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I'll bet the next page is all, "The Adeptus Mechanicus has specialized weapons that they only give to worthy sons of the Emperor or something" or something.
and 50 megaton, I lol'd
a standart 40k torpedo is 600 gigaton, and that's one of their weakest weapons if we don't count point defence systems, wait I remember lances being a bit weaker, 50 megatons is what those pussies in star trek are throwing around
an exterminatus can be brute forced if needed, but they sure as fuck don't need weeks or months to do it, an single barrage of an IoM warship can destroy a continent, Cave of ice book has the example of a couple (2-3) of lance barrages of a flotillia of iom cruisers (that's around 3 iirc) compleatly destroying a continent sized survace, destroying the necron instalation 2-3 km deep and making the planet unihabitable
but exterminatos is usualy done with specific weapons like virus bombs, which kills all living things on the planet, transforms their biomas into a gas which is then ignited by a lance strike so that the whole surface goes up in flames
another way is a Cyclonic torpedo, which goes through the planet to it's core and detonates there shattering the planet
and this is done in hours not months
You're misremembering. In Caves of Ice, Cain first dumps the contents of the promethium refinery into the mines proper, flooding the Necron tomb and delaying their attempts to awaken. Then once safely in orbit, he just ignites a single bomb via remote. The transport ship they were on didn't have any air-to-ground weapons worth a damn anyway.
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The Emperor's Tears are a much more elegant solution. Snuffing the spark of life itself leaves the infrastructure intact and ready for re-colonization by those of better moral stock in theory. Plus you have the added bonus of the corpses rising up and conveniently stacking themselves.
The Squats were eaten by Tyranids. The popular theory is that a relatively new species called the "Demiurge" might replace them as the "space dwarves" in the future
EXTERMINATUS
Retribution did this very, very well.
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And Disney World is nowhere in sight.
Damn, child, don't you know anything about the Imperium of Man? They don't do anything unless it can be written in flashing all-caps (optional: add the individual letters being on fire). If you can't do it big, it's not worth doing.
IN THE GRIM DARKNESS OF THE FAR FUTURE, THERE IS ONLY CAPS LOCK.
Subtlety is not the watchword.
*BANG*
im sure there was some obscure fluff somewhere where like one of the armies of 40k, like orks, were using slaves from the warhammer fantasy world or something. i dunno.
who cares.
Here's basically the entire lore of 40k and Fantasy in one sentence:
We make shit up as we go along so that we can sell more miniatures.
stealth edit: found it, it's Liber Chaotica "The Liber Chaotica also provides background related to the Warhammer 40.000 universe, written as cryptic records of recurring visions Kless suffered. "
http://whfb.lexicanum.com/wiki/Liber_Chaotica
hmm, been a while since I read it, I do remember him talking something about blowing everything up with the navy, maybe it's one of those "we can do this" thingys, would need to go and reread it
Goddamnit.
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Virus Bombing
Cyclonic Torpedo's
Atmospheric incinerator torpedo's
All of these are used in conjunction with traditional weapons, but they are the best way to get a job done. Virus bomb's unleash a self propagating virus that destroys any and all biological life, then leaves a methane cloud of putrefaction hanging in the atmosphere that a single spark could set off and ignite the entire surface with flames as hot as a sun.
Cyclonic Torpedo's are so utterly powerful that a single one could destabilize a planet and cause it to split apart. It accomplishes this by burrowing into the surface of the planet, then detonating an explosive of incalculable power. An alternative version burrows all the way to the planets core, ensuring it's doom.
The Atmospheric Incinerator Torpedo uses an advanced plasma device that bursts in low planetary orbit and literally ignites all oxygen on a target planet. This is only used in extreme cases of Exterminatus, and should only be used under such circumstances. This method of exterminatus was used on Medusa IV in the Medusa system after it was determined to be too difficult to reconquer from the forces of Chaos that erupted from Van Grothe's Rapidity despite the presence of the Ultramarines second company. It is said that the planet's surface was melted to glass and that the entire world burned like a piece of amber in space even a month after the attack had been launched.
That's how you kill a planet in 40k.
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Ah 40k, I love your ridiculousness.
I believe it's also a great weapon simply because you don't need to be terribly accurate. 4 blades that are about 1.5' to 2' long, and are across your hand (about 8" once you count the gauntlet, maybe 10"?)...You can just kind of lash out randomly and start cleaving off body parts.
Here is a consolation prize. A pretty picture!
They're pretty powerful already
Which is like a lightning claw except more medieval
Also, lol @ heresy icon.
If so, I'm okay with that.
While I'm no expert on the old-school fluff (which was pretty different) I think that it was originally just a grimdark universe. As a way to distinguish themselves from other grimdark stuff and develop their identity, as well as an increasingly younger target demographic, it quickly became less about "in the dark future" and more about "is your bullet larger than a 5th grader."
Is there a gameplay video? The screens look fantastic.
Yes. WH40k is incredibly silly, over the top, and knows it. The people who take 40k seriously are the ones who are missing the point. This is why the Angry Marines are so funny. They are at their core a perfect distillation, no attempts made at subtlety, of what 40k is.
IS IT AWESOME Y/N IF Y DO IT
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Yeah pretty much 40k is the universe in which everything is awesome just cause.
Do you really need a statue of the emperor the size of new york? No but why not if you have a space ship the size of texas!
I never asked for this!
There are snippets of gameplay in the vid in the op, and some minor stuff in the official trailer:
http://www.spacemarine.com/#/en/trailers/