#40k-lore-chat
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bro could you be more of a bastard?
we both know what you're saying, even if you're too much of a weasel to explicitly say it to my face
yeah people wyho think slaanesh is the trans rep are stupid
Maidenless Behaviour the lot of them
||tru because i certainly wouldn't be their significant other lmao||
tell them to start showering and stop worshipping nurgle... wait don't, they would just start talking about how nurgle is so nice and chill
nowadays i just ask, "What do you mean by this?"
i go straight for the socratic method
because when i ask that they typically retreat to "Oh, y'know..." Or "do I have to explain...?"
and when i say "Yes." they either shut the fuck up or take off the mask
i imagine their minds going blank when this question appears
I thought youd be on my side kinda behaviour
when the echo chambers goes silent, the paper man can crumble
people will say the most vile shit to you if they think you're a cishet white guy, it's unbelievable
don't you have any shame?
I've literally just stopped going to those places and just lived better honestly
Im drawing more, writing more, and walking more
a sin, but definitely not super high on the list
Grimdank sucks, I just make memes with my friends and lifes good
i like reading and engaing with 40k stuff, it's fun, but i don't have an infinte amount of models to paint and i don't have the ability to paly games more than once a week
(like last year recently)
i just watch Tek and Mek if i want 40k memes
I literally don't even play the games
so i end up on 40klore on reddit which is fine, like, a decent amount of the time but
brother. my man!
might try to with 10th if the rules are indeed free tho
it does have its fair share of "gosh darn the imperium just has to be fash because that's the most effficient form of government"
they are!!!
its always free if you can pirate it
that's such a pain tho
10th ed looks like a real improvment, and they've said they're gonna release all the rules + index cards for free
what in first edition's hell is that
they're ex-citadel fishmen
...space slaan?
the original Space Marines
Deep state lizard marines
With how they look they should have just been turned into fish fillet
oh god there's even worse version of it!
oh i could for two right now
THEY'RE PUTTING CHEMICALS IN THE WATER THAT TURN THE FRIGGING SPACE MARINES GAY
Me too
Turn the frigging fishmen gay
Not my manly men with chiseled, muscular bodies who spend all day half naked wrestling!
Bloodborne but cooler
most of the ex-citadel stuff is just historicals though
but that one stood out as a bit different
wtf is this result for 'slaan' on google
a lot of ex-citadels were historicals that could be used as Empire in early Warhammer
bring back kremlo
you know, its weird to think
that if Tolkeinns family allowed for Games Workshop to make LoTR stuff from the get go
40k wouldnt be here
kremlo the slaan is 40 years old
(and starcraft and warcraft)
old ones trying to communicate be like
literally older then me
if GW had given the rights to their IP to fledgling blizzard, then "World of Warhammer" would be the biggest MMO in the world and warhammer fantasy would never have been blown up
||and instead we'd have the writers at blizzard slowly destroying the fantasy setting through their sheer incompetence||
older than everyone in this chat i'd imagine
What if Grimdark was made for not grimdark fans
And sexual misconduct
Blizzard probably would have been become 'license game guys', so WoW might never have come into existence
which completely changes a lot of things
that swedish kid would be dead and so would his sister
WAIT
i have no idea what you're talking about
Without WoW Etherium wouldnt be a thing either!
wot
Jeff Kaplan wouldve had not made Overwatch either
lmao vitalik buterin being a butthuirt warlock main will never get old
I am literally on pain just by imagining this
animated pron industry in shambles by that one
long ago, 2007? or something
some kid saved his sister by pretending to be dead
because he rememberd a wow ability
which prevented the both of them from being mauled by a wild animal
didn't some of the old overwatch concepts (and uniforms) look a bit like Pan-O infantry?
they did
those blue beret guys
Blizzard not using tabletop game concepts challenge: Impossible
"Overwatch" the organization had lots of blue and lots of berets
im still waiting for a good warmahordes game
man i hate infiniy minis. there is SO MUCH highlighting making those looks good and once you actually look at them in person it's clear you'll never do it.
yeah that's why i prefer sites with unpainted minis
Is that a Van Saar model ?
very appleseed
yeah, I think appleseed was one of the major inspirations for the setting
poking out
good cause Appleseed was fucking awesome
and GITS
Looks like a dreadknight but better
And smaller
the size is a bridge between heavy infantry and a vehicle, and the big arms mirror the movement of the operator's arms
i hate these designs only because the small arms are easy targets for explosives
you could argue the armour is good enough for small arms fire and that his big arms cover the small ones in melee
xbox ninja, this is normal 28mm on a 25mm base, so the scale is similar to 40k
If a SM gets tapped to become part of the Deathwatch, do they have a choice in the matter?
They can be sent both as volunteers and as punishment/banishment
if there was any concern they wouldn't do it i doubt they'd consider them
Plus
If you're being selected
It's for a purpose built team vs a specific threat
And it probably means you're what they'd consider an "expert"
Which is high praise and also a massive honour
So most marines probably wouldn't refuse
Didn't knew they remastered the original crimson fist cover and made it both primaris and firstborn
some chapters are very isolated and prefer to be on their own, so being sent Deathwatch is a punishment, some chapters love being sent to the deathwatch because its an honour
btw love how all dead marines except the one without an helmet don't have any visible wounds
its kinda funny that this shit happaned again if theres primaris now
the primaris on top, probably a firstborn that crossed the rubicon: "why do i have a deja-vu?"
it's crimson fists, this happens all the time for them.
must be a very effective formation
also look at that fucking power fist
You use your buddy's corpse as cover
glove-mounted flamers should have been available by now.
