>>125230 (OP)>old 40k (pre-2006)a slopjackish homage to all its inspirations including but not limited to warhammer fantasy, dune, starship troopers and ridley scott's alien with a kind of goofy-in-a-bad-way aesthetic at times that settles into something with a kino painterly quality that exchanges realism for emotion and establishes what is actually meant by the term 'grimdark' in 40k in a way that its autistic fanbase chudrages over to this day because it's not HECKIN' immersive or self-serious enough, ev&doe it's the whole reason anyone ever got seriously immersed in 40k in the first place
>40k novels Mostly utter dogshit that only exists to expand upon the lore of space marines as pretext to sell more types of space marine models making them insufferable mary sues and defacto main characters of most 40k media including nearly all promotional materials for the game itself past a certain tipping point. The overarching aim of the novels is to make 40k something worth taking seriously in the eyes of authors and a burgeoning manchildish second-generation of the fanbase who are clearly deeply insecure about sci-fi wargames not being considered mature enough by the people who play historical wargames. It fails in this mission utterly and expands on the lore in a way that is not just additive, but completely restructures the way we view hope, heroism, vulnerability and stagnation in 40k as a whole. Because the novels are canon this also feeds into every other aspect of the how the lore affects the game.
>nuhammerThe parts of post-2006 40k that are actually good at least by the standards of people who were introduced to 40k by nuhammer, who are eternally cucked by being ignored by modern GW and hated by older fans in equal measure. It's a different aesthetic, a different lore and a different kind of cool for a different audience
>shithammer (post-primaris/2017, some argue post 5th-7th edition though I'd define this era as nuhammer, but to oldheads nuhammer is obviously also shithammer) the downwind consequences of how the novels shaped nuhammer, pretty self-explanatory
>wokehammer (technically post-2014 but the real catalyst for woke culture becoming unavoidable to talkPost too long. Click here to view the full text.