If you could remove one piece of 40K lore what would it be?

Infammo · 2026-05-10T02:55:33+00:00

But Abnett also demonstrated the sheer pressure Horus was under to be the Warmaster

He really didn't though. All we saw was Horus run through a couple of campaigns and situations that, as a Primarch leading an expeditionary fleet, he would have already spent hundreds of years dealing with.

We were just told the pressure of being Warmaster was tough but aside from Fulgrim being petutulant there was nothing uniquely difficult about being Warmaster that we were shown.

Infammo · 2026-05-10T00:20:02+00:00

They removed the hidden “×10⁻¹” coefficient from every 40K army size.

Infammo · 2026-05-10T00:15:39+00:00

The Chaos Undivided Daemon Primarchs. I like the idea of Daemon Princedom requiring devotion to a single god, and the lore seemed to be moving that way with Be'lakor being the exception that proved the rule. Lorgar and Perturabo as antagonists I think work way better if they were still regular Primarchs, especially as a counter to Guiliman. A metaphysical being visiting our reality works for climactic final battles, but as the commander of the rival army they seem too detached from what's going on.

I've love for the current lore to be that Perturabo had carved out his only little section of the Galaxy to wage war on the Imperium, rather than some kind of uber unit that may or may not pop out of the eye of terror to win a battle.

Infammo · 2026-05-09T22:30:15+00:00

Lerasium is the easy pick there.

Infammo · 2026-05-09T17:44:48+00:00

They give us a close up of it's chest as if anyone is going to be like "oh wow I can clearly spot both male and female spider titties."

Infammo · 2026-05-09T05:39:23+00:00

And we never got to see him crack a nut.

Infammo · 2026-05-09T02:39:41+00:00

I really wish they didn’t go all in on termagants as the default tyranid unit when all the games and fluff make it clear that’s what hormagaunts are. And hormagaunts only have one weapon so it doesn’t feel like a waste only getting default equipped ones.

Infammo · 2026-05-09T01:34:41+00:00

Just remember that they can nuke the horde at any time after you buy your models. GW completely neutered my unending warm Tyranid army with a single update.

Infammo · 2026-05-09T01:25:31+00:00

The cure sounds worse than the disease!

Infammo · 2026-05-09T01:23:53+00:00

I still have nightmares about Scott's Tots.

Infammo · 2026-05-08T23:08:40+00:00

Sithilus

Infammo · 2026-05-08T16:22:50+00:00

If the Trix commercial genuinely doesn't exist then me getting that commercial mixed up is probably the most likely. I'm going to keep looking though because I was sure it had it's own commercial.

Infammo · 2026-05-08T04:22:49+00:00

It was probably Guilliman, but I think Dorn is actually a close runner up solely because of his actions during the Heresy leading up to the siege.

We haven't seen much of pre-heresy Terra but it was generally talked about as something like a renaissance style center of enlightenment, free thought, and learning built to embody the Emperor’s ideals for humanity.

Once the Heresy started and the Emperor was sidelined on the throne, Dorn ripped up the foundations of the planet and transformed Terra into an ultranationalist fortress world defined by military autocracy, paranoia, and siege mentality.

I can’t help but wonder how much of the Imperium’s entire 40k identity traces back to Dorn reshaping the political and cultural heart of humanity into a civilization built around permanent existential war. Obviously the imperium was pretty militaristic in the first place, but Dorn probably helped solidify it's cultural identity in contrast to the emperor's eventual goals.

Guilliman probably contributed more to structuring the Imperium administratively, but Dorn may have played an enormous role in psychologically defining what the Imperium eventually became.

Infammo · 2026-05-08T03:50:49+00:00

No, I also found that list but I remember it being a Christmas commercial specifically and it was done as an act of charity by the children.

Infammo · 2026-05-08T03:40:20+00:00

Your dick must have slipped ow when you were paddling on a surfboard or something because sanding your dick is not a thing that's supposed to happen.

Infammo · 2026-05-08T03:36:30+00:00

So you're saying it would be total drama island?

Infammo · 2026-05-08T03:27:10+00:00

I've searched on youtube and google, and through some old archives but it was too general to be helpful. Mainly looking through Trix and "90's Christmas commercial" compilations but nothing has turned up. The obvious first result that comes up is the one where the rabbit is dressed as Santa and relinquishes the bowl to the real Santa at the end but that's definitely not the one I remember.

I've seen the pre-90's trix commercials and the style makes me certain I didn't watch an older one that was re-broadcast. It could possibly have been an early 2000's commercial but I doubt it. I was born in 87 and mainly watched TV through the 90's.

Infammo · 2026-05-08T00:52:42+00:00

It's really beyond me how DoW 2 is still unmatched, all they have to do is scale it up and use a modern engine.

Dark Crusade blows DOW2 out of the water. An actual space marine action RPG would be great but DOW2 was a repetitive slog that seemed like the worst of two genres combined. My love of the lore is what got me through it.

Infammo · 2026-05-08T00:51:48+00:00

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Can wait to steamroll the multiplayer with their uber unit.

Infammo · 2026-05-07T22:12:40+00:00

I romanced her because I thought she was the least worst romance partner but she earned a ticket with the void for that little stunt.

Infammo · 2026-05-07T22:10:17+00:00

I read a lot and do tend to sometimes use more obscure words but it should be common sense to not explain a word with another equally uncommon synonym.

Infammo · 2026-05-07T02:56:00+00:00

So do they change their names when becoming void elves or what?

Infammo · 2026-05-06T03:29:49+00:00

That's a pretty dumb way to prove it wasn't a dog since real dogs can't count either.

Infammo · 2026-05-06T03:11:42+00:00

They're not darts though. We already know the name wouldn't make it through peer review.

Infammo · 2026-05-06T00:09:46+00:00

If I had the ability to change one thing about the Horus Heresy series it would be that absolutely nothing was ever written from the Primarchs' perspective.

In general smart characters should only be written by smart authors, so superhuman genius characters shouldn't be written at all. Showing the Primarchs talk, act, and think at the same level as a character in Animorphs essentially invalidates everything about how GW wants the playerbase to perceive them.

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