#40k-lore-chat

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celest dome
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But the best fantasy animated show to me is from Wakfu, like it's just 1 episode

queen laurel
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also american football body gear works wonders as a basis for medieval armor change into football gear

celest dome
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But it's great

winter vessel
plush mason
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was the center in a big ass mechsuit looking thing?

queen laurel
plush mason
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all the players where like convicts/clones or something

winter vessel
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I remember the football series, Supa Strikas

plush mason
queen laurel
plush mason
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ah so he basically doesnt it got it

queen laurel
plush mason
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yeah

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ngl i wonder how hard it was for her to change what the herald pets say

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how do they even program those things anyway?

tough haven
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With code

plush mason
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i mean specifically the herald cherubs and servoskulls and their vox casters, how do they program what they say and what triggers the given phrase

celest dome
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Small vinyls

tough haven
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Often it’s just timed

plush mason
tough haven
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That’s more or less what doctrina wafers are

plush mason
plush mason
crystal forum
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i'm trying to think of what would be the highest tier loot location for each faction

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imperium: imperial palace
mechanicus: catacombs of mars
eldar: crone worlds
tau: t'au

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although i'm not sure with tau

celest dome
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T'au would either be an Earth Caste research facility or an Ethereal manor

crystal forum
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what about the ethereal place on t'au

celest dome
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Necron are I guess Tarzyn's museum

crystal forum
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the planet

crystal forum
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what's the capital of necrons

crystal forum
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mmmmh black library is a strong contender

tough haven
storm jungle
crystal forum
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isn't black library controlled by the harlequins?

storm jungle
arctic talon
storm jungle
celest dome
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Harlequins are Eldars 🤷

crystal forum
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yeah im thinking of dividing the eldar choices

arctic talon
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Yeah it’s controlled by the clown god

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Lmao

storm jungle
celest dome
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Is Eldars not a plurar of Eldar

storm jungle
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no

crystal forum
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exodites: crone worlds
harlequin: black library

celest dome
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God the english language suck

storm jungle
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It does tbh

crystal forum
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i think for votaan it would be any ancestor core location

arctic talon
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Exodites don’t give a shit about the crone worlds

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Craftworlds need to go to croneworlds to get soulstones

crystal forum
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sorry i literally learned what an exodite is yesteday

storm jungle
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Exodites are literally just "It aint much but its honest work."

celest dome
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The Votaan are their home worlds in the center of the galaxy

storm jungle
crystal forum
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they probably have a ton of treasures in there

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what's the super elite votaan again

storm jungle
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Which ones

rocky gale
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For Drukhari it's Vects secret vaults

storm jungle
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also the sub-realms probably

arctic talon
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New valrak leaks

crystal forum
arctic talon
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Thankfully someone else has been nailed to the cross already

storm jungle
arctic talon
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So I’ll just post their summary

storm jungle
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gimme gimme

rocky gale
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Give

arctic talon
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Warhammer 40,000 - Christmas Boxes
reiterates previous rumours; Tyranids (monster box), Chaos Space Marines (Obliterators, Venomcrawler, Havoc Squad, Rhino, Legionaries)
has also heard; T'au (Farsight-themed), Space Marines (potentially the rumoured box set consisting of ten Assault Marines, a Captain, a Chaplain and a new Ancient)

Warhammer 40,000 - Drukhari
has heard the Combat Patrol consists of; Haemonculus, a squad of Wracks, a Talos and a Cronos
11E refresh; Kabalites, Wyches, Court (?), Beastpack, Tantalus, Asdrubael Vect, Castigators, Kherdruah, Scourges, a new "giant coven monster" along with new wracks,

reiterates previous rumour about the multi-part Archon releasing in 10E

Warhammer 40,000 - Flavoured Combat Patrols
has heard more flavoured Combat Patrols are coming for other factions, in a similar vein to the recent Space Marines ones

Warhammer 40,000 - Pirates
has heard the tail end of 10E will be pirate-themed
reiterates previous Aeldari Corsairs (Prince Yriel, new Vyper, jump troops, Seer character) and Huron Blackheart

crystal forum
queen laurel
storm jungle
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sounds kinda halfway boring

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so that makes it more real lol

arctic talon
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ngl

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the only thing thats standout

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is the fucking Tantalus

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lol

rocky gale
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The Drukhari one is fake

arctic talon
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thats the only thing that made my eyes go wide

arctic talon
arctic talon
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Fuck no plastic tantalus ig

crystal forum
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if you're any other race

storm jungle
rocky gale
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Like confirmed fake, the guy who made it has outright said he made it as a joke like a year ago on Discord and didn't realise it was doing the rounds

celest dome
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Warhammer 40,000 - Pirates
has heard the tail end of 10E will be pirate-themed
reiterates previous Aeldari Corsairs (Prince Yriel, new Vyper, jump troops, Seer character) and Huron Blackheart
Wonder if it'll be at the same time of the AoS Coast Pirates

arctic talon
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alright well

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lemme cross that out

arctic talon
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since AoS's rumored pirate stuff is for next edition

storm jungle
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yeah was gonna say lol

arctic talon
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which is a year off of 40k's next edition

winged jacinth
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Your tabletop party gains 10,000 teef

celest dome
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When would AoS's next edition be ?

rocky gale
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We still have like a year and a half for the current edition

arctic talon
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2027

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for next edition of AoS

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bcs it released in july 2024

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unless GW decides to cut it short intentionally

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for one reason or another

crystal forum
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imperium: golden palace
mechanicus: catacombs of mars
harlequins: black library
craftworld eldar: crone worlds
tau: t'au
votaan: rich individual holds
ork: N/A

queen laurel
arctic talon
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oh also no one gives a shit but BLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD BOWWWWWWWWWL

queen laurel
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Usually a lot of diluted technology of other factions go to the mek shop

queen laurel
arctic talon
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First time Bretonia has actually been a thing in blood bowl

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does she play blood bowl?

