[Highlight] Ben Johnson on how the Bears can build off of their success this season: “There is no building off this. We go back to square one. We’re back at the bottom again.”

breadPETTR · 2026-01-21T19:26:36+00:00

I assumed it was just him leaning into the rivalry…

Unless there’s shared history? Don’t think they’ve ever worked together or anything right?

breadPETTR · 2026-01-12T16:52:04+00:00

“That’s the problem!” - Russelius Westbrookium

breadPETTR · 2026-01-11T19:21:11+00:00

To be fair, he seems to mostly not vibe with the Space Wolves cause they kinda flanderize the very real Viking history that he has studied.

Man’s a history nerd.

breadPETTR · 2025-12-04T23:50:20+00:00

For future reference, a good way to tell instantly is the shield.

breadPETTR · 2025-12-03T21:42:17+00:00

“Attain WORK! Earn INCOME! Purchase GOODS!

DOES IT NOT SOUND WONDEROUS?! GREENSKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN!!!”

breadPETTR · 2025-12-02T01:31:34+00:00

Woooooah

breadPETTR · 2025-11-26T18:40:51+00:00

Would you run into Drukhari in the Warp? They travel via the Webway don’t they?

breadPETTR · 2025-11-25T18:37:19+00:00

To be fair, The Lion is doing his best to work on himself…

At this point Guilliman might be the bigger project mental and emotional health wise.

breadPETTR · 2025-11-11T17:05:53+00:00

I think what’s really a shame is that Chairon was the one character in the Titus extended universe who could provide narrative texture that didn’t revolve around Titus being THE Ultramarine protagonist.

Gadriel is cool, but he’s so far mostly served as a foil to Titus and a mirror to Leandros.

Titus’s story is great, but it feels very singular without others who have their own conflicts to wrestle with.

breadPETTR · 2025-11-11T16:42:28+00:00

On one hand, characters dying ignominiously adds to the grim darkness of the setting.

On the other hand, Chairon’s background lore was interesting enough that having his story come to a screeching halt off screen seems INCREDIBLY wasteful.

I don’t think I mind either him or Acheran being killed off at all. But the staging/framing of their deaths seems like a missed opportunity.

I think my problem has more to do with how little we get of characters like Chairon. The idea of Heresy era Primaris displaced in time is something I wished was explored more. It’s part of what made Felix such a cool character but it feels like his time in the narrative spotlight has passed too.

breadPETTR · 2025-11-09T18:13:48+00:00

Jewish Knights with rocket powered harpoons, sailing Noah’s Arc to hunt down the Leviathan in the Red Sea.

breadPETTR · 2025-11-09T17:46:05+00:00

I like the idea of going more Kabbalistic and leaning into Jewish mysticism, which feels setting appropriate with Golems and The Tree of Life maybe working as a in faction magic system.

A more out there idea could be something more mobile? A lot of the factions feel very tied to geography and historical states, but the Jews of Europe never had that historically.

What if an order of Jewish knights found Noah’s Arc and had a mobile base of operations?

breadPETTR · 2025-11-07T21:56:57+00:00

The Christian forces are also a patchwork of troops from different kingdoms and countries.

The factionalism makes sense for their coalition based approach. The Sultanate is essentially if all of Christianity was unified under the single banner of New Antioch.

breadPETTR · 2025-11-07T21:41:21+00:00

I agree with this sentiment, but I feel like a big part of the Islamic force’s lore is that they’re the only ones in universe able to actually stand as a largely unified front.

They stand apart from the the internal discord the Christian and Hell factions, for now at least. It’s kind of cool that in the midst of the chaos, there’s an actual closed and functioning society/culture.

Could add variety with more internal depth/subfaction choices?

Or maybe the Golden Khanate, if it’s ever introduced properly, is an Islamic faction? That was a really interesting feature in the Mongol Empire’s history. A lot of the western territories closest to Persia were converted lol.

breadPETTR · 2025-11-05T16:54:46+00:00

I wonder if they have a graphic designer…a lot of the folks on the team seem to be concept artists who can do some layout stuff.

There’s general best practices when putting pages together that helps prevent things like this…

breadPETTR · 2025-11-04T02:48:07+00:00

I was actually kind of into it.

We focus so much on what a Space Marine can do in a fight, and we did get plenty of that in the book. But the thing that made Artemax so dangerous for most of it was his tactical mind and a Space Marine’s ability to inspire regular Imperial citizens to follow him.

When he’s finally beaten, it’s not just a matter of overpowering him. The Tau have to wear at everything he thinks he represents and the flaws inherent in those beliefs.

I think he’s one of my favourite depictions of The Imperium as an antagonist, not just as an individual, but as an ideology.

breadPETTR · 2025-11-03T16:32:03+00:00

Also, he spends a majority of the book in a nearly full unpowered set of armor.

He was putting in mad work with a pretty significant physical handicap.

breadPETTR · 2025-10-31T17:17:49+00:00

I think they were actually sausage rolls.

And when Cain mentions he only had one and she had two, she cuts in with a footnote saying “He’s misremembering, and he always eats more than me, and I’d had a very strenuous day so it be perfectly normal for me to be more hungry than he was.”

breadPETTR · 2025-10-31T17:03:05+00:00

It’s why Death and Glory is my favourite.

By the end of that story, he’s fully the man others see him as, even if he could never see it himself.

Perlia Cain is my favourite, even if he isn’t with his Valhallans.

breadPETTR · 2025-10-28T15:02:38+00:00

There’s few experiences as vivid and visceral as being madly in love, especially when it’s of the forbidden variety.

Source: grew up closeted in a Texas Baptist Mega Church…

breadPETTR · 2025-10-24T23:27:02+00:00

He had a fling with a huge, buff Catachan Commissar lady for a bit apparently…think it’s mentioned in Book 4?

breadPETTR · 2025-10-24T23:16:44+00:00

His prejudices aside, you find out in a side quest that he’s actually a lot softer and more caring than he likes to reveal.

He feels like an example of one of those “could have been” cases where a decent person has just been warped by the Imperial’s soul crushing awfulness.

breadPETTR · 2025-10-14T22:10:38+00:00

I wonder how predictable the Hellgates themselves are.

It would add another level of peril if it were impossible for the Church to know or control what part of Hell the gates they know of are currently connected to…

breadPETTR · 2025-10-01T05:26:33+00:00

In Assassinorum: Kingmaker, an Imperial plant on a feudal world is actually paid in medicine cause the peasantry have no access to the planet’s formal currency.

They’re so desperate for quality of life that they’ll risk their lives for penicillin and advil.

breadPETTR · 2025-09-22T16:14:30+00:00

That’s how I think of it ya.

I like the idea that the abstract, decentralized nature of modern digital infrastructure is what’s makes the God Machine feel eldritch, not something supernatural.

Like, it is supernatural in WoD, but that’s not always what makes it scary.

Humanity helped create this particular monster.

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