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Xenomrph posted:Refresh my memory, how do Tyranids achieve FTL travel? From the Lexicanum article on the Narvhal quote:A Narvhal is a Tyranid Bio-ship that fulfills the essential role of allowing all the vessels of a Tyranid Hive Fleet to travel faster than light. This ability makes up for a Narvhal ship being small, innocuous, and having almost no weaponry or armour.
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Speaking of nids. https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/06/04/sunday-preview-leviathan-approaches You want some books? Of course ya do! To commemorate the launch of the new edition, there is of course a Black Library book. Leviathan by Darius hinks will come out in both a blinged up Special Edition (2,000 copies) and a regular Hardback, Audiobook and Ebook version. quote:The people of the fortress world Regium are plagued by nightmares of ravenous creatures that Lieutenant Castamon of the Ultramarines 1st Company recognises as the signs of an impending Tyranid invasion, though even he has no idea of the scale of the oncoming catastrophe.    quote:Also included is an introduction by the author and an additional short story, A Vigil for the Prince. This novel will also be available alongside the Special Edition in a regular hardback version and in eBook and audiobook formats. Echoes of Eternity by Aaron Dembski-Bowden will also be available to pre-order in paperback format.  One heads up though if you looking to pre-order any of these, because of the Leviathan box going up for pre-order there's going to be a queuing system on the store.
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Yet another book that makes it pointless to care about the dawn of fire series
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Lol. Even by 40k standards that explanation of how the Tyranids travel between stars is real handwavy.
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Deptfordx posted:Lol. Even by 40k standards that explanation of how the Tyranids travel between stars is real handwavy. very carefully
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How do they do it? Oh, you know, like bugs. Like big space bugs.
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Promo books for specific product release events don't exactly inspire confidence.
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Deptfordx posted:Lol. Even by 40k standards that explanation of how the Tyranids travel between stars is real handwavy. "Somehow". It's very clearly explained!
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Angry Lobster posted:Promo books for specific product release events don't exactly inspire confidence. They're usually forgettable at best
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It'd be cooler if they could enter the warp but protected by the Shadow
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For some reason I thought that tyranids didn't travel faster than light, it took them forever to get somewhere but also hive fleets were so massive that they just couldn't be stopped.
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lonelylikezoidberg posted:For some reason I thought that tyranids didn't travel faster than light, it took them forever to get somewhere but also hive fleets were so massive that they just couldn't be stopped. So massive that the galaxy is being assaulted by the cannibal remnants of what made it across the galactic gulf. That'd be something.
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MariusLecter posted:So massive that the galaxy is being assaulted by the cannibal remnants of what made it across the galactic gulf. That'd be something. I think it's way cooler than the specialized bioship thing.
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Yeah thats what I always thought, they're real slow but theres so many of them, and what we're seeing is the tail end of their 96 million year journey from Andromeda or wherever
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Deptfordx posted:Lol. Even by 40k standards that explanation of how the Tyranids travel between stars is real handwavy. what are you talking about? artificial singularities folding space (or more like scrunching up space) is 10000% more grounded than than the Imperium's method of "literal magic"
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I'm finally reading The Magos after rereading Eisenhorn and Ravenor's omnibuses. I found this exchange funnyquote:‘Off you go,’ said Cherubael. He gave a little wave. ‘Good luck and all that. That is what friends say, isn’t it?’ Excited to get to Pariah and Penitent. I've had Pariah sitting on my shelf since it came out lol. It's going to be interesting to see how it ties to the HH and SoT.
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I read Magos before Pariah and it was fine, honestly it seemed to fit there more naturally anyway
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Biplane posted:Yeah thats what I always thought, they're real slow but theres so many of them, and what we're seeing is the tail end of their 96 million year journey from Andromeda or wherever The thing is that space is Real Big, if they’re traveling sub-light between star systems then humanity has like millennia of advance warning of where they’re going and what planets they’re going to try and eat. They need some kind of FTL for them to be any kind of real threat.
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Yes, but also no. The fact that they were floating between stars would mean it'd be very hard to pick them up until they actually hit the manderville point of each new system. Assuming they're moving close to luminal velocity, they could basically scream in system faster than most could react. After they ate a system, you could make an educated guess what direction that they were going to go, but you wouldn't know for sure because they'd kill any thing trying to watch them.
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Calax posted:Yes, but also no. Sure, but if they’re going less than FTL, after the first attack you wouldn’t see another attack for decades to centuries, if not longer. That makes for a somewhat less impactful existential threat. In other news I had some Amazon digital credit to burn so I bought Pariah and Penitent for my kindle, but I’m thinking I’m going to re-read the Eisenhorn and Ravenor trilogies first since it’s been an extremely long time since I read them.
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Xenomrph posted:In other news I had some Amazon digital credit to burn so I bought Pariah and Penitent for my kindle, but I’m thinking I’m going to re-read the Eisenhorn and Ravenor trilogies first since it’s been an extremely long time since I read them.
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Is there a suggested reading order among the Eisenhorn/Ravenor/Bequin books for when I should read Magos? Unrelated but one thing I liked in the 8th edition codexes is that they all had essentially the same galactic map but with faction-specific details picked out. I always thought it was a bit of a missed opportunity that the official Warhammer Community didn’t digitize all of those maps into an interactive website where you could click on filters to see how different factions line up or overlap, etc.
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Xenomrph posted:Is there a suggested reading order among the Eisenhorn/Ravenor/Bequin books for when I should read Magos? Magos has the official reading order for short stories and novels. Get Magos, page in as far as the reading order, read what it says, when it says.
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Xenomrph posted:Is there a suggested reading order among the Eisenhorn/Ravenor/Bequin books for when I should read Magos? I thought they literally did that recently
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I read the series Eisenhorn trilogy, Ravenor trilogy, Magos, Bequin and it seemed to come together fine for me, didn't realise that was wrong
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DaysBefore posted:I read the series Eisenhorn trilogy, Ravenor trilogy, Magos, Bequin and it seemed to come together fine for me, didn't realise that was wrong It's not that big a deal, but if you read Magos before pariah you'll know going in that Eisenhorn is a full on sorcerer now.
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wiegieman posted:It's not that big a deal, but if you read Magos before pariah you'll know going in that Eisenhorn is a full on sorcerer now. I think he crossed that boundary long before that. If not when he made his first Daemonhost, then it was at the latest when he remotely puppeteered a corpse and made it focal point of a localized warp rift to take out Pontius Glaw's daughter.
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The Bee posted:I thought they literally did that recently Oh poo poo, can you link it?
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Xenomrph posted:Oh poo poo, can you link it? Yeah, I've seen the different versions and they're very neat, but I haven't seen one where you can toggle between the overlays.
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sharknado slashfic posted:Eisenhorn did nothing wrong Cherubael on the other hand...
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Black Griffon posted:so Dantioch and Polux definitely explored each other's bodies yeah The real question is which of the primarchs are cut and which are uncut
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:The real question is which of the primarchs are cut and which are uncut Russ' foreskin was eaten by wolves
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