u/laudnasrat

I'm an ork player and I'm positively pogging off at all the previews we've gotten, the rules seem fun and flavourful and strong. It's fantastic that the stompa's finally gonna be good and Da Biggest Boss is getting the statline he deserves. But if GW doesn't want ork players to be beaten to death with hammers when we show up to events they need to do some kind of index for every faction without their codex. T'au can't be stuck with a Farsight that's cheaper than a Guard squad and 6 detachments until their codex comes out. Even if they don't want to do full indexes, all the other factions shouldn't have to wait until their codexes come out to get the new toys like proper combi-weapons, or actual fun rules for psykers, or blast flamers. I also don't want us to be heavily points nerfed til we're an elite army or our fun abilities removed to keep us in line with the factions who are still on 10thed datasheets.

Is there any way we can communicate with the rules team that would be more constructive than posting in a subreddit they probably avoid for mental health reasons?

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TL;DR: It's just art baby, skip to the end for my interpretation

So the new trailer shows the Emperor in varying states of decay, including a shot where the Throne is empty, and ends with him looking right at the camera with a seemingly healed eye. I've seen a lot of people interpret this as hints that the Emperor is regenerating and even some suggesting he's going to come back to life this edition. Now, everyone's entitled to their opinion about art, but I really don't think the trailer is saying that at all.

A lot of what we see in the trailer is symbolic rather than literal. The "camera" isn't literally zooming through the warp and capturing the images of the chaos gods, the Hive Mind, Ynnead, and Gork/Mork, but rather we're shown visions of them to represent their presence in the warp and their place as players in this "war between gods" theme the trailer is going for. I believe the same is true of the flashes of the Emperor.

The image we see of the Emperor closely resembles that iconic John Blanche artwork we all know and love. But it is worth noting that that's not the only depiction of the Throne we've gotten, with some looking totally different, and though interviews aren't canon Blanche himself said that picture was just one interpretation of how he might look and not intended as the canon, or perhaps an example of in-universe propaganda, and Dan Abnett agreed. I for one do not think a giant arcane machine/life support system would look like a literal golden throne. Also, in the very first shot of him all regal and in his golden armour he does not look like a guy who just got mauled by his chud demigod son. Now this trailer could be seen as confirmation that that's the canon appearance of the Throne, but given everything else I highly doubt that.

My interpretation is that the varying poses and states of rotitude we see aren't him at different times over the years implying he moved and regenerated, nor does the empty throne hint towards the possibility of him getting up. It's meant to convey uncertainty as to what he is and how he's doing. Is he a living god? Is he just a desiccated corpse? Is he even there? As for the eye at the end, which is my favourite part of the whole trailer, it's not showing us a healed eye. He's breaking the fourth wall, looking right at the viewer in an expression of horror and, in my opinion, pleading. He's a fractured god hooked up to a car battery being tortured for all eternity for the sake of a rotten Imperium, and it looks to me like he wants to die.

So yeah, those are my thoughts, some of it might be obvious to you. Again, this is just one woman's opinion, but I have a degree in English I'll have you know.

My proper shooty orks went up against some Drukhari in a tournament last weekend and they were a bunch of horrible gits! Flying skrawnies would pop out of ruins and shoot my Kans to death with big lasers and then hide before I could shoot back! Scantily clad ladies would charge me from behind cover in MY movement phase and then I can't shoot them because then I hit my boyz and when they look back to yell at me they get cruelly shanked in the back! And when I charged them they'd fight first and kill my lads before we could even have a go at them, which is outright inhumane. Monsters, the lot of them.

Dunno much about Drukhari lore though.

ps. my opponent was absolutely fantastic, despite his evil list. even in such a competitive environment he was the most generous and sportsmanlike person I've ever played and he was a total stranger. reminded me of his units' abilities, advised me on moves, even let me do takebacksies AND listened to me yap about my lore before going for lunch.

for those interested in an evil tournament list, it was a bunch of wyches with succubi and Lilith and transports and scourges and bikes. half his force never even committed