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Night10194 posted:I'm now convinced she's the right person for 40k. Hopefully, she'd kill off Gaunt, Eisenhorn, maybe a few of the more beloved Marines. It would be hilarious. El Estrago Bonito posted:Pretend the Timothy Zahn books are the only EU books ever and call it good. Read the novelization of Episode 1 if you wan't to witness Terry Brooks desperately try and save the plot of that shitpile. Is Truce at Bakura well-received? I kinda liked that novel 
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HiveCommander posted:Can she pull the plug on Guilliman? As much as I dislike Russ for forcing Magnus to go full chaos, Guilliman is the only Primarch I legitimately hate so if she was to write that his stasis thingo malfunctioned and he promptly died I would be most pleased. I think it's called the Thrawn trilogy. It's about how a blue guy can destroy anybody as long as he can study their art. Also star destroyers with magic anti-hyperdrive rays. Also lizard cat ninja race that worships darth vader. And the guy you're thinking of is Master consonantconsonantvowelvowelvowelth. And he's a clone of a clone and haunted by dead jedi who were his friends but hate him now. And also the emperor gets cloned. And Luke meets a secret sort-of-dark-jedi slave of the former emperor who hates him, but then decides he's kind of sexy. And there's a part with furry things that block the force. As an adaptation to avoid being eaten by things that use the force to track their prey. But if you *really* want to be thrilled by the Zahn touch, read his series about japanese space geckos who have an immortality gland in their head which is also how they communicate instantly across stellar space and how radio waves destroy their souls resulting in a war against the humans who have VR goggle wearing fighter pilots who are addicted to being in space because of how great electromagnetic sensations taste through the filter of their metahuman cyberlink. I'm not thrilled with his writing, honestly.
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Sep 5, 2014 04:36
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All of this is just further convincing me these people could write for 40k. They're about the right tone of dumb.
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TheCosmicMuffet posted:I'm not thrilled with his writing, honestly. This is a series whose signature element is magic space samurai fighting with laser swords. Zahn does an excellent job of maintaining that status quo, but his real strength is that the characters all behave in a way consistent with their movie counterparts. From what I've heard, this is largely due to him having put the movies on audio tapes to entertain his kids on road trips - So his Han talks like Harrison Ford because Zahn's heard each line about ten thousand times.
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Ronwayne posted:yeah, grey nights are pretty poo poo. I'm pretty sure that's an ultramarine
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S.J. posted:I'm pretty sure that's an ultramarine Grey knights are still poo poo though.
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Sep 5, 2014 07:50
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S.J. posted:I'm pretty sure that's an ultramarine I don't care if someone beat me to replying to the other guy, what moola said.
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TheCosmicMuffet posted:I think it's called the Thrawn trilogy. It's about how a blue guy can destroy anybody as long as he can study their art. Also star destroyers with magic anti-hyperdrive rays.
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Sep 5, 2014 16:11
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TheCosmicMuffet posted:But if you *really* want to be thrilled by the Zahn touch, read his series about japanese space geckos who have an immortality gland in their head which is also how they communicate instantly across stellar space and how radio waves destroy their souls resulting in a war against the humans who have VR goggle wearing fighter pilots who are addicted to being in space because of how great electromagnetic sensations taste through the filter of their metahuman cyberlink. This actually sounds pretty neat or at least batshit enough to be entertaining on that level.
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Sep 5, 2014 16:35
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Moola posted:Grey knights are still poo poo though. More like gay Knights.
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Sep 5, 2014 17:10
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I'm grey.
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Exinos posted:More like gay Knights. Whoa... Exinos posted:I'm grey. WHOA!
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Exinos posted:I'm grey. 
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Literally The Worst posted:This actually sounds pretty neat or at least batshit enough to be entertaining on that level. Well I certainly read it all. More than once. But if I had good taste, I wouldn't be posting in a GW thread. One thing I do like about his stuff is that it *is* incredibly dorky, but there's no sex for sex's sake. No action scenes for action sake. Minimal convenient Deus Ex machina. However those things are also great at keeping my interest. He really captures the *essence* of how, if you're arguing with your family about religious differences, it's just really uncomfortable conversations punctuated by periods of doing totally unrelated stuff. And his threads! Jesus. He's got all these threads. But it's more like one thread that is frayed in the middle, and then he's trying to repair it in front of you. Though, I will say the conqueror trilogy has an Us/Them/Us And Them narrative perspective that's pretty fun through the 3 books. Damnit! I said I'm not a fan. Stop trying to tease out the nuances of my opinion with your observations, jerk.
