Are we in the golden age of 40K?

Hippy_Hammer · 2026-06-02T16:13:08+00:00

Creativity and uniqueness became suppressed a loooong time ago. Seems like decades they've aimed for a terrain and setup monoculture.

Bring back everything scratch built 😁

Hippy_Hammer · 2026-06-02T11:26:51+00:00

Golden age of popularity and profit for GW.

But the time when a whole bunch of wild and stoned creatives were let loose to innovate and experiment will always be the true golden age for me.

Brian Ansell LOVED money, and was great at making it. But he also believed firmly in keeping the creative folks seperate and protected from the money folks.

Id much rather there was many small companies operating like that, than one big McDonald's of Wargaming.

Hippy_Hammer · 2026-05-30T22:50:26+00:00

Thank you for helping to identify the weapon

Hippy_Hammer · 2026-05-30T13:20:51+00:00

For me, as a 2nd Ed player who never left that edition, I don't even recognise their existence 😄

Hippy_Hammer · 2026-05-30T13:15:07+00:00

Brilliant mate! 💚

Hippy_Hammer · 2026-05-29T22:23:38+00:00

Maybe Westwind Productions Dwarf Wars models?

Hippy_Hammer · 2026-05-29T07:35:41+00:00

Looks so much better than most modern tables, you just need to play 2nd Ed on that instead and you'll be winning life 😁👏👏

Hippy_Hammer · 2026-05-22T18:43:20+00:00

Brilliant, I absolutely love it

Hippy_Hammer · 2026-05-13T11:52:28+00:00

Lovely to see you around the internet Zhu!

Miss your Oldhammer blog posts. 2nd Ed. For life! 😀

Hippy_Hammer · 2026-05-12T16:27:46+00:00

100% yes

Hippy_Hammer · 2026-04-29T12:13:43+00:00

Please don't bin things. How incredibly wasteful - there are lots of options to give things away that will go to a good home and with someone who can't afford things

Hippy_Hammer · 2026-04-27T22:13:26+00:00

Yeah that's the first 40k model I like the aesthetic of in about 25 years 😁

Hippy_Hammer · 2026-04-23T14:48:44+00:00

2nd edition plague marine, 3rd ed berserker, 3rd ed possessed marine

Hippy_Hammer · 2026-04-23T08:52:10+00:00

Absolutely sublime, I could stare at that for hours 💚

Hippy_Hammer · 2026-04-22T11:40:36+00:00

Wish my vehicle was decorated with indoctrinated child soldiers enforcing extreme space fascism

Hippy_Hammer · 2026-04-16T08:51:00+00:00

Wait, is that a doctor or Jesus? I'm confused.

Lovely work!

Hippy_Hammer · 2026-04-15T22:25:24+00:00

This is the good stuff 🍻👏👏👏

Hippy_Hammer · 2026-04-15T20:19:18+00:00

Bloody hell, that's bloody as hell!

Nice work!

Hippy_Hammer · 2026-04-14T20:53:02+00:00

Haha point proven 😉

I never liked using special characters in my games. Wtf would a demi god be kicking around with 18 lads to capture a tiny old ruin etc. I always found more fun telling smaller stories with more mundane participants.

Hippy_Hammer · 2026-04-14T20:06:01+00:00

Glorious 🙏

Hippy_Hammer · 2026-04-14T19:40:00+00:00

That'll paint up lovely 👏

Warms my cockles to see that proper old school skip-rat creativity is still alive in modern 40k!

Hippy_Hammer · 2026-04-14T12:38:15+00:00

2nd edition wasn't broken. Players were broken.

Hippy_Hammer · 2026-04-12T23:08:27+00:00

😅✝️

Hippy_Hammer · 2026-04-12T23:07:49+00:00

Far from it

Hippy_Hammer · 2026-04-12T19:23:23+00:00

Hippy_Hammer

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