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LanceHunter posted:It’s a miracle that there isn’t even more weird fetish content in the game. Truly amazing levels of restraint. I think Slaanesh kinda acted as enough of a release valve to get it all out of their system.
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The handful of nekrons that are either cool, or so crazy that they're cool, are great fun in the serious grimdark. The Silent King is an interesting figure. Otherwise they're mostly bland efficient murder robots but also some of them like wearing people's skins.
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Jimmy Noskill posted:If it were up to me, the Chaos gods would be a background element that sometimes pops up and burns itself out rather than the primary antagonist of the setting. I’d make the main conflict the Imperium vs xenos and Imperium vs itself, emphasizing how dogmatism and inflexibility make the Imperium its own worst enemy. - Space marines struggle to win a fight they should win easily due to their dumbass ideas of honor - Space marines betray the Eldar they're briefly cooperaitng with out of pure xenophobia and paranoia, and as a result, all of them as well as everyone else on the planet die - A teenager develops psyker powers and becomes easy prey for daemonic possession, because due to Imperial doctrine, instead of anyone helping him they try to kill him and drive him out into the wilderness - A primitive population of humans altered heavily in the dark age of technology to fit the environment of a planet really want to be in contact with the rest of humanity again, but their existence is hidden by the guardsman who made contact with them because he realizes that they're too different and the Imperium would just destroy them - A planetary governor has let a cult problem get out of hand and watches his world be consumed by chaos. He reflects that he was in over his head and the only organization that could have dealt with the problem was the Inquisition, but that calling on the Inquisition would have been hardly any better and doom them all the same. He calls Imperial practices murderous and genocidal.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Thing is when you're expecting to use these with several thousand dollars worth of carefully assembled and painted plastic, goofy beer and pretzels doesn't really fit the vibe Absolutely disagree; you need silly rules to keep your inner grog at bay.
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Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:Absolutely disagree; you need silly rules to keep your inner grog at bay. I regret to inform you that doesn't work, and there are years of testament to it
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Exactly how tall are the biggest Titans? I knew they vary in size but it seems like the average one is only around 100 feet tall, which seems kinda meh. They be hiding inside buildings and stuff. But then you look at any art of them and their absolutely enormous, bigger than a mountain with an entire university as a hat. And the books usually refer to a very small crew, just a handful, but it seems you'd have dozens working it. What gives, GW?
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Eclipse12 posted:Exactly how tall are the biggest Titans? I knew they vary in size but it seems like the average one is only around 100 feet tall, which seems kinda meh. They be hiding inside buildings and stuff. But then you look at any art of them and their absolutely enormous, bigger than a mountain with an entire university as a hat. And the books usually refer to a very small crew, just a handful, but it seems you'd have dozens working it. What gives, GW? 
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you need to stop listening to any numbers GW puts out except their yearly accounting reports
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Elukka posted:The Imperium being its own worst enemy is one the most common plot points. Over Christmas holidays I picked up this short story collection at my parent's place which I had bought as a teenager and forgotten about. Very variable quality, mostly only of any interest if you're already a 40k nerd, some really badly written stories, but a few that shine. Quality aside, not every story is there to make the point that the Imperium is bad, but it comes up a lot, even in the dumb bolter porn siories. Some examples from that book: That sounds fun do you remember the title of the collection?
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lonelylikezoidberg posted:That sounds fun do you remember the title of the collection?
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https://m.youtube.com/@ABorderPrince This guy does readings of the short stories and novellas, excerpts from books, and lectures on famous battles or events(in character, with all the info taken from multiple books), etc. He's definitely done some of the short stories mentioned just above. There's a particular one about a tyranid invasion from the pov of a regular guardsman and its probably one of the more genuinely terrifying 40k things I've read. Not just loving weird and/or niche fetish stuff the author has couched in.
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Cornwind Evil posted:It's a running joke to make fun of the guy in charge of the Ultramarines, Roboute Guilliman's name, rendering it as stuff like "Rowboat Girlyman", but in all honesty we're lucky he's not named Caesar Azurekeen or something like that. I can't justify this with any joke but that has to be Benson player Robert Guillaume.
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I've always wondered. Like Benson's whole deal was the actual smart person in the room with a bunch of idiots running the government. Which kind of fits Roboute.
