#40k-lore-chat

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vapid tiger
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Pfffft

You think wehraboos can make this distinction

open marsh
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Their officers have French Dragoon helmets

vapid tiger
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They just see the word "krieg"

open marsh
vapid tiger
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And go ham with the swastikas and runes

frosty cobalt
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medic this stuff has been known

open marsh
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@vapid tiger Whats funnier is that there is a regiment based on WWII Wehrmacht. The Armageddeon Steel Legion. They are essentially German Afrika Corp Panzergrenadiers with Fallschirmjäger helmets

frosty cobalt
open marsh
storm jungle
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I thought the only german thing about the arma was the helmet

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since we had this argument like 3 days ago iirc lol

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post the pics medic

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👉

open marsh
storm jungle
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The uh german and armageddon soldier one you did when this was happening again

frosty cobalt
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yea its just the helm

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" Parts of the uniform are drawn from the British Army's infantry uniform in World War I (the coats are modelled on the British 1914 Utility Tunic and the gas masks are of the 1916 Box-Respirator type) and the German Paratroops (Fallschirmjäger) of World War II (particularly the Steel Legion's helmet design)"

vapid tiger
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But you see, they don't speak german and wear yellow

odd sparrow
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there it is

storm jungle
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Yep that one

vapid tiger
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Therefore the wehraboo brain passes over them

storm jungle
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I just personally always ignored that one since its like

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really old art

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GW seemed to move away from it a bit from my understanding

odd sparrow
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the smol ork head tho

frosty cobalt
open marsh
glad prism
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They had lancers in the first world war anyway, but I can sort of see it, though the dragoon helmet in question wasn't particularly unique to the French iirc.

frosty cobalt
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1 button row v 2

odd sparrow
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i loathe these debates so much

open marsh
frosty cobalt
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imma stop

final spruce
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they murdered it

primal tide
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"buh but they are different because the boots are creased in different place"

odd sparrow
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armageddon is gimmicked around mechanised infantry, dkok is gimmicked around ww1, that's all the artists who draw this stuff up care about lol

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they may use whatever references they want but it has like zero serious implication

frosty cobalt
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why are u so smart ur too big brained to be here

primal tide
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Unless certain unsavory people add that implication because they're clowns

odd sparrow
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i dont wanna crawl up anybodys ass for spyglassing 40k stuff i do it all the time but still

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pain

frosty cobalt
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heres a good timestamp for 2 commisars talking bout ogryns

open marsh
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I think there is a picture of the Steel Legion with remixed German flags on their helmets

storm jungle
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the guard server uses them as emotes

open marsh
storm jungle
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oh god that one

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ngl though that artwork is sick

frosty cobalt
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yea one of my fav ig pieces

odd sparrow
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blue lasgun lasers feels weird

storm jungle
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welcome to the future ratty

odd sparrow
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must be red toad brain broke

open marsh
frosty cobalt
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i like this one cause hes savin his buddy

storm jungle
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remember when 40k art was detailed

odd sparrow
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,, tho mind u how in the DKoK KT trailer the lasguns fired like

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star wars blaster lasers

frosty cobalt
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pew

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pew

frosty cobalt
storm jungle
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tbh not that

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its just that the uh

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new artist half-ass all the backgrounds

open marsh
frosty cobalt
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oh lol that too

storm jungle
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let me get one lol

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1 sec

odd sparrow
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im p sure the darktide trailer depicted it as a single coherent beam, like in dow

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leastways it was a way longer SW blaster beam

odd sparrow
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?

final spruce
vapid tiger
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The sheer panic on this man's face as he sees the biggest living ork in the galaxy charging the line

storm jungle
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Yeah like nothing is detailed lol

frosty cobalt
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its the digital painting to look like a real one

odd sparrow
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i dont really have an issue with that, tho like

odd sparrow
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occasionally it is nice to have the big dick giant detailed two pager vibes

frosty cobalt
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i honestly hate it, its everywhere

storm jungle
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Compared to earlier stuff

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where you can literally see every individual detail the artist draws onto even the minor characters

vapid tiger
final spruce
storm jungle
open marsh
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The bigger panic is that Grenadier/Engineer freaking out and trying to go for his lasgun, instead of setting off the detonation charges

storm jungle
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get goofed ye moth

frosty cobalt
storm jungle
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Man thats some good shit

vapid tiger
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Mook: We need to run!

Sergeant: No. We need to fight.

gets splatted

frosty cobalt
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another mk4

final spruce
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I mean i'm currently looking at the warhammer conquest poster and the backdrop is well done

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I think its just that specific art

vapid tiger
# frosty cobalt

I've never liked this artwork

It's another example of an art trend I dislike in 40k

final spruce
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That is meant to empathise the character

vapid tiger
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It's fine composition-wise I guess it's what's happening that irks me

storm jungle
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igor sid guy's style

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let me get a really shit one 1 sec

frosty cobalt
vapid tiger
storm jungle
primal tide
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much painterly, very style

odd sparrow
storm jungle
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Imma make u jarring

vapid tiger
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There are no dead loyalists

Only dying chaos marines

In a lot of loyalist artwork csm are depicted as mooks who are constantly getting murdered

odd sparrow
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like even a lot of the just one faction on one side shooting another on the other page comes off as odd

vapid tiger
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it's a general trend that's been occurring since like 5th edition

frosty cobalt
odd sparrow
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like ye we get it u wanted smthn big to put on the two pages in ur book

frosty cobalt
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i cant help that

odd sparrow
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but why is any of this happening

storm jungle
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imma fite u

vapid tiger
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Not before 5th ed

odd sparrow
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like What is this actually depicting

frosty cobalt
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yea

odd sparrow
storm jungle
frosty cobalt
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i wish the art was balanced but

vapid tiger
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it grinds my gears grrg

frosty cobalt
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then id get art of the tau winning much more and that cant happen

odd sparrow
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forbidden

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like, i sorta like some art like this cus u can sorta tell it's actually depicting smthn? it looks like some like, consolidated attack by the tau

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u can tell what's going on

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it's not just a giant pub brawl lol

vapid tiger
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What's annoying is that in AoS, Stormcasts, who are also posterboys, aren't portrayed like loyalists

