#40k-lore-chat

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green loom
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Imperial armour does logistics a ton

storm jungle
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^

green loom
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The downside of logistics is that

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It's logistics

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And absurdly boring

storm jungle
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Imperial Armor is the ONLY place you'll read about logistics yeah

arctic talon
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People don’t find them intresting

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As neat as it is

green loom
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Lemme tell ya, running ammo for 5 hours is not my idea of fun

arctic talon
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Lul

storm jungle
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Lmao

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Eldar is much more "medieval" or greek-city states yeah

arctic talon
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Just fucking portal in a replacement tank

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💀

storm jungle
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just counting battle-groups and what warriors you will be taking

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not uh

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HOW MANY NADES

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HOW MUCH FOOD

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HOW MANY MEN

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HOW MANY VEHICLES

arctic talon
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Guard running out of grenades

storm jungle
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💀

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Taros Campaign is a great example

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Imps ran out of supplies and got their ass kicked

arctic talon
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Those budget cuts hurt elysia

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There’s also the uh

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Tyranid one

arctic talon
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Where they run out of tank shells lol

storm jungle
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Anphillion Project yup

arctic talon
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And then get over run by a bio titan

storm jungle
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No even better

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Inquisitor kills a bio-titan all by himself

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another fucking one shows up from the fog

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book ends there

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KEK

arctic talon
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LOL

storm jungle
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Yeah and then you cut to the logistics parts

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and it just says the mission was an absolute failure

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god I love Imperial Armor

green loom
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But yeah logistics is funny

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If you pay it too much mind you'll probably hate yourself

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Like most of the people here

arctic talon
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Imperial armor has a lot of dry humor

green loom
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Just in time for the.... holidays?

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celest dome
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You could do it faster and with less people by having the truck just deliver to the final line directly, or maybe having only 1 buffer lifter

safe vigil
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A Bolter appeared in a comic i'm reading

green loom
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Is that marvel

safe vigil
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2000AD

green loom
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A

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I remember Marvel using tau models in their comics at one point KEKW_ogryn

storm jungle
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so that checks out

safe vigil
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Aye

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Definetly in style during the very early years. The kinda... slightly juevinile, punk, post-pop political satire

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I'd love to see people talk more about the topic

storm jungle
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its very underrated beyond some other circles

safe vigil
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yeah when people talk comics it's only ever DC and Marvel

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hell. Warhammer had a monthly comic strip for like 20 years

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but those comics definetly took themselves more seriously then the average 2000ad Prog

storm jungle
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yeah Warhammer Monthly, miss that a lot

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shame it just died because GW didnt wanna invest in it

safe vigil
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The Comic Book market is really really small so I can understand dropping it. The most popular batman comic at any given time only sell less then 50k units

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Which to me is small atleast for how big the cultural impact feels

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I trawled through Warhammer Monthly a while ago to read all the Malus Darkblade strips.

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I... do not like the Strip format, must make it a real pain to read a single story from start to finish

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But 2000ad, Warhammer Monthly. They were exactly the kinds of stories I wanted to read as a kid.

storm jungle
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A lot of people grew up with em so i can entirely agree there

echo vault
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Are the auric class operatives just the imperial guardsmen we pass by in the start of some levels

green loom
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No

echo vault
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Because I don't think there's any groups super powerful involved no assassins no space marines

green loom
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Auric operatives are like us just fancy

warm notch
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A lot of people have blamed it on how difficult it is to get into American comics compared to manga that just start at Volume 1

green loom
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Actually I think we're basically the auric operatives now, seeing as we're doing auric missions

echo vault
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Ye thats what I was thinking I was watching a video that was like claiming it meant theres assassins or something like no thats dumb

green loom
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If you count us as assassins KEKW_ogryn

echo vault
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like the guardsmen we pass by are no different to us I guess?

green loom
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No they're actual military/pdf

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They have Atoman markings

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We're red and black, grey/blue is Atoman

echo vault
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huh i swear in my head i see the red and black outfits in a few of the levels like the ones on the ship

green loom
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Uhh maybe in like

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The refinery

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And

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Ugghh

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Yeah nah the refinery one

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There's a squad of like 5 I think

echo vault
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yeah maybe i haven't played in a while so maybe i'm misremembering

celest dome
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Auric Operatives are led by Melk, the Rejects by Morrow, but we're taking on missions that should fall on Melk's group

versed ledge
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Looks like aurics can't handle the fun

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Lmao

celest dome
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They probably get less replenishement than we do

arctic talon
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We’re doing their job with worse ammo

versed ledge
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What's ammo?

spring belfry
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warhammer just has the coolest lore, its so crazy in-depth

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i never played the tabletop or read a book, i think i just randomly got a youtube video recommendation years back about space marines or something and fell in love from there

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im excited for the henry cavill thing, i think hes supposed to be making a netflix show

near wasp
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Amazon

grave sparrow
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if it were anyone else but Cavill I think I could care less, but since Cavill has proven he is a stalwart lore follower, I'm excited

green loom
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That guy gets wanked on for doing absolutely nothing lmao

grave sparrow
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if by nothing you mean preventing writers from bastardizing lore and being a GAMER then HELLLL YEAH

jade holly
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I need this as a Zealot outfit NOW

jade holly
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We got a Commissar outfit for Vet

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Now it’s time for Inquisitor Zealot

green loom
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I wonder if anyone will make a spoiler thread for the Creed book before long

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Curious to see what happens

green loom
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Ashes of Cadia

storm jungle
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OH Ursula

green loom
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She's Creed smh

storm jungle
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Im waiting on a spoiler thing from Shaskais

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i dont trust r40klore because they are dumbasses that redtape any good juicy novel spoilers lol

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Every cosmetic that gets added has to be approved by GW

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its been like this since Vermintide, its pretty dumb

jade holly
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And I bet GW also decides the price of it

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Hence why Krieg was such a money trap

green loom
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They knew it'd sell

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And by god, it fkn did

jade holly
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Everywhere I go, I see the gas mask

green loom
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GW are quite experienced with whales you see

storm jungle
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What Ed said

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GW entirely knew lol

green loom
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They wouldn't have done sets for all classes if it was even barely in doubt

storm jungle
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Yeee

keen stratus
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and bought marauders instead

jade holly
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I was tempted but opted out of it

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I may try to get the Commissar outfit tho

storm jungle
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still in the shop, last page

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💀

nocturne crest
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Why...

