The Warhammer 40,000 / (Fantasy) discussion thread.

[The Nuclear Fist]

Everything in warhammer is depressing and batshit insane.

See: Grimdark.

Check this out. It's a fairly elaborate fan-fiction about Warhammer 50k.
http://www.heresy-online.net/forums/sho ... hp?t=51806

It takes Grimdark and drives it off the cliff. Like, Age of Strife level grimdark.

Needs more Orks.

[Volmachtia]

Check this out. It's a fairly elaborate fan-fiction about Warhammer 50k.
http://www.heresy-online.net/forums/sho ... hp?t=51806

It takes Grimdark and drives it off the cliff. Like, Age of Strife level grimdark.

Needs more Orks.

It has Tyranorks.

[Dorlania]

i can now conclude the Death Korps are
-have the coolest regiments
-are depressing
-fucking batshit insane

Everything in warhammer is depressing and batshit insane.

See: Grimdark.

ik
but they push it a bit

[The Nuclear Fist]

Needs more Orks.

It has Tyranorks.

Not good enough. The Orks will inherit the galaxy, and they very well might have already inherited all that surrounds it.

[Indeos]

It has Tyranorks.

Not good enough. The Orks will inherit the galaxy, and they very well might have already inherited all that surrounds it.

Or the Primarchs who disappeared may very well have raised new, powerful armies outside the galaxy and could be pushing the 'Nids toward what they believe is the solid core of the Imperium.

[Volmachtia]

It has Tyranorks.

Not good enough. The Orks will inherit the galaxy, and they very well might have already inherited all that surrounds it.

What was that bit about a Mechanicus probe that left the galaxy and only found a universe full of Orks?
I wish I knew what that was from.

[The Nuclear Fist]

Or the Primarchs who disappeared may very well have raised new, powerful armies outside the galaxy and could be pushing the 'Nids toward what they believe is the solid core of the Imperium.

I much prefer the idea of the other galaxies being overrun with massive Ork WAAAGHs that are driving the Tyranid hive fleets to the Milky Way.

[Indeos]

Or the Primarchs who disappeared may very well have raised new, powerful armies outside the galaxy and could be pushing the 'Nids toward what they believe is the solid core of the Imperium.

I much prefer the idea of the other galaxies being overrun with massive Ork WAAAGHs that are driving the Tyranid hive fleets to the Milky Way.

I know, but there are a lot of possibilities.

[The Nuclear Fist]

I know, but there are a lot of possibilities.

I feel like the Primarchs would do a lot more good inside the galaxy than out, considering there are no humans outside of the galaxy.

[Tagmatium]

Or the Primarchs who disappeared may very well have raised new, powerful armies outside the galaxy and could be pushing the 'Nids toward what they believe is the solid core of the Imperium.

I much prefer the idea of the other galaxies being overrun with massive Ork WAAAGHs that are driving the Tyranid hive fleets to the Milky Way.

Don't seem the 'Nid way, though.

I'd imagine the 'Nids have eaten all those tasty Orks.

[Indeos]

I know, but there are a lot of possibilities.

I feel like the Primarchs would do a lot more good inside the galaxy than out, considering there are no humans outside of the galaxy.

There are, however, humans in the Warp, and all of the live, able ones went there. I wouldn't count out the idea of them converting an army back to the side of the Emperor and managing to get them out of the Warp, even if they came out in the wrong place.

[Volmachtia]

Or the Primarchs who disappeared may very well have raised new, powerful armies outside the galaxy and could be pushing the 'Nids toward what they believe is the solid core of the Imperium.

I much prefer the idea of the other galaxies being overrun with massive Ork WAAAGHs that are driving the Tyranid hive fleets to the Milky Way.

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Octariu ... DWT1sFlT4V
The two have already been going at it pretty seriously in here, too.

[The Nuclear Fist]

Don't seem the 'Nid way, though.

I'd imagine the 'Nids have eaten all those tasty Orks.

Except Orks get stronger with each battle. They get bigger, stronger, tougher, smarter. They adapt just as the Tyranids do. But more importantly, they also reproduce in extreme numbers. There is old fluff that states that Orks inhabit other galaxies. If the War on Octarius is anything to go by, the Orks are more than capable of holding their own against the Tyranids, and possibly even winning. Now if the Orks on Octarius have Grots the size of men, Boyz the size of Nobs, Nobs the size of Warbosses, and Warbosses the size of large tanks, imagine what galaxies of Orks who have nothing to fight but Tyranids would be like. Gargantuan, unstoppable juggernauts. I think the Tyranids are coming to the Milky Way in the hopes of escaping the Orks, are hoping to consume enough matter to batter off the Ork onslaught, are attracted to the Imperium, or are hoping occupying the Ork birthplace will do something.

[The Nuclear Fist]

I much prefer the idea of the other galaxies being overrun with massive Ork WAAAGHs that are driving the Tyranid hive fleets to the Milky Way.

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Octariu ... DWT1sFlT4V
The two have already been going at it pretty seriously in here, too.

I am aware.

[Tagmatium]

Don't seem the 'Nid way, though.

I'd imagine the 'Nids have eaten all those tasty Orks.