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genuine question

crystal forum
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i have not seen her talk about it

queen laurel
crystal forum
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isn't she thinking of starting like 6 armies KEKW_ogryn

celest dome
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6 ? Have you missed like 3 months ?

rocky gale
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Like all true Warhammer fans

arctic talon
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average krieg player who is at their fucking limit

crystal forum
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more krieg models?

arctic talon
queen laurel
arctic talon
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lol

crystal forum
rocky gale
arctic talon
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GW is making more themeed combat patrols

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which means guard is

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probably getting a krieg one

crystal forum
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oh just combat patrols smh

arctic talon
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okay this is a really cool ball

celest dome
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In total I think I've had 4

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miss typed

arctic talon
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I like these ball options

queen laurel
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who are designing these they need to be fired

arctic talon
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have you seen the chaos one?

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its literally a severed head

rocky gale
rose thorn
crystal forum
arctic talon
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Is it actually?

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I've literally never seen anyone play the Bret team

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I know the Tomb Kings team existed

celest dome
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Dwarf, Admech, VCount and Tau

arctic talon
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actually the bret team was prolly total ass huh

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I own 4 armies but I don't really do anything with my Blood angels nowadays

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they're shelfwarmers

queen laurel
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they are way too old like older than bones

arctic talon
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I actively like do stuff with Sylvaneth, Admech and CWE

crystal forum
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you play admech? no way

arctic talon
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I want AoS bloodbowl

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idc how it would work

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I just think it would be funny

celest dome
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Sold my Dwarf and Admech to one of my ex, the VCount to a friend, and the Tau to a person I didn't really know

queen laurel
rose thorn
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i think they shoudl put aos stuff into blood bowl lmao

arctic talon
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That would be really fucking funny

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no explanation

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just Nuffle did it

celest dome
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Blood Bowl but it's another sport, pick Gaelic Football KEKW_ogryn

rose thorn
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"STORMCAST ETERNALSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS VS BRETSSSSS"

crystal forum
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the blood bowl lore people will be so mad

queen laurel
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FUCK IT age of sigmar basketball

crystal forum
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age of dunkmar

arctic talon
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No one actually cares about the lore of blood bowl

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beyond its funny

crystal forum
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yes i was joking

arctic talon
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there's no actual lore beyond Nuffle and the star players

queen laurel
arctic talon
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Praise be to nuffle

arctic talon
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can't pass for shit

celest dome
arctic talon
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can't score for shit

rocky gale
rose thorn
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kruleboyz team woudl be so fun

celest dome
rose thorn
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shove a ball onto a bolt boy bow

queen laurel
rocky gale
rose thorn
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the pull out a fake ball

arctic talon
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fake bal filled with nails

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lmao

crystal forum
arctic talon
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hilarious how Skaven are one of the more "honest" teams

rose thorn
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smh gw when aer they adding the bonesplittaz team, the most iconic part of old world

arctic talon
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in bloodbowl

rose thorn
queen laurel
# arctic talon lmao

then how the **** the sigmar recruit players he just looks for people with genuine hatred and want to beat the chaos players to death KEKW_ogryn

arctic talon
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also goblins ig

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goblins are good

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Black Orcs are good because you can actually run goblins with orcs

rose thorn
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lmao

queen laurel
rocky gale
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My Militarum are a mix of Cadians and Scions, plan on getting some Solar Auxilia models from HH to make it a triumvirate

crystal forum
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odd

arctic talon
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and orcs suck at catching and passing

rocky gale
arctic talon
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Black Orc players may be even shittier

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at catching

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but they can pass good

queen laurel
arctic talon
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and absolutely clobber the shit out of other players

arctic talon
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an entire strategy on beating the shit out of your opponent isn't viable

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because you're also liable to get your skull caved in

queen laurel
arctic talon
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yes

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because there's also goblins

queen laurel
arctic talon
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and goblins are excellent at catching running and scoring

celest dome
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Killing teams usually only work against running team imo

arctic talon
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no they're just normal goblins

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lol

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yeah killing teams exclusively is only viable if the team has no like counter punch

celest dome
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Like focusing on killing as Orcs vs WElves

arctic talon
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which is why the high elf team is dogshit

queen laurel
crystal forum
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high elves being bad at sports

arctic talon
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WElf team can at least try to fight back

arctic talon
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They just don’t have any like

celest dome
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HElves have bag killing, but great running, passing and another thing

arctic talon
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Defense against getting punched in the face

celest dome
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Dodging ?

arctic talon
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Yeah

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Dodging

celest dome
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Playing Dwarfs vs HElves must suck

arctic talon
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Elven Union being the best elf team because you cover for all the weaknesses TopKekSphere

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You can just fucking kill people with DElf players

queen laurel
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Genuinely trying to take the ball away from a dwarf is like trying to take away candy from a kid

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You will succeed eventually but you will have to fight and tooth and nail for it

crystal forum
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is there any necron place that can be considered to have higher than average loot

crystal forum
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because im pretty sure every necron world will have top tier loot

queen laurel
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that's literally it though

crystal forum
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what about trazyn's place

queen laurel
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Basically since necrons are so advanced their territory would be their greatest loot place

queen laurel
crystal forum
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that's the thing, i'm assuming his collection is mostly trash

celest dome
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He doesn't just have peoples iirc

crystal forum
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just sentimental stuff

storm jungle
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where are you getting this

crystal forum
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or stuff you cant even use as a non necron

storm jungle
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He literally has everything

crystal forum
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ah

storm jungle
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Entire battallions of other races frozen in dioramas to priceless singular artifacts or doomsday weapons etc

