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Word Bearers?! WTF. LOL.
Damn, I almost got excited for a second. I've really wanted GW to produce some Exorcist minis for years.
At least I finally have some actual table top rules for The Exorcists. I will have to just be happy with that.
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Space Sharks and Minotaurs are the only Badab war chapters that are getting love currently. The exorcists, however, did get some custom rules in white dwarf.
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Yeah, my chapter hasn't gotten a lot of love from GW or BL.
Within These Walls is the only short story I know of that is about The Exorcists, and it's actually pretty good. I'm fine with being a Son Of Dorn, though. At least it's finally been clarified.
Would like to see some more books and stories about the Exorcists, Parker's DeathWatch series wasn't enough for me. Darrion Rauth is a badass, but I want more.
Valrak did a lore update today, for those of you who are interested in learning more about my brothers:
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Did you turn it off and on?
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I'm glad Squigs are actually becoming a thing in 40k outside of Tankbusters. They're everywhere in the Gloomspite Gitz faction in AoS. Grotz and Troggos love them. I won't be picking them up for my Orks, but I still like the idea of them.
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Nice tech marine. Did you paint that?
Also, did GW stop making regular Nuln Oil? I can only find the Gloss version now, and it's good for a final step, but I want to use the original non-glossy kind earlier in the painting process. I can't find it anywhere now. Every hobby store in my area only carries the gloss.
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I did paint it, and yes nuln oil is still in production.
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And at the same time, fucking their lore up because they're no longer a Grey Knights successor, but rather an Imperial Fist successor. Which kinda sucks, but, eh.
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I wonder what copyright friendly name they are gonna give the new Warboss in mek armor.
Grey Knights successors are cringe, they are probably better off.
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I've been hearing rumours that the Grey Knights might actually be Imperial Fists successors too, with the exception of the first knights of the chapter, which were made up of what remained of the Knights Errant. It makes sense, because why would the Emperor give anyone access to his own geneseed? This hasn't been confirmed, so obviously take it with a grain of salt.
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The grey knights need to be emperor geneseed because all of them are high level psykers. The most psychicly heavy loyalist are the blood angels, who don't lean into it. They could thousand sons gene seed, but not even them had 100% psykers
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Not necessarily. They're all alpha level or alpha-plus level psykers before they become neophytes. Hyperion used to be that drug addicted little kid that Ravenor used to cart around with him. Dorn's geneseed is the most resistant to chaos corruption, so I can see why they would use it.
Now, don't get me wrong, I agree with you that it's probably the Emperor's geneseed that they are using, but GW changes shit all the time, and I still can't comprehend why the Emperor would allow ANYONE to have access to his own geneseed.
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>alpha level psykers as neophytes
Never seen that one before, Ive only seen that theyve had to have "great psychic potential" which is a pretty broad term considering that none of the imperium's most powerful psykers are grey knights. Imperial fists arent particularly known for raising librarians of any note whatsoever. It just doesnt make sense. The exorcists make sense being imperial fists because most successor chapters are Ultras or Imperial fists, and it doesnt make sense that they would use such a rare geneseed to found a chapter. Blood Angels and Tsons however, are known for awakening strong psykers.
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It was mentioned in Ben Counter's old Grey Knights books. Granted, those came out before they even started writing the Horus Heresy, so this might have been retconned by now.
Regarding the geneseed:
If the neophyte is a strong psychic before being implanted with the geneseed, the geneseed isn't going to dampen that psychic ability. They don't need to use Sanguinius' or Magnus' (I know, I know - heresy) geneseed to maintain the psychic potential. Those psychic prone geneseeds would only need to be used if they wanted a chance to create a psyker out of someone who possessed little or no psychic potential. In fact, it would be much more prudent of them to use a geneseed that comes from either Guilliman or Dorn, so they have to worry less about chaos corruption.
The Exorcists have some pretty powerful librarians, so we know they use psykers, and now we know that they all come from Dorn's geneseed.
I'm not trying to start an argument, and I agree with your take. I'm merely saying that GW and BL are going to do whatever the fuck they want, and this was a rumor that I heard recently.
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Monday's Model
That's an awful lot of base for a little bit of dress.
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Looks like something out of a Malifaux gang.
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Making wreckage bases is fun as fuck, now I want to start an Ork army using all my leftover bits.
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I love making bases with spare bits. I've been pimping my HH Fists army with all kinds of extra bits and pieces.