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drat I wish there was a Sharpe thread now. Caff is Perkins? Edit: Ban Daur is D'Allembord
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Harper is like a mix between Corbec and Rawne. Who would be the Cooper analogue? Shows up in early stories/episodes and then is injured and never heard from again?
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Mar 16, 2019 04:15
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Who is Stephen Maturin?
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Mar 16, 2019 04:34
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Nuclear War posted:Who is Stephen Maturin? Dorden's cousin who joined the Navy instead of the Guard, presumably
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Mar 16, 2019 04:36
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Man. Now I kinda wanna read the book about his and space Aubreys adventures
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They travel through the warp and discover a rare species of crotylid for maturin to study. That would be interesting actually. As far as I know, the imperium only applies the term Xeno to sentient alien species that directly oppose their interests, but not native species of fauna like barking toads or grox. I wonder if the biologist division of the mechanicus are considered deviants. Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 04:50 on Mar 16, 2019 |
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Mar 16, 2019 04:48
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Cooked Auto posted:Also I've been reading the first Inquisition War book recently. It's an interesting read so far and its fun to notice all the slight differences between old and new warhammer fiction. It's a great series but prepare yourself for an abrupt ending. It literally just stops in the middle of the plot without any warning and with tons of plot threads not finished. It was so abrupt I thought the ebook copy I had was bad and tried removing it and redownloading it a few times before frantically googling wtf.
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Arcsquad12 posted:If that makes Gaur into Napoleon I'm having a fun time imagining a giant angry chaos marine wearing a bicorn hat. Fun fact, Urlock Gaur isn't a Chaos Marine! 
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Mar 16, 2019 09:41
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a lovely king posted:Fun fact, Urlock Gaur isn't a Chaos Marine! Follow up fun fact, if GW releases a range of chaos marines wearing bicorn hats I will never need to buy any other range of models for the span of my natural life.
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Mar 16, 2019 13:51
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a lovely king posted:Fun fact, Urlock Gaur isn't a Chaos Marine! No, but he does have Chaos Marines under his employ. So they can still wear the hats.
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Mar 16, 2019 16:00
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Randalor posted:No, but he does have Chaos Marines under his employ. So they can still wear the hats. Very true. God the Arnogaur short story by ABD is so drat good.
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Mar 16, 2019 17:40
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Blood Pact do not kill Blood Pact! You- "I am the exception"
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Bit late to comment on this, but I feel like it's worth mentioning that the Eldar managed to exist as a space faring race for millions of years without creating a galactic warp catastrophe. Humanity only took forty thousand. If somehow the chaos gods just vanished and the warp became quiet tranquil realm of souls again, I'd expect the Eldar would do better at avoiding another pangalactic warp shitstorm than humans.
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Galvanik posted:Bit late to comment on this, but I feel like it's worth mentioning that the Eldar managed to exist as a space faring race for millions of years without creating a galactic warp catastrophe. Humanity only took forty thousand. If somehow the chaos gods just vanished and the warp became quiet tranquil realm of souls again, I'd expect the Eldar would do better at avoiding another pangalactic warp shitstorm than humans. You’re forgetting that they were the principle army in the war that created the original catastrophes that led to Chaos.
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Arkhan Land is a turbo goon. From ADB's Bringer of Sorrow:quote:Land lifted his goggles to scratch the side of his considerable nose. He was not what many people would consider attractive, though most people weren’t what he would consider intelligent enough for him to give their opinions any credence. And besides, attraction and sexual tension were distractions from the Pursuit of Knowledge. You could spend your life flinging genetic material at other people, or you could get things done. Very amusing and worthwhile short story overall.
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The Rat posted:Arkhan Land is a turbo goon. From ADB's Bringer of Sorrow: Who's the most goony of Land and Perturabo?
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Plucky Brit posted:You’re forgetting that they were the principle army in the war that created the original catastrophes that led to Chaos. And yet it was only humanity's purestrain latent psychic energy that manifested three of the primary Chaos Gods in just a few centuries. It took the eldar mullions of years of murderfucking to spawn Slaanesh, while Humanity birthed Nurgle in less than a decade with the Black Death and Khorne manifested in the carnage of the middle ages and Renaissance and Tzeentch from the incredibly fast (galactically speaking) development of human culture. The imperium talks about how fast the Tau have developed in the five thousand years since they were first noticed, but the Tau are still pretty slow compared to the utter insanity that was human development and expansion. The Eldar see humans as naive children but they are rightly afraid of the psychic will that humanity can manifest. We're like Orks but with more of a propensity for spawning giant psychic hell monsters.
