Robbienw

Uriel Ventris got a model long after he became popular in BL novels (not counting the very poor BL diorama version of course). This guy seems to be getting one before he gets any significant popularity or profile. Bit like the Minka Lesk models. Nice models, but the main reaction is - Who?

Boo, bring back Captain Epathus! Detailing is not great on this model. Could do with a cape also,

Fellblades will happen, don’t worry.

It’s a setting.

Once again I am reminded of how much of a downgrade the new sanguinary guard are. Little Horus is very cool!

They should have done something similar to the hurricane bolters on the land raider crusader, those work. Ammo hopper at the back of the guns, feed that goes to each gun independently.

Not 40k but 30k, but I’ve always thought going by the model lines that the 30k guys have never been keen on Space Wolves and Ultramarines

But you aren’t forced to buy it. Reviews on the internet will tell you the nature of the book before buying it, you aren’t buying it blind. Its not hugely expensive. Fuss over nothing.

Because you aren't forced to buy it?

Votaan are gene engineered and not the same thing as baseline humans. Going by the old by the Stone Men/Iron Men fluff they were created to work with AI by an ealier human empire to be sent out into the galaxy to mine resources and build things, presumably setting things up for following human colonists. Their AI appear to be much more limited compared to the Dark Age human AI described in various lore. The Votaan and their AI also seem to be in decline. Tau are aliens with an alien mindset, they also haven't been developing AI for a great length of time. UR-205 existing and seeming stable doesn't make him representative of the entirety of the Human Empire AI. There were clearly different levels and types of machine, there may well have been factions within the AI, AI who stayed loyal, AI who fled to save themselves etc. Other examples we have in 40k and 30k lore include things like the excindo automata, the corrupted men of iron in the first Guants Ghosts books, nanite swarms and huge machine like the mechanivores. I don't think humaity won against the AI as much as they just about survived and managed to hang on in the ruins of the DAoT empire. As i said earlier it was clearly a horrendously bad period of human history as it left the bulk of humanity with an everlasting fear, cult like behaviour towards machinery and an absolute prohibition on making AI.

You are misinterpreting the stated intention of the authors then. Different authors have different interpretations as well that conflict, where does that leave you? What people such as the creators of 40k and various writers have said is generally far more nuanced than "Every faction is the bad guys, that's it, no thinking or pondering or debate". Ponder this statement from Jerivs Johnson on a recent podcast - "For me the interesting bit about 40k is it asks the question in a universe where true evil exists, where there is an existential threat in the form of Chaos, do the ends justify the means?"

This is of no relevance, my statement was value free. I said it because he claimed the Eldar acted otherwise, when they clearly don't.

That's not the case at all. They aren't some kind of race that only defends themselves when directly attacked. They attack when unprovoked, often to divert something coming at them into the path of humans, or to produce an outcome they see as more favorable to themselves. They interfere with/attack/slaughter billions of humans if they see it as as beneficial.

Imagine how the discussion on the topic of alliance with Xenos went between the Emperor and Malcador

No this is obviously false and a misrepresentation of my position. What an incredible take though. You think after having read all the fluff from the black books/heresy novels/other heresy and 40k lore on the topic, that its a good idea for mankind to retry an AI/machine led society again and it was just unfortunate circumstance that led to its demise, for example. I’m sure they’ll be no problems with that again, absoloutely no reason why makind banned AI and has a terror based genetic memory of it that has caused them to treat all machinery with superstition and fear, just must have failed by a random circumstance like some water supplies disappearing or something. Or maybe let’s retry a Star Trek style federation, with loads of happy alliances with xenos again. I’m sure it will be all right treating the warp and demons like a science problem. The nice little aliens totally won’t turn on humans again when things go a bit wrong and start slaughtering/enslaving/eating humans en masse again. Just won't happen this time because reasons and stuff. Mankind totally is not justified being a bit xenophobic after millenia of genocide and enslavement and mistreatment. Always a good idea to repeat the same things over again and expect a different result, particularly when it’s only the survival of humankind at stake yeah I really think there is some fundamental misunderstanding of the 40k and 30k background here, as to why the Imperium came about and why it is the way it is. Its so clear in the background that traditional hopeful sci-fi models of governance/civilization are tried, tested and completely done for, never to be repeated.