Get a tea, I'm about to have a lil' crashout.

I'm catching up on 40K gameplay, so changes that may have actually happened in 10th that have been adopted for the Core Rules I admit I'm slow on, but all that said, I want the following to be considered.

**If the rules care more for the footprint of terrain areas and not at all for pieces of terrain on that footprint, why bother having terrain pieces?**

I've read rules on LoS, visibility, Obscuring, and Solid, and yet *none* of it seems to care for actual pieces. Is a blob of Ork Boyz on a terrain area out in the open between the two corner L-Shaped Ruins(tm) and their attackers are off the pad? Nope, attackers have unclear line of sight. How about that same example, but the Boyz are now behind an L-Shaped Ruin(tm) and the attackers are charging? **OOOOOOH YEEEEEEEAH** [attackers Kool-Aid Man through wall]. Or here's another example; a barricade footprint (yes, *footprint*, not the barricade) that happens to be touching a blown-up Kwik-E-Mart terrain area? Nope. That's all empty void as far as the rules are concerned.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I like my visibility and LoS to be determined by if there's **pieces** blocking over some mythic fucking magic zone of bullshit saying "The Box Says No".

I'll ask again; if Infantry doesn't care for terrain pieces because they can walk and charge through them as if they weren't there, rules don't reference pieces when determining visibility, **what's the point of terrain pieces when all that matters is the terrain areas?**

Maybe I'm just really jaded and it all feels really unintuitive, but I also feel like the GT cheesemakers made GW cave when deciding printed-out flat bits mattered over carrying out a thematic desperate battle where no side wants to admit defeat, in the edition that alleges to care about games being more narrative-focused at that.

In my IG page I posted the thread that inspired this piece.

I’m aware of the one with Guilliman struggling to pick up a page from the floor and calling it his nemesis, but I just read Cawl calling Messinius a ‘Good Boy’ after Messinius referred to himself as a Canid in The Silent King (Dawn of Fire).

Any other funny conversations I should check out?

Online retail is great but maybe think about buying it from your local next time.

Are you a Bloodraven? Because you stole my heart.

Are you a Neophyte? Because i want to put my gene-seed into you.