Not trying to be a heretic here, but how do these Space Marine shoulder pads work? Assuming these things are made out of a solid matter and have no hidden hinges or telescopic edges on them, shouldn't they go inside your neck and shoulders if you lift your arms to the sides or raise them up all the way?
Only logical explanation I can think of is that there's a hidden mechanical system underneath the pauldrons that moves them above the shoulders when you lift your arms to certain angles, exposing your arms almost entirely. Not really practical or safe, but plausible, I guess.
Or maybe it's just inexplicable space magic that can't be explained.
Also, 40K thread.
Jesus has a penis lol
>inb4 exterminatus for questioning the truth
>>673061330
you can see in your picture that under the pauldrons that there's a part which looks like maybe the bicep of a part of the breastplate thats not fixed and looks like it'd rotate
>>673061880
So the entire pauldron then lifts up when you move a little?
>>673062443
looks like that would be the only way for it to work properly
ill leave this for his glorious emporahh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcYrTCGKyrU
>>673061330
holy fuck now i know i'm not the only one who actually thinks this.
also post your favorite chapter
bumping this thread for the emperor
>>673063645
Salamanders are cool as all hell, but Raven Guard will always be the ones for me
>>673063645
space wolves but the alpha legion are a close second for me
>>673061330
>>673064233
Scum
>>673061330
Fan art of space marines is a mixed bag, and with terminator armor and above it gets completely ludicrous. Look at THQ's Space Marine for a good example of artists who have actually put some thought into how astartes could move about.
>>673063645
Black Templars or Grey Knights for me.
>>673064491
even though their methods were mostly abhored by the other legions you never did know for sure that they were truly traitor, and they were never fully alligned with horus
Death to the false emperor!
>>673064709
See that, now really what the fuck is that? How can his head be that small and his legs fit all the way down in there?
>>673064233
FUCKING BARBARIANS!
also I like how this picture is apparently a wallpaper.
>>673064923
because astartes have retarded fuck hueg bodies. it's covered that all the shit that makes one gives them mongoloid gigantism shenanigans.
>>673063645
Dark Angels, more specifically Deathwing
>>673064944
fucking witches. they burned your world for practicing magic against the will of the emperor
>>673064923
maybe its like a dreadnought and his body is in the torso and the rest is just bionics
Best legion
>>673065148
Yeah but it's never mentioned that their heads are ridiculously disproportionate. That makes foetal alcohol syndrome look normal.
>>673065275
See now that kinda makes sense.
>>673061330
I keep seeing this heretic shit hut whenever I search for Warhammer 40k I don't see any sources anywhere. So tell me guys what is this? Is this from a book, a game where?
>>673065335
Also I'll dump some of what I got
Legion of the damned
>>673065268
no you burned the world by the word of horus. you were just meant to take Magnus home for a spanking.
>>673064491
Yep., its heresy
>>673065335
>>673065576
Do you think if the new World of Warcraft movie does well, we'll see a Warhammer movie too?
>>673061330
is this like an autistic version of World of Warcraft?
>>673065335
>>673065576
>>673065720
>>673065567
Try 1d4chan.
All are inferior to your true warchief
>>673065653
>>673065576
>>673065335
>>673064878
>>673065725
We had one. It was called Ultramarines and it was garbage.
>>673065826
you could have at least asked what kind of a starcraft rip off this is.
>>673065725
Maybe. We can but hope.
>>673065725
would be hard to film
warcraft has a storyline, warhammer is just to broad to make a comprehensive movie about.
would have to begin with the horus heresy or at least a synopsis of it and then there are so many ways to branch out.
they could make a thousand movies of warhammer and just scratch the surface
>>673061678
Is that what the Chaos army looks like in 40k?
I used to play Warhammer when I was a kid. Around the time Bloodbowl and later Necromunda came out.
I haven't really played since then, but I did briefly read something about them totally overhauling the Warhammer game and armies.
>>673066016
but it is too autistic to even rip off of Starcraft. It's just silly. Look at them, look at this art work and laugh. If my 4 year old drew something like this I would smack him but here adults create them. hilarious.
>>673065653
This quite offends Slaanesh!
>>673065335
>>673065576
>>673065720
>>673065860
>>673066200
>>673066219
>Calling the Black Templars Chaos a Army
OMFG YOU HERETIC!
