#40k-lore-chat

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weak fern
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Leave me doing a life of an scum who work for the Inquisition 😢

frosty cobalt
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Still a part of the system

prime kernel
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Compared to living in nazi germany. Im more then ok to just pay taxes and go to church every sunday

turbid cosmos
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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.

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regarding the Imperium apologists

frosty cobalt
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Yea thats why i pick the Tau and headcanon the most morally black tau i can

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To fuck with everyone 🤣

storm jungle
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The Imperium is still bad

turbid cosmos
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it is

storm jungle
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id get shot in the head for doing anything wrong

atomic pelican
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You can pick near any choice beyond imperial and end up being better off lul

prime kernel
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@storm jungle its 40k dil

storm jungle
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what Proud said

prime kernel
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Course it is

storm jungle
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nobody living in the Imperium really has a choice

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unless you are heavily indoctrinated

atomic pelican
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Even CSM are somehow written as being more reasonable than loyalists p often

storm jungle
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which a lot of the masses are

atomic pelican
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Fuck, ANGRON, recognizes the emperor as a slaver

prime kernel
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Then its worse

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So much worse

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Soooooo fucking worse

frosty cobalt
weak fern
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Imperium Crime describle the horror of Imperium really good

turbid cosmos
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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

atomic pelican
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What?

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Jesse what are you talking about

turbid cosmos
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haha okay so like

prime kernel
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At the end of the day lets all agree that no one would wanna live in the 42 milenium.

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Period

weak fern
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I dont want to live in 40k just all XD

atomic pelican
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The eldar are based on human experiences because they were written by humans. They are not truly all that alien

storm jungle
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Pretty much yeah.

frosty cobalt
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Goes for everything

storm jungle
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Its hard to make them alien aside from

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"they walk weird"

turbid cosmos
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YEAAAA GUESS but like

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maybe maybe

proper helm
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I come back and see that

atomic pelican
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Same for the tau, their 'alien' ness is rlly just british views on foreigners

frosty cobalt
frosty cobalt
storm jungle
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Enclave To'yota where you at

prime kernel
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Hahahahaha

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Nice

storm jungle
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no wait thats warhammer fantasy

prime kernel
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Still like mah shovel boys

frosty cobalt
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I have the Bla’k Wat’er cadre

prime kernel
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And cain

frosty cobalt
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XD

prime kernel
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Because fuck me do i love cain

turbid cosmos
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mr Commisar Cain?

prime kernel
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Yeee

turbid cosmos
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yeeee he a good boy

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love those book

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s

prime kernel
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His book series makes me laugh so hard

storm jungle
atomic pelican
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Also hard disagree. Living as say, a interior sept Tau or a unnamed craftworld eldar is probably leagues better than irl

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LMAO

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ESP CWE

storm jungle
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Craftworld Eldar basically live in utopias

atomic pelican
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Since its legit luxury space communism

storm jungle
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THEY DONT PAY MONEY FOR ANYTHING

atomic pelican
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Post scarcity

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YEAH

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And if ur a interior sept tau. Ur living p much a safe sci fi life

turbid cosmos
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yea they do have it good. I really enjoyed the uhm Exarch book that gives some good looks into it.

atomic pelican
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Assuming not fire caste

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Yeah but they all carry soulstones

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On a craftworld

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When they die, they go to their circuit and dance with spirits

frosty cobalt
storm jungle
atomic pelican
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Yepp

atomic pelican
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Yee

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Well

prime kernel
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If your ontop

atomic pelican
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Still stress of being assassinated at any moment

storm jungle
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Dark eldar life is horrible though, basically imagine high school but people got the permissin to stab you

prime kernel
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You call the shots

storm jungle
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also the principal is vect

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Not dark eldar lul

frosty cobalt
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If ur not vect ur not happy

storm jungle
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literally all your underlings are jealous of you and want to kill you

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minus the incubi

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those are bros

atomic pelican
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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

frosty cobalt
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XD

atomic pelican
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I think the best place to be in Drukhari society is probably to be either a wrack, or better, a haemonculi

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They seem to enjoy their time

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And are the most trustworthy drukhari

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Other than incubi

frosty cobalt
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They just want to graft

atomic pelican
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Since the Covens tend to be more occupied with learning twisted secrets than betrayal(usually)

turbid cosmos
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are there any good books from the Deldar perspective?

atomic pelican
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GRAFT

atomic pelican
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Path of the dark eldar

frosty cobalt
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If i could choose id be a haemonculi or a tau water/fire caste. Might not be the best life but it be fun

turbid cosmos
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id love to know more about uhm. will def get that and give it a read.

proper helm
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Dark Eldar Ancapistan, also known known as Commoragh

atomic pelican
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Tru

frosty cobalt
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Shame they nixxed the spinal tap for battlesuits im still mad about that

turbid cosmos
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crumpinnnnnn

frosty cobalt
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Tru, but id rather have a bit more in my life then that

