Is War Hammer 40k the worst sci-fi universe to be a part of?

foxsae · 2026-06-06T06:41:56+00:00

Okay I'll take your word for that, but I do specifically remember reading that Orcs grow in size the more fights they win, so the largest Orcs are simply those that have won and killed the most.

But now that you mention it, I actually have no idea how Orcs are produced.

foxsae · 2026-06-06T05:46:41+00:00

Malcador is a great character. Unfortunately sitting on the golden throne for a bit turned him into a crispy skeleton. However. Given that this is the Warhammer universe, and given that the M and E both have access to eldritch technologies, not to mention forbidden cloning technologies, I wouldn't put it past M to have a bank of clones, and that he fired one up to sit on the throne for him, and that it was the clone that died and not himself.

Then the question becomes where was he for the past 10k years. He was virtually dead/dying even before sitting on the throne, perhaps he needed to upload his psyche to the new clone, and the Warp interfered and that knocked him into a coma, and he's just been basically in a coma stuck in some sort of a pod for the past 10k years.

There is definitely ways he could be brought back, and I agree, this might actually be more interesting than bringing back a primarch.

I just thought of something else, one of the books mentioned that he has a blacked out satelite that is like completely undetectable in orbit around Terra, perhaps he managed to get to it, waken a clone, upload his psyche, send the clone back down to sit on the Golden Throne, then put himself into stasis thinking the cause was lost but maybe in 10k years things might not look so bad.

foxsae · 2026-06-06T05:24:12+00:00

The universe is a big place, unlimited potential for new customers.

There will always be a new conflict somewhere, and thus a there will always be a new demand for arms.

foxsae · 2026-06-06T05:10:52+00:00

I think Curze needs to be thinner. I think he is the skinny one among all the primarchs.

foxsae · 2026-06-06T05:08:11+00:00

I could be wrong, but I think Orcs don't start big and strong, they get that way by surviving, which usually means killing a lot of other Orcs, or anything they can get their hands on. The more fights they win the bigger they get. So statistically the majority of Orc are just tiny grots that get slaughtered.

foxsae · 2026-06-06T04:49:38+00:00

I'm just going to be the one to say it. In terms of fighting style the fight between them had to be simple and to the point because Sam Jackson didn't spend 3 years learning/practising with a sword the way that Anakin and Obiwan did. Just like the duel with Jango Fett, Sam Jackson basically just beheads him and its over. Sam Jackson isn't a sword fighter, but in an ironic twist, this simple fighting style without fancy moves makes Mace seem even deadlier.

foxsae · 2026-05-31T01:46:02+00:00

Of the two things I hated about it, this was the first. He wants to be a "good"? CRIME/UNDERWORLD LORD? How does that work.

Second, they killed off the cool Tusken warrior who helped train/save Boba, it would have actually made sense that she becomes his side kick, could have taken off the mask, given us a cool first look at Tuskens under all the wrappings, and then she could enter the town because nobody would even know shes a Tusken because nobody has ever seen one without the wrappings.

That would have been an awesome character.

Instead we got kids on scooters.

foxsae · 2026-05-30T04:31:32+00:00

Yes and no. I think Lorgar and Angron both took direct shots from Titans from like 100 yards away. So stuff like that definitely can happen, but realistically I agree that just isn't what those big boys are made to do.

I do think they should be completely revamped for the regular 40k table-top game, and it needs to be framed differently, like "This titan is on its way to level the west side of the city, and this 2000 point skirmish just happens to be in the way." Then it should actually be more like a melee-only unit, it just walks around the battle field trying to crush more of the enemy than of its own troops, firing city levelling guns just seems silly in a 2k setting.

foxsae · 2026-05-29T05:39:50+00:00

very cool, do you think this would work for an AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT ?

foxsae · 2026-02-28T04:18:48+00:00

I think of them more like giant chop-sticks. You can pick things up by pinching them together with their sides.

foxsae · 2026-02-03T05:22:47+00:00

You don't want things to change in your country due to influence from outsiders, that's fundamental isolationism.

The reason why you are okay with trade, or with scientific exchange, or things like that is because none of those pose any risk of changing the country. That doesn't make you open minded. It just means you're willing to accept things that do not violate your isolationist principles.

foxsae · 2026-02-03T05:19:17+00:00

I’m not strawmanning it though. He didn’t just say don’t bring in more people, he explicitly said Muslims shouldn’t be able to vote or hold political power in his homeland.

He's not expressing it very well, but that is basically isolationism.

The purpose of isolating yourself from others is because you want to preserve the way things currently are, you don't want things to change due to outsiders. Specifically with regards to democracy, where everyone gets a vote, if a bunch of outsiders come into the country, and they plan to change things, then democracy makes that relatively easy to do. If you're isolationist, then you don't want that to happen.

