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When is the last time Games Workshop™ has actually made a GOOD decision?
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>>97447495
Newcrons.
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>>97447633
financial success is the only objective, data-backed indicator that a company is making good decisions. customer good will or whatever the fuck standard for good decision making that you're using is pure opinion and can be thrown into the trash.
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>>97448455
If you see a tranny in one place, you've seen a tranny. If you see a tranny everywhere you look YOU'RE the tranny.
It's desperate cope to have to imagine that every anon who facefucks you for your retrograde, media illiterate tastes is a secret transsexual.
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>>97448891
>le media illiterate
Holy fuck my sides
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>>97448891
We wouldn't be referring to them as much if those children-fuckers, ork-looking, wig-wearing sickos weren't fucking shoved at our faces in every pieces of media, subtexts, or more and more commonly in real life. The whole schmilblick of their movement revolves around aids, butt sex and references to their mutilated tranny genitals. The flag-thing is a purposely chosen hostile iconography to wage a war and conquest on common moral values. So fuck them for ruining everything that was once just fun. Where were these freaks at in like 2005 when me and my fellas were just enjoying the simple things of life? But keep on ass licking them for they surely aren't done grooming more recruits into their Slaanesh cult. Anyway, sorry for the breakdown.
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>>97448891
>If you see a tranny everywhere you look YOU'RE the tranny.
>"if you see mentally ill people mutilating their bodies everywhere, YOU'RE the mentally ill person mutilating his body"
What the fuck are you talking about?
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>>97448891
>If you see a tranny everywhere you look YOU'RE the tranny.
True, but not in the way you mean
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>>97448891
i'm a tranny but even i can't decipher this schizo meltdown
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>>97447495
Not sure about good decisions, but for me, the last time they released something good looking was with those ghosts in aos. Almost made me want to get a box just to paint them, but they're kino
>>97448067
Jesus christ, I've been collecting eldar since 4th/5th edition and those are the most hideous models I've seen in a long time. Nothing about the new eldar makes me want to rush to my store to buy them, but I despise those temu hawks. Just seeing the pictures make me unreasonably mad. Realizing the hobby is no longer for me is both sad and liberating at the same time
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When they got you to advertise their products for free.
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>>97447495
It's even more of retarded decision than you think, because the Custodes were supposedly barechested for a long time after the Heresy.
So, to summarize:
>retarded because it makes absolutely zero sense from a biological point of view
>retarded because there's less noble women for nobles to reproduce
>retarded because the Emperor did not want male and female transhumans
>retarded because no triggers
>retarded because they were probably topless when guarding the Golden Throne
>retarded because the Imperium is supposed to be mega fascistic evil from hell, yet they're also inclusive and subscribe to 21st century moral norms
Retards love these models. Don't be a retard.
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>>97451157
What's good to you in particular isn't what's good to everyone. The market agrees otherwise they wouldn't be making more money than ever
>>97451213
Wrong I'm a hyper capitalist chud who loves seeing GW troons suffer and bitch about a company that gladly fucked them over loooong before they went woke. You dug your grave now lie in it.
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>>97447495
I honestly can't tell: are the bodies gendered or not? At first I thought there was a clear difference but the more I look at the promo images the less sure I am - this leg looks thinner but that might be the cape covering a bit of the ankle, that torso looks less bulky but it could just be the angle compared to the other minis.
If they really are just six genderless bodies of equivalent proportion then I'll probably care a lot less about the retcon(I won't shut up about it though, because the attempt to gaslight everyone about it means GW and anyone who gargled their bumwater on this issue deserve to be shat on over it for eternity).
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>>97452195
See I thought so as well but I think they might have just given them all a more rounded breastplate. You can see it more clearly on the Venetarii where they don't have any cloaks and gubbinz all over their torso.
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>>97448067
Corsairs should have just stayed a cool lore thing, how many half-baked sub factions do the Eldar need? Clowns get a few kits and then are forgotten, Ynnari get a couple of characters then are forgotten (good), now corsairs will get a few kits and be forgotten.
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>>97452427
>models are both bland and over-designed at best
The lore in the first AJ was bad due to how it portrayed them as Mary Sue's, but it was their initial book so. Their second AJ was much better lore wise and Cathay still has a ton of new ground to cover that works well for Fantasy.
As for the models we must agree to disagree, I think that certain kits (Sentinel) are among some of the coolest ever made by GW.
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>>97451269
Corsairs are the original eldar.