War, war never changes
Unless you’re the space wolves who sent a squad of their bloodclaws (most inexperienced and hot headed marines) to Deathwatch. Presumably as a joke or just for the lolz.
i mean deathwatch is the same as they already normally do, to space wolves it's probably a good training exercise in cooperating
Grey Hunters and Longclaws probably go into the Deathwatch and come back to a nice promotion
Wolf Scouts or Wolfguard
That happens sometimes
iirc
its a shame they didnt show Cyrus in DoW2 with a silver shoulderpad
They just ask single marine minimum to deathwatch
They dont specify it further other than hoping veteran personel
You wanna know who I want to see modeled/drawn
Chaos farsight
Warp Spiders
What Chaos god would most suit a druidic theme, Nurgle?
nurgle or tzeentch
Nurgle or tzeentch
Go on, say it, Ill see if I can whip a drawing
The iron kingdom book literally has a nurgle Druid in it.
Severus, Tetrach and 1st Company Captain of the Ultramarines
There is a “model” of him
He's always been portrayed as the generic termie captain
But he was the generic termi
Want to see him in the new scale
Yeah that
You said severus and ultramarines and my mind jumped instantly to the ultramarines movie guy
Gotta be whiteshields somewhere, so probably. Creed isnt that much of a dick to expect kids to stay and die
What movie 
I still quote and say “Get up and kill this beast”
And the way terrence stamp said “we march for macragge!”
Love it
tbf the only "different" detail he has is the face mask
Yeah but as Tetrach he could be a bit more different now
A laurel
i mean, yeah but we never actually see if tetrarch's have any kind of different stuff
When in doubt
Go look at greyall’s 40k art
The best and most underrated 40k artist we ever had
yeah greyall is good
I miss him
btw get a card of him before he started wearing termie suits
oh, that's a storm bolter at a weird angle.
actually, i'ts kinda weird there's not more space marines with storm bolters aside from terminators.
Isn't it said that it's unwieldy without terminator armour?
we see captians using them one-handed, so they're probably no that hard for power armor to manage.
trading away the squad's heavy/special options for a full ten-man storm bolter squad would have some good uses.
White Shield are the younger guardsmen, who are too young to be in the propper Imperial Guard
Translation: child soldiers
There were.
Though keep in mind Cadians don’t have traditional families. They have organized breeding programs.
They’re also continuing that breeding program aboard their ships as they travel between war zones as they’re now a fleet based regiment.
GW pricing lore
i miss blister packs. and metal. metal alwasy ended up being a better deal over the long run
yeah 
Metal minis aren’t better then plastic imo
i dunno how highschoolers make armies now.
With clippers and glue
Blunt force trauma weapon
the older metals like those one piece fire dragons were really nice to build
the weigh gave a nice premium feel too
how did people kitbash?
same as you do now, just take bits out, chop them up and glue them together
gotta become a whole ass forge master
also, for marines it was really easy
you just swapped arms or guns
at least for a handful of them which were segmented
they would have metal/plastic hybrids like that
and it's not as if these chopped up CAD minis are that easy to do now
the new plastics go together in quite specific ways
Tbh
Kitbashing is still easy imo
You need to do a lot more cutting tho
But I never grew up with metal minis
So 
metal was the same really (just one piece or two piece), or easy for some marines and a few others
Sounds about right
Only metal minis I’ve ever messed around with were some old eldar ones I got in a lot
Fun to use them for an autarch
the difficult ones is when weapons are held close to the body so they're moulded in
those are still a problem tho, it's mostly you've gotta drill the whole thing out which is easier with plasitcs.
I used to have like 200 pewter dnd models.
The Cadian blood book refers to “an age of majority.”
So that could be 16-18.
Since that age is different in different countries.
But keep in mind Cadian children are taught to use and clean a lasgun at a very young age.
So even if they don’t join until a certain age, they spend their life prepping for it.
I mean Cadians specifically have White Shields, but the impression I get from a lot of novels is that most authors consider the age of majority in the Imperium to be around 14, since that's the age characters usually start seeing serious legal consequences or get conscripted
I imagine it depends on the planet but either way they’re going to make sure the tithe is paid.
14 is also about the age a lot of chapters start putting potential marines through the trials
it's also the target age of hooking warhammer players
Also writing about child soldiers in your haha-funny-plastic-men game is not really that favored.
Remember, brutally murdering adults in fiction is fine
Kids are much more of a no-no depending on the media
Not every Hero of the Imperium gets to be like Cain
didnt vulcan bbq a eldar child?

