The Warhammer 40.000/Fantasy Discussion Thread Mk.II

[Bhikkustan]

Plasma can do most of the stuff melts can, and kills termies easily. Well worth the points.

Melta can kill anything plasma can, plus pops vehicles, even magnificent heavies. Also, doesnt gets hot and kill you

I take back my answer. Hochland Long Rifle all the way!

[Morrdh]

It depends on what your army composition is, and what type of enemies you're likely to face. If you run a mobile army and/or face lots of armor, the melta is your friend. If you run a static gunline army and face termies or monstrous creatures go plasma. you'll need to figure out your own balance though depending on your play style and the type of opponents you regularly face.

Was looking at Melta Vets riding around in a Chimera as a fast response unit,.

Also planning on going a bit fluffy with the army, ie use Thunderbolt flyers instead of tanks due to the regiment's homeworld having aircraft as the main mode of transport because of terrain, etc.

[Lord Tothe]

It depends on what your army composition is, and what type of enemies you're likely to face. If you run a mobile army and/or face lots of armor, the melta is your friend. If you run a static gunline army and face termies or monstrous creatures go plasma. you'll need to figure out your own balance though depending on your play style and the type of opponents you regularly face.

Was looking at Melta Vets riding around in a Chimera as a fast response unit,.

Also planning on going a bit fluffy with the army, ie use Thunderbolt flyers instead of tanks due to the regiment's homeworld having aircraft as the main mode of transport because of terrain, etc.

Air cav has potential to be cool.

[Morrdh]

Was looking at Melta Vets riding around in a Chimera as a fast response unit,.

Also planning on going a bit fluffy with the army, ie use Thunderbolt flyers instead of tanks due to the regiment's homeworld having aircraft as the main mode of transport because of terrain, etc.

Air cav has potential to be cool.

Not really looking to go Air Cav, really more of a RAF Regiment based force.

[The Nihilistic view]

Air cav has potential to be cool.

Not really looking to go Air Cav, really more of a RAF Regiment based force.

Sounds cool. You going to go full out with calling your Company a Squadron etc? And do you have a time period in mind to model on? Like modern or in the past where they had Light Armour or Armoured Car Squadrons.

[Morrdh]

Not really looking to go Air Cav, really more of a RAF Regiment based force.

Sounds cool. You going to go full out with calling your Company a Squadron etc? And do you have a time period in mind to model on? Like modern or in the past where they had Light Armour or Armoured Car Squadrons.

Not sure.

Was planning on going with Salamander Scouts filling out my Fast Attack choices, basically representing 'motorized' patrols. Heavy Support would probably be Hydras and aircraft.

[Ardavia]

Found a really nice trick for making your own track guards on a Chimera.

That's plastic strapping, the kind you can find on a lot of packages. Cut to desired length, score it wherever it needs to bend, and glue it into position.

Probably going to use that on my Chimera, once it arrives anyway.

[Ardavia]

So this is interesting.

[Crookfur]

So this is interesting.

Indeede, very...

[Jochistan]

Just making sure, but the "End Times" thing is just a rumor, right?

[The Armed Republic of Dutch Coolness]

Just making sure, but the "End Times" thing is just a rumor, right?

ha

haha

hahahaha

[Ardavia]

Just making sure, but the "End Times" thing is just a rumor, right?

ha

haha

*sobs*

[Aelosia]

Just making sure, but the "End Times" thing is just a rumor, right?

ha

haha

hahahaha

ha

haha

hahahahaha

*weeps*

[Mefpan]

Just making sure, but the "End Times" thing is just a rumor, right?

I'm not sure which End Times exactly you're referring to but it doesn't matter, there's the End Times and then there's the equally worrisome Time of Ending.

So, in chorus with my previous posters:
[HYSTERICAL SOBBING]

[The Armed Republic of Dutch Coolness]

http://www.blacklibrary.com/the-beast-arises.html

[Ardavia]

http://www.blacklibrary.com/the-beast-arises.html

reading that first synopsis, I thought it'd be about the First Black Crusade, big Ork symbol on the picture aside

but no, apparently they're trying to make the orks seem like a serious threat and not just "those guys everyone uses as puppets to distract their enemies"

"the eldar strike at the heart of the Imperial Palace"

no
i refuse
what
no
oh emperor why

[The Armed Republic of Dutch Coolness]

http://www.blacklibrary.com/the-beast-arises.html

reading that first synopsis, I thought it'd be about the First Black Crusade, big Ork symbol on the picture aside

but no, apparently they're trying to make the orks seem like a serious threat and not just "those guys everyone uses as puppets to distract their enemies"

"the eldar strike at the heart of the Imperial Palace"

no
i refuse
what
no
oh emperor why

>the year-long story will be told across twelve books
>the greatest war since the horus heresy begins
pls no

>the iron warriors fall victim to the orks' expansion
what ze fuck no

[Ardavia]

reading that first synopsis, I thought it'd be about the First Black Crusade, big Ork symbol on the picture aside

but no, apparently they're trying to make the orks seem like a serious threat and not just "those guys everyone uses as puppets to distract their enemies"

"the eldar strike at the heart of the Imperial Palace"

no
i refuse
what
no
oh emperor why

>the year-long story will be told across twelve books
>the greatest war since the horus heresy begins
pls no

>the iron warriors fall victim to the orks' expansion
what ze fuck no

what in fuck BL

what in fuck

[Mefpan]

Like, is there any record of the fucking Greenskins actually defeating their foes decisively? Making a final push against them?

