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Still a part of the system
Compared to living in nazi germany. Im more then ok to just pay taxes and go to church every sunday
yea, there is some suspension of belief required i think to liking the universe as a whole.
Its kinda human to want to pick a side, and to pick a side in warhammer you are picking an evil at some level.
regarding the Imperium apologists
Yea thats why i pick the Tau and headcanon the most morally black tau i can
To fuck with everyone 🤣
The Imperium is still bad
it is
id get shot in the head for doing anything wrong
You can pick near any choice beyond imperial and end up being better off 
@storm jungle its 40k dil
what Proud said
Course it is
nobody living in the Imperium really has a choice
unless you are heavily indoctrinated
Even CSM are somehow written as being more reasonable than loyalists p often
which a lot of the masses are
Fuck, ANGRON, recognizes the emperor as a slaver
Unless your with nightlords.
Then its worse
So much worse
Soooooo fucking worse
Flaying by SoB is about the same tho
Imperium Crime describle the horror of Imperium really good
hahaha maybe? maybe not - the imperium is the most obviously bad to us because its portraying a human experience.
Maybe if we were space elves we would see Eldar as truly evil compared to our contemporary moden society not being depicted in warhammer 40k
haha okay so like
At the end of the day lets all agree that no one would wanna live in the 42 milenium.
Period
I dont want to live in 40k just all XD
The eldar are based on human experiences because they were written by humans. They are not truly all that alien
Pretty much yeah.
Goes for everything
I come back and see that
Same for the tau, their 'alien' ness is rlly just british views on foreigners
I kinda see what ur trying to say, but i dont think the writers ment it like that
LMAO
Japan Moment
But muh gun boat diplomacy
Enclave To'yota where you at
Still like mah shovel boys
I have the Bla’k Wat’er cadre
And cain
XD
Because fuck me do i love cain
mr Commisar Cain?
Yeee
His book series makes me laugh so hard
Also hard disagree. Living as say, a interior sept Tau or a unnamed craftworld eldar is probably leagues better than irl
LMAO
ESP CWE
Craftworld Eldar basically live in utopias
Oh yea by fuckin far
Since its legit luxury space communism
THEY DONT PAY MONEY FOR ANYTHING
Post scarcity
YEAH
And if ur a interior sept tau. Ur living p much a safe sci fi life
yea they do have it good. I really enjoyed the uhm Exarch book that gives some good looks into it.
Assuming not fire caste
Yeah but they all carry soulstones
On a craftworld
When they die, they go to their circuit and dance with spirits
Just with lil freedom to choose a path in life, but who cares about that when i have a drone doggo

Yepp
Or a dark eldar noble
If your ontop
Still stress of being assassinated at any moment
Dark eldar life is horrible though, basically imagine high school but people got the permissin to stab you
You call the shots
If ur not vect ur not happy
literally all your underlings are jealous of you and want to kill you
minus the incubi
those are bros
However you do have the boon of respawning pretty likely + experiencing the limits of eldar emotion. But also the likelihood of being killed in Kabal treachery
What’s wrong with a lil violent intrigue between the lads
XD
I think the best place to be in Drukhari society is probably to be either a wrack, or better, a haemonculi
They seem to enjoy their time
And are the most trustworthy drukhari
Other than incubi
They just want to graft
Since the Covens tend to be more occupied with learning twisted secrets than betrayal(usually)
are there any good books from the Deldar perspective?
GRAFT
Yes, likely the best eldar books too
Path of the dark eldar
If i could choose id be a haemonculi or a tau water/fire caste. Might not be the best life but it be fun
id love to know more about uhm. will def get that and give it a read.
Dark Eldar Ancapistan, also known known as Commoragh
Tru
Shame they nixxed the spinal tap for battlesuits im still mad about that
crumpinnnnnn
bein a weirdboy could be pretty interesting
It's all fun and games till the weird boy has a ead bang episode
Then it's really interesting
being a techpriest on mars seems like a cushy job
For me being a scum who being recruted by Inquisition (Radical soft) could be ok
CIA Moment
till you realize theirs an eldritch dragon god right beneath you
Be ogryn

Be big enough to beat the shit out of space marines and then do your best to join the guard since those ogryns aren't treated like shit
and get beaten the snot out of by your boss and cry like a baby just wanting master to stop hitting you.
Hey that's every imperial citizen
even marines
primaris ogryn
its worse with ogryn.
they just wanna help
theirs no evil taughts in their brain. nothing they do is malicious and they still get treated like shit.
They can be as malicious as anyone else
Its like being a kid with down syndrome and also being strong enough to toss a dump truck.
They're just uh
Not smart
And therefore more innocent
Same applies to fantasy ogres but fantasy ogres are cursed with eternal hunger by a hungry god and thus inherently malicious
Reminder that marine disciplinary troops have never been retconned
They will beat the shit out of you
ah yes discipline troops... such a time honored station in first founding chapters like the Space Wolves.
just.... pay no mind to how they handle their blood claws or sky claws 
Ya
Like they might be childlike in intellect without augmentation but children can be fucking evil
there's chaos ogryns who will tear you apart and make it as painful as possible because they like the sound you make
there's ogryns who might bully you
It's not all "wholesome ogryn and commissar!" crap
though i am looking forward to playing the ogryn in dt
You make a good point
I'm looking forward to playing a villain protagonist without guilt because there's also a villain antagonist.
rip
farded
shidded, even
Lore question: have we ever seen a normal human guardsman ever ascend to daemonhood?
