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I did "Guilliman: Lord of Ultramar" and while I actually quite liked it, I couldn't help but be constantly reminded of a quote.

"Guilliman has a tendency to put the hackles of others up due to his belief that not only has he solved the problems of warfare, but that he can write it down while he does so."- Alpharius
 
Judge Dredd dijo:
I thought it was a way to get people into bespoke character painting a way to put their niche collection on the table?
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It all comes down to soup, letting them put all of the Imperial Kill Teams in one place that could still be souped after they severely cut back on letting people do that normally after 8e while also, as above, making people buy a separate book for that and dangling the ability to play them as a standalone army (one with few options and no army rule).
 
Judge Dredd dijo:
I thought it was a way to get people into bespoke character painting a way to put their niche collection on the table?
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It's a random pile of inquisitors, assassins, deathwatch(which was a white dwarf article ages ago written as an excuse for people to use their piles of random unused decals), a handful of random sisters of battle and grey knights units(not characters), and the kill teams(arbites, navy breachers, etc) to act as battleline units. And even then, a third of the characters immediately went to legends because they were finecast or just from the blackstone fortress boardgame box.

Their army rule is "hey you can play deathwatch" or "here's some soup rules" so if you aren't playing deathwatch, you don't get an army rule.
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Pedophobe dijo:
People still buy the books? Lunacy! Wahapedia is better than free.
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There's also 39kpro, newrecruit, etc. but unfortunately GW still loves selling books because people still buy them even though they're obsolete by the time they're on store shelves.
 
Pedophobe dijo:
People still buy the books? Lunacy! Wahapedia is better than free.
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The book gets you the access code if you really want to use the app. Some people just like to have collectible physical media. I think having a complete collection would look good on a shelf even if the rules were always worthless. Someone has to buy the books to get scans and upload it for the rest of us. If your army gets a boxset release with the codex, if you want the rules as they come out you need the codex. BSData doesn't like uploading the new rules until the codex is available for sale. Even GW doesn't update the app until then. Using a book for rules reference sounds fun and trad until you actually have to keep flipping pages and refer to the FAQ/Erratas that came out for it on release, and you wish you could just pull up the app.
 
DiabeticSydePhil dijo:
Robert Raith has yet to let us down. He's a somewhat weird fuck autist (his AN in Infinite and Divine are... unique at times) but in ways that lean towards fun and interesting writing.
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I think it's at least worth being aware that Robert Rath is a primary writer for Extra History, the History YouTube spinoff channel of the horrendously Lefty (video) game essayist channel Extra Credits with infamous works such as "playing as Nazis in WW2 games makes you a Nazi" and "orcs are black people" (featuring a 40k segment and Rath's Necron fiction). I'm barely familiar with the content specifically of Extra History, but I imagine that Rath's coverage of historical topics there is just as skewed Left as their parent channel as a policy. It appears at a glance that the History YouTube thread has a negative view of it.

Of course, for Rath to be like this is not unusual among Black Library authors (see ADB and Mike Brooks), and good, entertaining stories can be written despite the authors otherwise having screwy ideas about politics and culture. Even so, I do recall The Infinite and the Divine having a "they" bit AdMech character, amusingly given an incredibly masculine voice by the audiobook narrator.
 
Farm Hand dijo:
Of course, for Rath to be like this is not unusual among Black Library authors (see ADB and Mike Brooks), and good, entertaining stories can be written despite the authors otherwise having screwy ideas about politics and culture. Even so, I do recall The Infinite and the Divine having a "they" bit AdMech character, amusingly given an incredibly masculine voice by the audiobook narrator.
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He's some weird fuck historian degree Hawaiian living in Hong Kong. His AN in Infinite and Divine mention him chatting with Buddhist monks, his concerns about global warming and coral bleaching, etc.

He writes well, but he's less openly weirdo liberal and more... rich liberal world tour education. His AN come off a bit autistic but it does create some interesting world building (his AN were interesting despite Muh Climate stuff).

