I think this was true when they set it up, when everything was brand new.
A few years in we’re starting to see some really fun worldbuilding - taking pretty much any faction and influencing it with the residents/inherent nature of other realms makes some really interesting elements. One of my favourites is the Root Kings, Dwarves who’ve adopted a much more flexible approach to life than the rigid tactics and traditions of others, and have even allied with the Wood Elves (or the closest thing AoS has to them).
I’d also argue that the Idoneth Deepkin are a significantly better approach to the “Dark Elf” archetype than the Druchii or Drukhari on account that their reasons for being utterly monstrous are halfway understandable - a majority of their children are born soulless, damning them to short and miserable lives unless they prey on the other factions.
Plus “I recall the face of our maker on the day of our birth. There was no love in his eyes” is just a strong quote.
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Also Beastclaw Raiders accidentally being the good guys will never not be funny to me.
always seen a significantly more positive and genuinely interested response from folks from all sorts of walks of life to the hobby of painting tiny little plastic men than tabletop roleplay - and in the latter circles I’ve seen plenty of people confused about the concept of video game roleplaying tbh
what this boils down to is that clearly painting tiny plastic army men is, in fact, significantly cooler i’m sorry to say
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Only if you thin your paints.
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Warhammer fantasy lore is/was cool because of the long time of storytelling that lets you build things up, but there are so many things where if you scratch even a little under the surface it gets really grim really quickly
and in the ‘wow this is skeevy as hell’ way, not the 40k way
warhammer fantasy roleplay 4e continues being the best currently supported tabletop roleplaying game btw
Yeah I’m a nerd, but that’s a small price to pay for Space Marines and Chaos Warriors.
Because the big price comes from the Space Marines and the Chaos Warriors 
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Speaking of, I painted my Chaos Knights a few months ago and I am still really proud of them. Can’t remember if I have showed them already, but here’s just in case.
Fantastic models.
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WHFRP is enormously heavy with the theme of class disparity according to the developers both in and out of the explicit wording of the text, and is even printed in the core themes sections of their rulebooks, which is really based
it’s also enormously heavy with the theme of women almost never existing except as eye-candy or breeding stock which is, uh, less based
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The rando who’s trying very poorly to Necro the Keti thread. That’s my peeve.
The most I’ve gotten into any part of Warhammer has been playing a bit of Vermintide & seeing people talk/joke alot about 40k.
I don’t really know how to explain it, but the franchise has a whole on any deeper level, both 40k and fantasy has always felt a little…intimidating to get into?
A warhammer issue in general. Men are depicted as a matter of course with women only appearing to be ‘special’.
AoS is much better with this, with mixed units in various factions as a matter of course.
I dislike Imperial Guard for many reasons, and this galaxy-wide unimaginably varied military force apparently being a boys-only club certainly is one of them. When my Chaos Warriors have better representation than they do it’s time for some introspection.
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Slam them on ignore. It’s the average low effort troll bait.
I mean they’re low effort baiting+it’s technically spam.
Report+Ignore and move on.
Someone remind me how you do ignoring on forums cuz until today it never was needed.
I use the stylebot chrome extension. The code is pretty complex though.
especially annoying because it’s a perfect target for further satire - the Imperium being so weirdly chauvinistic that even though women and others serving in the Guard/Space Marines/etc would noticeably improve their chances of victory, they still refuse because “if the Emperor wanted female soldiers he’d ask for them”
