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Uroboros posted:Khorne and the other various Gods of the Warp are much to powerful to physically manifest in reality, and essentially only act in the material world through proxy and the power they bestow upon their lessers. Alternatively, they're much too weak to physically manifest in reality. Broken Record Talk fucked around with this message at 21:08 on Nov 30, 2017 |
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Gork has manifested his foot on many documented occasions to stomp some puny thing or other.
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Liquid Communism posted:Survey taken. Suggested they take away Forge World's resin and rules duties, and that biglies need options to make them interesting on the tabletop. I think I harped on the pricing affecting my purchase decisions a bit too much instead of wanting new cool IG models.
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Cooked Auto posted:I think I harped on the pricing affecting my purchase decisions a bit too much instead of wanting new cool IG models. Yeah, most of my suggestions were "I purchase pretty infrequently and from online retailers, you could rectify both of those by lowering your prices". I know it'll fall on deaf ears.
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Uroboros posted:Warp entities like demons are almost always explained as not having true forms since they are composed of basically pure madness, and merely take on a form that most accurately represents their nature, purpose, or the thoughts of what mortals imagine them to be when they enter real space. Even then more powerful demons often look different to the viewer because it isn't possible to truly comprehend "that which should not be". I think I get what you are trying to say but we also get stories of the demons walking into each other's relms and interacting one on one. The demon books have even layed out rough maps of each God's domain and their borders. We have stories of Nurgle taking the eldar God's as a prisoner. Things are sometimes abstract and sometimes literal. It can be both, it's the warp. If human/eldar emotions/feelings make their Gods based on their strength in numbers and spirit then it makes sense that the orks get bigger God's. The other races have so many facets of their minds that we end up with many God's to represent their souls. Orks are simple and all their thoughts end up in Gork or Mork. The power difference is more pronounced when you think about how many orks there are to the other races. So basically orks are the best but they don't care about it as much. It is silly gw fluff that has been around forever. Let the comedy relief race be strong, and try not to think about how actually terrifying they really are.
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Proletariat Beowulf posted:"...[W]et leopard growl..." loving thiiiiiiiiis. That poo poo was irritating as gently caress.
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Zuul the Cat posted:In fact, this is a good idea. Post some of your favorite Black Library bits, people. From The First Heretic, during the drop site massacre on Isstvan V: ADB posted:The Iron Warriors fired with impunity, caring nothing that many of the downed gunships fell groundward into the battle still being waged. The burning hulls of destroyed Astartes craft rained onto the killing fields, pulverising Word Bearers and Night Lords more often than they crashed into the few remaining pockets of Raven Guard and Salamanders survivors. When contacted by Legion commanders protesting the careless destruction, the Iron Warriors captains replied with laughter that bordered on betrayal. From Betrayer, Angron is sick of Guilliman's sanctimony: ADB again posted:"What would you know of struggle, Perfect Son? When have you fought against the mutilation of your mind? When have you had to do anything more than tally compliances and polish your armour?" [...] adamantium|wang fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Nov 30, 2017 |
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I'm confused - is it the leopard or the growl that is "wet?"
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First one then the other.
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Does anyone remember which White Dwarf had an Ork vs Elysian Drop Trooperrs battle report? I want to copy the paint scheme of the Orks for Dawn of War but I haven't been able to find the issue in forever.
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That snippet from Betrayer is amazing in audiobook form.
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adamantium|wang posted:From Betrayer, Angron is sick of Guilliman's sanctimony: This is cool and all but what with them giving butchers nails to other world eaters he basically never ever ever ever ever gets to use that in an argument against anyone ever again.
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They did out to themselves to bring them closer to their Primarch. It worked, but not in the way they hoped.
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Cooked Auto posted:I think I harped on the pricing affecting my purchase decisions a bit too much instead of wanting new cool IG models. I harped on both! I also said that I knew about 40k since I was about 12 but wasn't able to afford to get into the hobby until I was in my twenties.
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I did the dumb survey that ignores my country. I told them they should make plastic Sisters and guardswomen already.
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Arven posted:I also said that I knew about 40k since I was about 12 but wasn't able to afford to get into the hobby until I was in my twenties. Yeah I checked the date for the booklet that promoted 40k and WHFB (3rd ed and 5th ed respectively) that was pretty much my gateway into the hobby and it came out in around 1998 so I was about 11 back then. But I didn't get my first models until a couple of years later. In that case it was one of the start painting Marine boxes as a christmas gift or something. Still have those models and just cleaned them up for a repaint at some point. But I didn't really get into the hobby until much much later as well. And now my purchases are really piecemeal and usually just done via bitz retailers because I want one or two single models to paint instead of full squads. Like I gave in and bought the Escher sprue today for instance. Groetgaffel posted:I did the dumb survey that ignores my country.
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WhiteOutMouse posted:Things are sometimes abstract and sometimes literal. It can be both, it's the warp. I assumed it was always the former, hence why they so hunger for the material world.
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adamantium|wang posted:From Betrayer, Angron is sick of Guilliman's sanctimony: Love this. I filled the thing out, too. Told them to address the Australia Tax and to give us both - a fully customisable Autarch kit and plastic loving aspect warriors already! Oh, also, to stop with the mono-pose squad kits and the stupid amount of detail they tack on to every available surface. Painting is hard enough for me, i don't need the added frustration of greebly poo poo. Irate Tree fucked around with this message at 22:41 on Nov 30, 2017 |
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I asked for fully online rules with an annual fee to gain access to all of them instead of physical codex releases...a man can dream.
