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
>>337436565
>throw phone into the warp.
>>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.
>>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
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
>>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.
>>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.
>>337435419
Whats Earth like in 40k?
>>337444581
an entire tyranid splinter feet got fucked by one eldar.
One eldar!
![1555320-vengeful_black_templars[3].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/cWBDBwq.jpg "1555320-vengeful black templars[3]")
>>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.
>>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.
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.
>>337446268
They already did, but they're hard to control.
>>337446542
They thought they did. It didn't work.
>>337446316
You fight their tech in the new Halo trilogy.
>>337446268
They already are. Psykers are being born at a higher rate steadily throughout the Imperium, it's practically the next step of humanities evolution.
The problem is, humanity views Psykers as abominations (ironic) and Psykers that aren't outright lynched are usually forcefully taken from their homes and either fed to the Emperor, or made a sanctioned psyker to fight in the Imperial Guard. If a psyker is lucky, he will be born into a Astropath house and have a pretty decent life, if not a very risky and dangerous job, and if you're un-lucky, you'll be a strong enough person to be recruited as a Space Marine and survive long enough to become a Librarian
>>337446401
cmon senpai, i like starcraft and zerg are much lower on the powerlevel scale
Why are there no hero Gretchins? Like one with incredible dumb luck that makes his ass immune to death?
Something like a Ciaphas Cain of Gretchins.
>>337446479
>His armor can survive orbital bombardment and atom disintegration unscathed
>>337438116
Because math
>>337446581
>Trillions
Nigga, a trillion is the average Tyranid splinter fleet.
>>337446401
Tyranid out-evolve Zerg in every way, aren't reliant on a slow spreading flesh ground to do shit, don't need buildings to stage attacks from, and attack in far bigger numbers and far larger scales than Zerg have ever been able to.
>>337446663
The knights were a scrap shoe string measure thrown together by one insane guy when everything else was gone. Knight's are still amazing.
>>337446656
It did work. The flood was vanqished and only came back years later.
Also the flood lacks any ability to fight without hosts to infect and technology to comendear. The tyranids are their own technology (the guns and ships are living tyranids) and they are too evolvable for the flood to infect them.
>paint rocket yellow
>it has more explosive power than other rockets just because orks think so
why doesn't the ork mind just think other species weapons are weak and win
>>337446815
You don't know anything about precursors/flood if you think tyranids would have a chance. I love bot settings but the flood are just too OP in how quickly they spread and absorb everything to use.
>>337446621
>>337446680
I meant humanity as a whole, I always assumed in warhammer thats the final point of war where humanity unlocks psionics and steamrolls everyone else, since other races have good racials and humans have fuck all
>tfw reading up on the origins of Orkz
BOYZ, WE WUZ KRORKZ AND SHIT!
>>337446740
>who is Da Red Gobbo
Sisters of Battle update when?
>>337436026
>Empire
>legionnaires
Heretic.
>>337446834
It didn't.
>After a certain point, the Flood's rampage throughout human territory stopped. The Flood no longer infected humans and instead began to rapidly die out, with both humans and Forerunners sterilizing the remaining infestations.[12] Based on this pattern, the Forerunners came to the conclusion that humanity had discovered a cure for the Flood: according to Forerunner records, the humans sacrificed a third of their total population, implanting them with destructive, artificially programmed genes used to target the Flood on a genetic level. In reality, however, the Flood had receded by its own volition after the sacrifice; no truly functioning cure was ever created or used by humanity,[13] though both Forerunners and humans themselves remained under such illusion.[14]
>>337446910
Because literally everything you just said is wrong
Yellow is the Ork colour of wealth and ostentatiousness
>>337446691
>>337446815
Zerg would steal nyds genetic code and have everything that they ever had and will just better. Not to mention with Kerrigan leading them she would stomp nyds with her sexy heels
>>337447009
Never. They'll bring back WHFB before the SoB get any attention.
Forever blood decorations on the GK.
>>337435419
>When You Exterminatus But The Sister Keeps Purging
>>337446784
Never send a vindicre to do an eversor's job
>>337446834
They've got star roads...
>>337446740
There was, he was Ghazghkull's personal banner waver, Makari, he was useless in every way besides banner waving, and he did that VERY well. Ghazy even liked the little guy, which is pretty much the best position any gretchin could ever hope for, being liked by the strongest Ork in the galaxy, and he was exceptionally lucky. But then one day GW decided to get rid of him and had Ghazy sit on him on accident and then feed him to a Squig. Needless to say people were not happy, but as a consolation (or apology) GW added a Relic to the new Ork Codex that is Makari's banner, and it's a damn good relic.
Theres also the Gretchin revolution, but that doesn't have much.
>>337446916
I don't know the flood, so how about you back up the claims by explaining just why the Flood are so OP.
>>337446916
You know nothing of the nids if you think they aren't overpowered in this matchup.
