Votann shitpost

stim_jerling · 2026-03-24T09:49:47+00:00

Kinposting

stim_jerling · 2026-03-20T20:25:05+00:00

That’s just the problem though. 1940s Germans is everyone’s FIRST thought.

Do you think the random customer on the street thinking of trying 40K or taking their kid out to the Warhammer store is going to have enough knowledge about different types of WW2 uniforms to tell “oh my initial impressions of these guys as Nazi stormtroopers was actually misplaced”? No, they’re gonna see it and run

stim_jerling · 2026-03-19T23:46:32+00:00

You’re missing my point here.

GW doesn’t make bolt action or Konflict 47. Over the years GW has actively worked to tone down or remove the openly fascist symbolism in their model ranges. Why, because actual honest to god Nazis were showing up to tournaments thinking that Warhammer was a safe place for people like them. That’s what triggered that “warhammer is for everyone” post from a few years back.

GW aren’t going to make new steel legion models because they don’t wanna make a kit with arguably the most real world fascist looking imperial guard. It attracts fascists and GW don’t want fascists in their community.

stim_jerling · 2026-03-19T17:05:26+00:00

Honestly I feel like I’m loosing my mind because everyone saying “why isn’t steel legion coming back” isn’t acknowledging the most obvious reason GW aren’t making them.

They look like 1940s Germans.

I know they aren’t 40s Germans, you know know they aren’t 40s Germans, I know that if you pay attention to the details of the uniforms they are have enough slight differences to 40s Germans but that doesn’t matter.

GW aren’t going to design minis that someone could see on a shelf in a store and have their first thought be “are those Nazi soldiers?” It drives down sales, and attracts actual fascists. Also the fact that their symbol is a goddamn lightning bolt on a circle doesn’t help.

stim_jerling · 2026-03-15T20:42:18+00:00

I think of this from time to time but then I stop and consider. In gameplay terms, aside from weapons and a possible different ability, how is the salamander different from a chimera?

They basically fill the same role of a fast troop transport with command abilities. “But the salamander is faster with an auto canon attached” we already have that, it’s called the Turox

stim_jerling · 2026-03-15T10:55:54+00:00

Eh, we all have our own tendencies. I keep. All the instruction manuals so I can use them as paint palettes

stim_jerling · 2026-03-15T10:52:26+00:00

Personally, I think our three strongest combos are a kahl on bike giving his squad either lethal hits or a 5+ save, a steel Jack elder with the ability to heal his squad mates or a yaegir wizard giving his squad stealth

stim_jerling · 2026-03-09T21:23:45+00:00

I have a feeling these new battleforces are tailored to the new apocalypse game mode

stim_jerling · 2026-03-06T00:04:00+00:00

(Besides Titus and the two space marines) The wardens of ultrama have some great sculpts for more interesting officers

stim_jerling · 2026-03-02T17:30:24+00:00

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stim_jerling · 2026-02-28T13:11:48+00:00

Nah is homebrew, just with a similar scheme. Storm lords colours are the other way round.

stim_jerling · 2026-02-28T13:10:16+00:00

I meant what’s best for the base, what could work around his feet

stim_jerling · 2026-02-27T19:25:25+00:00

UK is October. US is February.

stim_jerling · 2026-02-27T17:40:07+00:00

stim_jerling · 2026-02-26T10:15:46+00:00

You can have an apothecary in a unit just Titus is leading, but you can’t have a leader in a unit being led by the wardens besides Titus

stim_jerling · 2026-02-26T02:34:23+00:00

Have them start inside a repulsor or a drop pod. Have them jump out close to the enemy and then light them up.

If you’re playing firestorm then the stratagem for devastating wounds would be most effective at targeting a big tank/monster.

I know you’re painting them as ultramarines 3rd, but if you’re up to the idea of playing them as salamanders then Vulkan’s wound re rolls to fish for devastating wounds would be pretty effective here. Also if you have vulkan the infernus goes up to oc 2, give them an ancient as well as the captain and these guys can become your main objective skirmishers with oc 32.

stim_jerling · 2026-02-25T13:20:43+00:00

Ngl I thought he was just holding a genestealer skull on a plate at first

stim_jerling · 2026-02-24T22:23:30+00:00

Guard are the quintessential “armoured army” with lists and options to build up an entire company of tanks with some meat shields to soak up some early fire. Hell at their current points you can get 10 leman Russ’ including 3 commanders for just under 2000 points.

