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Wouldn't Stalin be a better example? Lasted longer than 12 years, knew how to run mass killings with good pr, big war machine, personality cult,...
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# ? May 16, 2015 19:27 |
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incoming artdump time to teach these surface dwellers something about the children of the horned rat quote:"Once upon a time, long long ago, Men and Dwarfs lived together beneath the roof of one great city. Some said it was the oldest and greatest city in the world and had existed before the time of the longbeards and manlings, build by older and wiser hands in the dawn of the world. The city lay both above and below the earth, in keeping with the nature of the populace that dwelt there. The Dwarfs ruled in their great halls of stone below ground and wrestled the fruits of the rock free with their day-long toil, while the manlings reaped the fields of swaying corn that surrounded the city with a patchwork blanket of gold. The sun smiled, men laughed, and everyone was happy. Q: WHO ARE THE SKAVEN? A: THEY'RE ASSHOLES (ALSO RATPEOPLE) They also hate dwarves. Well they hate everyone, including eachother They'll gas you, irradiate you, poison you and mangle you and they don't give a gently caress. They'll send their own troops in suicidal distraction missions and let scores of their own die just to take out that one rear end in a top hat knight with a nicely placed plague bomb or they'll poison your villages before they bother to attack directly Lets not forget the little people. You'll basically always be walking around in a sea of rats when fighting the skaven They also got their own chaos god, the Horned Rat which they worship. Every now and then, during rare occasions a greater daemon of the horned rat will join the skaven on the battlefield and cause a real ruckus Oh wow look at that chaos man look at his huge armor and oh gosh he's got a really big sword! *shoots the chaos man in the face from other side of the battlefield* They got "warp lightning cannons"powered by pure gently caress you and they'll turn an orc warboss into slurry Lets build armored mecha abominations, sure why not. Thousands of skaven surely died to make this one prototype Lets also make regular, more fleshy huge abominations. Lets give some of them sword arms?? SURE WHY NOT They're really into bells, it's a skaven thing. Wow these guys sure look like a hassle, guy. I'm sure the empire or whatever are really worried about these guys!!!! Actually they're barely recognized as a threat at times because most of the time they're fighting eachother underground or bothering the orcs or dwarves. Most people have no idea what a Skaven even is because if the general populace knew about what was right beneath them they'd probably go nuts: As we saw in the END TIMES, once they get organized and finally go to the surface en masse the world is basically hosed. These guys created a space program during the end of days and in their infinite skaven wisdom decided to blow up the moon shortly before they wiped out half the world in a massive invading neverending swarm of dickbaggery. When the immortal incarnation of Death, Nagash, took to his black pyramid and went on an unstoppable campaign to gently caress over chaos and give the gods a huge middlefinger it was the skaven who finally brought him low when they nuked his poo poo because he was becoming a bother What im trying to say is that Skaven is always the wildcard and they're completely nuts Zzulu fucked around with this message at 22:23 on May 16, 2015 |
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CommissarMega posted:HERESY! Honestly 40k was written by 12 year olds and everything reads that way.
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# ? May 16, 2015 22:32 |
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One of the best things about the Skaven fluff-wise is that there is a not-so-secret conspiracy among the higher ups of the Empire to keep them a secret, because https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkCwFkOZoOY
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# ? May 16, 2015 22:36 |
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The skaven are boring as hell. It has to be said.
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# ? May 16, 2015 22:37 |
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Cythereal posted:The skaven are boring as hell. It has to be said. Better than twenty flavors of semi-Napoleonic Europe. Can't all be Aztec Lizards after all.
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# ? May 16, 2015 22:39 |
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its okay to dislike the rat people but to call them boring is very weird the elves are boring
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# ? May 16, 2015 22:40 |
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Zzulu posted:its okay to dislike the rat people but to call them boring is very weird their space humans and space shoulderpad men are boring, too
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# ? May 16, 2015 22:42 |
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Zzulu posted:its okay to dislike the rat people but to call them boring is very weird To be fair, the only race in Fantasy I like is the Lizardmen.
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# ? May 16, 2015 22:51 |
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incidentally the lizardmen got wrecked by the skaven during the apocalypse and were forced to go back home to their home planet
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# ? May 16, 2015 23:00 |
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Zzulu posted:incidentally the lizardmen got wrecked by the skaven during the apocalypse and were forced to go back home to their home planet And this thread was pretty conclusive about the End Times sucking except for Settra being a badass, so thank you for dismissing your own case.
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# ? May 17, 2015 00:19 |
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Cythereal posted:And this thread was pretty conclusive about the End Times sucking except for Settra being a badass, so thank you for dismissing your own case.
