Alright /v/.
Why is he smiling?
Did we even discover this mystery?
He is about to be collateral damage...
>>337435419
The glory of dying for the mankind
He was about to stop living for himself.
BETTER TO DIE FOR THE EMPEROR THAN TO LIVE FOR YOURSELF
>>337435419
>when_you_purge_the_heretic_just_right.tiff
>>337435419
There is no dishonor or fear in dying for the Empire. He's living out every good legionnaires' dream, why WOULDN'T he be smiling about it?
>>337435419
Hes thinking of dank memes.
>>337435419
The xeno exploded just right.
He's glad to see Imperial Knights tear up Wraithfags
>>337435419
He's dying for the Emperor you useless piece of shit.
There is no better way to end your life.
>>337435419
What is your Duty? To serve Emperor's Will.
What is Emperor's Will? That we fight and die.
What is Death? It is our duty.
What is your Duty? ...
He's happy because he's not dying in some stupid warp accident, or some other mundane way. He's going out in battle trying to cut a couple of falling titans in half like a champion.
>>337435419
Someone needs to put the "Feels good man" text on this
>>337435419
>when_you_get_to_die_for_the_emperor_just_right.pcx
Thinken of dank memes
>>337435419
>>337436565
>throw phone into the warp.
>>337436565
>>337435419
What is the terror of death? That we die, our work incomplete. What is the joy of life? To die, knowing that our task is done.
Even a man who has nothing can still have faith. Even a man who has nothing can still offer his life.
Curse now the death in vain.
Only in death does duty end.
If a job's worth doing it's worth dying for.
Know your duty!
The martyr's grave is the keystone of the Imperium.
All mortal life is folly that does not feed the spirit.
As the mind to the body so the soul to the spirit, as death to the mortal man so failure to the immortal, such is the price of all ambition.
Death brings its own reward.
No man who died in His service died in vain.
Death is the only answer.
Serve the Emperor today, tomorrow you may be dead.
To cease purpose is to die.
Speed the bolt that brings the end of enemy and friend.
Praise the sun that brings the dawn of our final doom.
The lot of courage is to be sacrificed on the altar of battle.
Do not wait for Death!
Dying for something is greater than living for nothing.
It is the bitter tears that the gods weep that bind us to their hearts.
Call no man happy until he is dead.
No man died in His service that died in vain.
Death is the servant of the righteous.
It is better to die for the Emperor than to live for yourself.
Life is the Emperor's currency, spend it well.
The blood of martyrs is the seed of the Imperium.
The road to purity is drenched in the blood of the martyred.
The wise man learns from the deaths of others
We are bound by the blood of martyrs.
There will be no victory without your sacrifice.
The graves of the warriors who have given their lives for the Emperor now outnumber the stars themselves.
My armour is contempt.
Mankind stands on the shoulders of the martyred.
The brave man always chooses danger.
Our enemies cannot stop us. They can only test our faith, strength and courage.
Life is a prison, death a release.
The question not is when, but how, will I die!
Your purpose is greatness.
>>337436014
>>337436134
>>337436405
>>337436481
>>337437095
sleep tight happy spess mehreen
>>337437095
Sleep tight space marine
>>337437209
Saved
Lets get this 40k thread bumping
>>337437095
sleep tight happy space marine
Thinking about all those stolen relics.
I thought it was obvious
Who tabletop here?
There is no greater honor than to die for the emperor.
>>337437560
>exhaust from a motor is cool.
>>337437615
Meeee! Da boyz
>>337437560
Feels good man
>>337437708
relatively, I said. assuming it hasn't been taxed by cutting anyone in half in the immediate past it the breeze of it could be cooler than his burned face.
just throwing this out there, but being a imperial guardsmen must suck balls
"gentlemen, I want you to oust that Tyranid post, despite being vastly outnumbered, outgunned and outclawed (?). Godspeed."
>>337437615
>>337437720
Best race reporting in
>>337437615
I dropped when 5th ed launched. The only people I could find ot play were randos at the local GW store and the majority of people who hang around those places looking for a game are not fun to play with.
I hope they go back to a relatively normal RTS in this one instead of the Dawn of War 2 style.
DoW2 didn't exactly fly off the shelves judging by how dead the online has been since forever so surely they will try something different this time.