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>>97452251
>Who cares about the women?
Well. Maybe because she looks like an ugly hag to begin with, which would otherwise fit the setting, but it's sadly just a blatant humiliation ritual for whoever was still throwing money at GW without foreseeing the present bullshit—the now usual "let's own the chuds" thingy.
I wouldn't care less if there were more female soldiers in the Guard, or more womanly figure representation in Chaos and Xenos armies. Also, what's up with always depicting them as paragons of strength?
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>>97447495
>When is the last time Games Workshop™ has actually made a GOOD decision?
Releasing LOTR SBG. Great minis, reasonable price tag, good rules that have only improved with age and the community.
If it has to be 40k specific, then getting rid of Vortex grenades when they went from 2e to 3e. That was the last good decision. Everything since then has been various degrees of ruining what the talented creatives actually built in the name of more profit for the marketing/legal/C-suite groups.
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>>97447495
2024, when they decided to refresh Skaven range.
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>>97453429
I played my first game of MESBG a few weeks ago with another game in a week. I am only saddened that I waited this long to get into it.
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>>97448183
>Game's not for you (never was), please stop talking about what belongs to other people.
Warhammer belongs to chuds now in the same way that elves belong to the Japanese now. Origins and intent be damned.
If anything at least a new warhammer community ruleset should be created for and by the community.
Like ninth age fantasy battles.
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>>97447495
Red Corsair update seems like it was well-received, at least in my LGS circle.
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>>97448771
short term profit doesn't equate long term success. Watering down your brand for mass appeal will only result in a lack of consumer interest in the future, don't believe me? Just take a look at what's become of star wars.
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The warp is female, cope and seethe, chuds.
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>all black people look the same
Why is Mike Brooks so racist?
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>>97447616
Based and true
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>>97447495
Pic related was one of the last good pieces of content they ever made for 40k.
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>>97458614
It died because
>GW never did any fucking marketing for it
>Armies were like 600-800 starting back in the early 2000
The ironic part was, when they killed off fantasy and freed up the IP for other uses like VT and Total war, the game fucking exploded in popularity.
The amount of people i watched go into a Warhammer store, to see them say "Hey i played total war or VT and heard there was a board game for this too!" Only to learn that it all got nuked and smegmar was its replacement is staggering.
Also the game was out for like 30 fucking years and They moved at half the speed of smell of expanding it.
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>>97458736
>GW never did any fucking marketing
They did. Plenty of it even. The issue was that people just didn’t give a shit about stuff like thrones of chaos or anything else and was hated. Partially because there were other ips at the time that were better to engage with in a fantasy setting.
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>>97458773
I can’t tell if you’re retarded or just a fucking zoomer, likely Both. I’ll pretend to agree with you and say that fantasy only ever had a successful advertisement after the setting got nuked with total war 3 and vermintide 2. But to say that the setting never got (an attempt) of its time in the spotlight is just a fucking retarded statement. Even with video games they had a couple of releases between mark of chaos, the mmo and shadow of the horned rat. White dwarf too, hell the more memorable kitbashes there utilized wfb stuff and gave guides for that for 40k. endtimes itself was also a last minute advertisement for fantasy.
You can probably visit one of the old (in hindsight now) cringe forums like asari or vampire counts and see the general sentiment for releases back then if you look back enough.
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>>97459128
DESU i would say 7th was the last good set of choices they made, not all of 7th mind you, but 7th was the last burst of creativity/interesting things. 8th onward has been nothing but dog shit choices and designs.
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>>97459373
Him pushing his evil, scum-sucking faggot ideology down my throat is one thing. More importantly, he's a fucking retard who thinks having the Eldar constantly lose to everyone else through sheer incompetence is what Eldar fans want. The only Eldar characters allowed to be competent in a Mike Brooks novel are the lesbians.
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>>97459570
>Wanting to pick up a fantasy book to escape the retadation of modern politics is now edgy contrarian.
JFC, the 2016 US election + covid really fucking broke people.
Anon escapism is the goal here, when the prison guards keep following you around escapism is not possible.
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>>97460298
DESU its wild that people dont seem to realize that lore is the glue that holds a setting and product like this together.
People come for the models, they stay for the lore, if they lore is not there, they move on very quickly.