Like, dude, the average nid fleet sucks a planet's atmosphere off through gravity. The average foot soldier is 20ft tall and has bullet proof chitin. They can organise themself at the microscopic level and eat ork spores to deny them reproduction.
>>337447110
Best assassinsafter Callidus.
>Faction Titans confirmed
>>337437095
BATTLE BROTHER! WE SHALL JOIN YOU SOON!
i like that in the video everybody is equally heroic and that in death everybody, no matter if men or xenos, are brethren.
>>337446740
Because they are cowardly little shits
Makari was ghazz's little buddy that was the luckiest grot ever, dodged countless deaths and is referenced in the latest codex with the best relic orks can get Da Lukky Stikk. Makari is probably the best grotuntil GeeDubs killed him off by ghazz sitting on him
>>337446240
Although the Flood is biological on the most basic level, as an outbreak advances, it becomes a highly powerful self-replicating swarm which will seek to harness any mechanism — philosophical, ideological or technological — to perpetuate itself and its goals. These aspects were most prominently demonstrated during the two major outbreaks in the Forerunner era, particularly the Forerunner-Flood war.[37]
The Flood's most notable meta-biological aspect is the logic plague, an abstract infection carried along information transmission and exchange, typically used to subvert AIs. Mechanisms used to perpetuate this infection range from subtle philosophical persuasion through mutual conversation to more predatory techniques, such as swarming AI networks with a self-replicating information infestation with the ability to convert most machine intelligences near-instantaneously. In the later days of the Forerunner-Flood war, the Flood was able to spread the logic plague through any of its biological forms or infected ancillas.[37]
During its war with the Forerunners, after accumulating sufficient intellectual capacity and processing power in the form of several planetary Key Minds, the Flood gained the ability to manipulate neural physics, which served as the foundation of Precursor technology.[18] This enabled it to control the Precursors' formerly dormant structures—most prominently star roads—and use them as weapons against the Forerunners, as well as manipulate space-time to become incompatible with Forerunner slipspace travel. On a more abstract level, the Flood's connection to neural physics caused the Forerunners to experience the very space-time around them as being increasingly hostile.[38] Upon the development of a Gravemind, the Flood becomes capable of what can be described as telepathy among its hosts;[3] given the Flood's origins, this ability may be related to neural physics.
>>337435419
He's about to return to the Emperor.
>>337447036
So the flood is retarded. Another pro to the merciless nids.
>>337446965
Humans have numbers, really powerful (all be it old and out dated) tech, resources and the Space Marines, who are a whole lot of ass kicking. Humans are the third most numerous faction, beaten only by two factions whose main ability involve spreading fast. You have to remember that even without any real special abilities and such, humanity has fought back and won pretty much every confrontation across the galaxy, its why they can hold their massive Imperium like they do.
>>337447231
I say again; the forerunner would massacre the tyranids. The flood forced them to suicide to win. It's simple logic.
>>337447097
>Get in loser we're going purging
Who /warmachines/ master race here?
>>337447330
They created all sentient life and predate the current universe you dumb mong. 40kers who don't know shit about other settings are the worst,
>>337447301
>it becomes a highly powerful self-replicating swarm which will seek to harness any mechanism — philosophical, ideological or technological — to perpetuate itself and its goals
Just like SJWs.
>>337446834
>hurl star roads through tyranid swarms at light speed
get fucked.
>>337447095
Zerg cannot spread fast enough in comparison to Tyranids, and even then there biological weaponry is no where close to the degree of Tyranids. Not to mention, again, the Zerg require base building to do anything, without the creep and their organic buildings, the Zerg are shit out of luck. Plus Kerrigan doesn't have shit on the Swarmlord.
>>337447231
Pretty sure OG flood have borderline god level magical bullshit. Forerunners completely out-produce every 40k faction combined multiple times over and can out-tech necrons in many areas but they still got butt-fucked by the flood.
>The average foot soldier is 20ft tall and has bullet proof chitin
The average flood vs forerunner battle consists of tens of thousands of 100km + length ships and stars going artificial super-nova.
Flood shit on tyranids completely desu. space battles autist here, it's confirmed.
>>337447598
If you give the flood technology they don't have, the nids get it too.
And flood certainly cannot create technology on it's own (only steal it), so the nids win on the intelligence front.
>Space Marines get Knights instead of Grimdarkians
So what are the IG going to have when they're inevitably added to the game?
>>337447301
So..they are just biological computer viruses? I am not seeing how they have anything above Tyranids.
>>337438341
It's considered an honor to have your skull be used as a servo. And irc, it helps deter and piss off Khorne since your skull is being used rather being at the feet of the Skull Throne
>no Tau
>no KV128
>no KX139
Think there'd be a Captain Bloodflag cameo?
