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[–] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago (6 children)

I don't trust ANYONE who says they are a fan of Warhammer 40K unless they are a fan of a Xeno faction.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes, Inquisitor, this heretic above me.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 10 months ago

You're not a heretic if you're a xeno, heretic.

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Love me orks. Love the waaaaagh. Love stompin around smacking grots.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Space clowns baybeeeeee

(I kinda like the grey knights too, but I am firmly in the camp of "every 40k faction except maybe the tau is evil and that's how it should be")

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

every 40k faction except maybe the tau

Add the Kin to that. They are callously pragmatic to the end, but I wouldn't call them outright evil.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 10 months ago

League of Voltan are the good guys now, no notes (they haven't had enough edgy lore drops)

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Honestly, I would only trust Ork and maybe Tau players. Everyone else needs questioning.

[–] Predalien@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] Infynis@midwest.social 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Are there any Tyranid players left? GW certainly doesn't act like it

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

:( agreed. I play Tyranid/gene stealer cults.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Votann? I just want to Rock and Stone brother.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Not deep enough in the lore to know what this is. Is it the old "Squats"?

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 6 points 10 months ago

Squats is Imperium hate speech be better

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The species is called the Kin. Basically squats with a new paintjob who live in the galactic core. The Votann are both their first ancestors that left pre-Imerial Earth, and the current Ancestor Core computers that they worship as deities. They are cloned with beneficial stable mutations, resistant to chaos (minimal warp presence), and when they die, they get tossed into the blender where their experience is uploaded into an ancestor core and their biomass is repurposed. They frequently trade with other cultures, and avoid open combat if it would be deemed wasteful.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Tau like to preach about the Greater Good (the greater good) but they're no valiant champions of morality. Least shitty by far, though.

Orks are questionable because they do cruel things without purpose except the cruelty. It's arguable that that's just how they're genetically programmed what with being artificially created and all that, like how I would argue the tyanids are the only "good" faction by virtue of being true neutral and at many stages more or less animals.

All the other factions do evil shit to whoever they feel is standing in their way, including their own people.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I hear all that, but counter-argument: Orks are funny.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago

You do make a good point.

[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The necrons are just sleepy bois what got woken up too early.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 3 points 10 months ago

You know what, you're right.

Necrons Best Faction.

They just got woken up by a bunch of kids on their lawn.

They're justified.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

What is wrong with necrons?

[–] JandroDelSol@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

my ex liked the tau and he's pretty based, so i'll agree to that

[–] Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Zirconium@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

One of the good ones for sure

I like Dark Eldar because of their unique armor style