Oh. It's such a cool universe, god damn. Bleak as shit. Who's the space marine Jesus looking guy in the gold armour with the flaming sword then? I always thought he was the emperor, not the rotting corpse wired to technology.
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Oh. It's such a cool universe, god damn. Bleak as shit. Who's the space marine Jesus looking guy in the gold armour with the flaming sword then? I always thought he was the emperor, not the rotting corpse wired to technology.
GarthVaderUK
Banned
They have STCs from the Dark Age of Technology: http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Standard_Template_Construct_(STC)
Little Old Man
Member
That's off, more of an extreme scenario than anything.
Though if I do remember correctly, the Imperium sacrifices thousands of those with psychic powers each day so that the Emperor can live on.
Nukes? Sure thing. But then the Imperium can go one better, and really turn things up to 11:
http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Exterminatus
You probably might want to read up on Krieg. During the crusades chem, bio and nuclear weapons were used also.
But typically there are better alternatives.
GarthVaderUK
Banned
That's the Emperor too, before he was put on life support. He's been on life support for 10,000 years: http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Emperor_of_Mankind#.UiOelT8pjqg
Little Old Man
Member
Btw, anyone in here read a version (as there are many) of the mythical fluff bible?
I've got a copy myself from about five years back. Very enjoyable read, and if anything a good primer for a general overview of the 40k background.
I've got a copy myself from about five years back. Very enjoyable read, and if anything a good primer for a general overview of the 40k background.
Nope, most likely that's not going to happen for a very long time yet.
Confession : I bought ultramarines and played around 5-10 hours just to look at the locales in 3d because i had spent a good amount of time sifting through the lexicanum awhile back. I kept playing even though i really wasn't enjoying the game. I saw parts of a titan in 3d! worth! The awesomeness of 40K transcends critical thinking.
questionmark
Member
Misogynist thread. Where are the Sisters of Battle?!
Doesn't seem like an in-depth piece of material for that fight is going to be around any time soon.
However, the whole build up of The Horus Heresy is still very enjoyable!
Back on the Imperial Guard crew ship whore tents.
cj_iwakura
Member
Prior to those ships being purged by fire.
Think of it like Greek fire or Roman concrete (which I know we just rediscovered, but no one knew how to make it forever before that).
cj_iwakura
Member
They are pretty great against xenomorphs.
cj_iwakura
Member
I'd play a Tau game made by From Software. Picture Armored Core: Tau.
For the Greater Good.
For the Greater Good.
Uhhh the Grey Knights and Deathwatch are chambers militant of the Inquisition...
Then of course there's the Red Hunters.
Cosmic Schwung
Member
Loved this take an a female arbite:
But yeah, the soritas are pretty special.
It's funny how rarely they are shown with helmets in the art and on the models when they look so cool with them.
They are part of the Inquisition but aren't lackies to an Inquisitor.
I refuse to believe a Grey Knight goes about doing his thing under the leadership of an Inquisitor. The Deathwatch are just temps who are there to help out Inquisitors because they aren't tough enough to hack it themselves.
Whereas the SoB are beholden to the Ecclesiarchy, which means their basically used by Inquisitors whenever one feels like it.
Nikodemos
Member
None Can Stand Before The Greater Good.
Besides, who doesn't want to run around wrecking shit with ridiculous firepower in a Crisis Suit?
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
Fuck the Creed. Squig brain transplant paves the path to enlightenment.
Cameron122
Member
Is Fire Warrior any good?
Thank you, that was it. Jeez, that's very meta of them. Like the art of getting their ebooks to go straight to iBooks or the Kindle app was lost on a feral world sometime during the age of strife.
But why do the artwork sometimes show a hundred thousand units engaged in ground battle? Do they have some technology that renders weapons of mass destruction useless and the only way to do battle is on the ground or something?
Entire worlds are devoted to certain things like Agriculture, Industry, etc.
You can't just nuke the fuck out of all of them. You have to try and gain back these worlds to fuel your Empire. In a universe where everyone is short on space really, you kind of want to hold on to what you have.
Do the enemies of the imperium reason like this as well? I could probably see some worlds holding value to all involved but there must have been a couple of cases where a big battle ended with a nuke going of from the losing side as there clearly isn't any rules of war in this world.
Little Old Man
Member
The Imperium only tends to go nuclear or worse when things are really going down shit creek without a paddle. Generally with them, it's cheaper to throw millions of Imperial Guardsmen at the problem (clad in tshirts and armed with torches) than use expensive and possibly rare tech that could destroy the planet and render it partly or fully useless.
'Nids want to gobble up all bio-matter on a planet once they've cleared out any resistance.
The Tau want to colonise anything they can.
Orks just want to....be Orks.
Necrons want tomb worlds IIRC.
The Chaos gods want victims or troops to use to their own ends
Eldar want to survive and cling on I guess? Not to sure on their aims or objectives.
So generally the factions have little use in blowing up worlds for shits and giggles, only when necessity dictates it.
The Imperium is considerably more unreasonable than any of the other races. They are stubborn as fuck, and sometimes instead of saving millions of lives by nuking the fuck out the enemy, they will commit to it because there are so many humans, they don't give a fuck.
You'll be surprised how many worlds are considered "worth it" by several races due to a variety of reasons. However, sometimes some insane shit goes down. If the Imperium considers a world too far under Chaos influence they don't just nuke the enemy; the obliterate the entire planet in an act called Exterminatus.
The key thing to take away from all of this is that the Humans are extremely stubborn and don't do shit in a rational manner. The Eldar are up there too with their holier-than-thou shit.
SquiddyCracker
Banned
Fuuuuuuuuu, I spent hours reading up on Wh40k lore D:
The Tau are fucking saints in comparison to the other races.
Their nefarious side is pretty tame imho.
The Tau are fucking saints in comparison to the other races.
Their nefarious side is pretty tame imho.
lol, yes they are. Read up on the aftermath of the first Armageddon War.
e: Page 4 and we're already arguing lore. This thread is gonna go places.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
Does anybody else miss OG Chaos dreadnoughts?
I used to think those things were badass. Lots of fun to paint, too, probably because of their size and shape.
I used to think those things were badass. Lots of fun to paint, too, probably because of their size and shape.
I don't see what you are saying.
They did some stuff under the decree of the Inquisition. They don't follow individual Inquisitor's around as though they were a guard dog. The SoB though are specifically there for the whims of Inquisitors.
It's quite well known that Space Marines like to be beholden to their own, and do not get along well with Inquisitor's. They merely tolerate them. However following the the decision of the Inquisition as an organisation is a different thing.
That being said, I remember the GK's first came out and I read about them. I really dislike them, they were just too "amazing" and "powerful" for me. Oh look at me, not even a normal Space Marine can compete, pfft. So I wouldn't be surprised if they asked how how high if an Inquisitor asked them to jump.
I'm open to conceding the point that GK's could be just as under thumb as the SoB, but in my mind currently there's a very different level of standing between a Grey Knight and a Sister of Battle.
Dawn of War cutscenes haven't been posted yet?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJU5kUj6Puo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTjyO_FncE4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJU5kUj6Puo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTjyO_FncE4
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
Really? I'm not as big a fan as most people (damn near every Marine player at my local store has one) but I still think they look pretty cool. Haven't got one myself though because I use the old Bjorn dreadnought as I play SW.