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Flashman is on my bookshelf, but I think I will leave it un-readed. start with Eisenhorn. It's a good standard-ish story about a regular man in the Imperium. So was there a reason you didn't use emergency repairs for either your destroyer or retreating cruiser while they were on fire? Since IIRC it instantly extinguishes it. Veloxyll fucked around with this message at 11:17 on Jan 21, 2017 |
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Kopijeger posted:It's not the fact that they give out tutorial instructions, it is that the wrong officers are doing it. You'd expect the helmsman or whoever to handle Materium navigation, and whoever is in charge of tactical intelligence to dole out tactical advice (probably not the Commissar, whose area of responsibility is keeping the crew in line). Also, pretty sure the Schola Progenium doesn't train their charges for the Navy. The officers seem to be mostly nobles judging from families that have served in the Imperial Navy for generations judging from fluff. The helmsmen are trash tier ratings,. they've got no business talking to an Admiral. Navigators, on the other hand, do understand regular navigation as well as the terrifying nature of the Warp. And maybe Captain Spire likes having someone outside the ranks giving general tactical advice, while his Master-of-Arms actually does the work of implimenting them. The Imperial Navy totally has its own branch of the Commisariat though.
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Kaptain Ireene Skinne of the Totally Legit 'Umie Spacekrooza
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Ramming is super useful, what are you talking about. The Emperor gave our ships armoured prows, and by the Emperor, we will use them! Also the best thing against the Tau. if you can ram them, you win. Dunno if they still have the thing where Tau ships would catch on other vessels so you'd get multiple ramming attacks off on a single pass. To devestating effect. Veloxyll fucked around with this message at 01:48 on Jan 23, 2017 |
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theblastizard posted:Well that's the Tau for you, once you get into their face they really don't do anything Not true. They explode all pretty-like.
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Jan 23, 2017 03:05
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Xarn posted:I remember liking the SP, and then face palming regularly at balance changes for the MP (like, why make orcs worse at ramming than imperials?) Imperials are supposed to be solid at ramming, though maybe not better than Orks, considering the other disadvantages Orks have. (Slow, inaccurate, random, no high speed manuevers, insurbordinate, can't tactically accelerate - the big red button uses the full tank)
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Jan 23, 2017 13:02
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RickVoid posted:I JUST SHAT OUT ANOTHER WARP STORM. WHAT THE gently caress IS AN AELDARI? Apparently they may have advanced the Plot. and The Eldar were ready to summon Ynaed, their Slaneesh killing Death God. Ynaed just needed one more Eldar Soul to materialise. Eldred's. At which point his ego got in the way, and all the Craftworld's soulstones dissipated into the Warp. So now they get to be Aeldari so that GW can trademark it.
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Jan 25, 2017 02:08
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DatonKallandor posted:From what I've read they're very much not Age of Sigmaring it up - for one thing they're releasing new rules and making a game to go along with those plot developments, not tearing it up going "we're not a games company we just sell models and paint figure out the rules yourself". Of course, GW did this through a gameplay contest. So Chaos WON Cadia's ground. But lost the space war so the 13th Crusade's vanguard were stuck under the guns of the Imperial navy and it's kind of hard to mount a galaxy wide campaign of terror when you're stuck on a single world. It's been Astra Militarum for years. Everyone is just used to referring to them as the Imperial Guard, and I think GW aren't pushing quite so hard as they did with AOS. After AOS took Warhammer Fantasy products from the 2nd largest wargame (as Fantasy) to bumfuck no-where with AOS. The Eldar loving up is part of actually breaking into the 42nd Millenium.
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Annointed posted:Wow, Eldrad is a loving moron. GW managed to make one of the most venerated and clever of their race go steal everyone's soulstones, all to create Ynnead, without permission from ANY of the craftworlds. And lost thanks to Deathwatch and Eldrad basically goading Deathwatch. Now I would totally like it if it were that DeathWatch had to go through hell against the most elite and discplined the Eldar had to offer, after all Eldrad isn't so stupid to only have a small troupe of Space Clowns to protect him? Oh wait in this case he is that dumb. With one single event he killed every Eldar's grandmother, aborted Ynnead to be the strength of a Khaine shard. Not Khaine himself, but equal to an Avatar of Khaine, the most clowned on boss unit in the game. All those wraith war machines? Well no soulstones means you can't operate any of this machinery, not to mention Eldar society pretty much lost all unity because again, Eldrad killed all their grandmothers. It was a complete curbstomp. To be fair, the Eldar loving things up by being too smug is PERFECTLY in keeping with their character. Ditto Eldrad himself. The little escort ships are over 2 km long. And it goes up from there.
