40k-lore-chat

[late osprey]

since it's like an entire army of commandos or whatever

[crystal forum]

discounting the named characters

like sly marbo

and iron hand straken

[late osprey]

but if you were to send any guard squad charging an ork mob like that dawn of war trailer, i dont think it'd go well

[crystal forum]

if you have enough guardsmen, anything is possible

[late osprey]

yeah, thats why you have to tell them orks are frail and weak beforehand

hype em up for the greatest mass-sacrifice ever seen in the last 15 seconds of 40k

[crystal forum]

100 guardsmen firing at the same time will kill most living beings

[dusky beacon]

Isn't there official art of Straken 1v1ing a Crisis Battlesuit, or am I stupid

[arctic talon]

Straken is built different

he doesn't count

[late osprey]

it will, but i was referring specifically to just

charging into melee on an open field

[crystal forum]

straken is half terminator so he's his own beast

[crystal forum]

weakest catachan male

[soft thunder]

drip

[late osprey]

well we dont know that straken defeated that suit in honorable single combat to be fair

he could've blasted that suit from the back or something and ripped the head off when it was down

which i could see as the Imperium's Second-Greatest Commando

[crystal forum]

it wouldn't have been fair even if he was unarmed

[dusky beacon]

He can still rip the head off a Crisis suit

[crystal forum]

[late osprey]

to be fair, that IS his robot arm doing it

[crystal forum]

guy carries a heavy bolter like it's a lasgun

[late osprey]

there's that one catachan sergeant who does that too

i cant remember his name

boltguns and bolt pistols seem to have two alternative size categories for marines and humans respectively, but idk if the same is true for heavy bolters

[arctic talon]

Stonetooth harker

He's also lore wise built different

[crystal forum]

they're the same size iirc

[late osprey]

going off of both darktide and RT where i say this; in the latter space marines can equip the same heavy bolters humans can, when the same isn't true for other bolt weapons

so it may be the same pattern

[arctic talon]

guard/Sisters/Marine heavy bolteer

are all around the same size

[humble shoal]

Though harkens was a sm heavy bolter

[arctic talon]

the guard ones are slightly bigger

iirc

[humble shoal]

Because he was just built different

[arctic talon]

due to the fact they're crew served

[late osprey]

harkens probably is yeah

[crystal forum]

guard heavy bolter is intended to be static

[humble shoal]

Man pulled it from a fire

[arctic talon]

also he has the funniest fucking quote ever

"Back home, I once fancied me a pair of Catachan Devil boots. Killed me half a dozen of the great ugly critters but never found a single one that wore any!"

This is a catachan devil

[humble shoal]

Then theres marbo

Who uses titan weaponry

[late osprey]

i also wouldn't be surprised if catachaners were filled to the brim with Space Steroids, though i dont think thats said anywhere

[humble shoal]

(His balls are titan grade weaponry)

[crystal forum]

marbo can kill an ork boss with an auto pistol

just give him an order and some time

[late osprey]

but it makes sense given their insane strength and also the fact they're originally based off of US commandos

[humble shoal]

Heard marbo killed a demon planet once

[arctic talon]

Marbo is hilarious

[humble shoal]

With an autopistol and a sock

[crystal forum]

i saw marbo behead a space marine

with a butter knife

sly marbo is fun because the main character armour is part of the joke

[dapper gyro]

Is Sly still a character on the table top?

[crystal forum]

somebody type yes

[arctic talon]

Yes

[spare osprey]

I mean you’d think he’d have a lot of boots

[dusk patrol]

Most perturbatory

[rose thorn]

Buggy friend :3

[young pecan]

The way Dan Abnett writes feels very strange to get used to but good once you do

Or maybe it's because I'm learning some new 40k mumbo jumbo word every other sentence that I think that

[rose thorn]

Tbh i expected it to more like the devils from fallout 76, I do like the buggy perspective much more centipedes are amazing hunterd

[crystal forum]

eisenhorn reference

eisenhorn is the jojo of warhammer

[dusk patrol]

[crystal forum]

i have never watched jojo but i feel like that's correct

[dusk patrol]

Not a terrible comparison

[wintry scarab]

Are most modern nightlords not nostraman? Idk if they recruit. But if they do, would that make a lot of the modern nightlords lack the pale skin and black eyes?

[arctic talon]

There’s a lot who aren’t, but also the pale skin black eyes thing is caused by the geneseed

[dapper gyro]

NL and RG are really twins legion.

Seems like it is the case for all of the loyalists and traitors.

[crystal forum]

night lords and raven guard operate pretty differently

night lords dont really like stealth, their shtick is terrifying the enemy

i think raven guard are closer to alpha legion

[dusk patrol]

NL do like stealth but it’s very different approaches yes

They all kinda cover different aspects of it

RG are about never being seen at all and ambush tactics

[languid meadow]

One is batman and other is uh well batman

So astartes 2 is coming out, huh looks decent so far but will hold judgement till it comes out

[green loom]

Slim chance it isn't good

[storm jungle]

Its expensive and not fully made by GW so it will be good

[wintry scarab]

Granted some parts of the trailer looked a bit clunky imo

[sacred ginkgo]

A-posing up a corridor the size of you via jetpack

[languid meadow]

He's hitting the armored core pose

This is what the warhammer community post says about it ( I guess minor spoilers?)||This teaser trailer is not actually clips from the new animation, instead showing a compilation of shots that represent the former lives of the characters that will appear in the show.||

[sacred ginkgo]

That post has been sent like 7 times

[languid meadow]

womp womp womp

[crystal forum]

that's one too many womps

you need to be put in the time out corner

[languid meadow]

https://tenor.com/view/the-boys-the-deep-womp-womp-womp-gif-3609577709521239194

[crystal forum]

[dusk patrol]

@storm jungle

[crystal forum]

those orphans had it coming

[storm jungle]

I remember making one of these for sororitas, i approve 😭

[crystal forum]

if only the community accepted salamanders as the civilian burning freaks they are

[dusk patrol]

Someone left this comment on a post from this art.

Like.

Missing the point

[tight stratus]

Would any of doctor whos daleks, cybermen or any of their races stand any chance against anything in 40k?

[languid meadow]

Daleks are more broken than anything in 40k

[storm jungle]

^

Like, Daleks would absolutely dominate and exterminate 40k

they are ridiculously fucking OP

[tight stratus]

Whats so broken about Daleks?

[storm jungle]

Uhhh

where do we even start 💀

[languid meadow]

https://tenor.com/view/doctor-who-time-david-tennant-wobbly-timey-wimey-stuff-gif-8120490

[storm jungle]

In laymans terms they are like necrons on crack

[dusk patrol]

Doctor Who gets

Very goofy

[storm jungle]

Yeah that

its 40k tier and suprasses it sometimes

they cannot go up fucking stairs yet also dominated the entire galaxy and beyond

[languid meadow]

Toy Maker my beloved

[dusk patrol]

I miss when the Doctor was responsible for genocide

[languid meadow]

https://tenor.com/view/the-toymaker-document-who-the-toymaker-neil-partick-harris-the-toymaker-spice-girls-doctor-who-gif-18248691788048729030

[storm jungle]

zesty ahh

[storm jungle]

Same.

