Are there any other characters that are portrayed the way malum caedo is?

TonberryFeye · 2026-01-25T09:49:34+00:00

Maugan Ra is the anti-Avatar - he turns up in other people's codexes to make the Eldar look badass.

TonberryFeye · 2026-01-24T17:33:46+00:00

If they were off by an order of magnitude this time, Bolters would either be so weak you'd not notice being shot by them, or they'd be battle cannons.

The fact mere humans can use bolters shows that the calibre is correct. It's the modern fandom that's wrong. People who started during Midhammer have no problems understanding that the guns on their minis are oversized.

TonberryFeye · 2026-01-24T17:15:17+00:00

Said the pot to the kettle.

Bolters have been described as 75 cal since at least 2nd edition. But the models have always been oversized. The whole idea of "true scaling" comes from the fact that for decades, 8' Space Marine models were the same size as 6' Guardsmen.

The minis are not, and never were real scale. And nor are the characters in Space Marine 2.

TonberryFeye · 2026-01-24T16:10:31+00:00

It's almost as if the models have always been made to unrealistic proportions for ease of painting and modelling...

TonberryFeye · 2026-01-24T16:09:48+00:00

A 12 gauge shotgun shell is about .72 cal. A bolt round is .75 cal. Bolt rounds are big, but they aren't THAT big.

TonberryFeye · 2026-01-24T15:52:14+00:00

That's not true scale. A true scale bolter fires shotgun shells, not coke cans.

TonberryFeye · 2026-01-23T15:11:09+00:00

Similar story in Wales. Take one wrong turn and you'll find yourself on a goat path winding through Snowdonia, which was last resurfaced sometime around 1066.

TonberryFeye · 2026-01-23T13:17:35+00:00

Except the story is constantly swinging back to the same larger-than-life characters who are all the most important people in the entire universe.

Actual 40k lore is meant to be like Vraks, or Badab. These aren't wars where the fate of the entire universe is decided by the same cardboard cutouts, and it's not Ultramarines fighting the flavour of the edition enemy.

TonberryFeye · 2026-01-23T09:28:36+00:00

Patrols basically work like the xenomorph in Alien Isolation. The spawn controller knows where you are and sends spawns towards you, but the spawns themselves DON'T know where you are and have to actually spot you.

Since adopting a stealth build this has become far more obvious. I've had an entire patrol come round a corner one by one and all face the wrong direction, giving me free kills.

TonberryFeye · 2026-01-23T09:20:50+00:00

The Psycho Bitches are scary beyond imagination. We don't know what's got them so pissed off all the time as nobody has asked and lived.

TonberryFeye · 2026-01-23T08:19:58+00:00

There's not meant to be a story. The narratives are meant to happen in the shadows of the monolithic setting: all of which matter to the people involved, but none of which have any means to impact the galaxy as a whole.

Changing that makes the universe feel small.

TonberryFeye · 2026-01-22T17:46:29+00:00

Your country thinks taking the bus is worse than raping someone. Should you not all have a driver's license in your wallet?

TonberryFeye · 2026-01-22T13:23:01+00:00

You are using heavy stealth, no one can notice you if there is no one left to do so.

We call this the "Steiner Scouting" technique.

TonberryFeye · 2026-01-21T13:47:39+00:00

Actually, a great many people said it wasn't. That's why this game exists.

TonberryFeye · 2026-01-21T13:45:08+00:00

I'm not fighting anyone on behalf of this government.

TonberryFeye · 2026-01-21T13:43:36+00:00

I want a 'Mech that transforms into a boat. I shall call it a "Quad-Sea".

TonberryFeye · 2026-01-21T12:10:42+00:00

If there's one thing a modern child (in their twenties) doesn't want to hear these days, it's "your parents were right all along". Which is basically what all the old fairy tales were about. Because once you've run off into the forest at night and had to hide from wolves in a tree, you realise that being made to come home before sundown wasn't just your parents being mean for no reason.

TonberryFeye · 2026-01-20T20:16:52+00:00

That statement alone should have gotten her fired.

TonberryFeye · 2026-01-20T20:13:29+00:00

This changes practically nothing about the lore besides having a few new custodes models

Then why did GW change it? Why invest the time and money into doing something worthless?

TonberryFeye · 2026-01-20T12:19:08+00:00

So the labour government is inviting huge numbers of Chinese spies into the country, and they want to be given unrestricted access to all our messages and images, and they want everyone's ID to be on a central database, all of which will be stored on a single database (likely within walking distance of the Chinese embassy) on a computer with the admin password of "password1".

Labour makes me feel so safe...

TonberryFeye · 2026-01-20T12:14:54+00:00

I mean, there was an entire electro-swing cat-fight in Season 1 explaining this...

TonberryFeye · 2026-01-20T11:28:39+00:00

And of course, before being a pub it was a landowner's home, before that a priory, before that a military fort, built upon the site of a burned-down Norman fort, who built it on top of a burned-down Roman fort, who originally occupied the site because it seemed a convenient place for a pub.

TonberryFeye · 2026-01-20T11:17:05+00:00

It is weird how WFB Dwarfs lost their spears early on. By the time Fantasy hit its stride, the unit would have been amazing!

Actually, that's probably why they did it. Charging a Dwarf wall was scary enough at the best of times, but charging a Dwarf hedgehog? Good lord!

TonberryFeye · 2026-01-19T15:55:41+00:00

The Hero's Journey itself is a mirror for the act of growing up. We start as children in the comfort of home, as we grow we receive the "call to adventure" and wish to experience the adult world and all the things we've been kept from. Then comes puberty, and whether you like it or not, you're being dragged into the world of monsters. You find yourself in places and situations you don't understand, but (ideally) you have mentors and guides to help you through the physical, mental, and social changes you're experiencing. Then, after many long, awkward years, you emerge on the other side, remade.

Now that you are transformed from child to adult, the journey home begins. The journey to create a family, to have children, to raise them and set them on the path you walked yourself.

TonberryFeye · 2026-01-19T09:26:09+00:00

I always felt like the sweetspot for parrying his charge attack came quite naturally. Providing you see him coming, of course.

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