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Apparently female Custodes are confirmed in the new codex. Good! 👍
I don't get the obsession with this, or any gender based anything, in 40k/Gaming.
As a person that was there day 1 of 40k, who cares? Why? What's the big deal?
They're toys, your toys, play with them the way you want. Screw everyone else's opinion.
That is a good attitude to have.
There’s a good chunk of people who feel like their way has to be the only way, though. It’s not just “My army is all guys,” for them, it’s “ALL the armies have to be guys.”
Clocks for the clockmaker! Cogs for the cog throne!
JNAProductions wrote: That is a good attitude to have.
There’s a good chunk of people who feel like their way has to be the only way, though. It’s not just “My army is all guys,” for them, it’s “ALL the armies have to be guys.”
To me, either side is just as bad as the other. People screaming "yas queen!" are just as bad as "no boobs on my dudes" are.
Didn't GW just finish releasing a hundred and seventeen Horus Heresy books with zero mentions of even the possibility of female Custodes existing? Did they only start making them after they made sure the Emperor won't notice, or what?
His Master's Voice wrote: Didn't GW just finish releasing a hundred and seventeen Horus Heresy books with zero mentions of even the possibility of female Custodes existing? Did they only start making them after they made sure the Emperor won't notice, or what?
It makes me wonder if this is just GW navigating their way out of the quagmire on Sisters of Silence. It would be easy to just say that they're Custodes (subcategory Sisters of Silence), maybe roll out a few more sculpts and make the Custodes a more unified force.
Doesn't require any massive retcons or anything.
I prefer to buy from miniature manufacturers that *don't* support the overthrow of democracy.
cuda1179 wrote: Now if they'll just cave and give us male Sisters of Battle.
You can already run a Sisters force with something like one woman and dozens of dudes.
I mean that's the same argument for Custodes being run with SoS not counting towards what people wanted for them up until now, we demand misters of battle!
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His Master's Voice wrote: Didn't GW just finish releasing a hundred and seventeen Horus Heresy books with zero mentions of even the possibility of female Custodes existing? Did they only start making them after they made sure the Emperor won't notice, or what?
they start making them after realising that making money is much more important than consistency in background (and if you can reset the game every 3 years to make more money, you can also change the background every 3 years to increase sales)
not the first time GW alters the background to account for new models or to sell something
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Harry, bring this ring to Narnia or the Sith will take the Enterprise
His Master's Voice wrote:Didn't GW just finish releasing a hundred and seventeen Horus Heresy books with zero mentions of even the possibility of female Custodes existing? Did they only start making them after they made sure the Emperor won't notice, or what?
Did anything in those explicitly state there coudn't be female Custodes?
Equally, I do wish they'd just acknowledged this as a possibility in the first Custodes 'dex, given that was when they were describing the faction in depth for the first time.
CMLR wrote:This was a divertion, a smoke screen to not talk about how this is the worst Codex in 4 editions or so :tinfoil_hat:
I'll be impressed if it is worse than the Ad Mech one, by all accounts.
Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.
Kanluwen wrote: This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.
Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...
tneva82 wrote: You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something...
lord_blackfang wrote: It's also pretty laughable in the part where it says that games that are constantly sold out are underperforming. Like, can you perform any better than selling out?
When you have logistical issues...
GW has logistical issues.
So it's possible.
If I had to guess...
Bean counters say you need to sell 100k units to make a profit
Factory says, best we can do is 50k units what with the logistics and the Red Sea and wotnot
GW sells 50k units.
It underperformed!
His Master's Voice wrote: Didn't GW just finish releasing a hundred and seventeen Horus Heresy books with zero mentions of even the possibility of female Custodes existing? Did they only start making them after they made sure the Emperor won't notice, or what?
they start making them after realising that making money is much more important than consistency in background (and if you can reset the game every 3 years to make more money, you can also change the background every 3 years to increase sales)
not the first time GW alters the background to account for new models or to sell something
GW never was consistent with their background. They didnt realise fans would have religious reading of every silly snippet of info in every publication 40 years later.
I like to read it as Imperial PR and censorship that need to clean up their reputation now and again. Some poor clerk gets turned in to a sevitor and a senior scribe have to retcon the annuals And thats very much in line with the setting. Most stuff is unknown and based on dubious records.
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His Master's Voice wrote: Didn't GW just finish releasing a hundred and seventeen Horus Heresy books with zero mentions of even the possibility of female Custodes existing? Did they only start making them after they made sure the Emperor won't notice, or what?
There have been subtle mentions in the past. One of the HH novels has a flashback to Sanguinius meeting the Emperor escorted by "men and women" guardians in gold plate armour.
Readers at the time may well assume SoS, but in retrospect it definitely works for Custodes too.
His Master's Voice wrote:Didn't GW just finish releasing a hundred and seventeen Horus Heresy books with zero mentions of even the possibility of female Custodes existing? Did they only start making them after they made sure the Emperor won't notice, or what?
Did anything in those explicitly state there coudn't be female Custodes?
Equally, I do wish they'd just acknowledged this as a possibility in the first Custodes 'dex, given that was when they were describing the faction in depth for the first time.
CMLR wrote:This was a divertion, a smoke screen to not talk about how this is the worst Codex in 4 editions or so :tinfoil_hat:
I'll be impressed if it is worse than the Ad Mech one, by all accounts.
the biggest issue with the admech codex is being flavorless, which from what i've seen isn't an issue for custodes, but with only having four detachments, there's going to be a lot less variety, and since a lot of them focus on gimmicks, i'm not sure if we're going to have an option that is mechanically viable
While that is true, SM are a different matter entirely. They basically carry the entire company on their shoulders so they will be treated a lot more carefully.
