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What i liked about warhammer was precisely that it was humans vs inhuman monsters and space gods in a battle where the chances of ultimate victory was slim. Bringing back primarchs changes that dynamic.

yup. And because the novels were so profitable they are trying to turn the main setting into horus heresy II, complete with primarchs. The heresy and the primarchs should have stayed in the past.

in general i have found it wise to freeze my headcanon at 2006, before the first of the horus heresy novels began to consume the setting

For those of us who grew up in the 80's, rogue trader has a certain resonance with its rootedness on the culture of the time. You younguns dont know how obscure warhammer was in NA until quite recently. Shit, i remember creating a zerg vs tyranid thread on SB waaaaaay back, and no one knew wtf a...

All the old guys are now gone. Even John Blanche is retired from creating GW art. 😥

Bryan Ansell, the guy who wrote the original Warhammer, founded citadel minis and once owned GW died on the 30 dec at age 68

Not really. Its Chaos. You exist to provide soul food to whatever being occupied the planet. The world is literally reshaped at the whim of the being who controls it.

Depends on what you mean by chaos world. A world that falls to chaos generally gets pulled at least partially into the warp and becomes a daemon world. And on these worlds, you labour for chaos, worship Chaos and if you are very "lucky" you might fight yourself free enough to become a champion...

Never heard of em. in the old lore the Orks respected the Emperor as a powerful war god, but that was about it.

The original stormboyz

everyone seems to forget there is an entire generation between the millenials and the boomers :LOL:

There is a really cool essay on this floating on the web somewhere. The writer used to zodiac to speculate on the missing primarchs. According to his theory one would have been a powerful psyker very skilled in diplomacy. The other would have been a gambler and a risk taker.

I like the idea that Geneseed 'matures' and takes on traits from the space marine it was extracted from. With this idea, geneseed taken from a braindead clone that spent its days in a tank would get the job done, but it would be inferior to geneseed that had been allowed to mature in a space...