#40k-lore-chat

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storm jungle
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otherwise im gonna dump most of what I got KEK

green loom
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You can ask here, I'm sure some of us are dumb enough to have near perfect memory of symbols whatthefuck_heresy

orchid lark
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remember when Forgeworld had like the best icons and symbols

grand obsidian
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We're basing it on darktide inquisition psyker and zealot so any tips for relevant icons would be nice. Like I know the inquisition has an "I" with a skull, but theres like 10 other "I" symbols

storm jungle
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Ah okay so

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this is the general glossary i made myself

orchid lark
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The I is iconic, thanks mr Malcador

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you can combine the psyker one with the eagle, for more official like stuff

grand obsidian
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the psyker staffs have an I shape with an eye through it on their staff. is that related to Telepathica or is that a coincidence

storm jungle
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Yeah thats the telepathica symbol

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Anything with an eye in it symbolizes a psychic institution in the Imperium

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the ][ + 👁️ is their official sigil

orchid lark
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the Telepathica handles the recruitment and training of our special boys and girls

storm jungle
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Yeee

orchid lark
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i think its safe for Zealots to just have like

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the double headed eagle a lot

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of course dont accidentally make the nazi one

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we wouldnt want to signal the wrong scum now do we

storm jungle
green loom
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Killing is my hobby

orchid lark
storm jungle
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@grand obsidian Also for the inquisition symbols

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Basically the one the game uses is the bottom right one

queen laurel
storm jungle
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but anything with an ][ and 3 lines through it counts

storm jungle
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so you can get pretty custom

orchid lark
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i use the 5th one

storm jungle
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"I WANT PROBLEMS, ALWAYS"

orchid lark
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because its like the most common on deathwatch symbols

queen laurel
orchid lark
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man, just realised that Delilah has the best aesthetics for like a psyker inquisitor in 40k

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god Dishonored 2 is such a fantastic game

green loom
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For a second I thought you said Dilara

orchid lark
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Dilara wished she was as cool Delilah

storm jungle
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💀

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its true shes my bisexual crush

storm jungle
orchid lark
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She’s aesthetically the BEST looking female character

storm jungle
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Honestly almost every Dishonored character is

orchid lark
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Hands down no other design tops hers

storm jungle
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i think its the aesthetic

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everyone looks sleek or like a brick

orchid lark
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My ex and her friends almost ruined dishonoured for me

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Because i was explaining how the semiotics of the character designs was to reinforce their archetypes and cliches

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They just made fun of it

storm jungle
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Lmao thats just people not understanding cool shit

orchid lark
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I straight up deleted dishonored 1 because of that

storm jungle
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damn dude

orchid lark
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It sucked

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I literally only played dishonored 2 to completion just last year

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On pc

storm jungle
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Dont let people ruin games for you

orchid lark
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I had it on ps4 as one of two games that you get upon purchase

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Years ago

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But uh

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I also got bloodborne

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And yeah

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Played an hour of Dishonored 2

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And immediately just focused on bloodborne forever lmao

storm jungle
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Lmao

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id play bloodborne

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IF IT WAS ON PC

orchid lark
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Nah

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Its a good game

green loom
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I played DS3 and Elden Ring on PC thumbsup_ogryn

orchid lark
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AS LONG AS you have the dlc

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Bloodborne on its own

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Is okay

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The DLC is what makes it godly

green loom
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I find soulslikes boring staregryn

orchid lark
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I can respect that

green loom
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I enjoyed the boss fights thumbsup_ogryn

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But

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Dying and having to run through everything over and over was a chore

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Not even difficult just boring

queen laurel
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The only dark souls i played is the remastered one

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Fuck Blightown

orchid lark
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You can say that again

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Im suprised 40k hasnt made like

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Dark Souls reference

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Or AoS at the very least

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Like the bonfire garbo

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Abyss Watchers would be a good space marine chapter or Sigmar City

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Gdi

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A healing church inspired sisters order who venerate sanguinius or something

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Instead of fear the old blood

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Its “Love the Angel Blood”

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Or some bullshit

coarse pumice
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Miyazaki was given some award by one of the Games Workshop founders

orchid lark
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You what

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Congrats for making something grimdark

rose thorn
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From 1-10 how dumb would a guard regiment owned by a rich someone who basically plays political toy soldiers with them

green loom
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They wouldn't be a guard regiment

rose thorn
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They just half hazardously throw them into extremely dangerous situations for fun and glory

orchid lark
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a Rogue Trader can "pay" for a regiment, but it has to be like an official thing, like a campaign, but i dont think theyve done personal buys

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if theres commissars, that regiment can never be useless, the commissars aint gonna let that happen

crimson kayak
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Rogue traders can have personal armies, but that's about it

orchid lark
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like from their homeworlds,

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whats the word, landsnekcht?

crimson kayak
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Or well, insert possible reason for integrating a regiment into a fleet

orchid lark
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if theyre doing official world finding, border extending, Space marine companies can appear with a rogue trader

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i think thats like extra flavour for space marines mostly, get a neat little badge or marking

crimson kayak
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That too, but usually it's due to super old bonds between the chapter and Rt dinasty

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Like the Marines Errant and such

orchid lark
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40k has things for everyone, as I always say

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you can more or less, like just

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force shit together in the imperium faction

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and it would kinda stick

dense mortar
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Stayed tuned folks. I ha e just connected the dots on how the Return of Russ will coincide with Russ assuming the golden throne and becoming Emperor.

