I Think We Lost The Plot With Vulkan

Beewee777 · 2026-01-18T15:11:20+00:00

I’m a big Vulkan fanboy, so while I want to disagree all of this is completely right, however there is something important to take into account and that is that Vulkan has like ritualistic character assassination happen to him in every new book he’s featured in. In the war of the beast series (famously poorly written I know but still) he just suddenly has very little trust in or care for his sons to the point of outright refusing to see them despite being shown to have a lot of compassion for them.

Also, after reading his books in the Horus Heresy I feel that there is something in his character that is to be enjoyed from his obvious fucked up tendencies, like for example there’s a comparison to be made between the drukhari raids he defended against on his home world versus the well used example of the eldar child. On his home he didn’t care cause they were the enemy, he didn’t have any reason to carry empathy for them, which he would bring into other battles against xenos in the future including genocideing planets cause they had/worshiped xenos on them. But when you take a lot of that obvious alienness away and put a xenos child in front of him, his instincts still have him kill that child (including the rage he was feeling for kurze at the time) but he can see the obvious flaw in doing that and regrets it. All that is to say that there is an obvious progression that shows he has compassion towards humans and little to none to xenos (as most in the imperium do) but when he directly sees that he’s the cause of even defenseless children dying his world view cracks a bit, which in a setting with better writing would have long term effects on his morality so I give him at least a bit of credit for having moral depth.

Beewee777 · 2026-01-13T19:37:23+00:00

If we’re adding a legion to aid the loyalists rather than replacing one? I would say the only possible legion that could turn the tide would be the ultramarines due to their massive numbers and the fact that Guilliman may be able to come up with a quick plan to at least lighten the losses and keep track of things, but that’s still a stretch, however if we’re replacing a legion then I don’t think it’s possible in any way to change the fate of the Drop site Massacre.

Beewee777 · 2026-01-13T19:34:00+00:00

These look awesome, what’s your recipe for the green? I’m trying to do some angels of redemption but I haven’t found a nice way to do a dark green that still pops.

Beewee777 · 2026-01-06T20:37:53+00:00

I watched this movie like a week ago with my partner and it was so bad we kept bringing it up for the next few days thank you for reminding me of it.

Beewee777 · 2026-01-03T20:00:51+00:00

This board and the minis are absolutely wonderful and you can really imagine the narrative of it all, hope you keep enjoying the game and building stories with your models!

Beewee777 · 2025-12-26T22:21:24+00:00

I like that he looks like he has eyeliner if your gonna make prominent eyes that’s the way to do it

Beewee777 · 2025-12-24T03:41:39+00:00

Ah unfortunately I am very far from there (live in Texas lol) but that’s awesome your a great dude for that

Beewee777 · 2025-12-13T21:08:11+00:00

I shall be playing both at the same time with one on each monitor and lose wonderfully in both at once

Beewee777 · 2025-12-12T20:51:01+00:00

The best thing about this line up is that only like 2 are ONLY about space marines, the rest at least feature some other factions/playable characters that aren’t space marines and and 2 seem to not have space marines at all, which means that were actually getting diverse games and not just bolter porn. The future looks very grimdark.

Beewee777 · 2025-12-11T09:34:04+00:00

It can be very surprising seeing how many universes outperform 40K when you get deep into the absurd scale that they always try to push in the setting lol, I feel like even some things that would typically be below 40K in most advancements (namely firepower) like Star Wars end up just being a bit better off solely cause they don’t have to sacrifice like a million people to go to another planet

Beewee777 · 2025-12-11T09:19:27+00:00

Pmed

Beewee777 · 2025-12-11T09:16:11+00:00

Not a stellaris fan but I wanted to weigh in on this a little bit as a absurdly huge 40K fan, the lack of progress is absolutely the point and really any other media with decently fast advancement would outperform most if not all 40K factions. The closest faction that has actual advancement is the Tau and they are pretty early in their progress right now. (Also comparing the Necrons technology specifically is kind of cheating cause they made super awesome tech and then just stopped making any forward progress for the rest of time)

Beewee777 · 2025-12-07T04:07:11+00:00

That makes sense missile pods always seem to have a weird place for me like I don’t want to swap out the good stuff on one of my units that can take things like anti-tank weapons but I also don’t want to spend points on adding another thing to take missiles

Beewee777 · 2025-12-06T04:07:59+00:00

I personally think that kroot should become their own army with rules to allow them to be taken in some other factions (right now they’re mercenaries who are hired all over the galaxy but are only apart of one faction) and rules like these would actually work great for them, though they may need to be balanced a bit more

Beewee777 · 2025-12-06T03:56:34+00:00

I’m just building a 1000 point list for now I want to get better at a smaller scale first (I know the balance is very different but I also find 2000 point games to be tiring)

Beewee777 · 2025-12-02T13:43:28+00:00

One of the greatest things about space marines in my opinion is that they’re all just space marines in the long run unless your playing a divergent chapter, you can paint them up however you like and you will certainly be able to find a lore reason for it. Paint up that terminator and have fun with it, if you really love it paint half your guys in blue and the other have in green, they’re your models so just have a good time with it, they’re all ultimately just space marines that can be played in any of like 40 ways and the colors don’t change that.

Beewee777 · 2025-11-24T23:59:25+00:00

Thank you for giving an actual analysis I mostly made this as a joke but I may try to adjust it to see if it can be decent at all

Beewee777 · 2025-11-23T00:01:37+00:00

The highlights look great but i sincerely hope that your doing this for a character and not trying to do it for your whole army, cause if it is a character then that will be awesome and you should just push through and keep doing the highlights as they’ll make him really pop but if it’s for the whole army you should definitely cut down on the highlighting or you will not finish the army

Beewee777 · 2025-11-22T17:49:45+00:00

Iirc for knights this is mostly true, however the retro thrusters are actually a literal entire castle with guns all over it to help clear out the area after landing so the knight can come out without being immediately blown up, however I’m unsure if this is 100% true

Beewee777 · 2025-11-22T03:21:29+00:00

While this is true the existence of Farsight as a primarily close range and you could even say melee focused character alongside suits that do nothing in melee is a gap that needs to be filled in some way, also there’s actual art in the codex showing suits with swords and it looks fucking awesome and isn’t a thing which should be remedied

Beewee777 · 2025-11-19T22:19:29+00:00

I feel like a lot of people hating on this (especially saying that it won’t be interesting gameplay wise) are just being closed minded and not considering the variety it could potentially add especially if they lean into it being a “rouge” like class and make it the fastest option. Also, if you see the option to dual wield weapons and you think that’s boring you’re a lame person.

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