thin blue whine posted:

Is the book it's from part of a two book series or a trilogy, I can't remember? I really need to check it out because I've seen and heard so many people talk about how great it is, not including this thread.

thin blue whine posted:

Is the book it's from part of a two book series or a trilogy, I can't remember? I really need to check it out because I've seen and heard so many people talk about how great it is, not including this thread.

Cartoon Man posted:

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

Da Big Dakka comes after it with that grot's continuing revolutionary adventures

read Brutal Kunnin first though (and the short stories Where Dere's Da Warp Dere's A Way before that and Road Rage after)

thin blue whine posted:

All the Necron units are sentient right? Like they all used to be a living breathing person, even the scarabs? I also seem to remember the Necron access to their own sentience or consciousness is capped or bottlenecked depending on where you are on the hierarchy?

CapnAndy posted:

That dude is one of my favorite dudes. He reacts to ork attacks with "ah, I see the peasant rabble is at it again? I'm not sure why they thought daubing themselves green and howling like savages would help, but who can fathom the mind of the lesser classes, really". And then he loving wipes them out with brilliant false retreats and flanking attacks.

NoEyedSquareGuy posted:

Anyone thinking of checking out Infinite and Divine should get the audiobook version so they can listen to the narrator doing old man voices for the whole thing.

Smugworth posted:

Are there lady necrons

ilmucche posted:

Necrons sound really funny

NoEyedSquareGuy posted:

I think it was The Infinite and The Divine where a Necron judge got tired of Trazyn and Orikan squabbling with each other and imposed a 10,000 year long restraining order on both of them as a cooling off period. Same court trial that ran into problems because Orikan is a chronomancer and kept going back in time to change things and give himself a more favorable outcome.

Gripweed posted:

My favorite part is when Trazyn casually tosses the macguffin they've been fighting about, with literal private armies and time travel, to Orikan, after running dozens of simulations to determine the angle of throw that would best communicate bored disinterest.

m. roach's book on non-weapons militaria, 'grunt' posted:

No military fashion foolery can compete with the saga of the orange-red underwear. Around the turn of the last century there was, in the phrasing of a paper in the June 1897 issue of Medical Bulletin, “a very prevalent idea that red underwear possesses some occult medical value.” Baseless as it was, the notion made its way to the office of the US surgeon general. A Lieutenant Colonel William Wood reported that British Army officers in India had found some relief from the intense tropical sun by lining their hats with red cloth. A study was commissioned, using troops stationed in the Philippines as subjects. Though a small number of caps were prepared, the Americans seized on the idea of red underwear—perhaps as a sort of secret asset, a hidden psychological edge, like fabulous lingerie or lifts in one’s shoes. Five thousand pairs of orange-red drawers and undershirts were shipped from a War Department depot in Philadelphia, along with a like number of white drawers, as controls. Mental and bodily vigor to be monitored for one year. One thousand men conscripted as subjects.

Benagain posted:

Okay that's almost perfect for 40k, just make it two planets and they start a small religious war 100 years later over red vs white undergarments.

Mr Teatime posted:

It’s heavily implied/stated in the infinite and the divine that even the high ranking necrons like trayzn and orikan probably don’t have 100% accurate memories of their lives pre biotransfer because the Ctan are dicks. No spoilers but they remember some pretty major events completely differently.

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Necron opera also exists and with an audience that doesn't need to breathe or eat there are now plays longer than the events they depict.

Comstar posted:

We have this already - there are movie and series reviews that go longer than the original. MASH lasted twice as long as the original war did.

Comstar posted:

As I do not have the time to go back in time to read it, can you please tell me via spoiler?

Chucat posted:

The Eldar had an absolutely massive fuckoff empire that did things like use stars as lightbulbs for fun. They hosed up and made Slaneesh which blew up their whole empire and they're now just an old dying race. If this happened in the stone age or however long ago, it makes sense. But it gets moved to the point AFTER humanity also have an absolutely massive fuckoff empire that does things like use their robot butlers to rewind time so they can catch Frasier live, if I remember right, they don't ever interact.

It's just handwaved away at this point though.

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

in Infinite and the Divine other necrons can determine their "gender" on sight but it's not described or elaborated on

they also run across statues of the original necrontyr pre-biotransference but they aren't described in any way (yet)

Benagain posted:

Okay that's almost perfect for 40k, just make it two planets and they start a small religious war 100 years later over red vs white undergarments.

Mr Teatime posted:

Trayzn remembers that during the time where the necrontyr were being undergoing biotransferance that he was vehemently against it and tried to run away and hide before being captured and dragged to the soul furnaces in chains. Orikan remembers that it was himself who hid away and was dragged to the furnace by, amongst others, Trayzn. In his memory Trayzn embraced biotransfer willingly.

It’s up in the air how you interpret that, but given the deceitful nature of the Ctan it’s entirely likely they remember things incorrectly by design.

Smugworth posted:

Personally I wouldnt believe anything someone named "The Deceiver" told me. Dumbass robots

Comstar posted:

We have this already - there are movie and series reviews that go longer than the original. MASH lasted twice as long as the original war did.

Benagain posted:

No like, in real time. Like you sit in one place and watch an opera for thirty years as it depicts a five year war.

Edit: you wanna talk about predictable, let's talk about the alpha legion. They're the sneaky and duplicitous space marines, (don't think about it) that specialize in spy craft and perfectly orchestrated operations (seriously don't ask why the emperor engineered two edgelord sons and then thought "yeah you know what else I need, is twins that are pathological liars and sneaks")

They're unique among the traitor legions in that they never really went whole hog on the demon thing and went to ground in real space instead of fleeing into the eye of terror. They're infiltrated into imperial structures all over the place. Inquisitors facing them are specifically taught to bait them because they will at some point absolutely need to lord how clever they are over you. They need an evil puppet master speech or reveal and you can anticipate that.

Benagain posted:

There's a necron lord whose schtik is that he was one of the greatest generals they've ever known but is suffering from dementia and views all opponents as variations of battles he's already fought with no knowledge of his current state as a soulless robot. He'll do things like take captive generals back to the flagship to feast them in honor of their worthy combat and not in the way where they're all insane and eating each other, he just has a banquet for some poor imperial bastard who can't understand what's happening or why the robots have piles of food in front of them. He wins so much that no one has been able to coup him even though his underlings are sick of it. Well, plus he has an insanely competent and sane bodyguard.

He's been in a few short stories/books and it's heavily implied but not outright stated that the dementia is a ruse to downplay his competence enough so that he's not seen as a serious threat by any ruling dynasties.

For an entire book of Necrons being hilarious, may I recommend The Infinite And The Divine, which features everybody's favorite Trazyn the Infinite vs Orikan the Diviner as they attempt and fail to kill and/or embarrass each other over millions of years.