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Elukka posted:The Imperium being its own worst enemy is one the most common plot points. Over Christmas holidays I picked up this short story collection at my parent's place which I had bought as a teenager and forgotten about. Very variable quality, mostly only of any interest if you're already a 40k nerd, some really badly written stories, but a few that shine. Quality aside, not every story is there to make the point that the Imperium is bad, but it comes up a lot, even in the dumb bolter porn siories. Some examples from that book: yeah. i like the imperium because its a "realistic" galactic empire if it got big and powerful enough that it kinda whiped out its rivals and is now just dying a slow death with no one at the wheel. its decadent slowly dying shithole that hosed itself 10k years ago because Big E bought into his own bullshit to hard. one of my favorite backtory details is that the horus heresy(the big imperium civil war in the yee old past) was planned to a degree, the primarchs who were gently caress up morons or super monsters were gonna eventually turn against Big E and then get wipped out by the better ones. the issue is his favorite betrayed him
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Eclipse12 posted:Exactly how tall are the biggest Titans? I knew they vary in size but it seems like the average one is only around 100 feet tall, which seems kinda meh. They be hiding inside buildings and stuff. But then you look at any art of them and their absolutely enormous, bigger than a mountain with an entire university as a hat. And the books usually refer to a very small crew, just a handful, but it seems you'd have dozens working it. What gives, GW? Realistically they're however big and powerful the author wants them to be, as with most things in 40k lore.
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I enjoyed a Z plot in one of the heresy books about a chaos titan princeps(main pilot) that's losing control of his mech for various reasons. He gets convinced to partake in a joint ritual to Khorne to get his machine possessed by a daemon and his ability to interface with the titan will be fully restored. Long story short after he loves his new and mighty daemon engine, it locks him into the throne with bone spikes and IV stuff to make him a living corpse puppet stuck inside its skull. Lol, didn't expect that one, didja dummy?! Oh yeah, the other pilots in possessed mechs are in and out of consciousness, covered in poo poo and piss because they've been inside them and actively fighting for weeks and months, some of them are dead but the princeps keeps hearing them obey instructions, etc.
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Charles Bukowski posted:I enjoyed a Z plot in one of the heresy books about a chaos titan princeps(main pilot) that's losing control of his mech for various reasons. He gets convinced to partake in a joint ritual to Khorne to get his machine possessed by a daemon and his ability to interface with the titan will be fully restored. Long story short after he loves his new and mighty daemon engine, it locks him into the throne with bone spikes and IV stuff to make him a living corpse puppet stuck inside its skull. Lol, didn't expect that one, didja dummy?! heres an excerpt, and its metal as gently caress  (also a little bit gross)quote:For months now, her physical world had been wholly in the confines of the Hindurah's cockpit. She escaped it only by blending her senses with her engine's, living through its eyes and its guns, feeling Hindurah's movement as her own. When had Ulienne last breath fresh air instead of the sweaty reek coming out of the filtration slits behind her head? When had she last drunk anything but the recycled piss of her closest comrades? When had she last moved from her control throne?
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Thing is when you're expecting to use these with several thousand dollars worth of carefully assembled and painted plastic, goofy beer and pretzels doesn't really fit the vibe Did you really see the expensive high grade models and thought "surely the price reflects the quality of the game and not the miniatures themselves"?
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40k Titans rule because they're ancient, irreplaceable war machines that are revered as the pinnacle of advanced engineering by their respective factions, wielding armaments capable of annihilating cities and blasting star ships out of the sky Then they step on some uneven terrain, get in a fight with a really big dinosaur, or an ork on a bike does a sick jump to crash through the cockpit and the whole thing falls over and bursts into flames - the perfect encapsulation of Warhammer's "style and majesty at the cost of everything else" mindset
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ChickenHeart posted:40k Titans rule because they're ancient, irreplaceable war machines that are revered as the pinnacle of advanced engineering by their respective factions, wielding armaments capable of annihilating cities and blasting star ships out of the sky That story about the mega dinosaur planet owns and I loved every moment of the tech priests getting absolutely clowned. There's one about an ork warboss that won multiple 1v1s with imperial knights. The warboss was not in a mek.