[storm jungle]

Also as ever

love the Chapter (mostly) hate the fandom

[dusk patrol]

It’s great art at least

[storm jungle]

the tyranid is a bit goofy but its cool

you can tell its like some godzilla sized warrior lol

[dusk patrol]

It’s a neat take on a different type of Bio titan

[storm jungle]

Im not the biggest fan mostly for the design, i feel like it ironically kinda ruins the picture

not enough detail!!!!

its like that genestealer baby in Hammer and Bolter who looks like a marketable plushie

😭

[dusk patrol]

Well maybe the hive mind doesn’t spend as much time on all them smh

Some of them come out in 480p

[storm jungle]

my pacific rim design autism is acting up!!!

[storm jungle]

[crystal forum]

i feel like daleks would still lose to enough firepower

[storm jungle]

They really wouldnt

their shields are like

extremely bullshit

[crystal forum]

human tech in doctor who sucks

[dusk patrol]

They’re so stupid

[storm jungle]

Yeah thats what makes it worse

LOL

[dusk patrol]

It gets very silly

[storm jungle]

they fucking fly around blowing up capital ships

its crazy

[dusk patrol]

It’s kinda like uh how anime gets super silly

[storm jungle]

yeah lol

[vagrant fox]

I want a new pacific rim 2

[crystal forum]

but during david tennant's doctor humanity manages to kill like one dalek because like 8 people shoot it

[dusk patrol]

It’s just throwing ridiculous stuff at the wall

[storm jungle]

Yeah but Doctor Who works on 40k logic

the enemy is cosmic-tier

anyway stairs

https://tenor.com/view/falling-down-stairs-tokyojns-gif-23314001

[crystal forum]

also they look fucking stupid and that's what makes doctor who great

[storm jungle]

I THINK they look cool

but like they are also literal cans

so i get it lol

[crystal forum]

they have PLUNGER

[storm jungle]

https://tenor.com/view/doctor-who-dalek-spinning-yippee-gif-9064901754254836551

I LOVE how they gave that shit an actual purpose

and its to fucking suck the brains out of people which is as funny as it is horrifying lol

[crystal forum]

it does different things

oh yeah the brain one

[storm jungle]

yeah lmfao

[vagrant fox]

Don't they hover for no reason at times but not others

[storm jungle]

free blow-

[arctic talon]

Yes

[vagrant fox]

I haven't kept up with Dr Who

[storm jungle]

I mean yes

[arctic talon]

don't worry about it

lol

[crystal forum]

they can fly yes

[storm jungle]

yeah like uh

[arctic talon]

Stairs defeat them

on god

get mogged Daleks

[dusk patrol]

https://tenor.com/view/dalek-cybermen-burn-roast-better-gif-17860435722367464060

Goes hard

[crystal forum]

in fact them flying out of nowhere has been a visual gag multiple times

[storm jungle]

LEGIT.

[vagrant fox]

It was fun but then it took itself way too seriously

[storm jungle]

one of the "horror" scenes in Doctor Who is they see a dalek stop at the bottom of the stairs

the dalek stops

looks down

looks up

then goes

[crystal forum]

like a couple of characters say "why dont we just go up some stairs" and daleks just levitate

[storm jungle]

E-LE-VATE

floats

horror music starts playing

💀

THE CAST KNEW THEY WERE COOKED

[vagrant fox]

see that's funny and based

[languid meadow]

9th and 10th doctor had some funny ass dalek moments

[crystal forum]

yeah the episode with the dalek im the bunker

[languid meadow]

especially when 9th tells one to kill himself

https://tenor.com/view/doctor-who-dalek-filth-chris-eccleston-gif-12271530

[dusk patrol]

They do a better job making them scarier in later seasons but

Yeah

[crystal forum]

the grand reveal of daleks still being around in the reboot

[dusk patrol]

Doctor Who was best with like, idk the run they had around and after Tennant

[vagrant fox]

I watched this guy and then didn't care for much of the stuff afterwards

[dusk patrol]

And it’s been downhill since

[arctic talon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK9liYPm7eE

[storm jungle]

its the british sci-fi effect yeah

[dusk patrol]

Imo

[storm jungle]

like

space marines literally started out as cops

[arctic talon]

I found it

[crystal forum]

i like doctor who

[storm jungle]

YES

LMFAO

[crystal forum]

i like david tennant because he is a good actor and a great human being

[storm jungle]

hes super based

loved his really heartwarming roles

like Kilgrave

[vagrant fox]

Who's the guy who looks like he's been through the ringer, the discount cucumber guy

[storm jungle]

OH LOL

Daemon Targaryen?

[crystal forum]

the old guy?

[storm jungle]

OH WAIT THAT ONE

[languid meadow]

https://tenor.com/view/twelfth-doctor-peter-capaldi-davros-wheelchair-spin-gif-13506491

[storm jungle]

yeah HIM

[languid meadow]

Capaldi?

[crystal forum]

yeah him

[vagrant fox]

nah he plays an albino now yeah

[crystal forum]

funny thing is he played in the show before he was a doctor

[dusk patrol]

Yeah him, Tennant, Matt Smith

And the one before

[crystal forum]

he was a roman in an episode

and the show even explains it

[dusk patrol]

Christopher Eccleston

That’s it

[crystal forum]

like the doctor somehow imprints the look of people or smth

[dusk patrol]

He was the one who started making the show good imo

I think he was the first reboot one?

[crystal forum]

eccleston was snubbed too early

[languid meadow]

ye

9th

[dusk patrol]

He was great

[crystal forum]

one of my favorite episodes is the gas mask kid

[dusk patrol]

Shame hes overshadowed by Tennant

[vagrant fox]

I've often liked him

[dusk patrol]

Tennant is the peak though I think

[languid meadow]

https://tenor.com/view/christopher-eccleston-moisturize-me-dr-who-sarcastic-gif-11296002

[storm jungle]

love this guy

saw him in a lot of random movies a lot back in the day lol

[crystal forum]

he's in 28 days later

and uh train spotting?

[storm jungle]

yeah that was the one i was thinking of the most

[storm jungle]

lots of UK classics

[crystal forum]

the doctor after tennant wasn't bad i think the problem was the director of the season didn't really understand what made doctor who good

[vagrant fox]

He was in the single greatest TV show, Poirot

[crystal forum]

but i still enjoyed it

the silence were a good enemy

[dusk patrol]

https://tenor.com/view/end-of-the-world-end-of-the-universe-malekith-malekith-the-accursed-witness-gif-26263941

Who can forget his most famous role

As Vect

[languid meadow]

I thought that was Malekith

[dusk patrol]

No that’s Fantasy smh

They’d never share names

That’s stupid right?