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>>97459373
The implication that male Craftworlders decide to become female when they join Howling Banshees is actually incredibly ignorant and regressive, when you think about it. It implies that you need to be of a certain biological sex in order to embody a gendered role, which is literally the opposite of what trans people believe. Of course it's also stupid for lore reasons, like the fact there is canonically not much physical difference between the sexes among Eldar and becoming an Aspect Warrior has always been more of a psychological/spiritual transformation. Not only did Brooks inject his weird politics into 40k lore, his politics are shallow and at odds with the people he thinks he's representing.
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>>97451488
The imperium has never been fascist, and has always been hyper tolerant of humans as long as they worship the emperor.
the top few points are fucking stupid its space magic, and the middle points are easily retconned, just like nucrons, which is vastly worse.
Not knowing the lore and having zero understanding of what fascism actually means just isnt impressive champ.
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>>97460828
>politics are shallow and at odds with the people he thinks he's representing.
This reminds me of the dnd 5.5 drama about mixed heritage being allegedly removed.
Either there is a “chud” who snuck it through and is still laughing that he got it done or this and Mike brooks stuff described is an example of going so far one ends up looping back to being what they say as “problematic.”
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Holy shit guys, new female custodes figures just leaked!!
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>>97461227
I know exactly what it means, though to be fair I wasn't clear - how GW framed it was simply lazy, it was faggoty fans who did the gaslighting by trying to insist that there wasn't even a retcon at all based on spurious bullshit like focusing on when and whether specific pronouns were used as opposed to literally every depiction of the faction since their inception until the retcon took place depicting them as exclusively, unequivocally male in both art and prose.
I hope you're right about the minis though, as a Visions person I actually prefer the new aesthetic. Shant be buying any until I see it proven definitively though.
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>>97461445
>Gender is part of society
Gender roles and social norms are part of society, gender itself is just a synonym for biological sex. Always has been, ever since the term was coined. Wasn't until the 2000s that this gay jewish psyop appeared in colleges trying to redefine a word in common use to bully people into accepting mental illness as a legitimate belief rather than getting the poor bastards a therapist
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>>97461163
Capitalism isn't about boob armor. It's about money.
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>>97461644
It was 100% a retcon.
Ignore fans. Femstodes are shit, Nucrons are shit, Primaris are mega shit. But none of those make WH shit, atleast compared to things like trench crusade or warmachine and the like.
Move on with your day. The only vote they will listen to is your wallet.
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>>97459420
> 'Custodes can be female now'
> 'now being 0.026.060.M2, just in time for the start of the unifaction war slated for 9.000.000.M29!'
Really to answer your question though. It might come as a shock when you are used to "new minis" and "advancing storylines", and all that but "unreliable narrator" is actually GW's default state of being. They probably were just going on autopilot and didn't expect you all to have a seizure over it. Then naturally they had to double down cause if the customer got in thier heads that whining works they'd never hear the end of it.
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>>97459581
So you are saying that the traditional nuclear family where all happily accept a clear narrowly defined role in unit is an illusionary escapist fantasy as whimsical as a big green mushroom gorilla taking out a walking gun church with a teleporting drag racer?
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>>97460828
I wasn't aware that he wrote them as being some sort of clownfish, afaik under the banshee armour they're still dudes but for all intents and purposes they're considered one of the girls.
I think the one he did troon was when he wrote a Succubus that went to a haemonculus and transed herself into a woman but it's Dark Eldar they do this shit for fun and probably invent new genitals every week.
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>>97459420
Because they knew it didn't fit with established canon, so they instead lied saying they existed outside the canon until recently.
They probably wanted to add transwomen to custodes but decided that it would be an even bigger issue, so they just call them female custodes instead. But you can take one look at the heads they made and realize what they were going for
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Nucrons fucking suck
>haha le funny tripods even though there’s a reason no animal in the world evolved to walk on 3 legs because it’s inefficient as fuck
>haha we have hover technology but we’ve put these high ranking warriors on shitty crab legs
>an unfeeling uncaring race of robot men defined by the fact that they’re indistinguishable? NAH actually they have the same subfactions and petty squabbles as every other shitty race in this shitty setting!!!
It’s so fucking bad.
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>>97448771
You know the idea that companies have to prioritise profit over all else comes from a SINGLE US court case that decided a company had a fiduciary duty to its investors to make line go up?
Youre not even being le based an-cap with retard posts like this, youre just supporting a single US court decision as if it was your religion
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>>97462399
The economy and society existed before Dodge v Ford Motor Co. (1919) and it can exist without it, but yes actually.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
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>>97461299
>Trans people overwhelmingly believe that biological sex and gender are separate things
And yet if a guy likes knitting or giant robots, they'll tell him his hobbies are "trans coded" and try to "crack his egg"
Unlike sex and gender, what troons say and how they act are two very distinct separate things.