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he doesnt collect something unless it has actual value or historical presedence

crystal forum
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would it have better loot than the average tomb world

celest dome
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For sure

storm jungle
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Considering the shit he has in there id say yes lol

queen laurel
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for fucks sake he has a krork

celest dome
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For the Orks, he has a full fledge Krork, for the Imperium, he has a clone of Fulgrim iirc

crystal forum
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casually mentioned krork

queen laurel
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yeah like he basically has the most valuable collection in the galaxy

crystal forum
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alright so his museum is on the list then

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i wonder what a krork would do if unleashed in the galaxy

queen laurel
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storyline but way worse

crystal forum
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would it spread its krork spores

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so like a ton of beasts

storm jungle
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Not really.

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And even if it did the security system would just eradicate it

celest dome
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If there are 4 places I can freely pilfer through, it would be the Museum, the Black Library, the Noctis Labyrinth, and the Vaults under the Imperial Palace

storm jungle
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its trapped inside a tesseract labyrinth so

crystal forum
queen laurel
storm jungle
crystal forum
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damn

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that's crazy

crystal forum
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like dungeons

queen laurel
crystal forum
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would any of it be useful to a non ork

celest dome
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Not really

queen laurel
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they might be able to find something useful in their

celest dome
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For Chaos, would definitely be that crystal place of Tzeentch or maybe the Forge

crystal forum
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chaos will have to be divided between the gods i think

celest dome
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Unless we count Nurgle's garden with that Eldar goddess

crystal forum
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i can't really count characters as loot

queen laurel
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because all of his equipment are rotten

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Rusting and literally falling apart

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God of decay and all that

crystal forum
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like a word bearer

celest dome
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If you're not blessed by Nurgle it would be a bad idea

queen laurel
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every weapon corrupted by him literally is a disease spewing bio weapon

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try grabbing a plague claw without his blessing you're gonna get turned into pile of flesh

crystal forum
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mmh

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i guess chaos is more complicated

rocky gale
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Aren't we technically already piles of flesh?

storm jungle
celest dome
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I'm not very pile like

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More of a flesh arrangement

crystal forum
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it would be hard to figure out the hypothetical highest tier loot location but i'm guessing if somebody finds an old one planet that would be it

rocky gale
queen laurel
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so you could bring in non chaos into the equation

celest dome
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Forge of chaos

queen laurel
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And if we're going by that then it's definitely the forge of souls

crystal forum
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we are flesh automaton animated by neurotransmitters

celest dome
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Or if we go way back, some of those places with minor gods

queen laurel
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Yeah it would be forge of souls

crystal forum
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the forge is a good place yeah

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i was looking for eldar loot places and stumbled upon webway lore

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there's a place in the webway where time flows backwards

storm jungle
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Theres places in the webway where it can literally make you younger.

crystal forum
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but that lore seems to be just from one story where an inquisitor goes to it and learns about the star child or some shit

storm jungle
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nah

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its just Czevak being Czevak

crystal forum
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then he becomes illuminati

storm jungle
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hes hunting for that Black Library lore

rocky gale
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So the beach makes you old and the Webway makes you young

storm jungle
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the Beach?

crystal forum
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i dont want to bring up sensei lore but that shit is just irrelevant these days right

storm jungle
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thats from Death Stranding

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wrong IP

rocky gale
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No, the beach which makes you old

crystal forum
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isn't that a shamalan movie

storm jungle
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LOL

celest dome
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YES

storm jungle
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I FORGOT THAT

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GETOU-

rocky gale
storm jungle
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its just never been used since it was made and isnt grimdark enough since its 90's stuff

crystal forum
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it just seems like the kind of lore that people think is key to the entire setting because it involves emp

storm jungle
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I kinda agree but I still like the concept behind it

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the "supposed" or legit childs of the Emperor acting as adventure bands that sew anarchy across the Imperium is fucking hilarious

celest dome
storm jungle
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we'll see if they ever bring it back

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GW loves nostalgia milking

celest dome
storm jungle
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I mean

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they arent wrong in doing what they do

celest dome
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Deserved

crystal forum
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what i like is how sensei page on lexi is mostly "citation needed"

storm jungle
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Its funny because like

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they got literally 1 location of lore in a rulebook

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and its 4-5 pages

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(surprisingly a lot)

crystal forum
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also at the end of the illuminati page is

storm jungle
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nvm jay is a goof

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theres literally 1 citation needed tag lol

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yeet

crystal forum
storm jungle
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Yeah thats the Starchild

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which was further legitimized by the End and the Deaf

rocky gale
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GW Italy 6th edition Apocalypse Campaign - Attacco All'Imperium is my favourite 40k module

crystal forum
storm jungle
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i guess the guy writing it just didnt bother

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rip

crystal forum
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does starchild lore imply the emp is beyond human

rocky gale
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Can you blame him, you'd have to read the Jaq Draco books to confirm

crystal forum
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i think him being created directly by the old ones is a better origin story than shamans

storm jungle
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he literally is beyond human

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guy's psyker power limit is "whatever the author wants to put in"

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like this is fucking Baki or something

crystal forum
storm jungle
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We got 2 backstories of him currently

crystal forum
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ye we prob wont ever

storm jungle
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We will

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GW cannot resist.