>>337447667
That "average battle" was only the final battle. Also the forerunners lost through incompetence. They would have won if they hadn't let the flood eat them unchecked for years.
The games themselves prove this. The flood are not difficult to kill.
>>337447667
How the average battle went:
>Hundreds of hijacked civilian ships come out of slipspace near a forerunner planet, they get annihalated instantly by defence fleet
>Even a scrap of flaming wreckage falls to the surface, flood spores begin spreading
>Planets of 20 billion plus overrun in 72 hours, the fleet blows up the sun to take out the solar system and falls back further into Forerunner territory, hijacked flood ships take off into slipspace just before then
>Rinse and repeat
>>337446240
>>337445450
Against the Great Devourer there can be no hope of victory!
>>337447745
They created star roads with neural physics though?
>>337447825
You're just being willfully ignorant then.
>>337447841
>Tau
how about no
>>337445418
>Is the Emperor actually a sentient thing
Yes.
>>337447870
Groups of ten or so combat forms are easy to kill. The flood as a whole are unstoppable.
>>337447931
>these people out-tech the Necrons
>can't even disintegrate ships
Wew lad
>>337447972
>Taus getting gangbanged
Taufags b t f o
>>337447989
How am I ignorant if you are not explaining what the fuck the Flood have over the Tyranid
>The Flood would win
>How
>Heres this copypasted wiki paragraph
>I don't see how that makes them better
>Well you're just ignoring it then
Do you not know how debates work?
>>337447779
I wonder if we'll get CenturionsThis is true happiness
>>337447931
Spores can't infect people. You need the walking jeppyfish type flood for that. The "infector form".
>>337445512
>Cadian Blood
MAH NIGGAH! Really, one of the understated gems of the IG novels. And this was the flagship they were fighting against.
>>337448045
You're retarded.
>>337447904
>cropping out the dying Tau
C'mon now
>>337448067
If the Tau don't get to deal with Chaos, they sure as hell have to deal with Tyranids.
>>337448090
I've posted several reasons, your bias is just making you blind.
>>337448139
>so advance they still let things like "flaming debris" fall on their worlds despite knowing how dangerous that would be
Wew
Lad
>>337448179
I like how the Etheral could not give less of a fuck, despite the situation.
>>337448027
what do the fuck do the tears do ? Bring back the dead ?
>>337448121
Wrong.
>Spores are generally airborne, often clogging air filtration systems, allowing for more efficient access to host organisms. When infesting a location, the Flood often uses spore mountains or spore capsules to quickly disperse spores into a planet's atmosphere and thus expedite the conversion of the local biota.[2] The biomass that Flood launchers launch at enemies will sometimes manifest into clouds of Flood spores.[3]
>While infection forms are the Flood's standard means of infection, it is possible for a compatible host organism to be infected by spores alone. The spores will enter the body and go about interfacing with the host's biology, consuming the victim's biomass and replacing it with Flood biomass, leading to biological transformation.[4] The Sangheili Bero 'Kusovai was infected when he inhaled Flood spores. Because he was infected in this manner his rate of mutation was far slower than that done by an infection form, and he was not physiologically distorted in the same manner as those originating from the primary means of Flood infection are.[5] The Prophet of Truth was later infected in a similar manner at the Battle of the Citadel.[6]
>>337447779
>So what are the IG going to have
If Imperial Knights aren't shared (and they should, because Imperium) we still have our Baneblades and variants.
We better get our variants too, so you can bring a Shadowsword to shoot at titans from across the battlefield. Literally a titan weapon on treads.
>>337445512
>‘It has already been calculated that you cannot win this war. The Emperor’s most glorious triumph will not be achieved in your lifetimes.
>‘But for every second you stand against the enemy’s guns, you deplete his resources. You make him weaker. Your lives may be worthless, but you can sell them dearly.
>‘This, then, is your objective. It is your duty and your destiny: die bravely, die hard, and know that even the meagre sacrifice you make will be noted and weighed against your ancestors’ heresies.
>‘You will be hastening the hour – that glorious, promised hour – when the sins of Krieg will at last be forgiven, and its sons redeemed in the Emperor’s all-seeing eyes.
>‘And thus, your fleeting existences will have been justified.’
Krieg is hardcore.
>You will never drop from orbit with your battle brothers on a hostile world to purge the xeno heretics and the name of the god emperor
>>337448039
Dude no. Here's how a flood/nid battle would go
>Flood infection forms appear
>Nids kill them. Not a single one infected.
>Flood never gets a chance to amass any biomatter
>Nids eat flood remains, analyse their dna and become stronger
Decisive nid victory.
>>337448247
>Super durable forerunner hulls bullrushing a planet in the hundreds
>They're not advanced if an one pound chunk of infested debris gets through
Completely retarded.
>>337448303
Tyranids are more than capable of combating spore-based reproduction, for example, the Octarius War, where microscopic Tyranids did battle (yes battle) with Ork spores.
