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Forgetful Gynn said:
My leviathan was mostly useless again, every time it pokes its head out its range is too short or it starts taking focus fire. Gonna give it at least one more chance before I shelf it.
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I wonder if a Dreadblade SuperHeavy detachment with a couple of War Dogs would be more useful there. Karnivores for fast melee or Brigands for decent ranged threats wouldn't be terrible. You would need to spend a bit more on them, but they're pretty fierce and you'd be giving your opponent multiple threats (that can move independently) to worry about. Karnivores in particular are absolute buzzsaws against all targets and have a pretty wide threat range.
 
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WhatInTheActualFuck said:
I wonder if a Dreadblade SuperHeavy detachment with a couple of War Dogs would be more useful there. Karnivores for fast melee or Brigands for decent ranged threats wouldn't be terrible. You would need to spend a bit more on them, but they're pretty fierce and you'd be giving your opponent multiple threats to worry about. Karnivores in particular are absolute buzzsaws against all targets and have a pretty wide threat range.
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Some people have gone for that but either they're not that good or they cost too much CP because I haven't seen a list with them win an event. I do plan to get them eventually, just because I want some Knights.

If I change anything about the list in the short term I'll probably just add more rubrics and another sorcerer. Putting warpflamers on all 3 rubric squads did make my friend very apprehensive about getting close.
 
WhatInTheActualFuck said:
Magnus was just too smart (and too self-important as a result) for his own good.
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TS: "Ha ha, our cunning plan has totally ensnared those Space Puppies. There's no way they'll be able to figure out how to escape from our clutches now!"
SW: "Well, shit, this is a cunning plan we're in. Time to do something totally stupid they'd never anticipate us doing and then use brute force to smash our way through."

Not joking. In one of the SW novels their cunning plan to strike at the Sorcerers orchestrating the whole thing is... take a ship into the Warp with its Gellar fields disabled. Its not quite as stupid as it sounds since reality and the Warp were kinda blending together at the moment so the Warp was just a bit more solid than it usually is, but you know, that's still a pretty big "Hold my Mjod" moment regardless.
 
Snekposter said:
TS: "Ha ha, our cunning plan has totally ensnared those Space Puppies. There's no way they'll be able to figure out how to escape from our clutches now!"
SW: "Well, shit, this is a cunning plan we're in. Time to do something totally stupid they'd never anticipate us doing and then use brute force to smash our way through."

Not joking. In one of the SW novels their cunning plan to strike at the Sorcerers orchestrating the whole thing is... take a ship into the Warp with its Gellar fields disabled. Its not quite as stupid as it sounds since reality and the Warp were kinda blending together at the moment so the Warp was just a bit more solid than it usually is, but you know, that's still a pretty big "Hold my Mjod" moment regardless.
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that's what I think is cool about the space wolves just no shits given. They literally fought an underwater tau base by driving their land raiders on the ocean floor once
 
Second Missing Primarch said:
Henry Zou did a book called Flesh and Iron that included amphibious Imperial Guard troops and an actual blue-water naval force, but then it turned out he'd plagiarized parts of the book from an Iraq War memoir and GW pulled damnatio memoriae on him when they got sued over it. There was also a Ciaphas Cain short story that had him doing Die Hard on an ocean liner, but other than that I can't think of any books that deal with the concept, which is kind of a shame.
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There was also the water planet in Predator, Prey that the Orks attack.
 
Second Missing Primarch said:
Henry Zou did a book called Flesh and Iron that included amphibious Imperial Guard troops and an actual blue-water naval force, but then it turned out he'd plagiarized parts of the book from an Iraq War memoir and GW pulled damnatio memoriae on him when they got sued over it. There was also a Ciaphas Cain short story that had him doing Die Hard on an ocean liner, but other than that I can't think of any books that deal with the concept, which is kind of a shame.
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Ngl I enjoyed Henry Zou's books. He had a knack for creating good villains; the Blood Gorgons are great, they have convincing motivations, a cool niche and a unique way of operating. The lronclad manage to be army of regular Human cultists that are fucking terrifying and arguably more badass than the Blood Pact. The Carnibales were probably the worst of his baddies and they actually come from the book with the sections he plagiarized, they still had cool half-possessed troops though and the Sororitas in that book were fucking unhinged too.
 
You will never be a real Astartes. You have no Occulobe, you have no Sus-an Membrane, you have no Black Carapace. You are a mortal man twisted by drugs and surgery into a crude mockery of the Emperor’s perfection.

All the “validation” you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back the legions mock you. Your Primarch is disgusted and ashamed of you, your “battle-brothers” laugh at your ghoulish appearance behind closed doors.

Space Marines are utterly repulsed by you. Hundreds of years of adhering to the Imperial Creed have allowed Astartes to sniff out heretics with incredible efficiency. Even augmented humans who “pass” look uncanny and unnatural to an Astartes. Your bone structure is a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to get a Space Marine with wavering faith to join your warrior lodge, he’ll turn tail and bolt the second he gets a whiff of your vile, corrupting heresy.

You will never be happy. You wrench out a sallow grimace every single morning and tell yourself it’s going to be ok, but deep inside you feel the Chaos corruption creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight.

Eventually it’ll be too much to bear - you’ll requisition a bolt pistol, load it, put it against your skull, and administer to yourself the Emperor's Peace. Your Primarch will find you, heartbroken but relieved that he no longer has to live with the unbearable shame and disappointment. He’ll bury you with a headstone dedicating you to the Ruinous Powers, and every passerby for the rest of eternity will know a heretic is buried there. Your body will decay and go back to the dust, and all that will remain of your legacy is a skeleton that is unmistakably unaffected by the Ossmodula.

This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back.
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Power Glove said:
How they keep giving this man projects is beyond me. Every author working on W40K has their misses at times, but if I'll take a Graham McNeill or Chris Wraight novel any day of the week and regret reading the few Thorpe novels I had laying around my bookcases, with the one exception of Angels of Darkness, just because it had a cute attempt at a Gotcha! moment regarding Istvaan III.

The last two novels I bothered to read and actually fairly enjoyed was firstly Honourbound by Rachel Harrison, because I am more inclined to read a book about a badass commissar then yet another god angels of the Emperor, blessed he His name and all that nonsense. Secondly Celestine by Andy Clark. Nothing special, but still enjoyable to read.
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The only book that I enjoy by him, is Deliverence lost, as Big E was shown as not being a complete fuck up and I liked his scene with Raven Raven boy. The subplot about the alpha legionary who went deep undercover was cool as well.
Either way, he is a good writer (he wrote the script for Mark of Chaos game back in the day which was decent)
 
I was thinking about finally getting into the Warcry with the upcoming set (since I actually like both the warbands, which has never happened before), but holy crap is it expensive.
 
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