i sent an email to DOGE and suggested replacing the entire Department of Defense with Warhammer 40,000 miniatures but they actually did the math and it turns out that would be much more expensive
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With that budget we could get a full reenactment of the Horus Heresy and not a single mini, base, or terrain would be unpainted. After 4 years of play time we will cap it all off with a battle report from the oval office reenacting the Emporer confronting Horus. Winner is elected president.
2 million miniatures isn’t expensive, but 2 million times 12-30 factions or chapters or warbands times painting effort and time easily surpasses the world GDP.
Honestly? If DOGE got filled with actual 40k players, it might actually run pretty well.
As long as you don't mind a bunch of WAAC jerks. As an added bonus, there might be less Nazis in it.
Officially starting a campaign to have them rename DOGE to the Adeptus Administratum. I can't help feeling that this would be a far more accurate name, given what's likely coming.
I think you have a future in the Departmento Munitorum. Of course, you will have to bludgeon the other aspirants with your copy of the Lex Imperialis to prove worthy…
Just as the Emperor intended.
As a woman who bought my first boyfriend an entire Sisters Repentia army, actually, yes.
(From what he told me, they were more spendy than some of the other builds. But that was his thing, not mine, so that may be inaccurate. He's just lucky I didn't take them with me when we broke up.)
That's the upfront cost though. Once you've got them cast and painted, miniatures basically last forever, unlike flesh and blood soldiers. You've got to look at the long term cost/benefit analysis.
Fun fact: replacing DOGE with a painted Guilliman model in a room by itself *would* increase government efficiency while reducing graft and corruption.
It would also have more DEI. All those Women, Different Races, the Mutes, not to mention the Corpse taking up a cushy position that could be occupied by a useless, rich, incompetent, White Fail-Son nepobaby
When asked about the deployment status of the army, the Secretary of Defense stated, "we can be table ready in a week, maybe two, but don't look at them too close."
Please, please help me understand the choice behind capitalizing DOGE, Deparment, Defense, and Warhammer, but not the very first word that we learn always gets capitalized, I. Every time I ask this people freak out as if I'm scolding them but I'm just dying to *understand* please.
Some people turn off autocapitalisation of first letters. In text messages particularly for young people use of initial capitalisation and full stops comes off as a little… formal? Aggressive even? Probably Robert meant to capitalise this letter but just missed it out of habit.
But that's not what I'm referring to, I'm referring to normal, calm speech that just happens to capitalize I's and first letters of sentences. What's aggressive about that?
They need to swallow their pride and accept that it’s ok to use the wrong models as stand-ins. Don’t believe the propaganda, you can just use the same model to represent different pattern tanks. It’s fine.
Not the worst choice, one is a weakly concealed crypto-fascist government with a decrepit figurehead and a self defeating kneejerk attitude to anything they view as alien, and the other is the imperium
We did just kinda get our own IRL Goge Vandire installed so it'd make sense he'd want his own personal IG army. Unpainted of course because after all those GOP guys have a strong history of horrible grey armies.
I know that guy, he's the one that always comments "I don't like politics in my hobbies, but that's amazing work!" under minis painted in pride colors.
In a shocking move, the US DoD decided the next aid package to Ukraine would be 4 basilisks and a baneblade, it is unclear when Washington will escalate and send primaris marines
You fool! You were so close to greatness! What we really need to do is replace the DOD with Tyranids! If this country is going down, at least it can go down quickly. It also be pretty cost effective! They'd minimize all the other departments.
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https://youtu.be/EXlDMrLH1Q4?si=n5qk9HZI73JFc9KD
*looks at $500b unneeded AI infrastructure bill while bridges older than either of us collapse in the background*
We just need to get some techbros interested in the idea.
"Contact the Mechanicus!"
Imagine a country assaulting/invading/warring with a neighboring nation..
Then 5 million deadly drones are launched, all at once, everywhere throughout one side's land..
It's coming
We have one too many 'of Wars' in this town!
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Hopefully.
But I want to kick Elon in the Grundle with my steel toes on in recompense
I figure that might get them listening.
As long as you don't mind a bunch of WAAC jerks. As an added bonus, there might be less Nazis in it.
https://youtu.be/yDD93Tg3ZDs?si=98m2pl0K_qhBBISI
The Great Lakes must be stopped.
That said… I’d pitch in my whole Black Templar army to NOT have Hegseth as SecDef.
Just as the Emperor intended.
Also, keep making obscure references to nerdy shit from the 90s. Try out some Space: Above and Beyond material. It'll kill.
(From what he told me, they were more spendy than some of the other builds. But that was his thing, not mine, so that may be inaccurate. He's just lucky I didn't take them with me when we broke up.)
TALKING LIKE THIS IS AGGRESSIVE, YES.
But that's not what I'm referring to, I'm referring to normal, calm speech that just happens to capitalize I's and first letters of sentences. What's aggressive about that?
We'd lose every time because the Russians and Chinese seem to develop the best cheats. Ugh.
We would get Baneblade tanks and titans
i am in bed and ill but this made me laugh and cheered me up no end :)
We'd have the first unpainted army.
You know damn well that if the military was ordering miniatures, GW would at least double the price.