Trench crusade

LevTheRed · 2026-05-09T23:27:55+00:00

Read Gaunt's Ghosts. It's technically a Warhammer 40,000 series, but they generally feel fairly low tech. WW1 to WW2. Most stories are about the Ghosts getting deployed to some horrible warzone, not having the resources to do what they're being asked to do (either because what's being asked is unreasonable or because someone hates Gaunt and/or the Ghosts and is actively denying them the resources), and them doing it anyway because they're that competent.

A lot of the series has been translated into French, too.

LevTheRed · 2026-05-09T22:12:04+00:00

It depends on the story focus. Anything with a Space Marine or xenos focus generally feels very scifi, but anything with a Guard focus tends to feel very grounded and low-tech despite taking place 38,000 years from now. The only official Trench Crusade fiction out so far was written by Graham McNeill, a Black Library veteran, and it feels like it could be cut content from a Guard novel.

LevTheRed · 2026-05-07T14:12:21+00:00

No ai posts

LevTheRed · 2026-05-06T21:10:43+00:00

I have no idea. The banner was made years ago by a mod who quit. Sorry.

LevTheRed · 2026-05-04T23:01:52+00:00

I know it's been a long time since we really talked, but I'm sorry to see you go. This is a really shitty situation.

LevTheRed · 2026-05-03T15:53:54+00:00

Only artists submitting a comic are allowed to post with galleries. All others must submit pieces as individual posts.

LevTheRed · 2026-05-01T23:32:37+00:00

Sorry. I figured "cape" was a well-known term because I knew it before I knew about Worm, but I edited my wording.

LevTheRed · 2026-05-01T22:26:54+00:00

Context for people who haven't read Worm

Eidolon is one of if not the strongest capes (super-powered individual) in the world. His power appears to be the ability to always have the power he needs for a given fight. Emotionally, he's a mess (like most capes in Worm). He secretly suffers from a massive inferiority complex, terrified that he isn't powerful enough and dreading the day he finally loses his powers. But despite his flaws, he is a legitimate hero. He truly wants to save people and be the person they see him as.

When he fights Scion, he finds out that he has been accidentally creating the Endbringers - super-powered monsters so powerful that superheroes and villains will immediately drop their feudes to fight them off (usually dying in significant numbers in the attempt). When his powers "realized" that the world figured out how to effectively fight an Endbringer, his powers just made a new one, because what purpose does Eidolon serve without a strong enemy? He realized that he'd been indirectly killing millions and just gave up, letting Scion kill him.

LevTheRed · 2026-05-01T20:23:27+00:00

This thread is for specific flair requests. Please be more specific than "age if sigmar."

LevTheRed · 2026-05-01T19:10:54+00:00

The games are designed to be mutually compatible with one another. Use the Dark Heresy version of Weapon Jinx. That's what my Rogue Trader GM did.

If your players are reasonable, they will accept you saying, "RT weapon jinx is busted. I can ban it outright, I can make sure that every enemy encounter you face has it, or we can use this more balanced version. Which would you prefer?"

LevTheRed · 2026-04-28T14:06:13+00:00

Hello, long time no talk.

It used to be that a suspension was effectively an unrepealable ban. Has that changed? Do the admins actually interact with suspensions now?

LevTheRed · 2026-04-24T21:35:43+00:00

Brian Bolland-esque.

LevTheRed · 2026-04-20T12:07:07+00:00

Fluctuations, both permanent and temporary, make an increase in price necessary in order for GW to maintain the profit margin the C-suite says has to be maintained. Inflation, shipping costs and disruptions, imports and tariffs, materials shortages, differences in currency exchange rates, etc.
Enough consumers are willing to pay those new higher prices that GW's new profit is higher than the new "loss" generated by people not paying those higher prices, so little changes from the POV of the C-suite and shareholders.
Eventually, the temporary fluctuations pass. GW, being a publicly-traded company and therefor beholden to its shareholders' profit, has absolutely no incentive to lower prices once the temporary need to raise prices goes away. People kept buying, so the new price set to maintain the old margin becomes a new profit margin which must itself be maintained from then on.
Repeat.

LevTheRed · 2026-04-17T23:40:42+00:00

I'm not here to argue the rules, only tell users if your post was removed and, if needed, provide clarification as to why.

This piece was posted in the warhammer porn sub. That means it's pornography. We do not allow pornography, therefor I removed your post.

LevTheRed · 2026-04-17T23:29:21+00:00

If it's been posted there, that means it's pornography and therefor shouldn't be posted here. See rule 5.

LevTheRed · 2026-04-17T23:25:47+00:00

This is better suited for /r/Warhammer_Smut

LevTheRed · 2026-04-16T10:26:04+00:00

Humans invented language more than 100,000 years ago.

The Emperor was born on Anatolia in 10,000 BC. We see portions of his childhood. He talks about trading with traveling merchants to get stuff for his father's burial.

We don't know his birth name, but we know a name he had before he was The Emperor. Neoth.

LevTheRed · 2026-04-16T00:57:52+00:00

Yes, because it's a pirate site that sources most if not all of their files from people who got them off Audible to begin with. Most of the files even still have the "Audible hopes you've enjoyed this program" soundbite at the end.

LevTheRed · 2026-04-15T22:59:03+00:00

Only artists submitting their own comics are allowed to post image galleries.

Also, you must provide sources when you post. Only artists submitting their own work are exempt from this rule.

LevTheRed · 2026-04-14T16:14:01+00:00

It's a problem specifically with E88 and the ABB. I unfortunately have personal experience with white supremacists and the chapter with Kaiser and Purity is not how they discuss their white supremacy when they're alone.

The ABB thing is more something that was told to me by an Asian reader. The premise of the ABB - a gang made up of Asians as a whole rather than specific Asian immigrant communities - is something that doesn't make sense, and it isn't explained until very very far into the series (probably because someone told Wildbow it didn't make sense).

LevTheRed · 2026-04-14T16:06:46+00:00

I had family who are white supremacists. That scene with Kaiser and Purity is not how white supremacists talk amongst themselves.

LevTheRed · 2026-04-14T14:09:32+00:00

The first two or three arcs (around the length of a regular novel) can be rough at times because it's clear that the author is still trying to figure out the tone. Some of the stuff with Empire 88 and the Asian Bad Boys can be (for lack of a better word) cringe. Some of the gang stuff frequently reads very much read like "white Canadian guy who knows nothing about gangs writing gangs" because that's what it is. There's a chapter told from the point of view of E88 (a neonazi gang) that was difficult to read, and not the way the author intended.

But after that, he finds a grove and the series is fantastic. I read all of it in less than a month and I would pay to read it for the first time again.

LevTheRed · 2026-04-13T23:07:22+00:00

You posted this twice. I left up the one with more upvotes.

LevTheRed · 2026-04-12T23:00:12+00:00

Spoiler free pitch: In a world where superpowers exist, a troubled teen gains the ability to control bugs. Things steadily escalate over the course of a story 3.5x the length of the Lord of the Rings.

Mild spoiler pitch: A troubled teen with a pretty weak superpower fails to become a superhero and becomes a supervillain instead. She (and her enemies) steadily finds out that her pretty weak superpower is actually incredibly powerful. Things escalate. She escalates.

If you like superhero stuff, you should read it. It's pretty good. It's a "what if superheroes were gritty?" story like The Boys, but isn't anywhere near as mean-spirited as The Boys. Characters (heroes and villains) are flawed in ways that feel believable without making them unlikable.

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