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Royal Mail issues Warhammer stamps celebrating 40 year anniversary
Author : dukeyukey
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Date : 2023-06-09 16:18 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| WalterBright wrote:
| After WW2, post offices around the world discovered philately, in
| particular, the penchant for philatelists to collect "mint"
| stamps. The post office could literally mint stamps in endless
| variety and sell them to the suckers (philatelists) who think
| they're collectible. Since these are never affixed to envelopes
| and mailed, it's free money for the post office. Imagine that,
| you print up a sheet of paper and sell it for $10 to $100.
|
| Ok, they are collectible, but they're still worthless as having
| value beyond the postage value. Sort of like NFTs.
|
| If you want to collect stamps with any collectible value, ya
| gotta go before 1940.
| ndsipa_pomu wrote:
| I recommend watching Astartes, a fan made short that really
| captures the spirit of WH40K (based on my playing of Dark Heresy
| RPG).
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7hgjuFfn3A
| comrh wrote:
| Warhammer is so much fun but the pieces are just so ridiculously
| expensive. Especially Warhammer Fantasy which has races that can
| require a hundred individual units to field a 2000 point army.
| ilyt wrote:
| I'd just get a 3D printer honestly
| Symbiote wrote:
| Resin printers suitable for printing miniatures use toxic
| chemicals and produce toxic fumes during use.
|
| I wouldn't consider one unless I had a garage or shed, and no
| children.
| belfalas wrote:
| It's definitely like Magic the Gathering - a rich man's game.
| ycombinete wrote:
| Depends what you mean by rich, and what you mean by MTG.
| There are so many ways to play the game, many of them without
| spending too much.
|
| For example, my friends and I play Pauper [0]. A format where
| only common cards are allowed. You can get a strong on-meta
| deck for between USD24-USD90. It has a huge card pool going
| almost back to the beginning, so you can build really nice
| decks!
|
| Even in USD1000 formats like Modern or Pioneer. There are
| "cheaper" decks like 8-Whack, or Mono-blue Tempo
| respectively. I think around USD100.
|
| [0]https://www.mtggoldfish.com/metagame/pauper#paper
| [deleted]
| mrguyorama wrote:
| At least it's clear from the get go that Minifig based games
| are not just pay to win, but pay to even come to the table.
| Magic tries to pretend that it isn't gacha with clear metas
| that cost a thousand bucks.
| twic wrote:
| Miniatures games aren't really play-to-win, though. You
| have to spend (lots of) money to be able to play, but you
| can't spend arbitrary further money to increase your chance
| of winning. The size of your army is limited by the points
| cost of the units, and the composition is limited by
| various rules, so you can't just buy twenty super-duper
| battle robots and steamroller everyone.
|
| I don't think it's even reliable that the point-for-point
| best units are the most financially expensive ones. With
| 40k, i believe the most expensive stuff is often obscure
| Forge World models that usually have terrible rules.
| Tade0 wrote:
| Some find their own minigame in this. One good friend of
| mine is apparently in it to produce the most powerful deck
| at the lowest cost - usually via second-hand purchases.
|
| Others just fish for foil cards, which apparently are
| measurably heavier than normal ones and with a precision
| scale it's possible to tell whether a booster has one.
|
| I'm not a collector, so I stopped buying them when power
| creep rendered a second deck of mine useless already.
| mrguyorama wrote:
| There's playable game in playing what essentially amounts
| to no longer "legal" rule sets, but that requires finding
| a niche partner in an already niche game.
| sumtechguy wrote:
| That was one thing I was thinking 3d printing would _gut_
| with respect to that type of gaming. But from what I have
| seen it did not really stop and the 3d printed stuff is
| looked down upon.
| kergonath wrote:
| 3D printing will get there but at the moment it is much
| worse than GW's plastic on basically every metric. They
| look great in renders but are very disappointing in person.
| Details are not that sharp, things get warped, printing
| leaves a lot of imperfections that are often difficult to
| hide or remove.
|
| GW's minis are expensive but they are _good_ , fantastic
| even. They don't have a monopoly, several other companies
| also sell very good minis, but injection moulding is
| expensive so scale matters here.
|
| So sure, printed minis are better than Warhammer minis from
| 20 years ago, but none come anywhere near the good recent
| ones. The main thing going for printed minis apart from
| price is that it's easier to have different poses and add
| some variety.
