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Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

thank you

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Zudgemud
Mar 1, 2009
Grimey Drawer

D-Pad posted:

LMAO wait until y'all get the emperor's name reveal in Saturnine

It must be Ea-Nasir.

Taerkar
Dec 7, 2002

kind of into it, really

Hugh Mann

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

SardonicTyrant posted:

What the hell was the point of introducing them if they contributed nothing to the setting?

So I’ve never really read much of the HH series (Mechanicum a couple times and maybe parts of some others?), but this fundamentally is my feeling on the whole goddamn series. Even moreso than 40k, the Horus Heresy is a stasis-is-god situation.

Gravitas Shortfall
Jul 17, 2007

Utility is seven-eighths Proximity.


Zudgemud posted:

It must be Ea-Nasir.

Magnus should have just sent him an angry cuneiform tablet

Relevant Tangent
Nov 18, 2016

Tangentially Relevant

SardonicTyrant posted:

Let me see if I get this straight. The cabal are an ancient alien organization that wants Horus to win in a convoluted plan to kill Chaos. They introduce their big plan in Legion, it fails almost immediately by the next book, and the group dies after the Heresy.

What the hell was the point of introducing them if they contributed nothing to the setting?

some people like weird xenos nonsense

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

Immanentized posted:

I laughed because it was basically the neolithic version of "Jim"

I can understand why he didn’t go with ‘Emperor Thag’

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?

Taerkar posted:

Hugh Mann

Now that's a name I can trust!

Taerkar
Dec 7, 2002

kind of into it, really

Relevant Tangent posted:

some people like weird xenos nonsense

"Xenos did it" is the go to excuse of the Imperium.

Angry Lobster
May 16, 2011

Served with honor
and some clarified butter.

Relevant Tangent posted:

some people like weird xenos nonsense

Abnett likes to introduce new weird plot lines that don't go anywhere useful.

Duzzy Funlop
Jan 13, 2010

Hi there, would you like to try some spicy products?
ADB teasing again

Dick Trauma
Nov 30, 2007

God damn it, you've got to be kind.
There is no 40k character name dumber than Lion El'Jonson.

Chemtrailologist
Jul 8, 2007
Kinda surprised Leman Russ made it on to the pages instead of Wolfgang von Ironfrost or something.

pentyne
Nov 7, 2012

Ego-bot posted:

Kinda surprised Leman Russ made it on to the pages instead of Wolfgang von Ironfrost or something.

Is there any pattern to the naming? All the faux-latin high/low Gothic is the typical but then you get the more exotic names for the big name characters.

Plucky Brit
Nov 7, 2009

Swing low, sweet chariot
I'm always amused that a mini-empire clearly styled on classical Rome with names like Marneus and Aeonid is led by a man named Roboute Guilliman.

Hot Dog Day #82
Jul 5, 2003

Soiled Meat

Dick Trauma posted:

There is no 40k character name dumber than Lion El'Jonson.

That’s a good name for sure, but in my Opinion it doesn’t hold a candle to obiwan sherlock clousseau

pentyne
Nov 7, 2012

Hot Dog Day #82 posted:

That’s a good name for sure, but in my Opinion it doesn’t hold a candle to obiwan sherlock clousseau

Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka

Noblesse Obliged
Apr 7, 2012

pentyne posted:

Is there any pattern to the naming? All the faux-latin high/low Gothic is the typical but then you get the more exotic names for the big name characters.

Lionel Johnson is the reason for The Lion i know that

Noblesse Obliged
Apr 7, 2012

Basically Moe Sislak names Primarchs every time he answers the phone at the bar

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord

pentyne posted:

Is there any pattern to the naming? All the faux-latin high/low Gothic is the typical but then you get the more exotic names for the big name characters.

All of them are pulled from difcerent themes and sources with no real rhyme or reason, like so much else of the RT era

Dick Trauma
Nov 30, 2007

God damn it, you've got to be kind.

Hot Dog Day #82 posted:

That’s a good name for sure, but in my Opinion it doesn’t hold a candle to obiwan sherlock clousseau

Hahaha what the gently caress is this? Elon Musk's next child?

Taerkar
Dec 7, 2002

kind of into it, really

pentyne posted:

Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka

He deserves a better name than that.

