YMMV / The Shape of the Nightmare to Come

• Crazy Is Cool: Sergeant Blant of the Imperial Fists, who is basically Tallahassee as a Space Marine. His feats include juggling blades and swords while walking through the battlefield, and playing his pipes in one hand while firing his bolter from his hip.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: If you found regular 40k a bit silly, then SotNTC won't help much. Regular 40k stays relatable by making it clear that yes, there is still something for humanity to fight for. The main artistic ambition of SotNTC is taking every relatively peaceful moment of regular 40k and slotting in a truckload of screaming asylum inmates. Eventually the screaming, so to speak, just blends together into white noise.

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