I like 40k as a game system and I like the lore as a grimdark setting, but goddamn the imperial nerds on YouTube who make 6 hour videos talking about how cool various space marine chapters are give me the fucking hebie jebies, especially when they’re “in character” and talking about filthy Xenos and using imperialist sources and arguments to justify wiping out planets. Can they just be normal?
Isn’t it weird there’s an entire media ecosystem of hundreds of these guys all being fascists as “a bit” that they never actually stop doing? They don’t see any satire in the fate of mankind at all, they legitimately think it’s awesome and cool and the way the future should be. They nerd out and learn all the details and pedantically go around arguing with each other about the specifics in the same way that wehraboos do for the wehrmacht, an unironic obsession.
I play Necrons, but it was for the original Terminator vibe. Now it’s because I think the models are cool and I like Trazyn being an absolute shit and doing a Grumpy Old Men with Orikan. They’re also easy to paint.
space wolves are ok, they are like the 2nd or 3rd most likely chapter to care about civilians whatsoever, they fought the inquisition to stop them from blowing up a planet once i think. idk about the fans, i imagine the viking theme attracts
Conceptually Space Wolves are okay (beyond, as you say, viking shit being a magnet for Nazis). My problem for them is that they’re so poorly written.
If I said something like “the battle between Svane Vulfbad and Harald Deathwolf”, most people would be hard pressed to figure out if I’m mocking the Space Wolves or referencing a real canon event.
Similarly, I find a lot of left wing homies play Imperial Guard (it me, I like all the little guys) but the Guard players with the worst politics invariably play Krieg
I think the presence of space marines draws away the people looking for power fantasies of various kinds (from your black templars to your salamanders) and leaves the people who’s fantasy is either ordering people to their deaths (Krieg) or standing tall with your comrades against overwhelming odds (most other regiments). Of course, the less said about the fantasies of Praetorian players, the better.
I like 40k as a game system and I like the lore as a grimdark setting, but goddamn the imperial nerds on YouTube who make 6 hour videos talking about how cool various space marine chapters are give me the fucking hebie jebies, especially when they’re “in character” and talking about filthy Xenos and using imperialist sources and arguments to justify wiping out planets. Can they just be normal?
I think being in character for WH40K pretty much predisposes you can’t actually be normal
Isn’t it weird there’s an entire media ecosystem of hundreds of these guys all being fascists as “a bit” that they never actually stop doing? They don’t see any satire in the fate of mankind at all, they legitimately think it’s awesome and cool and the way the future should be. They nerd out and learn all the details and pedantically go around arguing with each other about the specifics in the same way that wehraboos do for the wehrmacht, an unironic obsession.
Are they tho
It’s funny because you can kinda judge people on the chapter they play. Black Templars are chuds most of the time, Salamanders are the opposite.
I play Necrons, but it was for the original Terminator vibe. Now it’s because I think the models are cool and I like Trazyn being an absolute shit and doing a Grumpy Old Men with Orikan. They’re also easy to paint.
I like Black Templars because they play like Space Wolves lore claims they fight like.
I play Dark Angels because they’re canonically as sick of Space Wolves as I am.
Also, one of the few loyalist chapters that have a weakness that both matters and is the direct fault of their own Primarch.
space wolves are ok, they are like the 2nd or 3rd most likely chapter to care about civilians whatsoever, they fought the inquisition to stop them from blowing up a planet once i think. idk about the fans, i imagine the viking theme attracts
Conceptually Space Wolves are okay (beyond, as you say, viking shit being a magnet for Nazis). My problem for them is that they’re so poorly written.
If I said something like “the battle between Svane Vulfbad and Harald Deathwolf”, most people would be hard pressed to figure out if I’m mocking the Space Wolves or referencing a real canon event.
T’au are annoying communists who like to piss everyone off at the table lmao
It’s me. I play Tau
Necrons here, but I play them as a no gods, no masters faction.
I play dark eldar, which in my mind are the most egoist ancaps possible. But also hot goth space elves? Idk
Similarly, I find a lot of left wing homies play Imperial Guard (it me, I like all the little guys) but the Guard players with the worst politics invariably play Krieg
I think the presence of space marines draws away the people looking for power fantasies of various kinds (from your black templars to your salamanders) and leaves the people who’s fantasy is either ordering people to their deaths (Krieg) or standing tall with your comrades against overwhelming odds (most other regiments). Of course, the less said about the fantasies of Praetorian players, the better.
I love the Guard, probably cause of Abnett’s Gaunt Ghosts, but I also sure do like those Valhallans boys and girls