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its just a matter of waiting

rocky gale
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The Beginning and the Birth coming 2031

storm jungle
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^

crystal forum
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isn't it weird that old ones created all those advanced races like krorks and eldar but put humans into cavemen era

storm jungle
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its not that weird

crystal forum
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why did they create them then

storm jungle
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do scientists care about all the lab mice they experiment on?

storm jungle
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we literally do the same sort of shit in experiments

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"Why did you do that."
"I dunno."

languid meadow
crystal forum
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idk i like the idea that humanity was meant to be lead by the starchild that old ones created

storm jungle
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Alex Jones ahh

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also I dont need another "humanity are the destined species" stuff

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40k is already well into that 💀

rocky gale
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Isn't it implied that like the creation process took a long time since they basically let them develop as societies to some extent before using them in the war, humans were just too slow to be useful.

arctic talon
storm jungle
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also splitting the galaxy in half

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(based)

storm jungle
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The old ones creating humans lore in 40k is ancient

crystal forum
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like webway stuff

storm jungle
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because Eldar had active shit to do

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we were just frogs in ooze

rocky gale
celest dome
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What if the Old one "created" many species, but only uplifted the ones that they thought had actual potential

crystal forum
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potential to fight the necrons?

celest dome
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ANd they looked once at humanity, and decided on not doing them

storm jungle
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understandable tbh

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we got species-wide brain damage

crystal forum
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im also now fixated on eldar empire lore

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and how little we know about it

storm jungle
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We know enough really

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there isnt much to explore

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they literally just had super-tech and did what they wanted, they achieved societal completion

crystal forum
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were they as snobby as modern eldar

storm jungle
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Look at super rich people we got today who got everything at their fingertips.

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Then ask the question again lol

crystal forum
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this was mostly at the same time as peak humanity right

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i dont get that part

storm jungle
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Not really same time, Eldar were dominant way before that

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they co-existed afterwards

crystal forum
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so slaanesh's birth coincides with the emegence of the emp since that event cleared the warp for travel

storm jungle
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Yes.

crystal forum
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so the eldar were hate fucking eachother while humanity was in age of strife

storm jungle
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No it ends with it

crystal forum
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yeah and that eldar decline took a long time

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before the birth

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i just find it funny that humanity destroyed itself and eldar just didn't care enough to help

storm jungle
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The Eldar Dominion was around for a ridiculously long time.

storm jungle
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and half their population was bailing seeing the carnage

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why the fuck would they care

celest dome
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It's like asking why the Imperium barely care about the Tau

crystal forum
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so the two races were destroying themselves around the same time

storm jungle
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Also help humanity how. It was literally billions of conclaves.

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Every human settlement was doing its own thing

crystal forum
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but it's still funny to imagine lol

storm jungle
zenith remnant
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Also their farthest-seeing of Farseers hadn't seen the magnitude of the damage Humanity's impending fall was about to cause.

storm jungle
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ala most older human civilization

crystal forum
storm jungle
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They literally formed/shaped stars at will lol

crystal forum
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see that's what i mean

storm jungle
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Like

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they just did what they want

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theres no "core" thing

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Basically imagine a galaxy-spanning greek city state

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with like magic supertech and shit

crystal forum
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i know exodites had dominion ships which are like entire planet creators

zenith remnant
storm jungle
crystal forum
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exodites, the space amish, having the tech to create planets

storm jungle
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lol

storm jungle
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older eldar groups seeded them with life

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Exodites settled on them afterwards

crystal forum
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is that not what dominion ships did

storm jungle
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Yeah.

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Those werent exodites

crystal forum
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ah

storm jungle
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Exodites are the first eldar fringe groups that VERY first saw what was happening and just abandoned their hedonistic ways.

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aka going full amish.

crystal forum
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yeah

storm jungle
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its basically like your pals building a giant farmland

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and leaving it because it was just a fun experiment

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then you just move in and take it over

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since no one was using it

zenith remnant
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The Eldar sat back and did nothing. Their failure to anticipate the Dark King was the main reason.

Only the Harlequins knew, and frankly, they basically just didn't bother to tell anyone because they're Harlequins

zenith remnant
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It's literally in The End and the Death

storm jungle
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We literally got zero implication that they knew the Dark King was gonna form

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that book just pops it out of nowhere

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and they just go "oh yeah i guess thats happening"

crystal forum
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there's also lore i found of a sword created to kill slaanesh while it was still young

storm jungle
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Yeah thats from Farseer

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ironically its one of the reasons that book got retconned

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then uhhh

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the ynnari were invented

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irony

crystal forum
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ah

storm jungle
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Yeah lol

arctic talon
storm jungle
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^

arctic talon
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Because we needed that bit of lore

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Ig

crystal forum
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i like the rogue trader in that book. just some drunk gambling his ship away

storm jungle
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This feels like a really bad reach to blame Eldar for stuff

arctic talon
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The time bubble shit is weird to me

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lol

storm jungle
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which is normal I know but lol

storm jungle
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one of my favs ironically

zenith remnant
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I wasn't blaming, just explaining

arctic talon
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Farseer is a good book

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It’s just

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I wish it was still canon smh

storm jungle
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"Yeah uh I sold the dreamstone for some cash."

arctic talon
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It’s canon in my heart

storm jungle
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"YOU WHAT."

storm jungle
arctic talon
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Most responsible rogue trader

crystal forum
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40k needs more incompetent characters

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lol

arctic talon
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There’s plenty

storm jungle
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It has you

zenith remnant
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I read the Path of the Eldar omnibus and it was pretty good

arctic talon
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Of incompetents in books

storm jungle
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the reader

arctic talon
storm jungle
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nice worldbuilding, awful in everything else

arctic talon
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Smh

storm jungle
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I JUST SAID IT

storm jungle
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but anyway yeah pre-imperium timeline lore is likee

