Anyone got in to Kill Team? I haven't but I think i'm going to try it next time I have a game day.

I've been watching some battle reports on youtube and it looks pretty fun, and way faster.

Got done priming and highlighting some Terminators and Sternguard Veterans earlier. They're now ready to paint while watching my favorite 40k streamer tomorrow.

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Gonna slap chop them?

Brand new here to the 40k universe. Wife and I both bought a kill teams to practice painting on. I haven’t picked a faction yet (wife stole orks from me lol) leaning towards imperial guard/astra militarum.

I bought the hearthkyn salvager kill team. I like the squats but there seems to be a lack of units right now to choose from in the leagues of Votann faction.

Welcome to the addiction!

What is slap chop?

It's a speed painting method where you prime, then dry brush or air brush highlights in white or a shade of gray, then lightly brush the colors on (potentially using dry brush as well) until the desired darkness is achieved.

It's much faster than painting individual highlights.

Interesting. That's how I paint it then. I really don't like the painting part. So the faster I can paint them, the better.

I use that technique for doing large groups like when I was painting Orks or Guard.

Games Workshop has now gone full woke.

BlackRock bought 2,162,045 shares of Games Worksop (6.56%) of the company.  Predictably we now have female Adeptus Custodes according to the new Adeptus Custodes codex, oh yeah, and they use pronouns.

What a damn shame.

Lots of simps and wokies on the FB and Reddit boards, cheering it on, too.
Coomers ecstatic over the prospect of Golden Muscle Mommies.

Sucks.

The writing retcon is lazy.  Typical Nottingham.

The codex being shit is a bigger crime.  They must have dropped the woke BS to cover up the garbage strats and stats.

I remember in 9th, they FAQ'd the hardcover a week or so after it was released.

GeeDubz is a joke.

Best,
JBR

I've got enough miniatures to play the game already. I don't need to buy any more and I won't. Get fucked GW.

They say its not a retcon, its always been that way.  


I'm filling out some Death Guard but I'm trying to get people to play Grimdark Future rules since WH40k rules are not all that good and I hate the I go, You go activation system.

I wish my local gaming scene would embrace One Page Rules.

Best,
JBR

Of course they have. Right after I bought the Eldar combat patrol to get back into war gaming after being out for 20 years.

Blackrock and Vanguard own collectively 13% of GW now, that's a significant ownership interest and they're pushing their woke agenda full send.  

I can't stand those simps, wookies, and coomers. They are an infestation that has infested the science fiction and comic cons spheres for awhile now. I knew they'd come for Warhammer sooner or later.

They can say what they want, but it's pretty clear that the Custodians were referred to as the sons of Emperor and male in the past.   Not that GW is good about keeping their own stories straight and haven't contradicted themselves in the past, but please the Custodians having females?  

Plus, I don't see the need or utility here of female Custodians.  They have the Sisters of Battle and female guardsmen in abundance already.  Adding female Custodians and I'm sure soon Space Marines will detract from those factions.  

Watch you'll start seeing "Warhammer is female" tshirts now. Remind y'all of something?

Luetin posted a response to the Custodes retcon

So, one ambiguous line that is vague as to whether or not there were female Custodes, but for that one line there dozens of lines referring to them as men.  

I agree with Lutin, given the overall context provided by the Lore I think it is pretty clear that the Custodes were exclusively men until this 10th Edition Codex.  

Do we know when Blackrock and Vanguard purchased their shares in GW?  It would be interesting to see if GW's wokeness corresponds to Blackrock and Vanguard's investment.  

It's sad to see GW finally rising up in popularity with the PS5 game coming out this Fall and the Amazon series coming up that perhaps the funding that allowed all to happen has at the same time infested Warhammer with the woke virus, which ultimately destroy it.

This is what I've seen people citing:

Custodes Codex 8th Ed





Seems people are getting blocked on the official warhammer accounts for asking about it now:

Welp, 16 years in the hobby and multiple armies, and this is how @warhammer treats you for voicing opposition to a bad decision. #warhammer pic.twitter.com/dwmozd4jFs

Prophet of the Grand Duchy  (@TheAlephNull) April 15, 2024

ETA; It seems that if you really like a thing, you should pray it never gets popular, because that will dilute it and inject nonsense into it.

@11boomboom

Watched it, he's well spoken and reasons well.

Wow, you guy's fluff and lore is comparatively mushy compared to bt. Not bashing, just noticing.

With a real fan of the setting who likes the setting, that can be a good thing, but ... well, you see the downside right now.

The problem in the lore is the inconsistency, but that's also explained in the lore.

