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There’s two 40k wikis, Lexicanum and the Wikia one. Is either one better than the other?
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Klaus88 posted:1d4chan is an accurate representation of your typical 40k fan at least. And its funny, sometimes, once in a blue moon. I started browsing their wiki, their article on Trazyn the Infinite reminded me why I bought his miniature when he was first released. (It’s because he’s hilarious) Also their article about Duncan Rhodes is pretty entertaining.
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Mar 5, 2018 23:48
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Speaking of, I wish Relic would get off their rear end and make a sequel to the Space Marine videogame now that they’ve left Dawn of War 3 twisting in the wind.
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Mar 23, 2018 01:45
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I don’t know how I didn’t know this, but last night I learned that Titus in ‘Space Marine’ was voiced by Mark Strong, which is pretty awesome. I’m aware that he also voices Eisenhorn in the recent Xenos game as well. He clearly has a good time with the franchise, I wonder if BL will tap him to narrate one of the audiobooks at some point.
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Mar 23, 2018 21:59
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All this talk of Space Marine, if any of you guys have it on the Xbox360 and want to rally up some coop horde mode madness, let’s get some games going.
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Mar 24, 2018 16:44
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Schadenboner posted:What's a console-haver doing in the forum for people able to read? Me no use words good, but me like flashing lights and pew pew sounds
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Mar 24, 2018 20:13
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berzerkmonkey posted:Humble Bundle has a bunch of BL books and shorts available. Oh poo poo! I’ve got a bunch of those books already, but it’s still a steal for the new stuff. Thanks for the heads-up!
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Mar 28, 2018 20:02
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If you want light and fun 40k insanity, get the two Ciaphas Cain omnibii. It doesn’t get much lighter than that.
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Apr 2, 2018 06:59
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Ardent Communist posted:Yeah, there's a pretty good bit of warp fuckery with one of the Imperial Guard books. Basically they get sent after a distress call from a desert planet, which gets attacked by tyranids. Only problem is when they get there, there's nobody there. Turns out the message they sent out as they were getting overrun was the original distress call. So they got sent to rescue themselves, but they only needed rescuing because they got sent. Oh poo poo, I remember this book. What was it called? I’ve been watching a lot of the 40k Theories YouTube channel, it’s neat because the creator doesn’t just read off the wiki and actually throws some interesting ideas around. One of my current favorite theories is about Yarrick and how he’s been able to withstand injuries that would kill a Space Marine, let alone a normal human: Orks are latently psychic and can make things happen because they believe them to be true, so Yarrick is unkillable because the Orks believe that he’s unkillable. 
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Apr 10, 2018 08:14
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Demiurge4 posted:Yeah I really liked Warmaster, though some of the twists were a bit cliche. More importantly, when are they reprinting Pariah for those of us that missed the first print run? I’m kind of surprised it didn’t get a reprint when Magos came out.
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Apr 17, 2018 02:13
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Wait, what Necron stuff was in Mechanicum?
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Apr 17, 2018 04:14
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Arquinsiel posted:Some of it's in the Games Day exclusive short story books from, IIRC, 2012 or 2013? I dunno where I put them so I can't check now. 2013 is pre Necron backstory reboot, isn’t it? I mean not that it makes a difference, I’m just curious.
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Apr 17, 2018 17:03
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Are the Callidus assassins the psychic blanks? I think they got tied into the Necron Pariahs, pre Necron reboot (where the Pariahs ceased to exist).
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Apr 17, 2018 20:02
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Arcsquad12 posted:Either way it's a step up from the Tempests Scions codex literally being an SS handbook with the German words edited out. Wait, what the gently caress? I liked the way the Space Marine videogame handled women characters - the leader of the Imperial Guard regiment is a woman, and she’s depicted as being competent, not sexualized, not a damsel in distress, and really at no point does the game call attention to her gender or turn her into an overcompensating tomboy with a chip on her shoulder or something. She’s just there to get poo poo done. When I decided I wanted to build an Imperial Knight model because I thought they looked cool, I bought one of the older codexes just so I had an idea of what Knights were all about. I rolled my eyes a little bit when the codex said there are no female Knight pilots, so for my Knight’s headcanon backstory I decided to make the pilot a woman just to give the codex the finger. And then I learned that Dawn of War 3 had beaten me to the punch with Lady Solaria. Anyway here’s my (almost complete) Knight, I like how it’s turned out.  