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It be fun, but samey

turbid cosmos
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bein a weirdboy could be pretty interesting

alpine ingot
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It's all fun and games till the weird boy has a ead bang episode

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Then it's really interesting

spice orchid
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being a techpriest on mars seems like a cushy job

weak fern
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For me being a scum who being recruted by Inquisition (Radical soft) could be ok

storm jungle
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CIA Moment

prime kernel
vapid tiger
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Be ogryn

spice orchid
vapid tiger
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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

prime kernel
# vapid tiger Be ogryn

and get beaten the snot out of by your boss and cry like a baby just wanting master to stop hitting you.

vapid tiger
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even marines

spice orchid
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primaris ogryn

prime kernel
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its worse with ogryn.

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they just wanna help

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theirs no evil taughts in their brain. nothing they do is malicious and they still get treated like shit.

vapid tiger
vapid tiger
prime kernel
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Its like being a kid with down syndrome and also being strong enough to toss a dump truck.

vapid tiger
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They're just uh

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Not smart

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And therefore more innocent

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Same applies to fantasy ogres but fantasy ogres are cursed with eternal hunger by a hungry god and thus inherently malicious

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Reminder that marine disciplinary troops have never been retconned

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They will beat the shit out of you

alpine ingot
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ah yes discipline troops... such a time honored station in first founding chapters like the Space Wolves.

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just.... pay no mind to how they handle their blood claws or sky claws lul

cerulean wagon
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actually

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ogryns can be malicious as fuck

vapid tiger
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Ya

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Like they might be childlike in intellect without augmentation but children can be fucking evil

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there's chaos ogryns who will tear you apart and make it as painful as possible because they like the sound you make

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there's ogryns who might bully you

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It's not all "wholesome ogryn and commissar!" crap

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though i am looking forward to playing the ogryn in dt

prime kernel
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You make a good point

prime kernel
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Got a great name for octarius war

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Cold shoulder 2.0

vapid tiger
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RIP blake

vagrant osprey
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I'm looking forward to playing a villain protagonist without guilt because there's also a villain antagonist.

storm jungle
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rip

shell pebble
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Lore question: have we ever seen a normal human guardsman ever ascend to daemonhood?

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It feels as though you never see traitor guard ever get anywhere substantial

storm jungle
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Yes.

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Anyone can rise to daemonhood

rose thorn
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They were there traitor guard in the call of Cadia I believe,

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Fall*

storm jungle
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Yeah they were sleeper agents prior to it

rose thorn
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Damn I love traitor guard so much

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No clue why

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They feel so cool for being literally normal dudes who literally are worth less then dust to their gods

grand minnow
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wonder if they are gonna be a subfaction in 40k

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like the tabletop i mean

shell pebble
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Because I feel like there's little to none that I know of

cerulean wagon
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welcome to 40k

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guard in all forms are cool

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cause they are the smallest people who can make the biggest impact

rose thorn
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Exactly

vapid tiger
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For like

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A year

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Then dropped

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For seemingly little reason

crisp heath
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I have a lore question agian guys

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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?

storm jungle
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As in like

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a computer screen?

barren tapir
crisp heath
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Yes

storm jungle
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Yeah computer runes

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those are a thing

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its mostly used in the context to make the computer-usage seem ancient and old-timey

real stone
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Binaric

crisp heath
storm jungle
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So its really not that different

barren tapir
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Then it is used to indicate arcane symbols that the guy cannot comprehend fully, so rune

storm jungle
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they use weird terms to describe cogitator functions all the time

crisp heath
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Ahhh, so rune is a funky word for people who don't know better?

storm jungle
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No lmao

cerulean wagon
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its also used as a term for buttons in the setting

storm jungle
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^

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what skelly said

crisp heath
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Ahhhhh

cerulean wagon
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(activation runes on power swords)

storm jungle
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Same as how they dont call "lumens" lights

plush mason
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"yes lets use the ancient Scandinavian runic writing for our computers" -some fool in the DAOT maybe 😛

storm jungle
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so it sounds futuristic

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that kind of thing

cerulean wagon
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nameless you say that like the main language they use isn't latin

crisp heath
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So Runes = Letters so it sounds more ancient

barren tapir
storm jungle
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Yep

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for example

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in books instead of saying "Necrons pressed this button"

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they just go

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"Necrons pressed this glyph"

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its usually fancy wording

crisp heath
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Understood. Thanks guys! 😁😊

storm jungle
vapid tiger
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Old

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Because space fantasy

storm jungle
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Eh same thing

grand minnow
storm jungle
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This guy gets it

plush mason
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that console isnt nearly orky enough. every ork knows the weapons are all fired from the big button with the skull on it

vast frigate
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yes

plush mason
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i want this console

plush mason
grand minnow
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Got dat lip gloss doe

vast frigate
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here we see sergeant RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHG, giving direct orders to hold the line