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# ? May 17, 2015 00:21 |
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The end times sucked because it ended the world really abruptly and killed all the nerd favourites the skaven dropping the moon on the warhammer world was a highlight though
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# ? May 17, 2015 00:25 |
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There are a poo poo-ton of things wrong with the End Times as a concept and in practice. The Skaven detonating Morrslieb / Settra being a legendary badass the Warhammer world needed are not two of them. (Don't get me wrong, I'm a Lizardmen fan through and through, but if the Skaven can cow the goddamn Chaos Daemons by detonating Morrslieb and throwing Chaos' plans out of whack, even if only for a very short period of time, they at least get my respect for having testes made of raw warp-stone if nothing else.) Serpentis fucked around with this message at 01:04 on May 17, 2015 |
# ? May 17, 2015 00:42 |
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I read the Skaven army book from whatever edition that origin was from too many times as a kid. I stopped playing Warhammer years ago but Skaven are always cool in my book.
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# ? May 17, 2015 01:00 |
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Serpentis posted:There are a poo poo-ton of things wrong with the End Times as a concept and in practice. The Skaven detonating Morrslieb / Settra being a legendary badass the Warhammer world needed are not two of them. I'm going to guess it was an accident. It's usually an accident. And 40k justifying everything in itself is basically 'The assholes who did everything wrong absolutely insist there was no possible way to do it better, we swear.', not 'The Imperium is the best case scenario.' It's a jackass telling you why he totally had to do everything he did and totally made the Hard Choices that really if you look at it isn't he actually sort of a hero for making those no matter how it worked out? That it's taken unironically by the writers that the Imperium are the good guys and all is basically why the writers for 40k aren't very good.
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# ? May 17, 2015 02:19 |
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Night10194 posted:I'm going to guess it was an accident. It's usually an accident. Everyone in 40k is a jackass. You have your choice between willfully delusional jackass (Imperium), smugly self-superior jackass (eldar, tau), honest jackass that gives no fucks (necrons, orks), grand finalists in the kitten eating and puppy punting competition (chaos, dark eldar), and tyranids. The point of the setting is massive, unending violence between all of the above options.
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# ? May 17, 2015 02:25 |
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While the End Times was generally terrible due to the horrible writing and really stupid plotlines, the Skaven Space Program blowing up the chaos moon was one of the few highlights. The Skaven have always been batshit insane wild cards, but even by their standards constructing a space program and using it to blow up the moon is totally nuts. Neruz fucked around with this message at 02:43 on May 17, 2015 |
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Neruz posted:While the End Times was generally terrible due to the horrible writing and really stupid plotlines, the Skaven Space Program blowing up the moon was one of the few highlights. They did try to nuke Middenheim during the Storm. They just...well, it worked as well as Skaven devices often do. When they design something to explode would be the one time it doesn't detonate.
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# ? May 17, 2015 02:42 |
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Neruz posted:While the End Times was generally terrible due to the horrible writing and really stupid plotlines, the Skaven Space Program blowing up the moon was one of the few highlights. Eh.... I'm of the opinion that the skaven live doing a tap dance on the line of going too far in silliness/craziness for Fantasy, and them blowing up the moon crosses that line. I could buy Chaos doing it, or the Lizardmen, but the skaven have always read to me like fishmalks with warpstone flamethrowers and that's a sense of humor I'm not a fan of.
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# ? May 17, 2015 02:44 |
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Night10194 posted:I'm going to guess it was an accident. It's usually an accident. No it was deliberate, the Skaven Grey Seers used a fancy scroll to drag Morrslieb (the Chaos Moon) closer to the world as part of a plan to use its power, Clan Skyre then decides to one-up the Grey Seers and blows up the moon. The moon that is now closer to the world. The words 'cosmic firestorm' are used to describe what happens next.
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# ? May 17, 2015 02:45 |
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40K Orks are basically good old-fashioned Fantasy Orcs with the madcap/scrapheap technology of the Skaven. Strangely enough, I'm not as big on either Fantasy Orcs or Skaven as I am on 40K Orks; I guess it's because Orks are all about violence for the sake of it while the Skaven have this sinister thing going on that's more on the serious side of things.
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# ? May 17, 2015 06:40 |
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The irony of 40K Orks is that the only reason they have technology is because they believe they do
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toasterwarrior posted:40K Orks are basically good old-fashioned Fantasy Orcs with the madcap/scrapheap technology of the Skaven. Strangely enough, I'm not as big on either Fantasy Orcs or Skaven as I am on 40K Orks; I guess it's because Orks are all about violence for the sake of it while the Skaven have this sinister thing going on that's more on the serious side of things. I've always seen the Skaven as strictly an entire race of Starscream and Cobra Commander. That, or a group of people playing Paranoia: Ye Olde Tyme Fantasy Edition.
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# ? May 17, 2015 06:55 |
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Night10194 posted:I've always seen the Skaven as strictly an entire race of Starscream and Cobra Commander. An entire race of expendable mad scientist Starscreams playing Paranoia is a pretty decent summary of the Skaven.
