original thread had gaming relevance :
https://lemmy.world/post/38269946
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original thread had gaming relevance :
https://lemmy.world/post/38269946
If this is hated on I’ll delete the thread (EDIT) I guess not.
As someone who is all about the 40k lore, have no clue how to play the game, don’t have any miniatures, you really gotta take it all in small doses as there’s so much of it or let someone on youtube explain it for you.
It’s good lore, it’s insanely deep lore, and it’s all over the place. Keep in mind it all takes place of the span of 10s of thousands of years. there will be entire novels of the most mundane Astartes chapter/legion. There’ll be legions/chapters you have no clue about because no one has written about them or they get shoved off to the side. I know a lot of the lore but I honestly couldn’t tell you anything about the twin Primarchs Alpharius and Omegon nor their Alpha Legion.
I got lost in the 40k wiki for a bit. I’ve tried reading the books a few times. They weren’t bad , just not great. Awesome world building, mediocre story telling. Thus far…
I’ve found the same thing. a year or so ago there was a humble bundle for a whole bunch of 40k e-books so I got it and tried getting into them. a lot of them were just “meh”. The Salamanders book was alright but man does it just trudge along.
I played a small bit in the late 90s, it was fun chilling with my roommate and painting miniatures. Think I spent more time painting than playing though. They never lookrd great but was space marines in red with yellow accents, the odd things you still remember a 1/4 decade later.
They are such good memories. I remember as a kid in the cold winter huddled up to my desk lamp, that got super warm and was the only source of heat, painting my Catachan armoured column…
why yes, I did not understand how to use the Catachans as a jungle army, how could you tell?