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>>97461299
In fairness, that part isn’t wrong at all. To believe sex and gender can only be the same thing you’d have to believe that genetics 100% determine brain structure and development, which they don’t.
In utero all babies start of as neither male nor female. There needs to be sex hormones that develop the fetus into one or the other. If those sex hormones don’t get produced or the wrong ones are introduced, the baby will develop differently regardless of their genetics.
And then the brain develops much later with its own set of hormones governing that development.
If that’s too much real science for you to deal with you could also just think of it in science fiction
Brain transplants are shockingly close to being possible. If we dropped your brain into a woman’s body you wouldn’t suddenly think of yourself as a woman. It’s doubtful you ever would because your brain’s own sense of self isn’t dependent on your body
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>>97462467
>If we dropped your brain into a woman’s body
You still would never be a woman. No man can ever be a woman, no matter what they do. Even if they rewrote every single DNA strand and birthed 17 healthy children, they still aren't a woman.
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>>97452446
Corsairs are the only Eldar subfaction that can stand as their own as an entire army without it being stupid, Harlequins don't fit that at all and trying to make them their own army was stupid and Ynnari was a terrible idea from top to bottom. Meanwhile corsairs had an entire full army list through Imperial Armour all the way back in 5th edition and have been described in the fluff as being found all over the galaxy and in great strength (such as Yriel's fleet being strong enough in both space and ground combat to overcome a hive fleet big enough to almost destroy a craftworld) but for some reason GW completely ignored them until now.
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>>97462885
>Even if they rewrote every single DNA strand and birthed 17 healthy children, they still aren't a woman.
Your post is highly indicative of mental illness.
If you had only said that medical technology today cannot make a woman, you would have a point. But literally saying that genetically altering a person to be female and them being capable of the core reproductive function of a female but not being a woman is unhinged.
By that logic are you still a baby because you were one once? Despite all biological evidence being that you are now an adult, the fact that you weren’t born an adult means you arent one?
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>>97463036
Considering that any army only needs to mechanically field 2000pts, arguing that any faction in lore isn’t “big enough” to be viable is retarded.
GW can make up any number of units they fucking want, it’s irrelevant.
Reminder that Cathay barely fucking existed throughout the entire history of Oldhammer, and now they’re a full army purely because of Total War.
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>>97463345
No, the nigga's got a point. You brought up aging, which is a natural process; making it useless as a counter argument.
If you're this desperate to invent false analogies in order to defend a ridiculous hypothetical that will not actually exist, it's safe to assume that you will never be a woman. And it's simpler to state it as such.
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>>97463101
>genetically altering a person
arn, never adn.
This being scifi doesn't change that important distinction, if they could change the adn, they wouldn't need to select compatible subject.
Though it's like the numbers in 40k novels, the authors and white collars are uncultured beasts with no real knowledge.
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>>97463112
Given that the Harlequins are so tightly tied to their specific identity as small troupes of independent travelling performers that GW failed to expand them into a full army not just once but twice (and off the top of my head they are the only faction in the game with that "honour") I would say that there is such a thing as a faction that is too limited to work as a fully-fledged army.
>Reminder that Cathay barely fucking existed throughout the entire history of Oldhammer, and now they’re a full army
You're confusing plot/game relevance with in-universe faction size, which is retarded. Even though it was barely ever mentioned and never appeared on the table Cathay was always consistently described as a large, powerful kingdom with formidable troops, weapons, and magic at its disposal.
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>>97462353
He wrote a story where a Succubus states “she” wasn’t female until very recently, then states that all Banshees are “female” in the same way. What Brooks, in his infinite retardation, didn’t seem to understand is that he is implying you need to be biologically female in order to properly embody a feminine gender role. This is a notion that would undoubtedly piss off most trans activists, which Brooks probably imagines are on his side.
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>>97464113
Don't be too sure man, there are some pretty weird little corners of idpol leftism out there where they'll be full-blown commielibs on 99% of issues and then go full Chuddie on one very specific thing. He could just be a hardcore TERF.
