#40k-lore-chat

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storm jungle
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the problem is tho

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George explores TOO MUCH

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its too realistic

sly ivy
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Author got real big

storm jungle
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everyone has a motivation

barren prawn
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theyre gonna tell the story of a tech priest working on the golden throne

sly ivy
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Editor stepped back

storm jungle
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Yep

sly ivy
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Could have used editor

barren prawn
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a story about a scout that fucking loses their weapon during the siege

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and maybe a cat pov of the seige

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literal slop aside from one story

storm jungle
# sly ivy Could have used editor

yeah ASOIAF for me is while great George gets distracted by the realism too much, its great that every little character has wants/needs and some we actually explore to painstaking detail but even he has admitted this ends up in a knot of conspiracies he cant unravel lol

sly ivy
storm jungle
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because as it turns out writing multiple characters with suhc a style is extremely difficult lol

sly ivy
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Where is the slop

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Slop is like AND THEN THE MAIN CHARACTER UBER SUPER PRIMARCH PUNCHED SOMEONE’S FUCKING HEAD OFF

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Don’t @ me I like know no fear too

storm jungle
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To be fair Know No Fear does it well

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because theres proper stakes

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its not just mindless violence

sly ivy
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Yes it’s real good haha

storm jungle
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Its probably because the actual battle has serious implications

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and its not just some fuck-off location

storm jungle
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Its so and so.

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Know No Fear/Betrayer are great, the others are kinda whatever

sly ivy
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I agree that Perpetual is the true heart and climax of HH

barren prawn
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mark of calth just for the last story

sly ivy
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It made me climax

storm jungle
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💀

rose thorn
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beastmen died so they could thrive in Darkest Dungeon 2

outer wave
spring cairn
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more like pigmen

arctic talon
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nah DD2 has actual like

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goat men now

spring cairn
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i haven't played dd2 yet

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it seems decent but idk

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i miss the 2d

arctic talon
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fair

rose thorn
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i love dd2 sylveon_spin its insanely fun

young pecan
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Final boss of the first game being solo'd by a man too angry and disease-riddled to die

storm jungle
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its like past midnight in half of the world shut up

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🗣️

median star
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proof

vagrant fox
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I've made a terrible mistake by reading the alpha legion subreddit

umbral kraken
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looks like the majority of the world's population is not at midnight, though 1-10AM wouldnt be too far off

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🤓 👆

arctic talon
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Do we know why Tau noses have that sexual dimorphism

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Or is it just GW did it

crystal forum
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i wish to physically punt zealot players

vagrant fox
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Mad because I'm holy and loved by the emperor, blessed be his name whatever it is, and you aren't

arctic talon
dusk patrol
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You

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You is the someone

arctic talon
dusk patrol
umbral kraken
crystal forum
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that night lord is only pretending to be dead

arctic talon
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That NL has gold trim

green loom
arctic talon
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Old

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I just think it’s weird one of the Necrons is so hunched over

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Like that would suck lol

green loom
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Did

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Did they get rid of

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Scrolling

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On image dumps

outer wave
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I think they did

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I was noticing that yesterday

green loom
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Can we just like

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Burn their UI folks or something

soft thunder
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I like how the necron aren't really given any explanation as to why they're so smart/good at technology stuff. I wonder if it came before or after their overwhelming arrogance and superiority complex.

hasty coral
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How strong WERE the C’tan?

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Like compared to the Chaos Gods?

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And Emperor

arctic talon
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We don’t have an exact “fix” on their power

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But we know that they were strong enough to pretty much genocide the old ones with necron support

umbral kraken
errant yacht
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A dumb thought relating to the Emperor having many names before the age of the Imperium, but would he ever have lived Oda Nobunaga's life?

umbral kraken
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oh you're my friend on discord too, duh

tough haven
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Are there any official examples of mechanicus psykers?

dusk patrol
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Kinda yeah

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But its unintentional stuff

tough haven
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Such as?

opaque coyote
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"The elites don't want you to know, but the human babies on the hive worlds are free, you can take them home. I have 458 babies."

dusk patrol
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They now are basically a times 1000 version of Chernobyl and are kept in a lead lined case and used to fuck up enemies on the battlefield

late osprey
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i would think that such things as psykers would be highly disliked as it runs contrary to the whole cult's idea of the flesh being weak

dusk patrol
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It’s abnormal for a reason

opaque coyote
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than the flesh

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So it still works out.

late osprey
arctic talon
opaque coyote
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Why the fuck does this sound something straight out of 40k

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Like I can imagine

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++Thought of the Day: Do not commit the sin of empathy++

celest dome
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Cause the Imperium is meant to be a satire on those sort of peoples

late osprey
winter vessel
storm jungle
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its a pretty fascist quote lol

winter vessel
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them garments look like an Epic quality cosmetic set from an MMO

storm jungle
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LMFAO

winter vessel
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-“Another satisfied customer”

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Glad this little fella is included in the box set

sterile turret
spare osprey
celest dome
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This one iirc

storm jungle
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its almost like

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the skitarii had some sort of Psychic Awakening™️

rose thorn
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AHASHVSEVDUBSUS I’m
Fucking dying my roommate is asleep

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Classic Warhammer experience

ask a question
the response does not answer the question

celest dome
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wat

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what question

tough haven
rose thorn
celest dome
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what was the question whatthefuck_heresy

rose thorn
# celest dome what was the question <:whatthefuck_heresy:1049724444207239168>

Sorry I just need a rule clarification real quick, so let’s say you are playing a warband with more than 4 fighters and your opponent only had 3 fighters. A; can you in total only activate 4 fighters per round
B; when your opponent runs out of fighters to activate, do you just use your remaining activations?

