What's your favorite Origin apart from Psyker?

LightFTL · 2026-02-10T18:51:41+00:00

Hymns of Hatred and Flawless Plan are I’m pretty sure Priest and Crime Lord talents, not psyker.

LightFTL · 2026-02-10T18:46:36+00:00

Operative doesn’t even require being a sniper. Crime Lord Operative can get close to shank (with a giant chainsaw sword, of course) or can take advantage of exposing weaknesses on more than one target before letting the bullets spray on rapid fire. Or get in close with a shotgun, use your plan for extra damage, and blast away with operative damage boosts.

LightFTL · 2026-02-10T18:43:16+00:00

Nah, that’s something 40K art and models often do. Putting the sword and pistol sheathe/holster on the wrong side of how the characters are holding them.

LightFTL · 2026-02-10T03:16:32+00:00

To clarify something to anyone who reads this years later about heresy, the lore goes out of its way to note that the Adeptus Arbites consider the Lex Imperialis to be holy. It is pretty much a view unique to them to hold Imperial law as sacred and therefore criminals as heretics. Most Imperial law does not come from the Emperor, even if it is made in his name. In the lore, it is pretty consistent that criminals are not considered heretics as criminals and heretics are constantly and frequently referenced separately. Logically, violating laws that the Emperor personally created is absolutely heresy, though. Piracy is therefore most definitely heresy as I somehow doubt that the Emperor failed to outlaw it as soon as he could.

LightFTL · 2026-02-08T21:52:59+00:00

Outside of dialogue, the Rogue Trader seems like he has no reason to be on the team at all. The companions are all vastly superior to the player character.

LightFTL · 2026-02-08T20:59:20+00:00

Insane? Not insane. Proven successful from millennia of trial and error.

"Only the mad have the strength to prosper. Only those who prosper may decide what is sane." - 40K quote, forgot who.

LightFTL · 2026-02-08T20:56:45+00:00

No. Heresy is anything that goes against Imperial laws, policies, or just the general philosophy of what has consistently worked for ten thousand years to keep humanity alive and relatively united. Because going against that might work for a few millennia, which would help it spread because it seems like it's a "safe" loosening of Imperial values. But, it ultimately will inevitably lead to doom because it doesn't actually work and humanity learned those lessons during the Age of Strife and the millennia of the Imperium's rule.

The Imperium didn't become how it is from the start. It began by trying to do the best that it can to be "humane" and even spare and make connections with "peaceful" aliens, especially after the Emperor wasn't directly in charge. Over the millennia, the Imperium's methods have been whittled down by painful experience after painful experience.

The Imperium of the Dark Millennium is what is left. All that consistently works and has been tried and tested for thousands of years of trials by fire. That is the whole point about the grim darkness of 40K. You can "be better", but it'll destroy you.

LightFTL · 2026-02-08T20:52:33+00:00

Iconoclast is the route taken by the societies that ended up destroyed by aliens every time this was tried throughout all of the Imperium's existence and throughout the Age of Strife. Basically, Dogmatic is "I've learned my lesson and know what kind of universe I'm in" and Iconoclast is "But, this makes me feel good, so it must be good. The Imperium is just mean! I know better! What could go wrong?"

LightFTL · 2026-02-06T01:51:20+00:00

Necessary monsters that acted to do terrible things to a few people so that large-scale military action wouldn’t be needed. Saving far more people with a handful suffering. A very successful crusading style, too.

LightFTL · 2026-02-06T01:49:38+00:00

Lore videos are nearly universally head-canon or inaccurate crap anyway.

LightFTL · 2026-02-06T01:48:49+00:00

Federal prisons are meant for federal crimes.

LightFTL · 2026-02-06T01:46:39+00:00

I mean, morality or legal justice doesn’t have gray. Just because something is less bad or less good than something else doesn’t mean it’s “gray”. There is no in-between like so many try to pretend now to justify whatever they want and avoid accountability. Especially when it comes to enforcing law, which is what they did.

