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Why, in the emperor's name is everyone in the 40.000th year right handed?
Was left-handed considered something non-perfect or was this because everyone @ GWHQ is right handed??

Even with 4 arms he is right handed!?!?!?!!?




Even the drone is right handed?!?!?!?!




























Whadayya say eh?

Because it saves GW tons of money, and saves us tons of hassle, to have everything be cross-compatable. They aren't going to include two sets of each arm in every kit, and if they only included one it would be a logistical nightmare on our side to swap out weaponry for different mini's.

So it was going to be all right handed or all left handed. I think the choice here is obvious.

The simple but dull answer is that it's convenient and cheap for the sculptors to make plastic kits that way. Also rifle-toting models look more appropriately disciplined and military if they're all holding their weapons to the same side.

There are a few exceptions among the metal/finecast, like this guy, whose shield is on his right arm, suggesting he's a lefty.


Pedro Kantor also appears to be firing his gun left-handed.

Sorry to harp, but really, think about this a bit more. Would you really WANT a couple of left handed weapons in your tac marine kit?! "Well, I'd like this guy to use a plasma pistol and power sword, but the plasma pistol is the left handed grip set, and the power sword is for the right handed grip set. Maybe I have a righty pistol in my bits box."

Suddenly it isn't enough to have the right type of wargear, you need the right grip. You have doubled the amount of bits necessary to get anything done.

Yuck.

Yeah i know but why is almost everything right handed? may be i'm just being silly but i wonder...

There are a few exceptions among the metal/finecast, like this guy, whose shield is on his right arm, suggesting he's a lefty.


Maybe he just faps a lot and his right arm is stronger by this?( )

Deal with it, lefty.
Go be creative, or something.

Couldnt t be said that many higher ups are ambidextrous.
Like lets say assault marines. They would have to be to wield weapons effectively
Also in alot of the art that is drawn they aren't.

The same reason all guardsmen are male, the same reason all marines use the same pattern of bolter, and the same reason there isn't more variation in the types of power armor used, i.e it's a model range, it doesn't represent the 'fluff' of the universe.

The same thing is true of real military models. Were all solders in wwII right handed? Obviously not. The model range doesn't represent real life.

Would classic Njal be a righty or a lefty?




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Even with 4 arms he is right handed!?!?!?!!?

thats brilliant dude.

Actually, I think in the boyz box set there are left handed pistols and ccws. And maybe shootas.

I think with the orks they consider the shoota to be their 'secondary' weapon. They are still holding their main weapon in their right hand.

Ratius wrote:Would classic Njal be a righty or a lefty?

Hmm. His holstered pistol is on his right hip with the grip facing to the back, so sadly I'd presume he was right-handed, or he'd have difficulty drawing it in a hurry.

Righty. Obviously he considers the crow to be his real weapon.

riplikash wrote:Righty. Obviously he considers the crow to be his real weapon.

Also this.

Based on main weapon usage then Ghazzys just a misunderstood creative soul




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Actually I forgot his eadbutt is his main weapon!

riplikash wrote:Righty. Obviously he considers the crow to be his real weapon.

It can't rain all the time, unless your name is Njal and you are constantly followed by a storm. That guy must be such a downer at SW picnics.

That's the way it always is with games. Even in video games that allow for left handed-ness, there's a lot more animations for the right hand than the left, simply because it won't be used as much, so fewer people will notice. It is possible to model them and switch around their weapons if you want though.

Every set with close combat weapons has them on the left and right sides. The only model firing a bolter left handed I can think of is one of the Legion of the Damned dudes. It's probably done since many sculptors are right handed so it comes naturally to sculpt right handed or ambidextrous models.

To be fair, the Raptors do appear to be left handed, because I am left handed, and I would carry a sword in my left hand.

riplikash wrote:Sorry to harp, but really, think about this a bit more. Would you really WANT a couple of left handed weapons in your tac marine kit?! "Well, I'd like this guy to use a plasma pistol and power sword, but the plasma pistol is the left handed grip set, and the power sword is for the right handed grip set. Maybe I have a righty pistol in my bits box."

