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The Raven Guard can invert their shields to make their ships invisible. But to do this they have to turn the internal lights out and all be quiet because SHHHHHHHHHHH. If you use that intercom the enemy will be able to detect the energy use, or hear it, or something. No, ignore that the power core and the engines are still running, just shut up and implement Darklight Protocols
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The correct, as in, how the studio and every other English speaker I've heard, way to say it is "Zeench" rhyming with seench.
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Their narrator is dreadful as well, that doesn't help.
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Feb 10, 2013 22:44
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I can't seem to force myself to read any more of Fear to Tread, so sod that and onto Path of the Incubus and Berserker.
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Feb 11, 2013 00:45
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A friend told me to. And I really liked Path of the Renegade. 
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Feb 11, 2013 16:00
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What was it, I've managed to forget.
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Feb 26, 2013 03:05
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Have any of you read The Masque of Vyle yet? I'm reluctant to spend £12 on what looks like a short book.
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EyeRChris posted:My problem with the Greater Good is, despite the Fire warrior on the cover we didn't get any Imperial / Tau back to the wall cooperation. I kinda wanted to see Imperial and Tau working together Fire Warrior. It's out of print now, but it has what you want. I've just read it and, overall, it is really solid.
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Schneider Heim posted:Fire Warrior is in ebook form. Maybe I'll go check it out, since I loved Lord of the Night (same author). Do you have a link? I couldn't find it on the BL site, would love to have my own copy. Spurrier was really solid in both books, it's a shame he doesn't seem to have done much, if anything, more for B.
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Thank you.
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Elrond Hubbard posted:What are the audiobooks like? Is it just someone reading the story normally, or are there like a ton of sound effects and weird voices for all the characters? Dreadful ham acting without the good grace to be entertaining, and stupid pew pew noises.
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May 1, 2013 15:57
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People ignore the White Scars because they are a second rate Space Wolf mimic and their signature unit style is stolen from the Dark Angels. They have a good colour scheme, but it's really hard to paint well and lacks some of the more interesting unit marking details. Those things explain perfectly why they are unpopular. Also, they are perfectly fine being 'white' as they are space marines and canonically do not have a fixed skin tone.
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May 5, 2013 22:45
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Cream_Filling posted:People thought Ultramarines were the most boring marines until Abnett did them a turn and made them interesting. Unique and beautiful snowflakes thought they were boring. They have been consistently the most popular chapter since at least late second edition. Also, marines are described as having their own weird physiognomy from the enlarged bone structures. Lovely Joe Stalin fucked around with this message at 04:15 on May 6, 2013 |
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Sephyr posted:I'm sorry to hear that. Dark Eldar could be fodder for so much disturbing fun sci-fi, but are criminally under-used. Path of the Renegade was lame and pointless, and I was hoping Incubus would do a better job, as they are a better observer/outsider to the society, what with having some honor and being focused on kicking rear end. I enjoyed it, it's better than most BL output by a long way.
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May 9, 2013 17:48
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Typical Counter bullshit writing that's disconnected from the established fluff. Drop pods are barely big enough to hold the men they deliver. Still, that book is going to get exponentially more imbecilic, so enjoy what you can while you can.
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May 16, 2013 09:31
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It truly did lay the groundwork for the thing that is Battle for the Abyss.
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May 16, 2013 09:41
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Still, he's no Henry Zou.
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May 25, 2013 22:37
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My friend actually said to the guys who make GW's ipad rule books that he has pdf copies of them all (and that he buys the originals) and they didn't even blink. Although that was in the context of saying that he now had an ipad and was very pleased to finally have a legitimate avenue for digital versions.
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Yeah, UK. We were standing in the middle of Warhammer World at the time.
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Jun 7, 2013 20:28
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I seem to recall there being a rather cool scene at the end of one of the Imperial Guard books where a dead Guardsman enters the Emperors light and joins the host gathered there.
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The Blood Ravens are loving stupid and their hinted at heritage story is on a par with the product of a 12 year old writing fan fiction. gently caress the Blood Ravens. They do have a cool colour scheme though.
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Jun 18, 2013 17:02
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Or indeed the TV series Blackadder (the first season is pretty poor though).
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Baron Bifford posted:I rewatched the Ultramarines movie and some plot points made no sense. Like the fact that the characters all act like green recruits. Didn't they do a stint as Scout Initiates before becoming Battle Brothers? The only good thing about that film, other than being fertile ground for jokes about checking for taint, is that the plot resolution device is literally an 'in case of emergency break glass' hammer.