>>337437893
You have to understand how brainwashed the soldiers are, some run away bit most get hyped as fuck being thrown in as a meat wall. Cant blame a nigga for joining chaos
>>337435419
TIZ BETTA TO DIE FOH DA EMPRAH THAN LIVE 4 YOSELF
>>337437921
That, and most players either fucking stink, look terrible, are assholes, or all 3
God why cant normal people who shower like my hobbies
>>337437893
"Clog the barrels of the enemy guns with your dead bodies or we shoot you. Charging the enemy is possible death, staying here is certain death."
Sounds like a laugh riot really.
>>337435419
I HEAR VOICES IN MY HEAD....
>>337437895
IF WE BLOWZ OUR SELVZ UP DEN DA HUMIES CAN'T BLOW UZ UP.
>>337437893
>Dying for the Emperor is
>not the ultimate glory
Because he knows that we're going to have a comfy 40k thread.
>>337437893
Most of them come from worlds where life is absolute shit, worse than being a Guardsman.
Plus, if you actually believe in the Cult of the Emperor, death means your soul will reside in the right hand of the Emperor.
>>337437893
there's an ongoing /tg/ storytime about a guy's campaign with a full party of IG. The DM had them roll up an entire battalion of characters, then subjected them to several IRL weeks of brutal Tyranid onslaught, killing player characters as fast as they could make them. when there was only a handful of IG left - enough for a player character each and a few spares - the actual campaign began.
the actual guardsman experience is almost never represented, because it would be fucking horrible. it would literally be better to die on your first day than to ever become a veteran, because becoming a veteran means witnessing untold horrors and being permanently scarred in every sense.
>>337437893
>90% of soldiers die
>10% get promoted to commisar
>when they retire, they do so on hype ass utopia world with infinite food, and pussy
Them odds tho
>>337437615
Not my proudest fap
>>337438165
IF WE SHOOT OURSELVE WIV SMALLA BOOLITZ WE BUILDZ UP A RESISTANCE TA BIGGA BOOLITZ
>>337438283
>when they die they get turned into floating skullputers
>>337438251
IG vets do get the benefit of being one of the gnarliest fighting forces in the galaxy.
>>337436026
> legionnaire
Arch-Heretic detected.
>>337438251
No such thing as mental scarring, soldiers with ptsd get shot because they can easily be influenced by chaos. IG is suffering
>>337438317
c-could this actually work? given the whole psyker thing, I mean. or would that require a longer attention span than the average ork's
>>337438283
Commissars are raised from childhood specifically to be Commissars
And if a Guardsman lives long enough to retire, they're dropped on whatever world they conquered last, given some land and left to it
well what i have gathered from this thread is that the imperial guard are largely food for chili blenders made out of teeth and a very (very) small percentage of them survive, but jokes on them that's just a different kind of hell
kill me now, i crave release from this hell
>>337438341
Actually they don't even have to die to end up like that, just dissapoint the wrong person
>>337438317
YOU IZ MUKEN ABOUT
YA SHOOT THE GITZ WHO AINT ORKY
>>337438247
What's in his left hand?
>>337438472
Nope.
Orks reality warping only works if it makes sense in ork logic.
Orks know that getting shot is ded flash but it isn't all that good for you.
>>337438283
>10% get promoted to commisar
Commissars are not soldiers and no soldier will ever be made a commissar.
They are raised and indoctrinated seperately from the imperial guard.
>>337438283
>>337438485
That reminds me, how long does a basic IG have to survive to "retire"? Like, considering the average life expectancy of a basic infantryman is like 10 nanoseconds, it can't be that long, right?
>>337438485
No they get to choose what world, and it's possible to also earn a commisar position through promotion
>>337438602
You can "retire" to a desk job, if you're lucky.
>>337436565
>unanswered call icon
worry.jpg
>>337438489
No, if they disappoint someone they are unfit to adorne anything.
Only people who did their duty an much more get the honor of having their remains repurposed as servo skulls.
Servitors are punishment, servo skulls are a reward.
>>337438602
Depends on source, but 25 years, most die in first 3
>>337438592
In literature its stated the position can be earned and inherited
>>337438602
Most IG don't 'retire'.
They either see how fucked shit is and keep fighting or they leave the armed part of the IG and try to support it from a Civilian side.