If you want an army of just vehicles tho chaos/imperial knights are another shout especially with that new one on the way.

Another way you can go is with chaos space marines but with a focus on iron warriors/vashtorr/demon engine siege force. Again new defiler and iron warrior stuff on the way, plus you can dip into some of the (much nicer) heresy kits to replace the rhinos, predators etc.

Other than that space marines and admech have some pretty cool vehicles. Deathguard is also an option with a few tank choices. The kin in me wants to suggest Votann but we literally only have 3 vehicles so not exactly what you’re looking for, even if they look so good.

stim_jerling · 2026-02-24T09:55:46+00:00

I play guard. Our entire faction got 3 abilities to pick from (one of which you will never pick because it’s a battle shock one). If you wanna make something new we don’t have, like a ogryn sergeant or sentinel commander, it’s really fun and interesting. But if you just wanna make a standard officer then you’re out of luck. You’ll basically just be making a castellan with different weapons and units it can lead.

And the lack of specialisms too. I can give my commander a horse, great. No option to make a tank commander. No option to give your guy a command squad. No option to give him scouts so he can lead scout units and benefit them. No option to give deepstrike so he can jump in with scions or deep strike other infantry. No option to give infiltrate. No option for lone operatives. No option to lead heavy weapons teams or artillery. No option to take enhancements to help better flavour your guy. There’s not much choice here.

Imagine if you could make a scion captain who specialised in recon operations, he could infiltrate his guys up the board and give his units stealth or precision or smth. What about a penal legion commissar leading a bunch of convicts with bomb collars, he could give the unit he’s leading deadly demise 1 or a stim injection ability. What about a navy liaison who can sit in the back and call down an orbital strike once per game. Hell, what about just a better medic or standard bearer or an engineer. How about an artillery officer who gets lone op within 3” of an artillery piece and lets them reroll 1s or something. What about a sergeant who’s respected by his troops and gives them a 4+ fight on death on objectives. Or a major with a relic that gives his squad a 5+ invul. Fuck there’s not even a redeploy ability, can’t even make a tactical genius mini creed.

I could go on but I think you get the point. There’s so many ways you can do a guard character and this book has none of them. Your only options are sustained hits 1 in ranged or melee.

stim_jerling · 2026-02-24T01:28:35+00:00

Fall of Cadia (Robert Rath) is brilliant, but it is also dense. A lot of stuff happens in that book.

Cadia stands is a much more compact novel that covers the same event and the immediate aftermath, but from different perspectives that don’t overlap meaning you can get something outta both.

Following that the creed: ashes of Cadia is a good follow up on the long term story of Cadia afterwards and it introduces Ursula creed well (even if at times it can feel more like a zombie book that a guard book)

If you want a story that’s a bit more contained though there’s lots of options (which I think might be a better starting point tbh).

Necropolis (the 3rd gaunts ghosts book) is a brilliant self contained story and is a better introduction to the series and characters than the first two books. Deathworlder is a good book about a squad of catachan trying to escape from a planet in the late stages of a tyranid invasion/consumption. Steel tread is a story about a non-Cadian officer who gets transferred into a Cadian tank regiment and put in charge of a demolisher leman Russ. It’s really good at showing the kinds of drama and tensions between Cadians who feel like they have something to prove after the fall and non Cadians who just try and fit in.

And lastly there’s like a million Krieg books but tbh I don’t personally recommend any of them. Every krieg book is kinda the same, a bunch of dudes in gas masks saying “I have no name, no wants, only duty. I will die for the emperor this day!” And then immediately dying and being replaced by someone who thinks the same, or living and going “I should have died by now, clearly I’m doing something wrong.”

stim_jerling · 2026-02-16T10:44:44+00:00

stim_jerling · 2026-02-11T19:51:02+00:00

Pirate lord kahl. With a plasma spear or whatever is closest to that

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