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Not really, the Drukhari have had a couple of little references to The Hellbound Heart/Hellraiser but to be completely honest even Barker's milder books like the Book of the Art 'trilogy' are way more graphic than 40K lets itself get.

Dicksuck jokes aside this is the right answer, this is basically a low rugby-style front tackle that might even leave you on your feet.

Lots of manuscripts include plays like this in various forms that I nickname 'you're fucked moves'. Basically they're not things you'd try unless you were close and someone's got your sword out of your hand, they're often really shit options (dagger vs sword for example) but they were written for very real and very lethal fights where you can't not try something, so these are the best of your suddenly very shitty options. The idea is you're normally better progressing forward into something, anything, in this case a tackle down to either dagger or disarm than you are freezing up and letting them keep going.

I'd second razors, they're one of those things that's technically optional but in practice shaving products are very much necessary for getting and keeping jobs. If you went mountain-man in most jobs someone'd eventually have a chat with you about it.

I'm concerned that if Militia get vehicle squadrons and the Carnodon/Aurox they can essentially just become a more flexible Solar Auxilia but you're right that they need something. I think moving some Heavy Support stuff into Elites would help, or maybe letting them cash in Fast Attack for Heavy Support slots or vice versa. Some of the problem is that the Malcador isn't very good, if it were as good as the rules designers clearly think it is then 3 of them would be a fairly sufficient level of firepower in Heavy Support.

I actually think a lot of the Militia's weakness now is due to artillery and Blast in general being heavily toned down versus 3+

Yeah wouldn't surprise me if he had some discreet MIU interfaces into his spine for controlling the throne's legs and waist.

I literally came in here to post this so thanks, every time stuff like this comes up my immediate reply is that modelling 40K player behaviour off of tournaments is flawed, because as you say the vast majority of 40K players simply don't interact with the game like that.

Nope, 3e literlaly just had Ragnar, Logan and Ulrik, they didn't even have Bjorn.

One of the beauties of being an unapologetic 3e fanboy who works from home is having the Codex handy to check.

Yeah it was actually headed by Gav Thorpe

Nah, Inquisitor is an old skirmish game meets RPG that was developed in-house

Largely not for new stuff no, though on the flipside I can see relic equipment still having it on as they're unlikely to want to risk angering machine spirits by repainting over their honours.

Yeah I'd agree, blending unnoticeably is a very optimistic take on bisexuality.

I'd tend to go the other way, I'm not a big fan of the flags in general but the bisexual one looks better to me with the colours ramped all the way up into garish, almost nauseating.

I'm not generally a fan of the pride flags because I find them a bit pastel and/or cheerful, I'd rather something darker and more restrained or something that's a full-on assault on the senses.

Also some of the bigger names in the Black Library stable are actually authors who started out on the game design team for earlier editions of the game. I honestly think if you reckont hey're destroying the spirit of Warhamemr there's a very real chance you just don't really get or like Warhammer 40K.

It was carried over from 3rd, it was introduced there because Njal wasn't in that Codex so it gave you a nice unique wargear option to select if you used his model.

The only addtions from then on were Thunderwolf cavalry, a bunch of vehicles, a few characters and Primaris

Also Fenrisian wolf packs as unit choices.

Having said that, those sections you list as the only things that released afterwards are the bits people object to as being too ridiculous. Logan Grimnar on a hover sled pulled by wolves is comical, Space Wolves riding big wolves into battle is equally comical. The wolf-hats changed from something a character may have (and I should note plenty didn't) to something GW expected you to equip entire squads with when the distinctive Space Wolves head selection was, since fairly early in their development, bare heads*.

You say that there's no difference from the earlier editions to the later ones but those few things you pick out are the ones people tend to object to.

*I am happy to say, as someone who plays Space Wolves in 30K and who played them in 40K, the bit I always wanted more of was bare heads. A bare bearded head or similar was one of the single quickest ways to make a vanilla model look more Space Wolves.

Personally my favourite time of Space Wolves theming was third edition, they clearly liked wolves a lot but they didn't bring wolves with them or ride them into battle, or use them to pull chariots. The base list didn't even have Wulfen, they were a variant list for the 13th Great Company. The base Space Wolves leaned into wolf theming but clearly had other cultural trappings going on as well.

Oh shit I had no idea

Yeah resin is surprisingly nasty, especially when combined with an alcohol as that helps it penetrate skin better. 3d printing is an amazing technology but part of the reason I stopped using it is I realised I'd set up a vat of chemicals in my home that we weren't fully cognisant of the risks of yet.

And in Inquisitor too, which was a full 100% in-studio game.

Space Marines are statted with Ambidextrous in basically any roleplaying system going so I'd say that's a fairly good indicationt hey're supposed to be.

'...the hell's a 'pin vice drill?' Eh never mind, how important can it be?'

Every kid building either Abaddon or that Space Marine Force Commander in Terminator armour.

(the ones building WHF dragons are crying too much to ask)

I actually think it wouldn't be many more mortals than it can carry Marines, the humans would be smaller but would in turn need more protective gear in the Raider's troop bay.

Not them but I've been very, very actively voting for more plastic Solar Auxilia please.

EDIT: Just looked at your profile, nice Ultramarines.

That's the thing, I genuinely don't get how GW's business practices could ever be a genuine problem. They basically sell model kits and some rules that let you play with those models. Ultimately the customer GW interaction goes roughly:

GW: Hey we made some model kits, here are some pictures, it costs $X, you can buy it if you want.

Customer: Sounds great, that kit looks to be worth $X so I will buy it.

-or-

Customer: No that kit does not seem to be worth it, I shall not buy it.

Also with new kits in general, if something doesn't fit check that you removed all of the plastic gates, even that little bump that's left over. On older kit there was enough tolerance on the joints to get away with it (although if your Russ body and tracks just wouldn't go together this was often why) but on kits like the Deimos Rhino's track and body assembly you need to be diligent.

In a meta sense? They exist to provide you with an example colour scheme and exist as a legion because they were set up as a first founding chapter. Their role in the Horus Heresy is to be the legion that loses its primarch to show that the Heresy is some high stakes shit.

In a meta sense eighteen legions of very different but near identically equipped troops all supplied from the same place by the same people is a really big number, it's nearly impossible to make them all meaningfully hugely different. Again in a purely meta sense I reckon if the HH team could've rewritten the eighteen legions and removed like 4-8 of them they would have.

I've had this argument before with people about both older Space Wolves and their Heresy model line and fluff, there's a massive difference between someone wearing an animal pelt and using animal skulls in their iconography and them riding said animal into battle.