>>337438472
>given the whole psyker thing, I mean
The orks gestalt psychic power isn't hand-waving power. It can't turn a flaming bag of dog poo into a thermonuclear weapon. It just allows ramshackle tech no never fail, to allow vehicles taht are painted red to get a little more performance out of their engines, and for orks painted blue to win a coin toss a little more often than statistical norms would dictate. If every ork in the universe believed they could form Gork or Mork like a big green Voltron it wouldn't happen.
>>337438553
The Imperial Inquisition. They call themselves "The Left Hand of the Emperor" occasionally.
>>337438751
Well to be exact, it doesent allow their stuff to never break, just become a lot sturdier than they should be. Their stuff still tends to explode eventually.
>there are people posting misinformation
>stuff that's easy available on the internet
Fucking heretics
Spacemarine 2 will never happen because bioware is run by sjw cuck devs
>>337438870
You're right, I really should have said "become reliable" or something along those lines. It's just the "orks can do anything with the WAAAAAGH" head canon is so prevalent I sperg out when I see it.
>>337438870
It does allowed a few impossibility here and there, like a Trukk running without fuel because one of them saw the mekboy working on it and assumed the mekboy did something to the trukk.
First-person warhammer when?
>>337435419
Probably because
He hears voices in his head
They council him
They understand him
They talk to him
>>337439091
Deathwing.
>>337438602
Remember that there are untold worlds in the Imperium so at best you might just fight orks and at worse chaos.
Also depends on the world you are born ie Armageddon, Cadia , Krieg you just go to the shit show right off the bat.
>>337435419
>>337435419
He is literally making this face
>>337438283
> Anyone in Imperium
> """""""""""""""""retire""""""""""""""
>>337437720
That yours? Nice painting!
>>337437095
sleep tight space marine
>>337438602
>>337438652
on campaign, which has an indetermined duration, could be 10 years, could be 100 or more;
Veterans get to settle on worlds they reconquer or conquer, just like roman practice.
For their faithful service they get favorable position in the new imperial world, which in turn needs to be restocked with good imperial citizens after the unwanted elements have been purged, and the flock needs good rolemodels to show them how to serve the emperor, that´s the role of veterans.
Depending on their service record they become high class citizens or even lower nobility, the positions of governors and such are reserved for the campaigns leaders and high ranking officers, of course.
>>337435419
I hate apple but this picture screams for white iPod/Phone ear buds.
>>337439320
No it doesn't.
>>337437095
sleep tight happy space marine
>>337439305
Not any of them, but it's so neat learning about the Imperial Guard and the way they structure their military.
>>337439091
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J46EQKe8GY
you rang
>Our enemies cannot stop us. They can only test our faith, strength and courage.
>>337439456
>his legs are broken
>>337439091
Its been done
>>337437893
>>337437095
sleep tight happy space marine
>>337435419
did i just hear "JOINING CHAOS"?????
UH-OH
>>337438723
>In literature its stated the position can be earned and inherited
Yes, literature that is written by people who have only glancing understanding of 40K.
The core lore states that commissars are only recruited from progena, as only they are guaranteed to be zealously loyal to the imperial creed.
BL books also have hovercars, 9-5 computer deskjobs, hacking, casual heresy nobody cares about, atheist citizens, razorbacks turning into landraiders, and too much other shit that is all so horribly written and directly contradicting the lore, that the majority of it is shit.
>>337439515
Streum On Studio got some kinda thing for broken legs, I think.
>tfw RTS/PC gaming is not dead
>>337437615
not any more man
only thing I play now is historicals, not entirely out of choice but not a bad thing
>>337439456
I really hope the have boarding shields + ranged weapons (such as a volkite charger).
>>337435419
Dying a glorious death in battle for the Emperor while xeno scum is getting rekt.
It's a good way to die.
>>337438602
>Like, considering the average life expectancy of a basic infantryman is like 10 nanoseconds
Guardsmen "retire" when the world they've been fighting has been liberated but so few of their regiment survived that it is not worth it for the Departamento Munitorum to send a troopship to carry them to the next frontline.
So they stay on and breed the next generation of the Emprah's Most Faithful Cannon Fodder.
>>337438751
>If every ork in the universe believed they could form Gork or Mork like a big green Voltron it wouldn't happen.
Come on now why you gotta crush my hopes and dreams like that?
>>337439620
>BL books also have hovercars
Those used to be a thing back in the old days. They probably got retconned so people don't keep asking "if you can make a hovercar why not a hoverbike?"