He was also a Primarch in the great Crusade and likely massacred many more
^

yeah Vulkan was unironically one of the most xenophobic of the primarchs
didn't he give Eldrad a personal gift
which then was taken by some harlequin to the imperial Palace
when one of them soloed some custodes
The War of the Beast was very stupid
"I have this random ass fang from a Primarch trust me bro"
How much weed would it take to make a Primarch stoned
I assume most drugs just wouldn't work on primarchs
we don't know anything about primarch physiology
i think they have a gland they can just trigger to get high anyway
it could be they are totally immune or extremely susceptible
or somewhere in between
I hope Yarrick doesn't come back
It'd be pretty great if he gets Martyred in a big battle
instead of coming back, have him reborn in a fantasy world
in a human civilisation roughly similar to our holy roman Empire
"My new life as a holy witch hunter of Sigmar"

It's not as complicated as I'd like
Yarrick is on a 2 way road right now
Get mini update
Get lore on how he dies
Mini is most likely
"I was killed in battle and reborn as a witch hunter of Sigmar, and I'm still missing an eye"
be yarrick
fight orks on armageddon for a century
finally die, free from the orks
reborn in averland
life is pretty chill, get to make cheese now
Hear invaders are coming at us from black fire pass
"the orcs will kill us all!"
I'm so fucking done. why do these greencels always ruin things?
Either way tho yeah we'll see
my money is on a Warzone: Armageddon book
yarrick's entire "death" is made like a sus CIA after-action report so we'll see
he'll deffo get a new mini update because $$$
GW refuses to kill off characters, all the dead dudes in fantasy started dead. they're gonna give him some bullshit primarus treatment
i'd prefer he stay dead at this point because armageddon duex, greenskin boogaloo just isn't interesting. come up with a new conflict instead of dragging this one out for a billion years and making it look like a wet noodle fight
just get that rando space wolf to kill Ghaz for good this time, easy
plot Twist: it's a historical one set in the past
at this point armageddon isn't even interesting, does the planet even do anything besides foght orks anymore? doesn't seem to produce things for anyone, which was why it used to be important.
its like Krieg afaik. all it can produce is troops
Let's assume Vulkan is 12 foot even, and thus weighs 368 pounds pounds, which would be overweight by means of muscle. It takes only 3 mg of inhaled THC for a 178 pound male to become impaired, so it would take at least 6.2 mg of THC to impair a primarch. However, let's assume that primarch immunity is not perfect and a trace amount of a substance remains in the system. Assuming it is near 100, we have 100/6.2= 16.12, so we multiply the dose by 16, so it would take 99 mg of inhaled THC to effect vulkan assuming he has never been high before.
Their entire character is just fighting orks
so no
@sonic willow
Valhallans are also Ork Killers
In other words, a primarch would have to smoke a whole gram to get the same effect a normal human would get from one hit their first time smoking
closer to 600, really
4/20 is my favourite day of the year
I also found the density of the Witch King of Angmar one time, let me see if I can find that
I don't remember the number but I remember he was significantly less dense than air, meaning if he took the armor off he should float away
Lost the math 😦
Primachs ought to be overweight for their height
Like rugby players in real life for the most part
Theres a lot of muscle and water in their bodies for sure
they are also likely more dense anyway
they definitely aren't like ours
Some of it would be harder or thicker in some places
Since 90% of our blood comes from our bones
There would need to be some changes
my guess is 600-800 pounds or more
For sure
Not much about the primarchs makes that much hard sense even in universe
Like sangiunius comes to the conclusion that his wings aren't big enough to let him fly but he can
birds fly because of hollow their bones are
but Sanguinius breaks daemon bones easier than his own bones broke
Its just magic
Considering space marines already have to brew toxic alcohol that shuts down both their kidneys and their anti-venom/poison gland just to get drunk, and they have to drink tons of it to stay drunk, I think a primarch could very well just be immune to 90% of substances
If only he'd done a better faction
lmao
LMAO harsh
the respirator box is a bit too TIE Fighter pilot for me
yeah he giblets little thing gives off a very strong star wars look
maybe its a repurposed cosplay?
if so thats cool
That respirator box is definetly repurposed as the desth korps one is much more old school looking
It's more like a satchel with the actual box inside
a lunch pack
Yep, can confirm by looking at the veteran guards killteam that it's a satchel with something inside
its their caprisun packets
same
yeah
the tube and box is from a british ww1 gasmask
while the facemask is german
Maybe it'll pad out the barebones WE Codex
all I know is
Black Templar fans are gonna go nuts lmao
"NOOOO WE CANT FALL TO CORRUPTION WTF GW"

They're the ones changed the least by the curse
I mean think about it
They're into that crazy-fanatic-murder thing by default
Only thing stopping them from massacring friendlies is them being vaguely aligned, and even that doesn't stop them sometimes
aren't black templars just normal spess mareens
cant they fall to corruption liek any other?
because chaos corruption seems to be based on what you are not anything else for some reason :|
They're very big Religious fanatics which gives them a pass with zeal
So like sisters they usually die before they get a chance to be corrupted
fair enough
yeah the Indomitus Fleet that got corrupted had both sisters and primaris marines fall
theres an hilarious excerpt on it, 1 sec
I THINK so
I have to decide who's less annoying to validate, obnoxious khorne fans or obnoxious BT fans
BT fans tbh
mostly because almost 90% of them turn out to be weird crusade apologists and fascists

They at least didn't get a gutted codex and some eh models
So they're more deserving ig
How come BT get special sculpts while DA just get stock Bladeguard to go with their literal returned Primarch 
because BT is a marginally more intersting chapter than DA :P
Yeah I totally missed the rampant crappy crusader memes being repeated in a 40k costume....
i mean. its ether that or emo space knights with a secret
the 2 chapters are 2 of the most uninspired of the all the SMs
"have you seen my BT with iron crosses all over them? or would you rather fight my german african jungle korps?"