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my favorite factions are the sisters, the admech, the guard and the nids, also some chaos. sisters are neat because they are kinda the most hosed up and awful people outside the inquestion but i like the idea of a bunch of nuns just singing hymnals as they get into titanic hell fights. Admech are fun because they are probably the most advanced of the imperium but also backwards and gently caress and their are lots of good stories with them. Guard are great because are your everyday man and woman fighting against eldrich horros tyranids because they are kinda scary as gently caress, and chaos it depends on the author.
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All of the Necron characters with novels own so far
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sharknado slashfic posted:All of the Necron characters with novels own so far yeah necrons are great. rober rath loving owns.
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Orks are da best enemies because it's never edgelordy chaos or boring eldar, it's just violence and funny dumb poo poo that just works. They don't usually get to win in stories, and those ones aren't so funny. Usually a guard regiment trudging through a swamp world to hunt orks and does not have a good time when it gets to melee range.
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Ok so in the 41st Millennium mankind can navigate the Warp because of the Astronomicon, the light of the Emperor on Terra, serves as a fixed point in the otherwise inchoate madness of the Immaterium. But what I don’t get is, how did they navigate the Wsrp during the Great Crusade when the Emperor was moving around?
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best Ork books I've read is Engine of Mork, Evil Sun Rising, and the one with ghazghkull thraka (?). Also a honourable mention of Deff Skwadron, a graphic novel you can read here: http://www.cold-moon.com/40k/Deff%20Skwadron/deff_skwadron.htmGhost Leviathan posted:I regret to inform you that doesn't work, and there are years of testament to it no idea who those people are giving you that impression but they need to be bullied incessantly
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Dapper_Swindler posted:yeah necrons are great. rober rath loving owns. Nate Crowley too. Twice Dead King books were fun. Use the Monoliths!
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Gripweed posted:Ok so in the 41st Millennium mankind can navigate the Warp because of the Astronomicon, the light of the Emperor on Terra, serves as a fixed point in the otherwise inchoate madness of the Immaterium. But what I don’t get is, how did they navigate the Wsrp during the Great Crusade when the Emperor was moving around? Maybe he kept the beacon going from all the way across the galaxy? He is the most powerful single entity in the universe when he goes full super saiyan.
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astronomican is to navigate and was constructed by the emperor right after the unification wars. you can still warp jump without it but you cannot have a galactic imperium without it - it along with navigators makes like, 5000 light year jumps practicable, although you can still jump like 2 light years without it. and he did just power it with his own power the sacrifices start at the end of the siege unlike many many other parts of the setting, the absolute dog poo poo state of the transportation of the imperium is lovingly and incredibly detailed. put your gellar shields up, tear open a portal to hell, shove your city-sized spaceship into hell, navigate by weird-rear end mutant navigators staring into hell with their third eye, hopefully pop back out at the other end faster-than-light speed. pray that the demons don't take you. etc bob dobbs is dead fucked around with this message at 22:18 on Mar 29, 2024 |
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Gripweed posted:Ok so in the 41st Millennium mankind can navigate the Warp because of the Astronomicon, the light of the Emperor on Terra, serves as a fixed point in the otherwise inchoate madness of the Immaterium. But what I don’t get is, how did they navigate the Wsrp during the Great Crusade when the Emperor was moving around? So for alot of the war. big E is on the throne to keep the etenrity gate shut because magnus blundered in a blew up his project with the webway. so they started feeding him psychers before that.
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Thinking about the ork who went back in time and killed himself so he could have two of his favourite gun. 
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Charles Bukowski posted:Maybe he kept the beacon going from all the way across the galaxy? He is the most powerful single entity in the universe when he goes full super saiyan. Ok I checked the wiki and it says that’s how it worked. Dapper_Swindler posted:So for alot of the war. big E is on the throne to keep the etenrity gate shut because magnus blundered in a blew up his project with the webway. so they started feeding him psychers before that. Yeah but the Heresy was only 7 years. The preceding Great Crusade went for two centuries, with the Emperor physically off Terra for most of it.
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Crazy Achmed posted:How do the orks achieve ftl travel, then? short answer - the WAAAGH long answer - the WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH, also Space Hulks
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Crazy Achmed posted:How do the orks achieve ftl travel, then? no gellar shields, they just fight demons the whole way. and navigation is done by shits and giggles. otherwise the same as the imperium
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Crazy Achmed posted:How do the orks achieve ftl travel, then? If it’s red, it’s gonna go faster
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