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I asked for Warhammer Fantasy.
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Uroboros posted:I asked for fully online rules with an annual fee to gain access to all of them instead of physical codex releases...a man can dream. I've always been a paper codex person, but I like this. Especially if they were to update them as errata / faq happens.
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Uroboros posted:I asked for fully online rules with an annual fee to gain access to all of them instead of physical codex releases...a man can dream. also gently caress I forgot to tell them to ignore the /tg community because holy gently caress I looked there the other day for chapter approved leaks and it was not worth it
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Soulfucker posted:
and also (although I remembered to tell them that). Schadenboner fucked around with this message at 22:53 on Nov 30, 2017 |
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At this point I want game balance more than anything else, it was half the reason I got hyped for 8th, and was ready for them to scuttle 7th Ed. At this point it seems clear that the only way you will have anything close to that is by getting rid of the traditional codex cycle, and putting all the rules online where they can be updated in real time as problems arise. I don't really care what GW has to charge me annually to make up for lost profits due to overpriced books, or if I need to buy monthly art prints to keep the guys who used to draw concept art, solely to cram into these books, in business.
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Uroboros posted:I asked for fully online rules with an annual fee to gain access to all of them instead of physical codex releases...a man can dream. Almost exactly what I asked for
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 23:29 |
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i just asked them to cut prices, and told them they'd made a lot of good choices since the abyss of bad choices that led to the creation of AoS
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I said something about how it reminds me that, when the choices are dark grey and black, there's still a correct choice. Also that there were too many rightists in the hobby but that was a wargaming thing not a 40k thing per se.
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I told them to take campaign mission creation advice from the Badcast because Konor was a loving joke.
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I pretended to buy a lot more stuff than I do. I told them I miss Mordheim and that I want more female models.
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PantsOptional posted:I told them to take campaign mission creation advice from the Badcast because Konor was a loving joke. Yeah, I mentioned that too. Something like 'I did not bother to play any of the campaign missions because as a sone one interested in Orks, I was most interested in seeing both sides lose'
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Broken Record Talk posted:I actually just started that one. Already getting reaaaaaally tired of "theoretical. practical." Payoff is worth it.
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Khorne talk; the Blood Pact, from Dan Abnett's Gaunt's Ghosts novels, are never specifically mentioned as being dedicated to Khorne, but are a great alternative to the "raving berserker" model of Khorne worship. They're brutal and viscous, but disciplined, with their structure deliberately modelled on the Imperial Guard, members of whom they sometimes subvert. Each member of the blood pact ritualistically scars their hands on the armour of their leader. Their specialists include snipers, infiltration teams, massed armour and warpcrafted weirdness. There's even a "blood witch" in one book who's basically a khornate sorcerer.
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GET INTO DA CHOPPA posted:I pretended to buy a lot more stuff than I do. I told them I miss Mordheim and that I want more female models. Female models would be nice if they were done well and not the super slutty thing that a lot of the 3rd party companies make. That female cadian 2LT from the Space Maine game would be a cool figure for example. There's way too many of the 3rd party models though that go way too far. Saw a guard army where every heavy weapons teams was topless recently at my lgs which was weird as poo poo. I figure it's the 40k equivalent to anime card sleeves.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Khorne talk; the Blood Pact, from Dan Abnett's Gaunt's Ghosts novels, are never specifically mentioned as being dedicated to Khorne, but are a great alternative to the "raving berserker" model of Khorne worship. They're brutal and viscous, but disciplined, with their structure deliberately modelled on the Imperial Guard, members of whom they sometimes subvert. Each member of the blood pact ritualistically scars their hands on the armour of their leader. Their specialists include snipers, infiltration teams, massed armour and warpcrafted weirdness. There's even a "blood witch" in one book who's basically a khornate sorcerer. Yeah, I like how Abnett drops occasional world-building details as to how the Blood Pact come from an entire (reasonably stable) interstellar civilisation which just happen to worship Khorne.
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Mef989 posted:Female models would be nice if they were done well and not the super slutty thing that a lot of the 3rd party companies make. That female cadian 2LT from the Space Maine game would be a cool figure for example. The female stormcasts in blightwar and Shadespire have been pretty ok, not great but nowhere near raging heroes or wargame Exclusive.
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How are devastator squads this edition? I was thinking of splitting my Calth marines into two ten-man tactical squads and two five-man devastator squads (one gets all three heavy bolters and the other gets all three missile launchers)
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bonds0097 posted:The female stormcasts in blightwar and Shadespire have been pretty ok, not great but nowhere near raging heroes or wargame Exclusive. If you hold Raging Heroes up as a good representative of female models in the industry I'm not sure what to say.
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adamantium|wang posted:From The First Heretic, during the drop site massacre on Isstvan V: This loving rules.
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LordAba posted:If you hold Raging Heroes up as a good representative of female models in the industry I'm not sure what to say. Sorry, I meant that GW is not great given the single boobplate and waspish waists of the female stormcasts but they're nowhere near as bad/cheesecake as those other two. I was holding raging heroes and wargame exclusive as the very lowest end of the spectrum. EDIT: Victoria minis would be an example of good.
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Mef989 posted:Saw a guard army where every heavy weapons teams was topless recently at my lgs which was weird as poo poo. Please dont catachan shame here.
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