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More to follow

crimson kayak
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Not even Russ wants it

orchid lark
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no primachs wants the seat of the imperium

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half of them took down despots and tyrants

crimson kayak
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Also literally just assuming anyone other than the emperor can light up the throne

orchid lark
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the other half of primarchs found unity and council a better way to lead

dense mortar
orchid lark
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a good alternate universe story with an alternate imperium, is all the primarchs usurping the emperor for a republic

crimson kayak
orchid lark
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Also assuming Russ has like no emotional baggage for the dumb shit he did to lead him to run to the warp

dense mortar
crimson kayak
dense mortar
crimson kayak
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That's actually never said

orchid lark
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also he didnt go to the warp

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hes in the eye of terror

dense mortar
orchid lark
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Grimgar

celest dome
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Grimgor>Grimgar

orchid lark
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Yeah, and Dante definitely talked to Sanguinius

celest dome
orchid lark
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at least psychic echos of the primogenitor father makes sense

dense mortar
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Dammit. I'm doing this on my phone. This conversation is going to make me pause my rewatch of the 90s best cyberpunk cartoon, Phantom 2040, and go to my computer.

celest dome
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If Russ take the place of the Emperor on the throne, at least it would end up better for everyone, as he wouldn't be able to do dumb stuff anymore

crimson kayak
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Wait, grimgar? The same guy who thinks his destiny is dying to orks?

celest dome
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Maybe, cause Grimgor>Grimgar

orchid lark
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also Russ as some sort saviour

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copium

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next to Rogal, probably the biggest man children of loyalist primarchs

dense mortar
celest dome
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Yeah, more likely to wreck some important stuff that he shouldn't have

celest dome
orchid lark
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Dorn has to be stable

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he has a standard he chooses to live up to

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thats why he's kinda badass

celest dome
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Of all the Primarch its the one that would be the most beneficial to Robute and Lion

orchid lark
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I mean to be fair, Roboute does have the Dauntless Few

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Rogal, Sang, Ferrus, and Leman

crimson kayak
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Also isn't Russ whole point of the travel to find shit that can cure the emperor?

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Instead of you know, having to take his place without any of the special psychic stuff?

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(as let's remember how Malcador, second most powerful psyker didn't really last long on the throne)

orchid lark
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and russ cultivating a kinda anti psyker culture with the space wolves

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"nah bro we draw power from fenris, not the warp"

crimson kayak
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Also that yeah

crimson kayak
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Also also Russ knows the truth of the Primarch's too

crimson kayak
crimson kayak
orchid lark
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Russ has some cool moments, but to paint as some gigachad super dee duper hero is not it

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none of the primarchs fit that

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which is why i find them endearing and cool

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I dont want heroes

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I want harsh super humans beating the shit out of other thingsg

crimson kayak
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Tbf I'm more interested in seeing where they go with Mirror Caliban

orchid lark
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prolly leave it at that honestly

crimson kayak
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As it's said to not be neither warp or webway

orchid lark
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GW is really pushing the humans are making their own source of power angle

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kinda like ork WAaagh energy

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thing is, its taking a long fucking time

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but its not like theyre making it detailed

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literally dripping it

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to the point its like, should we speculate about it or is it just some random bullshit that has no bearing what so ever

crimson kayak
orchid lark
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oh yeah

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too many cooks in the kitchen

crimson kayak
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Yep

orchid lark
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thats what it is all

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too many cooks

crimson kayak
crimson kayak
# orchid lark too many cooks

Yep, literally the imperium right now is 10 thousand different characters all trying their own overly complicated plan to ""save"" the galaxy

dense mortar
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Give then OVERWHELMING evidence that Russ is favorited among Big E's primarchs, it supports my analysis that Russ will either raise the emperor, or assume the emperors role.

orchid lark
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what

crimson kayak
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Yes, you still didn't talk on how he would do that

dense mortar
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Let me paint this picture real quick.

crimson kayak
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Wich is you know, the most important part

orchid lark
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Also, Horus was the favourite

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WAS

crimson kayak
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Also that yeah

dense mortar
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He is clearly the best duelist and most ferocious of the Primarchs (he was sent to kill HORUS but hesitated beacause he didnt want to kill him). Horus even alludes to this.

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He also has incredibly diplomatic skills, as seen with Magnus

orchid lark
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duelist

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Lion and Fulgrim are there

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hell Khan is also there

dense mortar
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Lion and Russ fought

orchid lark
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Executioner maybe, but not duellist

dense mortar
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Russ for all intents and purposes beat him

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While "technically" losing

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Again, he refused to make a killing blow on a brother primarch, costing him the duel

orchid lark
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even then, when it comes to Strongest, thats like vulkan and Ferrus

crimson kayak
orchid lark
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Also Khan during the heresy had a pretty good win count

dense mortar
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Only a draw because Russ kenw he would not kill Lion

orchid lark
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As did Lion

crimson kayak
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The whole point is that both don't want to actually kill eachother

orchid lark
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yeah

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why the fuck would they?

crimson kayak
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Ench why the lion the second time doesn't literally one shot him

dense mortar
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Plus, how many untol lives did he save at Prospero?

orchid lark
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untol

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what

dense mortar
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untold

orchid lark
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probably none, since he was tricked by horus

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to raze the planet

dense mortar
orchid lark
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like, thats a major plot point

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that Horus changed the orders

dense mortar
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Lets all be honest, TS was headed for the darkside no matter what

orchid lark
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not really

dense mortar
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ATLEAST Russ culled the herd before they did

crimson kayak
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Ench why it was a ploy from horus

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It's like... Actually stated

dense mortar
orchid lark
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yeah

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no they werent

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what

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just because we know the ending, doesnt mean they did

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the fuck

crimson kayak
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Literally 3/4 of the traitor primarchs got tricked into heresy

dense mortar
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There connection to the chaos tain predates prospero

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clearly

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and Magnus was on a quest for forbidden knowledge

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no matter what

orchid lark
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there is chaos taint on Caliban?

dense mortar
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they were turning

orchid lark
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was the Lion supposed to be a traitor?