>>337438723
The "Literature" is lousy with baffling contradictions. Never consider novels anything more than 2nd hand recreations of events.
How do humies stay on top of breeding? Like are there designated breeding-planets that """strongly encourage""" multiple children?
Or is it all a shitshow, where the Imperium just kinda' hopes that the losses never outweigh the production?
>>337437893
>but being a imperial guardsmen must suck balls
What a realisation.
They are on average uneducated, badly equipped and trained, actively lied to about their enemy and their capabilities- especially their chances of victory/survival, and treated as an infinite expendable resource that gets thrown at the enemy until they are out of ammo.
Sure there are actually high profile regiments, but most of the guard is meat, after all "a lasgun is worth more than the guardsman who is carrying it".
And lasguns are worth nothing.
That´s why a huge amount of taxes the imperium raises is simply people.
>Lord Solar Macharius' crusade came to an end when his adjutant came to him and told him that his soldiers had seen too much death, too much war, that it was impossible for them to go on
>he looked to the heavens, gazed at the stars that he would now never conquer and wept
>>337439972
Read the death korps of krieg fluff
>>337439915
>They probably got retconned
Well, 3rd edition had established that hover tech is almost impossible to replicate, thats why any of them are deliverd to the space marines.
I wouln´t consider a 20 year old change a "retcon", as rogue trader was random and self contradictory as shit.
3rd was the first proper edition in which the authors thought to themselves that they should try to make a coherent whole out of the myriad seperate pieces.
>>337439972
Little of column A bit of B.
It doesn't hurt that the civvies in the imperium are ridiculously promiscuous
>>337440176
Is abortion abolished? I know it sounds like a weird question, but you'd think they'd take any life they can get.
>>337440162
>I wouln´t consider a 20 year old change a "retcon",
I would because the timeline in the setting is still stuck in pretty much the same place. A little digging also makes me think Imperial hovertech was Squat related, they seemed to use it, so maybe it got shunted out along with the dwarf bikers.
Is BFGA a good representation of 40k's macro scale space combat, or just small skirmishes.
>>337439456
Erect
>>337440236
GW doesn't address stuff like gay rights and abortion for obvious reasons but one can assume the Imperium has too much on its plate to care about those trivial things, as long as you aren't suspected to serve some heretical purpose, you're probably alright.
golden shower imminent
>>337437615
My grey tide a year ago, still painting em to this day
>>337439972
>How do humies stay on top of breeding?
Let me put it that way, the planet Necromunda has an estimate population of ~1 trillion. That´s one of the biggest hiveworlds in the galaxy, if you recruit 100 million every year you are barely scraping the constant baby boom.
Terra itself was a hiveworld with about a trillion inhabitants in some of the core fluff, but that might have changed drastically.
The losses CAN´T outweigh the production, ever. There are not enough ships to transport all the people you´d need to remove to keep the population level.
>>337439972
>Like are there designated breeding-planets
Fuck no. Every Imperial citizen knows that his holy duty is to provide the Emprah with more loyal citizens. Every planet is a designated spawning ground, even the death worlds right on the frontline. Hell, especially them.
>>337440320
My guess is that they're small scale engagements but 40k rarely get bigger battles because of how scarce battleships are and how fuckhuge warzones are.
>>337439456
maximum hype achieved
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjaYW5Cnr5k
Full film when?
>>337440503
That image made me sad. How are there not rebellions daily?
>>337440236
no one cares really, for every woman who would abort, 10 more consider it their duty to produce loyal citizens.
It is not really touched upon, but except for the case of a world like Krieg, there is no reason to have an mention of reproduction.
Humans are the third most numerous species in the galaxy, only topped by orks and finally tyranids.
Closely followed by the delicious grox, humankinds scaly and belligerent, yet tasty best friend.
>>337440664
>How are there not rebellions daily?
But there are. That's why you've got Adeptus Arbites, PDF, IG, Astartes and Inquisition always vigilant.
>>337440653
Didn't that guy get hired to make cinematics for Star Citizen?
>>337440664
There are. Especially with Chaos fanning the flames whenever cultists get a chance. Developed worlds are shitholes. Super acidic rain because of the absurd atmospheric pollution that causes cancer whenever it touches people, some agricultural-industrial worlds have the air saturated with sticky sap, these are the norm.
