Warhammer 40k

[Professor Donger]

Finished Hive. Probably one of Abnett's best novels, at least of the ones that I've read. The first 100 pages are definitely a slog but the set up is worth it. This is probably one of the few novels he's done where the multiple characters really worked well. Though there were a few characters he definitely forgot existed as the story went on, which required him to quickly end their storylines near the end. There wasn't a perspective character in the story that I didn't care about which surprised me.

I do like how they set up this chaos cult of Slaanesh, only to have the Genestealers kill them all and become the main threat, and I love how the Arbites Junior, once she found out that they weren't dealing with a heretic cult, and instead Genestealers, was absolutely terrified. This book also really shows what happens to a hive or planet that Genestealers manage to successfully subvert to the point where they can't call for aid from the wider Imperium or coordinate their own PDF to fight properly.

The Tyranids being shown as utterly alien and terrifying to both normal humans and the Genestealers who snapped out of their conditioning was fantastic as well.

I also like how the story justifies keeping normal imperial citizens and even high ranking officers in the dark about the shit they fight. Most of the characters think that when they see the Xenos they'll be able to fight and be big damn heroes, but the moment they do, even hardened soldiers who have fought other men, they are terrified. The Governor pointed it out best, the region they're in was never supposed to have Xenos in it, it's too far from any major Ork, Tyranid or Tau territory or fleets. So no one is warned about them because if you told the general population or even leaders about what they'd be fighting, most would shit themselves and run.

I didn't like how the artist chick and the rock sculpture chick got a lesbian romance moment in, but their death at the end was appropriately heartbreaking.

Shout-out to my nigga Szen for going out like a chad though. Probably my favorite perspective character in the book.

Overall, probably one of my new favorite Warhammer novels, and an excellent break from a lot of the more action heavy novels I've been reading. There IS action but it's not the main focus. Solid 8/10 in my view.

 

[Humble Architect]

I’m back into the model side of the hobby now that I’m settled and managed to get all my stuff to my new place.

So I broke open my Bretonnia starter box and the Oldhammer majority of the models vs the Newhammer HQ is stark. I’ve never had old and new models in one box set before and it was a bit of a revelation.

I could only imagine how GW would do a modern version of the Men at Arms, cause these guys are perfect, dumpy, mismatched, dysgenic, more than a few look like inbreds. You can choose the arms and the head and the accessories. That’s it, the body is one piece. It’s not complex but I haven’t had this much fun building poor fucking infantry since my first CSM kit (pre-Shadowspear) no women or nigger heads at all, it’s very peaceful, soothing even.

Meanwhile the Lord on Pegasus is a fucking nightmare to build, this is a woman-designed kit, first GW kit I had to break out the tweezers for.

Anyway Oldhammer is soulful as hell and complaints over “it’s all the same bodies man” is gay and I’ll take the old way over the monopose “dynamic sculpt” bullshit any day.

 

[Professor Donger]

So I think this is going to be my finalized starting list for the crusade starting next week

 

[DiabeticSydePhil]

The Governor pointed it out best

Don't know how to blur text so replying with a spoiler drop down

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There was at least one other hive in the sector of space that probably fell to genestealers or at least something else the Imperium restricted access to knowledge to. "We don't need to know about it because it isn't nearby" is implied to be a lie by the Imperium, there IS stuff nearby, they just won't tell you about it, because what would the Hive even have done if they were aware? Ignorance truly is a virtue, because the world would go mad from fear knowing there was nothing they could do to stop a hive fleet tendril without years to have prepared a full scale IoM response.

 

[Professor Donger]

Don't know how to blur text so replying with a spoiler drop down

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There was at least one other hive in the sector of space that probably fell to genestealers or at least something else the Imperium restricted access to knowledge to. "We don't need to know about it because it isn't nearby" is implied to be a lie by the Imperium, there IS stuff nearby, they just won't tell you about it, because what would the Hive even have done if they were aware? Ignorance truly is a virtue, because the world would go mad from fear knowing there was nothing they could do to stop a hive fleet tendril without years to have prepared a full scale IoM response.

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[spagandhi]

So I think this is going to be my finalized starting list for the crusade starting next week

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Smash em flat, krump em good.

 

[Professor Donger]

Watching a video of a guy going over his army choice for 40k

He talks about Tyranids and how he came to reject them eventually

Opens with "The idea of playing one of the biggest villains but also one of the most innocent factions"

Instantly closes the video

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[p1138]

Watching a video of a guy going over his army choice for 40k

He talks about Tyranids and how he came to reject them eventually

Opens with "The idea of playing one of the biggest villains but also one of the most innocent factions"

Instantly closes the video

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What a faggot. Shows CSM models he was painting in 2024 and 2025, goes through this whole nonsense of "picking an army" and SURPRISE he picked CSM, who could have guessed?