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>>97461751
You conflated gender with gender roles, which are two very separate ideas, and then pretended they're identical in meaning. It's the same mistake every crony of identity politics makes, except you faggots all do it intentionally because the best defense you have against criticism is playing dumb. It's hilarious really - you can't argue against biological reality, so you just try to enforce a literal delusion on the world. Scum.
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fuck off libclown
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>>97464849
Point to the place in this comment where you mention a traditional game and then, when you fail, fuck off back to /pol/ with the other failures. You are not one of us and you do not belong here. We were here before you. We will be here after you. Get the fuck out, tourist.
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>>97463457
I’m sure you’re a big believer in only natural processes and condemn all medical intervention, organ transplants, blood transfusions, metal replacement bones etc as unnatural right? It’s definitely not a stance you take to retroactively justify your beliefs when cornered on the fact that they’re irrational
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>>97464663
If he was a TERF, I imagine he would have just stated that Succubi and Banshees are roles reserved for Eldar born female. Or at least, in the Banshee's case, only allow males under very specific circumstances (Autarchs). Imo, all signs point to him just being a typical culture war grifter with only a surface level understanding of the issue he pretends to champion.
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>>97465408
This.
For the zoomer crowd, 'gender' as a term did not get used until the early '00s from the resurgent gender studies academic crowd.
Like 'emotional intelligence', it started to be used, incorrectly, but unlettered, unwashed lay(wo)men in everyday discourse.
Before then, the term 'sex roles' was used for decades (perhaps centuries if you include religious norms).
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>>97463101
The question is why? Why the fuck would the Imperium of Man invest so much technological effort into transforming the very nature of women - the smaller, weaker, more nurturing, child bearing side of humanity.
Is there some secret that actually, no women are better suited for war and fighting?
Women on the battlefield has always been utter stupidity.
When the enemy has had nothing but trenches and horror and boredom and depression, you know what they call a captured female solder from your side?
Morale boosters.
Sure, let the xenos have all kinds of fantasy bitches. But leave human women at home - you know the place the men are fighting for.
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>>97465408
So you can't, gotcha. Male and Female(sex) are also linguistic terms, dipshit, so Man and Woman(gender) would be utterly redundant if they were merely linguistic. In fact, as you know fine well, sex is biological and gender is *behavioural*, and despite what fucking retards like >>97465695 believe(I'll do you the courtesy of pretending you're sincere rather than just a rancid stinking /pol/ack fishing for the abuse you wish your daddy had heaped upon you when you wank) gender was not invented 20 years ago by the woke bogeyman, and the point of the "gender roles" terminology was to correct the *false* belief among retards and fuckwits that sex(biology) and gender(behaviour) were synonymous and inseperable, a fact trivially established based on even the most cursory understanding of the origin of the terms in English(Germanic/Old English words for husband and wife) or the fact that there are several documented cultures globally in which gender is conceived of completely differently.
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>>97466947
Mr. is gendered. A man has a sex. His pronouns would be male because he's a man.
We understand this because we understand that biological sex is a reality. Language comes from communicating objective reality.
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>>97452463
It's a semi historical army without the Perry Brothers involvement.
I often eye minis i can add to my evergrowing easterling force (khand) and it was disappointing how bulky and warcrafty those guys are without the bullshit Wu Xia i'd pay to see.
cultivate this dick Chi.
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>>97466947
>a fact trivially eatablished based on blah blah *auto-fellatio noises*
Why do all you gay niggers type like a self insert wizards from some lame fanfic? Can't you make a post without it being 75% backhanded jabs like you're fishing for up votes? I understand your strategy is repeating your opinion and insulting anyone who disagrees so you can pretend your position is correct by appeals to the work of authors neither your nor your opponent have read or comprehend in order to sound authoritative by aping intelligence but, goddamn, can you do it in a less faggy way?
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>>97462377
>>haha we have hover technology but we’ve put these high ranking warriors on shitty crab legs
There are no "high ranking warriors on shitty crab legs". The only models that remotely fit that description are Skorpekh Destroyers, which are insane outcasts that turn themselves into weird killing machines. They're not high-ranking; they're outside of ranking.
>>an unfeeling uncaring race of robot men defined by the fact that they’re indistinguishable?
Yeah gee I wonder why they didn't retain this feature in the hobby all about painting and making your own guys?
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>>97467543
>Skorpekh Destroyers, which are insane outcasts
Skorpekh lords are not insane.
>making your own guys
Concession accepted.