The tech priest is at least written as a they in a short PoV blurb because the intent was to make every Pokeball'd random Trayzn throws about feel 'unique' (I wish we got more of the drukharii who turned all her party guests into shambling horrors).

Credit to the guy though despite clear influences he doesn't get preachy and his actual understanding of narrative is good (most of the AN are like 'I set this up for the reader now for expectations twenty pages later' which was so natural I wouldnt have picked up on it without it getting pointed out).


Anyways points aside BL needs to release more annotated editions I love that shit.
 
I'm fickle. If you wanna give your body-horror AdMech characters troon pronouns, I'm all for it. I think it's both funny and fitting. Some of these folk are so far removed from humanity that calling them a "he" or "she" quite literally isn't accurate anymore. They're skin walking as machines. They're robotroons. Would that make Necron TERFS?

But little things like the dyke couple, and their vat grown baby, in Head of The Hydra bugs me far more than it should, even if the unintended subtext of "hmm. This little girl reminds me of myself; a genetic monstrosity that shouldn't exist." from Alpharius is amusing.
 
I know people aren't into Necrons but I've always wanted to ask, what's an appropriate color scheme for the Empire of the Severed? OG Oldcron? Rusted and worn out? Eerie and haunted? Not sure.
 
Rick The Stick dijo:
I'm fickle. If you wanna give your body-horror AdMech characters troon pronouns, I'm all for it. I think it's both funny and fitting. Some of these folk are so far removed from humanity that calling them a "he" or "she" quite literally isn't accurate anymore. They're skin walking as machines. They're robotroons. Would that make Necron TERFS?
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This. If there's a group in 40k where it would make sense, it's admech. We're talking about an entire faction that reproduces using clone vats for the most part, because they removed or otherwise mechanized their junk a century prior and have so little of anything left, being male or female is mostly irrelevant once you're a partial brain in a jar maybe still attached to a spinal cord that hasn't eaten anything other than nutrient paste dumped into a hopper in 3 centuries.

Rick The Stick dijo:
But little things like the dyke couple, and their vat grown baby, in Head of The Hydra bugs me far more than it should, even if the unintended subtext of "hmm. This little girl reminds me of myself; a genetic monstrosity that shouldn't exist." from Alpharius is amusing.
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Now this shit is when it's a problem.

Farm Hand dijo:
I think it's at least worth being aware that Robert Rath is a primary writer for Extra History, the History YouTube spinoff channel of the horrendously Lefty (video) game essayist channel Extra Credits with infamous works such as "playing as Nazis in WW2 games makes you a Nazi" and "orcs are black people" (featuring a 40k segment and Rath's Necron fiction). I'm barely familiar with the content specifically of Extra History, but I imagine that Rath's coverage of historical topics there is just as skewed Left as their parent channel as a policy. It appears at a glance that the History YouTube thread has a negative view of it.

Of course, for Rath to be like this is not unusual among Black Library authors (see ADB and Mike Brooks), and good, entertaining stories can be written despite the authors otherwise having screwy ideas about politics and culture. Even so, I do recall The Infinite and the Divine having a "they" bit AdMech character, amusingly given an incredibly masculine voice by the audiobook narrator.
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Assassinorum Kingmaker and Infinite & Divine were fine. Fall of Cadia mostly suffered from being a ridiculous Avengers End Game clusterfuck that GW likely demanded someone write specifically to be just that. It's also worth noting that Robert Rath didn't write either of those basically worst videos ever from EC/EH.
 
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p1138 dijo:
This. If there's a group in 40k where it would make sense, it's admech. We're talking about an entire faction that reproduces using clone vats for the most part, because they removed or otherwise mechanized their junk a century prior and have so little of anything left, being male or female is mostly irrelevant once you're a partial brain in a jar maybe still attached to a spinal cord that hasn't eaten anything other than nutrient paste dumped into a hopper in 3 centuries.
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Kinda odd how mind-uploading tech is considered heretical in most cases, and yet the Admech can get away by replacing most of their flesh with machinery until they're no longer human.
 
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