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Phil Kelly designs armies that work as armies, rather than a bunch of units that rely on simply being "better" than anything the opponent can field in order to function properly. That's why neither the Dark Eldar or Space Wolves Codexes have big, fat, expensive units with Thunder Hammers, Storm Shields and Feel No Pain for 200pts - you can have units like this if you want them, but where Matt Ward has to give them to you for peanuts because he can't design an army without making it broken, Phil Kelly makes you pay through the bumhole for them because in his army books, these units are a luxury, not a necessity. | Phil Kelly designs armies that work as armies, rather than a bunch of units that rely on simply being "better" than anything the opponent can field in order to function properly. That's why neither the Dark Eldar or Space Wolves Codexes have big, fat, expensive units with Thunder Hammers, Storm Shields and Feel No Pain for 200pts - you can have units like this if you want them, but where Matt Ward has to give them to you for peanuts because he can't design an army without making it broken, Phil Kelly makes you pay through the bumhole for them because in his army books, these units are a luxury, not a necessity. | ||
tl;dr: Phil Kelly is the best designer GW have got, [[Eldrad|the only one who makes armies that require any thought to play]], and the only thing standing between the [[neckbeard|gaming side]] of 40k and complete [[Khornate Knights|assmongery]]. If your army hasn't had a new Codex yet pray to [[God-Emperor of Mankind|THE EMPRAH]]/[[Chaos Gods|CHAOS GODS]] that it's Phil Kelly who is going to write the update because if it is, you can count on your book [[Space Wolves|still kicking ass three years down the line]], [[Dark Eldar|looking like a joke but being almost unbeatable in the right hands]], or [[Orks|surviving through an Edition as a force to be reckoned with]]. [[Blood Angels|Unlike]] [[Space Marines|certain]] [[ | tl;dr: Phil Kelly is the best designer GW have got, [[Eldrad|the only one who makes armies that require any thought to play]], and the only thing standing between the [[neckbeard|gaming side]] of 40k and complete [[Khornate Knights|assmongery]]. If your army hasn't had a new Codex yet pray to [[God-Emperor of Mankind|THE EMPRAH]]/[[Chaos Gods|CHAOS GODS]] that it's Phil Kelly who is going to write the update because if it is, you can count on your book [[Space Wolves|still kicking ass three years down the line]], [[Dark Eldar|looking like a joke but being almost unbeatable in the right hands]], or [[Orks|surviving through an Edition as a force to be reckoned with]]. [[Blood Angels|Unlike]] [[Space Marines|certain]] [[Grey Knights|army]] [[Necrons|books]] written by [[Matt Ward|a certain spiritual liege]], which seem broken at first but quickly fizzle out as they collapse under the weight of their own hollow bullshit, and even at their peak still have a number of units that are utterly worthless due to stuff in the book that does their job better. | ||
==A small list of the great deeds of Philipus Kellius== | ==A small list of the great deeds of Philipus Kellius== | ||
Revision as of 12:21, 30 September 2012
Not Matt Ward, so it's all good.
Loves the space elves. And the evil guys.
Praise the God-Emperor Dark Gods that their faithful servant Phil Kelly is making Black Templar spess mahinees and not Matt Ward, who ass fucked everything but the Ultramarines and Blood Angels, AKA FLYING DREADNOUGHT LIBRARIAN GUYS... but not until he's done undoing the bullshit that Gav Thorpe unleashed on the Chaos Space Marines! BROTHERS! The time of suffering has finally ended! Lord Kelly finally gave us a new Codex, with which we shall take our revenge on the servants of the corpose-emperor! BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULLS THRONE! LET THE GALAXY BURN!
Ahem...
Out of all the current crop of Codex writers in 40k, Kelly is the one /tg/ doesn't have a beef with. This treadhead buffed the Imperial Guard into the stratosphere and is generally regarded to have fucked up the Tyranid 'dex, and, well, if you've spent any time here at all you know our feelings on a certain chapter's spiritual liege. Philipus Kellius is the true savior of this galaxy, It wouldn't surprise anyone if he turned out to become the Emperor. ALL HAIL PHILIPUS KELLIUS
Why Phil Kelly Isn't Matt Ward
Matt Ward designs armies by taking a bunch of units and cranking up their power level to MAXIMUM, either by making them extremely difficult to kill, extremely shooty, extremely choppy, or any combination of the three. He then assigns points values to these units based on what he thinks they should cost and peppers a few special rules here and there for "flavour" before shitting the Codex into the printers office, then returning home to wrap a picture of Marneus Calgar around his cock and masturbate furiously to Sisters guro pictures.
Phil Kelly designs armies that work as armies, rather than a bunch of units that rely on simply being "better" than anything the opponent can field in order to function properly. That's why neither the Dark Eldar or Space Wolves Codexes have big, fat, expensive units with Thunder Hammers, Storm Shields and Feel No Pain for 200pts - you can have units like this if you want them, but where Matt Ward has to give them to you for peanuts because he can't design an army without making it broken, Phil Kelly makes you pay through the bumhole for them because in his army books, these units are a luxury, not a necessity.
tl;dr: Phil Kelly is the best designer GW have got, the only one who makes armies that require any thought to play, and the only thing standing between the gaming side of 40k and complete assmongery. If your army hasn't had a new Codex yet pray to THE EMPRAH/CHAOS GODS that it's Phil Kelly who is going to write the update because if it is, you can count on your book still kicking ass three years down the line, looking like a joke but being almost unbeatable in the right hands, or surviving through an Edition as a force to be reckoned with. Unlike certain army books written by a certain spiritual liege, which seem broken at first but quickly fizzle out as they collapse under the weight of their own hollow bullshit, and even at their peak still have a number of units that are utterly worthless due to stuff in the book that does their job better.
A small list of the great deeds of Philipus Kellius
Warhammer 40k
- Codex: Space Wolfs. This codex gave them their true identidy as an immensly fun and tactical army.
- Codex: Orks. A Codex that has survived through two editions still coming out very strong with a great number of competetive builds to this day. Also, hilarious.
- Codex: Eldar. A great codex in of itself, although it has not gone through editions as well as Philipus's other codexes, it is still one of the better written codexes of all time.
- Codex: Dark Eldars. This, this is the best written Codex EVAR. Commoragh's description is a true masterpiece, along with Vect's, Malys', and Rakarth's background. Moreover, Kelly managed to give new life to the evil cousins of the Eldars, allowing them to be competitive once again.
- Last but not least, Codex: Chaos Space Marines. The next of Lord Kelly works, we hope... fuck, we KNOW the bucks we are paying will be worth it.
Warhammer Fantasy Battle
- Army Book: Vampire Counts. Philipus has become the savior of undeath, bringing untold horrors apon the old world, and for that he has our immortal gratitude.
And listen to this charming motherfucker chat about the Deldar with the also awesome Jes Goodwin.