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>>14785325>this.>a thousand times this.The fact of the matter is, a lot of the factions that don't get a lot of writefagging don't get it for 2 very good reasons.
1- they're a pain in the ass. Necrons don't even have individuals. How are you going to write a story about crons where the crons don't even have characters? And its not just them... Lets be honest, the vast majority of space marine characters are crap, and the more powerful they are, the crappier they become. What could you possibly write about Kaldor Drago for example? He's already bitchslapped a demon-primarch, there's nothing left for that guy to do. Most of the 40k cast doesn't make for compelling characters. You can't even take black crusades seriously, because we all know Abbaddon is going to fly away in his rocket car screaming "Next time, Gadget!" You get guard all the time, because as human beings, you empathize with human beings.
And if you empathize with blue space commies, justice will come for you eventually, traitor.
2- fanboyism. We all know BL guards the canon like rabid dogs and only their best pet writers ever get to write major plotshit like Horus Heresy. (it fuckin says so in the submission prompt) If your favorite faction in the game has been pigeonholed as mooks (every chaos marine since the current shitty codex) then sorry, you're going to get the nameless bad guy treatment forever after, because the crybaby grognards at your LGS aren't going to buy a book where their favorite fanwank loses.
Fantasy is way more fertile ground for this kind of thing, except for the notable exceptions of a handful of elves, slaan, and chaos hobos wandering around the northern wastes where time doesn't exist, the vast majority of inhabitants of the warhammer world are mortals that have the capability to be compelling and interesting characters.