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The initially stated goal for the Dawn of Fire series was "This is going to be an epic mega-series like the Horus Heresy novels, but set in the present so not bound to a pre-existing historical timeline." Which does explain why it might wander all over the place. (I've got a whole 'nother rant about why the Horus Heresy is compelling precisely because of its nature as faux-historical fiction with a fixed ending.)
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It also doesn't help the series that it also got handed off to Black Library's B-team of writers, while the A team were on Horus Heresy. Seeing Chris Wraight getting a chance to do one was a surprise because he's definitely one of their good writers. Will it change now that HH is technically done with? Who knows, but they'll probably find some way to continue that series.
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AnEdgelord posted:Oh it's broken containment alright Genuinely wondering about how somebody not initiated into 10 levels of nerd bullshit is able to process any of this information and then get angry about it.
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Sharkopath posted:Genuinely wondering about how somebody not initiated into 10 levels of nerd bullshit is able to process any of this information and then get angry about it. anyone reading the heil just needs to see the word woke and they've been told how to feel about it
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The daily heil using AoS imagery in the article is probably the funniest part, or perhaps a close second to the AI Henry Cavill they have in it
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Sharkopath posted:Genuinely wondering about how somebody not initiated into 10 levels of nerd bullshit is able to process any of this information and then get angry about it.
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Warhammer is one of UK's most relevant cultural exports these days.
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Lostconfused posted:Warhammer is one of UK's most relevant cultural exports these days. [derogatory]
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GW is worth more than the entire UK fishing industry lol
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Lostconfused posted:Warhammer is one of UK's most relevant cultural exports these days. It's this and Harry Potter right?
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Hell yeah, my FLGS Warhammer Discord just posted a message telling chuds to gently caress entirely off forever and announcing that they're planning a GW Pride event in June which they plan to make a regular event.
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rantmo posted:Hell yeah, my FLGS Warhammer Discord just posted a message telling chuds to gently caress entirely off forever and announcing that they're planning a GW Pride event in June which they plan to make a regular event.  the Dojo! I love that place so much.
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Pinwiz11 posted:
I really need to actually play some games there.
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My favourite Warhammer squadron is the custardmarines
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Solus posted:The daily heil using AoS imagery in the article is probably the funniest part, or perhaps a close second to the AI Henry Cavill they have in it I hope they used the fully sick image of Yndrasta making GBS threads on a Cthulhu monster.
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Super Waffle posted:The new Dawn of Fire series ranges from readable to pretty good, and explores a lot of interesting intersections of factions that would normally have their own book. Sisters meeting Custodes, life as a menial on Terra, average joes meeting primarchs, Iron Warriors and Word Bearers being bros, Space Wolves casually slaughtering Scions that got in the way and no one can do a drat thing about it, and some interesting space marines from obscure chapters getting some attention like Storm Reapers and Marines Malevolent. The first dawn of fire novel was the first 40K book I have read after a decade long hiatus, and the “data miner” part on terra was just 
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I wish I had an archive of the sky-is-falling, end-of-warhammer, boycott-GW forum posts from ca 2001 (was it?) when the Tau were introduced. I'm old and remember the furious uproar about how GW is now catering exclusively to anime nerds and has permanently abandoned grimdark gothic in favor of sleek mecha and nice friendly good guys. Also jesus gently caress who are these people who are so attached to Custodes lore, it's not even good or remotely interesting. "Genetically modified Imperial supersoldiers like marines but BIGGER and EVEN MORE ELITE" is absolute bottom of the barrel warhams writing.
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I can't believe a woke company like Blackrock is forcing the progressive agenda into my Warhams!
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For an actual 40k update, I think adding 1mm between both the shin and the thigh was the sweet spot for me. I don't have any unbased or plain standing gravis dudes that I can get a size comparison shot of, but at least for a Phobos marine the Custodes is decently taller now. I tried gap filling with milliput, and it was a miserable experience to be honest. Ultimately I abandoned milliput entirely and developed a new way to go about things with uv resin; I can explain the process of anyone cares. Now I can basically upscale a vanilla Custodes in about 10 to 20 minutes which is nice. There's so much detail modeled onto the legs and crotch though that I feel the necessary thigh cuts will require some serious repair work to make it not look like garbage on some of the poses. Most of the outer thigh doesn't matter cause the armor flaps will cover it, but the inner part that has all the studded leather loin strips directly connected to it is just asking for trouble. At this point I'm not sure if I should just model some tactical robes onto some of the Custodes to hide the biggest offenders or if I should model some new crotch armor for everyone like this dude has. 
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That's a very cool conversion project, I wish you luck. I don't have any useful advice, but you either find or discover a decent solution. It might be useful for my project of creating upright Ork Boyz out of the old multipart plastics. Conversion on the left 
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They should have revealed the women custodes and in the same paragraph discontinued the army because it sucks rear end
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Guildencrantz posted:"Genetically modified Imperial supersoldiers like marines but BIGGER and EVEN MORE ELITE" is absolute bottom of the barrel warhams writing. But you can fix that by adding more flaws. Because primarchs were already even more swole and more elite marines, but apparently people like them because they're all raging assholes and shitlords or something.