>>673066219
That's the Black Templars. They're loyalist marines. They're the good guys. No really...
>>673065335
>>673065576
>>673065720
>>673065860
>>673066200
>>673066361
No one seems to be giving a shit so I'm gonna stop samefagging now
>>673066246
this tbh fam
>>673065653
that's a good point man, nicely remembered
>>673065254
Cause they are so dark and edgy...
Salamander for EMPRAH 39999!
>>673066341
Things shall get loud now!
but Tzeentch is a bit more heavy metal than OHFUCKPUSHMYERSTOTHELIMITSOALLMYMENTALCLITORISSINGTOTHERYTHMNOFTHEIRGLORY-wub wub wub.
https://youtu.be/ypgltnMSTvw
>>673066786
Of all the primarchs you picked the pansy-ass nigger?
>>673064129
mah nigga
Death to the false emperor
>>673066748
I fucking love the preheresy thousand sons. Just finished that part of the heresy recently so it's pretty fresh muh nigga.
>>673066786
needs more autistic flames and maybe a few more autistic skulls
luk da humie zinkin' betah than orkz!
CHOP CHOP CHOP!
So these guys will be in the new Total War Warhammer game?
>>673067287
LET'S DO DIS ROIGHT!
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH
>>673067287
Oh hell naw. Get your green faggy ass outa here.
>>673067216
yeah man, that legion was hella powerful, i liked the book they did after that from the space wolves perspective and thats why they're my favourite
bump thread
DEEZ HUMIES TINK DEY SAFE! DEY NEVER SAFE FROM DA' WAAAAAAGH!!
Only cucks support the emperor
>>673067216
Thousand Sons are by far the coolest looking post-heresy
who /tau/ here?
>>673068228
did someone say... for the greater good?
>>673066096
This. It's just not practical to make a movie about something so expansive.
>>673061330
Look how is arm moves, i think thats the best example, still looking though. I know somewhere I read the pauldrons lower automatically so you can see
Pre-Mary Sue fluff Ultrasmurfs.
Anyone got any good pictures of freeblades?
>>673068521
this and we'd hate any movie they made
another of arms moving up
>>673068360
Chaos is the only true answer
LUK DA HUMIE BURRRNNN, HA HA HA! ERE WE GO! AHHH DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA!
im not into Warhammer at all and know very little about it. But usually in pictures when a group of marines and perhaps other factions, there is usually one dude not wearing a helmet.
Why is this? Is he some kind of squad leader or just plain stupid?
>>673069348
Yes.
Also don't think no-one's noticed you're all the same guy.
>>673069348
squad leader. it's also badass.
>>673069284
Resist or not, soon you will all be consumed.
I figure this a decent place to ask you /b/ros. Just started playing warhammer and i wanted to know some backstory about the blood angels.
>>673069836
XENOS GET OUT
>>673070050
Space vampires.
>>673070055
YOU WILL DIE AT TRAITORS HANDS
>>673070050
http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Blood_Angels
>>673070518
tl;dr
>>673070518
Yeah not really interested in that much reading. I kinda asked so i could just get a general idea as to what the fuck my troops stand for and what have you. Not to know every last little useless detail.
>>673063645
I like the Death Gaurd myself.
Let me talk you all about the adventages of Greater Good over a life of slave in some faggot name
>>673066788
SCREAM TO BE HEARD!
>>673071396
pls leave xenos scum
>>673070899
Your troops are space marines so they're hard as nails and loyal to the imperium. Blood Angels have special rules and a long back story that basically mean they will occasionally go completely fucking berzerk. They work really well in close combat because of this.
where my space elves at?
>>673071396
Let me tell you about the gifts from my grandfather
>>673071875
The fact that that image is titled "last stand" should clue you in.
No love for Adeptus Mechanicus?
>>673071774
I'll have to check out some of their specials rules and what not. Thanks bro!
>>673071774
>loyal to the imperium
C U C K S
id rather die in glorious combat than be consumed by slaanesh
>>673072234
No other love for my Papa?
>>673072373
We all go to Nurgle in the end.
Are they pushing the fluff forward soon?
>>673072622
The fuck is nurgle? Its sounds like something a 3 year old would say.
