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Azran posted:http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/01/16/holy-ships-battlefleet-gothic-armada-announced/ Shamelessly stolen from the 40k MMO thread: "Hope is the first step on the road to despair." Though would really like it to not suck.
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Demiurge4 posted:Do an HBO series with Gaunt's Ghosts already! They already did this, it's called Band of Brothers.
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Jan 17, 2015 01:08
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Fellblade posted:They already did this, it's called Band of Brothers. And the BBC did it as Sharpe.
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Jan 17, 2015 03:28
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Azran posted:http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/01/16/holy-ships-battlefleet-gothic-armada-announced/ Between this, Creative Assembly's Total Warhammer, and Deathwing from the E.Y.E. guys, it feels like we might finally get some more good 40k games..
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Jan 17, 2015 10:02
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I have the Mordheim game on Early Access and it's pretty good too!
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Jan 17, 2015 12:27
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Space Hulk: Ascension is pretty good, too. Or maybe it's just Space Hulk. I don't know, the one that isn't just an ape of the boardgame.
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Jan 17, 2015 17:00
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REAL MUSCLE MILK posted:Space Hulk: Ascension is pretty good, too. Or maybe it's just Space Hulk. I don't know, the one that isn't just an ape of the boardgame. Ascension, yes. Kinda like Xcom
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Yay or Nay on Pandorax? I remember a post about it but not positive or negative. By c z dunn
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I found Ascension really awkward and clunky to control at times, and the animation is hilariously bad. Terminators just sort of shuffle along. The extra mechanics were good though. I could play it again now that it's officially been released, but 
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I've decided to check out some Warhammer fantasy fluff and was wondering if the Thunder and Steel omnibus by Abnett is worth reading?
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Mr.48 posted:I've decided to check out some Warhammer fantasy fluff and was wondering if the Thunder and Steel omnibus by Abnett is worth reading? I dont know anything about the book itself, but the author is regarded as one of the best in the black library
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Mr.48 posted:I've decided to check out some Warhammer fantasy fluff and was wondering if the Thunder and Steel omnibus by Abnett is worth reading? I'd say yes. The first couple stories about the elf are lame, but oonce you move past that, it's very good.
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Jan 18, 2015 16:09
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Mr.48 posted:I've decided to check out some Warhammer fantasy fluff and was wondering if the Thunder and Steel omnibus by Abnett is worth reading? The consensus of this thread is that everything by Abnet and Dembski-Bowden is worth reading, and for the author authors it's hit or miss (I'm sure someone will drop in to tell me which authors are consistently miss). I'm reading Shadows of treachery now, and in the story about the Night Hunters there is a Raven Guard captain hanging out with them post heresy, what's his story? It feels like I'm missing background on him out of a previous book that I didn't read.
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Jan 18, 2015 22:22
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Dyscrasia posted:I'd say yes. The first couple stories about the elf are lame, but oonce you move past that, it's very good.
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Waroduce posted:Yay or Nay on Pandorax? I remember a post about it but not positive or negative. I think that post was negative. I on the other hand really liked it. Nb. This was the audiobook version entertaining me while I was spending the weekend painting the house, so that probably factored into my enjoyment . But still I thought it was fun, the stakes keep escalating in a fashion I found entertaining.
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Oh hey, I just discovered they made a Horus Heresy game! it's a clash of clans ripoff for iOS Speaking of, is book 2 of Horus Heresy meant to be that corny and forced? It's almost as if they're trying to hammer home that Horus is being corrupted by Chaos and that causes the Horus Heresy. I'm surprised Magnus is trying so hard to stop it though, that's not something I expected at all from what I knew of him. Also is he actually physically red, or is that just a name?
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Jan 19, 2015 21:22
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He has very bright red hair apparently.
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Jan 19, 2015 21:36
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He's normally red, but his size and appearance varies because he's more raw power than flesh and bone. He's also occasionally called the Crimson King. Yeah, that was pretty bad.
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Jan 19, 2015 22:16
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Oh hey, I just discovered they made a Horus Heresy game! He's physically red in every artistic depiction I've seen of him. The books do talk about his skin color but I forget how. But magnus can look however he wants is what I've taken from various books he is in.
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rocket_Magnet posted:He's physically red in every artistic depiction I've seen of him. The books do talk about his skin color but I forget how. But magnus can look however he wants is what I've taken from various books he is in. There's a funny bit in Betrayer where Magnus' appearance flips every few seconds between different looks, each also featuring a different way his one eye has been depicted: cyclops style, an empty eye socket, or one normal eye and then the face is smooth flesh where the other eye should have been.
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I haven't read Betrayer - is that intentional, showing how much the Warp pushes on him, or is it just a fuckup?
