"The Horus Heresy is too similar to 40k"

Okay. What should the Horus Heresy be like then?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    We shouldn't know.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I'm fine with the heresy as a setting but ill be pissed if they ever try to do the unification wars

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Would rather they did the Unification Wars than the Heresy.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Sir, it's for you.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Given how horrible and noblebright 40k setting is now with Primaris, plasma/anti-grav spam, primachs coming back etc I actually prefer HH setting now

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Chaos literally sundered and took half the universe dude.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Chaos literally sundered and took half the universe dude.

        It's both shit.

        They pulled the deus ex out of their asses and called it a new edition.
        Primaris and shit and piss because they're mary sue with no basis, no substance.
        Big rift is shit and piss because it's based on retconning the pathetic abby crusades into master plan, making him into a mary sue again.

        It's all in a bad bad fricking taste.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      too many resources were spent to flesh out the Horus Heresy when it should've been a vague, mythic "before-time" full of conflicting accounts and unreliable narrators.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        this
        there are books I enjoy in the series but the concept overall is too much "let's fill out canon" instead of "tell a cool story" and that makes for a less cool story at the best of times

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        this
        there are books I enjoy in the series but the concept overall is too much "let's fill out canon" instead of "tell a cool story" and that makes for a less cool story at the best of times

        To be fair, I don't think there are many who'd look at something that turned out to be printing money and say "no, that's enough, we're good now". And without a firm hand on the tiller that always risks a lot of bloat.

        I remember an old friend who was a Troll back when they were still on Chewton Street telling me that the Heresy was always going to be the "oh shit" button. Whether that was why they started it or some of the blocking creatives moved on, I don't know, but I suppose it shows they knew it would catch on, but probably nowhere near to the extent it did.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Uhh hello, based department? Yeah, you're gonna want to take this one

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Blessed is the mind too small for doubt.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    HH is 40k but worse, because its all space marine and primarchs and nothing else.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >because its all space marine and primarchs and nothing else.
      That's 40k too

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah but only in recent years because the HH books sell well. The heresy setting is actively ruining 40K because every fricking thing that happens now is “remember the thing from the heresy? Did you clap like a moron when you saw the reference?”

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >HH is 40k without the dumb aliens
      sounds great.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        You are exactly what is wrong with 40k. I hope all primarchs get fricking killed off

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    More progressive, inclusive and accessible obviously.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      everything in that picture and you're still the biggest gay

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      gay is...LE BAD

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        yes.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Why?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >why is murder and cannibalism bad?
            People like you need a starring role in a snuff film.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Being gay and being a murdering cannibal are not the same thing.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                It's the same thing.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                No it's not.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            nobody wants that gay shit.
            like adding a turd to the community soup pot.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Don't start reading the HH novels then... it's all sweaty, oiled up wrestling and special moments between men.

        They are all intergalactic sailors after all.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Gay Imperials eat ass and shit, suck dicks and get aids.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yes

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >The Infinite and the Divine
      >Necrons
      >non binary characters

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        it would make sense for them to use qubits

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Each legion should have gotten 1 book, written as a homage and rendition of that world's cultural template's central myth but retold as technobarbarians.
      >Space Wolves get Beowulf
      >Iron Warriors get the Iliad
      >Ultramarines get the Aeneid
      etc.
      The siege of Terra gets a paradise lost retelling, part 1 is the Luna Wolves into Sons of Horus, part 2 is the siege, that's it.
      Would have been cool. Keep the mythological ancient past vibe, incomplete or inconsistent narrators but still address the specifics. Each book could have been then referenced in time distorted quotes in various 40k works.

      >necrons and orks non binary
      I mean yes, but also lol.
      >fulgrim is bi
      At this point I became 100% sure this image is satire. Pretty good joke. Its all true statements but very little of it is an issue.
      Also that's a very small number of books from 2003-2021 given the total number of books published.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >a very small number of books from 2003-2021 given the total number of books published.
        Yeah, non-BL readers do not get it. People whine about the HH series being bloated, while shit like the 40k Sabbat Worlds crusade has also like 30+ related stories and books.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Does fulgrim even have the ability to experience sexual desire? Aren' the primarchs and the astartes devoid of libido?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Unless they drastically changed the lore on the way space marine brains are rewired to hate purer and stronger than any human could, seems unlikely. Even though that isn't unbreakable, 'Slaanesh lol' isn't the instant goto for sex that the memes suggest either. Noise marines have been described well enough in how they still have that marine instinct to kill when aroused instead of fricking to show that.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            In Fulgrim when they have the word demon orchestra orgy, the space marines wanted to join in but they literally didn't know how. So they just started killing people. Pretty disgusting.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >word
              Weird*

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >drastically changed the lore on the way space marine brains are rewired to hate purer and stronger than any human could
            Primaris

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Since when? It's been stated for ages that that one is merely unimportant to them.
          They have all the capacity, probably not even sterile directly, just conditioned not to want it. Hypnodoctrination that.
          It's mostly a combination of the above and the centuries old habits of not giving a frick.
          But that's the marines.
          Primarchs aren't supposed to be limited in any way.

