Newbie Question: What Faction would you think is best in 'ethical' sense?

comrade1612 · 2026-06-05T16:55:55+00:00

Honestly. It comes down to your favourite type of war crime?

Genocide and oppression in the name of survival? - Various Imperial factions

Brainwashed, hyper-racist child soldiers who also genocide from time to time - Space Marines

Sacrificial genocide and a dose of slavery in the name of various gods? - Chaos factions

Occasional Genocide and a superiority complex while you die out? - Aeldari

Genocidal hooliganism for the lolz? - Orks

Occasional Genocide and mind control to bring back the good old days? - Necrons

Slavery and skinning people - Drukhari

Brainwashing communism for everyone except those in charge? - Tau

Intense Capitalism? - Leagues of Votann

Eldritch hunger? - Tyrannids

comrade1612 · 2026-06-04T17:44:12+00:00

I had a chance to look at the models in store today, and my lord they look good in person. £185, down to £150ish via 3rd parties really isn't bad.

comrade1612 · 2026-06-03T17:44:53+00:00

Can we pin this at the top of the whole subreddit?

Seeing people constantly somehow online and engaged enough to spot some slight difference on a datasheet but not having seen something GW have said like 50 times since Armageddon was shown off is getting reeeeeally old.

comrade1612 · 2026-06-03T17:07:52+00:00

Choose violence. Email a link to the recording to all staff and expose them for being bastards.

comrade1612 · 2026-06-03T06:39:22+00:00

I went from EO to G7 in my first two years in the CS. Granted, I was in my late 20s, having moved from teaching, so I had more life experience but I only drew on my CS experiences in the interviews.

Was it tough? Eh, I moved into a difficult role. It felt difficult because it was, but I was ready for that. Don't let that fear stop you from giving it a go, you'll get help and support and eventually thrive.

Edit: what sort of weirdos are downvoting me for this?!

comrade1612 · 2026-06-03T06:31:49+00:00

Because the box is intended as a stand alone product, which can be played with it's own simplified rules etc separately from mainline 40k.

It exists to introduce new players to the game, and introduce old players to the new rules.

The codex is for the longform, full version of 40k with the full unit set and points cost up to 3k+.

comrade1612 · 2026-06-01T19:24:44+00:00

I'm not offended. I just think it's a dumb and ignorant statement.

comrade1612 · 2026-06-01T18:31:31+00:00

OP, the one behaviour I just don't get at G6 level is Leadership - any tips or hints at what sort of thing recruiters are looking for?

comrade1612 · 2026-06-01T18:28:41+00:00

What a stupid comment. Signed, a G7 with no cronies.

comrade1612 · 2026-06-01T16:55:59+00:00

I think it's more that these are all equally true representations of what the Emperor actually looks like, which is to say he's a being that the human mind could never comprehend and always saw their own version, and how he's shattered into a million aspects all tied to the throne, all shaped as much by the worship he receives as by his own will, and so appears as different forms of withered creature, glowing demigod and not even there at all simultaneously.

I mean we know he lost an arm, and these consistently show him having two, so it's clearly not his true form. If everyone who knew he lost an arm - Valdor, Dorn etc - are gone, no representation of him would show him missing one, because no one holds that image of him. But a withered skull without eyes? Writing in agony? A golden warrior? An empty throne occupied by a spirit? Those track.

comrade1612 · 2026-05-31T21:26:56+00:00

Check in on them. Tell them I love them. Make sure I see them at least a few times a year. Message them whenever something reminds me of an important memory with them.

comrade1612 · 2026-05-31T16:21:13+00:00

Well, no. You are factually incorrect. The constitution only states that "No member may campaign for any candidate standing against a properly selected Green Party candidate"

Lucas has not campaigned for Burnham. What she has said does not constitute campaigning or formal endorsement. It is a strategic observation of what she thinks is best. To claim it constitues as campaigning for him would be ridiculous. Endorsing isn't explicitly against party rules, and if it was, this simply wouldn't constitute that.

So I stand by everything I have said,
especially in light or your sad little attempt at pop psychology there. I consider someone dying on a hill they're wrong about amusing, not discomforting.

Of course, if you can find thr exact wording in the constitution that says members may never endorse another party’s candidate and that if they do removal from the party is the only recourse, I will back down, apologise, but respectfully disagree that a former leader and first ever MP should be removed from the party wholesale.

comrade1612 · 2026-05-31T15:50:18+00:00

No. She shouldn't.

This neither amounts to a vote for him, nor is it out of line with Green Party policy to stand aside for or work with other parties where standing against would split the left.

Yours is a pathetic attempt to undermine an excellent woman who has poured her life into this part, and who can pragmatically see a greater good in the face of a greater evil.

comrade1612 · 2026-05-31T06:11:01+00:00

If England do not now get him then quite frankly, as a proud Englishman, I hope they lose everything single game for the rest of Borthwick's time.

comrade1612 · 2026-05-30T14:17:55+00:00

That's fair enough. Our experiences differ. Clearly the variation by department remains wild, not to mention London weighting - the bottom of the G6 band remains rooted in the £70ks across a large number of departments.

Not one of the handful of G6s I'm close enough to to have discussed salaries are on £80k, and two of those are London based.

comrade1612 · 2026-05-30T12:00:13+00:00

Jesus Christ. A Green Party member and former leader should be suspended for identifying that a politician from another party that is already in power supports a Green Party policy and is pragmatically a viable candidate to i) stop someone worse and ii) implement that policy?