And I didn’t even remember to say here >>97462377 but another retarded thing they did with nucrons was make warriors into pilots
They have the fucking technology to put minds into machines, they have robotic creatures that could fulfil any vehicle role in the game, and yet GW sculpted warriors whizzing around one fucking speeder bikes doing slav squats at control panels.
It’s the dumbest shit ever
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>>97465425
There's nothing stopping you from using the new models to play older editions, the Eldar army has barely changed in the past 20 years. Off the top of my head the only units that you lose going all the way back to 4E are Wraithblades, the Wraithknight, Ranger jetbikes, the Harlequin vehicles (even then you could use their jetbikes from the prototype 3E Harlequin army list that was published in WD), and Lyhkis - who would be fairly straightforward to houserule as the Phoenix Lords all followed a template that you could apply to her.
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>>97465353
>called out for dumb, false analogy
>tries to deflect with with a strawman and reductio ad absurdum
Tell me how slicing off your penis and injecting estrogen into your body is "necessary medical intervention".
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God, y'all are miserable fucks
Also, the latest good decision was the refusal to use ai in their creative process. You can guarantee that even their worst designs are made with human love, not some souless computer generated slop.
In a developing age where I constantly see creatively bankrupt ai garbage in every other direction I look, I can at least be happy with the knowledge that while >>(you) or I might not like everything GW puts out, at least they put more effort into the actual design than some computer with the creative input of a fucking goldfish
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>>97468660
>y'all
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>>97459954
Sanguinius black, Mortarion black, Magnus he was red but he was black at heart, Angron black, Jaghatai Khan black, Lorgar black, Rogal Dorn 200% black, Horus black and Fulgrim he was a white guy but he looked black.
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>>97470442
NTA but are you retarded? There's a huge difference between life saving procedures that address an actual medical issue with positive and unnecessary surgeries that mutilate otherwise healthy and functional body parts for no reason and provide no benefit and do not improve outcomes.
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>>97473705
>”erm ywnbaw even if you could change your genetics!!!!”
>that’s retarded, medical science isn’t there yet but if it was, obviously someone who is genetically female would be a woman
>”nooooo changing your genes would be unnatural!!!!”
>most of medical science is unnatural
>”b-b-but that’s life saving!!!!!”
>nah a lot of it isn’t actually
>”I JUST THINK IT’S ICKY!!!!”
The truth at last
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>>97473766
>gets BTFO for comparing the natural process of aging to chopping your dick off
>has to resort to more mental gymnastics
>he literally doesn't know estrogen will turn his veins into rubber tubes faster than smoking
and creating a permanent wound in your pelvic region is also not a good idea, dawg
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>>97447495
The design of the Thallax, very IHNMAIMS
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>>97447495
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGag8Qllgnw
When they decided to court original hobbyists (aka fantasy and history enjoyers).
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>>97452230
I'm sick of how new Nurgle models all just have big dumb mouths all over them instead of the old ones that actually looked bloated and infested or had their guts falling out of them. It's like they've had someone come down and say "hey tone down the gore a bit" and it looks fucking lame.
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>>97460828
Wait, I don't keep up on Eldar shit, but are you telling me they erased Howling Manshees?
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>>97479020
>two largest and oldest sects of christians forbids it
what you're saying isn't not even true. stop looking for excuses to chop your dick and balls off, brother. what sand people cultists do shouldn't encourage you to mutilate yourself.
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>>97467456
could you be any more disingenuous?
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>>97466971
Nta but his arguments are very valid while you just sounds like a retarded triggered bitch
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>>97461299
only when it suits them
then they'll alter biological, sexual traits like hormones and anatomy, and switch to the "gender dysphoria, female brain"
>>97461445
>A male from Seoul and a Appalachian one, share only the most rudimentary aspects.
no they share the most crucial aspects. clothing and social customs are performative, sex is far more instrumental in life.
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>>97478743
No, just one BL author with a fetish for inserting as much surface-level gender politics into his stories as possible did. Outside of masturbatory fantasies Mike Brooks' commits to paper, there is no lore that states male Eldar that join Howling Banshee shrines undergo sex-change. I like to think that when a male Eldar becomes a banshee, it's akin to a kabuki actor playing a female part. They train in how to embody feminine qualities without literally being a woman.
