When will we get a film adaption of this video game?
>>63129333
reccomend and books similar to this stuff?
What a meta topic.
And never, there is no way to sell 40K to the mainstream public without gutting it. As such, there is no real money to be gained here by Hollywood.
>>63129927
>>63129958
Ciaphas Cain novels, tame enough for the general public.
>>63129979
Ive not seen much but im really interested in the whole gods of chaos hellish stuff, honestly ive just seen illustrations but its right up my alley, i just dont know where to start
>>63130030
Space pulp adventures with Space Vikings Commandos is where I started.
And I had fun.
>>63130030
Start here
http://wh40k-de.lexicanum.com/wiki/Chaos
>>63130163
What if he isn't a Nazi?
>>63129333
I will never stop being angry every time this picture is posted.
THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS. THAT'S NOT EVEN CLOSE TO HOW IT WORKS
>>63129333
This sounds like absolute Bullshit to me. Who comes up with this stuff!? What ship can afford to lose 8/10 of it's crew when traveling?
>>63130205
In that case you select "English".
>>63129333
we need big guys
>>63130244
It's neo-pulp-sci-fi in a grim dark setting, it's not supposed to make sense.
>>63130372
Whatever you say Hitler, I'm not falling for your tricks.
>>63129333
no way would that ever be considered a successful warp jump, it's gellar field not void shields that keep the warp out
shit pic that will never not trigger my autism
>>63130408
Are you fucking kidding me hepcat!?
>>63130406
Matt Ward, plese go.
>>63130244
A ship crewed by clones of clones of clones.
>>63130459
What do the void shields do? And what the Fuck is all this about keeping the warp out!? I don't Fucking understand!
>>63130408
>>63130244
I can guarantee whoever made that image doesn't know anything about the 40k setting.
It doesn't make any sense even when you get it right, but this image is just retarded.
>>63130504
The "warp" is space where thought directly influences reality, basically.
>>63130504
the Gellar field is just a projection of 'Real Space' (i.e, what the universe is and not the Warp) around the ship so that the inhabitants can travel though the warp safely. you could hop into the warp without a gellar field, but that is inadvisable
void shields are what protect the ship during combat, by shunting attacks into the warp, keeping the ship safe from 10 story high laser canons and missles/torpedos the size if a house
>>63130518
That image was pretty accurate when it was made. Revisions have made 40k slightly less insane since.
>>63130584
The image is from 40k before gellar fields made the warp safe, when every race had to jump directly through the warp and only by luck, resources, and/or the largesse of gods (natural or manufactured), did any warp jump succeed.
>>63130584
Does Gellar field protect from Daemons tho
![1410738990622[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/NiOAwj6.png "1410738990622[1].png")
we already did
>>63130745
yes
>>63130565
>>63130584
what are good entry books to this, for someone who hasnt read ANY 40k at all
>>63129333
Did Event Horizon basically copy 40K?
How are daemons made of rape and lemon juice
>>63130773
What the Fuck!?
>>63130805yes
>>63130804
None. Its all pure wank.
>>63130804
ciaphas cain series.
not that grimdark, and keeps the spirit of the tongue in cheek stuff.
if you have watched blackadder, he is basicly that in space
>>63130459
This. Realistically the worst that happens in the warp is you get lost, your gellar field fails, all your psychics get instantly possessed by demons and all sorts of lovecraftian shit starts running around on your ship. Losing 8/10 of your crew would be considered a massive failure.
Even the Eisenstein only lost a small number of crew and that ship was totally fucked after it's little excursion.
>>63130239
How does it work?
>>63130804
My advice is to pick which aspect of 40k you're most interested in and start there.
Want space marines front and center? Try the horus heresy books.
Imperial guard? Try gaunts ghosts.
Inquisition? Try eisenhorn.
I think any of these would serve as decent starting points, but knowing the framework of the lore before diving in would be really useful
>>63131062
while some HH books are nice, never start with them, they are just utterly different than all of the other books, and is best looked at as propaganda (well, more propaganda than the standard fare)
>>63131004
Can you expand on what happened to the Einstein? So basically there is no really good stories on ships getting fuck in the warp?
>>63130406
For you
>>63131363
this bump
>>63130804
Night Lords Omnibus
>>63131363
>>63131961
There's that one Word Bearer book where they go into the warp, get lost for what they feel is 6 months, the space marines eat the crew and drink their blood because they need water, lick pipes, drink fuel, and eventually turn on each other, only to end up being demonically possessed. When they finally escape, the fleet they flew away from has only experienced 30 seconds or so.
I think this was just the eye of terror, but still. There aren't really stories that focus on when shit hits the fan. It's just peppered around here and there. I recall one book that described a ship getting lured into the area where a ship jumped to the warp, without their geller fields, and the captain only has time to sigh before a demon crawls out his eyes.
The point is that when you hit the warp unprotected, you're fucked seven dimensions to sunday. Not much else to say.
>>63131242
Nah, the first 3 or 4 books of HH - where the story is continuus and cohesive - are really good and got me hooked.
