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@HMBohemond @LizardKingDK Astartes have a diversity in culture & Aesthetic that feels natural. No matter what colour a Stormcast paints their armour they all feel the same. Immortal lighting dudes. Maybe coulda been fixed if their were Stormcast empowered by different winds, not just Azyr?

Aesthetically they never made Stormcast work. There's a 'realness' to Space Marines in their nature as transhuman mortals that is missing from Stormcast as they're purely divine in nature. Stormcast lack that, and as a result lack that aura of physical power and sense of war torn grit.

I'll break down the full history: WHFB = Warhammer Fantasy Battles, the original Warhammer fantasy tabletop game. Currently represented via the Total War: Warhammer game series. AOS = Age of Sigmar, the current "main" fantasy game that replaced WHFB. It's a weird sequel via total universe collapse/reconstruction. TOW - The Old World, the current OG WHFB tabletop game, a kind of prequel to the general events of WHFB. Warhammer Fantasy Battles was doing poorly due to rules bloat, army size bloat, and poor model/rules support. Rather than fix the game, Games Workshop completely retconned the ending of a player driven campaign called Storm of Chaos and created the End Times. This ended in Chaos destroying the world and Sigmar (mankind's God) rebuilding it. The Age of Sigmar setting was born. Age of Sigmar had no lore. That was the intended design. No lore, no story, nothing. It was designed to be "cool fantasy models" with nothing but the most basic story treatment to justify it. Also they killed Slaanesh off screen. It flopped horribly. WHFB fans hated it because their game died needlessly to prop it up with GW boasting about AOS sales vs WHFB sales. Which was based on the fact WHFB was discontinued. So if course AOS would sell better that year than a game that didn't exist anymore. New players never showed up because it was lame. Turns out you need a setting and lore to actually justify why all your models are fighting. Also the rules were absolutely juvenile. There was a rule for one character that said the player with the biggest beard auto-wins. I'm not kidding. AOS was sent back to the drawing board and it's 2nd edition came with an actual setting and lore. A lame setting and lore that feels like a dark and edgy Korean mobile MMO with similar model designs, but lore none the less. Also Slaanesh is no longer dead, just in cosmic horny jail and slowly breaking free. AOS is not a good game. Not even close. The lore is bad but the game is worse. It's limped along for four editions now. It's looking like their 5th edition will be another big setting reboot in a desperate bid to save it. Total War: Warhammer came out not long after AOS first released. Just one year later. It's made more money than AOS did and is unironically made the Warhammer Fantasy Battles setting more well known. GW kind of shit their pants because they realized how bad they fucked up nuking WHFB for AOS. So they rereleased it, old minis and all, in 2024 as Warhammer: The Old World. A prequel to the original WHFB. The Old World is objectively the better, more popular game. There's huge animosity between the three. WHFB players resent AOS for being an unwanted, cash grab replacement for their game which GW never really put any effort into. AOS fans are bitter because AOS never caught on like 40k, perpetually in last place even compared to specialist games, and hate that WHFB is once again getting more love via TOW. TOW players are mostly WHFB oldheads and new players coming from Total War who don't give a fuck about AOS. This leads to AOS players being bitter, spiteful, and jealous of 40k and WHFB/TOW. They try to force what 40k and WHFB/TOW have built organically in terms of player appreciation.

@HMBohemond Thostos was perfectly Reforged in his novel and the novel stated that he was but the first to be perfectly reforged. Someone in GW musta panicked because this would removed all stakes for the stormcast so a year later Thostos got killed by Archaon and was never mentioned again.

@HMBohemond the novels that got me into all the setting. I gave AOS a fair shot from 2015 to 2019. The novels sucked because the setting sucked. They had no plan. Best illustrated when the reforging process was perfected with Thostos Bladestorm only to be forgotten when he got killed off.

@Lokhir_felheart @HMBohemond Never gonna happen. They’ll be doing 40k total war for at least a decade and AOS will be dead or (even more) irrelevant by then.

@HMBohemond Im genuinely curious what AOS haters are going to do when we get a total war age of sigmar down the road.

@InvertedParadX @CoveredGeekly This is Bane’s father. A white British naval officer, meaning Bane is half white so his actor can go either way.

