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Annointed
Mar 2, 2013

From what I've seen so far the game expects you to lose more than a few planets and still win, does that mean there are fodder planets that don't give you any resources?

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Annointed
Mar 2, 2013

Wow, Eldrad is a loving moron. GW managed to make one of the most venerated and clever of their race go steal everyone's soulstones, all to create Ynnead, without permission from ANY of the craftworlds. And lost thanks to Deathwatch and Eldrad basically goading Deathwatch. Now I would totally like it if it were that DeathWatch had to go through hell against the most elite and discplined the Eldar had to offer, after all Eldrad isn't so stupid to only have a small troupe of Space Clowns to protect him? Oh wait in this case he is that dumb. With one single event he killed every Eldar's grandmother, aborted Ynnead to be the strength of a Khaine shard. Not Khaine himself, but equal to an Avatar of Khaine, the most clowned on boss unit in the game. All those wraith war machines? Well no soulstones means you can't operate any of this machinery, not to mention Eldar society pretty much lost all unity because again, Eldrad killed all their grandmothers. It was a complete curbstomp.

Well at least I got my wish in Magnus and the Thousand Sons crippling the Space Wolves to a slow and painful death due to lack of gene seed.

Annointed fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Jan 25, 2017

Annointed
Mar 2, 2013

Veloxyll posted:

To be fair, the Eldar loving things up by being too smug is PERFECTLY in keeping with their character. Ditto Eldrad himself.

The little escort ships are over 2 km long. And it goes up from there.

True but Eldrad pulled a Shadow of Mordor by making some random Ork into one of the most powerful warbosses in history just so that warboss would off the other warboss that'll plunder his craftworld. Eldrad planned this random ork out of nowhere from a teeny future sight glimps, and boom we got Mag Uruk Thraka and multiple Wars of Armageddon. Yet on a gambit for the sake of his entire race, space theofascists and their roided up space marines didn't occur. Like I'd be laughing if we got some dramatic irony and have one random human child be a survivor of Eldrad's schemes, and have that person grow up to be the space marine that does him in. Or something straight out of loony tunes would work.

Annointed fucked around with this message at 03:40 on Jan 26, 2017

Annointed
Mar 2, 2013

my dad posted:

The what now?

Even after I read the entirety of fulgrim's backstory and multiple GW retcons this is still my reaction.

Annointed
Mar 2, 2013

Dreadwroth posted:

I'd love to see the Inquisition just try to accuse the Ultra Dorks of heresy, I don't like the Ultras but they would totally curb stomp the Inquisition.
The Inperial Fists and Crimson Fists would probably join in for shits and giggles.

Not to mention the Black Templars, and some Celestial Lions stragglers to kick the Inquisition when they're down.

Annointed
Mar 2, 2013

Years later and Ward's scars still leave their mark on the 40k fandom.

Annointed
Mar 2, 2013

Mycroft Holmes posted:

in 40k "don't get into melee" counts as absurd competence.

Tell that to the space BDSM monsters, space Demons and space zombies.

Annointed
Mar 2, 2013

Every other faction has tons of moving bodies compared to the Tau. Hell if the Black Templars felt like it and decided to fight the Tau with all their numbers the Tau would be wiped out in no time. That and the fact that Tau have no endgame supergod that'll make them nigh invincible.

Annointed
Mar 2, 2013

There are rumors. I would love to see a Necron ship for the players who want to RP a touhou boss and a tyranid fleet for a class that specs heavily into melee combat.

Annointed
Mar 2, 2013

HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:

E: Nevermind, apparently a system called Stranivar got killed at some point. Must've just slipped me.
Now we've got an authentic 40k experience.

Annointed
Mar 2, 2013

Samovar posted:

Wow... the Tau accents are... kinda racist.

Yeah it's, unfortunate, like how all the portraits of the IM are all white men.

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Annointed
Mar 2, 2013

White Coke posted:

One of the redeeming features about the Imperium is that it's pretty tolerant of a lot of things real world fascists hate, like PoC, LGBTQIA people, and women. But this usually only appears in some of the expanded universe books. In the mainstream material it's mostly straight, white men with english accents.

In the Grim Dark Future, there is only equality amongst all minorities. Except the Xenos, gently caress them, with a chainsword.

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