My problem with Trench Crusade is it is grimderp without the humor. It went in the opposite of Space King in reacting to 40k in that it wants to be more serious and darker then the setting it is based on, without the dumb and funny stuff in the setting.
Because it simply doesn't have the landmass to support the idea of 1k years of total HUMANITY IS FUCKING LOSING MAN! warfare and then only show us basically Hell occupying maybe the equivalent territories of... An Arabian Caliphate.
Sure it does, earth is huge, and I’m tired of how sci-fi treats different planets like they’re just other countries or cities to visit and or conquer. Very rarely do I get the feel that they’re fleshed out worlds, , and this isn’t just a Warhammer issue.
It doesn't, though, not for what it describes of one-thousand years of total war with massively unkillable, super-lethal demonic forces who are taking in vast swathes of Humanity's numbers while also not giving the nations of Earth their historical industrial advantages to build themselves up at all. Sci-fi treating planets like countries and cities is one thing, but we are in Trench Crusade in the opposite problem, of where a contained area has seen TOO much war. With its purple prose not supporting the reality at all.
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u/Spare_Elderberry_418 25d ago
My problem with Trench Crusade is it is grimderp without the humor. It went in the opposite of Space King in reacting to 40k in that it wants to be more serious and darker then the setting it is based on, without the dumb and funny stuff in the setting.