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but since the dog ranks higher than your hat, your argument is invalid

plush mason
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actually the fish helmet is only worn by lords and generals so it outranks the dog

vast frigate
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Im sorry i couldnt hear you OVER THE DOG

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Even chaos marines are looking over to see whats going on

plush mason
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not the emperor's children i hope

vast frigate
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im afraid theyre all looking

plush mason
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it was nice knowing you

vast frigate
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: )

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they cant get me

rose thorn
spice orchid
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it took me way too long to realize "rune of activation" literally just means a power button

real stone
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But look at it

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it IS a rune

spice orchid
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indeed

ruby pine
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You know, I think I can honestly imagine a Commissar unironically saying "Executions will continue until morale improves."

real stone
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Depends on the Commissar

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Some of them are just complete pricks

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Others, are more understanding

spice orchid
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and trigger happy commissars tend to die to ork snipers from behind

real stone
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or somethin.

potent swift
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So is Warhammer Crime worth getting into?

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Not 3D printing, I mean the books

astral isle
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some

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i liked eisenhorn

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everyone liked gaunt's ghosts

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everyone liked the infinite and the divine

brittle nebula
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Best book ever i my opinion

astral isle
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i heard twice dead king was good but i haven't read it yet

vapid tiger
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proceeded to shill space marine battles books

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and hh novels

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space marine fans b like

astral isle
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"you know i feel like gw really hasn't been give the space marines enough attention"

vapid tiger
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Love how the ere we go cover art has orks using guns that aren't just junk rifles

atomic pelican
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Big fan of the ork slapping the back of his gun to shoot

rare nimbus
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coolest ork in the world on the left side

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livin his best life

proper helm
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The ideal way to fire a gun

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if you can't see exactly how much it recoils, what's the ~~fucking ~~ zoggin' point?

brittle nebula
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That’s an Ork for you

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Stupidly having fun

astral isle
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a true gun connaisseur

brittle nebula
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One word explains it all.

proper helm
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The padded look for their armor is interesting considering how it's generally portrayed as a slab of scrap metal bent into shape elsewhere

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with maybe squig hide overalls under it

brittle nebula
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Perhaps

rose thorn
proper helm
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Orks are just the best

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I'll always love the Guard, but Orks are just the most fun faction in 40k

atomic pelican
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genuinely one of the best factions to play against as well on the tabletop

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In terms of Fun Value

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Perhaps It's personal preference, but cutting through chaff always feels more fun than not

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Especially when said chaff could pretty likely throttle you as well

proper helm
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You can see the impact it has on the board, and on a battle line

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where a monster just goes down a bracket

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I think it also just makes the battle feel larger

atomic pelican
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Yuss

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Tho I may be getting a bit spoiled, I'm mostly just happy with anyone who will engage in melee alot

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Which is orkz

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I have mild PTSD from my first like, 20 games of 40k being wholly against armies which only shot for 40 minutes

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Even still

proper helm
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I'm absolutely guilty of that

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But I do really like bullgryns and catachans so it balances out

atomic pelican
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Yee

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There's a guard player here who basically parks in his back field, drags the game out, and loses anyway because of bleeding objectives

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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

proper helm
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That's probably been why the guard hasn't had a codex so far

atomic pelican
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It's really weird

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Because SOME codices have 'solved' indirect fire or atleast are experimenting with it

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Ex: The 9e Tyranid codex, their no-LOS requires SOME tyranid unit to have LOS

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So you can't just turn 1 decimate a enemy unit hidden behind everything

proper helm
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Incorporating the Guard vox network into that might work

atomic pelican
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But then you have the Devil with Airburst-frags and nightspinners

proper helm
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since someone's gotta be there radioing in targets

atomic pelican
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Nightspinners eat marines for breakfast and for a 10pt upgrade don't take the dense penalty

atomic pelican
rose thorn
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Oh yeah do the different tryanid hive fleets have any actual genetic differences between them besides the colors?

proper helm
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absolutely!

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I'm not an expert in it though, but I can go find some supporting info

atomic pelican
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They do, It's pretty basic though

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Behemoth is more aggressive for example

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In both evolution patterns and behavior

rose thorn
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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.’

proper helm
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Hive fleets can temporarily create modifications to their forces phenotype to adapt to situations as well

atomic pelican
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That's p much the entire point of most subfactions base

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They're recolors and variations of playstyle

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The lore is added on

rose thorn
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Modern day guard make me depressed when they do that.

proper helm
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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

rose thorn
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WAIT THE FUCKING ACID RUN OFF IS THE SIZE OF A GOD DMAN OCEAN?

shadow plover
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lil acid puddle yes

proper helm
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Forge Worlds give zero shits about the environment

shadow plover
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good for defence