>be Ork
>crawl out of dirt
>find the boys
>follow the boss
>krump some gits
>choppychoppychoppy
>dakkadakkadakka
>WAAAGH!
>get krumped
>go to join Gork and Mork in Ork Heaven
>>337440742
>grox, humankinds scaly and belligerent, yet tasty best friend
i thought grox were just cows
>>337438983
But...what?
>>337440664
Because the Guard will come in and brutally put the rebellion down.
>>337439972
The Imperium is just so big that's it refills itself.
Also it's quite possible for an Imperial Guardsman to never see battle. We just never hear of Guardsman Joe station on boring planed number 120232 where nothing bad happens.
Also the WH40k universe is based on super size everything and the rule of cool. It's source material is a mess, it's not exactly clear what is cannon and it often just makes no sense. But hey that's WH40k.
>>337440856
Yeah thats all and well but what if
>you become the boss
>hav to use head
>>337440874
Some of the old codexes had great images of xenos beasts. The original Ymgarl genestealers look like a lamprey with arms and legs.
>>337437095
sleep tight happy space marine
>>337440874
They're lizards.
>>337440503
>born on Feudal world
>bureaucracy is non-existent
>farm dirt for 30 years
>die to Pox
>>337440856
Ork sounds like the easiest life.
Krump gits all day
Fly into space to find some other gits to krump
Pursue the never ending quest for acquiring more dakka or to go fast
Krump some daemons during the warp travel
Find humies then krump em, move onto the next big fight
All the time you are doing what you love and don't have to worry about the soul crushing things wrong in the universe.
>>337439573
>>337441142
>>337440856
True dat.
>>337439456
They have too much of an obsession with viewbob.
Turn that shit down by about 50%. Tactical Dreadnought armor might be heavy but it isn't CLUMSY. No one in their right mind would create a suit that tries to turn its wearer into a milkshake.
>>337441124
>>born on Feudal world
>>>bureaucracy is non-existent
Nope, everywhere there is the Imperium there aretaxes.
>>337440856
>Crawl out of the dirt
Thats not where Orks crawl out of
>>337439456
>hybrids
Fuck yeah. About time the Cult got some more love.
>>337441142
Not just that. If you don't wanna fly around space and muck about with all that, you can live in an Ork settlement, usually a massive city full of Orks just mingling about, having races out in the dunes, playing Bloodbowl, getting in fights cause you need some more teef for a Squig on a stick, and the Mekboy district will be exploding pretty much every day, with weird mechanical abominations crawling out before they either crash and explode too, or somehow succeed.
>>337437095
sleep tight happy space marine
>>337441142
>Be filthy human nobody
>Envy Ork life cause they dont have to do shit except what they want (or what theyre boss tells them to do) and dont suffer from horrifying tyranny
>Somehow find a way to get to Gorkamorka
>Join the Diggas and get protection from Necrons while acting like an Ork all day erry day
>>337438983
>Sega in cahrge of publishing
>Developed by Relic
Yeah, fuck Bioware.
>>337437095
Sleep tight space marine
So the Goto novels of DOW weren't that great?
>>337438983
Bioware doesn't own the rights to Space Marine. The whole thing was made up by some blogger and you fell for it because you're a fuckwit.
>>337437209
>when the exterminatus hits just right on a hive world
>>337442540
They're BAD
>>337438983
Very dumb and extremely stupid SJW poster.
>>337440503
>>337440664
The topic of what its like to live on an Imperial is a fun but of a difficult topic.
On the one hand, we have stuff like that picture,which is from the 5th Edition Rulebook, that paints a pretty grim picture of life in the Imperium.
On the other hand, we have the BL books, which are admittedly in a somewhat grey area when it comes to their canoninity, where there seems something resembling normal life on some imperial worlds. Fifteen Hours, the Last Chancers, Eisenhorn and Ravenor, in these books there are worlds that dont seem so bad. A character in the Last Chancers describes his Agri homeworld and it sounds pretty sweet. In Eisenhorn, theres a world, the name escapes me, thats pretty much like, well, Venice and seems like a pretty sweet place to live in. And lets not forget that there are planets literally called "pleasure/paradise worlds".
But then you have worlds like that one planet in Ravenor, where acid rain falls from the sky and poverty and crime abounds. And of course, no matter where you go, theres religious fanaticism, xenophobia and probably corruption as well. And theres very little, if any, in the form of free speech. Critize the wrong person and you can look forward to a short life on a prison colony performing back breaking labour. Or maybe you'll become a Penal legionaire.