They're portrayed as just another faction in AoS who are also posterboys, whereas loyalist marines basically lord over all the other factions

All other factions exist to be sacrificed to the altar that is making loyalists look cool

and what makes it worse is that it wasn't always like this

open marsh
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Got a good picture of the recoil on when the marksman fires his lasgun

odd sparrow
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recoil is an easy way to make the animations for lasguns look less weird

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cus it would look sorta odd if it just didn't shift at all despite that being how lasers work

odd sparrow
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F

frosty cobalt
odd sparrow
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some of the recent tau are is also good but like

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ye 70% of the vs stuff is just like

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this artist does not want to draw tau this artist wants to draw the other faction and includes some tau getting eviscerated cus they have to

vapid tiger
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Marines stomp everyone else

That's art now

There's less balance

open marsh
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@odd sparrowHas it been said that lasguns dont have recoil? I vaguely remember it from like 2e or maybe even 3e. But that has been abandoned ever since.

frosty cobalt
odd sparrow
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Oh shit i have to draw the blueberries too? ok right i'll include two

vapid tiger
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I mean lasguns are stated to have kick

odd sparrow
open marsh
dreamy crest
storm jungle
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Thank you 🙏

frosty cobalt
vapid tiger
open marsh
vapid tiger
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In abnett's novels loyal guard always fire blue star wars blaster bolts

odd sparrow
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this art is my beloved purely cus it depicts tau actually doing smthn in close combat

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apply pulse blaster to plague marine

frosty cobalt
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yea whiteblue is what i thought

odd sparrow
vapid tiger
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In most visual depictions lasguns either fire nothing at all or a bright red solid beam

odd sparrow
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why are the fire warriors running right past a marine

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this is cursed

open marsh
frosty cobalt
odd sparrow
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ofc

vapid tiger
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Which is what the kill team trailer lasguns look like

frosty cobalt
vapid tiger
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They don't look like star wars blaster bolts they look like solid beams

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At least that's what I thought

dreamy crest
odd sparrow
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they are def depicted not quite as solid beams

vapid tiger
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In darktide it looks like they have kick

odd sparrow
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tho it seems like both it and darktide like, they sorta look like actual lasers but they do also visibly begin and end

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ig to make it look smoother and less janky

vapid tiger
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Oh

open marsh
vapid tiger
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On rewatching yeah

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They're sw blaster bolts

frosty cobalt
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yea

open marsh
frosty cobalt
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gladius has them lore accurate which i find fun

dreamy crest
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My question is do you guys want to theorise how lasguns work on our understanding of laser science today? If so, no recoil

If you want recoil cool, recoil

Games likely just do recoil for familiarity and conformity

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😎

vapid tiger
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Hopefully darktide's depiction of weapons can be used as a template for things to be portrayed more consistently considering it'll probably have the best renditions of these weapons in any visual medium

since fatshark is known for punchy weapons in vermintide

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but it won't

odd sparrow
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DT has a similar vibe going on. they're like a weird hybrid between like 2 feet ish long SW blaster bolts and full lasers

vapid tiger
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ten years from now one video game's depiction of what a meltagun fires will be totally different from darktide's meltagun, however it fires

odd sparrow
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u sorta have to slow it down to actually make it out

vapid tiger
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I like that

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It looks cool

odd sparrow
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yee

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,, tho now i just want more lasgun colour variations tbh

odd sparrow
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gimme green lasguns

odd palm
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No

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Only red

open marsh
glad prism
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Is it time we all collectively touched grass?

storm jungle
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gimme pride las

odd sparrow
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im red/green colourblind so i can have both

odd palm
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Hmm

crisp heath
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Hi

storm jungle
dreamy crest
odd sparrow
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immediately

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bi las for the bi lass?

open marsh
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Scion hellguns have white/yellow

final spruce
crisp heath
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Yo I want bi las

glad prism
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I want a bi las

storm jungle
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hi las

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bi las

glad prism
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Ben, we shall acquire the memes of production for a bi-las

frosty cobalt
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i mean if ur power was fluctuating the spectrum of light might lower so u get the blue purple color

dreamy crest
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Based purple Las when?

glad prism
final spruce
storm jungle
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that and the artist just didnt get the cue

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so he was like

dreamy crest
storm jungle
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"hey guns have yellow flashes"

vapid tiger
crisp heath
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heartBi las

odd sparrow
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fuck yeah

errant mauve
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Brown Las

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poopy

glad prism
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Poop las?

open marsh
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Be Bi, Kill a Guy.

odd sparrow
storm jungle
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In the future everyone is bisexual or gay

glad prism
odd sparrow
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~weird glowing ball of doom~

storm jungle
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minus that one commissar Cain was with

vapid tiger
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a blue blob yes but sometimes it's a beam

open marsh
storm jungle
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where he got kissed by a slaanesh cultist

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and said "i dont roll like that, disgusting"

vapid tiger
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we'll see how fatshark handles it

odd sparrow
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Yee

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there are quite a few weapons with like, no super significant precedent visually or sound wise

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looking at u melta

glad prism
primal tide
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Melta is microwave right?

errant mauve
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Ping me twice again and I will shoot you with poopy lasgun

odd sparrow
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i have no idea and neither does GW

glad prism
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There are worse deaths

vapid tiger
odd sparrow
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they've been a beam of molten whatever, they've been shotguns

vapid tiger
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Because every 40k game has a different depiction

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And novels too

final spruce
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Short range hot beam

odd sparrow
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inb4 it becomes the new not-chaos-warrior can opener

vapid tiger
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Giant blowtorch in one, horde vaporizer in another

frosty cobalt
primal tide
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Lmao

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TIL i own a melta

dreamy crest
vapid tiger
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Can't wait for certain fans to seethe when plague marines are monster tier enemies in darktide

glad prism
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A melta is a lava lamp that dressed up for the job it wanted, not the one it had

vapid tiger
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along the lines of rat ogres

frosty cobalt
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i kid

errant mauve
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"‘This one’s good enough,’ Jurgen said, squeezing the trigger of the melta and sending a roiling mass of superheated air into the heart of the swarm. It punched a hole clean through the onrushing mass, felling several of the brutes, and crippling others, which fell, disrupting the charge. Jurgen followed up with another three shots in rapid succession, but for every one which fell another handful leapt over the resulting carnage, powering up the dunes towards our fragile refuge. The main advantage the melta had given us was flash-burning a handful of ’nids just outside the cone of destruction it wrought, setting fire to their spasming corpses instead of simply vaporising them."