| ilyt wrote:
| Even the resin 3D printers ?
| twic wrote:
| Lots of people do print. And there are third-party minature
| makers who compete partly on cost. But only a tiny number
| of people who play 40k have access to 3D printers.
|
| Also, a lot of people play games hosted in GW stores, and i
| believe GW have a policy that you can only use their minis
| in their stores.
| comrh wrote:
| Games Workshop is famously extremely litigious
| Symbiote wrote:
| I was recently introduced to Kill Team, which is a complete
| game with two "teams", terrain, rules and so on. A team is 6-14
| models, sold in one box, so if your friend has the main game
| the cost to join is just those models; PS40 or so.
|
| That's comparable to a high quality board game, computer game,
| Lego set etc.
| mattl wrote:
| There are some efforts to remedy this: the new edition will let
| you pick up a $150 box and that'll be your force.
|
| Yes $150 isn't cheap but it's not $1500.
| duxup wrote:
| I wish I sent more mail. USPS and other places have some amazing
| stamps.
| lapetitejort wrote:
| Have a friend's address? Send them a quick letter. It'll be the
| most surprising thing that will happen to them that week.
| usrusr wrote:
| True enough, special edition stamps or not.
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| I randomly send cards to friends and loved ones for fun and to
| stay in touch. Latest stamps that went out were James Webb
| Telescope. You can too!
|
| https://store.usps.com/store/product/buy-stamps/james-webb-s...
| neilv wrote:
| If it's not on postcards they want to keep, friends' kids
| might have fun collecting the stamps as free little art, if
| they knew how to soak off and press canceled stamps.
| neilv wrote:
| At one of our startups, we had a dinosaur theme for internal
| codenames, and one day we floated around the idea of
| stockpiling a bunch of dinosaur postage stamps, so that we
| could make that our thing for company mail, using them long
| after those stamps were no longer available from USPS.
|
| But we soon decided that beating inflation with USPS Forever
| stamps probably wasn't the best ROI of investor funds.
|
| (Codename Raptor (Velociraptor) was an awesome internal app,
| for eviscerating counterfeiters with swarms of fast-moving
| iPhones.)
| no_wizard wrote:
| I mean I get it, but couldn't you just bill it out as
| employee morale or something.
| neilv wrote:
| Yes, or hiring appeal, or marketing (another factor to A/B
| test for paper mails, which we did use in some of our B2B
| and enterprise approaches).
|
| IMHO, dinos (including a team break to brainstorm a
| suitable next codename) are better for morale than many
| packaged corporate team-building activities.
| vrtnis wrote:
| A real silver plated metal stamp!
| https://shop.royalmail.com/special-stamp-
| issues/warhammer/wa...... btw the first 'metal' royal mail stamp
| was probably their Iron Maiden series
| https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64173882
| Tade0 wrote:
| Blessed Sigmar, the Old World is also featured in this
| collection!
| er4hn wrote:
| Warhammer is a historic gaming institution which has had ripple
| effects throughout so many places: Starcraft having the Zerg
| based on Tyranniads, the lore text and novels leading to
| "grimdark" sci-fi as a genre, even other games like Gears of War
| have a lot of inspirations from this.
|
| With all that said it is very amusing to see the British govt
| create a series of stamps that commemorate a game setting that
| could be summed up as "religious facism with roman empire
| themes".
| EamonnMR wrote:
| StarCraft owes more than just the zerg to 40k, the marine
| design is very space Marine and the protoss are very Eldar. One
| thing StarCraft did was turn away from the grimdark outlook and
| tell a very human (if operatic) story.
| SSLy wrote:
| And the legend is that Warcraft was supposed to be digital
| Warhammer but they couldn't secure a license.
| EamonnMR wrote:
| That's not a legend, it's well attested:
| https://kotaku.com/how-warcraft-was-almost-a-warhammer-
| game-...
| simonjgreen wrote:
| Royal Mail is not a government organisation any more, it's a
| public listed company
| ilyt wrote:
| > religious facism
|
| That's just theocracy lmao
| rvense wrote:
| > With all that said it is very amusing to see the British govt
| create a series of stamps that commemorate a game setting that
| could be summed up as "religious facism with roman empire
| themes".
|
| While I don't at all doubt that it goes over the head of some
| of the fanbase, I don't get the sense that the existence of a
| religious fascist empire in the game is really an endorsement
| of that as a political philosophy...
