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

[Partially Blind People]

Eisenstein was brilliant... Gotta love that book?

Eisenstein?

The Flight of the Eisenstein, about Nathaniel Garro and his escape from Isstvan to Terra.

[Totalise]

my fav story from the heresy has to be The Lightning Tower (dorn as a man instead of a beastly warrior)

[Slorch]

my fav story from the heresy has to be The Lightning Tower (dorn as a man instead of a beastly warrior)

well I've only read gaunt ghost and Shadowsun so I can't really say...(IMO they were both great.)

[The Armed Republic of Dutch Coolness]

Gaunts Ghost is just silly. I mean, they're guardsmen. Not Marines, or Stormtroopers...

Send in the next wave!

[The Empire of Pretantia]

OK, so I now have the scheme for my loyalist marines, my pre-renegade marines, and my post-renegade marines. Critique?

[Partially Blind People]

OK, so I now have the scheme for my loyalist marines, my pre-renegade marines, and my post-renegade marines. Critique?

New Renegade Scheme

I don't know whether it is broken links or a problem at my end but I can only see the Loyalist Marines scheme. I am unsure as to whether I like it or not. Sorta looks like a black suit with glow-in-the-dark lines painted on it

[The Empire of Pretantia]

OK, so I now have the scheme for my loyalist marines, my pre-renegade marines, and my post-renegade marines. Critique?

New Renegade Scheme

I don't know whether it is broken links or a problem at my end but I can only see the Loyalist Marines scheme. I am unsure as to whether I like it or not. Sorta looks like a black suit with glow-in-the-dark lines painted on it

The pink is staying. I'll fix the link to the new scheme; the old one's lost to time.

[Partially Blind People]

I don't know whether it is broken links or a problem at my end but I can only see the Loyalist Marines scheme. I am unsure as to whether I like it or not. Sorta looks like a black suit with glow-in-the-dark lines painted on it

The pink is staying. I'll fix the link to the new scheme; the old one's lost to time.

I dunno it just seems like more disco fever than superhuman warriors of the Emperor...

[The Empire of Pretantia]

The pink is staying. I'll fix the link to the new scheme; the old one's lost to time.

I dunno it just seems like more disco fever than superhuman warriors of the Emperor...

Apparently you've never heard of Rogue Trader. Or the Imperial Fists. Or the Emperor's Children(Pre-heresy).

CSM

[The Armed Republic of Dutch Coolness]

Colour scheme is cool.


Making your own legion is not, IMHO.

[The Empire of Pretantia]

Colour scheme is cool.


Making your own legion is not, IMHO.

I'm not making my own legion. Why do you think that I am?

[The Armed Republic of Dutch Coolness]

Colour scheme is cool.


Making your own legion is not, IMHO.

I'm not making my own legion. Why do you think that I am?

You said you were a while ago.

Also pre-heresy and all that.

[The Empire of Pretantia]

I'm not making my own legion. Why do you think that I am?

You said you were a while ago.

Also pre-heresy and all that.

Oh, that. Changed my mind. Originally made the Hecatonchires(The black and pink guys) a forgotten legion that specialized in superheavy vehicles(Why? Rule of stupidly awesome), but I changed them to a successor chapter of the Red Bears(Black and green), who then went renegade and formed the Realm of Grom.

[Partially Blind People]

I dunno it just seems like more disco fever than superhuman warriors of the Emperor...

Apparently you've never heard of Rogue Trader. Or the Imperial Fists. Or the Emperor's Children(Pre-heresy).

CSM

Rouge Trader was back in the days that planets were named after pop stars and although the fluff is very good, it is also rather silly. I think the Fists' reputation and the fact that they have a Primarch with a rocking moustache makes up for their bright yellow and the Emperor's Children, well, they were always the flamboyant type weren't they?

[The Empire of Pretantia]

Apparently you've never heard of Rogue Trader. Or the Imperial Fists. Or the Emperor's Children(Pre-heresy).

CSM

Rouge Trader was back in the days that planets were named after pop stars and although the fluff is very good, it is also rather silly. I think the Fists' reputation and the fact that they have a Primarch with a rocking moustache makes up for their bright yellow and the Emperor's Children, well, they were always the flamboyant type weren't they?

