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2020/09/15 12:57:58
Subject: Is the 9e rulebook creepy?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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I just got my copy of the 93 rulebook and in the actual rules section bit, did anyone else find those like aborted festuses attached to bolt guns creepy? I mean I've gottne used to the cyber cherubs and the ammorium cherubs, but those fetus bolters were just at the edge of what I could look at without cringing.
Honestly, that looked like stuf ol' fabius should be working on, not the imperium.
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2020/09/15 13:14:10
Subject: Is the 9e rulebook creepy?
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Ultramarine Librarian with Freaky Familiar
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Matt Swain wrote:Honestly, that looked like stuf ol' fabius should be working on, not the imperium.
It's almost like the Imperium are the bad guys!
Wait...
On a serious note, that's nothing special for the Imperium. Body horror and mutilation is the order of the day.
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2020/09/15 14:08:14
Subject: Is the 9e rulebook creepy?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
Bamberg / Erlangen
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Any reference material for those of us who only got the CA2020 rulebook please?
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2020/09/15 14:09:04
Subject: Is the 9e rulebook creepy?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Matt Swain wrote:I just got my copy of the 93 rulebook and in the actual rules section bit, did anyone else find those like aborted festuses attached to bolt guns creepy? I mean I've gottne used to the cyber cherubs and the ammorium cherubs, but those fetus bolters were just at the edge of what I could look at without cringing.
Honestly, that looked like stuf ol' fabius should be working on, not the imperium.
Were talking about the same Imperium that abducts people from their homes to soulbind them, lobotomizes their citizens to turn into mindless single-task cyborg slaves for minor infractions, feeds living people to a corpse to keep it "alive" because they worship it, among other things?
Yeah, that thing you mentioned isn't entirely on brand for them at all.
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2020/09/15 14:13:57
Subject: Is the 9e rulebook creepy?
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Preacher of the Emperor
Hanford, CA, AKA The Eye of Terror
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If that creeps you out stay the hell away from the 3rd edition book! 40k has always been known for their creepy as hell art and the rulebook is where it often gets to shine.
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17,000 points (Valhallan)
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"Remember, Orks are weak and cowardly, they are easily beat in close combat and their tusks, while menacing, can easily be pulled out with a sharp tug"
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2020/09/15 16:58:04
Subject: Is the 9e rulebook creepy?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Yes I also find some of the artwork to be quite excessive.
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2020/09/15 18:07:33
Subject: Is the 9e rulebook creepy?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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About time. 40k art should be a grotesque horror show of depravity humanity has been willing to sink in either in order to survive or simply because of decrepit inertia has made the society degenerate into ritualistic barbarism.
The Imperium is the absolute worst in government and culture, with a more humanitarian vision only peeking out here and there in the huge galaxy. Reflecting this in the art is one of the biggest draws of the setting, especially with the casual and needless body horror that shows how dehumanized both your average citizens and "heroes" can be before the oppressive system.
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2020/09/15 18:18:42
Subject: Re:Is the 9e rulebook creepy?
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Imperial Guard Landspeeder Pilot
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Seems par for the course to me, how is this new at all? 40k has always had disturbing imagery, body horror, and grotesque morbid imagery permeated throughout its existence. Imagery of skulls, decapitated heads, daemons, sacrifices, xenos monsters, weaponry, blood spatter, twisted body parts, cybernetic horrors, self flaggelation, etc ad nauseum are replete throughout 40k rulebooks and codex art. Hell, the 4E imagery of the High Lords of Terra has half of them looking like horrific cybermonsters.
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IRON WITHIN, IRON WITHOUT.
New Heavy Gear Log! Also...Grey Knights!
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2020/09/15 18:35:06
Subject: Is the 9e rulebook creepy?
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Wicked Wych With a Whip
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I hope we get some rules for those abortion decorated bolters. We need more bolters IMO. Autoaborted Heavy Boltrifle would be a nice name.
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The Bloody Sails
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2020/09/15 20:31:52
Subject: Is the 9e rulebook creepy?
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Ancient Venerable Dreadnought
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Sherrypie wrote:About time. 40k art should be a grotesque horror show of depravity humanity has been willing to sink in either in order to survive or simply because of decrepit inertia has made the society degenerate into ritualistic barbarism.
The Imperium is the absolute worst in government and culture, with a more humanitarian vision only peeking out here and there in the huge galaxy. Reflecting this in the art is one of the biggest draws of the setting, especially with the casual and needless body horror that shows how dehumanized both your average citizens and "heroes" can be before the oppressive system.
"good" is a relative term in the grim darkness of the far future.
Nids are just hungry = good
Orks just wanna rumble = good
Chaos just wants to exist = good
Tau just wanna make everyone like them = WORST OF THE WORST & MUST BE PURGED
I am glad that they're returning to show just how horrific the galaxy is. More horror, gruesome goings on & DEATH on a massive scale, for in the 41st millennium...you will not be missed.