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at least it was

rose thorn
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That seems like one of those things that is generally complete overkill

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But most of 40K is overkill so

proper helm
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I personally take it as a combo of runoff and millenia of ocean acidification from industry

scenic bolt
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40k will take a look at a real world issue then sail right past where 2000ad had it clocked at

rose thorn
plucky chasm
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truly

astral isle
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i like how fabius bile told slaneesh that he didn't believe in chaos gods

shadow plover
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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

astral isle
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i think it was actually slaneesh

shadow plover
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wild

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he really is a grumpy old sod

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think it's the case of not actually believing in their godhood but rather a warp xenos with plenty power

astral isle
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he said i think therefore i am, they do no think, therefore they are not

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what a guy

distant fable
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No fucking way

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they just brought squats back

cerulean wagon
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squats never left

storm jungle
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Yeah people act like they were gone or something

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they were always around

crisp heath
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i think "back" more in a tabletop way

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if i'm correct we have 2 minis from necromunda (?)

shadow plover
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yes

crisp heath
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So would be nice to just squeeze them in the AstraM Smug

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i mean, it's a joke. That's obvious. But one can cope

storm jungle
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Its a mean joke tho

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ngl

shadow plover
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I'm thinking maybe a single "agents of the imperium" unit or a character at most

crisp heath
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like the Ogryns

shadow plover
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which would be neat

storm jungle
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Yeah i agree

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because they are pretty much stretching peoples balls at this point

shadow plover
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good

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stretch them further

storm jungle
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"Noooo dont go buying 3rd party squats"

crisp heath
signal hill
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I love how everybody is bashing gw at any given opportunity besides everyone Loving their Franchise(s)

vapid rivet
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They won't make squat return they said ...

final spruce
storm jungle
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Yeah GW does good stuff but they still deserve to be shat on for half the decisions they do as well.

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They arent a good company by any means lmao

shadow plover
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Tbqh GW has gotten A LOT better over the past 5-10 years

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2010 GW was awful

storm jungle
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Yeah they know how to appeal to their audience a lot more now. The dumb shit they've been doing has thankfully mostly dropped.

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And I do say mostly lul

distant parcel
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on the company side they still do the same shitty practices

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but they communicate better now

vapid tiger
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squats....

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likely april fool's

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hm

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We will see

storm jungle
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Deep Rock time

barren tapir
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One thing that i like from the small snippet of the squats is that they seems technologically inclined and advanced

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To the point that they easily override imperial ship tech...

smoky ferry
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Could function well as a killteam release, and either as mercenaries or tau axillaries

vapid tiger
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@cerulean wagon

crisp heath
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Muscular woman

vast frigate
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The pog variant of women

timid solstice
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Ogryn women when?

cerulean wagon
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they already exist, there was one in the recent ork book

timid solstice
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Really? Damn, they good fighters?

cerulean wagon
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ofc

timid solstice
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Feckin' hell yeah

atomic pelican
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As opposed to ogryns doing mitosis

frosty cobalt
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“Human women when”

marsh grail
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Do femboy space marines count?

storm jungle
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They are boys so no

spare gazelle
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femboy space marine is an oxymoron

storm jungle
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Death it is.

marsh grail
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Femboy tau or eldar?

storm jungle
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Eldar are already androgynous for the most part so idk

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Tau im not an expert on appearance wise

crisp heath
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Tau its just the "I or Y" :x

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And actually Tau are almost a Bovine race

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So....

storm jungle
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There really isn't any canon evidence of that and its a fan myth.

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The only connection is the hooves.

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🐎

cerulean wagon
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na the bovine thing is from uhhh

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xenology

storm jungle
vast frigate
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sad dilara

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we learn every day

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i wonder if they have multiple stomachs

vapid tiger
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imagine

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imagine being turkish

plucky moth
vapid tiger
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I'm just messing with dil

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pls no ban

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

plucky moth
crisp heath
barren tapir
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Say i'm wrong Incan, i know that you send people to emu as punishment

plucky moth
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Well time to be absolutely cursed

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Tau milk confirmed?

barren tapir
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Oh no... No no no... This isn't gonna end well if the right people are in this chat

lapis edge
crisp heath
marsh grail
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Mmm tau milk

plucky moth
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Luv a nice glass of Tilk

marsh grail
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Make a tau version of Starbucks breast milk

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If tau are cows where are the udders?

crisp heath
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. . .

plucky moth
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Tau beef zoomeyes

crisp heath
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T'au thigh~

plucky moth
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Rump steak is good stuff

crisp heath
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Oh yeah

serene jungle
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meaty tau

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meaty tau gf

crisp heath
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Eat her

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Swallow her

eternal ledge
crisp heath
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XD

azure wing
astral isle
crisp heath
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😳 🐍

ashen lake
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not as good as the original track but

