#rogue trader

My interest in Warhammer 40k rapidly deteriorates once the second edition of the rules comes out. For me, this is the point the game starts taking itself too seriously and the endless rat holes of lore dig too deep. The bold color choices start to fade. It all gets, well, grimdark. It always was, of course, but I dunno, tone is funny, fickle thing. It doesn’t surprise me that the bombastic silliness and the pointed satire started to take the back seat — when endless war is the constant focus, your players are going to eventually take on a warrior mindset.

There are still bastions of stupidity though, like Codex: Angels of Death. Well, not all of it — a lot of this book is pretty fashy, honestly. But the Death Company Chaplain? That guy is a treasure. He’s trying so hard to be cool! He’s got so many skulls! He demands you take him seriously! But I don’t! He’s such a ding-dong.

Warhammer 40,000 Battle Manual (1992) is an expansion of the Rogue Trader rules, focusing on troops. The Vehicle Manual came out at the same time and provided revised rules for, you guessed it, vehicles. That book is less visually exciting though, and that’s what I’m here for, so Battle Manual it is. Tons of space devoted to weaponry, probably the majority of the book.

There are some considerable aesthetic changes going on at this point. You can see that the old style beaked space marine helmets have been replaced by what I like to call the radiator grill style — this is what I think of when I think of 40k space marines. Focus is now split between space marines, orcs and the Alien-esque Tyranids. This surprises me, since both Realm of Chaos books were out a while at this point. I guess the taint of Chaos is slower to spread than I thought.

Nothing like an old school Rainbow Warrior to start off the year!

Rogue Trader era Crimson Fist

painted over picture of a painting I did in my sketchbook.

Style 1 Warhammer 40k commission for Andry 

Eldar Striking Scorpion - Rogue trader - Dark Angels Chaplain 

Commission waitlist is OPEN commission info here  If you wanna hop on the waitlist you can note me here, message me here or email me~

Lodoth.

warhammer fantasy oc vs. warhammer 40k oc.

hi! it’s been a while.

There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter.

Felt like drawing something old-school styled. Probably should’ve been sleeping instead. Mouse and GIMP.

Standard Template Construct by gameworkshop artist.

Erda Somber, commission for @ Techpreist_Trix. The drip is based on Sanistasia Minst from KT rogue trader team.