>>337447989
>They created star roads with neural physics though?
That is precurser tech. The flood comendeared it.
>>337445835
‘It has already been calculated that you cannot win this battle. That is not your objective. Your objective is to ensure that victory costs the enemy dearly.
‘The enemy’s resources far outweigh your own. For every second you stand against his guns, however, you deplete those resources. You make him weaker.
‘The price of this achievement, in return, is only that resource most abundantly available to us, most easily replenished. The price is that which is already the Emperor’s by rights. Praise be to our father, our guardian.
‘Today, you face defeat, at the small cost of your worthless lives. But die bravely, die hard, and your meagre sacrifice will help pave the way for His most glorious triumph in the future. Praise be to the Emperor!’
>>337448179
the guy on the throne looks like he cannot sanction his buffoonery
>>337448395
Except the tyranids would be infected by the spores because the precursors are literally the masters of all biological life.
>>337444958
Its completely covered in polution and one massive planet-spanning city. I think even the seas are gone. Whatever isnt covered by city is also barren.
>>337448420
I'm glad you can admit it
>>337448471
....The flood ARE precursors. If you don't even know this much I don't know why I'm bothering with you.
halo faggots get the fuck out
>>337446740
There was. Like everything awesome, GW retconned it.
>>337438652
Imperial bureaucracy seems more frightening than xenos desu
>>337438116
Isn't it bizarre? Why does loving sci-fi seem to go hand in hand with a lack of hygiene?
>>337448518
You cannot infect Tyranids. They are experts at adapting biologically to anything, not even fanwanking, you hit Nids with viral bombs or chemicals or poisons and it will effect a few hundreds, maybe even a few thousands, but the more Tyranids it effects, the faster the rest will adapt to it's effects until they are immune and/or re-purpose what you just hit them with to hit you back.
What's the point of Imperial Knights?
They're just lesser Titans and most tanks, devastator teams and aircraft can easily destroy them.
>>337444958
Some bigass planetwide city/temple where you will wait for months to let the local clergy admit you to the Emperor's Palace for your galactic pilgrimage. You'd also have to be absurdly rich to live there.
It's also very well defended. The moon was pretty much converted into the fucking death star.
>>337440052
ALEXAAANDDEEERR THE GREAT
HIS NAME STRUCK FEAR INTO MORTAL MEN
>>337448290
>what do the fuck do the tears do ?
Destroy deamons. The Living Saints need no tears to live again.
>>337448742
Being cool
>>337448303
Nids love eating spores, so there's that mode of infection gone. The nids are too tough for the flood pierce their skin, as well. Even if they did, the hivemind would either maintain control of the nid, or analyses the transformation and makes every nid evolve to be immune within 24 hours. Biological warfare is kind of their thing.
You think the flood once eat the galaxy? The nids have eaten more than 5.
>>337448742
The same reason there are smaller varieties of Titans. They are for specific degrees of combat, where Titans are not needed/available yet, but the current combat ability is not sufficient. They require far less resources to produce, and are faster and more maneuverable than Titans in battle.
>>337448518
Even Nurgle the GOD of plagues and biology cannot cook up a disease to wipe out Tyranids. You're telling me some pansy ass faction can outdo a literal god?
>>337448571
That's just fanwank.
>>337448793
That didn't stop The Beast from nearly swallowing Terra with a Waaagh!!!
>>337447597
underrated
>>337437095
sleep tight happy space marine
>>337448620
That's seditious talk anon.
>>337448125
I know the Terminus Est in BFG:A is just a Despoiler with Mark of Nurgle, but it's one of the hardest things to fight in the campaign. The other Chaos Champions are like fucking target practice in comparison.
>>337447103
Underrated
or I may be tired, maybe both
Anyone have a map of the Chaos world?
>>337449165
Map of..Chaos world? Which one?
>>337448793
>It's also very well defended
There was once a short fluff story about one Imperial noble on Terra talking to one of his younger colleges and explaining how Terra is the only truly safe place in the galaxy
Of course, this was undermined slightly by the story being part of the Necron codex
>>337446680
>if you're un-lucky, you'll be a strong enough person to be recruited as a Space Marine and survive long enough to become a Librarian
The Space Marines are trained and equipped to deal with the harshest threats the galaxy can muster. If you survive the training you become something that can fight the endless horrors on a more or less even footing, something that cannot be said about an overwhelming number other human-like denizens of the galaxy. You will feel no mental restrains such as fear or doubt and perform to the best of your abilities among your peers.
The caveat, of course, is having to fight the worst this universe has to offer, yet you are given the means to succeed in this task and when you do, you're elevated to the pinnacle of all beings.
>>337435419
Because he's turning to chaos
>>337448674
That's a lot of dakka.
I hope Tau are in DoW3 so I can vaporize some crazy imperial zealots.
