Warhammer 40k

[The tired cat]

I guess women like orks for the humor and tyranids for the scarycute factor. I've yet to see a woman interested in testosterone-poisoned space marines or guard, and sisters of battle probably give too much of a mean girls vibe. Or just that sisters of battle suck and barely anyone plays them?

I've seen one chick at a tourney who played Thousand Sons, another played the Chaos Space MArines.

They've usually been fine and within the top half of the spread for basically... 4-5 years now since they finally got a codex again in 8th and had most of the model range revamped. But that gap of being shit wasn't an issue with sisters of battle, it was GW going multiple editions ignoring armies. Hell, orks got ignored for the entirety of 5th and 6th edition as well. Black Templars didn't get a codex after 4th till 9th. Necrons were skipped in 4th and 6th. Tyranids didn't get one for 7th. Yeah, people liked that from GW for some fucking reason.

Because means they could use broken metas/rules if their army until they had any updates to 'em.

 

[p1138]

Because means they could use broken metas/rules if their army until they had any updates to 'em.

Yeah, that's definitely part of it, and it's ridiculous seeing people stumble over themselves trying to avoid admitting it. This is where a lot of "the rules get updated too quick now!" shit comes from, because GW has been doing a decent job balancing 40k in the past couple of years(internal balance within a codex is another matter, but generally speaking most of the factions are reasonably balanced against eachother with a couple exceptions every now and then that usually get addressed within a few months). Compared to the people who actually liked armor facings and other shit. Basically they can't buy an army 3-4 months after a codex is out and people have found a broken combo, and then assume they may get to just abuse it for the next half decade or more. I've never seen anyone who got the shit end of the stick and was stuck with a crappy set of rules complain about getting rules more often.

 

[Nogbertstein]

Well that's ok because RPS I guess took a fucking month to realize that the imperium of man is run by a bunch of fascist assholes...

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/why-play-a-fascist-unpacking-the-hideousness-of-the-space-marine

No shit? But gamergate! And those damned trump voters! This is like when Extra Credits pulled that "and suddenly you're a nazi" bullshit.

That's a lot of words

 

[Inquisitor_BadAss]

Picked up the AK basic starter set today and I'm going to come up with a scheme for the Ruinstorm Daemons I'm working on.


Squidmar made a video painting up plaguebearers a while ago which I might try referencing while working on the colour scheme. I'm also thinking about a plaid flesh scheme as well for a more realistic horror aesthetic as another test piece. I don't want a uniform scheme across the board because Daemons but I'll post results when I have them.

 

[Spilled Spaghett]

I was reading a particularly good fanfic and I was wondering on the status of the Emperors soul and how split apart it is. Is he fractured in any way like Magnus?

Also what's the deal with him giving pieces of his soul like imperial saints? Are there examples of people hooking pyskers up to him directly for a soul bonding?

Nobody is entirely sure what the status of the Emperor is. That's sort of the point of the Imperium. They don't know if he's truly dead since he's clearly active, or if the throne is holding him back from truly passing on and achieving Godhood. Guilliman spoke to the Emperor but what he said was a few incoherent words. It's said he spoke to Guilliman like a craftsman rediscovering a favorite tool, not like a father reuniting with his son. Is this because the Emperor wants to get back to business and save the Imperium? Is it because his mind is fractured and it's taking him every ounce of strength he has to say even a single word? We don't know, and the Emperor isn't telling anyone.

I doubt it's fractured like how Magnus is, where each piece can function almost independently. You can find pieces of the Emperor's power in many artifacts, but an actual piece of his soul probably not. I think he's whole, but he is stretched thin trying to be all over the galaxy psychically while his body is also decaying. The less we know, the better. If you try to explain it no answer is going to satisfy everyone, and it ruins the mystery.

