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SPACE MARINE - In the grim darkness of the future, there are only BIG MEN

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  • ZzuluZzulu Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Hey another developer video:

    http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2011-warhammer-40-000/714213

    It's mostly the same footage but they confirm that TITANS will be part of the story. I would love to see an actual titan ruining shit in a 40K game D:

    It also details the overall story and gives a glimpse of the Chaos warlord

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  • mere_immortalmere_immortal So tasty!Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    Plus, Space Marines are orders of magnitude more badass. I mean seriously, they never lose. If they are coming close to losing, they destroy the entire planet, which is a win.

    Gears of War spends three games looking at one skirmish on a backwater, nothing planet involving hundreds of combatants. Meanwhile over here in the 40k universe, millions are killed every minute in a pan-galactic everwar with utterly no end in sight.

    Pan-galactic Everwar sounds like a prog concept album.

    Also it's refreshing to see a sensibly dressed and groomed female soldier in a videogame.

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  • Jam WarriorJam Warrior Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    To help/hinder your choice I found this:

    GAMESpaceMarinesEliteArmourPack.jpg

    Personally I'm not fussed about single player skins and will still just be waiting for reviews rather than pre-ordering. Currently we know it looks awesome but I need to hear more impressions on how it plays before they get my cash.

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  • ZzuluZzulu Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I like that you never see a young space marine. What's the deal there? Are they in training for the first 40 years of their life, or does the darkly grimness of their existence just age them rapidly?


    [e] Or are they just born grizzled and scarred?

    Most chapters recruit battle hardened badasses from feral planets in their sectors in space and then put those badasses through training and body enhancements which, in time, will turn them into scouts which in turn will turn them into space marines

    At least that's what I remember of it

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  • AlegisAlegis Impeckable Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    black-templar skin is retailer exclusive?


    TANKRED IS DISPLEASED

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  • Jam WarriorJam Warrior Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I like that you never see a young space marine. What's the deal there? Are they in training for the first 40 years of their life, or does the darkly grimness of their existence just age them rapidly?


    [e] Or are they just born grizzled and scarred?

    Pretty much the first thing. Young Marines are Scouts. They need to earn that power armour!

    http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Space_Marine_Scout

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  • Dr_KeenbeanDr_Keenbean Dumb as a butt Planet Express ShipRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I like that you never see a young space marine. What's the deal there? Are they in training for the first 40 years of their life, or does the darkly grimness of their existence just age them rapidly?


    [e] Or are they just born grizzled and scarred?

    Pretty much the first thing. Young Marines are Scouts. They need to earn that power armour!

    http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Space_Marine_Scout

    Pretty much this. Space Marine weapons and armor are holy relics. Terminator armo(u)r, doubly so. Dreadnaughts are basically saints that get to fuck some shit up on super rare occasions.

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  • 3lwap03lwap0 Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I like that you never see a young space marine. What's the deal there? Are they in training for the first 40 years of their life, or does the darkly grimness of their existence just age them rapidly?


    [e] Or are they just born grizzled and scarred?

    Pretty much the first thing. Young Marines are Scouts. They need to earn that power armour!

    http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Space_Marine_Scout


    Unless your a Space Wolf. Everyone gets power armour. Apparently there is a Costco in 40k, and they cater to space vikings.

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  • ZzuluZzulu Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I like that you never see a young space marine. What's the deal there? Are they in training for the first 40 years of their life, or does the darkly grimness of their existence just age them rapidly?


    [e] Or are they just born grizzled and scarred?

    Pretty much the first thing. Young Marines are Scouts. They need to earn that power armour!

    http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Space_Marine_Scout

    Pretty much this. Space Marine weapons and armor are holy relics. Terminator armo(u)r, doubly so. Dreadnaughts are basically saints that get to fuck some shit up on super rare occasions.

