As an eldar player, you eventually just have to understand that you can just lie to your opponent and say you have bright lances. They can't tell the difference because they're probably playing Marines.
I actually just bought it right as I read this. I needed a white to be able to paint over mistakes on my white primer and this one i heard was the best so.
For a very split second I thought these were Minotaurs because all I saw were the pics. My shame is unfathomable.
kill yourself, respectfully.
Lookin better and better bucko. Careful not to gas yourself out, a lot of new painters will get super into it until they get burnt out.
Yeah I'm finishing the kill team I got and taking a break. Though the game store near me has really good deals on used-minis. They had a full squad of preprimed Space Marine Infiltrators for 20 dollars. Some of them are pre-painted but a lot of them are just primed white, gray or black.
Yep, like I said space marines can be had for dirt cheap because there's just so many of them included in so many bundles. It's not uncommon to find someone with 8,000 points of their primary army, 4,000 points of a secondary army, maybe started another project with 2,000 points of a third army, and probably has another 2,000 points of fucking space marines sitting around on sprues if they haven't tried to get rid of them. Every edition launch box, the Hachette magazines, people getting them as prizes at events, random friend handing things off because they've got piles of them for any number of the previously mentioned reasons.
I'm gonna look into getting an airbrushed
Already? Well, they're definitely useful. The Gaahleri GHAD-39 is like $45, goes on sale for around $35. Costs less than Iwata and Badger, works great, isn't a fiddly mess with the nozzle, and can do detail work as long as you've got enough trigger practice. Beyond that any decent compressor and a hose.
I got this one of these, it's pretty neato for apartment use:
An airbrush is great for priming miniatures, zenithal highlighting and base coats. Its a great purchase if you feel like you need one already. I recommend looking at vince's videos about airbrushing since there is a lot of tricks to using one.
It is all very disjointed mostly because 40k is not a linear story, but more of a setting with some storylines. To get the gist of it i would recommend you get a PDF of any core rule book which even when ignoring the rules act as a great introduction to the setting and all its pieces.
The collective unconscious of all life has a knock on effect of creating a plane of existence called the Warp. The Warp doesn't obey the laws of physics, does not exist at any point in time, and the things in it are not truly living, but they exist all the same. When an idea or emotion becomes resonant enough in realspace it becomes reflected in some way in the Warp, be it the Chaos gods or Faith in the emperor of mankind. Almost all the "magic" in 40k is warp based, as in the technology is designed to interface with the warp, or it is directed by living creatures who have a connection to it. Ships need warp travel tech because the imperium cannot feasibly run at scale without it. It is the reason why the Emperor's corpse is so important, he is the beacon by which those ships navigate through the warp.
Humanity had a really huge galactic empire, it fell apart because of a knockoff butlerian jihad (Dune) where the Ai's tried to wipe out humanity. This resulted in everyone being stranded from one another. The Emperor arose from a mad max style techno barbarian wasteland Earth in 29k and started putting the pieces back together. After he got Earth under control he made the space marines so that they could go out into space and unite humanity. He made big boss marines in tubes called Primarchs for each of the 20 legions but they got superman baby capsuled through the warp and sent to different planets. He started going out into space to unite humanity, all the while discovering the lost baby primarchs who grew up into Demigods. Horus is implied to be the first Primarch (Lunar Wolves) he found while out on his Great Crusade. Horus eventually graduates to the title of Warmaster (Renames his legion to the Sons of Horus) of all the legions so the Emperor can go back to earth and do other important things, he's a cool dude and everyone loves him. The first legion to fall to chaos (Word bearers) corrupts him. A warcrime is committed againsit many loyalist legions at Isstvan V. Lots of shit happens, primarchs die or transform into daemonic creatures, it leads to Chaos corrupted Horus traveling to Earth to kill the Emperor. Horus Fails but the Emperor is put on life support. The Sons of Horus retreat and rebrand as the Black Legion under Ezekiel Abaddon who was Horus's First Captain.
It was a Daemonic herald//mutated cultist leader of Tzeentch. The funky gray space was a representation of their minds and how easily they can be broken. One marine was bare and naked because he saw his wargear and equipment as greater than himself. Metaurus lived with the fear that he chose a boy who fell to chaos which brought shame and dishonor to the chapter, he could see that when he selected him as a child that he had that savagery which could easily go awry. Titus has no doubts and no regrets and was thus immune. You could also attribute it to his faith in the emperor which has persistently been shown protecting him through the games.
The ball? Could be old Ai going off the golden man they were constructing. Could be alien. Clearly something intelligent hijacking the inquisitorial psyker and the renegade humans. As described above nobody trusts psykers, if one looks like it's going nutts you just execute them before your head pops like a grape, or god knows what else.
Are legions the same as chapters or are they different?
I didn't get this and I saw so many commenting about Titus basically being bored without demons to slay, which is why his headspace displayed that. I didn't get the implications of the other two because there was no dialogue and the visuals were very vague.
Why were the imperium there in the first place and who are those two guys with the forcefields? I figure they are psykers but doesn't look like it. From a surface level I thought the imperium went there to secure the ball but couldn't and got sucked into it. What were the visions sent to the psyker about space Marines being burnt to a crisp?
Space marines were originally in legions. Chaos space marines are largely still legions, with random warbands of various makeup. Loyalist space marines got broken up into chapters and successor chapters. Ultramarines legion became the Ultramarines chapter, and there's 500+ successors for them. Imperial Fists have Black Templars, Crimson Fists, etc. as successor chapters.
You're looking for answers that don't, and likely won't ever exist as the sequel series will likely have nothing to do with it. The Astartes animation is a bunch of cool shit happening on screen, and that's about it.
Precursors to the chapters. The first legion to utilize them were the Word Bearers. After the Heresy the Ultramarine primarch decided anyone with an entire legion under their command couldn't be trusted so he commanded they be split into chapters. Some got to keep their original names, others had to rebrand. If a chapter heralds from a specific legion it means their gene seed matches that legion's primarch.
Yeah tbh the first guy could mean a lot of things, like his duty and job destroying his humanity//soul. Metaurus and Titus are much less ambiguous though since we have context.
The dude they plug into it has the markings of the inquisition, they are sort of like Feds. If you dont pay your taxes or if things aren't running like they should you get audited or worse. Whatever the thing was clearly took over an Imperium ship and crew which affected deadlines, which the inquisition must have taken notice of. Many chapters work for the inquisition even if they dont outright belong to them so it could be that the space marine were conscripted to help with this operation or already do this regularly.
I thought most of the games and movies are based off existing lore, in a more linear sense like star wars or marvel.