All was done in the name of the Corpse Emperor. The Sisters were willing martyred.
Still, you'd think that if all the Grey Knights needed was some innocent blood, the Sisters would have been able to spare a couple of pints each and still been able to watch their backs even if they were a little light headed.
Virgin sacrifices are kind of a thing
Who said anything about them being virgins?
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If I didn't know Mister Wards writing method better I'd think that he was subtly pointing to the Grey Knights actually being corrupted; sacrificing innocents and using their blood in rituals, wielding Daemon Weapons, their Chapter Master lives in the warp and has a Daemon Prince statline...
If I didn't know Mister Wards writing method better I'd think that he was subtly pointing to the Grey Knights actually being corrupted; sacrificing innocents and using their blood in rituals, wielding Daemon Weapons, their Chapter Master lives in the warp and has a Daemon Prince statline...
But of course Ward doesn't really do subtle.
That's the thing about 40k fluff.
Sometimes, it's really hard to tell the difference between "chaos corrupted heretical monster" and "Just that friggin badass".
Heck, even within the fluff characters have difficulty with it (see Gaunt's Ghosts after their extended stay on the chaos planet in The Lost omnibus)
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I didn't care for the Nihtghane or whatever guy that started following Gaunt around.
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Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.
BTW, as well as the previously mentioned Space Hulk game (which I think was pseudo real-time anyway) there is this non copywright infringing, freeware clone of the board game which is well worth a download.
That used to be a very very copyright infringing freeware clone of the boardgame; I remember the UI.
Guess they finally gave up on the licensing with THQ.
Just the watched the "Ultramarine" film.
Wasn't bad. Not the best thing I've ever watched but not the worst. Some cool action scenes with chain swords. Just needed a bit less fog.
In the Grimdark Future, you can never have enough fog.
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I wish, if they did a new movie, they put some money towards it and did one of their existing huge battles. Even if they want to stick with Space Marines, they've got plenty to choose from.
Space Marines vs Chaos Marines? The battle of the Fang. Space Marines vs Orks? Rynns World. Space Marines vs Tyranids? The battle for Macragge.
Existing plot points they can take and flesh out into a 2 hour movie. Also, what makes it better, is they're things fans actually want to see.
Just the watched the "Ultramarine" film.
Wasn't bad. Not the best thing I've ever watched but not the worst. Some cool action scenes with chain swords. Just needed a bit less fog.
'wasn't bad' is an odd way of spelling complete shit
I actually was the Gamesday they showed the Ultramarines trailer (Baltimore). It looked decent then, and clearly, they'd done well, but by the yardstick of the previous game intro's, fell fairly short.
I think what did them ultimately was budget - Blur studios did the other trailers, and they're work is Pixar like in quality (and cost). Games workshop wasn't about to spend nearly that on a movie - not even close.
I actually was the Gamesday they showed the Ultramarines trailer (Baltimore). It looked decent then, and clearly, they'd done well, but by the yardstick of the previous game intro's, fell fairly short.
I think what did them ultimately was budget - Blur studios did the other trailers, and they're work is Pixar like in quality (and cost). Games workshop wasn't about to spend nearly that on a movie - not even close.
Imo. GW always comes off as the reason why their franchise is unable to expand into new markets. I'm actually surprised Relic was given permission to make several Warhammer video games tbh.
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Imo. GW always comes off as the reason why their franchise is unable to expand into new markets. I'm actually surprised Relic was given permission to make several Warhammer video games tbh.
The reason GW was always a bit weird about IP was that back in the day when the entire company was three ex-bikers in a shed everyone they tried to licence their IP to basically took advantage of their naivete and ended up with too many legal rights to do whatever with the IP and no oversight. It seems like it took them fifteen years to discover that you could hire your own lawyers to fight the other guy's. And another seven or eight to figure out that you really do get what you pay for in that department.
They have, however, now discovered the magic of limited licences, but some of their board still remember the bad old days and don't like 'giving away' their ideas to other people despite any inducement or reassurance.
Just the watched the "Ultramarine" film.
Wasn't bad. Not the best thing I've ever watched but not the worst. Some cool action scenes with chain swords. Just needed a bit less fog.
'wasn't bad' is an odd way of spelling complete shit
Would you care to elaborate on why you thought it was complete shit?
What is there to elaborate on? The voice acting was the only thing that wasn't awful in every way, because they bothered to get professionals. The graphics were done by the people who did the bionicles movies for fucks sake.
