Re: [GZG] Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi!

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ugh your comments do show a bit of a pull date (as would mine if I
really went into it), the basic jist rings true through most of the
editions. Trying to apply real world military doctrine to 40K is like
trying to apply real-world phsyics to comic books or the old Flash
Gordon serials. 40K operates on a heavily thematic setting. Weapons are
designed in cumbersome clunky ways that reflect the ritualistic outlook
they have on technology.

In 40K machines are spiritual as well astechnical (at least for the
higher orders of humanity). You even have tech prists and machine gods.
This is something you must concede if you are even going to get involved
in the 40K. It is never going to make sense. It's not supposed to. It's
just good fun.

The original version was called "Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader" and was
designed as a strange sort of wargame with role-playing elments in that
your troops were customizable and thus a bit of character was added.

-Eli