Kastor Krieg

I don't want to convince or convert people on the internet. I want to be left well alone to participate and not receive abuse from people screeching about "gay" or "sperging" and so on. I want people to stop questioning the gender, morality and the very humanity of myself and people like me, or like people we know and love. There's no "disagreement" here, because there can be only one "agreement". Trans / bi / gay / ace / queer / autistic / disabled / racial or ethnic minority people are human, their equal rights need to be recognized and upheld. Those who dare question our humanity and equality in those rights with those who had the sheer luck of being born hetero / neuronormative / white, etc., need to not be platformed by B&C. Those are not "views" up for discussion. Bolter & Chainsword going "well, you both have an opinion so you both may equally voice it", where one side's supposed opinion is "I am human and I deserve to live a happy life without threats and torment of abuse", while the other side finds each and every way to insinuate a message coming down to a "But are you REALLY, though?", will be B&C enabling the 2nd party by mere inaction in defense of the first. And do not misunderstand - or attempt to misrepresent! - the above as an attempt to silence actual topical discussion. I would be jumping with both boots straight into a discussion of political or socioeconomical internal workings of an Imperium agriworld, or a Tau enclave. I would welcome a discussion on why does the Imperium not really care about your race, gender, or sexual preferences, but instead has substituted this with a different hate of "The Other". However, it is my strong conviction that any voices which incite division and hate towards particular users or groups thereof, or cause those users grief and emotional pain due to their sex/gender/preference/disability/ethnicity/minority status, painting them as "The Other" of our community, are the voice which indeed do not have a place on this Forum. Forum policies as the one above silence and "other" those groups of users by making our mere existence "a political" and "verboten" topic itself. With those policies, the abusers will not have to try and silence us anymore - because B&C Moderation will do their work for themselves. A simple question rises for the Moderati - do you want us and our voices here, or will you yield to the instigators' pressure to silence and remove us from this community altogether? + By your deeds you shall be known +

How does the Moderation expect to enforce this? This will have a chilling effect on any discussion of representation in Games Workshop media. It will make B&C a much less welcoming place for minorities and it effectively crowns "Injustice Warriors" as winners of the discourse - by silencing the minority voices and their allies. Under rules phrased like this, any mention of a character being canonically agender or trans will be report spammed by Those Guys, for example. However well-intentioned this might be, indifference and neutrality in the face of ongoing oppression of minorities by the chuds (and let's not kid ourselves here, please, it was and is ongoing) means siding with the oppressors. You (and they) cannot and will not purge neither our topic, or us, from the hobby. We were always here, since the beginning, and we're here to stay.

Ugh, retcons to retcons? Who could've known.

Yeah, but those were "first batch" Primaris, a very limited number. By the time Guilliman was going around and reinforcing Chapters with Primaris he had a hundred thousand or more cooked up fresh by Cawl and indoctrinated with their target Chapter's culture. By that time, those first batch Marines already had dozens, sometimes hundreds of years of experience in the 40th Millenium. One of those guys being just a random line Brother and marvelling at Titus' 200 year studs doesn't make sense at all.

Not to mention the consistent Captain: "The walls are falling! I need to hit three places at once!" Titus: "I need two squads!" Captain: "I can spare six more men, three per objective." (and they are mixed armour types, too!) Captain: "Perhaps you were right! The enemy has commandeered the main objective, took the VIP hostage and has the McGuffin!" Titus: "I need at least a full squad!" Captain: "I can spare three men." What the hell, Captain Acheron. There's literally dozens of Marines just standing around on the Battle Barge!

++ No spoilers for Frater, please! ++ I can take the infinite elevators. I can take the clunky movement. I can take the console "spray and pray" lack of actual aiming (because of how the "over the shoulder aim" narrows your field of view, so you mostly just hipfire in the fray). I can even take the childishly petty squaddies and their paper-thin motivations (the dialogue is really grating at times). But when one of the Space Marines casually spouts out (can't give context not to spoil) , I've just spit out my tea. That basic grunt Primaris is ten thousand years old or what's going on here?

That's conjecture, which doesn't bear out in the face of how GW is eagerly binning entire army sets, not just singular kits.

This announcement has just murdered the local interest in KT, as well as my motivation to finish painting my Kommandoz. Thanks, James Workshop.

The Tanith had that one deployment where they used droppacks exactly like those! Just saying.

Ooooh, those are NICE. Had the very same idea, wasps or hornets!

Old SG helmets had the "bicorn" a bit more toward the front, exposing mostly just the forehead. And they had more detail towards there, either from brow shapes of a frown, or blood drops, etc. The new SG expose straight up half of the head, with no detail or facial shapes covering the bottom, so they look "bald" / "plain" / "off". The captain's head has hair there and that works.

They look like first generation Stormcast, the old bland chonkers. And Sanguinor is just an absolutely lazy, dialed-in redo. The scrolls themselves... just look at the physicality of "levitating angel drags parchment scrolls" on the original. Thin, folding, damaged... And with the downgrade we get "lol, just make them straight beams of thick plastic, then wing something when painting it, lmao". So they could and did give a proper winged jump pack to THIS GUY, but couldn't be arsed to do the same for the unit that is literally iconic for exactly this design of a jump pack? Right.

Thiccpidz.

Throne damn it, of course somebody got there ahead of me :D 10/10, wish the official mini was that cool.

2012 if that counts as "oldtimer" yet :D