There's going to be a flood of these faggots vlogging their "journey" with 11th edition out, and they'll likely all quit within a couple of years.

 

[Spilled Spaghett]

Discovered a new bug with the Warhammer app. A friend and I were playing around with it. If you try to link lists with someone who has no access to either codex, you lose access to your own and somehow gain access to theirs. With a mission started I drew two random for him first turn and got a mission that needs to be redrawn first battle round. There's no way to deselect secondaries so I tried discarding it. That's not the same thing obviously it takes it out of the decks and marks it as abandoned. I tapped draw and it gave me my secondary deck, as if I were drawing for myself not my opponent. But if I tap draw on my own secondary deck it brings up the list for my opponent. How is this thing getting worse every update?

 

[Rick The Stick]

Opens with "The idea of playing one of the biggest villains but also one of the most innocent factions"

What a dumb fag. Innocence Proves Nothing anyway.

 

[p1138]

What a dumb fag. Innocence Proves Nothing anyway.

It's also a retarded idea considering the tyranids are ontologically evil needing to devour every piece of organic matter in the universe to satiate a never ending hunger driven by a greedy hive mind for literally no purpose other than its own existence. Humanity in 40k has problems, but at least without a state of threat it can find other shit to do.

 

[Professor Donger]

It's also a retarded idea considering the tyranids are ontologically evil needing to devour every piece of organic matter in the universe to satiate a never ending hunger driven by a greedy hive mind for literally no purpose other than its own existence. Humanity in 40k has problems, but at least without a state of threat it can find other shit to do.

Like others have pointed out, The Imperium is literally the way it is because everyone else in the galaxy/universe is a sack of shit. If the Xenos were actually peaceful and willing to just stay in their lane, the Imperium would have been chill with leaving them be. In old lore, you saw it all the time with vassal Xenos species.

 

[harbringer883]

Watching a video of a guy going over his army choice for 40k

He talks about Tyranids and how he came to reject them eventually

Opens with "The idea of playing one of the biggest villains but also one of the most innocent factions"

Instantly closes the video

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"Most innocent faction"

Yeah guys, hive fleet childeater puppydevourer kittencomper is VERY hekkin moral, mkay?

 

[Professor Donger]

"Most innocent faction"

Yeah guys, hive fleet childeater puppydevourer kittencomper is VERY hekkin moral, mkay?

Honestly, I feel like the weakest thing about most Warhammer novels with regards to the Xenos and Chaos is that we never see any real harm come to kids that I can think of. I kind of get why, but there's a reason shit like this hits so hard.



I'm not saying I want to see an Ork play kickball with a kid's head, but I am saying that kids, at least from what I've read, tend to be kind of ignored in Warhammer 40k. I do think there are a few novels where it does happen, mind you, but I can't really think of any off the top of my head.

 

[harbringer883]

Honestly, I feel like the weakest thing about most Warhammer novels with regards to the Xenos and Chaos is that we never see any real harm come to kids that I can think of. I kind of get why, but there's a reason shit like this hits so hard.

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I'm not saying I want to see an Ork play kickball with a kid's head, but I am saying that kids, at least from what I've read, tend to be kind of ignored in Warhammer 40k. I do think there are a few novels where it does happen, mind you, but I can't really think of any off the top of my head.

I have yet to finish Hive, (just got to the tank battle) but I am hoping that there is some of that towards the end.

 

[p1138]

Like others have pointed out, The Imperium is literally the way it is because everyone else in the galaxy/universe is a sack of shit. If the Xenos were actually peaceful and willing to just stay in their lane, the Imperium would have been chill with leaving them be. In old lore, you saw it all the time with vassal Xenos species.

That's why I said humanity can find something else to do when it isn't in a state of threat, which it is constantly in within 40k.

I'm not saying I want to see an Ork play kickball with a kid's head, but I am saying that kids, at least from what I've read, tend to be kind of ignored in Warhammer 40k. I do think there are a few novels where it does happen, mind you, but I can't really think of any off the top of my head.

They did it in that wh+ animation with the salamanders guy with the guard unit coming in behind sweeping up and just purging everyone. Then there's those wh kids books they did with a necron warrior chasing kids down and some other shit. There's also the baby that gets passed around during/after the siege of terra and a bunch of the problems that occur with that(people wanting to eat the kid, people wanting to steal rations, etc.). But yeah they're largely ignored other than mentioning being part of combat casualties because they're usually the first evacuated(if possible) or some of the first dead(because they're children) and it makes sense that the writers generally stay away from it.