>>337448962
Well, some folks do try. Like Horus. Or the Necrons, but those metal skellingtons decided to make the pit stop at Mars.
>>337449269
Not nearly enough
>>337437209
>when you aquire the ultramarine armor just right
>>337449291
Thanks
>Six Circles of Seduction
>The Grove of the Dark Maiden
Hot
>>337437209
This image is literally perfect, I love it each time I see it
Watch how the Blood Ravens acquire Captain Titus' weapons plus the Titan Invictus from Space Marine
>>337449297
The Necrons were on reconnaissance and ignored Terra because the Void God is buried on Mars
Or was. I don't know dick about what Newcrons did to old Voidy
>>337449204
>Terra is the only truly safe place in the galaxy
From aliens, sure. People can still kill you.
>>337449286
There's no Tau. Just lame space marines/orks and the Eldar.
I guess I'll play the orks though, might be fun.
>>337449208
Yes, but the training and process of turning you INTO a Space Marine is the most taxing thing possible on the human body. Not to mention if you're a Librarian you may have the training and equipment to assist your psyker abilities, but you are still very much vulnerable to the fuckery of the warp and the influence of Chaos. But if you are lucky enough to become a Grey Knight you are pretty much set for life as one of, if not the, hardest hitting sons of bitches in the entire Imperium.
>>337449330
Slaanesh best chaos god
Should I stick at it boys? I was going for Aurora, but i'm not very confident at painting, I much prefer putting them together. Also by the emperor do they get dusty
>>337448918Castellan Creed outsmarted Tzeentch, but that's another tale for another day.
>>337449291
>The grove of dark maiden
it's just full of brown waifus?
>>337449165
What the eye of terror?
Plagueville
Rapetown
Blood boulevard
Relativity square
>>337439091
I want a W40K FPS with Heavy RPG elements
>inb4 brouzoufs, my legs are ok
Yeah, something like that but better.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_ZgyNoHtjw
I thought space marines were blue not red?
>>337449610
>Yeah, something like that but better.
>>337449479
Dying in training wouldn't be as bad as in actual combat, I think.
>Dawn of War will never have an epic intro cinematic like the very first game
DoWII was shit
>>337449479
>lucky enough to become a Grey Knight
Grey Knight initiation makes regular Marines look like Imperial Guard recruitment
>>337449685
100% truth.
>>337449660
Eh? Never seen this, not in any thread...
>>337449417
I wonder if the tau are most powerful race.
>>337449839
lol
>>337449479
Most Space Marines don't even know about the Grey Knights
Unless you're a part of the Exorcists or the Space Wolves otherwise you have to be at the very top of your Chapter to know the truth much less get recruited especially if you're a fine soldier of that Chapter
It's far more easier to join the Deathwatch than become a Grey Knight
>>337448674
>Still not enough dakka
>>337449630
Space Marines come in a variety of colors, collect them all!
Where are my Slaanesh bros at
![dawn_of_war_3_-_gameplay_eldar[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/XTYB1xe.png "dawn of war 3 - gameplay eldar[1]")
The eldar females look strangely human.
>>337449685
>>337449815
All DoW intro cinematics were spectacular. The 3rd one I thought to be the weakest but after reviewing it a few times, I think it's the best to come. It builds tension at a steady pace and brings final understanding on the whole at the end.
>>337437095
sleep tight happy space marine
>>337437095
Sleep tight happy Space Marine.
>>337450028
They are humanoid...not sure if they can breed with humies though
>be given a flashlight and t-shirt
>sent to fight immortal daemons
Yeah nah, at least tau give your pulse rifles.
>>337449993
Some come in better colours than others
>>337449694
As does Deathwatch, the difference is Grey Knights are psykers, and train specifically for fighting Chaos, where as Deathwatch are any kind of Marine, and train for fighting xenos
Fuck Deathwatch is cool.
>>337450028
I like that wraithbone actually looks like bone.
>>337450069
Pretty sure half eldar are a thing
>>337450028Banshees are canonically trap Eldar.
>>337450036
>DoW1
Everything was epic, captured the true spirit of 40k
>DoW2
Bullshit Eldar and Space Marine skirmish with a bonus Tyranid cliffhanger
>DoW3
Trash, all it needs is Imagine Dragons and Skrillex music
>>337450140
Eldar males can breed with human females but it didn't say if a guardsman made love with an Eldar Farseer and if she can give birth to a halfbreed
>>337450079
I don't think IG ever get "sent" to fight Daemons, usually they are sent to fight cultists, and the Daemons show up.
>>337450154
>spirit of 40k
>epic
luling @ this retard
>>337450135
These guys literally went to Hell and back to become what they are now, and know the Emperor's Will because he talks to them on a regular basis pretty much.
Deathwatch are pretty sweet.
>>337450028
Aren't these actually males in female looking armor? Or supposed to be? I know females can be in their army though.