Except Orks get stronger with each battle. They get bigger, stronger, tougher, smarter. They adapt just as the Tyranids do. But more importantly, they also reproduce in extreme numbers. There is old fluff that states that Orks inhabit other galaxies. If the War on Octarius is anything to go by, the Orks are more than capable of holding their own against the Tyranids, and possibly even winning. Now if the Orks on Octarius have Grots the size of men, Boyz the size of Nobs, Nobs the size of Warbosses, and Warbosses the size of large tanks, imagine what galaxies of Orks who have nothing to fight but Tyranids would be like. Gargantuan, unstoppable juggernauts. I think the Tyranids are coming to the Milky Way in the hopes of escaping the Orks, are hoping to consume enough matter to batter off the Ork onslaught, are attracted to the Imperium, or are hoping occupying the Ork birthplace will do something.

It does depend, however, if that old fluff is still valid.

From the newer fluff that the 'Nid fleets are bearing down on the galaxy, I'd actually hazard it isn't valid any more. The 'Nids have been portrayed as extra-Galatic in the more recent fluff, but the Orks very much haven't. They are said to be one main by-products of the Old Ones vs the C'Tan/Necrontyr, which was something that was definitely located in our galaxy. I'd go as far as to say that the idea that there are Orks outside of "our" Galaxy is long dead and gone. But the 'Nids... they're still extra-Galatic, and they're coming in hard and will come in much, much more harder.

And, shit, I imagine you've read what a 'Nid invasion of a planet is like? That is far, far beyond the Orks to resist.

[Arkania 5]

Needs more Orks.

It has Tyranorks.

Dragon Transcendent? Does that mean that the Void Dragon broke out?

[Volmachtia]

It has Tyranorks.

Dragon Transcendent? Does that mean that the Void Dragon broke out?

Abaddon stuck him inside the Sol system, though. But yes, he got out and is ruling much of the Mechanicus and Necrons.

[Indeos]

Except Orks get stronger with each battle. They get bigger, stronger, tougher, smarter. They adapt just as the Tyranids do. But more importantly, they also reproduce in extreme numbers. There is old fluff that states that Orks inhabit other galaxies. If the War on Octarius is anything to go by, the Orks are more than capable of holding their own against the Tyranids, and possibly even winning. Now if the Orks on Octarius have Grots the size of men, Boyz the size of Nobs, Nobs the size of Warbosses, and Warbosses the size of large tanks, imagine what galaxies of Orks who have nothing to fight but Tyranids would be like. Gargantuan, unstoppable juggernauts. I think the Tyranids are coming to the Milky Way in the hopes of escaping the Orks, are hoping to consume enough matter to batter off the Ork onslaught, are attracted to the Imperium, or are hoping occupying the Ork birthplace will do something.

It does depend, however, if that old fluff is still valid.

From the newer fluff that the 'Nid fleets are bearing down on the galaxy, I'd actually hazard it isn't valid any more. The 'Nids have been portrayed as extra-Galatic in the more recent fluff, but the Orks very much haven't. They are said to be one main by-products of the Old Ones vs the C'Tan/Necrontyr, which was something that was definitely located in our galaxy. I'd go as far as to say that the idea that there are Orks outside of "our" Galaxy is long dead and gone. But the 'Nids... they're still extra-Galatic, and they're coming in hard and will come in much, much more harder.

And, shit, I imagine you've read what a 'Nid invasion of a planet is like? That is far, far beyond the Orks to resist.

They've managed pretty well on Octarius, and anywhere there's a big battle being fought will attract more Orks from everywhere.

[Tagmatium]

It has Tyranorks.

Dragon Transcendent? Does that mean that the Void Dragon broke out?

Biovore.

Late 4th/early 5th (I think), but that was 'Nid-modified Ork genetic material, made to lob spore mines at the enemy.

[Tagmatium]

They've managed pretty well on Octarius, and anywhere there's a big battle being fought will attract more Orks from everywhere.

"Managed pretty well" does not equal "beating the 'Nids", though.

The Ultramarines "managed pretty well" on Macragge.

[Indeos]

Interesting: the Eldar had nothing to do with Octarius. I think a few people have said they did before.

[The Nuclear Fist]

They've managed pretty well on Octarius, and anywhere there's a big battle being fought will attract more Orks from everywhere.

"Managed pretty well" does not equal "beating the 'Nids", though.

The Ultramarines "managed pretty well" on Macragge.

Except the Orks on Octarius have forced the Tyranids into a brutal gridlock, and the Orks are getting an exponential supply of reinforcements from Boyz travelling far and wide and from their own spores.

Also, I really don't think that the old Ork fluff is invalid just yet, as it has yet to be contradicted. It isn't so much that they're an extragalactic species, just that Imperial scouting vessels that have explored the outer edges of other galaxies have found Orks to be living in them.

[Tagmatium]

Interesting: the Eldar had nothing to do with Octarius. I think a few people have said they did before.

Well, to be fair, the fluff hasn't so far said that the Eldar have anything to do Octarius.

[Indeos]

Interesting: the Eldar had nothing to do with Octarius. I think a few people have said they did before.

Well, to be fair, the fluff hasn't so far said that the Eldar have anything to do Octarius.

They're involved, but didn't start the war. An Inquisitor did, actually, and the war probably won't end any time soon.

[Volmachtia]

Well, to be fair, the fluff hasn't so far said that the Eldar have anything to do Octarius.

They're involved, but didn't start the war. An Inquisitor did, actually, and the war probably won't end any time soon.

It's sad that our first attempt at grand-scale manipulation of events turns into a galaxy-scale war.