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The only thing that disappoints me about this game is that they don't run into a Space Wolves squad and we get to watch as the Rookie slowly dissolves into a tirade about how the Codex is law and that they should hew more closely to Rowboat's greatness. Basically what I'm saying is that most 40k games can be improved by the addition of Space Wolves.
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Any chaos demons that show up have a very high chance to be Khornite just because "Big red angry X" is easily identifiable as a demon. Conversely though most of the time the armies of Chaos are lead by Sorcerers, which Khorne does not like in any way. It gets even weirder when you have Chaos Psykers summoning Khorne demons in the DOW games.
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Apr 21, 2014 05:17
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It's also named after Leman Russ, Patriarch of the Space Wolves. Who beat the Emperor in an Eating Contest, then a Drinking Contest, before challenging him to a straight up fist fight. The Emperor was wearing a power gauntlet.
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Apr 22, 2014 07:51
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yeah, Astartes bolters are bigger than 'normal' bolters. They've also got more powerful ammunition and I think less recoil reduction because the astartes don't need it. There are bolters that are usable by normal unmodded human beings they're just rare and expensive.
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Apr 23, 2014 04:36
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Yeah, if the Gray Knights can still be considered loyal after slaughtering a Sorotitas convent and bathing in their blood to 'anoint themselves' the Blood Ravens at large are fine.
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Apr 23, 2014 20:41
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The Imperium of man uses the realm of chaos as a go-between for their faster than light travel. So it can be faster or slower depending on how Chaos is feeling that day and if their gellar fields are up to snuff. I think one of the Dark Heresy storyteller supplements says "Warp drives travel at the speed the plot needs them to."
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Apr 23, 2014 21:08
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Cradok posted:Old Necron wouldn't, their whole goal was the exterminate every living thing. I... just... what? I know they retconned the Necron but this is completely out of character for everything I've ever read about both the Necrons and the Blood Angels. Onmi posted:Oh Matt Ward... I'm not gonna get into anything just... Oh Matt Ward. How does Ward still have a job?
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Apr 24, 2014 20:55
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Coolguye posted:Newcrons are supposed to be a lot closer to the Khemri of Warhammer Fantasy, which are a lot less implacable than the Oldcrons, who were basically just a zombie apocalypse with really big guns. That was a high-level decision, so I doubt Ward or any other weirdo they have at GW had much to say about that. We can still blame him for the Dreadknight though, right? Iny posted:You clearly don't know just how much they retconned the Necrons! The new ones are astoundingly out-of-character for everything you've ever read about them. If that's the case I'm surprised they didn't go full on GW and just have a new faction come in and kill off the necrons in universe forcing everyone to use the new codex and buy new models.
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Apr 24, 2014 21:07
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It's the fake 4chan Chapter the Angry Marines.
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Apr 25, 2014 16:43
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Jimmy4400nav posted:On the other hand the Sisters have a pretty rad theme song They were super fun to play in the first Dawn of War, along with the Necrons, it's a pity neither of them made it into DOW2.
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Apr 25, 2014 22:08
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Yeah, the Thousand Sons are amongst my favorite traitor legions because 1) Lots of Sorcerers = lots of fun magic and 2) They basically all got universally hosed over Tzneetch being Tzneetch and Ahriman being an idiot. Magnus is the way he is now because Tzneetch literally left him no other choice. Angron and the world eaters were doomed because the Emperor took a man who wanted to die and forced him to live and then told him to craft a legion in his own image. What precisely did you think was going to happen, man?
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Apr 25, 2014 22:46
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I love how it took the Necrons this long to think "Hey, I mean, we've got all this buried tech all over the planet... why don't we just smack some engines on the back?" It's also somewhat unique in that the AdMech actually salvage alien tech to study it.
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Apr 28, 2014 22:43
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Night10194 posted:This is like the one and only time Khorne has ever managed to sound like anything you should take seriously as an enemy, ever. Yeah, that bit at the end when he starts screaming is amazing. They definitely upped their voice actor budget for Chaos Rising and Retribution. Even the people who sound dead and lifeless are supposed to sound dead and lifeless.
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Zain posted:One thing I've always wondered. Most Tech Priests outfit themselves with a lot of mechanical parts, but are still considered human. But at what point does it stop or does it stop? They could in theory transplant themselves into a full machine and become what is essentially an A.I. As long as there is even a scrap of a human brain involved at some point, it's A:OK with the inquisition.
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BottledBodhisvata posted:I am immensely interested in a race called the Longshank. They're just people with very long legs. venom3053000 posted:yeah but trying to list even most of them would have taken a long time so I went with the best knew I find it odd that there is a planet named "Carlos McConnell" and it's only known feature is that it's inhabited by mutant catpeople. I wonder if that's some fluff writer getting back at someone he doesn't like.
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Apr 30, 2014 22:30
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According to that the planet came first and then the character.
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Apr 30, 2014 22:39
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Crigit posted:What I'm hearing is that all space marines are riddled with prion diseases. Nope because they can also spit acid and eat uranium.
