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Long time no paint

Another Gue'vesa done!

Looking forward to cinematic group shots when I finish more

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Kroot

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luci-yabs

At this point I don't know why GW decided to make more Xenos models. They should stop producing them or making them playable entirely because it seems the sales are so good for Imperium related factions that making us think Xenos deserve victories is too much for them.

honestly...i actually wish they would just get rid of all non-marine factions already. i really, honestly, do. it would make things so much easier for me.

mhornar

The weirdest part is that they need us Xenos players specifically to feed the fantasy for all the Marine players, but they refuse to put in even a little effort to make the non-Imperium attractive for anyone. Which makes the tournaments or even local store games more and more of the same handful of marine chapters beating up on each other.

It’s such a baffling decision from a marketing standpoint, especially compared to almost any similar company.

#and that's ignoring the fascism stuff #40k

luci-yabs

i always forget how creepy 40k fans can be but they luckily are always there to remind me that a contingent of them thinks that incinerating babies at birth can be an okay thing to do.

then again they are the same people who think portraying the imperium as a ‘good guy’, when it routinely butchers innocents and executes surrendering soldiers, is somehow okay.

so in short; thank you for reminding me why i think gw and bl are absolutely gutless cowards who can’t hide behind ‘but satire’ at all anymore when they just, with almost no efforts to undermine, portray the imperium as a completely justified protagonist who wins at everything constantly and are better than everyone.

and don’t give me this ‘the emperor and the primarchs would be horrified to see what the imperium has become’ bull. i’ve read the hh series. they were all in favour of massacring all other life in the galaxy which didn’t fit their demands. not human? die. not human enough for their liking? die too. the emperor and primarchs of the hh were mass murdering tyrants devoted to the creation of a racialized state built on the concept of an inherent superiority of their specific conception of their species over all other life and explicitly made one of their policies be the extermination of all sapient life which did not adhere to their specific conception and did not submit to their absolute authority.

emperor and primarchs would only weep because the job isn’t finished yet. the emperor and the primarchs’ vision of the galaxy is near indistinct from that of the current imperium except that rather than theocratic it would be state atheism enforced on pain of death if you do not submit. beyond that nothing changes. the emperor and primarchs gave free reign for the mechanicus to be what it was, the largest slaving organization in the entire galaxy, gave free reign for a social system based on inherited aristocratic titles which had the vast majority of their citizens placed in serf-like conditions to a small elite.

wake me up from hibernation when a story plot point happens where xenos actually beat the imperium at something for a change. till then f**k off.

mhornar

I'd even be at least a little more willing to give them my money if they would at least call out the fascism inherent in their work.

I get the space marines are their big sellers, and the Imperium generally is even bigger for them with all the secondary armies. So if they want to make them the protagonists, fine. I don’t like it as a Tau player, but fine. But then give us Chapters who shield their planets from the greater Imperium’s cruelty. Give us Imperial Knights whose codes of honor predate the Imperium and want to uphold freedom, justice, etc. Even more importantly, don’t let that formerly satirical now real pro-fascist element into your other game. So much Age of Sigmar lore mirrors the 40k lore in the worst possible ways. A desire to better one’s own station in life is explicitly called out as a path to Chaos and evil.

Wizards/TSR have had all sorts of dated and abysmal rules/lore/concepts in D&D since its invention in the 70s, and modern Wizards of the Coast has spent the last few years as their popularity regrew trying to fix those. GW seems to just double down on the bad.

#40k

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FESBRA

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Audrey Gale, by Dai Nguyen

luci-yabs

how hard is it to write loyalists marines losing in the codices of another faction? does every codex secretly actually have to be a marine codex?

i am…honestly staggered by how rarely, how absolutely minutely, any faction has ever won any battle against loyalist space marines.

there is not a single xenos faction that has more than single digit victories against space marines. most can’t even break 5 wins. in decades of writing. 5. meanwhile there is not a single faction in the game marines do not have at least double digit win streaks against.

it’s just demoralizing when you look at the lore aggregate. go onto a site like lexicanum, browse their tag ‘battles (eldar)’ or ‘battles (tau)’ and it’s just…depressing.

with taros being undone the only unequivocal wins the tau have ever now had over space marines are down too ‘prefectia, the first farsight novel,’ and that’s it. that’s it. two. twice. and yet imperial fans will never stop bitching and moaning about tau having plot armour.