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edited June 2011
Having not seen the movie I already know it sucks simply because the BBFC actually permitted it to be released in the UK. Any accurate celluloid depiction of 40K ought by rights to be banned in the first edit then cut down to get a tentative 18-but-we-reserve-the-right-to-pull-it-if-there-are-too-many-heart-attacks. Especially if there are Chaos forces involved. :P
Heh, this reminds me of how the opening to MechWarrior 4, if stretched out into a film, would be the closest thing we'd ever get to a MechWarrrior/Battletech film.
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edited June 2011
After reading the Grey Knights codex, I'd say you'd have a better chance fighting daemons on your own than you would allying with the Grey Knights
After reading the Grey Knights codex, I'd say you'd have a better chance fighting daemons on your own than you would allying with the Grey Knights
Yet another reason why the Imperial Guard are the true heroes of 40k. Demonic incursion? No problem after sustaining numerous casualties I am sure the Grey Knights will be along shortly to claim all the credit for beating them back, followed shortly by the Inquisition to recruit one or two guys for being incredibly fucking awesome and then execute the rest of us under suspicion of being tainted by Chaos.
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After reading the Grey Knights codex, I'd say you'd have a better chance fighting daemons on your own than you would allying with the Grey Knights
Yet another reason why the Imperial Guard are the true heroes of 40k. Demonic incursion? No problem after sustaining numerous casualties I am sure the Grey Knights will be along shortly to claim all the credit for beating them back, followed shortly by the Inquisition to recruit one or two guys for being incredibly fucking awesome and then execute the rest of us under suspicion of being tainted by Chaos.
And even when the Guard does accomplish stuff on its own, it all gets attributed to a single Lord General who was probably miles away from the front, or a regimental commander, or Ciaphas Cain, HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!
After reading the Grey Knights codex, I'd say you'd have a better chance fighting daemons on your own than you would allying with the Grey Knights
Grey Knights aren't smurfs, they get shit done.
And sorry, Guards are cool, but in one of Gaunt's Ghosts books it shows just how ineffective normal troopers are against a Bloodthirster or great class. Which is to say, they get butchered at lightspeed without even being able to return fire.
This video cracks me up every time I see it. It's so uniquely WH40K for a bunch of dudes with awesome guns, apparently infinite ammo (really, when did you ever hear of anyone running out of ammo in 40K?), and an entrenched position, to decide that the best tactic is to let out a mighty battle cry and charge the enemy in the open, guns blazing all the way as they close into melee.
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This video cracks me up every time I see it. It's so uniquely WH40K for a bunch of dudes with awesome guns, apparently infinite ammo (really, when did you ever hear of anyone running out of ammo in 40K?), and an entrenched position, to decide that the best tactic is to let out a mighty battle cry and charge the enemy in the open, guns blazing all the way as they close into melee.
but the thing is that the objective they were ordered to take and hold is over there on the op of that hill, not down here behind this wall, and Space Marines follow orders. Also their armour gives them a better save than that wussy little wall anyway. :P
(NB Your average 40K game represents about ten minutes of "real time" combat so ammo is not typically an issue for the solid slug firers. And the Guardsmen have solar-powered [strike]torches[/strike] guns anyway)
Yeah the Lictor at the end of that video isn't in the videos they decided to market. The first video of that cinematic they released had it in there but then the later videos at E3 and whatnot didn't have it. They edited it out for one reason or another
Yeah the Lictor at the end of that video isn't in the videos they decided to market. The first video of that cinematic they released had it in there but then the later videos at E3 and whatnot didn't have it. They edited it out for one reason or another
They edited it out of the official intro because the Tyranids are supposed to be a surprise during the campaign.
Which really, was pretty pointless considering they'd already revealed the Tyranids via the full trailer earlier, and the gameplay trailers. AND they're a multiplayer army available right from the start.
I guess it was supposed to be for the benefit of people who weren't really following the game and just picked it up off the shelf. But of course, anyone into 40K would've figured it out anyway, and anyone not into 40K wouldn't have seen the big deal or anything ominous about the Tyranids regardless (at least not in comparison with any of the other races).
It works better without the Lictor if you understand that the stuff in the sky is a huge Tyranid tendril and invasion about to happen. I could see how someone would be confused if they didn't know what the stuff in the sky was though
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After reading the Grey Knights codex, I'd say you'd have a better chance fighting daemons on your own than you would allying with the Grey Knights
Grey Knights aren't smurfs, they get shit done.
And sorry, Guards are cool, but in one of Gaunt's Ghosts books it shows just how ineffective normal troopers are against a Bloodthirster or great class. Which is to say, they get butchered at lightspeed without even being able to return fire.
If it's the part I'm thinking of, the Guard countered with sanctioned psykers.