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He looks like John C Reiley

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*John C. Reilly

grave sparrow
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So like, I get the whole thing about tech heresy and how it's basically a major plot.

But the fact that technology in the Imperium has remained stagnant for 10,000 years is mind boggling.

Like we went from horse drawn buggies to VTOL aircraft in the span of less than 100 years.

It seems so egregiously against human nature to remain that technologically stagnant for that long

storm jungle
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So okay let me tell you a secret

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stuff still gets invented

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the admech just lie about it

grave sparrow
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ok fair lol

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and I guess if some smart human makes some cool shit the arbites gonna just knock his entire hab block down

storm jungle
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Yeah basically its a mix of admech finding pre-existing tech to add to the Imperium's arsenal or just inventing shit in secret and calling it a new "discovery", keep in mind not a lot of the admech do this only the actually smart ones that know the mechanicus creed is bullshit do.

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The point is the non-invention thing is sitll very widespread and one of the reasons why the Imperium is a shithole.

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look at the Votann, they got advanced tech and work-forces that arent lobotimized innocent people and they are mostly doing great lol

nocturne crest
grave sparrow
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Not sanctioned, he's a HERETIC

nocturne crest
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Maybe there is an admech version of Thorite ideal

grave sparrow
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The Votann are entirely seperate from the Imperium though aren't they? I honestly don't know much about them other than they're squats lol

storm jungle
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Votann in 40k are basically abhumans that evolved into their own race through cloning.

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They still use semi-human looking tech it just has a dwarf flair.

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the point is that the Imperium has no reason to be doing anything its doing when you compare to Votann society.

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their entire thing is that they are self-defeating

grave sparrow
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This is true. How about the farsight enclaves? Are they faring well enough without the Etherals guiding them technology wise?

storm jungle
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Pretty much yeah, they just need supplies sometimes since they a rogue enclave but they are pretty much a Tau faction without the downsides.

grave sparrow
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So all the Etherals did was basically make the Tau mind controlled into servants, creating peace, and then the Tau were always smart enough to develop technology when they weren't yeeting pointy sticks at each other?

storm jungle
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We dont exactly know

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Its hinted to be a bit of mind control and just massive propaganda/reconditioning?

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Theres a fucking hilarious scene where an Ethereal literally goes

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"Kill yourself." to a tau and they just do it

arctic talon
arctic talon
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Still a tiny minority

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And he still believes in the greater good

jade holly
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Yeah but even a small crack can lead to a major hole if left unchecked

arctic talon
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He just doesn’t think the ethereals should be the ruling caste

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Which yeah pretty logical

jade holly
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All Farsight needs to do to begin removing the veil is to simply ask the right questions

arctic talon
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Doubt it

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The tau empire is super heavy with propaganda

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And farsight is dead to the public

safe vigil
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I believe

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Colonel 'Iron Hand' Straken has an australian accent

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but you could probably get awayy with any action star accent. Australian, German, Belgian... whatever Stallone has

dusky scroll
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But as far as I knew they left technology because technology was corrupting them into debauchery.

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What's a maiden world?

storm jungle
storm jungle
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Exodites still utilize tech.

safe vigil
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inhabited by amish dinosaur riding eldar that will kick your ass for stepping on their lawn

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wood elves

storm jungle
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With lasers

dusky scroll
storm jungle
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You kinda need an aesthetic lol

safe vigil
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and dinosaurs are kewl

storm jungle
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^

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its literally just that

dusky scroll
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that part, I understand..

storm jungle
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They still utilize normal eldar tech

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its just more Space Wood Elf

safe vigil
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for some reason they are criminally underutilized

dusky scroll
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Space Wood Elf... never thought I'd hear something like that.

storm jungle
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Welcome to 40k then

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we also got space orks

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and space samurai

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and space knights

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and space monks

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and space paladins

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long list

safe vigil
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space nuns

storm jungle
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that too

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lots of trademarks

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that and 40k is literally fantasy in space

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you'll see a lot of those tropes

safe vigil
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'nothing new under the sun' and all that

storm jungle
dusky scroll
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So they're not really a separate faction then? Just part of the Eldar population that decided to not to live on Spaceship and go green on the tech side and watched the animated series Dragon Booster?

storm jungle
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They are a seperate faction culturally, they are still the same race.

Its like how Dark Eldar are Dark Elves, Craftworld Eldar are High Elves and Exodites are Wood Elves

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and for Exodites yeah they wanted to literally be that one farm guy meme

dusky scroll
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Do Dark Eldars fight with Craftworld Eldars ?

storm jungle
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Dark Eldar fight with anyone

safe vigil
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everyone fights everyone in 40k

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including themselves

storm jungle
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^

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but they are mostly in their own dimension in the Webway chilling, they dont actively go to war, they commence raids for slaves

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they arent a big player in the galactic theatre

dusky scroll
storm jungle
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It depends from exodite world to exodite world

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and Dark Eldar will sometimes ally with Craftworld Eldar if they wanna get something out of it.

