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Now im sure ill get kicked from newbieland all the way to what the hell happened to my spleen world but who is Matt Ward? An why dose everyone seem to hate him?
He is a rules author for GW. Reasons for dislike of him are legion, but also based often on apocryphal stories. However, to put it simply, he broke 7E fantasy with daemons and made a very poor Orcs and Goblins book. His fluff and background writing can best be described as "internet fanfic", especially when involving Space Marines.
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Vaktathi wrote:He is a rules author for GW. Reasons for dislike of him are legion, but also based often on apocryphal stories. However, to put it simply, he broke 7E fantasy with daemons and made a very poor Orcs and Goblins book. His fluff and background writing can best be described as "internet fanfic", especially when involving Space Marines.
This, and he's great at overpowering almost every codex he writes, while throwing the fluff into the testical grinder. Because the ultrasmurfs is 1337 and all speehs mahreens wish dey was ultrasmurfs, because deys be de most coolz.
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The last WD (Grey Knight cover) had 2 classics from him.
Talking about the Dread Knight he said (from memory) "everyone knows about David vs Goliath, but I thought Goliath vs Goliath would be more interesting so I gave the Grey Knights a giant armored suit."
Uh no,. Everyone knows David and Goliath because a small guy taking down a giant with luck and skill is cool. A little guy taking down a giant with a huge mech and a giant sword it just kind of meh.
Later Ward talks about a scene in the GK codex where the knights find world corrupted by chaos except for a small group of battle sisters who were pure enough to resist the corruption. So the GKs kill them and smear blood over their armor for, I dunno, DOUBLE PURITY POWER or something.
At that point the writer comments "he seemed to enjoy talking about this a bit too much."
Now think about it, WD is not a magazine, it's a catalogue, it says so right on the cover. Its only purpose is to sell GW products, and even they found this guy's facination with cutting up virgin nuns and smearing their blood on you to be a bit skeevy.
I think that tells us enough about Mat Ward.
Oh also he Squated my Inquisition army.
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Yes, Mr Ward is a writer of 3, of which he has a tendency to write below-par fluff and throwing in wobbler units and rules that completely baffle the mind.
And he loves his Characters doing a Duke Nukem. I wish he wouldn't but it defeats the whole purpose of SC's so
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If you think we are hard on him go there and see the nerd rage fly.
but if you sift out the anger you will find the reasons why he is so hated.
I'll leave those who dare venture into that web site.
It is rather funny all things together
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Right, so points to take away are he's a bit of a nutter, and he's a lot of a nutter, nice to know. Thanks guys. So you cut an butcher up a load of space nun's to AVOID being corrupted. Sounds very logicle.
Uh no,. Everyone knows David and Goliath because a small guy taking down a giant with luck and skill is cool.
Actually I thought David & Goliath to be a rather poor tale. It's about a small guy with the Biblical age version of a .44 Magnum taking down a big guy with a Head Shot. The story goes something like this...
Call me cynical but that's how I call it
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Correct me if I am wrong, but did he not have a large part in ruining the 8th Edition of Fantasy as well?
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Why do they continue to allow this guy to write codexes if no one seems to like him?
And is he going to have a part in the necron codex? It's about time they have their shining moment of being overpowered I say.
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Matt Ward's the poor bastard who the Internet Hate Bandwagon has currently set it's sights on.
His rules are pretty decent.
His stories are pretty decent.
People love to blow things out of proportion. What many don't seem to realize is the fact that Matt Ward did not singularly write any of the Codices with his name on them. Yes, he is the accredited author. But a Codex is a collaborative effort, which has to be given the final nod of approval from the GW execs. Blaming Matt Ward for a Codex is like blaming the President for governmental woes. He's just a part of a larger machine.
oni wrote:Mat Ward isn't a real person. The name is a surrogate for the term... "Douch Bag".
If you're going to use one of the more commonly tossed about derogatory terms in modern society, you could at least rise to the occasion and spell "Douche" correctly...
That being said, is his fluff OTT? Just a lot, but when you consider the rest of the game in context, with the sadomasochistic technogothic theofascists being the "good guys", the whole world is OTT... and I can't say I'd have it any other way.
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Kid_Kyoto wrote:Later Ward talks about a scene in the GK codex where the knights find world corrupted by chaos except for a small group of battle sisters who were pure enough to resist the corruption. So the GKs kill them and smear blood over their armor for, I dunno, DOUBLE PURITY POWER or something.
At that point the writer comments "he seemed to enjoy talking about this a bit too much."
*raises finger, opens mouth to talk*
*shuts mouth*
*takes down the bottle of Jack Daniel's and pours himself a shot*
*thinks better of it and just starts doing snorts straight from the bottle*
Kid_Kyoto wrote:Later Ward talks about a scene in the GK codex where the knights find world corrupted by chaos except for a small group of battle sisters who were pure enough to resist the corruption. So the GKs kill them and smear blood over their armor for, I dunno, DOUBLE PURITY POWER or something.
At that point the writer comments "he seemed to enjoy talking about this a bit too much."
*raises finger, opens mouth to talk*
*shuts mouth*
*takes down the bottle of Jack Daniel's and pours himself a shot*
*thinks better of it and just starts doing snorts straight from the bottle*
Snorts from the bottle? I guess that could work......
This is silly! Buttons are not how one escapes dungeons! I would smash the button and rain beatings liberally down on the wizard for playing such a trick!
Kid_Kyoto wrote:Later Ward talks about a scene in the GK codex where the knights find world corrupted by chaos except for a small group of battle sisters who were pure enough to resist the corruption. So the GKs kill them and smear blood over their armor for, I dunno, DOUBLE PURITY POWER or something.
At that point the writer comments "he seemed to enjoy talking about this a bit too much."
*raises finger, opens mouth to talk*
*shuts mouth*
*takes down the bottle of Jack Daniel's and pours himself a shot*
*thinks better of it and just starts doing snorts straight from the bottle*
*Swigs Jack Daniels* - while reading this post. Did not lie
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