I played a small bit in the late 90s, it was fun chilling with my roommate and painting miniatures. Think I spent more time painting than playing though. They never lookrd great but was space marines in red with yellow accents, the odd things you still remember a 1/4 decade later.
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rozodru@piefed.world 5 weeks ago
As someone who is all about the 40k lore, have no clue how to play the game, don’t have any miniatures, you really gotta take it all in small doses as there’s so much of it or let someone on youtube explain it for you.
It’s good lore, it’s insanely deep lore, and it’s all over the place. Keep in mind it all takes place of the span of 10s of thousands of years. there will be entire novels of the most mundane Astartes chapter/legion. There’ll be legions/chapters you have no clue about because no one has written about them or they get shoved off to the side. I know a lot of the lore but I honestly couldn’t tell you anything about the twin Primarchs Alpharius and Omegon nor their Alpha Legion.
orbitz@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
A quarter decade was 2024. I think you meant a quarter century?
orbitz@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Sure did. Oops.
pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I know a lot of the lore but I honestly couldn’t tell you anything about the twin Primarchs Alpharius and Omegon nor their Alpha Legion.
Just as planned.
MintyFresh@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I got lost in the 40k wiki for a bit. I’ve tried reading the books a few times. They weren’t bad l, just not great. Awesome world building, mediocre story telling. Thus far…
rozodru@piefed.world 5 weeks ago
I’ve found the same thing. a year or so ago there was a humble bundle for a whole bunch of 40k e-books so I got it and tried getting into them. a lot of them were just “meh”. The Salamanders book was alright but man does it just trudge along.