#40k-lore-chat

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paper haven
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Pay to win? In game purchases?

rose thorn
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nope

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all the pay to win stuff you can get in game after like

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a month of playing?

paper haven
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Hmm

rose thorn
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you get gold scripts form doing like

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anything

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and you get ashit laod from the main quest

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and you use it to get stuff that is in or was in the atom shop

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the main things you need to get is the ammo maker and the fusion core recharger if you use powerarmor

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also every day you get a free atom shop item

paper haven
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Ok. Sounds like some genuine improvement.

rose thorn
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yeah

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all play styles are pretty valid

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once you reach level 50 you can respect all of your skills

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special

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when ever you are at a load out maker

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everyone also got a 2nd free camp

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just

dont buy fallout first

dusk patrol
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Yeah it’s a lot better than launch

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It’s a little rough to get into but once you get into the swing I’ve enjoyed it

rose thorn
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100 hours still havent finished any of the main story on my main account

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no nukes no nothign lmao

dusk patrol
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I would look up a beginners guide for sure though

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There’s some ways you can fuck yourself a bit earlier on if you don’t know what you’re doing

snow fern
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Sounds like an mmo alright

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Granted, I got little room to talk, considering how I like me CRPGS, and those games ain’t afraid to kick you in the balls for a bad choice 30 hours earlier lol

dusk patrol
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It’s not that bad but it definitely does need a little bit of explaining

rose thorn
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good news is the subscription is so terrible you arent forced to get it

dusk patrol
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Pre planning your build is a good idea

bold wren
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It's almost like in fallout 76 you can reset builds just need resources. But 76 gets boring because you cannot mod it.

dusk patrol
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And yeah the subscription isn’t needed at all

rose thorn
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thank fuck

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litearlly like, the two things that are really strong in the subscription you cna farm out in like

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a few hours

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the ammo converter and the other thing i forgot

bold wren
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Fusion Core Chargers are paid

rose thorn
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yeah that

dusk patrol
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It’s not

rose thorn
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you can get it for free

dusk patrol
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You can earn atoms without paying

bold wren
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About that

rose thorn
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you can but it with gold bullshitties too

dusk patrol
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It’s pretty easy to afford stuff like that

bold wren
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The new system makes it more difficult

dusk patrol
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It’s not great

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But 500 atoms is easy

rose thorn
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pretty sure the charger is like, 2k gold thingies at the pitt

dusk patrol
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You can also message Bethesda for stuff and if you have the atoms they’ll give it to you for them

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If it’s not in the shop

rose thorn
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lmao

arctic talon
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lol

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the anti fomo mechanic

snow fern
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Someone who knows drukhari stuff.
So in RT I ran across a transmitter set to release distress signals of space faring races every 5 years or so to draw in random ships and kill whoever comes investigating. Thing is the trap was set up by a Medusae, and I was under the impression they weren't capable of such intelligence, the game even talks about how Drukhari collect them as pets.

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Like they eat dreams or whatever, but why would they want to kill their hosts?

arctic talon
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Medusae are pretty smart

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they're a mercenary race

snow fern
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Oh they are? Wiki made it seem like they're just a weird warp parasite

arctic talon
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the host will die eventually

snow fern
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Their model looks cool

arctic talon
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they're not super intelligent but like they're sapient creatures

snow fern
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If only Drukhari had more going on then, being the worst.

bold wren
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Then there is those warp daemonic vampires

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That feed on psychic energy.

arctic talon
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I do find it funny that the Kabal this Medusae is a part of bothered to give them body armor

snow fern
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What are those weird drukhari that metamorphis after getting lost in the webway?

arctic talon
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Mandrakes?

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sentient and sapient

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they have their own culture and are absolutely terrifying

bold wren
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The soul stone or whatever powers them

rose thorn
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you can run these in a unit caleld uh

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fuckin

bold wren
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They're just necrons with souls the Eldar have.

rose thorn
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GOD THEY ARE SO COOL THO

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I LOVE HTEMMM

rose thorn
arctic talon
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Also Orks

rose thorn
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easier

arctic talon
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tbf if the medusae's host dies you need a new host lol

rose thorn
arctic talon
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War boss with big choppa

rose thorn
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also theres like 80 um characters with no models but has rules

arctic talon
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are we counting legends?

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if we count legends then almost every faction has one of these

rose thorn
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at least int eh beginnign of 10th

arctic talon
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Well

rose thorn
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they had rules

arctic talon
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they're in legends now

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not that legends is bad

rose thorn
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the named scout

arctic talon
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yeah

rose thorn
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and all the chapter masters from like 5th?

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pedro, uh

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the other one

arctic talon
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Pedro still has a mini

rose thorn
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flesh tearer one i mean

arctic talon
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Seth also still has a mini

rose thorn
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WHAT

arctic talon
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they're both on rotational hell

rose thorn
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lmao

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didnt they get rid of the blood ravens one?

arctic talon
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He was a forgeworld model

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so he got legends'd

rose thorn
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oh

arctic talon
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he also came out in like

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8e lol

rose thorn
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i hate and lvoe the fact forge world is getting binned

arctic talon
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ehh

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the minis still exist

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legends rules are fine for casual play

snow fern
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I thought Angelos still had a model?

arctic talon
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they're pretty decent

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he does

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GW seems to be legendsing a lot of FW stuff

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even if the mini is still in production

rose thorn
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(just run them as their generic version)

arctic talon
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(or run them with their legends rules)

rose thorn
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also really annoyed whats his name from the white concuils got zero rules

arctic talon
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tbh

rose thorn
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like yadda yadda ultra marines dont need characters

arctic talon
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he can get run as a generic guy at least

rose thorn
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yeah

arctic talon
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but still unfortunate

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If it was GW now he would have gotten a set of straight to legends rules imo

rose thorn
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it just feels bad

arctic talon
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like ulfthak

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ulftahk is also horrifying on the tabletop lol

rose thorn
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lmaO

arctic talon
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Literally can tear apart any vehicle but a titan in 1 turn

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and has decent shooting (for an ork)

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also his mini is a good proxy for the current warboss + squig mini

rose thorn
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jesus christ that scared me

bold wren
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To be honest it's kinda silly 40k does have established events, maybe in the beginning everything was all over the place but there is established events.

