Warhammer 40,000

"Oh hey, we have these hugely resilient troops. Clearly I should totally ignore this advantage and run around with a bunch of squishy wizards because I am smug."

vs

"Oh hey look at all these convenient meatshields. Dust-shield? Whatever. Shove 'em between me and the enemy, I have work to do."

You're talking as though Chaos is logical.

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You're talking as though Chaos is dumb. I would assume Ahriman would at least rather have Rubric Marines in his area than starcannon fire in his ribcage.

Also, Ahriman is a Bad Guy. And what's one thing no self-respecting Bad Guy can do without?

An evil lair? Nope.

An opera cloak? Nope again.

A collection of Barbie dolls? Man what

Loyal yet expendable minions? DING DING DING

In other news, Ahriman is searching for the entrance to the Black Library to recover his barbie dolls. The harlequins stole them from Prospero 10,000 years before.

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We're not sure why they released a Barbie doll for each Chaos god, but the fact remains that they did.

Berserk Slaughterer Barbie, Sex-Crazed Drug Addict Barbie, Rotting Barbie With Decay-Fu Limb Fall Off Action, and Tentacle Mutant With Wings Of Fire And Squid Barbie.

Now we know the reason for the Black Crusades!

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Dark Vengeance get. Finally!

Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.

Reminds me that mine has been sitting there for some time, waiting for me to find time to assemble it.

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."

Plus there's the fact that while Tzeentchian followers are counter-productive, they're by no means stupid.

You know, while the other two sound kind of boring, these I'd actually want to see.

Nous restons ici.

I dunno, I'd be interested in what "wings of fire and squid" would look like.

Well, they look like normal wings, only the feathers are tentacles, and the whole assemblage is on fire.

But wouldn't that be harmful to children?

Lemme guess. They're "counter-productive" because they keep trying to out-plot and screw over each other all the time just to gain Tzeentch's favor.

edited 14th Oct '12 8:05:33 AM by nervmeister

Most likely.

Compared to the chunk of Hollywood Uranium in its left eye, the wings are small fry.

Also because some of Tzeench's schemes are designed specifically to counter his other schemes.

I got all the Dark Vengeance HQ Characters recently.

And did nothing with them, because Borderlands 2. And now X-Com.

Soon though! Actually I'm giving the Chaos Lord to a friend, and I don't know what to do with the others (Chaplain looks easy to make generic, Librarian too, Captain will take more work).

I'm thinking of getting back into the game once I have an income and some more free time (i.e. after Basic Training). I've done Space Marines for so long that I would be willing to try something a little different (though I'm by no means tired of Marines; I tried almost every other army in 40k before settling on them. A lot of wasted money.) Is there any word of Imperial Guard in the pipeline, or would it be safe to start collecting them now?

Wise Papa Smurf, corrupted by his own power. CAN NO LEADER GO UNTAINTED?!

The Guard codex is still great. It's top tier.

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So I had a dumb idea.

A friend is going to try and get his hands on Dark Vengeance, and is willing to split it with me - he's getting bored of his Chaos army, so he'll take the Dark Angels, and I'd take the Chaos guys. And, being a huge Iron Warriors fanboy, I'd of course try to raise the models within according to the creed of Perturabo.

The dumb idea is: an entire army without a single millimetre of exposed Space Marine flesh. Everything is encased in steel, a true vision of the faceless industrial warfare that defines the Iron Warriors. Obliterators painted with their exposed "flesh" as twisted steel and verdigris brass. Nothing but iron without.

Is it as dumb as I think it is? Y/N

Edit: I know that some of the models in Dark Vengeance have exposed meaty bits. That's not important; this is a long-term plan.

edited 18th Oct '12 12:04:22 AM by CountDorku

So I made a page for 40k's expanded universe and put everything that came to mind on it.

Anyone care to help this out some more?

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/Warhammer40000ExpandedUniverse

edited 18th Oct '12 12:14:11 AM by Archereon

This is a signature. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

Thanks, this looks useful. I have nothing to add, but I do have some Wiki Walking to do now...

Wait, I know there's a page for Fire Warrior.

edited 18th Oct '12 6:17:23 AM by montagohalcyon

Only the sun has stopped.

You guys are all big fans of Warhammer, I assume. Any of you guys heard of 'Mark Clapham'? He's one of the guest speaker people at a local one day sci-fi convention to where I live: http://www.falmouth.ac.uk/1814/uk-recruitment-and-outreach-36/schools-colleges-and-community-306/scifi-conference-2012-4992.html

Never heard of him.

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