#40k-lore-chat

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sleek wigeon
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mfw so resourceful the guys based around being resourceful kill me out of pettiness

hoary saffron
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Commissars also hate any sort of DIY weapon mods afaik. One of the reasons being that requisitioning a replacement for your broken weapon is a bureaucratic nightmare

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Also, what do melee orks think of 'dainty' melee weapons like daggers, sabres and rapiers?

gray umbra
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Make it a choppa u git

rose thorn
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<3 French bill hook

copper patrol
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that bill hook looks pretty brutal

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love to see one in game

arctic talon
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Sabres and rapiers are humie weapons

sleek wigeon
gray umbra
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It's in the graian warranty contract

keen goblet
open pumice
hoary saffron
crimson kayak
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The Italian engineering tool is literally the handsign meme

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Btw get attilan'ed

brisk beacon
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Guys is there already painted models?

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I don’t want to paint I paint like shit that’s why

celest dome
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Either 2nd hand model or buy them through painters

storm jungle
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Or just pay someone to paint them

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all 3 options

dusk patrol
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Or don’t paint them

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And eat them

arctic talon
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True

storm jungle
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True

echo vault
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Would you rather become a helbrute or an anchorite, trapped in a chaos machine or forced to live in a dreadnought penitent engine

arctic talon
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I think I’d rather blow my own fucking brains out

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But helbrute

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Mostly since I’m going to die a lot faster

outer wave
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Well you're actually exposed in a Penitent Engine, depending on the model design of your torture

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You might just get shot and die on the spot

arctic talon
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The casket is intentionally built to be far more durable

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Then the rest of the machine

serene mist
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Sad

outer wave
rustic spruce
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What would you say the positives of worshipping each chaos god are

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When you aren’t actively being screwed over

signal bramble
# rustic spruce What would you say the positives of worshipping each chaos god are

Khorne grants you strength and a way to forget your troubles in the joy of battle. Tzeentch gives you access to knowledge and power you could never hope to obtain. Nurgle removes your pain and suffering and is quite fond and loving of his servants. Slaanesh offers you a chance to experience sensations in ways you could never imagine.

Plus, if you make it there’s always the chance at elevation to daemon prince to obtain immortality and power beyond your wildest dreams.

outer wave
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To add to that, Tzeentch allows you to change your fate in ways you could have never thought to be possible, while Nurgle could keep you down a path you find most comfortable with no unexpected changes coming in a abruptly

open pumice
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Tzeench would 100% let you be trans, for some people thats a plus

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With the amount that thousand sons are referred too as "androgynous" this is concernignly lore accurate

signal bramble
open pumice
# signal bramble So would Slaanesh.

slaanesh wouldn't let you, slaanesh would wake you up one morning and say "surpise, you have 19 tits and a horse cock that cant be satiated every, buh bye~"

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Tzeench might be courtious enough to make it an option to no longer be whatever gender you are

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before promptly removing all gender form your body, and having it cycle with your mood

echo vault
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Blessed that isn't a kink, slaaneshification

open pumice
open pumice
# rustic spruce What would you say the positives of worshipping each chaos god are

The most important thing to understand about these "benefits" is they are largely side effects. Sure you will find peace form your troubles when you fall to khorne, but there is a high likely hood that when your out of combat, your life will be agony, kind of like the butchers nails. Tzeench granting you access to knowledge and power sounds cool on the surface, until you understand that that knowledge and power will never end until you explode into insanity. Slaanesh's sensation is in equal gifts a blessing and a curse, sure you now know what if teels like to suck your own dick, but now you need more you can't feel sensation, you become numb and are constantly forced to seek more. Nurgle may bestow upon you his gifts, and free you of pain, but you'll become numb and lethargic, unable to want or desire. The blessed of nurgle are incapable of true change, you will become stagnated.

open pumice
signal bramble
open pumice
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Nurgle's follows beleive he loves them and bestows them with gifts

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Nurgle sees them as little creations, he doesn't view them with hate or anything, but he cares less about the cultist, and more about how the cultist progresses his purpose

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I would urge you to read up on mortarion and the death guard and see what nurgles love is really like lol

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the stories form aboard the tempest est are truly something

echo vault
open pumice
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we paint miniatures and roll dice do play little green army men spending hundreds if not thousands of dollars, none of us have any ground to judge you on

echo vault
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Tf fetish just transformation but transforming into a steed of slaanesh

signal bramble
plush mason
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are we on another "nurgle is the nice god" thing again?

signal bramble
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Mortarion ignores a direct order from nurgle but nurgle decides to indulge him anyway and let him do what he wants.

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I don’t think he’s nice at all.

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After all, inflicting his diseases is how he shows affection.

plush mason
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k

signal bramble
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Sorry. “Gifts.”

plush mason
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Nurgle's gifts are the kind no one wants and everyone tries to return lol

signal bramble
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His followers don’t mind. Typhus sees nurgle really mess up this one human in unspeakable inhumane ways and considers the man lucky for receiving so much love.

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It’s horrific.

plush mason
signal bramble
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His daemons are having fun. In the dark imperium storyline they have an actual parade.

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Just for fun.

plush mason
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ofc his daemons are

signal bramble
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As for the mortal followers no we don’t really see much benevolence. There’s been at least one occasion where a Khorne Berzerker has shown actual honor but that’s about all I can think of.

plush mason
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a man with more maggots in his veins than blood is not having a good time

signal bramble
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Well they don’t feel the pain of it. That’s Nurgle’s blessing.

plush mason
signal bramble
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In the situation I mentioned, a Khorne Berzerker allowed a group of guardsmen to form a volley line and shoot him. In his own words, he recognized their inferiority and wanted to give them at least once chance to kill him.

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He didn’t even try to avoid it or block the shots.

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Purely for the sake of honor.

open pumice
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His followers see him as loving in caring

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in reality he is apathetic

signal bramble
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He’s forgiven the ones that messed up his plans.

plush mason
open pumice
signal bramble
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There’s also this hilarious moment where some plague marines get hit by some heavy weapons and one of them stands back up and legit waves at the ones what shot him.

plush mason
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Nurgle's followers are just Petry dishes to him

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hell imo the only reason he stops them from feeling the pain is so they wont fuck up the germination

signal bramble
plush mason
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fair point

signal bramble
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That’s a moment in dark imperium as well.

