u/BEARMANWITHDEALS

First, some context 

So I help run a wargaming club, and we play a bunch of different games. I often get a very surface-level understanding of many games. But, I don't always have the time to drill down into a game's mechanics. Furthermore, the club has house armies made of odds and ends, donated stuff, or part of combat patrols, etc., etc.  

So I make a list for these armies, trying to make a loner army with a somewhat coherent strategy, maybe not a good one, but a coherent one with what we have. So new folks can see how certain synergies work, and this unit is good vs this, or this unit is good at this job, etc., etc. 

But since I'm not an expert, I have often turned to Reddit and other forums to ask advice to help with an x hodge podge list around 1200 points or so to see what's the best way to run it. 

I almost never receive that info. The advice I get is what units I should have in the list instead, or that the list is bad for x reason, or nothing at all. 

So my question is, is 40k too complicated or nuanced for some casual reading of a Reddit or forum post to weigh in constructively? Is the only way someone could give good info if they know the exact match-up and set up of the board? Because what I am looking for is general advice, like make sure you lead with the meltas first, or take this detachment to get the most out of x unit.  I often don't find this lack of information exchange for other games the club plays, so what's up with 40k?

Hello folks I wanted to get your thoughts on an interesting phenomenon I have seen within Warhammer fans.

There seems to me a real resistance to the existence of imperial renegades that aren't morally compromised ie (In bed with the dark eldar, renegade for there own personal gain, or secretly worshipers of the dark gods).

A recent example I was the talking lore with folks about the Vostroyans and how my head canon for my Vostroyan army is that there renegade because there rebelling against the fact that the imperium demands all there first born children must fight for the guard. Ergo that's why it makes sense to me why they fight space Marines and other imperial factions on top of other aliens.

The response from the folks I was talking to was you don't need to be renegade to fight the imperium and then went to list good reasons why that would happen. It flew right over his head that I might want my guard to oppose the imperium any way and that was part of the point plausible or not.

Has any one else ran into this on their own journey through the fandom.

Hello folks I wanted to get your thoughts on an interesting phenomenon I have seen within Warhammer fans.

There seems to me a real resistance to the existence of imperial renegades that aren't morally compromised ie (In bed with the dark eldar, renegade for there own personal gain, or secretly worshipers of the dark gods).

A recent example I was the talking lore with folks about the Vostroyans and how my head canon for my Vostroyan army is that there renegade because there rebelling against the fact that the imperium demands all there first born children must fight for the guard. Ergo that's why it makes sense to me why they fight space Marines and other imperial factions on top of other aliens.

The response from the folks I was talking to was you don't need to be renegade to fight the imperium and then went to list good reasons why that would happen. It flew right over his head that I might want my guard to oppose the imperium any way and that was part of the point plausible or not.

Has any one else ran into this on their own journey through the fandom.

Has there ever been an Epic Hero for the Vostroyan on Table top or Lore. Working on my commander for the army and I wanted to see who he would be.