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a fucking mess really

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necron backstory stuff especially

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💀

arctic talon
#

The clusterfuck that is the war in heaven lore

crystal forum
#

i find it interesting that we dont know what the eldar homeworld is

arctic talon
#

Ty for somehow making it more of a clusterfuck gav

storm jungle
#

We kinda do

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theres some lore for it

rocky gale
#

I bet the Drukhari still have technology that could create new planets they just don't use it because why would they care

zenith remnant
#

The spirit stones coming from Crone Worlds raises the question as to whether or not they've ever accidentally smuggled a tricky daemon back home in one

arctic talon
storm jungle
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^

arctic talon
#

The stone would disintegrate in theory

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Due to how uh

storm jungle
#

It'd also likely be noticed and cleansed by seers.

arctic talon
#

Malevolent daemons are

crystal forum
storm jungle
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Every Craftworld is its own entity

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some do, some dont, some dont even care

arctic talon
#

Considering yvraines stone turned to dust

rocky gale
#

"And this is where we keep the machine which can create new planets"

"The what?"

"I know pretty useless right, dunno why we keep this thing"

arctic talon
#

When she started skinning people alive for fun

crystal forum
#

it's really just humanity that really care about their homeworld huh

arctic talon
#

And that’s like light work for daemons

storm jungle
#

I mean

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Terra is symbolic

storm jungle
#

and was always there

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even if it kinda lost its meaning

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but yea lol

arctic talon
#

Tau really care about T’au and it’s moons

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lol

storm jungle
#

The homeworlds of the Necron also exist, but they dont give a shit

arctic talon
#

The kroot also care about their homeworld

storm jungle
#

not when they can just blow up suns

zenith remnant
#

Home is where the souls of your dead ancestors run the thermostat

rocky gale
zenith remnant
#

And I think the Necrons probably actively despise their homeworld for giving them super space cancer forever, yeah

crystal forum
#

what do you guys think of sci fi settings where earth is either destroyed or rendered irrelevant like star wars

storm jungle
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Nothing really

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Earth is the place that birthed us but once we propel to the stars it should mean nothing.

zenith remnant
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Earth never existed in Star Wars

storm jungle
#

you got new lives and homes ahead of you

crystal forum
storm jungle
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its why if we ever colonize other planets in the solar system we'll very likely get secessionist movements that already want independence

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home is where the people go to

rocky gale
#

But like humans didn't come from Earth in Star Wars

storm jungle
#

YEET

arctic talon
#

Also like

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A solid chunk of sci fi

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Lmao

storm jungle
#

Yep lol

arctic talon
#

But Lancer is the only one where I can think of where humans actually went fucking extinct on earth

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lol

zenith remnant
#

In any event. I think it's logical that people not born here wouldn't care for it as much. Maybe as a curiosity or a cultural note

storm jungle
#

^

arctic talon
#

Yeah

crystal forum
storm jungle
#

Yeah that

crystal forum
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like dune

storm jungle
#

We are an adaptable species

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we can make home anywhere

queen laurel
# storm jungle We are an adaptable species

That's why humans are always the Jack of all trades in every single fictional setting because they are just stubborn little kids that can live just about everywhere if they are pushed hard enough

crystal forum
rocky gale
#

and ironically in Star Wars the leading theory on the human homeworld is Coruscant

zenith remnant
#

Hell, I don't even care that much for where I was born. But I'm a jaded, diagnosed autistic and borderline misanthropist, so take my perspective on the importance of culture and things like that with a grain of salt.

And when I say grain, I mean the kind of grain you strap to a mule to get it out of the mine

storm jungle
#

Same.

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I like my country but national borders and ethnicities dont mean anything to me

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if you are a cool person and arent an asshole then thats all ı care about lol

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thats kinda it really

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basically me

zenith remnant
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I'm in a weird spot where I want to love my country, but the other people in it make me reconsider daily

crystal forum
#

if i was born on mars i probably wouldn't give a shit about earth

storm jungle
rocky gale
#

Like it kind of implied that humans in Star Wars descend from a race from Corsuscant (at the time called a different name) that were taken from the world by another Empire at the time and propagated throughout the galaxy, eventually humans rediscovered and establishing a colony on Corusctant, with it eventually becoming the capital of the Empire/Republic

queen laurel
crystal forum
#

i do love how in 40k terra is clearly a blood sucking parasite on the imperium

storm jungle
#

Yeah and the books say as much

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its one of my fav lines in Vaults of Terra

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something along the lines of how Terra takes everything and returns nothing

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trillions/gazillions of ships make through its orbit to feed it

queen laurel
zenith remnant
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If the Emperor was entombed on another world, Terra would be an abandoned relic

crystal forum
#

arguably the only thing it produces is the astronomicon and that still doesn't justify the absurd amount of wealth it has to import

rose thorn
#

Damn I really like the brets team

queen laurel
queen laurel
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it's like your game having a picture of A T Rex on its files that literally does nothing but if you remove it it literally collapses

rose thorn
#

They are silly knights

crystal forum
#

im not much of a fan of how GW made humanity forced to keep terra due to the golden throne as if the setting wouldn't be dark enough if terra wasn't needed at all

storm jungle
#

I mean give it time

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people say if the throne is gone the setting is over when thats never gonna be the case

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this setting is built on excuses written in to keep the limbo narrative going lol

queen laurel
# rose thorn

@arctic talon this is what I mean when i said the black orc goblins are a bit tougher than usual

