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Ghost Leviathan posted:In full power armour wearing a Groucho Marx disguise
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Your Family posted:Why is it that, in a lot of 40k artwork, the battlefields always seemed cramped and congested and there's just way too many loving dudes? Is there a reason for that? I know nothing of these games, but that's the one thing that always stood out to me: all the soldiers so crammed into every battle they're in. It’s because the feel of warhammer 40k has more in common with this:   than modern realistic warfare or hard sci-fi. Mr Teatime fucked around with this message at 05:51 on Apr 27, 2024 |
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the geno 5-2 chiliad had actualfacts shako-looking things. could be bearskins having models necesitates having bling. the maximum amount of bling in war was unquestionably the early modern era, being non-shooty enough that peeps didn't do camouflage but rich enough that peeps could afford bling. therefore, warhammer fantasy battle depicts the renaissance. therefore, warhammer 40k cribs from the renaissance. therefore, space conquistadors and space inquisitors and space tercios and such. bob dobbs is dead fucked around with this message at 06:03 on Apr 27, 2024 |
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The Vostroyan Firstborn have the full on Cossack furry hat look, plus gas masks. They're not shy about their influences.
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Somebody earlier in the thread suggested Aaron Dembski-Bowden as one of the better fiction writers. This is a fan animation of his novel Helsreach, about the Black Templars during the last War for Armageddon. It uses the audiobook for the voice work. Dembski-Bowden has said (on Twitter I think, I don't remember where) he's not supposed to talk about it, but he thinks it's pretty good. It's also two and a half hours long. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2WGE1L6WKs
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It irrationally annoys me that Kor Phaeron almost killed Gully at Calth. Finally had to get that off my chest.
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"almost" is always the word with primarchs. the sheer narrative-bending causality of a $60 - $150 figurine thats gotta be sold
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A Good Username posted:Somebody earlier in the thread suggested Aaron Dembski-Bowden as one of the better fiction writers. This is pretty rad got any more?
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Mr Teatime posted:It’s because the feel of warhammer 40k has more in common with this: how did those french guys know what was going to happen 40,000 years in the future?
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bob dobbs is dead posted:"almost" is always the word with primarchs. the sheer narrative-bending causality of a $60 - $150 figurine thats gotta be sold  There are a still a handful of primarchs unaccounted for after Lion returning from his weird mirror dimension. He got one of the better miniatures, maybe if Demon Lorgar or whoever shows up they'll get something of a similar quality.
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:
the lion is gonna gently caress some poo poo up
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bureaucracy man and sleepy johnson are the only loyalists who are back. russ, khan, vulkan, dorn and corax could all kramer back in if they sell enough, so it's most of the loyalists still being on deck. iirc they are also gonna have a non-resin fulgrim and a 40k perturabo and lorgar one of these days, for traitors (there are 30k perturabo and lorgar models, resin). maybe alpharius and omegon.
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i wonder if the reason the emperor never bothered to bond with his large sons is because they all had stupid names once he found them.
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he bonded great with horus lupercal, which is not an incredibly great name just, uh, counted on bonding with just horus mainly
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:
What's the story with the little guys?
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'watchers in the dark'. some sanctioned-because-nobody-knows-about-them partly-extradimensional xenos who are inimically against the warp at least. there for the purposes of being little gremlins that help particularly important dark angels. scared the poo poo out of the changeling once
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bob dobbs is dead posted:'watchers in the dark'. some sanctioned-because-nobody-knows-about-them partly-extradimensional xenos who are inimically against the warp at least. there for the purposes of being little gremlins that help particularly important dark angels. scared the poo poo out of the changeling once Cool. There's a good "hosed up little guy" quotient in Warhammer.
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Disco Pope posted:Cool. There's a good "hosed up little guy" quotient in Warhammer. Suffer not the xenos except these guys who are best friends of that guy. No, we and they don’t care about the utter hypocrisy.
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Playing a blood axe yoof in a rogue trader game who spends time between missions crawling through the ship murdering the gangs that live in the hull voids and poo poo. He wears an orange hat with a cargo-8 manufactory logo on it and uses a flamer except its acid for flavor.