Marin Karin
Jul 29, 2011

What are you, compared to my magnificence?
The biggest, meanest, most violent monster being named after Margaret Thatcher is really good, though.

MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO
Lion El'Jonson = Lion The Jonson.

The Jonson.

Guyver
Dec 5, 2006

Dick Trauma posted:

Hahaha what the gently caress is this? Elon Musk's next child?

mllaneza
Apr 28, 2007

Veteran, Bermuda Triangle Expeditionary Force, 1993-1952





First edition 40K was metal as gently caress. It's no surprise it took off as fast as it did.

mllaneza fucked around with this message at 01:57 on May 15, 2020

MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO
Is that the same inquisitor who wants to gently caress genestealers?

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

old old 40k is loving weird and great. its like those bad books where the assassins turns into a genestealer that has a vagina. its also interesting seeing stuff before the universe and lore are fully hammered out.

BigShasta
Oct 28, 2010

I've never seen this before, thanks for the uncontrollable laughing fit!

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?

MariusLecter posted:

Is that the same inquisitor who wants to gently caress genestealers?

No, that's Jaq Draco. And he doesn't want to gently caress genestealers, he wants to gently caress a genestealers furry.

Angry Lobster
May 16, 2011

Served with honor
and some clarified butter.
Ian Watson is a treasure.

Dick Trauma
Nov 30, 2007

God damn it, you've got to be kind.

It's taken me about five years to catch up to this thread but I'm glad I did.

Arbite
Nov 4, 2009





MariusLecter posted:

Lion El'Jonson = Lion The Jonson.

The Jonson.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Johnson

Waroduce
Aug 5, 2008
Never Forget!

quote:

Tyranid Terror
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
“We’re going in through its anus,” Biff whooped boisterously. Indeed. Indeed.
What else could that puckered sphincter be, in the white bony hull of the vast, gastropoidal alien
vessel?
The leviathan that loomed ahead seemed a cross between a nautilus and an omnivorous, spacefaring
snail. It was the length of a four-K asteroid, and almost as high where its shell spiralled
upward in a circuit of increasingly small osseous chambers. The shell was bleached chalky by aeons
of radiation.
Even as the armoured Fists, tightly packed into a stretched boarding torpedo, stared at the
forward view-screen in its mount of bronze bones, that sphincter pulsed.
It expelled a quick milky cloud, which the torpedo’s sensors assayed as consisting of bitter
liquid dregs, foul gas, and ashy debris—the fart of a leviathan…
“We’re ramming in through its arse!” Indeed.
As were other Fist-packed torpedoes, aimed at other orifices where the alien hull might prove
vulnerable…
dildo of space marines right up the rear end

quote:

A coccyx of bleached bone jutted into space, bearing the sphincter at its tip like a quartet of
triangular haemorrhoids clutched within bands of livid muscle. Where the heads of these scarlet
protuberances touched, a tiny hole still puffed acidic discharge.
The nose of the torpedo impacted rupturingly in that meatus, wrenching its tissue open,
burrowing deeper convulsively with thrusts of its jets as the Fists clung to stanchions.
The torpedo rocked as a shaped charge on the nose cone erupted, blasting a passageway ahead.
Swiftly the spring-loaded cone itself petalled open, becoming a fourfold hatch pressing fiercely
against the inner anal walls in the manner of a surgical dilator.

Gravitas Shortfall
Jul 17, 2007

Utility is seven-eighths Proximity.


SPACE MARINE is extremely good, yes.

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord
Yeah Space Marine and Inquisition War are both good and powerful

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

forbidden deep lore

Taerkar
Dec 7, 2002

kind of into it, really

Waroduce posted:

Never Forget!

dildo of space marines right up the rear end

It's the required method of entry for any Fist chapter.

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

So I heard people talking about how Apocalypse of the Space Marine Conquests stuff was a solid book and picked it up despite the poor title and generic looking cover


poo poo this is a pretty important book where it confirms the fact that Ecclesiarchy got its doctrine off a loyalist word bearer huh. Also the fact that he was channeling the Emperor to smite the demons as well


Very interested to see what they do with the characters in the future

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peanut-
Feb 17, 2004
Fun Shoe
Listened to the audiobook of that recently, highly recommended for both the lore and the extremely racist White Scars voices.

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