I’m still very much a normie with 40k but I want to get into the lore before the show comes out. Unfortunately it’s not like LOTR, Wheel of Time, Ice and Fire, etc where I can buy a series of books and start on book one. I’ll see what books are a good starting point and I’m sure there are some YouTubers that can give lore insight that I can listen to on my walks. I have like 40 books to read in my immediate stack so I’ll hold off on any of the books until I can knock those out.
With the show coming I’m wondering if the usual suspects have tried to latch onto the IP or have the fans gate kept it pretty well?
Hopefully they are being repelled
They have been. At the end of the day Games Workshop (The creator of Warhammer) knows who their market is and their not keen to piss off those players. Their bread and butter is the models they sell at the end of the day and they know that.
The barrier to entry is also a repellent. It costs hundreds of dollars to buy an army and then hundreds of hours to paint them.
SJWs (cancel pigs) destroyed American super hero comics without buying them. I wish the cost barrier kept them out. Social media doesn't care if you bought models or not. I hope GW holds the line.
Games workshop is not a smart company.
They've done thier screwups before and will likely do so again. Is it going to lead to them going full woke, all woke? Dunno. I've seen way too many people burbling mindlessly about how the Imperium is horrible bad and in no way the 'good guy', but, eh.
We'll see.
I do see them screw up again but I don't see them ever going full woke because like I said they sell toy soldiers at the end of the day and it's where they make all their money. They can't push away that audience because they'd go out of business if they do.
None of these social justice warriors will pay $50 for a single model, spend 10s of hours painting just for use in an autistic wargame. Every interview with former Games Workshop staff supports this and they're pretty open about it.
Its been kind of strange. Games Workshop has been extremely resilient about making sure anything important has been changed, because they are greedy motherfuckers and dont like anyone touching their money (even when helping them). So most of the wokeness has been in side stories and out of the main plot. Additionally, there is a bit of an issue for the SJW's where if they make a White Male the bad guy.....that is literally just basic ass Warhammer already. So people would be like "Oh thank god, I thought you were going to change it too much."
So it has been harder for them to get in than they thought it would.
Great to hear
If you want an idea of a place to start getting into it though, I would recommend a podcast called Adeptus Ridiculous. The host are kind of on the liberal side, but they care more about the lore than trying to change it, and usually keep their politics out of episodes. And I recommend it because while one guy is a lore nerd, the other host is a newb to the lore. So I like to recommend them because it makes sure that things are actually understandable for a newb since one of them is one themselves.
Cool! Thanks!
Well the maker says Empire of Man players are problematic Nazis.