The Warhammer 40.000/Fantasy Discussion Thread Mk.II

[Balican]

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[The Huskar Social Union]

Got to use a baneblade for the first time in dawn of war and holy shit I thought the land raider was badass. Sure a baneblade can't deploy surprise terminators but by the Emperor I LIKE MAKING THINGS GO BOOM.

Which reminds me I keep forgetting to mention how much I enjoy the Astartes near reverence for the Imperial Guard. Like the Guard could be doing an utter shit job and an Astartes captain will be like "these men and women are the true heroes".

Real Astartes respect the Guard for having the balls to go into battle against mechas, demons, elf ninjas, sorcerers, sadomasochists, bloodthirsty fungi, terminators, and giant bugs with nothing but cardboard armor and flashlight guns.

IG weapons and armour are far better than people like to make them out to be tho

[Hurdergaryp]

Real Astartes respect the Guard for having the balls to go into battle against mechas, demons, elf ninjas, sorcerers, sadomasochists, bloodthirsty fungi, terminators, and giant bugs with nothing but cardboard armor and flashlight guns.

IG weapons and armour are far better than people like to make them out to be tho

Also it should be noted that mocking the high quality equipment of the Imperial Guards is considered treason and heresy.

[Chan Island]

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[Holy Marsh]

Real Astartes respect the Guard for having the balls to go into battle against mechas, demons, elf ninjas, sorcerers, sadomasochists, bloodthirsty fungi, terminators, and giant bugs with nothing but cardboard armor and flashlight guns.

IG weapons and armour are far better than people like to make them out to be tho

They also have the highest quality wheelbarrow around. They need it to carry their adamantium balls around.

[The Imperial Reach]

Real Astartes respect the Guard for having the balls to go into battle against mechas, demons, elf ninjas, sorcerers, sadomasochists, bloodthirsty fungi, terminators, and giant bugs with nothing but cardboard armor and flashlight guns.

IG weapons and armour are far better than people like to make them out to be tho

When compared to other universes, yes. Within the 40k universe? Nah.

[Impaled Nazarene]

IG weapons and armour are far better than people like to make them out to be tho

When compared to other universes, yes. Within the 40k universe? Nah.

The grenade launchers are decent and plasma guns are fantastic in most forms. The automatic lasguns used by their special forces are fantastic.
It could be a lot worse they could be organized as a secondary or even an auxiliary force

[The Imperial Reach]

When compared to other universes, yes. Within the 40k universe? Nah.

The grenade launchers are decent and plasma guns are fantastic in most forms. The automatic lasguns used by their special forces are fantastic.
It could be a lot worse they could be organized as a secondary or even an auxiliary force

Oh, undoubtedly. But they're still the weakest fighting force in 40k, AFAIK.

[Ameriganastan]

Weapon wise, yeah. Humanity is outclassed by a mile. Their only real advantage is their sheer numbers.

[The Imperial Reach]

Weapon wise, yeah. Humanity is outclassed by a mile. Their only real advantage is their sheer numbers.

Weapons, armor, vehicles, equipment, etc. The only reason humanity is even on even footing with the other races is because of their vastly superior numbers, enormous amount of territory, and of course they have super-soldiers to make up for the inferior biology of humanity when compared to literally every other race. If it weren't for the Space Marines the Imperium would have been lost ages ago. Valiant as the Guard might be, they are but mere mortals fighting mystical immortals, undead machines, violent invasive fungi, sadistic mystical immortals, literal fucking demons patronized by literal fucking gods, the only race that seems to understand that it's better to shoot your enemy before he gets into melee range than throw your fucking gun and ground and rush the bastard for a sword fight while screaming like a mad hyena, and of course the galaxy's equivalent of the Black Death in psychic bug form.

Credit where credit is due, the Guard can hold the line - and even sometimes push the line back - but they'd never be able to do it without the Space Marines to back them up here and there. I say this as a huge Guard fan, too.

[Impaled Nazarene]

Weapon wise, yeah. Humanity is outclassed by a mile. Their only real advantage is their sheer numbers.

