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Things I want to see more of:

High Imperial society, Inquisitors, Terran nobles, Chapter leaders and how they interact with each other.

The Human side of Chaos, hoping to see more about the mortl followers of the dark gods and maybe chaos held cities that produce mortal armies and fleets of their own.

Naval engagements.

Things I can't stand:

The inner workings of Space Marine chapters, i'm getting bored hearing about how eunich theocratic superhumans spend their time. To be honest the space marines can just be a little too perfect, I like my heroes have vices.

The perspectives of lowlely servants of the Imperium such as guardsmen, its just too depressing.

Deranged hyper masculine Chaos Space Marines who just like their counterparts are eunich theocratic superhumans.

+ More on the less featured SM chapters, like the White Scars, would be nice
+ Eldar Rangers -- their way of life, culture, approach to combat would be interesting to see fleshed out more
+ Same for Tau

- Newcrons...in general
- Renegades and heretics having silly, almost childish attitudes and reasons for betrayal
- Less instances of otherwise formidable foes being used as 'level up' opportunities for hero characters

Like to see more of (or actually see)

The forces of Chaos are highly competant and a major threat (especially Abaddon)

Imperial forces (especially Guard officers) fighting with honor (less of cannon fodder guard tactics)

Ya and lets add more interaction between the different Imperial groups, IG and SM, SM and SM, Inquistion and anyone, etc...


Oh and kind of a lose 4th, a minorly darker Tau

I hate seeing (not already loselly mentioned aboved)
The pants on head stupidty of the Imperium and technology (we dont know how to make fething anything)

The "ill do anything it takes including sacrificing millions of soldiers and my own mother to become the best" attitude of so many commanders.

and Inquisitors are always bad, either because they are working for Chaos or they are just bad people (similiar above attidute)




At least thats what I can think of now

More ;

Of the good side of the Imperium. And pretty much from all it's sub-factions (except maybe the IH and clearly evil ones...). I want to relate at least a bit. It's hard to relate to pseudo-Nazi in Spaaaace...
Of the Eldar. Not too much, but still a bit...
Of intra-mankind politics. And not just the Heresy trope...

Less ;

Conspiracy theories about the Emprah. No more Star Child silliness.
Psykers being overly linked to Chaos.
Focus on Traitor Legion.

+ More Illuminati/Sensei/Star Child fun
+ More Sisters of Battle and Ordo Hereticus stuff
+ More Xenos (specifically Demiurg and Jokaero) lore

- Less Space Marine stuff in general
- Less flying rodent gak crazy fascist Imperium
- Less Chaos stuff

More explosions
More bullets
More dead people

Less non-exploding things
Less things not being hit by bullets
Less live people

+ multiple chapter interactions
+ lesser known/lesser used chapters
+Space Marines not always winning (I loved the end of the Galaxy in Flames)

-coming up with a plan at the last minute that turns everything around and lets the imperium win
-wounds doing nothing to major characters but insta-death to everything else.
-Chaos/warp evil thingies

What I want more of

-I love the IG.
-I also would love for more focus on the Dark Eldar.
-Having competent commissars/Planetary Governors would be nice for a change.

What I want less of.

-Ultramarines.
-Other Space Marine-chapters.
--Matt Ward.

More of:
Pretty much everything

More IG and IN.
More Adeptus Arbites.
More about different human societies throughout the Imperium.

Less IG being portrayed as incompetent idiots getting killed by chaos and xenos all the time.
Less imperial citizens being stupid and joining the "Greater Good"."
Less Imperial citizens being killed/enslaved/chased away, why can't we have them defend their homes and win at least once for a change, after all there are tons of them.

Ok, honestly... here is what I want more of

+ white scar novels
+ Grey Knight Lore
+ Dynamics within the lore... instances of unlikely alliances

Less of... hmmm, what do we need less of?

- idiot wargamers that will berate some one for playing their army to its strengths
- ultra-marine super-lore
- Invulnerability of the space marines.