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Maybe not for people in universe but outside definitely people have the established events in lore.

arctic talon
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I mean GW has like

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important events in lore

rose thorn
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"this si so important!!!"

arctic talon
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thats what campaign supplements/forgeworld supplements/crusade books are

rose thorn
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3 motnsh later

arctic talon
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also codexes usually mark some stuff

bold wren
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To be honest original 40k nuking aliens was more funny.

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Why become tame nuke the aliens into oblivion

arctic talon
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I mean the imperium still does that

bold wren
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But they have "rules" now

rose thorn
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the imperium being so big kinda makes events not really feel impactful to me

bold wren
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Not to nuke worlds.

rose thorn
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since its not really a resource struggle

bold wren
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Or bomb them.

rose thorn
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god i fucking love resoruce struggles

arctic talon
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the imperium absolutely bombs worlds

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just not their own generally

rose thorn
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daily

arctic talon
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if its not in their hands

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oh boy orbital lance strike time

rose thorn
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i remmeber when poeple thought the imperium was gonna split into 2

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well, every time

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when people thought that

arctic talon
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lol

rose thorn
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it would be really cool but how owuldyou split it

snow fern
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Probably at the line of the sykatrix maladictum

arctic talon
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tbh

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most of Nihlus is in control of chaos now

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or at least a solid chunk of it lol

rose thorn
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like civil war split i mean

arctic talon
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oh

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well shrugpriest

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GW is prolly never gona do that

rose thorn
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or at least political pslit

arctic talon
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the imperium already have plenty of reasons to kill eachother over

rose thorn
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conserative marines vs liberal marines...

snow fern
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who are the CW factions like? Traditionalists and Traditionalists but they give workers 1 day off a year?

rose thorn
snow fern
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There's probably an undiscovered feral world out there that's half decent, at least till the imperium shows up and subjugates it

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I imagine if the Minotaurs weren't so popular with the High Lords they'd have to fight a few other Loyalist chapters

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Of course, especially after the Months of Shame, not too many people are fond of Minotaurs or Grey Knights

bold wren
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The Imperium isn't splitting as long the Emperor is on the throne.

snow fern
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Of course, if the lovely beacon that is needed to ensure Navigators can travel the warp falls, far far more awful things will occur than just the splitting of the imperium.
It was more me musing about which Space Marine chapters are the most loathed

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I guess the poor cursed Lamenters aren't all that liked

tough haven
tough haven
bold wren
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At the birth of Slaneesh great storms consumed the galaxy.

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Which had split the Imperium.

bold wren
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Some worlds are more free, but the authority of the Imperium is the least worst horrors you could experience.

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Despite the Imperium owns territory they hardly control the worlds they have, or let other people control said world out of the direct control of the Imperium.

tough haven
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half of the imperium cannot see the astronomican and are thus incapable of warp travel

arctic talon
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Well they can do warp travel

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It’s just dangerous as shit or incredibly short range

storm jungle
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The codexes go into how the Dark Imperium side of the rift is literally "lawless"

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well, more than usual lol

tough haven
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Theres nothing saying he's even still there

storm jungle
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To be fair even when they do see his light they still question it

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but hey any excuse works

crystal forum
tough haven
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Thats just what they think

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btw mandrake's abilities are they warp based?

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Otherwise what possible explanation would there be?

bold wren
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Astronomican existing

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Which is a beacon and light. It wasn't just snuffed out. It's difficult to get through it, but voidships and navigators existence makes travel possible.

tough haven
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but how would the average citizen know that

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yes the eccliesiarchy tells them it cannot be snuffed out

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but then, where did it go?

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Its most likely a death sentence to try and travel through the great rift to reach either half

crystal forum
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helldivers 2 community imploding again

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for an actually valid reason this time

queen laurel
radiant lance
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PSN required now for steam

queen laurel
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that is all very hard to believe

tough haven
queen laurel
radiant lance
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You make one I believe

queen laurel
unborn phoenix
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I want to say something real quick but not sure if I should say it lol

radiant lance
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no

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Is it mommy custodes?

queen laurel
unborn phoenix
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Not sensitive no

queen laurel
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Nazi in this place

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we talked about many more

unborn phoenix
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Do you think kurze had a toilet made out of tongues?

queen laurel
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no

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i sentient one that's probably made out of the flesh of its relatives maybe yes

radiant lance
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Most tempered response

unborn phoenix
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Like he doesn't need a toilet but I imagine him being spiteful enough to has a tongue toilet and keep them wiggling just to kiss his ass lol

radiant lance
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Is it even that bad of a change?

unborn phoenix
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Never trust PlayStation with your personal information EVER

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They've been hacked and exploited more times than people have been to space

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Some regions apparently don't agree with their TOS and so if you paid for helldiver's and live in one of those regions too bad can't play the game you paid $60 for

queen laurel
unborn phoenix
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Exactly

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But people saying they're just crying about it

queen laurel
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So if I want to get helldivers either they don't push for this update or I basically just cave in and try to get PSN account one way or another

unborn phoenix
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I feel bad for helldiver's people really I do

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This is an overwatch 2 phone number situation all over again

queen laurel
# storm jungle

this is like a plane flying peacefully until it gets hijacked and proceeded to do 9/12

radiant lance
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I think it was called 9/11 because of what day it fell on

queen laurel
radiant lance
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So, I don't think a second one will necessarily happen sequentially

unborn phoenix
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This is all coming after talks with the CEO of PlayStation and helldiver's lead dev to get the game to Xbox but this is a huge wrench for sure

green loom
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I might not be able to play it anymore

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Not a big loss but I had fun with a friend

unborn phoenix
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It only took the devs 3hrs to destroy their game

queen laurel
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It's like

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Both impressive and sad

unborn phoenix
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Confirmed game of the year palworld sweeps all

bold wren
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But otherwise the regular citizens are never leaving that world and usually worked to death, so that is irrelevant.

tough haven
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Yeah, but still, the populace is more … rowdy than usual over there

bold wren
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Rogue Traders exist to keep those in check.

