Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-203.134.114.231-20130812114639/@comment-96.50.70.220-20140120215206

41.208.230.6 wrote: RG?, Moreover, what is the reason/background for the skin/pallet change?

haha, for what its worth, that would be quite ironic if all true Matt Ward is a little over-exuberant with lore and rules regarding his most favoritest armies. The 5th edition space marine codex was pretty much a marriage proposal to Marneus Calgar and every chapter that didn't follow the word of god that is the codex astartes is an aberrant mutation and borderline chaos cult slowly dying out. I'm surprised there wasn't a line outright saying the only reason the emperor was on the golden throne was due to him not reading the codex astartes.

Ward had written the dubiously fluffed and frustratingly ruled Necron Codex, the special snowflake never-lose Grey Knight codex, and the frustrating Ultramarine Fanfiction that is the 5th edition space marine codex. Despite the fluff not making sense he also pumped up the Blood Angels though you don't hear about them as much. Inversely he is systematically destroying the Sisters of Battle, supposedly he was asked to rewrite and resubmit his latest attempt at a SoB codex because he had underpowered them too much. The problem is that Ward isn't an ork player so the standing theory is that we're all going to enjoy our WS 2 S 1 nobz because a certain half-inch knob is writing a book best given to Vetock or Kelly.