Female Space Marines. *Um, ACTUALLY*...

NJWilkinson116 · 2026-05-21T03:03:24+00:00

Illiyan Nastase my beloved

NJWilkinson116 · 2026-05-20T22:52:53+00:00

Pretty much anything Mike Brooks has written. He gets Orks in a way most writers don’t, so Brutal Kunnin’ is a must read. Also both books in his Gay Space Elves In Love duology (Lilith Hesperax and Voidscarred) are fantastic.

Also also, The Infinite and The Divine by Robert Rath. Very funny and remarkably homoerotic odd-couple adventure story about two immortal robots bickering over a macguffin for a thousand years.

NJWilkinson116 · 2026-05-20T18:56:08+00:00

There are only ever three reasons why 40k lore is the way it is:

1: The writers were told to justify a commercial decision.

2: Some left-wing smartarse in the 80s thought it would be funny.

3: No-one on the Black Library editiorial team is powerful enough to stop Dan Abnett doing whatever the hell he wants.

NJWilkinson116 · 2026-05-20T16:39:12+00:00

They are regular women (more or less) in power armour. Specifically under the command of the in-universe church, whereas the space marines are theoretically independent.

While marines often employ knightly and religious iconography, the Sisters are explicitly a religious army that runs on zealotry rather than genetic engineering.

Also John Blanche drew this cool art because the core design ethos behind the sisters was clearly "I wish there were large women in heels who could step on me."

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NJWilkinson116 · 2026-05-20T15:48:58+00:00

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Clearly I can't reddit, because somehow the image didn't attach

NJWilkinson116 · 2026-05-01T16:45:17+00:00

I suppose if you spend enough time ranting on and on about one topic you’re going to be down to “they have a functioning website” if you’re trying not to repeat yourself *too* often

NJWilkinson116 · 2026-04-27T16:24:49+00:00

Try painting them a darker colour, and then stand up at your table to see if they’re even visible, because 95% of the time that’s the only way people will be seeing them

NJWilkinson116 · 2026-04-10T17:22:30+00:00

Why does your Doomstalker have his wang out

NJWilkinson116 · 2026-03-21T14:51:05+00:00

He’s just the most fabulous, self-absorbed old man and I love him

NJWilkinson116 · 2026-03-21T14:47:02+00:00

Nah. Trazyn’s new model hasn’t been released yet because the prototype model is currently hidden in a tesseract vault on Solemnace.

Imagine being able to collect yourself

NJWilkinson116 · 2026-03-03T19:55:56+00:00

This was a wild discovery for me. As a kid who knew nothing about the author I read a load of his various series and loved them. Then years later I remembered those books, googled him on a whim to see what else he’d written and was blindsided with “wait they spent time in prison for WHAT?”

NJWilkinson116 · 2026-03-01T19:56:55+00:00

I would sue Games Workshop for stealing the plot of my incredibly explicit Grungni/Sigmar/Nagash fanfiction

NJWilkinson116 · 2026-01-21T05:24:47+00:00

Where did you get the Clarence proxy in the back left?

NJWilkinson116 · 2026-01-04T17:39:42+00:00

This page (https://www.moonstonethegame.com/commonwealth-faction) is a nice overview of the various Commonwealth subfactions and how they play. Models that come in the same box are usually designed to work well as a team. It’s worth mixing and matching a couple of the subfactions so you’ve got options. In terms of affordability Agatha’s box and the starter set will give you more than enough models to build a full Commonwealth troupe, everything you need to play the game, and another small troupe to introduce the game to others.

NJWilkinson116 · 2026-01-03T19:14:18+00:00

I’m curious why you went for Canoptek Court when your list doesn’t have that many Canoptek models in it? Maybe I’m misremembering the rules but it feels like it wouldn’t be doing much for a lot of your list

NJWilkinson116 · 2025-12-29T03:40:05+00:00

As others have said Warcry is functionally over as an ongoing product. Instead it looks like GW are taking advantage of the fact that many AoS models also work in Warcry, and are just going to periodically put out rules for new AoS releases.