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Or at least try to.

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They're not just privateers, but explorers, and spread the light of the God Emperor to these worlds.

tough haven
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True, but no one is Infallible, save the Emper- haha, no I couldn’t finish that sentence with a straight face

bold wren
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I mean Rogue Traders are also merchants, conquerors, explorers.

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The Spanish Inquistion all over again, but on a bigger scale.

storm jungle
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like you almost cringe hearing how simple-minded they are like some crazy IRL evangelist

bold wren
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That's kinda the point.

storm jungle
bold wren
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It's not people just being stupid It's rather easy to brain wash humans, our minds are all fallible.

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Some are just regular people surprisingly like the Judge.

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Brainwashing is easy if you have the right means and tools unfortunately. Some are just going to be more extreme with their beliefs.

tough haven
bold wren
tough haven
bold wren
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Not even a satire at this point.

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It's just a whole goofy comedy.

tough haven
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But you get Stan’s who can’t get that and blindly follow it at face value

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And to them I say:

bold wren
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Satire is based on reality yes, but it often mocks their behavior then again the baddies are always stylish.

tough haven
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Just shows that the imperium would 100% work as a political entity

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And that’s scary

bold wren
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The Imperium of Man isn't the government alone.

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As it has four bodies of government.

tough haven
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I know, but it’s political creed would easily gain ground irl

radiant lance
tough haven
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And there’s no shortage of those

bold wren
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The thing it isn't just stupid people who get brainwashed. Not even fanatics.

tough haven
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Of course not, you see that in any political entity

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People of all types fall to it, because they identify with it somehow

bold wren
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It's quite easy to manipulate people with enough charisma, and appealing to the needs of a person. Or, at least the promise.

radiant lance
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Brainwashed people will still revolt if you knock out basic needs like food

storm jungle
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Yeah everyone knows this

tough haven
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Especially people who think that they are immune to propaganda

radiant lance
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At that point, you activate the basic feral thinking that supercedes any brainwashing

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If I'm dying, stress responses come out

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Like you need true fanatics to actually push down stress responses to where they will die and think it's good

storm jungle
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Yeah and those always tend to be the higher up ecclesiarchy people

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like that one fucking dude who said tyranids are "fake news" and denied they exist as the literal planet was under attack

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yes this actually happened

radiant lance
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Oh people deny things that are clearly happening in front of them all the time

storm jungle
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Just like real life! pogryn

radiant lance
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It's just that activating primal instincts just supercedes all conscious thoughts

radiant lance
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You actively have to train and condition people to suppress primal instincts, and you don't just do that by showing a ton of propaganda

radiant lance
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Ignoring primal thoughts isn't. Primal reactions are really what a lot of the shit we do is

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It's to help the four Fs of primal instinct

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Feed, fight, flight, and mate

tough haven
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No I mean denying something right in front of you because you can’t take the reality

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Like the tyranids

bold wren
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You are probably going to get executed, and the fear of saying anything bad against the government.

radiant lance
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Probably a stress response

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Fight/flight/freeze

storm jungle
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💀

tough haven
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As I’ve said before, your mind will find a way to cope, conscious or not, whether it’s adaptive or maladaptive is another story

bold wren
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Fear prevents people from making any decisions, and whilst some people will rebel. The fear of your family being set as a example, or yourself is reason enough to keep people in check.

tough haven
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Denial is a simple and “effective” unconscious safety response

bold wren
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It does help your brain handle the stress but doesn't fix the situation.

tough haven
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No, but your unconscious mind doesn’t care about that

radiant lance
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Denialism is just a trauma response of freezing

tough haven
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Whatever it takes to survive to the next moment

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The moment after that is a problem for the next moment

tough haven
radiant lance
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Everything we do is just an extension of our primal nature

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We just added a shit load more layers of abstraction

rose thorn
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What did I miss ?!

tough haven
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But there is passive denial long periods of time after an event when you simply can’t handle direct confrontation

crystal forum
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im late to the convo i started but sony has an abysmal reputation with being hacked

tough haven
rose thorn
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What about specifically

tough haven
crystal forum
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people literally get their credit card data stolen on sony

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i dont even know how that's possible

rose thorn
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This could either be a very healthy discussions or the worst discussion ever

tough haven
rose thorn
radiant lance
tough haven
rose thorn
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Lmao

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Yeha

crystal forum
arctic talon
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But yes

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It asks for your ID lol

bold wren
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That's stupid

crystal forum
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beyond stupid

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let me guess, a law passed "for the kids"

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can't let little timmy play a game with guns

arctic talon
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Idk prolly lol

crystal forum
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still better than banning porn

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cough cough US

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anyways guess i'm done playing helldivers

tough haven
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Man, I enjoyed that game

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Such a shame

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So are mandrakes completely against the warp like how drukhari are? or are they beyond needing to shield their souls?

plush mason
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so what is obscura? its clearly some kind of drug but beyond that idk anything about it

celest dome
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From the name I'd point toward Opium or something of the same effect