It feels as though you never see traitor guard ever get anywhere substantial
Yeah they were sleeper agents prior to it
Damn I love traitor guard so much
No clue why
They feel so cool for being literally normal dudes who literally are worth less then dust to their gods
I know anyone can rise to daemonhood but have we seen specific instances of normal traitor guard rising up the ranks to daemonhood?
Because I feel like there's little to none that I know of
welcome to 40k
guard in all forms are cool
cause they are the smallest people who can make the biggest impact

Exactly
Lost and the Damned were a thing once
For like
A year
Then dropped
For seemingly little reason
I have a lore question agian guys
So i am reading Gaunts Ghosts. In german.
And at one point they say something along the lines of "The runes where flying over the screen". So, is runes a new word for letters, or are they a own thing themselfs?
Or is it just called like this in the german version?
Depend, are those eldar runes or imperial one?
Yes
Yeah computer runes
those are a thing
its mostly used in the context to make the computer-usage seem ancient and old-timey
Binaric
Imperial
So its really not that different
Then it is used to indicate arcane symbols that the guy cannot comprehend fully, so rune
they use weird terms to describe cogitator functions all the time
Symbols or letters, yes
Ahhh, so rune is a funky word for people who don't know better?
No lmao
its also used as a term for buttons in the setting
Ahhhhh
(activation runes on power swords)
Same as how they dont call "lumens" lights
"yes lets use the ancient Scandinavian runic writing for our computers" -some fool in the DAOT maybe 😛
nameless you say that like the main language they use isn't latin
So Runes = Letters so it sounds more ancient
im just joking lol
And more arcane
Yep
for example
in books instead of saying "Necrons pressed this button"
they just go
"Necrons pressed this glyph"
its usually fancy wording
Understood. Thanks guys! 😁😊

I mean it sounds less futuristic and more like
Old
Because space fantasy
Eh same thing
You do the opposite for orks
"He push da big red fing
that console isnt nearly orky enough. every ork knows the weapons are all fired from the big button with the skull on it
yes
i want this console
https://orientalsouls.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/JSamuraiHelmet06-1.jpg my helmet is a fish so your argument is invalid
Got dat lip gloss doe
here we see sergeant RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHG, giving direct orders to hold the line
but since the dog ranks higher than your hat, your argument is invalid
actually the fish helmet is only worn by lords and generals so it outranks the dog
Im sorry i couldnt hear you OVER THE DOG
Even chaos marines are looking over to see whats going on
not the emperor's children i hope
im afraid theyre all looking
it was nice knowing you
I MISS THEM SO MUCHHHHHHHH
it took me way too long to realize "rune of activation" literally just means a power button
indeed
You know, I think I can honestly imagine a Commissar unironically saying "Executions will continue until morale improves."
Depends on the Commissar
Some of them are just complete pricks
Others, are more understanding
and trigger happy commissars tend to die to ork snipers from behind
or somethin.
some
i liked eisenhorn
everyone liked gaunt's ghosts
everyone liked the infinite and the divine
Best book ever i my opinion
i heard twice dead king was good but i haven't read it yet
Some guy seethed about it being "terrible" in another community a few months ago which was funny
proceeded to shill space marine battles books
and hh novels
space marine fans b like
"you know i feel like gw really hasn't been give the space marines enough attention"
Big fan of the ork slapping the back of his gun to shoot
The ideal way to fire a gun
if you can't see exactly how much it recoils, what's the ~~fucking ~~ zoggin' point?
a true gun connaisseur
The padded look for their armor is interesting considering how it's generally portrayed as a slab of scrap metal bent into shape elsewhere
with maybe squig hide overalls under it
Perhaps
My favorite is the one in fucking wrap around sunglasses
‘When ya got a zoggin wah at 8 but gotta get to jazz practice at 9
Orks are just the best
I'll always love the Guard, but Orks are just the most fun faction in 40k
genuinely one of the best factions to play against as well on the tabletop
In terms of Fun Value
Perhaps It's personal preference, but cutting through chaff always feels more fun than not
Especially when said chaff could pretty likely throttle you as well
You can see the impact it has on the board, and on a battle line
where a monster just goes down a bracket
I think it also just makes the battle feel larger
Yuss
Tho I may be getting a bit spoiled, I'm mostly just happy with anyone who will engage in melee alot
Which is orkz
I have mild PTSD from my first like, 20 games of 40k being wholly against armies which only shot for 40 minutes
Even still
I'm absolutely guilty of that
But I do really like bullgryns and catachans so it balances out
Yee
There's a guard player here who basically parks in his back field, drags the game out, and loses anyway because of bleeding objectives
Indirect Fire is turning out so cancerous this edition that 9e guard is either going to be airburst-frag level annoying x500 or completely gimped
That's probably been why the guard hasn't had a codex so far
It's really weird
Because SOME codices have 'solved' indirect fire or atleast are experimenting with it
Ex: The 9e Tyranid codex, their no-LOS requires SOME tyranid unit to have LOS
So you can't just turn 1 decimate a enemy unit hidden behind everything
Incorporating the Guard vox network into that might work
But then you have the Devil with Airburst-frags and nightspinners
since someone's gotta be there radioing in targets
Nightspinners eat marines for breakfast and for a 10pt upgrade don't take the dense penalty
Yeah I figure, I just wish they'd implement this as a core rule to all no-LOS
Oh yeah do the different tryanid hive fleets have any actual genetic differences between them besides the colors?
They do, It's pretty basic though
Behemoth is more aggressive for example
In both evolution patterns and behavior
Sadly they have the curse of… recolour syndrome as I call it. ‘Yeah they are absolutely unique… but all we do to support it is different colors.’
Hive fleets can temporarily create modifications to their forces phenotype to adapt to situations as well
That's p much the entire point of most subfactions base
They're recolors and variations of playstyle
The lore is added on
Modern day guard make me depressed when they do that.
one of the ones mentioned in Octarius was nids landing in acid runoff they thought were oceans and adapting to land forces in those safely the next time
That’s super cool actually
WAIT THE FUCKING ACID RUN OFF IS THE SIZE OF A GOD DMAN OCEAN?
lil acid puddle yes
Forge Worlds give zero shits about the environment
That seems like one of those things that is generally complete overkill
But most of 40K is overkill so
I personally take it as a combo of runoff and millenia of ocean acidification from industry
40k will take a look at a real world issue then sail right past where 2000ad had it clocked at
Sisters of battle and admech Making cherubs and servitors
truly
i like how fabius bile told slaneesh that he didn't believe in chaos gods
Slaanesh itself or a greater daemon of slaanesh? Because I know he did that to a greater daemon of Tzeentch but haven't heard of that one
i think it was actually slaneesh
wild
he really is a grumpy old sod
think it's the case of not actually believing in their godhood but rather a warp xenos with plenty power
squats never left
i think "back" more in a tabletop way
if i'm correct we have 2 minis from necromunda (?)
yes
So would be nice to just squeeze them in the AstraM 
i mean, it's a joke. That's obvious. But one can cope
I'm thinking maybe a single "agents of the imperium" unit or a character at most
like the Ogryns
which would be neat
"NOOooOOoo, our money pool is drying out"
I love how everybody is bashing gw at any given opportunity besides everyone Loving their Franchise(s)
They won't make squat return they said ...
Thats because, while the setting is great, the management and decision makers of GW are greedy boomers that have very little care for their consumer base other than the money they can such from them
Yeah GW does good stuff but they still deserve to be shat on for half the decisions they do as well.
They arent a good company by any means lmao
Yeah they know how to appeal to their audience a lot more now. The dumb shit they've been doing has thankfully mostly dropped.
And I do say mostly 
on the company side they still do the same shitty practices
but they communicate better now
Deep Rock time
One thing that i like from the small snippet of the squats is that they seems technologically inclined and advanced
To the point that they easily override imperial ship tech...
Could function well as a killteam release, and either as mercenaries or tau axillaries
Muscular woman
The pog variant of women
Ogryn women when?
they already exist, there was one in the recent ork book
Really? Damn, they good fighters?
ofc
Feckin' hell yeah
As opposed to ogryns doing mitosis
Mfw people forget ogryns are abHumans
“Human women when”
Do femboy space marines count?
They are boys so no
femboy space marine is an oxymoron
Femboy tau or eldar?
Eldar are already androgynous for the most part so idk
Tau im not an expert on appearance wise
There really isn't any canon evidence of that and its a fan myth.
The only connection is the hooves.
🐎


Incan wouldn't ban for such thing... He would feed you to the emu

Liber Xenologis yeah
Say i'm wrong Incan, i know that you send people to emu as punishment
Oh no... No no no... This isn't gonna end well if the right people are in this chat
Oof that's a tuff one. I can see femboy eldar but have not considered tau. I have to give it more thought.
STOP RIGH HERE YOU CRIMINAL SCUM !
Mmm tau milk
Luv a nice glass of Tilk
. . .
Tau beef 
T'au thigh~
Rump steak is good stuff
Oh yeah
XD


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at least they paid it homage
is that song really called ultramarine chant?
Can’t be serious
it's an old song from the old chaos gate game in which you played ultramarines
I liked the original a lot more
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I'm sure the new track will grow on me, it's good too
neither hold a candle to the Word Bearers March anyway

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THE FUCKIN TRUMPET THO
do votamm have slayers
Doubt, slayer concept is extremely dumb anyway
why
slayers have been pretty useful
Yeah Slayers in general are more of a way to showcase Dwarves are too attached to tradition
Only because they need to fill a role in dwarf army, otherwise they are shiz
That too
I still find them cool but theres a reason their concept basically got segregated in age of sigmar
and why other duardin/dwarves dont utilize them anymore
i love em theyre my fav part of warhammer
But going to a fight with no armour, not even clothes is just asking to die without accomplishing anything other showing stupidity
it accomplishes the fulfillment of their oath
It wastes dwarven lives for useless stuff
you can become a Slayer out of the most mundane things
its not useless to the dwarfs
ye its a dumb tradition, but its an extremly cool lore point
they take shame greater than any other race
its in no way useful or a good troop type
Yeah pretty much.
and reclaiming it can only be done through the eyes of their ancestors, dying it glorious battle is the only way
Yes because they are indoctrinated to think that way, so yeah
same as how most Imperial Guard will suicide troop themselves if they've been brainwashed enough by propaganda
im pretty sure their souls are judged by the ancestors
snorri nosebiter forgot what he was shamed for and thus has to roam shyish
a dwarve getting sent to be judged by his ancestor
ancestor: WHY DA FECK DIDNT YE WEAR ARMOR YA DAFT SOD
Not many guardsmen actually suicide charge, which is why Krieg is so popular about that one
unless you're a Tallarn guardsman in that one awful book
Tallarn, known for being the sneakiest and hit and run people, blindlessly charging ?
Very badly written indeed
Yeah its also in very poor taste
since its the middle-eastern'ish faction doing actual strapped-to-chest suicide bombings after the Tau convert a local populace's city
lmao
Terrible , god damnit
;-; I fucking hate it- I love the middle eastern style but The Tallarn are apparently well known for being illiterate too- it’s stupid
It’s so weird there is almost nothing middle eastern inspired in 40K and if it is it’s usually trash
I believed the Tallarn were a guards regimant specialized on dessert world combat and not much more
basically all IG are illiterate thats not a special thing
luckily
(or not its still stupid)
Necrons and thousand sons are middle eastern inspired, no? Or is that included in the almost nothing
More like ancient Egypt
ye fair
But Tallarn guards are more like the whole Laurence of Arabia thing
Yeee
What would be a good way to add some ME flavor?
Besides the obvious shit like space marines
I think a tau castle would be unqiue
Ok so tyranid question
Do 40K canonically has souls
Do individual tryanids have souls?
Souls is just a fancy name for connection to the warp... Do the nids have connection to the warp? No
Okay- but what about the Psyker nids and the hive mind it self?
the hive mind itself is a massive entity
the nids are like a tiny portion of its essence
its connected
Okay gotcha
I was thinking a short story or book that is in the pov of a nid would either like make their lore amazing or completely ruin it
wow thats a nice depiction of twitter
well lictors are hyper intelligent and show individuality right?
So that would be the safest tryanid to POV with right?
Its a bit weird?
Because the book describes the Lictor's actions
but also kind of goes to say that the Hivemind is still directing it with a sliver of its essence
its a bit hard to explain
Leader-Nids tend to have some more personality while the fodder troops almost get none
As expected
Also is it just me, or does the swarm lord being like a named character and not an individual unit kind of weird?
Like ‘there is only 1 OG swarm lord and it’s THE swarm lord’
Okay so it depends.
The Swarmlord can actually appear in different hive fleets when their situation gets serious
Imagine it like total war right
You got Karl Frans going into the fray
but then you summon another one of him on another corner of the map in another unrelated battle
that sort of thing
Ahhh okay
Yeee hes like a template
if that makes sense
but still the most apex creature of the Nids currently
So instead o being like ‘the swarm lord’
It’s ‘THE swarm lord #138’
So same thing as old one eye
He still has a permanent position in the tyranids as a race as awhole
To this end, the Swarmlord possesses more autonomy from the Hive Mind than any other Tyranid creature, and its connection with the Hive Mind is so strong it can emerge amongst any Hive Fleet, transcending any physical limitations separating the different Fleets. The Swarmlord has aeons of battle experience and bloodshed to draw upon. In fact, it is as old as the Tyranid race itself.
So
It’s completely possible the sentience of the swarm lord just hops between bodies?
Or is multiple of the swarm lord controlling@multiple of it self
Or clones
Lmao
But yeah its all a mix of the above?
Fucking space bugs, they just HAD to be complicated
Yeah the Tyranids mix in every space-bug race trope from sci-fi
so it gets a bit complex
I love that it is completely possible the higher ranking tryanids has sentients or that it has none at all
It could literally
Just be fucking insects
Or it could be a hyper intelligent group of minds
Yep the hivemind is playing like 100000 armies at once
since its the top-boss of all the nids
the moment their strats dont work they try other shit
Is the hive mind one entity though? Or is it like millions of minds speaking at once
Oh no its one dominant thing im sure
actually nevermind you were right with the second part
The Hive Mind is not a single mind capable of small, conscious thought the way a Human's mind works, but instead it is a grand agglomeration created from the psychic presence of untold billions of Tyranid creatures. It is a nightmarish and unfathomable intelligence that allows Tyranids to coordinate and adapt as if every Tyranid creature is merely a part of a single massive organism, one which is utterly focused on consuming all other life.[1][2]
for the specialized units it's really weird, since devastation of Baal states that every Lictor is the very same Lictor copied over and over again.
That’s the best part!
You can make a super cool and unqiue character
Have him fucking suicide bomb and have him back next battle
slight problem with doing that with a unit like the swamlord though, if he dies the entire swarm surrounding that planet is thrown out of whack until the greater hive mind reasserts control
honestly thats what makes it so great
True
concepts outside our ability to percieve is fun
I hope in the next edition we get a ‘make your own names characyer kit’ and just have a build your own action figure style model
I would prefer for every army
eldar autarch
But at least for mods

I meant nids
But I guess mods work too lmao
But yeah tryanids
Just horrifically customizable
wow this really is a great description of twitter and facebook 😛
sexy model
speaking of
wish they had dropped this BEFORE I wrote a narrative campaign
would have included the hell out of them
look at my man with golden age whatever the fuck
pocket prince with the GEP gun
IF THERES SOMETHING VIIIIILE
IN YOUR STAR SYSTEM
IF THE NIDS ARE BAACK
CONVERTING MASS
WHO YOU GONNA CALL?
LEAGUE VOTANN !
i wonder what the lore reason for their disappearance will be
Maybe some retcon i guess
THE WARP
They've been fighting the nids underground this entire time,
and now there's also new models for nids because of the evolution for tunnel warfare
that's the best retcon
Yes.
bosco confirmed
this here proves that the plot is moving... somewhere
because the imperium allying with a group that has... that.
NO SHIT I SAW A VIDEO TALKING ABOUT "ideas for new 40k factions' and literally one of them was 'yeah a human civilzationw ith extremely advanced tech from before age of strife' im fucking baffled how on point he was
Literally just vansaars call, but a civilisation
like, theres nothing unique to the idea of a faction of the imperium that didnt go belly up
lmao fair
AI
we know it's AI
Like
bruh
"extremely heretical"
It's AI.
Not really.
Squats since their genesis had "heretical" tech which Admech most labelled as the advanced technology they possessed.

lets be honest
they were jealous and pissy
What if GW just like, comes out of no where and says ‘yeah one of the missing primarch s is a squat, that’s their leader.’ And just destroy their own lore
Lmao
im turning that into a gif
yesss
actually that gif will become the basis of something i want for my OC
were squats their own faction way back when and if so how come they werent just rolled into the IG like other ab humans
Cause they got eaten by Nids. Also cause they weren't very... friendly with the Imperium
Like
cuz iirc they where the admech more or less. they made all the shit the imperium used. and the writers didnt feel like they could do the squats justice. so they replaced them with the admech iirc
The imperium made a whole new type of armor for their space marines because of the war(s) with the squats
did they?
Yep
The Mk. 3 Iron Armor
The one with the weird train grille on the front of the mouth
if orgot mk3 existed lmao
kek]
you mean the thing that looks like its made of scrap pig iron?
Yep
i dont hate this
Yeah, it's not that bad
And it was used during the Horus Heresy... I'm like 90% sure
forget
that looks better yeah. the only time i have seen it was in DOW2 lol
I love the helmets
and there it looked worn out and useless
they are my favoirte out of every space marine helmet
Basically they started running out of armor for the boiz, and said fuck it. We're basically fighting in tunnels anyways
Their own culture was too far developed basically
if you go to their lexicanum page it runs pretty deep
wait thats cannon?
its my marine conversion put into art
OH well it fuckingh rocks
wtf is that
gay space mahreen that searches for a way to un-dust his partner
World Eater Pre Heresy na ?
looks neat man
i want it
I based it heavily off of the older geare
really dig the segmented armor
the full thing is a bit overkill
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
ill give it a look
👍
its a world eater so thats ok. overkill is their normal setting
god damn
all i know of them pre heresy is thier daddy hated them and big E didnt like them lol
Oh yeah there are alot of badass preheresy legion names
I love it actually
Badass AND GAY?
The best of the best
I should probably play the warhammer ttrpg I would@love it
But my friends hate warhammer
it's tough to get into initially
try the digital wargame if you want to check it out
theres a digital war game?
He doesnt
I'm not sure what the policy is on discussing third party stuff but yeah shop around
There's some cool stuff
Alright internet stranger I'm putting total trust in you
The fate of my dog is in your hands
check out Vassal40k
lmao
@rose thorn i also want to try blood and glory
yeah i heard its super fun
Lmao what if we get everyone and just have a single session of blood and glory with our OCs
i mean my only finished OCs are a master of possession and chaos lord in terminator armor so-
wtf is a master of possession?
OKay so
he is on tabel top basically a librarian
but in lore its someone who compeltely devoted themsleves to controlling daemons and making possessed
rituals and the stuff
so a wordbearer
Yeah except for other factions
Mine is an emperors children master of possession, who basically glutton's himself with the consumption of souls of others
and uses his gluttony to summon daemons
adn shit
i see
with a fgaint mouth in his chest
Funny all I hear is lore this lore that about the squats .
All I'm thinking about is what color scheme would be the most fitting 🤔
neon pink and angelic white
I was thinking yellow and.black with some red here and there
But maybe a.bit too much imperial first
Clan Angrund color might fit better
thats cause this is the lore chat
Ah crap you're right
Gotta have some karaz a karak blue in there
Wait
alright james workshop
if there's only one ultramarines captain with golden shoulder trim
then explain this!
seriously though why would they write down that space marines use different shoulder trim colors depending on company and then not follow that rule themselves
Disconnect between writers and official painters probs
Pretty easy for such a minor detail to get forgotten over such a long period I imagine
I mean it's probably that and marketing because ultramarines have the whole blue and gold thing going on
They follow the rule with Uriel Ventris tho
I'm sure if you asked a marketing guy or some old hat like gav thorpe or phil kelly they'd bullshit an excuse like "well the captains don't follow that rule" or something
does the rank of force commander even exist or is that just some BS relic made up for DOW?
seems to hav been a thing from 3th edition
but it's not an standard rank/title of any given chapter from what i gathered
@plush mason
yeah seems to be a temporary rank
Tho seems Dow changed it abit. so it were with companys insted of chapters
yeah
Oh Gotcha srry
So very specific question, I've not found a satisfactory answer to it yet, do the Mechanicus make use of Pyskers? Besides navigators, as far as I've ever heard, the Mechanicus don't use Pyskers, which doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
Why would it not make sense?
Admech give up their psykers to the Astra Telepathica just like any other Imperial planet
I would also say its because GW hasn't really made any IRL minis of psychic admech units since thats a shtick of other imperial factions as well
The Mechanicus is subject to the same tithes as everyone else in regards to Psykers.
Yes.
Were you asking about sanctioned Psykers?
yeah
Yeah they dont make use of them
Nah they would, its just that theres no really tabletop reason to. You can easily write in them using psykers but its not really needed when other factions do it.
The Mechanicus does its own thing. The Astra Telepathica does theirs.
That doesn't really matter. Lore comes secondary in these regards
But yeah basically they dont have something akin to Librarians/Sanctioned Psykers.
Oh, but I guess you could maybe count the Ordo Sinister?
Ordo Sinister is a part of the Imperial Household so they aren't manned by the Mechanicus
Its something they werent happy about but caved on the whole "direct command from the Omnissiah" part. and handed over a small number of Titans for the Emperor's use.
Ad. Mech. has uses for psykers... Well, their brain to be more precise... Buuuut, those are forbidden things... So yeah, officially they give up their psykers, unless they get killed by random events wink wink, to the astra telephatica as to kinda secure their pact for astropath and shiz
the only org thats pretty much exempt from giving up their psykers are the navigators
Oh yeah sister doenst like pyskers do they?
Which seems weird
Since they have ‘miracles’ which are almost the same thing
Not really?
Psykers are a result of a genetic mutation and are an extremely dangerous conduit to the Warp.
I mean, it’s belief so hard they cause bullshit magic
It’s like ork magic, humans generate a lil bit of warp energy afaik
God sisters of battle feel weird in lore.
i think they're channeling the emperor's psychic power
i guess he doesn't have anything better to do
aside from powering the emperor's tarrot and holding back chaos from terra
‘Oh yeah yoir best soldiers, nah, of the civilians going to their doom, nah, of a death cult harem, now tahts important.’
could you rephrase that?
The sisters which
Actually they aren’t in an harem anymore since Mcfuck face got shot
Stupid ass horny mofo ate shit an died
I don't think this is quite it; there are definitely cases where people have been empowered by the Emperor's psychic might but the Sisters and their "miracles" are entirely different. Especially since Sister faith-magic is immune to the effects of Necron pylons.
real propa orky
What?
Goge Vandire was the leader of the emporium at the time and discovered the Sisters of battle death cult. So he used his religious status (and technology) to convince the sisters he was a directly touched by the emperor.
And immediately abused his power (as per usual) to get a huge harem and have sex parties with the sister s
Then Alicia Dominica said one of my favorite quotes ever
You have committed the ultimate heresy. Not only have you turned your back on the Emperor and stepped from his light, you have profaned his name and almost destroyed everything he has striven to build.
And fucking blew his brains out
She had a meeting with the emperors himself where her hair turned white
Form the pure glory of him
not entirely accurate but sure
Yeah I know
I haven’t done any actual research I just base it off what I know
:) bugs lore for the win every day
The best part is I don’t even need to read
I can just google search ‘did tryanids destroy XYZ’
I love the lore of the formation of the sisters of battle. It kind of makes perfect sense sometimes
lol
yoinked this from another server and tbh this seems quite possible and fitting
Late but @rose thorn
They removed the harem stuff in the last codex the Sisters got back in 8th edition for understandable reasons, as a woman I didnt really mind it as much but I can understand it seeming needlessly creepy to some other readers
Even back in the first codex they got the "sex" mention is more the Sisters seeing to his "every need"
As for the psychic stuff, its pretty much left unexplored at the moment. Sororitas using faith powers was a rare thing back in the day but with their army getting updated as well as them getting more lore, books etc the faith power stuff skyrocketed and can happen a lot of times now.
It kind of gets to the point of Deus Ex Machina or a get out of jail free card whenever something in the plot goes wrong and they need their anime power-up moment to kill the book's antagonists at the last chapters. etc

Weren't living Saints Kind of imperial daemons?
Comparison wise yes
In the literal sense or figurative sense?
kinda both
it's hinted at that they could be warp manifestations generated from the intensity of belief of the imperial cult
Yeah its basically Warp-Shit but trademarked by Big E
its not fully explained in-depth like chaos stuff but its been heavily hinted with things like Big E growing in power
Sanguinor is very weird, it has been around since Horus Heresy
I view living saints and the Sanguinor as greater demons and the legion of the damned as his regular demons.
You gotta love how 40k is the only series that you can just make up blatant bullshit and it will most likely be widely considered true
Like how the legion of the damned’s leader was hinted to be the primarch of the Iron hands, until the guy who writes the legion of the damned literally said like ‘I have no clue where you got that from, no he isn’t a giant space marine missing a head’
The curse of having so many writers 
they do have "loremasters" afaik
space marines have no bones
Yeah the loremaster is a thing
its more for just looking over what they write and making sure most of the material is lore compliant
otherwise authors sometimes get free reign if they're of the old guard
new writers are a lot more restricted
but they've not had "lead writers" or similar for 40k, 30k had one when Horus Heresy launched but he died a while back
Yeah sadly
and there was a hiring position for 40k lead writer a couple months ago
What, really?
He was the one writing the black books for the Heresy battles
they kinda dropped in quality after that
yeah which were the backbone of that era's Horus Heresy
^
Oh shit! i didn't knew 😦 Rest in Peace
I know that 9th ed has a "creative lead" but considering that most of what's in the books is just regurgitated from 8th ed I imagine it only really contributed to getting a better codex artist
standard codex fare
Like
They should honestly ditch codices of they're gonna keep the whole "new edition every 3 years" thing going
Because that's a whole new wave of codices that are mostly the exact same as the last one every few years
Only reason to buy them is rules
They should just find a new way to milk people for rules
Preferably they should not do it at all but whatever
do you mean by "mostly the exact same as the last one" purely the units they contain? Because everything else is pretty much very very different
And I absolutely believe the codexes need renewing every now and then to keep everything fresh and not get stuck with a set of rules that may prefer one faction over the other
A lot of codex lore has been largely copy pasted for 9th edition
There genuinely isn’t any new lore for half of them
ah I see, never really paid attention to the lore side of codexes
GW should sell lore and rules separated
Bro i wish
well
aren't novellas that
and novels
lore in codexes is just flavour text mostly
With some special cases where they are in the same book, but only when something new actually happen... But this would require GW to know their own fokken lore dammit
No, novella are self contained stories, which may or may not be canon, just a way to sell some book
It is less flavour text and more actual lore, codex have priority over novels for lore canonicity
Some more Squat stuff
The Early Days
The first edition of Warhammer 40,000 was called Rogue Trader, a game chock-full of fantasy standards reimagined in a grim futuristic setting. Instead of Orcs, you had Space Orks, Elves became Eldar (and then Aeldari), Ogres were Ogryn, and so on. And then there were the Space Dwarfs.
These first models were clearly Dwarfs wielding lasguns with a generous smattering of heavy weapons. Their background positioned them as miners – the descendants of human settlers who had evolved to survive on mineral-dense worlds with heavy gravity. Over the millennia, they’d diverged into a subspecies named ‘Squats’ – similar to humans in many ways, but culturally and physiologically distinct.*
Squat strongholds – autonomous mining colonies – formed allied Leagues, with recognisable Dwarf traits from Warhammer Fantasy Battles such as ancestor worship, facial hair, a hefty dose of grumpiness, and a knack for metalwork. A more futuristic twist was their favoured mount – the Leagues rode heavy bikes and trikes into battle, combining the aesthetics of Viking warriors and leather-clad biker gangs.
The first major evolutionary step came in Titan Legions, a game of massive battles using tiny models at the Epic scale – just 6mm! Many of the larger units for the modern game of Warhammer 40,000 have their origins here, including all those lovely Titans and Knights. It also went on to inspire modern games like Adeptus Titanicus and Aeronautica Imperialis, though these are at a slightly different scale.
The Epic system brought with it an enduring enmity with Orks,** along with loads of machines you couldn’t find in the Imperium – including gyrocopters, armoured dirigibles, land trains, and ludicrously massive siege weapons. And while they never produced Titans, ordnance like the Cyclops (the big green tank with the Gargant-killing cannon on its prow) was no less deadly.
The studio continued to flesh out the background, giving the Leagues a distinct aesthetic, history, and style of warfare. Where else would you find biker gang space dwarf industrialists piloting battle-trains?
The later years of Rogue Trader brought plenty of trikes, living ancestors (psykers), and elite infantry in big, round suits called exo-armour, but while the second edition of Warhammer 40,000 offered stopgap rules in its grand launch box, our heroes would never receive a full codex or any more new models.
For a while, however, the Leagues continued to evolve through the vividly coloured artwork of this era. These stout warriors were shown wielding more sci-fi standard weapons, armour, and iconography – but you could still see lots of golden ancestor sigils and plenty of beards, axes, and hammers.
The Quiet Years
Homo sapiens rotundus may have started life as a sci-fi restyle of fantasy Dwarfs, but as the setting grew, they too became more unique. A galactic power in their own right, the Leagues were powerful enough to trade and negotiate with the Imperium on an even footing – in fact, Imperial Commissars were forbidden from executing their soldiers – and such skilled technologists that the Adeptus Mechanicus sent tech-priests to study with them, which would probably be considered tech-heresy nowadays.And then… nothing. They weren’t officially updated for the third edition of the game, and Epic came to an end. Eventually, the great Jervis Johnson mentioned in passing that the worlds ruled by the Leagues had been attacked by a Tyranid hive fleet, and that was that. Not a peep for decades – both in-universe and out.
Still, there were hints that something was out there.
Clues and Cameos
A decade after Warhammer 40,000’s second edition, Battlefleet Gothic – a naval game of spacebound fleets – introduced the Demiurg, a mysterious group of void-faring miners and traders. Technologically-advanced industrialists with a grudge against Orks, a number of Demiurg brotherhoods aligned themselves with the T’au Empire, lending their powerful ships to the Air Caste fleets.
Were these the Leagues sneaking back into the setting, or a new alien species filling a similar role? We’re still not sure, but the modern edition of Necromunda brought fresh hope for fans of futuristic facial hair. At the end of the ‘10s, the underhive skirmish game introduced two new characters you could add to your gang – and though their design had once again evolved, everyone knew what we were looking at.
Grendl Grendlsen and Ragnir Gunnstein sport a host of familiar details, from quilted armour and fancy breastplates to magnificent facial hair and ancestral belt buckles. They are also, notably, still called Squats – albeit unkindly by the Necromundans they live amongst.
This shock return got folks thinking about what had happened to their kin. The Leagues were no strangers to Necromunda – there were even rules for a Squat Miners gang*** back in the day – but were these the last two survivors of a Tyranid rampage? Or were others of their kind still out there?****
They’re Back
Enter the Leagues of Votann. You can expect to see loads more information about the next step of evolution for this venerable race, and you’re going to love what’s coming.The new background for the Leagues of Votann builds off the old lore in interesting ways – including how they interact with their ancestors. Old-time fans will enjoy the references and twists, while new fans will be into their funky tech, unusual appearance, and unique playstyle.
The Leagues of Votann may not technically be a “new” faction, but they’re bringing some great new dynamics to Warhammer 40,000, expanding the game and the setting. Keep your goggles on for more news about the Leagues of Votann, and sign up for the newsletter if you want it all delivered straight to your inbox.
Huh so
TECHNICALLY not a "new" faction
Neat, pretty much what I expected. Cool that they share some of the old lore to people whom may not be too familiar with it
Nice rundown, it is pretty much what i expected too, they will have some nice nod to old lore, but they are being reworked to be something unique and that make sense in the setting
Hey, the article mentions the book of judgment... I should have that necromunda book
I mean that the rules change but rules changes don't warrant a $40 purchase with codex creep every edition
$50
Is it $60 now?
Either way, it's an outdated format
Made to just milk the shit out of people and provide a means to promote buying new minis based on rules alone
I agree that the updates should be by the very least digital and hence cheaper, but I'd like to have the physical books as well
But the Squats are still Subhumans, i get that right? 🤔
I once did the same oopsie, i had Ratty nearly taking my head off...
😵
I would kill for a land train in modern 40K
well according to Russia armored trains are still in style
So are nuclear power trains
thousand sons questions: are the rubric marines immortal?
or do they die when the armor is sufficiently damaged?
how do the thousand sons get new space marines? is there just a geneseed floating around in the armor?
i eagerly await an answer
Actually all TS are not ashen ones
And i guess after a lot of damage they die and cannot be revived by Tzeench for some reason: die too much, being useless for the warp or bannished/destroyed by Faith
So the phrase "cleanliness is godliness" could have an implication upon 40k
From what i understand, the chaos gods are just some of many whose specific traits were fed enough by the galaxies constant turmoil
And also, the chaos gods are hurt by having possible worshipers worship some other deity
So if enough people believed in "cleanliness is godliness" and effectively worshipped it, nurgle would be absolutely screwed
This is also a shower thought funnily enough
A Fist
lol
Who care about Fist 
joke
Its not Tor Guaedon like ?
A Fist in big armor with Neutron UIC
IUC
Ah yes my faviote primarus, John Fist
i think the fists are a cool chapter with an absolutely horrid color scheme lol
lol
No troll actually x)
Vorn Hagan
Oh okay
Vorn Hagan is the current Chapter Master of the Imperial Fists Space Marine Chapter.
He was chosen to succeed Vladimir Pugh, the previous Chapter Master, after Pugh was killed in battle against the Tyranids during the Infestation of Drashin in 970.M41.
Vorn Hagen, who was originally the Captain of the Imperial Fists 5th Company, was selected as...
I learn about Fist
That sounds like vore and dorn
Which concerns me
Have fun with y'alls fanfic based off that
😳
google read my mind with the search tho. seems i wasnt the only one wondering who was in charge of the fists