DA do the knight monk look better, BT are just space crusaders
agreed
Ig Helbrecht is cool, Grimaldus is cool as well but he never shows up anymore
but both are just knights thematically and most people find the crusader knights cooler than the non crusader ones
They don't even do the crusader thing right
yeah they donit cannablise their troops after failing their logistics arm at all
We had a guy like that here posting in minis.
Plot twist: ||He turned out to be a dickhead wow||
they kinda do lol. the crusaders in the 1st crusade where just frothing madmen
...whaaa?
Think that's the point they're making
You also can't forget the Peasant's crusade that marauded it's way through most of Southern Europe
Crusader fans when they dont wanna accept that their "chad heroes" were just murderers that stole and raided valuables while killing innocent people in the name of Da Pope™️
lol
ok ill stop 
"I'm going to offer total divine absolution to a continent of murder-happy killers! What could go wrong?"
As it turns out, lots of things
I find it funny how BT and WE are kinda similar
What with some of their traditions being straight up copied from the World Eaters by Siggy 
well the cult imperialis worships murder and genocide, so its adherents are already halfway to khorne worship
Flashback to that short story of a loyalist cult being beaten out by a thinly-veiled Khornate cult that turned a bunch of guard not long after PA started
So based on what we know. Whats the likely hood of us winning
Who's "us"
Who do you think
idfk that's why I'm asking
LMAO
I love necron characters
I might just buy and paint them and shit
Even though I don’t play necrons
Szeras my beloved
I love him
One day the awesome as fuck Skorpekh Destroyer Lord will be available on its own
And the gay necrons
Also, I hope GW makes a Phaerakh model
Honestly idk shit about necrons
Phaerakh is just the term for female Phaerons
the top bananas
the closest I will get to a Phaerakh
I feel like Necrons are at a better place lore wise now
love their little wars and stuff
The IRS versus Nurgle Cult
Im on Team Silent King, Imotekh Simps get out
I described them as infinitely powerful beings with sitcom tier issues
2 characters and 2 sniper guys
Oh hey the edgedar
Maugan Ra, also cool and badass
also probably the best coloured necrons
smithers and burns
More like thsoe two form Sesame Street
I think it's possible the sculpts that became the phoenix lords might have started as general senior exarchs
It's been in the back of my mind for years
as the models had just 'EXARCH' written on their slotta base
and only recently have I seen that JG sketch of what became Maugan Ra
He's cool and all but I'll show you something interesting about his sculpt.

Mmmm resin
Also the good old
Old GW models used to be so unique for posing
old GW models
Do any other races besides humans worship Chaos? Like Eldar, Orks, Tau etc
Discount Maugan Ra looking ass
Eldar cant, Orks cant, and Taus cant
The OG Maugan Ra
there were chaos Eldar before the fall, who worshipped the nascent Slaanesh
there were some really old khorne Orks
Tuska Daemon Killa is still there, though he isn't really a follower of Khorne
A lot of races that worshipped chaos got wiped out in the crusade
Wed likely see more if the concept was explored more
There are xenos species that worship Chaos but not really the ones we see on the table.
Like the Laer that were snake aliens and worshipped Slaanesh before the crusade wiped them out. The writers will usually just make up some species solely for the purpose of getting wiped out.
At least the Laer had some plot impact
Yeah. :/
Not sure what else they could do. Maybe a species that managed to survive and holds a grudge. Idk. We do know the crusade wiped out a ton of unnamed xenos species.
hey anyone remember the emperors map were they found a map of old terra on a alien world
The one from Horus Rising?
It was most probably from old Terra colonists considering its inside a bunker
Well what happened to the colonists
Dead
Good
If I were to get an HH army it would probably be alpha legion so I could just use them in 40k and get free upvotes for being semi lord accurate
I'll always want to make an alpha legion army just out of kitbashes of alpharius model
I'll never have the money to do it through lol
No one has money when you play Warhammer
False
How bout you tell me
Impossible, nobody can hold such power.
Ah, the "never buy anything again" plan. Wise
meh
I work through my stuff fine lol
and it keeps my costs lowish
since I only really have 2 boxes of stuff at most
These are some official objective markers released by GW. But look if you will to the one on the bottom right.
“Loyal men of the Astra Militarum, in the name of the god emperor you will defend the cardinal’s mobility pulpit with your lives!”
lol
funny because true
oh cool. Atoma Prime has atleast 3 moons
and they small as fuck for a planet this size. man its rotation must be hella unstable
Okay what the fuck are half of these things lmao
“Emperor protect the clock”
top right's a clock, center and top are necron junk, pretty sure top right is a child's toy rigged to work a power transformer
"we must guard the omnissaih's spin'n'speak!"
if i had to guess the top left is a cogitator of some kind
I mean top center seems to be an eternity gate, which is hilarious because it means that necron is just poking his head out to watch the battle and not really doing anything
lol
doesnt darktide take place in like the 43rd millenium not the 41st?
