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gaysexenjoyer said:
In 40k men and women are still genetically different as a baseline in terms of strength, and naturally the Emperor wouldn't want half of his personal guard to be weaker than the other, so to bring them up to equal footing with their male counterparts he'd need to basically bio-engineer them into men with a clam.

An army of Buck Angels in power-armor seems silly even for grimdark.

I would be a lot softer on it if they simply made it a new addition where the Imperium, out of desperation, started adding women to fill the ranks even at high levels. A body is a body when you're desperate enough for numbers.

It'd still be pandering political bullshit, but at least it'd be presented honestly as a new thing. But no, they changed lore for no reason then pulled the "erm it was always this way" shit. Zero respect.
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This change is less clumsy than the previous "shut up sexist chud, don't believe your lying memory, it's always been this way" put out by their social media tranny last year (run by a former British government nudge unit spook btw) .
I still don't like it because the models look like shit and we all know the reason behind it.

With the reason behind it in mind, here's to once again hoping that Aaron Dembski-Bowden's next suicide attempt doesn't fail.
 
gaysexenjoyer said:
In 40k men and women are still genetically different as a baseline in terms of strength, and naturally the Emperor wouldn't want half of his personal guard to be weaker than the other, so to bring them up to equal footing with their male counterparts he'd need to basically bio-engineer them into men with a clam.
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I mean, they are changed up to their very souls with "bio alchemy". Doesn't seem impossible that they could just make them equal in strength, even if it requires extra work on women.

Really, the problem I got is that going "they were always there" is stupid, and the Sisters of Silence lose even more spotlight, because since 2017 the Custodes are also made into pretty much the best non Grey Knights daemon hunters, the whole "they need support from the Sisters against psykers" have been downplayed, with them going from "Superman got no resistance against magic." to "they all got built in resistance to psykers while also being much stronger."

So unless all you want is the Blank part, you got what is basically a SoS but stronger. Doesn't help that even in the tabletop, they get the short stick.
 
Cucking out the SoS is the real loss here. They shafted a pre-established all-female faction just to shoe-horn busted man-jaw chicks into an all-male one that people barely play to begin with.
 
gaysexenjoyer said:
Cucking out the SoS is the real loss here. They shafted a pre-established all-female faction just to shoe-horn busted man-jaw chicks into an all-male one that people barely play to begin with.
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I'd be happier if the Sisters took their rightful place alongside the Custodes with more than about 5 sculpts.

Putting the Custodes on the tabletop was a ridiculous idea in the first place. They're supposed to be near all powerful.

They may as well make a model of The Emperor is his prime.
 
Cheb Dagness said:
I'd be happier if the Sisters took their rightful place alongside the Custodes with more than about 5 sculpts.

Putting the Custodes on the tabletop was a ridiculous idea in the first place. They're supposed to be near all powerful.

They may as well make a model of The Emperor is his prime.
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Custodes power level fluctuates wildly in the lore, most of the time they don't do anything, sometimes they are strong, sometimes random marines own them.

They probably shouldn't have been their own army though, I agree.
Super Expensive specialists that are usable in Imperial Armies would have worked.
 
Edit: Wrong thread, my bad. Anyway the only good custodes is one melted into plasma slag.

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winderson_silva said:
because since 2017 the Custodes are also made into pretty much the best non Grey Knights daemon hunters,
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Like, today you got Custodes fans seething that a knight sized tyranid and the big bad of the setting can both one-shot a Custode, meanwhile, back in 2012, A Thousand Sons had them being strong, but not absurdly so. T'kar takes down 3 of them by himself; it is clear they need the Sisters, and in First Heretic, the Gal-Vorbak can match them on 3 to 1.

But Inferno had them getting 4-1 against the Scarab Ocult Terminators without the Sisters, and 11 to 1 with them, pretty much every release since has them getting stronger.

