What does /tg/ think of it? Haven't seen anyone talk about it, so I thought that I'd like to hear your opinion.
>>97290239I'd like to see your fully painted army.
>>97290239I don't know anything about it.
>>97290239>What does /tg/ think of it?I think it's shit and slop.
Had no idea what this was and looking it up seems to be another group of people who want to move on from GW but lack the imagination to come up with something new.
>>97290450But are they as anti-consumer as GW?
>>97290239I like it a lot but that's just because it hits my personal aesthetic tastes. It's warhammer 15k with a late cold war MIC and megacorps aesthetic. Obviously it's not super hard science fiction but the fantasy elements are heavily toned down. The big ones are the FTL system (a calm warp) and the space oil (velanite) which is like a nuclear isomer fuel. I'll post some of their pics
>>97291906Doesn’t matter. You're upset about GW prices because it's GW's shit you want, not this or any of the countless other "40k heartbreakers" that have come (and usually quickly gone) over the years.
>>97290251I don't think I've ever seen one in the wild, but there are miniatures so it is /tg/-related whether you like it or not.
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>>97291991I think they look pretty neat.
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>>97292007I'm doing my part!
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>>97291991>>97292007these are just legally-distinct-enough Space Marines >>97292020Imperial Guard with autoguns instead of lasguns. wowie!
>>97292027Their site has reams of lore and the MIC lorebook is supposed to come out this month.
>>97292033>everything is ripping off Games Workshop's totally unique intellectual propertyI believe that Inquisitor Obi-Wan Sherlock Clouseau would like a word with you, citizen.
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>>97292044This but unironically. Games Workshop invented futuristic soldier in powered armor. Nobody ever had the idea of putting elite infantry in mechanically assisted suits and equipping them with really big guns before them.
>>97292038The impression I get is their combat is supposed to work like this meme. It's 'what if Peter Watts and Alastair Reynolds wrote the technology, but cultural factors warped society sideways into something dieselpunk.' There are no energy shields and the main military use of nanotech is anti-laser fog, hence the autoguns.
>we hate GW now for...reasons>let's make our original IP!>with space marines>and capitalism badGood execution on the technical level, but they could have gone the extra creative mile during the design process.
>>97292044>>97292051I get his point, if you want to put in a lot of work like they clearly did, you can design something a bit different.
>>97292051BASED STARSHIPTROOPER POSTINGTHANK FUCK Bros I want to play the tabletop again... please...
>>97291991Miniatures having to exist for a topic to be discussable is fucking retarded.
>>97292550Forgive the anon, he can't do any better. He saw the "depends on the setting" answers some years ago and stopped reading there.
>>97290251I was unaware they had a tabletop book out?
>>97292550>>97292567This is the future you chose.
>>97292051Well I'm mad because almost all models of power armor are very clearly based on space marines. This is why everyone's calling it gay, it's very blatantly 3rd party space marine STLs but with a cool and original setting (do not steal!). I'd be happy as a clam if more people made power armor that looked like literally anything other than a space marine.
>>97293524Picture unrelated, presumably.
>>97290239Never heard of it. What is it?
>>97291975>>97291991This looks exactly like 40k. Why the fuck would anyone play this when 40k already exists? Who the hell is gonna swap to "same thing but with fewer players and less support"? I've never understood this business strategy with traditional games.
>>97291906As soon as they get a chance.
>>9729360440k ripoff made by crypto commies.
>>97293524>GW makes a generic "big armored sci-fi man">simps get mad when anyone else does it and calls it derivativePeople as stupid as you shouldn't be allowed outside without a leash.>>97293614>sees two pictures>says its the exact same thingEven if it was literally re-boxed 40k models with literal copy-paste lore, 40k gameplay is complete dogshit.
>>97293770Not my problem.
[BUMP]Cmon faggots where's the table top.
It doesn't seem to be much of anything. A handful of STLs and a tiny bit of fluff. If they're planning actually make anything their site doesn't make it at all clear.
>>97292405This. Being original isn't necessary, but being distinct is required.We mocked GW for the time their models bore all the markers of having been modeled in a software, and all these here got for them is that they're the xth legally distinct Space Marine clones modeled in a 3D software pack as well.Also it's literally a nogame, which is putting the cart before the horse.There is no game.
OP, as someone who doesn't play 40k, reading this thread my opinion is the same as the majority hereIt looks 3rd party 40k to them that seem to know what they say And to ME, this one>>97291991you'll have to explain why it's not 40k if I see it on a table, I've seen lots of 40k minis in hundreds of minis/wips threads, but because I don't know the lore I would be hard pressed to guess if this is or isn't official 40k stuff (my guess would be on unofficial on the only account that they are 3d models and I know 40k does injected plastic bits, but not on design)
>>97294610they march for macragge.
>>97294670As an outsider I literally can't see the differenceIt has more "tubes" and details on the greaves?I don't know I'm not the market for this
>>97294670You could tell me this was the primarishit version of the centurion and I'd believe it in an instant.
>>97294670They're a bit blockier, I guess.Even Mantic's enforcers look less like marine copies, and they're already pretty shameless.