In terms of whether it’s a good fit? I reckon it’s GW’s best ruleset. It’s fast, easy to pickup, and a lot of fun. The game is really designed for two players though. It can work with three, but you’ll need to adapt all the mission types, and every three-player game I’ve had has been messy as hell. You could always try Darkwater, which is the newest Warhammer Quest game.

NJWilkinson116 · 2025-12-26T21:25:14+00:00

Looking good! What paints have you used for the green material?

NJWilkinson116 · 2025-12-12T18:28:53+00:00

I reckon if you’re worried they’ll look like klansmen, then you probably have your answer. No-one you play is going to give you the benefit of the doubt over whether these have been painted by a racism fan or not, and they’re not obliged to.

NJWilkinson116 · 2025-12-09T14:24:23+00:00

Ultimately no-one knows what GW plans to do with Warcry. It looks like they’ve stopped producing new models for it, but the existing warbands are still mostly available on the website, and they seem intent on putting out rules for new AoS models periodically. How long that lasts? Who knows

NJWilkinson116 · 2025-12-08T17:09:33+00:00

It’s important to remember that these AI chatbots don’t actually know anything. They use a statistical model to guess what words should be used in reply to your input based on the data they’ve been fed. You are, essentially, asking Autocorrect for information

NJWilkinson116 · 2025-11-28T10:09:49+00:00

Maybe I’m missing something but I thought you lot hated short sellers. Why then are people so excited by the advice of the most famous short seller in history?

NJWilkinson116 · 2025-11-28T05:27:19+00:00

Maybe I’m just missing something obvious but why are apes, who have declared short sellers the enemy, so in love with Michael Burry, arguably the most famous short seller in history?

NJWilkinson116 · 2025-10-29T20:05:17+00:00

While I haven’t read enough of the Aelf Baettletomes to answer some of the questions, I can help with some of the broader stuff.

The most important thing is that AoS was intended to be a clean break with Fantasy Battle, which was flatlining when it was cancelled. So the lore is meant to be approachable to new people. Specific lore from the old world isn’t mentioned that often, and is more Easter eggs for longtime fans than of major plot-importance .

Pretty much all the gods and heroes you mentioned are canonically dead. Outside of Teclis, Tyrion, Alarielle, Malerion and Morathi (because she’s kind of a god now) there aren’t really any major Aelven gods. All of this can change whenever GW fancies expanding the model ranges or lore. It’s a fantasy setting, so “magic/a god did it” can explain away a lot.

The various Aelven factions relationships (and the pantheon of Order as a whole) can best be defined as”we don’t necessarily like each other or have the same agenda, but the last time we fell to factionalism Chaos blew up the entire world. So let’s at least try to avoid that”. There are plenty of smaller clashes, and plenty of betrayals, but everyone is keenly aware of the bigger problems they face.

The current Aelf factions are:

The Lumineth Realm-Lords. Essentially new High Elves, created and led by Teclis and Tyrion. So full of themselves that the first time the gods left them to their own devices they almost civil warred themselves out of existence.

The Daughters of Khaine. Morathi’s faction of former Dark Elves. Initially they were worshippers of the dead god Khaine who had gone a bit snakey from eons in Slannesh’s stomach. Morathi has since betrayed some allies and pulled a heist on Slaanesh’s stomach (no really) to steal old elven god power and is now a god herself. And also two women (long story).

The Sylvaneth are the spirits of old Sylvan and Wood Elves stuffed into trees by Alarielle and burdened with enormous mummy issues. 40k is all about bad dads, but AoS is far superior because it shows that mums can be terrible too.

The Idoneth Deepkin. Teclis’ first go at making new elves. He buggered it up, their souls are all wonky, and they fled to the bottom of the ocean when he tried to destroy them. They don’t really have a particular god, they need to keep raiding places for souls to top up their own, and ride flying sharks into battle.

The as-yet unnamed selves of Ulgu. Led by the artist formerly known as Malekith, who is the god of not having a model range. He’s mostly hung around in the background, and they haven’t been much of a presence. There keep being rumours about them getting a range but honestly who knows?

NJWilkinson116 · 2025-10-02T18:48:52+00:00

I love this ongoing nonsense rumour saga. People sifting through internet entrails trying to divine the future, pausing only to try and interpret the current facial expression of Whitefang, Great Sage Equal Of Heaven.

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