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  Female space marines There is no way that anyone that has both an Internet connection, and an interest in Warhammer 40,000 can say they have not seen the discourse surrounding female Space Marines. Before I begin I want to make a few things clear. I am writing on many of these points from often a cold business stand point, and there is a risk I may be misunderstood therefore I need to state a few things before we begin. Firstly, some of the people I will mention in this article are people I both follow and interact with on Twitter. Secondly, I in fact have no issue with female marines from a lore perspective in a universe of Cawl's double dipped space marines aka Primaris. Finally I cannot ignore the practicalities required of Games workshop making female Space Marines. Please trust me as we read ahead I might surprise you. REPRESENTATION ON TAXATION There was once in the misty days of 1988 in humble White Dwarf issue 99 there was a collection of 'adventurers'. From

Fallout 40k and Miniwargaming

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 Welcome back readers! please pull up a fur and take a drink. In this instalment we return to my attempts to work on game design materials.  In this case it was my submission to the Miniwargaming youtube channel's call for writers. They were wanting to do a Fallout themed 40K narrative campaign. Writers were asked to pitch a twelve mission run, a pro and epilogue, as well as including narratives for pre and post games as well as mid game sections. Dave from Miniwargaming would receive the following email from me. " G'day Dave, Would love to try my hand at the fallout campaign. Would be keen to get some more details. I am in Australia but thanks to the wonders of the internet that tyranny of distance doesn't matter. I can really see an irradiated world of 40k fallout. Roving bands of mutated orks, plague bearing molerats, and Ad mech survivors all fighting to survive it's got some amazing possibilities. All depends on game system. Anyhow mate Hit me back with some d