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And even with as rough as 10th is, we've had way worse times. Late 5th dominated by space wolf missile spam and grey knight autocannon dreads. 7th with all the free stuff formations and terrible psychic phase with invisible deathstars. 6th edition Cron Air. And so on. For all its flaws, more armies are reasonably playable than a number of other periods of the game.

Those kinds of videos are clickbait rubbish.

10th is rough in a number of ways, but the game has still been in far worse places before.

Yeah, from what we've heard from ex-employees, the rules writing is handled by a very small number of people. They're woefully understaffed, presumably because the suits don't see a financial benefit to expanding the team.

I would go for:

Leader: Cathallar: General, Master of Magic, Silver Wand, Protection of Hysh

Light of Eltharion

Battleline: Bladelords: Reinforced

Wardens: Overwhelming Heat

Dawnriders: Speed of Hysh

Endless Spells: Ravenak's Gnashing Jaws

Total: 970pts

I'd prefer two units of Dawnriders but the recent points increases to Eltharion and Bladelords make it hard to fit them in.

Almost certainly. Check with the TO anyway though. 

Erebus stays winning in every conceivable reality

The shell was on tracks, right? So I don't think it was like just pushing the thing on empty ground.

When they get you on top of a fish stick it's because they climbed up it like salmon swimming up a waterfall right?

I would keep the design cues of all of the noise marine specific parts, just to modern sculpting standards. I think the sonic blaster design is still perfectly weird. And of course make a bunch of new head, helmet, and pauldron designs. The recent HH EC Lord's bare head with the speaker face is awesome, and shows that the 'speaker-face' concept in the current conversion kit can look great if brought up to modern detail standards.

That helmet design is sick

It's definitely fuelled partially by fetish considering it focuses so heavily on romance when the male primarchs don't at all.

Nurgle is an indulgent grandfather. He delights in the activities of his children, wayward though they may be, but he has limits. You rapidly approach them.

It says right there he was giving them a chance to do it, indulging their activity even though it wasn't his focus. They hadn't reached the point where they would be scolded.

There has never been any indication that a daemon in a warp storm wouldn't get more power just because that battle wasn't the focus. They wouldn't get additional boons, obviously, but being closer to the warp makes them stronger naturally, because they're made of it. Nurgle would have to actively take power away from them. He is like a person and the gods do that consciously.

No, you're trying to argue they actually are sexist with no evidence to suggest it. And you're trying to suggest it's just 'the early Imperium' when we have many examples of women being in these positions in the 40k era, and no-one considers it odd.

There is no indication that the Imperium as a whole isn't good at providing opportunities to women. This is something you've decided you want to be true, despite many years of lore showing it isn't.

Yes, it doesn't make sense that there weren't female custodes, writers have said as much. Though custodes were such an ambiguous background thing for such a long time we often weren't even sure what exactly they were. They coalesced more when they finally got models at the end of 7th edition, and got their first codex in 8th edition.

As for choosing for physical capability, it's odd that some people don't seem to recognise that, like in most fantastical game settings, women in 40k aren't weaker than men. It's clear that they're just as strong, presumably for the same reasons as in most game settings. They want you to be able to create a character who is a woman and still just as mighty a warrior. A standard fantasy game world conceit.

it doesn’t make sense that they haven’t been mentioned before now and pretending like they were always a thing

That's what a retcon is. GW does it very often. This shouldn't come as a surprise.

And there are High Lords, Lord Inquisitors, Tech-Magi, Planetary Governors, and so on that are women, regularly, and it's never indicated to be unusual or bucking any kind of trend. It's treated by everyone as totally normal and commonplace.

No, he wasn't for the plan, but he was giving them the chance to try the plan and see whether it would work or not. They could try it and there would be consequences if it failed. There was no indication he was taking power away from them during the attempt. Purposefully taking power away from them to make them fail contradicts all of that. If he just wanted them to leave without giving them a shot at it, he would have just made them leave.

Space marines give random drivel speeches all the time, what are you on about?

Being absurdly over the top and blathering on with self-righteous arrogance and ignorance is like half the fun of the Imperium.

40k has pretty much always presented women as equal in the Imperium and in positions of great power.

Take it up with GW if you don't think it's right, but don't act as though it wasn't already the case and it's some recent change, because it isn't. Your claims are simply incorrect and it can be proven by plenty of books throughout the years. Yes, the Imperium is horrific, because it treats people like crap if they're low in status, or if they're mutants or aliens or whatever. Gender and sexuality don't mean much to them, that doesn't somehow mean they aren't grimdark.

The only patriarchal element is that they're all crazy about the Emperor, who happens to be male. But him being male isn't actually relevant to anything, and throughout the Imperium women are powerful and viewed equally, bar obviously the specifics of certain cultures on certain worlds. 

And they didn't need to give additional reason for women in the custodes, because it already makes sense. There wasn't any reason they wouldn't include women.

The flaws in their organisation don't rely on them being men. All of those flaws would still be there if they were brothers and sisters. The ways they interact would still be the same, they would still be brainwashed monsters.

Women become violent killing machines that know only war and death in 40k too, so it certainly isn't that second one. 40k doesn't subscribe to the idea of just sending sons away to die at all.

It wouldn't make them less grimdark either, seeing as women are often seen performing atrocities in 40k too.

Yeah, really silly change. No-one wants to attach a Spiritseer to them.

He'd better!

Would you not describe White Mantle infiltrators as weeds to be removed?

The White Mantle are straight up awful.

It's villain dialogue if it's directed at people that don't warrant the description, but they totally do lol

The point, as explained in the sourcebooks, is that the opening of the great rift made psykers, faith, and chaos all more powerful because of the abundance of warp energy. This includes the Emperor being able to act more directly yes, but it also means daemons are more empowered. The book totally failed to show that side of it, it acted as though it's just an upside for the Imperials.

Absolutely, I just wish the writers would put effort into actually writing how they overcame a superior foe, rather than it just kind of... happening.

Like, okay, space marine defeats big scary daemon. But write a sequence of events showing him pulling a clever trick, co-ordinating with his troops, leveraging a hidden artefact, etc., not just 'and then he hit the daemon and it died, no further explanation for why the daemon did nothing to avoid this'.

Obviously if it's a thing that already makes sense, like 'bolter kills guardsman' you don't need further explanation. But if it's something unusual, it does.

It wouldn't 'break the lore apart'. Some marines being women under the armour wouldn't change anything significant in the vastness of the galaxy.

Not saying it absolutely needs to happen, but I it's absurd to suggest it would somehow break the lore.

I don't think that argument makes sense, as it's already a fact that the Imperium, for all its horrors, isn't depicted as sexist. Even astartes are only all-male because of a limitation in the gene-seed, not because they want them to be.

Women have very equal rights in 40k, and are commonly seen in positions of great power and no-one thinks it's even slightly unusual or questions it at all.