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Warhammer 40k – Imperium

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Just got that emailed to me. Now available for preorder in the US. Haven't seen pricing. (E: $14 a month, $17 for "premium' instead. Edit 2: Not month. WEEK. So $56 a month or $68 for premium?)

It's that monthly magazine with random 40k stuff to build.
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I'm subscribing to this, but only because I'm retarded.
 
Some interesting interpretations of both the Admech and The sisters of Battle I found on Tumblr.
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FUTUREMAN said:
Some interesting interpretations of both the Admech and The sisters of Battle I found on Tumblr.
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Tell me you don't understand anything about 40k without telling me you don't understand anything about 40k.

Every Imperium faction except MAYBE the Guard and Custodes are religious as fuck. The Marines literally brainwash themselves to become fanatics. The Sisters are literally the nuns, they wouldn't give two squirts of piss about technology. And the AdMech would literally go to war to stop them from embracing the sin of "innovation" and "understanding."
 
Inquisitor_BadAss said:
You’re better off just buying the issues you want.
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I agree but honestly I have enough disposable income for the non-premium version to fit me pretty well. I get marines and necrons to fill out my forces, with a few sisters for my wife and admech things too, plus I get it delivered to me.

I am still retarded for subscribing but it's also a decent deal for people like me specifically.
 
HTTP Error 404 said:
Tell me you don't understand anything about 40k without telling me you don't understand anything about 40k.

Every Imperium faction except MAYBE the Guard and Custodes are religious as fuck. The Marines literally brainwash themselves to become fanatics. The Sisters are literally the nuns, they wouldn't give two squirts of piss about technology. And the AdMech would literally go to war to stop them from embracing the sin of "innovation" and "understanding."
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Well the post is considered to be just a cool idea.
Besides, isn't irony a somewhat big thing in 40k?
 
HTTP Error 404 said:
Tell me you don't understand anything about 40k without telling me you don't understand anything about 40k.

Every Imperium faction except MAYBE the Guard and Custodes are religious as fuck. The Marines literally brainwash themselves to become fanatics. The Sisters are literally the nuns, they wouldn't give two squirts of piss about technology. And the AdMech would literally go to war to stop them from embracing the sin of "innovation" and "understanding."
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Guard are pretty into it, as much at least as marines. Even Custodes are more into it than they were at 30k, though more in a philosopher way than a zealot's.

Sisters of battle got zero scientific knowledge beside some medicine.

Telling them to invent advanced stufd would be trying to get Jack the squad medic to redo Manhattan project.

But the Admech is a weird combo of both. Why they do prefer STC, when pressed, they will do the dirty research.

I think it is not that illogical. If you got old technology, that was propably invented with super AIs's help, that is barely understood and can be very destructive, you mess around it with caution if you must.

Over time that becomes dogma.
This would also explain the cybernetic fascination. If you can't have AI that you need to do this super hard science with, you become the computer yourself.

So the Mechanicus make for good engineers and scientists, but the nature of their environment, lot of unstable, sometimes irreplacable stuff that is barely understood, and design flaws being a doorway to the Warp, is really something that you don't want if you need to innovate.
 
Inquisitor_BadAss said:
You’re better off just buying the issues you want.
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I'm not even sure that's an option in the US. We didn't even get the last run of magazine, and from what I've seen, through this subscription is the only way to get it.

There is also some fuckery in the US. The UK site says you get a binder to hold the magazines for free at each quarter. The US you'll get charged $10 when that part of the subscription comes up.

I've subscribed cause the first month is $27 shipped. That's pretty good for a royal warden blade guard lt, and 3 necron warriors, assault intercessor, and skorpech destroyers.

After that I'll see if I continue, next month is weaker with Necron Overlord(a better sculpt than starter box at least imo), new primaris captain, easy build flame storm aggressors and 4 paints.
 
You guys are really getting screwed over. Next week I get to buy a unit of 5 flayed ones for £9 but I did have to scramble to grab 2 copies of issue 4 so I could get my full sized unit of Skhorpek Destroyers.
 
HTTP Error 404 said:
Tell me you don't understand anything about 40k without telling me you don't understand anything about 40k.