Weapons, armor, vehicles, equipment, etc. The only reason humanity is even on even footing with the other races is because of their vastly superior numbers, enormous amount of territory, and of course they have super-soldiers to make up for the inferior biology of humanity when compared to literally every other race. If it weren't for the Space Marines the Imperium would have been lost ages ago. Valiant as the Guard might be, they are but mere mortals fighting mystical immortals, undead machines, violent invasive fungi, sadistic mystical immortals, literal fucking demons patronized by literal fucking gods, the only race that seems to understand that it's better to shoot your enemy before he gets into melee range than throw your fucking gun and ground and rush the bastard for a sword fight while screaming like a mad hyena, and of course the galaxy's equivalent of the Black Death in psychic bug form.

Credit where credit is due, the Guard can hold the line - and even sometimes push the line back - but they'd never be able to do it without the Space Marines to back them up here and there. I say this as a huge Guard fan, too.

When all else turns to shit by the hands of time and/or Games Workshop one thing that will remain immortal: We'd gladly die a statistic in a sea of dead bodies than most every other job in the 41st Millennium. Barring being flayed alive by Necrons or anything involving Dark Eldar there are few fates better than that of the Guardsmen.

tl;dr Games Workshop has done well with the Imperial Guard.

[The Armed Republic of Dutch Coolness]

The Star-Gods have answered!

[Impaled Nazarene]

The Star-Gods have answered!

Inquisitor Adrielle Quist INTENSIFIES

[The Imperial Reach]

The Star-Gods have answered!

[The Armed Republic of Dutch Coolness]

Flamers and their short range can't get me when I'm driving around on my sick new bike!

[The Imperial Reach]

Flamers and their short range can't get me when I'm driving around on my sick new bike!

"Fuck you and your shitty bikes!" - Space Mongols, probably

[Chan Island]

The Star-Gods have answered!

[The Biggles Syndicate]

The Star-Gods have answered!

Wait, Genestealers can talk exactly like humans now?
Calgar and Co. are in for one hell of a wild ride.

[The Armed Republic of Dutch Coolness]

The Star-Gods have answered!

Wait, Genestealers can talk exactly like humans now?
Calgar and Co. are in for one hell of a wild ride.

The human-looking cultists always could.

[Tethys 13]

It is a shame but not particularly surprising that Games Workshop's two new "weekly" webcomics seem to have already gone on hiatus.

[Baltenstein]

The Star-Gods have answered!

Wait, Genestealers can talk exactly like humans now?
Calgar and Co. are in for one hell of a wild ride.

The whole "inflitrate and undermine human society from within" thing would be kinda hard to pull off it they weren't capable of human speech, wouldn't it?

[Hurdergaryp]

Wait, Genestealers can talk exactly like humans now?
Calgar and Co. are in for one hell of a wild ride.

The whole "inflitrate and undermine human society from within" thing would be kinda hard to pull off it they weren't capable of human speech, wouldn't it?

Also makes it harder to order pizza, and you can't have a proper Genestealer Cult without a steady supply of scrumptious pizza pies.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Wait, Genestealers can talk exactly like humans now?
Calgar and Co. are in for one hell of a wild ride.

The whole "inflitrate and undermine human society from within" thing would be kinda hard to pull off it they weren't capable of human speech, wouldn't it?

"Sergeant, status report"
"RAWGERAGLALALALAL"
"...."

[The Imperial Reach]

The whole "inflitrate and undermine human society from within" thing would be kinda hard to pull off it they weren't capable of human speech, wouldn't it?

Also makes it harder to order pizza, and you can't have a proper Genestealer Cult without a steady supply of scrumptious pizza pies.

The 40k universe is too dark for pizza to still exist. It would be suppressed by the Inquisition for bringing the otherwise suffering, complacent masses joy and happiness.

[Crookfur]

The whole "inflitrate and undermine human society from within" thing would be kinda hard to pull off it they weren't capable of human speech, wouldn't it?

Also makes it harder to order pizza, and you can't have a proper Genestealer Cult without a steady supply of scrumptious pizza pies.

Teenage mutant heretic cultists?