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Arc Hammer posted:https://twitter.com/CGTester/status/1732798161113002060?s=19 good for him he's really good
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Once I discovered that he's the Lokhir Fellheart voice in Warhammer Total War I was sold on the guy.
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https://twitter.com/RichardReedVO/status/1732872089982419332 Another thread favourite also features in the game.
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https://www.twitch.tv/warhammer The Black Library preview is live now, going by the pre-show trivia we can almost expect an Ork book, a book about Azrael and a new Cado Ezechiar book. Edit: One prediction right, we're getting a new Mike Brooks book, Big Dakka, featuring Orks versus Dark Eldar. A sequel to Brutal Kunnin. Ufthak also gets his own tabletop model as well. Then we're also getting a book about Morvenn Vahl, Spear of Faith, going up against the Night Lords. There's also a 30k art book. On the AoS side we have a new Guy Haley book featuring Drekki Flynt, The Ghosts of Barak-Minoz. Then a Dark Angels novel, Lazarus Emnity's Edge not about Azrael though, by Gary Closter. And a Renegades: Lords of Excess, an Emperor's Children book. John French has written another book about Ahriman. Ahriman Undying. It's very timey-wimey and sees him deal with both Necron and Harlequins. Then The Infinite and the Divine is getting a CE reprint. On the 30k side we're getting Eidolon: The Auric Hammer by Marc Collins. Speaking of reprints, there will also be one for the Hollow King. But(!), there will also be a new Cado Ezechar book, Dead Kingdom by John French. Two predictions down at least. And that's it. Cooked Auto fucked around with this message at 15:50 on Dec 9, 2023 |
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Calax posted:It's nice that the Emp's Children are getting a bit of focus. Hope this is hints that they're getting new minis soon.
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Hell yes, more Mike Brook's orks, inject them directly into my brain, yes-yes!Gravitas Shortfall posted:Hope this is hints that they're getting new minis soon. Tradition dictates that Emperor's Children will get their codex three months before the end of the current edition, it is known.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Hope this is hints that they're getting new minis soon. My guess based on the way they push some stuff out the door is that they're prepping for Fulgrim to be the next returning Chaos primarch at the end of this edition/start of next.
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sharknado slashfic posted:Just finished Sea of Souls. I'm very depressed but daaaamn. I loved it. Everybody should read this and it doesn't matter at all if you haven't read any of the previous Dawn of Fire books. But yeah, what a gut punch of a book lol
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D-Pad posted:I loved it. Everybody should read this and it doesn't matter at all if you haven't read any of the previous Dawn of Fire books. But yeah, what a gut punch of a book lol Yeah that might have gone into my top ten hams novels. Grudgingly.
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If it's really that depressing I may skip it, I have enough depression as is  Orks versus Dark Eldar written by Mike Brooks though? 
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sharknado slashfic posted:Yeah that might have gone into my top ten hams novels. Grudgingly. What's so good about Sea of Souls then? The Black Library page for it basically says it's about imperials on a ship, which doesn't really tell me anyhting. No spoilers please.
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https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/12/10/sunday-preview-kill-team-salvation-stalks-into-view/?utm_content=sundaypreview10/12/23 Do you want some books? Of course ya do! After yesterday's bewy of upcoming release GW is mostly playing catch up until next year. First we have the paperback release of The Lion: Son of the Forest.  Then Pilgrims of Fire is also getting a paperback release.  Both books going up for pre-order on December 23rd.
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Fabulous Bile omnibus  "It is my considered opinion that you should always blame yourself, Oleander. Even if it wasn't your fault. Perhaps especially if it wasn't your fault. You could do with some perspective." 
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MariusLecter posted:Fabius Bile should have been Emperor. It's not even Bile who says that. It's a World Eater 
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Just finished Sea of Souls, pretty drat good. Extremely warham, and even though I called the twist pretty early on, it was a hell of a ride. Between Dark City and this, Wraight knows how to write a Bad End, that's for drat sure 
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I think Rogue Trader might be good. It's already inspired several pages of debate about the philosophy of governance, rule and ethics in the 41st millennium, which makes me think it might work for this thread.
