Warhammer 40,000

B-but how will you carry it?

I'd feel marginally better about it if the rules were covering multi-player mega-battles, to spice up the desperate alliances that will hog a gaming table for most of the afternoon. But it's not a "one-off" thing, it's guys adding Grey Knights to their Eldar army or painting up some Greater Good Marines (or Orks!). They're gonna be fielding that "one-off encounter" over and over again.

Oh my, you've made a dangerous miscalculation. Now he has twice as many rudders to hit.

It's not really a character concept, but... I want Blood Angels to have access to Warptime. So then the space vampires can freeze time and drop a Land Raider on their enemies.

edited 29th Jun '12 12:08:11 PM by Tacitus

WRYYYYYYYYYYYY!

For some reason I picture a Dreadnought standing on the Land Raider doing that cry.

So, uh, I just happened to notice that the Space Wolves and Blood Angels are battle brothers. I am suddenly really enamored with the idea of making a vampire and werewolf army.

@Gamabunta: Who says that they have to add or change anything about the Golden Throne's state? Not everything has to or does get changed in a new edition, you know.

just to taunt you all, each squad of assault marines will be led by a Greater Good Marine and the rest will be Black Templars.

You son of a bitch.

WHERE ARE THE ANGRY MARINES?!

* Dastardly Whiplash Mustache Twirl*

But wait, how are you going to fit in the Templars? If you want to get as many Assault Marines as possible in your army you'll have to go with Blood Angels.

oh no, I can settle if it means making my opponent go blind with rage.

It's a tactical advantage, you see.

edited 29th Jun '12 1:05:10 PM by Lanceleoghauni

I'm beginning to wonder how much of the brainpower that could be spent on going "Black Templars allying with Tau, wtf mate" is being used to come up with ever-more-stylised paraphernalia.

See also, the servo-skull tape measure.

Not sure if want.

It comes with a feature where you can push a button and have it shoot out a bit of tape like it's doing the "PBBBBBBBBT!" thing.

I dunno, I doing it for the lulzy "we're such good diplomats we even made the black templars our cannon fodder bitches while the real men do the work back here with the railguns"

Damn, I won't get my rulebook till next week, since my FLGS sold out on preorders (at 33% off RRP). Actually, it was dumb of me not to preorder...

I also think people are blowing Alliances out of proportion. But that's not an argument I care to have on the internet.

Blasphemy! The internet exists to have arguments!

Without it, I'd have to go and slap people for being stupid in real life, and that would get me arrested.

Relevant

Replace "/tg/" with "Reddit," and you're correct.

Alternatively, 4chan.

...Or The Escapist.

...Or the internet altogether.

/tg/ is on 4chan you realize.

But yeah, "the internet" would work too.

I realize.

Just checking.

I'm more psyched for Honour The Chapter. Just get released in PDF form, damn it. Why don't you want my money, FFG?

edited 29th Jun '12 3:35:45 PM by math792d

I always thought it could help to have the Imperium make alliances of some sort with Xenos. It would be a tad less grimdark, but would be a little more believable as:

1) Expansionist empires, by their nature, are assimilatory. They have to take in outsiders and grant them some degree of cultural recognition, or their conquests will simply be untenable. It's not meaningless that the only polity that tried to take over land on an ideological mission of racial purity, the Third Reich, lost within a few years.

2) There are any number of chances for common enemies. The Roman Empire made ever-shifting alliances, and indeed it can be hard to pinpoint the difference between the empire itself and allied tribes. In turn enemies like Vercingetorix could only command so many tribes by invoking their threat.

And from a gameplay point of view, it gives more opportunities for customised, mixed armies.

Of course, given the setting, Xenos in Imperial armies would be kept as second-class soldiers, denied good equipment, adequate care or chances at promotion, and used as expendable cannon fodder even more readily than the guardsmen. But just to have them there would be good for the game.

They would probably be treated worse than the Penal Legions; and they are intended to be killed

Got my rulebook today at the GW store. Played a bit, but I was tabled. After the fact I realized I had forgot my Dakkajet's BS+1 special rule...

Also, the store manager took a picture of us with the books. He asked for "A WAAAGH louder than the Gay Pride down the street" before taking the snapshot.