[green loom]

Doctor who was rough on the cgi

[tight stratus]

im sorry for turning this into doctor who lore lol

im re-watching a bunch with a friend and were up to matt-smith era, on the episode with the cybermen rat

[arctic talon]

Okay but its funny

[vagrant fox]

It's fine, lore chat is often about lore

[arctic talon]

this chat becomes whatever lore it wants

[languid meadow]

https://tenor.com/view/of-course-gif-21373815

[green loom]

There's that one frame

I think in like Day of the Doctor

[vagrant fox]

What's the episode where the water makes you drool a lot, I liked that one

[languid meadow]

The Waters of Mars

[green loom]

Where they're on some clouds and there's like 2d cutouts of all the doctors green screened in

[vagrant fox]

tyty, reckon I'll rewatch it

[tight stratus]

im waiting for that episode where the thing that happens is time is taking place at the same pacing and scenes as an actual show on TV or something, I remember that being really funny and clever

[crystal forum]

hey they had to make do

[green loom]

Most of them were dead right

They like 2Dd Eccleston in too and it looked very bad lol

[storm jungle]

this chat has gotten off-topic'd over weirder shit dont worry lol

[arctic talon]

what are the political implications behind Noxian Generals O'bama and Bushe's campaigns into Shurima

I won't do this again I promise

[storm jungle]

ldksfldslkfdsklfds

💀

[languid meadow]

Oh god the map of Tamriel has rotted my brain, I saw colors on a fictional earth instantly saw Skyrim and Hammerfell

[arctic talon]

LOL

[dapper gyro]

MGS4, peak anti-war politic action espionage game.

[green loom]

Inb4 "ykno Armstrong had a point" guy comes in

[vagrant fox]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/920152531995353128/1331239062417313854/MGS1_1.mp4?ex=679b707d&is=679a1efd&hm=e010cefda027e8bda1ca614b4f69b50b2965e6cec1abdaff8c994af8d9f6bba8&

gamers

[past hedge]

OHHH DILAARRRAAAAAA

[vagrant fox]

I sometimes wake up wanting to kill Konami

[past hedge]

GUESS WHO TOLD ME YOU WERE A DISCORD MOD

[storm jungle]

fuck sakes

https://tenor.com/view/space-marine-2-death-space-marine-2-gif-12976716491498684396

[vagrant fox]

this is your favourite gif

[arctic talon]

Pachinko

[storm jungle]

its a really good mood gif

[past hedge]

https://tenor.com/view/marauder-starcraft-sc2-terran-dancing-gif-17656593

[storm jungle]

guh

[past hedge]

Anyways hi :)

[arctic talon]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/222200485115985921/1315841171611844669/jeff.gif

[storm jungle]

[dapper gyro]

Fuck Konami is still a thing?

[arctic talon]

Yes

[storm jungle]

Yeah they make money

[vagrant fox]

unfortunately

[past hedge]

Ok bye love you Dilara bye bestie baiiiii

[storm jungle]

bye

[green loom]

I have done nothing wrong

[storm jungle]

bastard

[green loom]

For the record

[vagrant fox]

I thought Eternal was your bestie, Dilara

[storm jungle]

Possibly.

[green loom]

Everyone knows dilara's bestie is James Wokeshop

[rocky gale]

Missed a shot their Ed, could have went for Wokeslop for additional combo points

[storm jungle]

lmao

[dapper gyro]

Having friends is a bad move, because if you lose them, it would be painful. The only way to be happy is to be forever alone.

[storm jungle]

honestly, mood

[vagrant fox]

just process your grief before it happens

like those buddhists who mummify themselves, or something like that

[arctic talon]

Guys would you drink green taurox

Simple yes or no

[dapper gyro]

Nah, not eating animals is no fun.

[rocky gale]

Got any Blue?

[arctic talon]

Nah only the green flavor

[rocky gale]

Damn

[languid meadow]

https://tenor.com/view/drinking-milk-black-guy-drinking-milk-big-mommy-milkers-milk-gif-18515843

[vagrant fox]

I'll drink it if they release a white version

[green loom]

You should be like me and become a hermit

Nothing to keep me company but my tablet

[arctic talon]

White taurox is only for officers

Smh

[storm jungle]

https://tenor.com/view/what-do-you-mean-by-that-gif-10559980082154008380

[green loom]

I've been doing this 3 years and I'm perfectly fine!(I'm not)

[dapper gyro]

Some people here can donate you some...

[rocky gale]

You perv

[arctic talon]

Which monster tastes the best

[dapper gyro]

Redbull...

[languid meadow]

I can't see this scene without thinking of Trazyn and Orikan anymore and now I curse you with it

[gray umbra]

Is green taurox tyranid jiss

[arctic talon]

No

[vagrant fox]

I'm very white and get scared of melinated people, obviously

[dapper gyro]

I don't want to know.

[arctic talon]

It’s expired assasinorum frenzon

With other stuff mixed in

[rocky gale]

Saw a version of this earlier with Darktide music but couldn't save it

[arctic talon]

So like

[dapper gyro]

You can just link the reddit post here.

[rocky gale]

Na

[dapper gyro]

I will do it then: https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkTide/comments/1icmtg5/me_in_the_clandestium_gloriana_finale/

[languid meadow]

if you replace e in reddit with an x you can imbed it

[green loom]

https://www.rxddit.com/r/DarkTide/comments/1icmtg5/me_in_the_clandestium_gloriana_finale/

[languid meadow]

why'd it kill the audio lmao

[green loom]

No audio though it seems

[languid meadow]

I've never seen that happen before

I think if you have a video on mute when you post it kills the audio

[green loom]

Shrug

[languid meadow]

wtf it's just that post I tried it with others and they're fine

I hate discord so much

[green loom]

Discord is indeed rather horseshit

[dusk patrol]

[spare osprey]

the physics of the car in the back confuse me for some reason

like the way it bounces is so funny

[dusk patrol]

https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExb3k1N3oyMWxpcW90eXJkYWwybHYzcjFtdDlxYmpucm15MmhwMjNsNCZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/jz8FoLdyM4CNvPpSuI/giphy.gif

Yeah its a little unfinished I think

Or maybe its the gun firing?

[green loom]

The back left wheel hits the ground and causes it to bounce prolly

[spare osprey]

also i'm bringing this up again there were totally canon dudes in the teaser

[dusk patrol]

Or the missile

[dusk patrol]

Iyama has said they weren't, he gave examples.

Originally

[spare osprey]

the blue flame from the missile blanketing the tank is neat

[dusk patrol]

They were all homebrew ideas his patreon had, although some were very close obviously to real ones to where it almost didn't matter.