Sorry if it’s in the rule book, I just can’t find where it would be

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I need to completely understand the game because I have to do a project in college about it survstare

celest dome
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Can't find anything

rose thorn
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The embergard box has a 3 model and 5 model warband

celest dome
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Think you would activate all the fighter

rose thorn
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So I’m not sure

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I think so too but you only have 4 activation tokens , I might need to binge a battle report

rose thorn
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You can make 1 fighter go 4 times, 2 fighters 2 times etc

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Some actions you can only do one like charge

barren prawn
tough haven
arctic talon
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yeah I'ma be real with you

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this GSC mini is lame

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he looks lamer then the normal primus

green loom
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Peak Stormvermin meanwhile

rose thorn
arctic talon
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well its an event mini

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so smarf

rose thorn
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Exactly

arctic talon
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idk

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maybe my standards are too high lol

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but I was really expecting something more interesting

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at least pose or like

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just equipment wise

rose thorn
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At least we have a good claw lord model

arctic talon
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mhm

rose thorn
queen laurel
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what da zog do all of these mean

rose thorn
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You probably are gonna get rules to skip a certain phase

queen laurel
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so i'm glad they are able to use basically every facet of their army

rose thorn
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You already have trogg only rules, I imagine the armies of renown are squig and wolf only

queen laurel
queen laurel
rose thorn
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I think mixed force gits is ultimately healthier for the army

queen laurel
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and so they use a menagerie of things to even it out

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Troggoths for muscle
squigs for societal needs and war

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Stuff like that makes them great and the fact that they actually bother reflecting that on the army

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i can safely say i'm happy

dusk patrol
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They're fine for what they're doing but not quite as good as event minis tend to be imo.

rose thorn
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As long as we have another ‘any Gloomspite gitz’ option i think we will be good

queen laurel
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questionable for Orruks

rose thorn
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Lmao

queen laurel
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yeah

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ironjawz got off easy

rose thorn
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Only boar spam sucks

queen laurel
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and giants and Ogors are roughly speaking on the spot they are wanting to be

rose thorn
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But they ahve an army of renown to make it okay

queen laurel
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in that giant's suck and ogres are OK

rose thorn
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Balance wise giants need to suck

queen laurel
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The only viable way to make them competitively viable is to buff their stats so much that they can basically eat a spell to the face and not even flinch

rose thorn
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Ogors are waiting for trh rework, aka thier bare bone balancing

queen laurel
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but what they are is good enough

queen laurel
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most of their stuff is from fantasy

opaque coyote
plush mason
rose thorn
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?

plush mason
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afaik mixed color decks are better than pure color decks

rose thorn
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Ye, I told Bulgur I had a feeling they wanted to pivot Gitz to mixed forces instead of mono themed armies like now

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I imagine the 2 Armies of Renown will be for mono armies

plush mason
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when did this maledictum thing start anyway? i just heard of it

opaque coyote
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GYAAATTTTT

humble shoal
plush mason
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no i mean the card game lol

humble shoal
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Lel

arctic talon
plush mason
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does it have cards?

arctic talon
opaque coyote
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Does the Imperium have credit/debit cards?

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Probably not but I wonder if some planets have them for their local currency

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I also wonder what gives the Thrones or whatever value exactly?

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Ducats are apparently made out of gold

Terces, in Medusa, are silver

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So is the Thrones value tied to the Gold Standard?

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Like Thrones kinda need to be tied to something to give it inherit value since it's widely used throughout the Imperium.

You'd also need it for local currency transfers

late osprey
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not exchange rates for other currency, but exchange rates for guns, ammo, and soldiers in classic 40k fashion

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"Often goods, resources, and manpower are substituted as currency on a planetary level.[3e]"

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this is all we have on it

opaque coyote
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Like I remember a fanfic where the Night Lords have set up a black market in their shit hole of a planet

Where the currency was literally Bolter shells

late osprey
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as the administratum has a de-facto monopoly on galactic resource allocation, they probably would be singlehandedly responsible for setting currency values

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accidentally doubling as the imperium's central bank

opaque coyote
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I can definitely see it tied to weaponry. Like Lasguns

late osprey
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again, in classic 40k fashion

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it would mostly be relevant for the planetary governments who need to get this gear for their regiments, and that would trickle down to the rest of society

opaque coyote
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Although Lasguns have different patterns so

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What the fuck would it even be based off of

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Like a Hell gun is better than your random ass Lasgun from Hive whatitsname

late osprey
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probably it goes like this:

  1. Standard Lasgun - X Moneys
  2. Elite Lasgun - 5X Moneys
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and you need 1000 of the fuckers minimum for a regiment

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so its just cheaper to order normal lasguns from the Administratum

opaque coyote
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It'd make sense for currency to be tied to weaponry for the Imperium

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It fits

late osprey
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the Administratum, in turn, probably buys said guns from Forge Worlds with the money they make selling them to various planets + tithes

opaque coyote
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"2500 thrones for a tank"

late osprey
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meaning its pretty much impossible for the economy to grow

opaque coyote
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Although I thought about it being tied to the Gold Standard because

Just

Look at the Imperium palace

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The Emperor probably would've done it because it would be funny

storm jungle
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a lot of imperial organisations are symbiotic/parasitic of each other

opaque coyote
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Blahblahblah-

storm jungle
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every planet has a "tithe" of some kind.