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Addling the senses would fit for obscuring thr mind

plush mason
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||Eisenhorn mentions his pilot had been a user when they first meet so thats why i asked||

celest dome
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Warhammer 40k Wiki

Obscura is a widely-used recreational drug among the people of the Imperium of Man. Though this drug is prohibited under Imperial Law and the subject of widespread crackdowns in the ranks of the...

plush mason
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so like acid basically

celest dome
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I would still say Opium

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But I don't know what acid does

snow fern
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There's also Lho, which appears to be weed

plush mason
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yeah

snow fern
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Recaf is typically coffee but could be any stimulant

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I do enjoy the slang that pops up in settings. Cyberpunk in particular, people absolutely use corpo

plush mason
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idk if opium causes the same kind of low

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one of the few advantages of having a few drug users/dealers in your family is you get to learn a lot about various narcotics

plush mason
celest dome
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Quite the silver lining

plush mason
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but its called a narcotic in Xeno so i guess it is more like weed

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ofc tobacco is a narcotic

plush mason
plush mason
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needle pistols are basically a syringe gun right?

celest dome
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Yes, though using solidified poison/drugs and not literal syringes

plush mason
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ok

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so they could be loaded with non-lethal rounds i guess?

celest dome
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Sedatives are an examples

plush mason
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ok so Hallowette might not have just threatend to kill Marrow just now only tranq him

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ok is this new?

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there is a lot more vox chatter than i remember

celest dome
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Possibly, could also be begnin toxins, not meant to kill, but to incapacitate for a little while

plush mason
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i dont think they like each other much

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so is savant an actual title/rank in an inquisitorial retinue or just an unoffical one?

winged jacinth
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savant is a job description

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they're like your personal assistant who also memorizes stuff for you because computers are bad

plush mason
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got it

winged jacinth
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people other than inquisitors employ them

celest dome
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Who is a Savant ?

winged jacinth
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i think they're supposed to be mentats from dune lol

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aemos from eisenhorn comes to mind

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they're mostly from weird lore and the witch hunters 3e codex

pine wedge
plush mason
pine wedge
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but not created deliberately, I think. a savant can be anyone with the cognitive power to function as a repository of knowledge for an agent of the throne

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aemos is capable due to the memetic virus that causes him to consume and store knowledge insiatiably but that seemed to be accidental

winged jacinth
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apparently most of them are low ranking mechanicus

pine wedge
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it would've been fun to have a savant on the mourningstar crew

winged jacinth
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maybe Grendyl will have one when they finally appear

pine wedge
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that makes sense

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also there are several (new?) voicelines that explicitly refer to Grendyl as a man

winged jacinth
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i still assume grendyl will make an appearance by blowing the head off a noble we're talking to

pine wedge
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Hestia and Melk talking about Grendyl from across their aisle

winged jacinth
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yeah the characters who've met him call him a he

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i kinda wish they'd stuck with they considering they also dont show his face or voice

plush mason
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that or he shows up killing the other traitor that was mentioned in one of the vox recordings

winged jacinth
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literally the only thing i can imagine grendyl is doing is upper hive politicking, presumably undercover

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everything else can be done by his truly horrifying penal legion

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imagine being an imperial general rolling in and asking for a troop roster

plush mason
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a penal legion that kills daemonhosts for fun

winged jacinth
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"you have how many psykers? and you've killed how many heretics???"

misty vector
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Imagine him telling someone the kill count per soldier

winged jacinth
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"here's our one of our finest, he's slain a hundred thousand heretics as well as hundreds of daemons. His name is Pizzahut-Tacobell"

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Primaris Marine reaching atoma and learning about the true ultimate form of life (a random guy with an axe) staregryn

misty vector
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Here’s smasha, he made a club out of a pipe and screws, he killed so many daemonhosts it has become magic

plush mason
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space marines learning the rejects survive getting eaten by a beast of nurgle (the space marines melt in seconds) 🥹

winged jacinth
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be me
one of Fabius Bile's New Men, the ultimate form of humanoid life
my entire regiment is massacred by 4 underhivers with swords and names like "grungus"

crisp heath
celest dome
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@storm jungle I find it strange that whenever Sigmar is compared to the Emperor, the Imperium appologist come out of the woodworks

rocky gale
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Did you also just see the post on Reddit defending the Emperor and calling him an S tier god?

celest dome
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Yup

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Reading it right now

storm jungle
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God

rocky gale
celest dome
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It's hilarious

queen laurel
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As expected of imperial apologists

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Opinions lower than mud

rocky gale
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"He's just a man, he's not infallible, he makes mistakes"

He comitted genocide on a galactic scale

storm jungle
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Its not comparable by any means because the only grimdark acts the Empire and Stormcasts in AoS equally do is classic medieval extermination stuff sometimes which isnt much beyond wiping out some settlements on the accusement of chaos taint or not taking risks.

Sigmar is legit trying to be a good person, the thing is he isnt ominpotent even if hes a god, hes still a man that failed his world once and doesnt want to do that mistake again, his flaws make sense, he literally ascended from being a germanic barbarian lol

queen laurel
storm jungle
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the Emperor is literally fucking space-hitler

queen laurel
celest dome
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The Emp never did anything good, and never saw himself as Human
Sigmar was a human, rose as a human

storm jungle
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Yep that too

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Sigmar is humble

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as much as hes dumb

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but like, he didnt commit genocide on a galactic scale either

queen laurel
storm jungle
queen laurel
#

But man i swear to god the mind control of the imperium is so good it actually worked on real life people

rocky gale
#

If I remember right the post also talks about how Sigmar isn't a father but the Emperor is and it's hard being a parent KEKW_ogryn

storm jungle
#

Mixed?