| mrguyorama wrote:
| Some people actually get pretty invested in fictional facism
| and real Facists sometimes get invested in fictional facism
| because of the Facism. There are people for example on
| /empiredidnothingwrong that take it seriously.
|
| Artists can put significant effort into showing an ideology
| or something as "clearly the bad guys" and people will choose
| to ignore that. See for example, all the people yelling that
| Tom Morello is "getting political" and how the original star
| wars film was intentionally an anti-vietnam film.
| ilyt wrote:
| As every satire someone will take it as something
| genuine...
|
| Most are probably just roleplaying bad guys for fun but
| there is always someone that doesn't...
| Barrin92 wrote:
| Endorsement always happens at the aesthetic level, there's
| never anything explicitly political about fascist work.
|
| Take Fight Club which you're 'supposed to' take as criticism
| of explosive violence but it still basks in it. Or
| superficially anti-war movies like Black Hawk Down which are
| basically war porn aesthetically. The Young Pope is another
| good recent example. Superficially it's satire but on every
| other level obviously sympathetic to what it portrays.
| colonelpopcorn wrote:
| Sort of like how the second half of The Wall album by Pink
| Floyd isn't supposed to endorse national socialism, but Roger
| Waters was recently investigated for inciting hatred, so...ya
| know.
| babypuncher wrote:
| It's a Starship Troopers problem. Most people recognize it as
| satire and have fun with it. A few loud people don't, and end
| up occasionally making the whole fanbase look bad as a
| result.
| mustacheemperor wrote:
| It certainly isn't, and that's especially obvious considering
| the origin of some of the lore figures like the "Dark Angels"
| led by "Lion El Johnson," or the heroic stronghold planet of
| "Caliban" being named after a gay club located down the
| street from the pub where the setting's original creators
| would hang out.
|
| Part of the point of 40k (which certainly DOES go over the
| head of some of the fanbase) is that the humans really are
| the bad guys. I mean, so are lots of other factions, but
| that's the dark future of the 41st millenium for you.
| ilyt wrote:
| > which certainly DOES go over the head of some of the
| fanbase
|
| Most times it's played as a joke. I mean I doubt there is a
| single living being that goes "yeah 40k imperium is such
| nice place to live as a normal human".
| bee_rider wrote:
| IMO the fact that everyone is a bad guy, essentially, in
| 40k makes the satire less obvious. Because it is just a
| crap sack universe, the bad guy stuff they the Imperium
| does is too easy to write off as just necessary.
|
| IMO they should have made the Tau not evil (make the mind
| control vibes just imperial propaganda that is the result
| of actually encountering people motivated to do good).
|
| As it is, the Orks seem to be the least evil faction.
| dataduck wrote:
| I see where you're coming from, but...
|
| A lot of the stuff the Imperium does is not just evil but
| also stupidly counterproductive. Planets starving due to
| rounding errors in the filing system is hard to take as
| an endorsement. And I couldn't disagree more with the
| Tau, if anything I wish they had made them more sinister.
| Having a whole faction of non-tragic good guys in the
| setting really spoils the vibe.
|
| But the Orks - agree so hard. There's a quote in a Codex
| somewhere from an Eldar philosopher waxing on the point
| that the Orks are thriving and living their true lives,
| while the Eldar are decaying as a result of their own
| corruption and therefore the Orks are morally superior,
| and it rings quite true.
| ilyt wrote:
| > IMO the fact that everyone is a bad guy, essentially,
| in 40k makes the satire less obvious. Because it is just
| a crap sack universe, the bad guy stuff they the Imperium
| does is too easy to write off as just necessary.
|
| Well, it is written off like that in lore too. "We do bad
| things because war machine needs to be fed, because our
| entire existence depends on it" is recurring theme.
|
| Even the "good" Tau are _pretty fucking bad_ when you
| start looking into their practices of casual eugenics...
|
| Frankly only non-evil-at-core one would be Tyranids which
| are only hungry
| bodge5000 wrote:
| I really like the Tau being evil being even in the lore,
| they're not often seen this way by common imperial troops
| (at least the less brainwashed ones). Its like every
| faction has a special ability, and for Tau its fantastic
| PR.
|
| Strange as it sounds, imo the least evil faction is the
| Tyranids. Though they're (or I guess technically it,
| because they don't have individual minds) intelligent,
| its an entirely different form of intelligence which
| makes them more like a force of nature, no more evil than
| a tornado is.
