>>5321214Understandable. For me I find access to the tabletop scene difficult, not just because models can be expensive but even if you can afford them there might not always be gamestores you can play with. Nearest ones for me are 2 hours away by car.
If GW sold rulebooks and codexes in digital format, I'd buy the heck out of it. If I wanted to buy and read Gathering Storm the fall of Cadia, I have to buy hardcover. But I kinda just feel bad having so many rulebooks and not a model to myself.
These days there are mods for tabletop simulator that let you play 40k, but even then just personally haven't found anyone wanting to play with a new person and most of the ones I meet online seem more interested in playing with experienced players who are already good at optimization and meta builds.
I get that there is a disconnect between Tabletop and Lore. I'm told the same is true in Fantasy, even between WFRP and the Tabletop iteslf. Does the 40k RPG hold up decently to tabletop?
But yeah
>Lore: describes SM being able to shrug off lasgun blows, moving too swiftly for the humans to accurately target by hand as lasguns shots singe the air where he was rather than where he is, pummeling dozens by dozens as those shots that do hit simply plink upon his armor like rain. He is a space marine blah blah>Tabletop example I was told: Get 1 Guardsman model. Give him the order to shoot twice. Hit Both. Wound Both. Space Marine fails 2 saves. A single space marine has just been killed by a single baseline human at range. Chances very rare? Yes. But not impossible. Definitely more possible than the way lore describes. 