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I'd be really bummed if I was a Slaanesh chaos space marine. Slaanesh seems like a big wuss
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their drugs are just better than anyone else's in the setting that's unironically how fabius bile controls any emperor children he gets. mega-uber-ridonkulous drugs
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May 9, 2024 02:44
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Fabius Bile just wants to have kids and its nice that the Chaos Gods support his efforts to be a single parent
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May 9, 2024 02:45
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Smugworth posted:I'd be really bummed if I was a Slaanesh chaos space marine. Slaanesh seems like a big wuss You can literally melt people with the sound of your sick music if you're a slaaneshi noise marine
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May 9, 2024 02:58
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Olanphonia posted:You can literally melt people with the sound of your sick music if you're a slaaneshi noise marine you can melt them into drugs, which was what they were doing in the siege of terra instead of actually fighting
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May 9, 2024 02:59
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bob dobbs is dead posted:you can melt them into drugs, which was what they were doing in the siege of terra instead of actually fighting I mean, what beats doing lines of Heavy Metal pulverized, peasant nipples?
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May 9, 2024 03:10
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it really is a thing that there's this random aside in the black legion books that abaddon mentions that he learned how to distill peeps into adrenochrome, too, in his hobo phase. couple years before it became the subject of weird blood libels by right-wing nutjobs. poor hunter s thompson that one prolly aint making it to the third black legion book. or maybe it will, i dunno lol bob dobbs is dead fucked around with this message at 03:47 on May 9, 2024 |
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May 9, 2024 03:30
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Barudak posted:Fabius Bile just wants to have kids and its nice that the Chaos Gods support his efforts to be a single parent They really aren't fond of him, since he doesn't believe they're gods
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May 9, 2024 03:57
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exactly one of em is fond of him. thats what being a champion means. no, slaanesh doesnt believe in consent
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May 9, 2024 03:58
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bob dobbs is dead posted:exactly one of em is fond of him. thats what being a champion means. Lucius is the designated champ on the tabletop, because Slaanesh finds it funny that he's claims to be the greatest swordsman despite being repeatedly beaten
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May 9, 2024 04:00
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yeah, but i'm pretty sure the relevance thing on the warhams store site is mainly just a popularity thing if you query without query terms, and bile is way the gently caress higher up there than lucius, so he prolly sells more, which is the thing that actually counts higher than abaddon, who's apparently the second most popular named csm character
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May 9, 2024 04:04
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bob dobbs is dead posted:yeah, but i'm pretty sure the relevance thing on the warhams store site is mainly just a popularity thing if you query without query terms, and bile is way the gently caress higher up there than lucius, so he prolly sells more, which is the thing that actually counts Bile sold extremely well because there was a stretch of time where Creations of Bile was by far the strongest way to play CSM. Lucius sells extremely poorly because he's a lovely resin model everyone knows will get replaced with a new plastic model in the next couple years.
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May 9, 2024 04:07
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yeah, that's absolutely the case. but still. medium-size interplay between the game and the lore
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May 9, 2024 04:08
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Slaanesh followers are much cooler when they get creative about the "Obsession/Perfection" aspect of their god, rather than just going full-tilt BDSM-Cenobites-on-space-drugs. You got dudes who've practiced painting so long that they create horrific pocket dimensions inside their works, weirdos who body-sculpt their prisoners into living instruments and then just let crowds of them loose on a ship to "make music" as they wander and die, and some guy who just kept eating food until he turned into a planet
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May 9, 2024 04:13
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also if you go slanesh you get the coolest model in the entire loving game
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May 9, 2024 04:15
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The champion of slaanesh could be a dude who's really particular about his stamp collection
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May 9, 2024 04:44
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Fabius Bile is also a lot more fun, everybody loves a mad scientist.bob dobbs is dead posted:it really is a thing that there's this random aside in the black legion books that abaddon mentions that he learned how to distill peeps into adrenochrome, too, in his hobo phase. couple years before it became the subject of weird blood libels by right-wing nutjobs. poor hunter s thompson It's if anything one of the key things to keep, because it's an expression of what makes Chaos Space Marines so terrifying; they're the hulking monstrous super soldiers who have fully given into pride, entitlement and feeling superior to regular humans and have the right to do what they want with them, down to literally treating them as disposable and consumable objects for pleasure.
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May 9, 2024 04:49
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Fabius Bile is also a lot more fun, everybody loves a mad scientist. And his name is Fabius Bile! That's the name of an 80's cartoon villian. That's the name of a guy who makes big dramatic speeches and uses the third person when he talks about himself.
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May 9, 2024 05:41
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You win this time, but you haven't seen the last of FABIUS BILE!!!
