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A few weeks back I made a video on Youtube of a narration to the opening paragraph to every 40k novel from the Black Library.
It is a visual representation with artwork from both the artists at GamesWorkshop and Deviantart to further enhance the setting and passage.
If you are not sure of what I am talking about, it's this small yet brief passage about the collapse of the Imperium:
"It is the 41st Millennium. For more than a hundred centuries the Emperor has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. He is the Master of mankind by the will of the gods, and master of a million worlds by the might of his inexhaustible armies. He is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the Dark Age of Technology. He is the Carrion Lord of the Imperium for whom a thousand souls are sacrificed every day, so that he may never truly die.
Yet even in his deathless state, the Emperor continues his eternal vigilance. Mighty battlefleets cross the daemon-infested miasma of the warp, the only route between distant stars, their way lit by the Astronomican, the psychic manifestation of the Emperor's will. Vast armies give battle in his name on uncounted worlds. Greatest amongst his soldiers are the Adeptus Astartes, the Space Marines, bio-engineered super-warriors. Their comrades in arms are legion: the Imperial Guard and countless planetary defence forces, the ever vigilant Inquisition and the tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat from aliens, heretics, mutants - and worse.
To be a man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war. There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods."
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"What does not kill me is not trying hard enough." _Roboute Guilliman
"Fate is for fools. It is what the weak blame for their failures." _Fabius Bile
in the grim dark of the 40th millennium, there is only over priced plastic models and overpowered and imbalanced rules. Some of these models cost $20-30 for something 28mm or 40mm and you gotta buy like 10 of them...A large towering model seems cheaper by comparison at $120 in the weight to price ratio.
Then you have stuff that are expensive because the rules are soo over powered. Look at you Spawn and eldar jet bikes...
Oh but this is a luxury hobby! And GamesWorkshop is a miniature company not a game company. Then why are the words Games in your freaking title! Thats like ColdWellBanker being a realty company not being cold, a bank, or well...
I would add some more sense stress in a few places, and probably rewrite things a bit so that, "there is only war" is the final thing said.
Other than that, great job!
Armies: Space Marines, IG, Tyranids, Eldar, Necrons, Orks, Dark Eldar.
I am the best 40k player in my town, I always win! Of course, I am the only player of 40k in my town.
in the grim dark of the 40th millennium, there is only over priced plastic models and overpowered and imbalanced rules. Some of these models cost $20-30 for something 28mm or 40mm and you gotta buy like 10 of them...A large towering model seems cheaper by comparison at $120 in the weight to price ratio.
Oh but this is a luxury hobby! And GamesWorkshop is a miniature company not a game company. Then why are the words Games in your freaking title! Thats like ColdWellBanker being a realty company not being cold, a bank, or well...
Too expensive? Then don't play. This is far from the most expensive hobby out there. It's not a "luxury". If you can't afford it, then don't buy it. I don't understand the problem
Too expensive? Then don't play. This is far from the most expensive hobby out there. It's not a "luxury". If you can't afford it, then don't buy it. I don't understand the problem
It's probably the number one issue with new players getting into 40k. When I first started in 3rd it was a very expensive proposition for the income I had at the time. For years I never had the model count to play (or the proper knowledge) so it was my love of the hobby side over the game that kept me going until I had enough points to play regularly at a FLGS.
The game has gotten a lot better these days with tournaments in my local group aimed at much lower point values than in the past, but lets face it, if you didn't get the interest early in you income life, you probably wouldn't be playing today.
in the grim dark of the 40th millennium, there is only over priced plastic models and overpowered and imbalanced rules. Some of these models cost $20-30 for something 28mm or 40mm and you gotta buy like 10 of them...A large towering model seems cheaper by comparison at $120 in the weight to price ratio.
Oh but this is a luxury hobby! And GamesWorkshop is a miniature company not a game company. Then why are the words Games in your freaking title! Thats like ColdWellBanker being a realty company not being cold, a bank, or well...
Too expensive? Then don't play. This is far from the most expensive hobby out there. It's not a "luxury". If you can't afford it, then don't buy it. I don't understand the problem
It is the very definition of a luxury. Not required to maintain health or survival, an optional purchase at a price-point that puts it out of the reach of many within one's own society. If the price of a good or service is "too expensive" for some (either subjectively or objectively) then that very much makes it a luxury good. A yacht is a luxury good because it is a boat that costs more than half the United States makes in a year, by way of comparative example.
It is best to be a pessimist. You are usually right and, when you're wrong, you're pleasantly surprised.
in the grim dark of the 40th millennium, there is only over priced plastic models and overpowered and imbalanced rules. Some of these models cost $20-30 for something 28mm or 40mm and you gotta buy like 10 of them...A large towering model seems cheaper by comparison at $120 in the weight to price ratio.
Oh but this is a luxury hobby! And GamesWorkshop is a miniature company not a game company. Then why are the words Games in your freaking title! Thats like ColdWellBanker being a realty company not being cold, a bank, or well...
Too expensive? Then don't play. This is far from the most expensive hobby out there. It's not a "luxury". If you can't afford it, then don't buy it. I don't understand the problem
It is the very definition of a luxury. Not required to maintain health or survival, an optional purchase at a price-point that puts it out of the reach of many within one's own society. If the price of a good or service is "too expensive" for some (either subjectively or objectively) then that very much makes it a luxury good. A yacht is a luxury good because it is a boat that costs more than half the United States makes in a year, by way of comparative example.
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