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Could be unpopular, and taking a risk, but were it down to me I think I might have entrusted Ollanius Pius to Sandy Mitchell.

Oh yeah don’t get me wrong. Bowden is the go to writer for Chaos (His Night Lords Omnibus was spectacular), although he could do loyalists quite well once (Hellsreach is so good). Just keep him away from the Emperor. But further to your point, yes you are right. The writers were not all sat...

Abnett is a talented writer, as evidenced by his Gaunt’s Ghosts novels, but he really seemed to lose his way with the Horus Heresy series. Could be worse though. Dembski-Bowden could have been given more Emperor centric books, when as I understand only Graham McNeil really seems to understand...

All one or two Primarchs popping up can do is stabilise the situation really. Humanity would still be on the backfoot quite badly. Were it down to me, there'd by no Primaris Marines. There'd be Mark X armour and a whole load of other new toys for the Space Marines to play with, but they'd have...

Warhammer 40k does have that wonderful sense of “ancient” to it, and GW made the exact same mistake BioWare made with the Reapers regarding it. Some things really are better off left as mysteries, although a concrete fact hither and thither serves nicely to generate discussion and theory...

Given that Chaos has already had a few Primarchs for a long while, I don’t mind the idea of loyalist Primarchs popping up, but it shouldn’t be too many (and perhaps not Bobby G straight away. Vulkan would have made a touch more sense at the time). And of course, even they wouldn’t have the full...

There have been some good Horus Heresy novels but…sometimes one wonders if it would have been better off left as foggy ancient history. I rather liked the idea of it being more akin to a Greek Tragedy, especially in the case of the Emperor.

Oh yeah. They made "Karen took the kids" a core part of Warhammer 40k lore. I try to pretend it doesn't exist.

Might be a strange question to ask, but am I alone in despising what Games Workshop has done to Ollanius Pius? I know the Horus Heresy series made him important, made him a perpetual no less that had fought in battles across thousands of years, but…I feel like that somewhat defeats the point of...

As the Guard doesn’t perhaps get quite enough love, here’s a piece of music from the wonderful Legio Symphonica which I think encapsulates their courage and sacrifice. Further to that I have to say, what makes the 40k universe one of my favourites is the simple fact that without the courage...

Anyone here got a homebrew Space Marine Chapter? Part of the joy of the game is being able to create “your guys” after all.

Been thinking about Failbaddon the Armless and GW’s doomed attempts to make him a threatening villain. To my mind they were basically barking up the wrong tree with trying to make it “his plan all along” with the Thirteen Black Crusades. It all forgets that Cadia is among the most fortified...

The Primaris Marines should not exist. Cawl creating a new Mark X power armour would be fine, alongside Guilliman loosening the laws on geneseed and Chapter sizes, but GW just jumped the shark with them.

They already exist! They’re the Storm Wardens and they are very cool.

Which is a shame, because a Space Persia having super soldiers based off the Immortals (the ten thousand strong elite bodyguard of Persian Kings) would have been quite cool.

You know, as GW does seem interested in “not so much grey but less horrifyingly black” factions to a certain extent, I’m surprised “Space Persia” hasn’t shown up yet. I mean, the Persians were still an expansionist empire with plenty of their own cruelties and more than few despots on the...

Karl Franz was Putin’s trump card all along.

I myself got the impression the Inquisitor wasn't "sold" on Titus being a heretic, but "the eye sleepeth not" and all that. He has to do his job and be thorough about it. Indeed, the presence of a Black Templar bodyguard might indicate he is one of the more reasonable Inquisitors, hence how he...

Leandros would be a disappointment and a pariah even without Guilliman's return. The little shit went over his Chaplain's head (the ones a Space Marine is meant to report such concerns to), and by proxy the Chapter Master's as well. He got a reluctant Inquisition involved who took a well...

The issue with the Codex Astartes is that it was written post Civil War in a galaxy the ruined Imperium utterly dominated. It made sense as a way of creating that force of vigilant knights whilst preventing one man from ever commanding the might of a Legion again. Since then, of course, the...