And if that fails, they would have bombed everything within a mile flat with Basilisks, then sent in more troops and tanks, followed by more psykers.
Remember: individual Guardsmen are useless. But for every one you kill, there are millions more. And those guys have tens of thousands of tanks, heavy artillery, and aircraft to back them up.
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Who said anything about them being virgins?
But of course Ward doesn't really do subtle.
That's the thing about 40k fluff.
Sometimes, it's really hard to tell the difference between "chaos corrupted heretical monster" and "Just that friggin badass".
Heck, even within the fluff characters have difficulty with it (see Gaunt's Ghosts after their extended stay on the chaos planet in The Lost omnibus)
That used to be a very very copyright infringing freeware clone of the boardgame; I remember the UI.
Guess they finally gave up on the licensing with THQ.
Wasn't bad. Not the best thing I've ever watched but not the worst. Some cool action scenes with chain swords. Just needed a bit less fog.
Space Marines vs Chaos Marines? The battle of the Fang. Space Marines vs Orks? Rynns World. Space Marines vs Tyranids? The battle for Macragge.
Existing plot points they can take and flesh out into a 2 hour movie. Also, what makes it better, is they're things fans actually want to see.
'wasn't bad' is an odd way of spelling complete shit
That's rather understandable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFkFo5SBx-g
I think what did them ultimately was budget - Blur studios did the other trailers, and they're work is Pixar like in quality (and cost). Games workshop wasn't about to spend nearly that on a movie - not even close.
For a game.
Totally for a game.
Imo. GW always comes off as the reason why their franchise is unable to expand into new markets. I'm actually surprised Relic was given permission to make several Warhammer video games tbh.
They have, however, now discovered the magic of limited licences, but some of their board still remember the bad old days and don't like 'giving away' their ideas to other people despite any inducement or reassurance.
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Would you care to elaborate on why you thought it was complete shit?
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Yet another reason why the Imperial Guard are the true heroes of 40k. Demonic incursion? No problem after sustaining numerous casualties I am sure the Grey Knights will be along shortly to claim all the credit for beating them back, followed shortly by the Inquisition to recruit one or two guys for being incredibly fucking awesome and then execute the rest of us under suspicion of being tainted by Chaos.
And even when the Guard does accomplish stuff on its own, it all gets attributed to a single Lord General who was probably miles away from the front, or a regimental commander, or Ciaphas Cain, HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!
Grey Knights aren't smurfs, they get shit done.
And sorry, Guards are cool, but in one of Gaunt's Ghosts books it shows just how ineffective normal troopers are against a Bloodthirster or great class. Which is to say, they get butchered at lightspeed without even being able to return fire.
This video cracks me up every time I see it. It's so uniquely WH40K for a bunch of dudes with awesome guns, apparently infinite ammo (really, when did you ever hear of anyone running out of ammo in 40K?), and an entrenched position, to decide that the best tactic is to let out a mighty battle cry and charge the enemy in the open, guns blazing all the way as they close into melee.
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(NB Your average 40K game represents about ten minutes of "real time" combat so ammo is not typically an issue for the solid slug firers. And the Guardsmen have solar-powered [strike]torches[/strike] guns anyway)
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I'd watch a movie with the style of the DoW intros in a heartbeat, it really feels like they capture the feeling of WH40k.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URVLtMvHQs8
Both Warhammer Online cinematics were pretty cool for their time too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO5ZKhKYJNg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE-BVw4LptI
Of course, none of these are 40K so to stay on topic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0m28yz6kmg
trailer used to cut off right at the farseer's "no it belongs to them"
IIRC the extended one plays during the credits at the end of the DoW2 campaign.
I assume you mean killing their allies
They're as bad as the Dark Eldar in ally survival ratio
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They edited it out of the official intro because the Tyranids are supposed to be a surprise during the campaign.
Which really, was pretty pointless considering they'd already revealed the Tyranids via the full trailer earlier, and the gameplay trailers. AND they're a multiplayer army available right from the start.
I guess it was supposed to be for the benefit of people who weren't really following the game and just picked it up off the shelf. But of course, anyone into 40K would've figured it out anyway, and anyone not into 40K wouldn't have seen the big deal or anything ominous about the Tyranids regardless (at least not in comparison with any of the other races).
So... *shrug*
If it's the part I'm thinking of, the Guard countered with sanctioned psykers.
And if that fails, they would have bombed everything within a mile flat with Basilisks, then sent in more troops and tanks, followed by more psykers.
Remember: individual Guardsmen are useless. But for every one you kill, there are millions more. And those guys have tens of thousands of tanks, heavy artillery, and aircraft to back them up.