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Farm Hand said:
Early reviews are out for new Custodes models, and it turns out to be just as I thought. It's not just that there are female heads. Half of the bodies are sculpted female with slimmer physiques and slightly-curvy chests. Stahly remarks on it in his video review:

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As we already knew, the Shield-Captain is specifically crafted female and only has a female bare head.
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Wait am I seeing this right? The captain's bare head is three pieces? They're truly just fucking with us.
Not that I'm surprised, having built a bunch of 30k Mechanicum kits.
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Farm Hand said:
Early reviews are out for new Custodes models, and it turns out to be just as I thought. It's not just that there are female heads. Half of the bodies are sculpted female with slimmer physiques and slightly-curvy chests. Stahly remarks on it in his video review:

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Feel like this would’ve been a decent box if they didn’t shove in femstodes.
 
Professor Donger said:
Found this guys channel, dude autistically speculates about Warhammer 40k guns and it's pretty neat. Small channel, his gun overviews are his consistently best viewed videos.


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Why can't this guy be one of the number one Warhammer Youtubers? His videos are awesome. It's just him sitting there talking passionately about fictional guns.
I'm halfway through his video just on power packs and damn, I didn't know there was so much information. Out there. Also, the humble last gun on its high setting can punch right through a starting power armor.
 
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Sargon's wife's son said:
Why can't this guy be one of the number one Warhammer Youtubers? His videos are awesome. It's just him sitting there talking passionately about fictional guns.
I'm halfway through his video just on power packs and damn, I didn't know there was so much information. Out there. Also, the humble last gun on its high setting can punch right through a starting power armor.
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It's very refreshing finding a dude who just wants to spergout about Warhammer
 
Slipped through the last 2 Core Rulebooks in an afternoon, both nice. I especially love the little quotes in Black Crusade
“Embrace your hunger, your lust, your desire. The universe is ours for the taking!”
—Sanctifer LeVay, Cult of the Sacred Union
“My name is Crox, Warlord of Warlords. Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair!”
–Inscribed upon a shattered monument on Ch’Kar
“We owe the Eldar a great debt of gratitude. If it were not for their voices, we could not have our choir. If it were not for their chisels, we would not have our blades. Remember to thank them when you run them through.”
—Andrada, the Gore-Diva
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Taki Supremacy said:
Yeah in the new Necron book "Tomb World" 2/3's of the cast and all of the main characters the book follows are female Necrons or women. A female Necron Triarch Praetorian is the main character and she interacts a lot with a Necron female assassin that has the destroyer virus. The humans the book follows are mostly a woman train conductor and a woman Adeptus Arbities. It was pretty jarring but I still think it was a good book.
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As opposed to the other necron books that featured almost entirely men? There was the female necron honor guard in TDK that was sort of important, and there might have been a female necron judge lady in I&D that while vital to the plot moving forward did fuck all in the rest of the book. Oh and the chick that Orikan simped for, but we all know how that ended up so its hard to count.

What Im getting at is that its more important than the characters are well written. Id love to see a book thats actually about a female lead and her role in (insert faction) compared to her male counterparts. I havent read Tomb World, but Ashes of Cadia distinctly lacked how Ursula Creed would be affected by being a woman in the Imperium's structure, besides a very generic "I have to work twice as hard to be respected!" Schtick that seems to follow female leads like a bad stink.

TDK gives the reader an interesting look into Necron politics and the command structure of a Dynasty. A book on the perspective of a female Necron and how that affects the roles they can play in a Dynasty would be pretty interesting, I think. But I also think warhammer novels are hyperfocused on selling models such that they arent really allowed to expand into other genres.
 
daniel day said:
What Im getting at is that its more important than the characters are well written. Id love to see a book thats actually about a female lead and her role in (insert faction) compared to her male counterparts. I havent read Tomb World
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Oh no the other Necrons don't even mention that she is a female necron. I had to think really hard about "if you replace this female with a male necron would it even change the story at all?".


The only thing I can think of is that the female Necron assassin has the destroyer virus and the Praetorian tries to reason with her a couple of times rather than just killing her. That's it.
 
iceteayo said:
This is absolutely insane if real
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We already know that age of Sigmar wasn't doing well, what I want to know is how badly 40k is doing. We know their recent choices have been scaring away a lot of old fans towards other hobbies or tabletop games.

To my knowledge they've also never recovered from the financial dip the femstodes announcement caused
 
Professor Donger said:
To my knowledge they've also never recovered from the financial dip the femstodes announcement caused
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Hold on. I was told that there was no "dip" and that any backlash was clearly from a bunch of terminally online chuds that don't matter. Did they actually take a hit from it?
 
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Hold on. I was told that there was no "dip" and that any backlash was clearly from a bunch of terminally online chuds that don't matter. Did they actually take a hit from it?
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They did

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The red dot is when Femstodes was announced

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They still haven't recovered from the flash sale of their stocks

On the American stock exchange it looks like it slowly recovered but they don't care about their American customers, they make the most money at home in Britain as far as I can tell, which is where they haven't recovered at all.

American Stock Exchange.
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daniel day said:
As opposed to the other necron books that featured almost entirely men? There was the female necron honor guard in TDK that was sort of important, and there might have been a female necron judge lady in I&D that while vital to the plot moving forward did fuck all in the rest of the book. Oh and the chick that Orikan simped for, but we all know how that ended up so its hard to count.

What Im getting at is that its more important than the characters are well written. Id love to see a book thats actually about a female lead and her role in (insert faction) compared to her male counterparts. I havent read Tomb World, but Ashes of Cadia distinctly lacked how Ursula Creed would be affected by being a woman in the Imperium's structure, besides a very generic "I have to work twice as hard to be respected!" Schtick that seems to follow female leads like a bad stink.

TDK gives the reader an interesting look into Necron politics and the command structure of a Dynasty. A book on the perspective of a female Necron and how that affects the roles they can play in a Dynasty would be pretty interesting, I think. But I also think warhammer novels are hyperfocused on selling models such that they arent really allowed to expand into other genres.
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You could do a bunch of interesting stuff with a female necron or how they would approach this kind of stuff in general. Especially considering romance and whatnot. Imagine a I&D style milenia spanning story about what’s an essentially very messy divorce between two overlords since their marriage fell apart on the account of them not having souls anymore.

But GW can only write two kinds of female characters. Either a female version of a long dead character people liked (see female Karl Franz from AoS) or garden variety strong female character.
 
Hermann von Salsa said:
I'm not sure why they would bother with a reboot, if the problem with AoS because it's not selling then what would destroying/soft reboot the setting again achieve?
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They could bank on the fact that Total War Warhammer sold incredibly well and they may just bite the bullet and try and bring the old world back thinking that people would actually buy it.

All the while ruining the setting even more and making over expensive minis that people still won't buy
 
Professor Donger said:
They could bank on the fact that Total War Warhammer sold incredibly well and they may just bite the bullet and try and bring the old world back thinking that people would actually buy it.
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I mean they already tried that like 2 years ago:
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An AoS reboot at this point seems pointless, because all it's gonna do is piss off the few fans it has. Anyone who hasn't tried it by now likely never will.
 
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