The Space Marines are basically Games Workshop’s cash cow franchise, so they come up a lot in discussions about 40k. I wonder if the pilot is aware of how silly he looks in there.
So today we’ll be examining how mech design in 40k tells you about each army, by examining a few famous mechs from the game, and how they’re well (or poorly) designed. But they also manage to tell you a lot about the army, its background and its playstyle, just by looking at them. Part of this is merely practical you generally want to be able to tell what a model is and what kind of threat it might post just by looking at it. But one thing I’ve always admired about it, despite how over the top it can be, is that it has very consistent visual design. As you can probably already tell, the game has a reputation for being somewhat over the top and kind of ridiculous. The game itself is…far too complicated to discuss here, but suffice it to say, it’s the basis for almost all D6 based miniature games. It also has a few elements that are relatively unique to it, such as Robotic Mummys (Necrons), anime inspired space communists (Tau Empire), and a massive and all powerful church with an army of flamethrower wielding nuns (Adepta Sororitas). Space Marines, Orcs and Goblins (here called Orks and Gretchen), space Elves (called Eldar, or Dark Eldar depending on how evil they are), basic human infantry, alien bugs, daemons, drop pods, massive amounts of tanks and walkers, it’s all accounted for. And since I’m here to discuss mech, I’m going to drop the pretense of talking about Warhammer Fantasy, even though that’s the system I like better, and just talk about 40k.Ĥ0k is the more well known of the two systems, in America at least, and is basically two hundred different sci-fi tropes thrown together, injected with enough darkness to make Lars von Trier squeamish and pumped up to 11. It, and it’s sci-fi version Warhammer 40,000 (often abbreviated as Warhammer 40k, or just 40k) are two of the oldest and most well regarded miniature games in existence. Of my hobbies, one of the most expensive and time consuming is playing Warhammer. About as esoteric a subject as I could possibly find. Elessar here, to host my first ever edition of Mecha Monday.
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