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Start with the games. The books are a hit and miss. But if you must, the Space Wolf series does a great if dated rundown and it id almost as old as me, but aged very gracefully.
 
Why is anyone talking about the tau like they matter?
Some of the better books are actually pretty short
The night lords have a book “nightfall” buy Peter Fehervari
And my personal favorite is a kreig story “left for dead” by Steve lyons
Space marine 2 is fookin sick if you enjoy the lore and they have an xcom knockoff called chaos gate that’s pretty enjoyable too
 
Peter Fehervari's stuff was good on the Tau, and I'm not even trying to just shill him for his name.

Not totally sure how it translates to Chaos, but he even had a likeable tau as the protag for a short story.
 
whoishomermynameis said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jQUiLkmCavk
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Nate Higgers said:
I accidentally watched 6 hours of warhammer lore videos and now I want to get into the books. Not sure the games are for me. Where do I start, should I just pick up from the beginning?
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I saw this a two days ago, came in handy after all.
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Or just get the just released Anniversary bundles -- currently less than $10 each -- and get all the DLC for free.


(We don't talk about Dawn of War 3.)
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Speaking of Dawn of War 3.
Also, isn't the Anniversary Edition older news or am I bugging? Or is this just an update of sorts since I already have both of these in my Steam Library. Ah, I see the post, surprised I only heard of this now. A free update, neat. How bad does it break mods? There will probably be backports of mods like Unification for it.
 
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Someone in my playgroup has proposed Deathwatch, and while looking for Ultramarine successors, I have discovered the Tome Keepers.


A concept by the 2020 White Dwarf staff, the idea is that they're drawn from a planet with people with limited lifespans due to the radiation of their local white dwarf star. As such, the people of the planet have a tradition of writing everything down for future generations to benefit from. Marines of the Tome Keepers have taken up this tradition, writing countless books about their experiences in combat. For some reason, Lexicanum calls them out as being particularly good against Necrons for absolutely no reason at all.

Definitely one of the more interesting Chapter concepts I've seen.
 
Guntkvd said:
Probably because they have a similar origin story. Don't ask me how this works.
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Never mind, there was a reason other than being the Necron Marines - they had a 200-year war with some hot murderous metal bony bots in your area, the Thokt Thot Dynasty from the crownworld of Meghoshta Megusta.

200 years of begone thot will make you pretty good at it.
 
Were they created when Marines vs Necrons were the poster-children of the main release box, a-la how Marines vs Nids are this cycle's? If so, that's your "real" answer.

E: First mention of the Tome Keepers is April 2020 ( WD 453 )
Looks like 40k 9th was announced May 2020
First mention of them being Necron spankers was November 2020 ( WD 458 )

So yeah it checks out. They were a demo unit in how to your dudes by the WD team, which is cool, and since the 9th was coming with it's heavy Marine vs Necron focus, well, there you go.


The wiki walk this caused lead me to the Celestial Lions and the "Ork Snipers" incident. The Inquisition literally trying to kill an entire Space Marine chapter because the Chapter censured the Inquisition for being idiots in a warzone and they were pissed the chapter complained to Terra about them.

To the point that they're still doing it centuries later, having assassins show up and behead their leadership while they're in meetings with other chapters during emergencies.

Sons of Malice had it right, the proper response to a Karen from the Inquisition showing up and trying to order you around is to slam their decidedly not-Transhuman asses against a table and carve her heart out with a bayonet.
 
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To the point that they're still doing it centuries later, having assassins show up and behead their leadership while they're in meetings with other chapters during emergencies.
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Oh yeah, didn't the Black Templars step in eventually to tell the Inquisition to knock it the fuck off before they declare a Crusade on all known Inquisiton Strongholds?
 
Rakdos92 said:
Oh yeah, didn't the Black Templars step in eventually to tell the Inquisition to knock it the fuck off before they declare a Crusade on all known Inquisiton Strongholds?
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Kinda sorta. After the Lions got fucked over by the Inquisition on Armageddon, their senior sergeant wanted to do a suicide run against the Orks and die gloriously. Grimaldus told him to get his head out of his ass and went out and murdered Orks with him until they'd killed the warboss who took out the Lions' last captain. The Templars then gifted them a relic strike cruiser and suit of armor and sent along a detachment to help rebuild the chapter, and resolved to keep a closer eye on the Inquisition in future. It didn't take, though, considering the Inquisition sent a Callidus assassin who killed the new chapter master.
 
I've been on a 40k animation binge. Watched an excellent 56 minute long Dark Angels vs Necrons fan film, then watched the first 3 episodes of the Tithe.

Episode I: Sa'kan the Salamander and an Ultramarine apocothery team up in an adventure well worth watching. Shows the great contrast between chapters.

Episode 2: The first showing of the dreaded female Custodes. She looked realistically like a roided up supersoldier, and her cold obedience to the battleplan makes the Black Templar successors in the episode look compassionate in comparison. Great combat and the first visual showing of Arbites and Sisters of Silence. (Why Amazon/GW didn't choose SoS as the obligatory StrongFemaleCharacter for the live action I don't know).

