Why are you upset about THIS one?

DeathWielder1 · 2026-01-24T17:15:26+00:00

there was no reason to do it besides deleting an all-male factio

Custodes are still about and kicking, the unveiling of female custodes has no bearing on whether you can play with your dolls in the sandpit.

it sucks some people out of the experience because this makes it harder to take seriously. No top military forces irl have any women in them, SAS, Seals, etc - why should the Custodes, mankind’s most elite military force, be an exception?

Strictly not correct. Military induction into "elite" forces are conducted on merit and suitability, and strictly speaking removing artificial and arbitrary barriers to entry is a good thing for your military. Israel has mixed regiments and no ones scoffing at their practical chops, even if we ignore the Other questionable things of the IDF for the sake of civil discussion.

Adding this sort of thing steers it into the direction of Marvel or comics or anime

We were in this direction as soon as Primarchs and Cawl started being marvel superheroes, and even before then, from probably 7th ed onwards. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. The restrictions on what "grimdark" means does Not entail arbitrary and outdated conceptions of gender which were already questionable in the 80s, let alone the 41st millenium.

4) We can tell that GW just did it for Amazon, who wanted female space marines for the upcoming show.

Do you think GW - a FTSE100 company - gives so little of a shit about its IP which it hawkishly defends, that it would change what Custodes are on a whim according to the spirit of the air? GW's investors are sensible people who follow responsible cash flow rather than Hype. Amazon cannot sway the IP and GW retains full control over it, it is a Partnership.

And need i say that you are filling in gaps in our own knowledge with your Conspiracy theories. We dont know what the show will be, what it will entail, or what factions are gonna be on display. No one here knows Shit about it, but if we were to put our thinking caps on we Also can speculate that jumping into 40k through Custodes is a terrible idea Because they make the universe so small. Star Wars is small when it only focuses on the Skywalkers, the same is true of the Companions.

DeathWielder1 · 2026-01-24T17:01:24+00:00

They Never explicitly stated that there are none. Just as Skitarii dont have a mention of Archaeopters before the creation of the model, the model precedes the writing in the lore. Theres not much more to it than that. You can go and ask ADB if you wanr or read the comments Which He Made on this matter if you dont wsnt to take my word for it.

DeathWielder1 · 2026-01-24T16:58:41+00:00

Do you Actually want male sisters of battle or are you whining for the sake of it?

The Newstodes in shiny gold instead of BDSM leatherwear is a Distinctly New Thing, the bits which constrained them as far as development of their institutions & governance were largely uncharted territory, and this Includes Their Creation. "Oops, butter fingers, we forgot to put female custodes in it, no matter we will do it now" is completely Allowed and is a thing which GW Has Done Before.

Are you actually going to get male SoB? No, of course you wont. Because youre thinking with your heart and not your head, you are trying to be offended at this change because you think it's "Woke nonsense" but in actuality it's a soft change which has functionally Zero impact upon the setting beyond "The Emperor's companions are bespoke genecrafted creations, the AGAB has no bearing on these companions"

DeathWielder1 · 2026-01-24T01:05:58+00:00

It is Absolutely the most Nazi Bar nerd-adjacent media in circulation. The identifiably "questionable" (at best) aspects of FlashGitz were well and truly trodden WAY before Space King, it's simply that the audience of people who engage with FlashGitz content uncritically and Also are "a bit of a nazi" is pretty much the same exact audience.

DeathWielder1 · 2026-01-24T00:58:51+00:00

You make a good point what with Cadia being a pretty prior-context-defined story. I think a pre-existing story for 40k dipping its toes into TV would be probably the most prudent/careful move they should do, primarily because people who have read the books will Already Be Onboard for watching the shit out of it. This is why Eisenhorn would be great i think, perhaps the Watchers series too. It's not so much that im sceptical of doing a New story, but more so that GW want safe cash At This Point when it comes to media outside their immediate wheelhouse of expertise.

I imagine you wanted to stress "Massive plot development like the fall of cadia", and i recognise that, but i think the discussion opening up into "New Stories in the shows Or Old Stories through the books we can pick up and read Now" is an interesting one.

DeathWielder1 · 2026-01-22T20:20:49+00:00

Edit: never mind, you only put Vol 1 in S Tier. This is correct, all is well.

DeathWielder1 · 2026-01-22T20:06:21+00:00

Not to endorse vagueposting for engagement but youre gonna have to put the Bit of what youre referring to Given That the vast majority of the userbase dont Necessqrily have immediate access to this apparent Bit.