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e: ^  warhammer651 posted:when the emperor focuses on making supersoldiers that can survive in every possible environment he does NOT gently caress around. http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Creation_of_a_Space_Marine This isn't even getting into the chapter geneseeds that have mutations, the Blood Angels chapters all have a bunch of mutated implants in there geneseed that turn them into vampires, and the Space Wolves geneseed has an addition known as the Canis Helix that has the unfortunate side effect of turning you into a werewolf if you aren't badass enough.
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May 1, 2014 00:51
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Running theories are either that he was some kind of living divinity, or that he was such a powerful psyker that he simply willed his body to stop aging.
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Wellll Chaos and Xenos have large amounts of intersection. Oh come now, they just want to give you hugs, horrible plague infested hugs.
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MechanicalTomPetty posted:Then you have the Space Wolves, who are to date one of the only chapters to tell the Inquisition to get hosed and get away with it. Leading to the inevitable confrontation when the Black Templars run into the Space Wolves and start badmouthing their Kurieg fucked around with this message at 06:10 on May 15, 2014 |
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To be fair, they're kind of glossing over how monumentally Magnus hosed up. The Thousand Sons had the largest amount of Psykers of any of the legions, by a fairly large margin. Concidentally, the thousand-sons were also subject to a random mutation known as the flesh change where they would start growing extra arms or turning blue and stuff like that. Unfortunately there was a Flesh Change manifestation during a joint Thousand Sons/Space Wolves operation Russ thought this was because they were Psykers and therefore automatically using Sorcery, when it was more likely it was Tzeench loving with Magnus because that was his favorite hobby at the time. Russ went to the Emperor and told him what was going on, and the emperor held the Council of Nikaea where he tried Magnus in absentia and outlawed the use of Psychic Powers by the Astartes. Magnus wasn't too happy about this, particularly since at the same time he started having visions of Horus falling to chaos and killing the Emperor. First he tried to shield Horus from the warp psychically, and when that didn't work.. well. quote:To a colossus of such psychic power and personal vanity as Magnus, using a succession of intermediaries as communicators (the normal method of galactic communication) seemed too slow and unlikely to be convincing enough; Magnus was, after all, about to tell the Emperor that his favourite son and chief lieutenant aimed to overthrow him. So, to Magnus, the most obvious thing to do was to use his abilities to appear directly to the Emperor, not only allowing the essential truth of his news to be communicated, but also showing his father how skilled he was and how right he was to advocate the use of the complex psychic techniques that (to Magnus) lesser minds referred to as sorcery. Magnus therefore undertook a great psychic journey, transmitting his astral self into the very Warp, breaching a conduit of the Eldar Webway (unknowingly allowing daemons to enter behind him), and finally forcing open and passing through the very gate of the nascent Imperial Webway itself, appearing in astral form in the Imperial Dungeon. This action, which Magnus believed would vindicate him in the eyes of the Emperor, had damned him. By using psychic techniques, he had betrayed the wishes of the Emperor, and his very actions betrayed the Emperor's hopes. Not only had Magnus's breaching of the Webway and the Imperial Gate to it irrevocably damaged the technology, killed thousands in related accidents and psychic flashpoints and left the Imperial Palace open to warp intrusion, but his choice and manner of doing so had forever removed him from the Emperor's plan to crown Magnus himself upon the Golden Throne, to act as guardian and guide to Humanity as they moved into the Webway. As the Emperor turned to regard Magnus sadly, the Primarch of the Thousand Sons achieved horrified understanding of this doom in an instant, and vanished. Russ tried to contact Magnus to bring him in without a fight but Magnus had intentionally blocked all communication to the planet so that his men wouldn't get advance warning of the attack and try and fight back. Ahriman found out about this, realized that the Thousand Sons were damned if they did and damned if they didn't. So he countermanded Magnus' order and started attacking the Space Wolves in orbit. Basically Tzeench really REALLY wanted his own pet Space Marine legion and Ahriman is an amazingly stupid individual.
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What did Mortarion do? I know that Ahriman was the one who did the Rubric which finally convinced Magnus to throw himself fully behind Tzeench.
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The thousand sons aren't all that numerous anymore unless you count Rubric Marines as people. Every sorcerer that dies is one less person capable of actually leading their army into battle.
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May 16, 2014 00:27
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That looks like a Cygnar Warjack from Warmachine.
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May 16, 2014 17:55
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If White Dwarf is correct, it's Vulkan. Also, while browsing Lexicanum to learn more about the Titan legions, I found something familiar. 
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Random blabber posted:*cue 5 hour sequence in which every single member of the Blood Raven's helps steal a weapon's vault from an Admech casino This sounds like the best Deathwatch game ever.
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May 18, 2014 08:47
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It would be a pretty hilarious way to announce Relic's involvement in the game to have them put up a vote and then have the Blood Ravens show up and
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May 19, 2014 16:16
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Brainamp posted:The Thousand Sons don't get a lot of showing in video games. There's not even a pattern for them in Space Marine's customizer. Well, they probably wouldn't make much sense from a lore perspective because unless you're a Sorcerer, you're just a pile of barely sentient dust in a vacuum sealed suit waiting for a TSuns sorcerer to come around and tell you what to do.
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I'm beginning to think he chose a Titan Manufactorum because they wouldn't Exterminatus it the minute they found out what he was doing. If it's too valuable to destroy it shields him from his inevitable punishment for being the stupidest man in existence.
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