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its not a simple subject

safe vigil
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Commoragh is like a MC Esher painting if was a cyberpunk hellscape complete with military factions that more so resemble the mafia and street gangs that resemble tribes

storm jungle
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Basically detroit but more spikes and no physical laws.

safe vigil
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I think in one of the books the DEldar's best weapon was luring an Imperial Warparty into the city itself

storm jungle
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Yeah their future leader Vect also did this

storm jungle
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he stole a Salamanders battle-barge from realspace and let them wreck havoc on the upper spires of the city's central area

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that coincidentally killed all the noble families

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WHAT A TRAGEDY

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Anyway after that he let them leave and usurped them to become the sole tyrant of the city

dusky scroll
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Now a more... broader question, How big of a threat Necrons are compared to Orcs or Tyranids?

storm jungle
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EXTREMELY deadly

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Necrons got tech that is basically magic to us

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one Necron dynasty has a star map where if you click on a planet it just explodes lol

dusky scroll
storm jungle
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Still higher

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Eldar are a post-scarcity society

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Necrons in comparison mostly got all their tech unharmed

dusky scroll
storm jungle
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Slaanesh is not a sex god

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also its more that Eldar tech is already pretty advanced, its just not more destruction oriented like Necrons.

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the most basic necron weaponry can kill tanks lol

dusky scroll
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What's stopping them from making kebab out of rest of the factions then?

storm jungle
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A lot of things

arctic talon
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Eldar?

storm jungle
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Necrons have dynasties

safe vigil
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their dynasties are fractured

storm jungle
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^

arctic talon
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or Necrons

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Necrons are an absolute clusterfuck of internal politics

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they all hate each other

storm jungle
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Most necrons have been asleep for millennia, time has not been kind to them

safe vigil
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and it takes time to get them to agree to wake up and... then eventualyl wake up

arctic talon
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and also they're eepy

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Like most of the necron dynasties are like

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under 1% operational rn

safe vigil
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their ruling class is still harbouring grudges from the ancient era

storm jungle
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Also yeah Necrons need these downsides otherwise they'd entirely wipe out the entire setting lol

arctic talon
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its their throne worlds and like a few planets

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and thats it

storm jungle
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yeah they are uh

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oneo f the few factions that actively needs nerfing

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otherwise they kill everything

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lmao

arctic talon
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Also there's a necron dynasty that has their throne world inside of a sun

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lol

safe vigil
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Who wins

safe vigil
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a Necron Death moon full of troopers or a SoB Celestian with a few Krak Grenades

storm jungle
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Is the Celestian named

safe vigil
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ye

arctic talon
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Necrons fully awakend would no diff every faction but Pre-fall eldar

storm jungle
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damn

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necrons got no chance

arctic talon
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and even then uh

safe vigil
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Miriya

arctic talon
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its not great lol

storm jungle
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Yeah like uh

arctic talon
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for the Eldar

storm jungle
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the Imperium should be glad the Celestial Orrery

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is under the wardenship of a good necron dynasty

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lmao

dusky scroll
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In that martial tech meter, where do Tau stand?

storm jungle
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Tau are below Eldar and Necrons

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but above the Imperium

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they are pretty utopian techwise

arctic talon
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in terms of average tech Tau > Imperium

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in terms of peak of tech Imperium > tau

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but Tau have widespread super high tech stuff

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while in the Imeperium farmer blobimus is dying of dysentary

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because there isn't plumbing on his planet

safe vigil
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taht said I think their warp travel is under-devolped

arctic talon
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Its functional now

storm jungle
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its iffy

arctic talon
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as of 9e

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well

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"functional"

storm jungle
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because tau FTL capabilities also got retconned

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and unretconned

arctic talon
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don't use too many at once

storm jungle
safe vigil
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Right

arctic talon
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or else you'll tear a hole in reality

dusky scroll
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What's their (Tau) weakness then? Numbers?

storm jungle
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Yup

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you guessed it

jade holly
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In other words

arctic talon
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melee is a weakness for infantry if you can get to melee

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but don't punch a battlesuit lol

jade holly
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Sick the World Eaters or DG on them

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And see how long they last

arctic talon
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but the Tau lack numbers

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like badly

storm jungle
arctic talon
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they're the smallest faction in the setting bya long shot

jade holly
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You can’t shoot them all

storm jungle
jade holly
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at least not fast enough

storm jungle
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I maen they can

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💀

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literally drone spam

arctic talon
vast heart
storm jungle
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Tau also suffer from the fact that in a realistic war they'd absolutely beat the Imperium but your WW2 tactics somehow always become superior

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because dumbass writers

arctic talon
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Tau also are like

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way too hard to properly remove as well

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you have to put enough effort in you're fucked elsewhere

dusky scroll
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So, basically Human are just more civilized Orcs in a galaxy full of High-tech Aliens with population issues (of varying degree)?

jade holly
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Yeah the Tau, if they’re being smart, will almost always sit back and keep zoning out troops with their superior firepower and agile battle suits

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they have no reason to charge headlong into a fight

arctic talon
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in terms of how racist they are

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and in terms of how violent they are

storm jungle
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LMAO

arctic talon
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Humans are 10x more racist and 10x more violent

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then those pansy Orcs

jade holly
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Humanity is nothing more than a cautionary tale of how horrible we can become when driven to our most extreme to survive

arctic talon
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Like Humanity in 40k

vast heart
arctic talon
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makes some of the worst fucking evil forces in fantasy

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look good

dusky scroll
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Yeah... but 40k Orcs are not as mellow as regular orcs either...

jade holly
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It’s meant to show not only the horror but pure stubbornness and skill of how we can survive against all odds

arctic talon
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yeah but we're talking about generic fantasy orcs

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not 40k orks

jade holly
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40k Orks are fucking bonkers

dusky scroll
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And the biggest factor that favors the Imperium for survival is the number?

storm jungle
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And plot armor

jade holly
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That and their pure stubbornness

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and plot armor too I guess

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But mainly the stubbornness

arctic talon
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Number, stubborness, plot armor

safe vigil
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plot supported birth rates

storm jungle
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realistically speaking the Imperium would have collapsed without Big E years after the Horus Heresy

arctic talon
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yeah

storm jungle
arctic talon
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but its not fun

