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Sisters of Battle are cool, and part of it is the boob armor. Warhammer 40,000 is such a male dominated game, to have an army that unambiguously, unapologetically feminine is great. The boob armor lets you tell that this tiny inch tall little dude is a woman, and the giant flamer lets you know they're a bad rear end. They are women who set poo poo on fire for their god. Making Sisters more androgynous would gently caress up the whole concept of the army.
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Guy Goodbody posted:Sisters of Battle are cool, and part of it is the boob armor. Warhammer 40,000 is such a male dominated game, to have an army that unambiguously, unapologetically feminine is great. The boob armor lets you tell that this tiny inch tall little dude is a woman, and the giant flamer lets you know they're a bad rear end. They are women who set poo poo on fire for their god. Making Sisters more androgynous would gently caress up the whole concept of the army. This is a topic that has been beaten to death, but in the year 2016 it makes way more sense for women to be well represented across the game and factions rather than relegated to a single faction. As it turns out, not all women consider heels and giant breasts to be feminine.
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Oct 11, 2016 18:18
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Wizard Styles posted:"Not as bad as when they first released AoS." seems like damning with faint praise to me. Pretty much. I'm just saying that you have to admit they are at least showing an effort to turn the sinking ship around.
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Oct 11, 2016 18:20
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OMG sriracha pudding! posted:Warpath? Winter Guard Khador army
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Oct 11, 2016 18:24
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Guy Goodbody posted:Sisters of Battle are cool, and part of it is the boob armor. Warhammer 40,000 is such a male dominated game, to have an army that unambiguously, unapologetically feminine is great. The boob armor lets you tell that this tiny inch tall little dude is a woman, and the giant flamer lets you know they're a bad rear end. They are women who set poo poo on fire for their god. Making Sisters more androgynous would gently caress up the whole concept of the army. Can i interested you in some distinctly female objects of wonder, good sir? 
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Oct 11, 2016 18:24
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TKIY posted:I think it's fair to say between FAQs, proper teasers, fan favourites returning, community engagement and the like that GW is currently trending upwards. None of these are actually solving the critical core issue that 40K and especially AoS are horrifying trainwrecks of imbalance, cost escalations and antifun. Tweaking around the peripheries is meaningless until they produce a rule system people may actually want to play.
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Oct 11, 2016 18:49
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Kirby is an executive on the board of Games Workshop. He is also being paid for consulting work: in the most recent annual report, we saw that GW got some flak from certain major shareholders about Kirby receiving ad-hoc pay for consulting, so he's now receiving a salary instead, which is apparently more normal. In the UK, anyway. I initially expressed surprise at this arrangement, but it's evidently not unusual in the UK to have paid members of the board. Age of Sigmar had to have been planned for at least a year in advance; it can't be hung on Rountree's neck. He's the CEO now, and has had control for long enough that by now everything that is coming out is his responsibility, but when he took over it would have been far too late to cancel AoS without incurring major sunk costs... and the End Times had already happened, so the company would have had to shift very quickly to some other plan for their fantasy line. I don't know who started the rebranding of stores to Warhammer, but Rountree does seem to be continuing with that. I think Kirby's preamble to the annual report, his paid position as a "consultant," and his position on the board all suggest that Rountree does not have free reign to do his job. What we know of Kirby suggests that he's a serious egotist who I think is unable to let go of the reigns and let Rountree make major changes. But I'm just guessing. Perhaps it's Rountree pushing to resurrect stuff like Epic and Bloodbowl, get some cheaper intro box sets out, maybe a refresh for Sisters? We just don't know, really, whether this is Rountree making his mark and trying different things in spite of resistance from Kirby, or Kirby's ideas filtered through a puppet CEO, or what. I really wish I had more insight into what's going on in those boardroom meetings. And before we start down the path of "GW is getting better" let's not forget they pulled out of their licensing arrangement with FFG. And, their new models look like crap, over-designed computer-modeled soulless minis that look like they were designed by a committee. Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 19:01 on Oct 11, 2016 |
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Oct 11, 2016 18:58
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Avenging Dentist posted:All models that could really use an update instead of a lovely upgrade sprue. (Not to suggest that the constant reuse of models for other factions is good artistic design.) They all did get updated in the last few years. The Chimera has been given all of its weapon options, the Leman Russ builds all 4 options (and the Demolisher builds the other 3) and again has all the sponson and hull options (making the FW variants obsolete), and the Sentinel kit consolidated the previous kits into one - with all weapon options in the kit. They are all simplified builds, too - compared to their old versions at least. The Leman Russ comes with the Genestealer Cult sprue for an extra £1, which normally would be considered good value, but its already £31.50 for the Russ, and the previously included Vehicle Upgrade sprue is now sold separately for £9. That sprue is still decades old. Classic GW.