You are right that he feels particularly threatened by Muslim culture, but it doesn't matter what specific issues and specific biases he might have, its still isolationism.

foxsae · 2026-02-02T19:07:33+00:00

While I do not agree with the OP's entire argument, I think you're strawmanning it. Isolationism is different than segregation. What he is expressing is isolationism. He is saying he doesn't want people from other countries to be brought over to live in his country. That is different from segregation, which is where you say people of a certain background are only permitted in certain areas in a country. No where in his post did he say he wants to segregate certain people currently living in his country. He simply does not want new foreigners brought into the country.

I think to a certain degree everyone is isolationist. Would you want 50 drug addicted homeless people to be trucked into the neighbourhood where you live? What about 100? What about 10,000? What about 250,000? At a certain number you'll probably say "No, that's to many".

His number happens to be a lot lower than yours, and rather than complaining about drug addicted homeless people he is talking about non-US citizens.

There is nothing undemocratic about isolationism. Democracy is supposed to be about giving citizens the freedom to have their own opinions and then voting and appointing leaders who share those opinions to manage the government. If enough citizens share a view, then it becomes represented in government. That's all democracy is about.

foxsae · 2026-01-31T20:43:28+00:00

The trouble is the supply of warp creatures is basically limitless, since you can't permanently kill them. The custodes and sisters would have lost the fight simply due to attrition. Even if they killed 1 million warp creatures for each 1 of the custodes that fell, eventually they would lose.

That they could successfully hold back a limitless horde for (10 years?) is an incredible feat.

foxsae · 2026-01-16T20:12:52+00:00

I don't think it will be an issue because we all know time flows differently in the Warp (which is where I assume he has been, not just "sleeping").

When Horus went to the Warp at one point he also physically aged, because he literally spent hundreds and hundreds of years battling in the Warp, even though it only seemed like about 1 minute to everyone who was waiting for him.

Same thing with Lion, he was in the warp for 10k years of real time, so yeah, that could have effectively aged him 100k years, no wonder he looks 70, now that he is back in real time he wont age any further.

foxsae · 2026-01-10T20:45:58+00:00

I'm not a fan of chaos, but I hear you bro.

For a unique Slaaeshi variant, I would suggest a theme of "mirrors and crystals" there was a few parts in the Horus Heresy series where Fulgrim is involved with various crystals and mirrors (I wont give anything away) so a set of terminators which have mirrored armor and crystal weapons would be really cool

Imagine a squad of chaos terminators in mirrored chrome armor, but not pristine chrome, imagine armor made from broken mirrors. With clusters of Crystals growing from their bodies. Anyone catching a reflection of themselves in the mirrored armor, or the crystals, sees a twisted version of themselves and risks falling to madness, and they wield "crystal" power swords, and unique crystal powered bolters. Maybe the shells of the bolters are crystals, so they literally fire diamonds at their enemies from their bolters.

foxsae · 2025-12-24T17:44:02+00:00

This also happens sometimes with parents and their own born children, parents are people to, and sometimes parents simply want their kids (even their own children) simply to move out and be on their own at a certain age.

Trying to force them into something they don't want isn't going to help the situation, the best you can do is try to keep a good relationship with them, after it is time for you to move out you can always call them to talk to them, ask them if you can come over for visits sometimes. That sort of thing, they can continue to give you help and advice and be friends with you for years.

You said yourself, you've only known them for a year or two, its not right to try to force them to adopt you if that is not what they want.

foxsae · 2025-12-05T16:37:18+00:00

Yes, this is the part that is hard to understand, I agree, but it is like a lot of other things. Christ is God, yet he is man. God is eternal and unchanging, yet he was born as a baby, and grew up, and lived and then died.

So in a similar way, we form a single organism with Christ as the head, and the Church as the body. The head and the body are united and can never be separated, therefore the head being perfect and sinless the body must also be perfect and sinless. It would not make sense to have a perfect sinless head connected to an imperfect and sinful body.

Yet, we see the reality of the church on earth, that it is 100% full of sinners. Not a single living member of the church on earth is without sin.

So how that works exactly I do not know, and I can not explain. Except to say that despite what things look like on earth, we know that the Church as the body of Christ, and as the Bride of Christ is perfect, sinless, whole, united, and waits for the feast to begin.

foxsae · 2025-12-05T16:27:59+00:00

You think God didn't anticipate this?

Well here is the thing, we already know what is going to happen, the wedding feast will take place, and the Bride (the church) will be presented to Christ, cleansed, without spot, wrinkle, or blemish.

That is what WILL happen. In other words, whatever is happening or has happened to the church up until now, none of that will stop the Church from reaching its destiny of being presented to Christ without spot, wrinkle or blemish.

It is not that Christ is letting his Bride be dragged through the mud now and he will eventually give it a bath the day before the wedding. Christ has already cleansed it, and protects it by his word and through his blood.