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theres just a few exceptions amongst like trillions

late osprey
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yeah there are commodity tithes

storm jungle
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"currency" is always a local planetary thing

late osprey
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but its also very likely that the standardized currencies are part of that tithe

opaque coyote
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Yeah I'm thinking that due to Thrones being used as a general currency throughout games and even some books and lore

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I'm just generally wondering what gives it actual value

storm jungle
opaque coyote
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Tareldar suggested that it's probably tied to weaponry. Which makes sense lmao

late osprey
arctic talon
storm jungle
arctic talon
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The imperium is a barter based currency

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Primarily

storm jungle
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^

arctic talon
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There’s sector wide stuff

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But nothing past that

opaque coyote
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Like

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What gives the sector stuff value?

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Weapons?

arctic talon
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We’ve never seen currency used at a segmentum or multi sector

storm jungle
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^

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Also that.

arctic talon
late osprey
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we still have the question of how a planetary government actually gets the weapons and armor they need to raise their armies

arctic talon
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Forgeworlds, hive worlds

green loom
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The Feds(Imperials) don't pay anyone, service is rewarded with different stuff
Like not being shot, and settling rights and shit

arctic talon
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Ect.

late osprey
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especially since they make patterns that are almost never on world

opaque coyote
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Also I think 30k had a universal currency before it all turned into shit

storm jungle
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its pretty clear

arctic talon
green loom
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The Tithe feeds new regiments

arctic talon
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^

storm jungle
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^

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Its again basic feudalism

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money has nothing to do with it

arctic talon
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You give stuff -> you get stuff

green loom
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If your planet is tithed for grain a nearby manufactorum world is tithed for weapons

opaque coyote
late osprey
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there's still money in feudalism lol

plush mason
late osprey
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then there's still the question as to what planets get what guns

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as aforementioned, some guns are better than others

green loom
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Like how Tertium is tithed for Tanks even as it's at war

arctic talon
storm jungle
arctic talon
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Your quality of stuff is dependent on your tithe grade

storm jungle
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anything that feeds the war will be taken

arctic talon
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From what we’ve seen

storm jungle
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economic values are not important to them

arctic talon
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Higher tithe grade planets get better stuff

green loom
arctic talon
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Lower tithe grade planets get worse

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Generally speaking

green loom
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Or very far away depending on how weird you want to get lmao

arctic talon
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You can also always make deals with specific worlds

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To trade stuff

opaque coyote
green loom
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Like a planet in Ultima could very feasibly get shipments from Solar just for paperwork reasons

arctic talon
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It’s why you have shit like Krieg near exclusively using Lucius stuff

opaque coyote
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Seriously I can't imagine trying to keep track of a barter based economy on a galactic scale.

Without any sort of AI.

storm jungle
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Yeah its pretty basic reasoning.

Mostly because nobody wants to write about planetary economics because it would get extremely befuddled as most of the writers dont wanna bother, so the feudalism angle keeps it at a "simple" level for exports/imports among other things.

late osprey
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where exactly is it said that tithe grade also means resource allocation?

green loom
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The feds tax you under threat of death and then distribute that from big administratum hubs

arctic talon
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One moment

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I’ll try to see if I have it on hand

storm jungle
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Yeah it was one of them

green loom
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*that we know of

storm jungle
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a lot of books also repeat it

late osprey
storm jungle
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Yeah because thats the lexicanum

green loom
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The Entire reason Arbites exist is to make sure the Tithe ships get their toll

storm jungle
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they dont go into this niche amount of detail lol

late osprey
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they actually do

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which is why i use it

storm jungle
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they really dont

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the entire point of the lexi is to be a summary

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not painstaking details

arctic talon
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Lexicanum sucks compared to the direct source

storm jungle
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^

arctic talon
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Also I don’t have the rulebook on hand

green loom
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It's not that big a reach regardless of source

storm jungle
late osprey
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it makes mistakes, but omitting that part when otherwise it's a 1:1 copy over (as the lines usually are) seems highly unlikely

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so id love to see the primary source

green loom
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Considering the Grapevine nightmare the administratum is having exceptions and extra designations for niche circumstances is entirely on brand

storm jungle
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Its still summary information

arctic talon
storm jungle
arctic talon
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I could also just

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Be mistaken tbf

storm jungle
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You are the one thats gonna go through these pages not me so (:

late osprey
green loom
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Do you think there's a pleasure world that's tithed for bodies

storm jungle
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Yes.

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we got literal worlds whos entire purpose is slaves so

green loom
storm jungle
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: )

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"authoritarian" btw

green loom
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That's technically the entire imperium smh

late osprey
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pleasure worlds are no doubt tithed for parties

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even cardinals need rest

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especially the cardinals

storm jungle
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its like real life

green loom
late osprey
# arctic talon Be mistaken tbf

what i DID find was the Aestimare ranking (though its apparently uncited) which explicitly ranks a planet's importance; while that doesnt specifically say higher-ranked planets get more stuff than lower-ranked planets, it seems pretty obvious that it would in this barter model

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the highest ranked places are research stations, ironically enough

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i still think currency is probably the medium of exchange here, just regional, because that would be the only real way for the administratum to calculate the exact value of the resources being sent out and collected

arctic talon
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Lexicanum did cite correctly

late osprey
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for the aestimare?