    Important to note that a Dreadnought is basically a walking cybernetic sarcophagus reserved for mortally wounded Space Marines. They basically stuff the remains of a mostly dead space marine hero in there, put some cables in his brain and store him away in some vault until he's needed for a greater war effort. Some dreadnoughts are many thousands of years old. I think the oldest one is well over 10.000 years old now and actually fought in the Horus Heresy when the Emperor was still alive


    Bonus fluff:
    Ten thousand years ago, before his internment within a Dreadnought, Bjorn fought alongside Primarch Leman Russ of the Space Wolves Legion during the Horus Heresy and saw the Emperor before he was interred in the Golden Throne. During the aftermath of the Horus Heresy, Bjorn sought to rebuild the Imperium with such conviction that Leman Russ elevated him to become a member of his personal retinue. He was the only member of Leman Russ's personal Wolf Guard that was left behind when Russ departed for the Eye of Terror. This deed left Bjorn harboring intense feelings of rejection and bitterness to this very day.

    After Russ' disappearance, Bjorn assumed the Primarch's leadership of the Space Wolves, becoming the Chapter's first Great Wolf. His heroic career at the head of the Space Wolves ended during a raid against a fortress in the 31st Millennium, when he was so severely wounded and crippled that he was beyond the aid of the Chapter's Apothecaries. To preserve Bjorn's life, his paralyzed body was transplanted within a Space Wolf Dreadnought. Over the following five hundred years, he remained at the forefront of battle. Eventually the long years took their toll on the warrior, and he began spending longer and longer periods dormant in stasis sleep. Now he is only awakened once every thousand years, or when the Chapter has the greatest need of his potent skills and wisdom. He is also awakened at the dawn of each new century to hold court at the Great Feast, where he recounts elements from his own saga to his Battle-Brothers. He represents the Chapter's link to the past, and is revered by the Space Wolves as a hero almost as great as Leman Russ.

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  • Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Okay, I need to leave this thread now. That sounds awesome and I really, really can't afford to get invested into a universe as huge and in-depth as Warhammer 40K.

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  • Skull2185Skull2185 Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Okay, I need to leave this thread now. That sounds awesome and I really, really can't afford to get invested into a universe as huge and in-depth as Warhammer 40K.

    Nah, stay bro!

    Such an awesome universe!

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  • Jam WarriorJam Warrior Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Zzulu wrote: »
    I like that you never see a young space marine. What's the deal there? Are they in training for the first 40 years of their life, or does the darkly grimness of their existence just age them rapidly?


    [e] Or are they just born grizzled and scarred?

    Pretty much the first thing. Young Marines are Scouts. They need to earn that power armour!

    http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Space_Marine_Scout

    Pretty much this. Space Marine weapons and armor are holy relics. Terminator armo(u)r, doubly so. Dreadnaughts are basically saints that get to fuck some shit up on super rare occasions.

    Important to note that a Dreadnought is basically a walking cybernetic sarcophagus reserved for mortally wounded Space Marines. They basically stuff the remains of a mostly dead space marine hero in there, put some cables in his brain and store him away in some vault until he's needed for a greater war effort. Some dreadnoughts are many thousands of years old. I think the oldest one is well over 10.000 years old now and actually fought in the Horus Heresy when the Emperor was still alive


    Bonus fluff:
    Ten thousand years ago, before his internment within a Dreadnought, Bjorn fought alongside Primarch Leman Russ of the Space Wolves Legion during the Horus Heresy and saw the Emperor before he was interred in the Golden Throne. During the aftermath of the Horus Heresy, Bjorn sought to rebuild the Imperium with such conviction that Leman Russ elevated him to become a member of his personal retinue. He was the only member of Leman Russ's personal Wolf Guard that was left behind when Russ departed for the Eye of Terror. This deed left Bjorn harboring intense feelings of rejection and bitterness to this very day.

