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After reading through some of the codecies it just hit me that I really didn't see the grimdark in 40k before today. Having only read the various Astartes and Guard codecies things really didn't seem that bad. I mean I know of the Dark Eldar and the chaos gods and all of the forumspeak of the grim darkness of the 41st millenium but when you read of all the triumphs of the Imperial things don't seem that bad. Tau codex is similar, lots of happy 'we'll get through it somehow' feelings throughout.
Read through the Nid codex and dang that is a lot darker than I imagined it being, even having prior knowledge of what they generally do. Very hopeless (with the exception of Warboss Skarfang, yet another reason why orks are awesome) feeling throughout it. Perhaps its just the newest non-imperial dex that has everything hyped up so it feels more dark.
I mean the DARK Angels really doesn't give a feeling of darkness, a secret here and there but thats really all. Chaos kinda has a crusade here and there, daemonic incursions happening on occassion, necrons waking up at weird hours of the morning, and the dark elder don't seem to be too actively mentioned. After reading through the stuff it felt evil sure, but not the dire threat that I had expected. Something that happens 'over there' that 'isnt a big concern to the imperium as a whole'. The orks are a threat, but they're just so funny that its hard to consider them grimdark. Something that shoots grots, has things that only work because they believe it will, rides ramshackled vehicles, performs weird surgeries but regrows anything lost anyway, an talk wit' a fu 'y speach imperdement hur hur just... doesn't seem the doom of everything. After reading the codex I near wanted to switch armies.
Nids on the other hand, after reading the codex, are terrifying and going to slaughter anything and everything; after amounting every single soldier you can you still have so little hope of surviving. With chaos it seems so much more like an everyday assault and less like the onslaught I think they're meant to portray.
On the other hand (You have three hands right?), the Imperial Guard codex is downright funny. Nork Deddog make me split my sides laughing. The description of him is both hilarious and cute (what passes for cute among ogryn anyway) I would love to see a commissar use summary execution on the 'kernul' and get smashed by Nork.
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Read through the Nid codex and dang that is a lot darker than I imagined it being, even having prior knowledge of what they generally do. Very hopeless (with the exception of Warboss Skarfang, yet another reason why orks are awesome) feeling throughout it. Perhaps its just the newest non-imperial dex that has everything hyped up so it feels more dark.
I mean the DARK Angels really doesn't give a feeling of darkness, a secret here and there but thats really all. Chaos kinda has a crusade here and there, daemonic incursions happening on occassion, necrons waking up at weird hours of the morning, and the dark elder don't seem to be too actively mentioned. After reading through the stuff it felt evil sure, but not the dire threat that I had expected. Something that happens 'over there' that 'isnt a big concern to the imperium as a whole'. The orks are a threat, but they're just so funny that its hard to consider them grimdark. Something that shoots grots, has things that only work because they believe it will, rides ramshackled vehicles, performs weird surgeries but regrows anything lost anyway, an talk wit' a fu 'y speach imperdement hur hur just... doesn't seem the doom of everything. After reading the codex I near wanted to switch armies.
Nids on the other hand, after reading the codex, are terrifying and going to slaughter anything and everything; after amounting every single soldier you can you still have so little hope of surviving. With chaos it seems so much more like an everyday assault and less like the onslaught I think they're meant to portray.
On the other hand (You have three hands right?), the Imperial Guard codex is downright funny. Nork Deddog make me split my sides laughing. The description of him is both hilarious and cute (what passes for cute among ogryn anyway) I would love to see a commissar use summary execution on the 'kernul' and get smashed by Nork.
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