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It and the Death guard codices have tons of great nurgle lore.

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I have a DG army. ^_^

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You even get a glimpse of a planet with humans ruled by nurgle. All of them have a disease of some kind and saying “get well soon” is an insult.

crimson kayak
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tbf through, i wouldn't care much about diseases if im not gonna feel anything about said disease

rose thorn
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Okay so, let’s say gw needs to add a new faction to all the factions/super factions, space marines, imperium, chaos, xenos, eldar, (nids ig maybe pass) what would they be

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God 40ks faction system is so weird

celest dome
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So 1 sub faction as in Imperium>Admech/Imperial Guard...
Or one as in Admech>Mars ?

rose thorn
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I’m I’m pretty sure their system is

Super faction > faction > sub faction

So it would be

Imperium > admech > mars

So just a new faction

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But then they. Call space marines a super faction?????

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At least on the store page

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So idk

celest dome
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Well the groups are lopsided, because apart form the Imperium and the Chaos there aren't really any super faction in that sense in lore

rose thorn
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True

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Also nids are technically a super faction so rip lol

signal bramble
celest dome
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Tyr getting a new sub Factions would most likely end up with it being either Genestealer 2.0 or maybe plant based Tyr

rose thorn
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I love rogue traders we need army rules

signal bramble
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Human pirates are well documented in the lore so something that’s a human faction with a different style of tech (more ramshackle then repurposed gsc vehicles) but are also decently fast.

signal bramble
rose thorn
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  • chaos pirates
signal bramble
celest dome
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Quite difficult to find new factions for each groups, mainly because the groups are so lopsided, like there is 2 Imperial group (SM and Armies of the Imperium), 1 Chaos Group (Which contain SM too) and Xenos Armies, which contain everything else

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Doing it for AoS is way so easier though

signal bramble
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That’s why I came up with my suggestion, a neutral faction that could have some humans and xenos. Sort of like the free cities I guess?

rose thorn
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I had an idea that when making your army you had to balance a loyalty and depending on how loyal the crew is in total it changes how it plays

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Nothing crazy but like ‘oh your total loyalty is a 2 you, you have worse moral but better melee ect ect’

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Idk rogue traders just needs to eh a super soup army

celest dome
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Going with books to have it easier
Armies of the Imperium: Astra Telepatica (I want more Psyker)
Space Marine: Nothing needed
Counting that the Emperor's Children will get their books, Chaos: Lost and the Damned or Darkmech
And for Xenos: Exodites maybe

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And for AoS (Order/Destruction/Chaos/Undead)
Order: Bretonnia/Haven (Fey Court inspired, with Knights, and Peasant that are better treated)
Destruction: Fimirarch
Chaos: Chaos Dwarf
Undead: Tomb King ?

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But I do like the way Old World seem to go forward, with 3 Sub Faction for every faction

rose thorn
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Weird chaos dwarves aren’t in AOS

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Well they have lore

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And an army but they only exist in forge world

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Imperium does need a pyker heavy army, besides grey knights

storm jungle
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its mostly just "doesnt exist on tabletop > wont be in lore until it is"

celest dome
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Yeah, the Hobgobbo who are with the Krule Boiz mention them

arctic talon
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Hashut is worshiped by one of the warcry warbands as well

celest dome
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True, but they are humans right ? Horn of Hashut

arctic talon
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Iirc

celest dome
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I think the Dwarf is in another Warband iirc

arctic talon
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You’re right

celest dome
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Iron Golem

arctic talon
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Yeah

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Chaos dwarf

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Also chaos dwarfs were an expensive as hell army

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Since everything was forgeworld

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Including your line troops

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Which led to even more obscene prices then the average fantasy army

celest dome
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tbh, the only table top I played in fantasy was Dreadfleet and a bit of adapted Mordheim

arctic talon
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Fair lol

celest dome
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Just have to wait for Dreadtide to fill the void that Dreadfleet game left, and a K8P turn based fighting game

storm jungle
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So

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got my copy of The End and the Death™️

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Comfy read so far

shadow plover
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will be waiting for audio for sure

storm jungle
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its very doomer'y

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does a good job of negating the shit writing of making the traitors constantly lose in the last few Siege books

mystic geyser
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@storm jungle ... how do you have it .. I have to wait a week..

storm jungle
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Oh this is a PDF, bought it

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I forgot i even did admittedly, was on the horus heresy site thingy

winter ridge
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This is a pre-order title, available to download from 25 Feb 2023.

storm jungle
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I dunno

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I ordered it and got it

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if its a mess up on the site's part its not my fault lul

plush mason
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kek

open pumice
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How much is the normal version

upbeat dagger
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ive heard the Salamanders' Geneseed is horrifically fucked up, how did that happen and what does it mean?

signal bramble
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It’s been changed by the planet they’re on yes and it gives them glowing eyes and charcoal colored skin.

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But as far as geneseed goes it’s pretty stable for their neophytes.

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The traitor marines geneseed is and can’t be used for that. For the most part anyway. The death guard codex implies they use their fucked up corrupted plagued geneseed anyway which… well it isn’t really that surprising if you think about it.

upbeat dagger
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so what legions are there? loyalist legions at least

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i know of salamanders, ultramarines, iron hands?, spacewolves

signal bramble
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My personal favorite is the dark angels. But that’s besides the point. XD

ripe ravine
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the book isn't available in stores or as an ebook/audiobook until the 25th

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must have shipped early

storm jungle
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Yeah i got no idea how

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but hey i paid for it so

uneven temple
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they release the ebooks before the 'official' release date a lot lmao

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they love just smashing that 'SEND IT' button

topaz gate
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Hey what planet did the Necrons in the Indomitus Crusade come from? (The starter kit Indomitus not the event)

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I wanted to use their colors for Dark Crusade

arctic talon
uneven temple
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I think it's some planet in the Xendu system?

arctic talon
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no

uneven temple
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or the system? idk

arctic talon
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thats just the heart of the pariah nexus

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their capital is the Silent Kings planet sized ship

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since they're his most loyal dynasty

topaz gate
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In Dark Crusade the paints are named after the tomb worlds so I thought they’d have similar colors to the planet they awoke on

arctic talon
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Are they named after tomb worlds?