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PantsOptional posted:I haven't read Betrayer - is that intentional, showing how much the Warp pushes on him, or is it just a fuckup? In that scene, Magnus is speaking with Lorgar aboard it's flagship by projecting it's image from the Planet of the Socerers in the Eye of Terror, so by that time he's probably more daemon prince than regular primarch.
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I don't think he's full Daemon Prince until he accepts that Tzeentch has dicked him over 100%, no backsies. Ahriman is the one who refuses to accept that, thus the Rubric.
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That's also the book where Lorgar turns from #1 Bitch primarch into some psyker monster, freaking out Magnus in the process.
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Magnus and his eye are described in Thousand Sons as being variable as well. It's the nature of his form that he doesn't have a single look, supposedly because he is most similar to the Emperor in his psychic ability and thus, like the Emperor, cannot be readily perceived by mortal minds.
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Anonymous Zebra posted:Magnus and his eye are described in Thousand Sons as being variable as well. It's the nature of his form that he doesn't have a single look, supposedly because he is most similar to the Emperor in his psychic ability and thus, like the Emperor, cannot be readily perceived by mortal minds. It's also suggested that Magnus doesn't have a set physical form, that he's more a thing of psychic power than of flesh and blood.
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Magnus obviously looks like his Epic model:
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SRM posted:Magnus obviously looks like his Epic model: In Australia red heads often get the nick name Blue or Bluey. I can only assume an Australian eavy metal painter got assigned Magnus the blue.
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So, here's a sort of dumb lore question: is there such a thing as a heretek Techmarine? Not necessarily someone who's strapping daemons onto their servo-harness, but just a Techmarine who adapts and expands and innovates in all those ways that the Mechanicus hates.
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PantsOptional posted:So, here's a sort of dumb lore question: is there such a thing as a heretek Techmarine? Not necessarily someone who's strapping daemons onto their servo-harness, but just a Techmarine who adapts and expands and innovates in all those ways that the Mechanicus hates. There's no reason there can't be. That said, there are no stories about them.
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PantsOptional posted:So, here's a sort of dumb lore question: is there such a thing as a heretek Techmarine? Not necessarily someone who's strapping daemons onto their servo-harness, but just a Techmarine who adapts and expands and innovates in all those ways that the Mechanicus hates.
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PantsOptional posted:So, here's a sort of dumb lore question: is there such a thing as a heretek Techmarine? Not necessarily someone who's strapping daemons onto their servo-harness, but just a Techmarine who adapts and expands and innovates in all those ways that the Mechanicus hates. They're usually called Techmarines. There's more than one example in the fluff of Techmarines inventing and innovating new technology and vehicle designs that the AdMech only reluctantly gave the approval stamp to after the design spread among half the Astartes without their approval, the Land Raider Crusader being the most prominent such innovation.
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SRM posted:There's Warpsmiths in the Chaos Marine armies, who are basically Techmarines who worship Chaos. In 40k their rules are even an inverse of Techmarine rules, and instead of reinforcing cover they knock it down by one. IIRC a lot of the Techmarines in the traitor legions either hooked up with their Dark Mechanicum bros or became Obliteraters
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Cythereal posted:They're usually called Techmarines. There's more than one example in the fluff of Techmarines inventing and innovating new technology and vehicle designs that the AdMech only reluctantly gave the approval stamp to after the design spread among half the Astartes without their approval, the Land Raider Crusader being the most prominent such innovation. Basically in the AdMech as a whole if tinkering and innovating produces something useful and the guy doing it has the political clout to not get nailed to the wall for doing so then usually the authorities will retroactively approve it.
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Someone recently was gushing about the new Ahriman book, so I picked up Exile...I'm nearly halfway through it, but should I have read Thousand Sons first? Seems like I missed a bit somewhere...
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krushgroove posted:Someone recently was gushing about the new Ahriman book, so I picked up Exile...I'm nearly halfway through it, but should I have read Thousand Sons first? Seems like I missed a bit somewhere... Its not necessary but its really nice background and would recommend reading both Sons and Prospero Burns first Or in general
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Thanks, yeah, I'll be reading both of them too! I just didn't know if there is a preferred order so I'm not lost.
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They take place chronologically, and given one of the characters present in all three, you'll want to read them in the order in which they were published. (BSC, TH, RC) edit: this is what I get for posting too early in the morning, I somehow confused this thread with the Joe Abercrombie one 
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OK, no prob, I'll restart with the earliest one then. Forgive my ignorance but I don't know what these stand for: The Rat posted:(BSC, TH, RC)
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The Rat posted:They take place chronologically, and given one of the characters present in all three, you'll want to read them in the order in which they were published. (BSC, TH, RC) Wot are these acronyms Read thousand sons-> prosper burns -> Ahriman Also read Eisenhorn, Ravenor, and Night Lords and Helsreach at some point
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