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Oct 11, 2016 19:10
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Guy Goodbody posted:Sisters of Battle are cool, and part of it is the boob armor. Warhammer 40,000 is such a male dominated game, to have an army that unambiguously, unapologetically feminine is great. The boob armor lets you tell that this tiny inch tall little dude is a woman, and the giant flamer lets you know they're a bad rear end. They are women who set poo poo on fire for their god. Making Sisters more androgynous would gently caress up the whole concept of the army. What if we take a Space Marine chapter and give it boob armor for improved protection?
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Oct 11, 2016 19:36
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TKIY posted:I think it's fair to say between FAQs, proper teasers, fan favourites returning, community engagement and the like that GW is currently trending upwards. 
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Oct 11, 2016 19:40
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Doresh posted:What if we take a Space Marine chapter and give it boob armor for improved protection? I'm down but only if you also give them improved codpiece protection too.
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Oct 11, 2016 19:41
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Leperflesh posted:And before we start down the path of "GW is getting better" let's not forget they pulled out of their licensing arrangement with FFG.
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Oct 11, 2016 19:44
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Business Gorillas posted:Oh I see. I haven't been following aos too much lately. I'm playing good games and I stopped going to the aos store I was going to because during a game they started yelling about jewing each other on stuff
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Oct 11, 2016 19:52
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Scowny posted:They all did get updated in the last few years. The Chimera has been given all of its weapon options, the Leman Russ builds all 4 options (and the Demolisher builds the other 3) and again has all the sponson and hull options (making the FW variants obsolete), and the Sentinel kit consolidated the previous kits into one - with all weapon options in the kit. No, I mean a complete redo (on the level of when they updated the Rhino and Land Raider way back when). The models look like poo poo and they need to go back to the drawing board on them. Just recutting the sprues isn't nearly enough.
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Oct 11, 2016 20:26
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Four Score posted:Adding to that, the adorable bird from Pierzak's av and a whole post that's just quotes from Leperflesh this but Broken Loose
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Oct 11, 2016 20:40
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Ilor posted:Amusing anecdote time! I remember my Jewish mother-in-law once mentioning how she felt she had been "gypped" in some petty transaction or other. I calmly told her that if she wanted to avoid that, she should have "jewed" the price down first. To her credit, her split-second of righteous indignation turned to utter embarrassment when she realized where the term "gypped" came from and how she had used it. All I'm saying is I've met 2 AoS players and they didn't like Jews so I can safely assume that all AoS players are antisemites
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Oct 11, 2016 22:07
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Chill la Chill posted:I'm down but only if you also give them improved codpiece protection too. Nothing will hurt them from the front.
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Oct 11, 2016 22:08
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Avenging Dentist posted:No, I mean a complete redo (on the level of when they updated the Rhino and Land Raider way back when). The models look like poo poo and they need to go back to the drawing board on them. Just recutting the sprues isn't nearly enough. So much they can do to keep the 40k aesthetic, while not looking like complete poo poo.   
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Oct 11, 2016 22:16
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Guy Goodbody posted:Sisters of Battle are cool, and part of it is the boob armor. Warhammer 40,000 is such a male dominated game, to have an army that unambiguously, unapologetically feminine is great. The boob armor lets you tell that this tiny inch tall little dude is a woman, and the giant flamer lets you know they're a bad rear end. They are women who set poo poo on fire for their god. Making Sisters more androgynous would gently caress up the whole concept of the army. I hate when people mention that the only way to make miniatures look feminine is to slap huge tits on them.
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Oct 11, 2016 22:58
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LordAba posted:I hate when people mention that the only way to make miniatures look feminine is to slap huge tits on them. Hypothetical female Space Marines just look like normal Space Marines. With ribbons instead of prayer seals. Doresh fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Oct 11, 2016 |
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Oct 11, 2016 23:01
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You virgins just don't get the tactical value of cleavage.
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I don't really have a problem with the regular Sisters. Yeah, they have boob armor, but it's not really any different from the muscle armor the Blood Angels have. The Sisters Penitent though...
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Oct 11, 2016 23:23
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Avenging Dentist posted:I don't really have a problem with the regular Sisters. Yeah, they have boob armor, but it's not really any different from the muscle armor the Blood Angels have. The Sisters Penitent though... Do you mean the Penitent Engine? Because the Sisters Repentia are awesome 
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Oct 11, 2016 23:56
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I'll admit that the actual Repentia models aren't spectacular, but you gotta admit that the idea of Sisters doing some kind of self-imposed witch trial, running out into battle armored only in pages from the bible to see if God will forgive them their imagined sins, is pretty awesome. Hopefully the new Sisters release will have Repentia models that do it justice
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Oct 12, 2016 00:02
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Yes, the idea is good. The models are awful. Remember, this is what they actually look like: 
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Oct 12, 2016 00:03
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I saw a boob once.