TL:DR: A lot varies from world to world but there are some traits most imperial worlds will share: a fanatical church, xenophobia and a harsh treatment of any attempts at independence.
>>337442540
You mean CS "Multilaser" Goto?
Brightening up this thread with best Ork.
>>337443302
>that pic
the absolute madman
>>337443248
Forgot muh pic.
>>337443248
Just think of what it's like in different countries on our own planet
Some have natural resources or geographical benefits or were lucky enough to stumble into some stability, and some just don't have that shit
>>337435419
He thinks about all the sweet, free relics just laying around on the battlefield.
>>337443641
Yeah, thats actually a pretty good way of putting it, Anon.
Did every single author/developer who have added the Alpha Legions in forget that every one of those members are suppose to be called Alpharius?
>>337443819
Probably, yes. Or they straight up didnt know to begin with.
Friendly reminder that Leman Russ is the best Primarch, and the Space Wolves are the best chapter
>Dork Angles need not apply
THE MON'KEIGH SCREAM SO WELL ON THIS PLANET!
>>337444134
You call that debauchery?
>>337444124
WOLF WOLF WOLF
>>337444134
>>337444242
Xenos need no apply.
>>337444134
The earth does not deserve to touch our feet.Goddamn, the Eldar are arrogant. I love them.
>>337444341
Keep on walking loyalist whelp
>>337444124
Space yiffs are almost on par with ultrasmurfs in terms of Mary sueing
Well the palace of Slaanesh sounds like a lovely place to visit.
>>337444419
The only walk I shall grant you will be a stroll to an early grave, accursed heretic.
>>337444341
Are the Eisenhorn books any good as far as the fandom is concerned?
I bought the first part like 3 years ago and it was fairly entertaining light reading, but I've never finished it.
>>337444134
An entire Eldar craftworld got fucked by one zoanthrope.
One zoanthrope!
>tfw playing SS as IG with the Titanium Wars mod
Thank god for all this armour.
>>337437095
Sleep tight space marine
>>337440092
Krieg is an exception that's been turned a blind eye to. The Inquisition or Mars would probably squash a lesser world that tried that sort of thing.
>>337444124
Thats not Vulcan and the Salamanders
I imagine meeting Vulcan would be like meeting a less intimidating, much more warm-hearted Emperor
>You will never be a kid on Nocturne while Vulkan was around and ride on his shoulders
>>337444559
I think they're really good. The characters are very interesting and Eisenhorn himself changes a lot but in natural ways. It's also interesting to get to see the civilian life in the Imperium, the different factions within the Inquisition and how easy it is to try to walk on the slippery slope that hunting Chaos is and how easy it is to fall.
>>337444124
That's not how you spell Salamanders and Vulkan.
>>337444712
>literal niggers
jking, I fucking love them.
>>337444559
I read them all years ago and I had a lot of fun with them. Just dont expect much combat. There is a bit, to be sure, but unlike most 40k books, that I've read at least, the focus is on talking, spying and other stuff. Inquisition stuff, basically.
>>337444242
>reminder we debauchery'd your god into existence
>>337444559
I find most if not all the IG books really good.
Might be that I just find the other groups "stuffy".Except for Orks, dey cool.
>>337444662
>>337444712
Fuck off hippy scum
>>337435419
He's about to be collateral damage from a Knight Titan, that's pretty damn honorabu in the eye of the man emperor of mankind.
>>337444851
Fire is literally anti-hippy
>>337437615
yellow knight guy reporting in
>>337437095
sleep tight happy space marine
>The Fleshborer, designated by the binomial Pulpa terebro, contains a compact brood nest where Borer beetles lay their eggs, which hatch and mature, sustained by the weapon for future use as ammunition. These beetles are kept in their mature state in a hormone-induced dormancy until the weapon is ready to be fired. At this point, neural impulses from the wielder forces one of the insects into a firing sphincter. From here, the beetle can be fired at a target by a further impulse.
>The beetles move very little until the weapon is triggered by a massive electro-chemical shock which drives the beetle into sudden frenzied action . Using their powerful flea-like legs they launch themselves out of the weapon at tremendous speed. The beetle itself is blind, having been specifically bio-engineered this way to lessen any possible deviation its flight path. On striking they expend their life energy in a matter of seconds, boring frenziedly through the target's armour, flesh and bone.