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May 9, 2024 05:55
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still applies even if you atomized fabius bile. he's the clonelord, after all
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May 9, 2024 05:56
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And he wears a lab coat made of human skin. The Dark Eldar once captured him, and were so impressed they exchanged notes and let him go. The trick is with Chaos is that they're all different flavours of cartoon supervillainy, like Sith Lords. There's a reason everyone loves the most ridiculous ones. Like the Dawn of War cultist peon who's somewhere between Peter Lorre and Cornholio. Ghost Leviathan fucked around with this message at 06:03 on May 9, 2024 |
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May 9, 2024 06:01
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i think the canon way (from genefather) to tell the clones apart is which one has the staff, the rod of torment, which has got a demon in it. but, uh, it's a fuckin staff, so they could just switch, and do, often
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May 9, 2024 06:02
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I like that Fabius Bile succeeded at copying his Primarch and then went "oh right, this dumbass fell to chaos once already" and sold him off as a weird curio for Trazyn.
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May 9, 2024 06:14
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QuarkJets posted:You win this time, but you haven't seen the last of FABIUS BILE!!! And then he speeds away shaking his fist in the Fabius Mo-Bile.
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May 9, 2024 06:30
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Ghost Leviathan posted:And he wears a lab coat made of human skin. more like Fabulous Bile
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Improbable Lobster posted:Lucius is the designated champ on the tabletop, because Slaanesh finds it funny that he's claims to be the greatest swordsman despite being repeatedly beaten I'm a big fan of that aspect of Slaanesh, the irony of backhanded compliments, feeding off both the pride of cultists and marines but also the anguish of their defeat. Just a galactic high school movie level of blowing up small petty dramas into situations that the participants kill each other over.
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May 9, 2024 09:01
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QuarkJets posted:The champion of slaanesh could be a dude who's really particular about his stamp collection Are you saying all slaanesh champions are acoustic?
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May 9, 2024 09:50
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Khorne is one of those scifi/fantasy names that look cool written down, but say it out loud and it's just... corn. They should do a retcon and say it's actually Kharne, it's always been Kharne. That sounds a little cooler. Blame it on warp fuckery or something. Meanwhile, there's Kharn the Betrayer, but I don't know anything about him, so he can become, uh, Khurn, I guess.
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May 9, 2024 11:15
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Lobster Henry posted:They should do a retcon and say it's actually Kharne, it's always been Kharne. That sounds a little cooler. Blame it on warp fuckery or something. 
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May 9, 2024 11:17
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Corn, The betrayer
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crom, from conan -> khorne https://conan.fandom.com/wiki/Crom https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2014/10/flashback-bryan-ansells-origins-of-warhammer.html
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You should look up Kharn the Betrayer, he's a swell guy
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Lobster Henry posted:Khorne is one of those scifi/fantasy names that look cool written down, but say it out loud and it's just... corn. There's a female Khornite general in the Total Warhammer Games who announces herself proudly and angrily as 'CONSORT. OF. CORN!!!!!!' and it's just great. You do you, ma'am. Marry that maize.
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valkia the valkyrie, because valkyries are evil in warhams. also not the most creative naming
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Lobster Henry posted:
Kharn is great and despite the odds, given that him and his legion are blood mad berserkers in 40k, Kharn and the world eaters are one of the better written legions in the 30k novels. If you can take angron and make him compelling you’ve done well. Just read betrayer.
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Khorne's whole deal makes more sense considering the baseline worshipper is basically someone who's completely fed up with every other aspect of the shithouse universe they've been born into except that they get to hit people with axes.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Khorne's whole deal makes more sense considering the baseline worshipper is basically someone who's completely fed up with every other aspect of the shithouse universe they've been born into except that they get to hit people with axes. So Khorne just sidles up, very politely and understated for once, and goes "y'know, if you want to stop thinking for a while and just fight..."
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May 9, 2024 18:37
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grobbo posted:There's a female Khornite general in the Total Warhammer Games who announces herself proudly and angrily as 'CONSORT. OF. CORN!!!!!!' and it's just great. country girls make do
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Khorne's whole deal makes more sense considering the baseline worshipper is basically someone who's completely fed up with every other aspect of the shithouse universe they've been born into except that they get to hit people with axes. Orks Iz Betta©️
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CapnAndy posted:I'm still working through End and the Death but I like how they did Khorne's pitch to Dorn in that. Dorn spends basically the entire Heresy series trying very hard not to buckle under all the pressure he's under as the one guy responsible for keeping the Emperor safe, stressing out about having to make a billion decisions a day while having to manage at least as many overinflated egos, and chafing at his responsibility to stand on the walls and wait while everyone else is out there fighting traitors. Then Dorn is too much of a stubborn nerd to give in, which is great
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