#

Is this still completely useless or what

zenith remnant
#

I don't trust GW to not pull an End Times on us again in obe way or anothee

crystal forum
#

i still think the idea of the imperium propping up terra purely because of dogmatic faith reasons is darker than the requirement of a golden throne

storm jungle
#

End Times isnt gonna happen

rose thorn
#

Also unlike old world they ahve women without issues lmao

storm jungle
#

it will be some shit like uhhh

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Emperor rises up i nthe Warp as a god, becomes the astronomican or whatever

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Terra implodes

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people still keep going or some shit idfk

crystal forum
#

that would be pretty funny

storm jungle
#

the entire reason this setting exists is to give people reasons to keep playing with their armies

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GW will write ANY excuse to make sure that is still possible

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the lore is always secondary

rose thorn
#

“YOU CANT BE A KNIGHT YOUR A W-W-W- WOMEN”

storm jungle
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or even third place lol

crystal forum
#

i think GW will explode mcragge before terra

storm jungle
#

Likely lol

zenith remnant
#

The whole Dark King thing interests me. After all, it's said his Realm and servants both already exist in the Warp

crystal forum
#

which will be very enjoyable

storm jungle
#

it will happen

arctic talon
#

End times will only be done if 40k is literally killing the company

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Like WHFB was

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lol

storm jungle
#

just... not maybe in another 20 IRL years

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Cadia took that long

arctic talon
#

Prolly more

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lol

storm jungle
#

so it will prob be the same here

arctic talon
#

But endtimes was done because WHFB was actively killing GW

storm jungle
arctic talon
#

GW were losing tons of money on it

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So they uh

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Yknow

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Killed it

zenith remnant
#

But the Dark King won't neccessarily be the Emperor. It almost was. But before that the entire Warp was sure it would be Horus

storm jungle
#

also yeah, blowing up Fantasy was the correct decision

arctic talon
#

As much as it pains me to say whfb dying literally saved GW lol

crystal forum
#

they did cadia to introduce the reboot of the franchise and cadia itself only really affects one tabletop faction

storm jungle
arctic talon
#

GW had to either kill it or let it bleed out

#

So they just picked killing it with a bang

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lol

#

Now granted

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AoS 1e was total ass

#

Till 1.5e

#

But it did do way better financially then Whfb

zenith remnant
#

I do suppose the alternative was just going along with a continual story progression until Fantasy organically turned into 40k

storm jungle
#

Its second place still now isnt it

arctic talon
#

Because you didn’t need fucking 2k points of spearmen to run 1 unit you wanted

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lol

arctic talon
celest dome
#

AoS wasn't even planned when the 1st death plans for battle fantasy existed

arctic talon
#

Anyways WHFB was super unprofitable due to how the games army building was setup

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And also like

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The whole cost of entry thing

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Because people complain about 40k being expensive

#

But it didn’t have shit on WHFB’s price tag to start playing lol

crystal forum
#

speaking of which, prices went up again

arctic talon
#

accounting for inflation

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October

#

But yes

zenith remnant
#

I still can't and don't and probably won't ever touch the actual tabletop. I can barely afford the vidya even when I'm being picky.

arctic talon
#

Reasonable

#

But yeah WHFB’s minimum playable points count was 1.5k points

#

Because the game quite literally did not function

#

Below that points count

zenith remnant
#

Speaking of, I'm still amazed Space Marine 2 ran on my older comp

Not great, but it ran playably well. The devs need to be investigated by the Ordo Hereticus because that is some witchcraft optimization

arctic talon
#

Thankfully the old world fixed that

#

And made whfb an actual good tabletop wargame

arctic talon
#

It’s insane

crystal forum
#

i have been brushing up on my votaan lore

#

i did not know they went so hard

zenith remnant
#

I need to do that. I've been slow getting into the newer lore. Primaris marines really rubbed me wrong at first, but GW seem to have found hiw to write them

arctic talon
#

Primaris are almost 10 years old

zenith remnant
#

For context, my first 40k anything was the Eisenhorn Omnibus

arctic talon
#

Tbh I think it’s funny how many people got into 40k post primaris

#

And then complain about primaris

#

It’s like really funny

#

To me

arctic talon
crystal forum
#

beserker tabletop models dont do them justice

#

look at how jacked this guy is

arctic talon
#

Curse of heroic scale

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Or whatever GW’s weird heroic hybrid scale is

crystal forum
#

and the thing i never really thought about is that kin are short but super strong

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and these guys have augmented muscles

zenith remnant
#

I want more Cherubael stuff. I feel like we need a short story from his perspective.

#

He's the funniest daemon prince since Voldorius

arctic talon
#

Funny creature

zenith remnant
#

He even kills people funny

crystal forum
#

also wolf i looked up the funny volkanite

arctic talon
#

What about it

crystal forum
#

it is in fact that same as volkite in principle

arctic talon
#

Yeah

#

Sounds about right

crystal forum
#

volkanite is just how votaan call it

zenith remnant
#

Semi believable language drift

crystal forum
#

but the version votaan use is much older than the one mechanicus has

arctic talon
#

Yeah that tracks

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Tbh

#

Volkite still being produced and used by the mechanicus is the funniest shit ever

#

Since no one else wants to use it since maintenance is a pain and it’s sensitive

crystal forum
#

i love steeljacks so much

#

also apparently ironkin have faces?

arctic talon
#

Tired of being nice? Just beat your opponent to death

arctic talon
#

But there is something under the bubble lol

crystal forum
#

the visors we see on tabletop are just to hide what's under

arctic talon
#

It’s not an actual face

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As described in high khals

#

It’s a mess of sensor arrays and stuff

#

But it is a face

zenith remnant
#

Meanwhile the Mechanicus treat it like

"You mean I get to fondle a complicated archeotech mechanism for extended periods of time while I commune with my God? What forms do I sign?"