+More xenos
+More xenos vs xenos and xenos vs chaos
+More of the Tyranids being portrayed as *the* ultimate threat with the fluff to back it. Chaos is simple corruption and is too tied to humanity. The Tyranids are outright annhialation for all the other factions.

-Less imperials
-Less Chaos showing up in other media fighting Imperials
-Less Matt Ward in general.

More
Dan Abnett.
Horus Heresy progress.
Guard models.

Less
People complaining about armiy builds.
Opaque unapproachable charaters
massively powerful badasses in spaaace!

purplefood wrote:More explosions
More bullets
More dead people

Less non-exploding things
Less things not being hit by bullets
Less live people

Additionally to those fx:

+ less incompetence
+ growing a sense of scale
+ more sci in the fi than "magic" and "fantasy"

- pointless use of "decisive world wide campaigns" like the EoT one
- creating super threats who are moar super then the other threats before, same with super heroes who are obviously moar super than anything ever...
- no right to write about 40k without a competent editor for certain employees of GW and its subcompanies and anyone having a license.

More:
Necron books where they are accurately represented(in other words, where they arent just fodder for bolter porn...I'm looking at you Hammer and Anvil).
More books likes Path of the Warrior/Seer/Outcast. Just books from the perspective of the xenos. A Tau or possibly even Necron one would be awesome.
A campaign, hosted by GW where what the players do actually affects the story. Kinda like 13th black crusade campaign.
A more in depth naval combat game, like an updated Battlefleet Gothic

Less:
Space Marines beating down opponents just for the sake of "hey, I beat this guy so you know I'm the gak". Poor Avatar of Khaine, he has been on the receiving end of this way to much. In other words, using big xenos/chaos things as a steping stone for space marine characters
I would very much like to see less of the tabletop game itself being based so much on luck. Example, an IG veteran squad is 2' away from a monolith but still needs 3+ to hit?....come on....
Less Matt Ward(Dolmen Gates?!, Draigo beats Mortarion?!, Necron Blood Angels alliance?!)

More
-Forces of order getting their act together and dealing with legitimate threats to the whole galaxy(Nids)
- An obscure marine chapter being completely badass
-More xenos

Less
-Matt Ward
-PDF getting wiped to the last man only to have marines ALWAYS save the day and never die.
-Ridiculous changes in canon(see Gray Knights or 'crons)then again, that is a derivative of Matt Ward

More:
Focus on the Intricacies of High Imperial Society- factions, politics, betrayal and its consequences.
Sinister and effective cults- the Cognitae spring to mind.
The Imperium, despite its best efforts, losing. However there needs to be some emotion attached to this losing. Death of a world? Meh. Death of a Battlefleet, which leaves an Agri-world alone and defenceless, with the protaganists family/love/whatever stranded, subject to whatever unimaginable horror is assailing them? Brilliant

Less:
Space Marine Chapters overcoming the odds without breaking a sweat.
Incomprehensible alliances: Humans and Tau declaring a ceasefire, to take out Tyranids I can (just) comprehend. Blood angels and Necrons though? Really?
Orks being manipulated left, right and centre. It seems that a race that presented a viable threat to Humanity now cannot attack anything without Eldar/Chaos/ whatever manipulating them into doing so.

+ Life for the normal man on the street
+ Imperial Guard regiments as varied as SM chapters, with their own rules
+ Tau

- Space Marine chapters being essentially heretical. Space Marine chapters numbering 1000 beating millions of foes when that doesn't match the game.
- Matt Ward
- No more work of whoever created the Rynn's World book. It was awful.

More:
- Grimdarkness (including extreme violence and cruelty)!
- Minor Xeno stuff.
- "Good" Chaos (Nurgle daemons of Life, Tzeentch daemons of Creation, Khorne daemons of Honor, Slaanesh dameons of Love).

Less:
- Heroism.
- Emphasis on how invincible faction X is.
- Brainless Chaos.

More irrational space nazis with no understanding of technology
More space battles
More magic and sorcery

Less 'humanism'
Less hard sci-fi
Less happy endings

MOAR new models !
MOAR dannyverse ( sabbat world novels etc... )
MOAR non idiotic chaos, as portrayed in the nightlord novels.