>no Space Marine sequel with Captain Leandros
>>337439573
this game was based af senpai
>>337450324
How do you know they went to hell? No one knows where they came from.
>>337450402
No they're female Eldar
>>337444124
you misspelled Black Templars, bro.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW2bqSbbo1g
>>337450135
I love how it's all different chapters, that shit is cool
>>337450324
Thats not Deathwatch, thats the Legion of the Damned.
Deathwatch is Space Marine special forces, recruiting the best of the best from every chapter and mixing them up in kill squads based on what kind of xeno they excel at killing, and their personal skill set.
>>337450501
Banshees, like every other Eldar Aspect Warrior, are unisex
>>337450501
They're the Fire Hawks though right? Returned from the Empyrean?
>>337450501
Howling Banshees can be any gender.
>>337449839
They have a minuscule connection to the warp, so they miss out on a huge advantage
Plus they are way too trusting in a hectic universe
>>337450565
Black Templars? Funny way of saying Dark Angels
>>337450569
It brings a very interesting aspect, especially because, despite the in-chapter rivalries, Deathwatch training ensures every member of the kill team are tightly knit and loyal to each other, while still holding their teachings and ideals from their individual chapter days. It's a really neat concept.
>>337450571
>guy describes legion of the damned
>filename is lotd
>"that's not deathwatch"
>>337450135
Inquisition = CIA
Grey Knights = CIA SAD
Deathwatch = Navy SEALs/Delta Force
>>337450501
They canonically went to the Warp and were there for what seemed to be years. They went insane and still serve the Imperium. They appear when the Emperor tells them to and fight with cold accuracy.
>>337450571
I realized I didn't clarify that I was talking about the Legion of the Damned, sorry. I brought them up because they're one of my favorite subsets that seem 'elite' in some sense.
>>337450710
Chapter Master Astelan was right
Lionel was a traitor
>>337450763
>Quotes from a Deathwatch post
>Ends post saying "Deathwatch are pretty sweet"
Sorry, I assumed the guy mistook LotD for Deathwatch.
>>337450763
And then he said
>Deathwatch are pretty sweet
>>337450710
Lion was a traitor!
>>337450789
Yeah, the LotD are really cool, I am just surprised they are so readily accepted by the Imperium as allies
>>337450771
What are Sisters of Battle, then?
>>337450982
my waifus
>>337450860
>>337450942
Fallen are cool as shit.
>>337450978
Whenever they do show up, the Imperium just seemed to roll with it, since they were killing their enemies and actually directly aid them by healing fallen marines and such. They rarely ever speak.
>>337450771
>>337450571
So, what happens if a Deathwatch Blood Angel succumbs to the Black Rage? Do they get taken off of Deathwatch and put into the Death Company?
>only 3 races in dow3
ha, GAAAAAY.
>>337450982
FBI
>>337451128
That's actually a good question, I'm flipping through the Deathwatch rulebook and I can't really find anything on it.
>>337438602
I remember seeing somewhere that IGs that get fucked up but survive (like lost an eye, an arm or a leg) are allowed to leave.
>>337451373
Only faggots leave the Guard because they were injured
>>337451435
some of them aren't badass enough that it wouldn't be worth it to give them prosthetics.
>>337438251
Where can I find it in the archives?
>>337451373
>allowed to leave
Left behind if they've become useless. No one that can still serve is let go.
>no technological progress allowed
How can the empire of man remain so powerful for so long? Wouldn't one of the other empires like eldar/tau wipe them out by now because their technology evolved way past man's?
>>337451435
>so i have an idea for an imperial guard character
>he has a metal arm
>that's cool, what should we call him?
>>337450693
>Being connected to the warp is an advantage.
How? Doesn't that just get you corrupted and make traveling through the warp more dangerous?
>>337451150
It's obviously DLC jewry
>3 races in the campaign
>buy the Chaos bundle for $29.99 (includes Khorne, Tzeentch, Nurgle and Slaanesh armies)
>buy the IG pack for $9.99
>buy the AM pack for $9.99
>buy the Tau pack for $9.99
>buy the Necrons pack for $9.99
>buy the SoB pack for $9.99
>buy the Dark Eldar pack for $9.99
>buy the Space Marine bundle for $29.99 (includes Space Wolves, Blood Angels, Dark Angels and Grey Knights)
>>337451373
thats not how imperal guard works. If you have heavy injuries, some kind of Doctor/Commissar/Priest just euthanize you wit a gun.
>>337451569
Khorne sucks ass, boy.
>>337451624
>so I have an idea for primarch
>what's cool about him?
>he has metal hands
>and he's called Ferrus Manus
>>337450982
What are they for, exactly? Fighting creatures that are too sexy for men to handle without being seduced?
>>337451651
Sega aren't that yiddish, are they?