>>673063645
the magpies. Loyalist Thousand Sons anyone?
>>673072918
one of the true Gods
>>673063645
They're boring but solid.
>>673068228
ayeeeeeee Tau pretty cool guys compared to everyone else.
>>673073331
Dorm was uberprimarch
god of pestilence and decay
What book should I start with?
I'm 30 but played this shit back in the day and it seems interesting.
>>673072918
You still here?
>>673073698
Dan Abnet's Tanith series. All of it. It's "Band of Brothers" set in spaceeeeee
>>673073698
It's a mixed bag dude. Some is awesome, a lot is solid-tier sci-fi, and a lot is just cringe-inducing awful.
For novels, start with Gaunt's Ghosts series by Dan Abnett. For tabletop games pick up the basic rulebook and flip through. For vidya start with Dawn of War.
>>673073890
Yeah. Was just doing a bit of research into a few guys.
>>673065877
Kek says true warchief and doesnt put Thrull. kek
>>673070899
Warhammer is all about useless details, part of what makes it fun. nigguuh
>>673074486
Unfortunately im slowly learning this the hard way.The fucking back story on these blood angels is unreal.
>>673071396
Say what?
>>673074242
Thanks dude.
>>673072084
love mechanicum
>>673074870
Alle the legions have insane amounts of back story, but after awhile it becomes fun like any hobby. Though, even i would admit its excessive at times.
This cool guy
>>673075514
Except the Iron Hands lol
>>673075185
I'm just starting out but are there gonna be any more factions besides Cult Mechanicus and Skitarii?
>>673075514
Yeah i havent really gone that far into their back story. Just been learning what kind of an army they are. Their weaknesses and shit like that.
>>673075659
Kharn. Hell of a guy...
>>673075678
Right, except for the cool legions. They get shafted.
>>673075913
As long as you're out of melee range. Inside melee range he's Saint Bastard of team kill.
>>673075739
There's the Titan Legions, heriteks, and exploratory fleets.
>>673075004
>>673071635
>>673071902
Can anyone care to explain to me what Warhammer is all about? Can't seem to find actual source from this.
My favorite factions are
Eldar
Tyranids
Space Marines
Tau
Imperial guard, just cuz there's some units that look bad ass. What are you guy's fav factions?
>>673075985
Sons of Medusa's founding is interesting fluff.
>>673076431
It's the grim darkness of eternal war.
>>673075904
Vampire Space Marines. Like normal marines but extra-killer in close combat. Special unit configerations like Death Company, close combat tanks and dreadnoughts reflect that. Some good named hero characters with different abilities, a few like Dante are even worth the points they cost to field.
Their main weakness, or at least in 4th edition, was their tendancy to go nuts and charge off out of your control, and a skilled mobile player can lead them round the board and shoot them to pieces. But then properly handled they'll turn an opposing player's army into pulled pork.
>>673076232
Final solution for this heretic filth
>>673076431
Try wikipedia dumbass.
>>673063645
ANGRY MEHREENS
>>673076854
Wikipedia is full of biased shit you stupid nigger. I need actual source
>>673076886
>>673076952
If literally all you're looking for is a simple description then it's fine. You're not writing a fucking thesis are you?
>>673076692
Huh. Kinda hate that their vampires. But the black rage sounds pretty sweet.
>>673076232
My grandfather is more than happy to give his gifts to the many.
Will the Squats ever return?
No love for tyranids???
>>673077331
Only slightly gay though. It's more about the blood lust than anything.
>>673077482
They will lower their prices before they'll bring the squats back.
>>673077529
Their almost as powerful as the space marines, too bad they can be wiped out by exterminatus. But they fucking rule space hulk.
>>673076729
>>673077345
>>673077709
I actually just started reading about the blood lust. Kinda makes it less gay.
>>673061330
Come join chaos ;)
>>673077482
Pretty sure the space dwarves are dead and buried..
>>673063645
Would it be retarded if I made my dark angels angry marines?
>>673078237
Tits are corrupting my mind!!! Help me my brothers! I wish not to become a heretic!
>>673078237
Where's the dick?
>>673078381
not at all
>>673078237
that's a weird belly button
>>673078237
>>673078467
He/she can grow dicks and vaginas as needed.