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there was divine worshipping on Baal

crimson kayak
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Flesh change was a gene-seed problem

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Not a chaos problem

orchid lark
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was Sanguinius supposed to be a traitor?

dense mortar
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The Legion was already deeply entwined with the Warp and had embraced psychic abilities to an extent that made them vulnerable to Chaos corruption. This inherent susceptibility to the temptations of Chaos suggests that the seeds of heresy were already present within the Thousand Sons' ranks

orchid lark
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you do realise

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that

crimson kayak
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Vulnerahle

dense mortar
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Its all very clear

orchid lark
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Space Wolves

crimson kayak
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Vulnerable

orchid lark
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still used psykers

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even after the Edict right?

dense mortar
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for the most part

orchid lark
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there were no codexes

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it was an EDICT

dense mortar
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And I want to make a very important point of order

orchid lark
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they werent Death Guard who despised psykers bud

dense mortar
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they are not Psykers

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They are Rune Priests

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Shamans essentially

orchid lark
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yeah

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Psykers

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like Stormseers

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or Word Bearer Esoterists

crimson kayak
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They still use the warp

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As the spirits of fenris are warp entities

orchid lark
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it was just copium

crimson kayak
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Also yeah there was no codex at nikea

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As you know... There was only legions

orchid lark
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each legion had their own martial culture at that point too

dense mortar
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Rune Priests undergo extensive training to learn how to control and direct these psychic energies

orchid lark
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like the Hexagrammaton for Dark Angels

dense mortar
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I cant think of one that ever turned

orchid lark
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Spheres of Combat for Imperial Fists (is that what it was called?)

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well, obviously there wouldnt be lore for it, because theres no demand for it outside of making it your guys

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and just for you, I'll make my next chaos warband led by a chaos rune priest

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if Svane Wulfbad can be canon, so shall Ardyll Redstorm

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Blackguard Priest Lord of the uh

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Fangs of Wrath

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sure

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a new chaos warband dropped

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ah fuck it, I'll just block you

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thats just an easier and good way to live my life

crimson kayak
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Btw we do have chaos space wolves

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There's a bunch of red corsairs that are ex sw

crimson kayak
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Hell, As each and every single sanctioned Psyker in the imperium does

dense mortar
crimson kayak
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There's literal members that just switched flag and went red corsair

odd palm
crimson kayak
orchid lark
odd palm
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Yeah

orchid lark
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also was it even Fists

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oh okay

odd palm
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Yeah IF thing

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But yeah, no lineage is exponentially more resistant to chaos than another

dense mortar
crimson kayak
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And when chapters turn traitor like, once every week now?

minor ingot
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I thought I was a loyalist

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This guy living in the actual 41st millennium as a fenrisian peasant

crimson kayak
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Also "Skyrar's Dark Wolves" known for attacking Fenris and being stopped by the Space Wolves when they do attack elsewhere

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It's like saying the Fallen are not Dark Angels come on

minor ingot
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Cheap dark angels knock off space wolves

orchid lark
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im a firm believer of blocking people

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it works wonders

crimson kayak
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Lol

minor ingot
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Lol

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I'm not gonna block someone because they have entertaining takes

orchid lark
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i wish it was entertaining

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its like talking to teenagers again man

minor ingot
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It is to me, it's like a puppy posting about how cool dogs are

dense mortar
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absolutely mad lads

orchid lark
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im 28 years old, I dont want to remember how I talked like when I was 14

minor ingot
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Lol

orchid lark
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its not even cringy or entertaining, its just unhelpful

minor ingot
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Boys simp for the space wolves

orchid lark
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gives a bad rep for it

minor ingot
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Men simp for the Emperor the best bad father in the galaxy

orchid lark
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when I do like to talk about wolves ffs

crimson kayak
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Meanwhile the points going against this is...

-The Space Wolves don't want to talk about them

orchid lark
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that new Sleep Token album tho huh

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also new Royal Blood stuff too

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exciting stuff in the british rock scene

minor ingot
orchid lark
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they got amazing potential, that has been done with, with some of the wolf lords

minor ingot
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Like ultramarine or dark angels work as space marine themes better cause the 1 to 1 relation of a Roman legion or Arthurian knights is way easier to put into a space marine chapter

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White scars and space wolves have been done dirty

orchid lark
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Space Wolves as a whole does

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kinda make it hard to fit in like

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the grand scheme of the imperium

minor ingot
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Yeah

orchid lark
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it can fit in PER great company

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but as a whole

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its kinda just

minor ingot
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Space wolves and white scars should have been like black templars

orchid lark
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no

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nah white scars are fine

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i think for the most part they work well enough as auxillary forces or hit squads

minor ingot
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Huge chapters each with like big raiding party divisions so each one is like a "longship" raiding party in space

dense mortar
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Heres what I know gentlepeople. If any of you ever have the unlucky circumstance to find yourself knee deep in Heretic shit with now ammo, the one person your gonna want by yourside is a SW. Everytime.

minor ingot
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Like the 20 og legions should be like

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Well not 20

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You k ow what I mean

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The members of the first founding should not feel like a subsequent founding chapter

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And white scars/iron hands/raven guard do a lot of the time

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Only one that gets a TINY bit kf love is salamanders

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Even then not much

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Blood Raven get more love than half of the og chapters

orchid lark
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to be fair for Raven Guard, theyve always kinda stuck with decentralized leadership

orchid lark
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strike forces and what not

plush mason
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you know. if GW made the table top in line with the lore the SMs wouldnt be a faction. they would just be a high value option within the imperial guard/sisters of battle

orchid lark
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that would be kinda cool honestly

plush mason
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yeah

orchid lark
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but at the same time,

minor ingot
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I mean, you can already do that

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But they are their own faction in lote

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Lore

orchid lark
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if they force the mixing thing, i think, a lot of things are gonna be like

minor ingot
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It's just nominal subservience to the adeptus terra

orchid lark
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just not used and taken out

plush mason
minor ingot
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Yeah, but in practice they are fighting alone as like deep strike spec ops

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So in a tabletop game they would 9 out of 10 times be alone on the field

orchid lark
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a space marine captain is technically higher ranked than most Imperial commanders

minor ingot
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Yeah lol

orchid lark
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so yeah space marines would be alone 70% of the campaign

minor ingot
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And even then if not if a space marine talks you listen

orchid lark
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the only time someone would see a marine, is like, at HQ and its just the Captain or Lieutenant getting info

minor ingot
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Even inquisitiors don't fuck around with marine chapters most of the time

orchid lark
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its like ODSTs and normal marines

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you know ODST assets are there

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but you wont necessarily meet them

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and maybe a spartan squad knocking about

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and if an entire chapter is there

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you know its bad bad

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i think as a guardsman

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if you hear space marine reinforcements and its like only a company or strikeforce

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you can breathe easy

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but if its an entire chapter, or a chapters worth of a unified strike force