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Lion el Johnson's story is hilarious cause hes just a crazy guy who keeps flying off the handle and punching people in the face
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they should make him the designated gay loyalist imo. obviously there's designated lgbtq chaos dudes / ex-dudes / never-dudes lion: son of the forest does some work on that front but they should do more, and lampshade it more. no subtlety allowed, this is the setting with orbital drop castles
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also the real lionel johnson was a gigantic enormous weeb for ireland for various reasons and claimed he was part irish ethnicity, which is why he became catholic and had to reconcile that with being gay in the first place, so weave some weeb-for-eire in i guess
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Renreeja posted:Lion el Johnson's story is hilarious cause hes just a crazy guy who keeps flying off the handle and punching people in the face And in 40k his whole deal is “poo poo, that didn’t work. Maybe I should try being nice?”
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Gripweed posted:And in 40k his whole deal is “poo poo, that didn’t work. Maybe I should try being nice?” Which honestly kinda sucks since we already have Guilliman to be the boring generic Big Good Boss for all that his coming back helped settle the worst of the flat character accusations. Lionel over here simply removing half of the already pretty thin on the ground dark angels story hooks ain't a huge amount better.
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Torchlighter posted:Which honestly kinda sucks since we already have Guilliman to be the boring generic Big Good Boss for all that his coming back helped settle the worst of the flat character accusations. nah it owns that Guilliman is single handedly reordering the Imperium and running this massive galaxy wide Crusade, desperately trying to hold back the darkness for one more day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X98ImCbhjnI and then the Lion comes back and decides to do the 40k equivalent of rebuilding an old car with his estranged sons.
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:how did those french guys know what was going to happen 40,000 years in the future? War War never changes
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Sweaty IT Nerd posted:War 
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midnight77 posted:i wonder if the reason the emperor never bothered to bond with his large sons is because they all had stupid names once he found them. Sometimes when I talk about primarchs I add in names from the MST3K episode with "Space Mutiny" like "Butch Deadlift" & "Punch Rockgroin" and nobody has ever corrected me.
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How do space marines crap Do they have special suit recyclers that feed them pee and poopoo back to them like in Dune Or do they press a little button and a butt hatch opens up?
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Don't try and tell me they take their armor pants all the way off to crap that seems exhausting
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Smugworth posted:How do space marines crap There's a model of little guys who take the marine poo poo and give it little burials in turd catacombs on imperial poo poo worlds
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Smugworth posted:How do space marines crap Yes, this is canon
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Ok so what am I missing about the chapters: Space Rome/Greece Space Mongols Space Medieval Knights Space Gladiators Space Vlad the Impaler Wallachians Space Vampires Space Vikings Space Egypt
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You're forgetting the Space Cyborgs and the Evil Space Cyborgs
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there's also imperial knights themselves as space knights and crons as space egypt. and the drukhari love themselves some gladiatorial combat. they love doubling up on that poo poo, like macharius, who's the designated 40k alexander of macedon expy, complete with fighting diadochi after too-young death - but then the emperor is revealed in the heresy books to have actually been alexander of macedon the first time around
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Froghammer posted:You're forgetting the Space Cyborgs and the Evil Space Cyborgs Just Mundanely Evil Space Cyborgs and Flashily-Evil Space Cyborgs
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Jimbone Tallshanks posted:Sometimes when I talk about primarchs I add in names from the MST3K episode with "Space Mutiny" like "Butch Deadlift" & "Punch Rockgroin" and nobody has ever corrected me. Thanks! I'm going to watch that right now.
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The Eldar are a mix, they have some actual fey vibes and occasional Gaelic influences as well as being slightly Japanese with shuriken guns and katanas, and the Dark Eldar are very unseelie mixed with Romanesque debauchery and vampiric vibes. Also being aristocratic, cursed, fond of fancy vehicles and getting easily shot down, they have also been likened to Kennedys.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Also being aristocratic, cursed, fond of fancy vehicles and getting easily shot down, they have also been likened to Kennedys. Lmao, mon-keigh.
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