Marco Skoll
@marcoskoll.bsky.social
Wargamer (mostly Inquisitor - 28mm and 54mm), RPer, artist, writer and millennial snowflake. Frequently sarcastic.
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Yeah, the increasing army size creep pushed me out.
I used to play small and medium size games in 6E, but then in 7th GW did stupid stuff like declaring that ranks suddenly now had to be 5 models wide; this pushed unit costs up and immediately crippled writing smaller lists.
I used to play small and medium size games in 6E, but then in 7th GW did stupid stuff like declaring that ranks suddenly now had to be 5 models wide; this pushed unit costs up and immediately crippled writing smaller lists.
November 16, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Yeah, the increasing army size creep pushed me out.
I used to play small and medium size games in 6E, but then in 7th GW did stupid stuff like declaring that ranks suddenly now had to be 5 models wide; this pushed unit costs up and immediately crippled writing smaller lists.
I used to play small and medium size games in 6E, but then in 7th GW did stupid stuff like declaring that ranks suddenly now had to be 5 models wide; this pushed unit costs up and immediately crippled writing smaller lists.
I should actually do a spreadsheet that lists the printed titles, the filenames, authors, original publication, and a brief description.
The Inquisitor community has been picking up a bit lately and asking about old articles (a new group in Brighton has snowballed) so it's a decent time to do it.
The Inquisitor community has been picking up a bit lately and asking about old articles (a new group in Brighton has snowballed) so it's a decent time to do it.
November 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I should actually do a spreadsheet that lists the printed titles, the filenames, authors, original publication, and a brief description.
The Inquisitor community has been picking up a bit lately and asking about old articles (a new group in Brighton has snowballed) so it's a decent time to do it.
The Inquisitor community has been picking up a bit lately and asking about old articles (a new group in Brighton has snowballed) so it's a decent time to do it.
Well, it wasn't particularity onerous for me to check anyway (it's all on the shelf in here), so I can confirm it was originally published in Exterminatus Magazine, Issue #7.
November 15, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Well, it wasn't particularity onerous for me to check anyway (it's all on the shelf in here), so I can confirm it was originally published in Exterminatus Magazine, Issue #7.
In a few cases I added description parentheses to the names of (the uploaded version of) the files to make their topics a bit clearer, but if you ignore those additions I believe everything in the archive still has its original SG site(s) filename; I don't think I've outright renamed anything.
November 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
In a few cases I added description parentheses to the names of (the uploaded version of) the files to make their topics a bit clearer, but if you ignore those additions I believe everything in the archive still has its original SG site(s) filename; I don't think I've outright renamed anything.
I can also dig out my physical copies and track the article to the original issue it was printed in (rather than its SG site reupload), if that's helpful for a citation.
November 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I can also dig out my physical copies and track the article to the original issue it was printed in (rather than its SG site reupload), if that's helpful for a citation.
Yes, I can confirm this.
I was the main person who was doing the archiving of Inquisitor articles for the community when the SG sites were being wound down, and that's the filename I have that article under.
I was the main person who was doing the archiving of Inquisitor articles for the community when the SG sites were being wound down, and that's the filename I have that article under.
November 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Yes, I can confirm this.
I was the main person who was doing the archiving of Inquisitor articles for the community when the SG sites were being wound down, and that's the filename I have that article under.
I was the main person who was doing the archiving of Inquisitor articles for the community when the SG sites were being wound down, and that's the filename I have that article under.
It's far more fun to use 3D printing for 2:1 copies of GW models.
(Although in this case I only used it for detailing that would be hard to do in plasticard, 3D printing is proving a popular way to get models to play the old "Inquisitor" Specialist Game at its original 54mm scale).
(Although in this case I only used it for detailing that would be hard to do in plasticard, 3D printing is proving a popular way to get models to play the old "Inquisitor" Specialist Game at its original 54mm scale).
November 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
It's far more fun to use 3D printing for 2:1 copies of GW models.
(Although in this case I only used it for detailing that would be hard to do in plasticard, 3D printing is proving a popular way to get models to play the old "Inquisitor" Specialist Game at its original 54mm scale).
(Although in this case I only used it for detailing that would be hard to do in plasticard, 3D printing is proving a popular way to get models to play the old "Inquisitor" Specialist Game at its original 54mm scale).
"Space Marines(-ish)"?
So they're saying they *know* the Custodes aren't Space Marines?
For other points:
1) If I were GW, I'd consider 'alienating' chuds to be a perk of writing in FSM, not a drawback.
2) Who says FSM are only to appeal to female players?
So they're saying they *know* the Custodes aren't Space Marines?
For other points:
1) If I were GW, I'd consider 'alienating' chuds to be a perk of writing in FSM, not a drawback.
2) Who says FSM are only to appeal to female players?
November 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"Space Marines(-ish)"?
So they're saying they *know* the Custodes aren't Space Marines?
For other points:
1) If I were GW, I'd consider 'alienating' chuds to be a perk of writing in FSM, not a drawback.
2) Who says FSM are only to appeal to female players?
So they're saying they *know* the Custodes aren't Space Marines?