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as a setting

storm jungle
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yeah the Imperium survives because money

arctic talon
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lol

jade holly
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And let’s be honest here none of the factions would really be doing good right now besides maybe the nids, Chaos and the Necrons

dusky scroll
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Wow... it almost sounds like the Imperium won't be that much better off even if the Emperor revived.

storm jungle
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I maen yeah they wont

jade holly
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Well that’s the thing

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He ain’t even dead

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They’re using him as a gps

storm jungle
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Jim you are way too smart for your own good just gonna put that out there

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most newcomers cant even make these correct assumptions

arctic talon
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The Imperium is so incredibly fucked

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that nothing can save it

vast heart
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Just unplug his heart monitor GW

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Fuckin do it

jade holly
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I think the idea is to show the Imperium as the underdogs?

arctic talon
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nah

vast heart
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Make anathema

arctic talon
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they're never the under dogs

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as a whole

jade holly
vast heart
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Fucking do something with chaos please you've been moving pawns up the board for two decades make something happen goddamnit

arctic talon
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individually or in a battle they might be but the imperium is meant to be this decaying siezure having hulk

safe vigil
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the average human is an under dog

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the levithan military industrial complex of the Imperium is not

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well, as a whole

jade holly
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What faction would y’all say is doing the best off atm?

arctic talon
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Necrons by far

jade holly
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cause lord knows none of em are in a good position

arctic talon
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mostly since big daddy Sezerak just came home

safe vigil
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isolate a single system ad throw any threat at it and sure you got an under dog fit for a glorious last stand

vast heart
jade holly
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What was their dub?

queen laurel
# storm jungle yeah the Imperium survives because money

brother if i become a military general, even I who is a dumbass can give significant damage to the imperium, I think the only time they will stop me is when they pull out some ******** super weapon from out of nowhere because plot

arctic talon
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so

vast heart
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Warhammer needs to start killing off major characters again it feels disney-tier safe writing wise I am so far removed from the feeling of "Oh man I'm not even sure if this main character is gonna make it to the end of the chapter"

arctic talon
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I doubt Gw are going to make them get their shit stomped completely

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Warhammer never kills major characters

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like

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ever

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Like thats a constant

dusky scroll
arctic talon
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it took Endtimes for Fantasy to start killing off characters

vast heart
arctic talon
safe vigil
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Horus was always dead

arctic talon
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Like

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Chaos is absolutely beating the imperiums ass rn

queen laurel
# dusky scroll Horus?

he really doesn't count i mean they straight up just kill a character because they have no use for it

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There have been characters here who aren't even good that have been here for too long

safe vigil
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Horus is also mega dead

queen laurel
dusky scroll
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I have a question about Horus Heresy, He led his Space Marines into battle against the loyalists and the emperor. But how did Traitor guard and Dark Mechanicum came to be? Were they also convinced by Horus to fight for them?

queen laurel
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Chaos gives them an offer and they accepted

safe vigil
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Guard were angry because of the great crusade being so brutal and probably seeing it more like a Civil War

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Dark Mechanicum wanted to lift the restrictions the stopped them from going complete mad scientist

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well, it was the Imperial Army and other protectorates of the Imperium

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The institution of the Army would be split by Guilliman into Guard and Navy

queen laurel
safe vigil
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More interesting setting

queen laurel
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The old things can only keep up with the ever changing Galaxy for so long

jade holly
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Honestly, as much as the Space Marines are neat on a surface level, I think the other parts of the Imperium are cooler

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Like the Inquisitions

queen laurel
jade holly
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Aka the 40k equivalent to The Suicide Squad

queen laurel
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They may have not the best equipment and stuff

jade holly
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Also I mean just look at them

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You gotta admit that’s fucking dope

queen laurel
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but if they pull out the W just it's extra special

jade holly
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The Imperial Guard are where the true stubbornness and determination of humanity shines imo

safe vigil
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they allow for different stories to be told

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Space Marines are more like Greek demi-gods.

jade holly
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Space Marines are fun from a mythological standpoint

safe vigil
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Whilst Guard is your boots on the ground ww2 militrary fiction

jade holly
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And also SMs can get hella wacky

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But sometimes the wackiness of the legions and chapters are the fun parts

queen laurel
jade holly
queen laurel
jade holly
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Down to Trench Warfare and running headlong over No Man’s Land

jade holly
queen laurel
safe vigil
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sure

queen laurel
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They favour infantry shock assaults and artillery

dusky scroll
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Do they actually use cavalry? Is it found to be effective?

jade holly
queen laurel
jade holly
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bombard the enemy then make a mad dash for them

queen laurel
safe vigil
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Armaggedeon Steel Legion is more so Blitzkrieg with their Chimera transports

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I do like me the Steel Legion

dusky scroll
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There was this... animated video in youtube where they fought against a group of traitor guard and a couple of chaos marine. The cavalry charge was awesome!

safe vigil
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I should read Yarrick because I know little about their unique culture

jade holly
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Yarrick was cool

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But then they did him dirty

queen laurel
safe vigil
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Yarrick died of old age until they reveal he didn't

queen laurel
jade holly
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You know what group I’m surprised GW hadn’t taken inspiration from to make Imperial Guard or SM designs?