Every Imperium faction except MAYBE the Guard and Custodes are religious as fuck. The Marines literally brainwash themselves to become fanatics. The Sisters are literally the nuns, they wouldn't give two squirts of piss about technology. And the AdMech would literally go to war to stop them from embracing the sin of "innovation" and "understanding."
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Yeah, it sounds basically like unironic "girls wuv da science" Riri Williams stuff.
 
Inquisitor_BadAss said:
You guys are really getting screwed over. Next week I get to buy a unit of 5 flayed ones for £9 but I did have to scramble to grab 2 copies of issue 4 so I could get my full sized unit of Skhorpek Destroyers.
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In general we do by GW, with a mark up well over conversion rates. I don't think it's until the 4th month that is really getting into not worth the cost territory for me.

Don't know the second half, but the first two issues are both 5x Skitari rangers. I'm planning on getting a Necron and SM army out of this, so some Mechanicus niggers in the middle of a let down. I'm sure there will be a lot of people trying to resell them bringing down third party prices too.

I'm probably in for the first 3. I want a Phobos Librarian, love the new Flayed ones, definitely will use 10 more warriors and 3 now scarabs. The double terrain is ok, I haven't made any terrain yet and want to. The real bummer is 8 more assault intercessors after the 3 we already got. Not what I want for my army, but I'll probably still paint some of them for the 5 I got in my starter painted.
 

Holy shit.

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New Shield Host: The Emperor's Chosen. This is the default, "not in a shield host" shield host. And they use the 40k Custodes color scheme I was trying to remember from the lore -- black cloth bits to express their shame and everything else is fuck you gold. Christ. This isn't dissimilar to what I was thinking from a few pages back (but I was thinking more black on the armor).

And it's traits are..

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Reroll one roll / wound roll each time they attack and a special 4+ armor save on top of every other armor save they have. So armor, invuln, and special golden fuck-you-invuln. This is their DEFAULT MODE. Fuck.

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Each shield host gets a special fighting style they can pick BOTH stances for once per battle.

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Dread Host, for example, can do BOTH stance 1 and 2 once per fight, and then do one of the two the next turn. And apparently Dread Host is now your anti-horde faction. (I'm guessing Shadowkeepers is the anti-tank faction maybe?)

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Aquilian Shield gets heroic intervention, same as before, but they also ignore AP-1 shots.
 
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Holy shit.

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New Shield Host: The Emperor's Chosen. This is the default, "not in a shield host" shield host. And they use the 40k Custodes color scheme I was trying to remember from the lore -- black cloth bits to express their shame and everything else is fuck you gold. Christ. This isn't dissimilar to what I was thinking from a few pages back (but I was thinking more black on the armor).

And it's traits are..

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Reroll one roll / wound roll each time they attack and a special 4+ armor save on top of every other armor save they have. So armor, invuln, and special golden fuck-you-invuln. This is their DEFAULT MODE. Fuck.

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Each shield host gets a special fighting style they can pick BOTH stances for once per battle.

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Dread Host, for example, can do BOTH stance 1 and 2 once per fight, and then do one of the two the next turn. And apparently Dread Host is now your anti-horde faction. (I'm guessing Shadowkeepers is the anti-tank faction maybe?)

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Aquilian Shield gets heroic intervention, same as before, but they also ignore AP-1 shots.
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>me solar watch can advance and charge


HAHA, THA SPEED KANGS.
 
Dear god, that Emperor's Chosen is a stupid easy paint scheme. Solid gold armor, red-brown leather, and black tassel, plume, and undersuit. Doesn't even have the different colored pauldrons and faceplate. Glorious Golden Rape Machines.

Edit: Looks like they skipped painting the gems, too. Just left them solid gold, like large studs. Edit2: Oh, nope, I see it now. Very dark, not-gemlike, red color?
 
HTTP Error 404 said:
Dear god, that Emperor's Chosen is a stupid easy paint scheme. Solid gold armor, red-brown leather, and black tassel, plume, and undersuit. Doesn't even have the different colored pauldrons and faceplate. Glorious Golden Rape Machines.

Edit: Looks like they skipped painting the gems, too. Just left them solid gold, like large studs. Edit2: Oh, nope, I see it now. Very dark, not-gemlike, red color?
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It looks like the scheme they used for the Prospero box set, a more muted gold and the like.

