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 Overread wrote:
It is but its also riding the coat tails of Space Marine 2 being insanely popular.

It's pretty wild how Titus went from largely abandoned to essentially the lead character of the franchise on the back of a game that's just actually that good.

I'm probably more excited for what this means for SM3 than what it means for 40k, but I do really like the 500 Worlds as a microcosm of what 40k should be. I think places like Armageddon are hard to appreciate as a battlezone when far too many stories have been resolved with exterminatus. Shifting the goal to reclamation helps tell stories where that's not really an option and gives a lot of potential to tell stories with something at stake the readers can care about.

I also think, in general, the world is just not in a place where Grimdark is as fun as it was in the 80's and 90's. The doom and gloom isn't as edgy and rebellious as it once was. There's honestly value in characters who exist to challenge and change things. That doesn't mean that the setting shouldn't still be a meat grinder of human misery; just that it's okay for there to be factions that question it and even act to protect their people from it.

Lets face it it was going to be Titus or Gabriel and at least Titus has an army in the GW roster right now whilst everyone just mixes up Bloodangles and Bloodravens

Not a rumour per se but speaking with a friend we noticed the Eldar Corsair Voidscarred box it's absolutely gone from the GW webstore.

Maybe just an error in web listing but since there were Corsair rumours for new units maybe it's not a coincidence.

 Lord Perversor wrote:
Not a rumour per se but speaking with a friend we noticed the Eldar Corsair Voidscarred box it's absolutely gone from the GW webstore.

Maybe just an error in web listing but since there were Corsair rumours for new units maybe it's not a coincidence.

Probably getting re-packed in 40k branding instead of Kill Team branding.

So the revived Guilliman story arc is more of the idealist from 30K being worn down and becoming jaded, and having his ideals erode to the point he accepts the very things he initially wanted to change.

So for some reason, this has really stuck with me, and this ideas being worming around in my head so... here we go.

There was a rumour awhile back that seemed to be persistant that GW were looking to do some kind of Imperium civil war - not strictly a Heresy, but an internal struggle. I wonder if this 500 worlds thing is a very slow run into that; Guilliman builds a 'good' Imperium in the form of Imperium Secundus, which leads to other Primarchs returning to fill the void and a more idealised version of the Imperium.

Ever since GW did that campaign which focused on the idea of the Imperium being split in half there's been rumour that they were going to deal some kind of major blow to the Imperium and fragment a huge chunk of it.

It's also something a lot of xenos players get excited about because story and lore wise one of the biggest creative barriers is the dominance of the Imperium. Even Tau have to pull all kinds of tricks to survive against a faction that could, very easily, destroy them entirely.

So the idea of the Imperium fragmenting suddenly creates a lot of scope for minor xenos factions to "rise up"



It also creates options for GW to make even more Imperial stuff cause now you've more subfactions on the major part of the story to focus on