>>63130773
>the hell scenes
Oh man this movie freaked me the fuck out as a kid.
>>63129927
>>63129979
>>63130163
>Not the Eisenhorn trilogy
>Not the Ravenor trilogy
Filthy xenos, everyone knows Dan Abnett is the only good 40k writer.
>>63132262
Standard: "don't watch that you'll get nightmares" fare, as well as: "if you want to watch this I need a pillow to cover your eyes". My mom was loving, if a bit overprotective. She meant well.
Jokes on her, I watched Predator and fucking loved it.
>>63129333
>>63130773
Women sodomizing men.
How progressive.
>>63132308
My mum just thought it would be an innocent space film and left me alone with it.
40k is too big of a universe for Hollywood to do, besides it rips off so much stuff from other franchises it would look really hackneyed to the masses.
If you had to do it you would have to make a movie or set of movies about a particular event or era.
An abridged version of the Horus Hersey would probably be your best bet since it has a beginning, middle and end and distinct characters in the Emperor and his Primarchs.
Even then I don't think it would work.
>>63132586
It would work better as a TV series oran animethan a movie t.b.h
It's funny. After MCU and with SWCU incoming I thought that Hollywood would eat all this shit up.
>>63132586
>If you had to do it you would have to make a movie or set of movies about a particular event or era.
Of course. Just like the books do. The beauty about 40k is that it's a practically endless universe of stories. When there are quadrillions of humans and countless billions of planets, there's no real end to what you can write about.
A war story from a Guard's perspective with chaos or tyranids and teasing some Space Marines for future movies, and a commissar executing retreating soldiers would work perfectly well.
>>63132628
Yeah a series would work best, since even the HH has a fuck ton of characters between the 18 Primarchs, their most famous Captains, The emperor, Malcador, the Chaos Gods etc.
>>63129333
How big is that ship? I heard that some of the ships in 40K are several thousand meters long.
>>63132844
Your standard Emperor Class battleship is 12km from bow to stern. If you go back to the Heresy, the Legion Gloriana Class Battleships are 26km from bow to stern.
>>63132844
Easily. Not the biggest of ships that people have invented, but they're pretty fucking big.
>>63132911
I imagine the numbers are up for debate. The writers can't even decide if a Imperator class titan is 30m of 100m, and I've seen both mentioned a handful of times in various fluff.
But we're most very likely dealing with several kilometers in length of big warships nonetheless.
>we will never get a 40k anime based on the IG
>>63132709
Oh come on. You know you'd have to have spess mehreens front and center from the get-go. They're the most iconic.
>>63132586
>>63132748
So who would be your dream cast for an HH series/movie?
>>63132995
Regardless, the point was that you focus on a slice of story, not the entirety of the universe at once, because that's a history-documentary, and only enjoyable to us spergers. Normies need not apply.
>>63132628
HH Season 1:
>Introduce the Imperium/Emperor and some Primarch (Horus, Fulgrim, Mortarion, Angron)
>Show the last few battles of the Great Crusade (end with Ullanor and Horus becoming Warmaster)
>show Horus being corrupted.
>Season finale is Isstvan III
Season 2
>Introduce Manus, Corax, Vulkan etc
>Show paranoia from the fall out of Isstvan III
>End with Isstvan V.
and go from there, could have a season for Presporo (sp) Battle of Phall, Calth etc.
End the series with the Battle of Terra and the Emperor getting put of the Golden Throne.
>>63132911
The Imperial Fists' Phalanx is even bigger, like Death Star big if I remember right
>>63133170
Last battles of the crusade to Isstvan III is quite a long story.
Maybe I'm just corrupted by GoT and its endless, incessant filler episodes. Maybe if the writers actually progressed the story it'd be possible.
>>63133374
I was thinking more like talking about the battles in past tense. Maybe just show Ullanor and say thats the final battle.
>we bet him that he wouldn't enter the warp without a gellar field and he did it the absolute madman
>>63133170
I think we should meet all or at least most of the Primarchs by the end of Season 1, since they're important.
>>63133538
why did i laugh at this?
>>63132586
>besides it rips off so much stuff from other franchises
You do mean the other way around right? Starship troopers is the only thing i can think it rips off
>>63133632
40k is just an amalgamation of everything that was cool in sci-fi/fantasy in the 80's.
Also there's Tau, but fuck those guys.
>>63133602
Because you're a nerd
>>63133674
>dota2player.jpg
Fixed that for you
>>63133692
>wardenofavalon.jpg
fixed that for you
>>63130870
This.
Ciaphas cain gets boring after the first trilogy, but it's a great entry point. It's fun, and provides a pretty good basic knowledge of the entire universe from the perspective of a false hero leading grunts.
>>63129333
they already made event horizon
>>63133901
It's alright provided you don't read it in a clump. That's when the repetitive nature of it really gets hammered home
>>63133632
Read some Sci-Fi from the 70's especially Moorcock. GW lifted so much stuff from him.
>>63133538
To be fair, they didn't know what the Warp was, or how to make Geller Fields. The first time Mankind entered the Warp was never going to end well.
