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AndyElusive posted:They announced Saturnine coming soon in paperback? There are three different sizes of Siege paperbacks!
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jng2058 posted:It was for the original Inquisitor game that no one played, but otherwise you are correct.
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Dec 11, 2021 20:06
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oh man i love the Ahriman series im so stoked for that
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Dec 11, 2021 20:40
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I say this completely seriously: I cannot wait to see how Tzeentch strings Ahriman along this time.
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Dec 11, 2021 20:48
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Inquisitor was a roleplaying game masquerading as a skirmish level wargame. The rulebook for it owned hard and the models were all pretty cool.
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Jerkface posted:Inquisitor was a roleplaying game masquerading as a skirmish level wargame. The rulebook for it owned hard and the models were all pretty cool. Yeah, but having all the models be a different scale than the regular 40k stuff doomed them. No one wanted to buy dozens of new models and terrain at even higher than usual GW prices when everyone already had 40k scale models they wanted to use instead.
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Dec 11, 2021 21:43
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wiegieman posted:I say this completely seriously: I cannot wait to see how Tzeentch strings Ahriman along this time. I just want to see Ahriman get into even more Necron-related shenanigans. Necrons and Chaos interacting with each other is always fun just because of how fundamentally opposed they are.
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Dec 11, 2021 21:52
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jng2058 posted:Yeah, but having all the models be a different scale than the regular 40k stuff doomed them. No one wanted to buy dozens of new models and terrain at even higher than usual GW prices when everyone already had 40k scale models they wanted to use instead. well I mean I think the point of it was that you didn't need to have dozens of models and you were supposed to just have a few because it wasn't a wargame
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Dec 11, 2021 21:57
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Jerkface posted:well I mean I think the point of it was that you didn't need to have dozens of models and you were supposed to just have a few because it wasn't a wargame Even if you're playing it like a RPG, you're going to need some enemies, or else what's the point of putting together the cool minis for all the PCs? So someone's got to buy, assemble, and paint some cultists or Orks or Daemons or whatever.
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Dec 11, 2021 22:08
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Yeah the scenario books they put out really made it clear how many figures they expected you to have and it was not cheap to run even a single game from those books.
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Dec 12, 2021 02:07
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Couldn't you just use your normal figures with the rules anyway? It's been a loonnnnggg time since I've seen a copy, but as I recall, weren't the rules pretty scale agnostic.
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Dec 12, 2021 10:27
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54mm 40k figures were incredibly fun to paint and I wish GW did more of those.
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Dec 12, 2021 10:36
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It's almost like GW made it a new scale because they wanted to make people spend... MORE money on their products??? Bit of a wild theory I know.
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Dec 12, 2021 11:51
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Good news! There are plenty of people making new rules for Inquisitor scale games like Plan 28, and with 3D printing you can make just about any mini at 54mm scale.
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Dec 12, 2021 15:32
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jng2058 posted:Even if you're playing it like a RPG, you're going to need some enemies, or else what's the point of putting together the cool minis for all the PCs? So someone's got to buy, assemble, and paint some cultists or Orks or Daemons or whatever. And you need a table to play it on. Some chairs maybe, a plant of some sort for atmosphere. Then you need a house to put all this in. It's a slippery slope.
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Deptfordx posted:Couldn't you just use your normal figures with the rules anyway?
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AnEdgelord posted:I just want to see Ahriman get into even more Necron-related shenanigans. Necrons and Chaos interacting with each other is always fun just because of how fundamentally opposed they are. Has he faced them before? I read of him dealing mostly with Space wolf hunters, his fellow 1kSons, and Inquisition/Grey Knights Also, that is a badass art of Sanguinius defending the gate, but it always tickles me how almost every bit of primarch art (unless it shows two of them fighting) is exactly the supposedly Primarch-killing trap Russ sprang on Angron in 'Betrayer': one melee demigod surrounded by dozens of astartes that suddenly forget how to shoot.
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Dec 12, 2021 18:23
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I thought Ahriman was just a trilogy so I'm thrilled I get to watch him fail again.
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Sephyr posted:Has he faced them before? I read of him dealing mostly with Space wolf hunters, his fellow 1kSons, and Inquisition/Grey Knights https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Ahriman:_Key_of_Infinity_
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I bought the Talon of Horus on Audible and started listening to it and have a question. The narrator, Khayon, mentions twice near the beginning that he, by himself, made Primarch Magnus kneel in front of Abaddon, and got the nickname Kingbreaker for it. My question: Is that an obvious hint meant to clue the reader (listener) that Khayon is lying to his captors, and his account should not be taken at face value, or is that actually something they're gonna explain with some kind of bullshit deus ex machina later?
