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Overly Serious said:
Abominable Gav Thorpe.
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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.
 
Is it normal for players to play ethics police inside the 40k community? I joined a few Necron discords that had 3d printing channels and they banned me for trading stl files with people. Oddly, they didn't ban the people I was trading with. None of them specifically banned trading files, but they did give me a few speeches about integrity and supporting the creator community before the bans. You can't read the full message if you've been banned so I only got to see the first sentence in my notifications.
 
Fwiffo said:
The Necrons in their first codices literally had no personality. They were just self-perpetuating soulless machines trying to wage war in a universe that left them behind millions of years ago. Implacable, unreasonable forces of nature, more like robo-Nids I guess.

Now they’re space Egyptians.
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I preferred the wretched spoopiness of the old Necrons. They're not dissimilar enough from humans now, IMO. Some of the new models are great though (like the Doomstalker), and Flayed Ones remain awesome.
 
I think my favorite chaos and handful of loyalist marines have to be the iron warriors. Do they still frown on demon possession? or has it been so long they no longer care?

My biggest lore question is if there has been any books on Primaris marines from the HH that were loyalist's from the traitor legions?
 
Michael Wade said:
I think my favorite chaos and handful of loyalist marines have to be the iron warriors. Do they still frown on demon possession? or has it been so long they no longer care?

My biggest lore question is if there has been any books on Primaris marines from the HH that were loyalist's from the traitor legions?
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Iron warriors merely use the gifts of chaos as tools.

The primaris marines did not exist during the heresy. The children were well, children, before being brought up to a primaris space marine. The surgery to cross the Rubicon wasn't perfected till modern 40k.
 
Michael Wade said:
I think my favorite chaos and handful of loyalist marines have to be the iron warriors. Do they still frown on demon possession? or has it been so long they no longer care?
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If I ever get back into the Table Top then Iron Warriors will be my chapter of choice. I can relate to Rowboat Girlyman in that he's big on the admin and organizational side of things but Perterabo will always the Primarch I have most empathy with. Literally all the guy wanted to do was make beautiful architecture and clever devices. He just wants to build stuff and instead is forced to spend eternity tearing things down instead. Every other chapter shits on him while he gets on with the necessary and unglamorous work. Horus would never have reached Terra without him. Fulgrim needed his help to achieve his apotheosis. Perterabo is every brilliant and frustrated worker who has to keep the project working while egomaniacs all around him fuck about and ignore him.

He might, admittedly, be mildly brutal at times.
 
Love Machine said:
The primaris marines did not exist during the heresy. The children were well, children, before being brought up to a primaris space marine. The surgery to cross the Rubicon wasn't perfected till modern 40k.
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I thought they had some regular marines that were put in stasis for experimentation? The first batch of nu marines were old ones that had been enhanced. Im almost certain that was mentioned in the lore.
 
Michael Wade said:
I thought they had some regular marines that were put in stasis for experimentation? The first batch of nu marines were old ones that had been enhanced. Im almost certain that was mentioned in the lore.
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If that is the case it has remained a throw away line and hasn't been developed on since. The most lore that is primaris specific is the Rubicon becoming pretty much sure fire and like 2 primaris chapters that may have some sussy geneseed.
 
ForTheHoard said:
Is it normal for players to play ethics police inside the 40k community? I joined a few Necron discords that had 3d printing channels and they banned me for trading stl files with people. Oddly, they didn't ban the people I was trading with. None of them specifically banned trading files, but they did give me a few speeches about integrity and supporting the creator community before the bans. You can't read the full message if you've been banned so I only got to see the first sentence in my notifications.
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that's weird as shit. My local storeowner would confiscate any unpainted, bragged about being 3d printed models if anyone tried to play with them in store. But would literally offer them to anyone who just painted later, as like a bonus? I got a handful of terminators for getting an extra pot of paint.

Regardless that's peak faggotry at its finest though. 40k has a surprising number of those kinds of autistics. Uncommon but not surprising.
 
Fwiffo said:
The Necrons in their first codices literally had no personality. They were just self-perpetuating soulless machines trying to wage war in a universe that left them behind millions of years ago. Implacable, unreasonable forces of nature, more like robo-Nids I guess.

Now they’re space Egyptians.
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The latter sounds massively preferable tbh having the ability to have real tangible characters and personality is better than something that really only can exist as a generic background antagonist who just kills because it's what they do a role already basically filled by tyranids
 
King Ghidorah said:
The latter sounds massively preferable tbh having the ability to have real tangible characters and personality is better than something that really only can exist as a generic background antagonist who just kills because it's what they do a role already basically filled by tyranids
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They're not just Space Egyptians. They're old men who give no fucks. Trazyn is called Trollzyn for a reason because he views dropping a Genestealer on an unsuspecting planet (okay to be fair he didn't know they infected the populace at the time) just a harmless prank, especially since it was originally just to harass and hurt Orikan. My headcanon has him travelling around the galaxy saving the day when he isn't adding to his collection, causing almost as much damage to the "good guys" as he does to whoever they're fighting, simply because it gives him an odd fuzzy feeling to be cursed out by a bunch of people for saving their lives after a rampaging squiggoth took out most of a company of Guardsmen at the same time it turned an entire Ork mob into fungus paste.