    After Russ' disappearance, Bjorn assumed the Primarch's leadership of the Space Wolves, becoming the Chapter's first Great Wolf. His heroic career at the head of the Space Wolves ended during a raid against a fortress in the 31st Millennium, when he was so severely wounded and crippled that he was beyond the aid of the Chapter's Apothecaries. To preserve Bjorn's life, his paralyzed body was transplanted within a Space Wolf Dreadnought. Over the following five hundred years, he remained at the forefront of battle. Eventually the long years took their toll on the warrior, and he began spending longer and longer periods dormant in stasis sleep. Now he is only awakened once every thousand years, or when the Chapter has the greatest need of his potent skills and wisdom. He is also awakened at the dawn of each new century to hold court at the Great Feast, where he recounts elements from his own saga to his Battle-Brothers. He represents the Chapter's link to the past, and is revered by the Space Wolves as a hero almost as great as Leman Russ.

    This brings three images to mind:

    1) Dreadnought at the dinner table, tankard of ale hooked over man sized power claw.

    2) They just prop his sarcophagus up at the table and he impotently watches the revelling.

    3) SPECIAL PARTY CLASS DREADNOUGHT SUIT

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  • daveNYCdaveNYC Why universe hate Waspinator? Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Okay, I need to leave this thread now. That sounds awesome and I really, really can't afford to get invested into a universe as huge and in-depth as Warhammer 40K.

    This is probably a bannable action, but...

    http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Warhammer40000

    Don't click unless you have nothing else to do for the rest of the day.

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  • Evil WeevilEvil Weevil Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Does anyone know the system requirements of it for the PC? I want to know if my crappy 9500 GT will run it at least on medium settings.

    On a better side note, 40k is indeed a wonderful and fascinating universe to get into story wise. I've never played the TT game and yet I probably know a good decent amount of it since I was introduced in 2005. Dawn of War was to thank for that.

    The setting is set up in a way that you can have hundreds and hundreds of battles in a single sub-sector of the galaxy and the greater whole will not be affected whatsoever.

    I'm not the biggest fan of the Imperium as a whole, but I'm still excited as hell for this game. Likewise, Space Marine wise I don't like the Black Templars a shit bunch, but I'd be stupid not to admit I'm in love with that skin.

    It's a shame then that I'll probably be pre-ordering from Steam. But the Blood Ravens are close to my heart since they're literally the first actual exposure I have with 40k, so consequently they're still one of my favorite chapters. I just wish the Skin had a little more detail than being a standard power armor.

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  • Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    daveNYC wrote: »
    Okay, I need to leave this thread now. That sounds awesome and I really, really can't afford to get invested into a universe as huge and in-depth as Warhammer 40K.

    This is probably a bannable action, but...

    http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Warhammer40000

    Don't click unless you have nothing else to do for the rest of the day.

    I was trying to find a reason to go to bed you jerk! :)

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  • Jam WarriorJam Warrior Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    daveNYC wrote: »
    Okay, I need to leave this thread now. That sounds awesome and I really, really can't afford to get invested into a universe as huge and in-depth as Warhammer 40K.

    This is probably a bannable action, but...

    http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Warhammer40000

    Don't click unless you have nothing else to do for the rest of the day.

    I was trying to find a reason to go to bed you jerk! :)

    He sent you to the wrong place. Lexicanum is where you want to go to learn up on the lore. Let's start you off with the article for Space Marines and you'll have a half dozen tabs open by half way down the page.

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  • Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I hate you all :D

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  • Evil WeevilEvil Weevil Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I read up on Lexicanum on a daily basis, even though I'm positive I've read 90% of all the articles.
    It never hurts to know the difference between a plasma gun and plasma rifle.

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  • ArbitraryDescriptorArbitraryDescriptor changed Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    To help/hinder your choice I found this:

    GAMESpaceMarinesEliteArmourPack.jpg

    Personally I'm not fussed about single player skins and will still just be waiting for reviews rather than pre-ordering. Currently we know it looks awesome but I need to hear more impressions on how it plays before they get my cash.

    20 years of gaming and I don't think I've ever pre-ordered anything. That I am so tempted by something so trivial a single skin is unexpected.

