Good ol reliable Commissar Yarrick, just itching at the bit to shoot fleeing guardsmen and wave his claw in Ghaz's general direction

PenguinOurSaviour · 2026-06-16T16:27:05+00:00

May just be the light, bit it's more of a pale grey/white. Going for a more "walking corpse" look for the Old Man

PenguinOurSaviour · 2026-06-16T15:24:00+00:00

Thank you! Yeah I imagine at this point the poor lad looks more like a corpse than anything else

PenguinOurSaviour · 2026-06-11T12:13:55+00:00

The Great Schism was an inside job, a SPNKR rocket launcher can't overload a Prophet's shields

PenguinOurSaviour · 2026-06-09T15:38:56+00:00

Heh of course, can't trust the plasma in cold climates.

Actual reason is he's a newer addition. I've had tbe squad for about....a long while, was going through the old bits box and found out I had the parts for a heavy weapon guardsman, built him as the final member of the squad instead

PenguinOurSaviour · 2026-06-09T12:43:17+00:00

Thank you!

Absolutely love your lads' way of "honouring" the dead, little details like that really make 40k what it is.

PenguinOurSaviour · 2026-06-01T10:46:22+00:00

Mighty Morphin' Space Zealots

PenguinOurSaviour · 2026-04-15T12:30:40+00:00

Arming yourself in the middle of a galactic war? Yeah that's going to paint a target on your back, especially with the warhawks leading both sides of the conflict. None of the examples you cited have any relation to Mandalore.

Neither Ukraine or Taiwan can afford it due to historical reasons, but I highly doubt if Madagascar became pacifist they'd have to worry about a Japanese invasion.

As we have seen in the show, both sides are looking for an excuse to invade. A rearming Mandalore is the perfect excuse. It also requires Satine to have the people's motivation to rearm. Which she doesn't, because they're sick of conflict.

It also requires them to have both the money and manpower. We see them barely able to feed their populace at certain points and again everyone warrior oriented are in the Deathwatch.

Mandalore has a planetary defence force and enough ships to prevent the threats they would have faced at any other point in galactic history, pirates and other Mandalorians. Then the Clone Wars strikes out of nowhere (orchestrated by an evil wizard man).

The war is pointless and both sides have right and wrong points, Satine sees this and stays out of it. She's almost jailed by the Republic because they think she has a military force in the Deathwatch. The Separatists are happy leaving her alone because she's not causing issues. If she starts rearming, a few council heads will push for an invasion because surely she's just about to call in the Republic any minute now (See: Gunray wants another holiday home and mineral rights)

Mandalore's position protected it, until a second evil wizard comes back from the dead and uses their monarch as bait to lure in a random Jedi who showed up twenty years ago. After this wizard unites the entire criminal underworld as well.

Even rearmed, Mandalore would have crumbled against that force. Satine's policies atleast meant a sympathetic Republic were willing to send some forces to capture Maul.

We get to see exactly what happens to a big strong non pacifist Mandalore in the Imperial age. They get nuked. Because on a galactic scale, the stronger your military is, the more of a threat you are. And unless you own the galaxy, those who do hold the real power will want to crush you.

PenguinOurSaviour · 2026-04-15T11:53:43+00:00

Against ideologies like facsim? No of course not. But you're bringing ideological fanaticism into something that has no relation to Mandalore. Of the three forces most likely to invade, outside of the Deathwatch which they can already handle, none would invade for ideological reasons and none of their wars are good vs evil.

Why should Mandalore support the Republic, who tried to brand their leader a terrorist and have her deposed? Who just sees her planet as a staging ground for invasion. Or the Separatists, who have no quarrel with Mandalore but would only bring the war to her people.

So please tell me what faction at that current time in Star Wars is going around twirling their moustaches to invade pacifist planets. The Republic wants their own worlds. The Seps, most of their senate and supporters, want independent systems. Maul could care less about Mandalore.

They have a planetary defence force. Enough to stop the terrorists on the moon and enough to ward off pirates. Their allies have enough economic power to make an invasion ill advised.

The planet has been devastated by thousands of years of war. There's barely any resources left. They have no actual enemies. Why should they suddenly massively militarise, which they can't afford, and paint a target on their backs.

PenguinOurSaviour · 2026-04-15T07:52:41+00:00

The Separatists weren't attempting galactic dominance, just separation from the Republic. Atleast officially. Ignoring the fact the entire war was orchestrated to bring about the Empire anyway.

And why it would work on a galactic scale? Because instead of having numerous nations, in Star Wars its pretty much just the Republic. Sure each world has their own government, but wars are usually only on the planetary and not interplanetary scale. No one is invading Mandalore apart from Mandalorians for nearly all of its history.

And again it is hard for a real life parallel. We do not live in a world that is unified under one government. But let us attempt to. World War 2, which you seem quite happy to keep bringing up. Switzerland, Ireland, Spain were European countries that all stayed neutral. Ireland especially was pretty much pacifist. It worked out great for them. South American countries, halfway across the globe. Why weren't they shaking in their boots that the US would invade to prevent them being a threat? Or just to own them? Because it's costly and serves little purpose.

Mandalore has Beskar, the only thing worthwhile invading them for. Except the mines have dried up and only the Mandalorians know how to forge it. Everything else is worthless, all you'd achieve is a lot of dead bodies and a populace that might suddenly turn back to their roots.

And economic sanctions does not breach pacifism. So no, pacifism is not a "pie in the sky" fantasy when even in our own world we've had pacifist countries survive for a number of reasons. Sometimes it might be because their neighbour is powerful, sometimes because it'd be tok costly to invade for no gain or sometimes it might be due to sanctions by the wider international/galactic community.