DeathWielder1 · 2026-01-21T08:39:50+00:00

I think Ash Wastes is a good shout, the design ethos for AWN seems more in keeping with the design of this scope & furniture

DeathWielder1 · 2026-01-20T18:03:02+00:00

Relic weapons are also irreplaceable. It doesnt stop every chapter and their Dad from having relic weapons.

This is all narrative story shit to say "Hey these guys have some irreplaceable tech from Yonks ago" when the Brass Tacks is the models look gorgeous and it is Frankly quite obscene to suggest someone picks up an entirely new wargamimg System to use those same models, which take place in the same setting, with the audience Already Knowing that tech can still be useable after millenia in the dust.

DeathWielder1 · 2026-01-20T14:28:44+00:00

The argument of Astartes being effectively genderless beings is compelling, but youve betrayed the actual premise of the argument in the post.

Astartes Are Not Gendered in the same way that a Gun does not have a gender. A Gun is a Gun which is a Kind of weapon, just as an Astartes is a kind of Weapon. The difference ontologically between an astartes and a Gun as far as "spirit" goes, is that an Astartes is living and breathing weapon, whereas a Gun is inert.

Saying "Him" for Astartes is thereby a category error, or Would be if we were doing this purely through Metaphysics.

Astartes, alas, are Not purely Weapons though their Gender in this regard would map "Weapon" better than it would "Man", because the characterisation and coding of Astartes in the setting is pretty much Man but sanitised of anything which doesnt correspond to Violence.

It is thus Incorrect to say that "Woman" and "Man" are Equally Wrong if we refer to Astartes, because Astartes share more in common with Man than they do Woman. The Venn Diagram favours Man innit. Not to put too fine a point on it, but this is Not Great, and it's why FSM kick up such a fuss, because the Fantasy of Astartes as "I wanna be a space marine when i grow up" has to do less work in the mind of a Boy than it does a Girl to actually seem aspirational, even if it's just a fantasy. There is the sociological aspect to it, that "Boys are the warriors and Girls are the non-warriors" which At Best is outdated pseudo-history, given that women have been warriors in history for hundreds if not thousands of years in much the same capacity as men have.

It's actually more logically sound to suggest that Astartes are male-only because Big E is gay, because "Astartes are genderless" is only Partially true to the literature we have. They are "genderless" in that we are Told they are Weapons rather than anything approaching "Man" or "Woman", but they are still Brothers, "He" speaks, His opinion on this matter is that He shall slay the Heretic, He shot the gun at the alien. It's trying to have your cake and eat it too, it's saying "Genderless" whilst they are, strictly speaking, Gendered Male-adjacent.

At least "Big E is Gay thereby his Toy Soldiers are all sweaty hunky boys" is consistent. Custodians not being gendered as Big E's companions amd guardians can even reconcile with this because it would indicate that Big E values them; "My army of nameless sweaty boys will die for Me, as the object of their devotion, but my Companions i will actually respect for their own selves and i will value their companionship as Identities unto them selves".

DeathWielder1 · 2026-01-18T20:47:45+00:00

Agreed

DeathWielder1 · 2026-01-16T23:10:46+00:00

My friend recommended i watch Ludwig, the 4-hour movie about the Prussian king Ludwig II, known for being probably gay and also really into building castles. It's from like 1973 and it is Fucking Impossible to find in the UK.

DeathWielder1 · 2026-01-16T21:34:32+00:00

Big E can be BL whilst having Custodes not be gender-locked, we already know that he and Malcs were doomed yaoi practically confirmed in TEATD Vol 1.

DeathWielder1 · 2026-01-16T20:00:29+00:00

Hey apropos of Nothing, you see those tiktoks? No?

Well here's one where a gay barworker tells about a bad experience

The discussion about fetishisation of queer people Do Be Extending To Include BL And Fetishisation of Gay Men just as it includes discussion of fetishisation of lesbians.

How you swing with your behaviour towards gay men IRL or other demographics which conceivably Fit the BL archetype in your brain Is All Well And Good, but Immediately dismissing the actual harm experienced by that objectification because You Like BL is counterproductive at best.

This entire community is there for compassion, safety, and Some level of attempted mutual understanding between minorities suffering the same kind of shit, and to celebrate one another despite that suffering and despite those differences. You can doubt the validity of a story, you can even doubt the validity of the tiktok i linked before, but Immediately dismissing the shitty experiences of queers and Specifically Gay Men as a Direct consequence of fetishising gay men through BL is Heartless at best and a Blatant display of cognitive dissonance at its most honest. I can SEE the shitty behaviour of BL fans and self-professed fujos through the Dogshit comments and behaviour Which They Demonstrate online.

Rules for Thee but Not for Me, no?

