The Chapter Standard

[Sylass]

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The Chapter Standard

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The Chapter Standard

Intro

The success of FIREBASE has shown the 40k forum community that it's possible for a group of dedicated posters to put together an e-zine. But equally, with FIREBASE's demise, there's a vaccuum that many people are rushing to fill. The Chapter Standard has assembled a strong and dynamic team from across the 40k community to create an e-zine in which we can do a number of things.

[scarletsquig]

tl; dr

Looked very nice, though, particularly liked the sketched artwork and the overall layout was fine, especially liked the inverted black text boxes breaking up the main articles a bit. Painting article looked good as well.

It's clear you've aimed for quality and I think you've done a good job of acheiving it

I have to ask what your target audience is, though. At it's heart, this is basically a fan fiction fanzine and I'm just curious as to whether you always plan on writing for the specific niche of "obscure SM chapter background junkies", or whether you plan on expanding into other areas of 40k background.

[colrouphobic]

The goal of he Chapter Standard is to look into any and all parts of DIY Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes. This means that it will look into both "obscure" chapters, as well as the more "standard" ones.
There are a couple of articles planned for next issue that will take up more Codex chapters and the possibilities with those as well.

And on behalf of myself and Captain Tiberius, who both stood for above "sketched artwork" Thank you

[Daniel36]

Hey guys,

I went through the magazine for a little while (as a break from my homework), and I must say I am impressed. The layout is marvellous, very clear, and very nice on the eyes, and as stated above, the sketches are wonderful.

However, I felt it was a little too high on written text, with not enough pictures. I know this is only Issue 1, and Issue 2 is probably going to contain a lot more pictures, but I just wanted to point that out. (I do love the pictures! )

Anyways, apart from that, it looks really nice, very clean layout, and I look forward to seeing more! (I love DIY Chapters!!)

One last question though. Is it (Chaos) Space Marines only or are Imperial Guard and others included as well?

[Sigismund Himself]

Next issue will contain more pics and artwork, the artists weren't given enough time to do specific sketches just their normal brilliant stuff Currently it is only for SM's because the writers we have only knowledge in that field. Enjoy!

[Rogue 7]

I personally loved it. The background articles were fantastic, and gave me a lot of insight into some remodling I'm going to have to do for my own DIY chapter. I'd love to see more like this, especially if you do more than simply space marines-Guard regiments in particular would be great to see.

[salty]

Very nice, very nice indeed! And you guys picked a great time to post it too as I have background (in IA style) to write for three chapters of Space Marines! Your article on writing Index Astartes style background has given me some useful pointers on where I need to expand.

The artwork was of a very high standard in there too, which was cool. Good to see you got Aerion on the Faithful as part of the team... his art is fantastic!

All in all, good work I guess! I personally can't wait to see the next installment!

Salty

[Eniac]

Far far far far far far too much text and not enough photos, the few photographs there was were awful and marred my impression of the whole 'zine. Why were they that bad when the sketched art (again, the few pieces there was) was so excellent?

[Malchek]

I'm afraid I'm very disappointed, I thought this was going to be a successor to Firebase but its a mag about marines.....

An Eniac said far too much text in huge blocks which should be broken up to ease reading.

Its a shame you're not trying to cover the same expanse as Firebase, I'm finding it hard to comprehend why you're doing this...??? You're just alienating a whole lot of potential readers.....

The art work was the best bit of the whole thing....

Anyway all power to you for having a go but I wont be reading again!

I didn't think Firebase was great but in comparison with TCS it is!?

Sorry

Malchek

[AMBS]

FIREBASE gave us so much stuff from so many angles. It'll be a long time before someone takes its crown.

[asmodai_dark86]

I didnt mind all the text - its a good read actually and it looks nice. Better to have too much text then not enough to be worth a read.

However, unless I was making a DIY marine chapter I wouldnt have bothered... And to be fair, marines are popular enough to warrent a mag but you'll get much more support and articles if you made it a general 40k mag.

Then again I'm repeating what most have said - looks the buisness, talks the buisness, but I'd rather be suprised at the contents week by week.

Plus, what was the questionaire thing at the end.... Very... odd.

[Voltaire]

Firebase is going to be exceeded in short order...Nice magazine.

[Cornelius]

But why "show GW what we can do"?

[Sigismund Himself]

Rogue 7: Glad you liked it. We have no plans to expand further than marines at the moment but that may change if there is enough interest

Salty: You will be happy to know that Aerion will be doing the cover of the mag full time then

Sacea: First Issue syndrome is the only reason for the quality of the photos. We had to rush the release a little more than we would have liked to. The lesson has been learned.

Malcheck: Each to his own, I suppose. We are not trying to take over Firebases niche. That is what Overwatch is aiming to do. We are aiming only at marines for the time being simply because that is what the team assembled are experts in. As said above, this may change.

Voltaire: Thanks mate

Cornelius: Don't ask me, I didn't write it :P Ask Commissar Molotov.

cheers

[Barret]

Ahoy,

To those who liked the 'zine, cheers! I'm happy you enjoyed it, and I hope we can bring you more and better!

To those who didn't, I understand your comments and/or criticism. We really aren't trying to match or best Firebase. Firebase was a great example of a fan project that covered all aspects of the hobby, and I'm really looking forward to what Overwatch becomes. The Chapter Standard is what it is because it's what we wanted to make. The mag grew out of a DIY Marine forum, and it's made by Marine fans because that's what we know and love. There has been some discussion about opening things up to include other armies and races, and you never know what the future might hold. Our main priority with issue one was getting a good, solid and achievable product that we could show to the world. Now that we've (hopefully) started to build something of a reputation, we can look at bigger and more ambitious things for the future.


I hope you all will read the next issue, and we're always open to suggestions or constructive criticism, either here or on our home at the Vocates board.


Cheers,

Barret

[salty]

Just offering up an idea I pitched at Sylass for the Background Forums actually... it could focus on the background of DIY armies in general, not just Space Marines. Creating, if you like, a repository of information on various other chapters, Waaagh!s, Craftworlds etc and thereby offering an almost semi-official standing to them.

And yay! Aerion is going to do that art
The other guys' art is fantastic but Aerion has real talent!

Salty

[Joah_from_Alberta]

Keep up the good work, and when the guns are silenced, and when all is still and you think you should stop: never surrender: just keep it on.

Bravo!!! <much applause, whistling, champagne popping> (I'm going to hand this to my younger bro who will be very appreciative.)

[Sephiroth]

I enjoyed it. Maybe it's because Im' a background junkie, but I didn't feel there was too much text - indeed, I wish the guys who write the Index Astartes articles take a page from you guys follow suite.

Major credit to the creator of the Brazen Claws IA though - a very interesting exploration of a long known about, but background-shallow Chapter.

Kudos to you all, the TCS team. Looking forward to issue two.

[Corporal Chaos]

This is very well done. I thank you for your time in putting this together. We need things like this. Keep it up, it all looks good.

[Shadowseer Crofty]

Is this instead of Overwatch?