[arctic talon]

I thought it was Tau small arms fire lol

Like a pulse rifle

[wintry scarab]

I thought that this was one of the better looking scenes

[spare osprey]

pretty sure it was a mix of lesser known canon and homebrew

[wintry scarab]

I thought that blue effect was the fire from the missile hitting the halo shield. But idk if those even have shields

[spare osprey]

just sayin

[dusk patrol]

Ok

https://tenor.com/view/i-can't-have-this-conversation-again-tony-soprano-the-sopranos-gif-16274142811887245291

https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExYzMzaWlxd3E0ZTVmZDM3eXpzb2pyeGdsNmxha3FjZXNnYnVndnRpMCZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/X8fkSznVTrzgJXe4MB/giphy.gif

[languid meadow]

Astartes with capes my beloved

[late osprey]

thats awesome

[sacred ginkgo]

Tau not eating shit!!!!!!!

[dusk patrol]

Well

[sacred ginkgo]

On screen

[dusk patrol]

This guy's just nappin

[sacred ginkgo]

Eepy

[arctic talon]

They don’t

[arctic talon]

Tbh the way the remaining stealth suit suppresses the marine before going invis is cool

[opaque coyote]

Y'know I heard somebody speculate that the flood theme's high pitches in Halo 1 and Halo 3 sound similar to the Low Shield sfx

To basically play on your instinct of danger

[sacred ginkgo]

They also start moving fast as soon as the second shows up

[opaque coyote]

Ayyy we got T'au actually fighting against marines

And NOT being vaporized in 0.01 seconds

Gaming

[dusk patrol]

Well

Kinda

[opaque coyote]

Honestly I think my favorite part of Astartes original is that even though the traitors were still fucking mogged. They weren't stupid.

[dusk patrol]

https://tenor.com/view/rick-and-morty-meeseeks-mr-hes-trying-at-least-you-tried-it-gif-13857889

[opaque coyote]

Eh. Still better than what I expected

[sacred ginkgo]

To be fair to be fair we're at a bad angle to see SM casualties there

[dusk patrol]

But yeah, he makes the enemies cool too

[opaque coyote]

[dusk patrol]

Looking forward to what they do

[opaque coyote]

Yeah the traitors basically tried a lot of tactics.

Trying to sneak up, using camouflage, even tried a surprise ambush

[arctic talon]

I do wonder how the firefight started

[opaque coyote]

Unfortunately they had two problems

#1) They were up against Space Marines, not a regular force

#2) The Multilas was also bought off of Wish.com

[dusk patrol]

https://tenor.com/view/boo-gif-26155047

Me, explaining to Black Library authors how if you make the enemy look cool and competent it makes your characters look cooler and competent when they overcome them.

[opaque coyote]

Nah just have the shard of a god that literally vomits bronze choke somehow

Does that scene imply that Avatar of Khaines have like

Organs and anatomy?

[vagrant fox]

I don't know, having Eldar beaten to death by children with sticks is very cool, allegedly

[opaque coyote]

How the fuck would that even work. They literally vomit molten bronze.

Overthinking aside. I hope the T'au are portrayed well

Pulse Rifles can also rip through SM armor due to being plasma so I expect at least some damage

I'd even accept superficial shit like

Managing to make a hole through their large ass pauldrons

[arctic talon]

the tau is trying to get away tbf

They’re trying to suppress the heavy bolter dude

So they can go invis and fuck off

[storm jungle]

Lukas the Trickster book gang rise up

🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️

[opaque coyote]

Yeah usually you'd bring out the battle suits

[arctic talon]

I mean the stealth suit can stand up to a marine in a gunfight

The issue is most of their squad is dead

They’re outnumbered and outgunned

Might as well fire and fade

[opaque coyote]

Yeah best decision is to RUN THE FUCK AWAY

[arctic talon]

On god

[opaque coyote]

Eldar picking up human weapons since somehow that's

More effective than their weapons??

I still fucking hate that

[arctic talon]

Cs goto

All hail

[late osprey]

itd be an interesting setup if its like the last stealth suit is on some main character shit

[arctic talon]

CS Goto’s books contradict canon so much they’re non canon on god

[late osprey]

they think it's a sweep but he just starts taking em out left and right until its a 1v1

[arctic talon]

Behold backfilling terminators

[late osprey]

they're more blatantly imperial propaganda than caiaphas cain

[arctic talon]

Lol

[opaque coyote]

Aren't Shruiken weapons basically fucking rail guns?

[dapper gyro]

Exactly why I don't think the SM are as strong as they are in the fluff without fortified plot armour.

[late osprey]

"see? the primitive xenos PREFER our weapons"

[opaque coyote]

That shoot shrukiens

[dusk patrol]

https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExYnh2bnpmN2k0YWFmbWxyeXgzMjNreG10YTA4MWl5cHByaGhkZzRqMSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/wdd9Kad8qao23K4pE4/giphy.gif

Oh yeah

This one is gonna get some use

[arctic talon]

Shuriken catapults are like

[opaque coyote]

Delicious

[arctic talon]

Flechette guns

[arctic talon]

Is that a human or an ork

[late osprey]

the worst instances are when they make chaos marines into jobbers

cuz like

[arctic talon]

Human

It’s a cultist nvm

[dusk patrol]

I think its ground up now.

[late osprey]

they're strictly speaking equal

[arctic talon]

Or it’s a civilian

[arctic talon]

LOL

[late osprey]

but the ultramarines movie has them all getting mowed down like dogs in the street

[opaque coyote]

As a flesh tearer would say

"Dinner"

[dapper gyro]

That UM movie... is that even canon?

[late osprey]

actually, that one wasn't TOO bad, they wiped out like half the UM squad

[dusk patrol]

Its not coming up again if it is or isn't.

[late osprey]

either way, it's badass unironically

but theres so much hilarious shit about it too

[opaque coyote]

I should watch it if only for a laugh

[late osprey]

"hmm the demon detector is still going off... OH FUCK"

[dapper gyro]

"Every chapter secretly want to be like the UM"

[opaque coyote]

Maybe I'll get some actual enjoyment from it though

[late osprey]

its sort of a MB transformers movie but for 40k

so if you approach it expecting that it rocks

plus the soundtrack kicks serious ass too

[crystal forum]

do you think inquisitors have the chaos version of a gaydar

[dapper gyro]

The voice acting is so bad.

[arctic talon]

Auspex scanner

Tuned for uh

Scanning chaos stuff

[crystal forum]

lame

[late osprey]

well this one was a giant fuckoff banner that turned into a giant bonfire when chaos was around

they kill the one chaplain cuz they think hes a demon and go "durrr wait its still on fire!"

[vagrant fox]

A psyker innit

[crystal forum]

i don't know it could be chaos but we can't know for sure

[opaque coyote]

"Bro this guy is gonna be a cultist."

"he isn't a cultist."