Well isn't that lovely.
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>>337435419
Whats Earth like in 40k?
>>337444581
an entire tyranid splinter feet got fucked by one eldar.
One eldar!
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>>337444124
Hello sir, may I have a moment of your time ?
>>337445002
*fleet
>>337435419
I believe the exact thoughts in his head was:
"So you can tell everybody. Yes you can tell everybody. Go ahead and tell everybody. I'm the man. I'm the man. I'm the man."
None can stand before the Greater Good!
Who would win in a fight between the tyranids and the flood?
>>337445243
Flood stomp.
>>337439992
I think that's just really stupid. It doesn't take long to give soldiers a basic training (6 months is enough) and imperial guard isn't badly equipped by any stretch. The basic lasguns pack a punch, they've got rocket launcers, krak and drag grenades, certain regiments have jetpacks, all sorts of cool stuff. And while the lonely guardsman is not a big threat they've got combined arms of artillery, air support, mechanized units and so forth to back them up.
The "IG is just a bunch of useless retards" is a stupid concept. Ciaphas Cain books have a nice description for IG which makes sense.
>>337444480
>You will never go to the circle of Carnality and spend the rest of your existence surrounded by slutty lolis
>>337445243
Zerg
>>337444590
I need more tanks and artillery. My one hope if IG is in the first expansion for DoW3, is getting all those Russ variants, Manticores, Wyverns, Hydras, etc.
>>337445243
Flood need calcium and a working spinal column to infest.
Nids can just evolve those way
Is the Emperor actually a sentient thing, or is the beacon just a result of the 1000 psykers scarified for his throne everyday?
If the Emperor died, would he be reborn as a warp god?
>>337439456
40k is getting some love this year.
>>337439992
>>337445343
>>337445243
Flood overran the forerunners, who were on par with the old ones/ancient necrons. What do you think?
>be reading Cadian Blood
>get to this part
>No preparations this time. The nova cannon charged its magnetic fields and spat its implosive gift at the Archenemy flagship.
>Two things happened in the wake of that release. Close to the speed of light, the projectile hammered into Terminus Est, unleashing the physics of a collapsing sun into the ship’s underbelly.
>Several decks simply ceased to exist as the implosion gouged a wicked, bleeding hole in the Traveller’s vessel. More wreckage, more crew and more diseased fluids drifted into space from the grievous puncture.
>The second thing was that Depth of Fury lost all pretence of stability. The kickback from firing the nova cannon was colossal, effectively killing the cruiser’s forward motion and sending it veering to starboard, out of control.
>The predator sensed its prey was crippled: Terminus Est loomed in the viewscreen, drifting closer.
>“We’re dead in space,” said one of the younger bridge ratings. His face was white with fear. “Do we abandon ship, sir?”
>The side of the young man’s head exploded outward in a dark mess. The corpse toppled over in the same direction a moment after.
>The ship’s commissar, hook-nosed and thin-faced, lowered his pistol.
>“How dare he shame this vessel’s final moments with a coward’s talk?”
I love this part way more than is reasonable. Its commissars, the scene. He knows he, and the ship and everyone on it, is about to die an explosive death but he still wont tolerate anything that sounds even remotely like cowardice. Absolute madman.
>>337444480
>everyone just dies before getting there
>anyone who does get there just loses all their willpower
>you pretty much have to either be a super fucking space marine crusading the warp or personally cover your own city in the bodies of innocent people stitched together like a tarp to even get an invite
Eh.
40K is just a shitty universe to want to live in. It's grimdark for the sake of it.
>>337439673
Feels glorious battle brother.
>>337445219
Hur hur hur
>>337439573I kinda liked this game. Shame the fucking thing wont work on my computer anymore.
>>337445450
The ancient humans beat the flood, though.
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What are these things?
>>337445638
The flood/precursors let them live, there was no actual cure.
HAVE YOU DONE YOUR DUTY AND RAMMED A CHAOS SHIP INTO OBLIVION TODAY?
>>337445450
It's been a very long time since I read any lore about this shit. How did the flood even wipe out the forerunners?
>>337445419
>Gothic Armada
>Deathwing
>Total Warhammer (admittedly fantasy but whatever)
>that Eisenhorn thing looks like it has dull comabt but should be worth a youtube watch at least
>DoW 3 next year
Savour this, because it'll be a while before we get a year like this again.