>>673077811
So never
>>673076431
Lovecraft's theme of things existing beyond what a human brain can grasp + Heinlein psychics and armor. fantasy and science fi races were blended together and found their own Gothic fluff design, including Eldar (elves dying off), Orkz (orky orcs, goin fightin!), Tau (blue Jap commies), etc
Several thousand years in the future humans control 60% of the universe after forceful reconquest but are in a dark age. Everything sucks, people revere basic software, programming is 1/3 tech, 1/3 ritual, and 1/3 not knowing what you're doing. most humans are poor and live in huge polluted cities built on ancient human ruins, psychics drag interdimensional monsters into reality, and a small skirmish between aliens could cost billions of lives and a few irreplaceable ancient ships. One person out of one trillionth is a space marine. Human factions sometimes infight and sometimes start shit against aliens because of humanity's manifest destiny.
>>673078883
That was what I was getting at yes.
Too much Zeno filth in this thread
>>673076952
>Wikipedia is full of biased shit you stupid nigger.
About WH40k? Those free-spirited queers are pro-Tau, aren't they?
bump this thread for the emperor
all aboard, next stop KILL THE FALSE EMPEROR
>>673077529
For the Hivemind
>>673061330
BUT I WANT TO HEAR THE FUCKING ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION
Best 40k thread in weeks. Feels good.
>>673080401
also
>>673079264
>>673080185
>>673078237
>>673080401
They lift up. See >>673069990
>>673079691
My bros face when I mashed his weeb tau army with basilisks and mopped up with jump sisters and a metric fuck ton of IG .... Goddamn it i miss that shit. 28 now and 2 kids. Wanna start again since I can actually afford it but idk....
>>673080401
See >>673061880
Also its a bit art-based. They didn't always use to look like that
>>673063645
Blood Angels, gotta love senseless violence and still be the good guys
Also, Sanguine honour guard look fucking awesome
>>673081406
>>673081934
damn..
>>673078077
More metal to rust, bodies to consume. Firearms will not protect you from his generosity.
>>673078237
My grandfather offers far greater gifts than mere fleshy pleasures.
>>673065725
The Ultramarines movie was shit
Choose.
>>673082223
Emperor. Easy.
>>673082223
I mean with the emperor you get five others just by proxy.
Anyone seen the BF:G game for pre-order on steam? Opinions?
>>673082223
The tau, no even the slightly doubt
>>673082987
"Utter disapproval intensifies"
>>673082809
Saw som videos with angry "cuck" Joe, should look into them if you are considering buying it. Kinda looks cool in my opinion, but will still wait for more info/footage
>>673083170
I don't exactly call this "winning"
Actually OP the shoulders hold the ammo and act as armor
>>673064129
Speak the truth
>>673083170
The emperor are the fathers, grow up you, no brain fanatics
>>673084173
>Illiterate fuck
Found the mutant guys.
i always have this doubt warhammer fags: Between a demon hunter and a space marine what is the difference? who is better? in a hipotetic war between them who wins?
>>673078381
>dynamic entry
kek
To answer OP, the shoulder guards are described as "autoreactive" in the books and move automatically to get out of the way a bit. Also, look at suits of real Medieval armor, the pauldron was pretty fucking big, going down almost to the elbow.
Starcraft is actually a ripoff of 40K, not the other way around. The first full 40K codexes cane out in like 91 with the forerunner game called Rogue Trainer dating back to 89. Starcraft came out in 1997.
That Ultramarines movie was dogshit. GW was dumb enough to get the faggots that make Bionicle to make the movie. The cut scenes for THQ's 40K games are infinitely better. Dan Abnett supposedly wrote the script but I get the idea there were some major rewrites by some douche bags once production started. "That will be kinda hard to animate, why don't we cut some corners here and here, remove this character entirely, and inexplicably place the ship's reclusiam in the engine compartment hurr durr..."
GW will likely never greenlight a fullscale live action 40K movie because they are far to miserly with the revenue from their properties and wouldn't share profits with a major studio that would do it justice.
Fucking phone and autocorrect.
Came*
Rogue Trader
And whatever the fuck else that I missed.
>>673084487
Well the inquisition, on paper, can theoretically requisition the entire apparatus of the Imperium. They are nominally ahead of everyone but the Emperor himself.