NO MOAR happy bunny fluffy fluff, its grim dark not a pijama party.
NO MOAR SM focus. Have moar then enough pretty much anything when it comes to MEQ.
NO MOAR unbalanced codices

AND plus on on the space nazis

More of:
-Stormtrooper and Sentinel fluff
-Striking Scorpion and Warp Spider fluff
-Dan Abnett

Less of:
-Dry space marine fluff
-GW's love for space marines (in general)
-First person novels (only a few writers can do it properly)

More;

Xenos
Campaigns
Chaos

Less;
Space Marines
Imperial Guard
Grey Knights

More of:
-Perspective from non-Imperial factions
-Imperial politics. I want to know what kind of political games go on on Terra, how the various organizations get along with each other, etc.
-Assassins
-Non-playable Xenos


Less of:
-Space Marines
-Space Marines
-Space Marines
-Imperium winning
-Newcrons

Stuff I want to see more of:
Pragmatic Tau: I don't want them to kill everyone, but I want to see how they react to psykers and potential rebellion, perhaps becoming a tiny bit more grimdark if only for pragmatic reasons. Mainly I feel that the greater good and whatnot is too... bright for the setting.
More focus on Chaos: In earlier editions it felt like Chaos was a minor threat, sure they launched black crusades, but the Tyranids and Oldcrons were always more threatening. So yeah a nerf to Tyranids and boost to Chaos fluffwise (emphasis on fluffwise).
More focus on non-human societies: I would really like to see more information on how the Eldar and Dark Eldar and Tau, and even Newcrons live in their day to day lives.

Stuff I want to see less of:
Grimdarkness for the sake of grimdarkness: I sort of like the overall doomed feeling, but a lot of the time it seems like the setting is trying too hard to be depressing to the point where it gets stupid or simply funny because it is trying too hard.
Chaos fails to do anything, again: I want chaos and all of the other "bad guys" to actually succeed from time to time and have it effect the setting. I don't mean the Ultramarines are eaten by Tyranids, or Cadia falls, but something that makes it seem like Chaos and co. actually win meaningful battles. It makes the whole grimdark setting seem dumb when all of the bad guys either lose or only win unimportant battles.
Less Space Marines, Space Marines, Space Marines: I like space marines, I think they are cool, but I don't like hearing about them all the time.

Buttons wrote:Stuff I want to see more of:
Pragmatic Tau: I don't want them to kill everyone, but I want to see how they react to psykers and potential rebellion, perhaps becoming a tiny bit more grimdark if only for pragmatic reasons. Mainly I feel that the greater good and whatnot is too... bright for the setting.
More focus on Chaos: In earlier editions it felt like Chaos was a minor threat, sure they launched black crusades, but the Tyranids and Oldcrons were always more threatening. So yeah a nerf to Tyranids and boost to Chaos fluffwise (emphasis on fluffwise).
More focus on non-human societies: I would really like to see more information on how the Eldar and Dark Eldar and Tau, and even Newcrons live in their day to day lives.

Stuff I want to see less of:
Grimdarkness for the sake of grimdarkness: I sort of like the overall doomed feeling, but a lot of the time it seems like the setting is trying too hard to be depressing to the point where it gets stupid or simply funny because it is trying too hard.
Chaos fails to do anything, again: I want chaos and all of the other "bad guys" to actually succeed from time to time and have it effect the setting. I don't mean the Ultramarines are eaten by Tyranids, or Cadia falls, but something that makes it seem like Chaos and co. actually win meaningful battles. It makes the whole grimdark setting seem dumb when all of the bad guys either lose or only win unimportant battles.
Less Space Marines, Space Marines, Space Marines: I like space marines, I think they are cool, but I don't like hearing about them all the time.