#

The Winged Hussars of Poland

queen laurel
#

They will overwhelm a position with so many transport vehicles containing infantry that they will take it

#

while having armored support for those transport vehicles

safe vigil
#

I think the Vostryan's could do something like that

#

fits under their umbrella of inspiration cultures

jade holly
#

Those guys look like a mix of the British Royal Guard and Russian winter clothing more than anything

broken zealot
#

Lorgharh

safe vigil
#

Don't let the Bearskin caps fool you

#

their Russian and Cossack etc

jade holly
#

So Eastern European

safe vigil
#

yuh

#

specifically Russian Stretylize

#

can't spell it

#

Ian Arbritator has a video on the realworld inspirations of the guard

dusky scroll
#

After the heresy, afaik Space Marine Legions were broken into chapters, each containing 1000 marines.
So, when Guilliman returned, what happened to that structure for the chapters that were successor to Ultramarines? Did they just merged and formed the Ultramarine Legion again?

safe vigil
#

Nah

#

it was his idea to break them up in the first place

#

Their probably happier he's back and more willing to follow his orders

#

also I would think that reforming the Ultramarine Legion would be a bad move politically, considering 50 percent of all Chapters are Ultramainres (I heard this somewhere)

#

in their Chapter formations their more able to act independently

dusky scroll
#

All the chapters that were fragments of Ultramarines, Do Guilliman just command them separately now?

safe vigil
#

He co-ordinates with their chapter masters

#

but it's far more decentralized

dusky scroll
#

So if he wants to lead into a battle or something, he'll have to call upon nearby chapters that are available (not preoccupied) and hope that the chapter master responds to his call?

safe vigil
#

probably, but I think he's all but incharge of the Ultramarines
THeir successors, he's literally their dad and would be more then happy

#

and given the scale of the conflicts it's more like 'X chapter go here and do this, Y chapter over there and pursue this goal' as part of the Indomitius Crusade

#

He is also the leader or something or the Imperium so he can also give orders to other chapters

#

but they aren't as beholden too him as each chapter is it's own independant war machine beholden to their own goals who offer their services where-ever they see fit

#

but with the great rift the proverbial backs are against the wall

dusky scroll
#

Given the Lion has returned as well, did it cause any friction between the two living loyalist primarch? What he (Lion) has been doing since his return?

safe vigil
#

One would think there would be some conflict but his return is rather recent and I don't think there has been any further lore

tough haven
#

Or whatever the darker part is caked

safe vigil
#

Ah yeah their spit by the great rift

tough haven
#

Would codex compliant space marines fire on their own units if they are in the area hostiles are in as well?

#

I bet they probably would if it was militarum units

#

But with fellow astartes I doubt they would unless it was hugely worthwhile, eg. Taking out a very high value target

safe vigil
#

some marines are bigger dicks then others

#

add in the harsh realities of warsh stuff

#

I know that... in the Guard the Scintillian Fusilliers are known for shelling other regiments positions

dusky scroll
#

Wow... took me some time to get the basic understanding of what Imperium Nihilus is!

tough haven
#

I mean like, does the codex forbid it, and certain chapters violate it? Or does it just say basically “use your own discretion”

grave sparrow
#

sounds efficient though, feed your warhorse with the corpses of your enemies (and likely own dead troops)

green loom
green loom
green loom
#

Provided it's worth it/you're willing to risk it

tough haven
#

In one of the tau books it quotes a part of the codex related to civilian casualties but I didnt know if that extended to your own soldiers

green loom
#

We know marines like the Malevolent are willing to shell that way, and it's entirely possible a lot of others would do the same

#

It helps the sallies were going into a slaughter they had no real chance of stopping anyway

green loom
#

Not really, seems fairly standard looking

safe vigil
#

i dont think so. only a passing resemblance

crystal zealot
#

Were the "Primarchs", the emperors children, birthed normally? Or did he "create" them? Also how many are they?

normal light
#

Emperors Children made as any other space marines via modification of a human

crystal zealot
#

So they were birhted like a normal human then got modified?

normal light
#

Like you get human child and then modify it

median marsh
#

Primarchs were personally engineered by emps, there's 20 of them total including the two striken from records

coarse pumice
#

Of the primarchs

median marsh
#

Their creation was way different than space Marines created from em later

coarse pumice
#

Technically they’re based on him

green loom
#

It's somewhat a stretch to consider them humans

median marsh
#

Yeah, they look human but are pretty far from an average person

wet sandal
#

Frankly the primarchs are slightly less human than the emperor

median marsh
#

iirc there was also warp fuckery involved

wet sandal
#

He was at least "born"

crystal zealot
#

Did they like, take a sample sperm or just dna?

green loom
#

They use something called Geneseed, (made from the primarchs' genetic material iirc), along with a shit ton of drugs and extra organs to buff up regular humans

median marsh
#

Genetic samples

#

Each primarchs DNA was used as a base for geneseed used for their respective legions essentially

green loom
#

As for how many primarchs'

#

20-21 in total

#

For 20 legions

median marsh
#

2 of them are unknown as they were completely eradicated from all records

crystal zealot
#

So they're not from the emperors sperm but his genes directly?

green loom
#

Ye, his and Erda's

#

But beyond that, they're a whole different beast

crystal zealot
#

Do they have his warp prowess? Or are they physically strong only?

green loom
#

Magnus had the most prolific psyker bs

#

But it seems they all had some untapped psychic potential

crystal zealot
#

Are they prone to corruption as well?

#

I know the emperor can be, but his might is so strong that no demon can

#

that right?

green loom
#

Seeing as half of them turned traitor

#

Yeah

crystal zealot
#

Oh xD

median marsh
#

They're probably immune to daemon possession due to their nature but they're not immune to corruption

crystal zealot
#

Is corruption just a change of ideals and like, ones own volition ? Or is it also forced like a daemon posession?

wet sandal
#

it varies

#

depending on the writer

median marsh
#

Some go willingly, others are forced into it

green loom
median marsh
#

Oh ye

crisp heath
#

The emperor basically did Erda super dirty

#

She was devoted to and fawned over him for centuries

green loom
#

Unfortunately Emps was already dating Malcador

crisp heath
#

Then he hit her with "hey wanna have kids? Specifically 21. Great, give me a DNA sample. What? No, you can't raise them."

plush mason
#

nah. the twins wherent planned to be twins afaik :P

crystal zealot
#

So they didn't even intercourse

plush mason
#

nope

crisp heath
#

The emperor is gay

green loom
#

Probably

crystal zealot
#

for who xD

plush mason
#

for big men with bodies like greek gods

crisp heath
#

He had two boyfriends, an old wizard and a buff guy he kidnapped as a baby

median marsh
#

tfw still not really sure how I feel about the whole erda thing

crystal zealot
#

So emperor is a fan of ogryns?