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at least they paid it homage

plush mason
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is that song really called ultramarine chant?

serene jungle
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Can’t be serious

shadow plover
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it's an old song from the old chaos gate game in which you played ultramarines

prisma lark
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I liked the original a lot more

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shadow plover
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I really like both

prisma lark
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I'm sure the new track will grow on me, it's good too

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neither hold a candle to the Word Bearers March anyway

rose thorn
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THE FUCKIN TRUMPET THO

native surge
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do votamm have slayers

barren tapir
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Doubt, slayer concept is extremely dumb anyway

native surge
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why

barren tapir
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Suicidal troops aren't useful

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And a dumb way to reclaim lost honour

native surge
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slayers have been pretty useful

storm jungle
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Yeah Slayers in general are more of a way to showcase Dwarves are too attached to tradition

barren tapir
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Only because they need to fill a role in dwarf army, otherwise they are shiz

storm jungle
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That too

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I still find them cool but theres a reason their concept basically got segregated in age of sigmar

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and why other duardin/dwarves dont utilize them anymore

native surge
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i love em theyre my fav part of warhammer

barren tapir
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But going to a fight with no armour, not even clothes is just asking to die without accomplishing anything other showing stupidity

native surge
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it accomplishes the fulfillment of their oath

storm jungle
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It wastes dwarven lives for useless stuff

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you can become a Slayer out of the most mundane things

native surge
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its not useless to the dwarfs

cerulean wagon
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ye its a dumb tradition, but its an extremly cool lore point

native surge
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they take shame greater than any other race

cerulean wagon
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its in no way useful or a good troop type

storm jungle
#

Yeah pretty much.

native surge
#

and reclaiming it can only be done through the eyes of their ancestors, dying it glorious battle is the only way

storm jungle
#

same as how most Imperial Guard will suicide troop themselves if they've been brainwashed enough by propaganda

native surge
#

im pretty sure their souls are judged by the ancestors

#

snorri nosebiter forgot what he was shamed for and thus has to roam shyish

twin shoal
#

a dwarve getting sent to be judged by his ancestor
ancestor: WHY DA FECK DIDNT YE WEAR ARMOR YA DAFT SOD

native surge
#

xD

#

they just imitate grimnir

final spruce
#

Not many guardsmen actually suicide charge, which is why Krieg is so popular about that one

storm jungle
#

unless you're a Tallarn guardsman in that one awful book

final spruce
#

Tallarn, known for being the sneakiest and hit and run people, blindlessly charging ?

#

Very badly written indeed

storm jungle
#

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

final spruce
#

Terrible , god damnit

rose thorn
#

;-; I fucking hate it- I love the middle eastern style but The Tallarn are apparently well known for being illiterate too- it’s stupid

storm jungle
#

Yeah its dumb af

#

but OH WELL

rose thorn
#

It’s so weird there is almost nothing middle eastern inspired in 40K and if it is it’s usually trash

tepid tapir
#

I believed the Tallarn were a guards regimant specialized on dessert world combat and not much more

cerulean wagon
#

luckily

#

(or not its still stupid)

wispy peak
#

Necrons and thousand sons are middle eastern inspired, no? Or is that included in the almost nothing

storm jungle
#

I mean kinda?

#

They are dominantly egyptian

real stone
#

More like ancient Egypt

wispy peak
#

ye fair

real stone
#

But Tallarn guards are more like the whole Laurence of Arabia thing

storm jungle
#

Yeee

real stone
#

or is it lawrence

#

:l

wispy peak
#

What would be a good way to add some ME flavor?

rose thorn
#

Besides the obvious shit like space marines

I think a tau castle would be unqiue

rose thorn
#

Ok so tyranid question

#

Do 40K canonically has souls

#

Do individual tryanids have souls?

storm jungle
#

They dont

#

They got a single soul

#

the Hive Mind

barren tapir
#

Souls is just a fancy name for connection to the warp... Do the nids have connection to the warp? No

rose thorn
#

Okay- but what about the Psyker nids and the hive mind it self?

storm jungle
#

the hive mind itself is a massive entity

#

the nids are like a tiny portion of its essence

#

its connected

rose thorn
#

Okay gotcha

storm jungle
#

if this makes sense

#

lmao

rose thorn
#

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

storm jungle
#

Soooo

#

Devastation of Baal kinda does this

#

but its from a Lictor's POV

plush mason
rose thorn
#

well lictors are hyper intelligent and show individuality right?