arctic talon
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For aestimare yes

late osprey
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here's another fun bit

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"The Imperial Tithe ultimately is for the benefit of Terra, and makes it the site of both incredible wealth and extreme poverty. While Terra had a grand splendor and was heavily restored during the time of the Great Crusade, as of the 41st Millennium most of its structures have decayed.[37a]" (that's Vaults of Terra)

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so i dont doubt materials utterly irrelevant to the war effort are siphoned during tithes as well and just given to Terran aristocrats

plush mason
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there is likely a lot of worlds who's soul purpose in the imperium is to send water to Terra

arctic talon
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And it’s not even a good grape

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The thing tasted terrible and was small

late osprey
plush mason
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oh most surely

arctic talon
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Mmmmmm

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Ice

late osprey
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"ahhh the freshest of uranal water"

plush mason
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Terra is basically a black hole eatting the imperium from the inside

storm jungle
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the adeptus custodes codex mentions it being mined for some weird material otherwise we dont really know

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no wait it was its moon i think let me see

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fucking dumbass solar system

late osprey
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neptune is fine, though its funny to think of terra slurping up water planets

storm jungle
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Triton is the largest natural satellite of the planet Neptune. It is the only moon of Neptune massive enough to be rounded under its own gravity and hosts a thin, hazy atmosphere. Triton orbits Neptune in a retrograde orbit—revolving in the opposite direction to the parent planet's rotation—the only large moon in the Solar System to do so. Trito...

plush mason
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ngl its funny we named the planet after the god and the moon after the titan

storm jungle
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We are pretty creative with names usually for the most part

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not like greek myth isnt filled with ones to steal

plush mason
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its just the random symbolism you can find in it

celest dome
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A couple of years back, a Belgian team found a star with 7 exoplanets.
And in Belgium people wanted those 7 exoplanets to be named after Trappist Beers (6 Belgian ones) and something else I've forgotten

storm jungle
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god lol

celest dome
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Instead we have Trappist-1 to Trappist-7 or some lame shit

plush mason
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ngl it makes more sense than naming them after dead gods and titans that havent been worshiped for centuries at least

late osprey
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well all the original ones got their common names during the renaissance when people were really into that stuff

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so at least that part makes sense

plush mason
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fair

celest dome
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Wonder how the God of Laws would have been had they too been ported to 40k

crystal forum
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at least biologists get to name their discoveries whatever they want

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for some reason astronomy thinks they have to be classy

crystal forum
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i have no idea who this god is

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but they worship the law like it's the emperor himself

celest dome
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Gods of Law

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4+ Gods that initially fought the Chaos Gods and lost

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The White Widow basically meant to be one

crystal forum
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oh

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actual chaos lore that doesn't involve space marines holy shit

celest dome
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It's fantasy ones

crystal forum
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yeah im joking

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i wish 40k lore had this stuff though

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this kind of stuff

rose thorn
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Oh hey the model comes with an alt head

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The magus

jade holly
dusk patrol
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Because they wanted to name it after your butt

arctic talon
soft thunder
arctic talon
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Hey it’s modern enough

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And it hasn’t been contradicted

soft thunder
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I mean GW still rolls w/ it as a background thing. It's in most of the recent animations when they show a new planet

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and SM2

remote widget
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Why is the order of the fiery heart mad at felix, they said he could keep it in skavenslayer

rose thorn
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Crazy that the adepticon models would be amazing for their armies if normally available

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Current clawlord model is

soft thunder
arctic talon
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🔥

soft thunder
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it's just a word with number next to it really, not even a sentence or anything. Just inferrences based on context it is used

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😭

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like forge worlds are pretty high importance, Mars and Terra are A1

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(I assume)

dusky beacon
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Whats the T'au method of FTL?

hallow plover
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They think daemons are mean aliens

dusky beacon
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Ah so they're really inefficient with their travel

hallow plover
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Considering they're still a young race it's not that bad

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They've been expanding ||and getting wrecked||

dusky beacon
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Hopefully a less hostile Aldari Craftworld can vibe with The Greater Good and set then on the path to Webway travel

arctic talon
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The greater good would require a craftworld to be inferior to the tau

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No eldar would ever let that happen

dusky beacon
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I never got the vibe that The Greater Good put the T'au race on a pedestal, aside from the Ethereals

arctic talon
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Due to how tau society works

dusky beacon
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Ah

hasty coral
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Most sympathetic primarch?

dusky beacon
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I know the Caste system

hasty coral
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I gotta give it to Angron personally

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After reading his whole story DAMN

Bro just wanted to be left alone

arctic talon
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You can’t be part of the caste system unless you’re Tau

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And that means you have almost 0 social mobility

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As a non tau

dusky beacon
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But aside from the Ethereals all T'au castes are considered equal right?

hasty coral
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Fire Caste is above the rest I think

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But if you mean

arctic talon
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They’re considered superior in their specific sphere

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And inferior in other ones

hasty coral
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There aren’t a lot of differences between the other castes in terms of standing?