For other points:
1) If I were GW, I'd consider 'alienating' chuds to be a perk of writing in FSM, not a drawback.
2) Who says FSM are only to appeal to female players?
If we're doing a list of annoying things men do, infantalising women by calling them "girls" has got to be pretty high up.
It's *maybe* okay in an obviously facetious context, but here it's part of an effort to discredit and invalidate women.
It's *maybe* okay in an obviously facetious context, but here it's part of an effort to discredit and invalidate women.
October 19, 2025 at 7:54 AM
If we're doing a list of annoying things men do, infantalising women by calling them "girls" has got to be pretty high up.
It's *maybe* okay in an obviously facetious context, but here it's part of an effort to discredit and invalidate women.
It's *maybe* okay in an obviously facetious context, but here it's part of an effort to discredit and invalidate women.
"Oh noooo, D&D has some non-white and/or non-cishet people in it! That's totally unrealistic in a magical world full of lizard people, sorcerers and shapeshifters!"
October 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
"Oh noooo, D&D has some non-white and/or non-cishet people in it! That's totally unrealistic in a magical world full of lizard people, sorcerers and shapeshifters!"
Letting the defender make the armour saves gives them something to do on their turn, and making it one roll at the final stage makes it more climactic, and avoids passing rolls back and forth.
(Also, more appropriate than making them roll their own wound dice, which they'd want to *fail*).
(Also, more appropriate than making them roll their own wound dice, which they'd want to *fail*).
October 11, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Letting the defender make the armour saves gives them something to do on their turn, and making it one roll at the final stage makes it more climactic, and avoids passing rolls back and forth.
(Also, more appropriate than making them roll their own wound dice, which they'd want to *fail*).
(Also, more appropriate than making them roll their own wound dice, which they'd want to *fail*).
That said, it occurs to me that the meme's delusion is very indicative of someone who got in during 3E, because there were then several editions of fairly static lore.
A store employee who'd played 2E and RT would be used to huge swings in the lore.
A store employee who'd played 2E and RT would be used to huge swings in the lore.
October 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
That said, it occurs to me that the meme's delusion is very indicative of someone who got in during 3E, because there were then several editions of fairly static lore.
A store employee who'd played 2E and RT would be used to huge swings in the lore.
A store employee who'd played 2E and RT would be used to huge swings in the lore.
I got in late 1999 (early 3E).
I have some criticisms of modern GW, but mostly I just want them to play the satire and anti-fascism more heavily.
IMO, it's entirely sensible for Dark Eldar and Squats to have been renamed to sound more like in-universe names and less like slang.
I have some criticisms of modern GW, but mostly I just want them to play the satire and anti-fascism more heavily.
IMO, it's entirely sensible for Dark Eldar and Squats to have been renamed to sound more like in-universe names and less like slang.
October 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I got in late 1999 (early 3E).
I have some criticisms of modern GW, but mostly I just want them to play the satire and anti-fascism more heavily.
IMO, it's entirely sensible for Dark Eldar and Squats to have been renamed to sound more like in-universe names and less like slang.
I have some criticisms of modern GW, but mostly I just want them to play the satire and anti-fascism more heavily.
IMO, it's entirely sensible for Dark Eldar and Squats to have been renamed to sound more like in-universe names and less like slang.
And I don't think this person realises the SHEER IRONY of using AI to disparage 'modern slop'.
Finally, I would like to note that using "TBH" as a phrase only started from the late-2000s, so they really don't remember how things were.
Finally, I would like to note that using "TBH" as a phrase only started from the late-2000s, so they really don't remember how things were.
October 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
And I don't think this person realises the SHEER IRONY of using AI to disparage 'modern slop'.
Finally, I would like to note that using "TBH" as a phrase only started from the late-2000s, so they really don't remember how things were.
Finally, I would like to note that using "TBH" as a phrase only started from the late-2000s, so they really don't remember how things were.
Addressing the "meme" more directly...
I think if you could prove to a GW store employee of the late 90s that WH40K would have exploded into the franchise it now is (with its own CGI movie division), they wouldn't have called it "a load of rubbish", they would have gone wild with excitement.
I think if you could prove to a GW store employee of the late 90s that WH40K would have exploded into the franchise it now is (with its own CGI movie division), they wouldn't have called it "a load of rubbish", they would have gone wild with excitement.
October 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Addressing the "meme" more directly...
I think if you could prove to a GW store employee of the late 90s that WH40K would have exploded into the franchise it now is (with its own CGI movie division), they wouldn't have called it "a load of rubbish", they would have gone wild with excitement.
I think if you could prove to a GW store employee of the late 90s that WH40K would have exploded into the franchise it now is (with its own CGI movie division), they wouldn't have called it "a load of rubbish", they would have gone wild with excitement.
I have made both 28mm and 54mm =][= cells, but I've converted many of my 28mm characters out of old metals.
People treat me as half-mad when I do those how you would have had to back in the early-2000s. (Even simple things like "slightly narrower shoulders and a new female head" are non-trivial).
People treat me as half-mad when I do those how you would have had to back in the early-2000s. (Even simple things like "slightly narrower shoulders and a new female head" are non-trivial).
