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The last thread hit 100 pages, so here, have a new space.
What is 40K?
This is Earth in the 41ist millennium.
https://youtu.be/cZc6cr6G2E4
Along with the humans, there are various flavors of evil and alien, but also maybe not evil?{human surprise!}
I could do twenty videos of faction intros, but you all know the armies. There's also like 300 books. The best are written by Dan Abnett, a person who has a old war officer ghost that haunts his writing space.
There's also a tabletop miniature game scene, and a bunch of video games, several fan made video series that are really good, and Games Workshop is slowly(very slowly, like years and years slowly) starting to get into the video market.
https://youtu.be/aFiek1v2Ll4
https://youtu.be/ijg-4YBK_qs
https://youtu.be/Ad4BrJitN88
What is 40K?
This is Earth in the 41ist millennium.
https://youtu.be/cZc6cr6G2E4Along with the humans, there are various flavors of evil and alien, but also maybe not evil?{human surprise!}
I could do twenty videos of faction intros, but you all know the armies. There's also like 300 books. The best are written by Dan Abnett, a person who has a old war officer ghost that haunts his writing space.
There's also a tabletop miniature game scene, and a bunch of video games, several fan made video series that are really good, and Games Workshop is slowly(very slowly, like years and years slowly) starting to get into the video market.
https://youtu.be/aFiek1v2Ll4https://youtu.be/ijg-4YBK_qshttps://youtu.be/Ad4BrJitN88Weaver on
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Space Marines: fight for a dogmatic empire that routinely oppresses its citizenry and is actively xenophobic, among other things. Assume this applies for whatever spinoff Imperium armies we have now
Sisters of Battle: see above, except even more religious, female, and on fire
Imperial Guard: see above, except less everything and if you try to run away you will be shot
Eldar: elves in spaces, with all the arrogance and xenophobia that implies
Dark Eldar: see above, but they actually want to commit horrible war crimes
Chaos Space Marines: worship one or more space satans
Chaos Daemons: are the space satans
Orks: want to fight everyone
Necros: want to kill everyone
Tyranids: want to eat everyone
Tau: once upon a time may have been ostensibly good, but GW likes to throw in spicy stuff like the caste system or forced sterilization
dioing this from memory, Gol Kolea, "Mad" Larkin, Elim Rawne, Ibram Guant, Agun Soric, "Try again" Bragg,
edit yep I'm almost happy throwing up
double edit: I've lived with these books for at least a decade. That's Kolea, Larkin, Rawne, Soric, Bragg
Scouts are invisible
I think the forced sterilization stuff was only ever mentioned in a non-canon Dawn of War ending? I don't know that it's been brought up elsewhere. A lot of the more evil stuff with the Tau is more by implication than direct evidence, and I feel like after the leadership change at GW, the lore department tried to walk that back a bit, especially since a lot of people complained about them trying to push the Tau into being 'more dark'. I mean they're already an expansionist empire with a caste system that doesn't take no for an answer to "Would you like to join the Greater Good?" they were just much more reasonable over all, by comparison. And a lot of people (myself included) like it better that way.
I'm still hoping in vain I'll see a re-release of Battlefleet Gothic as a specialist game at some point.
BFG or whatever they will call it would be neat but with how they announced a new edition of Aeronautica Imperialis the general news was met with neat but I don't play it
So I feel that is one of the reasons why BFG like the new edition of horus heresy are just rumors
Have they actually named the models in the pic? Cause given how shaggy and dark-haired the guy on right is, instead of Soric I'd say it's more likely that's Colm Corbec.
Also, if the chainsword on Gaunt is any indicator that these depictions are circa the first book.
Shaggy one in the back is Colm. Bearded knife guy is Oan.
Fimir-ish but more toes than the FW Fimir models at least.
unrelated:
"Oh my Emp, Morty! When was the last time you brushed your teeth? Ugh!"
The thing it's standing on has vaguely celtic appearance as well, And the fimir have strong celtic theming
You have lots of options these days, total warhammer, vermintide, dawn of war, starcraft, warcraft...
They need to give the licence to a big AAA dev (say the team that made the metro series or hell, a COD dev) and let them make a big set-piece FPS.
Or DICE, to make a Battlefront style multiplayer game. Just not riddled with loot boxes that utterly kills the hype at launch.
Total War Warhammer has made massive amounts of money for GW and Creative Assembly so I'm surprised other big developers haven't wanted a piece.
I maintain, to this day, that Warhammer 40 000 : Eternal Crusade had the foundations (and most some of the structure) of a damn fine multiplayer shooter, but that it was beleaguered by not enough budget and devs who didn't quite know what they were doing. Not in the sense of incompetence, mind, but in the sense of what they wanted the final product to be. They marketed it as an MMO, for example.
they don't really embrace the cooler and weird stuff that the universe has. if they need guard, it's just cadians. if they're doing an underhive game, then it's models and characters from the box, looking almost exactly the way they are painted on the website. the environments all look exactly like the terrain that you can purchase.
i just wish that the games got a bit more creative
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It died, sadly, but the flood of DLC that came out allowing you to be so many of the traitor / loyalist legions in multiplayer just screams possible money makers for another developer to take a swing at it.
(I also think the first War for Cybertron Transformers game had amazing multiplayer, but anyways).
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I know I shouldn't get my hopes up or hype myself up too much but god I want there to be new Fimir in this new release.
I don't think EA or Activision are interested in putting AAA money behind a franchise that they don't own unless that franchise is huge, like Star Wars.
edit: they also wouldn't be interested in making a 40k game unless they could turn it into a Game as a Service on top of that.
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Unless that Eisenhorn show gets made, they market it as "Game of Thrones in Space" and it takes off big, which I think is actually a possibility.
That doesn't necessarily mean more Space Marine media would automatically be in the pipeline though, for the simple reason that Space Marines don't fuck.