"But he's gonna be. He's bald. Do you know who also was bald?

HORUS."

[late osprey]

also the animation for the daemon prince

was hilarious

hes like a spider

[dapper gyro]

Imagine he says Vulkan...

[crystal forum]

do you think alpha legion all have bald spots to represent their ambiguity

idk i never saw an alpha legion

[late osprey]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-co8eIfWXM

this is definitely 100% face-value canon

you know dan abnett wrote it?

[crystal forum]

he wrote a fight scene?

[hallow plover]

Oh god that movie

[arctic talon]

This movie is so ass in a good way

[arctic talon]

No he wrote the whole movie

[crystal forum]

oh it's a movie?

[hallow plover]

WE MARCH FOR MACCRAGE

[arctic talon]

Shows that good writer =! Good movie scriptwriter lol

[late osprey]

literally i love it so much

literary masterpiece? obviously not

[hallow plover]

I enjoyed it

[crystal forum]

stephen king still thinks the shining movie sucked

[late osprey]

but id put this on with some beers

[dapper gyro]

Remind me of The Fantastic Beasts.

[arctic talon]

It’s so campy

[dusk patrol]

https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExbm1tMWpzOHRsZHltMmt4b2lyNWtmbmFxcXlrNzZmdTVxZWlqYWswYSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/kShRwLO5ctUOnpoVLx/giphy.gif

[crystal forum]

where do i even watch this

[hallow plover]

Youtube

[crystal forum]

i am no rube

[hallow plover]

Its all there

[late osprey]

yeah the entire movie's on youtube lmao

[opaque coyote]

This is

The jankiest shit I have ever seen.

The animation is stiff as shit.

The voice acting kinda sucks for the most part.

But it's also kinda cool.

[late osprey]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fpvOyD5Jr0

[late osprey]

ironically the actors themselves are actually very accomplished

like, not ALL STAR cast

but not just random dudes either

[crystal forum]

who

[dapper gyro]

If GW wants to remove it, it is more because of shame than because of copyright.

[opaque coyote]

The chaplian screaming "BURN HERETICS" is great though

[crystal forum]

arent there a ton of meme sound effects from that movie

[late osprey]

the captain/daemon prince is played by terence stamp

its criminal that no memes came from this movie

[hallow plover]

Is that chaplain burning a wave of chaos marine with his crux lore accurate tho?

[crystal forum]

oh im thinking of the game

[late osprey]

theres one bit where there's like a three second long shot of a chaos marine dual-wielding pistols

like lmfao

[hallow plover]

I can't remember if he was a psyker or something

[crystal forum]

NOOOO MY TABLETOP LORE

[opaque coyote]

That sounds cool as shit tbh

[late osprey]

nah its just a wave stun

[crystal forum]

space marines dual wielding pistols should be normal

[late osprey]

it is but its also so random

[opaque coyote]

Akimbo SMs should be a thing

[dapper gyro]

I don't think even GK can do that...

[late osprey]

like i said this movie is AWESOME

its just also jank

[opaque coyote]

This is actually just pure cheese.

I love it

[late osprey]

the one thing that is unironically good though is the OST

[opaque coyote]

I will watch the whole thing this is both ironically enjoyable and unironically enjoyable

THAT EXPLOSION EFFECT LOOKS LIKE A STOCK GREEN SCREEN

[dapper gyro]

It is so bad that it is good?

For me, it is just bad.

[arctic talon]

Absolutely not lol

[late osprey]

i think part of the charm is that they unironically have heroic scale for the marines

[arctic talon]

But it’s cool

[late osprey]

so they have comically large guns

[arctic talon]

Yeah the marines look like the minis lol

[opaque coyote]

The animation is like 10 years behind

[arctic talon]

Csm already do this in lore

[opaque coyote]

This is what I'd expect from 2000 not 2010

[crystal forum]

so do some space marine units but i want MORE

[opaque coyote]

Although I can definitely see that they're also trying

Like genuinely having fun

[late osprey]

i like how the two guys they sent up to scout get headshot with the precision of snipers

but for the rest of the movie chaos just sprays n prays

also screeching like bats

[hallow plover]

The only thing i remembered clearly from that movie was the "we march for maccrage" line.

[late osprey]

there's actually a good amount of detail, like they have the apothecary collecting geneseeds in blink-or-you'll-miss-it moments

[crystal forum]

it was the same bullet that bounced off the cardinal on vraks, it traveled through space and plot just to kill two marines

[opaque coyote]

I don't think Chaplians are Psykers usually

[late osprey]

nah chaplains arent

[dapper gyro]

Librarians are

[opaque coyote]

Chaplian somehow awakened his Psyker potential and turned into a librarian

[late osprey]

honestly its not TERRIBLY shot

like camera angles, theres some cool scenes there

[dapper gyro]

Nah, he has a flamer gauntlet powered by his fart.

[opaque coyote]

Honestly some of the set pieces are cool. I like the Chaos guy with the sword and Bolter fucking cutting down some UMs like chaff

Also happened to be helmetless...

gasp

THEY FOUND THE TRICK

[hallow plover]

I guess his Crux (crozius?) is just great then

[late osprey]

i wouldnt be surprised if they took the whole "they think the captain dies but he comes back" bit purely from LoTR

but they twist it with "actually hes evil now muahahaha"

behold, your daemon prince

[hallow plover]

Them legs

[opaque coyote]

Also the CGI in the UM movies kinda reminds me of like

Old 1990s games

Y'know how Fallout had close ups/"talking heads"?

It kinda reminds of that

[late osprey]

if i were to point to one thing, itd probably just be the lighting

[opaque coyote]

Also as a genuine question

Do like SMs know the truth of the rubrics

That they're essentially just a suit of armor and dust

Or is it on a need to know basis

Like if a thousand Sons sorcerer shows up, are they told

"yeah the armored guys with them have nothing in the actual suits"

Or do they already know

[late osprey]

think it really depends on the chapter, but i think it'd be need to know for something like UMs

[hallow plover]

I would say the OG chapters are better informed than newer foundings

Especially since most of the stuff on the traitor legions/primarchs is suppressed or censored

[late osprey]

if i were guilliman, i'd be painfully aware that space marines are just as capable of falling as ordinary humans, so writing the codex astartes i'd likewise go by the general policy of keeping chaos need to know

[opaque coyote]

Also how exactly do you "kill" a rubicae

Ik SM2 has you essentially shoot them at the head

[hallow plover]

Shoot it

[opaque coyote]

But is that true in lore or is it just

Gameplay

[arctic talon]

Yes

Shoot them until the armor falls apart

Or is compromised

[hallow plover]

Then it needs an actual live sorcerer to raise it up

[crystal forum]

as most situations, it can be resolved with enough dakka

[opaque coyote]

Like do you have to turn the entire armor into slag/scrap metal?