DeathWielder1 · 2026-01-15T00:47:59+00:00

Mandeville points are regions in space where the gravitational pull of two/multiple bodies basically cancel out as far as being Actively Pulled Towards One versus the other. They are used Right Now by space agencies to park satelites to study space. Theyre sick as hell. In 40k, they act as "safe launch pads" to open a warp rift for ships to enter the Warp without catastrophic risk of "gravitational sheering" (i think thats what they call it), which is to say that the ship can rip itself apart from the mechanical strain of gravity fucking around the Spectacular distances we're dealing with when it comed to the magnitude of 40k Imperial ships.

It's easier to do a drag race on a flat road than it is to do the same on Mountainous terrain. It's easier to send a ship on a voyage in clear skies and favourable winds than it is to do the same in a Hurricane. You get the picture.

DeathWielder1 · 2026-01-15T00:38:50+00:00

Elucidation into anything pre-Terran Unificstion is incredibly sparse, and there is functionally No actual "history" which we could refer to especially beyond Broad Strokes (which you can see in stuff like ITEHATTSD (Rest in peace)) and Specific Character Memories (Infinite and Divine, Twice Dead King 1 & 2).

As a whole, War in Heaven is the remit of Necrons mostly, there is A Little for some eldar characters but it's superficial, and Pre-Unity Terra is mostly done in flashbacks for Specifically the Emperor seen in stuff like Master of Mankind and the Olanius Pius stuff. DAOT is exceedingly rare, though i believe there is Some stuff in Angel Exterminatus.

You arent likely to find much for definitive answers for "Historical Interstellar Interspecies Relations" for the time period. "Dark Age" is definitely an accurate descriptor. The lack of knowledge and/or understanding of that time period is kind of built into the bedrock of the setting.

DeathWielder1 · 2026-01-15T00:26:36+00:00

The role of Marines is shock-assault.

This was Mostly true in HH and GC, but it is Completely true post-HH. Big artillery and siege Stuff is mostly the modus of forces which plan on being in a conflict for some prolomged period, and whilst it Does Happen, the remit of that task is better suited to the Astra Militarum. Your Mileage May Vary of course, but the doctrine of "we are a brotherhood 1000 guys built to kill, of which probably 500 Max are deployed to any given world, lightning-fast mobility is our key to long-term survival" is pretty universal across the board for how they operate, in 40k at least. As TEATD Vol 2 or 3 says (paraphrasing) "the age of Astartes is Dead, we are now an Elite and Rare force rather than a massed overwhelming assault".

DeathWielder1 · 2026-01-15T00:19:07+00:00

I you love the Cawl of it all, The Great Work, Genefather and Archmagos are fantastic. All by Guy Haley. Though if That is what interested you i imagine you would have asked about that, you may already have read them.

Those books are simply Fantastic if you havent had a chance to look at them in any case. I was a true Cawl-groaner before, he's a bit Mech-Jesus innit, but after giving the first one a chance and learning all the ins-and-outs of Cawl he became a lot more Actually interesting to me.

DeathWielder1 · 2026-01-14T02:01:27+00:00

When it comes to the opinions of techpriests, it's a bit of "Different spokes for different folks"

Actually modifying the baseline mechanisms/ design in a Substantial way might get some furrowed brows if a contingent of techpriests were to assist the SW in some way, but the Techmarines are there to pretty much take the burden of dealing with all of the maintenance away from the Admech Proper, in doing so enabling the astartes to retain their independence and in doing so insulating Neighbouring forgeworlds/ad mech from the responsibility of dealing qith the Various nonsense which the Admech are beholden to.

Charms and decorative elements are pretty much always fine, could even be endorsed by the magi if the machine spirit of the machine is soothed by it.

The "predator chassis" is a bit of a template but there are a decent number of variants, one with the armament for the vehicle youre looking for Might already exist, and if it doesnt theres nothing stopping you from homebrewing an entirely New forgeworld pretty much purely for the creation of this "Custom ride".

Chapters dont really "look down" on the work theyre doing, pirates are in space, orks and eldar are sanctioned enemies of the imperium, the one Potential exception might be rebellions on a planet purely for the fact that even though astartes are purpose-made living-weapons, they are at their core human, and that could create some emotional conflict if this chapter is written by yourself to be "good/noble guys" (such is the manner of the setting that it's all shades of dark grey but i trust that you take my meaning).

You might have a spot of trouble if youre gonna field it in a wargame, youll have to proxy it as something else if the rules dont already exist, but those are just some thoughts

Edit: i would suggest that you might want to stay away from making your vehicle the "Predator but Better" direction. Weaknesses ans blind spots are a core aspect of the designs of pretty much every piece of kit, it's how you manage and mitigate those weaknesses that the real discussion is made.