uneven temple
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tbh i don't think it's specified if they came from a specific world or not

arctic talon
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necrons are all over the place

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they do have large blocks of dynasties

topaz gate
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They’re armies are called Kronus, Verdus Prime, Lorn V and so on

arctic talon
topaz gate
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Since Kronus is their tomb world I thought that’s how necrons were

arctic talon
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nah

topaz gate
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Though I’m not too familiar with 40K lore so

arctic talon
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They identify themselves by their dynasty more so

topaz gate
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Ooooooh

arctic talon
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the ones in Dark Crusade are part of the Sautekh dynasty

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because of their silver

topaz gate
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Yeah ima guess they’re named after planets because maybe dynasties weren’t made for them yet, so they named them after the planets they awoke on

arctic talon
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yeah its oldcron lore

topaz gate
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What’s Trazyn’s dynasty then

arctic talon
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dawn of war's depiction is abit out of date

topaz gate
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Cuz I got an army I wanted to base of him

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And I just bs’ed a name for them

arctic talon
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he's part of the Nihilakh dynasty

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he's an overlord of it

topaz gate
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Ah thanks

arctic talon
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they like gold

topaz gate
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I bet they do

arctic talon
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They're notorious for hoarding wealth

topaz gate
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Hey while I have you here does Trazyn actually have Pokéball-like mechanisms?

arctic talon
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Sorta?

topaz gate
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I can’t tell if it’s a joke based on him stealing or not

arctic talon
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he has teseract vaults

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which are sorta giant things

topaz gate
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I just like the idea of this giant skeleton robot going around Kanto to catch ‘em all

arctic talon
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but they can be small

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but their full size is huge

topaz gate
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Cool

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Thanks

arctic talon
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this is his "pokeball"

topaz gate
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One hell of a ball

arctic talon
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but he doesn't literally throw them

topaz gate
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Aww boooo

arctic talon
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Well

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at things

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he throws them to deploy them

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lol

topaz gate
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Fucking yeet them sum bitches at people

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Use a trebuchet

arctic talon
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lol

topaz gate
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He most likely has one

open pumice
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Trazyn's tessrract cubes are smaller

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They do come in massive sizes, but the one trazyn uses are described as being hand held by him

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@topaz gate

arctic talon
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I did say he can shrink them down

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did I not

open pumice
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I don't believe so

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he also doesn't really shrink them, he just has smal tesseract vaults he uses for smaller things

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i.e., not holding an entire c'tan shard

arctic talon
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weird

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my b

open pumice
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half a dozen eldar take alot less energy to store than a broken god lol

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Your fine

open pumice
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yeah the ones we see him use in the book "the infinite and the divine" are described as being small handheld cubes essentially

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they temporarily "expand" to capture whatever the hell he threw it at

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and then retract down to size

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you can think of it like a rubicks cube blowing up, and then un blowing up

open pumice
# arctic talon

this is what one would use to not just hold a god, but use it's power

arctic talon
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yep

open pumice
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the notable thing about that vault specifically is that it doesn't let it's captive free when it opens

arctic talon
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Trazyn feeding the deceiver shard he has with more deceiver shards is fucking stupid

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Its gona blow up in his face

open pumice
arctic talon
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It does

open pumice
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the ultimate collector of information and priceless artifacts

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whats a better artifact than a reborn god

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although he's not really feeding it full on shards

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more like

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deciever slivers

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nuggets

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a slight sprinkle of star god

arctic talon
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Deceiver nuggets

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all the flavor

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none of the strength

open pumice
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really want a follow up to that

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dude i still cant believe robert rath wrote that book lmao

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the dude writes kids stories for fuckin

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years

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mostly about animal shit (Identifying animal scat and things, like scouts books)

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and then he comes into 40k out of fuckin nowhere

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and for his first fucking book

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writes probably the best non SoT story from the past 5 years

arctic talon
open pumice
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Yeah

arctic talon
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art from the rogue trader game

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not sure if thats a heavy bolter

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or a normal one

upbeat dagger
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wait is there 10 loyalist chapters?

odd palm
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Nah, only 9 lineages.
But 1000 plus chapters

upbeat dagger
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ah ok

upbeat dagger
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thats 10

odd palm
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dark angels twice

odd palm
upbeat dagger
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wait

arctic talon
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I thought I was going insane

odd palm
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XD

upbeat dagger
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oh im dumb

serene mist
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More than 10 loyalist Chapters

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9 loyalist Legions

upbeat dagger
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and aren't gray knights/custodes technically astartes

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meant legions my b

odd palm
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GK yes

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Custodes, no

celest dome
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not for custodes

serene mist
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GK...sorta ish.

odd palm
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Though they are all transhuman

upbeat dagger
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what geneseed do GK use?

serene mist
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Everyone's

upbeat dagger
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i've heard custodes described as "to an astartes as an astartes is to the average mortal"

odd palm
celest dome
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Their own, though at first they took Librairians geneseed

serene mist
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Yeh

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That

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Was thinking of original GK

upbeat dagger
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librarians?

celest dome
celest dome
upbeat dagger
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ah

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i've heard of some imperium faction that uses "the emperor's geneseed" who's that?

upbeat dagger
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ah ok

arctic talon
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They don’t fit into the existing marine structure

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Technically

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Considering their job is to kill daemons

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And fight chaos

serene mist
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Yeah

arctic talon
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And they don’t really give a shit about anything else

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Unless it gets in their way

upbeat dagger
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so aside from being violently xenophobic most of the astartes are p chill right

arctic talon
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No

serene mist
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Ehhhh

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No

arctic talon
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They usually have a superiority complex

serene mist
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No one is chill

upbeat dagger
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ah ok

arctic talon
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^

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The most chill marines

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Will still blow your brains out

upbeat dagger
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i hear good things about salamanders and spacewolves

arctic talon
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If you show any sign of chaos taint

odd palm
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Best described as living weapons. When out of combat for prolonged periods of time.....well best not to find out, any excuse to kill can be justified

arctic talon
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Space wolves are chill to their servents

serene mist
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It's 40k and they die lot
No one has time to be chill
Space Wolves will gladly get alcohol poisoning with you tho

arctic talon
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But they don’t care that much about civilians