[arctic talon]

No

[late osprey]

it seems to just be some arbitrary point of "the automaton is no longer functional"

though perma-killing one i dont think can be done via conventional means

[crystal forum]

use a vacuum cleaner for the dust

[late osprey]

u have to use space magic or whatever

[opaque coyote]

Well disabling it enough that it just shuts down.

[crystal forum]

magic vacuum cleaner

bless it

[late osprey]

right but the sorcerer can bring them back

[crystal forum]

this is my holy shotguns. it's a shotgun, but blessed

[opaque coyote]

So there's no exact point. You just shoot it until it suddenly stops working

[crystal forum]

want to see my holy lead pellets?

[late osprey]

that's how it seems to be unless there's a specific point defined somewhere that i don't know of

[opaque coyote]

Honestly thought it would be a cool idea to kinda make them like pseudo Necrons in a weird way?

Like you can shoot off half of the "armor" but they'll still crawl at you to kill you

[late osprey]

"When a Rubric Marine dies, the dried remains of his material form pour from his rent armour and are scattered to all winds of the battlefield. After this, only the most powerful sorcerers could re-collect this dust, reseal the armour, and through a complicated ritual reanimate the Rubric Marine to a new "life". The sorcery required for this deed are very dangerous and just one syllable misspelled could drive the Sorcerer insane - or kill him outright.[7b]

A variation of the Rubric Marine is the Rubric Marine Genie, whose lower body is nothing but a dust swirl.[8]"

[opaque coyote]

So there's no defined point

Huh

Honestly thought that you have to like.

Make them look like the Black Knight in Monty Python: The Holy Grail to "kill" them

Basically no legs and no arms

[late osprey]

rend means "To tear or split apart or into pieces violently", so if i might hazard a guess, the point is when their armored shell is damaged enough that the dust spills out

so the dust is like a quasi-blood to them

especially since it specifically mentions stuffing the dust back into the armor to bring them back

[opaque coyote]

Makes sense.

[crystal forum]

finally an explanation of the darktide mechanic

[late osprey]

which i wonder if the dust is unique to each rubric marine

and if so how they tell whose is whose

"shit i think i put jeremy's dust in with george"

[opaque coyote]

Sorcery.

Honestly I probably think it would be disturbing that they don't know

So if like

Ahriman and the Ynnari made a deal to make all the Rubricae normal for some reason

Then some of the. Would be like

Abominations that quickly die

[late osprey]

also the thought of the sorcerers having their cultist thralls with like

[dusk patrol]

Tbh they kinda have to get the basic idea

[opaque coyote]

Due to the dust getting mixed up

[late osprey]

a pan and sweeper going around the battlefield

lmfao

[dusk patrol]

It’s not complicated once you start killing them

And they get brought back or whatever

[crystal forum]

vacuum cleaner man

[dusk patrol]

The Tsons can summon it all back anyways

[late osprey]

"CULTISTS, COLLECT ALL THAT GLITTER"

[dusk patrol]

They just make new suits and summon the dust to them

[late osprey]

and its like a battle were thousands of rubricae died

[crystal forum]

do not eat the glitter

[dusk patrol]

Dammit

[late osprey]

do NOT eat the tzeentch glitter

[late osprey]

this is the more realistic/reasonable situation

[dusk patrol]

It’s what they do largely

[late osprey]

its still funny the idea of them having tzaangors with Chaos Vacuums going around the battlefield

[dusk patrol]

But yes

[hallow plover]

https://tenor.com/view/darktide-ogryn-chaos-spawn-ginkgo-fall-gif-4230252786752366838

[late osprey]

and we do literally see it in sm2

[languid meadow]

Tzeentch's greatest weapon, the glitter bomb

[crystal forum]

the gay bomb

[languid meadow]

https://tenor.com/view/brandon-farris-glitter-bomb-purple-glitter-bomb-powder-gif-17915043

[opaque coyote]

Ahriman seeing me eating the weird dust on the ground

https://tenor.com/view/war-vietnam-ptsd-shell-shock-moment-gif-3022747568394546158

[late osprey]

https://tenor.com/lu1YYerQP0B.gif

me when the sorcerer uses magic to collect the tSons dust

[crystal forum]

it goes out both ends depending on when you ate it

picture a cultist violently shitting magic rubicon dust

[late osprey]

truly chaos-coded

i encountered a chaos incident in the wild when i played RoR and we accidentally rolled up the battering ram backwards

all the chosen boiled alive to oil

[remote widget]

Is there a les mis in 40k?

[opaque coyote]

Also if you've ever played Dead Space, yk the poor fuckers that are stuck to the walls

Apparently the Marker can get angry.

Basically it is what it does to people who managed to resist it's influence.

Still maintaining their consciousness and awareness but forced to stay there in pain. Welded to the wall. Basically spitting out random meatballs.

And honestly I find that fucking terrifying

That the Necromorphs ISN'T the worst fate that the Marker can give to people

That all the horrifying monsters it turns people into...

Are a mercy

[storm jungle]

yeah the Marker is actively an evil entity lol

like it literally makes fucking fetus/babies into suicide bombs because it knows people will try to "help" them

[dusk patrol]

Idk maybe he has a daughter whose sick

Just sprinkle some sad music over that

[storm jungle]

Bruh 💀

https://tenor.com/view/deadspace-gif-26149942

but also true

[dusk patrol]

@storm jungle here

Make these funny

[opaque coyote]

Yeah I think the worst part about the baby bombs is that it's implied that they are also still "aware"

The reason that they crawl to people is because they still want help.

[dusk patrol]

Yep, Dead Space is

Dark

[opaque coyote]

Yeah.

Which makes it even sadder that DS4 probably won't come out

Fucking EA

[queen laurel]

wasn't there literally a scene where one crawls to a girl for comfort proceeds to stay there in comfort for a minute and then blow up

[opaque coyote]

Yeah

And also the girl probably was being affected by the Marker since anybody with sanity would probably run away from the fuckers

[winter vessel]

https://youtu.be/DQeGk1iHLm0?si=wfBndTFP2-f7Q7Hf

Whoever is voicing Garviel Loken reminds me of Liam Neeson

[tough haven]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/931341200089296926/1334176114133958696/VID_20250129_065901_529.mp4?ex=679b93d5&is=679a4255&hm=edd3024716506c49a17f0aa1b3f384c1d037a0d28eb109b7922c689069acf8d2&

A prized component of the gallery

[opaque coyote]

So fun fact

https://youtu.be/HwtxyxD-KKs?si=8yk4R4m4uicbGxbn

The Silent Shadow Elite that got his visor cracked at the end

Is Jega from Halo Infinite

Only survivor, the bombs damaged him so much that he had a lot of his flesh replaced with cybernetics

[dusk patrol]

I was thinking the exact thing for the chainsword one lol

Gonna get a lot of use out of that

[storm jungle]

lmao nice

happy to help

[queen laurel]

when i'm playing marvel rivals and i meet the loudest runt ever

[storm jungle]

way too true 💀

[winter vessel]