#

Its mostly negative

#

lol

queen laurel
#

You haven't heard?

It will become mandatory for you to link a psn account if you want to keep playing

rocky gale
#

Yea and there are quite a few countries where you're unable to make PSN accounts

celest dome
spring cairn
celest dome
#

F you if you don't live in a Nato country I guess

storm jungle
#

Helldiver fans not be two-faced challenge

celest dome
#

Oh wait, some are switched

rocky gale
#

Yep and I've been hearing that in the UK to make a PSN account you need to input like a valid ID

queen laurel
spring cairn
#

yes

#

very good update

spring cairn
#

but that's because national laws

queen laurel
#

Label speakers

#

fuck

#

yeah i messed up the joke hold on

storm jungle
#

To be fair the recent bad reviews were literally getting mad at nothing too lol

queen laurel
storm jungle
#

"vet got nerfed, better review bomb the game"

outer wave
#

I love fans that react according when their favorite weapon goes from overtuned to balanced and still useable

spring cairn
#

Thrones of decay dlc and it's accompanying patch is probably the best thing wh3 got

storm jungle
spring cairn
#

so if you want to get in, it's maybe the best time

queen laurel
#

But man I need to pick wisely what I want to buy

spring cairn
#

next content addition will be an ogre

#

it already leaked

outer wave
spring cairn
#

biggest issues with the patch rn is all in the dwarf additions

queen laurel
spring cairn
#

thunderbarges are unstoppable

storm jungle
#

FA-

outer wave
#

God I'm excited for more ogre content

spring cairn
#

and their new age of reckoning mechanic need number tweaking

queen laurel
outer wave
storm jungle
spring cairn
#

you must respect the lore

#

and say the full name

outer wave
#

It's censored

queen laurel
spring cairn
#

banger

queen laurel
#

The dragon lady is ******* busted

spring cairn
#

yeah but you can defeat it

#

if the ai recruits at least 4 thunderbarges

#

you fucked

#

best hope you have is that they run out of ammo or kill themselves using the afterburn because the ai is stupid

queen laurel
spring cairn
#

but it's already banned in every mp tournaments

queen laurel
#

and as a green skin player

crystal forum
#

did you guys know that custodes are golden

queen laurel
#

time to make my goblins pledged allegiance to the empire of the rising sun

spring cairn
#

i mean it shouldn't be hard to kill

#

it's just that for some reasons it manages to 1v1 everything that should counter it

#

like a bloodthrister

#

or 3 wyverns

queen laurel
spring cairn
#

nah, it can outrun it for (almost) free

#

and hitbox janky

#

so even if you land a hit it's not a guarantee

queen laurel
spring cairn
#

yeah but the crazy upgrades are player only

queen laurel
#

But i can imagine playing multiplayer with someone who knows how to use him would be painful

#

Especially that spirit of grungni

spring cairn
#

every mp match you can look at where they tested the thunderbarge, it solos 2/3 of an army with close to no micro-management effort

queen laurel
#

Why the f*** does he have that for an army ability

spring cairn
#

because it's cool

#

and he's Malakai

queen laurel
#

Yeah fair

spring cairn
#

they just need to fix the hitbox and nerf the speed boost ability and it's gucchi

queen laurel
spring cairn
#

i have not tried him yet so idk

queen laurel
#

in a disgusting i want to puke way

spring cairn
#

total war's animators never miss

#

(since wh2)

#

don't look at the empire swordsmen attack animation in wh1

queen laurel
#

that's like the most consistent improvement area

#

From 1 to 3 it kept getting better and better

spring cairn
#

dwarfs have a proper shield wall formation now

#

and it's all animated

#

it's not just stats

#

it's like a roman tetsudo from rome 2

queen laurel
spring cairn
#

impervious to missile

queen laurel
#

The only ones left are ogres and norsca i think

#

And some of the warhammer 1 factions I'm pretty sure

plush mason
#

though i assume thats a tech limitation of the engine

queen laurel
plush mason
#

true

tough haven
#

As one of the only pieces of votaan lore, what does this signify?

rocky gale
#

The Iron Kin wearing the pressure helmets?

snow fern
#

Why do AI need pressure helmets?

#

Space isn't like the bottom of the ocean right? No worry of a big squish?

rocky gale
#

To fit in with their buddies

tough haven
rocky gale
#

Maybe it doesn't see itself as one

#

Kin is Kin

tough haven
#

They were killed

outer wave
#

So whats the exact reason on why chaos dwarfs weren't able to bolster their numbers without using slaves and mercenaries?

arctic talon
#

same issue as Elfs

outer wave
#

Makes sense but it seems like it was a bigger issue for the chorfs in comparison to their normal cousins? Was it due to the magic that they recklessly used?

dusk patrol
#

To feed their god too

celest dome
#

Harsher climate, more complicated trading, chaos influence, smaller in number of holds

dusk patrol
#

They were in a very inhospitable area and they chose to turn to their dark god

arctic talon
#

yeah what catci said

dusk patrol
#

Which is largely why the other holds despise them ignoring the other obvious reasons, they think they’re weak and pathetic for turning

outer wave
# dusk patrol To feed their god too

Wouldnt the slaves make okay sacrifices though? Or is it because political rivalries, because I do recall chorfs do care (relatively more than other chaos-abiding factions) for their fellow kin and do try and keep each other alive if possible

dusk patrol
#

They do use them as sacrifices

arctic talon
#

iirc Chorf sacrifices are more valuble

#

sometimes you need to make one

dusk patrol
#

Their whole industry is built around it

arctic talon
#

but slaves do

#

99.99% of the time

celest dome
celest dome
outer wave
#

I see I see

arctic talon
#

They’re less dwarfy then dwarfs

dusk patrol
#

You’re assuming optimal and rational choices too

arctic talon
#

But they’re less chaosy then most chaos factions

dusk patrol
#

They’re chaos

outer wave
#

Yeah but they still got dwarfen ideals, just twisted

#

Or at least they should

#

To an extent

dusk patrol
#

They’re cruel for the sake of it a lot of times

celest dome
#

Not really

#

Like their "ideals" aren't due to Dwarven ancestry but more pragmatism

dusk patrol
celest dome
#

Pragmatism is really a good explainaition for what the Chaos Dwarf do

dusk patrol
#

It’s hard to stress how hard it is for dwarves to be corrupted too and how much it goes against their nature

outer wave
#

Interesting

#

So things like how they deal with the Fireborn (the dwarfs that have to get their faces seared into their helmets to deal with their sins or whatever) - those are just the exception not the rule?

