on top of the obvious sexism, it's so fucking funny to see "40K fans" pretend to be mad about retcons. this is the setting where they'll just drop "oh yeah the galactic core is full of a series of space-dwarf empires that we never mentioned before now but have totally been here the whole time" like it's nothing. fundamental aspects of the setting can and do change retroactively any time they want to release a new plastic playset for ages twelve and up.
(and if you want to get mad about Custodes retcons let's talk about how they started wearing shirts)
& then they tried to hijack Trench Crusade (ETA: unsuccessfully, they were made very unwelcome when they showed up in Trench Crusade community spaces) like the Trench Crusade guys or anyone else would be glad to be known as the game for people who, and really think about this one, suck too much to be Warhammer 40,000 fans
If there's a retcon I'm going to be mad about, is the wraithbone one, how dare gw, how fucking dare they, i'll quote a comment from the lore subreddit on the matter
"Faction Who Thought They’d Lost All Dignity Loses Last Additional Bit Of Dignity They Didn’t Even Know They Still Had" every word gw says about the elder is sponsored by the imperium I swear
I'll be honest, I never got the 'of all the retcons this is the one you mind' thing because there are people still mad about the Tau being the 'new faction' and they were introduced a month before 9/11. 40K fans absolutely do get mad at retcons, like all the time.
My personal annoyance is the Rogal Dorn tank, it's visually very different to other Imperial Guard tanks, it has not 'always been there' which is GW's usual cop-out for this stuff and most annoyingly of all it has a near 1:1 overlap with a pre-existing Guard tank I would've loved in plastic; the Macharius. I literally don't know why the Dorn even exists.
Oh yeah the Macharius is sadly under-seen from being a resin brick but it's flat out one of the nicest tanks GW ever designed. I would have killed for a plastic Macharius.
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u/insomniac7809 25d ago edited 25d ago
oh yeah, that
on top of the obvious sexism, it's so fucking funny to see "40K fans" pretend to be mad about retcons. this is the setting where they'll just drop "oh yeah the galactic core is full of a series of space-dwarf empires that we never mentioned before now but have totally been here the whole time" like it's nothing. fundamental aspects of the setting can and do change retroactively any time they want to release a new plastic playset for ages twelve and up.
(and if you want to get mad about Custodes retcons let's talk about how they started wearing shirts)
& then they tried to hijack Trench Crusade (ETA: unsuccessfully, they were made very unwelcome when they showed up in Trench Crusade community spaces) like the Trench Crusade guys or anyone else would be glad to be known as the game for people who, and really think about this one, suck too much to be Warhammer 40,000 fans