40K really wants you to play Space Marines. But what they don't know is in 6th grade my friend said they were the best in a really annoying way and so that door is closed to me forever.
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Got some Orks. First thought best thought. I love these Great Outdoor Fight-ass men. Will probably branch out into the Drukhari soon too. Those are the two poles of me.
I think I instinctively went with genestealer cults and chaos marines because the former has very earnest and righteous Fuck You energy and the latter has very bitter and stupid Fuck You energy
anyway the orks are extremely GOF: 40,000 good insight
The Orkz are easily the most Looney Tunes faction in the setting (though arguably tied with Harlequins) so that's perfect
Actually, yeah, would you consider Harlequins instead of Drukhari?
Orks are a faction I've never built but respect immensely. There was a game years ago called Gorkamorka that was apparently pretty beloved but was before my time
my favorite rule in gorkamorka was that the Ork trucks didn't have a specific amount of Orks they could carry; you just piled on as many physical Ork models as you wanted onto your physical truck model, and if any fell off when you moved the truck, they counted as dead
Imo, every dead space marine makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside. I don't care how strong murder-mcbabyeater is in your sacred lore, he's currently being beat to death by a bunch of R2-D2 heads with tazer prods
in 5th grade we all had to write stories and read them in class any my friend's story was just a 40k battle that began with an extremely long and detailed listing of all the units in the battle and the teacher eventually stopped him and told him he didn't need to finish reading it
In 8th grade, the year 2000 was coming up so we had a writing assignment to say what we thought life would be like in 3000 and I just summarized the lore of 40k.
I have to name my first born child Q-Bert because a dumb girl in second grade bet me I wouldn’t. I can’t wait to see her face when she sees I remembered that bet.
So I don't really know what this means and a quick google search didn't help me out but I threw a like on there because it feels like a good one. I'll be sure to read it again when I know a little bit more about what's going on.
Matt Ward wrote a lot of codices and lore for 40k, constantly inflated the importance of the Ultramarines. Became sort of a whipping boy of the fanbase during one of the times everyone was angry at GW for various reasons.
I used to play in high school, but I was bad at literally every aspect of the game. My guys were the tyranids but I like basically all the non humans. I had some orks for a bit too
with the infinite horrors at your fingertips, who wants to play the football robots with big guns? No sir, give me the body mod fetish catholic martians.
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Space Marines are cool and all, but I’m here for the necrons and orcs lmao. Necrons because they have some cool ass lore and aesthetics, and orks because they’re the only ones actually enjoying themselves lmao. Plus they’re just goofy, I love them for that
But have you considered Age of Sigmar? It has a race of hyper intelligent rat men called the Skaven. And within the Skaven there are religious fanatics, mad scientists, and wizards. They would easily beat everyone else if they could ever get their shit together and stop backstabbing each other.
So I just got a few Orks because I like their sort of Rockabilly Mad Max look and their "whatever. See what happens" playstyle but from what I've seen, Dark Eldar are significantly funnier than the "comic relief" faction.
The Dark Eldar "haemonculus" doctors have hands covered in clusters of prosthetic surgical blades, and you can kind of see how the character designers probably saw Edward Scissorhands at a formative age and rolled that into their teen goth understanding of what is sexy
"Serious" 40k lore is some of the funniest shit out there because there's over thirty years of it, half written by the most earnestly operatic sci-fi writers Britain had to offer and half written by jobbing franchise writers having a giggle, with no real effort to reconcile the two.
It will show you a ten foot tall brute wearing tank armour with a chainsaw for a hand, cradling another bleeding giant named Bulletus Mortem, whispering "Brother, why?" and then it will honestly wait for your tears.
They're funnier because they take themselves extremely seriously, and that will always be funnier than something that's supposed to be funny. It's that Simpsons bit about how throwing a pie at the dignified Bob Terwilliger is funnier than the undignified Sideshow Cecil.
also despite being kinda aesthetically The Most Evil Faction, they can still ally with "the good elves" who overlook the Drukhari subsistence on torture, which really emphasizes their status as "my goth cousin jayden who's always listening to bauhaus"
Swan Boy: Orks
Noel: Space Marines (I don't know enough about them yet to get more specific but I like this Space Wolves thing you said)
Rona: Started Tau but switched to Aeldari. She's working on some Drukhari minis in private and has nightmares about people finding out
Buddy I don’t need to spend $500 to look at a group of brainwashed genocidal fascists in thrall to a decaying corpse… I can just turn on the dang TV!!!
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anyway the orks are extremely GOF: 40,000 good insight
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You made the right choice!
Actually, yeah, would you consider Harlequins instead of Drukhari?
"Ew, loyalists."
IDK at least the Space Wolves do something interesting
It wasn't until the anime came out that I learned that people who aren't assholes could like normally.
Noel: Space Marines (I don't know enough about them yet to get more specific but I like this Space Wolves thing you said)
Rona: Started Tau but switched to Aeldari. She's working on some Drukhari minis in private and has nightmares about people finding out