Suddenly it isn't enough to have the right type of wargear, you need the right grip. You have doubled the amount of bits necessary to get anything done.

Yuck.

I would actually really like this. It would make conversions easier if both arms existed.

It's been a while since I built anything not orky(they have weapons in both hands/one hand/no hands/teef) but I seem to remember some catachans having a left handed weapon when I made them.

From a military standpoint, it makes sense; teach all your soldiers to fire the guns designed for right handed firers. It is a little more difficult for the lefties, but in the end you save money not having to produce a left handed weapon.

-cgmckenzie

BTW, the differences are usually as simply as side the spent shell casings eject from. You don't want hot brass hitting you in the face.

Not to rain on your parade at all, but:



and:

Actually, the humanoid models with a sword in the left hand could be considered to be left-handed models - as a left-handed former student of a couple of Western Martial arts & a former battle re-enactor (Englisc/Seaxon/Vikingr/Norman), I would much rather have a melee weapon in my left hand and the gun in my right - it would feel more natural to use the left hand & arm to strike & defend with the sword/melee weapon and to pop off shots with a gun in the right hand - wielding melee weapons in your 'off-hand', as it were, feels clunky, uncomfortable and really weird. This includes weapons such as power claws & powerfists, I'd much rather use them with my left hand.

As for two-handed ranged weapons, left-handers, on average, tend to hit more consistently when wielding a gun right-handed. Our stronger, more precise arm is supporting the weight of the weapon, it's barrel & is in charge of aligning the sights, whilst our weaker right arm is relegated to pulling a trigger.

Biggest reason is that many people are right-hand dominant, so it is natural for sculptors & designers to go with what, to a quick glance, are right-handed models.

The blood claws and other models with 2 weapons isn't what i meant, i mean the dominant hand is always right, right?

Wolf_Ov_The_Void wrote:The blood claws and other models with 2 weapons isn't what i meant, i mean the dominant hand is always right, right?

Well, IRL there is statistically a greater number of right handed people than left handed people.
So it would make sense that in the squad they are usally rightys with a lefty thrown in.

Sparks_Havelock wrote:Actually, the humanoid models with a sword in the left hand could be considered to be left-handed models - as a left-handed former student of a couple of Western Martial arts & a former battle re-enactor (Englisc/Seaxon/Vikingr/Norman), I would much rather have a melee weapon in my left hand and the gun in my right - it would feel more natural to use the left hand & arm to strike & defend with the sword/melee weapon and to pop off shots with a gun in the right hand - wielding melee weapons in your 'off-hand', as it were, feels clunky, uncomfortable and really weird. This includes weapons such as power claws & powerfists, I'd much rather use them with my left hand.

I concur. If I were theoretically using a pistol and melee weapon at the same time, I'd definitely have the pistol in my left (off) hand. I could easily shoot a person at pistol ranges with my off-hand. There's no way I could effectively use a melee weapon with it.

The Imperium probably executes left handed people, but I guess that doesn't explain why all of the other races are still right handed. Oh well.

riplikash wrote:Sorry to harp, but really, think about this a bit more. Would you really WANT a couple of left handed weapons in your tac marine kit?! "Well, I'd like this guy to use a plasma pistol and power sword, but the plasma pistol is the left handed grip set, and the power sword is for the right handed grip set. Maybe I have a righty pistol in my bits box."

Suddenly it isn't enough to have the right type of wargear, you need the right grip. You have doubled the amount of bits necessary to get anything done.

Yuck.

Actually, this is already the case with a lot of gear. If you want an outstretched gun arm on an Assault Marine, the pistol has to be in his left hand. The right arms are all bent close to the body.

But to answer the OP's question, being a lefty means being wrong handed, and that has been bred out of the human race by 40K.

LoneLictor wrote:The Imperium probably executes left handed people, but I guess that doesn't explain why all of the other races are still right handed. Oh well.

The Imperium uses the Ordo Anti-Sinistra to assassinate them all!