There's also that one Necron who has gone Space Pirate because why the fuck not, its better than spending all eternity dealing with dynastic politics and then there's...
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Zandrekh the Mad Dabber Lad, who according to some recent lore has just been pretending to be a bit insane, instead thinking its a damn shame the fun times of endless dynastic war came to an end, much like the stereotypical Crazy English Adventurer always ready to let loose a Tally Ho and wade into danger.
"Even if we all ceased to be flesh and blood millions of years ago, which of course I don’t believe for a moment,’ – Zahndrekh actually winked – ‘wouldn’t it have suited us better to live in denial of that, as some fools might say I had done? Wouldn’t it be better, Obyron, just to accept our fate, and enjoy immortality for the everlasting life of merry campaigning it has proved to be?"
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Snekposter said:
They're not just Space Egyptians. They're old men who give no fucks. Trazyn is called Trollzyn for a reason because he views dropping a Genestealer on an unsuspecting planet (okay to be fair he didn't know they infected the populace at the time) just a harmless prank, especially since it was originally just to harass and hurt Orikan. My headcanon has him travelling around the galaxy saving the day when he isn't adding to his collection, causing almost as much damage to the "good guys" as he does to whoever they're fighting, simply because it gives him an odd fuzzy feeling to be cursed out by a bunch of people for saving their lives after a rampaging squiggoth took out most of a company of Guardsmen at the same time it turned an entire Ork mob into fungus paste.

There's also that one Necron who has gone Space Pirate because why the fuck not, its better than spending all eternity dealing with dynastic politics and then there's...
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Zandrekh the Mad Dabber Lad, who according to some recent lore has just been pretending to be a bit insane, instead thinking its a damn shame the fun times of endless dynastic war came to an end, much like the stereotypical Crazy English Adventurer always ready to let loose a Tally Ho and wade into danger.
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Yeah that's way fucking better than soulless death robots that kill things and not much else
 
King Ghidorah said:
Yeah that's way fucking better than soulless death robots that kill things and not much else
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Oh yeah. The Infinite and the Divine is basically non-stop ITS JUST A PRANK BRO from both Trazyn and Orikan spanning several thousand years of sniping, backbiting, and various fuckery. Ain't immortality grand?
 
Snekposter said:
Oh yeah. The Infinite and the Divine is basically non-stop ITS JUST A PRANK BRO from both Trazyn and Orikan spanning several thousand years of sniping, backbiting, and various fuckery. Ain't immortality grand?
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My favourite moment was Trazyn headshotting Orikan, purely from butthurt (it didn't achieve anything besides ruining Orikan's day) and wanting to say the last word.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
My favourite moment was Trazyn headshotting Orikan, purely from butthurt (it didn't achieve anything besides ruining Orikan's day) and wanting to say the last word.
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That was good, I grant you. But didn't you laugh when they're at the theatre and we got:
Orikan: "You stupid bastard! You've bought us box tickets to a coup!"
Trayzn: "Well, the reviews were very good."

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>292 books

Jesus fuck.

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Aww, it won't let me buy the whole set at once. It's limiting me to 10% at a time. lol
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Apropos to nothing, the Kobo store also has the Black Library books as well. I find the Kobo Libra much better hardware than a kindle (seriously the Kobo Libra is just so much easier to hold for one) and I just dislike giving Amazon more money than I have to.
 
GW is keeping Aeronautica Imperialis alive with Horus Heresy theming.
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With this, I'm finding it more likely that GW is paving the way for the return of Epic with existing Titanicus and Aeronautica models, using the Horus Heresy setting to set limited expectations for factions and model production. Valrak says that he has a new (un-vouched) source saying the same thing.

I still think it's highly suspicious that the Horus Heresy CG trailer has a lot of Warlord Titans stomping around.
 
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WhatInTheActualFuck said:
I've played that matchup with a friend a few times before, with both of us using his armies - at least for us, it's a pretty good pairing that makes for close games.
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Yeah we traded a few times, His thunderwolf cavalry picked up 4 of my terminators, then they fought back and picked up all but one of the cav. He'd melee down a few units and I'd psychic down some of his. Every time we got into melee we both used our matchup-specific strategems for full re-rolls. Ahriman managed to shillelagh 3 terminators by himself and lived to tell about it lol.

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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