I really like his videos.
Since I had to start researching orcs for a comic project…I fell into the 40k rabbit hole. Fascinating world.
I picked up the Anniversary Edition of Space Marine on Steam for cheap today, even tho I dislike this kind of game quite a bit (hallway movies). I mean, I’d rather just watch a movie than “play” a movie, but I figured this was a decent way to at least learn the lore thru experience.
Titus seems cool, but he (and everyone else) really oughta wear a helmet.
Thanks for that.
I know his name but I’m not familiar with his work. Searching YT did turn up quite a few awesome videos of him being a gamer and a bunch of those were just him being a Warhammer nerd enthusiast.
I’m one of those weirdos who got into 40k strictly because I liked playing table top war games and until recently never got into the lore. (I was the same with Battletech back in the day.) I always enjoyed reading the little sidebars and some of the short stories in the game books, but, for me, the lore simply existed to provide a thin veneer of reason for why my little metal guys were fighting your little metal guys. I’m old so it was metal when I started playing rather than plastic
After a 20 year hiatus, I got back into 40k in 2000 because I had nothing else to do. I bought Indomitus, built a Necron army and I’ve got an Imperial Knight force just about completed. This time I went all out, taking my time to paint to a decent tabletop standard and even using an airbrush. There’s a plethora of painting tutorials on YouTube the likes of which I never had in the 1990s.
And in addition to those painting tutorials there are all sorts of lore videos. I’ve listened to quite a few of them while painting and they’re a lot of fun. There are a few content creators on YouTube I avoid, the ones who complained about an Ultramarine being black for example, but for the most part the release some pretty good videos. I think Warhammer 40k might be one of the few fictional universes were the vast majority of fans would say “hell, no” to being asked if they’d want to live there.
Edit: I see now that I actually replied in this thread back in April 2020. I think it was one of the things that inspired me to start buying models and painting again.
That’s one of the things I love: the way that it’s a terrible place, and humans are terrible, to other species and to our own, yet everyone just accepts that this is the way it is, and is going to be, and so they just keep on keeping on.
I’ve decided to skip the Horus Heresy and jump right into the Roboute Guilliman stories in 2022, although I’m still devouring Gaunt’s Ghosts stuff.
Ya know, back in the day I never read Star Wars novels. I didn’t read Star Trek novels, or Battlestar Galactica books or any other kind of spin-off work from a franchise. That kind of thing didn’t really interest me; I considered them for the most part just money-making opportunities for the publishers and a way for writers to stay working. I knew Alan Dean Foster had written some spin-off books and thought well of his other work, but he was an exception, the one decent writer who got paid decently, I suspected, to give a thin veneer of respectability to these endeavors.
So when I started reading LotDM, I didn’t expect much and hoped for competence.
Those hopes were smashed, shredded, reshaped and forged over the course of the first 200 pages I read into a solid and towering respect for Mr. Abnett and his work. He is an incredibly talented writer. He brings life and depth to his characters, places them in seemingly experiential surroundings and then has impossible things happen in plausible ways. I still think that Remembrance is one of the best short stories I’ve read in the past 30 years.
2020, I take it you meant?
Yes. I’m pretty sure any admission of time travel on my part would bring down the ire of the Inquisition.
I love that the Imperium of Man’s worse enemy is the Imperium of Man.
I’ve only read one 40k book and it was one of the Gaunt’s Ghost series. I thought it was okay, but decided not to continue reading any 40k books. Mostly because I have other things I’d rather read. The Horus Heresy stuff seems like a colossal waste of time to me. Aren’t there 40+ books in that series?
56 currently.
I’ve just spent about an hour learning about Squats. While I tend to agree with Jervis’s post that making them bikers was kinda low-brow and limiting, I like the old tech angle and the way that they were not part of the Imperium. They seem like they could have been a really, really cool addition to the Universe.
I saw the “resetting the clock” video but frankly, don’t understand it.
Also, Demiurg is a terrible name for a race or species. Or planet. Or anything, really. Thankfully, it seems that GW dropped that and went back to Squats.
I’m gonna try and pick up the Ravenor trilogy; it looks like those are about the only mention/use of Squats in the literature. Gonna try and find a copy of the old Codex and Rogue Trader stuff, too.
I’ve heard that 99% of 4chan is garbage, but their Warhammer pages are pretty detailed and entertaining. 1d4chan
The story of the Thousand Sons and Magnus the Red is freaking awesome.