I can't fucking find any.

The Necrons and C'tan got sick of wasting energy fighting the Orks, so they went to bed. The next best challengeafter them, the Old Ones, ended up getting killed off by metaphysical side effects of the previous war. Then there was a whole lot of nothing of note happening, despite Orks likely possessing the potential to out-breed any major Eldar or Human civilization all the way up to M41.

But have they ever actually been an existential threat? Fuck, no. Orks love fighting. You decisively kill your foe, there's no more fighting to be had. There's a reason why Armageddon is always a massive clusterfuck yet always seems able to hold out against them?

"Not a threat? They slaughter entire planetary populations" - Yes, because that pisses of the local authorities to such a degree that they call in reinforcements. In their own fucked up way, the Orks aren't even that stupid. Their priorities are just really, really blue and orange.

Now, if Chaos was less insidious and corrupting and more direct combat oriented, like if Khorne was in charge of it all, then I guarantee you that Cadia would be guarded by untold billions of Orks, not Guardsmen. But Chaos is infiltrate-y.

[Zonderald]

http://www.blacklibrary.com/the-beast-arises.html

Book 1+2+4 - Imperial Fists. Imperial Fists. I.M.P.E.R.I.A.L.F.I.S.T.S.

Book 4 - Iron Warriors

Book 5 - "unlikely alliances emerge" that may hold the "key to defeating the orks"

Yup. Totally not setting something up there.

[The Huskar Social Union]

http://www.blacklibrary.com/the-beast-arises.html

Cool.

[The Armed Republic of Dutch Coolness]

http://www.blacklibrary.com/the-beast-arises.html

Book 1+2+4 - Imperial Fists. Imperial Fists. I.M.P.E.R.I.A.L.F.I.S.T.S.

Book 4 - Iron Warriors

Book 5 - "unlikely alliances emerge" that may hold the "key to defeating the orks"

Yup. Totally not setting something up there.

Looks like Imperial Fist fanwanking to me!
>muh Imperial Fists
>Iron Warrior skrubs get rekt lol
>Muh Imperial Fists defend Terra

[The Huskar Social Union]

Book 1+2+4 - Imperial Fists. Imperial Fists. I.M.P.E.R.I.A.L.F.I.S.T.S.

Book 4 - Iron Warriors

Book 5 - "unlikely alliances emerge" that may hold the "key to defeating the orks"

Yup. Totally not setting something up there.

Looks like Imperial Fist fanwanking to me!
>muh Imperial Fists
>Iron Warrior skrubs get rekt lol
>Muh Imperial Fists defend Terra

Salt.

Salt Everywhere.

[Ardavia]

Book 1+2+4 - Imperial Fists. Imperial Fists. I.M.P.E.R.I.A.L.F.I.S.T.S.

Book 4 - Iron Warriors

Book 5 - "unlikely alliances emerge" that may hold the "key to defeating the orks"

Yup. Totally not setting something up there.

Looks like Imperial Fist fanwanking to me!
>muh Imperial Fists
>Iron Warrior skrubs get rekt lol
>Muh Imperial Fists defend Terra

to me it looks more like incoming ork wank

>muh orks as a srs threat and not just a distraction for someone else
>imperial and chaos skrubs get rekt lol
>muh orks threaten terra and and nearly conquer the galaxy

can anyone think of anything besides Armageddon where the Orks weren't a distraction for the main bad guys

like, I'm coming up short here

[The Armed Republic of Dutch Coolness]

Looks like Imperial Fist fanwanking to me!
>muh Imperial Fists
>Iron Warrior skrubs get rekt lol
>Muh Imperial Fists defend Terra

to me it looks more like incoming ork wank

>muh orks as a srs threat and not just a distraction for someone else
>imperial and chaos skrubs get rekt lol
>muh orks threaten terra and and nearly conquer the galaxy

can anyone think of anything besides Armageddon where the Orks weren't a distraction for the main bad guys

like, I'm coming up short here

"We’re talking the Imperial Fists as Terra’s last line of defence…"
"Orks, Imperial Fists, Terra in peril, blockbuster action, and universe-changing revelations… what more could you want?"
- Dan Abnett