Now the thing with a blog is quite often you have an idea for a post and then sit on it. I’ve 20 draft posts, a dozen of which are probably posts I should just finish/publish so I don’t have their ugly ‘draft’ status staining my dashboard, so here’s one I prepared earlier, much earlier!
In case you didn’t know I’ve bought Citadel Miniatures and GW products since the late 80’s. I also have a blog, it’s quite cool you can view it here. Those two facts alone qualify me to make ‘suggestions’ to Games Workshop and their subsidiaries in how they can grow their company/improve their products. On many of the forums and social media platforms you see people theorise, or usually ask, what GW will do next or what new faction they’ll create. A while back I was struck by a vision of one such faction. To be fair it’s not a great idea and I’m sure when GW announce something wholly new we’ll be super impressed, but I was compelled enough to put it down on [digital] paper and then couldn’t be bothered to publish but now I’ve bit the [mass reactive] bullet and I give you – Space Ghosts!
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You could extrapolate the Night Haunt into angular lightning beings, again the recent Malign Sorcery spells show just how cool and exciting that sort of abstract shape can be. And all those lightning bolt style extrusions would be snapped up loads to kitbash Psykers using their powers! I know as a concept it’s kind of lazy – GW will no doubt eventually come up with something that is totally unique and awesome but I just thought Space Ghosts would be pretty cool. When I originally wrote this they hadn’t even come up with the Skaven spells but lo-and-behold that sort of angular lightning effect was something they’d already begun to explore
lol, love the 'link' to this same blog!
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Always something that rolls around the back of my brain – I wanted to see them expand on some of the xenos races they've mentioned in various places, my personal favoured option being the Tarellian Dog Soldiers that were referenced in the 3rd edition rule book and later in one of the last chancers books (I think, might have been Fire Warrior, they were definitely hanging around with Tau and Kroot). I think you could do a whole host of different unit types based broadly on dog breed characteristics and associated physiques, and the whole mercenary angle really hasn't been explored at all in 40k.
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Warp echoes… you could have freaky alternate \”upside-down\” versions of other characters.
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I know, sometimes you create your own little self-reference that straddles genius and the absurd! I'll leave the decision up to those who read it! 😉
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Or cats, we know Furries have a very passionate niche market… Actually the whole legacy xenos races sound cool, the Hrud for instance… Or the Caradochians are mercenaries or the Donarathi? Maybe bring back the Zoats!
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Stranger Things have happened! 😉
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