plush mason
crystal zealot
plush mason
#

yes

green loom
plush mason
crisp heath
#

I'll give you that the Emperor might not have been in love with Malcador, but Malcador was definitely in love with the emperor

crisp heath
green loom
#

But yeah surrounding yourself with muscular monsters with oiled bodies who can't disobey you, it kinda shines through a certain way

plush mason
green loom
crisp heath
#

There's literally a short story where the Emperor makes Malcador sob openly by telling him he was just a pawn

green loom
#

Akakaka

crisp heath
#

And Malcador refuses to believe him but is just demolished anyway

crystal zealot
#

So the Emperor cares more about the big picture rather than an individuals feelings?

plush mason
green loom
#

He cares about his vision

crisp heath
#

Oh absolutely, Emperor is mainly written as a sociopath these days

#

Nothing matters but the plan

plush mason
#

the emperor in life hated all forms of faith

green loom
plush mason
#

yeah that is in line with the imperial truth

green loom
#

His old title pre Emp days was "The Master of the Lines"

plush mason
#

save the human genome, spread humanity across the stars

green loom
#

As in, blood lines, not "spitting bars" lines

plush mason
crystal zealot
#

Isnt spreading humanity further increases the potential of the warp?

plush mason
#

yes

crystal zealot
#

Is this like the emperors long con to get the warp to birth a demon lord or something? xD

plush mason
#

the emperor was a mess of contradictory views and actions

green loom
#

That's one theory yeah

plush mason
#

"the last church" is a great showing of just how BS his ideas where

median marsh
#

Emps in general is difficult because he was existing as basically a plot device

green loom
#

I've never dug into last church but I hear it's like

#

A 5 year old's idea of an argument

plush mason
#

basically lol

#

emps whole point was "i know im right"

median marsh
#

Emps destroys an old man's home because old man really liked a rock

coarse pumice
#

They should rewrite the Emperor like the old story and then scrap the entire HH series

#

Give it the Inquisitor Wars treatment

#

do it

#

Touch the cow

#

Do it now

crystal zealot
#

i might tip it

median marsh
#

Horus Heresy

#

I think

plush mason
#

it is

#

Horus was one of the Primarchs and the leader of the traitors

normal light
#

Horus Heresy?

plush mason
#

basically the heresy is the event that made the imperium the cess pit it is today

median marsh
#

My man got literally eradicated from existence

coarse pumice
#

It’s time to return what was borrowed

median marsh
#

Soul obliterated

normal light
plush mason
#

it also prevented them from bringing him back to life

normal light
median marsh
#

I like to think that Horus realized what he did as he was getting annihilated and felt regret

plush mason
#

he realized it before that happened afaik

normal light
plush mason
normal light
plush mason
median marsh
#

Fabius grew a new Horus but Abaddon was having none of that

#

It wasn't truly Horus yeah

#

Horus got completely wiped out of reality, not a trace so that chaos gods couldn't pull a "lol, lmao" and just resurrect him like Lucius

plush mason
#

yup

normal light
#

Also is a 13th Black Crusade was won by either side?

normal light
plush mason
#

the 13th destroyed Cadia and ripped the galaxy in half

#

so i would call that a win

normal light
median marsh
#

Technically a chaos victory

#

It's hard to say if it's pyrrhic because the entire galaxy did get torn in half letting chaos have a way easier access into, but some irreplaceable things were also lost, such as a Blackstone fortress

normal light
#

Nah , I am planning to rewrite my chaos Warband which splinted away from Black Legion because high casualties

crystal zealot
#

Is there a wolf like creature in wh40k?

celest dome
#

Yes, plenty, THunderwolves for the Space Wolf

normal light
celest dome
#

Wirewolf for Chaos

normal light
#

Also Space Wolfs (Astartes Chapter)

crystal zealot
#

psyker said she had a dream of a wolf like creature that had a mind of its own. Is it just a random voice line or is it connected to something?

median marsh
#

Might be, might be not, Psykers have been getting a lot of interesting tibids such as the sister hive pop actually being still alive

#

Or Zolas growing unease

#

The most direct connection I can make (based only on name lul) is Captain Wolfer

#

The guy from prologue and who now talks to you occasionally

crystal zealot
#

What about the veterans dream?

#

He dreamt his teeth fell off and laughed at him

#

He also called them karkers

median marsh
#

Pop is short for Population

median marsh
crisp heath
#

Just a little funny the team did mixing them up like that

#

There's an inquisitor who got plastic surgery to turn him into a horse

green loom
#

Is this the same inquisitor that's in Gaunts Ghosts 1?

#

In theory
Though apparently felinids are pretty much just humans with claws

#

This is an observation made by Kroot, so there may be more differences not apparent to them

crisp heath
#

Holy shit it is

#

How did I not realize its the same guy

green loom
#

Abnettverse moment

#

Iirc Hyperion shows up in Eisenhorn before he becomes a grey knight

green loom
crisp heath
#

Yeah Heldane fucking sucks

green loom
#

It's a good thing he gets 1-2d by Mkoll and Bragg

#

Or I forget who the 2nd guy was but Mkoll defo

crisp heath
#

Vespids are wasp people

green loom
#

Not abhoomins doe

crisp heath
#

I was thinking specifically of furries and did not realize how broad this question was

#

Fulgrim is an animal person

bold latch
#

What are the lore of daemonhost of darktide?