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Yes

arctic talon
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I.E in matters of war a fire warrior’s opinion is going to take precedent

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Over a water caste spies

hasty coral
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The line between Fire Caste and others is much closer then Ethereals and everyone else

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Yes

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It’s like “haha I’m higher then you”

Vs

Racial slur

arctic talon
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They just have a slur

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For acting outside your caste

dusky beacon
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Best typo

arctic talon
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💀

hasty coral
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Nah but fr which primarch do you feel the worst for?

dusky beacon
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Konrad

hasty coral
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For me I ONLY feel bad for Angron

dusky beacon
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And Magnus

hasty coral
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Magnus is a bitch

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He knew Horus was behind Prospero and followed him anyway

dusky beacon
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He didn't see any other options to protect his Sons

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Konrad needed some heavy fuckin therapy

hasty coral
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Angron just wanted to be left fucking alone

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Really highlighted the issue with

“We are your brothers/sons”

“BRO I DON’T KNOW YOU”

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Even BESIDES the nails

Like Emperor just picked him up and said fuck you

AND didn’t help the mfs he was CLEARLY helping

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Like

WHY

arctic talon
hasty coral
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That’s not just immoral

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That’s STUPID

arctic talon
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Afterwards he literally should have just killed himself or rebeled

hasty coral
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Why would you NOT help the mfs who were fighting with your sons

arctic talon
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Also The Emperor has like

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negative empathy

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or emotional intelligence lol

hasty coral
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At least get some good boy points with your son

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Or something

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WHAT DOES HE GAIN BY BEING AN ASSHOLE?!

dusky beacon
hasty coral
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Like pragmatically that makes NEGATIVE sense

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“Damn how could my sons betray me?”

#

Mf WHAT REASON did they EVER have to like you?!

#

I’m sorry but even psychopaths know how to FAKE empathy

#

And know doing so benefits them

#

The Emperor doesn’t even do THAT

#

And I hate it

#

It makes no sense

#

And makes the Emperor seem majorly fucking stupid

#

Like you’re telling me he doesn’t know charisma??

#

Which

#

He DOES

#

But just like

NOT enough to work people?

#

He is HOW old?

#

And he doesn’t know how to effectively manipulate people

#

Subtly

#

?

opaque coyote
hasty coral
#

Like bro

Ciaphus Cain knew how to inspire his subordinates better

opaque coyote
#

The worst dad ever

dusky beacon
#

Is it charisma, or is it the fact he's an 11 foot tall demigod that makes people listen go him

#

He is NOT a human being

opaque coyote
dusky beacon
#

He cannot relate to the people

opaque coyote
#

Like it automatically translates into the best way you can hear it.

#

But not to his sons

hasty coral
#

So he is just super uneducated in Charisma in reality?

#

That

#

Fits better

#

Godly hubris

opaque coyote
hasty coral
#

I am playing Rogue Trader recently and MAN I love just being the rational fucking human being in 40k

dusky beacon
#

I don't see Big E as a human being, he's just as alien as a Xenos

hasty coral
#

Iconoclast is so fucking fun

#

“Fuck this grim dark shit. I good person.”

hasty coral
#

Essentially

dusky beacon
#

Hes clearly so much more

vagrant fox
#

Big E is a tens-of-thousands year old warlord, he probably just forgot how to act human at some point

hasty coral
#

He really ISN’T human

Just like objectively

opaque coyote
hasty coral
#

Too much Psychic

opaque coyote
#

And all that's left is the godly shell.

hasty coral
#

Decent theory

#

Angron COULD have really just killed himself though

#

That’s like

#

The one issue I have with his story

#

Dude

Just kill yourself

dusky beacon
#

Big E also seems to not want to actually do anything

opaque coyote
#

Canonically, he also reportedly cast off his hope and love.

But unfortunately that takes place JUST BEFORE THE FIGHT WITH HORUS.

dusky beacon
#

Its all a job to him

opaque coyote
#

Fucking John Grammaticus.

#

Anyways

opaque coyote
hasty coral
#

Nurgle and Isha is fucking POETIC

#

Does Isha realize she is staring at life itself?

green loom
#

Like they're basically all latent psykers

hasty coral
#

Like Isha serves life and is IRONICALLY serving life in Nurgle’s capture

green loom
#

Nurlge is a parasite that feeds off life

hasty coral
#

I always find that morbidly poetic

green loom
#

Or disease and entropy more like

opaque coyote
hasty coral
green loom
#

No

opaque coyote
#

The maggots, the parasites

#

The fucking mold

hasty coral
#

Yes

#

It is

opaque coyote
#

The bacteria

dusky beacon
opaque coyote
#

Specifically Isha genuinely loves her children.

green loom
#

The chaos gods aren't full embodiments of things, they're side effects of souls and feed off certain things as we understand

hasty coral
#

The crazy Psyker in Darktide has a line about how technically disease CAN be considered the most primordial and divine form of life by misguided souls

opaque coyote
#

And wants them to be well.

opaque coyote
#

Nurgle is an abusive grandfather.

hasty coral
#

They are connected the the goings ons of reality

opaque coyote
#

He literally gaslights and forces you to wallow in your misery

green loom
hasty coral
#

But they ARE the closest thing to the concept manifested

hasty coral
#

Microbes ARE the most abundant life

#

Viruses

opaque coyote
#

One of the main ways he corrupts you is literally infecting you with several diseases. Preventing you from dying.

hasty coral
#

Bacteria

#

Etc

green loom
#

In any case he isn't life itself

arctic talon
green loom
#

He just feeds off it

opaque coyote
#

and then forcing you to accept.