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Lincoln`s Wax posted:You can find it for sale on amazon usually. Not cheap though. Still pretty happy I got the hardcover complete liber chaotica when I did. Much, much cheaper to get it from BL's print on demand service. If it's still on there, I'm not looking because gently caress the BL website. It always gives me inaccurate search results. In French. For things I wasn't searching for.
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It's fairly explicit in the fluff that the Tau practice (slow and discreet) mass sterilisation of their less desirable assimilated aliens. Such as humans.
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Battle of the Abyss is a masterpiece in bad writing. It is a random act of xenos contrition inflicted upon the concept of writing.
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Dog_Meat posted:It's one of those books that when you mention some bits from it you'd think it would be awesome (if you're 14). But it's just bad. Really bad. Don't forget that the Space Wolf actually drinks ale from his beard. Oh, and the Giant book on the giant ship that is actually a giant pop-up giant gun book that opens to fire the giant metaphorical Word of Lorgar. Giant. VanSandman posted:All of it was the most stupid bits.
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Aug 12, 2013 20:06
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In these sorts of stories the answers are almost never as fulfilling as the question promises. For example: Q: "What happened during the Heresy." A: "Battle for the Abyss."
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I really want Dembski-Bowden to be given the task of writing fluff for the codex books. It would be such an amazing leap in quality. Even if it was just the flavour quotes they put in little box outs.
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UberJumper posted:Wait, i thought humanity was older than the Eldar? It was my impression humanity was the dominant power during the dark age of technology, with the help of the men of iron. Then when humanity fell due to the war between men of iron, the Eldar made their great empire only to fall to slaneesh? The Eldar were created by, and lived alongside, the Old Ones. As mentioned they beat the Necrons at their height. The Necrons ended up the way they are out of envy for the Eldar in their prime. If the Dark Age of Technology humans spread across the galaxy (as opposed to being the Tau to the Eldar's Imperium) then it was because the Eldar allowed it. The pointy ears were quite preoccupied with bumming themselves into Armageddon at the time. pentyne posted:Speaking of the great Eldar empire, how great could it have been when all their worlds were consumed by the Eye of Chaos, a region of space a fraction the size of the Imperium. Those where the core worlds. Centered around the homeworld. The worlds further out throughout the galaxy just ended up depopulated when the psychic shockwave hit.
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VanSandman posted:It seems to me that if humanity's evolutionary destiny is to all become psykers, then they'll need to evolve something like the Eldar's 'no chaos craziness' gene. Anything in the fluff about that at all? No such thing. Why do you think the Eldar fell and why do you think the Dark Eldar are as they are now? While the Craftworlders and Exodites broke away and changed their ways the Commorites are a linear continuation of the pre-fall Eldar society. That they don't physically mutate in the same way humans do does not mean a lack of corruption, spiritual or physical. Their mania for self-mutilation and extreme body modification are their own version of the (un)natural alterations chaos causes in humans. And Craftworlders can certainly be corrupted into becoming Dark Eldar (or perhaps more commonly pirates). I'm not sure if that is explicitly written down anywhere (other than the Ranger who went to Commorragh in the DE trilogy) , but I heard it from the mouth of Phil Kelly.
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And the reason the DE don't burst forth daemons is because they are so terrified of the consequences of using their psychic powers (never having learnt the control of the paths) that they deliberately allow them to atrophy to uselessness. And Vect is, if anything, even more hardcore on chasing down rogue psykers within his realm than the Inquisition is in the Imperium.
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It's both. a full STC machine is a combination repository of all knowledge and cornucopia machine. The Imperium finding a complete STC machine (not just a template) is one of the endgame scenarios for 40k.
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VanSandman posted:Space wolves are roughly 10 times that number, I think. Yeah, each great company is chapter sized.
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Angry Lobster posted:Where is that mentioned? Haven't read the last couple of codex, so maybe I'm a bit out of date, but never thought them to be that big.
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Nephilm posted:Who uses skulls besides humans? The Necrons fly them.
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VanSandman posted:Which is why the first Dark Angels book is good. Nothing about that On Caliban book is good. It's badly On Caliban written, nonsensical, poo poo. On Caliban.
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VanSandman posted:Nah Horus was still loyal at Ullanor. Ward can play the Ork Warboss. Ward would be Magnus. Talented and well-meaning, but if you let him into the fluff room bad things happen.
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I like to believe that every language in 40k, irrespective of race, is a UK regional dialect.
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