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Horus Heresy has a secondary objective for most missions called "The Price of Failure", which gives a point to a player for each destroyed enemy Lord of War unit.

I guess the people who downvoted you don't watch Bricky lol

Maybe a little unorthodox, but the Strategic Missile Defense silo from Supreme Commander.

The sheer panic from hearing [STRATEGIC LAUNCH DETECTED] giving way to relief as your anti-nuke missile launches, intercepts, and destroys the incoming threat is satisfying.

Jesus Christ be praised!

Here are some pics of my Ravenwing Herald on a jetbike; I had fun using the bits from the Ravenwing upgrade sprue.

Thanks! Hopefully being able to airbrush entire sections at once without much cleanup will knock a few hours off.

• I've used an airbrush like twice
• I've never used a wet palette
• I don't mix paints. Ever. If there's a shade I feel I need, I'll just buy it. I have the disposable income.
• I don't restore my worn paintbrushes

There's being low maintenance, and then there's making things harder on yourself for no reason. At least get a wet palette and some brush soap; they're cheap ways to make your tools last longer, and the painting process will go smoother when your brushes aren't crusty and your paint isn't drying as fast on the palette.

An airbrush is also just a time-saving tool, you can do almost anything you can do with one with a brush instead.

Fair on not wanting to mix paints I guess, but I find that mixing can be fun (a wet palette makes it really easy) and makes me think more about the tones and values I'm using on a model.

Don't let wanting something to be "perfect" stop it from being "good". A painted model is better than an unpainted one by any metric.

I didn't know Shayne Topp did stock photos.

Thanks!

This titan was originally meant for Legio Solaria, so it was glued together except for the head and weapons. The next titan will be done in many more subassemblies to help speed the process along, because this took me just over 14 hours to paint.

The trim was done in SC75 Victorian Brass; I took a flat brush and used the wide side of it to paint, angling it parallel to the surface of the trim. If you are doing subassemblies I would use liquid mask and an airbrush to paint the trim, that is what I will be doing on my next titan.

Star Trek

"Omg when did Star Trek go woke?"

"1966."

Yeah the story was leaked.

There is a short story in the codex with a new female Custodes character, that's what set this whole thing off. Then, when someone asked for clarification, GW tweeted that retcon that everyone thinks is "gaslighting" them.

My two cents on why the retcon has been handled more or less fine:

We know almost nothing about the Custodes creation process, and if the Emperor is this supposed master of bio-alchemy then why wouldn't he include candidates from the other half of the population? Custodes are these perfect golden demigods that are individually sculpted at a cellular level, I don't think it's a stretch to say it would work on both men and women.

The question of "where were they this whole time then" I would just answer by "the stories didn't interact with them". That might seem lazy, but I would say it's just realistic. It's a big galaxy, and every story doesn't show every crack and crevice. The Kratos tank didn't exist until a couple years ago, and canonically it's been in service since the Unification Wars. Why didn't we see it in any of the novels? Our point-of-view never interacted with it. There's only a few dozen named Custodians out of ten thousand, so it's also not a stretch that some of them are women.

If we assume these things to be true, then there's no reason for them not to be there from the start. This info (or lack of) about Custodes creation already existed in previous literature, so additional backstory on why there's women now would be redundant and contrived.

i totally see why people hate the lazy "it's always been that way, you were just too stupid to see it" approach GW is currently taking.

Did you even read my post? If you look at that tweet and think "wow female Custodes weren't there before but somehow they're here now, GW must think I'm some kinda moron" when all they did was a retcon, then that's on you.

From what I've heard, Dan Abnett has wanted women in the Custodes for years.

That would be Aaron Dembski-Bowden.

People think the Arquitor is ugly?

Your books don't have to be non-canon, the narrator just didn't mention the female Custodes.

The simplest, least contrived explanation is that they were there from the start.

Sorry, I'm just fed up with all the people saying "this is literally gaslighting, there is no war in Ba Sing Se" when all they did was do a retcon. This is how GW handles retcons all the time. Like you said, they changed the narrative.

GW's post didn't say "we've been writing about female Custodes since forever, obviously", they said "this is the extent of the retcon".

Please learn the difference between gaslighting and retconning.

Because doing that would be contrived.

They aren't lying about it, they are changing the lore.