I feel like "cockney soccer hooligans in space" would really reinforce the "satire" part but Warhammer fans online tend to not be in on the joke
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For one, most Warhammer fans are joyless nerds incapable of getting any jokes at their expense. Secondly, unlikely they would be aware of any soccer hooligan culture, or anything sports related lmao. Ironic given how popular BLOODBOWL is.
aug 25, 2025, 5:08 pm • 12 0 • view
I would like to argue in favour of the older gen of fans who grew up in the sarcasm. Orks chanting "ere we go!" Everyone in the imperial guard being called Dave (except Catachans who were called Mick), Eldar being snobby but occasionally good, he'll even chaos had Huron Blackheart....
aug 25, 2025, 5:59 pm • 5 0 • view
As in Huron "The worst guardian of the Maelstrom I've ever heard of" Blackheart. (But you HAVE heard of me) An actual chaos space marine pirate who even got some space wolves to surrender....I mean parlay....
aug 25, 2025, 5:59 pm • 2 0 • view
Chaos needs more Huron and less Abandon, that dude probably has a cybertruck 40000 and listens to divorced dad rock. Like FFS just go get a hair extension and pay your child support.....what a douche.
aug 25, 2025, 5:59 pm • 2 0 • view
Anyway a bit of a rant there - TL:DR people take it too seriously because there's not enough space sarcasm. We've gone from H2G2 with bolters and genocide, to a Sergei Lukyanenko novel.
aug 25, 2025, 6:00 pm • 3 0 • view
I'm going to have to steal that Guard thing. but I run Tallarn, so they'd all be Mohammed, statistically.
aug 25, 2025, 7:45 pm • 2 0 • view
I always saw Tallarn back then as across between Bedouin & some of the Arab merchants in things like the Arabian Nights. A lot of convos like: "Mehedi is wise, if you deploy your Lemon Rus ls tanks on the western dunes, you will face the wrath of the snake god."
aug 25, 2025, 7:52 pm • 2 0 • view
The average Warhammer fan assumes BLOODBOWL is what regular football is like.
sep 1, 2025, 1:40 am • 2 0 • view