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That helmet, man. So good.

I am always very surprised to remember that W+ still exists, and am even more surprised at what they pass off as a big addition to the service.

Bare head seems like it’s maybe a slightly-sanitized version of this old Adrian Smith classic. Good selection.

I dunno. To me, anyway, the visual homogenization of 40K has been a real bummer. Having everything look "strange" in, typically, the exact same way, all fighting in the exact same set of GW-produced terrain, written up in fiction with the exact same tone has not been kind to the place. I miss when you had whole branches of GW kind of doing their own thing and using the setting in completely different ways. It felt like a big place. Now it feels like a market-tested product line. Which it is, I guess, but it doesn't feel like anything more, and it used to.

What an amazing bit of work on those Aspects. Bra-vo, GW. Maybe my only note is that I wish they'd kept Asurmen's grimace face, but eh. Hard to feel anything but elation for the Eldar players among us.

It's kinda crazy how the claws just ruin those cavalry models, they look great otherwise.

There seems to be an industry-wide shift (possibly spurred on by GW’s success) away from a sort of military realism and towards bigger, chunkier detailing. Some of this might be the gradual shift to CAD design, or to help with mold longevity, and more recently to help some manufacturers shift to materials like Siocast, but whatever’s motivating the shift, it’s definitely real and widespread.

Wouldn’t mind an HH refresh/revamp, honestly - the core’s nice, but there’s a lot of little changes that could improve it notably (nerfdreadsnerfdreadsnerfdreads), and the balance between the Legions was fairly out-of-whack out of the gate and hasn’t notably improved. If they can fix that sort of stuff while leaving the base, it’d be worth the price of a new rulebook or two, IMO. “Pro” paints would be cool in the abstract, but it does run into the same problem that the current P3 paint line re-release does, which is that there are already ten hundred thousand gadjillion fantastic lines of model paint out there today. GW can probably get by with it in the same way they do now - ie. being the ubiquitous default - but it doesn’t really perk my ears up to hear about.

Sure, but people often weren’t thinking that through. They wanted the confrontations to come to a head, the sacred seals to be ripped away and have the big dangling prophecies fulfilled, but what happens after that? The thing with resolutions is that they resolve stuff. If GW had done it right, according to the promises and internal story logic of the setting, there wouldn’t be any more 40K afterwards. So, of course, they did it wrong and gave us lots of Big Drama without any real resolution. GW tried to have their cake and eat it, too, and is now left listlessly pushing the crumbs around. I mean…40K’s always had that, right? It’s a huge setting of a million-plus worlds and conflicts. Giving players the space to go do what they want was kind of the point. If anything, there’s much less room for that now that every campaign and story has to pretend that it has galactic consequences.

I’ve said this before, but one of the big problems here is actually that 40K, as a setting, stopped having a story. It stopped having a direction or an arc or a comprehensible “present”. There’s a lot of plots - so many plots! - but they don’t lead anywhere, or even feel like they ever will.

An incredible contributor to the hobby and a truly outstanding member of the community. I always loved what a creative force of nature he was, constantly revamping and re-doing older work with newer models and a continually improving skill set, crafting ever-larger and more elaborate monstrosities to accompany his Iron Warriors on their eternal quest for blood and plunder. We didn’t interact much, but seeing the way he’s been described by those who knew him personally underscores how sad it is that he’d go so young. He had a lot more kindness and creative madness to give. Toll the Bell in remembrance of a titan.

I’m not sure if it was “the best,” but my very favorite was the year or so in early 3rd Ed where nearly-complete Codex information kept leaking early because the “internal” site where GW kept its development/playtest material was, in fact, open to anyone with a web browser.

Still lurking, my creaky old account dating back to the ancient days of 2006. Don't usefully play 40K anymore, but it's hard to break the habit, and I occasionally feel the pull of Orks or Space Marine models at the very least. This one's the last forum standing, as far as those I've ever frequented go. Sad to see, a concentrated place like this is infinitely better than the post-and-forget world of Reddit and various social media. Hey, all you other old timers.

Surprised at all the love for Lemartes. I think they did him almost as dirty as they did Coteaz.

The PDF is nice and functional and etc., but why on Earth does it require you to take Lucius?