hasty coral
#

No

#

Not itself

arctic talon
#

but air caste are considered "worthless" under the Tau'va when it comes to ground tactics

hasty coral
#

But it’s the closest thing in 40k to it

arctic talon
#

and are meant to stick to space and air tactics lol

#

same applies to Fire Warriors

green loom
#

A horrible perversion of it yeah

hasty coral
#

And it’s ironic how the goddess of life is being tormented by the closest thing to life itself

arctic talon
#

they're to stay in their spheres

opaque coyote
#

He is abuse.

hasty coral
#

Yes

#

The chaos gods are more conglomerates of suffering that have connections to things that happen in real space

green loom
dusky beacon
hasty coral
#

Anyways

Rogue Trader is a fucking banger

green loom
#

You'd probably get Earth Caste to do that

#

I think

arctic talon
#

idk if a fire caste was good at taxes I'd let them do it

green loom
#

They're the math people

arctic talon
#

lol

#

also yeah Earth Caste is taxes

dusky beacon
#

Damn

arctic talon
#

Water caste is diplomacy, propaganda, art, subterfuge

#

ect.

hasty coral
#

Anyone else play Rogue Trader yet?

arctic talon
#

finished it

dusky beacon
#

I was close

green loom
#

few playthroughs

arctic talon
#

four times

hasty coral
arctic talon
hasty coral
#

I really like it

arctic talon
#

best representation of 40k in a videogame

#

lol

#

by far

hasty coral
#

They let me be NICE

#

THANK YOU

green loom
#

Gameplay is fun, weaker narrative and scale compared to their previous Pathfinder games though

hasty coral
#

But it’s still very good

rose thorn
#

Rereading the gits rules, you can get away with skipping 1 of the 4 clans, so if you don’t like wolves or don’t need squigs you can skip them

#

Each phase affects 2 of the clans

green loom
#

It's a really good 40k game

#

My only gripe is that Heretic isn't fleshed out enough

dusky beacon
arctic talon
#

well

#

No

#

because they have actual useful info they can share

#

but they're never allowed to 99% of the time lol

#

A fire caste warrior's report on air movement may be disregarded by a earth caste data analyst as its outside of his sphere lol

dusky beacon
#

I can't see most T'au deviating from their Caste because they would suck at anything else

#

Ahh

arctic talon
#

is my point

#

its a huge point in the new Tau book

#

where a bunch of pathfinders are stuck in the worst counter insurgancy situation possible

#

and their reports are ignored as they're "outside of their sphere"

#

reporting on subterfuge and such and the incredibly valuable info they have is completely disregarded

#

and they're left to fend for themselves

#

and die in veitnam a jungle

dusky beacon
#

Gonna be honest I'm not sure if I like that, I've heard people say they like the T'au as the nieve underdogs in a brutal universe, but that just makes them look stupid if it's something very new

#

I could be wrong tho

arctic talon
#

That’s not a new thing

#

It’s part of tau culture

#

It’s a horrific flaw with the greater good

dusky beacon
#

I meant like something new GW added

arctic talon
#

Beyond all the other horrid things the greater good is

#

I mean it’s not new

#

This has been lore since 4e

#

Or 3e

#

That acting outside of your sphere is considered bad/shameful/should be ignored

dusky beacon
#

I mean being a Gue'vesa is still probably leagues better than being a regular Imperium citizen

arctic talon
#

I mean yeah

#

I’m not using that as a point though

#

No shit it’s prolly better to live under the Tau then be worked to death in a manufacotrum

#

Even if you’re going to get culturally genocided

dusky beacon
#

And aren't they making Farsight kinda a dick too now? Or am I completely criss crossed

arctic talon
#

He used to be a massive tau supremacist lol

dusky beacon
#

Okay gotcha

#

I've been hearing that GW has been trying to make the T'au more and more evil

arctic talon
#

Tau have always been this evil

#

Lol

#

People who say otherwise didn’t read their 3e codex

#

Which literally talks about re-education camps

#

Work will set you free

dusky beacon
#

I mean, to be fair, you can't really afford freeloaders in the 40k setting

#

Unfortunately

opaque coyote
arctic talon
#

Like the Nazi ones

#

Except with political dissidents

dusky beacon
#

You said re-education

#

Not death camps

arctic talon
#

I felt like the implication was there

opaque coyote
arctic talon
#

With the whole “work will set you free” thing

dusky beacon
#

Oh

arctic talon
#

Because a vast majority of the tau sent to “re-education”

#

Are never seen again

opaque coyote
#

Auschwitz was also labeled as a re-education and work camp

#

With wonderful ""showers""

arctic talon
#

Either that or they’re used in earth caste experimentation

opaque coyote
arctic talon
#

Genetic testing

#

weapons testing

#

Ect.

#

Whatever they need a live subject for

hallow plover
arctic talon
#

The Tau empire has always been evil

#

They’re just the lesser evil lol

opaque coyote
arctic talon
#

They ran a gsc experiment that went horribly wrong

#

Lol

opaque coyote
#

But one has less of a chance

#

and also actual food

arctic talon
#

Anyways did you know a bonding blade is in fact not a great melee weapon

opaque coyote
#

so

arctic talon
#

For fighting a Genestealer

#

Those fire warriors who read farsights tactics book certinaly found that out

#

Before they got “kisses”

dusky beacon
#

Like if you had to be anywhere in the 40k universe you would still probably want to be a Gue'vesa

opaque coyote
#

who knew

arctic talon
opaque coyote
#

Life is actually pretty chill in a craftworld

arctic talon
#

Also yeah living as a craftworlder is great

#

Unless you die without a soul stone or it’s broken

#

Or get kidnapped by drukhari

opaque coyote
#

If I get born as a human though I'd rather shoot myself

arctic talon
#

In which that case it’s about to be a horrible time

vagrant fox
#

I'd be the coolest inquisitor

#

That's what I'd choose

dusky beacon
#

Well if we don't have to still be humans the Orks are the only ones who are having a good time

opaque coyote
#

Including the Drukhari

arctic talon
#

Since most of them have pretty much never suffered

#

In any meaningful way

hallow plover
#

Obligatory t'au getting bullied

opaque coyote
arctic talon
#

And also they give a lot of emotional response

#

And their souls are big

#

Also if you ever get bored you can mutilate their soul stone and soul and turn it into a weapon