>>337451535
Google The All Guardsmen party
>>337451651
I'm going to get the sisters of battle pack
>>337451627
It also makes travelling through the warp possible
The Tau skip their ships along the surface like stones on a pond. And it's slow as shit and incredibly range limited compared to actual warp travel
>>337451737
>Sega aren't that yiddish
>>337451729
>so the primarch of the world eaters should be really, really fucking angry
>makes sense, what's his name?
>>337451720
What if they're working with Salamanders and they see the injured Guardsman?
>>337437615
me, i make scenery and sell it. Stopped playing tho
>>337451373
Possibly, though I imagine usually they'll just slap some cybernetics on you, give you a pay raise, maybe a rank up if you survived by being a badass, and throw you back into the fray.
Most of the time IG's who do get maimed and survive are happy to get back in the fight to get payback.
>>337451793
>Oir rules have changed; the only constant... is shekles
>>337451819
Salamanders couldn't help them anyways. Space Marine medicine won't really do shit for a normal guy.
He...had a hard life.
>>337451809
>>337451729
>the Mongolian is named after a Mongolian title and Mongolian city
>the (Blood) angel is named after blood
>the Nurgle primarch is named after death
>the Viking is named after Viking peoples
>the Thousand Sons primarch is named after "a thousand year period that ends in disaster"
>the blacksmith is named after a god of blacksmithing
>Raven Guard primarch is named after Ravens
On and on it goes
>>337451776
>It also makes travelling through the warp possible
Don't you only need a warp drive and a way to navigate?
I DoW2 worth playing? I heard they turned it into some sort of gay MOBA or something.
>>337451752
They're a cosmetic option for grey knights
>>337451583
dude don't think about it, progress leads to chaos
lmao
>>337451583
The Empires tech is stagnant and outdated, but it's still exceptionally high grade. The Tau are no where past humanities tech level, mostly due to lack of resources and experience, I mean they can't even properly make titan-class weapons without pushing their engineering ability to it's current limit, funneling huge amounts of their most precious resources into it, and coming out with what amounts to a stationary gun with legs, and even then they need several of the suckers to take on titan out.
Eldar are too small to wipe out humanity, even if their tech is "better"
>>337452063
>and a way to navigate?
Which would require a connection to the warp. A Navigator is ideal, but a sorcerer can also do it.
Tau are fucked - best case scenario is that they figure out how to use the webway like the Necrons do.
>>337437095
sleep tight happy space marine
>>337452063
Psykers are the only way to navigate the warp, it's what an Astropath is, a psyker who has opened their third eye, which they use to navigate the warp.
>>337451723
>Khorne sucks ass, boy.
I thought you demontrannies did the ass-sucking, like literal mouth-on-ass and ass-tonguing, along with pegging and all manner of Slaanesh degeneracy.
REMINDER THAT THE BEST CHAPTERS ARE THE ONE'S FROM 30K
HOW THE FUCK ARE THERE STILL ORKS IN 40K
ALLPOWERFUL IMPERIUM OF MAN MY ASS
>>337452206
I imagine Etherals would have some way to navigate the warp, they seem to know a lot more than they let on, seeing as how they know Chaos and the warp exist.
>tfw just marathoned DOW 1 and Winter assault and feeling a bit burned out
I was planning to read a few 40k books but may put that and replaying DOW 2 on hold for a little. Whenever I look at people I imagine selecting them and adding units.
>>337452274
Bruh, ork blood makes more orks
>>337452223
>it's what an Astropath is
An Astropath is a psyker that has been to Terra to be blessed with a small portion of the Emperor's power in order to serve as the Imperium's long range communications
A Navigator is the one with the third eye
>>337450982
A private army formed by some faggot or institution that tries to circumvent the rules.
>>337452267
How're the nails going? Do they hurt? Would you like my spiked cock up your ass? Maybe it'll feel better.
Which one do I download?
>>337452274
There's fucking trillions and trillions of Orks around the place
Even the Imperium at their height weren't close to getting rid of the Orks
>>337452274
They reproduce through spores in their blood. Tenacious buggers.
>>337452284
This Tau is also the Tau Commander in Dark Crusade
>>337452282
Simply having knowledge of the warp and Chaos is not really relevant. They're gonna need something like the navigator gene (probably impossible) or warp lore like a sorcerer, which would be difficult to attain.
And then they would need to get their hands on gellar fields, too.
>>337452374
Maybe the one that was uploaded at 2015? And weights 9gigs ? and has 7 seeders ?
>>337452431
I have dark crusade but idk if I'll play it since the campaign isn't really a story. Unless I'm mistaken
Why don't the Eldar, Tau and Imperium just join forces?
If the Blood Angels and Necrons can forge a lasting friendship these three can.
>>337452462
I'm confused tho, that one doesn't seem to include the "retribution" dlc
Isn't there some fully complete addition with everything together? I can't find it anywhere.