Dentist with the scraping tool be like:

I just notice he looks up after revving it , like “okay he’s done. Next victim please”

[crystal forum]

you already made that joke

or was it cactus

[opaque coyote]

That one actually sounds brutal lmao

[storm jungle]

Left 4 Dead 2 chainsaw sound effects are fucking grungy lmao

love how violent it sounds

[opaque coyote]

also the hl scientist scream actually fits well for the uh

situation

[storm jungle]

[opaque coyote]

Y'know I find it funny that the chainsword is implied to be like

A primal instinct throughout every race

Like the Eldar have chainswords

Humanity has chainswords

Like I'm at least 80% sure that the T'au will eventually have Chainswords

[storm jungle]

Like many examples of human invention, the chainsword’s many variants seem to have their roots in the shrouded heresies of the Dark Age of Technology. Accordingly, it saw consistent use in the armoured fists of techno-barbarians during the Age of Strife, and among the Emperor’s own armies during his Thunder Warriors’ brutal conquest of Terra.

But chainswords have been wielded by inhuman hands for aeons. Several xenos races have borne such blades into battle even in the ages where Mankind could only look up to the stars with spears in their filthy hands. Tech-Priest foundry masters have speculated, down the centuries, that it is simply a natural evolution of the sword’s design: from bronze to iron; from iron to steel; from steel to chain-teeth; and from chain-teeth to a weapon wreathed in an energy field - such as the Imperial power sword.

But doubt remains. More than one Martian magos has devoted their life’s work to researching the primeval origins of chainweapons; mostly likely as an inspiration stolen from an alien race, in a war that may never be remembered. If this theorem ever bears fruit, it is distinctly possible that the galaxy’s first wielders of chainswords were jade-clad warriors of the ancient Eldar.

From one of the late mid-2000's supplement books lol

[opaque coyote]

Actually have an idea.

What if the Krorks were the one that "invented" it?

And the Eldar stole that idea

and it profiliated throughout the galaxy

Like a Chainsword seems pretty Orky if you ask me

Either that or it's literally just like

Ingrained instinct in every race for 40k

Which is funny for me for some reason

Like

"Step #1. Figure out fire"

"Step #2. Make Chainsword"

"The first two steps to find intelligent life"

[crystal forum]

i refuse to believe eldar invented chainswords

[storm jungle]

Lmao thats a good one

[sly ivy]

Incredible

[dusk patrol]

PoV: You're horrifically fucked

[winter vessel]

I wanna see what happens when these four take on a pub crawl

[spare osprey]

Eddy_gonz is so good

[sly ivy]

What where who

This art is so good

Makes me want to break out the Veiled Blade

[dusk patrol]

Eddy Gonzales.

[crystal forum]

in what feasible situation would one assassin from every temple be sent together

is there truly a single thing worthy of such an expense

[dusk patrol]

There's some examples

[queen laurel]

a powerful chaos lord

a giant Warboss

[dusk patrol]

The uh

Aun'Va guy

[queen laurel]

a powerful Eldar Taldeer

[dusk patrol]

Who got killed by the Culexus.

[queen laurel]

multiple multiple examples really

[crystal forum]

i feel like a single assassin would be more than enough

[dusk patrol]

Horus had all the temples sent.

Its called an Execution Force or whatever

[queen laurel]

This is warhammer trust me sometimes a chaos Lord can reach such a height that four of them can warrant that

[dusk patrol]

For especially sensitive targets or hard ones.

[crystal forum]

do they even work together well

[dusk patrol]

I know Ghaz and Abbadon have been mentioned as targets for countless attempts.

[queen laurel]

Well yes

[dusk patrol]

Orkimedes too, but they can't find him.

Basically any enemies of note.

[queen laurel]

One handles the sneaking about because of their shape shifting

One handles the magical threats

The other one is long range support

[crystal forum]

so is the eversor sent in as a distraction or something

[queen laurel]

And the other one is just a berserker

[crystal forum]

how does he even comprehend teamwork

[queen laurel]

That's high on drugs

[dusk patrol]

They're not insane or uncontrollable

The are very lucid in what they're doing.

[queen laurel]

Yeah they are just frothing mad from drugs

[dusk patrol]

They just don't care about collateral

They can be told to though.

[queen laurel]

Yeah

[sly ivy]

The Eversor in Nemesis is lovable

[dusk patrol]

But you don't send them on mission you care about that typically.

[queen laurel]

They are just designed to be killing machines but you see killing machines are better when they think

Enough

[crystal forum]

eversors are my favs

[dusk patrol]

But yeah they're extremely lucid of their actions

[queen laurel]

Sometimes the raw combat power they offer is needed to be fair

[dusk patrol]

They select them from serial killers commonly for a reason.

[crystal forum]

wait no vindicare are my favs

vindicare are awesome

[queen laurel]

That's the sniper if i remember

[crystal forum]

yeah

[queen laurel]

Eversor would be the berserker one i think

Which is my favorite

[crystal forum]

just dudes with massive snipers

[sly ivy]

All u assassin lovers come play veiled blade strike force detachment for Imperial Agents.

[dusk patrol]

Speaking of Eddy Gonz

[sly ivy]

Is it competitively viable? Not really. Is it fun? Maybe.

[dusk patrol]

Eversors are wild though, some have absurd feats.

Dueling a Solitaire and wounding them so that when they died they killed it for example.

The one in Iron Warrior too is fucking insane.

[queen laurel]

Be honest make sense considering that they are constantly powered and trained to be that way

They are literally physically pushed to their limit and then added with drugs

[dusk patrol]

Shreds through CSM, and duels and kills a Slannesh Champion from the heresy era.

[queen laurel]

And considering human limits in warhammer can be absurd

I am not surprised at all

[dusk patrol]

They're blisteringly fast too

All Assassins are but them more so.

[queen laurel]

I mean there's a good reason when it comes to physical raw power they are basically at the top of the assassin hierarchy

[dusk patrol]

Normal assassins are described as hard to track for marines, Eversors are a blur.

[queen laurel]

With the power of drugs and rather ruthless training i am now fast enough to keep up with some of the fastest things in the universe

[dusk patrol]

My name is the Garatine, and I'm the fastest sociopath alive.

[sour hornet]

40k zoomer

"Harken o'eer yonder, she doth present her gyatt for thine rizzler."

I apologize, I had a moment of chaos corruption

[crystal forum]

mister malcador, i dont think we should have created the assassin temples anymore

i wonder how an eversor would fight custodes

[dusk patrol]

Speed blitz it, find gaps in its armor. Abuse any trick it could.

Its probably faster than most Custodes but penetrating the armor and killing them before they kill you is gonna be an issue, but then the explosion.