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i dont think youre making it out alive

crimson kayak
plush mason
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^

orchid lark
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probably dead already lol

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or worst, theyre there for you

crimson kayak
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Meanwhile minotaurs, deploying exclusively on full strength

plush mason
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plus such a massive force of SMs would have likely joined the fleet as it headed to the world in question so most would already know how big this war will be

orchid lark
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Destroyer Pattern Fleet

plush mason
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does that chapter still exist after the high lord's idiotic coup attempt?

orchid lark
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only time my homebrew main chapter seperated as a fleet, is for devastation of baal

crimson kayak
orchid lark
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could you imagine how fucking impossible it would be to attack a first founding homeworld as a minotaur

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anyone else no problem

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but holy worlds?

green loom
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They were ready to jump the Phalanx

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No guarantee they'd succeed

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But they were willing

crimson kayak
plush mason
orchid lark
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imagine landing on deliverance and kiavhar, on raven guard home turf

crimson kayak
orchid lark
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or trying to siege quan zhou on the worst battlefield you can be on Chogoris

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yeah lets siege that mountain, whilst we're on flat lands

uneven temple
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Huron gave it a good run

orchid lark
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or lets land on the outskirts of this shitty prison planet that all raven guard knows the nook and cranny of

minor ingot
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Minotaurs don't have first founding plot armor

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So they'd lose unless it's a bullied chapter like iron ha ds

orchid lark
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what do you mean the dark angels had AI

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nah Iron Hands land fortress is mega crazy

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10 of them as well

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on a shitty planet unstable planet

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you cant make firebases on Medusa

minor ingot
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Fortresses mean nothing to the BL writer

orchid lark
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true

minor ingot
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Man I hate BL so much lmao

plush mason
crimson kayak
orchid lark
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you couldnt make firebases on Nocturne or Prometheus either

minor ingot
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Lol

orchid lark
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so far tyranids fought like what

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two homeworlds for first foundings?

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Macragge and Baal

minor ingot
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Yeah

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Lol remember when the chief librarian of the ultramarines 1v1d the goddamn hive mind during maccrage

plush mason
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isnt Macragge surrounded by a string of fortress worlds? how did the nids even get there

minor ingot
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That was retconned quick

plush mason
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fair point

orchid lark
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they dont exit ftl on the manderville points like most warp capable ships do

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they do the star wars thing

plush mason
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nothing keeps us out for long.. i mean them

orchid lark
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where they just super speed onto the planets gravity thing

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which is the most coolest way to explain their ftl

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like thats just cool

plush mason
crimson kayak
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Nids win by the book for the simply reason that they are the only ones acting like the galaxy is in 3 dimensions

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insert Hive fleet Leviathan attacking from Below the galactic plane for the millionth time

orchid lark
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but space is like an ocean bro

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i want eviller tyranids that come from top of the galactic plane

crimson kayak
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Wait didn't they already do that once?

plush mason
minor ingot
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Tyranids taking the scenic route lmao

orchid lark
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and from there the super event is that the galaxy breaks but the psychic powers of all races makes little pocket galaxies surrounding a big thing in the middle

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oh wait

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thats just AoS

minor ingot
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I can't wait until GW finds 40k sales lacking so before they do an AOS they release a risen emperor model for 1000 quid

crimson kayak
minor ingot
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Nah

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Sigmar is like a stereotypical dnd God now

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At least I think, I don't pay much attention to age of sugmar

crimson kayak
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No I meant end times wise

minor ingot
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Oh

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I honestly don't know

orchid lark
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dont think theyve ever done a model of him ever

minor ingot
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They keep that behind a glass case that says break in case of emergency

crimson kayak
minor ingot
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They made a nagash model didn't they

crimson kayak
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Yep, if I remember right it's also the current aos model

minor ingot
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Lol nice

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We stan our skelly boy

storm jungle
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nuking fantasy was also prob the best decision GW ever made

plush mason
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im sure 40k will end up just like fantasy was at somepoint. so bloated that they cant make a new edition so they will have to reset it

storm jungle
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Its entirely down to the tabletop side of things

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so we'll see

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40k has had a ton of rules/bloat issues regarding miniature stuff back in the day more than once.

orchid lark
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What if we added aircraft rules

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Fucked nearly everything

storm jungle
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AAAA

celest dome
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@crimson kayak neither Valten nor Karl got a Sigmar possessed model, nor rule iird

storm jungle
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Valten had a model i swear to god

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or its my old woman brain acting up

crimson kayak
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Valten has 4 models totsl

storm jungle
#

okay good im not crazy

#

a true son of sigmah

crimson kayak
celest dome
#

4 ? Didn't he have 3 ?

crimson kayak
#

It's from epic scale

plush mason
#

when the barbarian multi classes into cleric

storm jungle
#

oh shit Lil Siggy

coarse pumice
coarse pumice
#

5th and earlier WH and 2nd 40k as contemporaries to each other were such a different beast

#

though I always maintained that a fixed 2nd edition would be a more flavourful and smooth game than the 3rd edition variants (which did get super bloated, e.g.
2nd edition had a movement stat - it was a value and you could move that much. 3rd edition removed it, but because of the armies in, had to have something to represent different levels of movement so instead of just having a movement stat that was lower for slower and higher for faster, they basically had to have different special rules to represent different values instead of just printing a number and this was just the start of the problems with 3rds paradigm)

arctic talon
#

10th is prolly gona be the least bloated 40k will be in a while

#

Even if GW releases supplements the game is much more streamlined then any other edition

plush mason
#

so no 40k endtimes for a while then

arctic talon
plush mason
#

true

summer rover
#

there's going to be so many stupid keywords added that it makes it effectively the most bloated edition. it's gonna be the yugioh style bloat again

storm jungle
#

so its entirely down to GW to screw it up

#

which hasnt happened yet so we're fine

plush mason
#

ofc in those cases ether it will just the TT that dies and the IP just goes full digital and literary or the whole IP dies as does GW

summer rover
#

GW will never abandon the minis game, it's in their charter.

plush mason
#

well if all of hobby gaming dies due to irl problems they wont have a choice

summer rover
#

it's more like GW will die before 40k does.

