Yeah, I think he's suffering from TFS syndrome. What was once a series of skits which explained the lore in a humorous fashion is now just "The Gathering Storm: Abridged." He's taken the series a too seriously. And much like TFS, he has a fan base which will just consume it and laugh because it used to be a great series. (And even then his jokes were a little hit or miss, but that's just me.)
I've read Guilliman, Magnus, and Perturabo's books. All three were set during the great crusade and had no heresy spoilers. You do get some hints and foreshadowing. I have the Russ and Fulgrim books on back log but I don't know their time.
Im speaking as a person who used to be part of his old fan group where we just shitposted and played Dawn Of War 1+2 and TF2 all day. He basically disbanded it since he grew tired of the memes we made about the Alfa Legion and felt they weren't funny anymore. I kinda grew a little miffed as the years went by with TTS since frankly those memes were just as annoying and are way more popular than what our little shitposting group did. Its kinda autistic but the episode of TTS where I grew to not like anymore was episode 26 where it was a confirmation of him killing off the Alfa Legion entirely with the entire end bit of Magnus killing off all the members.
Damn. I knew he kinda through it out the window, but I always assumed it was just because he got to busy with TTS to really put any effort into it, and so it just kinda broke apart. I didn't know he just nuked the thing cause he found more popular shit. Did he ever have/mention a desire to go big/mainstream? Asking because I feel like that's what he wants. I think he saw how fucking massive something like DBZA got, saw that normie jokes did well, and so quietly murked his older, more lore based humor, and went for something "the public" could appreciate. Exhibit A, turning the Harlequins from Eldar who understand why the Eldar fell and are more eccentric guardians of history and knowlage, to just "haha internet humor BAZINGA". I get that everything in TTS is overly satirized, but even the Custodes were still kinda accurate depictions in spite of the JoJokes.
Of the ones I've read, Perturabo, Angron, Guilliman, the Lion, and Magnus were the ones I liked best. None of them are really connected to the HH series in any substantive way.
Modern 40k miniatures look fucking ugly
Who the fuck is playing Titanicus?
apparently a lot of people ive never seen or talk to, because they keep getting support.
*ting ting*
Well I mean it's all been hedonites. Will another month if hedonites start making AOS players go crazy? They got the luminenth out the door quicker.
Well COVID has fucked up GW's release schedule as Death Guard was supposed to have been released in December. Not to mention that Slaanesh is the last to get their mortal devotees range and I'm glad they get the full range unlike Luminenth who have their Tyrion side missing along with their other elemental-focused units.
Nice brushwork! What chapter are you painting it up as?
A Dark Angels successor chapter called Blades of Vengeance because only the edgiest of names will do for my dudes. Despite being a primaris only chapter in the cannon I already had my first born marines painted in a similar scheme so it kind of works out.
His humour revolves around "hahahaha look funny meme" and "hahah look this character does this!" It gets old really quick.
TTS was never funny to begin with.
I watched his older episodes(and some more recent ones) and just found almost all of them to be the same overused and unfunny trash jokes recycled time and time and time and again.
I don't think you need to get caught up with the rest of the Horus Heresy to be able to read the Primarch novels in their full context. All of them I've read are usually self-contained/stand-alone stories.
-Lion El'Jonson - Lord of the First (pg. 51)
You know, there isn’t anything that says that a chapter that starts as primaris only must stay primaris only. The primaris marines only have three additional organs and the only wargear difference is the boltgun type and the power armor, which probably would not be hard to acquire either from the battlefield or from another chapter.