>>337437893
>that strenuous, painful, pernicious, mentally taxing, arduous training from the Death Korps of Krieg in order to pump more soldiers into the fray
>>337445698
Wraith knights
Extremely rare wraiths that require eldar twins souls to function
>>337445698
Tao mechs i believe.
Havnt played any of the games but have read up on lore.
>>337445794
http://www.halopedia.org/Key_Mind
>>337445884
Is this bait?
>>337435419
>Why is he smiling?
He gets to die for the God Emprah. What's not to smile about?
>Did we even discover this mystery?
Of what actually happened in that scene? Some Farseer was mind-voyeuring some Spess Mehreen's (possibly a Force Commander's) final thoughts before death. She's reciting what the SM must have been reciting in his head over and over while he's killing and dying. And since that's like a "life flashing before my eyes" moment, it's not clear (or accurate) and in sequence.
Most likely, the SM and his battle brothers use themselves as bait to get the xenos nicely grouped up for an Exterminatus, killing as much as they could.
>>337445698
Eldar Titans, I think. Since the Ravens had a Knight, the Orks, Eldar and whatever the fourth faction is, will probably ahve their own answers to that.
>>337445851
>Wraith knights
Pacific rim ? They also look like Eldar Titans not wraiths
>>337445418
The Emperor is practically dead right now, some sources say hes clinging on to his mortal body by a tiny tether, others say hes outright dead but his soul is still hanging around from sheer stubbornness. But yes, the Emperor is still very much sentient, and extends his reach into the materium in countless ways, for example, the Emperor's Tarot, which the Emperor uses to warn the Imperium about impending dangers.
As for warp god, it's possible, but there are a lot of "possibilities" for the Emperor. Some theorize he will become a new warp god and usher in humanities new age, some say he will be reborn into the materium through the Star Child, some say when he actually "dies" a warp hole the size of the galaxy will split open from the Golden Throne and plunge everything into Chaos, it's shit that will probably never be resolved, because it would mean an end to the setting.
>>337445343
All the named regiments are obviously badasses, but they're only a tiny minority of the Guard. For every Cadian or Elysian regiment there's probably hundreds of no name shitty cannon fodder feudal/hive world soldiers.
>>337439456
>40K
>16+
why
>>337445517
Its kind of a Chaos Gods realm, so it's understandable that it's shitty and grimdark and all that. It's kind of being confused why no one can get through Nurgle's garden, or traverse through the Brass Citadel.
>>337445835
Only the best can die for the Emperor.
>>337445450
It's impossible for any other "huge biological swarming thing" race to out-do the Tyranid.
>>337446020
When will humanity unlock psionic powers ?
>>337437095
Sleep tight happy space marine
So are they still currently fighting the 13th Black Crusade? I was still in school when that began
>>337446020
>because it would mean an end to the setting.
Recent Eldar lore states that Ynnead is forming far faster than expected and may awaken even bore all the Eldar are ded. That's progress right there.
I'm sure that they know how to continue the setting even after an "endgame" scenario that they can milk for a few decades.
>>337446240
lol no
Forerunner war era halo is above 40k on the power tier
>>337446294
They'll never not be fighting the 13th crusade since that's the setting dumbass
>>337446240
Zerg
>>337446294
Its been a joke for a while that the 40k universe is eternally stuck on the year 999. M41.
>>337446005
Eldar titans are called wraithknights, wraithlords and the lesser wraithgaurd
Basically they are a construct with eldar souls inside em
Much like drednaughts but instead of a body inside their souls are used to pilot them
>>337446316
>Didact can throw around Mr. Halo like a ragdoll
>this is somehow indicative of power equal to an angry Marine captain
>>337446294
I think the latest advancement to any kind of plot is that they found the Golden Throne is suffering from irreparable malfunctions and the life support system is slowly failing.
>>337446316
The ancient humans beat them by genemodding themselves to destroy the flood when the flood infects them.
The flood needs bodies, anyway. The tyranids won't give them that. They will eat the the flood on every scale from micro to macro.
>>337439456
HOLEE FUCK
>>337446316
Pretty much. i remeber reading those computer nodes in 3. There are literally trillions of flood. They're basically what will happpen when the main Tyranid swarm finally arrives.