The Custodes 1000% knows all about Eversors too

[queen laurel]

To be honest when it comes to physical ability very few can beat a custodes in the imperium

I honestly think that they will find the timing and you know exploit that and defeat the eversor

[dusk patrol]

The main issue is getting it away before the detonation, and speed.

Basically, it comes down to how good the Eversor is and the Custodes, they're not all made equal.

But yeah Custodes have a very good chance.

Their knowledge of them along is a huge advantage few other parties Eversors would fight could hope to have.

[crystal forum]

are you sure?

[dusk patrol]

Yes

[queen laurel]

They are literally the emperors elite god

[dusk patrol]

They definitely know all about Assassins

[queen laurel]

They need to know this kind of stuff

[crystal forum]

yeah that doesn't mean they get told everything

[dusk patrol]

Its their job to know all threats internal and external

[queen laurel]

Yeah but they kind of just get to know that because you know

[dusk patrol]

They're probably had to kill assassins before.

[queen laurel]

They are literally the god emperors chosen guard

[dusk patrol]

The Eyes of the Emperor have insane reach and power.

[queen laurel]

Yep

[crystal forum]

there's a limited amount of them

[dusk patrol]

Eversors aren't an unknown quantity either.

[queen laurel]

Don't guardsmen literally know about assassin's

[dusk patrol]

Its not like its something thats completely unknown at the highest levels

[dusk patrol]

I think theres whispers and stuff

[crystal forum]

some high lord of terra sending an assassin somewhere that coincidentally had custodes operating under cover

[dusk patrol]

To be clear too

[queen laurel]

Yeah but even without that

[dusk patrol]

They have records of the temples founding

[queen laurel]

They are literally again the emperor's personal guard

They need to know about every ins and out of the imperium

If they want to truly guard his empire

[dusk patrol]

Like their records span back to Unification.

[crystal forum]

didn't they only recently leave the palace

[dusk patrol]

No

They openly did

They've been doing it for 10,000 years just mostly around sol for massive actions

And not making a big deal of it.

They've had Eyes and the Aquilan Guard and other custodes roaming the Imperium for as long as its been around.

Plus other agents

[queen laurel]

They are literally one of the most secretive groups of the imperium

Because they know that just their presence alone will cause a lot of funny things to happen

[dusk patrol]

They work with Inquisitors and whoever when needed, they can literally request assassins and have.

Valdor has a pretty great scene of this.

They don't flex their power a lot and haven't so its understated but they have been the highest power in the Imperium when they choose to be for stuff like this

[crystal forum]

so is a sister of silence less combat effective than the blank assassin

[dusk patrol]

And no small part of that is that they answer only to the throne and have the ability to bring down some dangerous shit.

[queen laurel]

Yeah again they are literally the emperor's personal guard

[dusk patrol]

Probably yeah but they do different things

Some SoS are beyond them

Assassins aren't all made equal too.

[queen laurel]

Isn't literally one of their groups guarding a vault full of incredibly fucking dangerous stuff

[crystal forum]

yeah

[dusk patrol]

Yah the Shadowkeepers

[queen laurel]

If push comes to shove they can grab something from there and just throw it at you

[crystal forum]

the most interesting custodes tbh

barely expanded upon

[crystal forum]

horrors from the age of strife

some eldritch shit

[dusk patrol]

And its mentioned its a very active and dangerous job, this stuff breaks out.

And they have to lock it down.

[crystal forum]

stuff so powerful the emperor couldn't even kill

[queen laurel]

Yeah no doubt the place has some very powerful weapons in it

[dusk patrol]

The Dark Cells

[queen laurel]

And when everything fails they can just throw it at you

[crystal forum]

i want to have one single story of a dark cell beast being hunted

1000% at least one man of iron in there

[crystal forum]

it that craves

[dusk patrol]

Subject XI is a cheeky one

[crystal forum]

i didnt know there were stories

[dusk patrol]

Not much tbh

[crystal forum]

could you link it pls

[dusk patrol]

Mostly just "this is a mysterious thing thats mentioned"

[crystal forum]

i wanna read

[dusk patrol]

Just look up the Dark Cells

But mostly theres no info.

[crystal forum]

wait subject XI

isn't that uh

a missing primarch

[dusk patrol]

We don't know

Its a obvious reference but you know

[crystal forum]

it probably isnt

but yeah that's cheeky as fuck

[dusk patrol]

These are kinda neat

They use them for the Shadowkeeper trials, one trial for each chaos god.

[crystal forum]

nice

also i just learned of another weird lore thing that i never heard of before

the hadex anomaly

barely a lexicanum page but people on reddit seem to know it by name

[opaque coyote]

By @moritzdraws40k on insta

“Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair!”

…

Nothing beside remains. ‘Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away.

[plush mason]

so they have to beat a Tzeentch daemon in a staring contest, huff the farts of a Nurgle daemon for 3 hours, beat a Khorne daemon in a bare knucle brawl, and listen to a Slaanesh daemon's ERP for a day

[crystal forum]

nameless what the hell is that pfp

[opaque coyote]

A task that would make anybody insane for sure

[crystal forum]

it's adorable

[plush mason]

https://tenor.com/view/pills-here-diego-furry-bark-barking-gif-27699606

[dusk patrol]

Ngl the staring contest one feels the worst

Thats so fucking long

[plush mason]

ikr

[crystal forum]

what is this evil creature

[plush mason]

no idea

[dusk patrol]

The final test

They have to resist stabbing it for five minutes.

As it yaps

Its not six because no one has made it that long.

[plush mason]

that test must have a 99% failure rate

[spare osprey]

would be a shame

if someone

did a lil falling

[crystal forum]

cypher somehow finding himself in the vaults of terra

the most guarded place in the imperium

[dusk patrol]

I mean he got imprisoned

By Guilliman

Who didn't trust him

Then he sprung out

[crystal forum]

is the lion going to like, stop him

like ask him to chill out with the dumb cryptic shit

[dusk patrol]

He rolled a double so the Shadowkeepers had to let him out.

[crystal forum]

persuasion check pass

100 floors to go

cypher is the kind of player who uses weighted dice

[spare osprey]

idk if he even knows about him yet

seriously tho i'm like right at the start of the book

[plush mason]

i have noticed some call Cypher the "lord of the fallen" is that an actual title he has used/been called in the lore or just some fan thing?

[spare osprey]

and the DA just blow up a fuckin generator letting a bunch of these unknowable horrors loose

wtf bros

[dusk patrol]

You tell me

[plush mason]

ah ok

[dusk patrol]

He is infamous amongst the DA and anyone else who knows as that yeah

[plush mason]

wait so is Uther dead or has he left the fallen to join chaos or something?

[dusk patrol]

He shows up at random, always eludes capture or death, sometimes helps them, sometimes fights them.

[spare osprey]

in universe name, comes from the old role of Lord Cypher

[dusk patrol]

Not clear why he does this

One could say hes a conundrum.

A riddle.