celest dome
#

Fireborn are the CDwarf solution to Slayer cults

#

But even Fireborn can redeem themselves

arctic talon
#

No point in throwing people away to die

outer wave
#

True true

celest dome
#

Infernal Guard, Fireborn are the Kdai monster

crisp heath
#

So if for whatever reason chaos “wins” and every possible chaos worshipping being joins them will they just begin to canibalize themselves?

#

Keep on pushing higher and higher until nothing and no one is left?

green loom
#

Begin to?

#

Reality is a sideshow to chaos

#

The great game is an endless war between them

outer wave
celest dome
#

There are reason to think that the great game has happened multiple times before

outer wave
#

Implying the gods for a time were peaceful and weren't going after each other's throats?

#

Or just united against a faction of order?

celest dome
#

No as in them having the great game in possibly other realities

#

Or timelines

outer wave
#

Ah yeah that

snow fern
#

I’ve always liked the interpretation that the Chaos gods are like spoiled children who will drop their toys as soon as they’re bored of them.

celest dome
#

Oh they are, but it's not unique to children

snow fern
#

Of course. In polite society we refer to those kinds of people as politicians

young pecan
plush mason
#

one of the writers for that game made some "woke" comments on twitter so now the game is woke and gona suck /j

#

the culture war brain rot idiots can find anything to rage about

young pecan
plush mason
#

the most recent one was about the hogwarts legacy drama crap

#

its a nothing burger

young pecan
#

Like usual

#

Companies are too wuss to say some real takes out loud, kinda understandable but still

plush mason
#

yeah

#

the mob mentality is a scary thing

bold wren
#

Fear the customer.

#

It's not a culture war and more about overpriced things that you could buy elsewhere, and just blatantly are disrespectful to paying customers. These are just true unfortunately, and I can see why nobody would pay for what GW is selling. That's not even about culture at that point.

#

But I don't have much love for a corporation, despite they own the property.

winged jacinth
#

yeah i hope sony takes the hint

#

although apparently all they get is your steam ID

crisp heath
#

Can a chaos marine renounce chaos after they have already fallen to it?

#

Or is it just immediate death

outer wave
winged jacinth
#

Oh i hadnt heard that i might try for it

#

Ive got like 100 hours and could make a psn account but fuck sony

green loom
#

It looks like the Titan is actually terrain

#

Which is a neat detail

storm jungle
#

you cant really renounce chaos, you could have some regrets but the only way is to go even more down lmao

arctic talon
#

Unless your main or near main character of the book material

#

Even the you’re prolly just killing yourself in a suicidal attack

sour hornet
#

Question

#

Who holds more power in this instance, Grendyl or Brahms?

#

I understand that rogue traders kinda have carte blanche to do whatever they really want within reason(?)

arctic talon
#

onboard the ship rn Brahms, because grendyl isn't here

#

realistically Grendyl

#

Grendyl has something over Brahms

sour hornet
#

Can they give her orders officially?

arctic talon
#

depends

#

but probably

#

she's above Tertium on Grendyl's orders

arctic talon
#

Thats how power in the imperium tends to work

sour hornet
#

wait what?

#

So no one's really in charge? whatthefuck_heresy

queen laurel
arctic talon
#

Violence is sometimes the answer to who’s in charge

#

Other times it’s who can inflict more violence

#

And sometimes it’s based off of expierence

sour hornet
#

this is getting more complicated than I expected

queen laurel
arctic talon
#

Humans are like Orks

sour hornet
arctic talon
#

And the skaven

arctic talon
#

He’s sort of just sitting on the rock

#

He’s up and about but he’s not leading

#

He’s killing mostly

sour hornet
#

so canonically us rejects only know about guiliman?

queen laurel
sour hornet
#

bro

arctic talon
#

Lion is also in the shit end of the imperium

sour hornet
#

we're actually kinda fucked

arctic talon
#

The rejects? Maybe

#

Tertium is fucked

queen laurel
arctic talon
#

Like it’s almost certainly gona get exterminatus’d at this rate

queen laurel
#

We are probably older than a fossil

sour hornet
#

And what actually is the cicatrix maledictum (hope I spelled that right)

arctic talon
#

It’s a giant warp rift

sour hornet
#

A what

arctic talon
#

It splits the imperium it to the shit part

#

And the less shit part

arctic talon
sour hornet
#

you say otherwise

#

but the more you talk, the worse it gets lmfao

arctic talon
#

No it literally splits the galaxy in half

#

Gimme a second

arctic talon
#

The giant thing in the middle is the Citrix, it stops the astronomicon from being seen and messes with warp travel

queen laurel
#

To the other side?

arctic talon
#

One is an active warzone the other is imperium controlled(sorta) ,

#

Otherwise it’s like traveling through a warpstorm lol

#

Aka really fucking shit

queen laurel
#

But then again the imperium is more violent than a squirrel that is on 5 lbs of drugs

arctic talon
#

The active warzone is the nachmund gauntlet

#

Aka the clusterfuck

#

It’s literally just the tau and nids who aren’t present there

sour hornet
arctic talon
#

Tertium is in the less shit side

sour hornet
#

Bro that is a big ass hole in the center of the galaxy

arctic talon
#

So things are looking up

#

Oh the imperium? The imperium is pretty fucked lol

#

The shit side has a lot of chaos mini empires popping up

queen laurel
#

It's basically a rusty dying ship hold together by a few bolts

arctic talon
#

Some of the high lords think they should just abandon the other half lol

sour hornet
#

What is up here?