No, its the 42nd millenium as we just flipped over to 41,000
the in-universe date has been in the 41,000s for a few years afaik
but ofc GW doesnt want to change the IP name to 41k lol
that too
It’s off by 1000 years at least
Would surge staff be a lot more powerful in lore or is it nurgle resilience fuckery
Psyker power level are very varied (Depend on the Psyker and stuff)
^
But an actual like in lore full power smite
Would prolly instantly evaporate most non boss enemies in game
Smite would be a good Blitz or Ability tbh
Yeah
Also perils are way less impactful in darktide then in lore
Mostly since actual lore perils of the warp
Are terrible for gameplay
Or are too “benign”
It's like in VT2, where they took 1 Peril only instead of doing them all
Much easier
Ye
Also perils can just happen the first time you do anything
As a psyker
Which wouldn’t be very fun
Yeah, you have to roll any time you use Warp power, thankfully in Fantasy you had 3 tables
4 if you count the divine ones
But you can still fully lose your character quite rapidly
That is incorrect.
Per the Angron book, the grey knights have maintained a clock and calendar that is 100% accurate even to the current date of the imperium. However they never bothered telling anyone and no one thinks to ask them.
The book also never states the exact date and time either of course but it is apparently accurate.
wich is stupid as fuck if you consider that the problem with the old imperial calendar is that it was not possible to account for the single system time dilation, warp storms ecc... as it used a variation of terran years across all the galaxy
wich is why the new calendar is on a system by system basis lol
I still have the old objective marker kit, one of them was literally an exterminatus bomb 😆
Bit different from a pulpit
hey is the necromunda spider clan still at thing?
i quite like the necromunda spiders regiemetnal themeing
wow i selt that wrong
SPElt
The Van Saar?
is that what theya re now?? i saw the necormunda spider regiment and i was like 'thats cool! whats the spider clan?'
the only mention on the lex i can find of them is the regiment lmao
Nah they are a different thing
Spider gang afaik was broken up, but encompassed many gangs from the different families, iirc the Van Saar for example had been noted of being some of their Weapon Specialist
oh cool
The old Necromunda game had a Spider "faction/gang", I'll have a look again
it's a pseudo-cult on a few planets with basically no details known about it. the cult of the emperor has given it permission to exist and that's about it.
oh god is this one of those situations where theres like 3 mentions of it and they are all completely differnet
i know of the literal spider that lives on the planet
i think theres a gang
and theres the regiment
now you're getting warhammer lore!
The Cult of the Spider seem unrelated to the Spider Gang
The Necromundan Spider are still present to the current Necromunda lore, as the Deserter was one
sidenote damn the necromunda guard is a cool idea
its not a crime if its in the name of the emperor
The Emp. doesn't really care about what happen in the lower hives
fuck i forgot how terrible the necormunda guns are
WHAT IS THIS
WTF IS THIS
yOUR GONNA FIRE A SHOT AND ALL YORU BULLETS ARE GONNA FALL OUT
OH HEY THERES ACTUAL NECROMUNDA SPIDER REGIMENT MODELS
in necormunda
lady on the right
has the regimental colors and symbols
house greim?
okay so the House Greim Military Attachés have a link to the necromunda spiders
or at least the regiment
Afaik there are 3 that are linked to it
Her, the Deserter, and iirc one of the Squats ?
hey guys, welcome to necromunda theory
We are gonna ask the question
what REALLY happened to the necromunda spider clan?
thats such a baller ass helmet
Most likely lost the favour from House Helmawr or became broken up as the different Houses took more influence and independance
The idea that there is at least a small amount of necromunda guard that use to be in the corpse grinder cults
is infinitly funny to me
Not sure they would be in it
Like they come from a Merchant Guild
Like the Water Guild and the Squat Miner guild
i like how the necromunda regiment's lasguns are clearly laser kalishnikovs.
in the far future of the 40th millenium, bad guys still use AK's 
Ok that has to be like what, the the fourth soldier group in the imperium that has a gas mask?
all of them have ti as an option, it's a matter of if they deploy them or not.
mordians have them but they're not connected to any helmet so you don't usually see them.
that's some unholy combination of a lasgun and a bolter if i ever saw one
some regiments have the gas mask as part of their iconic uniforms but they're always nice to see imo
Bad guys ?