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  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    The Takahashi preview thing, I like how when he raises his inane questions with Relic, and they quickly and easily answer them with the equivalent of "don't be so stupid", he somehow takes this as validating his point because they were prepared for his ridiculous questions.

    Like, I mean, there was a sketch on this Chris Morris TV show 'Jam', where they propsed the ideas of having employable idiots to argue your case, because it's simply impossible to argue and defeat someone so incomprehensibly thick. There's like a whole, other baffling layer of stupidity that the average person simply can't even begin to fathom, where it's impossible to argue because you can't even grasp the basic physical mechanics of their crazy dreamworld.

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  • daveNYCdaveNYC Why universe hate Waspinator? Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    daveNYC wrote: »
    Okay, I need to leave this thread now. That sounds awesome and I really, really can't afford to get invested into a universe as huge and in-depth as Warhammer 40K.

    This is probably a bannable action, but...

    http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Warhammer40000

    Don't click unless you have nothing else to do for the rest of the day.

    I was trying to find a reason to go to bed you jerk! :)

    He sent you to the wrong place. Lexicanum is where you want to go to learn up on the lore. Let's start you off with the article for Space Marines and you'll have a half dozen tabs open by half way down the page.

    Lexicanum is good for lore, but to try and get an idea of the flavor of the 40k universe the Tropes are a good way to go.

    And to be somewhat on-topic, I pre-ordered the collector's edition. I'm weak.

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  • The_SpaniardThe_Spaniard It's never lupines Irvine, CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    darleysam wrote: »
    The Takahashi preview thing, I like how when he raises his inane questions with Relic, and they quickly and easily answer them with the equivalent of "don't be so stupid", he somehow takes this as validating his point because they were prepared for his ridiculous questions.

    Like, I mean, there was a sketch on this Chris Morris TV show 'Jam', where they propsed the ideas of having employable idiots to argue your case, because it's simply impossible to argue and defeat someone so incomprehensibly thick. There's like a whole, other baffling layer of stupidity that the average person simply can't even begin to fathom, where it's impossible to argue because you can't even grasp the basic physical mechanics of their crazy dreamworld.

    Like arguing with Wheatley? He's just so retarded that he's too stupid to understand logic paradoxes that should by all accounts lobotomize him just by virtue of hearing them. :lol:

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  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    darleysam wrote: »
    The Takahashi preview thing, I like how when he raises his inane questions with Relic, and they quickly and easily answer them with the equivalent of "don't be so stupid", he somehow takes this as validating his point because they were prepared for his ridiculous questions.

    Like, I mean, there was a sketch on this Chris Morris TV show 'Jam', where they propsed the ideas of having employable idiots to argue your case, because it's simply impossible to argue and defeat someone so incomprehensibly thick. There's like a whole, other baffling layer of stupidity that the average person simply can't even begin to fathom, where it's impossible to argue because you can't even grasp the basic physical mechanics of their crazy dreamworld.

    Like arguing with Wheatley? He's just so retarded that he's too stupid to understand logic paradoxes that should by all accounts lobotomize him just by virtue of hearing them. :lol:

    Exactly.

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  • Lord_AsmodeusLord_Asmodeus goeticSobriquet: Here is your magical cryptic riddle-tumour: I AM A TIME MACHINERegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    This will be a steamworks game so no matter where you get it from, you'll be able to put it on steam. Apparently the reason it's not available at the Best Buy online store was the pre-orders were sold out or something. I had to go to the store itself and they're going to ship it to my house. Crazy.

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  • NeliNeli Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    At some point in some expansion or DLC I want, no no, I need to be able to play as an ork. Especially in multiplayer

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  • 3lwap03lwap0 Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I preordered at Gamestop.

    I feel so dirty.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    At the end the main character will probably be standing on a pile of orc corpses, celebrating his victory, only to get incinerated under suspicion of taint moments later.