#

Is it chiller?

arctic talon
#

The ghoul stars are not chill

#

But they’re chaos free

sour hornet
#

compared to like, half the galaxy being in the ass-end of daemontown

arctic talon
#

There’s a fuck ton of flayed one Necrons

queen laurel
arctic talon
#

Old xenos artifacts

#

Ruined planets

queen laurel
#

It's legitimately one of the worst place in the galaxy

arctic talon
#

Weird gravity anomaly’s

#

The pale wasting

sour hornet
#

worse than chaos?

arctic talon
#

Something that destroyed 5 marine chapters

sour hornet
#

It gets WORSE?

arctic talon
#

And pretty much wiped out the entire imperium task force sent

queen laurel
#

Yeah

#

It's basically one of the most mysterious and dangerous place in all of the universe

arctic talon
#

Idk pick your poison lol

#

The most common issue is flayed one Necrons

#

Who you know, wear people’s skin

queen laurel
#

Yeah and these things have the ability to travel to another dimension

arctic talon
#

And are generally insane

sour hornet
arctic talon
#

Necrons are basically robotic Egyptian terminators

queen laurel
#

They also have a device that can destroy the entire galaxy

#

But you can ignore that

arctic talon
#

The higher ranked you go the more of a personality they have

arctic talon
#

Flayed ones are Necrons who have gone

#

Absolutely insane

sour hornet
#

what the fuck

arctic talon
#

The systems stoping it break

#

They can’t breathe

#

They have no skin

#

Their brain isn’t there

queen laurel
#

It's basically a virus that makes a necron into a zombie that can travel to another dimension

arctic talon
#

It drives them insane

#

Tbf there’s still a brain in there

#

But yeah it’s a virus

queen laurel
#

The flayer virus

#

I'm pretty sure

arctic talon
#

Yeah

#

The Necrons killed a god and got cursed with it lol

#

And also broke a law of physics

queen laurel
sour hornet
#

bro what the actual fuck, I know why they tell you "blessed are the ignorant" I wish I could go back 10 minute ago when I didn't know about the robots that wear people

arctic talon
#

Turns out you shouldn’t kill gods who represent a law of reality

#

But yeah flayed ones are creepy

#

Other Necrons hate them

#

They’re kill on sight

#

Flayed ones also sometimes just show up

#

To collect meat

#

Also they talk

queen laurel
sour hornet
arctic talon
#

They scream, they talk, they mutter incoherently

burnt maple
#

They try to eat flesh, drink blood.

arctic talon
burnt maple
#

But they have no mouths.

arctic talon
#

They can just rip a tear into reality and leave

arctic talon
#

Any star

#

It’s main use is to divine things

#

With “science”

queen laurel
arctic talon
#

Also the dynasty who owns it doesn’t want to use it

sour hornet
arctic talon
#

For blowing things up

arctic talon
#

And they’re less scary since like

#

No gauss weapons

queen laurel
sour hornet
arctic talon
queen laurel
#

They developed legs and joints that makes them unnervenly fast

arctic talon
#

They’re like around as durable as a marine

#

And can get back up

queen laurel
arctic talon
#

Necrons constantly heal injuries they receive

queen laurel
#

Like make sure nothing is literally left

arctic talon
#

Or trigger the recall

sour hornet
#

Okay, starting to get why the ghoul stars are NOT chill

arctic talon
#

Instead of reanimaton protocol

sour hornet
arctic talon
#

But flayed ones are slower to get back up

queen laurel
arctic talon
#

And they’re generally like

#

Weird

#

They get distracted easily

#

Hell if you throw a chunk of meat

#

They might just chase it

queen laurel
arctic talon
#

Lol

#

Okay here’s the thing though, firing exterminatus on a flayed one covered world does nothing

#

They just leave

#

They’re annoying as shit for everyone

#

The Necrons are horrified of them

#

Most people are horrified of them

queen laurel
# sour hornet

Yeah you remember the dimension they use to travel around?

They can live there

arctic talon
#

The only faction that somewhat likes them is chaos because they cause general chaos

queen laurel
#

Completely safe from anything outside

arctic talon
#

That they can exploit

queen laurel
arctic talon
#

Also because flayed ones sometimes throw people off

sour hornet
#

Bro how do imperial generals not commit suicide looking at this shit

arctic talon
#

Like if you find a flayed one on some imperium world

sour hornet
#

we are so fucked lmao

arctic talon
queen laurel
#

They are so use this type of crap that they are fine

arctic talon
#

The imperium is not sane

#

Like

#

They are full of faith and propaganda

#

And general insanity

burnt maple
arctic talon
#

The imperium is not sane

queen laurel
arctic talon
burnt maple
#

Answer: more artillery.

arctic talon
#

Except the orks

sour hornet
#

Okay, so where are the orks/tyranids on this map?