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Like they’ll protect them if it’s within reason

upbeat dagger
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dont space wolves have specially engineered livers

arctic talon
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But they won’t go out of their way to do so

arctic talon
serene mist
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Salamanders have skewed morals but try to protect folk

arctic talon
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The space wolves figured out how to get around it

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By poisoning it so badly it shut downs

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So they can get drunk

serene mist
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Yeaaah

upbeat dagger
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lmao

arctic talon
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Before their organs cure said poisoning

upbeat dagger
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are space marines usually just immune to drunk?

arctic talon
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They’re immune to most poisons

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Some exceptions

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Mostly the factions on the tabletop

upbeat dagger
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lmfao of course

odd palm
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The main ones concerned with civilians are the salamanders and raven guard in truth.
Whilst the rest care for humanity as a whole and care for individuals based on circumstances and culture

upbeat dagger
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cant have space marines being viable now can we

arctic talon
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I mean

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They are viable

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But it makes sense from a lore perspective

upbeat dagger
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i commonly hear astartes are the worst tabletop faction

arctic talon
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That’s a good fucking joke lol

odd palm
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Depends on chapter and how meta you wanna be

arctic talon
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The best marine builds have a 56% wr rn

upbeat dagger
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neat

arctic talon
upbeat dagger
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whos the "worst" tabletop faction rn?

arctic talon
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If we wana talk about shitty sub factions

odd palm
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Fair

arctic talon
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Admech literally has ones scraping under 20%

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Wr

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Same with gsc

serene mist
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GSC?

arctic talon
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Genestealer cults

serene mist
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Makes sense

upbeat dagger
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shame i love admech

arctic talon
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Admech is fine

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Overall

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It’s just hard to play

serene mist
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They use shitty mining equipment for GSC

upbeat dagger
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if i got an army I'd probably get admech, salamanders/ravenguard, or adsor

arctic talon
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That shitty mining equipment cracks open armor fine tbf

upbeat dagger
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also, if any one primarch was resurrected and put at the top of the imperium, who would be most likely to "fix" it

arctic talon
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None of them

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They can only delay the inevitable

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The imperium is screwed

upbeat dagger
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or more specifically who would be most appalled at what it's become

serene mist
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No no no

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Horus

arctic talon
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Lol

serene mist
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Horus can fix it

arctic talon
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LET THE GALAXY BURN

serene mist
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He'd also be apalled

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Lorgar would be fukkin happy with the IoM

celest dome
arctic talon
upbeat dagger
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ok so like, assuming that the biggest threat to the imperium is itself and not chaos

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(ik its chaos but

celest dome
arctic talon
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Ryza is good

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But god forbid you run garia

upbeat dagger
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for this example lets say that chaos had been beaten back and any one primarch can be chosen to head the imperium

celest dome
serene mist
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Luv me Ryza

upbeat dagger
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who'd do the most good

arctic talon
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Or any of the custom forgeworlds but rad saturated

serene mist
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Corvus

arctic talon
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Birb

serene mist
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He'd totally do good

upbeat dagger
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corvus is ravenguard man?

serene mist
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Birb

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Yes

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Gud birb

shadow plover
upbeat dagger
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MY GUYS NAME IS LITERALLY "Crow"

celest dome
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Who would be the most beneficial for the Imperium, it's either Guilliman, or Dorn. As they are the one that are the most likely to take case of the Imperium instead of just doing their own stuff

upbeat dagger
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Covus Corax is his name right??

serene mist
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Ye

upbeat dagger
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no shit his name is just crow

arctic talon
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Ferrus Manus is worse

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Since his ship is called the fist of iron

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And he has iron hands

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And his legion was called the iron hands

celest dome
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Leader of the Iron Hands

arctic talon
serene mist
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Perturabo is a strong second for fixing the IoM

celest dome
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Ahah

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F no

serene mist
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Lol

arctic talon
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Should have let Horus end it all

upbeat dagger
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arent his hand's technically necradermis

arctic talon
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Prolly

serene mist
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Proll yes

arctic talon
#

We don’t actually know

#

And he’s dead now

upbeat dagger
#

i mean guilliman's alr at the head of the imperium?

#

is he not

arctic talon
#

He’s the best option

celest dome
#

Regent of the Imp

arctic talon
#

When he came back

upbeat dagger
#

or did he just fuck off on the crusades and leave us to burn

celest dome
#

He was in a coma

serene mist
#

Gullman is blue
We don't need that

celest dome
#

Woke up with a Not Elf

serene mist
#

Fuck Gulliman
All my homies hate Gulliman

upbeat dagger
#

i remember hearing a fellow guardsman saying that now hes busy with some great crusade

shadow plover
#

Guilliman is great

upbeat dagger
#

also i love how ridiculous horus looks

#

he looks so fucking stupid

serene mist
#

Indomitus Crusade yes

upbeat dagger
#

what is the indomitus crusade

celest dome
#

Anything with the genetic material from the Emperor is a net loss for Mankind
Except maybe the Senseis

shadow plover
#

the main event in current 40k

serene mist
#

Retaking the galaxy (or a lot of it) from the Black Crusade

upbeat dagger
#

ah ok

serene mist
#

We crusade a lot

#

It's a good hobby

upbeat dagger
#

tbh i feel like the best thing that could happen would be if big e woke up

shadow plover
#

13th black crusade just to drive that point in

serene mist
#

Yep

upbeat dagger
#

assuming he isnt already hed be fucking disgusted at the state of the imperium

celest dome
#

The Emperor is pointed to not be the good guy a lot seem to think he is

serene mist
#

Big E would just warp storm constantly

arctic talon
#

If big E got off the golden throne

#

Terra would fucking explode

upbeat dagger
#

could just ask guilliman to remove the talisman

#

or vulkan if big e can find him

arctic talon
#

No like

#

Not because of the talismans

#

Because of Magnus lmao

upbeat dagger
#

primarchs?

serene mist
#

Magnus did everything wrong

upbeat dagger
#

**magnus???

arctic talon
#

The webway project is a second eye of terror

#

Waiting to open

#

Because of magnus’s fuck up

upbeat dagger
#

why is it an eye of terror

#

and whos magnus

arctic talon
#

Because it’s a giant warp rift

serene mist
#

Primarch

arctic talon
#

Magnus is the primarch of the thousand sons

serene mist
#

Thousand Sons

#

Cuck

celest dome
#

Magnus is the Nerd Primarch

serene mist
#

Etc

arctic talon
#

He’s a chaos primarch now

upbeat dagger
#

is he one of the 20 18 primarchs?

