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No you don't understand Krieg is inspired by a combination of all the forces from WWI which is why it's okay for someone to paint theirs like the afrika korps and add swastika transfers.
Oh God that reminded of some chud that was trying to argue that his afrika korp "inspired" imperial guard army (complete with custom afrika korp emblems but with the swastika replaced with an imperial aquilla) wasn't fascist and didn't make him a fascist. Spoiler: the rest of his account was wheraboo-level Nazi tank worship including pictures of a whole-ass shrine to them he made complete with anime girl nazi officers
Yep, guard players are mostly chuds. GW should nuke every guard subfaction but valhallans and then make them communist rebels.
I still won't give up my guard army, but honestly 40k in general has too many chuds. Gone are the days of it being satirical and people understanding that the clearly theocratic fascist imperium aren't The Good Guys™. Now a days GW hides behind the shield of "it's satire guys, don't be fascist!!1!1!" while writing the hundredth book about how it's actually cool and good for a ~~ubermensch~~ superhuman dictator to slaughter billions in the name of some fictional past glory days
Yeah, I know. Some pig lives matter themed ultramarines would be a funny bit of satire to me. You've already got the blue and the skulls and the fascist oppression. However, warhammer fans would see it as unironically supporting fascist super cops. So I'd never paint it because warhammer is the wrong fandom to do it in. Same with trans masc space marines. Getting juiced up on super testosterone is something you can do a lot of gender themes with, but warhammer is too fascist to do it right.
I think I've seen blue lives matter themed space marines before, so you're unfortunately late to that party. Satire is truly dead
"these fascists are just like cops" by someone who hates both versus "these fascists are just like cops" by someone who loves both. Don't want to be mistaken for these second, but wh hasn't been satire since like the first edition.
Like Krieg looks like ww1 france come on.