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Avenging Dentist posted:Yes, the idea is good. The models are awful. You forgot the whip-wielding dominatrix.
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Oct 12, 2016 00:09
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Devlan Mud posted:You forgot the whip-wielding dominatrix. At least she's wearing pants. Although thinking about it more, she's the worst part since it'd be cooler if the Repentia just did their thing of their own volition rather than effectively being slaves. Maybe have the squad leader be a Sister reading from a holy book if you want someone like her? Avenging Dentist fucked around with this message at 00:12 on Oct 12, 2016 |
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Oct 12, 2016 00:10
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Ya'll a bunch of born again christians or something? What you got against seeing some sweet tittays?
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Oct 12, 2016 00:26
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Sir Teabag posted:I saw a boob once. bullshit
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Oct 12, 2016 00:29
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fnordcircle posted:Ya'll a bunch of born again christians or something? What you got against seeing some sweet tittays? Ugly, disproportionate wargaming figurines aren't even in the top 10 places to find hot boobs.
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Oct 12, 2016 00:31
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When boom3 was banned he left a vacuum In his place rose the urge to give GW money
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Oct 12, 2016 01:00
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Business Gorillas posted:All I'm saying is I've met 2 AoS players and they didn't like Jews so I can safely assume that all AoS players are antisemites Sure but that's just because you've now personally met 2/3rds of all AoS players.
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Oct 12, 2016 01:05
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So with all this talk of sisters, has it actually been confirmed somewhere that it is happening? Because I watched that video, and the comment at the end of it about the plastic sisters seemed more like a joke than a "this is something we are really working on for the future". Especially with GW's track record of thinking that announcing future products is a really bad idea, and the best way to build marketing hype is to announce something the week or two before it's on sale.
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Oct 12, 2016 01:19
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A Real Horse posted:So with all this talk of sisters, has it actually been confirmed somewhere that it is happening? Because I watched that video, and the comment at the end of it about the plastic sisters seemed more like a joke than a "this is something we are really working on for the future". Especially with GW's track record of thinking that announcing future products is a really bad idea, and the best way to build marketing hype is to announce something the week or two before it's on sale. If plastic sisters was a joke that would own Because the joke would be at the expense of the people who want to give GW money
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Oct 12, 2016 01:23
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Xarbala posted:If plastic sisters was a joke that would own They'd save up their money for more GW products so whether that's sisters or they spend it on something else from GW, doesn't matter. It's like loot crate - it doesn't honestly matter what comes inside the box! Actually, GW should have a loot crate style box including the latest magazine since their customers seem to be the target audience for it anyway.
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Oct 12, 2016 01:44
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Daedleh posted:So much they can do to keep the 40k aesthetic, while not looking like complete poo poo. Yeah these are pretty good. It's a dumb design but it's a dumb design I could see someone building and then getting carbon-copied for a thousand years because everyone forgot how transmissions work. The dual fore autocannons remind me of the dumb double-MG mounts on early stuarts and lees and the turret looks big enough to house both that cannon and the person who's meant to be firing it.
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Oct 12, 2016 01:59
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fnordcircle posted:Ya'll a bunch of born again christians or something? What you got against seeing some sweet tittays? Well, I think you'll find that it is in fact the more progressive-minded among us who are offended by the objectification of women and fetishization of their body parts in male-dominated spheres. Born-again Christians objectify and fetishize women all the time, it's why they want their women to be at home and covered up.
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Oct 12, 2016 02:01
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spectralent posted:Yeah these are pretty good. It's a dumb design but it's a dumb design I could see someone building and then getting carbon-copied for a thousand years because everyone forgot how transmissions work. The dual fore autocannons remind me of the dumb double-MG mounts on early stuarts and lees and the turret looks big enough to house both that cannon and the person who's meant to be firing it. I checked and they're OOP and now I'm sad 
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That video where they go through the trash and find the Daemon Primarch is... like... almost community engagement and marketing, and actually embracing/confirming the rumor instead of freaking the gently caress out is uncharacteristic. It's sort of progress.... and then there's the whole FFG thing and it's basically like five steps back, one tiny step forward. I do think GW is slooooooowly learning in some areas, but they're just so far up poo poo creek it's too little, too late, and then in other areas they're just as idiotic as ever.
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