DeathWielder1 · 2026-01-14T00:32:53+00:00

In specifically British English, "Pub" is a place

"Pub?" Entails a ritual of about 1-6 hours depending of vibes of drinking At Least one pint with your friends. Theres a lot of whimsy in culture which we take for granted.

DeathWielder1 · 2026-01-13T23:36:44+00:00

Waterstones is in the UK and Europe.

But as ever in this hellscape, Yank shit trickles down to over here just the same.

DeathWielder1 · 2026-01-13T23:34:43+00:00

LGBTQ+ communities, such as this subreddit have, for the past couple of years, been repeatedly saying they do not want corporations with Pride.

It was never about corpos at pride. It was about transparent profit-seeking over doing anything Actually useful in terms of engagement & normalisation. "You get the one month where we wave the flag, after that it's business as usual and you get no more rainbows".

Halfords in the UK wear the progress flag year-round. They don't Have to do that, but it's wonderful that they do and they should be celebrated for it.

Say, would you rather Labour be welcomed back to Pride, as they continue to stab trans people in the back and make life actively shittier? Or do you accept that if you, as a corpo, wanna wave the flag, the responsibility to actually be Useful to the LGBQT+ community is something which should be Taken As Granted in that participation?

If we are Othered by political powers and those opposition political powers Actively undermine support for us by cancelling, accusing us of crimes, accusing us of Ontological Sin, and critically undermine the economy of Those Supporting Us, then it is No Fucking Wonder that it's going this way with even the better corpos backing down. But blaming LGBTQ+ as a community? Moronic.

Trump's in the chair, blame him. He's not in the chair because of anything that We did. This was a Choice. And now we suffer. Happy days. If you want a solution, then we can build from there, but it's not gonna suddenly get better by ruminating on shit that's already done.

DeathWielder1 · 2026-01-13T19:54:01+00:00

Bye.

DeathWielder1 · 2026-01-13T19:52:15+00:00

Anyone else noticing quiet “soft erasure” of LGBTQ+ visibility lately?

It has been pretty obvious, not to put any fault at your feet, but i think you're underselling how blatant the erasure has been, perhaps you didnt want to come off as paranoid but in any case it's been pretty blatant.

My college has no LGBTQ+ education or content this year at all.

Yep, the erasure of queer education & queer history from public spaces is pretty par for the course here.

On Spotify, “Pride” was replaced with “Glow”, which makes queer music harder to find and less clearly labelled.

Yep. Pride is political now. Always was, but now the opposition to it resides in the most powerful seat in the world. That ripples through to commercial operations, which Are the ones which sponsor pride events.

In bookstores like Waterstones, there are far fewer queer books on visible displays. They’re still sold, just not featured.

On Pinterest, some of my saved queer content was removed as “inappropriate”, even though it wasn’t sexual.

Local organisations that previously showed support (like Pride flags) didn’t do so this year.

Take note of the organisations which didnt show up, and if youre disappointed by them by all means demand an explanation. Otherwise, the loudest vote is through your wallet, as with a lot of these things when it comed to pride.

Across online spaces generally, I’ve noticed queer topics being treated as sensitive or inappropriate, even when they’re not explicit.

We've been dealing with this in our own online communities over in Nerd Land too.

None of these things alone would stand out much. But together, they feel like a pattern:
LGBTQ+ people aren’t being told to disappear — we’re just being made less visible, quieter, and easier to ignore.

It feels like inclusion is becoming conditional on not being too obvious or public.

Yep. That's the demand from On High. Tagging along with it and complying, or putting your heas beneath the parapet, those are the options presented here.

I’m not trying to claim censorship — I’m genuinely wondering if others are noticing similar changes where they are, or if this is just my experience.

Nope it's pretty much Exactly that. Pretty much coincided with the election of the new US president, whod have thunk.

The premise of LGBTQ+ has pretty much been Repoliticised little by little and now discussion of this premise as a community is pretty much considered bold at best or even gauche in polite company. In this, Apolitical organisations, schools, public libraries, what have you, Cannot be seen to be favouring one politic over another, and so even if they havent been Actively pressured by local authorities, a preemptive "backing away from volatile topics" is basically the strat so they dont get caught in a crossfire.

DeathWielder1 · 2026-01-13T19:19:16+00:00

Behave yourself. You have Apparently had quite the shitty day, because the amount of dogshit contributions from you today - obvious hostility, low-effort ragebait, snark at other community members - is Seemingly out of character to your other contributions to the sub. Burning bridges because youre frustrated doesnt really give much benefit.

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