Screw that faction!

>four flavors
>four consecutive numbers
>all four
praise the omnissiah!

Harlequins aren't a full faction, not even a half-faction. The others have no official support.

Chaos, or more specifically certain factions of chaos.

Guys like the Iron Warriors, Alpha Legion, World Eaters and Black Legion are fine because they actually seem to embody, at least at times, 'the old war'. To many have descended blindly into the worship of chaos or becoming tools (I included World Eaters as they are one of few who actually still fuck the Imperium up on occasion). All the others have become to muddled in God Worship, dicking each other over or just sitting around doing nothing but being a minor pain in the Imperiums side. And yes, I can feel the Despoiler jokes coming, at least in fluff they try and make him seem threatening it is just hampered by GWs refusal to move the plot onwards.

I also hate the fact when Chaos is mentioned everyone goes to CSM. Whole Guard Regiments turn to Chaos, there are the Dark Mechanicus and Titan Legions, rogue inquisitors and the like. I hate 'Chaos' just means 'Spikey Marines', give me my renegades, mutants and non-astartes traitors.

Also wish the Gods were less active, being more like old Norse Gods or the Warhammer Fantasy version of actually picking Champions and uniting to fight the Imperium instead of fucking with each other and their champions/worshippers.

Corsairs have a FW list.

I utterly despise Newcrons.
They're absolute shit and a laughing stock. Oldcrons were truly grimdark, something to fear rather than something that trots around the galaxy to collect trophies while struggling with senility.
Oldcrons were legions of unthinking, mechanical slaves tasked solely with harvesting all life, atom by atom, to feed their ever hungering gods.
To kill an Oldcron was to buy time, to cheat fate for but a moment, as it would rise again and again until the deed was done.
More than Chaos and Tyranids, Oldcrons were the bearers of ultimate doom. They were the faces and harbingers of total obliteration.
Oldcrons were THE grimdark. Oldcrons were THE 40k.

i really wish there was more material on the dark mechanicum. one of the coolest fucking premises in all of the lore to expand upon and there's just so criminally little

>Because there are still more Eldar than there are Tau.

I don't think so. A single Tau city supports billions of Tau and non-Tau.

>There are more humans on one Hive World than there are Tau.

That's retarded. You are re The Tau conquered several Hiveworlds and included them into the Tau Empire. They were more humans in them than the Tau.

>You don't need insane super soldiers when you already have them.
Astartes aren't insane. If you tell them they need to assassinate a planetary governor, or an inquisitor, or a canoness, they will ask questions. They have leaders who are accountable, if not to themselves, to organizations that generally run a tight ship. If an assassin is seconded to someone, that someone gets to do whatever they want with him.

Superhuman warriors also tend to attract atttention when walking through an enemy command structure. You're not likely to be able to sneak a space marine into the center of an enemy command stronghold without people noticing.

that is fucking hilarious. mind if i steal that quip?

I only have a passing interest in Warhanner, but I guess Chaos and the Nids.

The moment I found out how the lore just kind of blatantly spells out "one of these two are going to completely fuck the universe" it pretty much killed any investment I had in the setting. Same with fantasy, also.

There's no fucking point in reading the story if I already know the end.