On that point specifically, I think there's absolutely nothing wrong with that, rather the opposite. I consider 40k more as a setting to tell your own stories in, rather than an ongoing storyline to follow. Freedom to effectively do what you want, kitbashing and modifications make this hobby so much fun. I'd rather be dead in a ditch than painting a single codex-compliant Ultramarine (only space marines I paint are Space Wolves or maybe some Grey Knights kill team at some point).[...], even if it looks like it'll be focusing on another homebrew chapter.
Oh don't get me wrong, I totally agree with you, I'm just excited to see 2 of the more obscure chapters get the Astartes treatment. I'm sure the new guys will be awesome.On that point specifically, I think there's absolutely nothing wrong with that, rather the opposite. I consider 40k more as a setting to tell your own stories in, rather than an ongoing storyline to follow. Freedom to effectively do what you want, kitbashing and modifications make this hobby so much fun. I'd rather be dead in a ditch than painting a single codex-compliant Ultramarine (only space marines I paint are Space Wolves or maybe some Grey Knights kill team at some point).
Also it's the first and only time I can think of that shows exactly how big, fast and unrelentingly lethal 40K Space Marines should be.
Really lookomg forward to seeing what comes next too. The flashes at the end of The Angels Sanguine and Black Dragons chapters are incredibly intreaguing, even if it looks like it'll be focusing on another homebrew chapter.
On that point specifically, I think there's absolutely nothing wrong with that, rather the opposite. I consider 40k more as a setting to tell your own stories in, rather than an ongoing storyline to follow. Freedom to effectively do what you want, kitbashing and modifications make this hobby so much fun. I'd rather be dead in a ditch than painting a single codex-compliant Ultramarine (only space marines I paint are Space Wolves or maybe some Grey Knights kill team at some point).
That Magnus is looking good. I've always wanted to try my hand at some model painting, but have a feeling they'd all look like this:
That Magnus is looking good. I've always wanted to try my hand at some model painting, but have a feeling they'd all look like this:
Perhaps it's time for a warhammer OT in the community section?Got a little too excited to find other folks that fuck with Warhammer on GAF
There used to be one but it was closed. I'd make one but I've never had any experience with the tabletop, just books,games etc. Also it might be a good idea to merge 40k with Fantasy so there's more activity.Perhaps it's time for a warhammer OT in the community section?
Here you go!If someone makes one please post the link in here!!!
Just do it the way I do, I ignore the trash lore and just play the video games because I like the aesthetics and the Imperial Guard are awesome lads, the poster boy good guys of the universe, everyone else is annoying (maybe the Tau are ok and the Orks are basic so I have no feeling towards them one way or the other).40k is culturally anathema though, in that it's all about 'having to make the tough choices'. There are no real 'good guys' per se.
Further, it doesn't give you feel good endorphin rushes like seeing Captain America punch a Nazi in the face and save the day. It's grimdark.
So I imagine comparatively it's 'niche' relative to Marvel but I agree it's some of the best stuff out there. Ever. My favorite fictional universe with the nearest contender probably being Banner of the Stars.
Any one taking that approach to a big budget 40K adaptation would be awful and defeat the entire point of the setting.Just do it the way I do, I ignore the trash lore and just play the video games because I like the aesthetics and the Imperial Guard are awesome lads, the poster boy good guys of the universe, everyone else is annoying (maybe the Tau are ok and the Orks are basic so I have no feeling towards them one way or the other).
There is enough misery in the real world to last me a life time, I don't need to have it in my entertainment as well. Just my approach towards the grim-derp of 40k.Any one taking that approach to a big budget 40K adaptation would be awful and defeat the entire point of the setting.
We've got the Eisenhorn TV series adaptation at some point that I'm hoping will be a good in for normal people, precisely because it starts out more hopeful, with a slightly more traditional approach to story telling, then layers on the grim dark misery until it's less shades of grey, and more black and dried blood.
The only good guys in 40k are the Tyranids, obviously.Just do it the way I do, I ignore the trash lore and just play the video games because I like the aesthetics and the Imperial Guard are awesome lads, the poster boy good guys of the universe, everyone else is annoying (maybe the Tau are ok and the Orks are basic so I have no feeling towards them one way or the other).