Agreed
also the spider clan still gives soldier to the 8th regiment doesn't it?
aren't necromunda soldiers basically drafted underhivers?
i mean, an underhiver can be just as bad as any other imperial citizen
well at least the average imperial trying to stab you for your rations will have less chances of winning
i mean, if you are in an underhive and you are not from the underhive im pretty sure you are either incredibly stupid/desperate or know you have more than a chance against gangers and the like
if both are from the underhive then you are just playing on equal footing and your chances to get shanked are just a skill issue
i wonder if gentrification of underhives is an issue in 40k
define issue
Sure
rich hive nobles buying cheap underhive property and converting it into apartment complexes
anybody got any suggestions on what should be the first 40k model i obtain
Any army in particular ?
what ever you think looks the coolest
honestly no. i just want a cool model idea i can use to check how good my printer is at doing minis
i might do a tank since they don't have a lot of complexe shapes
Steam tank then 
okay so
turns ou
t
GW yellow
and army painter yellow
are both equally terrible
hence you go for vallejo yellow with hobby paints
ye a hobby lobby near by sells vallejo
next tmie ill go pick up thiers
or use orange
ok fuck it im getting my orange and going over the yellow
OMG OTANGE LOOKS SO FUCKING BETTER
WTF I WAS WORRIED ORANGE WOULDNT LOOK RIGHT
i just wanted a replacement for yellow
i might need to use a lighter red
i love the necromunda regiments, just the astra militarum shoving thier hand into hte necromunda gangs, grab a shit load of people, and shove them into unifroms
The Imperial Fist also do it
oh yea
someone told me that use to be a rule in the TT. had to make a roll at the end of the round and if you failed the highest preforming model in that round would be taken out of the match lol
Iirc it was a scenario rule
i dont play the TT so you would know more than me most likely
i just find it funny that the fists "recruit" the gangers by watching the gang wars and clubbing the most promising ones over the head after the battle lol
It's not stranger than what most other Legion does
yeah but it is funny
Does mean that they take their recruit while they are older than some other Legion
The Space Wolves do the same as the IF, just that as they don't really have any Hive their ganger are tribal warriors
iirc the blood ravens hold "blood trials" which are just gladiatorial fights for their prospective recruits
True, but it mean that its organised like that, while both IF and SW just go and watch actual l/unrelated fights to pick their recruit
yeah
I wonder how they take the recruit though. Like do they sprint on the battle field and just yoink them away or do they do it stealthy and just join the prospect at a bar, roofies them and take them away
good question
in space wolves, Wolf Priests wait in Thunderhawks whilst watching two tribes fight to the death
surviving boys under 13-15 are then taken
even if they were mortal enemies
For Imperial Fists or most chapters who recruit from hiveworlds they kinda do the same
wait for a gang war to break out
look for survivors or arrest them
and youre a okay
but on Terra and Inwit for Imperial Fists the kids have to go to like some place known for recruitment
and survive the journey
Blood Angels have all the kids leave their villages and journey to Angels Fall
if they survive they are then grouped into twos and are then forced to fight each other
the chaplain then has to "make" the winner kill the loser
if the winner does try to kill the loser, they are not chosen
The Chad Night Lords making a planet wide hunger games scenario to collect the 25 strongest people on the world
the idea for blood angels is the whole, Sanguinius even in his dying breathe still tried to get Horus to be good again
you journeyed through the hell hole that is Baal Primus with these other kids, you should have a sense of camaraderie
some of their successors probably do it too
Flesh tearers do something similar iirc
but Flesh Tearers and Raven Guard got those warrior tests, Turok shit
except cretacia is arguably an even bigger shit hole
and also they usually don't care if you murder them lmao
the magic pain glove
The perfect meditation device
I wonder if Grimdank has cooled it a bit on the AoS hate
Or if they're still stuck in like 1st Ed AoS and the memes that came with that
its a sub-reddit. there is no telling
how long did it take grimdank to go back to being a 40k subreddit btw
i mean, most people that hated it still hate it, but there's better things to do than care and it seems to keep getting stupider without anyone helping anyway
Grimdank is a Warhammer Meme Subreddit so any warhammer IP meme is allowed, AOS gets some good ones but its entirely almost always 99% 40k stuff
40k is like that unfortunately

The people who never played the fantasy tabletop game
But hate GW over fantasy dying are weird
They’re objectively the reason why fantasy died
Because it literally wasn’t profitable to maintain as a game
To be fair, most people of those probably only ever heard of warhammer fantasy through total warhammer, vermintide, and maybe vermintide
Yeah
Which don’t make that much money for GW
Compared to the miniature market
Which is why imo warhammer the old world might be doomed to fail if they don’t fix warhammer fantasy’s fundamental issues as a tabletop game
would suck to get invested in that setting then find out it's all pretty much gone with a set storyline that says everyone dies, limiting other potential virtual forays, and the successor setting potentially straight up ignores some of the factions people may have liked
The fact that everyone dies in vermintide is an appeal imo
What they do is ultimately worthless
But they do it anyways
Even against the worst odds
And as a tabletop game warhammer fantasy sort of sucked ass
Mostly since you needed so much chaff
Like an insane amount of it
Like
GW may make most of their money from minis but should that be the be all end all to a setting? And even if it were, it seems obvious GW is trying to expand into other markets regardless, because otherwise they wouldn't be licensing out to literally any dev who asks, trying to start their own streaming service, etc.