    SPACE MARINE II: Adeptus Sororitus - 2012

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  • Lord_AsmodeusLord_Asmodeus goeticSobriquet: Here is your magical cryptic riddle-tumour: I AM A TIME MACHINERegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    At the end the main character will probably be standing on a pile of orc corpses, celebrating his victory, only to get incinerated under suspicion of taint moments later.

    SPACE MARINE II: Adeptus Sororitus - 2012

    I'm pretty sure no Ecclesiarch or Inquisitor would be insane enough to piss off the Ultramarines like that. Most Inquisitors try not to piss off random successor chapters, the Ultramarines have pretty much their own empire, and most of their successor chapters are basically part of that empire :P

    Edit: There really needs to be a trilogy of movies about Eisenhorn. Also, that name is something that to me sounds like it needs to be shouted angrily by some enemy of his. It just looks like that.

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  • Dr_KeenbeanDr_Keenbean Dumb as a butt Planet Express ShipRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Ultramarines huh?

    By all rights we should get to fuck up some 'nids.

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  • Lord_AsmodeusLord_Asmodeus goeticSobriquet: Here is your magical cryptic riddle-tumour: I AM A TIME MACHINERegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Ultramarine_Tyrannic_Vet.jpg

    Indeed

    Tyranid_War_Veteran.jpg

    But all foul Xenos shall have their day of reckoning. And this day is for the Orks!

    spacemarinemeleescreens.jpg

    A GOOD DAY FOR ORKS TO DIE!

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    At the end the main character will probably be standing on a pile of orc corpses, celebrating his victory, only to get incinerated under suspicion of taint moments later.

    SPACE MARINE II: Adeptus Sororitus - 2012

    I'm pretty sure no Ecclesiarch or Inquisitor would be insane enough to piss off the Ultramarines like that. Most Inquisitors try not to piss off random successor chapters, the Ultramarines have pretty much their own empire, and most of their successor chapters are basically part of that empire :P

    Edit: There really needs to be a trilogy of movies about Eisenhorn. Also, that name is something that to me sounds like it needs to be shouted angrily by some enemy of his. It just looks like that.

    Well, you do kill everyone as the Witchhunters in Soulstorm, including the Marines.

    Of course, it was Soulstorm.

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  • MrDelishMrDelish Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Edit: There really needs to be a trilogy of movies about Eisenhorn. Also, that name is something that to me sounds like it needs to be shouted angrily by some enemy of his. It just looks like that.

    it's a shame the Ultramarines CGI movie was so bad

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  • ArbitraryDescriptorArbitraryDescriptor changed Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Isn't it also like $40?

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  • ElvenshaeElvenshae Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    It makes perfect sense.

    There's a reason Cortana is a woman. There's a reason Anya is a woman. There's a reason in the real world the warming messages in fighter-jet cockpits are all spoken by a female voice.

    "In a mixed ship, the last thing a trooper hears before a drop (maybe the last word he ever hears) is a woman's voice, wishing him luck. If you don't think this is important, you've probably resigned from the human race."

    -- Rober Heinlein, Starship Troopers
    I like that you never see a young space marine. What's the deal there? Are they in training for the first 40 years of their life, or does the darkly grimness of their existence just age them rapidly?

    The ones who aren't all grizzled and scarred and awesome have their helmets closed.

    Only when your aura of badass reaches a point where it can substitute for a full helmet with integrated HUD, coms, and environmental controls do you get to take it off.

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  • IvanIssacsIvanIssacs Skull Leader SDF-1Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Edit: There really needs to be a trilogy of movies about Eisenhorn. Also, that name is something that to me sounds like it needs to be shouted angrily by some enemy of his. It just looks like that.

    That would be the best thing. Liam Neeson for Eisenhorn.

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  • DiannaoChongDiannaoChong Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Zzulu wrote: »
    I like that you never see a young space marine. What's the deal there? Are they in training for the first 40 years of their life, or does the darkly grimness of their existence just age them rapidly?


    [e] Or are they just born grizzled and scarred?