At least we know Jurgen's Melta can seem to just do anything lmao

odd sparrow
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plague marines would be super fun if they do get implemented

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which they v much may not

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forever wanna hear the wet sounding bolter shots in person

primal tide
frosty cobalt
cursive hull
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Okay so

glad prism
errant mauve
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Meltas swiss army knives confirmed

odd sparrow
cursive hull
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I can believe Jurgan's silliness

odd sparrow
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it's glorious

cursive hull
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But...

primal tide
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Amazing

errant mauve
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horde killer
tank killer
cuppa heater

cursive hull
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A Melta being turned into a space heater?

errant mauve
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It does it all!

odd sparrow
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i picture it as being like fhlUp fhlUp

primal tide
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Wet bolter sounds have to sound like farts, right?

glad prism
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Real thonk hours

odd sparrow
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this too is an option

cursive hull
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Also, in fairness...

The Melta gun firing rapidly to kill hordes doesn't sound too far off from its actual performance.

primal tide
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Or like blowing a raspberry

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Lol

glad prism
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Same same, but different

cursive hull
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Like, it literally heats up molecules and tosses them.

It really should melt anything nearby to its beam.

frosty cobalt
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it sounds like u can change the settings

errant mauve
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The rapidly firing part always gets me I suppose.

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Since on the tabletop y'know.

cursive hull
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Rapidly is subjective, tbh.

frosty cobalt
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knowing 40k tech its prolly just a supercharged heat gun

errant mauve
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1 shot

frosty cobalt
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so u proly could hit a low setting

cursive hull
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Like, "Rapidly" could mean "after every 30 seconds or so."

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Doesn't have to be las or bolt gun fast.

frosty cobalt
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12 rpm is fast for a tank

vapid tiger
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The characters are using plasma and meltaguns and thunder hammers

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They can definitely kill plague marines

cursive hull
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Thunderhammers?

Didn't look like there was any such thing.

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Maybe power weapons of other kinds.

vapid tiger
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There's a human sized thunder hammer in the gameplay trailer

cursive hull
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Looked like the Priest had just a normal ass hammer.

vapid tiger
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Priest uses it, and it's a thunder hammer

cursive hull
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No power discharge on hit

vapid tiger
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Behold the comparison

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I didn't think it was either and then I saw the silhouette

odd sparrow
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they might just like, go for purely human-ish stuff and avoid marines categorically

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like it's obvs plausible but they might've not even like, bothered going to GW for the rights to anything marine adjacent

cursive hull
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If its a power hammer? I'm disappointed.

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It doesn't behave like one even a little.

odd sparrow
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yeah it is a thunder hammer, article stuff described it as that

cursive hull
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Disappointment intensifies

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It better have some better embellishments on release.

vapid tiger
cursive hull
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Like, an actual fucking powerfield**

vapid tiger
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Same shape as a terminator thunder hammer

glad prism
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Maybe they just didn't choose to engage it I guess

vapid tiger
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Just human scaled

glad prism
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Just a good bonking

cursive hull
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Yes, but that's no longer my point

glad prism
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Just a bit behind, don't mind me

cursive hull
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If its a power weapon, it should look and act like one.

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Hopefully, on release, it will.

odd sparrow
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they've def implemented a blue spark in some capacity

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can see it at around the 35 second mark in the gameplay thing

cursive hull
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Hrm...

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That looked more like because it impacted the wall beside the character

vapid tiger
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You can see in the trailer that it does have a thunder hammer shockwave effect, but it's very subtle and only affects the spot around the impact

There's a little crackle of lightning

cursive hull
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The follow up strike has sparks, maybe, but not blue.

odd sparrow
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ye it seems oddly inconsistent in the footage, but if it's there i imagine it'll be there p obviously on launch

cursive hull
glad prism
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Any colour would be nice I think, but yah, I know what you mean

cursive hull
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It is a bit odd.

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TBH, it should spark, since that hit against that guy's head hit his helmet. So sparks make sense in this case.

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Like

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Even if it wasn't powered.

vapid tiger
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Maybe the charged attacks are powered and the uncharged are unpowered but I doubt it

cursive hull
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I'd be satisfied with the idea that, because its an early build, its just not consistent.

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Like, its intended, but it doesn't always happen because that's not really the important part for the trailer.

vapid tiger
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Yeah the gun sounds are better in the footage in the writer reveal trailer

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so maybe the visuals will also be improved

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i just want to see the meltagun

cursive hull
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So we did get confirmation that Melta is coming? What else? Plasma also?

vapid tiger
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Plasma was confirmed by the announcement trailer, meltagun was in concept art and I would be surprised if it isn't

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Fatshark noted in an interview that they're trying to cram as many 40k weapons into the game as they can

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Like I wouldn't be surprised if the ogryn can wield a heavy bolter

cursive hull
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Very interesting.

vapid tiger
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Or even a lascannon

cursive hull
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Now that would be a sight.

vapid tiger
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Speaking of lascannon

frosty cobalt
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i just want the ripper gun

vapid tiger
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I'd love a lascannon portrayed in the same way lasers are in mechwarrior

Beam of light that's fired for a few seconds before cooling down

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Massive damage

cursive hull
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shrug

Would be one way to do it. We're still more likely to get the DoW2 style lascannon effect if anything though, I think.

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It fires like a lasgun, but the beam sort of lingers and fades rather than just wink out.

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Either way, with that confirmation...

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It does make it hard to choose what I want, lol.

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Guess if we're getting all that, Hotshot isn't out of the question, so I guess I'll go for a Hotshot and a bolt pistol, plus some sort of melee weapon if possible.

Or, if its just gun and secondary, then Hotshot and chainsword.

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Don't want to sacrifice horde clear for large scale anti armor punch, nor to sacrifice AP for massive horde clear.