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Cathode Raymond posted:Sounds like a typical data retrieval mission to me. They are just the worst. I really wish taking the datas put warp engines on a 30s cooldown or something. Also, your fleet is already larger than Battlefleet Koronus. Orks do have Mekboys all about their ships. They don't get Silent Running or High Energy Turns. which makes lining up those tasty rams so much harder. I am surprised you're not getting heavy damage on any of these missions! Veloxyll fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Jan 30, 2017 |
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The Lone Badger posted:Part of it is that the technology is in their genes, part of it is that they're not overly fussed whether they arrive or not so more compact designs are possible. Orky tellyportas are not safer, or more reliable than the other races. Orks are just more willing to risk half the people who go through their tellyporters dying. And are immune to some of the other horrors that the Warp often inflicts on teleporting persons. While the Eldar are probably comparable, they have a much higher risk of getting horribly possessed or eaten by things. So are less inclined to use their teleportation technology. And Orks are still at the 'height' of science and development while the Edlar and Imperium are definitely in decline. So neither are really developing new teleporters. Oh, and the thing is probably the Deciever. One of the Necron gods. Which maybe means that the crusade might not actually be in the best interests of Chaos. Veloxyll fucked around with this message at 10:16 on Jan 30, 2017 |
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Comstar posted:So..err...what was it? I thought the point was to destroy Cadia to err..close the gate I guess? Seeing as the pylons on the planet was what was keeping the area clear of warp stones? It always confuses me how Chaos themselves have to use the Cadian gate. Like. can they not use all their sorcerors and demons to make their own paths out?
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Jan 31, 2017 10:12
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radintorov posted:"When in doubt, RAMMING SPEED!" is the motto of this game. Dont do this as Eldar. Do do this TO Eldar if you can pull it off.
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That was clearly an OOOOLD Republic Frigate from like. KOTOR.
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Cythereal posted:Potentially relevant to 30k/40k nerds, rules and some of the fluff have been leaked for the next 30k book which has rules for the Space Wolves, Thousand Sons, Adeptus Custodes, Sisters of Silence, and some Mechanicum weirdos no one's heard of before or cares about now. *Psitans. Are the Sisters of Silence still inexplicably lead by men?
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Technowolf posted:The Eldar finally managed to get Ynnead, God of the Dead, partially summoned (because Eldar making gods worked out so well the last time), but manage to destroy one of their biggest craftworlds, Biel-tan. The survivors from this - known as the Ynnari because they follow Ynnead, his herald Yvaine, and his avatar the Yncarne - retreat through the webway and meet up with the Imperial forces that fell back after Fall of Cadia. They both then go to Macragge where Yvraine uses her Aeldari magick to heal Big Bobby G. Biel-Tan. The XENOPHOBES. The ones hwo aggressively protect Maiden Worlds because they're Eldar property/creations even though the Eldar haven't colonised normal planets in literally forever.  Shoeless posted:Wait what? I haven't kept up with 40k for the past few years, Cadia fell? The Eldar actually did something? Has hell finally frozen over and GW started moving the plot along? Yeah. It's finally happened.
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Perestroika posted:Yeah, that's what makes the whole thing a tad grating. For years, the whole Ynnead thing has been teased as basically the one possible thing that might allow the Eldar to have an actual victory. Their one chance at redemption, at saving the remnants of their doomed race and all that. Often it has been talked about as the final endgame of their faction, on a similar scale as the Emperor somehow being resurrected, or Chaos actually capturing Terra, or the Orks actually getting all their poo poo together in an unified waaagh. To be fair, they kinda hosed it up. Well, Eldrad kinda hosed it up. Though still, resurrecting a Primarch of the most boring chapter is ugh. or is the terrible secret of GW that Ultramarines are the most popular Spees marines.
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King Doom posted:At this point I wouldn't put it past GW to have one of the two unknown primarchs return, reveal he's an Ork, stop selling every current Ork model and announce the release of a new Adeptus Orks range. Adeptus Orkanicus, 'ere to Krump Gitz! Or should that be Adeptus Orktartes
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Eldar, because fuckin elves, also have (had?) two! End games. Craftworld Eldar: Goal: Collect the souls of the dead, use them to summon Ynnaed to go Kill Slaanesh. Failure: Get eaten by Slaanesh/die out. Status: Eldrad done hosed up and this is a (partial?) failure. Harlequinns: Goal: Reunite the Craftworld and Dark Eldar peoples Failure: Get eaten by Slaanesh/die out. Status: Victory? I think that part of the Aeldari changes include the Dark Eldar and Craftworld Eldar being on the same page now. As for Ork's failure state: An Ork Waaagh penetrated the Eye of Terror and invaded a demon world, and wasw wiped out. The entire Waaagh is resurrected each day to fight demons again. The Orks involved consider this a success. And as for Plasma tech - Imperial Plasma weapons are set to the absolute brink of what they can handle. Which is why they sometimes explode. Tau Plasma weapons are set on incredibly low power relative to Imperial versions.
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Shoeless posted:In the tabletop game, the Tyrant has similar broadside capabilities to the Dominator, but with some of them having better than average range for Imperials, as well as torps. You forget. Space Elves are jerks. Veloxyll fucked around with this message at 05:15 on Feb 16, 2017 |
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akulanization posted:It seems like putting autorepair on for the convoy ships might not be useful since the AI doesn't save it to fight fires. That does seem to be the best time to press auto-repair. Rip that freighter. Da Boyz iz gettin right proppa fitey though.