arctic talon
#

Considering the rules got leaked

#

again

plush mason
#

lol

arctic talon
#

TLDR this edition is the least bloated by far

#

Just in terms of raw rules

#

Also objective secured doesn’t exist anymore either

#

Which cuts down on tiles confusion

#

You just do addition now

storm jungle
#

companies go down

#

franchises usually dont

arctic talon
#

Yeah

#

GW is in no danger of dying for now

#

Unlike back in 40k 7e lul

#

The closest GW has come to dying has already passed for now

desert dust
#

Tbh I think the video games to YT videos are a great entry for all the books and audiobooks.

reef kite
#

Darktide was my gateway into killteam

#

So yeah it’s working alive and well

balmy abyss
#

I got into Warhammer back with the first Dawn of War and a high school friend.

plush mason
#

it was the 2nd dawn of war for me

#

i still remember walking thru the video game ales and seeing the cover art

orchid lark
#

Started with Dark crusade

#

Although the first time ive seen 40k was like

#

The 2000s

green loom
#

My first exposure to 40k was Dawn of War 1 in like... 2006

#

Then in 2015 I managed to find it again

#

And down the rabbit hole I went

queen laurel
#

The image of the war boss silhouette was burned on my mind

#

After finding it again it was basically just the words you were as beautiful as the day i lost you

green loom
#

I remembered the icon specifically lmao

#

And the opening/first two missions vaguely

queen laurel
#

Yeah gorgutz silhouette was the one burned on my mind

#

I guess that explains why i like the orks

green loom
#

But memories from when you're 3 years old and barely able to speak your own language, let alone a foreign one, aren't particularly reliable

queen laurel
#

I just thought he could take on any one

#

But sometime later opening the game became impossible and i just gave up on playing it

#

So i just play the other games available in the computer shop

silver pollen
#

Technically first DoW was the entry point for plenty of people.

#

Video games are way more accessible than tabletop - prices of the latter make it quite "elitist" hobby.

#

Sometimes I have a burning suspicion that GW deliberately sabotaged all 40K strategies after DoW so that tabletop has no competitors in its own genre niche.

plush mason
#

lol

shadow plover
#

That's a pretty foil hat tier conspiracy

silver pollen
#

Well, DoW 2 and 3 are hard to explain otherwise.

#

Okay, 2nd was experiment and sometimes you fuck up when experimenting.

#

But the 3rd...

shadow plover
#

GW has very little effect on the game development besides lore

plush mason
#

3rd was a case of relic just not being the company it use to be

shadow plover
#

And many people prefer 2nd

plush mason
#

you cant compare 1 and 2 imo

#

they are vastly different games

shadow plover
#

True enough, but one can prefer one to another

plush mason
#

true

#

frankly if ironlore hadnt died after dow1 2 would have likely been a lot different

plush mason
#

i still wonder why they made 2 an ARPG and not an RTS like 1 or 3

shadow plover
#

I wouldn't go that far calling it an ARPG

coarse pumice
#

Wasn’t 2 just company of heroes style

scenic bolt
#

both 1 and 2 were

shadow plover
#

Yeah instead of base building

plush mason
#

in campaign and last stand 2 was completely just a tactical ARPG

coarse pumice
#

1 was more traditional with base building

shadow plover
#

I don't really agree with that, still very much an RTS with RPG elements poked in

coarse pumice
#

The 2 campaign wasn’t like the normal game iirc

#

It was the story mode with your blood raven characters

plush mason
#

for me the campaign is the normal game and the multiplayer is an addon

scenic bolt
#

3 was also made fully post THQ bankruptcy, 1 and 2 weren't

plush mason
#

that too

coarse pumice
#

While when you skirmish, it was like company rts

plush mason
shadow plover
#

The campaign had 3-4 hero units with or without a squad attached to them and you could get extra units to run alongside them. All of which would complete the orders given to them without a need for constant player agency like in an ARPG game would need you constantly controlling your character

scenic bolt
#

sega at the time was also financially hurting hard at that point in time so they were likely a culprit in pushing the game's direction into something more monetizeable

plush mason
#

all the heroes squad or not had gear and leveling and all of them had to be use manually in terms of using their skills and powers

shadow plover
#

It was still very different from an ARPG

plush mason
#

its a tactical ARPG

#

like pathfinder

shadow plover
#

The most telling thing that differs it from an ARPG is that I didn't despise it unlike every ARPG I've played, I enjoyed DoW2 quite a bit

plush mason
#

lol

arctic talon
#

lol

plush mason
#

imo if its got an isometric camara and gearing its an ARPG, if it has that and squad based tactical combat its a tactical ARPG

#

the fixed isometric camara is basically the only thing separating an ARPG from a typical RPG

arctic talon
#

It’s a diet arpg imo

plush mason
#

yeah

arctic talon
#

It’s got a ton of elements of ones but it doesn’t fully commit

#

Except for last stand

#

For last stand it goes all in lmao

plush mason
#

yeah

#

outside of that its a tactical arpg purely due to the squad based combat

#

and then pvp is the more rts/rpg hybrid

silver pollen
arctic talon
#

Lol

plush mason
#

im fairly sure like half of all the blood ravens memes come purely from dow2

#

hell them being called magpies comes solely from 2 afaik

arctic talon
#

It does

#

The only memes that aren’t

#

Are the really shitty speech

plush mason
#

yeah

crimson kayak
#

The only blood raven meme's I remember from before dow2 where the trailer-dude scream and Boreale, like... Just boreale in his whole

plush mason
#

Boreale was a meme even in game lol

crimson kayak
#

Imo the best meme from Dow will always be the 1000 lost baneblades

orchid lark
#

boreales speech is something i reference often enough with friends

plush mason
#

still was very funny

crimson kayak
silver pollen
#

What's the meme with Baneblades?

plush mason
#

the BANEBLADE! one is from dow2

#

specifically the space marine campaign of retribution

silver pollen
#

And?

#

I'm lacking context.

