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ousire posted:The average imperial citizen has no idea that Chaos even exists.
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Whenever that assasin unit speaks, I keep expecting them to say "Quad damage" or "Quake three arena". Could it be the same voice actor?
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May 18, 2024 17:07
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IMDB says that the Quake 3 Arena narrator was voiced by Christian Antkow, who was just someone working at id's sound department at the time, going by their other entries on there. Meanwhile the Daemonhunters IMDB page lacks any info about who voices the Vindicare assassin. There are however some other character spoilers there so be careful if you want to check yourself. And BTVA has nothing on the game at all. Sooo... maybe? But I kinda doubt it.
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May 18, 2024 17:20
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One reason the Imperium is really focused on limiting available information about Chaos is that Chaos rituals work. The dark gods love answering prayers, and the Imperium can be such a terrible place that there's plenty of people on any world who think they have nothing to lose.
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May 18, 2024 17:31
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Ice planet you may be looking for Valhalla. Known for being the home to the regiments that Caiphas Cain normally stuck to. (basically they're space russians)
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May 18, 2024 23:57
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They are also very, very serious about making snowmen as I recall.
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May 19, 2024 00:10
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And love drinking a tea that is best known as a very hard to acquire taste
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May 19, 2024 00:30
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wiegieman posted:One reason the Imperium is really focused on limiting available information about Chaos is that Chaos rituals work. The dark gods love answering prayers, and the Imperium can be such a terrible place that there's plenty of people on any world who think they have nothing to lose. They usually find out that they do, in fact have plenty to lose. The Chaos gods are very happy to give you power, because that power is them, and by taking that power you become a little less yourself and a little bit more of the god. Khorne seems especially corrosive, Khorne worshipers nearly always wind up hollowed out shells of themselves, a skin sack through which the god of blood bellows and screams at the world.
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May 19, 2024 00:32
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I don't think anyone's really discussed it yet, but I am fond of the willpower mechanic that lets you buff most attacks and abilities. It provides a simple solution to those times when you'd have to spend an extra action point, or even wait an entire extra turn to finish off a unit that has just a sliver of hp left.
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May 19, 2024 01:56
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wiegieman posted:One reason the Imperium is really focused on limiting available information about Chaos is that Chaos rituals work. The dark gods love answering prayers, and the Imperium can be such a terrible place that there's plenty of people on any world who think they have nothing to lose. Sometimes, it's just a wierd swinger group. Sometimes, it's a slaneeshi pleasure cult and Chaos Answers. But one of the Big E's big bad dad moments was not telling his Primarch children about Chaos. Which ruined all his plans when Magnus travelled through the warp to visit daddy and created a warp rift right into the heart of his Imperial Webway because he didn't know.
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May 19, 2024 01:57
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Veloxyll posted:Sometimes, it's just a wierd swinger group. Magnus knew that human sacrifice was bad, that sorcery was bad, that he wasn't supposed to do either of them ever. And yet, he invoked warp powers via human sacrifice and blew through all the defenses around Terra, dooming the human webway project and starting the Inner War. But he always knew best, right? It was Emps' fault for not telling him everything, not his for holding the knife. Everywhere Magnus goes, he is followed by laughter which he cannot hear. It's his nature now, to be unable to perceive Tzeentch's amusement. That's how much Chaos owns him.
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May 19, 2024 03:17
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wiegieman posted:Magnus knew that human sacrifice was bad, that sorcery was bad, that he wasn't supposed to do either of them ever. And yet, he invoked warp powers via human sacrifice and blew through all the defenses around Terra, dooming the human webway project and starting the Inner War. Becaue he assumed they were bad because they cost human lives. Not because they let literal demons in.
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May 19, 2024 12:43
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ousire posted:
I think this is handled on a case by case basis. Local PDF squad sees a knight? Put 'em down just to be sure. IG regiment putting down a chaos incusion gets Grey Knight support? A tragic loss of strategic assessts but they were probably already corrupted anyway, it's a mercy really. Space Marine squad? Those guys are rare and expensive, better to just mind wipe them and send them on their way. I remember seeing some incredulous reactions towards the GK in the 40k community a few years ago, some Black Library story had the GK slaughter a bunch of Sisters of Battle and wear their blood as holy protection against demons or something.
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May 19, 2024 14:40
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Ah yeah, the Bloodtide. We don't generally speak of the Bloodtide, because it was written during an era where the direction was steadily going into the direction of "More grimdark! More!" Even if the peak of that wouldn't be reached until 7th edition where we had lore about how about a training school for Tempestus Scion broke their brain washing and rebelled, only to then be defeated and turned into mortar for the school. Or that the final examination for those elite troopers is hunting down one of their friends/classmates. But then 7th edition is generally considered one of the worst ones and with 8th end it has generally gone upwards.
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May 19, 2024 14:56
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Matt Ward has a lot to answer for with some of the absolute nonsense that the Grey Knights ended up doing in the background when he wrote the 5th ed codex for them. From their Turbo Mary-Sue Supreme Grandmaster Kaldor Draigo to the Bloodtide and the Sisters of Battle getting murdered by the GK assholery it was the very worst of edgy fanboy writing, in a setting full of edgy fanboy writing.
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May 19, 2024 17:46
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Cooked Auto posted:Ah yeah, the Bloodtide. Didn't they straight up retcon that that entire incident into Sisters and Grey Knights working together?
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May 19, 2024 22:54
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No idea, I think everyone, GW included, just memory holed the whole thing hard. Edit: Looking it up I'm getting a big maybe about it being changed in the 7th ed GK codex. But seemingly nothing more solid than that. And it seems to be either them working together, or the sisters all dying in battle before the Knights arrived. Cooked Auto fucked around with this message at 23:02 on May 19, 2024 |
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