 

[Judge Dredd]

There's actually another thing going on besides the ugly cute bit. Women getting into hobbies and shit that aren't girly hobbies, don't necessarily want their shit to be "girly". Saw the same shit back in the 2010s where every gun company felt the need to make pink handguns and rifle accessories, hardly anyone bought the shit. Same thing with compound bows, recurves, and so on. Yes there are some women into that who do buy it, but the vast majority of them don't want some ugly looking pepto bismol or barbie pink shit, they just want stuff that fits their hands or whatever. Look at women into cars as a hobby, most of them aren't putting pink girly shit all over their cars either(the women who own a car purely as a daily driver and put pink rhinestone license plate frames on and shit are not the same as the ones who own a miata and go to track days and crap like that).

The best example of this is My Little Pony.

My Little Pony was made for little girls, but attracted a huge audience of adult men. They stayed the course and were a huge hit because of it. The reason it attracted so many adult men was in part because the show was providing them something they weren't getting from other shows.

If MLP used an idpol/demographics mindset, when MLP got a largely adult male audience, execs would've have change the show to be about guns and action. It would've killed the show, but that's what idpol/demographic data tells them men like.

Picked up the AK basic starter set

I like the colour wheel on the box there. More paint sets should include a mixing guide too. (edit: typo)

 

[Spilled Spaghett]

I like the colour wheel on the box there. More paint sets should include a mixing guild too.

That's too complicated for my smooth brain. My color scheme is called "I like blue".

 

[Nogbertstein]

This is definitely an osl of all time.

 

[CryptoHermit]

Probably the most common meat available in the IoM is grox, a weird reptilian thing that can survive on just about anything and live just about anywhere and is surprisingly tasty and nutritious. You know, like pigs. Except even uglier and far more foul-tempered.

TL;DR: As far as the IoM is concerned wildlife is wildlife, and unless its a danger they've got bigger problems to worry about.

Would isolating compounds from natural sources be considered tech-heresy? Like extracting salicin ( ie. aspirin) from willow bark ends you being turned into a servitor if you're caught? I'm just brainstorming some stuff for a homebrew project.

 

[Snekposter]

Would isolating compounds from natural sources be considered tech-heresy? Like extracting salicin ( ie. aspirin) from willow bark ends you being turned into a servitor if you're caught? I'm just brainstorming some stuff for a homebrew project.

Uh, no. Not unless you're trying to make some really fucked-up stuff with it. The IoM is an authoritarian regime, and like all authoritarian regimes they operate on a pretty strict useful/useless hierarchy when it comes to things. Stuff that's mildly heretical but useful gets a pass, even stuff like the IG and Space Marines doing unsanctioned modifications to equipment that makes coolant start boiling out of the ears of any nearby Techpriests. The Predator Annihilator is one such example. The Space Wolves were surrounded on all sides during a Crusade that went south and not even the Long Fangs could get into position to fire back on account of all the incoming fire, so after a few prayers to Leman Russ by the Iron Priests for inspiration, they took their lascannons and bolted them onto their Predators. In an amazing coincidence, 200 years of thorough investigation later the AdMech found evidence that this field mod rigged up by a bunch of drunken Space Vikings on the basis of "What Would Leman Russ Do?" was totally part of the vehicle's original STC.

 

[CryptoHermit]

Uh, no. Not unless you're trying to make some really fucked-up stuff with it. The IoM is an authoritarian regime, and like all authoritarian regimes they operate on a pretty strict useful/useless hierarchy when it comes to things. Stuff that's mildly heretical but useful gets a pass, even stuff like the IG and Space Marines doing unsanctioned modifications to equipment that makes coolant start boiling out of the ears of any nearby Techpriests. The Predator Annihilator is one such example. The Space Wolves were surrounded on all sides during a Crusade that went south and not even the Long Fangs could get into position to fire back on account of all the incoming fire, so after a few prayers to Leman Russ by the Iron Priests for inspiration, they took their lascannons and bolted them onto their Predators. In an amazing coincidence, 200 years of thorough investigation later the AdMech found evidence that this field mod rigged up by a bunch of drunken Space Vikings on the basis of "What Would Leman Russ Do?" was totally part of the vehicle's original STC.