arctic talon
#

Yes

upbeat dagger
#

oh hes just a chaos primarch

serene mist
#

Yep

#

Just?

upbeat dagger
#

i mean

#

im reffering to, as bricky puts is

#

"The Emperor made 20-
.
.
...18 primarchs"

celest dome
#

He made 20

serene mist
#

Who is bricky

arctic talon
#

21 smarf

celest dome
#

A youtuber

upbeat dagger
#

John Warhammer

serene mist
#

Who

celest dome
serene mist
#

Why

#

How

upbeat dagger
#

he has the "explaining every 40k faction" vid thats like

#

the entry point for a lot of pol

#

*ppl

#

including me

arctic talon
#

21 primarchs because Alpharius and Omegon

serene mist
#

Oh those
Absolutely disgusting

#

I trawl wikis

arctic talon
#
  • the 2 missing primarchs
celest dome
arctic talon
#

Angel doesn’t count

serene mist
#

Angel is a whoopsie

upbeat dagger
#

also so, what did magnus fuck up

arctic talon
celest dome
arctic talon
#

Mostly his giant ego

shadow plover
#

the webway mostly

serene mist
#

Everything

upbeat dagger
#

ok but how did he fuck up the webway

#

oh is that the giant warp rift big e is holding closed

arctic talon
#

He broke the extension into it on terra

#

Causing a flood of daemons

#

And a bunch of psykers to die

#

And a bunch of other people to die due to the actions he caused

serene mist
#

By going "I need to tell dad" he was retarded and just tore a hole

#

Like a massive child

arctic talon
#

Also he damned his legion to chaos

celest dome
#

And a Hole to open, which is kept closed by the Throne

arctic talon
#

With said action

serene mist
#

Yes

upbeat dagger
#

btw are the primarchs dead??

arctic talon
#

No

serene mist
#

Some

shadow plover
#

most

arctic talon
#

Not all of them

serene mist
#

Others live

celest dome
#

Just Ferrus and Alpharius

serene mist
#

Others are chaos

arctic talon
celest dome
#

And the Night Lord one

upbeat dagger
#

i heard theyre missing

#

most of em are

celest dome
#

Right those 2, though they are possibly still "active" or "activable"

arctic talon
#

Alpharius, Ferrus, sanguinius and curze are dead as fuck

serene mist
#

Most are missing

chilly creek
#

Also Horus

upbeat dagger
#

ik abaddon and guilliman are active

arctic talon
#

All the chaos primarchs but Omegon are active

#

Abbadon isn’t a primarch

celest dome
#

With Sangui being present in the Warp and Curze having a special Crown or something

arctic talon
#

He’s just a very juiced up marine

upbeat dagger
#

oh he isnt?

serene mist
#

Khan is doing Mongolian throat singing with the Drukhari

celest dome
arctic talon
#

He says he’d get his ass destroyed by a primarch lol

arctic talon
upbeat dagger
#

wasn't sanguinus the blood angel primarch

arctic talon
#

Very much so

#

Lorgar is busy converting planets in nihlus

celest dome
arctic talon
serene mist
#

Lorgar is indeed the pope

arctic talon
#

That was post scouring

#

Corax fucked off to do something else

serene mist
#

Do birb things prolly

upbeat dagger
#

so, basically most loyalist primarchs are missing and thats why the imperium is so shit?

chilly creek
#

No

serene mist
#

Well errrr I wouldn't say that's the reason

arctic talon
#

The imperium is shit for a lot of reasons

#

The primarchs having gone missing only accelerated the shitstorm

serene mist
#

The Imperium is actually OK all things considered

celest dome
arctic talon
#

The fact the imperium is still standing is a miracle

serene mist
#

Yeah

#

Could be worse

#

Could've collapsed

arctic talon
#

But it’s pretty horrible from an out of universe perspective

#

Shit blows

upbeat dagger
#

"even in death i am served"

serene mist
#

Yeh but the alternative is having your skull fuxked by a Daemon

#

Which is unfun

chilly creek
#

Space Marines were made to expand the imperium. They'd probably go the way of the Thunder Warriors if that'd been successful fully

arctic talon
#

The alternative is dying

#

Prolly to orks

#

Ironicially

serene mist
#

The alternative isn't dying

arctic talon
#

If the imperium was gone

upbeat dagger
#

is there like, any daemon you could hang out with for more than 10 seconds without dying a horrible death (or worse)

arctic talon
#

Orks would prolly fill the gaps

serene mist
#

It's having your soul nommed by Daemons

arctic talon
serene mist
#

Yes

arctic talon
#

If you aren’t

upbeat dagger
#

but if your just like an average joe

arctic talon
#

Better get ready to get gutted

#

Or melted alive

#

Or turned into a sentient screaming crystal

upbeat dagger
#

is there a single daemon that like, i wouldnt have to run screaming if i saw it

arctic talon
#

No

upbeat dagger
#

no traitor demons?

arctic talon
#

Because they’d try to kill you

serene mist
#

If you're average you probably were sacrified to get the Dameon out about in the first place

arctic talon
#

Daemons are part of their chaos gods

#

They can’t join the imperium even if they wanted to

#

Because the imperium would exterminate them

upbeat dagger
#

i mean yeah not join the imperium but

arctic talon
#

And their god wouldn’t let that happen

serene mist
#

Legion of the Damned

arctic talon
#

Legion of the damned aren’t daemons so much as warp phenomena

serene mist
#

Praise the Emperor

#

Imperial Saints

arctic talon
#

Celestine is sort of like a daemon prince

upbeat dagger
#

like if im just on some undiscovered world away from the imperium and a daemon shows up, what is the best case scenario demon

arctic talon
#

But she’s got enough things different

serene mist
#

Lol

arctic talon
celest dome
arctic talon
#

They’ll still go on an absolute rampage

chilly creek
serene mist
#

He beats you into a pulp and you die

arctic talon
#

If there’s nothing to anchor it

#

It’ll just go poof

serene mist
#

Sounds Tzeentchi if it just leaves

upbeat dagger
#

i feel like maybe khorne demon is your best chance yeah

#

at least theyd be honorable

serene mist
#

It knows you'll be executed for seeing it

arctic talon
#

Honorable the same way the samurai were honorable kekw

serene mist
#

So it's just trolling

upbeat dagger
#

youd die in .2 seconds but u could challenge them to a fight

arctic talon
#

(It’s called getting a big kill count)