#

So that would be the safest tryanid to POV with right?

storm jungle
#

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

rose thorn
#

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’

storm jungle
#

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

rose thorn
#

Ahhh okay

storm jungle
#

Yeee hes like a template

#

if that makes sense

#

but still the most apex creature of the Nids currently

rose thorn
#

So instead o being like ‘the swarm lord’

It’s ‘THE swarm lord #138’

storm jungle
#

Lmao yeah in a way

#

he can respawn with all his memories and come back

rose thorn
#

So same thing as old one eye

storm jungle
#

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.

rose thorn
#

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

storm jungle
#

God this is what I hate

#

explaining a hivemind is so hard

rose thorn
#

Lmao

storm jungle
#

But yeah its all a mix of the above?

timid solstice
#

Fucking space bugs, they just HAD to be complicated

storm jungle
#

Yeah the Tyranids mix in every space-bug race trope from sci-fi

#

so it gets a bit complex

rose thorn
#

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

storm jungle
#

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

rose thorn
#

Is the hive mind one entity though? Or is it like millions of minds speaking at once

storm jungle
#

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]

alpine ingot
#

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.

storm jungle
#

Yeah that too

#

it gets extremely fucky

rose thorn
#

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

alpine ingot
#

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

cerulean wagon
rose thorn
#

True

cerulean wagon
#

concepts outside our ability to percieve is fun

rose thorn
#

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

cerulean wagon
#

eldar autarch

rose thorn
#

But at least for mods

cerulean wagon
rose thorn
#

I meant nids

#

But I guess mods work too lmao

#

But yeah tryanids

#

Just horrifically customizable

plush mason
short jackal
#

sexy model

#

speaking of

#

wish they had dropped this BEFORE I wrote a narrative campaign

#

would have included the hell out of them

vast frigate
#

look at my man with golden age whatever the fuck

short jackal
#

pocket prince with the GEP gun

vast frigate
#

IF THERES SOMETHING VIIIIILE

#

IN YOUR STAR SYSTEM

#

IF THE NIDS ARE BAACK
CONVERTING MASS

#

WHO YOU GONNA CALL?

crisp heath
#

LEAGUE VOTANN !

plush mason
#

i wonder what the lore reason for their disappearance will be

crisp heath
#

Maybe some retcon i guess

grand minnow
#

THE WARP

crisp heath
#

I hope they will not use Warp

#

Just retcon the nids

real stone
#

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

crisp heath
#

Actually

#

Yeah

#

A good one

storm jungle
#

Anything works

#

40k is built on being easy to rewrite or retcon shit

crisp heath
#

Yeah but just say bla bla Warp shit

#

Uuurgh

storm jungle
#

Yes.

vast frigate
#

this here proves that the plot is moving... somewhere

#

because the imperium allying with a group that has... that.

rose thorn
#

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

vast frigate
#

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

rose thorn
#

lmao fair

real stone
#

we know it's AI

#

Like

#

bruh

#

"extremely heretical"

#

It's AI.

storm jungle
#

Not really.

#

Squats since their genesis had "heretical" tech which Admech most labelled as the advanced technology they possessed.

vast frigate
#

bosco made it

#

bosco is there

#

hes leading the squats

storm jungle
vast frigate
#

they were jealous and pissy

real stone
rose thorn
#

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

storm jungle
#

Bold of you to assume they dont destroy their own lore already

#

HEYOOOO

rose thorn
#

Lmao

vast frigate
real stone
#

yesss

vast frigate
#

actually that gif will become the basis of something i want for my OC

broken bridge
#

were squats their own faction way back when and if so how come they werent just rolled into the IG like other ab humans

real stone
#

Cause they got eaten by Nids. Also cause they weren't very... friendly with the Imperium

#

Like

plush mason
#

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

real stone
#

The imperium made a whole new type of armor for their space marines because of the war(s) with the squats

plush mason
#

did they?

real stone
#

Yep

#

The Mk. 3 Iron Armor

#

The one with the weird train grille on the front of the mouth

rose thorn
#

if orgot mk3 existed lmao

real stone
#

kek]

plush mason
#

you mean the thing that looks like its made of scrap pig iron?

real stone
#

Yep

broken bridge
#

i dont hate this

real stone
#

Yeah, it's not that bad

rose thorn
#

i lvoe it

#

but i just

real stone
#

And it was used during the Horus Heresy... I'm like 90% sure

rose thorn
#

forget

plush mason
#

that looks better yeah. the only time i have seen it was in DOW2 lol

rose thorn
#

I love the helmets

plush mason
#

and there it looked worn out and useless

rose thorn
#

they are my favoirte out of every space marine helmet

real stone
#

Basically they started running out of armor for the boiz, and said fuck it. We're basically fighting in tunnels anyways

storm jungle
#

if you go to their lexicanum page it runs pretty deep

rose thorn
vast frigate
#

its my marine conversion put into art

rose thorn
#

OH well it fuckingh rocks

vast frigate
#

i have a physical model of that boi

#

built it and then had it drawn

plush mason
vast frigate
#

gay space mahreen that searches for a way to un-dust his partner

crisp heath
#

World Eater Pre Heresy na ?