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Apr 23, 2018 18:52
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Immanentized posted:Rumor/Anecdote/fragmentary evidence was the young spartiates would have to go kill a helot (the not quite slave, not quite freemen peasant class in Sparta), to prove their worthiness before becoming full citizens. Sort of a Skull and Bones secret society thing but instead of hanging dick infront of your future peers, you killed a person just trying to survive. Yeah, I remember that from the Star Wars: Crimson Empire.
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Apr 23, 2018 23:13
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MonsterEnvy posted:Speaking of Cain here is the cover of his new book. Whoa whoa whoa, we’re getting a new Cain book? What’s the ETA? Schadenboner posted:Re-release the Cain mini you Emperor-forsaken bastards! I’ve got that mini. I spoke to the manager of my local GW store and he said that after recent legal kerfuffles, the current GW policy is to not release minis unless there’s tabletop stat lines released for them simultaneously, and vice versa. Xenomrph fucked around with this message at 20:04 on Apr 25, 2018 |
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Apr 25, 2018 20:02
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Groetgaffel posted:Cain vs Newcrons is at the top of my wishlist. Trazyn the Infinite.
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Apr 25, 2018 23:57
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even him.
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Zasze posted:For sure read pariah first magos while good gives up waaaaay too much of the game to be read before hand. I harp on this all the time, but it sure would be sweet if they reprinted Pariah. Oh well, it’s not like I’m starved for BL stuff to read.
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May 23, 2018 18:20
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Time sensitive post because I’m in a secondhand store: Is the Iron Warriors omnibus worth buying for $8?
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Oct 29, 2018 02:27
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Well I’d left the store by the time I saw these replies, but I’ve got a ton of store credit so I’ll be sure to grab it when I go back. Thanks for the recommendations! 
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Oct 29, 2018 05:55
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Vadoc posted:Either way I hope this encourages them to also have a sequel to the Space Marine game. Christ, this. Space Marine owns, we need a sequel.
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Dec 26, 2018 17:33
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Have any books/stories explored what Adeptus Mechanicus thinks of Necrons? Like, they’re living, sentient machines, you’d think AdMech would have an opinion about them. I know there was the rumor that AdMech was worshipping one of the C’tan trapped on Mars and didn’t realize it, but I don’t know if that’s still true in the current fluff.
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Dec 31, 2018 21:08
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There’s a “nerds who read nerdy franchise fiction are antisocial, news at 11” joke in there somewhere, but you bring up an interesting point. With BL stuff, it’s fiction that’s inherently tied to a social hobby - tabletop gaming. I don’t know what the overlap is between people who play the games and read the books, and I’m sure there are people who are into one or the other, but you’d think there’d be enough common ground for people who read the stuff to have basic social skills.
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Feb 5, 2019 19:12
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Arquinsiel posted:Not if you've spent enough time around a GW store you wouldn't. I spend a lot of time in my local GW store and there’s a shitload of social people there, but my GW store is also exceptional so YMMV I guess.
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Feb 6, 2019 02:56
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Cessna posted:Straight up, if I was at a book store buying a BL novel and someone walked up to me and asked if I was into 40K I'd probably make my excuses and leave quietly. It’s a well known fact that Ted Bundy had a Grey Knights army and was an avid reader of 40k fiction.