You’d be looking at buying at least 500$ of chaff infantry per army at least
GW’s primary concern back then was minatures
GW as a company has changed a ton
Nowadays they don’t only care about selling minatures
They communicate to the community
And they actually do shit
Instead of just not saying a thing and shitting out more crap for consumers to buy
GW has improved a ton as a company
Old GW wouldn’t even consider rebooting old systems like the current one has
I mean GW tabletop games have this issue in general, minis are still expensive as shit, if not more expensive than they've ever been and you still need a fair amount of them, though I guess it depends on which faction you play
There is no army in 40k where you need 500$ of chaff to play the smallest game size
Fantasy you had to have that chaff
Or else you couldn’t play
The rules fundamentally didn’t work
You could literally play a really simplified 40k game with 2 boxes of units if you wanted
That was impossible for fantasy
Fantasy was objectively a failure as a game system
Fantasy probably should have been made in something closer to an epic scale considering the historical formation fighting it seems to have been made to try to replicate
Its basically just joining a bandwagon
It should have been made epic scale but it wasn’t
Which is why GW tried their best
To turn it into an actual functioning game
wasn't warmaster a thing
(They failed and they angered their existing fanbase)
Because all of a sudden
Thousands of dollars of people’s armies
Became unplayable
Fantasy was a system that was impossible to get into
And impossible to change properly
I was around when fantasy got nuked and literally everyone hated the game.
and now as Elit3 said when its gone they acted like they loved it
As a setting

its still getting RPG supplements and shit
Yeah I think I’d rather eat rusted nails
Then play WHFB
Because rolling a 1
And then losing half your battle line
Is very funny

And not infuriating at all
Especially since it’ll make your other battle line
Totally not run away
Because they now have an exposed flank
i always enjoy playing WFB, i won't play 8th edition tho. stupudly unbalanced.
And then your artillery totally won’t need to take a morale test
8th edition was the beginning of the end
For fantasy
I do wonder what edition warhammer the old world
Will build off of
sounds like someone played skaven and expected them to not be skaven. 
they said it'll be pulled from all editions, but 8th pissed off the most people so probably a mix of 6th and 7th.
Lol it actually happened with an empire army
But it was such an outlier
I don’t even care
I fucked up
Lul
Makes sense
If I was playing skaven then yeah
I’m beholden to RNG lol
twitter found 40k lore the other day huh
wdym lol
I haven't seen shit
something made twitter look at 40k lore and people were surprised that it has fascism
it was even dumber than that
lol
they took a surface level look and concluded that the nids are actually jewish caricatures
what
How*
enj;daw
what
Jewish people are not an all consuming horde that are hyper adaptive insects part of a hive mind
I did not know why they arrived on that, so they're saying that jews are nothing more than monsters?
Like what type of f****** thinking did they have to think of that
man, that is some isreali minister levels of seeking jew-hate.
thaaaaat's really silly
like i think there's a good dozen or so problems with 40k and how it integrates fascism to the setting, but nids are like...animals.
they're not a charicature or allegory for any real group
if twitter found 40k its just a matter of time before theres a Slaaneshi burlesque revue
unrelated, but I found out that although my library doesnt have any WH40k in print, they do have at the very least False Gods in eBook format. I have mixed feelings about ebooks but if it saves me the space of thirty paperbacks and the cost associated, then I am open to it
Just have a preference for paper/hardbacks?
Yes, to me nothing beats the feeling of book in hand, but I suppose I can be pragmatic
I mean I wouldn’t worry about it.
Audio is my preference tbh, ebooks are just handy for word searching and referencing
These are the people who are offended by seeing orcs because they think of black people and not tribal war societies and the British.
I prefer the book in hand as well but once I made the switch to audiobooks it was just too convenient to not do full time. I listen to it during my commute to work and when I’m doing something that’s physical and doesn’t require a lot of focus.
Warhammer Orks were specifically designed to be cockney football hooligans.
And every book that looks at their culture is a joy to read.
Yeah orks are British and orcs from war craft are tribal honour culture's
Very true, just more convenient in more situations imo
Has anyone picked up the new Ork book?
Iirc it’s essentially a Warboss battle royale
I don't see how Twitter thinks they are just black people.
From where there's like 5 million different cultures that have black people
I have.
It was great.
I just finished it 2~ days ago.
I'm waiting for a couple Ork warbands to represent the fans of the New York Mets and the New York Yankees
My audible currently.
Good to hear, I’ve been eyeing it for a while
Thanks to audible I was able to read way more novels than I ever could have otherwise. Plus let’s me pass on my not insignificant amount of lore knowledge. XD
I'll give it a shot! I've got a few different podcasts I rotate through, my commute now is short enough that that works best. I generally associate audio books with long family road trips, perhaps with the right material I can re-frame htat
The "orcs are black people" critique comes from D&D where it's actually a pretty apt observation lol
I never really got in to podcasts. I prefer content that’s scripted.
The racism and sexism in old D&D is one of the things pathfinder tried to fix
I’m willing to entertain that conversation in the d&d context but anyone claiming Orks are black coded in warhammer has no idea wtf they’re talking about.
So they're saying that black people are violent gun wielding brutes?
I swear to god some people are so dumb
that wasn't true until like 2010, when they decided to "improve" the orcs image by.....turning them into green black people.
I’d rather not engage in that conversation in the server.
This isn’t really the place for it.
No worries
there's a lot of weird people that think it's less racist to make things more racist and i don't get it.
