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Yeah, the increasing army size creep pushed me out.

I used to play small and medium size games in 6E, but then in 7th GW did stupid stuff like declaring that ranks suddenly now had to be 5 models wide; this pushed unit costs up and immediately crippled writing smaller lists.

I should actually do a spreadsheet that lists the printed titles, the filenames, authors, original publication, and a brief description.

The Inquisitor community has been picking up a bit lately and asking about old articles (a new group in Brighton has snowballed) so it's a decent time to do it.

Well, it wasn't particularity onerous for me to check anyway (it's all on the shelf in here), so I can confirm it was originally published in Exterminatus Magazine, Issue #7.

In a few cases I added description parentheses to the names of (the uploaded version of) the files to make their topics a bit clearer, but if you ignore those additions I believe everything in the archive still has its original SG site(s) filename; I don't think I've outright renamed anything.

I can also dig out my physical copies and track the article to the original issue it was printed in (rather than its SG site reupload), if that's helpful for a citation.

Yes, I can confirm this.

I was the main person who was doing the archiving of Inquisitor articles for the community when the SG sites were being wound down, and that's the filename I have that article under.

A montage of pictures of a scratchbuilt 54mm Arvus Lighter, mostly made from plasticard, but with some 3D printed detailing.

It's far more fun to use 3D printing for 2:1 copies of GW models.

(Although in this case I only used it for detailing that would be hard to do in plasticard, 3D printing is proving a popular way to get models to play the old "Inquisitor" Specialist Game at its original 54mm scale).

succubus - female demon that seduces men

incubus - male demon that seduces women

vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party

"Space Marines(-ish)"?

So they're saying they *know* the Custodes aren't Space Marines?

For other points:
1) If I were GW, I'd consider 'alienating' chuds to be a perk of writing in FSM, not a drawback.
2) Who says FSM are only to appeal to female players?

If we're doing a list of annoying things men do, infantalising women by calling them "girls" has got to be pretty high up.

It's *maybe* okay in an obviously facetious context, but here it's part of an effort to discredit and invalidate women.

"Oh noooo, D&D has some non-white and/or non-cishet people in it! That's totally unrealistic in a magical world full of lizard people, sorcerers and shapeshifters!"

Letting the defender make the armour saves gives them something to do on their turn, and making it one roll at the final stage makes it more climactic, and avoids passing rolls back and forth.

(Also, more appropriate than making them roll their own wound dice, which they'd want to *fail*).

That said, it occurs to me that the meme's delusion is very indicative of someone who got in during 3E, because there were then several editions of fairly static lore.

A store employee who'd played 2E and RT would be used to huge swings in the lore.

I got in late 1999 (early 3E).

I have some criticisms of modern GW, but mostly I just want them to play the satire and anti-fascism more heavily.

IMO, it's entirely sensible for Dark Eldar and Squats to have been renamed to sound more like in-universe names and less like slang.

Graph of Google search trends for "What does TBH mean". Other than a small blip around 2006, the searches only start in late-2008/early-2009, hitting their peak around mid-2011.

And I don't think this person realises the SHEER IRONY of using AI to disparage 'modern slop'.

Finally, I would like to note that using "TBH" as a phrase only started from the late-2000s, so they really don't remember how things were.

Addressing the "meme" more directly...

I think if you could prove to a GW store employee of the late 90s that WH40K would have exploded into the franchise it now is (with its own CGI movie division), they wouldn't have called it "a load of rubbish", they would have gone wild with excitement.

Montage of a female Kasrkin conversion. Some of the pictures show her painted in the classic green/brown jagged camouflage scheme. The last few show the dissection of the original metal miniature into pieces, and the cuts/filing/sculpting needed to narrow the figure's shoulders and create a new bereted head for her.

I have made both 28mm and 54mm =][= cells, but I've converted many of my 28mm characters out of old metals.

People treat me as half-mad when I do those how you would have had to back in the early-2000s. (Even simple things like "slightly narrower shoulders and a new female head" are non-trivial).

Sure, 28mm is the convenient way to do it now.
(Although 3D printing is giving 54mm a boost, and is a good use case for it - small numbers of unique models with large details.)

But back then? The 54mm range was a (nearly) entirely multi-part range (possibly GW's first?), albeit in metal.

Most WH40K factions *maybe* had their core unit and basic vehicle in plastic. Everything else was metal conversion parts, or 1-or-2 part metals (usually in only ~4 poses).

The surge for the INQ28 movement was much later, around 2011-2012, once *many* more kits had shifted to plastic.

I've had this conversation many times about the 54mm models for Inquisitor (which released in 2001, i.e. mid-3E 40k).

So many people saying it should always have been 28mm have forgotten what the ranges were like back then, and what minatures technology GW was relying on.

I frequently don't expect to convince the people I'm directly arguing with in a debate.

But I might convince a few others not to listen to them and thus shift the overall consensus a bit.

But that's fan material, and it's a fairly minor point that I could easily rewrite.

I've yet to hear of any canon story that would genuinely have to be retconned out of all existence because "Oh, Cawl can make female Space Marines now".

The closest thing I have is some lore I wrote for a Rogue Trader RPG character - a dodgy Inquisition/AdMech genetics project deliberately creates both male and female soldiers to "prove" they're not using Astartes geneseed (a big no-no without the High Lords' say-so) to try to avoid closer scrutiny.

I like to challenge these chuds to name a story that would be invalidated by FemSM (particularly if it were "Uh, Cawl finds a way").

Not "we need to change a few sentences", but "scrap the entire novel" (which, I would note, prior lore changes have done).

Who’s your favourite Jedi? (wrong answers only)

YouTube video by Karl Huttig God doesn't like Nazis (Raiders of the Lost Ark - Ark Burn Scene)

Raiders of the Lost Ark features the first unambiguously supernatural thing we see in the series - the Ark *physically burning Nazi insignia*.

Talk about catastrophic media illiteracy.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba_a...

YouTube video by SPGD The Origins of Warhammer's Strangest Game - Inquisitor

I don't really agree with the analysis or conclusions (I don't think Inquisitor is a game served well by a points system, for example) and I've left a response with some of my thoughts, but dialogue and discourse around Inquisitor is a good thing.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIlW...

For eff's-sake, "third spaces" are not a viable option. You cannot expect every shopping centre, cafe, 13thC pub, park toilet, etc to remodel for a insane solution to an non-existent problem.

The only concievable outcome of this would be nearly everywhere having to declare their toilets unisex.

Many of the chuds' ideas around gender/sexuality in the Imperium revolve around women being forced to churn out the next generation of workers/soldiers.

Of course, the real lore is the Imperium having more people than they know what to do with.

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky.