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So I grabbed the Spears of The Emperor LE since I'm working on a Celestial Lions force, and I figured I could just have maybe a squad of Emperor's Spears from those transfers, plus some additional lore for the Lions, too. The Lions really can't get any relief. They're caught on the wrong side of the Great Rift, their Primaris reinforcements (and how to make more of them) don't show up, although the Spears are bros and pass the information along to them, then it turns out a Chaos warband is moving in and actually takes their homeworld (although it seems they do manage to evacuate a bunch of people), PLUS the Inquisition specifically sent a Callidus assassin across the Great Rift solely to kill their Chapter Master, which involved sending an entire ship of the Mentors plus crew (admittedly, only the one Space Marine, but still), including having inserted the assassin into the Mentors for literally years (with the Chapter Master's consent, mind - side note, the Mentors are actually assholes, apparently). And then in the framing device, the Chaos forces have seemingly conquered most of Elaras Veil, so it looks like the Lions and Spears are even more screwed... On the plus side it's given me some great ideas for My Dudes. And it's a really great book. I hope ADB does a sequel.
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With the announcement of the new edition of 40k, they've announced a new maxi series like Horus Heresy or Beast Arises set in the 'present'.
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jng2058 posted:During. It's actually one of the earliest battles of the Crusade because everyone and their mother tried to take Vigilus as soon as everyone realized how important it was, so Bobby sent Marneus and friends to hold it, which succeeds at the cost of Marneus getting his poo poo kicked in by Abby, requiring him to become a Primaris to survive. Huh, I thought that Marneus got made Primaris before Vigilus. They dropped his rules in the first Vigilus book, he's even on the cover. It makes more sense to be that way, though.
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May 23, 2020 23:11
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Biplane posted:My dream 40K game is a AAA first person shooter based on Necropolis, but it'd be more like Crysis than Call of Duty, due to the size of the hive city. Huge setpiece battles on the walls, you can have tanks because everything is so big, stealth mechanics probably. Can you see it?? In my mind it's glorious You could maybe do a Titanfall type thing as a Crisis Suit pilot. Maybe it could be a sequel to Fire Warrior.
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Jun 7, 2020 21:59
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Angry Lobster posted:I just want Space Marine 2 Same. Give Titus his own Primaris Chapter, dammit!
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Jun 7, 2020 23:25
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Speaking of Rogue Traders, one detail I like is that in some cases being made a Rogue Trader is basically done to political rivals or military officers that might be regarded as becoming a little too successful and popular - since it's nominally an honour, you can't exactly refuse, so go get a ship and fly off into the great unknown where you can't bother anyone on Terra or Necromunda or wherever it is in the Imperium proper they want you gone from, where you will probably die.
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Jun 8, 2020 23:41
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Arcsquad12 posted:drat Grey Knights messing around with greenskin tellyporta techiology. I think Titan has explicitly been removed not just from its orbit, but the entire physical universe in 40k. I think it's literally parked in the warp, presumably as a 'gently caress you' to Chaos.
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Jun 14, 2020 12:31
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Arbite posted:Hah! Speaking of, it never made much sense for Cain's murder to get the name 'End of Empires' compared to this. Well maybe Drach'nyen did some other stuff over the milennia. Perhaps he's the reason Princip stopped to get that sandwich.
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Speaking of theories, I kinda have one. So, Ephrael Stern aka the Daemonifuge got her powers from a bunch of her sisters dying and channelling their souls into her. When last she was seen before Pariah, she was going to the Black Library. The whole deal with the Ynnari is the Eldar channeling their souls when they die into Ynnead to empower him. I guess I'm saying is that maybe the reason they pressed ahead iwth trying to wake him early is because Ephrael is proof such a thing was possible.
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Jul 6, 2020 06:50
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Guyver posted:First Wall wasn't bad. Few boring parts in the middle. Kind of a bummer that the only African settlement on Terra (at least that I can find from googling) got destroyed. I was planning to use it as the source of my Celestial Lions' Primaris Reinforcements.
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Jul 24, 2020 20:03
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D-Pad posted:Most of Terra got destroyed during HH. It was all rebuilt by 40k, so not sure why that would matter? Because I thought the intake of Primaris recruits was undertaken in the Scouring, so Addaba would still be destroyed at that point? Basically I wanted a plausible reason why all my Primaris reinforcements (I'm thinking of having them being the Torchbearer fleet that was supposed to bring the Lions up to full Chapter Strength that was shunted off-course by Inquisitorial dickery) have dark skin despite not coming from Elysium. Schadenboner posted:The Custodes dex (8E) has a mention of Genestealer Cult infestations in the libraries underneath Nord Afrik in Late M41/Early M42, might be somewhere to start? Yeah, I guess the weird spelling is what threw me off. It turns out there's also a 'Midafrik Hive Oligarchy' which Addaba was presumably part of.
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Guyver posted:Read the Ragnar book by ADB and how come it never came up once in ADB did a Ragnar book?
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Guyver posted:Yeah, it came out around 2015. Ok, I need to read this.
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Isn’t there already an Inquisitor RPG video game? Or is that different from what you have in mind?
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SerCypher posted:Speaking of Cain, I am almost done reading every one of his books and one thought keeps coming up.
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Arcsquad12 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep_1k-lOto8 A Shadow in The Warp, if you will.
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Improbable Lobster posted:I like the Techmarine in the blood angels warhammer+ series. I love tech weirdos. I could swear that he's played by Colin Baker. Which isn't someone I ever saw as playing a Space Marine, but he's drat good.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:I want to see a loyalist chapter made of Alpha Legion geneseed that are super paranoid investigators into heretics and cults, real counter-intelligence specialists that work closely with the Inquisition and who are locked in constant infiltration/counter-infiltration attempts with the Alpha Legion OR ARE THEY???
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Telsa Cola posted:Was the Black Legion author the one that kept making Twitter posts about how all the characters are going to die horribly and see their dreams fall to ruin because they were Chaos dogs or was that someone else. I mean, he did write words to that effect. As Sigisimund's dying words, as he came the closest anyone ever has to killing off Abaddon.
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Angry Lobster posted:Is that Captain Titus again or I am misremembering his face? If so, get hosed Leandros. It looks like him, but he’s at least been demoted to Lieutenant. Maybe he was the fill-in captain of 2nd company while Sicarius was off leading the Honour Company against the 13th Black Crusade and got demoted back to the ranks when he came back.
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Z the IVth posted:I wish GW would recruit Henry Cavill (another not-so-secret warham) to do something but they probably can't afford him. I think the new Blade Champion mini is modelled on him.
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notaspy posted:How does that work? They're probably all just New Cadia and think they're the only one. They're probably completely unaware there's like, 17 other New Cadias. Space is big, and the Imperium's record-keeping is spotty at the best of times.
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So (Exodite Spoilers) when do we get Fire Warrior 2: This Time It's Metroid Prime in Commorragh?
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Genghis Cohen posted:I always thought that Dan Abnett was prone to doing what a lot of older British/American people do and assumed (at least when talking about height) that 1 metre = 3 feet. If you convert that to 2.2 yards it's 6'6" to 6'7", which is probably more or less what he meant. At least that explains why the new minis are about the same height as Primaris Marines.
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MMAgCh posted:Not to worry though, because instead you get to be irritated by your oh-so-elite Grey Knights taking weeks to recover from injuries inflicted by deranged cultists with stubbers. Tbf they’re Nurgle cultists, you might get über tetanus from those bullets or something.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:heart of darkness in 40k, the odyssey in 40k 0konner posted:Whenever they think to publish the codex astartes as it’s own book I guess? I remember from the 3rd Ed rulebook there was a lot of quotes from the Tactica Imperialis, another one of the Imperium's Big Books o' War.
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Relevant Tangent posted:Been reading these again, why are there no Knight Assassins/Assassin Titans? There's every other kind of Officio Assassinorum agent and asset, give me a Knight that's been tricked out for stealth, a Titan stealthily slipping around a Hive to score an engine-kill on one of the Daemon Titans. Because that would be unchivalrous.
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I like the new Votann lore. Iron bros!
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:SPACE MARINE owns, sorry Wait I read a short story with some Scythes of the Emperor and this exact thing happens. Clearly someone wanted to pay homage.
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The Demilich posted:I'm curious how a Khornate Farsight is worthy of being on the cover of book 4, and how it will tie it all together. Where’s the Khornate stuff coming from? I know there’s been that silhouette of the Farsight mini, but it didn’t exactly look chaosy.
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Arquinsiel posted:You can run a native-American themed gang in Necromunda that's a racist pun based around making clothes out of the skins of giant rats. I don't think they're still officially supported by GW in the new edition any more, at least.
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Mikojan posted:Didn't expect Alpharius to be so short of a book. Now I need something else to keep me busy till Abnett's siege. Harrowmaster is also by Mike Brooks and has some more excellent Alpha Legion characterisation.
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Telsa Cola posted:Does he have a primarch in his collection? I thought the large figure in baroque power armor was now pretty reasonably thought to be a custode. He has a perfect clone of Fulgrim he got from Bile in exchange for a massive stock of 3rd Legion geneseed. Specifically the 3rd legion geneseed that went missing during the Great Crusade.
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NihilCredo posted:Missed opportunity to have a trio:
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orphean posted:Mike Brooks just killing it again with the Lion returns book. Hope he gets to write Gulliman and the Lion meeting up.  I hope they add a 40K Unforgiven as a viewpoint character for a sequel to contrast with Zahariel’s perspective on things.
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S.J. posted:should it be JUICY or PINK One’s on the front the other on the back.
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Nuclear Tourist posted:
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OPAONI posted:Agreed 100%. And the 40k equivalent of the dwarves is the Mechanicus but apparently Games Workshop didn't get the memo on that one. No, carrying on from the Imperium is Skaven analogy, the Mechanicus is Clan Skryre. Maybe also Clan Moulder.
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Anno posted:What are some (good) novels covering more recent events? I’ve been sort of out of the fiction loop since 8E, and though I’ve read a lot of high-level stuff to get caught up to where the setting in general is, some books with more specifics would be nice. Mike Brooks' Brutal Kunnin' is a great novel about Orks and the hapless Techpriests whose forge world they're invading. Also he did the aforementioned The Lion: Son of the Forest, and Renegades: Harrowmaster, a book that actually makes the Alpha Legion (at least some of them) likeable.
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