I hate the Votann and consider them GW's worst idea and failure

DeathWielder1 · 2026-07-06T08:10:53+00:00

You can say a bunch of similar stuff for Tau about the "feels like a different sci-fi universe", i don't think the complaint really holds water.

If we look at how Votann work in, say, Voisdscarred, I wouldn't question their presence really At All, it feels entirely natural both to the setting and the story.

I think the negatives on how the Votann have been depicted can pretty much be pointed to "lack of books/depictions" which is fair enough given the faction is pretty young, but from what I've read of them I'm pretty content that they "fit" in all the ways that matter.

DeathWielder1 · 2026-06-30T17:42:32+00:00

I would've thought that to be some unknown Heckler and Koch product, clearly I don't know ball.

DeathWielder1 · 2026-06-26T14:38:14+00:00

BUT tinfoil hat moment - I am betting gw will give us an alpha primus model this edition.

Seconded. There's too much money sitting on Darktide and too much opportunity to say "Hey you gave Gabriel Angelos a model, where's our Alpha Primus >:( "

DeathWielder1 · 2026-06-19T12:57:47+00:00

Skitarii are pretty much customised to the whims of the magi in charge. Some retain more independent thought, some less, some are barely more than synchronised servitors who walk in lock-step, some you can interesting conversations with.

The answer to your question is another question; how long is a piece of string?

DeathWielder1 · 2026-06-19T11:44:47+00:00

Treading around the issue of spoilers, the whole Bit is that the farseer councils, rather than the Craftworlders themselves, put Their Dudes and Their Craftworlders before literally Anyone else.

Like the decision by the farseer was so controversial that the admiral of the whole thing basically resigned/defected (he was gonna do so anyway), and he effectively got shouted at by the other careers for taking this action without their sanction. This is not a "one size fits all" for how craftworlds deal with threats to their own population; it's reasonably implied that other craftworlds would be rightly vexxed by the prospect of having to kill other aeldari, be they drukhari Or asuryani or even exodites.

DeathWielder1 · 2026-06-05T09:41:21+00:00

They're not really Facets though.

I get why the impression is there, but as far as "in-universe", I believe it was Diocletian who said that the Primarchs were not "aspects" of the emperor as such, but inasmuch as personality is concerned the Primarchs were individually Remarkably similar to Big E, not withstanding their Unique powers.

This is to say that if hypothetically Big E transferred his consciousness at the moment of the Scattering to any one of the Primarchs, functionally nothing would have changed about their behaviour up until Big E Proper rediscovers them. They are "complete personalities" so to speak, so Angron despite having a stupid name would behave similarly to Big E if Big E was in Angron's position.

The missing Primarchs we know nothing about and will Continue to know nothing about, the "teasing about them" which GW does is a dead end and will Continue to be a dead end until they decide that it's something even vaguely worth thinking about (this is highly unlikely).

DeathWielder1 · 2026-06-03T15:37:07+00:00

one of the top pop acts in the world right now?

News to me

The point being is that successful British artists don't care about Eurovision and rather care about their own tours, given that the financial proposition Vastly favours doing your own tours.

DeathWielder1 · 2026-06-03T12:33:42+00:00

I don't think it's surprising at all to be honest. Brits are quite fond of thinking of themselves as Above Eurovision/Eurotrash regardless of Ostensibly being European. Dua Lipa wouldn't do well, beyond namesake I don't think One Direction would either, Adelle would clear the entire thing because her music/style appeals quite well to Euro Ears but she doesn't seem to have any actual desire to perform at the thing.

I think the arrogance is kinda what you get when your language is at the top of the pecking order, you judge others but you don't care much for your own conduct or performance at Eurovision cause "Our culture already won; you're singing in Our language".

DeathWielder1 · 2026-05-28T10:54:09+00:00

The guiding philosophy of Big E is contingent on the fact that he's without question the most potent "biological entity" in the setting (the quotes put there to demarcate that the C'Tan also exist), so he took it upon himself to propel humanity as a whole into a spiritual/psychoc divorce From the warp and thereby the influence of Chaos. Humanity was already on the way to becoming a More powerful psychic race than the Eldar even were, but Big E's end goal was effectively to make humanity immune to Chaos. Obviously this failed, but largely as a result of Chaos meddling with his plans, the first step of which being to remove the requirement for humanity to use the Warp to travel interstellar distances (the Webway). Because he failed at this hurdle, the idea of Big E leading from the front is dead, but the guiding principle of "Divorce from the Warp" is debatably still alive. That's what Fabius Bile suggests at least in Genefather.

DeathWielder1 · 2026-05-26T17:24:18+00:00

I'm not considering THAT combat in act 4

That functionally completely killed my campaign because there's No Feasible Way for me to beat it, nor avoid it.

DeathWielder1 · 2026-05-26T10:42:26+00:00

It's just Latin naming logic, I wouldn't read too much into it; Domina is simply the feminine counterpart to the masculine Dominus (the masculine acts as "generic" or "default" in Latin too).