#

A blood letters definition of honor is very different from the modern one

#

It won’t ambush you but it’ll just murder the shit out of you

upbeat dagger
#

"i challenge you to an honorable duel!"
<insert daemon for 'ok'>
dies in .2 seconds

serene mist
#

Basically

arctic talon
#

It wouldn’t even let you finish that statement if you were that close lol

#

It would just kill you

upbeat dagger
#

so afaik

#

khorna and slaanesh are enemies

arctic talon
#

Chaos is a lot more negative in 40k

upbeat dagger
#

and tzeench and nurgle

#

right

arctic talon
#

Compared to Fantasy and AoS

shadow plover
#

it would go like this

arctic talon
upbeat dagger
#

also surprised nobody comments on "BLOOD FOR THE EMPEROR! SKULLS FOR THE GOLDEN THRONE!"

arctic talon
#

I mean

upbeat dagger
#

thats a bit of a sus line

arctic talon
#

It’s a pretty common saying

#

On some planets lol

#

The imperium is a death cult

upbeat dagger
#

literally reclaimed khorne saying

arctic talon
#

Yeah

#

The imperium is a death cult

#

And a very violent one

serene mist
#

I prefer to say other lines

#

Deus Omnissiah

celest dome
#

The Imperium is just so close to being a Chaos Cult anyway

upbeat dagger
#

whats the least fucked branch of the imperium

serene mist
#

Astra Telepathica

#

They actually value people

#

And provide a valuable servive

celest dome
#

Still give them all a knife to kill themselves

serene mist
#

Well yeh

#

Psykers need options

#

It's common sense

arctic talon
#

Prolly the astra telepathica or Imperial household

shadow plover
#

or some decent knight house

serene mist
#

Maaaaybe some of the Ordos

arctic talon
#

Mostly since the custodians, sisters of silence and their servents are relatively sane

upbeat dagger
#

ordos?

celest dome
#

I so want a Psykana Mercy Knife in Darktide as a Force Knife

arctic talon
upbeat dagger
#

ah so they can self yeet if theyre boutta go boom?

arctic talon
#

It’s for commiting suicide in the event of eminent possession or worse

serene mist
#

Some of the Ordos in the Inquisition deal with usual things
Shit like maps and charts for space travel

celest dome
# upbeat dagger ordos?

Ordo are the name of the Inquisition groups (Ordo Hereticus, Malleus and Xenos are the major one)

upbeat dagger
#

ah ok

arctic talon
#

Ordo chronos having a civil war over the new dating system

serene mist
#

Tbh It's important

#

Lol

arctic talon
#

Lol

celest dome
upbeat dagger
#

u said new dating system and my first thought was "i guarantee finding a date is the least of an inquisitor's concern"

arctic talon
#

There have been civil wars over more stupid things tbh

#

like paint

#

Thank you Adeptus mechanicus

#

Very cool

serene mist
#

Very cool

arctic talon
#

Comissar Trast discovering an stc that could revolutionize the assembly line

#

Only for it to take hundreds of years

#

And a civil war to implement

echo vault
#

How do space marine vehicle crews fit in the tanks

serene mist
#

Sucking in their gut

arctic talon
#

Or rather they aren’t in the same scale as the mini

serene mist
#

They take a deep breath

arctic talon
#

They’d be a lot larger

#

If they were

echo vault
#

Especially during the heresy when they could take superheavies like baneblades and it's variants mostly shadowsword and storm blade

arctic talon
#

Not to scale

echo vault
#

Stuff like the fellblade is massive AF that can fit

arctic talon
#

Those hatches are a lot larger

#

Then they look

serene mist
#

Some vehicles could be crewed by serfs and attendants in the heresy also

arctic talon
#

That’s what the baneblade is iirc in the HH

serene mist
#

They were allowed to do that before

arctic talon
#

It’s crewed by mortals

echo vault
#

40k needs more stupid vehicles like bring back the gigantic land fortresses they had for epic

arctic talon
#

Capitol imperialis?

#

Also no one brings those big vehicles or buys them for 40k

#

Ngl

echo vault
#

Yeah but the only downside is that one is like so big warlords can fit in the barrels

arctic talon
#

If they do buy them they’re for display

#

99% of the time

echo vault
#

There's a site for British Warhammer titan owners and they do like huge titan march dioramas and its crazy

shadow plover
#

they also play Adeptus Titanicus but in 40k scale

celest dome
arctic talon
#

The titanicus tabletop game is pretty playable

#

Assuming you don’t use actual fucking Titan minis

serene mist
#

Lol

echo vault
#

Titanicus scale is way cooler like at most the warmaster is a lil shorter than a knight

#

Much more dense though like

arctic talon
#

Titanicus is fun

#

It also has my favorite titan mini

celest dome
#

Epic was fun

arctic talon
#

This silly little guy

echo vault
#

I want this but two fists

#

Lol almost hit report post on the dire wolf

#

I imagine it like a pack leader that comes in as the enemy is flanked and just fires at whatever is there

#

So you have your squad of 4 warhounds with a dire wolf as the lead tank

#

The reaver is so unused already so why not bully the poor thing

arctic talon
#

Play the rift runners so you can teleport a titan mid battle

serene mist
#

Yeeeeeeh

echo vault
#

How good is a warlord with two power claws anyway, the titan sized one

arctic talon
#

In 40k terrible

#

In titanicus decent

echo vault
#

Slap

#

Twin Chainfists for the win

#

Reaver just go in

plush mason
mystic geyser
#

Yeah, Dire Wolf.

echo vault
#

It's funny that the regular eldar as well as the dark eldar use monofilament weapons frequently, for reference that's a gun that's basically weaponizing sticky traps for mice where they eat off their hands and stuff when stuck

