Shield Drones and Servo Skulls

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Games Workshop: Skullfucking servo skulls since 6th edition, about a year ago.

I'm going to make this journal simple, and list off everything Games Workshop is doing wrong right this moment:

1) Astra Militarum. Or, for those who actually speak English, the Imperial Guard. The Space Marines are the Adeptus Astartes, the Sisters of Battle were the Adeptus Sororitas, but you didn't feel the need to stamp those labels on the front of their codices, did you, Games Workshop? They've decided to make their latin-esque names the standard ones so only hardcore fans know what the fuck these guys are on about. To elaborate on this, 'Astra Militarum' translates as 'Stars Military' or in other words, galactic space rangers! I would say space marines, but that generic, overused term is already coined in another area of Games Workshop...

2) Adepta Sororitas. You know my thoughts on the new naming convention, as seen above. I don't mind them having these names, but not only have they made it awkward for people to find this stuff on the website, but they also got it wrong. Both 'adepta' and 'adeptus' translate as 'obtained'. Well done GW, you sound like you have an obsession with these guys. They try to go for latin and then get it wrong. Excuse me while I hammer my head into the table with a pair of flip-flips.

3) Militarum Tempestus. Okay...just hold on a second, I need to put an image in your head. Take the Hulk. Clone him. Throw him at the galaxy. That is essentially what this new codex is - it's a legion of fucking mini-titans! Yep, Imperium again! So let's see...we have...
Space Marines
Blood Angels
Dark Angels
Black Templars
Space Wolves
Grey Knights
Astra Milita- *BLAM* sorry, Imperial Guard.
Adepta Sorori- *BLAM* again? Sisters of Battle.
Militarum Tempestus- *BLAM* who keeps letting these people in here? I meant to say 'mini-titans'.

So, let's recap. The humans, which should be a total of one faction, have a total of nine codices dedicated to them, six of which are essentially space marine chapters and another one which is basically a license to use fun-size apocalypse units in a normal game. Nine codices. The aliens have eight codices for eight separate factions. They have just enough rulebooks to go around. Does anyone really need me to spell out the imbalance here? Added, the way the Tempestus are shaping up, I think the Imperium might be having a 'my dick is bigger' contest with itself. It certainly has enough rulebooks to do so.

4) CARD GAMES ON MOTORCYCLES!
Okay, it's not quite that bad, but they have started selling psychic power card packs. I picked up Warhammer about seven years ago now to play a tabletop strategy game. I didn't start it to play Yu-Gi-Oh. If I had done that I would have kept my cards.

5) Update! We need more updates!
Very soon, as in the next few days/weeks, Games Workshop are releasing Warhammer 40'000 7th editions. They released 6th edition sometime in 2012, and spent the past two years updating the codices to handle 6th edition. Now, they're going to lob that out the window and update again. You know, that didn't waste our time of theirs.

6) Editions.
Notice that above, I said '7th editions'. Why is this? Games Workshop has finally run out of space to cram in junk about the Space Marines in a regular main rulebook, and so now the 7th edition release will in fact be a trilogy of books, so that they can encompass this prolific pile of horse wank in several arduous volumes.
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noorelven's avatar
WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I think I might have to start my own variation of table top war games .... :S