So the Sisters are pretty much second fiddle already; they can deny psychic powers, but that is not important if the custodian already cut the psyker into pieces in the time they take to blink.
 
winderson_silva said:
Like, today you got Custodes fans seething that a knight sized tyranid and the big bad of the setting can both one-shot a Custode, meanwhile, back in 2012, A Thousand Sons had them being strong, but not absurdly so. T'kar takes down 3 of them by himself; it is clear they need the Sisters, and in First Heretic, the Gal-Vorbak can match them on 3 to 1.

But Inferno had them getting 4-1 against the Scarab Ocult Terminators without the Sisters, and 11 to 1 with them, pretty much every release since has them getting stronger.

So the Sisters are pretty much second fiddle already; they can deny psychic powers, but that is not important if the custodian already cut the psyker into pieces in the time they take to blink.
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Again, I’m reminded of Sor Talgron’s musings in “The Purge” where he sums up the difference between Custodes and Astartes, made for different purposes.

A custardes is a masterwork sword, sure it’s good but it’s alone. No pack or comradery, they may be by raw numbers “the best” but a banana is strongest alone.

A marine is a mass-produced pack hunter and numbers always win, plus there’s in-built bonds of brotherhood that make them superior, because you can be the best there ever was, but forty pissed off (cheaper to make) marines? One will get lucky.

In that story, it’s underestimating Talgron that leads to Dorn and the Custodes eating crow. It also came true in the Siege, when the Traitors phased into the walls and ran rampant, ripping and tearing in a horde of mixed legion troops, that pack instinct repurposed by chaos and overriding legion differences.

All this to say they suck and always have.
 
Brubby The 2nd said:
Did they make any comments about Lizard man here? Is It a Slann?
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I have no idea but man, i am digging that model, despite it not exactly looking like a 40k model. I always imagined Slann like the WHFB lizard men army leaders (weren't they even named Slann? My memory is fuzzy on this). Nice catch with that art piece, i kinda see the similarities.
SiggerNlayer said:
Buddy my opinion is the opinion of 99 percent of the hobby so like….sorry if you’ve walked into a community that’s too normal for you?
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I want to see pictures of your "a decade in the hobby" models.
 
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gaysexenjoyer said:
Cucking out the SoS is the real loss here. They shafted a pre-established all-female faction just to shoe-horn busted man-jaw chicks into an all-male one that people barely play to begin with.
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Probs to cater to trannies. Why else are they so hard pressed to force women into an all male faction like that.
Sisters of Silence are such an interesting group that rarely, if ever, gets any precognition. Same with the Sisters of Battle.
 
ratnoid said:
A lot of armies need to be squished or merged, I feel. Whatever is happening to monogod factions at the moment is a disaster.
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Divine right to rule said:
Super Expensive specialists that are usable in Imperial Armies would have worked.
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Easy fix for all of this. Bring back allies.

I hear you at the back. The tournament autist complaining about some obscure combo or some lore inaccurate team up. That's an easy fix too.

Here's how you do it in three sentences.. And in the unlikely event GW is taking ideas from an internet nobody, you're free to steal it.

"All units under the same umbrella (imperium, xenos, chaos) can ally. Allies must be 50% or less than the game point value. Allies cannot be used in competitive tournaments."

There are edge cases. Tau should have a special rule where they can ally with any imperium force, for example. As for lore. If you really care even the slightest about the fiction, then no-one is going to choose an orc-nid alliance.
 
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"All units under the same umbrella (imperium, xenos, chaos) can ally. Allies must be 50% or less than the game point value. Allies cannot be used in competitive tournaments."
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Hell, the old Epic 40k rules let you have 25% Eldar allies if you rolled an Imperium army. I even remember Oldhammer artwork of a Blood Axe ork and a human general leading combined forces in a siege.
 
YautjaWeeb said:
Bros not pleased with Arks of Omen have no idea how close they came to Vashtorr having tits and a ectoplasma stink ditch.
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don’t give GW ideas they are all too willing to retcon characters, they did that to Ursula Creed, used to be a man now looks like a transwoman.
 
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