    Pretty much the first thing. Young Marines are Scouts. They need to earn that power armour!

    http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Space_Marine_Scout

    Pretty much this. Space Marine weapons and armor are holy relics. Terminator armo(u)r, doubly so. Dreadnaughts are basically saints that get to fuck some shit up on super rare occasions.

    Important to note that a Dreadnought is basically a walking cybernetic sarcophagus reserved for mortally wounded Space Marines. They basically stuff the remains of a mostly dead space marine hero in there, put some cables in his brain and store him away in some vault until he's needed for a greater war effort. Some dreadnoughts are many thousands of years old. I think the oldest one is well over 10.000 years old now and actually fought in the Horus Heresy when the Emperor was still alive


    Bonus fluff:
    Ten thousand years ago, before his internment within a Dreadnought, Bjorn fought alongside Primarch Leman Russ of the Space Wolves Legion during the Horus Heresy and saw the Emperor before he was interred in the Golden Throne. During the aftermath of the Horus Heresy, Bjorn sought to rebuild the Imperium with such conviction that Leman Russ elevated him to become a member of his personal retinue. He was the only member of Leman Russ's personal Wolf Guard that was left behind when Russ departed for the Eye of Terror. This deed left Bjorn harboring intense feelings of rejection and bitterness to this very day.

    After Russ' disappearance, Bjorn assumed the Primarch's leadership of the Space Wolves, becoming the Chapter's first Great Wolf. His heroic career at the head of the Space Wolves ended during a raid against a fortress in the 31st Millennium, when he was so severely wounded and crippled that he was beyond the aid of the Chapter's Apothecaries. To preserve Bjorn's life, his paralyzed body was transplanted within a Space Wolf Dreadnought. Over the following five hundred years, he remained at the forefront of battle. Eventually the long years took their toll on the warrior, and he began spending longer and longer periods dormant in stasis sleep. Now he is only awakened once every thousand years, or when the Chapter has the greatest need of his potent skills and wisdom. He is also awakened at the dawn of each new century to hold court at the Great Feast, where he recounts elements from his own saga to his Battle-Brothers. He represents the Chapter's link to the past, and is revered by the Space Wolves as a hero almost as great as Leman Russ.

    This brings three images to mind:

    1) Dreadnought at the dinner table, tankard of ale hooked over man sized power claw.

    2) They just prop his sarcophagus up at the table and he impotently watches the revelling.

    3) SPECIAL PARTY CLASS DREADNOUGHT SUIT


    All I can think about now is the painting of the last supper, and over to the left you spot the lower half of him in a dreadnaught just chillin'.

    edit: Toga not optional.

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  • Lord_AsmodeusLord_Asmodeus goeticSobriquet: Here is your magical cryptic riddle-tumour: I AM A TIME MACHINERegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    IvanIssacs wrote: »
    Edit: There really needs to be a trilogy of movies about Eisenhorn. Also, that name is something that to me sounds like it needs to be shouted angrily by some enemy of his. It just looks like that.

    That would be the best thing. Liam Neeson for Eisenhorn.

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    I could totally see that.

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  • NeliNeli Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Ultramarine_Tyrannic_Vet.jpg

    Indeed

    Tyranid_War_Veteran.jpg

    But all foul Xenos shall have their day of reckoning. And this day is for the Orks!

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    A GOOD DAY FOR ORKS TO DIE!

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  • Liquid GhostLiquid Ghost DO YOU HEAR THE VOICES, TOO?! Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I remember Bjorn being surprisingly tough to kill thanks to that pool of modifier points. This was a good, long while back, though. I wonder if they changed up his rules since then.

    edit: That Tyrannic War Vet picture makes me want to buy some more figures and convert them over to a D&D campaign that I'll probably never complete. Again. >_>

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  • Lord_AsmodeusLord_Asmodeus goeticSobriquet: Here is your magical cryptic riddle-tumour: I AM A TIME MACHINERegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
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    Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if Labor had not first existed. Labor is superior to capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. - Lincoln
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