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wyleanda said:
Lore wise: This has been a thing in lore for a while. The Masque of the Midnight shadow worked with the drukhari until they went with the ynnari. The Masque of the Veiled Path helped with the resurrection of Vect.

Game wise: It started around the time the ynnari was introduced since you can run harles, craftworld and drukhari together as long as they are considered Ynnari.
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Even before the Harlequins were made playable lore had them chilling with Dark Eldar, Craftworld Eldar, and Exodites as they so chose, not even the Dark Eldar dumb enough to try picking fights with them, not when they've got the protection of the last living Eldar god.

This also applies to the Imperium of Man, as Harlequins believe the lessons of the Fall they teach are applicable to everyone, not just their fellow Eldar, and so its not unheard of for them to show up and put on shows in Imperial space.
augment said:
and now eldar as a whole has been stuck in the mud plotwise
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So, business as usual then?
Judge Dredd said:
@MG-34 beat me to it. There was also some big table they made for some event (game day?) that showed it.

One thing a lot of sci-fi fans don't realize that planets are big. They can have multiple biomes. Earth might technically be a water planet, but it still has deserts, mountains, etc.
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Yeah, and Armageddon is no different. You've got the cities, the ash wastes, more conventional deserts, some islands and general coastal areas, and even a fuck-huge continent-sized jungle that both the local Armageddon Ork Hunters and imported Catachans love using as one giant game preserve for the various feral Orks.
 
Love Machine said:
Most chapters equip their first companies as much as they can with terminators. Terminator armor is kinda too rare in the 40k setting for a chapter to be "really" into them. Outside of exceptions like minotaurs and Grey knights
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Me and my Salamander friend have always head-cannoned that the “superheavies” have more, due to resources, actually having craftsmen in their ranks, first-founding status, favor or their specification befitting having more. The chapters who put in the work/earned it have more, while the Raptor cucks, kill-crazy retards, politically dum and general fuckups don’t.

This was all to justify my friend’s Terminator horde.
 
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harbringer883 said:
They talk to the imperium?
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They chat with inquisitors, once a solitaire got past a bunch of custodes into the palace, will pop up and have conversations with chaos marines, etc. So yeah, they attempt to communicate with the imperium on occasion so long as they don't get immediately shot at. The regular eldar and ynnari also work with the imperium so often that the drukhari were able to trick the mechanicus into working with them at one point.
 
Primaris are still fucking gay and will never be real space marines, It's that simple. Also, I hope we get a new Space Hulk board game, but niggers aren't allowed to play it, and that is put in the rule book NIGGERS CANNOT PLAY OR ENJOY SPACE HULK!

My heresy World Eater's army is going well, over 100 bolt pistol chainaxe marines are finished. Going to be adding a fellblade and likely adding 3 fire raptor gunships closer to the end of the year when I get my bonus. I will also be kit bashing a full command squad at the end of the year.

My WHFB 6th ed orcs and goblin tribes are almost entirely painted. just need to paint my last unit of Night Goblins and then finally base every single model, basing is my favorite part of the hobby as it is fun to have the whole model come together at the end. I like putting a lot of effort into the bases, I'm doing a flowery Medow for my Orcs and Goblins. I refer to my Orcs and Goblins as Savage Niggers just because they embody niggers. That is over 200 Savage Niggers that have been painted in the last year!
 
Coon Cheese said:
My heresy World Eater's army is going well, over 100 bolt pistol chainaxe marines are finished. Going to be adding a fellblade and likely adding 3 fire raptor gunships closer to the end of the year when I get my bonus. I will also be kit bashing a full command squad at the end of the year.
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post pics
 
harbringer883 said:
They talk to the imperium?
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https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Harlequin
As the Eldar are a scattered race, Harlequins constantly tour the domains of their species (as well as other places; Harlequins believe other species should be told the stories of the Eldar as well) in their duty to perform.
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https://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/Harlequin#Eldar_Ambassadors?
Harlequins do not necessarily restrict their visits to the Eldar. In the Harlequins' view, they must perform their work for anyone and everyone who may benefit and learn the lessons from The Fall. Thus it is very rare, but not unknown, for Harlequin troupes to visit Imperial worlds. However, it must be noted that given the Imperium's strict policy of xenophobia, the circumstances under which such visits occur almost always coincide with the absence of strict Imperial oversight.

Of course, given the inscrutable nature of Eldar language and art, it is highly debatable whether or not a human audience would even be able to grasp the message that a Harlequin performance was attempting to convey. Most accounts of Harlequin performances amount to something like splatterhouse Shakespeare, with chainsword wielding Coenobite clowns flinging psychedelic rainbow viscera while the audience trips out on peyote. On the other hand, it is conceivable that Harlequins adjust their performance based on the audience, keeping the performance elaborate in form, but simple in message, thus allowing humans to understand the Great Enemy and what can be done.

In any event, by the time Imperial authorities become fully aware of the presence of a Harlequin troupe, the xenos have inevitably departed. Given the isolated nature of many imperial worlds and the Imperial policy of enforced ignorance, most common inhabitants might find the harlequins as just another passing troupe of strange, incredibly skilled artists, unaware for the most part of their xenos nature. Furthermore, since harlequins only need a webway portal instead of say, a massive starship to get onto a world, no one really discovers they have been in a close encounter of the third kind, at least until some Ordo Xenos operative takes notice. Thus, while in theory Harlequins (as xenos) are not welcome on Imperial worlds, in practice the Imperium can generally do little to stop such visitations.
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Not so much talk, but considering how little most people in the Imperium know about anything beyond their own planet, if a bunch of strange clown aliens with technologies well in advance of your own world's showed up saying they wanted to put on a play do you:

A. Politely refuse?
B. Order your men to purge the foul xenos where they stand, knowing it is highly likely you may not succeed and they'll probably kill you and your men with ease?
C. Let them, since its not like you have anything to lose since they could have just killed you all anyways and on the off chance they're telling the truth its likely going to be an unmistakable spectacle that will be talked about and commemorated for uncountable generations?
 