 

[DiabeticSydePhil]

I'm not saying I want to see an Ork play kickball with a kid's head, but I am saying that kids, at least from what I've read, tend to be kind of ignored in Warhammer 40k. I do think there are a few novels where it does happen, mind you, but I can't really think of any off the top of my head.

Warriors of Ultramar a miner on an outlying world watches nids kill and eat his entire family including kids (and all his neighbors) because they chose to not obey the evacuation requests because 'they're just xenos we can defend our town just fine'.

 

[Professor Donger]

Warriors of Ultramar a miner on an outlying world watches nids kill and eat his entire family including kids (and all his neighbors) because they chose to not obey the evacuation requests because 'they're just xenos we can defend our town just fine'.

Is that part of the Ultramarines Omnibus? I have that book so I need to actually sit down and read it.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Opens with "The idea of playing one of the biggest villains but also one of the most innocent factions"

The 2010s culture war shit had people not being able to separate fiction from reality, or at least pretending they can't,

Now it seems we're getting people who can't separate canon from headcanon.

Speaking of glue does anyone have any idea where I can get ork bits for vehicle kitbashing? I'm going to order two of these to use as Ork Trukks and I don't have access to a 3d printer, or the know how, to print bits off for the conversion.

It depends what you're looking for, and location/availability.

For metal plates. Cardboard from a cereal box (or plasticard if your fancy) with some tiny nail decoration bead things as rivets. They are £1 a sheet from most cheapo shops and you'll basically never run out. They're sticky on one side too, which helps. The hard part is finding the small ones instead of the big.

Coffee stiring sticks. Grab a small handful with a McDonalds and you'll have plenty. These make great planks. Lollysticks also work, but eat the lolly first or else your vehicle will get all sticky.

Aida, "Granny grating", or whatever name you like. Fabric and plastic mesh for crossstitch and needle craft. Was a bit pricy when I bought it, but is used for wire mesh.

Vehicle specific bits. If you can find the gaslands upgrade sprue 1 in stock, might be useful. It's for matchbox/hotwheels/zuru scale, but should work well enough.

One I heard recently. Warlord WW2 minis for guns. They have to be Warlord as truescale weapons can look a bit small. You want heroic scale.
Personally I'd go with Stargrave kits, especially scavengers if you can get it, but mercenaries works too. Scavengers has cobbled together sci-fi AK style guns, along with a couple of LMGs. Mercs is more professional bespoke gear but again, a grab bag of sci-fi bullet based weapons.


Finally, kids toys.
You can get roughly 1:48 toys some places. You can find these at car boot sales sometimes for super cheap. Along with broken toys. Exact scale doesn't matter, especially if your removing bits. A wheel that is too big is just a big wheel.

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

I preferred the idea of the Custodes being literally fucked by their conditioning and the whole doing fucking nothing for 10K years outside of letting the sister of battle perform a lap dance on Big E was because they literally were conditioned to only follow Big E, loyalists, or Malcador. After they all died they were stuck in a loop. Guard the Emperor was all their programming allowed

HH was supposed to be like 10 novels, only to sell gangbusters prompting the swries expanding to be 6 times that. If GW knew beforehand how well it will sell we'd have been only now in the actual start of the heresy proper.

Also I want to add that the Traitors were 100% correct in that the majority of the Astartes getting old yeller'd at the end of the crusade (along the Mechanicus). Magnus himself dodged a bullet in not getting chained into the Astronomicon.

They weren't 100 percent correct, they were like 50% correct I thought. Didn't Malcador just straight up say that any Astartes and primarchs that couldn't adjust to peace properly would be dealt with? Basically kind of what happened with the Heresy but in a controlled manner instead of an actual rebellion. The legions would be observed, probably by a custodian, and those deemed unfit to live peacefully after the crusade would be eliminated by those that could have adjusted.

So the Ultramarines, Salamanders, Son's of Horus, Thousand Son's, Dark Angels, Iron Hands, Emperor's Children, Blood Angels (if the red thirst isn't seen as a deal breaker), Imperial Fists, Space Wolves, The Alpha Legion? and White Scars presumably would have alls been fine. With them having roles they could have played during peace time And being able to adjust to dealing with normal people pretty well.

The Death Guard, World Eaters, Word Bearers and Iron Warriors would be fucked for multiple reasons though, all of those reasons mainly having to do with their primarchs.

The only person who was right during the Heresy about the fate of the Marines was Sigismund. They were never going to stop fighting. Even if the Crusade goes as planned and they conquer the galaxy, it then goes to fighting in the Webway with the Dark Eldar. Then it’s probably fighting the Necrons. The Tyranids who were likely always going to invade per how autistic the Silent King is about them.

There was no retirement plan or “retirement plan”.