| twic wrote:
| According to their creator, the Tau are basically Tony
| Blair in space [1]:
|
| > As a bit of an analog for late 20th century / early
| 21st century western interventionist culture I've always
| assumed that the Greater Good is ultimately for the
| benefit of the T'au and if others get something out of
| that's just a bonus. The fact that they are even willing
| to work with other species is pretty unique and
| progressive among the factions of 40K, rather than
| rampant genodical, xenophobic armies. The thing about the
| Great Good is that it is, in the long term, as inflexible
| and authoritarian as the Imperial Creed or the all-
| consuming Tyranids. It still comes down to the Greater
| Good or Death (tm). I've tried not to make it too
| sinister being within the T'au sphere, though in the
| original Apocalypse book I introduced a variety of NATO-
| style innocuous three-letter-acronym formations, like
| Mobilised Hunter cadre, Dispersed Retaliation Cadre and
| Forward Commitment Contingent. None of them say 'battle'
| or 'war'... I cazn imagine the news back home is quite a
| sanitised version of the reality - like when we watched
| videos of 'smart' bombs and gun cameras blowing up stuff
| in Iraq but were totally unaware of what was really
| happening on the ground.
|
| You're right about the Orks, of course. They're just out
| there living their best life! #GreenBoySummer
|
| [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/b3pc01/qa_w
| ith_gav...
| kergonath wrote:
| > the humans really are the bad guys
|
| The fact that the Salamanders are praised because they
| think of the people before nuking a planet really does tell
| you quite a lot about the shining beacon of Humanity that
| the Adeptus Astartes are supposed to be.
|
| > I mean, so are lots of other factions, but that's the
| dark future of the 41st millenium for you.
|
| Basically, it's a setting where there are _no_ good guys.
| Except _maybe_ the Tau, but nobody likes them anyway.
|
| The fact that humans are actually quite terrible from a
| moral perspective, and that most other factions have
| aspects you can sympathise with is actually very
| interesting, and makes the universe compelling. For example
| Nurgle followers really are benevolent good guys from their
| perspective, and that is very well documented. There is
| basically only the Drukhari (and tyranids, but that's
| different because they have no moral compass whatsoever)
| that are really purely evil, even from their point of view.
| tomatotomato37 wrote:
| Are there even any good factions in 40k, like at all?
| Closest I can see are the Tau, and even they have some
| weird caste eugenics shit going on.
| twic wrote:
| Whole factions you can play as an army, no. But there are
| the Jokaero, who are techno-savant orang-utans who float
| about the universe in inexplicable spaceships making
| gadgets.
| atdrummond wrote:
| I would argue Nurgle is chaotic neutral.
| ilyt wrote:
| Unironically Tyranids, while their creation was probably
| evil, in the end they are animals wanting to feed.
|
| Tau would be pretty fascist too
| gilleain wrote:
| The only character in Warhammer who is unambiguously good
| is of course Kremlo.
| justrealist wrote:
| > is that the humans really are the bad guys
|
| Ehhh... maybe that was the satirical intent in the 80s, but
| it's pretty clearly not true anymore. The Imperium as a
| whole kinda sucks, but Roboute Guilliman is simply a
| protagonist, there's no subtlety that the fanbase is
| missing.
| devjab wrote:
| One of the first things the Rowboat does after coming out
| of his princess Aurora sleep is to dissolve democracy and
| replace it with a military dictatorship because he gets
| sick of free people not just following his opinion. This
| happens in the plague war trilogy by the way, and don't
| worry, it's not a major spoiler in any way. I guess some
| people can paint that as a good thing, but I think that
| for most people its pretty evil. It also plays a small
| part, however, with the bigger points of sarcasm and
| critical tone moving on to things like organised
| religion, fake news and manipulation of hearts and minds.
|
| I do agree that some, maybe even most, of the sarcasm
| targeting Reaganism that was the foundation for the lore
| back in the 80ies is weaker in the new official lore. But
| I think that is just because the current writers are
| moving on to make fun of more modern things like the
| anti-intellectuals you see on the far-right today. I do
| think they are much more successful with that in Age or
| Sigmar than in 40K, but I don't think they are writing
| the imperium to be the good guys either. Sure some people
| will see "humans" as the good guys, and sure, a lot of
| the anti-fascism is going to be lost on some people, but
| it honestly always has been.
