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Not that I have anything against UM, but the art has no real mystery to it, and no real reason for me to other than glance at it.
Guess I am getting old
I can't overstate how much I agree with this sentiment. The old art just drew you in as your imagination went nuts trying to fill what could possibly be going on in the spaces left by the subtlety of the piece. Now everything is very much starkly spelled out for us.
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Not Always, Las, but often. I wish I could find something that contradicts the trend, but I can't.
Run a whole lot of wfrp and other rpg's, play The Woods and Kill Team, gather and look mournfully at imperial guard knowing I'll never finish enough to use them on the tabletop
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This. I know it is not a picture, but you get everything in here : heroic SM, incredible dread action, hordes of Xenos, and a lone sergent getting shot because he wants to lift his chapter banner.
The only ting that I miss in this one, is the humble IG, left alone in front of terrifying daemons /xenos.
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Isnt Madtank's iamge actually a picture of Sgt Bastonne and not a woman?
Some of the HH series cover artwork is awesome too if you see the full size versions rather than the cut-down and obscured ones we get on the book covers.
I've always felt that the last stand of the Crimson Fists on the Rogue Trader cover is the epitome 40k artwork as well as the definition of the setting.
A crew of ultimate badasses are facing an enemy so overwhelming that they've been pushed into a pile and so desperate that even using the body parts of their endless foes is a reasonable option. They are doomed, and they are still fighting.
"'players must agree how they are going to select their armies, and if any restrictions apply to the number and type of models they can use."
This is an actual rule in the actual rulebook. Quit whining about how you can imagine someone's army touching you in a bad place and play by the actual rules.
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Ross74H wrote: Isnt Madtank's iamge actually a picture of Sgt Bastonne and not a woman?
Sgt. Bastonne is a Cadian. That woman is distinctly Mordian.
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I like this one, sooo cool.
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Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
I know it isn't cannon, but this shot of Sanguinius gives me a feeling of awe that I cannot put into words. I have a signed copy of this framed on the wall.
Maybe I'm a bit daemons biased but...gawd this is an awesome image
But I have to admit, the one with the plaguebearers advancing on the guardsmen...Damn, it makes me glad i'm not being called up in the 41'st milennium
When I first saw that one image, it literally made me want to buy that book. I resisted, but only on the condition that I would read it at some point in the near future.
Not that I have anything against UM, but the art has no real mystery to it, and no real reason for me to other than glance at it.
Guess I am getting old
I dunno, that kind of image was smattered into the rulebooks dating all the way back to 2nd Edition.
It's a Codex Cover, FFS, lol. They all try to make that faction look awesome.
Those all predate 2000. C:AoD was 1996. I don't know how old you are, or what you use as "now". That's pretty much par for the course for Codex army book covers. Even the IGuard look all heroic on their covers.
Marneus Calgar is referred to as "one of the Imperium's greatest tacticians" and he treats the Codex like it's the War Bible. If the Codex is garbage, then how bad is everyone else?
Some of you guys keep using this word "inspiring". I don't think it means what you think it means..
Also, this image is all the inspiration I need
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So, beautiful images all, but I think I (as OP) should specify some peril, some desperation to the images. Obviously I'm a guard player so seeing people dying nobly is inspiring to me
And thank you all for posting, but quite a few of these are very Bay. That's right, I'm using Bay as an adjective. Just try and stop me.
Anyway, please keep 'em coming! Amaya and Shadox, you seem to have got the gist.
Run a whole lot of wfrp and other rpg's, play The Woods and Kill Team, gather and look mournfully at imperial guard knowing I'll never finish enough to use them on the tabletop
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Based on my profile picture, I think you can see that I like this picture.
I can't fine the image, but there is some picture out there that shows a trench/crater filled with guard bodies and the last guy of the squad putting the lasgun to his head as some enemy swarms in the background towards him. I think the darkness of that image is wonderful and defines my vision of 40k. If anybody can find that image again for me, I would be eternally grateful.
Based on my profile picture, I think you can see that I like this picture.
I can't fine the image, but there is some picture out there that shows a trench/crater filled with guard bodies and the last guy of the squad putting the lasgun to his head as some enemy swarms in the background towards him. I think the darkness of that image is wonderful and defines my vision of 40k. If anybody can find that image again for me, I would be eternally grateful.
The one with the Tyranids? I do believe it was posted in this thread already.
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