That excuses nothing. Pink looks good on black, and even if it was on the same level of ridiculousness as the IF scheme then they make up for it with JUSTICES. Also, double-track rhinos.

[Greater Istanistan]

my fav story from the heresy has to be The Lightning Tower (dorn as a man instead of a beastly warrior)

I prefer The Last Church, although that was pretty good.

Why this one?

I love the foreshadowing, tragedy, and honest philosophical quandaries.

[Partially Blind People]

Rouge Trader was back in the days that planets were named after pop stars and although the fluff is very good, it is also rather silly. I think the Fists' reputation and the fact that they have a Primarch with a rocking moustache makes up for their bright yellow and the Emperor's Children, well, they were always the flamboyant type weren't they?

That excuses nothing. Pink looks good on black, and even if it was on the same level of ridiculousness as the IF scheme then they make up for it with JUSTICES. Also, double-track rhinos.

Can I just point out to you that you posted the schemes asking for 'critique' and then told me off for having the wrong opinion?

[Immoren]

and although the fluff is very good, it is also rather silly.

Best era.

[The Empire of Pretantia]

That excuses nothing. Pink looks good on black, and even if it was on the same level of ridiculousness as the IF scheme then they make up for it with JUSTICES. Also, double-track rhinos.

Can I just point out to you that you posted the schemes asking for 'critique' and then told me off for having the wrong opinion?

You only said you were "unsure" of the black and pink, then you tried to use special pleading for a chapter and a legion that had equally or more ridiculous color schemes.

That, and asking for critique was more along the lines of what part's painted which color, like the CSM; I have to strike a careful balance between "Black Legion expy" and "Clownfest".

[Totalise]

so at my local game store i am strating a campaign where it is the 44th millennium and the emperor has finally died. the imperium really doesn't change as the astronomican is still operating (though parts of the imperium are now cut off), the only real change is that small level lords (like chapter masters and governors) are fighting for power in their sector.
what do you guys think of an idea like that?

[Brickistan]

so at my local game store i am strating a campaign where it is the 44th millennium and the emperor has finally died. the imperium really doesn't change as the astronomican is still operating (though parts of the imperium are now cut off), the only real change is that small level lords (like chapter masters and governors) are fighting for power in their sector.
what do you guys think of an idea like that?

How do you explain the Astronomican still functioning? As far as I recall, it need the Emperor to focus it.

[Pragia]

Question: What is chaos's goal after they take down the imperium? Have they just not planned that far?

[The Empire of Pretantia]

Question: What is chaos's goal after they take down the imperium? Have they just not planned that far?

Apparently you think Chaos has something resembling a coherent goal. Chaos has no goals; it is the embodiment of the emotions of all life. Khorne cares only that the bloods spills, Slaanesh only needs that mortals indulge in their pleasures, Nurgle only wishes to see suffering and destruction, and Tzeentch's schemes are nothing more than loose threads, each and every plan ending a failure for his own sake. The Daemons of Chaos are nothing more than extensions of their patron's will. As for the Chaos marines, or at least the ones who aren't simply pirates, they only care that the Imperium falls, not what comes after it, as they would have nothing to live for since they had long abandoned their souls in exchange for the power to fight the Imperium. The Lost and the Damned are nothing more than mercs, marauders, and menials who could not oppose the Imperium themselves.

[The Empire of Pretantia]

so at my local game store i am strating a campaign where it is the 44th millennium and the emperor has finally died. the imperium really doesn't change as the astronomican is still operating (though parts of the imperium are now cut off), the only real change is that small level lords (like chapter masters and governors) are fighting for power in their sector.
what do you guys think of an idea like that?

How do you explain the Astronomican still functioning? As far as I recall, it need the Emperor to focus it.

Perhaps it has directly tapped into the immaterium or webway, or possibly even using xenotech.

[Greater Istanistan]

Chaos, as per the Kyras Doctrine, is an attempt at nothingness. No meaning, no purpose, no duty. The nature of this void is up to the individual gods - Khorne wants meaningless bloodshed, Tzeench wants meaningless change and transition, Nurgle desires endless decay and renewal which only serves the decay, and Slaanesh wants pointless sensation.

That's the end result.