| bart_spoon wrote:
| What's your point? Just because not every individual
| member of the faction is not evil doesn't make the
| faction not evil.
| justrealist wrote:
| "humans are the bad guys" is not accurate?
|
| But as a stronger statement, I don't think the Imperium
| is even presented as an evil faction anymore. The
| Inquisition is the darkest traditional faction, but look
| at their presentation in something new like Darktide.
| It's at _worst_ morally comparable to a "grey"
| protagonist like the Punisher in other media.
| LanceH wrote:
| The empire of man is cruel in its indifference to
| individuals and humanity's future is certainly grim. But
| the work is ostensibly being done to preserve the
| _existence_ of man.
| mrguyorama wrote:
| Humanity is "benevolent oppressive facism" (the
| "oppressive" part is _NOT_ redundant) AT BEST
| kergonath wrote:
| It is not benevolent at all. The rulers have no qualm
| sacrificing entire stellar systems. There are strong
| "kill them all, God will know his own" vibes, and the
| Inquisition is nobody's idea of the good guys.
| justrealist wrote:
| I feel like we're just playing with words here.
|
| "In newer 40k media, you are intended to root for humans
| working on behalf of the Imperium"
|
| is a true statement IMO. That makes them "the good guys",
| even if overall kind of crappy.
| mrguyorama wrote:
| Do you mean protagonist? The protagonist is not always
| the good guy
| kergonath wrote:
| > "humans are the bad guys" is not accurate?
|
| "Humans are the bad guys" does not imply that all humans
| are bad. Just that overall they are really not good. So
| pointing out one archetypal white knight type is not a
| refutation of the point.
| ilyt wrote:
| It's not accurate. Imperium is bad guys is more accurate.
| There are humans outside the Imperium too.
| ilyt wrote:
| Sure the particular units might not be considered evil
| but what Imperium does pretty much is.
|
| Xenos ? Purge without question, even if they are peaceful
|
| Human colony wanting to be just left alone ? Nope, can't
| have that, conquer and make them pay tribute.
|
| Mutated in wrong way ? Probably chaos, purge just in
| case.
|
| Human rights ? Only human right is to sacrifice life for
| Emperor.
|
| Sure the world requires such level of sacrifice just to
| survive the threats from rest of the universe but _that
| doesn 't make Imperium not evil_
|
| Then again, every other major faction is too... maybe
| except Tyranids, they just hungry
| twic wrote:
| > the heroic stronghold planet of "Caliban" being named
| after a gay club located down the street from the pub where
| the setting's original creators would hang out
|
| This appears to be an urban myth. Nobody has ever managed
| to find any evidence that there was a gay club called
| Caliban or The Rock in Nottingham, or that anything was
| named after one.
|
| Lion El'Jonson, though, definitely:
| https://www.poeticous.com/lionel-johnson/the-dark-angel-
| dark...
| javajosh wrote:
| 40k was intentionally a satirical setting by the authors.
| Even so it's legitimate to ask why so many people
| (including those who understand it's satirical/critical
| nature) enjoy dwelling in a fantasy world of this sort. It
| is clearly very appealing - there are books and video
| games, and many people don't even play the table-top game
| but still collect and build the figures. Why? What is so
| appealing about theocratic fascism that people would choose
| to spend their free time and disposable income to dwell
| within it?
|
| IMHO it's no coincidence that the first human civilizations
| were autocratic. It's basically the default form of
| government. This is a very important, if uncomfortable
| truth. Too often liberal societies fool themselves into
| thinking that liberty "just happens" and is "inevitable", a
| feature of the natural world, requiring no effort from the
| individuals that compose it. This is not just foolish but
| destructive. It is why, for example, that fascism rises in
| democracies like the US even though the vast majority do
| not support it: the majority doesn't bother to vote,
| thinking they don't have to.
| pigeons wrote:
| Check out David Graeber and David Winslow's book, The
| Dawn of Everything regarding the autocratic default form
| of government assumption. Of course the books suggestions
| and conclusions are arguable, but I found it interesting.
| ilyt wrote:
| > What is so appealing about theocratic fascism that
| people would choose to spend their free time and
| disposable income to dwell within it?