vast frigate
short jackal
#

looks neat man

plush mason
#

i want it

vast frigate
#

I based it heavily off of the older geare

short jackal
#

really dig the segmented armor

vast frigate
#

the full thing is a bit overkill

short jackal
#

it is definitely extra but this is Extra: The Setting

#

love it

rose thorn
#

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

broken bridge
storm jungle
#

👍

plush mason
broken bridge
crisp heath
#

World Eater are pretty neat in Pre Heresy imo

#

White and blue

plush mason
#

all i know of them pre heresy is thier daddy hated them and big E didnt like them lol

vast frigate
#

holdon ill quickly assemble him

#

fuck i dont have superglue

#

found some

rose thorn
#

Oh yeah there are alot of badass preheresy legion names

vast frigate
rose thorn
#

I love it actually

broken bridge
#

how does he reload the bolters?

#

i love it too

rose thorn
#

Badass AND GAY?

#

The best of the best

#

I should probably play the warhammer ttrpg I would@love it

But my friends hate warhammer

short jackal
#

it's tough to get into initially

#

try the digital wargame if you want to check it out

broken bridge
vast frigate
short jackal
#

I'm not sure what the policy is on discussing third party stuff but yeah shop around

#

There's some cool stuff

vast frigate
#

In here? Go off

#

We dont care

#

The admins and the devs dont care

short jackal
#

Alright internet stranger I'm putting total trust in you

#

The fate of my dog is in your hands

short jackal
rose thorn
#

lmao

broken bridge
#

@rose thorn i also want to try blood and glory

rose thorn
#

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-

plush mason
#

wtf is a master of possession?

rose thorn
#

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

plush mason
#

so a wordbearer

rose thorn
#

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

plush mason
#

i see

rose thorn
#

with a fgaint mouth in his chest

supple plume
#

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 🤔

broken bridge
#

neon pink and angelic white

supple plume
#

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

cerulean wagon
supple plume
native surge
#

Gotta have some karaz a karak blue in there

vapid tiger
#

Wait

#

alright james workshop

#

if there's only one ultramarines captain with golden shoulder trim

#

then explain this!

atomic pelican
#

Paints all my shoulders gold

#

James destroyrd

vapid tiger
#

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

atomic pelican
#

Disconnect between writers and official painters probs

#

Pretty easy for such a minor detail to get forgotten over such a long period I imagine

vapid tiger
#

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

plush mason
#

does the rank of force commander even exist or is that just some BS relic made up for DOW?

tepid tapir
#

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

plush mason
#

yeah seems to be a temporary rank

tepid tapir
plush mason
#

yeah

cerulean wagon
#

yo, prob the wrong chat

#

this lore chat

slender ruin
#

Oh Gotcha srry

lyric ember
#

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.

viral vessel
#

Why would it not make sense?

storm jungle
#

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

viral vessel
#

The Mechanicus is subject to the same tithes as everyone else in regards to Psykers.

storm jungle
#

Yes.

viral vessel
#

Were you asking about sanctioned Psykers?

lyric ember
#

yeah

storm jungle
#

Yeah they dont make use of them

viral vessel
#

The Mechanicus wouldn't really use them.

#

It's just navigators and astropaths.

storm jungle
#

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.

viral vessel
#

The Mechanicus does its own thing. The Astra Telepathica does theirs.

storm jungle
#

That doesn't really matter. Lore comes secondary in these regards

#

But yeah basically they dont have something akin to Librarians/Sanctioned Psykers.

viral vessel
#

Oh, but I guess you could maybe count the Ordo Sinister?

storm jungle
#

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.

barren tapir
#

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

scenic bolt
#

the only org thats pretty much exempt from giving up their psykers are the navigators

rose thorn
#

Oh yeah sister doenst like pyskers do they?

#

Which seems weird

Since they have ‘miracles’ which are almost the same thing

viral vessel
#

Not really?

#

Psykers are a result of a genetic mutation and are an extremely dangerous conduit to the Warp.

rose thorn
#

I mean, it’s belief so hard they cause bullshit magic

nova anchor
#

It’s like ork magic, humans generate a lil bit of warp energy afaik

rose thorn
#

God sisters of battle feel weird in lore.

astral isle
#

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

rose thorn
#

‘Oh yeah yoir best soldiers, nah, of the civilians going to their doom, nah, of a death cult harem, now tahts important.’

proper helm
#

could you rephrase that?

rose thorn
#

The sisters which

Actually they aren’t in an harem anymore since Mcfuck face got shot

#

Stupid ass horny mofo ate shit an died

open summit
astral isle
#

real propa orky

rose thorn
#

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

cerulean wagon
rose thorn
#

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’

brittle nebula
#

I love the lore of the formation of the sisters of battle. It kind of makes perfect sense sometimes

rose thorn
#

‘Oh pog bugs for the in’

#

Yeah I rally like it too

#

Strange I always forgot them

brittle nebula
#

Same Throne Emperor same.

plush mason
#

lol

shadow plover
#

yoinked this from another server and tbh this seems quite possible and fitting

storm jungle
#

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"

storm jungle
# rose thorn God sisters of battle feel weird in lore.