arctic talon
#

Tbf the issue with volkite with marines

#

Is they use it as a bludgeon

#

This makes the volkite weapon sad

#

And usually breaks it

crystal forum
#

bolters being dark age tech is one of those mini retcons which im ok with

zenith remnant
#

Hence why the Mechanicus swapped them to Boltguns

Surely. This was due to easier economies of scale.

arctic talon
#

It is

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Tbf

crystal forum
#

like who cares if the emp didn't literally create the bolter or whatever

#

it would be stupider if he did

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and it can easily be explained away as propaganda

zenith remnant
#

The modern imeperium at large probably believes he did. Which is fitting. Because it is stupid.

celest dome
#

The Bolter being created by the Emperor didn't make sense anyway

arctic talon
#

Tbf the great crusade imperium did as well

#

Ignore the fact it makes no sense

#

Because techno barbarians had bolters

#

And so did the mechanicum

#

And the leagues of votaan

celest dome
#

The Interex did too iirc

arctic talon
#

And necromunda

#

The interex had a gyro jet weapon but it’s not called a bolter

#

For reasons

arctic talon
celest dome
#

Some explain it by it being created much earlier than the Age of Strife or what ever, but it doesn't really make sense

crystal forum
#

i think it's definitely dark age tech if votaan use it

#

and it's not like bolters are particularly high tech by 40k era

#

it was probably like the caveman's wooden club of the dark age

arctic talon
#

That’s the lasgun’s function

#

Though the lasgun is way more advanced lmao

#

Then the bolter

crystal forum
#

a time when disintegrators weren't that rare

arctic talon
#

I do personally wish the LoV didn’t use bolters

#

As their primary gun

#

Because that’s overlap with the imperium

#

But w/e

crystal forum
#

i think it's fine

arctic talon
#

I don’t personally

#

But it’s whatever

#

I wish GW came up with something different

#

Flechette guns? Idk

celest dome
#

Maglev guns would have been good

crystal forum
#

railguns

arctic talon
#

Basic guns all being railguns would be neat

#

But meh

#

Too late now

#

I do find the existence of the LoV’s super las guns funny

crystal forum
#

or coilgun

#

mass driver is still my favorite term for a weapon

#

since it's just a literal description

arctic talon
#

Idk I just think it’s boring there’s another faction that just uses fuckin bolters as their basic weapon

arctic talon
crystal forum
#

indeed

celest dome
#

I quite like guns that just teleport things into other things

opaque coyote
#

Like the Imperium bolters look different compared to the Votann

#

Maybe the Emperor Brand Bolters (tm) are easier to produce or something

#

I mean at the time he made them, Earth literally had the ocean fucking evaporate somehow

crystal forum
#

that's what water does

opaque coyote
#

Yeah

But like

#

The entire fucking ocean

#

Bro either the ozone layer on Terra got erased

#

Or colonization age humanity used up the entire water supply

crystal forum
#

i think votaan having bolters is more to give them similarities with humanity

#

it has to be intentional

opaque coyote
#

Instead of reinventing the bolter or some shit

crystal forum
#

why would he

opaque coyote
#

Could be a version that uses less resources or something idk

crystal forum
#

he was in the middle of starting the imperium

#

where would he have the time for that

opaque coyote
#

Where would he have the time to create the custodes

crystal forum
#

he did that before the unification wars no?

opaque coyote
#

Yeah

#

I assume that's the same time period where he ""reinvented"" the bolter

arctic talon
#

Wait

#

The fucking terrawatt clans

#

Lmao

#

They invented the bolter the imperium uses largely

#

That’s why the emperor subsumed them

opaque coyote
#

If you have the time to turn a toddler into a fucking super soldier. You can make a bolter pattern

opaque coyote
#

Well that's something new I learned

arctic talon
#

A technobarbarian tech guild

#

Known for making power armor and other tech

crystal forum
#

and most of custodes gear

arctic talon
#

They got culturally genocided and integrated into the imperial household

opaque coyote
#

mfw a group of people who are literally fucking barbarians made most of my shit

arctic talon
#

Well

crystal forum
arctic talon
#

Techno barbarians is a post unification wars term

#

Meant to slander them

#

lol

opaque coyote
crystal forum
#

techno barbarian is a term only an 80's writer could come up with

#

but they were very advanced

opaque coyote
#

Here is a funny story.

In the Berlin Olympics, the Nazis hosted them primarily to show Aryan superiority.

They all got beaten by a black man.

crystal forum
#

earth was a very advanced planet during the dark age

arctic talon
#

The Selenar gene cults for example

#

Are techno barbarians

opaque coyote
#

They coped by saying that "of course an animal would beat a human"

arctic talon
#

lol

#

The Selenar gene cults

#

Also literally helped with making marines

#

So yeah “barbarians”

opaque coyote
#

Which is huffing so much copium that it's probably more than the meth and other various "medicines" Hitler took

arctic talon
#

They had better super soldiers then the imperium lol

opaque coyote
#

This reminds me of the whole techno barbarian thing

arctic talon
#

And then they got integrated into the imperial household

crystal forum
#

all of the techno barbarian powers left on earth were like war clans

arctic talon
#

They tried to rebel and got their teeth kicked in

opaque coyote
#

All I can say is

crystal forum
#

arguably mars was in a better state than earth ended up being

opaque coyote
#

I can fully believe that the Emperor would lie about creating the Bolter pattern

#

It's fucking funny that he didn't even create that

#

Bro only created the Golden Simps

arctic talon
#

Mars had its own civil war

#

lol

opaque coyote
#

The Manchildren

crystal forum
#

emperor had a lot of help for custodies

opaque coyote
#

And the Manchildren but with his seed inside of them

arctic talon
#

The custodes didn’t have the gene cults working on them

opaque coyote
#

Well his son's seeds

#

(mostly)