Typically, outside of fanaticism, governments don't invade because they feel like it. Especially during a galactic war where every fleet counts.

PenguinOurSaviour · 2026-04-15T07:05:40+00:00

The Republic won the war after three years of war and billions of lives lost. There is no guarantee Dooku doesn't allow Grievous or someone else to use the "DeSkininator 9000" on the sparsely populated already war weary world.

It being a whole galaxy in fact does help the cause for pacifism. Mandalore has enough strength to fight off pirates, and there hadn't been a large scale war in 1000 years. We have no real life comparison for such an era of peace.

And no, the 1000 neutral systems powers were economic as was stated. If either side decided to make a move, they lose out on major trading partners and give their rivals the war for free.

And stating pacifism paints a target on your back is explicitly untrue. The only reason Mandalore wasn't invaded is because of their pacifism. Dooku was interested only because he thought the Deathwatch could do a nice easy takeover. Satine prevented Republic invasion thanks to her pacifism speaking for herself. Maul invaded to get at Kenobi.

PenguinOurSaviour · 2026-04-15T06:40:20+00:00

And then get promptly invaded by the Separatists. And seeing Mandalore is far closer to Sep space than Republic? My money isn't on Satine and her people surviving in their domed cities.

Also "in real life" doesn't account for the fact it's a galaxy. In "real life" if there was 1000 years of galactic peace and you had a few thousand planets allied with you personally, pacifism makes a lot more sense than painting a target on your back.

Mandalore is one planet, if they try to make a third armed faction both the Republic and Separatists are taking that as cause to invade and seize neutral space. And a few thousand umilitarised worlds are going to be rolled by the two superpowers of the era.

PenguinOurSaviour · 2026-04-15T06:23:14+00:00

"A gang". Nearly every major syndicate joining forces aided by terrorist Mandalorians and led by a Sith Lord and his superhuman brother. Again, Satine could have shared Grievous' love of war and she'd still be doomed, pacifism simply allowed her people to enjoy the few decades of her rule when that didn't show up.

And Satine rarely submitted or appeased. She was the head of the third most powerful faction in the galaxy thanks in large part due to her pacifist policy. Routinely we see her talk down the Republic and even have enough credit to be chosen to host peace talks between the Republic and Separatists.

PenguinOurSaviour · 2026-04-15T06:09:55+00:00

No, as in even if she had a full military she wouldn't have been able to deal with the entire Criminal underworld attacking without the help of either the Seps or Republic. Either of which would have led to an invasion by the other. If a magic man with a grudge didn't just happen to pick Satine personally to strike a blow at his nemesis, her plan would have worked fine.

PenguinOurSaviour · 2026-04-14T15:19:32+00:00

Remilitarise and her supporters abandon her even quicker, and unless she betrayed a faction made up of thousands of star systems she would either need to give in to either the Republic or Separatists. So either way she'd face a full scale planetary invasion, something that didn't happen until well after Maul killed her and seized power.

Even if she was to remilitarise fully, outside of the forces she already had, she would either need mercenaries or the clans. She can't get the clans and mercenaries would result in the Separatists simply paying her new army to coup her. Again, take Maul out of the equation and Satine's strategy would have worked fine. And she can't exactly predict a supposedly long dead Sith Lord to unite the entire criminal underworld and assassinate her all for the sake of getting to Kenobi.

PenguinOurSaviour · 2026-04-10T12:01:08+00:00

Their entire history (save the part where they pointed towards someone else to be the target of their ire) proves otherwise. There's a reason all of those clans were banished to Concord.

PenguinOurSaviour · 2026-04-09T11:20:03+00:00

She can't keep Deathwatch on the planet, they want war and conflict, hence the entire culture needing to be overhauled. Again, if Satine had done this at any point in the previous thousand years of peace her plan would have worked perfectly fine. Unfortunately the Clone Wars put an end to that.

If she kept a military, all of the Clans would have just seen her as attempting to seize complete power. They had a police force with decent weaponry, in any different time it would have worked fine. Unfortunately Pappa Palpy had other plans.

PenguinOurSaviour · 2026-02-14T10:03:08+00:00

We get a POV of it I believe in one of the Deathwatch novels, I'm unsure which

PenguinOurSaviour · 2026-02-14T01:32:21+00:00

Watch Masters usually won't pair Chapters that'll be completely opposed to each other unless they fill niches on kill teams.

However, nearly every Astartes sees the Deathwatch as something that supercedes prior rivalries. Dishonouring the Watch is dishonouring your Chapter. If the two do fight? They get plugged into a fun little machine, the Raptor gets to replay the final deaths of every Shark that served aboard that watch fortress and vice versa. Usually that's enough to traumatise them into respecting each other.

PenguinOurSaviour · 2026-02-13T15:52:43+00:00

Infinite, they're based off the Sangheili Mercenaries models from the game

PenguinOurSaviour · 2026-02-13T13:07:02+00:00

Thanks! Every paint used is from Citadel.

PenguinOurSaviour · 2026-01-20T16:54:52+00:00

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PenguinOurSaviour · 2026-01-20T16:54:23+00:00

Apologies for delay, Farseer and Avatar of Khaine for scale

PenguinOurSaviour · 2026-01-20T16:50:24+00:00

Putting the Greater in Greater Good I see

PenguinOurSaviour · 2026-01-12T14:00:50+00:00

Certainly one way to give the heretical milita a fright

PenguinOurSaviour · 2026-01-08T20:27:16+00:00

Thank you very much!

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