You have to drop 5 armies from 40k

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**SemperMortis**

Inquisitor Lord Katherine wrote:
Kanluwen wrote:
They genuinely believe that they are the true inheritors of humanity's legacy.

They don't believe anything. They're mind controlled by the patriarch. That's literally the whole thing with the genestealer's parasite that mind-links and enslaves the victim to the genestealer cult's will.

The rest of their space-rape-infiltrators-crap gets into the realm of having unfortunately implications no matter how you look at it about several things from sexual assault survivor challenges to terrorist organizations

Warhammer 40k has never been apolitical, since it's basically an extended telling of the failures of fascism and theocracy. However, the Genestealer cults and there themes aren't written as part of a political discussion. They're just there, and just awful. They're not horror, they're not funny, they're not exciting, they're not even particularly well in the heritage of classic sci-fi since the objectionable space-rape-mind-control-infiltrator-willing-propagator thing isn't actually in the heritage of Alien, which space hulk-luirking Hive Fleet Genestealers cover fine as well without unfortunate and uncomfortable implications.

Hi, maybe you are new to 40k (joking) but we have this thing called "Grim Dark" and ohh yeah, Slaanesh is a fething thing

**SemperMortis**

Audustum wrote:
If we're just trying to maximize profits:

1. Corsairs
2. Grey Knights (no Primaris)
3. Orks (they only seem popular on Dakka)
4. Old Marines
5. Most the Inquisition stuff.

If I was just eliminating my 5 least favorite (which is how I think a fair amount of people see the thread, including me originally):

No one. I love all you crazy factions. Now please stop saying you'd all kill my Custodes :(

Orkz are one of the most popular and played factions in the game

Source cited

https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2016/04/40k-community-the-state-of-the-war.html