#

this level of monstruosity is not supposed to be on board of warband's level missions

queen laurel
#

basically the dregs just offered a daemon a Body

hasty coral
#

I don’t think the victim is consenting though?

storm jungle
#

It can be consenting or non-consenting

#

some see it as a blessing

queen laurel
#

And the demon that's using the body is rather quite weak since our strike team is strong enough to take it down

hasty coral
#

The Daemon seems to take over

queen laurel
hasty coral
#

Before the person is whispering about resisting and not being wicked

bold latch
#

yeah but is there any explanation to it being in lower-tier worlds and/or missions? since daemonhost are most seen in warfronts around the galaxy?

hasty coral
#

And then after

#

Full Daemon

crystal zealot
storm jungle
#

daemonhosts can literally be made anywhere

queen laurel
hasty coral
#

Daemons can appear ANYWHERE

queen laurel
#

Some inquisitors even have them

hasty coral
#

That’s the point of them

queen laurel
#

those are radicals of course but

#

You can literally just live somewhere in the middle of a farm and if you wanted to you can summon a demon because why not

#

Who is going to stop you the imperium?

#

You already killed yourself the moment you wanted to try the summoning

crystal zealot
# hasty coral Full Daemon

I noticed even after they're awoken and attack us, they still say some of the lines. Like "You can't make me" Or "Get out of my head" .. Is it the person still kind of conscious? Or is it just the daemon saying the words the body used to say?

hasty coral
#

Likely the former

#

Pox walkers are similar

queen laurel
#

yeah it's probably still the owner of the body trying her best to stop the demon

storm jungle
#

so its either just lucid thoughts shared by their host or just using it as bait

queen laurel
bold latch
#

I will suppose that the daemon is from nurgle's facction?

storm jungle
#

yes

queen laurel
#

because a greater daemonhost would absolutely **** us up

crystal zealot
#

Does the demon itself look like that? Or is the daemonhost in the game just a human body with demonic features? Like the horns and the green stuff?

storm jungle
#

no its just inhabiting a human body

#

hence the demonic features

queen laurel
#

they look like me every time i wake up basically

crystal zealot
#

lmao

#

So the demon itself looks like those in the pic, and just the soul takes over basically?

hasty coral
#

Yes

#

More aptly

#

Consciousness

#

Takes over

crystal zealot
#

ooh

hasty coral
#

But same thing

queen laurel
#

Basically they just inhabit the body as what they are

#

concious energy

crystal zealot
#

What is a "Keeper of secrets" ?

hasty coral
#

Souls are a weird topic in 40k

storm jungle
hasty coral
#

Like they are super important but also like shouldn’t be?

storm jungle
hasty coral
#

Because the warp is consciousness based?

storm jungle
#

Souls are pretty important

hasty coral
#

So is the soul just a stand in for someone’s consciousness?

#

And if so

crystal zealot
# storm jungle

Is Slaanesh the big one and those around it are the greater demons?

storm jungle
#

the big one is the greater demon

hasty coral
#

Why can’t necrons manipulate it? Because they don’t have “souls” even though they can still think?

crystal zealot
storm jungle
queen laurel
storm jungle
#

prob one of the best GW models ever made ngl

hasty coral
#

So what exactly ARE souls???

#

Are they ever explained?

storm jungle
#

idfk ask google

queen laurel
#

Like you know something is wrong looking at it but you just can't take your eyes off of it

hasty coral
storm jungle
#

Literally just your non-physical being

#

its like how you enter an astral state in fiction and become a ghost-like figure lol

queen laurel
hasty coral
#

Then why don’t Necrons have it but are still sentient?

storm jungle
#

because it was taken from them

hasty coral
#

I know the ctan ate them

#

I know that

queen laurel
#

And only left their consciousness intact

hasty coral
#

But how can you lose your soul, but still think and have a consciousness, which is what the warp is about, but you somehow can’t connect to the warp anymore?

storm jungle
#

its why most necrons are mindless robots serving the nobles

storm jungle
#

dont think so hard about it

hasty coral
storm jungle
#

Yes

#

💀

hasty coral
#

Ok

storm jungle
#

only the elite ruling class

hasty coral
#

Nevermind that makes sense

storm jungle
#

because they got privelage

queen laurel
hasty coral
#

The ones who have no consciousness have no souls

storm jungle
#

if you were a lowborn necron though you got forcefully dragged to the bio-furnaces

hasty coral
#

Ok

#

That makes sense

#

That’s what I thought

crystal zealot
#

I assume everything we fight in the game currently is from Nurgles faction?

queen laurel
hasty coral
#

If you lose your soul you lose your “self”

hasty coral
storm jungle
#

its "living metal"

queen laurel
storm jungle
#

pretty tough

bold latch
#

People is saying that we'll have genestealers added to the game soon enough

queen laurel
#

I want other enemies

storm jungle
#

dont trust everything you see from 40k content creators

bold latch
#

lorewise they would fit greatly since we're in hivecities

hasty coral
storm jungle
#

I mean yeah but thats the thing

#

"this is neat"

hasty coral
#

It’s just how FS does things

storm jungle
#

okay so program an entire enemy faction then

#

and make them unique from the base game enemies

#

that is a ton of work

hasty coral
#

FS did so for VT?

storm jungle
storm jungle
hasty coral
#

Winds of magic???

storm jungle
#

Darktide has a much more complex enemy pool

queen laurel
hasty coral
#

Yeah

storm jungle
#

pretty much this ye

hasty coral
#

It’s not THAT much effort lol

queen laurel
#

How do you make a aberrant that different from an ogryn

#

they basically serve the same purpose

hasty coral
#

Bombers and tox bursters are not super unique

#

Like at most trappers

bold latch
#

then what would be your guess to next facction?

storm jungle
#

We literally got no idea lol

crystal zealot
#

IF genestealers were to be added, what level would they be at? like elite or a monstrosity?