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Arcsquad12 posted:We're like Orks but with more of a propensity for spawning giant psychic hell monsters. Didn't the three other chaos gods being humanity's fault get retconned? At least I think I read that somewhere. It's hard to keep it all straight.
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I thought the retcon was that they were always there since the birth of the warp but they took an interest in humanity's rampant development and only really started to coalesce into their current forms after investing in our self destructive behaviors.
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Mar 18, 2019 18:56
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Arcsquad12 posted:The imperium talks about how fast the Tau have developed in the five thousand years since they were first noticed, but the Tau are still pretty slow compared to the utter insanity that was human development and expansion. The Eldar see humans as naive children but they are rightly afraid of the psychic will that humanity can manifest. We're like Orks but with more of a propensity for spawning giant psychic hell monsters. Wasn't the thing with Tau more that they have almost no psychic potential, so their impact on the Warp is so negligible as to not exist, while humanity are not blatantly psychic, but theres enough potential that a big number of humans can cause ripples in the warp?
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Randalor posted:Wasn't the thing with Tau more that they have almost no psychic potential, so their impact on the Warp is so negligible as to not exist, while humanity are not blatantly psychic, but theres enough potential that a big number of humans can cause ripples in the warp? Yes, in fact the Tau chaos god wasn't created by the Tau but by humans. It's been described as a reflection of the human conception of the Tau and not a reflection of the Tau themselves.
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Mar 18, 2019 20:31
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Xun posted:There a tau chaos god now?? Sort of. There’s something out there in the Warp that helped the lost Fourth Sphere Expansion get back to realspace. Current theory is that it’s the embodiment/incarnation of the Greater Good as understood by the gue’vesa, created by their belief in it. As a result the Fourth Sphere decided to wipe out their gue’vesa in the probably misguided reasoning that this would destroy the weird Tau god thing.
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Galvanik posted:Bit late to comment on this, but I feel like it's worth mentioning that the Eldar managed to exist as a space faring race for millions of years without creating a galactic warp catastrophe. I'm afraid I have some bad news
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Biplane posted:What Humans and other brickabrack that follow Tau philosophy made a religion and god out of The Greater Good.
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Mar 20, 2019 10:35
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Tau might have a low warp presence but their auxiliaries certainly don't.
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Mar 20, 2019 12:48
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Holy gently caress where can I read about Communism the chaos god?????
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https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/03/20/20th-mar-siege-of-terra-meet-the-authorsgw-homepage-post-2/ Full roster of authors for the Siege of Terra series. Some welcome omissions (James Swallow, Nick Kyme) and is generally cream of the crop at BL. The only weak link I can see is Gav Thorpe. No Graham McNeil is surprising as he's generally one of the better authors but perhaps he isn't writing for BL anymore.
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a lovely king posted:https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/03/20/20th-mar-siege-of-terra-meet-the-authorsgw-homepage-post-2/ Chris Wraight looks extremely chilled
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a lovely king posted:https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/03/20/20th-mar-siege-of-terra-meet-the-authorsgw-homepage-post-2/ Graham McNeill is head writer over at Riot now, doing background stuff for LoL. I doubt he has time.
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Biplane posted:Holy gently caress where can I read about Communism the chaos god????? War of Secrets
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Arcsquad12 posted:Tau might have a low warp presence but their auxiliaries certainly don't. God that's a pretty goddamn neat way to justify it
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boredsatellite posted:God that's a pretty goddamn neat way to justify it And their taush overlords don’t practice the Great Tithe. That’s probably another part of it?
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I'm like 65% through Betrayer and wanted to thank eveyone who recommended it. Holy poo poo. I never thought I'd like Khârn or want to be his friend.
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moths posted:I'm like 65% through Betrayer and wanted to thank eveyone who recommended it. Holy poo poo. You'd love the night Lord's trilogy by the same author then. Starts with soul Hunter, you'll still be rooting for them by then end of the trilogy even with all the terrible poo poo they do throughout.
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moths posted:I'm like 65% through Betrayer and wanted to thank eveyone who recommended it. Holy poo poo. If you like the World Eaters the short story "A Rose Watered in Blood" is also very good, dealing with how the flagship works after the fall of the legion.
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moths posted:I'm like 65% through Betrayer and wanted to thank eveyone who recommended it. Holy poo poo. Kharn's really just a good guy, a good bro
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Foxtrot_13 posted:If you like the World Eaters the short story "A Rose Watered in Blood" is also very good, dealing with how the flagship works after the fall of the legion.  skane was also a bro
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