>>337452504
>Befriending Xenos
>>337452504
Oh, the Emperor was alright with the Eldar. Fulgrim just ruined it for the rest of humanity; he even condemned the soul of a Wraithlord to Slaanesh in the process
>>337452504
Why would you join forces with xenos that can easily succumb to chaos ?
>>337452703
>the Emperor was alright with the Eldar
Not even a little bit. So many Eldar were killed during the Great Crusade.
>>337452510
Retribution is standalone.
Hell if you want to play original DoW2 , you can just get Chaos Rising instead; it allows you to play the vanilla campaign
>>337452504
Killing any alien as soon as it's encountered works way better for humanity. They were originally going to genocide the Tau and got stopped by a warp storm around the planet that lasted hundreds of years, allowing the Tau to become a force in their own right. By purging xenos as they're found, theats like this can be stopped before they start.
>>337452504
>Eldar and Tau
Eldar will still sacrifice Tau at the drop of a hat to save Eldar lives.
You can't have a true alliance to a group that sees you as completely disposable.
>>337437095
sleep tight happy space marine
Good thread. Now I have more 40k games to look forward to. Deathwing and DoW3 hype for sure.
>>337437095
sleep tight happy space marine
>He isn't playing Carnage Champions
>>337453129
the real question is, WHO is playing that game?
>>337453197
Um patricians?
>>337448571
>>337447989
>>337448214
I have never in all my years seen someone act so needlessly pretentious, and about fucking Halo lore of all things. I'm even a huge fan of Halo, but come on. especially when you're getting into the greenlit fan fiction that is halo 4 and 5
>>337452095
It's more tactics-like than RTS.
'MOBA' would be the Last Stand game mode which is just three players controlling one guy each vs waves of enemies, with a leveling system on top for extra shit.
>>337453308
>Alpha Legion sounds like the good guys
>>337453560
I fucking love these stupid images.
Is there anyone who can defeat Abaddon? He´s basically horus´ clone, so he is emperor tier
>>337452340
Ah my bad, I mix up Imperium names a lot.
>>337437095
Sleep tight happy space marine
>>337453697
Not hard to defeat a man with no arms
>>337453626
>Black Legion
>praise Tzeentch
>>337453560
>mfw khorne knows slaanesh will eventually be more powerful than him
>>337452504
Because all three factions want to be the top dog.
The Imperium (justifiably) mistrusts all forms of xeno scum, and only ally themselves with xenos in the most drastic of situations, and when they do, they usually want to be the ones calling the shots, and most likely when it's over, will go back to killing said xeno
Eldar are pompous assholes who think everyone else not them are stupid primitives. They will ally themselves with other factions, even the Imperium, but will gladly backstab the Imperium at the drop of a hat if it means the Eldar can gain from it, not to mention they will slaughter countless humans to save a single Eldar soul. The Imperiums long experience with the Eldar is one of them major reasons for their mistrust of xenos. And like the Imperium, if they ally with another faction they want to call the shots.
The Tau are, on the surface, understanding, respectable and pleasant, but still posses the mentality of "We are the best, the one true path, and everyone should follow us" If they would attempt an alliance with either the Eldar or the Imperium, they would attempt to be top dogs and also try to subtly manipulate their allies into falling under the Tau Empire's control.
>>337453887
no matter how much suffering there will be nothing can beat khorne when it comes to chaos gods
there is ONLY war after all
>>337453697CREED
>>337454050
>trying to outperform a God of Excess in a galaxy filled with nothing but
>>337453697
He is an exceptionally powerful combatant, and has the backings of the four gods, so it is exceedingly hard, if not impossible for anyone not HIGHEST tier to fight him, let along defeat him.
>>337453490
>For the False Emperor!
Who is the most powerful being in the 40K universe?
>>337454220Malal or Necoho.
>>337453697
I don't know for sure if anybody actually beat him in a fight, but I rather doubt he'll be as powerful as Horus. The guy refuses to give himself wholeheartedly to the Ruinous Powers out of principle; he wants to finalize his revenge on the Imperium solely by his will and his soul, not at the Dark Gods' behest.
>>337454220
At this moment? Most likely Khorne
>>337454128
>Khorne is tsundere
kek
>>337454306
So why doesn't he just BTFO the emperor of mankind once and for all?
>>337454306
>khorne
>implying he have anything on gork & mork
>>337454050
Too bad, what I said is in one of the books. You know what war is, right? Excess. Excess of fighting, excess of anger, excess of sadness, excess of any human emotion or anything at all that ends up feeding Slaanesh. You people think it's just sex and music, it's not, anything and I mean ANYTHING done in excess feeds Slaanesh.
>>337454220
Hive Mind.
>>337454220
Gork and Mork
Objectively. Chaos Gods aren't shit compared to those two green faggots.
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