|
| Yiu might as well ask "why people choose playing bad guy
| in (c)RPG" ? Because it is something different than the
| usuall
|
| Also it's most about cool shit the whatever faction you
| like do. The misery of the world is only a background to
| show the unimaginable scale of the conflict in the world
| where a seed of chaos or genestealers in a small
| community can lead to entire planet being doomed if not
| handled appropriately. The stakes are massive and the
| conflict is on awesome scale.
|
| > IMHO it's no coincidence that the first human
| civilizations were autocratic. It's basically the default
| form of government. This is a very important message to
| spread because too often liberal societies fool
| themselves into thinking that liberty "just happens" and
| is "inevitable", a feature of the natural world,
| requiring no effort from the individuals that compose it.
| This is not just foolish but destructive. It is why, for
| example, that fascism rises in democracies like the US
| even though the vast majority do not support it: they
| don't even bother to vote, thinking they don't have to.
|
| I think that's spot on; also most people don't really
| _want to be bothered_ to run the bigger scale as long as
| their lives are fine enough (from their perspective, as
| they might not know any better).
|
| Like society when everyone is involved in every decision
| on wider area (let's say small city) would be obnoxious
| enough, every fucking day there would be half a dozen
| issues to decide upon so that would naturally evolve to
| deciding to pick (and pay for their trouble) some people
| to deal with some kind of issue and as it is hard to know
| who would be good at, the most charismatic one wins...
| robertlagrant wrote:
| Check out Konstantin Kisin's a Love Letter To The West,
| for a perspective from someone who grew up under
| Socialism.
| mortenjorck wrote:
| For the most part, it's likely just the allure of
| roleplaying as the black hat, same as the GTA games. When
| some friends and I were really into Dawn of War for
| awhile, we often had a good laugh speaking to each other
| in the absolutist language of the Imperium.
|
| Perhaps there is also something a bit alluring in the
| fantasy of being a zealot, though. To be untroubled by
| the nuances of a complicated world, serving only as an
| extension of the Emperor's glorious might, has a certain
| perverse simplicity to it.
| Reason077 wrote:
| > _"Starcraft having the Zerg based on Tyranniads"_
|
| Oh, I always assumed they were based on the arachnids from
| _Starship Troopers_? And likewise, the Terran marines in
| StarCraft are clearly very similar to the Mobile Infantry in
| Starship Troopers...
| ilyt wrote:
| I think lineage is Starship Troopers -> WH40k -> Starcraft.
| simonjgreen wrote:
| I think the timeline is the other way round there :)
| Reason077 wrote:
| Well, Starship Troopers (the novel) came out in 1959.
| Warhammer didn't arrive till 1983.
|
| But I guess it's plausible that the depiction of the
| Arachnids in the 1990s film adaptation took some
| inspiration from the Tyranids. Which, in turn, might have
| been inspired by the novel's Arachnids...
| kergonath wrote:
| Yes, they clearly are tyranids in the film (which is
| really not that faithful to the book; both are quite
| different stories).
| pigeons wrote:
| Starship Troopers came out in 1959.
| YeGoblynQueenne wrote:
| Tyranids are based on the arachnids from Starship Troopers
| [1]. Space Marines are based on Star Wars Stormtroopers. Not
| to say Darth Vader himself. Have a gander at their helmets!
|
| _____________
|
| [1] My source for that is the first novel in the Horus Heresy
| series. In one episode, some marines are on a far-away planet
| fighting a race of "megarachnids" which are very clearly some
| kind of forward force of the Tyranids. "Very clearly" given
| that the Marines are basically slaughtered. They get better.
|
| The internet tells me the planet was called Murder. The
| internet also is categorical that the megarachnid are a
| different species than the tyranids, but far as I can tell
| nobody has any real reason to say that, they all seem to just
| state it as a fact without further justification. So I says
| they were early 'nids.
| lovich wrote:
| Warhammer 40k took a bunch of influences like Dune,
| Foundation, Starship Troopers, The Eternal Champion, A Death
| World Triology, and more.
|
| StarCraft was definitely based on 40k with Zerg being
| tyranids, Terrans being the imperium with their marine unit
| looking like an ultramarine, and Protoss being like the elder
| because employees at blizzard wanted to make warhammer games
| and tried to get games workshop to license it. They altered
| it just enough to be different when games workshop declined.
| You can see some of that in Warcraft as well with their orcs
| being green
| n1b0m wrote:
| For most of its history, the Royal Mail was a public service,
| operating as a government department or public corporation.