I thought I always wanted BT to be more popular. Boy have I learned how wrong I am there.

NO kidding.

They never should have hired rem, or caved to their bosses and the twitter mobs regarding BLP.

I hear the shadwrun fans have had it far FAR worse. I would very much like to hear from some of them in a shadowrun thread on the forums about what's gone down on their side of things, I only hear hushed rumors of it.

Shadowrun. Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. Long time.

TCD dropped yall a gem.

Carl had one, too...

Amazon involvement just fuels the woke flame, & apparently, Sir Caville is not amused:



Critical drinker covers it:

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The cavill and amazon rumors are interesting, but I haven't seen anyone able to confirm or deny them.  It originated in a 4chan thread with someone saying he was @ amazon.

Oh, eh, scroll up a few. We both posted the same TCD vid.

I watched the Battletech deep autistic dive with Razorfist yesterday. Man, I feel for you Battletech guys.

In a way, we're used to it.

Those of us who are a bit older remember times when there was nothing published or advertised for years and we would have to tell game shop owners that "No, battletech is not gone, they are not out of business, they are still doing some things."

Because our setting is othewise so consistent over time AND you can play the game for free. Yes, FREE - using decades old content, we got through. The old IP owners were fasa. Who went belly up around 2000-1, (and are now nothing but a holding company) than it went to wizkids,  fanpro got involved, than sometime around 2007 the bt license went to catalyst game labs.  Oh, and because wizkids got bought out topps (yes, the baseball card maker), topps now holds the actual IP. But Topps got bought out by fanatics inc in 22.

Our novels all but disappeared for decades and became unobtanium.

Official sites and forums have gone belly up and been replaced multiple times. The current official one, iiirc, was a fan forum.

So ... as you can see, cgl and rem and the bigots in cgl and the old guard have not picked an easy fight.

We can and will keep playing even in the absence of CGL or support from it entirely. CGL is a gnat compared to GW. They have to be more careful. Rem and the leftist diehards in cgl on an inqusition campaign are playing a very dangerous game for the continued well being of their company.

Even if they don't get meaingfully punished as they should for the recent stuff, they will have cut their nose off to spite their faces.   I know of guys that are still so ticked about the clan invasion arc in the 1990s that they haven't bought a single new thing since then - *and they still play.*

If people find rem offputting, people like enby kaijuu would make them turn inside out. That dude needs serious help.  You 40k guys can shelter in BT ... but only by ignoring CGL and a fairly decent swathe of the new stuff.


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I do wonder how you guys are going to handle whatever rolls down the pike in 40K.

I have been told - and it strikes me as being true - that the setting was never inteded to be really quite serious about itself (in the tongue in cheek way), and my bud(s) who were involved in it have been kvetching for years about how the new source and rule books change things, and not just game mechanics.

Plus yall's buy in cost seems pretty high - either in prices paid to GW or for 3d prints otherwise. Also people using older rulesets being able to catch a game. I don't know 40K well enough to see how that might work out.

We take the lore as from the point of view of an unreliable narrator, I think.

For game mechanics, we get DRASTIC game changes every edition (the plan from GW going forward is every 2 years, I think) and big gameplay changes throughout the year as they (GW) try to balance the armies for use in tournaments.

Cost of entry right now (if you want to play a tournament 2k point game) is a about $600-800-ish for models and another $150-200 in modeling supplies to build the army. To play a basic game at the smallest level, you could get in for abouit $200 for everything. I have about $2500 just in models for my main army and about $1500 for my other armies.

Someone needs to make you guys an equivalent to OSRIC or something like that, built from the best of the old rules, only following rules and not 40k or GW content otherwise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSRIC


https://osricrpg.com/

And setup a third party league with games.

Sorry for reposting. Here's a new Endymion vid:



GW is doubling down. I'm now rethinking whether I'll buy SM2 when it releases this Fall.

One Page Rules is founded on a similar principle.

http://www.onepagerules.com

Best,
JBR

Sweet

Glad to see you guys have that going.

Has this kinda stuff been a thing in WD before?

https://www.warhammer.com/en-US/shop/white-dwarf-499-apr-24-english-2024

WD, issue 499, april 24

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https://www.warhammer.com/app/resources/catalog/product/920x950/60249999641_EngWD49904.jpg

Finally got a copy of the White Dwarf featuring my Gate Crushers.

The outpouring of support and joy these past weeks have been truly overwhelming and heartwarming.

Thanks everyone. pic.twitter.com/BDgyNaYAkh

CerberusXt  (@CerberusXt) April 28, 2024

It fits for Slaaneshi armies. It was always considered cringe on regular Space Marine chapters.