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Woah, woah, WOAH. Hold up a sec.
Roboute Guilliman is not only back, and leading a new mega crusade for the Imperium? When the hell did this happen? Why is everything so cool? How will this eventually go grimdark? And please lore nerds get me back up to speed with what's actually happening to the different 40k races in the most recent "current" 41st-42nd millennium story line. Because I haven't been this hyped since Dawn of War II hit.
Roboute Guilliman is not only back, and leading a new mega crusade for the Imperium? When the hell did this happen? Why is everything so cool? How will this eventually go grimdark? And please lore nerds get me back up to speed with what's actually happening to the different 40k races in the most recent "current" 41st-42nd millennium story line. Because I haven't been this hyped since Dawn of War II hit.
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Shoot Battletech is finally pushing it’s story forward too.
Exciting times.
Last I left off, Cadia was still locked in a losing stalemate, the Blood Angels were defending their homeworld against the Tyranids, and the Necrons had new Pharaohs.
I hear there was an emperor and also chaos
Thirteenth Black Crusade spoiler
I read entirely too much Lexicanum.
in the grim dark bo bark banana fana fo farkness of the 41st millenial, there is only burnt avocado toast
Honestly most of them were not even particularly good junk food reading.
They do not deserve anyone's confidence or even the benefit of the doubt
Nah, with how much GW had changed over the last couple of years I’m perfectly happy giving them some confidence, thanks.
I know of someone's rage over of it as they were one of the few people I knew played Warhammer.
They did it better with 40k though it seemed they learned their lesson.
I quite like the Ynnari it's what I have always wanted with the aeldari
40k makes money.
Fantasy didn’t, now it does.
Ah gotcha, I thought you meant more narrative based issues
Plus now fantasy is probably making more money as a setting for video games than it did as a war game. I assume partially as that license became cheaper and more open once they killed it.
Within the Imperium there's the Space Marines, who are basically genetically modified with these sons' genes or some shit. They have like 15 hearts and are super soldiers. Then there's the Imperial Guard, who are just normal humans. There's a LOT of them, and they're mostly fodder, either choking the enemy on their dead or lasting long enough for tanks and artillery to blow them the fuck up. Last (not really last, but the Imperium has like 500 sub-factions) there's the Sisters of Battle because 40k is a nerd hobby so of course girls couldn't be Space Marines and needed their own army. They're basically the Church's personal army, created via a loophole saying the church could have no MEN of arms could be under the church after a spat it had with other factions within the Imperium. So they're basically augmented nuns with flamethrowers.
There are orks who live to just fight and care about nothing else. They grow via spores and thus are hard to eliminate fully, their machines work simply through belief, and the only thing preventing them from taking over the galaxy is that they love fighting each other just as much as anyone else.
The clone sons that betrayed their dad fucked off into another dimension and worship some fucked up gods. Every so often they go back home to fuck people's shit up and be jerks. Faction of maybe one of the best guys in the franchise. He's a swell dude.
The fucked up gods have their own army that's a colorful cast of demons. They want to kill most everything, and that's honestly all you need to know about MOST armies in Warhammer 40k.
Eldar are basically space elves whom have been around forever. They created one of the aforementioned fucked-up gods when their society entered a golden age and they spent all day getting high and having orgies. yes, they created a literal god through shear force of fucking. Now there's two factions, regular prudish eldar who denounce the old ways, and dark eldar who are serious kinksters that raid locations for more drugs and possibly slaves.
Necrons are an even older race that had short life spans. They turned to some other ancient entity that said it would make a deal with them in exchange for extending their lives. Because that always works out. Now they're encased in robotic bodies and basically slaves with the goal of wiping out all life in the galaxy. Now they're buried in various places and notoriously hard to kill.
Tau are a young race and basically space communists if written by a capitalist. They're also pretty anime but instead of gunpla they just build their own mechs. They have a shitty caste system, enforce sterilization on outside races they're allied with, and have a diplomatic policy of "join us or die." A willingness to work with other races in any capacity makes them one of the nicest factions in the setting.
Tyranids are space bugs from a neighboring galaxy. They want to eat everything and basically jump from planet to planet harvesting every scrap of usable material from it, leaving cold dead husks. They're very adaptable despite having no discernable technology, and there's no telling how many of them there truly are.
Squats do not exist, never existed, and I'm not even sure why I brought them up here.
It's pretty great.
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the "Orks believe their machines work, so they do" thing might be real psychic enhancements to cobbled together machines, or it might be that Imperial scientists studying Ork tech only ever get it in beaten up and malfunctioning condition. who knows?
the series used this to its advantage in recharacterizing the Necrons from non-descript terminator robots that would randomly pop in and out of Imperial space, into an outright ancient alien race of competing Egyptian-esque warlords
Not a big fan of the primaris marines because I don’t like things getting better in 40k, but, I can’t win them all.
That dude is nuts.
like, scarily so.
Blessed is the mind too small for doubt. Sadly true in his case.
They call 'em grox, and they're good eatin'.
More seriously, the lack of Lizardmen and Skaven equivalents in 40K always makes me sad. Especially as the Lizardmen already have some crazy future tech as essentially ancient artifacts. Like Kroq-gar's laser hand. I might be running Black Crusade soon and I personally plan to shove in future lizardmen as antagonists at some point.
Really if it's because we got a better Gw think it's acceptable
To know in the space of a year it went from this
To this
To this
Really I had no idea how to paint necron vehicles I thought it was a dark green and a ton of wash
Their facebook plays along with people
I like watching Duncan the robot paint as it solves a lot of problems and questions I had about certain looks or had no idea how they got that look
He had the power of every spell in existence, but the other gods were about ready to unite against him because of that shit. So he surrendered his knowledge of his spells to avoid that messy affair.
And then since he's Tzeentch he dispatched some daemons as part of a convoluted plan to recollect all his missing spells.
I love the lore for the latter tzeentch daemons. One can write any spell but can't actually read, while the other can read it out to cast it but has no idea what it says. So it could be wildly destructive, or make a pile of feathers twitch. Like a magic sitcom couple.