I want something that can do okay at both.

vapid tiger
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Hotshot will probably be in

I'd bet money

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Probably will be a lasgun that does more damage per shot at the expense of having less ammo and maybe a lower rate of fire and/or worse accuracy

cursive hull
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Fair enough I guess.

vapid tiger
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And a snazzy visual effect

cursive hull
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Still, I want something properly inbetween.

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(Probably a hot orange beam too)

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(Rather than the normal red)

vapid tiger
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They've also explicitly mentioned both the Locke and Godwyn De'az patterns of boltgun

cursive hull
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Interesting

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I suppose Boltgun might be my game

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I definitely want a gun I can rely on in any situation.

open marsh
vapid tiger
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Ya

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I'd be surprised if it isn't in darktide

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I'm not expecting everything to be in darktide, but I do expect the basics in human ranged weaponry

Lasgun, autogun, stub revolver, shotgun, flamer, boltgun, hot-shot lasgun, long las, plasma gun, meltagun, ripper gun, heavy bolter, MAYBE lascannon (if you're gonna have a fucking meltagun you might as well have a lascannon)

Maybe more than that

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And several of these are either outright in gameplay footage or soft confirmed

cursive hull
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I just had an idea for april fools.

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Everyone, and I mean everyone, gets a Multilaser.

vapid tiger
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thank you mister goto

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very cool

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Hell

I would not be surprised if they had variants of a lot of the weapons I described considering that there might be two patterns of human bolter in the game

Pump-action shotgun vs double barrel, hot-shot lasgun vs hot-shot volley gun, generic autogun vs heavy duty armageddon autogun

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etc

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But I don't necessarily expect it

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Outside of there being both a pump action and double barrel shotgun since that's pretty normal

open marsh
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he got a boolet for a toof

tender igloo
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perfection

vapid tiger
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Bling

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Very nice snazzgun tho

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Ofc they'll reveal it to be some specifically named thing

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I guarantee it

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When the minis are revealed tomorrow

frosty cobalt
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my lamenter+2 ig roadtrip script haunts me cause i cant write it

open marsh
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Know what I love about the Death Korp? They show, in the grand scheme of things, humanity hasnt changed at all. In concept, they are what happens if you pull soldiers right out of WWI and give them a lasgun. Like, people think "Oh, he wont know what to do with it because he is from so long ago."

But its a lasgun. A gun. A soldier doesnt need to know how it makes the bad guys become dead. He pulls the trigger, the bad guys die. Its all ne needs to know

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❤️

open marsh
coarse mirage
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What are the cool Ultramarine successors? @ me in case I fall asleep and need to find it later!

errant mauve
runic wharf
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None smurfs suck even the non smurfs but doom eagles are okeh

errant mauve
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Mortifactors are rad too

primal tide
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Emperor's spears

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They're the ones that write funny epitaphs for their dead battle brothers

runic wharf
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Embrace the imperial fists

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Excoriators best chapter don't @me

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They have the best plan scare the enemy to death

glad prism
gaunt vector
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why...

storm jungle
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Tbh as usual, you can just ignore this statement

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probably the best part of 40k kek

cerulean wagon
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i thinkt he idea of something having a good life in 40k scares him

odd sparrow
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seemingly

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cain like,, isn't even particuarly wacky or weird

storm jungle
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Yeah its a weird statement in general

odd sparrow
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oh no ppl in 40k can have moderately decent lives

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my grimdark organ seethes

storm jungle
cerulean wagon
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these guard succeed at things? not allowed

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: (

storm jungle
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That and authors always have weird ass takes

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like Gav saying chaos is a force of nature when lol yeah they sure are amirite

runic wharf
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I mean even pleasure worlds are right fucked

cerulean wagon
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not always

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theres literal garden worlds that never see conflict

odd sparrow
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tbh chaos is more interesting as a force of nature but also it's like,,, never written like that

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the chaos gods are written like dicks

glad prism
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You'll find the odd exception to the rule in almost everything to do with 40k

cerulean wagon
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^

odd sparrow
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tzeentch is a fuckboy khorne needs anger therapy sessions

cerulean wagon
odd sparrow
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and ye the idea that like, absolutely no 40k imperial world can be livable is dumb to me

runic wharf
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Nah just psykers going to a pleasure world and flaying people

odd sparrow
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writing that kind of character is always really difficult

cerulean wagon
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mhmm

odd sparrow
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look at the last church trying to write ~enigmatic~ big e

cerulean wagon
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making them cutouts of villains makes it easier for the average author to manage

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so as much as id prefer them being nature manifest, its not exactly an easy writing point

cerulean wagon
glad prism
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The mere concepts they represent in nature are the warped parodies of things most people consider evil, so trying to make it less clear cut is of course made more difficult by virtue of that fact

odd sparrow
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thesaurus

cerulean wagon
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my favorite dinosaur

glad prism
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But I mean, you'll find something there too, between honour, rebirth, evolution and perfectionism, might have just been sloppily executed

cerulean wagon
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theres some bits that handle it well, usualy when handles from a cultists or human side of things

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but for the most part chaos are just "the bad guys"

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which religated them to a weird point in the setting of being the only not grey area faction

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everyone has a reason to do something except chaos, who do it because "hehe hoo hoo evil"

odd sparrow
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p much

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Which makes them ~boring af despite the trope that they're eventually meant to win~

storm jungle
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eurgh cant wait for that day

odd sparrow
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the only actual meaningful conflict u usually get with chaos stuff is like, with the marine chapters being conflicted or whatever

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beyond that it's just beep boop destroy galaxy

cerulean wagon
#

people usualy get super annoyed when i point that out, like idk if u remember acid exploding at me for it dilara lmao

glad prism
#

Rip

storm jungle
#

Yeah like you can like chaos marines but they're one-dimensional as fuck

cerulean wagon
#

its annoying cause as a concept if you have them as a force of nature, something that has no direct will but merely twists the will of those who turn too it you get some realy interesting stuff going on with cults and stuff

odd sparrow
#

At least the new chaos marine models have a cool aesthetic

glad prism
#

If only more renegades were better written

odd sparrow
#

with the plumes and stuff

storm jungle
#

If only

cerulean wagon
#

like i love the slow spiral to corruption, because its a cool idea for cults and you can sometimes see how someone might fall