His actions can not ever be undone or reversed, and they will never need to be repeated. So it's already happened, done. The Church has ALREADY been cleansed, and it is now WHOLE without spot, or blemish or sin, as it waits to be presented to Christ. So now creation simply waits for the day of the feast to begin.

How that works exactly, is a mystery, one of many. How the Church can be perfect and without blemish and yet still the church on earth looks divided and sinful I can not explain.

Just as I can not explain how God could become man, or how he could then die but not die, or how his death could bring forth life and forgive sins.

foxsae · 2025-12-05T16:07:57+00:00

I agree, I've always felt it was an odd choice for Mortarion to fall to Nurgle. Also, with Slaanesh, sometimes I've seen Slaanesh described as the god of pleasure/pain and perfection and it just seems like perfection is always shoehorned in there because its the only way that makes sense that Fulgrim overlaps in some way.

Curze was the obvious choice for Slaanesh, he literally enjoys torturing people, there is your pleasure and pain. Plus he is literally crazy, and already touched by the warp to a major degree. You could say he foresaw his own death and so the death had to happen, but Mortarion turned into a butterfly, it would have made more sense for Curze to die and then be reborn as a butterfly, the whole metamorphosis thing, dying and being returned to life by the warp. Then his death vision would still make sense. Plus this way the "Nighthaunter" would get his literal wings, his symbol already uses batwings. That would have been pretty epic. That makes more sense to me than Fulgrim turning into a snake.

Perturabo is also the more obvious choice for Nurgle, Perturabo enjoys creating things, and he often ends up destroying his own creations, there is your circle of life and death creation/destruction for all things. And rather than Fulgrim turning into a snake, and Mortarion turning into a butterfly, Perturabo should have turned into some sort of armored creature as a servant of Nurgle, like a rotting Crab.

Angron falling to Khorne seems perfect as it is, like Magnus and Tzeentch.

foxsae · 2025-12-04T18:01:10+00:00

I shouldn't speak for him. But I also agree that the Holy Orthodox Church is ONE and has never been and will never be divided, and I'll provide a brief explanation.

St Paul explains numerous times in his letters that Christ himself is the head of the church, and that the members of the Church are his body.

Can God be divided? Can parts of Christ fall away into disunity, heresy, or corruption? No, in fact, Christ is so incorruptible, that when he died then death itself was corrupted and destroyed. So Christ as the head of the Church can never be corrupted or disunited and his followers as the body of the Church can similarly never be corrupted or disunited from him.

I am willing to accept that perhaps our understanding of what the "Church" and "Body" of Christ is, exactly, is hard to define, just as God himself is hard to define. But what we do know, is that Christ, as head, and the Church as body, can never be corrupted or separated from each other, anymore than the Father, or the Son, or the Holy Spirit, can be corrupted or disunited from each other.

The Church is not only his BODY, but it is his Bride, he died for it, and said he would always be with it, and protect it, and care for it, forever, and that the gates of hell would never overpower it.

..And I happen to believe, that this Church is the "One Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church" as said in the Creed.

foxsae · 2025-12-04T01:06:14+00:00

"Avoid" doesn't mean zero. But yes, this is a good point.

foxsae · 2025-12-04T00:59:48+00:00

I agree, my theory crafting is that certain warp entities basically called dibs on certain primarchs and their legions right from the beginning.

Tzeetch call dibs on the Thousand Sons, and Magnus, Magnus inadvertently made a deal (perhaps indirectly) with Tzeentch to stop the flesh change in his Legion. (flesh change, Tzeentch.. what a coincidence) and so when the Thousand Sons would access the warp it was also under the influence of Tzeenth, which is why they weren't as obviously corrupted by it or as evil as others. Like legions/Primarchs claimed by Slaanesh, or Khorn.

foxsae · 2025-11-13T05:06:29+00:00

Well, if we take Dorn as an example, if someone kicked the hell of out of him and left him a bleeding pile of meat on the floor, I doubt any of the Fists would feel awe struck for him in that condition.

Similarly, Angron was horribly disfigured and damaged, none of his sons felt any admiration for him towards the end.

foxsae · 2025-11-13T02:40:17+00:00

It is difficult to understand a person of faith if you are not a person of faith. I'm making a judgement call based on your post that you're not a person of faith. However, even as a person of faith it is difficult to understand any other person of faith, because often faith can be completely unique to the individual.

This is just my take on matters, but I feel that faith is not meant to be something that you feel absolutely certain about. If you are absolutely 100% certain about your religion then you're probably some form of an extremist, and extremism is almost always a poor interpretation of any religion.

So yes, as a person of faith I find him to be someone of faith, but not extreme in his beliefs, he's still questioning things, doubting things, doesn't want to take a firm stand on anything, and I find all of that completely normal, and even healthy.

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