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Feb 6, 2019 16:37
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The Iron Rose posted:I genuinely can't tell if you're joking or not I’m joking, just poking fun at the idea that someone in a book store striking up conversation about mutual reading interests might actually be trying to lure you into their unmarked white van so they can lock you away in their rape-dungeon or something. Like yeah Barnes & Noble isn’t a nightclub, but it’s not a monastery or library either. Also full disclosure I half-assed my research on Ted Bundy before using him for the joke. Bundy was executed in 1989, I don’t know if Grey Knights existed as an army or if 40k books were a thing at that point.
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Feb 6, 2019 17:20
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bunnyofdoom posted:Eh...I've stopped recommending 1d4chan because of all the loving racism/misogyny now. Are there any 40k wikis you’d recommend?
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Feb 10, 2019 21:16
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Didn’t ‘Legion’ by Dan Abnett tackle the (pre-Heresy) Alpha Legion from the perspective of regular people?
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Feb 11, 2019 21:36
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Chiwie posted:This makes him BL's goto for tie in novels. I initially read “goto” in the context of C. S. Goto and was real confused.
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Feb 18, 2019 19:18
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Azubah posted:We all know Mark Strong is going to do his damnedest to be on the project somehow. He needs to start kicking some doors in and get Space Marine 2 made.
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Jul 18, 2019 22:23
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How often does the fluff call back to/acknowledge our present-day "real world" or its history? Like I know the Golden Throne is in antarctica or something, and aren't the High Lords of Terra located in the UK where the Games Workshop HQ is located? I'm picturing stuff like the Voyager 2 probe sitting in Trazyn the Infinite's collection.
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Sep 14, 2019 19:26
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wiegieman posted:I find this particularly funny, given recent events. What do you mean?
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Sep 15, 2019 05:52
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Didn’t that technological enlightenment also lead to a full on AI uprising which caused a self-imposed “dark ages” because everyone now feared technology?
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Sep 16, 2019 02:41
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What Cawl book?
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Sep 21, 2019 17:40
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The November issue of White Dwarf has a bit about Inquisitors and mentions that Jokaero make “digital weapons” and lists off ring-weapons and finger lasers as examples. “Digital weapons” in this context means “weapons one wears on their digits (fingers)”, right? Like basically miniaturized weapons? I also didn’t realize the Inquisition had smaller Ordos outside of the main three, and the examples they gave were hilarious (literal time-cops, or the group that does gently caress knows what, and the other group whose sole mission is figuring what the gently caress the first group does).
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Jan 7, 2020 00:21
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Hot Dog Day #82 posted:They are separate Ordos that act independently from the main three. As inquisitors go about their duty their interests/focus might change and that’s where the ordos and their focus/specialities come into play. I believe a lot of the smaller ordos (Ordos Minoris I think they are called?) were created for the 40k pen and paper games, so I don’t know if they are considered canon or not. The Ordos Minoris are in the recent White Dwarf I mentioned, complete with rules and stats for making your own tabletop Inquisitor within one of the Ordos Minoris. I’d say they’re still “canon”.
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Jan 7, 2020 02:58
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Hot Dog Day #82 posted:Oh, nice! Did they include the Ordos that was in charge or monitoring feudal worlds for chaos/heresy? I always liked them the best - it was fun to think of them as grimdark anthropologists. Not that I recall - the article only named a handful, but it said there are a ton that weren’t listed.
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Jan 7, 2020 09:53
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:I always liked the stuff about the Ordo Time Cops all vanishing/ceasing to exist for a few hundred years, and then one day just suddenly existing again. What is this from?
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Jan 7, 2020 18:39
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abrosheen posted:Magos, especially the novella at the end, was so good. I really enjoyed Pariah too, and all of these novels link together and build, so my advice would be to keep reading all of them (Eisenhorn, Ravenor, Magos, Pariah) and join me in praying for Abnett to soon continue the Eisenhorn/Ravenor series. Has Pariah been reprinted or anything?
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Jan 9, 2020 22:19
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ed balls balls man posted:Titanicus is great just for Abnett's depiction of Skitarii before they actually had models and became steampunk shite. Counterpoint: skitarii models are cool and good. 
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Jan 10, 2020 00:13
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