It’s pretty much 30k Custodes, with a black skirt.
 
Male Idiot said:
Guard are pretty into it, as much at least as marines. Even Custodes are more into it than they were at 30k, though more in a philosopher way than a zealot's.

Sisters of battle got zero scientific knowledge beside some medicine.

Telling them to invent advanced stufd would be trying to get Jack the squad medic to redo Manhattan project.

But the Admech is a weird combo of both. Why they do prefer STC, when pressed, they will do the dirty research.

I think it is not that illogical. If you got old technology, that was propably invented with super AIs's help, that is barely understood and can be very destructive, you mess around it with caution if you must.

Over time that becomes dogma.
This would also explain the cybernetic fascination. If you can't have AI that you need to do this super hard science with, you become the computer yourself.

So the Mechanicus make for good engineers and scientists, but the nature of their environment, lot of unstable, sometimes irreplacable stuff that is barely understood, and design flaws being a doorway to the Warp, is really something that you don't want if you need to innovate.
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Mechanicus more often than not have some pet heretech project hidden away from their colleagues. The focus on STCs is that they literally cannot make something like the things contained there without AI. It's the equivalent of people from the early 20th century making a current day CPU from scratch. Even if they had the tech to make the individual components (which they probably don't) the sheer complexity makes it impossible to design by a human mind and needs a computer for it.

The original post is more of a case of 40k having an identity crisis between grimderp and reasonable. Grimderp admech has 20th century technical ability without stc, reasonable admech can make incredible shit even without stc and constantly innovate on patterns. Likewise grimderp sisters are crazy bloodthirsty nuns, reasonable sisters are incredibly intelligent (even the foot soldiers) and can surpass other branches of the imperium in certain field.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Mechanicus more often than not have some pet heretech project hidden away from their colleagues. The focus on STCs is that they literally cannot make something like the things contained there without AI. It's the equivalent of people from the early 20th century making a current day CPU from scratch. Even if they had the tech to make the individual components (which they probably don't) the sheer complexity makes it impossible to design by a human mind and needs a computer for it.

The original post is more of a case of 40k having an identity crisis between grimderp and reasonable. Grimderp admech has 20th century technical ability without stc, reasonable admech can make incredible shit even without stc and constantly innovate on patterns. Likewise grimderp sisters are crazy bloodthirsty nuns, reasonable sisters are incredibly intelligent (even the foot soldiers) and can surpass other branches of the imperium in certain field.
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Pretty much. My personal take on things is that an STC is more than just schematics, but an entire step-by-step process for mass production, complete with how to substitute in for missing materials, how to make the necessary tooling, etc. How to get an entire assembly line going from scratch for a given item. Since STC's were employed for colonization, that sort of knowledge would be essential. So while you need an STC to produce plasma guns by the millions off of a single line of menials and servitors, a sufficiently trained techpriest can produce them from scratch in smaller batches. Similarly, IRL you once needed a master gunsmith to cut rifling grooves into a barrel, but thanks to the Industrial Revolution a factory worker with a steam-powered lathe could bore the barrel out instead. And so an STC contains the info on how to set everything up for Joe Random instead of the master craftsman.

And yes, the Sisters Hospitaller, Famulous, and Dialogus are all canonically incredibly skilled at their jobs. The Hospitallers are the finest physicians in the Imperium, the Famulous notable for their genetics knowledge (that's what happens when half your job is keeping the nobility free of taint and mutation), and the Dialogus contains some of the few humans able to master the Eldar language. Its just that compared to a Magos Biologis the Hospitallers and Famulous are both extremely limited in their ability to broadly apply it, being too specialized towards one specific aspect of the life sciences compared to the techpriest. Your average AdMech genetor would still know how to perform field surgery on a wounded man, whereas a Famulous would struggle with anything more complex than bandaging his wounds.
 
Love_Machine011 said:
Welp, my preorder of grimaldus, helbrect, and castelan are MIA. I think im just gonna give up on preordering
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Did my Collector's Edition Black Templars Codex Supplement suffer the same fate?
That's two books GW owes me.
On a positive note, I just purchased a How To Paint Citadel Miniatures: Genestealer Cult. Those things are hard to find!
 
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