Thanks for the swift reply! I have an idea of some orks with kitbashed Guard weapons for Kill Team. Like their idea of a lasgun MG is a load of them bolted together. Some green stuff or blue tac wrapped around them painted like duct tape maybe. This is some fluff I'm planning for it.

 

[Lurker Child]

Youtube recommended me this channel Warrior Tier that did a recent audio drama video on Angron's story up until he became a daemon primarch. It was very good so I'm posting it here in case someone hasn't seen it.

 

[Snekposter]

Thanks for the swift reply! I have an idea of some orks with kitbashed Guard weapons for Kill Team. Like their idea of a lasgun MG is a load of them bolted together. Some green stuff or blue tac wrapped around them painted like duct tape maybe.

If we're talking Orks, just have fun with whatever. They're Orks, and they'll make it work because they believe it works. Not familiar with the Looted Carnifex?

To quote from Dawn of War: "IT NOW BELONGS TO DA ORKZ!"

 

[Rick The Stick]

If we're talking Orks, just have fun with whatever. They're Orks, and they'll make it work because they believe it works. Not familiar with the Looted Carnifex?
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To quote from Dawn of War: "IT NOW BELONGS TO DA ORKZ!"

The galaxy really is lucky the Orks are so fucking stupid now.

 

[demicolon]

DISTRACTION CARNIFEX!
Orks: ooh shiny!

 

[Snekposter]

The galaxy really is lucky the Orks are so fucking stupid now.

Half, if not more, of the fun of playing Orks is doing stupid shit for the hell of it.

'ERE WE GO! 'ERE WE GO! 'ERE WE GO!

 

[Judge Dredd]

Been binging Horus Heresy stuff. I don't know why Guilliman is considered a coward in the fanbase. Maybe it's more clear in the books?

I had the idea of painting a space marine in the Stormcast colour scheme. I looked it up online and it looks horrible. I guess the models make the difference?

 

[AncientPhosphur]

Been binging Horus Heresy stuff. I don't know why Guilliman is considered a coward in the fanbase. Maybe it's more clear in the books?

Mostly because he declared an Imperium Secundus instead of rushing to Terra

 

[p1138]

Mostly because he declared an Imperium Secundus instead of rushing to Terra

He did(along with sanguinius and the lion) but they couldn't get to terra in the first place due to all of the warp storm BS(thanks to kor phaeron and the word bearers). It took a gap in the warp storm and the lion and guilliman basically playing blockers to allow sanguinius to get his fleet through, then some of the dark angels got there later, and finally guilliman once horus was dead(even though he was trying to get vox messages through to terra before they went to the vengeful spirit but he couldn't find shit because the astronomican wasn't working properly). The moment they realized an assassin had been sent from terra to to macragge to deal with conrad curze, it was a wake up call to the three of them that something must exist in that direction.

The reality is, it's mostly due to hating how Matt Ward wrote the ultramarines for 5th edition. Rogal Dorn was honestly more of a chicken shit wanting to rush the emperor off world to nowhere in particular with the Phalanx.

 

[Male Idiot]

Uh, no. Not unless you're trying to make some really fucked-up stuff with it. The IoM is an authoritarian regime, and like all authoritarian regimes they operate on a pretty strict useful/useless hierarchy when it comes to things. Stuff that's mildly heretical but useful gets a pass, even stuff like the IG and Space Marines doing unsanctioned modifications to equipment that makes coolant start boiling out of the ears of any nearby Techpriests. The Predator Annihilator is one such example. The Space Wolves were surrounded on all sides during a Crusade that went south and not even the Long Fangs could get into position to fire back on account of all the incoming fire, so after a few prayers to Leman Russ by the Iron Priests for inspiration, they took their lascannons and bolted them onto their Predators. In an amazing coincidence, 200 years of thorough investigation later the AdMech found evidence that this field mod rigged up by a bunch of drunken Space Vikings on the basis of "What Would Leman Russ Do?" was totally part of the vehicle's original STC.

Sadly retconned so now 30k can have Predator Annihilators too.