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i have found peak credit goes to BlueArdentVA on youtube, go follow them they're funny yes, this is nearly every 40k chatroom right now. we are all children of The Machine God today

Some of my very first models from about 18+ years ago

Also found these

Found these boys while looking for my old blood angels codex don't know if I should paint them as is or take them apart and redo them

This how Noise thinks someone who knows nothing about 40k buys minis. >person A walks into a game store, sees a box of Space Marines and picks it up cause they think it looks cool >turns to Person B who looks like they know at least something about the minis A: hey these guys look cool, whats their deal? B: they're Space Marines A: Yeah I can see that on the box, what are they for? B: A tabletop war game A: Oh ok....anything else? B: No, thats it. A: Oh ok thats good enough for me. >A: Proceeds to drop $60 on a squad plus an almost equal amount for paints, glue, and other tools Here is what would actually happen: A: Oh Ok anything else? B: No, thats it. A: Oh...Alright then... >A: puts box back and goes to look at whatever brought them into the store in the first place. See the sad thing is Temu Jack Sparrow here knows that the second version is what would actually happen if there was no lore. Because no one is going to drop $50-$100 on something they know nothing about. Especially something that will take hours to assemble and then paint. If lore really didn't matter or contribute in any meaningful way to miniature sales, then you can bet your ass GW would never bother with it at all. Publishing lore/books is an investment into driving interest into purchasing minis. If it wasnt there and there was nothing compelling to drive those sales, then eventually it fails. Is it folly to say that Lore is more important? Yes but it is equally so, to say it's 'secondary' and is only used by clowns like Noise to justify changing it to fit their own personal politics. Thats his entire goal when he says that kind of thing. To make lore sound trivial, even though it does clearly matter to him, so that he and other woke types can demand whatever changes fits their own world views.

Grand Admiral Thrawn and Admiral Ackbar will face off in AHSOKA Season 2 (Via: Disney Upfronts presentation)

Idk what to feel about this? Like it looks kinda cool but also feels like every table would just be the same?

Playing 40K, the actual miniatures game, didn't give an accurate feeling of what Space Marines were meant to be. They are meant to be like a one-man army, like a demigod. They tower over humans. Their lifespan is in the centuries or millennia. Their religious zeal is like that of a living saint. Their Primarchs have life stories like an Icelandic saga. You request aid for your planet against a million Tyranids or whatever and they send you a single squad or company of Marines. In the game you might have 30 Space Marines fighting 45 Tyranids. And the Marines have strength 4 while a normal human is strength 3. Just doesn't get the scale right.