| Following the Postal Services Act 2011, a majority of the
| shares in Royal Mail were floated on the London Stock Exchange
| in 2013. The UK government initially retained a 30% stake in
| Royal Mail, but sold its remaining shares in 2015, ending 499
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|
| [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Mail
| climb_stealth wrote:
| If one wanted to dip their toes into Warhammer books, where
| would they get started? I always liked the sound of the
| universe when I see it discussed but was never sure where to
| even start.
| pas wrote:
| assuming you mean 40K, I recommend starting with the Ian
| Watson novels (Inquisitor, Harlequin, Chaos Child, Space
| Marine), then the longer series like Horus Heresy, then Dan
| Abnett's Gaunt's Ghosts, etc.
| debacle wrote:
| I remember when Warhammer + GW were the bad guys for being money
| grubbing + elitist.
|
| And now people look at Hasbro and WotC and wish they were more
| like Games Workshop.
| RNase wrote:
| MAIL FOR THE MAIL GOD! STAMPS FOR THE STAMP THRONE!
| npsomaratna wrote:
| DEATH TO THE FALSE EMAILER!
| ilyt wrote:
| Are spammers just Tyranid?
| YeGoblynQueenne wrote:
| In the sticky darkness of the far future there is only stamp
| glue.
| bodge5000 wrote:
| They are my posties, and they shall know no fear (of poor
| weather conditions)
| readyplayernull wrote:
| So many Warhammer games, which is the best?
| YeGoblynQueenne wrote:
| Tabletop, or computer? On my computer I had lots of fun with
| "Dawn of War", many years ago, and with "Chaos Gate -
| Demonhunters" recently (last year).
|
| Demonhunters features the Grey Knights who are a secret chapter
| of psychic Space Marines who fight the forces of chaos etc etc.
| It's a nice game, but with a seriously shitty UI. I still
| enjoyed it.
|
| I've played a bit a couple of others: "Warhammer Total War"
| (now in v. III) and "Spacehulk: Deathwing", "Battlefleet
| Gothic: Armada" etc but those were meh-so-and-so. I think the
| majority of WH games tend to be.
|
| Unrelated: why so many games have an X:Y name?
| EamonnMR wrote:
| Painting the minis is a fun hobby. Boltgun is the best video
| game from the franchise that I've played.
| nailer wrote:
| I haven't played Boltgun personally but I can confirm it's
| has great reviews from FPS YouTubers
| Semaphor wrote:
| There is currently a turn based CRPG in beta by owlcat (They
| created two successful pathfinder CRPGs). It looks great so
| far.
| mattl wrote:
| Warhammer 40,000 is the flagship game. If you're looking to get
| started, Kill Team is a smaller model count game.
|
| A new edition of 40K is out in the next few weeks. The core
| rules are a free download and the points for all the models
| will be free downloads too.
| iamevn wrote:
| I've recently gotten into Necromunda which is a very fun
| skirmish game but horrible for how many books and minis you
| need to buy.
| mpsprd wrote:
| It depends on your preferences.
|
| For a l4d style horde shooter, vermintide 1&2
|
| For a boomer shooter, the recent 40k boltgun is allegedly
| excellent
|
| For tactical in the 40k realm the dawn of war 2 is great.
|
| Space marine was a nice linear action game, worthwile on sale.
| dataduck wrote:
| My personal fave is Blood Bowl. A really tightly designed game
| that plays in 150 minutes (and has turn timers so this is
| pretty reliable), works just fine if you don't know the lore
| (but will bring you in), and doesn't require buying additional
| models in the same way most of the others do. I think it got a
| reprint semi-recently too.
| mattl wrote:
| Yeah they did a season two box not long ago. And there's the
| Dungeon Bowl expansion
| mrguyorama wrote:
| Get one of the Battlefleet: Gothic games so you can tell a
| giant cathedral manned by zealots in 40 F150s worth of armor to
| suicide ram a giant space whale made of evil meat.
| bodge5000 wrote:
| If you like X-COM, Mechanicus is similar but also different
| enough to not just be a reskin. Also it has the best opening
| cutscene of any game I've ever seen
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| detritus wrote:
| I missed out on the 'Video Games' Stamp edition they did a few
| years back that had much-cherished games from my youth. Silly me!
|
| https://shop.royalmail.com/special-stamp-issues/video-games
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