Since this community is pretty dead I thought I liven it up a little with some very light discussion about factions in our favourite wargame we absolutely hate.
So for me it’s the Orks. I love them in 40k and AoS. The chaotic, ramshackle ridiculousness of them is incredible entertaining. That and I am more interested in building models and painting than playing and Orks are perfect for that.
I also like Necrons because they are so awful but in an honest way. Yes they want to get rid of the other races so that the Necrons rule once more over the galaxy. But from their point of view it’s understandable. They ARE better than every other living race in technology and science. Years are to them like seconds to us. The difference between Necrons and other living races really is like the difference between us and insects.
Edit: I just want to clarify that I don’t think the Necrons are right in wanting everything dead. I just get why terrible space Egyptians would believe that they are right. I like that they are very upfront and honest about being dickheads.
Can’t say I blame you. Funnily enough, I’ve not met that many legit Imperium supporters among the fans, there’s maybe one person who simps for Great Crusade era specifically, but that’s about it. Other Imperium fans I know are pretty honest about it being a shithole.
What gets me are unironic necron simps. Now those I’ve seen a-plenty. It’s one thing to acknowledge they have some cool and advanced technology, it’s a completely different thing to go “well they see a galaxy filled with vermin and they’re right to want everyone dead”.
I just want to clarify that I don’t think the Necrons are right in wanting everything dead. I just get why terrible space Egyptians would believe that they are right. I like that they are very upfront and honest about being dickheads.
There are unironic Necron simps? I must say i seen those for basically every faction even for fucking Tyranids and Drukhari but never for Necrons, Necron players i met are always about their notably cool aesthetics and/or being Tomb Kings in space.
I know maybe two. Can’t say I’ve met drukhari simps that don’t acknowledge them being horrible
That’s the point, they do acknowledge them being horrible but still simp for them and whitewash them “at least they are honest yadda yadda”.
Jfc it’s like that “argument” people keep using about orks. “They are having fun!” Yeah, they sure are having fun, by terrorising everyone and everything
And note how much of ork atrocities goes unprocessed in their minds. We got general idea about drukhari even though we know 1/1000000 of what they do, chaos thinks daemonculaba was fun and good and even the more “normal” chaos routinely gets things like genociding billions in death camps on Balhaut for apparently no reason.
But orks are only having “fun”. What do fandom think happen with human and xeno population of the worlds conquered by them?
“Dey get KRUMPED! Haha genocide is funni when I say funni word!!”
I guess that’s one way to enjoy the setting - by not thinking too much about it and just consume surface fluff and vibes
Yeah, which is exactly what orks do, just in universe, something like 4th wall breaking but in reverse.
As I said in my post above about how I love a faction of literal murderous pirates who have zero material need to do anything that they do, that’s pretty much the only way to enjoy the setting at all. The second you start analysing it, as we commies are wont to do for everything, you realize it’s awful and you deny yourself another stupid bit of pop culture (see yugopnik’s recent vid about leftists not being able to enjoy anything)