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Dec 12, 2021 18:45
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Warden posted:I bought the Talon of Horus on Audible and started listening to it and have a question. Khayon is very powerful and a competent daemonologist, so if he got his hands on Magnus' daemon name he could do it.
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Dec 12, 2021 19:01
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Yeah being a Daemon Prince is a huge upgrade in power level but it adds in a bunch of arcane weaknesses that can gently caress you over. Its not unreasonable for a Chaos Sorcerer like Khayon to exploit them.
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Dec 12, 2021 19:04
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There have been fan theories about it.
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wiegieman posted:Khayon is very powerful and a competent daemonologist, so if he got his hands on Magnus' daemon name he could do it.
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https://twitter.com/KinoFabino/status/1469861581873897474
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jng2058 posted:Even if you're playing it like a RPG, you're going to need some enemies, or else what's the point of putting together the cool minis for all the PCs? So someone's got to buy, assemble, and paint some cultists or Orks or Daemons or whatever. What's the term for substituting household objects for models?
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FPyat posted:What's the term for substituting household objects for models? Substituting. Also, roomba is a fine landraider substitution.
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Arquinsiel posted:Presumably his true name is still "Magnus" so it's a kind of glaring weakness when you think about it. It's actually Maggy.
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MariusLecter posted:Substituting. It's an even better Monolith stand in. The vacuum function really captures the essence of that gateway of eternity rule.
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Looking forward to the new Ahriman book, although Huron's book looks promising as well, I'm curious to see what Mike Brooks can do outside of orky fiction. This is now canon in my head.
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AndyElusive posted:It's actually Maggy. It's Mangus.
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Arquinsiel posted:Presumably his true name is still "Magnus" so it's a kind of glaring weakness when you think about it. Isn't he having a moody sulk in one of the HH books and casually mentions that he knows the true name of the Emperor and "it would surprise you"? That always seemed a bit of a game changing thing to throw out there in an off-hand comment
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True names are such an interesting concept. They go all the way back to the ancient Egyptians (and probably prior), who had a story about Isis gaining power over Ra by learning his true name.
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Dog_Meat posted:Isn't he having a moody sulk in one of the HH books and casually mentions that he knows the true name of the Emperor and "it would surprise you"? That always seemed a bit of a game changing thing to throw out there in an off-hand comment Knowing things that turn out to not be true is basically the Thousand Sons entire schtick, so makes sense.
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Angry Lobster posted:Looking forward to the new Ahriman book, although Huron's book looks promising as well, I'm curious to see what Mike Brooks can do outside of orky fiction. I would [I] strongly[/] suggest you read Rites of Passage. It's amazing. Alpharius is great too. Dude can write. My favorite of the new crop of BL writers.
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Just finished up Apocalypse from the conquest line and it was fun, neat seeing 3 different chapters work together.
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D-Pad posted:I would [I] strongly[/] suggest you read Rites of Passage. It's amazing. Alpharius is great too. Dude can write. My favorite of the new crop of BL writers. I second this. While the ending is not quite up to the quality of the rest of the book as it turns into standard 40k fight porn, (although how the problem is ultimately resolved is conceptually neat) the exploration of navigator house politics is a very fun and tense ride.
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Loving the "actually this kinda sorta blows but what are ya going to do" subtext throughout the Lords of Silence.
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Broken Record Talk posted:I disagree with your conclusion, but I do agree that the problem with the 40k universe is the Ultramarines, and we should hear less about them for the good of the hobby. I am in a strange position where on one hand, I hate the 'heroic loyalist spess merenes' thing(to the point that, until seeing the rave reviews in this thread, I didn't even check out Matthew Farrer's Urdesh books and I LOVE Farrer) and I am so frustrated with everything about how GW depicts them, but also, I genuinely like 40k!Guilliman. I don't think any of the writing has truly lived up to the potential that it has, but I really like him having to deal with knowing the Emperor is a monster who created him as first and foremost a tool for genocide. ...Directly related to this, I am still deeply frustrated by the sequence in Godblight where Guilliman straight-up says that he doesn't know if he even has free will and is then like 'but that's a great thing, we all have to have faith in the Emperor'.
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D-Pad posted:I would [I] strongly[/] suggest you read Rites of Passage. It's amazing. Alpharius is great too. Dude can write. My favorite of the new crop of BL writers. I didn't check Rites of Passage because the premise didn't seem too attractive for me, but I guess I need to look into it. Also I completely forgot about the Alpharius book.
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