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Thats a strategy I played around with when I played multiplayer, and ultimately I found that fighters are only really that good against Chaos since they tend to employ the most bombers/assault boats from the get go, and even then you have to know you're up against that. I maintain that bombers/assault boats first is the best play, but not switching earlier was a mistake. The peril in Multiplayer is it also reveals which ship your carrier is. RIP White Base. Or: Herp loses another ship to fires.
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The short range isn't that bad. like 9000 m . So it can coe up that there'll be another opportunity to use it mid-fight.Cythereal posted:Also, the AdMech going gaga for Necrons and getting massacred has been significantly toned down if not completely dropped with the Necron revamp. Now there's nothing super ancient and mysterious about them and they use Warp-based technology in places. The Necrons' whole "doesn't use the Warp at all but are complete masters of material science" thing has fallen by the wayside. Where's the fun in that. The Ad Mech being brain dead when it comes to the Necron tech. But hey, a win's a win. Veloxyll fucked around with this message at 08:39 on Mar 10, 2017 |
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Look, Orky fingz are like Orkz. Dey'z for fitin an winnin! An dat meanz dey get stuck in right proppa wif smashin fases an all dat.
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radintorov posted:Yup, Data Recovery missions are ones where you absolutely want to 100% control when a ship performs a boarding action. The other thing to remember is holofields don't block lightning strikes. So, against Eldar you can, providing you have range, always steal back the data. Herp mocking the Eldar then getting punked by them was beautiful though.
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Chapter 3, Part 2. Another 3 battles followed by a rather dire situation. How dire? It's fine. They 'fixed' it!
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paragon1 posted:Do you accrue less points towards ranking up if you lose? Dunno. I'd say go for it. He has been very arrogant about his enemies. Briefly before getting clowned upon by them. As for the Avatar in Grey's RT LP, it was an Avatar with the number plates filed off. We continued the fine tradition of doing more damage to the party than the enemy did. Veloxyll fucked around with this message at 10:36 on Apr 12, 2017 |
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One fight after the planet went kaboosh I hit rank 8. Then Chaos dunked on me a few times so things aren't looking super great. I didn't quite succeed in Herping the first artifact and my ship blew up at the last second.
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In unrelated news, turns out the Retribution battleship can get hung up on mines. the detonation radius is smaller than the battleship. Nurgle's Battleship got away in part because I lost a quarter of my boost bar to shoving through the mine far enough to make it realise it was explodey time.
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Samovar posted:Oh, Space Orks. Will you ever not be endearingly psychopathic? I hope not. It's what makes them fun. Without the endearing psycopathy, what would be tyhe point/
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White Coke posted:Rogal Dorn isn't dead. Not when GW can sell models of him. One theory is that he survived and went back to Terra to help guard the Emperor. Also, the ship Dorn "died" on was the "Sword of Sacrilege" according the Lexicanum. in the Grimdark Future of the 41st Mileenium, there are only retcons
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Chapter 4, Part 7 where we discuss avenging Rogal Dorn again, fight alongside the sons of Dorn (Obviously the Ultramarines) and have a pop at our erstwhile allies. Herp continues to deliver smugness followed by galling defeat
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Also I suspect that, as well as fleet strength adjustments, bars fill twice as fast on Hard. Since my Eldar/Ork bars are about half full at a similar point on Normal. (I fluffed one of the Inquisitor's missions so lost one of the relics)
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The good Light Crusider Edith Captained by Mr Moon
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Soulstorm as a HIGH mark? METAL BAWXES 50 BANE BLADES SPEES MAHREENS And 2/3 of the fliers.
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The Door Frame posted:SPACE MARINE is surprisingly good. The multiplayer was great, and I'd heartily recommend the singleplayer if it weren't for it being a little too long for its own good The game Space Marine is good. The VO of the Blood Raven commander, on the other hand... I'd call the Eldar thing a bug BECAUSE the icons changed colour.
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VolticSurge posted:Oh,come on. No one is worse than Indrick "Spess Mureens" Boreale. I should have mentioned that I meant the VO for the Space Marine commander in Soulstorm. Which is, indeed, Boreale.
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Aumanor posted:Sorry to say this, but Dorn remains unavenged. The ship aboard which he died was the Sword of Sacrilege, which in this game is th Tzeenchian Nemesis ship. I like how Herp being wrong about which ship Dorn died on is now a thing.
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For more names, we should have the Jupiter 2 under Captain Will Robinson And the Dorn's Vengeance under Captain Claw (I'll get you next time, Dorn Killer!) The word you're looking for with the launched sensor is PROBE. Veloxyll fucked around with this message at 09:46 on May 24, 2017 |
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TildeATH posted:I guess if you can get over the guy on the bottom left constantly spazzing out like a 9 year old. Pretty sure that's a feature, not a bug. If only I could justify the $800 price tag! (because I'd need a rift/vive too)
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