#

like a chief librarian of some random world finding knowledge they arent meant to seek

glad prism
#

Some of this stuff is more Lovecraftian than it cares to acknowledge

cerulean wagon
#

Pans out in my head almost like... yeah was just about to mention the king in yellow specifically lmao

#

King in yellow is how i imagine tzeentchian cults can form

odd sparrow
#

if i was writing a chaos based thing i'd totally just ignore the last 32 years of crappy chaos writing and make it discount lovecraft

#

it's honestly preferable

cerulean wagon
#

100% is

#

works so much better that way

glad prism
#

Hastur moment

cerulean wagon
#

the best part of chaos is that fear of the unkown, that corruption. The fact it clings to people and can turn those who havent even noticed because its not in your face its a subtle thing. It plays on your fears, desires and beliefs and twists them so slowly that you don't notice it until your so far gone you don't care.

If chaos was this insidious it would also make inquisitors being super paranoid about shit a bit more understandable. Still entirely wrong, and theres a reason most people who perform exterminatus get executed, but it would atleast make it somewhat more meaningful and believable.

storm jungle
#

but skelly

#

decepticons go brrr

#

I MEAN

#

Chaos marines go brrr

glad prism
#

Dilara be spittin'

cerulean wagon
storm jungle
#

sdfkls

#

Im sorry i use decepticons so much as an example

#

its just that its the exact same thing

glad prism
#

They can be ur angle

#

Or devle

storm jungle
#

die

glad prism
#

Yes 💚

cerulean wagon
#

sfine dilara

#

only hurts cause its true

vapid tiger
#

Getting megatron vibes

errant mauve
vapid tiger
#

Wait

#

wait that is megatron

errant mauve
#

Man I love Gen 1 megs

vapid tiger
#

He says that

#

Oh I didn't scroll up

#

I wonder when that bumblebee sequel is gonna release since bumblebee was a reboot of the live action films

storm jungle
#

and it was actually good

vapid tiger
storm jungle
#

Same thing i said and i fully agree lol

#

same reason why i take author "takes" with a pinch of salt

#

their decisions dont matter considering how the setting can always move along without their input or the higherups just ignore it

vapid tiger
#

Yeah

I mean they can have really good takes

glad prism
#

It really do be like that

vapid tiger
#

Phil Kelly does a really good job explaining the settings and has a really good idea of what they are but he also writes the worst tau novels ever

#

And I do not trust his opinions on tau

#

ADB really "gets" the setting and understands that it's mutable and that, yeah, everything is shit

But "Ciaphas Cain isn't real 40k" is a horrible take

#

even paradise worlds can be shitty by our standards for those who aren't nobles vacationing there

storm jungle
#

yeah but muh grimderp

vapid tiger
#

"Nooo Ciaphas Cain isn't grimdark enough" is a bad take

#

That is grimderp

open marsh
#

As of the new Killteam reveal, Orkz now have snipers

vapid tiger
#

Oh my god

#

Ork snipers!

#

I love it

#

It looks like it's still a fucking machine gun

odd sparrow
#

ah yes

#

"""sniper"""

#

with a barrel as wide as a humans head

#

the ork approach™️

errant mauve
#

You'll eventually hit them if you shoot enough

odd sparrow
#

if you firmly believe you're on the level of a vindicare

open marsh
errant mauve
#

I like that they almost kind of look like slugs

#

S h o t g u n s n i p e r

open marsh
#

Grot Kommando! Grot Kommando!

#

❤️

glad prism
#

Mayo, Who Killed Captain Alex? but its all orks

errant mauve
#

SUPA KICKA

open marsh
errant mauve
#

Also, the Krieg sculpts look better than expected but worse that I hoped.

#

Solid models but I guess I'm too used to the resin models

prisma lark
#

harder to miss of your bullet is larger than your target

errant mauve
odd sparrow
# open marsh

every new ork kit must come with the obligatory comedy grot

#

and im not even complaining

vapid tiger
#

I'll bet that the sniper is just a machine gun with a sniper scope, extended barrel and tracer rounds

errant mauve
#

Comedy grotz are the bedrock of Ork society.

vapid tiger
#

Such is the way of ork sniping

glad prism
#

Once a choppa comes out from GW itself with a scope or an iron sight, I think its all over for the other armies

errant mauve
#

+5 Weapons Skill rerolls all hits

vapid tiger
#

Love how the nob's slugga looks like an rt era bolt pistol

#

Probably is one

#

With a bigger barrel

open marsh
#

And thank the throne the sculptors ignored the memes. No melee shovels for the Kreigers

vapid tiger
#

FUCKING LIMITED BOX

#

GOD DAMN IT GW

gaunt vector
#

oh boi

#

scalpers be like

vapid tiger
#

What the hell is wrong with james workshop

#

stop doing this

prisma lark
#

the box is limited, not the contents

#

everything will still be available separately

open marsh
#

Yeh

#

Plastic Krieg army for tabtletop!

#

This still bugs me. His uniform is that of a Grenadier, but his equipment is that of an engineer

final spruce
#

Didn't both models got discontinued ?

broken kayak
glad prism
#

Onk

broken kayak
#

😘

prisma lark
#

Fething deffkoptas?

odd sparrow
#

i love those so much

#

the giant ass chariot too

vapid tiger
#

This is great

#

now i can collect orks

coarse mirage
coarse mirage
#

"His battleplate's light snapped on, ringing the nurgling in a hard round of light. It was in the process of exaggeratedly creeping away and it froze. Undaunted it turned to look at them. It held up a finger to its lips, the tentacles around its left arm wriggling and pointed with its right hand through the storm towards the mountainside. Fabian strained his eyes into the dark trying to see what it was pointing at.
"I condemn you to the Emperor's fires, unclean thing!", said Russay, leveling his boltpistol.
"Uh-oh!", squeaked the nurgling."

