Originally Posted by
Nabterayl
Well, how much of a bother it is depends on the reader, I guess. It bothers me, but I don't know how many people share my tastes in 40K. I want my 40K to include my bio-cyborg space vampires, space werewolves, and space totally-not-named-for-a-color Romans, my cathedral ships and improbably shaped war machines, but I also want the story to care about how much ammunition a space werewolf can carry and the psychological effects of being slave super-soldiers who are their own jailors, and to make the bad guys behave as intelligently and skillfully as they would if they were the heroes of the story instead. I have no idea how mainstream a taste that is.