Coon Cheese said:
Primaris are still fucking gay and will never be real space marines, It's that simple. Also, I hope we get a new Space Hulk board game, but niggers aren't allowed to play it, and that is put in the rule book NIGGERS CANNOT PLAY OR ENJOY SPACE HULK!

My heresy World Eater's army is going well, over 100 bolt pistol chainaxe marines are finished. Going to be adding a fellblade and likely adding 3 fire raptor gunships closer to the end of the year when I get my bonus. I will also be kit bashing a full command squad at the end of the year.

My WHFB 6th ed orcs and goblin tribes are almost entirely painted. just need to paint my last unit of Night Goblins and then finally base every single model, basing is my favorite part of the hobby as it is fun to have the whole model come together at the end. I like putting a lot of effort into the bases, I'm doing a flowery Medow for my Orcs and Goblins. I refer to my Orcs and Goblins as Savage Niggers just because they embody niggers. That is over 200 Savage Niggers that have been painted in the last year!
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Extremely based. Finishing the Solar Aux army I started when I was broke years ago, have almost 2k of Bretonnia Painted. Just got a copy of Tamurkhan and am hunting for a recast Elspeth.
 
I've been watching this series here


It's fascinating. It's an Aussie guy going through the legions with his artsy girlfriend, she's not a collector but she gives her opinions on the legions based on their art and colour schemes, then he explains the lore to her and you see how accurate she is.

She's surprisingly accurate, she gets a few wrong but actually nails a lot of them.
 
Humble Architect said:
Me and my Salamander friend have always head-cannoned that the “superheavies” have more, due to resources, actually having craftsmen in their ranks, first-founding status, favor or their specification befitting having more. The chapters who put in the work/earned it have more, while the Raptor cucks, kill-crazy retards, politically dum and general fuckups don’t.

This was all to justify my friend’s Terminator horde.
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My headcanon was the chapter forgemaster wasn't retarded and could fill in the gaps enough to produce fresh suits, or simply had the copies of the schematics.

Not sure if I ever shared my headcanon here, but I came up with a backstory when I was doing a proxy guard regiment based on Starship Troopers. The TLDR being that the planet overthrew the imperial government, instated Heinlein-ism, and by the time the imperium got there to put down the rebellion, it was over. The imperium looks the other way because they pay their tithes on time and have bigger things to worry about. This would allow my imperial factions to be renegades should the need arise.

This ties into the armour stuff because, as said earlier, planets are big. They don't have forge world level of output, but they're able to build enough terminator suits (or other tech) to keep their local chapter supplied.
 
Judge Dredd said:
My headcanon was the chapter forgemaster wasn't retarded and could fill in the gaps enough to produce fresh suits, or simply had the copies of the schematics.

Not sure if I ever shared my headcanon here, but I came up with a backstory when I was doing a proxy guard regiment based on Starship Troopers. The TLDR being that the planet overthrew the imperial government, instated Heinlein-ism, and by the time the imperium got there to put down the rebellion, it was over. The imperium looks the other way because they pay their tithes on time and have bigger things to worry about. This would allow my imperial factions to be renegades should the need arise.

This ties into the armour stuff because, as said earlier, planets are big. They don't have forge world level of output, but they're able to build enough terminator suits (or other tech) to keep their local chapter supplied.
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Well especially IH and Salamanders, most of the First Foundings are creatives in some way.

BA paint and sculpt (homo things)
IF love carpentry
RG love poetry and the writings of Stephanie Meyer
SW love their songs and their LARP-club activities
WS love tuning their bikes (Here I go again on my own)
UM love playing Civ and 4x strategy games IRL
Templars are lovers and builders too, of chainsword rape

But the Salamanders and IH are practical and make their own shit, I remember old retarded lore that they were still fucked from the HH, despite being master craftsmen. Like they aren’t building Gorgon-pattern or Saturnine-pattern anymore but they shouldn’t have a shortage.
 
Humble Architect said:
I remember old retarded lore that they were still fucked from the HH, despite being master craftsmen.
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Related to "planets are big", 10,000 years is a long time. There's lore (I don't know if new or old) that after Corvus looked for ways to rapidly grow and/or improve space marines during the heresy and succeeded, but then Alpha Legion tainted it. The idea that no one could do it again in 10,000 years I don't really buy.

You could say he had access to gene data that no one else did. Or that Primaris are basically that. But then it's the same idea. They made all this new power armour, so it can't be lost tech any more.
 
Could the leaks of ferrus be true? No, it couldn't possibly. IF and Space Wolf players would shit their pants.
 
Judge Dredd said:
Related to "planets are big", 10,000 years is a long time. There's lore (I don't know if new or old) that after Corvus looked for ways to rapidly grow and/or improve space marines during the heresy and succeeded, but then Alpha Legion tainted it. The idea that no one could do it again in 10,000 years I don't really buy.

You could say he had access to gene data that no one else did. Or that Primaris are basically that. But then it's the same idea. They made all this new power armour, so it can't be lost tech any more.
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Yeah, the Raptor program.
AncientPhosphur said:
Why Ferrus? He’s literally decapitated and they’re explaining Legion of the Damned then? WHY? You’ve got enough lore already stop explaining stuff that doesn’t need anything DO SOMETHING WITH THE LION INSTEAD OF A CODEX FIGHT
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I could see him being the centrepiece of a new Legion of the Damned range, that’s new subfaction of marines, upgrade kits, unique models, codex, all that shit.

It makes sense from a business standpoint.
 
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