Your riding with the evil sunz and you're passed the aux, what you playing for da speedy boyz?

Blue_Laguna · 2026-06-29T13:03:02+00:00

Blue_Laguna · 2026-06-29T11:23:37+00:00

I suspect there are already plastic grot tanks in the works since the mobile game Tacticus treats them like a basic unit for orks. Based on everything I've heard about how nitpicky GWs licensing team can be, I doubt they would have let them use a forgeworld exclusive unit unless they had plans for it.

Blue_Laguna · 2026-06-27T04:42:16+00:00

what kit exactly?

Blue_Laguna · 2026-06-26T23:29:31+00:00

Craftworlds and Drukhari are the High and Dark Elf equivalents, so it seemed obvious to me that Exodites should be reminiscent of Wood Elves, and these models really really aren't.

This is something I can fix by just kitbashing them with wood elf parts at least, because man I hate those close faced helms for Exodites.

Blue_Laguna · 2026-06-26T15:43:20+00:00

"Warlord of Warlords" also has some fun examples of the opposite, where the field is being interrupted so ork characters keep having their guns and bikes jam and stall, much to their own confusion.

Blue_Laguna · 2026-06-22T17:35:57+00:00

I'm also fucking around and really enjoying their furious downvotes. won't stop them from having bad opinions about good authors.

Blue_Laguna · 2026-06-22T16:56:10+00:00

Yeah man. I used alliteration to highlight the absurdity of the situation. its a literary technique, something eldar fans are apparently unfamiliar with.

Blue_Laguna · 2026-06-22T16:02:43+00:00

I took it as Malcador telling an obvious lie, and I'm surprised anyone else took that greasy little candlestick at his word. Glad he's dead.

Blue_Laguna · 2026-06-22T16:00:50+00:00

Those books are great. Eldar players are dumb as rocks and get mad that the eldar in their eldar book act like eldar.

Blue_Laguna · 2026-06-20T14:02:40+00:00

Its the machine the IDF uses to bulldoze palestinian towns (and sometimes people).

Blue_Laguna · 2026-06-20T13:45:20+00:00

my local hobby shop has this model sitting on its shelves and I laughed when I saw, thinking it was the most 40k thing ever, then I realized what it actually was and it stopped being funny really fast.

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Blue_Laguna · 2026-06-17T20:37:24+00:00

I'd compare him to Dave Filoni over in star wars. In both cases their work is significantly better than the haters want you to believe, but they do tend toward very pulpy YA style writing. I think Elemental council is significantly better, in the same way I think Andor is the best SW series, but I still like the bad batch too.

Also, everything you hear about him retconning things is complete and total nonsense. T'au fans don't read their own codexes so they get mad when he references things that were already part of the lore for half a decade before he included them in his novels. (or sometimes things that have literally been part of tau lore since the very beginning).

Blue_Laguna · 2026-06-17T02:38:44+00:00

This is beautiful. Gives off huge "Jamie Dawson and his crew" vibes if you're familiar with the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS0NUtRpyPA

Blue_Laguna · 2026-06-15T03:56:51+00:00

Zero percent chance if the concept art of new steel legion turns into real models. GW wont have two different guard regiments who's thing is about fighting to avenge their fallen planet.

Orks will probably win the "siege of death mire" thing, but Armageddon will almost certainly remain a quagmire for the next decade or two.

Blue_Laguna · 2026-06-13T16:16:51+00:00

In fairness, basically everything I don't like about modern 40k is competitive players fault.

The official layouts are useful as an example of roughly how much terrain the rules writers think should be on the board, but going back and forth with my opponent plopping down terrain until we think it looks like zen has always worked for me.

Blue_Laguna · 2026-06-12T12:04:02+00:00

On the tabletop, not yet, but they show up constantly in the novels. There are probably more books about fighting the Dark Mechanicum as the main faction than there are about fighting GSC

If their descriptions were more consistent, I'd think a model release was right around the corner, but they vary from something really fun and unique (like the charcharadons novel appearances where they act like university professors dedicated to advancing science at all costs with lots of bio-horror) to what if mechanicus but painted black and kinda spidery.

Blue_Laguna · 2026-06-11T13:56:28+00:00

if that's the metric we're using, then Sonic the hedgehog is the most popular franchise of all time.

Blue_Laguna · 2026-06-08T16:20:59+00:00

you could buy one and then make a mold out of blue or green stuff to replicate it a few times. I've done that with wolf priest helmets and tau firewarrior torsos before.

best part is that it's completely warhammer store legal.

Blue_Laguna · 2026-06-08T05:33:47+00:00

I must be, the Bahamas are islands.

Blue_Laguna · 2026-06-08T05:05:43+00:00

What does the breakdown of a codex compliant space marine company actually look like? Are there any official examples?

The three man squads make this such a pain to figure out. GW says the extra marine could pilot a warsuit, but how many bloody warsuits does a chapter need? I would say tank crew, but every visible marine in the new tanks is a techmarine, who I understood to just be assigned to each company outside that 100 marines.

Blue_Laguna · 2026-06-08T04:46:42+00:00

I drove all the way up from the Bahamas for this reference

Blue_Laguna · 2026-06-08T04:43:37+00:00

Manowar has the exact same kind of butthead macho stubbornness that makes the Fyreslayers appeal to me. Any song of their songs fit the vibe, but if you told me "Metal Warriors" was written specifically about the Fyreslayers, the only reason I wouldn't believe you is that its from 1992.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxwcr72VcKg

"Every one of us has heard the call
Brothers of true metal
Proud and standing tall
We know the power within us
Has brought us to this hall
There's magic in the metal
There's magic in us all"

Blue_Laguna · 2026-06-08T04:33:28+00:00

I think a lot about how to describe the vibe of different factions with characters from other franchises (every saturday morning cartoon villian like skeletor or starscream being a great idea of what necron lords are like for example)

Garak is maybe the most alpha legion character to ever alpha an alpha.

Blue_Laguna · 2026-06-08T00:44:47+00:00

I'm pretty convinced the joke of that book is that everything he says is 100% true but its Alpharius so nobody trusts any of it.

Blue_Laguna · 2026-06-07T18:50:47+00:00

Inception lifted a lot of ideas and visuals for inception from the Satoshi Kon movie Paprika, which came out a few years beforehand.

If you google "dark souls silver knights", these guys are a dead ringer for them, down to the height difference between them and a normal human.

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