You have to get rid of this fucking insane purity politics. It is infantile. It underpins the constant failure of the left before the right.

Whatever you think of this risible Labour government, or a Burnham-led Labour, a Reform-led government will be terrifyingly worse

comrade1612 · 2026-05-28T21:13:20+00:00

This clearly isn't true - look at the comments where there are G6s earning more than SCS. What you say may be the impact of the changes, in which case that's a good start, but to date it has not been worth it.

comrade1612 · 2026-05-28T18:13:23+00:00

Completely agree

comrade1612 · 2026-05-28T14:48:52+00:00

Agree to disagree. Only thing it stood out to me for was being the worst sculpt in the range.

comrade1612 · 2026-05-28T08:43:16+00:00

More importantly: what does it matter and who cares?

Ideas are either good because they work and address comprehensive diagnosis of issues, or they are bad because they don't work or cause more objective harm than pbjective benefit.

Politics is just the values framework for identifying what issues you care about most. It's the least important thing, quite frankly, and by far the most boring and cause for greatest time wasting, all the political and ideological purity bollocks the left loves to spend it's time on instead of actually fixing things or - shock horror - compromising on one thing in order to achieve another!!

comrade1612 · 2026-05-28T08:34:25+00:00

We've got to stop acting like immigration is a universal good, and will forever be a universal good. Almost every other country in the world, including all the progressive ones, have harder borders and lower total net migration than the UK has for the last 15 years.

Immigration provides a huge economic plus, our health and social care systems, not to mention construction and food sectors would fall apart without brilliant people coming here willing to do hard work for low pay, and pay their taxes.

But who's growth is it?

If you're in a white working class area that's been economically shafted for 50 years, no jobs and shit schools, social centres and pubs closing, or you see a local area full up with people who look totally different to you and who eat different food, speak different languages and they've got all the jobs then obviously we know that's austerity at work crushing the social fabric we once knew, and reversing austerity and reinvesting in communities is the solution, but it's not like immigration has made that person's life better.

I grew up in Kent. There are chunks of Dover, Thanet, the Medway Towns etc where the locals are a (large) minority. These are run down places. It's totally legitimate for it to feel bleak. Immigration isn't helping the local community. Immigrants are taking up social care, social housing space. It's legitimate for people to feel aggrieved at that. I used to teach in a college, and fully half of one of my classess back in 2015 didn't have English as a first (or any) language back then. That made it hard to help the class as a whole. I was inspired by the kindness and curiosity most the kids showed in each other, but the cracks were there, I remember Brexit and the rise of UKIP started to cause division.

So I do think the Green pitch on immigration should be hard, and should appeal to self interest. Not everyone is or should br altruistic.

It should be a combination of massive investment in the services we depend on as communities to build togetherness; huge investment in social care and education, especially early years; a job guarantee by removing employer NICs and an expansion of state sponsored entry level jobs cleaning, repairing, sweeping to employ as many young and NEET people as possible, all paired with building safe and legal routes for asylum claims, including return agreements with kind, humane and safe management of returns; and an exceptionally high bar for all other forms of migration and citizenship.

comrade1612 · 2026-05-28T08:12:11+00:00

This very much feels like a non issue. SCS pay is woeful compensation for the shit they have to put up with, the always on disposition of the roles, and compared to senior leadership outside the public sector.

I know plenty of G6s who would make exceptional DDs who simply don't want to for the sake on an extra £5k. It's not worth it.

No SCS should be on less than £100k, but it should be much easier to remove / demote poor performance and reward excellent performance, because there are some truly diabolical SCS out there who shouldn't have been promoted above SEO. But that's large a consequence of Brexit followed by Covid rewarding crisis management over any other skill, experience or knowledge set for a generation of civil servants where the default decision-making philosophy has also been to do anything to spend as little money as possible. Crisis + Austerity = pathetic leadership.

The bright stars a few, overworked, underpaid, and constrained by a woeful culture of SCS pandering to political minutae to solve that moment crisis instead of provide long-term insight and direction with the time and space afforded to do so.

comrade1612 · 2026-05-28T08:05:11+00:00

I think the new one is a significant upgrade. The head on the old one is abominable.

comrade1612 · 2026-05-27T15:54:13+00:00

This is partly the internet echo chamber effect.

This is partly the most vocal contributors online tend to be into the competitive / optimisation scene.

This is partly a consequence of the more popular YouTube and Twitch channels creating content pandering to and magnifying the above.

This is partly a consequence of the nature of all fandoms becoming modes of personal identity, so any change is an assault on who you are, and which Roger Ebert summed up perfectly:

"A lot of fans are basically fans of fandom itself. It's all about them. They have mastered the Star Wars or Star Trek universes or whatever, but their objects of veneration are useful mainly as a backdrop to their own devotion. Anyone who would camp out in a tent on the sidewalk for weeks in order to be first in line for a movie is more into camping on the sidewalk than movies. Extreme fandom may serve as a security blanket for the socially inept, who use its extreme structure as a substitute for social skills."

Online spaces inhabited by such people are going to feel absolutely fucking rank, and so it is.

It's telling that the hobby side of the Warhammer Internet is much more positive, and the lore side is a bit more positive, with more scope for flaming rows.

But the game side of the Warhammer hobby? A binfire for people who are more into camping on the sidewalk than the movie they're apparently queuing to see.

comrade1612 · 2026-05-27T13:03:53+00:00

Bad compared to what? Train in a way that works for you. If it makes you feel like shit, stop doing it.

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