I disagree with nerfing the Tyranids or focusing EVEN MORE on Chaos as antagonists. Chaos stars as the main antagonists in too many works (Dawn of War, Gaunt's Ghosts, Ciaphas Cain, Space Marine, Ultramarines, Black Crusades, Badab War, and more.) Chaos vs Imperials has been done so much that I can pretty much tell you how any battle against chaos will go. That and Chaos doesn't really give two gaks about anyone other than the Imperium as a whole, except for maybe the Eldar. This makes them rather bad as setting wide antagonists as they only diametrically oppose one. The Tyranids have always attacked everyone equally (proportionally anyway), Chaos doesn't care about the Xenos factions outside of how they can use them to hurt the Imperium, to the Tyranids, they're all just as much food or things getting in the way of food.

Kain wrote:

Buttons wrote:Stuff I want to see more of:
Pragmatic Tau: I don't want them to kill everyone, but I want to see how they react to psykers and potential rebellion, perhaps becoming a tiny bit more grimdark if only for pragmatic reasons. Mainly I feel that the greater good and whatnot is too... bright for the setting.
More focus on Chaos: In earlier editions it felt like Chaos was a minor threat, sure they launched black crusades, but the Tyranids and Oldcrons were always more threatening. So yeah a nerf to Tyranids and boost to Chaos fluffwise (emphasis on fluffwise).
More focus on non-human societies: I would really like to see more information on how the Eldar and Dark Eldar and Tau, and even Newcrons live in their day to day lives.

Stuff I want to see less of:
Grimdarkness for the sake of grimdarkness: I sort of like the overall doomed feeling, but a lot of the time it seems like the setting is trying too hard to be depressing to the point where it gets stupid or simply funny because it is trying too hard.
Chaos fails to do anything, again: I want chaos and all of the other "bad guys" to actually succeed from time to time and have it effect the setting. I don't mean the Ultramarines are eaten by Tyranids, or Cadia falls, but something that makes it seem like Chaos and co. actually win meaningful battles. It makes the whole grimdark setting seem dumb when all of the bad guys either lose or only win unimportant battles.
Less Space Marines, Space Marines, Space Marines: I like space marines, I think they are cool, but I don't like hearing about them all the time.

I disagree with nerfing the Tyranids or focusing EVEN MORE on Chaos as antagonists. Chaos stars as the main antagonists in too many works (Dawn of War, Gaunt's Ghosts, Ciaphas Cain, Space Marine, Ultramarines, Black Crusades, Badab War, and more.) Chaos vs Imperials has been done so much that I can pretty much tell you how any battle against chaos will go. That and Chaos doesn't really give two gaks about anyone other than the Imperium as a whole, except for maybe the Eldar. This makes them rather bad as setting wide antagonists as they only diametrically oppose one. The Tyranids have always attacked everyone equally (proportionally anyway), Chaos doesn't care about the Xenos factions outside of how they can use them to hurt the Imperium, to the Tyranids, they're all just as much food or things getting in the way of food.

I don't mean make them the antagonist in more works, just make them seem more threatening. Before the new necron codex it seemed stupid that the Imperium bothered about chaos when they had to deal with the seemingly unstoppable necrons and tyranids. I would like seeing Tyranids and Necrons as antagonists more in fiction, I simply want Chaos to seem more threatening to the galaxy as a whole.

In my view Chaos is pulling on the very fabric of the IOM, the rich and famous has Tzeencth and Slaanesh pulling at them, the lower classes has Khorne feeding on their envy, and Nurgle due to death-rate.

+ More IG with competent commanders
+ More stories without space marines
+ More Tau, models, books and stories

- Less space marines, enough already
- Less IG used only as Cannon fodder
- Less inconsistent canon and lazy setting management

Want:
ultramarines defeated somehow, not wiped out but put in their place preferibly by chaos marines.

I'd be interested in a story from the perspective of a non-astartes chaos pirate preying on the imperium.

The despoilers inner court, or stuff dealing with the lords of terra, stuff dealing with top people on both sides.

Wars with classic xenos: orks, eldar.

Get rid of:

Virtuous portrayals of the Eldar

the Tau in any capacity except as tyrannid fodder.

Necrons