#

Finished only Ork campaign in that part.

plush mason
# silver pollen I'm lacking context.

oh in that campaign your lead character is diamides and in the 2nd mission with the baneblade he shouts "IT IS THE BANEBLADE" and the meme is just him yelling that a lot or in out of context ways lol

silver pollen
#

And what of "lost baneblades"?

plush mason
#

oh that

#

i actually havent heard of any memes about it but in dow1 soulstorm when you attack the imperial guard main base there is a cutscene where the lord general and his top commissar are discussing what is going on and the commissar tells the lord general that a full company of baneblades had just been deployed to other fronts which is funny because by that point they dont have any other fronts and are under attack in their main base

silver pollen
#

Sounds like a fuck up of Administratum who has just happened to send Baneblade company to some other planet.

#

I'd interpret it this way.

green loom
#

Or the guardman is just very well connected

silver pollen
#

Company of Baneblades - how many tanks is that?

#

They are rare AF after all, Leman Russ being the MBT.

storm jungle
#

Its basically just a writing hickup

#

administratum is stupid but they are not that incompetent

#

any smart person getting that order would stop any of those baneblades from being sent out

shadow plover
#

If it follows any modern armoured company strengths it would be around 12-15

green loom
#

You have lots of random weird writing in Dow to justify fights
Like the sisters killing everyone
A single guardsman summoning a traitor warband
Me getting commissioned

storm jungle
#

^

#

Its very stupid lol

#

No sororitas order would get away with wiping out an Astartes Company and Guard regiment across 3-4 planets

green loom
#

Tbf they didn't, the Orks did

orchid lark
#

we dont know how the fight went down

silver pollen
storm jungle
#

Im talking alternatively KEKW_ogryn

green loom
#

Yes we do

#

DoW 2 confirms it I think

storm jungle
#

not boxes of guns

orchid lark
#

Orks won

#

Boreale Died there

#

Boreale died there...

silver pollen
storm jungle
#

you do that your reputation will be pretty much sullied

orchid lark
#

I sure do love killing somebody based on rumours

storm jungle
#

and no other imperial fighting group will ever lend a hand to you

orchid lark
#

I am the hero

silver pollen
storm jungle
#

its a fucking baneblade

#

literal STC tier equipment

#

even a single baneblade is considered rare in a guard regiment

orchid lark
#

dont baneblades take like

#

decades to build

storm jungle
#

Yes lmao

#

no fucking moron will let 15 of those things go somewhere unannounced

orchid lark
#

i think in 30k, Glorianas themselves needed 15% of Mars itself at any given time to be made

#

imagine demanding a forgeworld or an industrial world being asked to make 10 baneblades

silver pollen
orchid lark
#

imagine the celebration afterwards on an industrial planet too

#

You are mandated one whole day of hanky pank

green loom
#

Atoman alloy is good because they throw the bodies of dead menials into the smelter

silver pollen
orchid lark
#

I think lorewise, the material needed to make a Leviathan Dreadnought is like on par with a knight

#

a lot of intricate parts

green loom
#

Those would be the same menials

orchid lark
#

kinda like how it takes a shit load of aluminium to make a jet

silver pollen
orchid lark
#

i miss Pacific Rim and Evangelion

#

and how they described how fucking hard it was make to make a jaeger or a EVA unit

storm jungle
#

Pacific Rim 1 is so good

#

the weight of those fucking jaegars is muah

orchid lark
#

I liked 2 because I saw robots fight robots

green loom
#

Apart from the main robot having a slur KEKW_ogryn

orchid lark
#

1 was just a fantastic movie

#

yeah...

storm jungle
green loom
orchid lark
#

I didnt go into 2 hoping for a shakespearen film

#

i WANTED giant robots fighting

#

AND I got it

storm jungle
orchid lark
#

not even manager, just a bad script

#

he got shafted for the star wars movie

#

fuck Kathleen

green loom
#

Idk i think his manager is fine since he gets him in go big title movies, that just happen to all suck horribly KEKW_ogryn

orchid lark
#

he would be happy to work with everyone again, but he just wants better scripts

storm jungle
#

yeah the guy is very visibly fed up

orchid lark
#

but at least we got a finn film in the first and ONLY star wars sequel

green loom
#

I'm dreading what will spawn out of Cavill being allowed to do Warhammer stuff

#

I'm 99% certain it's all a PR stunt

orchid lark
#

if anything, I think he's smart enough to not do space marine shit

#

which is dangerous as is

#

like Space Marine Stories have very little lore cohesion

#

thats for sure

#

but the second its out of that space marine sphere

#

its anything fucking goes

#

like if you make a necromunda show

#

is it even 40k?

#

or just Sci Fi randomness

vernal locust
#

With enough skulls, anything will be 40k

orchid lark
#

will Cavill lead a good show, maybe, will it be fantastic? No

#

but heres the thing

#

if we dont watch it

#

or talk about it

#

we wont ever get anything 40k on the screen for a long time

#

its like Star Wars hardcore fans

#

having to go through

#

endless amounts of EU stuff way back when in forms of books

#

or even Ewok Adventures

#

to get the Prequels or games

#

some things, we just have to go through

ripe ravine
#

i'm sure people will hate watch it like they do with halo

#

if it's not any good

orchid lark
#

shouldve done a Grey Team show

#

that wouldve been better

green loom
#

Cavills stuff has always varied from mid to legendary garbage

orchid lark
#

I dont know about legendary

#

but sometimes

green loom
#

Justice League lel

ripe ravine
#

I don't know how many production credits the guy has, but whether its good or bad kind of seems like it depends on way more than one actor being cast

orchid lark
#

Justice League Snyder Cut was purrdy good, Ive never watched the Whedon cut

green loom
#

I want to make a gas chamber joke

#

But i won't

orchid lark
#

you can only hit homeruns if you step on base

ripe ravine
#

yeah i'm still in favor of the attempt why not

orchid lark
#

again, if we like 40k a lot, and I fucking do, I will smile and say thanks to Cavill

#

I dont want a drought

#

and GW pussyfooting with the IP

green loom
#

There are no bad shows in Nottingham

ripe ravine
#

normally I'd be like idk if 40k can be adapted well but fuck it they made a good dune movie anything's possible