arctic talon
#

But he still had the astaetes program nerds

opaque coyote
#

The unification lore is honestly pretty entertaining tbh

#

Like

crystal forum
opaque coyote
#

I find that to be the best part of 30k

#

The Emperor trying to unify terra

arctic talon
crystal forum
#

like i know mars was ok for a while after the collapse

arctic talon
#

The mechanicus also wanted that

#

That’s all we know

crystal forum
#

but things started going badly due to lack of maintenance

#

because like nobody on mars were scientists or whatever

opaque coyote
crystal forum
#

just technicians yeah

opaque coyote
#

And honestly the Mechanicus religion makes much more sense once you know the origins

#

Of course they wouldn't know how the shit works. They only know how to maintain it

crystal forum
#

probably the over reliance on STC's had that effect where all the smart people were spread around humanity

#

and died during the age of strife

#

or hell maybe during the late era of peak humanity nobody was really advancing science since there was no need

opaque coyote
#

Polymaths simply don't exist anymore due to how complicated everything is

#

So imagine that process... and then make it bullshit future tech

arctic talon
#

The mechanicus had to reinvent the scientific method

#

This is not a joke

crystal forum
#

that makes sense to me

opaque coyote
#

Before then, our process consisted of

#

"Will it kill me if I eat this?"

#

"Well I didn't die immediately so that must mean it works"

crystal forum
#

enginseers are like PC enthusiasts who can name every model of component and build PC's from scratch but don't understand what CPU architecture is

arctic talon
#

I know what a CPU architecture is

#

🤓

crystal forum
#

you're also studying to be an engineer

arctic talon
#

I don’t know how to make a CPU though TopKekSphere

crystal forum
#

my point is they know a lot of facts but little true knowledge

opaque coyote
#

Also doesn't help that like

#

Most of the Imperium's technology would be far more complex than even

#

Current day

#

I'm sure that part of the reason why the AI rebellion was so devastating wasn't due to like

#

The actual war

#

But more so that

#

"Our fucking storage of all the blueprints got deleted because our STC maker got pissed off"

celest dome
#

All our automated shit just turned off

crystal forum
#

i think the hatred for AI is mostly unjustified by humanity at this point

opaque coyote
#

It's like if robots deleted all of the internet

crystal forum
#

we know of a lot of good AI in the setting

opaque coyote
#

And then decided to burn every Library they could find

arctic talon
crystal forum
opaque coyote
arctic talon
#

That is true but the whole all AI deserves only death thing is obv wrong

opaque coyote
#

But also we shouldn't become crazy religious fanatics and use lobotomized people as a replacement

arctic talon
#

No

#

We should

#

Time for wetware

crystal forum
#

but honestly it just makes no sense. nobody in the imperium lived during the dark age so how could they know about men of iron? they just hate sentient life that isn't human

opaque coyote
#

Like many things.

Many extremist ideas start off with a genuine grievance

crystal forum
#

like xenos

opaque coyote
#

It's just that their way of solving it

#

...

#

Isn't the best way to say the least

#

"Our reliance of AI has left us crippled, we must gain back our own knowledge and destiny."

arctic talon
#

And they spread it

opaque coyote
#

"you're right! That also means that we should destroy low level drones that literally cannot develop to become sentient!"

#

"...Mark what the fU-"

languid meadow
crystal forum
#

it's easy to blame somebody else for the age of strife

arctic talon
#

The the men of iron rebellion did kill a ton of people

#

ironically the mechanicus did not purge psykers on mars like many worlds

crystal forum
#

i bet humanity caused them to rebel

#

by being shitty to them

#

ironkin are happy doing what they're doing since they're treated like fellow kin

celest dome
#

Poor Ironkin though

#

Can't drink beer

crystal forum
#

imagine being a steeljack though heartEyes

arctic talon
#

We don’t know why the men of iron rebeled

opaque coyote
# crystal forum by being shitty to them

It could be that

Or it could be that some AI are like

"wait we're better than these fleshy meat bags. Why are we even giving them 0.01 picoseconds of our attention? We should kill them all instead!"

arctic talon
#

And GW is unlikely to ever answer

opaque coyote
#

It's probably a mixture of many things

arctic talon
#

It’s likely a mix of

#

All of the above

#

lol

opaque coyote
#

With each AI having their own reasons

arctic talon
#

Because we know a lot of AI sided with humanity

crystal forum
opaque coyote
#

Some out of genuine grievances.

Others wanted to create a 30th Reich

celest dome
#

Are Steeljack like Ironkin of more like the Cog ones

arctic talon
arctic talon
#

Just an ironkin who really likes killing

crystal forum
#

steeljacks have the same cerebral unit as other ironkin

#

but personality wise they're more combat oriented

#

and they're loved by kin

opaque coyote
crystal forum
#

that's pretty much the age of strife

#

so complicated we'll never truly know

opaque coyote
#

And because humanity is kinda... bad at recognizing complicated reasons and nuance as a collective

#

We just sorta simplified it

#

"Some of our AI rebelled against us. That means ALL AI are bad!"

arctic talon
#

The AI uprising on Mars was really bad

#

Is all we know about the specifics for mars

crystal forum
#

mars was green before the civil war right

opaque coyote
#

I definitely think at least a couple of AI were bad apples

crystal forum
#

it was terraformed

arctic talon
#

It was green before the age of strife yeah

opaque coyote
#

That just wanted to kill a lot of humans