#

So precious

vapid tiger
#

I don't see anything tau on it

odd sparrow
#

ye

#

i do love the colour scheme tho

#

the bone white is ❤️

potent swift
#

It's very striking, gives me HZD vibez too. Also the tattoo work on Skragbad is phenominal

open marsh
coarse mirage
#

One of them appears to be

open marsh
coarse mirage
#

If all orkz where like this I'd like them much more

#

All they lack is a bit of personality

#

Orkz in general, I mean

visual pumice
#

It’s why i like the new aos orks

coarse mirage
#

and those squigs are amazing

vapid tiger
#

I mean the new beast snaggas are a whole ork subfaction that's like that

#

Just look at em

final spruce
#

lacks personality dunno chief

gaunt vector
open marsh
#

Probably

gaunt vector
coarse mirage
final spruce
#

They are a new subfaction about wild orks, dunno what you mean

errant mauve
#

You see it on a couple of other ork kits too

gaunt vector
#

nice lul

coarse mirage
#

Are the Doom Eagles actually ultramarine successors?

#

Or are they some of the absorbed lost legions?

vapid tiger
#

There's no hint of them not being of ultramarine geneseed

#

If any chapters aside from maybe the Soul Drinkers are from lost legion lineage it's impossible to tell since uh

#

How a chapter behaves isn't always indicative of geneseed, since chapter culture is usually independent of geneseed lineage and a marine chapter's homeworld and history will factor into it more

Especially when it comes to Ultramarine successors since they make up the majority of chapters

#

Key examples being the Emperor's Spears and Mortifactors amongst Ultramarine successors

#

So just because the Doom Eagles don't really behave like Ultramarines doesn't mean they're not sons of Guilliman

coarse mirage
#

Doom Eagles are just rather weird

vapid tiger
#

Yeah but their first chapter master was in the battle of calth

#

And he got weird and nihilistic after the Word Bearers bombed Calth into the stone age

#

the implication is that his philosophy carried over to his chapter

#

since Calth basically broke the man

storm jungle
peak hamlet
#

Sweet

#

Where from?

storm jungle
#

From another server but they said its kill team

glad prism
#

Fckn hot

#

Also, I demand more kroot hooliganism

peak hamlet
#

Oh btw before i take a nap, check out the kill team website, there is some more info on the new minis and a guardsmen with chainsword

barren tapir
barren tapir
barren tapir
barren tapir
storm jungle
#

I think its the uh

#

entire british commando look, which is great

barren tapir
#

Yeah british commando look

storm jungle
#

I found the assumption weird before my partner explained it to me

#

then i was like "oh shit it really is"

#

EVEN THE SOCKS

odd sparrow
barren tapir
#

They look exactly how british commandos are represented in media, CoH 2 have the same look

odd sparrow
#

i picture the tau getting dunked on in close quarters and the kroot then like 1 v 5ing the nids like grievous

barren tapir
#

I think that only in band of brothers british commando look a bit different

final spruce
#

it does look alot like KT

#

Also @storm jungle

#

Backgrounds !

storm jungle
odd sparrow
#

is this an order specific thing

#

or whatever the things are called for sisters

vapid tiger
#

He's surrendering but definitely about to get executed

barren tapir
#

Or they could also be of the ebon chalice... More probably this

final spruce
#

Damn 2 arts where the Taus are boutta die

#

Poor fellas can't catch a break

barren tapir
#

It is their fault that they went into melee range

vapid tiger
#

But Kill Team is always fought in melee range

storm jungle
vapid tiger
#

tis a necessary risk

barren tapir
#

If those images are from KT, where is the one with skitarii? Or i remember wrong and there hasn't been yet a skitarii KT one?

vapid tiger
#

there was a skitarii kt starter set a while back in 8th ed

barren tapir
#

Ah AH! I remember right then

final spruce
#

I mean ALL armies can participate in KT

#

You can use the 40k models for that

#

Hell current Edition of Killteam even allowed you to use characters from another boxed game : Blackstone Fortress

vapid tiger
#

Ya

#

In fact all "kt minis" barring that one themed around a rogue trader crew vs nurgle and the new set are just 40k kits

#

And the new set is probably just using the regular 40k kits

#

KT is just squad level 40k

just use your army minis

final spruce
#

BUT they gave enough bits to kit them for normal games

#

Which is superb

#

And they come with rules for tabletop aswell

vapid tiger
final spruce
#

They didn't

#

The guy said "maybe"

#

Because in the ealier edition, the rogue traders and nurgle guys didn't get one

vapid tiger
#

That means "they will" if the livestream guys say "maybe"

#

That's hinting

#

I'd be very surprised considering veteran guardsmen and kommandos are ingame units

#

And kommandos have needed a new kit for a very long time

odd sparrow
#

™️

#

At least the kroot looks cool

#

out here jojo posing

storm jungle
frosty cobalt
vapid tiger
#

please james

#

give me that

#

because that sounds hilarious

odd sparrow
#

i just wanna see an entire imperial formation get suddenly turned to steam by pretty blue lights coming from the horizon

#

the true tau experience

frosty cobalt
#

Sadly will never happen

#

I cri all the time

odd sparrow
#

ok at least give me kroot tposing on guardsmen in melee

#

it never happens on tt kroot suck ass

#

my chicken senses are depressed

final spruce
#

Damn i'm bored

#

So bored i made this

storm jungle
#

I hate it

final spruce
#

I know right

#

Not even Grimdank worthy

storm jungle
#

I kinda want you to upload it just to see how many upvotes it'd get

frosty cobalt
storm jungle
#

oof

#

not even a joke

#

too accurate

frosty cobalt
#

Welcome to my life

#

Fuckin there was a dude in a thread askin everyone who posted the “tau cut ur nads off” for a book and page number

#

My hero

final spruce
#

But the text isn't even aligned

#

It's terrible

coarse mirage
#

Makse me wonder

#

are Kroot warp sensitive?

final spruce
#

I have no idea

#

They are obviously connected to it but I don't know if its more or less than humans

#

I'd assume less since I haven't heard of psyker kroots ?