Episode 3: A sympathetic showing of a commissioner and the unfeeling insanity of imperial bureaucracy. Less good than the previous two episodes but still worth watching. Woke alert: the PDF garrison commander has a male model but a female sounding voice.

All episodes are on Bilibili if you search for 什一税

As for the fan animation, here it is. (I accidentally posted it in the rogue trader thread last week) .
It's great and captures the atmosphere well, but the helmetless facial textures in one scene detract from the overall quality.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7auqCAVo5Yk

whats your guy's take on MM? He strikes me as kind of a manchild, even more than the usual coterie of retards that play/are involved in 40k. Something about him just makes me think he's greasy as fuck and smells like axe body spray, and like he used too much hair gel. His entire persona feels very plastic.

This video in particular stumped me because it's such a non issue. He even tries to lampshade the argument. The entire video strikes me as an attempt to show off a fancy expensive model, but he's too insecure to just say so, and instead has to tip toe around it with bullshit game mechanic talk instead of just saying, "Hey, I paid 3 grand for plastic, and I wanna show off a little."
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7auqCAVo5Yk

whats your guy's take on MM? He strikes me as kind of a manchild, even more than the usual coterie of retards that play/are involved in 40k. Something about him just makes me think he's greasy as fuck and smells like axe body spray, and like he used too much hair gel. His entire persona feels very plastic.

This video in particular stumped me because it's such a non issue. He even tries to lampshade the argument. The entire video strikes me as an attempt to show off a fancy expensive model, but he's too insecure to just say so, and instead has to tip toe around it with bullshit game mechanic talk instead of just saying, "Hey, I paid 3 grand for plastic, and I wanna show off a little."
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He's been mentioned multiple times in the thread, even recently.

He's a manchild, a likely sex pest, abandoned his wife and twins(I think they were twins?) once they were born so he could "move up" to dating a GW employee(who he had hired and was likely cheating with), ebegs for money because he rents instead of owning a house(and sets up scam raffles) after previously having to move due to abandoning his wife and kids, believes his paint jobs are gods gift to minis including his stupid chaos landraider shit thing he stuck googly eyes on, milks the warlord titan no one asked him to build for content to come up with excuses to have it in videos, participated in a kickstarter for some colored spray primer with other youtube influencer types and picked an ugly color that makes little sense(his light blue color), shills his crappy music and sells it as a physical CD, makes controversial videos calling people who play historical games nazis and then wonders why everyone shits on him in return while demanding "sympathy" because his grandparents were german, has been on a couple other creators channels and rarely seems to get re-invited, lies about his own videos in podcasts, drags his ass about his combat patrol batrep series he's so fucking slow about that he couldn't even do them all during 9th edition, creeped out another content creator for no reason(he was trying to get in her pants) and got ghosted by her, has pissed off sponsors

Do you need more?

edit: Oh look at that, wouldn't you know, turns out a warlord titan at even 2000 points fucking sucks, who ever could have imagined(basically anyone would have realized since it has shitty toughness especially since it doesn't have the void shield rules it previously had. Hell, don't even need to kill it to beat it. Just keep it engaged with something to tarpit it, and have the rest of your army go dance around and sit on objectives and do actions to win.
Fucking idiot
 
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I've been on a 40k animation binge. Watched an excellent 56 minute long Dark Angels vs Necrons fan film, then watched the first 3 episodes of the Tithe.

Episode I: Sa'kan the Salamander and an Ultramarine apocothery team up in an adventure well worth watching. Shows the great contrast between chapters.

Episode 2: The first showing of the dreaded female Custodes. She looked realistically like a roided up supersoldier, and her cold obedience to the battleplan makes the Black Templar successors in the episode look compassionate in comparison. Great combat and the first visual showing of Arbites and Sisters of Silence. (Why Amazon/GW didn't choose SoS as the obligatory StrongFemaleCharacter for the live action I don't know).

Episode 3: A sympathetic showing of a commissioner and the unfeeling insanity of imperial bureaucracy. Less good than the previous two episodes but still worth watching. Woke alert: the PDF garrison commander has a male model but a female sounding voice.

All episodes are on Bilibili if you search for 什一税

As for the fan animation, here it is. (I accidentally posted it in the rogue trader thread last week) .
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MN0WMa2ayS8It's great and captures the atmosphere well, but the helmetless facial textures in one scene detract from the overall quality.
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I haven't seen all of them but I actually like the art and style of hammer and bolter.

As shit as the animation style for the eldar episode looks out of context I rather liked it altogether. It helps that it's a slow burn flashback episode. Having the ultramarines being the chapter that massacres the eldar feels a bit out of character considering all the other chapters they could have used but it was an interesting contrast.
 
Guntkvd said:
No void shields for titans? God, I fucking hate 10th edition.
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Honestly, even with the void shields they were still crap on the table. The primary problem is they don't have enough guns to take everything out, can't control more than 2 points at a time, can't maneuver around some terrain layouts, can't also perform secondaries, never get out of LoS, etc.

Anyone taking a titan to a game for something other than a laugh, is an idiot(and considering the prices, honestly even that's questionable unless you're printing or buying a recast).
 
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