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Probably the Leagues of Votann. Like love or hate them they actually made an offshoot of humanity its own army and its a unique culture which usually they restrict to imperial guard or space marine chapters. Could lean a bit more into "ancient deep space mining safety signage became cultural visual language" over bootleg vague norse shit but on the whole the idea of a branch of humanity not only immune to chaos due to their clone nature but on a cultural level find simping for chaos "bafflingly stupid" is about as close to the interex as we will probably get so even if you dont play them thats a meaningful addiction to the world building. Maybe not on a galactic scale but humanity can find alternatives to the imperium. It isn't "this or nothing".
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>>97462190
>Didn't expect you to have a seizure over it.
Fucking how?
I'm not the oldest fan around. 8th edition zoomer baby and even I know that female space Marines have always been a hot topic and a gag zone at best a runaway synapse in my zoomer monkey brain told me that custodes are just golden space Marines for all intents and purposes.
>Muh autopilot
Stfu. This company is notorious for strangling anyone who uses their license wrong.
>No CA you can't make Ind or Nippon for tww3.... You uh just can't ok!
>No saber you can't make chainaxes for space Marine 2. Chain axes are le hecking bad guy weapon.
>No Bandai you can't include another chapter colorscheme for your eternal crusade game... because we said so...
>Ooh are those YouTube animations that DON'T pay tribute. Time to cease and desist guys buy our Warhammer tv subscription!
The reason GW media games are so bad is because the creators always have to jump through their arbitrary, not even loreful anymore, hoops. They could call forth heaven if they wanted to in order to fix a bad tweet or a bad model release made several months in advance.
This was intentional
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>>97483790
lol seethe and cope boys the past you fight to "restore" was never real, and never will be.
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>>97483641
>Fucking how?
Complaining in warhammer is constant and loud even without disagreements about social issues and "political correctness". As a result a lot of creatives in this industry tune out fan discourse for how insufferable the noise is(and it only gets worse when the fans think they actually can influence where to steer the ship). Its not that its an echo chamber where they think no one would complain just that they didn't forsee the bottle of culture war accelerant being doused on the typical small fire they inevitably started.
> runaway synapse in my zoomer monkey brain told me that custodes are just golden space Marines for all intents and purposes.
Funnily enough as I understand reading between the lines of the author commentary, intuitively seeing the custodes as golden space marines when they are supposed to be on a whole other level was exactly why they wanted to do it. Not to slippery slope their way to FSM, but to differentiate the custodes from the space marines(which nessesitates the space marines remain male). But of course like I said they are working with blinders on and didn't see what would turn the usual complaints into a flaming shitstorm.
> strangling anyone who uses their license wrong.
I don't see how that disproves anything I said, all it means is the change faced similar scrutiny and that thier internal lore on the custodes didn't match the fans assumed lore on the custodes (again you just said you thought they were meant to just be golden space marines)
> This was intentional
Intentional to do what? associate femstodes with lazy nerf laden release cycles so that everyone hates the idea? As plausible as that may sound it evidently isn't the case now that they've gona and given them a model refresh and published offical Q&A's on the change
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>>97458816
This is how I Votann.
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>>97488442
Banshees are regarded as an all-female unit and the only real reason we know males join is because male Autarchs have Howling Banshee gear. Considering Aspect Warrior armor is made of weird psychplastic material, the males who are on the path of command and join a Howling Banshee shrine can probably just shape the armor to fit them easily. Or they just wear the boob plate to get into character, idk.
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>>97455815
You've been whining about muh long term success for years and GW is still making money hand over first. When is this supposed day of the reckoning for GW supposed to come? How long will you be harping about short term profits when it's been nearly a decade now
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>>97454949
You want real fun? Go back to the original version of the game, it's all the fun of MESBG without balance that caters to WAACfags
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>>97489171
The armor is a ceremonial representation of the Phoenix Lord that founded them
Which is why the armor of all the other known Aspect Warriors are sculpted to look masculine (including Warp Spiders given that Lhykhis' armor is pretty masculine looking around the chest area, probably because she wanted a flat surface for those thick straps holding her Jump Generator in place)
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>>97489210
GW has already teetered on the brink of permanent fuckupery twice in the last 25 years dipshit. The LotR bubble popping nearly killed them, and then they nearly died again when Kirby's rationalisation of the business in the wake of that strategic mistake just kept on going into mindless cost-cutting(giving rise to the wave of store closures and one-mannings, the period of under-investment in everything except 40K, and the years of fucking awful Deviantart-tier digital art cheapout commissioning). Rowntree pulled the company back from that second brink, but it was Covid that sent them stratospheric and now they're desperately trying to cement themselves as a normie brand and just like Kirby's obsession with reducing costs there's a real risk of them overplaying their hand.
