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Interestingly in 40k they have Beastmen, much like in Warhammer Fantasy/Age of Sigmar, however unlike in those settings they’re not inherently tied to the Chaos Gods, they’re abhumans like Ogryns or Ratlings. Unlike them, who while second-class citizens are treated with some level of dignity, Beastmen are treated with outright contempt, and while they also get conscripted they’re treated mostly as cannon fodder (which is saying something for the Imperial Guard). Unsurprisingly this mostly drives them into the waiting arms of the Dark Gods. Heck an interesting detail is that the Horus Heresy put out a free army list for the Imperialis Militia, basically the various planetary defense forces/cultist uprisings/assorted other forces that were drafted into the Heresy. You can take various rules to represent the background of your force and one option is Beastmen auxiliaries, and the mini lore blurb notes that while even in the more ‘enlightened’ 30th millennium that they were just as intelligent and loyal as regular humans. And their descendants are still being driven to the Dark Gods because of humans being dicks. Honestly one of the major reasons the Tau were able to expand so quickly until the Imperium proper noticed was because they offered an actual improvement on conditions for Imperial citizens. Even if (as per their newest codex) they will sometimes straight up displace entire planetary populations to resettle Tau if they feel the Greater Good demands it. At least you still get to live!
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White Coke posted:One of the other roles the Grey Knights serve is helping clean up after they’ve killed off a daemonic infestation. There was a formation called the Grey Knight Redeemer Force you could take in the Apocalypse expansion for 40K which had a special rule where the other player would gain control of them once they had no Chaos models left. I doubt you’ll do anything like that in the game but it would be lore accurate if there was an epilogue where you had to decide between executing everyone or being merciful and sterilizing them before sending them to die in labor camps. I wonder if this is where the, um , raw material for the Edict’s servitors is coming from.
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paragon1 posted:Does this mean they just executed the entire population of Cadia after Black Crusades 1-12 or something? I imagine Cadia had a planetwide exception. Given how divided the Imperium is there’s probably no standard approach. Or there is but ultimately it’s down to if someone else noticed and wants to do something about it.
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By popular demand posted:Brother Gregorious, did you notice how we never leave a planet with a triumph and adoring crowds anymore? I mean I don’t think the Iron Warriors got a triumph or adoring crowds even before the Heresy.
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Solarium posted:Episode 7 - Exterminatus Extremis Of course one might be asking ‘these various superweapons sound expensive, why don’t they drop a rock on them? They don’t cost anything.’ Patrick Marshall posted:Rocks are NOT ‘free’, citizen. Yvonmukluk fucked around with this message at 17:26 on May 8, 2024 |
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May 7, 2024 22:53
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Cooked Auto posted:It's not from a rulebook. Originally it showed up as a reader submission in the Chapter Approved section of White Dwarf during 3rd edition. No the question was from a reader, the response was by Jervis Johnson.
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Cooked Auto posted:I double checked my book, the text was written by one Patrick Marshall and found by Jervis going by the final page of Chapter Approved 2001. Huh, I thought he was the one who wrote it! Duly amended. Given that it was published in multiple official Games Workshop publications, however, it is still canon. 
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