#

Just something so brutal and sized up to at most wraithknight sized

celest dome
#

Monofilament weapon aren't sticky traps, they are microscopic thread that cut the victime

plush mason
#

think mini Predator razor nets

celest dome
storm jungle
#

Dark Eldar tend to use splinter weapons, they can still kill someone but their aim is to take you in alive if they can so its mostly horrific-but-alive injuries for the most part

crisp heath
#

Honestly I had the "monomolecular" weaponry so many factions use but something 1 molecule thick would be so useless for cutting

#

It would bend and fold itself the second it came in contact with anything thicker than air, or if it's moving fast enough even air would be enough to bend it

storm jungle
storm jungle
#

necrons use so many dumb mumbo-jumbo terms about space physics but i doubt any of the people writing the codex know what any of it means

crisp heath
#

The issue with a grand unified sci-fi setting is that you have to understand a lot of things, but the people who want to write a grand unified sci-fi setting understand none of the things

signal bramble
#

A lot of 40k is just embracing the over the top silliness.

crisp heath
hallow saddle
#

i think a lot of that is alleviated if you just view it as space fantasy rather than sci-fi

signal bramble
#

I wouldn’t want it any other way.

storm jungle
#

contra-immaterial nodal matrix

#

4th parallel pocket dimensions

#

miniaturized macro-vortex engines

#

i just kinda tune it out after that point KEK

storm jungle
#

40k is fantasy that is sci-fi

hallow saddle
#

its got sci-fi elements but, yeah, dont worry about it too much

crisp heath
#

40k is fantasy pretending to be sci-fi, Elder Scrolls is sci-fi pretending to be fantasy

#

the duality of nerds

storm jungle
#

Destiny Moment

crisp heath
#

Still reeling from the fact that magicka is just the background radiation from the big bang that is being harnessed by specially adapted organisms

#

40k could never

hallow saddle
#

nice, didnt know thatg about elder scrolls

storm jungle
#

elder scrolls lore gets deep

#

the space parts especially

crisp heath
#

Yeah, Elder Scrolls goes really hard on it's magic system and how all the planets/planes/collective unconsciousness intermingle

copper patrol
#

if you figure out you are in a game in elder scrolls you basically become a god

plush mason
#

so is lord commissar the highest rank a commissar can achieve?

open pumice
plush mason
#

ah

open pumice
#

Theyre not military

plush mason
#

yeah they are like the USSR commissars, political soldiers

open pumice
#

Yeah pmuch

#

They exist to maintain moral and discipline

#

Typically, this is maintained by shooting disobedient soldiers

#

Most commisars dont make it past their first engagement

#

Usually dying to the lasfire of the soldiers their meant to maintain

storm jungle
#

Commissar-General is the rarest usually

open pumice
#

Smart commisars, like cain, quickly figure out how to inatil discipline without making guard regements want to shoot you back

signal bramble
plush mason
storm jungle
#

Im sure its only mentioned like 3-4 times in lore

plush mason
#

oh so are the penal legions part of the astra militarium or purely under the command of the commiserate?

copper patrol
#

"human bomb squad"

storm jungle
#

Technically a part of the Militarum

copper patrol
#

yep that's 40k

storm jungle
#

YEP

#

They removed those units mostly from lore

#

they had miniatures too

#

but uh... you know, touchy subject

copper patrol
#

cyborg berserker squad

storm jungle
#

also FYI Custodian is the name for the overseers, names just overlap because the writers suck

copper patrol
#

of course

plush mason
# storm jungle

so the 4 main types of penal legion forces are "meat shields for the cannon fodder" "expendable assault fodder" "suicide bombers" and "half-crazed half-robot murder hobos"

storm jungle
#

Pretty much

#

but this is like very detailed stuff gathered from books/RPG material.

Official lore will simplify the hell out of it.

plush mason
#

ofc

#

hell, how many bodies does the imperium need to throw in the meat grinder? the simple answer is yes it seems

#

a single guard regiment can be upto 250k men right? i feel like that number increases rapidly once said regiment gets to a warzone

#

man, the imperium really is the skaven under-empire of 40k

#

just bury their foes in a tide of fodder

signal bramble
#

So the contrast becomes comical.

plush mason
#

lmao

torpid narwhal
#

Whats a knight

celest dome
#

Giant mech that are smaller than titans

signal bramble
#

Knight lore is my specialty.

torpid narwhal
#

Thanks

arctic talon
#

Which is why it’s side guns are smaller

versed ledge
#

If the imperium's enemies are plenty, and the battle is usually a losing and outnumbered one. Is that why we have commissars?

copper patrol
#

against normal things, the imperium is rarely outnumbered

versed ledge
#

Against nids, chaos, orks, the occasional dhrukari, necrons

signal bramble
echo vault
signal bramble
#

Understandably, they will be scared.

echo vault
#

They're nonlethal monofilament gund

storm jungle
#

even then i wouldnt call them non-lethal

#

The harder a victim struggles, the tighter the web becomes, and if the victim continues to struggle the web can eventually crush them to death.

echo vault
#

Crunchy

#

Spring roll shell makr

plush mason
#

net goblin noises intensify

subtle night
#

they should add beastmen to darktide and 40k novels in general it would be nice to see em get some love

#

i mean as enemies and playeable class

signal bramble
undone zodiac
copper patrol
#

there is probably pestigors and slaangors around in 40k as well

crimson kayak
crimson kayak
echo vault
#

You can see this style of skull on certain armors but it made me think, the skulls that look like this, the kinda weird distended upper jaw and teeh curved like that makes me think they're like vat grown or produced while the skulls seen on enemies is definitely real skulls

crimson kayak
#

Remember not all skulls are real skulls... Unless it's the skull throne but that's kinda implied

echo vault
#

But fake skulls > real in value

shadow plover
#

That specific skull is part of the crux terminatus which isn't made of bone

echo vault
#

I mean I'm thinking more of the stuff on the mortis outfits

crimson kayak
#

Also I would just give it "artistic license" for not having a realistic skull just like how guns and giant shoulder pauldrons don't make sense

echo vault
#

And some of the stuff you unlock

#

Or unless your group does things with skulls like dip them in gols

#

Gold* that's what the sons of Horus did

crimson kayak
echo vault
#

I remember seeing a piece on a servo skull that was from a deathwatch marine and it's so big they can fit every sensor under the sun

