Warhammer 40k

[p1138]

I actually really liked her and the beat cop going on a detective adventure together, tracking down leads, doing good cop bad cop, foot chases, shootouts, and all that jazz. All to crack the case and uncover the truth.

Meanwhile, the police station is a bombed out wreck, the ongoing riots have reduced whole hive towers to rubble, the Arbites' lady's boss got bodied trying to stage a coup, and the literal sky is falling.

But damm if beat cop doesn't send that 'yo boss, maybe we got a GSC problem' message before he eats it because he's ride or die that way.

It's the kind of disaster movie tragic that works for me and a lot of the endings (like the insurgents from the other hive) have that quality to them.

I also really liked how tedious and annoying dealing with the retarded rich families are from the administrative side of things. We don't get enough discussion about local government policy in 40k. Plus, seeing GSC do their thing on a planet without Space Marines and the like around to pull off heroic bullshit was rad. "What happens when nids show up at some random planet?" is at least unique.


I hope Abnett gets to write something related to knight houses sometime. Dude would go crazy inventing peasant levies and royal customs for the giant robot paladins.

Yeah her plot thread working with the local cop was honestly great, right up until the end when basically nothing happens. If she had at least been able to send the message herself? I dunno, they had a good dynamic right up until that point.

Fuck, the fact that we got their voting system for their legislature explained in detail is riduclous, and interesting. And yes, the best part of the book was a lack of space marines or equivalent to do any heroic bullshit. At the end of the day it was all normal ass people.

A knight world would fit a feudal world that @Professor Donger mentioned, and certainly be a hell of a lot different than a hive to the point of being able to do something else with the entire thing. Knight world that hasn't been re-discovered yet, or was re-discovered and then administratively forgotten about again for a few thousand years? They can deal with the local wildlife, but the moment a real xenos threat emerges all hell breaks loose type thing I could see working.

 

[Professor Donger]

I actually really liked her and the beat cop going on a detective adventure together, tracking down leads, doing good cop bad cop, foot chases, shootouts, and all that jazz. All to crack the case and uncover the truth.

I really liked how as shit unfolds, you realize how absolutely pointless their investigation really was.

Also, the Security chick's death was just sad, honestly. I really liked her, and her getting devoured by the Nids was brutal.

A lot of the deaths in this book were pretty brutal.

 

[Snekposter]

Dude would go crazy inventing peasant levies and royal customs for the giant robot paladins.

That would be the perfect use of his particular brand of autism. Would certainly be far more interesting than what GRRM has shat out for his last few books. Could just give us Game of Thrones in space, FFS, now with added giant robot fights. Could have the various Knight Houses on the planet engaged in a centuries-long succession war after the unifying ruling house was wiped out in a coup that was foiled at the last minute by a loyal retainer, and then they're forced to set aside their differences to respond to this unforeseen threat...

Wait. Why does that sound so familiar?

 

[Spilled Spaghett]

Finally got around to finishing my vespid kill team. Taking accurate photos is as difficult as painting is. I tried all sorts of lighting and backgrounds to try and get the colors right and this is the best I could come up with. Tried to get a few example shots.

It's achieved "Good Enough" status though the bases aren't done yet. I want to try my hand at dry brushing the concrete so it doesn't look completely flat. I don't have the right colors to really decorate it. I need some kind of brass I think for rusty rebar. The rest of my army I plan to be standing on beach sand. I think this team might have to be the exception, unless I try to make it look like the sands are reclaiming the ruins. I need to do a bit more planning for that but otherwise I consider this to be good enough for now. My next project is going to be a Riptide.

 

[Professor Donger]

Finally got around to finishing my vespid kill team. Taking accurate photos is as difficult as painting is. I tried all sorts of lighting and backgrounds to try and get the colors right and this is the best I could come up with. Tried to get a few example shots.

It's achieved "Good Enough" status though the bases aren't done yet. I want to try my hand at dry brushing the concrete so it doesn't look completely flat. I don't have the right colors to really decorate it. I need some kind of brass I think for rusty rebar. The rest of my army I plan to be standing on beach sand. I think this team might have to be the exception, unless I try to make it look like the sands are reclaiming the ruins. I need to do a bit more planning for that but otherwise I consider this to be good enough for now. My next project is going to be a Riptide.
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I'm still trying to find a kill team I like outside of the ork ones.