#

The possibilities are endless!

opaque coyote
#

Yeah in that case, then that would be bad

#

But still better than being a human, t'au, or even a drukhari

#

In general, not when you get captured by the deldar

spare osprey
dusky beacon
#

If the T'au ever got rid of their AI i bet Gulliman would be open to working with them, seeing as how he's already reached out to that one Eldar who's name i forgot

opaque coyote
arctic talon
#

Guilliman literally says he’s going to kill yvraine once their alliance is over

#

To yvraines face lol

opaque coyote
arctic talon
#

I think people are forgetting Guilliman is still like

#

A mega omnicidal xenophobic demigod

opaque coyote
arctic talon
#

He’s killed trillions most likely

#

Lol

#

Billions is like a single planet

#

Getting genocided

#

Which happened a lot

opaque coyote
#

Just one who isn't like

Completely insane or a complete asshole

hallow plover
opaque coyote
#

Or went to get the milk

arctic talon
#

Guilliman had a high compliance rate

#

He did a lot of killing

#

And talking

#

The whole “compliant or ash” motto

#

Is a great crusade thing lol

#

Either they’d surrender and join

opaque coyote
arctic talon
#

Or the imperium would slaughter them

#

The early blood angels had a no quarter policy

opaque coyote
#

But hey, better than somebody like fucking Angron

arctic talon
#

Even if a world surrendered they would kill and enslave literally everyone

arctic talon
#

Tbf

opaque coyote
arctic talon
#

Tbf

opaque coyote
#

At least 50% of the time

arctic talon
#

That’s what the officers in orbit are for

#

People always vastly overestimate Guillimans like

#

Love for xenos

#

He still hates them

#

He just hates Craftworld Eldar the least because they revived him and hate chaos

opaque coyote
#

If that makes any sense.

dusky beacon
#

Gulliman is smart enough and reasonable enough to understand there are bigger problems

opaque coyote
#

He still wants to murder their entire family, but he can definitely put it off if a Daemon rift suddenly opens.

arctic talon
#

Is my point

#

He’d just not fight them

dusky beacon
#

Yeah I get it now

arctic talon
#

They’re a problem to kill later

opaque coyote
#

Still better than that one moment where the Eldar were like

dusky beacon
#

Like if some Nids show up in a battle he would tell the T'au that they have a bigger problem and can kill each other later

opaque coyote
#

"Can we stop killing each other for one second so that I can do something that could potentially disable slaanesh for life?"

#

"No."

#

xenocide

opaque coyote
#

Like

#

Lion for example

arctic talon
#

Kill them all probably

vagrant fox
#

Probably, maybe with exterminatus

hasty coral
#

I don’t understand though

Are even the Primarchs THAT brainwashed against all Xeno life?

#

Like I find it hard to believe Guilliman would want to murder EVERY single T’au he sees

#

I know the Emperor wasn’t exactly a peaceful dude but

If Guilliman just wants to kill every single T’au he sees how are he and Angron different?

Would Guilliman spare the citizens?

arctic talon
#

And guilliman doesn’t like xenos either

vagrant fox
#

The galaxy belongs to humanity, everyone else is to be killed in due time. I vaguely recall the Tau being slated for extermination in their stoneage before warp storms prevented access to them

#

Not even a vague threat to the Imperium and they'd still have been killed if possible

late osprey
#

but they are all monstrous to xenos

#

even vulkan believes in mass-murdering xenos children

arctic talon
#

He just doesn’t do it like

#

As much as Angron did

late osprey
#

well

#

he doesn't do it for fun, i should say

arctic talon
#

Yeah

late osprey
#

but even vulkan goes out of his way to annihilate as many defenceless xenos children as he can

crystal forum
#

this goosebumps show has awful acting

late osprey
#

the real instance is him using a flamethrower to burn eldar children to death in a book

sly ivy
#

It’s… have you read the book

#

It is not a good book but have you read it

late osprey
#

cato sicarius also shoots a tau woman civilian in the face

crystal forum
#

did you guys see the new goosebumps show

#

i can't wait for them to remake are you afraid of the dark and mess up the vibes

sly ivy
#

Wow

crystal forum
#

can i even rewatch that shit these days? im pretty sure that show is why im so paranoid these days

crystal forum
#

damn it got 10 seasons that's crazy

#

i only remember like 4 episodes

#

did any of you see the taxi driver guy episode

#

i think jontron made a video about it

hasty coral
arctic talon
#

he obviously can't do that now

hasty coral
#

I suddenly hate Guilliman now

arctic talon
#

but he was busy rounding up and massacring people before he got shanked

#

tbf all the primarchs except Lorgar

#

were running Religon extermination campaigns

#

Lorger was converting people to the Emperor's faith

#

The thing is total eradication of a religion is extremely hard

hasty coral
#

“Oh wow this Guilliman guy seems super reasonable!”