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2020/09/15 21:10:52
Subject: Is the 9e rulebook creepy?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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A few months from now we'll have posts about how GW is ruining the grim dark and kiddifying miniatures.
Lilith has pants! *gasp*
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2020/09/15 22:14:07
Subject: Is the 9e rulebook creepy?
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Ancient Venerable Dreadnought
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Daedalus81 wrote:A few months from now we'll have posts about how GW is ruining the grim dark and kiddifying miniatures.
Lilith has pants! *gasp*
but they are really nicely fitting pants
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2020/09/15 23:59:49
Subject: Re:Is the 9e rulebook creepy?
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Chalice-Wielding Sanguinary High Priest
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40k needs the grimdark imagery, it's a big part of what it is. You take it away and you lose a whole chunk of its unique identity.
Is aborted babies taking it a bit far? Maybe, but... no-one's pretending this is a game for children.
...oh, uhhhh... oops. I'll see myself out.
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2020/09/16 00:13:32
Subject: Is the 9e rulebook creepy?
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Regular Dakkanaut
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I don't know if OP is saying 40K was never like that, but (sight unseen) I'd be pleasantly surprised to see it start committing to that direction again. I don't think any of us would argue that Imperium stuff in particular has been feeling a little too clean and wholesome recently.
I would love to see some examples?
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2020/09/16 00:14:07
Subject: Is the 9e rulebook creepy?
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Terrifying Doombull
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Eh. I had to go look for these pictures, as nothing came to mind. My impression of the rulebook as a whole is that its too clean- lined white fancy future printer paper with cut corners, with obviously inset pictures. A lot of the pictures are also too busy, so the details get washed out.
As for the 'fetus bolters' (pages 216, 222 & 225 for those wondering)- not really. Not that different from standard imperial cherubim, and far less creepy than actual porcelain dolls I've encountered in real life.
I think its mostly the color choice- the grey-green blends too much with the guns, makes them look artificial. Makes me think more of gargoyles or grotesques. Obviously not real, so not scary or disturbing, but makes me mildly curious about the mental state of the artist.
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2020/09/16 00:18:02
Subject: Is the 9e rulebook creepy?
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Walking Dead Wraithlord
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@ OP - More context please.
Are you saying 9E BRBR is more creepy than its predecessors ?
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2020/09/16 01:06:55
Subject: Is the 9e rulebook creepy?
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Monstrously Massive Big Mutant
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The rule book is absolute peanuts compared to some of the Chaos entries (the infamous Chaos Spawn pictures are fantastic body horror)
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2020/09/16 01:14:40
Subject: Is the 9e rulebook creepy?
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Owns Whole Set of Skullz Techpriests
Versteckt in den Schatten deines Geistes.
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I don't think those are actual fetuses.
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2020/09/16 02:27:54
Subject: Re:Is the 9e rulebook creepy?
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Ultramarine Chaplain with Hate to Spare
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Yeah it's creepy, but in a good way that 40K should have more of.
Made me think of HR Giger's "Birth Machine"
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2020/09/16 03:58:29
Subject: Is the 9e rulebook creepy?
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Inquisitorial Keeper of the Xenobanks
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Sherrypie wrote:About time. 40k art should be a grotesque horror show of depravity humanity has been willing to sink in either in order to survive or simply because of decrepit inertia has made the society degenerate into ritualistic barbarism.
The Imperium is the absolute worst in government and culture, with a more humanitarian vision only peeking out here and there in the huge galaxy. Reflecting this in the art is one of the biggest draws of the setting, especially with the casual and needless body horror that shows how dehumanized both your average citizens and "heroes" can be before the oppressive system.
40K was more upfront about being a thinly veiled jab at the real world and where it was headed from the beginning. Fetus bolters might be striking close to home for people following what US troops have done to Iraqis and Afghanis these past twenty years, but for some of us Vietnam and Korea were stand out examples of the real life horror show that has been and remains Western corporate militarism aka fascism in the twentieth and now twenty first centuries. When I see this art in 40K, I am returned to that initial insight that I had thirty years ago, that this is a thin veil on the world as we make it, and a window on how it may be once a religion guiding policy through faith in the Empire after a few thousand years of ritual... in that context, of course, fetus bolters a a logical eventuality.
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2020/09/16 04:19:37
Subject: Is the 9e rulebook creepy?
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Walking Dead Wraithlord
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Nope...
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2020/09/16 05:04:40
Subject: Is the 9e rulebook creepy?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Well, maybe it was just me but the things that looked like late term abortions grafted to guns just kinda made me cringe.
Yeah, seen all sorts of body horror, hell I like carpenter's the thing, and i've seen earlier editions, and i've seen the chaos codex.
I don't know maybe it was just personal, but the fetusguns just seemed to be hard to look at.
Also, just gross for gross' sake. I mean I can deal with servitors, chaos horrors, cherubim, etc. But a fetus grafted to a bolter? You just screwing with us now...
And if it;s not a fetus grafted to a gun it sure looks like one.
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2020/09/16 05:11:03
Subject: Is the 9e rulebook creepy?