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

vast frigate
signal hill
storm jungle
#

Comparison wise yes

rose thorn
#

In the literal sense or figurative sense?

scenic bolt
#

kinda both

#

it's hinted at that they could be warp manifestations generated from the intensity of belief of the imperial cult

storm jungle
#

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

scenic bolt
#

kinda like sister's version of legion of the damned

#

or the sanguinor

shadow plover
#

Sanguinor is very weird, it has been around since Horus Heresy

storm jungle
#

Yeah Sanguinor is weird

#

helps that hes barely explained too

alpine ingot
#

I view living saints and the Sanguinor as greater demons and the legion of the damned as his regular demons.

rose thorn
#

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’

storm jungle
#

The curse of having so many writers lul

scenic bolt
#

afaik they still dont have a bible yet

#

that mayve changed with hh

shadow plover
#

they do have "loremasters" afaik

rose thorn
#

space marines have no bones

storm jungle
#

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

shadow plover
#

but they've not had "lead writers" or similar for 40k, 30k had one when Horus Heresy launched but he died a while back

storm jungle
#

Yeah sadly

shadow plover
#

and there was a hiring position for 40k lead writer a couple months ago

crisp heath
#

What, really?

storm jungle
#

He was the one writing the black books for the Heresy battles

#

they kinda dropped in quality after that

shadow plover
#

yeah which were the backbone of that era's Horus Heresy

storm jungle
#

^

crisp heath
#

Oh shit! i didn't knew 😦 Rest in Peace

shadow plover
#

yeah it was in 2016 or 2017 iirc

#

when he passed

vapid tiger
#

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

shadow plover
#

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

storm jungle
#

There genuinely isn’t any new lore for half of them

shadow plover
#

ah I see, never really paid attention to the lore side of codexes

barren tapir
#

GW should sell lore and rules separated

storm jungle
#

Bro i wish

shadow plover
#

well

#

aren't novellas that

#

and novels

#

lore in codexes is just flavour text mostly

barren tapir
#

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

barren tapir
barren tapir
storm jungle
#

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.*

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Huh so

TECHNICALLY not a "new" faction

shadow plover
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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

barren tapir
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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

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Hey, the article mentions the book of judgment... I should have that necromunda book

vapid tiger
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$50

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Is it $60 now?

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Either way, it's an outdated format

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Made to just milk the shit out of people and provide a means to promote buying new minis based on rules alone

shadow plover
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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

crisp heath
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But the Squats are still Subhumans, i get that right? 🤔

storm jungle
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Abhuman

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subhuman is a bit yikes so its why they dont use it lmao

barren tapir
vapid tiger
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Ratty did take your head off

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Blank is dead

barren tapir
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😵

rose thorn
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I would kill for a land train in modern 40K

halcyon oar
marsh grail
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So are nuclear power trains

astral isle
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thousand sons questions: are the rubric marines immortal?

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or do they die when the armor is sufficiently damaged?

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how do the thousand sons get new space marines? is there just a geneseed floating around in the armor?

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i eagerly await an answer

crisp heath
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Actually all TS are not ashen ones

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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

lyric ember
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So the phrase "cleanliness is godliness" could have an implication upon 40k

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From what i understand, the chaos gods are just some of many whose specific traits were fed enough by the galaxies constant turmoil

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And also, the chaos gods are hurt by having possible worshipers worship some other deity

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So if enough people believed in "cleanliness is godliness" and effectively worshipped it, nurgle would be absolutely screwed

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This is also a shower thought funnily enough

plush mason
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lol

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so who is the current chapter master of the imperial fists?

crisp heath
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A Fist

plush mason
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lol

crisp heath
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Who care about Fist Smug

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joke

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Its not Tor Guaedon like ?

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A Fist in big armor with Neutron UIC

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IUC

grand minnow
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Ah yes my faviote primarus, John Fist

plush mason
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i think the fists are a cool chapter with an absolutely horrid color scheme lol

crisp heath
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Maybe Tor shitthing

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I dont remenber is name

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Avaible at GW Fist

plush mason
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lol

crisp heath
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No troll actually x)

plush mason
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Vorn Hagan

crisp heath
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Oh okay

plush mason
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Warhammer 40k Wiki

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...

crisp heath
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I learn about Fist

lyric ember
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That sounds like vore and dorn

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Which concerns me

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Have fun with y'alls fanfic based off that

crisp heath
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😳

plush mason
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google read my mind with the search tho. seems i wasnt the only one wondering who was in charge of the fists

crisp heath
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Oh ma gash

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Glove pain bro

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For fist

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Because fist