hasty coral
#

All you would get

bold latch
#

XD

hasty coral
#

If we are getting a new one

storm jungle
#

the game is pretty chaos focused atm

hasty coral
#

That’s what you would get

queen laurel
hasty coral
queen laurel
#

just bull rushing us with melee weapons

hasty coral
#

Hell it was Skaven focused

storm jungle
#

VT's engine is more simple lol

median marsh
#

What did I come back to

storm jungle
#

yall really got no idea how hard it is to program and design an entire enemy faction with so many variants from the groundup without making them reskins

hasty coral
#

Although

#

FS has a track record

queen laurel
storm jungle
bold latch
#

I love tyranids but warband's wouldn't tank it lol

hasty coral
#

Beasts of nurgle aren’t really tankable either to be fair

queen laurel
bold latch
#

lessers tyranids >> lesser nurgle's plague bearers

queen laurel
#

the actual tyranids not a chance

median marsh
#

GSC can work, a full Tyranid swarm can't unless you do some stupid nerfs like making it a single splinter hive ship desperately trying to rebuild

median marsh
#

Wut

hasty coral
#

Infinite conveyer belt

#

Me when the 10 billion tyranids can’t all get by a single door

storm jungle
#

See a swarmlord?

#

No problem!

#

Close the door!

#

🚪

hasty coral
#

She gets it

#

Door gang

storm jungle
#

just be sure to spam it when they try to open it

median marsh
#

It's obligated to stay outside unless invited in 4head

queen laurel
bold latch
#

It is what I'm saying, even if it is Behemot HiveShip (arguibly the weakest after ultramarines taking its advance down) would be stronger than any enemy on actual game

queen laurel
#

That game you can just close the door and even a literal patriarch can't open it

#

i'm talking this guy is the size of a ******* hive tyrant

median marsh
#

I know I saw em

bold latch
#

I mean, the tyranids of behemot hiveship, not the spaceship itself

hasty coral
#

Enemies can’t open some doors

median marsh
#

you can kill things by closing the door on them

hasty coral
#

And all try to fit through one

#

Which they can’t

bold latch
#

They could just add another daemon facction just with the fight between them

#

lesser orks would fit greatly to the power level of game won't lie

queen laurel
median marsh
#

we had this discussion, orks would require levels tailored specifically for them to work

queen laurel
#

You have to seriously nerf them I mean for them to even fit this game

median marsh
#

boys are big

queen laurel
#

nobs are 7-8

#

Basically the size of a space marine

#

and a warboss is 10 fucking feet on AVERAGE

median marsh
#

it's already a bit awkward with the crusher trains KEKW_ogryn

queen laurel
#

So you have to do some serious nerfing to get them to fit on dark tide

green loom
median marsh
#

"just do it, it can't be that hard"

storm jungle
#

meanwhile

#

Beastmen got added

#

literally everyone bitched and hated them

urban spire
#

i love beastmen

#

in bt2

#

vt2*

sleek wigeon
#

beastmen aint even that bad

#

i heard they were annoying on launch but

median marsh
#

I feel like I rain on peoples parade when they want new factions, but it's an immense amount of work

sleek wigeon
#

i'd rather have the current roster fleshed out tbh

#

nurglings would be epic

queen laurel
median marsh
#

Models, rigs, voice lines

#

And we haven't even touched coding yet

green loom
#

For Darktide

#

You'd have to model an entire new faction

median marsh
#

Winds of Magic got demolished when it came out

green loom
#

Balance said entire new faction

#

Animate said entire new faction

#

Voice said entire new faction

median marsh
#

Make sure they work properly for maps

green loom
#

Play test said.... you get the idea

sleek wigeon
#

yup
should stick with the scabs and 6th but just add some new enemies

green loom
#

Tldr

#

You won't be getting a new faction outside of a major, MAJOR update

median marsh
#

I can see them adding new things down the line, just not anywhere in near future

green loom
#

And not before we wrap up more stuff with the scabs and dregs

#

And definitely not a year after launch KEKW_ogryn

sleek wigeon
green loom
#

God I'd hate that

#

Why do people hate themselves like this
I hate myself and I still don't want nurglings

median marsh
#

Nurglings exist in V2 (in form of level decorations for event)

queen laurel
median marsh
#

I lowkey expected them to be ported over for same purpose

queen laurel
#

Imagine having to do that again and having the same quality for another faction

median marsh
#

Dreg gunner emulating his gun recoil with his voice lines is top notch

queen laurel
#

Dregs and scabs are quite the faction standard to reach

median marsh
#

FOR NuRgLEeEeEeE

green loom
#

I don't think that's imitating

#

He has a big ass gun

#

It's gonna shake him

median marsh
#

No I meant the VA

green loom
#

Ah

median marsh
#

VA really did put their all in their stuff, it's great

queen laurel
storm jungle
#

The dreg gunner VA is fucking peak

sleek wigeon
#

yeah the VA team killed it

storm jungle
#

I DO NOT FEAR DEAAAAAAAAAAATH

sleek wigeon
median marsh
#

EAAT IIIIIIIT

storm jungle
queen laurel
median marsh
#

flamers mobile bbq

#

Tfw according to stats there were 4,2 million rocks thrown

#

Ogryns doing us proud

queen laurel
sleek wigeon
#

FIRE, DEATH, RENEWAL

median marsh
#

I like that dregs and scabs have very different personalities

urban spire
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oh i always thought it was "life, death, renewal"

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that makes more sense

median marsh
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Dregs, being the cult, are more spiritual in their lines while scabs are tactical

green loom
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The dreg flamer sounds like fkn

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Mable from Gravity Falls to me

median marsh
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Mable sure fell on hard times huh

sleek wigeon
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scab trapper is fun too

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maniacal aussie lady :D

median marsh
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ILL SELL YOU DOWN THEUAGH

green loom
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I wonder if we can find out who did the flamer voice

queen laurel
urban spire
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it's funny, trapper is like a less cruel hook rat

green loom
sleek wigeon
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my fave voice ever has to go to Bully Ogryn though

queen laurel
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they don't sound that similar

green loom
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I think it might be the like

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Vague lisp that makes me think of it

queen laurel