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chromedog wrote:The purpose for wargaming for me: I play with toy soldiers because I like to paint them and field them on a physical table battlefield where I've often also made the terrain.

Yes well, I consider painting to be the worst, most abominable part of 40k tabletop. It's the biggest barrier for me expanding my armies or getting new ones, even bigger than money in the cases where I actually have money to spend. Painting sucks and sucsk hard, it's the most tedious and downright obnoxious art for me, and that's painting in general-- painting dozens if not hundreds of tiny miniatures is almost uttely untenable. Feth painting, and its little dog too.

I dislike the term "canon" because it carries some hefty religious connotations with it, and to me "religious" runs into the risk of "dogma". While the concept of heresy is rather amusing in-universe in 40K, I find it less amusing out of it, and I've had enough horrors in dealing with canon of other universes in the past to want to deal with it again. I personally doubt you would ever get people to agree on what is or isn't canon - people have too many differing opinions, likes, dislikes and so on. And as near as I can tell the individuals at GW and their spinoffs have different opinions on canon as well, given all the quotes. GW itself doesn't seem inclined to take a specific stand (the way, say, ST and SW have) and that may actually be wise siince it won't be possible to make everyone happy.

Don't get me wrong, I think it can be worked out, even if it wouldn't be an easy thing to do and it would require cooperation and even some compromise. But I don't believe in one absolute truth and I doubt anyone would get anyone else to agree.