storm jungle
#

Its a mix of that and the lore never exploring it iirc

coarse mirage
#

I'd be happy with them not being psychic

cerulean wagon
#

kroot are the only tau subrace that can traverse the warp

barren tapir
#

They are obviously connected to the warp, how much kinda depend on the subject i would assume

cerulean wagon
#

so they have some form of psyker or navigator yeah

barren tapir
#

Since, you know, a kroot that eat a psyker is gonna be more psychic that other kroots

vapid tiger
#

kroot eats a primarch

cerulean wagon
#

theres a side story of kroot eating eldar and becoming potent psykers somewhere

#

couldnt give u the source

vapid tiger
#

becomes rokroute guillikroot

cerulean wagon
#

aight krug, its time for you to leave

vapid tiger
#

😈

odd sparrow
#

Yeah I'm p sure kroot are meant to have psyker shaman vibes

storm jungle
open marsh
grand minnow
#

"ME ATS COVERIN ME EYES"

crisp heath
#

🤔

open marsh
odd tulip
#

I’m okay with it

#

More flashy bits to paint

open marsh
#

Im not because it removes a abit of the regiment's character

#

Also doesnt help that:

soft bison
#

guardsmen get new models
they’re Kriegers and they look good
mfw people are complaining about them already

atomic pelican
#

Im very excited for 9e KT

#

Despite meming on krieg, I do like the models too

#

Very excited for ork kommandos

frosty cobalt
#

yea the models look great, and u can always repaint or remodel

open marsh
#

Oh they look great. Just, someone didnt read the book when making them.....

#

On the positives. I love the Comms Veteran

#

I like the Ashot pistol he has

#

Reminds me of Metro Last Light

open marsh
#

Noone gonna respond to that? Weird how people only seem to feel the need to respond when someone criticizes these things. Never responding to support

vapid tiger
#

medic it's 12:55 AM ofc people aren't responding

#

but uh yeah I like the pistol

#

it's really neat and fits well

vapid tiger
#

and that the particular krieger there just kind of goes along with it and sees the application of otherwise identical looking soldiers having distinguishing features in a combat situation

open marsh
open marsh
#

I hope it has a pattern name

open marsh
#

They are big on "Dress Right Dress"

vapid tiger
#

Yeah that's the thing

open marsh
#

It would be like a Cadian Guardsman trying to be interesting

vapid tiger
#

maybe an attached commissar did it for his own morale

#

"wear these medals I've seen you live through like 3 battles and I'm gonna lose my shit if you keep acting like that doesn't matter"

open marsh
#

Also reminds me, I saw this elsewhere:

vapid tiger
#

"because then I start to feel like I don't matter either"

open marsh
open marsh
#

Also I havent even mentioned the new Krieg models have larger/more rounded/symmetrical pauldrons. Something that they didnt have before, but is deff more in the style of the Cadian models

cursive hull
#

We could presume that, being veterans, they're equipped with additional armor.

Or, perhaps, that GW just wants to sort of tighten up how the Guard are armed and armored.

vapid tiger
#

They're primaris kriegers obviously

cursive hull
#

I'm still just happy they're blue

open marsh
cursive hull
#

Shrug It could be worse, you know.

#

They could have just made them Cadians in grey and black kit and slapped Krieger on it.

Either way, I don't think they'd dare change the Kriegers much further.

#

The fact they're recognizable is what makes them sell well.

open marsh
cursive hull
#

Honestly...

#

I don't care if the Krieg go full blue.

vapid tiger
#

I mean cadians aren't full green

open marsh
#

I noticed alot of the fandom "doesnt care" which makes me wonder why have different factions at all, sometimes

cursive hull
#

It crushes the dumb fucks who claim unironically that the Kriegers are entirely German.

#

Because, you know

#

They aren't

#

Wearing grey uniforms shouldn't give that impression, but here we are.

open marsh
#

Like. lets just have yellow/blue Biel-Tan aspect warriors

cursive hull
#

Also stop it.

#

People do like having different factions and sub factions.

open marsh
#

Oh sorry, I thought you didnt care

#

Its just a color

cursive hull
#

YOu're doing that all or nothing thing.

#

Nobody goes all or nothing on these things. There are things worth caring about.

open marsh
cloud kindle
#

they must wear one colour and one colour only

cursive hull
#

Whether the Kriegers wear grey or blue is not that important.

cloud kindle
#

so sayeth the nerds

obtuse vault
#

I don't know about you guys but I'm glad Zherlum got rep

cursive hull
#

Wat?

open marsh
atomic pelican
#

🥖

obtuse vault
#

And the Nazis lost their rep too lmao

cursive hull
#

I'm confused.

cloud kindle
#

wat

atomic pelican
#

Le french has arrived

vapid tiger
#

I mean you could paint up firefighter kriegers and claim they're the "5001st krieg regiment" and it'd work within the bounds of the lore

obtuse vault
#

Zherlum is le frenchi

open marsh
atomic pelican
cursive hull
#

Also

#

I'm an American.

So I'm inherently a mutt

obtuse vault
cursive hull
#

But I like that I'm partially French.

#

Especially for the memes

atomic pelican
#

Half baguette

open marsh
#

Funny how people only start to get upset at these things when the problems are applied to their favorite factions. But when its your own faction, you are just "nitpicking" and "it doesnt matter"

obtuse vault
#

God bless the french revolution

#

Viva la krieg

cursive hull
obtuse vault
#

FUCK yes

open marsh
#

yee

atomic pelican
#

U could totally do a napoleonic kinds vibe krieg

cursive hull
#

Isn't that the Mordian Guard's thing?

atomic pelican
#

Thatd be interesting

#

Ah idk

cursive hull
#

The Mordian Guard don't use cover, they use line formations.

open marsh
#

@atomic pelican Their Death Riders basically already have Napoleonic uniforms

atomic pelican
#

Elf and I considering getting the KT box so I can get kommandos and she can paint the krieg in rich blue and red ala le france

open marsh
#

And their officers rock French Dragoon helmets

cursive hull
#

That'd also be fair

#

Since, you know, early ww1 uniforms were bright red and blue

#

(For the French, that is)

open marsh
#

Yup

obtuse vault
#

YES THATS WHAT I LOVE

open marsh
#

Vive La Krieg!

atomic pelican
#

I lov the lil square cap hats

obtuse vault
#

My commander leader 🥰 🥰

atomic pelican
open marsh
#

Also wehraboos fail to notice that even the krieg's helmets are mostly based on French helmets. They only have the german looking flang

obtuse vault
#

I am going to buy a hetalia France model and use him on the board at my local shop

#

In official games

#

Who will stop me?

open marsh
obtuse vault
#

no one

open marsh
cloud kindle
#

i both hate and love it at the same time

open marsh
#

But yeah, the issue I had with the colour/regiment combo is that different regiments have their own colours, not all Krieg regiments wear blue jackets.

slow prawn
#

Correct me if I’m wrong here but can’t you just paint the correct colors on?

obtuse vault
#

Located my commander on eBay

#

It's just that easy

open marsh
cloud kindle
#

distinct lack of gold

#

while we talking about guard does the solar auxilia still have those sick carapace suits?