          And I'm pretty sure loving the visceral state of superhuman melee to the degree some possessed cannot possibly be unrelated to sexual desire. Sadists and psychos exist.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >character reassigned due to not being LGBT
      I haven't read Rebel Winter in over 10 years, refresh my memory because I'm pretty sure you're either full of shit or completely misinterpreting something.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        not the guy who made the image, but from what I remember, a trooper whose father was a general of some sort developed a crush on a commissar, and when the crush wasn't reciprocated, the trooper an hero'ed and the general pulled some strings to get the commissar reassigned to a meatgrinder front with little odds of survival

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          classic gay moment

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      do not do my rainbro warriors like that. its disrespectful.
      also
      >fulgrim
      fitting.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Gay people in a piece of fiction AAAAAA I'M GONIG INSAAANE

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous.

      >All woman polyamorous warrior unit, not exclusively lesbian.
      Based and erotic. How 40K should be.
      >Non-binary character.
      Ironic. But also sensible, given the character is a Magos and maniple has that culture of dropping said signifiers.
      >Lesbian couple.
      It's house Escher. No shit.
      >Non-binary character.
      No idea, but kek if it's orcs. Get da git a wiener squid.
      >Lesbian couple
      They're Sororitas. Warrior women power armoured nazi nuns with a massive religion complex to everything they do. Extra hot.
      >Married gay couple, non-binary authority figure.
      Navigators, son. Check their lore.
      >Exploitative lesbian relationship.
      Realistic 40K.
      >Non binary character.
      Necrons, and Trazyn.
      >Lesbian couple
      It's a Cain novel, so it's probably already meme'd as hot.
      >Bisexual character.
      Third Legion. It's appropriate.
      >Alleged male-male relationships.
      Don't remember this one, but allergations of buggery for political blackmail is a classic trope.

      Yeah, majority of these are acceptable. The worst ones look like the one-offs.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Whoever made this probbaly a repressed homosexual

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Okay. What should the Horus Heresy be like then?
    It should be like 30k.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >40k setting is similar to 40k
    Oh no

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Honestly, it's the other way around. 40k is too similar to HH considering we're looking at 10k years of stagnation and decline, depending. Answer is obvious in both cases - they would need wildly different minis if GW had opted for major differences in HH. Age of Technology, though, that would be what OP is complaining about.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      i guess like the difference between prequels and OT Star Wars

      HH was made after 40k

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The Imperium was meant to be a rotting, dementia-ridden shadow of its former self, degraded by ten thousand years of cultural and technological devolution in its insane attempt to keep up a momentum that was never meant to last.

    30k was meant to be a tragedy in that it was the downfall of a more enlightened age, a time when the proto-Imperium may have become a society worth anything beyond its own stubborn survival. The problem is the authors completely threw any pretense away and gave us Guard and fanatic militia and Astartes and cathedral walkers and generally other things that marked out the Imperium as primitive and haphazardly slapped on some more academic freedoms and "religion is bad okay," subtones with the Emperor.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >downfall of a more enlightened age
      Yes, I too think that a period of endless conquest and extermination while scrounging up everything left from the ashes of the old was a more enlightened age than the period endless war and destruction while scrounging up everything left from the ashes of the old.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The Great Crusade was not initially entirely about conquest and extermination and Old Emps, the figurehead behind it all, was explicitly more benevolent in previous iterations. We even had hints, though admittedly rare, of Xenos having embassies on Terra and generally not being murder-genocided.

        The problem is now that 30k is just 40k they're almost inseparable from each other, as you've just pointed out.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >We even had hints, though admittedly rare, of Xenos having embassies on Terra
          Post them.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I think the reason they decided to make them so similar is the concept of the great crusade. They took a look at the concept, went "wait that sounds bad" and had two choices: Either make the great crusade and foundation of the Imperium 40k era propaganda that does not reflect the past whatsoever, or depict the Imperium as always being driven by backwards ideals and the setting as always being post-apocalyptic on some level

      They opted for the second option

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The snippets of what the conquest of Terra looked like in Horus Rising made me wish we got a game about that instead.