mhornar

What’s even weirder to me is that it wouldn’t be hard or even a massive shift in canon to simply create Marine Chapters to be designated “losers.” Like you really want the Ultramarines to be undefeated for some reason. Ok fine, those thousand guys are the best of the best. But over here we’ve got the Ultraviolets, a daughter chapter of a daughter chapter of the UMs. They tried to destroy a Necron flagship and failed tragically, and in the process the world of Siena fell to the Necron. The Scarlet Wasps fought a drawn out but failed defense against the Tau and the Tyrannid, etc. Then when we jump a century forward they’ve been disbanded, but there’s a new set of sacrificial marines. It’s literally how every other mass franchise shared universe handles this stuff.

In Battletech: the Federated Commonwealth is too powerful, well a civil war, divides that up. Then the Capellan Confederacy beats up on a bunch of characters we don’t care about to reconquer their territory. The ones we actually do care about are off on another front, fighting bigger threats. Warcraft’s treatment of its characters is legendarily bad and “moral” balance between the two factions is a joke at times, but we definitely fight bunches of the big names on both sides and beat them. Forgotten Realms D&D provides plot armor to a lot of the famous characters obviously, but their factions/gods/nations get lots of back and forth victories in the overarching lore (even if the novels tend to be good triumphing over evil).

chezforshire

Grant Imahara was part of the piece of media that I can confidently say shaped me as a person. I am curious, open to being wrong, and willing to experiment because of Mythbusters.

He and everyone in that show was such a ray of sunshine. They made me laugh, taught me so many things, and gave me the hunger for knowledge that keeps me going.

I send my condolences to all that knew him, personally or through the show. He was important and held closely by so many people. Wherever he is now, I hope he’s still making kick-ass robots and blowing things up.

Rest in peace, man.

thecollectibles

Knights by Kekai Kotaki

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Art by panjoool

mhornar

I want to make a game just to use this picture.

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Kevin-Glint

armstreet

It’s the way she holds herself, the grace in her step and the way that everything she does is deliberate and perfect. Every action is elegant, and even when things do go wrong, there’s always a sense of serendipity - it’s clear that it could not have happened any other way. If being a princess truly is a way of life, a piece of your soul, then can someone take that away from you?

Source: ArmStreet’s Exiled Princess Collection.

#cool cosplay

luci-yabs

sobering reflection on 8th

as 8th draws to a close it dawns on me…i don’t think xenos won a single campaign this entire edition.

i guess psychic awakening pariah is their last chance to but…who are we kidding? like anyone but the imperium will win.

are we just never going to see xenos ever win any campaign supplements? did the whining of space marine fans after kauyon just make gw decide that xenos are never, ever, allowed to win ever again?

what’s their too look forward to in the lore for xenos? the losses seem to be getting worse, not better, black library books have taken necrons and harlequins and now reduced them from once formidable foes into fodder who get chewed through by regular marines in droves.

every single book, campaign or novel, with xenos in them just has us suck, at best stalemate, and that’s the slimmest chance, 9/10 times it’s just more defeat and defeat and defeat.

what is there to look forwards too? will the codices this time, for the xenos, actually add impressive wins to the lore? or will we get more of the t’au and tyranids 8th edition codices where most of the new lore actively made them look weaker? or will it be more akin to 8th necron codex lore where virtually nothing was added at all?

why does games workshop and black library hate letting xenos win anything so much? what is their point? just to die endlessly and suck?

mhornar

What's even worse is that we don't even really get much in the way of looks at the Xenos. When they're featured, it's mostly just "who's dying on the battlefield against Marines today? And that assumes they even exist in the setting the books take place in...Horus Heresy era books really have absolutely no interest to a Tau player. I could probably accept with eyerolls the inevitable wins of Space Marines, if they’d give me a trilogy about a young Ork rising up from nothing to lead a Waagh, or a Fire Warrior kill team dealing with crazy psychic shit and fighting back with tech, etc. As long as there was some action, maybe a look at the non-military side of things, and a chance for the protagonists to be heroes even just against “random alien monstrosity we made up for this book.” But instead it’s almost always “well we’re fighting the Imperium so this is going to end with you being really upset. You might get lucky and we’ll end up working together with Space Marines at some point though, in which case we’ll still die in droves but we won’t even get to be the heroes of our own books.

#warhammer 40k #xenos