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Grey Knights are like someone asked 'how can we make the Doom Marine obnoxious as gently caress' and the answer was 'put a gigantic religious stick up his butt'
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Sep 5, 2014 18:12
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Its more like someone asked, how can we make Ultramarines even lamer? Make them even more perfect!!!!
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On the other hand, just a *little* more perfect, and you get the Emperor's Children. Who are the best legion in all of impedom. humanadome. Fulgrim is here to exterminatus your boredom kids. It's radical (fulgrim appears in an explosion of cartoon thunderbolts and neon squiggles, wearing shades--does a kick-flip off the Tv and presents the children with fruit-flavored gummy tape) Slaanesh! Made with real heretics and combat drugs! (kid stares directly into camer) "AWESOME!"
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Sep 5, 2014 18:19
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I would play hams again if this was the next starter set
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Sep 5, 2014 18:30
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Chill la Chill posted:I would play hams again if this was the next starter set 
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Sep 5, 2014 18:51
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All this Nagash End Times stuff - are they literally ending Warhammer Fantasy?
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Of course not. Look at how long 40k has teetered on the razor's edge of the Imperium's Armageddon.
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Sep 5, 2014 20:46
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moths posted:All this Nagash End Times stuff - are they literally ending Warhammer Fantasy? No they are not.
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Sep 5, 2014 20:47
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Ok, it's been rumored to get poo poo-canned forever and seemed like this might be the sexiest way to pull the plug.
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They might shake up the background a fair bit though. According to he background in the latest book, many of the empires and nations are destroyed, maybe leading to a more post-apocalyptic themed game setting.
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Not a viking posted:They might shake up the background a fair bit though. According to he background in the latest book, many of the empires and nations are destroyed, maybe leading to a more post-apocalyptic themed game setting. Clearly just an opportunity to shoe-horn in more skulls.
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Chill la Chill posted:I would play hams again if this was the next starter set I was really bored today...
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moths posted:All this Nagash End Times stuff - are they literally ending Warhammer Fantasy? It mostly just sounds like an attempt to make Fantasy closer in tone to 40k.
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Night10194 posted:It mostly just sounds like an attempt to make Fantasy closer in tone to 40k. The term is grimdarkening
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It's not a good change. Grimdark has never been anything but a pejorative.
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TheCosmicMuffet posted:On the other hand, just a *little* more perfect, and you get the Emperor's Children. Perfection on both sides 
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Moola I wish you lived near me, we could pay 30 gay together and slam ham after drinking lots of beer. Naturally I would play the homoerotic space elves
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enri posted:Clearly just an opportunity to shoe-horn in more skulls. This, seriously. Just look at the new mount. There are 3 separate heroes on this: http://www.games-workshop.com/en-EU/Arkhan-the-Black (also, the spirits and tail mounting, both of which are probably gonna break the first time you transport it. Great job GW, but not enough, Wyrd had set the bar really high as far as untransportable models go).
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Pierzak posted:This, seriously. Just look at the new mount. There are 3 separate heroes on this: To be fair, if there is any faction where skulls are actually called for, it's undead. Who are literally walking skeletons.
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Yes. On the heads. Skull and bone ornaments are OK as well. But cramming a metric fuckton of skulls as filling of the whole beast seems either lazy, or that GW has learned of the "Warhammer = skulls" thing and is trying a self-aware parody.
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BULBASAUR posted:Moola I wish you lived near me, we could pay 30 gay together and slam ham after drinking lots of beer. Naturally I would play the homoerotic space elves  
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Pierzak posted:Yes. On the heads. Skull and bone ornaments are OK as well. But cramming a metric fuckton of skulls as filling of the whole beast seems either lazy, or that GW has learned of the "Warhammer = skulls" thing and is trying a self-aware parody. You should be impressed. Nagash has found a way to power his engines of war without a dependence on Araby oil but rather using clean burning skulls which are the most abundant natural resource in the Warhammer world.
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BULBASAUR posted:Moola I wish you lived near me, we could pay 30 gay together and slam ham after drinking lots of beer. Naturally I would play the homoerotic space elves Does that mean Moola is going to play the transerotic Slaanesh army, or the furerotic Space Wolves with anatomically correct sheaths?
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Motherfucker, for a moment I thought someone made a  emote.You got my hopes up, man 
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HiveCommander posted:Motherfucker, for a moment I thought someone made a Well you could always be that someone!
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