October 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I have made both 28mm and 54mm =][= cells, but I've converted many of my 28mm characters out of old metals.
People treat me as half-mad when I do those how you would have had to back in the early-2000s. (Even simple things like "slightly narrower shoulders and a new female head" are non-trivial).
People treat me as half-mad when I do those how you would have had to back in the early-2000s. (Even simple things like "slightly narrower shoulders and a new female head" are non-trivial).
Sure, 28mm is the convenient way to do it now.
(Although 3D printing is giving 54mm a boost, and is a good use case for it - small numbers of unique models with large details.)
But back then? The 54mm range was a (nearly) entirely multi-part range (possibly GW's first?), albeit in metal.
(Although 3D printing is giving 54mm a boost, and is a good use case for it - small numbers of unique models with large details.)
But back then? The 54mm range was a (nearly) entirely multi-part range (possibly GW's first?), albeit in metal.
October 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Sure, 28mm is the convenient way to do it now.
(Although 3D printing is giving 54mm a boost, and is a good use case for it - small numbers of unique models with large details.)
But back then? The 54mm range was a (nearly) entirely multi-part range (possibly GW's first?), albeit in metal.
(Although 3D printing is giving 54mm a boost, and is a good use case for it - small numbers of unique models with large details.)
But back then? The 54mm range was a (nearly) entirely multi-part range (possibly GW's first?), albeit in metal.
Most WH40K factions *maybe* had their core unit and basic vehicle in plastic. Everything else was metal conversion parts, or 1-or-2 part metals (usually in only ~4 poses).
The surge for the INQ28 movement was much later, around 2011-2012, once *many* more kits had shifted to plastic.
The surge for the INQ28 movement was much later, around 2011-2012, once *many* more kits had shifted to plastic.
October 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Most WH40K factions *maybe* had their core unit and basic vehicle in plastic. Everything else was metal conversion parts, or 1-or-2 part metals (usually in only ~4 poses).
The surge for the INQ28 movement was much later, around 2011-2012, once *many* more kits had shifted to plastic.
The surge for the INQ28 movement was much later, around 2011-2012, once *many* more kits had shifted to plastic.
I've had this conversation many times about the 54mm models for Inquisitor (which released in 2001, i.e. mid-3E 40k).
So many people saying it should always have been 28mm have forgotten what the ranges were like back then, and what minatures technology GW was relying on.
So many people saying it should always have been 28mm have forgotten what the ranges were like back then, and what minatures technology GW was relying on.
October 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I've had this conversation many times about the 54mm models for Inquisitor (which released in 2001, i.e. mid-3E 40k).
So many people saying it should always have been 28mm have forgotten what the ranges were like back then, and what minatures technology GW was relying on.
So many people saying it should always have been 28mm have forgotten what the ranges were like back then, and what minatures technology GW was relying on.
I frequently don't expect to convince the people I'm directly arguing with in a debate.
But I might convince a few others not to listen to them and thus shift the overall consensus a bit.
But I might convince a few others not to listen to them and thus shift the overall consensus a bit.
October 2, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I frequently don't expect to convince the people I'm directly arguing with in a debate.
But I might convince a few others not to listen to them and thus shift the overall consensus a bit.
But I might convince a few others not to listen to them and thus shift the overall consensus a bit.
But that's fan material, and it's a fairly minor point that I could easily rewrite.
I've yet to hear of any canon story that would genuinely have to be retconned out of all existence because "Oh, Cawl can make female Space Marines now".
I've yet to hear of any canon story that would genuinely have to be retconned out of all existence because "Oh, Cawl can make female Space Marines now".
October 2, 2025 at 9:53 AM
But that's fan material, and it's a fairly minor point that I could easily rewrite.
I've yet to hear of any canon story that would genuinely have to be retconned out of all existence because "Oh, Cawl can make female Space Marines now".
I've yet to hear of any canon story that would genuinely have to be retconned out of all existence because "Oh, Cawl can make female Space Marines now".
The closest thing I have is some lore I wrote for a Rogue Trader RPG character - a dodgy Inquisition/AdMech genetics project deliberately creates both male and female soldiers to "prove" they're not using Astartes geneseed (a big no-no without the High Lords' say-so) to try to avoid closer scrutiny.
October 2, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The closest thing I have is some lore I wrote for a Rogue Trader RPG character - a dodgy Inquisition/AdMech genetics project deliberately creates both male and female soldiers to "prove" they're not using Astartes geneseed (a big no-no without the High Lords' say-so) to try to avoid closer scrutiny.
I like to challenge these chuds to name a story that would be invalidated by FemSM (particularly if it were "Uh, Cawl finds a way").
Not "we need to change a few sentences", but "scrap the entire novel" (which, I would note, prior lore changes have done).
Not "we need to change a few sentences", but "scrap the entire novel" (which, I would note, prior lore changes have done).
October 2, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I like to challenge these chuds to name a story that would be invalidated by FemSM (particularly if it were "Uh, Cawl finds a way").
Not "we need to change a few sentences", but "scrap the entire novel" (which, I would note, prior lore changes have done).
Not "we need to change a few sentences", but "scrap the entire novel" (which, I would note, prior lore changes have done).