BREAKING: The Milwaukee Bucks are trading two-time MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo and Thanasis Antetokounmpo to the Miami Heat in exchange for... f-for... wait.. no- mmph... we can't.. we're both girls.. k-kyaa! your lips are s-so tender.. mmwa... mmggghhh...
A lot of talk about how this title changes or impacts Brunson’s legacy but after this run I can never see KAT as anything other than one of the most lovable personalities in all of basketball.
Warhammer's solution is simple: if you want to write a swashbuckling adventure where a handful of heroes can turn the tide, write a space marines book. If you want to write Red Rising In Space, do a cadians book.
This is how 40k elegantly sidesteps the issues Jedi create in star wars: the heroes you see on the cover ARE special and important and The Best Way To Do War. But! They're too hard to make at scale, so the imperium still needs to do Normal War most of the time
I think it's pretty cool that even though the Space Marines are the focus of a lot of WH40K stuff, in-universe they're apparently really rare, and most people never see them
To avoid vague posting accusations: a lot of eu writers come to star wars wanting to do serious military sci-fi, but you can't really do that when the verse is built on the idea that a handful of wizard samurai would be tactically significant in a modern military