I’d rather talk 40k lore. ^_^
Definitely a lot better than what twitter will come up with
Speaking of, do you think we can jab nano machines into the brain of a hive tyrant and control it?
Not sure. The only precedent we have for that is when some kroot tried to eat some necron to gain an advantage over them.
The nano machines multiplied in their body and very bad things happened.
A kroot....tried to eat metal?
the 40k writers are not a clever bunch
How good is 15 Hours?
Yes. Just a finger.
It’s… fine.
also hive tyrants are probably uncontrollable because whatever you do has to overcome the hive mind's connection and if you're that strong it's head will probably pop
I mean sure the digestive system of kroot is very strong but
I wouldn't try putting metal on my stomach
15 hours has got some good character moments but you basically know exactly what’s going to happen.
You’ll get emotionally invested but it has absolutely no twists or turns.
Yeah I read the back of the book and it's guardsmen get sent to a warzone where people live a average of 15 hours.
I can guess what happens
Probably similar to guants ghost armor of contempt with the young guy
It takes place in medias res and tells you exactly what happened to our boy. The rest of the book is leading up to it.
Will have to listen to it.
I like those books normally
It does provide a good look at the difference between what new guardsmen are told vs the gritty reality.
Yeah I like the guants ghosts books and the latest audio book to come out had a lot of that
Also any good iron warriors books?
I like angel exterminartis and storm of iron
There are humans who digest steel just fine, I'd imagine metal is part of the kroot diet
They didn’t realize the necron had nanomachines in it.
Space chicken salmonella
Omg with the new hq attached to unit rules if they don’t change the word bearer artifact, crown of the blasphemer, it’s gonna be fucking insanely over powered
They are probably gonna change it
But 4+ save cultist horde would’ve funny
They already said they’re cutting down on the amount of buffs and rerolls.
Ah okay
End times is almost 10 years old 
weep
yet
never forget what they took form us
I like the AoS minis, but like, I don't get the trashing of the old lore.
AoS is innocent in the matter to what happened to the Old World
I forget but in fantasy/AoS do orcs follow the same fungal spore thing
Yes
makes sense
fungal Orks are cool and im sad they don't photosynthesize
especially when said living piece of metal also gives you nano-scarab aids by eating it
they do don't they?
it's why their skin is green
yep
If it exists, there's a squig of it.....probably
Tho everyone knows, the hair squig is the best squig
bro got that schmove
tyranid primes are an old unit, now it comes with a winged option
is it between a hive tyrant and warrior in size?
it's pretty much warrior sized
ah ok
the old prime unit was built from the warrior kit
like a warrior HQ I guess?
i can't remember if I had them when I played tyranids
I'm pretty sure I ran with a hive tyrant
Gonna see them a bunch in Space Marine 2 I reckon
It was. Usually a cheap Hq filler for batallions.
But the arks detachment made that unnecessary.
this mf ripped that damn terminator in half in pieces little too op ngl
Genestealers eat terminators regularly
Yup. In the Cain books, a single genestealer rips through a terminator like paper and kills the marine.
People really under estimate genestealers even though space marines deem terminator armour to be necessary to fight them lol
makes you wonder why they'd waste rare terminators when it doesn't offer any more protection against them
I mean it might be because they're usually on space hulks or cqc, and terminators are very well suited for both
it's mostly that if you can get them on an open field they die pretty easy. people tend to forget they're meant to be used on fields with terrian, not their "two hills and a tree" dollar store battlefield.
are they good for CQC? genestealers are insanely fast in melee while terminators limit the space marine's dexterity
it really feels like they use terminators just because you can fit storm bolters on them
I’ve heard it’s due to the radiation levels that can occur on space hulks requiring terminator armor to not get cooked alive
I mean
have you seen marine players that get mad that a genestealer can insta-kill them and tear their armor

normal power armor doesn't protect at all, terminator armor provides some protection. also lets them heft around assult cannons and heavy flamers one-handed.
genestealers do not like heavy flamers.
named characters don't need helmets because they have plot armour
What's his name
Karlaen
Goes around boasting he'll die when the Emperor says so, and thus doesn't bother wearing a helmet
He's gotten acid burns and other random shit mashed into it and he's still kicking
Tbh
If it’s worked so far

Also Tyranid Primes were the best tyranid hq for a bit this edition
i think primes were kinda silly. you could just use warriors as-is
Tyranid primes are good as people keep forgetting it’s not just a tyranid warrior and can do some damage if people don’t pay attention to it
I guess this one will be a bit more noticeable unless it's in with some winged warriors tho
Wouldn't be surprised, iirc still a lot of Nids left to be revealed
I need the gene-hunters
True
Though the rules box will probably be known at the weekend
Since it's Warhammer Fest etc.
I want more gurd
You'll take your fat leman russ and be happy
Happy might be pushing it but maybe content
Only if they start looking like big buff man themselves
Like fat Primarch Leman Russ or fat Tank Leman Russ ?
I hope the bring back shrikes which are winged warriors
baneblades are so cool
The only problem i have with it is that it doesn't fly
im sure Crawl can fix that kek
AI art looks like this
Hit me with dat lore yall: wtf is goin on with the Leagues of Votann?