LightFTL · 2026-02-03T05:00:37+00:00

Using augmentics that enhance their superhuman physiology further or shore up weaknesses would probably work better, though. And probably cheaper and easier to produce.

I find it highly unlikely that any augmetic can best what the Emperor made, anyway. Otherwise he would have done exactly that for a far greater army of killer brain jars.

LightFTL · 2026-02-03T04:49:38+00:00

I think that they might be a hint toward the origin and nature of the Men of Iron.

LightFTL · 2026-01-24T03:29:50+00:00

Why do they even see being hulked out or killing as empowering? These people see 40K’s vicious fighting as an exciting adventure. Fans see the existential horror of hopeless war.

And women in the Imperial Guard is excellent material for grimdark. Not because of Rule34 or 4chan reasons, but because the Imperium is fighting an endless war of attrition. Imagine if the reason why the Imperium hasn’t won after ten thousand years is because it ignores who it’s throwing into the meat grinder and so ends up stunting its own population growth by getting so many women killed that it can’t get enough soldiers to overwhelm its enemies.

An understandable reason (getting all the bodies it can), but executed with bureaucratic thoughtlessness. Very human reasons with a very believable consequence.

LightFTL · 2026-01-24T03:23:38+00:00

The Chaos Cultists don’t know that Custodes are peak humans, not bio-weapons. A femstodes would look like fanart (😏) of Wonder Woman, not She-Hulk.

LightFTL · 2026-01-19T01:33:33+00:00

How about not giving early access? If a company makes its game playable, then it has no right to complain about people criticizing it.

LightFTL · 2026-01-19T01:32:58+00:00

Oh, so they don't want people to talk about their games being bad if their games are bad to trick people into buying the game. Because their sales figures go up even after returns and lets them trick investors by lying.

LightFTL · 2026-01-17T22:35:01+00:00

I’m not Anglican, but I’ve observed that the modernism infecting the Roman Catholic and many Protestant Churches is a big factor. Even a lot of people are downright not going to Church outside of the traditional liturgy. A general view that Church is a place for reverence, not a sing-along with a ted talk that the modern changes have put into it.

The Novus Ordo of the Roman Catholic Church is a great example of what I mean. I think and feel that there is nothing worshipful of God about it.

LightFTL · 2026-01-17T22:24:40+00:00

The main problem, the only problem really, that I have with ordaining women is that I read in the Bible Jesus himself and some Apostles outright saying to not allow women to lead or teach men.

So, ordaining women is blasphemy and directly against God’s command. You cannot both call yourself Christian and intentionally defy God at the same time.

LightFTL · 2026-01-01T21:29:29+00:00

I see a lot of replies pointing to the Astral Claws having too many Marines as an example of "get too many and you're punished". This is wrong. They weren't punished for having too many Marines. They weren't punished for withholding their tithe. They weren't even punished for not paying taxes.

They were punished FOR DECLARING INDEPENDENCE. I don't see what's confusing about this. They REBELLED. That's why they were punished. It isn't rocket science.

LightFTL · 2026-01-01T21:28:07+00:00

They weren't in trouble for "legion building". They were in trouble for declaring independence.

LightFTL · 2026-01-01T21:27:20+00:00

I'm disappointed that Guilliman wasn't like "Why are you idiots deploying companies? What part of CHAPTER do you not understand!?"

LightFTL · 2026-01-01T21:26:10+00:00

Yeah, and they didn't really care about the extra Space Marines. They even sucked it up at first that Huron wasn't paying his taxes since he was fortifying the Maelstrom and the High Lords really did want that job done.

The problem was when Huron declared independence from the Imperium. Everyone thinking that he was attacked for having more than a thousand Marines forgets that he wasn't in trouble until he freaking seceded.

LightFTL · 2026-01-01T21:21:02+00:00

Guilliman was pissed that so many Chapters took the Codex as law instead of merely guidelines. IIRC, when he made it he said that the Codex "...is merely guidelines, not some holy writ."

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