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Neruz posted:The irony of 40K Orks is that the only reason they have technology is because they believe they do Some of the funniest things from orks are the weapon entries they have. They have one where humans try to pick up an orc weapon and find out the mag is slapped onto the side, the barrel isn't connected to the insides of the gun and the trigger doesn't work. An ork was firing it somehow just before they killed him. Orks are weird and funny.
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# ? May 17, 2015 09:19 |
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dogstile posted:Some of the funniest things from orks are the weapon entries they have. They have one where humans try to pick up an orc weapon and find out the mag is slapped onto the side, the barrel isn't connected to the insides of the gun and the trigger doesn't work. An ork was firing it somehow just before they killed him. IIRC there's a bit of fluff where this gently caress-off-huge Orkish energy cannon was, upon inspection, just a big-rear end pipe on the end of some unrelated bit of scrap.
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# ? May 17, 2015 10:00 |
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It's amazing what you can do when every single member of your species is a powerful subconscious psyker that literally warps reality around them to meet their expectations.
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# ? May 17, 2015 10:18 |
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Orks are pretty good role models because hey, if you believe hard enough, you can do anything!
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# ? May 17, 2015 10:20 |
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:I fixed the Warhammer mod! Turns out, you need to include the english voice mod in order for it to work, so if you're having issues just download this! Hey, that looks like it removes the FOR KHORNE voices for non-Khorne Chaos. Here I (almost) thought the other Chaos factions were being cheeky.
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# ? May 17, 2015 10:33 |
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mr.capps posted:Orks are pretty good role models because hey, if you believe hard enough, you can do anything! Blessed is the mind too small for doubt.
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# ? May 17, 2015 11:05 |
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orks are cool in my book ~believe in yourself~
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# ? May 17, 2015 11:19 |
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Skaven are forever my favourites, there are loads of them because theyr rats not because they're some silly hive race. If you're a skaven you're born into a litter of hundreds or thousands and guess what? Your peers may well eat you. That'll shape you into an odd individual alone. Then if you manage to survive childhood you get to be enslaved by your elders or physical superiors, if you gently caress up you will be eaten. When I was a wee boy playing warhammer my first real dilemma was do I like Chaos or Skaven more, I had a dream that night where the Horned Rat told me Skaven were cooler. I appreciate that my childhood subconscious mind agreed with me that this was the most important issue facing me.
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# ? May 17, 2015 11:20 |
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the only vaugly warhammer dream i had was that i was infiltrating a dwarven place which was also my childhood home and i was standing in attention with the dwarven army and none of them noticed that i was very tall long story short the dwarven king disintegrated, screaming, into a pile of dust after saying axes were more dwarfish than hammers and then i helped the dwarves loot things off of tall shelves i dont think i learned anything from that dream but i think its better than a malevolent rat god trying to influence my purchasing decisions imo
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# ? May 17, 2015 11:23 |
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If you thought that the Skaven crashing the loving moon onto Warhammer world was cool, know that 40K Orks consider fortifying asteroids and strapping rockets onto them to be used as landing craft/instant-fortress-just-crash-into-surface/space-borne artillery/all-of-the-above as standard operating procedure for attacking a planet. Can't remember if they actually did crash a moon into a planet (the Imperium probably did as a form of Exterminatus). In fairness, however, doing that would just end up lessening the amount of things to kill in a more personal manner. Food for thought
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# ? May 17, 2015 12:04 |
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The standard Ork spaceship is called a 'Rok' and it is just a hollowed out asteroid full of Orks with guns taped everywhere and some really big rockets on one end. The way a Rok invades a planet is by crashing the gently caress into it and any surviving Orks jump out and start pillaging while the exploding Rok disperses Ork spores all over the surrounding countryside to ensure that even if there are no survivors the Ork ecosystem will still take root. e: Note that some Warbosses have invaded worlds like this multiple times. Neruz fucked around with this message at 12:27 on May 17, 2015 |
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Neruz posted:The standard Ork spaceship is called a 'Rok' and it is just a hollowed out asteroid full of Orks with guns taped everywhere and some really big rockets on one end. The way a Rok invades a planet is by crashing the gently caress into it and any surviving Orks jump out and start pillaging while the exploding Rok disperses Ork spores all over the surrounding countryside to ensure that even if there are no survivors the Ork ecosystem will still take root. And this is why the orks are metal as gently caress.
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# ? May 17, 2015 12:15 |
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The W40k third person space marine game was great just for the juxtaposition of "serious battle brothers" with "dudes that use giant rocks as a means of transport"
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# ? May 17, 2015 13:42 |
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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine was a remarkably good game given how Triple A Warhammer games historically turn out. At the very least they totally nailed the graphics, sounds and general art style.
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# ? May 17, 2015 14:00 |
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Relic developed the Dawn of War series and the Space Marine game and I feel like they nailed the feel of 40K really nicely most of the time. Then they got sold to Sega when THQ went bankrupt and i haven't heard from them since
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