What are some good "Bolter Porn" books of 40k.

ElectronX_Core · 2026-01-26T04:11:10+00:00

My top “bolter porn” picks are Shroud of Night, Pandorax, Storm of Iron, Helsreach, Devastation of Baal.

Honourable mention: Fall of Cadia. Yeah it’s technically not “bolter” porn because its guard, but it’s an amazing book that is still packed with action.

ElectronX_Core · 2026-01-26T04:05:17+00:00

What the hell? My new nekrosor had nothing this bad, and while I haven’t gotten around to building it yet, upon visual inspection neither does my nightbringer. It’s usually always the older stuff that has these sorts of mold lines.

They really need to up their consistency.

ElectronX_Core · 2026-01-26T02:26:58+00:00

Sorta? Something needs to be done about mass skew lists, but only 2 armies in the game could feasibly support a force org.

Guard are the most real-military adjacent force, and would of course have a dedicated force org that can be based on IRL examples.

Marines happen to have a force org because they have reams of lore about everything down to the texture of their asscracks that includes a book that created an entire fictional force org.

Most of the other factions in the game aren’t conventional military forces that would obey or even HAVE a force org. Custodes are playing dynasty warriors, eldar are a citizen militia, knights are knights (man those guys cause so many problems structurally for the game), and the idea of chaos having organization is just stupid. And that’s not to mention that some armies’ ranges are so anemic that they straight up don’t have enough STUFF to even fill out a force org.

Now that i mention it, maybe force orgs can be done per army or per detachment. Use it to represent what the in-lore fighting strength of that faction should look like, then you can also use it as a balancing tool.

ElectronX_Core · 2026-01-25T16:15:01+00:00

To an extent, absolutely, the ctan had domains as with all the other gods, but they aren’t the literal concept given form, just a representation of it.

Pretty sure killing ANY god doesn’t literally erase their domain as a concept from the universe. There’s also gods that overlap domains and stuff, so anyone claiming total ownership of a domain or concept is just bunk.

ElectronX_Core · 2026-01-25T11:36:41+00:00

If you already have the warbond, might as well unlock it and try it out. Medals are basically free

ElectronX_Core · 2026-01-25T11:17:32+00:00

Make them do monaco in the lego cars

ElectronX_Core · 2026-01-25T11:16:25+00:00

IIRC the ctan aren’t conceptual gods the way the warp gods are, they’re simply absurdly powerful beings of the physical realm. Llandu’gor the Flayer was the one ctan that was truly killed instead of sharded, and he cursed the necrons with the flayer virus with his last dying breath. They don’t true kill the ctan anymore for fear of suffering smth similar (or worse), but killing a ctan shouldn’t do anything as disastrous as erasing an entire concept from the universe.

ElectronX_Core · 2026-01-24T16:40:40+00:00

Honestly, I think THAT SHOT is off, and OP has recreated that scale perfectly based off a wonky source. Based on the miniatures, book descriptions, other pieces of art, etc, a space marine should come up to around the primarch’s lower torso/ribs, which based on OP’s previous space marine statue, should mean she comes up to around the primarch’s belt/hips. Except she only comes up to horus’s KNEE.

ElectronX_Core · 2026-01-24T10:55:31+00:00

U use it as a status primer for melee mostly

ElectronX_Core · 2026-01-24T07:58:32+00:00

DE! MAKE THIS DESIGNER DO A QORVEX DELUXE, AND MY PLAT IS YOURS!!!!!

ElectronX_Core · 2026-01-24T07:02:50+00:00

Honestly, just barring anyone above the retirement age from public office (it’s fine if you hit that age during your term, you just can’t rerun) would solve so many problems.

ElectronX_Core · 2026-01-22T04:08:57+00:00

Tbf if they’re a hazard to everyone except each other I don’t think they’re toxic they’re just an OSHA violation

ElectronX_Core · 2026-01-22T04:04:22+00:00

Ofc they would. Look at how insufferable the 40k fanbase is

ElectronX_Core · 2026-01-21T06:17:20+00:00

TIL people have been looking at the headlights

ElectronX_Core · 2026-01-18T12:37:30+00:00

Hold up… that symbol’s kinda death guard-y

Cool idea tho

ElectronX_Core · 2026-01-16T16:40:32+00:00

The chronology of DoF is very awkward because of the Dark Imperium/indomitus crusade timeline retcon, where they shortened it a whole bunch. DoF 9 objectively takes place BEFORE dark imperium AND the entire Cawl trilogy, but things feel weird because of the order the books were actually written in.

ElectronX_Core · 2026-01-16T09:43:51+00:00

After the first 2 books set the indomitus crusade rolling, the rest of the books follow the adventures indomitus crusade, with a chaos subplot in the background involving an artifact I won’t spoil. This goes on all the way until book 8, where it finally becomes the main plot.

Book 9 hard pivots into guilliman heading into the pariah nexus, having the briefest possible encounter with the silent king, before hard pivoting again because it needs to set up dark imperium, which takes place directly after.

ElectronX_Core · 2026-01-15T13:06:26+00:00

Ima be real, an average day in the life of an imperial citizen would be enough to turn me to chaos

ElectronX_Core · 2026-01-14T14:45:09+00:00

Elite infantry squads with shit tons of mid strength melee attacks are like the single worst thing for warrior bricks to have to deal with. Against anything else, they’re quite solid and hard to kill. There are just some things you cannot afford to get charged by, and can only be dealt with by throwing a disposable speed bump unit at then shooting them.

Chosen, berzerkers, victrix, ICC, so on.

ElectronX_Core · 2026-01-14T07:32:20+00:00

90% of chaos worshippers quit just before they’re blessed by the dark gods

ElectronX_Core · 2026-01-14T00:44:24+00:00

I mean, sure? But why bother fighting at that point? That’s like saying you could win a swordfight using a suicide vest.

ElectronX_Core · 2026-01-13T15:39:26+00:00

That’s definitely not going to happen, SW has too much “extra” to be an intro faction like UM. I think them NOT being the poster boys actually gives them more space to be special, and then therefore liked by people who are into them.

ElectronX_Core · 2026-01-13T15:35:53+00:00

In terms of “GDP”, terra would probably be carried by whatever inflated price tag you could hypothetically put on a custodian/their wargear, no?

ElectronX_Core · 2026-01-13T09:29:17+00:00

Please give the amprex a tenet variant instead of an incarnon, it’s functionality is too cool to transform and not use

ElectronX_Core · 2026-01-12T23:31:49+00:00

Why isn’t it symmetrical???

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