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Black Griffon posted:I think Rogue Trader might be good. It's already inspired several pages of debate about the philosophy of governance, rule and ethics in the 41st millennium, which makes me think it might work for this thread. I watched a couple of YT previews and they looked quite nice, if a bit numbers-heavy in a janky '90s/'00s tabletop sort of way. Also the companions seemed to be the most default archetypes of their respective factions imaginable, but that's unavoidable since it's the first 40k CRPG ever and there's already a shitload of lore for non-40k-nerds. It's probably going to be my next video game after I'm done with Cyberpunk. The alignment system seems brilliant - three axes: Dogmatic, Iconoclast, Heretic. So you have both the Mass Effect Renegade antihero, which pretty much only a RT or Inquisitor can be in the Imperium, and the classic moustache-twirling villain. One lore related thing that bothered me: in one of the videos, I saw a group of Dark Eldars yelling about the Blood God which made me squint a little. Do you know if the game acknowledges them as an aberration or otherwise justifies that in some way? I'm hoping they're supposed to be possessed or something, 'cause it would be literally a CS Goto tier blunder otherwise. NihilCredo fucked around with this message at 12:43 on Dec 11, 2023 |
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NihilCredo posted:I watched a couple of YT previews and they looked quite nice, if a bit numbers-heavy in a janky '90s/'00s tabletop sort of way. Also the companions seemed to be the most default archetypes of their respective factions imaginable, but that's unavoidable since it's the first 40k CRPG ever and there's already a shitload of lore for non-40k-nerds. It's probably going to be my next video game after I'm done with Cyberpunk. Don't some DE still worship Khaine? Who is sort of a Blood God right? There's something there about Khaine and Khorne being similar entities if not aspects of each other in some way.
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NihilCredo posted:One lore related thing that bothered me: in one of the videos, I saw a group of Dark Eldars yelling about the Blood God which made me squint a little. Do you know if the game acknowledges them as an aberration or otherwise justifies that in some way? I'm hoping they're supposed to be possessed or something, 'cause it would be literally a CS Goto tier blunder otherwise. It 100% does. There’s an Ordo Xenos Interrogator in the party and the relationship between Aeldarii/Drukhari and Chaos is explicitly discussed.
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Black Griffon posted:I think Rogue Trader might be good. It's already inspired several pages of debate about the philosophy of governance, rule and ethics in the 41st millennium, which makes me think it might work for this thread. I'm doing my first blind playthrough and it's pretty decent, although there's some dialogue and plot choices that are pretty cliche, but still good though.
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About my only complaint so far is that some of the introductory dialogue explanations of the universe are so basic that it is just tedious for me to go through but that's completely a personal thing.
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NihilCredo posted:I watched a couple of YT previews and they looked quite nice, if a bit numbers-heavy in a janky '90s/'00s tabletop sort of way. Also the companions seemed to be the most default archetypes of their respective factions imaginable, but that's unavoidable since it's the first 40k CRPG ever and there's already a shitload of lore for non-40k-nerds. It's probably going to be my next video game after I'm done with Cyberpunk. The bloody God Khaine, not khorne. All eldar call upon them in battle pretty much, including the dark eldar. Usually more his aspects that stress his role as God of murder instead of the craftworlds God of war.
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Turns out, they may in fact be aspects of the same thing!
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Shockeh posted:Turns out, they may in fact be aspects of the same thing! Has anything played with that in a major way? I always thought it was just their names were similar since its a holdover from fantasy. Since the eldar mythology predates the war in heaven that led to the chaos gods becoming conscious entities.
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I've been really enjoying it so far. Once I tweaked the difficulty a bit so that it doesn't get in the way as much, and lets the story flow, it's been good. You really get a good sampling of what the universe consists of, and lots of bickering inbetween. The skill trees are kind of absurdly huge and I just kinda gaze off into the warp trying to choose something, but for the most part you get to kick rear end, and if someone cheers a little too loud, you can kill them for it.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:Another sisters book? Fine, GW, I'll get it I want to like sister books because i love the faction but they are often various mixes of one note. Id love to have rath or abbnett or ADB or etc take a crack at them.
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Sharkopath posted:Has anything played with that in a major way? I always thought it was just their names were similar since its a holdover from fantasy. Since the eldar mythology predates the war in heaven that led to the chaos gods becoming conscious entities. There's a number of times it's been on-again, off-again cited. One of the earlier Khaine depictions was that regardless of the Chaos Gods becoming conscious (and that's a debate in itself) was that the concept of a God of x always exists, because the emotions exist. Khorne is just a coalesced vision of that, as is Khaine. They're separate things, but they're branches of the same tree. But no, nothing in a major way, really, but that's almost to it's benefit - I'd rather they leave the Warp unknowable.
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