Then you’re definitely missing the point of it.There is enough misery in the real world to last me a life time, I don't need to have it in my entertainment as well. Just my approach towards the grim-derp of 40k.
Yeah, that is why I like 40k, for exact reasons you described there, I just don't like the grim-derp aspect of it. That is why I like the Imperial Guard the most, the common man fighting for the common man. I have been in the 40k for almost 30 years now, you don't have to explain it to me.Then you’re definitely missing the point of it.
There’s plenty of fiction that will lie to you and let you escape to a fantasy of good triumphing over evil, or that a single person can win against any odds with enough pluck, skill and determination.
40K is one of the few works of fiction that doesn’t sugar coat the fact that life is a never ending war we’re all destined to lose, and that most of the world will try and screw us over for the pettiest of reasons.
Yet, in spite of the odds, the gods and monsters and dying heroes throughout its universe, 40K is full of more hope and inspiration than all the spandex wearing super heroes and impossibly smart crime fighters in every other universe combined.
Because even in a world that’s infinitely worse than our own, where mankind has been fighting wars without end and suffering every single moment for over 10,000 years, it portrays us as never breaking, never giving in, never surrendering, even in the face of actual gods and creatures that eat whole worlds.
It lets us know that our world isn’t so bad, and that even if life is hard, if we’re miserable and downtrodden, that we all, as individuals and as a species, will keep fighting, keep surviving, and will eventually thrive in spite of it all, because that’s just what we do.
Both of these videos are very NSFW, but relevant to the topic.
Then you’re definitely missing the point of it.
There’s plenty of fiction that will lie to you and let you escape to a fantasy of good triumphing over evil, or that a single person can win against any odds with enough pluck, skill and determination.
40K is one of the few works of fiction that doesn’t sugar coat the fact that life is a never ending war we’re all destined to lose, and that most of the world will try and screw us over for the pettiest of reasons.
Yet, in spite of the odds, the gods and monsters and dying heroes throughout its universe, 40K is full of more hope and inspiration than all the spandex wearing super heroes and impossibly smart crime fighters in every other universe combined.
Because even in a world that’s infinitely worse than our own, where mankind has been fighting wars without end and suffering every single moment for over 10,000 years, it portrays us as never breaking, never giving in, never surrendering, even in the face of actual gods and creatures that eat whole worlds.
It lets us know that our world isn’t so bad, and that even if life is hard, if we’re miserable and downtrodden, that we all, as individuals and as a species, will keep fighting, keep surviving, and will eventually thrive in spite of it all, because that’s just what we do.
You can’t say you get it then continue to call it “grim derp”, especially when you then praise the Guard, arguably the most grim dark of all the factions due to how royally buggered they are 99% of the time and horrifically cruel the other 1%.Yeah, that is why I like 40k, for exact reasons you described there, I just don't like the grim-derp aspect of it. That is why I like the Imperial Guard the most, the common man fighting for the common man. I have been in the 40k for almost 30 years now, you don't have to explain it to me.
Let it be known that the planet broke before the guard.
Cadia? Ah yes I have some asteroid belt by that name on my maps...Poor Cadia...
Let's just say I have read and seen grim-dark become grim-derp and vice versa so many times that I have lots interest in some of the finer details of the lore some time ago (about 10 years). And when it comes to the Guard their heroism and nobility is incomparable to other factions in the setting, and they aren't "buggered" 99% of time when they win practically every fight.You can’t say you get it then continue to call it “grim derp”, especially when you then praise the Guard, arguably the most grim dark of all the factions due to how royally buggered they are 99% of the time and horrifically cruel the other 1%.
I mean I love them too, but come on, they’re about as far from noble and heroic even in the context of the setting as you can get.
You can’t say you get it then continue to call it “grim derp”, especially when you then praise the Guard, arguably the most grim dark of all the factions due to how royally buggered they are 99% of the time and horrifically cruel the other 1%.
I mean I love them too, but come on, they’re about as far from noble and heroic even in the context of the setting as you can get.