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Solus posted:GW is worth more than the entire UK fishing industry lol Is it? GW had revenue of bit over half a billion in 2023, UK fishing industry was over 900 million.
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So "merely" over half, then.
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Off topic but I remember after the 2008 financial crisis after all the banks in Iceland collapsed, EVE Online comprised 6% of Iceland's GPD 
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It sounds like you're saying we need to buy more toy soldiers. Or fewer fish.
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Sometimes the kids will have to go without their fish to afford the newest release.
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Super Waffle posted:Off topic but I remember after the 2008 financial crisis after all the banks in Iceland collapsed, EVE Online comprised 6% of Iceland's GPD That is nowhere near true. At it's nadir after the financial crash Iceland's GDP was 13.5 billion while EVE Online had around 200k active subs, which brought in about 30 million USD annually.
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Ominous Jazz posted:some guy is selling a space nuns combat patrol box for 80 bucks with shipping and now i'm thinking of the adepta sororitas but i'm not wracked with catholic guilt so a lot of it seems gauche. It came around again and I bought it. That's ~500 points from what I've read. I'm gonna get it gussied up and try a game of combat patrol at the local store so I know how the game works. and I'll have some heads left over for the guard so I'll have more women. Any advice on expanding that to 1000? Ominous Jazz fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Apr 18, 2024 |
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It's actually a lot of stuff to paint but if you want to get something immediately get a box of Seraphim/Zephyrim and chop the hands of the Combat Patrol Setaphim at the wrist and glue on your choice of 2x pairs of Inferno Pistols or Hand Flamers so you're not stuck with a squad of Seraphim with just Bolt Pistols. The box you bought can then be built as Zephyrim or Seraphim with the other weapon choice. Can't go wrong with an Exorcist or Immolator. They're probably getting nerfed but Arco Flagellants are very good right now.
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is that something i can magnetize? because youtube keeps telling me how great the magnetizing is
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Make them however you like and just say they have whatever the good weapon is, unless you really care about wysiwyg.
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Really if two of the girls per 5 are holding something different then you can say they're the special weapon holders. Some people try to maximize the hell out of their kits by magnetizing every option but I couldn't be bothered.
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My brother wanted me to magnetise the Death Korps kill team box at one point. I dissuaded him after going through just how many tiny magnets I would've needed. In hindsight, probably could've just done the special weapons. But even then that's a pain in the rear end to do with such small arms.
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I care about wysiwyg and playing with magnets is fun, it also makes it easier to paint some parts, but it's a huge pain in the rear end to deal with. It's a lot of extra time magnetizing poo poo, it's a hassle to not knock the magnetized parts off when picking the model up, got to make sure they don't get knocked around when transporting them or some parts might come loose. It's a whole lot of extra hassle for something that very few people might care about, or not might matter to you at all. Cooked Auto posted:My brother wanted me to magnetise the Death Korps kill team box at one point. I dissuaded him after going through just how many tiny magnets I would've needed. They can already have 3 special weapons in 40K, like do you really care to magnetize the sniper rifle that looks like a lasrifle anyway, or the flamer?
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Now if it's like a $100 tank and you can magnetize between the two gun options on the turret you should probably do that.
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Super Waffle posted:I feel like the dudes who have a problem with this are the same people who buy the 3rd party big titty "pin up" versions of Krieg commisars and naked Shadowsun AdRic did a whole bit to open the Magnus episode riffing on people who are upset about female Custodes, and they're the biggest purveyors of pin-up Kriegers and Xenos I can think of. Mind you that's not necessarily BUYING them, but if they're selling to a known audience and intentionally dunk on said audience, that sounds like a bad business move. Improbable Lobster posted:They usually don't have any connection to the hobby at all ime This rule holds true for most culture war poo poo. The right wing grifters don't care about Star Wars. They care that Star Wars is popular and has something they can hang their grift on. Ominous Jazz posted:i don't think it's literally cum Warhammer 40K 10e: Geneseed is stored in the balls Someone has made this argument unironically for mono-gender space marines, I'm confident. But like someone else pointed out: a woman in Space Marine armor isn't going to look any visually different from the outside. Cease to Hope posted:this guy, while an annoying misogynist, has the keenest possible grasp of 40K backstory. 40K "lore" is like a flying carpet that only works when you aren't thinking about elephants. if you know too much about it, you are forever barred from understanding its single great truth: every piece of 40K fiction is some half-misremembered bullshit that exists only to do whatever it is that you were wanting to do anyway. The thing is, this is also true in setting. There is more history in 40k since the Horus Heresy than there is written real life human history. In a world where information storage and access is roughly equivalent to Renaissance-era Europe with some vacuum tube computers thrown in here and there. You are pointedly lying to yourself if you think anyone in the Imperium has anything close to the understanding of events that some random YouTuber does.
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