What I'll never understand is why faggots like you are so invested in defending the honour and purity of a corporation that would push you right out into the path of an oncoming bus for the sake of the 50p piece they spotted at your feet.
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>>97452446
Corsairs are actually cool and mixing CWE with DE actually can make some pretty cool kitbashes. I'm also pretty sure there are a bunch of 3D printable corsair models and bits which would make it incredibly cool. Corsairs should be a mix from those actual pirate-tier corsairs in white dwarf (with empire bits used to give them floofy pants) to the ones that forgeworld made with the death of myanmera (space raiders). Shit was cool.
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>>97451269
>Jesus christ, I've been collecting eldar since 4th/5th edition and those are the most hideous models I've seen in a long time
Eh, it's just a modernization of the Forgeworld conversion box. That being said, despite my appreciation of the Eldar and their lore. I can't stand the aesthetics of their foot soldiers
>>97452446
>how many half-baked sub-factions do the Eldar need?
The problem with Craftworld Eldar is that the entire army is specifically designed around a singular niche. Overall, their units are expensive, glass cannons, fast, and constantly moving. Ynnari got completely dropped because everyone realized/knew that Harlequins would have been better choices for what GW was attempting to do with the Ynnari. As well as being pointless deadend for both the plot and gameplay. Harlequins are/were most likely being considered by GW as to whether or not they should drop them so now their subfaction is currently on ice. Corsairs serve an actual, needed niche in the army that wasn't being fulfilled and if the rumors about an upcoming Exodite kill team box are true then that would be the 5th subfaction of the non-drukhari variety of Eldar.
>Ynnari get a couple of characters then are forgotten (good)
Ynnari was a poor attempt at moving the Eldar plot forward and got killed off for it because 1) the Eldar fanbase despised everything that had to do with the Ynnari with regards to its lore and storybeats and 2) GW realized that if the Ynnari were to succeed in their schemes and plots then the 40k universe would end. So now they have no choice but to drop them.
> now corsairs will get a few kits and be forgotten.
Unlike the Ynnari, GW has an actual purpose for reintroducing the Corsairs into 40k. Corsairs are the Eldar meatshields of the army with regards to gameplay functionality. Cheap disposable units to throw at secondary units or to soak up damage while more expensive units do bigger and better things.
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>>97468490
If you go further you alsol lose Autarchs, they are from 4th ed.
Though 3rd had Craftworld Eldar suplement with sublists for the 4 main ones so if you had a bike autarch you could use it as wild rider chieftain or something.
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>>97501585
>Necrons were metal Tyranids but gay. Now they are a real faction and that makes me mad because it wasn't in the vidya I grew up with >:((((
Midcron larpers and DOW fags in general are the TWW secondaries of old /tg/
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>>97491865
Be the change you want to see in the world. Learn 3D modeling and sell the guys you make to the people that hate the same things you do.
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>>97455645
the problem with all 'good' releases is that GW isn't following a standard. Where is the Chaos Space Marine Apothecary model? Or the Butcher Surgeon? I know the Death Guard has a guy sort of like that but you have one army getting a bunch of stuff and others might get a named character or something. Iron Warriors did, and also got an upgrade sprue. Meanwhile the Night Lords kill team came out 20 months ago (a little more than a year and a half) and still lacks an upgrade sprue. It feels like a 'first chaos legions' line up should have followed, like how GW released a bunch of space marine combat patrols last fall. They should have released the night lords sprue separate and gave them Talos, then a word bearers sprue and Greater Possessed refreshes and Erebus, then an alpha legion sprue and that black guy from the Harrowmaster book and a sniper kill team all in order over a year's time. Instead there's a bunch of, arguably high quality releases that don't make sense. Like 2024 was the year of the night lords, 2025 the year of the emperor's children and 2026 is the year of the iron warriors and red corsairs or something but it's consistently randomly high and then low quality next to each other with no plan for chaos.
>>97491207
>What I'll never understand is why faggots like you are so invested in defending the honour and purity of a corporation that would push you right out into the path of an oncoming bus for the sake of the 50p piece they spotted at your feet.
it's possible he is a GW employee paid min wage to shill here kek.
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>>97501585
You can take them as completely silent killing machines with a shard of a fundamental part of the universe as a battering ram still.
I have been playing since and still have the metal models and like to change it up with characters like these two. Some of the only beings in 40k having a good time.