crimson kayak
echo vault
#

Also I'm wondering if when a chapter goes traitor the deathwatch remove the pauldron from use in displays etc

crimson kayak
echo vault
#

Because in deathwatch art there's a wall of pauldrons from each chapter

crimson kayak
#

The ones in the deathwatch

crimson kayak
echo vault
#

Imagining servitors unbolting it from the wall and not there to pull it down so it just falls and crushes one of them

crimson kayak
#

Just like how chapter names and heraldry get jumped between chapters when they go traitor/die out

echo vault
#

Since Ultima founding brought back a few chapters I think just soul drinkers that were deleted I'm surprised they didn't do stuff like the Firehawks but for ones that sacrificed like the one that destroyed the world engine they didn't get primaris out of respect

crimson kayak
echo vault
#

Maybe? Idk

crimson kayak
#

Wait I'll check

echo vault
#

I'd say no

crimson kayak
#

Yep, a bunch are alive and captained by a dreadnought

#

Apparently they went on eternal crusade mode and their fortress monastery was given to the Sable swords

crimson kayak
echo vault
#

Cool

echo vault
#

Don't focus on the incorrectly drawn ultramarine logo like I am

copper patrol
crimson kayak
echo vault
#

Two blood angels logos, many that are just skulls, one is a skull with down syndrome

#

I think there's a duplicate of the blue aquila

#

Hey at least they got the red scorpions and minotaurs correct

#

Howling griffons and blood angels too

copper patrol
#

it's a shame becuase if you don't look closely that's a really cool piece of artwork for 40k

echo vault
#

BEHOLD, the old salamanders resin heresy shoulder pads

#

Look at that poor salamander

#

Rolled out like dough

copper patrol
#

I mean the old salamanders color scheme goes right along with it

crimson kayak
#

The Dot chapter

echo vault
#

Yeah but it just looks dopey especially compared to the new mk vi ones that actually look good

echo vault
crimson kayak
echo vault
#

Yeah definitely when they did 40k salamander stuff that's good but ofc it's oop

#

Loyalist word bearer design

#

Covenant of fire, salamanders successors

crimson kayak
#

Ultima founding, aka just mix whatever you can find and see the results

echo vault
#

I like it

#

Makes sense, sons of the Phoenix and dark kraken are cool

#

Kinda weird the soul drinkers are the only known chapter with weird modifications and mutations? (Black dragons but this is more obvious) Like given the iron hands love for mechanicus stuff there isn't someone on an spider thing

#

Like this guy

#

It's a scorpion but fuck you

celest dome
#

The second one is not a Space Marine

plush mason
#

also i just noticed the Stygiss 7 robe

echo vault
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leutin is hinting that the emperor will awaken soon as a chaos god

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we just need to keep feeding him psykers

crimson kayak
# echo vault Kinda weird the soul drinkers are the only known chapter with weird modification...

That's because if you have large mutations 9 out 10 times you get Redacted pretty fast, especially if it's a new chapter, and even then mutation may damage the gene-seed and make it not usable at all.

For the mechanicus spider leg thing, remember that 1st off not every mechanicus affiliated guy despises flesh and 2nd at that point if I have to remove 3/4 of a marine body to give it spider legs ill just throw it in a dread and call it a day

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And well, Sarpedon's spider legs may just as easily be due to having death with a Tzneetchian Daemon Prince for some time

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quick dumb question, who like, rules over a regiment in the astra miltiarum? lik uhhh, what rank would it ot be in charge of the 114th waht ever the fuck regiment?

outer wave
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Wouldn't it be like a high commissar? Is that a thing?

crimson kayak
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Lord General/Lord Commander command basically entire armies on an entire front

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But usually a single regiment is led by a Colonel and multi regimental forces by generals

mystic geyser
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Colonel at regiment level I think

crimson kayak
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Also regimental numbers can vary wildly between regiments and the fact 40k numbers don't make sense

mystic geyser
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Commissar don't lead, they advise (apart from some famous exceptions..)

crimson kayak
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Commissar are essencialy human equivalent of Chaplains, they keep morale high, no matter the cost

rose thorn
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Lmao thank you, i was so confused lmao

open pumice
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plush mason
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oh lol

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The guy is one of 2 named characters for the mechanicum in 30k

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He’s also one of few non primarchs who can fight and kill a primarch on the tabletop

plush mason
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neat

terse rain
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42

topaz gate
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Ok so why are Salamanders said to like burning Eldar children? That really doesn’t sound like them.

copper patrol
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vulcan did

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once

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and regreted it afterwards

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it was due to night lords being cunts

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it's a shitty meme pretty much

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when ever someone mentions vulcan being nice or salamanders being nice people always just "bUt He KiLleD aN eLdAr ChIlD"

plush mason
# copper patrol once

and thanks to that one event his whole chapter is memed to death as extreme xenophobes lol

copper patrol
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which is funny becuase the black templars exist

plush mason
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yup

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also the stuff about the salamanders being the chapter that cares about normal humans the most, where does that come from and isnt it the ultramarines that have made the only real peaceful region of space in the whole galaxy?

copper patrol
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salamanders will actively go out of their way to protect civilians, more so then ultramarines

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iirc back before they found vulcan a lot of salamanders would die becuase they would take such heavy loses trying to protect people (more or less)

plush mason
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i see

copper patrol
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they also are able to stay in contact with their families unlikc 99% of other chapters

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iirc there is a primaris saly thats know for being really ends justify the means about his protection of civilians

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which is pretty neat

storm jungle
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people now think all Salamanders wanna kill eldar children kek

plush mason
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TTS didnt help

copper patrol
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they mentioned it once iirc

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and didn't make a big deal about it

plush mason
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oh right

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who makes those videos with the salamander and the marine malevolence mini?

copper patrol
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no clue

storm jungle
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I just said this

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and someone in memes is already making the joke

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just proving my point KEK

copper patrol
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it's the same guy

storm jungle
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pain

plush mason
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lmao

topaz gate
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Yeah I just never got the joke but hey a joke is a joke

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But now reading about it now I just feel bad

echo vault
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This is what those ash waste big things look like to me

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I want them to be big and poofy

north lotus
storm jungle
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and literally doing nothing

north lotus
storm jungle
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Nah, it was just exodites chilling and the humans venerating them, there was no conflict.