#

Like generally

queen laurel
arctic talon
#

Orks are everywhere

#

Nids are

queen laurel
#

Like Orks can live in just about any environment

arctic talon
#

Also sorta everywhere?

sour hornet
burnt maple
#

Everywhere.

arctic talon
queen laurel
#

They can find a way to live there and thrive

arctic talon
#

This is a map of major ork empires and waaaghs

#

And where their “territory” is

queen laurel
#

Yeah there's not a singular point in that s*** they're everywhere

sour hornet
#

okay, so everywhere

arctic talon
#

Yeah

#

The only xenos that aren’t everywhere are Eldar(all flavors), Tau and leagues of votaan

#

Necrons are “everywhere”

sour hornet
#

don't orks need to eat and sleep? can't we like starve them out? they cannot have sturdy supply lines

arctic talon
#

But most of them are sleeping

arctic talon
burnt maple
#

They eat each ither, sorta.

arctic talon
#

They shed spores that grow into food

#

Or other orks

sour hornet
#

???

arctic talon
#

Ork spores grow into squigs

burnt maple
#

Orks are half-mushrooms.

arctic talon
#

Squigs are good eating

#

They’re also good at mauling humies

#

Depends on the type of squig

#

Orks also don’t have hair

#

Those are hair squigs

queen laurel
#

Yeah their spores

burnt maple
#

Yeah. There are literally squig breeders that try to create more different kinds of squigs.

arctic talon
#

Orks think everyone but the eldar are bad at growing hair squigs

#

💀

sour hornet
arctic talon
#

However you miss a spore

#

New ork infestation

queen laurel
burnt maple
#

Wecan. Problem is their spores are in space. You xant get rid of them.

arctic talon
queen laurel
#

Or as they call it a kick in the jibbles

sour hornet
burnt maple
#

Yes.

queen laurel
burnt maple
#

Like your typical mold.

#

Or other mushroom.

queen laurel
#

It can take years or even decades for a new ork army to just pop up in a planet

arctic talon
#

Also killing orks makes them shed a ton of spores

queen laurel
#

The best way is fire

burnt maple
#

Spores are in ork blood.

queen laurel
#

Burn away the spores making sure nothing is left

sour hornet
#

how do we fight them without burning the whole planet? Is it just one big cycle where we feed guardsmen to the orks until one side is gone?

queen laurel
queen laurel
#

So they can survive even without food for a long time

arctic talon
#

After they’re dead

#

Burn the spores

queen laurel
#

Yeah

arctic talon
#

Get most of them

#

It’s no longer an issue

queen laurel
#

Cleaning sessions are normal

arctic talon
#

A few orks are fine

burnt maple
#

Yup.

arctic talon
#

Some feral orks are great

#

For pdf training lol

sour hornet
#

Does chaos affect orks?

arctic talon
#

They’re tough, scary, dangerous

queen laurel
arctic talon
#

But it can

#

Chaos can effect pretty much everything but Necrons

burnt maple
#

Besides, orks are no problem, unless there is a smart one that makestechnology.

arctic talon
#

Because the Necrons don’t have souls

queen laurel
# sour hornet Does chaos affect orks?

They are pretty immune and it takes a lot to corrupt them like

Your best bet of an ork becoming chaos is if it joins you willingly most of the time it finds the spiky weak

arctic talon
#

“Trazyn, do orks breathe?”

queen laurel
#

They ignore whispers of power because they don't understand them

arctic talon
#

“They have lungs”

burnt maple
#

Orks are too simple for chaos corruption.

sour hornet
#

what about tyranids? can we bait them into fighting orks?

arctic talon
#

Some orks got corrupted to chaos because they started worshiping an idol of nurgle by accident

arctic talon
queen laurel
#

You can see where this is going

arctic talon
sour hornet
queen laurel
#

It's basically a stillmate of a war that will last for as long as no one interrupts

burnt maple
#

Warzone octarius was one of the greatest gambles and biggeat fuckups of the Imperium in recent history xD

queen laurel
#

Octarius like wolf said is the best depiction of this

arctic talon
#

Octarius would have gone on forever if the imperium didn’t fuck with it

#

And they somehow made the tyranids win

sour hornet
#

So they literally tried what I was saying and it made everything worse

arctic talon
#

Yeah

#

Warzone octarius also attached a ton of orks

queen laurel
arctic talon
#

Since it was a huge fight

burnt maple
#

Orks evolve by fighting, tyranids evolve by eating. Perpetum mobile of war evolution, where no matter eho wins:Imperium loses.

queen laurel
#

Yeah the veterans in there are large

arctic talon
sour hornet
#

Wait

crisp heath
#

Tbf it's pretty logical that nids would eventually win over orks

arctic talon
sour hornet
#

Do orks not see any problems with just feeding tyranids biomass in an endless fight for hundreds of years?

crisp heath
#

Orks just grow exponentially. They're pure attrition. Tyranids actually adapt tactically while also growing.

arctic talon
#

Till the imperium fucked with the warzone

queen laurel
#

Yeah they adapt strategies but so Orks

arctic talon
queen laurel
#

They are capable of strategy and being random

burnt maple
arctic talon
#

Orks often don’t have long term strategic planning

crisp heath
#

Orkz just wanna have fun

burnt maple
#

Big bugs give good fight.

arctic talon
#

When fighting something like tyranids

burnt maple
#

WAAAAAGH!

arctic talon
#

It was their greatest weakness at octarius

queen laurel
#

Yeah it just boils down to kill them all

#

They were basically just overpowering the adaptability of the nids

arctic talon
#

But the orks were winning octarius

#

Slowly

queen laurel
#

Because they kept getting bigger and bigger

arctic talon
#

And the imperium tried to uh

#

Even the odds

sour hornet
#

wait they were winning??!

arctic talon
#

(It failed horribly)

arctic talon
queen laurel
#

Like i'm pretty sure that place would have spawned another Ghaz

arctic talon
#

The orks were winning octarius

queen laurel
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If it just kept getting on and on

crisp heath
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Ghaz did show up for a bit himself lmao

arctic talon
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The overfiend of octarius

sour hornet
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Bro orks are way fucking stronger than I thought

queen laurel