Warhammer 40k

[5t3n0g0ph3r]

Does anyone know if there's any fantasy/AoS novels worth reading?
Only ask cause I'm getting a little tired of just reading 40k novels at the moment and I'm started to get a little more interest in the old fantasy lore/setting and AoS albeit to a lesser extent.

The Ambassador by Graham McNeill
Riders of the Dead by Dan Abnett
Iron Company by Chris Wraight
The Daemon’s Curse by Dan Abnett and Mike Lee (will be re-released later this year)
Gotrek & Felix Omnibus 1-6
The Vampire Genevieve (if it is ever restocked)

 

[Snekposter]

The Malus Darkblade series, starring a dark elf so murderously violent even the daemon that's half-possessing him is on the verge of telling him to tone it down at times, and so arrogant he thinks he can boast to a city guardsman about breaking the one law in the city to his face and get away with it scot-free, and yet intelligent enough to treat his followers well because good help is hard to find, especially for a druchii.

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

When it comes to the whole Primaris debate, why can't Primaris Marines just be perfected Thunder Warriors? Like say, Cawl had 10K years to fix the problems the original Thunder Warriors had, then they were rolled out just around the time that the project was finished and Cawl had the first batches of them ready? There was no need for them to invent new, STRONGER marines, when quite frankly, we already had that with the Thunder Warriors, and fixing their flaws would have been a logical thing for the Imperium to do while the regular Astartes were being pushed to the limits by the stresses of the 41st Millennium.

 

[Tism the Return]

would have been a logical thing for the Imperium to do

And you answered your own question.

 

[I (Don't) Have A Gun]

When it comes to the whole Primaris debate, why can't Primaris Marines just be perfected Thunder Warriors? Like say, Cawl had 10K years to fix the problems the original Thunder Warriors had, then they were rolled out just around the time that the project was finished and Cawl had the first batches of them ready? There was no need for them to invent new, STRONGER marines, when quite frankly, we already had that with the Thunder Warriors, and fixing their flaws would have been a logical thing for the Imperium to do while the regular Astartes were being pushed to the limits by the stresses of the 41st Millennium.

The entire Cawl thing was just really badly implemented. GW wanted to bring out new models, naturally they're a model company first and foremost. So made new models and the lore guys had to come up with a backstory for them, and my god was it dumb. Some random Tech Priest just made superer super soldiers. Not only that he even made them superer weapons and superer armours.
They didn't particularly care about the existing lore (thunder warriors, the cursed founding, fabious bile, the mechanicus's hatred for innovation etc.) they just wanted some rushed backstory for their new plastic models.
Now Black Library has been working their asses of to make up for it. Sadly then you end up with things like Cawl literally being around since before the heresy and actually being several people's minds fused together into one body (to try and explain why he is both a expert at biology and weaponry something that is established to not be a thing with the Mechanicus having distinct ordos). But definitely they've retrospectively fixed the bigger issues for the most part. It feels far less random and out of the blue now.

Well I think weirdos like me who got really deep into the lore are probably the exception. Most people like playing the table top or painting the minis and don't really care much about the finer details of the lore, they're happy with maybe a paragraph or two of backstory.

 

[Just Some Other Guy]

Lol, just a reminder to never look back:


But hey, you get some black guys heads, goggles, and special weapons that should have always been there!

 

[Florence]

Lol, just a reminder to never look back:
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But hey, you get some black guys heads, goggles, and special weapons that should have always been there!

Not just black guy heads, if you look at the 360 degree view for the models you can see one of them’s a woman.

 

[Just Some Other Guy]

Not just black guy heads, if you look at the 360 degree view for the models you can see one of them’s a woman.

Well damn, look at that. Worth the $9 extra right there.

 

[Snekposter]

something that is established to not be a thing with the Mechanicus having distinct ordos

Minor 40k autism here, but the magos errant is a thing.

 

[HTTP Error 404]

They're scared.

Edit: On the plus side: this puts an end to stupid faggotry about homebrew Female Space Marines as a pressure-vector for forcing GW to change the lore.

 

[Mary the Goldsmith]

This probably has been asked before, but has anybody painted a space marine chapter inspired on the farms? Just curious

 

[Love Machine]

There is no better feeling then having Mephiston fly across the map and then deleting an enemy warlord.

 

[Alter Ego]

They're scared.

Edit: On the plus side: this puts an end to stupid faggotry about homebrew Female Space Marines as a pressure-vector for forcing GW to change the lore.

I'm curious to hear testimony from tourney/event players having a scuffle with GW over 3rd-party headswaps and the like.