“Oh wow 12 Eldar infants I wonder what Guilliman will d-”

arctic talon
#

so usually they just killed everyone to make sure it was stamped out

hasty coral
arctic talon
#

actually that would imply the Imperium even imprisoned people on non compliant planets

#

they just fucking killed everyone

hasty coral
#

“Imagine killing people due to religious beliefs, cringe”

“OH BOY MORE INFANTS TO MURDER!”

green loom
vagrant fox
#

The primarchs were warcrime machines, each one of them. It's great

hasty coral
#

But like how can you be THAT delusional?

arctic talon
#

guillimain hates religon to the point of

#

like

#

being illogical

sly ivy
green loom
#

The imperium at its "golden age" during the great crusade wasn't ANY better than it is now

sly ivy
#

But it’s in extremis and he ptsd regrets it forever

vagrant fox
green loom
hasty coral
#

Like HELLO?!

vagrant fox
#

They're not humans, it's like squashing bugs it's fine

hasty coral
#

I’m sorry but you can’t write a character as super logical and sane

And then put “oh but yeah he kills alien babies”

green loom
arctic talon
#

I mean Guillima isn't sane

#

like explictly tbh

green loom
#

Yes

arctic talon
#

None of the primarchs really are

#

they

#

all are fucking omnicidal war machines

green loom
#

Aren't human, for one

sly ivy
storm jungle
sly ivy
storm jungle
#

and very much says as much to his rogue trader galpal

green loom
#

Because, like

#

He is

hasty coral
storm jungle
#

To be fair

vagrant fox
#

Nah it's gucci

storm jungle
#

rogue traders are literally privateer assholes

#

so not like she cares that much

storm jungle
green loom
#

Yeah she is part of probably the single most privileged group in the entire imperium

sly ivy
#

It’s cute that transhumans keep little pet Homo sapiens for quaint conversation

hasty coral
#

So what Guilliman is genocidal because his dad told him to be?

storm jungle
#

I mean yeah

#

lol

hasty coral
#

Wow

green loom
#

Maybe tied with though probably exceeding navigators since they outright just have a right to their own private empires

hasty coral
#

Real free thinker

storm jungle
#

how do you think fascists come to be in general

sly ivy
#

Well in the case of primarchs transdimensional eldritch half-daemon transhumans

#

And that’s the loyalists

hasty coral
#

Is there a SINGLE sane Primarch?!

green loom
#

Yeah, Kurze

storm jungle
#

Corax probably

green loom
#

He had the sense to off himself

hasty coral
sly ivy
storm jungle
#

he literally opposes tyrants yet works for the Imperium because "ends justify the means"

arctic talon
#

Corax was probably the sanest

#

tbh

storm jungle
#

Raven Guard are such a fucking hyperbole

#

lmao

arctic talon
#

The raven guard would have been declared traitor

#

for some of the shit they've pulled if they weren't first founding lol

#

they like to murder planetary govenors

storm jungle
#

Raven Guard "realistically" would have gone renegade if they werent a pre-established tabletop legion

#

but also yeah lmao

hasty coral
#

Like your telling me NO one questions

“Hey guys why are we burning infants alive?”

vagrant fox
#

Even Sanguinius who was so cool and human would rock up to human non Imperial planets, demand surrendering or he would have every single person on the planet killed. Imagine the lengths he would go to kill aliens

sly ivy
#

it’s true kurze literally was so fucking sad all the time because his “gift” was a reader’s-eye view of the setting

arctic talon
#

sorry I mean

sly ivy
#

Lmao

arctic talon
#

its a special military operation

storm jungle
#

how much people dickride sanguinius in the fandom

#

"oh he was the best of us"

arctic talon
#

Sanguinius literally laughed

storm jungle
#

motherfucker he literally is as worse

#

lmao

arctic talon
#

when he killed a bunch of people

#

who asked the imperium to

#

"please leave us alone"

vagrant fox
#

I love him, my favourite war criminal

arctic talon
#

and then he quotes the old testement to some dude

#

before fucking shooting them

hasty coral
sly ivy
vagrant fox
#

Guilliman

hasty coral
#

Or did they just have genocide in their genes

arctic talon
#

Konor was genocidal

storm jungle
arctic talon
#

in like the traditional like

#

Roman sense

#

everyone else is inferior and should be like brought into the fold

crystal forum
#

did sanguinius drink blood

arctic talon
#

No

#

he just killed people

sly ivy
crystal forum
#

did he have any vampire like qualities

hasty coral
spare osprey
sly ivy
#

They’re fabricated gods

vagrant fox
#

Some aliens fucked over humanity during the long night, kill them all son

sly ivy
#

Not unlike the eldar gods

hasty coral
#

Angron would have actually been the only good person without the nails

crystal forum
#

why are blood angels so vampire if sang wasn't a vamp

hasty coral
#

What the FUCK

storm jungle
green loom
#

Fulgrim had nice parents

storm jungle
#

"they betrayed us we did nothing wrong"

#

"its THEIR fault"

hasty coral
arctic talon
#

Fulgrim was like

#

xenocidal but he didn't burn planets

#

that much

green loom
arctic talon
#

he tried to "preserve" culture

#

you know

#

after he finishes genociding them

#

what a gentleman

green loom
#

Que sangy going to a planet and "okay, send them an offer and if they refuse blow up the planet"

sly ivy
#

Based