    Thunder Warriors, Techno-Barbarians, chaos magic everywhere and all that jazz.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    The Imperium tolerates nobles literally committing torture, murder and rampant debauchery, I'm pretty sure they'd super tolerate being gay up top. Down below the firebrands might burn people on the pyre for it though; of course they're also burning people for not saying their prayers right.

  10. 1 year ago
    sage

    >OP samegayging to make look organic his anti-HH hate

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Everyone who enjoyed 40k before the HH black library novels killed the setting hates the HH. Tertiary zoomers who've never touched a paintbrush should have their nose pushed into their pitiful excuse for a brain. You don't belong on this board you friendless homosexual.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Wrong, marinegays fricking loved anything related to it and made it happen with the success of the IA articles, the HH trading card game, and even fandexes before FW even released their game. Nevermind all the 6-7th ed. refugees that joined the HH tired of 40k.
        You're just a contrarian hipster trying to rewrite history, or a terminal xenogay/guardgay.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          You could not more obviously be a wheedling child, born after 2000, who has never even managed to get over his social anxiety long enough to even enter a gaming store, let alone ask someone for a game.
          I have played hundreds upon hundreds of games of 40k and never in my life have I met a single soul that liked what HH did to the fluff.
          Enjoyment of the homosexual soap opera is reseved entirely and completely for closet homosexual tertiaries like your own DISGUSTING self.
          have a nice day.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I've been in the hobby since Space Crusade, kid
            >I have played hundreds upon hundreds of games of 40k and never in my life have I met a single soul that liked what HH did to the fluff.
            Nice larp, lol. BTW nobody cares and you and your smelly frickbuddies in your LGS aren't proof of anything. The HH series became a success thanks to marinegays that fricking loved it all waaaay before BL-only readers became a common thing in the 2010s. GW hasn't been making HH products for twenty fricking years out of vanity. There's a huge demand for it, even if big 40k is still their star product.

            You're just another butthurt fanboy turned into a contrarian hipster larper when your delusional views are ignored by a entertaiment company.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I've been in the hobby since Space Crusade, kid
            >I have played hundreds upon hundreds of games of 40k and never in my life have I met a single soul that liked what HH did to the fluff.
            Nice larp, lol. BTW nobody cares and you and your smelly frickbuddies in your LGS aren't proof of anything. The HH series became a success thanks to marinegays that fricking loved it all waaaay before BL-only readers became a common thing in the 2010s. GW hasn't been making HH products for twenty fricking years out of vanity. There's a huge demand for it, even if big 40k is still their star product.

            You're just another butthurt fanboy turned into a contrarian hipster larper when your delusional views are ignored by a entertaiment company.

            Reread your posts and ask yourselves what they accomplish.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The Horus Heresy is the best thing of all time! 40k should revolve around primarchs!!!! Primarchs primarchs primarchs primarchs! More primarchs!!! Not having more primarchs is GRIMDERP!!!! THEY SHOULD BRING BACK FERRUS MANUS AND SANGUINIUS OR ELSE IT IS GRIMDERP!!!!

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This but unironically.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        You're a fricking moron

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The worst aspect of the Horus Heresy, to me, is that it makes Chaos even more integral to the imperium than before. Somehow they thought it was a good idea to imply the Emperor stole warp juice from the Ruinous Powers. It's always chaos all the way down. You thought it was squigs? Nope, chaos.

      Everything else is just whatever. Primarchs coming back in 40k is fine. Chaos has had Ababbon, and Archaeon, for decades. There is no difference.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Keep it as legendary as possible and never show us the whole picture. Give us snippets from the POV of normal humans.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Like The Iliad. A fictional work based on an event that might have happened.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >obvious samegay trying to make look organic his anti HH hate
    This must be a mental illness. Imagine desperately seeking public validation like this about entertainment and toys, instead of just limiting yourself to what you like.
    I don't care about Necromunda or Blood Bowl or AoS, but I don't spam endlessly in all GW threads about why they suck and should never have happened to get (you)s and upvotes about it. I just ignore their threads like a normal person.

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    would have been more interesting to see the Imperium during it's initial expansion phases with some familiar xenos like Eldar and Orks but a bunch of new ones and rival human empires as well

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      There were some rival empires in the first couple of books anyway. But they were not the focus in any capacity.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Titandeath is so fricking good. Listened to the audiobook while painting Titanicus stuff in 2020

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Horus Heresy is superior 40k. No primaris, no moronic baby carriers.

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