But all 1000 chapters of marines rebelling at once isn't something they could really withstand.
Now If by daemonhunter you mean the Grey Knights, then the Grey Knights every time. They're Grey Knights.
>>673085194
Dan Abnett's notoriously hit and miss. Yeah the black library stuff is good, and his Triumff, and he created Guardians of the Galaxy. But has anyone read his Dr Who stuff? Or that godawful tombraider novel? Sometimes he chokes.
ANGWON WANT ITHE KWEEMMEEE
Imperial Guard game with Red Orchestra gameplay when?
>>673085435
Kek why grey knights are so over?
>>673061330
yeah they fucking own
fuck you for even implying they might not
Space marines never have to raise their arms that high, so the armour is just designed as a solid lump that allows for all the minimal arm movement they don't need.
>>673065877
fuck you horde scum, alliance ftw
>>673086721
Don't ask me. Ask Matt Fucking Ward. He loved them SO MUCH he made them embarassingly, game-breakingly overpowered. When they were already overpowered versions of the definition of overpower.
This fucking thread.
10/10 artwork. Also have a cool gif as thanks.
>>673087077
I remember Defilers coming out in 2002. Everyone thought they were the shit. Finally Chaos gets a real non SM war-engine.
>>673063645
Dark Angels
Preferably pre-heresy when Emps led the show personally.
>>673066219
>Confusing Black Templar Space Marines with Chaos Marines
Heresy of the highest order.
Hope you all are enjoying my dump
w40k wallpaper thread
sweet deal fam
DEATH TO THE HERETICS
ALL GLORY TO THE RETURN OF THE EMPEROR
>>673084487
Deamon Hunter? Do you mean a Grey Knight? If so, bet on the grey knight, since he is a veteran marine with even better gear and some psycic powers.
If you mean an Inquisitor from Ordo Malleus I dunno.
Like another poster said, the Ordo Malleus can requisition the death of a planet...
But in 1 on 1? Depends. Is he a psyker? Then the odds are good. Is he not? then my money would be on the marine.
>>673087457
I am, thanks
>>673087571
Is that fucking shadowsun going down?
Necrons ftw
>>673087996
FOR THE EMPEROR!!
>>673082097
>>673081406
Uh. No. Look at his left shoulder. Watch the golden lining right next to his neck. Watch it cleanly cut through where his arm joins his body. I get it: video game. But still, the question goes unanswered.
Notice that in all of the art above this post, the figures in the art don't have their arms raised or the armor is warped to fit their current stance.
>>673064129
Is dat some sweet 3rd edition art?
>>673088475
That is a ridiculous cape.
>>673068094
40K is more Mad Max than the new Mad Max was.
>SPEEEHS MAHREENS
Pfff, these guys are the real muscle
>>673082223
The sister would acutaly be kinda like the Commisar, but hot. Hot as in pretty, and hot as in there is a solid chance she wont end you life witha bolter, but may use a flamer or melta instead.
>>673087856
just a thought, imagine the khorne legion with re-animating necrons with orcs.. everyone would be so fucking happy it would be the end of 40k universe, since they are just fighting their asses out with themselves
>>673065275
proportionally his legs would reach down to below his suit's crotch. So he must be hunched up like a baby in that dreadnought. I mean that's just not imperial kosher
>>673061330
A good question anon. The pauldrons on mk3 armor and better are attached via a black carapace which is a dermal implant in the marines
There are servo's in all the "moving joint" parts of the armor, the pauldrons included. These enhance movements, so to answer, Yes, there is a hidden mechanism that reacts to his lifting arms, twisting etc that stops them being a hindrance
And to answer your other question, Yes, this exposes the joint in the arm pit at certain angles, but the ribbing of the under-carapace is almost as tough as the armor itself
It's the same ribbing you can see between all the joints
I hope that answers your question anon
tl:dr It's "Powered" Armor that is also an environmental suit that contains and auspex array and communications
>>673090262
not OP, but thanks!
>>673082223
As much as I'd love to pick the Guardsman, I'm gonna go with the guy who's literally a fucking god.
>>673064818
The Alpha legion were tricked into joining with a convincing argument that Chaos needs to win, kill everything and then burn out to nothingness when the humans and eldar are all gone
It's kinda weak from my end personally, but the logic is sound