 

[Sweet and Savoury]

I'm sure it will be fine

Its not like GW is known for aggressively defending their IP rights no matter how it affects their gaming community or players... right?

right?

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

Not sure if posted before. Rather liking what people are doing with these in their custom builds.

They're scared.

Edit: On the plus side: this puts an end to stupid faggotry about homebrew Female Space Marines as a pressure-vector for forcing GW to change the lore.

I can see their forums dying off again within a year or two.

 

[You Bastard Guy]

They're scared.

Edit: On the plus side: this puts an end to stupid faggotry about homebrew Female Space Marines as a pressure-vector for forcing GW to change the lore.

I get GW‘s point here—if you’re playing in one of their stores or tournaments, you’re basically in a commercial for their brand. Sure, their space, their rules. I have cool non-GW proxies, but I understand and I’ll leave them at home for these situations.

The problem that I have is that I am really old, and the shakes fist damn kids that work the counter at those places often don’t recognize anything that isn’t on the shelf right now or in recent memory.

I get that someone in their 20s may not know about Warhammer Historical or Confrontation, and yeah, some of those old chaos sculpts from the 80s can look kinda janky. But Mordheim was not that long ago. If you aren’t sure, you can google the old stuff.

EDIT: The new Death Guard Combat Patrol box has “spare parts” for a plague marine because GW didn’t want to bother with updating the old poxwalker sprues. One guy I played used green stuff and spare bits to turn one into a possessed with tentacles sticking out of the gaps. It looks totally awesome and I’m going to imitate it. But…

He made the mistake of saying that he used the Green Stuff World Tentacle Maker to sculpt the tentacles. Wrong answer, take it off the table.

Luckily I found a good independent retailer with great tables who doesn’t care what you play, so long as you pay the table fees.

 

[Florence]

What I want to know is where does this leave Marine players who play anything other than First Founding chapters, Black Templars or Crimson Fists. Do third party decals count?

Also, the “old models must be mounted on current base sizes” thing — fuck off. That means no old assault marines, no old devastators, and god only knows what else that they’ve arbitrarily changed the base size for in the past few years.

Actually, now that I think about it that means no old miniatures in general unless you want to take a hacksaw to them…

 

[HTTP Error 404]

I get GW‘s point here—if you’re playing in one of their stores or tournaments, you’re basically in a commercial for their brand. Sure, their space, their rules. I have cool non-GW proxies, but I understand and I’ll leave them at home for these situations.

The problem that I have is that I am really old, and the shakes fist damn kids that work the counter at those places often don’t recognize anything that isn’t on the shelf right now or in recent memory.

I get that someone in their 20s may not know about Warhammer Historical or Confrontation, and yeah, some of those old chaos sculpts from the 80s can look kinda janky. But Mordheim was not that long ago. If you aren’t sure, you can google the old stuff.

EDIT: The new Death Guard Combat Patrol box has “spare parts” for a plague marine because GW didn’t want to bother with updating the old poxwalker sprues. One guy I played used green stuff and spare bits to turn one into a possessed with tentacles sticking out of the gaps. It looks totally awesome and I’m going to imitate it. But…

He made the mistake of saying that he used the Green Stuff World Tentacle Maker to sculpt the tentacles. Wrong answer, take it off the table.

Luckily I found a good independent retailer with great tables who doesn’t care what you play, so long as you pay the table fees.

Wait, one of the GW Drones literally went after someone for using a Tentacle Maker? That's literally a glorified piece of plastic with grooves in it. Fucking retards.

 

[I (Don't) Have A Gun]

They're scared.

Edit: On the plus side: this puts an end to stupid faggotry about homebrew Female Space Marines as a pressure-vector for forcing GW to change the lore.

Yeah I still don't think 3D printing is exactly there yet, to the point we can get GW quality models, but it certainly is going to happen eventually and at that point GW is in trouble because their core business is sell plastic minis.

 

[HTTP Error 404]

Yeah I still don't think 3D printing is exactly there yet, to the point we can get GW quality models, but it certainly is going to happen eventually and at that point GW is in trouble because their core business is sell plastic minis.

I own a 4k resin printer.

Yes, it is absolutely at the point we can get GW quality models. The sticking point is there's not a lot of 3D modelers and GW is currently targeting people who make anything even remotely close to GW stuff. They even had a job posting a few weeks back for an intern who will be infiltrating 3D Modeling communities and reporting what they find to GW legal.

This is something that will solve itself eventually. Even faster if someone at GW leaks the official GW STL files, which absolutely will happen someday.