#

or did they go the way of the dodo after HH

open marsh
slow prawn
#

To be fair…GW is not the best at this kind of thing

#

They once referred to the Death Guard as the Seventh Legion

open marsh
#

Yeah. Thats the long and short of it

#

Doesnt make it less annoying :<

errant mauve
#

Or referring to the IW as the 3rd legion

slow prawn
#

For sure

#

I just go

errant mauve
#

Or referring to mk 2 armour as "Iron Armour"

tender igloo
#

Hot take from me: Chaos should never have been part of 40k and it would have been much more interesting without it

atomic pelican
#

Yeah. But Chaos in 40k couldve been better overall

errant mauve
#

Hot take from me: [Your favourite faction] is poopoo and [your least favourite faction] is totally based

atomic pelican
#

It kinda sucks in 40k but in other settings it p neat

#

Dam get em

glad prism
#

Get after it Mayo

atomic pelican
#

I do like chaos aesthetically and such but storywise it do be kinda boring

#

Strength be with our hazard stripe kin

tender igloo
#

chaos is far more interesting and cool in fantasy and AoS

errant mauve
#

I've been playing Chaos for 10 years and I've got to say they really haven't been the same ever since ADB destroyed undivided as a concept.

#

But that's a modern thing more than a criticism of Chaos overall. Chaos is still my favourite greater faction in 40k and I doubt it's gonna change grin

atomic pelican
#

❤️

tender igloo
#

more power to you my friend

#

i wish i could get behind chaos in 40k

open marsh
errant mauve
#

But I really don't think 40k would be more interesting if any single faction was removed. It's a bit of a comparative issue in my opinion, Ch-AoS looks more interesting (for some haha) so 40khaos looks comparatively boring.

errant mauve
tender igloo
#

i just personally think that if you took chaos out of the equation, you could get very similar results to what we have now

#

like you could still have the horus heresy and everything

#

but make it more about the hubris and folly of 2 men who think they know better than the other leading to the downfall of an empire, rather than chaos corrupted him to do it

#

basically lean into that aspect more

slow prawn
#

Unfortunately I don’t think that would work for certain factions, at least the Word Bearers

open marsh
#

ABD hates traitor legion successors as much as he hates that Abbadon isnt the only thing of Chaos Undivided

errant mauve
#

At that point, you're sort of turning 40k into something else. I could say the same thing about removing the Imperium, you keep the Horus Heresy but have Big E and Terra destroyed at the end, and fill in the gap with Orks becoming the dominant power fighting Chaos. Same balance of power, same theme of eternal war, just much less gold and aquilas (much to my chagrin.)

#

Really, almost any faction in 40k is removable by that standard, so long as either Imperium or Chaos exists.

tender igloo
#

i guess i just think chaos was wasted in 40k unlike the other games

glad prism
#

I do get that impulse since they almost all without fail are uninspired and a bit of a bullshit way of trying to make a chapter unique, but ADB do be making a bit of an ass of himself too

#

The ranting in forums certainly do not help

errant mauve
tender igloo
#

part of the problem as well stems from being in eternal stalemate land

#

even now

errant mauve
tender igloo
#

i do kind of find the idea amusing that they have been using traitor legion gene-seed and don't realize it

errant mauve
#

I guess this is part of the greater problem of "many writers writing the same setting results in bad results."

glad prism
#

Mayo is the voice of post-nut clarity made manifest

errant mauve
#

Imagine a group of Ultras successors finding out they're Word Bearers excited

glad prism
#

I just prefer ambiguity above all else, but yeah, if there's a way to do it, that's it

open marsh
errant mauve
tender igloo
#

i mean the silver skulls are blatantly iron warrior loyalists

open marsh
tender igloo
#

the sons of the phoenix are emperor's children

errant mauve
#

Too bad covenant of fire will never ever get lore again feels

open marsh
#

Yeah

#

Their blurb was too "WE ARE WORD BEARERS!!!!" on the nose

#

GW aint gonna touch 'em again

glad prism
#

One of the few pretty primaris chapters no less

errant mauve
tender igloo
#

weren't the minotaurs rumored to be loyalist world eaters? i can't remember

open marsh
#

We need more Adharon's Reavers and Blood Wolves

errant mauve
slow prawn
#

Blood Wolves are amazing and I wish we had more of them

open marsh
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Svan Wulfbad. ava evil Logan Grimnar. Axe, Termie, wrist bolter, and all

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"Yeah we know your dad wrote this BUT WEARING YOUR DAMCOLES HONOURS ON THE LEFT SIDE OF YOUR CHESTPLATE IS A CLEAR INFRINGEMENT OF CLAUSE 537, SECTION 6, CLAUSE 27, SUBCLAUSE C, LINE 8"

  • Hammers of Dorn, probably.
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These are probably my favorite Chaos Warband. Because they are basically AU Black Legion.

Even formerly of the "Sons of Guilliman" chapter. (referencing the Sons of Horus)

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Out with Halloween Marines!

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I love/hate the Black Consuls. Because they are an entire chapter of just Leandros

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Astartes Praeses chapters are all based 😎

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smiles in Sons of Malice

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The madlads summoned a damned Chaos God into the Materium

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Biggest PP energy

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Almost as big PP as IronWarriors

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No bias btw mayo

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You know I love my bitter boyos. But they havent summoned a god.

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I think chaos will improve when each legion gets their own codex ala thousand sons and deathguard

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Yeah... when that happens...

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:c

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Here is hoping Nids and Eldar have better luck than us this year haha

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