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Ancient Venerable Dreadnought
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jeff white wrote: Sherrypie wrote:About time. 40k art should be a grotesque horror show of depravity humanity has been willing to sink in either in order to survive or simply because of decrepit inertia has made the society degenerate into ritualistic barbarism.
The Imperium is the absolute worst in government and culture, with a more humanitarian vision only peeking out here and there in the huge galaxy. Reflecting this in the art is one of the biggest draws of the setting, especially with the casual and needless body horror that shows how dehumanized both your average citizens and "heroes" can be before the oppressive system.
40K was more upfront about being a thinly veiled jab at the real world and where it was headed from the beginning. Fetus bolters might be striking close to home for people following what US troops have done to Iraqis and Afghanis these past twenty years, but for some of us Vietnam and Korea were stand out examples of the real life horror show that has been and remains Western corporate militarism aka fascism in the twentieth and now twenty first centuries. When I see this art in 40K, I am returned to that initial insight that I had thirty years ago, that this is a thin veil on the world as we make it, and a window on how it may be once a religion guiding policy through faith in the Empire after a few thousand years of ritual... in that context, of course, fetus bolters a a logical eventuality.
god I miss the brutality of the early books( STD, ROC, etc). Servitors & Tech-Priests are some of my favorite parts of 40k, it always made me smile when I would be flipping thru a book and see something that made me uneasy.
We need more UNCARING UNIVERSE, where you will not be missed.
well that and more comedy about Magaret Thatcher as an ork.
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2020/09/16 06:26:07
Subject: Is the 9e rulebook creepy?
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2020/09/16 07:01:58
Subject: Is the 9e rulebook creepy?
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Experienced Maneater
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a_typical_hero wrote:Any reference material for those of us who only got the CA2020 rulebook please?
Nitro Zeus wrote:
^^ anyone?
References
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2020/09/16 07:34:20
Subject: Is the 9e rulebook creepy?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Good old page furniture, filling up empty space with evocative weirdness. I also love the fact that those were painted with a broken hand (according to Stu in the release Twitch streams the new artist who did a bunch of those had an accident but pressed on like an absolute legend )
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2020/09/16 08:53:05
Subject: Is the 9e rulebook creepy?
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Hallowed Canoness
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Inquisitor boltgun. The small bugger hugging the bolter is a weird alien lifeform that imbue the bolts with... something. Something dark and creepy, I expect. Don't want to be on the receiving end to find out!!
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"Our fantasy settings are grim and dark, but that is not a reflection of who we are or how we feel the real world should be. [...] We will continue to diversify the cast of characters we portray [...] so everyone can find representation and heroes they can relate to. [...] If [you don't feel the same way], you will not be missed"
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2020/09/16 14:55:54
Subject: Is the 9e rulebook creepy?
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Shadowy Grot Kommittee Memba
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Hanskrampf wrote:a_typical_hero wrote:Any reference material for those of us who only got the CA2020 rulebook please?
Nitro Zeus wrote:
^^ anyone?
References
OK, those do not look like fetuses to me. I was expecting it to be more half-formed, more obviously flesh and not sculpted rusted metal/rock. It's literally just a doll face on a gun. Akira came out in like 1980, this is a nothing thing.
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"Got you, Yugi! Your Rubric Marines can't fall back because I have declared the tertiary kaptaris ka'tah stance two, after the secondary dacatarai ka'tah last turn!"
"So you think, Kaiba! I declared my Thousand Sons the cult of Duplicity, which means all my psykers have access to the Sorcerous Facade power! Furthermore I will spend 8 Cabal Points to invoke Cabbalistic Focus, causing the rubrics to appear behind your custodes! The Vengeance for the Wronged and Sorcerous Fullisade stratagems along with the Malefic Maelstrom infernal pact evoked earlier in the command phase allows me to double their firepower, letting me wound on 2s and 3s!"
"you think it is you who has gotten me, yugi, but it is I who have gotten you! I declare the ever-vigilant stratagem to attack your rubrics with my custodes' ranged weapons, which with the new codex are now DAMAGE 2!!"
"...which leads you straight into my trap, Kaiba, you see I now declare the stratagem Implacable Automata, reducing all damage from your attacks by 1 and triggering my All is Dust special rule!" |
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2020/09/16 15:14:56
Subject: Is the 9e rulebook creepy?
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Waaagh! Warbiker
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I'd say the 9th rulebook is more "grimdark" than the 8th rulebook, but not to the level of the art seen in earlier editions (I have a fondness for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th editions' art).
One thing that really bugs me about the 9th edition rulebook is that there is so much "blank" space on many of the pages, especially with the large margin size and the triangle images on the corners of many pages. I know it is a stylistic approach, but I think the book could have had significantly fewer pages or larger text if they had made better use of the space for text on many of the pages.
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2020/09/16 17:15:36
Subject: Is the 9e rulebook creepy?
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Stealthy Grot Snipa
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Those are way tamer than I was expecting from the phrase "fetus bolters".
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