#

granted the solution to the dune puzzle was "throw money at it"

orchid lark
#

and have the tech for it

crisp heath
#

I still don't even like the Dune movie lmao

#

Unadaptable

orchid lark
#

what the fuck

crisp heath
#

It looks pretty, not a fan of the casting, doesn't capture the essence of Dune for me. Feels hollow.

orchid lark
#

i mean the most accurate attempt to a dune book to movie would be some lady narrating a documentary

crisp heath
#

Yes that would be wonderful

#

I would love that so much

orchid lark
#

dont tell me youre one of the people who think FLorence Pugh is a bad cast for Irulan

crisp heath
#

Oh no whenever I think of bad Dune casting I think of Timothy whatever his name is as Paul, especially since they went all in on making him broody

ripe ravine
#

adaptations don't have to be perfect for me some of the best adaptations I think have altered source material but if a movie's pacing or cast doesn't do it for you that's a subjective thing and it is what it is

orchid lark
#

ill say this, we should be grateful for Chalamet, if it aint him, it would be the good doctor, asa butterfield, or holland

#

and hell no to those 3

crisp heath
#

My take on the Dune movie is that I actually liked some of the characters who weren't Alia or Kynes, and I also wasn't in physical pain at any point in the film

shadow plover
#

I think Chalamet is great in it

crisp heath
#

Which means it didn't capture why I like Dune

orchid lark
#

alia wasnt in the film yet

#

howd you watch the sequels already

crisp heath
#

??

orchid lark
green loom
#

I liked Oscar as Leto and Gurney thumbsup_ogryn

orchid lark
#

Alia Atreides?

crisp heath
#

No I'm just saying Alia and Kynes are the only likable people in the entire setting

#

Duncans aight

#

If I ever catch myself being enthusiastic (positive) for a character who isn't Alia or Kynes that means I'm going to demand shittier characters, simple as

ripe ravine
#

Doctor Yueh did nothing wrong

green loom
orchid lark
#

What did Donkey Kongs fan do to you

crisp heath
#

I want a Dune movie that I must suffer through

#

I must leave the theater purged of joy

#

The world must be reduced to a morass

#

It's like how Daggerfall wouldn't be fun if you didn't hate yourself a little more after playing for 5 minutes

ripe ravine
#

why not just go see Fast X

orchid lark
#

i gotta watch that

#

i made myself two years ago watch the fourth film to ninth film in less than 3 days

#

worst 3 days of my life

ripe ravine
#

its ok you did it for family

orchid lark
#

like ill say this confidently

#

just watch till the 5th film

#

and like

#

thats it

#

its just shittier hotwheels from the 6th film to the ninth film

shadow plover
#

Haven't watched fast and furious movies after the second one, only the recent Caravan of Garbage episodes on them on YouTube and boy are those movies stupid KEKW_ogryn

orchid lark
#

I gotta support the series because I have respect for Michelle Rodriguez

shadow plover
#

And all power to you if you enjoy them

orchid lark
#

nah, something Rodriguez said years ago stuck with me

#

she was always the angry latina or the female badass that dies early

#

the fast and furious films kinda helped her get jobs that werent that

#

and Vin Diesel is just a goofball

#

i hope the fast and furious films funnel in money for his Riddick films

plush mason
plush mason
#

its was the entire base's baneblade force

orchid lark
#

Dilara was using 15 as an example,

#

even 15 would be crazy to lose

#

hell even 1 is bad

queen laurel
plush mason
#

btw the imperial guard HQ was on the system's main baneblade production facility. ngl a system with the ability to make 100 baneblades and maintain them seems like something the imperium would never accept losing

storm jungle
#

💀

#

THATS EVEN WORSE

#

100 baneblades is like a horus heresy size engagement

#

you know, back when these things were plentiful af

plush mason
#

yeah

#

ofc a warpstorm in your system is kind of a big problem

shadow plover
#

A company being a hundred baneblades seems just silly in scale even for warhammer

plush mason
#

ikr

#

wait i think the word "contingent" was used but its still insane

plush mason
#

ok

#

still emptying the HQ of all its baneblades was a bit of a dumb move

crimson kayak
#

oh shit we got cosmetic lore bits again with the update

#

oh no wait lol half of them are just REDACTED or literal description of the item in game terms

storm jungle
#

lmao owned

crimson kayak
#

also also!

ripe ravine
#

mfw I don't have clearance for cool lore

crimson kayak
#

the meatshield cosmetics are apparently part of squad leader

#

as they are called Veteran Drill Sergeant instead of Veteran Grunt like the old ones

#

(also also also there's close to no proof reading)

#

i find it funny also how all vet cosmetics are apparently imperial navy colors

#

with the duty set even implying we are now part of the Navy

#

Breacher class confirmed (/s)

ripe ravine
#

please give me breacher veteran cosmetic

#

the new killteam looks so cool

crimson kayak
#

sadly we didn't have enough resources to armor the east

green loom
#

If they let me I'd apply to proofread for free

#

At least I'd get some use out of my Linguistics studies clown_hadron

crimson kayak
#

some items even have the wrong description

#

also we have now lore about another noble house (Barquette) that's a rival of the current governor dinasty (Margrave), wich probably hints at who the "allies inside the hive" are for the heretics in the new missions

fervent folio
#

Yo, I've got a question if i may

#

Was it ever referenced what the process of choosing which Psykers get taken into the Astra Telepathica and other Imperial organizations and which ones get fed to the golden throne is?

#

Like, why does Psyker A become an Astropath or Navigater, while Psyker B gets fed to the throne ?

green loom
#

I think it's just luck, how stable and how powerful they are

plush mason
#

^

#

also navigators arent psykers

#

they have a different mutation which is a 3rd eye that lets them see the warp

tawdry escarp
#

Sometimes it's Inquisitorial intervention

plush mason
#

iirc the black ships have ways to test the psykers imprisoned abord and thats where their fate is determined normally

balmy abyss
#

they are psykers according to the inquisition since the "warp eye" is considered a psychic ability.

plush mason
#

yeah buts its also a physical mutation afaik

#

navigators are one of the few abhumans to have real wealth and power in the imperium because without them their can be no FTL travel

balmy abyss
#

it is the only psychic ability they will ever possess. It does not exclude them from being defined as psychers.

plush mason
#

fair

fervent folio
#

Is there any reference to that process anywhere in 40k lore though ?