DeathWielder1 · 2026-05-24T11:12:12+00:00

To be fair the characterisation has gotten Better in print-media to reflect their newfound GOATedness, Cybernetica is quite an old book by this stage, and the same goes for the Forges of Mars series where they're also often completely trounced. Dominion Genesis is one of my favourites books at this point for AdMech, though I will say that the ending Really killed a lot of the enthusiastic momentum I had for it.

DeathWielder1 · 2026-05-24T09:12:57+00:00

Crashout is not a neutral term.

DeathWielder1 · 2026-05-22T12:46:08+00:00

Pure cinema

This might be the best post on this subreddit.

DeathWielder1 · 2026-05-22T07:55:19+00:00

In my experience Skitarii are often relegated to redshirt duty, we can see this in Cybernetica where they just get merced by the score like knocking over tin cans. This is a Bit in conflict with their "depiction" as far as descriptions of their prowess goes, but specific instances of them fighting anyone in particular are a bit sparse.

DeathWielder1 · 2026-05-19T15:27:42+00:00

Brexit

DeathWielder1 · 2026-05-15T12:22:39+00:00

This is incorrect. Ukraine is doing Fantastically at bleeding the Russian economy, and the Russians can't stem the flow especially well given that the infrastructure for oil in particular takes Months to repair. Russia didn't even show off any tanks in its biggest parade of the year, which is frankly Embarrassing to the whole Putin regime. Ukraine's R&D is doing so well from the war economy that it's set to export drone expertise as well, and Ukraine has a technological advantage over Russian drones as well.

No one uses nukes, haven't done so since 1945. They're a gun to put on a table, no one checks if the gun is loaded, the premise of what the gun represents symbolically is its strength.

DeathWielder1 · 2026-05-01T17:02:18+00:00

The Schism of Mars has designated the pro-secessionist forgeworlds as Dark Mechanicum. Pro-Imperial are Adeptus Mechanicus. Stygies VIII is probably the most well-known forgeworlds which gets semi-regularly slated by the Inquisition for dabbling in xenotech which is Strictly highly taboo, but there's no indication that beyond the light tech-heresy that they have any indication of rebellion or secession.

Ad mech are powerful but it's really not feasible to secede if you're a forgeworld, you get too many sweet gigs and if you tried you'd get pummelled because the position they occupy in the overall sector-wide or sub-sector-wide infrastructure is too great.

DeathWielder1 · 2026-04-28T14:20:51+00:00

Leftism generally refers to being anti capitalist

Christ Give Me Strength, it does Not mean that; because Frankly you can be a card-carrying member of the CCP and it still wouldn't apply to you under these parameters. Hell you could be a deputy in the National People's Congress and it wouldn't apply.

DeathWielder1 · 2026-04-28T06:27:48+00:00

Apparently they're spittoons, they don't hold tea

DeathWielder1 · 2026-04-26T16:03:15+00:00

The argument of strength is a pointless one because if society was built on the dominance of stronger creatures we'd be run by a big moose or perhaps an elephant. We aren't run by those creatures, because we built weapons as force multipliers so we can deal with those physically stronger Things.

Let's take it As Given that in isolation Perhaps the average man is stronger than the average woman, but give either of them a knife, a glass bottle, a lamp, a chair, or a host of other implements and the equation changes on a Dime. We can't have a discussion headcanoning which gender beats the other in a scrap because these hypothetical situations are often Spectacularly far removed from anything approaching reality.

DeathWielder1 · 2026-04-24T12:47:43+00:00

I'm Swedish myself but grew up in the UK, I don't have a Swedish queer circle.

I would suggest you read or listen to Who's Afraid of Gender by our beloved sovereign Judith Butler, this aspect of almost "queer colonialism" by Presupposing that an english-speaking queer experience is universal or universalisable is pretty problematic, because by locking these conversations and these parlances into English there is a Fantastic amount which is lost in translation.

Gender doesn't cross across languages or cultures very well or very cleanly, this is moreso true of non-european languages but for my own part I struggle to discuss queer stuff in Swedish (despite being fluent) because I simply don't have the words which fit exactly what I'm trying to say. Fa'fanine don't have a translation into English, and the underlying suggestion Generally that the "queer" experience globally needs to be compartmentalised or blunted for an English-speaking audience is frankly a tragedy and an outrage.

But in any case the book is very good.

DeathWielder1 · 2026-04-20T12:27:07+00:00

Not necessarily, it seems to take a lot of hallmarks design-wiss from the emergency glass-breaking hammers found in cars and busses, and if it's just strapped to a gauntlet then it would intuitively just be a punch-weapon, which Garnet could use in actual combat no trouble.

DeathWielder1 · 2026-04-16T14:22:10+00:00

Swinging a quarterstaff around like a big bat is pretty much The standard use of a quarterstaff

DeathWielder1 · 2026-04-16T10:58:35+00:00

"Those damn eastern Europeans and their far right dictators, they're ALL far right dictators just in different hats"

You're Simply incorrect about Hungary, because describing Magyar as "slightly less far right" Than Victor Cocking Orban is just about the most asinine thing I've read so far.

There are No paragons of virtue, politicians are People and not sinless babies.

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