@CoveredGeekly Bane is latin american; they need to cast someone with a spanglish accent and CGI the bane onto him.

Martyn Ford is being fancast for Bane in the DCU He recently starred as Shao Kahn in Mortal Kombat 2

@Shyychilla_ Well, At least they don’t look like men or junkies which seems to be an unfortunate preference for some artists.

MLP humanizations ✨🩷 #Mylittlepony

@RazorFist Learnt this the hard way. Tried to help my addict sister get on on her feet by giving her a room but she took the piss & abused me one to many times so I had police remove her and served her a family violence restraining order. She had to hit rock bottom before she’d change.

You can't save everyone. You can guide. You can warn. You can rebuke in good faith. But sometimes, a brother/sister's life-altering mistakes have to be made, and the consequences suffered, as only suffering will breed the necessary contrition.

@dyingscribe Well, when he made the video he was right. Like he said lesson learned. Wait till the show is finished before making a video on it. And his criticisms of the comic are still valid.

You do gotta realize that you had people defending the show far longer than they needed to. Like a lot of the defense for the show is on your head

@GhostOfCade Django was awesome.

Yoda with a massive chain gun defeats an entire Separatist army by himself. From Clone Wars Adventure Comics.

@GhostOfCade @CarlosPala93237

@CarlosPala93237 Came out before Django

@CountDankulaTV I got into it early so I’ve got every novel in hardback format. Great series with only a few duds in my opinion. And even the bad or filler novels are worth it if you like the legions featured in them.

Finished The End And The Death Volume 2 last night. Brutal.

@Mordred00 @PancreasNo In fantasy a normal human soldier can potentially defeat a daemon in a sword fight. Not likely but possible. In 40k that feat is usually reserved for Inquisitors and space marines. Likewise in fantasy a Greater Daemon is a city destroying event. In 40k it’s a planetary one.

@PancreasNo I really don't get why they are even separate Like what's really the difference between a human in 40k and fantasy/aos

The biggest piece of proof the Warhammer settings are separate is that if they truly all were connected Victor Saltzpyre would be an Imperial Saint so powerful Celestine would look like a crippled goblin by comparison by virtue of his faith

@brockpierson Worse than the reverse Mohawk?

The Gen-Z broccoli haircut is easily the worst haircut in human history. You can't change my mind.

@Huntsmarshal If Ferris fought the emperor to a draw it’s only because the Emperor decided not to use his 40’000 years of accumulated Phychic powers to instantly win.

Ferrus Manus fought the Emperor to a standstill and thinks he could defeat him in they fought again.

@DomainDead I like it but I grew up with it so what do I know.

You gotta be on a new level of larp to say MK ANNIHILATION will “forever remain the best”.

Do you like pussy? (Cats)

@wwarrior_1 Scorpion better look out for this guys family. They’re the only descendants he has left.

its unfortunate that the main fucking character of the first movie was one of the bad things about it

@SanguinisI @OllierTibz Space marines don’t cry. They just frown even harder.

“The death of Barabas Dantioch in the arms of his friend Alexis Polux” Art by @OllierTibz

@DozTk421 @ReviewsPossum I was 8, I remember all my friends telling me how good it was & I had a great time seeing it with my cousin. We had seen A new Hope at not that long ago when it was rereleased at the cinema so we were big time into Star Wars at the time. Even most of the adults I knew liked it.

@TerminalDread @ReviewsPossum I had tickets for the following weekend for TPM, because the opening was so huge. Everyone had heard it was disappointing. I grit my teeth and went anyway. I remember turning to my girlfriend and noting that it was OK. I remember musing how the choices were baffling.

There was a gag on The Simpsons with Lenny and Carl arguing over whether The Phantom Menace or Attack of the Clones sucks more, and this was in 2003, before Revenge of the Sith came out. So no, the prequel trilogy hate didn't start when RedLetterMedia reviewed it in 2009.

@Variety Fuck I’m 35 & I don’t remember a single Beyoncé song. I’ve probably heard one on the radio but didn’t pay attention or changed the station.

Paul Anthony Kelly when asked what his favorite Beyonce song is: "I don't know. I'm a metal head." #MetGala