#

I'd like to read up on it, thats why im asking

storm jungle
#

psykers being chosen you mean?

plush mason
#

the black ship tests?

balmy abyss
#

they tend to be bred but if for some rare occasion one is found on say black ship, they are either exterminated quickly or taken to be trained depending on how far along they are and other factors.

fervent folio
#

Exactly. The process that defines what psyker becomes a member of some imperial institution and which just gets yeeted into the thronebeam

storm jungle
#

Theres literally like a single astra telepathica book about it

#

it explains the whole hogwartsian (yes i made that term up sue me) process of it in detail

#

nothing gets done on black ships though thats confirmed in a Dawn of Fire book

#

you are just entirely sleep deprived and hit with flashing lights and blaring noises constantly while sitting in your own shit lol

#

Its incredibly grim

fervent folio
plush mason
#

oh mb

storm jungle
fervent folio
#

I need the name though

#

XD

storm jungle
#

Uhh 1 sec

green loom
fervent folio
#

Because the whole psykers and warptravel aspect of 40k is incredibly interesting if you ask me

plush mason
tawdry escarp
#

If you get chosen to go through the Astra Telepathica and make it through, you get thrown into a group of Wyrdvane Psykers. If you manage to survive deployment, you get a shiny Primaris sticker star

fervent folio
storm jungle
#

this book is from the mid 2000's but its still great

plush mason
fervent folio
#

true

#

What would also interest me, is how the whole relation of the materium and the immaterium works

#

I mean, i know there are gellar fields that produce a bubble of realspace that protects ships from the warp

green loom
#

The warp is, literally, a "sea" of souls

storm jungle
#

Yeah its literally just that

fervent folio
#

But, how exactly does the warp influence something that isnt protected by such a field

storm jungle
#

A lot

fervent folio
#

and are there planets in the warp

storm jungle
#

Yes

fervent folio
#

And if so, how does "matter" behave in the warp

storm jungle
#

Also it does and doesnt

#

the Warp basically works at the whims of the plot

green loom
#

It's not physicality, it's abstract concepts without form ever shifting in an ocean of emotion that may not exist

storm jungle
#

it defies physical laws

#

and yeah that

#

Its literally a sea of souls as Ederius said, this flexibility helps with the writers writing whatever the fuck they want in it

green loom
#

Does it make sense? No
That's why, generally, you go insane when exposed to it straight up

tawdry escarp
#

If something from the Materium is there, it's place is being maintained by something powerful

storm jungle
#

But thats the general gist of it

fervent folio
tawdry escarp
#

Yes

storm jungle
#

Thats not a planet

#

its literally right beneath/around his throne

green loom
#

I think the realms of each god are more "physical" in a sense wed understand

storm jungle
#

Also that too lol

summer rover
#

i mean, he could have wedged a planet back there.

#

for lumbar support.

storm jungle
fervent folio
#

I am fairly certain though that I've read about when the cicatrix maledictum spread, that some planets got straight up plumetted into the warp

summer rover
#

khorne seems like the type to have a skull-draped laz-e-boi and call it his throne.

plush mason
#

not even time exists in the warp. a fleet can set off from port and arrive at their destination years before they ever left

fervent folio
#

and that chaos straight up DID that to some other worlds

storm jungle
#

Yeah the Warp swallowed lots of stuff

#

giggity

summer rover
#

it usually spits it back out. eventually.

fervent folio
summer rover
#

nah, those are because the old warp drives sometimes malfunctioned.

green loom
#

When the veil thins reality gets all fucky, it's still there but daemons can come and go, mutation is rampant
It's chaos

tawdry escarp
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Aeldari Craft worlds that got sucked into the Warp during the birth of Slaneesh are called Crone Worlds

storm jungle
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thats not craftworlds

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those are planets

green loom
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Crone worlds are the former heart of the aeldari empire

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Iirc

tawdry escarp
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Those were colony worlds?

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Damn

storm jungle
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the colony worlds are Maiden Worlds

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you get an F+ on your test mister

tawdry escarp
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Where the Exodite live

green loom
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Do I get a B

storm jungle
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Yeah thats the Maiden Worlds

storm jungle
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correct

fervent folio
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Shame, the "Blind" book isnt on audible yet

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Gotta read it then

storm jungle
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"yet"

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how do we tell him

plush mason
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are exodites and craftworld eldar allies?

storm jungle
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Mostly yes

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Exodites are literally wood elves

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they are planet bound and dont ever really leave their worlds

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its why craftworld eldar come to help them out when they are in trouble

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imagine them like your family out living in the woods

plush mason
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i have a lot of those lol

storm jungle
fervent folio
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Eldar travel FTL via the webway, was it ?

storm jungle
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Yep

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they dont use the Warp

green loom
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But said family may or may not need help since they have a portable iron curtain system and pet dinosaurs

tawdry escarp
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Could an Exodite leave?

storm jungle
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Yeah they can at any time

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Its more just uh

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saying goodbye to your community/family

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especially if you are going out adventuring

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so basically lots of "hey bro you shouldnt probably go"

tawdry escarp
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I like the concept of dinosaur riding elves

storm jungle
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Universally cool 👌

tawdry escarp
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There needs to be more Exodite stuff

storm jungle
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they will get their day at some point

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easy nostalgia money

plush mason
fervent folio
tawdry escarp
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As for my spotty Eldar knowledge: I just kinda skimmed the Lexi wiki

storm jungle
fervent folio
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Oh, i see

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^^

storm jungle
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A lot of the creative 40k books are from the mid 2000's periods

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only the "newer" stuff get audiobooks usually

fervent folio
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I've been listening to all of Ciaphas cain lately and book 10 isnt on there yet

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But the voice actor for Cain is fantastic

plush mason
storm jungle
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or sometimes just never do it lol

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its why i dont usually bother with audiobooks

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Audio Dramas on the other hand

tawdry escarp
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If they do more Exodite stuff, they need to get someone else to write the books

storm jungle
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one day