>>97294289The RPG is coming out late 2026. For some reason they chose a 2d20 system
I like the portrayal of humanity in the animations, but the whole thing is more hurt by its adherence to being 40k's knock-off than it gains from it.
>>97295399>2d20 System What a strange choice, do we have any more information regarding the rules or is it locked behind Patron or some shit?
>>97294670Man, that really wasn't the paintjob to go with if they wanted to differentiate themselves from 40k.
>>97293770>no it's not similar to 40k at all! Ahem. >>97294670
>>97296659I dunno anon that's kinda a cheapshot I'd expect something to look like Spacemarines if they were very clearly painted in the same scheme and way. Yeah they're big Mech boys with power armor, if you have better examples I say post it.
>>97296904Don't engage with dishonest argumentation. >>97294670 has been shopped to make them look more like Space Marines than they actually are, not just the color scheme but fully replacing all of the heads.Never, ever allow anyone to tell you that Games Workshop has any kind of exclusivity over big men in big armor. They got to where they are today by ripping off anything and everything under the sun, and pulled the ladder up after them by aggressively litigating against anyone who dared to call their futuristic soldiers who fought from space ships "space marines," despite the term of art existing in published science fiction for fifty years before GW even existed.Everything looks like Space Marines because Space Marines look like nothing. If anything, the Primarisization of the range has resulted in them becoming even more generic and unremarkable as they try to pass off watered down StarCraft II units as original ideas.Fuck >>97296659 and all the rest of the rest of the GW defense league.
>>97297140I aspire to be like u anon.
>>97297140>implying they wouldn't look like Mk XI power armour with the original heads
>>97297140GW doesn't have exclusivity but these ones kinda suck. Their silhouettes are too similar to space marines. There are more than enough PA models that manage to stay distinctive while still being just dudes in heavy armor.
>>97291991You didn't have to give your space marines big dumb shoulder pads like 40k, but you did so you deserve every ripoff accusation you get.
>>97290239Look like someone prompted a space marine design on grok.
>>97297140On a scale with points like studio nue starship troopers, madox 01, landmates, mak, etc, and then you have space marines, these are firmly on the side with space marines.
>>97290239>>97291991Hopefully there will be more to flesh out the !Space Marines aside from the retarded storm AR15s
>>97290239teething issues, will see what it turns into>currently slightly more modern blue daba di daba dai tier graphics and sad aliens themed
>>97297140No one is arguing in favour of GW having exclusive copyright of the concept of "big burly men with heavy armor in space", but the design in question looks suspiciously derivative. Pauldrons and greaves are too similar for comfort.You can look at 40K and are free to take the parts you like about the setting as a whole and rework them into something else, that's how 40K got made in the first place, but you have to be aware that 40K exists and you will be compared to it if you take too much without reworking it enough. If you didn't work on the design to be distinct enough because you want to ride on the coattails of space marines, you come out as insecure or in bad faith. If you actually didn't think people would see the similarities because you didn't think about that enough, you're either naive or a moron.
I just want to see a better mix of Heavy Mech Armor. Anyone got good wargames that have a mix of such? Or even just model recommendations?
>>97290239This all but confirms that space marines aren't all that interesting to me if you separate them from their lore
>>97293770t. Pete Morningstar
>>97298986>https://projectmorningstar.net/short-stories/>OublietteThe big armor suits are for normal mech pilots to politically counterbalance the supersoldiers. There's one catch: no free will when you plug in.
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>>97293687Another one, huh? How long before discord drama implodes the whole project again?
>>97290239The "corpo grimdark-RT druggie Marines" are kinda neato, but the enemy is lame as fuck and they're really laying on the DID U NO HUMANS ARE TEH BADDIEZ?!? shtick with a fucking trowel. Won't be bothering to watch any future installments.
>>97291991>visibly faceted round surfacesLow effort trash sculpts.
>>97293524Translation:>WAHHHHHH WHY IS NOBODY MAKING UGLY WEEBSHIT LIKE IN MY CHINESE CARTOONS WAAAAHHHHHHH
>>97303805I don't think there's anything wrong for doing a Chinese knock off of a brand if the brand in question is being lame as fuck. I think it's good because it keeps the flavor but lets it get taken in a different direction. If someone makes Cosmic Troopers that fight for the Holy Kaiser in neat models at cheap prices then fuck GW.
>>97308843>HFY supremacists when the humans are actually supreme and thus unable to blame our morals on browns, I mean xenos
>>97290239I think it is another in a series of 40k killers like how there were halo killers in the past.Only 40k can kill 40k what happens when 40k dies as all things eventually end is up in the air and anyones guess is as bad as mine.
>>97290251Okay, Anon. Tell me what happens if I do print and paint out an entire full army of Barrakans? I mean seriously, will you also paint an army for Project Morningstar? I'm willing to be a retard. Are you?
>>97290239I like it
>>97292031I really like the look of these guys they remind me of battletech battle armor crossed with cyber punk heavy troopers. They look like they'd be fun to paint up in house colors with Corp logos with rust. It'd be a fun contrast imo
