Children… why do they get to have all the fun? Night Lords were first on Terra’s walls and first to breach the palace! Tie me to a torpedo and fire me at Nostromo Curze, I’m ready!
What codex would you run as night lords in 10th edition? Just chaos space marines? I initially saw it as a good thing to be able to use demons in my 1ksons but I realize now gw is consolidating armies into less and less codexes. Harlequins got relegated to Eldar and such. I guess it makes it less expensive and more approachable but I'm sure there's a lot of players with older armies disappointed they're relegated to a detachment.
Chaos Space Marines as Dread Talons is really the only choice. I’d probably throw in a couple of war dogs as support. Only thing that feels right. I mostly stick with Kill Team because I largely play with friends (it’s so much easier to show up with terrain and a bunch of KTs and go okay which do you want). A proper Night Lords army? Yeah I’ll sink into that autistically.
Previously harlequins and ynnari would have just received a handful of stratagems in 9th and were effectively already just detachments(and could soup with drukhari). Relegating them to detachments when those "armies"(harlequins are 4 characters, a transport, and 3 units. Ynnari were only 3 characters) is fine, since you can still run them as their own army, but people were just souping them with regular eldar and drukhari anyway(and you had to with Ynnari because otherwise you couldn't build an army). Chaos daemons still have 6 detachments for their index(more than some entire factions got in a codex), plus a soup detachment for each monogod traitor legion so they're fine.
I read elsewhere that it’s not direct combat, but a sacrifice. 1000 of the best psykers in the Imperium, with the genetic code of the Emperor in them. Basilio Fo’s kill code murders them all at the same time, and you have the same ritual that created the Emperor.
Where else is there to read anything? Yes there's been previous things published like Basilio Fo's virus which makes sense as a "CSM have gotten so fucked up or the loyalists have turned, and even though it means we wouldn't have space marines to fight xenos, that would be better than shit currently being this bad" doesn't have anything to do with what was written in the codex, and what you've just said... where's the source?
I read a fan theory, nothing official.
Coming from other competitive stuff like fighting games n MOBAs, I'm used to consolidation of any kind usually meaning watering down complexity in favor for mass appeal but it makes sense here.
Just sell your soul to Slaanesh, your legion is already Slaanesh-coded, if you wanna know the truth about it, bisch.
He wants to run Night Lords, not squats.
Squats have a heartiness to them, he's more of a ratling.
I’d rather shake a loaded P320 at my head.
Have you seen the EC models?
The lolcow I always thought embodied Undivided the best was Big Lenny
Especially from the competitive side of things, giving sub factions even more options isn't a benefit either. You could have 20 detachments for a faction but it's meaningless if 15 of them aren't ever worth running and 1 is still significantly better than the other 4.
Still better than factions not getting codexes for over a decade at a time, shit just being unbalanced and broken for years on end, etc. But trash options are trash.
Pick your poison.
Those weren't choices, that was 40k in its entirety up until halfway through 9th. What are choices would be anyone saying otherwise as they're either